War on the Brink

When Xiao Wu saw Brother Wu's fist, he swallowed his saliva and said with an ingratiating smile, "Brother, please put away your fist that is as big as a sandbag. Can't I speak?"

"Speak quickly."

"I often run into them at the Orchid House and often drink and dance with them."

When Wu Yong thought of those burly guys dancing, he got goosebumps all over his body.

"A bunch of hypocrites, I thought you were more decent!"

He looked at Xiao Wu again: "You are all the same kind of goods."

Xiao Wu lowered his head and dared not speak.

Wu Yong scolded enough, didn't even look at him, turned around and left.

Tang Xiaoyu, sitting by an unoccupied campfire, opened the paper crane and read Lin Qingying's reply.

After reading it, his face turned black and he cursed, "Despicable and shameless, still saying that you don't like to force others, what do you call this?"

Then he looked up to the sky with a long roar: "I, a seven-foot man, am actually threatened by a woman. This is simply a strange shame and great insult."

He knelt directly on the ground: "Unjust heaven!"

Hearing Tang Xiaoyu's howl, many people walked out of the tents to see what was going on. Seeing that it was Tang Xiaoyu, everyone shook their heads and turned back.

No matter how bitter and difficult, life must go on. Tang Xiaoyu got up and started writing back.

"Dear Third Sister,

I was overjoyed to receive your letter."

As he wrote, Tang Xiaoyu shed tears of humiliation, no, they should be tears of happiness.

In this reply letter, the form of address has become "dear", not only expressing love, but also expressing longing.

Anyway, Tang Xiaoyu wrote whatever love letter he could make up. He didn't dare not make it up, for fear of being beaten to death by Lin Qingying or having someone sent by her to beat him to death.

After shedding tears while writing this letter of more than six hundred words, Tang Xiaoyu was reluctant to throw the paper crane into the air.

"Ah! Retribution!"

Lin Qingying received Tang Xiaoyu's reply letter with great joy in her heart. She even hugged the letter in her arms and showed a shy look on her face.

"This bastard Xiaoyu, why write something so mushy? Making people feel so embarrassed."

If there was someone around who knew her, they would definitely scold: Are you still shy? If you were shy, you wouldn't have been single until now. If you were shy, how could you brazenly reach out your claws to an ordinary person?

Lin Qingying read the letter carefully several times again. Every time she read it, she would cover her shy face, not knowing what unhealthy picture came to her mind.

Another dozen days passed in the blink of an eye. During these dozens of days, apart from singing for everyone, Tang Xiaoyu was replying letters to Lin Qingying.

After confirming their relationship, Tang Xiaoyu also resigned himself to his fate and wrote about his longing every day, as well as what happened to him every day.

Lin Qingying expressed many times that she wanted to come over to pick him up or come over to protect him, but they were all rejected by Tang Xiaoyu on the grounds that this was his own life.

It was not that Tang Xiaoyu was so noble, but that Tang Xiaoyu was afraid that Lin Qingying would take on too much karma which would be very detrimental to her future ascension.

That's because we Chinese men are so responsible!

Okay! Actually male chauvinism was also at work.

As the army approached the front line, Tang Xiaoyu became more and more uneasy in his heart.

Within more than a hundred miles of the gathering city, what Tang Xiaoyu was worried about happened.

Scouts reported: The gathering city had been broken through, and the retreating soldiers were rushing towards them, only a dozen miles away from them.

The urgent horn sounded, and everyone began to put on armor and form formations.

Tang Xiaoyu quickly took off his armor from the carriage and helped each other with Xiao Wu and the others to put it on.

Since they were in the frontmost position, they were also in the front during the formation.

Tang Xiaoyu knew the power of defeated troops from novels.

He hurriedly found Wu Yong and said, "Captain, there must be a passage left in the formation for the defeated troops to pass through, otherwise before we are overrun by the enemy, these defeated troops will overwhelm us."

"I dare to guarantee that the main force of the enemy army is following closely behind these defeated troops. They will arrive soon too."

Wu Yong didn't think so much: "I'll go tell the general right away."

Tang Xiaoyu called him back: “Also, send out a large number of scouts immediately to spread the message to the defeated troops along the way and let them run towards us.”

“After running behind our formations, they are not allowed to flee anymore. Anyone who flees again will be killed.”

“Give them weapons and let them continue to join the fight. Tell them that the retreat has already been blocked by the enemy cavalry, and if they want to survive, they can only defeat the enemy in front first, then deal with the enemy behind.”

Wu Yong asked in puzzlement: "If they ask: Why don't we fight the cavalry behind first, what should I say?"

"Can you catch up with the cavalry? Or can you escape faster than the cavalry?"

"I see."

Then Wu Yong took Tang Xiaoyu’s words to the general.

The general nodded, "It is unrealistic for us three hundred thousand people to block the enemy army. We must rely on the retreating troops and the relief troops behind."

"What we’re doing now is buying time. The longer we drag it out, the more advantageous for us."

"Er Heizi, your thousand-man team is responsible for the retreating soldiers."

"Yes."

The other thousand-man teams lined up on the two small hills in front a few miles away, leaving room for the retreating soldiers to pass through.

"Yes."

"Send out all your scouts to spread the message. Remember, don't get too close to those soldiers, in case their horses get snatched away."

"Understood."

"Go on!"

The army moved quickly. Tang Xiaoyu and the others' thousand-man team quickly came to the hillside and began to form up.

Looking at the distant billowing dust, Tang Xiaoyu suddenly became nervous.

As the remaining thousand-man teams formed up, Tang Xiaoyu finally relaxed slowly in his heart.

Not for anything else, it was just because when Tang Xiaoyu looked left and right, he felt there were many people on his side.

This is the limitation of human vision. When you stand in a crowd, as long as there are people around you, you will feel it is a sea of ​​people.

When you look from a little further away or from the air, you will have a different feeling.

Tang Xiaoyu now was that person standing in the crowd. He now felt they could handle it.

As bundles of arrows were carried to the hillside, the army was ready for battle.

As the dust in the distance got closer and closer, Tang Xiaoyu saw the situation in the distance clearly.

Countless defeated troops pressed towards them like locusts. Why not ran but pressed over?

That’s because the number of defeated troops was really too large to see the end, black and oppressive.

Tang Xiaoyu finally knew the feeling of dark clouds pressing on a city close to collapsing.

As the defeated troops got closer, hundreds of cavalrymen separated from the main force and directly entered Tang Xiaoyu and their rear after arrival.

The hundreds of people dismounted immediately after arriving behind and walked towards the general.

Seeing the arrivals, the general immediately went up to greet them.

"Greetings to the Great General and Generals."

A general in his sixties quickly helped him up.

"You came right in time. I need you to block the pursuers behind for an hour."

"Please rest assured Great General. This subordinate will desperately block the enemy for an hour even at the cost of my life."

"Good. When I have rallied the troops, I will live and die with you."

The aura of dominance returned in the Great General: "Generals, listen up!"

"Subordinate is here!"