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Shangguan Yuan was a belligerent person, and he was also the main general. If he didn't agree to retreat, no one could do anything about it.

Peng Haochu found Shangguan Yuanyu and said: "General Yuan Yu, the Lord has already given the order to withdraw. If our army does not retreat, it would be disobeying the order, we will be punished severely."

Shangguan Yuan let out a sneer and waved his hand saying, "Don't use martial law to suppress me. Although I don't know much about it, but I've heard that the General's orders are against me. I'm the general now, so I have to make a judgment based on the actual situation."

Peng Haochu was so angry that he almost burst into laughter. The two hundred thousand local troops had been reduced, and the task of stopping the enemy reinforcements had been completed. There was no point in continuing to stay here without reporting back. He knew that the reason why Shangguan Yuan wanted to stay and fight with Zhong Wen's army, was because they wanted to stay and fight with Zhong Wen's army. However, right now, their side had less people, more enemies, and their Central Army was the strongest battle force. However, he did not dare to say these words. With his character as an official, the more he spoke about the strength of the enemy, the more he had to stay and try. He rolled his eyes and asked, "Then when will General Yuan prepare to wait?" Our army does not bring much food. If we wait any longer, our army will not have any food left to eat! "

"Oh …" Hearing that there was no food left in the army, Shangguan Yuan pondered for a while before saying, "If the enemy does not appear tomorrow morning, then we will retreat!"

Peng Haochu heaved a sigh of relief, afraid that Shangguan Yuan would go back on his words, and hastily replied, "Alright! "It's a deal!"

Shangguan Yuan let out a sigh. He stood on a protruding rock and looked towards the Jinguang County, muttering with reason, "What exactly is Zhong Wen's marching speed? Even if he climbed up, he should have already climbed over by now."

Peng Haochu laughed bitterly. They only had sixty thousand people right now, but Zhong Wen's group had one hundred and fifty thousand Central Army.

He originally thought that after this night, he would be able to return to the main army camp the next morning. However, he didn't expect that the great army of Zhong Wen, who hadn't appeared until now, would unexpectedly arrive at the border of two counties.

It was almost dusk and Shangguan Yuan, along with Peng Haochu and the soldiers under his command were eating, at this time, a Sky Eye scout quickly ran over and knelt in front of everyone as he greeted, "General Shangguan, General Peng, Zhong Wen's army is near the border. They have settled down their camp about five kilometers away from here."

"Oh?" Hearing this, Shangguan Yuan became spirited and threw away the bowl and chopsticks in his hand. He stood up and asked excitedly, "Is that true?"

Sky Eye scout was stunned for a moment, and then said anxiously: "For major military matters, this subordinate does not dare to lie!"

Shangguan Yuan nodded, then smiled at Peng Haochu: "Heaven is helping me! General Peng, tonight at midnight, we will go and rob Zhong Wen's camp, what do you think? "

Peng Haochu shook his head like a rattle drum, and immediately waved his hand: "No! General Yuan Yue, if we were to suddenly launch a sneak attack at the ambush place, we might be able to catch the enemy off guard, but if we were to take the initiative and fight, our soldiers' numbers would be too inferior, making it hard for us to win, I hope that General Yuan can make sure that we do not act rashly. "

Shangguan Yuan rolled his eyes at Peng Haochu, and thought in his heart: What do you mean by not acting rashly? It's your own timidity that's true! He snorted and said, "If General Peng is afraid, then I'll bring my men to the camp tonight."

Not only did Peng Haochu not feel at ease, he even stopped them and advised Shangguan Yuan to not go forward. Finally, Shangguan Yuan was annoyed by his nagging. He glared and shouted, "I will only bring three thousand brothers with me tonight. General Peng can lead the reinforcements. Also, don't say anymore. This is my order!"

Seeing that Shangguan Yuan had become angry, Peng Haochu swallowed his saliva and did not speak anymore. Shangguan Yuan told him to go to the camp, and he was only bringing 3,000 men, how could he stay behind? He didn't care if he lived or died, if anything happened to him, not only would he feel bad, he wouldn't even be able to explain himself to his lordship.

However, he did not plan to go with Shangguan Yuan, but wanted to go quietly afterwards. Since Shangguan Yuan was aggressive and arrogant, it would be good for him to have a lesson first.

Shangguan Yuan had the Sky Eye Scout that came to report to him stay, he wanted him to lead the way, when the night came, Shangguan Bing immediately gathered the three thousand elite soldiers that he had chosen, brought his spies, left their ambush point, and rushed straight to the camp where Zhong Wen was stationed.

As the commander in chief of the army, Zhong Wen was the second son of Zhong Tian. As he did not want to concentrate his forces to fight the enemy, he did not want to split his army of thirty-five into two due to his own greed and fear of death, so he allowed the two hundred thousand local army to take the lead, causing the local army to go overboard. In the eyes of Tang Yin and the Generals under his command, Zhong Wen was just an incompetent young master, who relied on his father's power to be able to become the commander in the army.

Shangguan Yuan also had this thought, he did not even put Zhong Wen and the army under his command in his eyes.

Very quickly, Shangguan Yuan had his men get close to Zhong Wen's camp, hiding in the nearby forest, he then climbed up an old tree and looked around.

There was a wooden fence on the outside, and every so often, there would be high watchtowers built within the fence to serve as a warning, and outside the fence, there was even a circular, slanted, cross shaped Rejecting Wooden-Horse that could block the cavalry's charge.

Just by looking at its size, it was hard to imagine that this large camp was built on the spur of the moment.

Shangguan Yuan did not know how to set up camp, nor did he know if Zhong Wen's camp was good or bad, but, he could tell that he was careless and did not care. In such a huge camp, there were no patrolling soldiers around, and most of the watchtowers inside the fences were also empty. There was basically no one guarding, and only a few sentries standing guard in the important areas of the camp could be seen.

After he finished reading, Shangguan Yuan snickered to himself. Thinking about it, Zhong Wen had never expected that there would be people sneak attacking his camp from his own territory, and tonight's opportunity was exactly the right thing to do. It would obviously be a great contribution if Peng Haochu came with him, but it was a pity that Peng Haochu was too timid, so he could not be blamed for not bringing him up.

He jumped down from the old tree, looked around at the three thousand soldiers, and said in a low voice: "The Enemy's Camp is lax, when the brothers come with me to attack the camp, you just have to follow me and charge forward, and kill anyone you see, don't worry about anything else, understand?"

Shangguan Yuan gave way to him bravely. These soldiers had only heard of him but never seen him. At this time, they were not afraid, they all nodded and said, "Yes! General Shangguan! "

When the fourth fragment of the night had passed, Shangguan Yuan asked him to remove his three pointed and two blade from his horse. Without riding a horse, he led three thousand soldiers on foot and slowly crept towards the Barracks Gate camp of Zhong Wen.

The defense of the camp was indeed very relaxed. With so many troops stationed here, there weren't even any hidden sentries stationed on the outside. Shangguan Yuan let the group move forward unusually smoothly, and they quickly neared the Barracks Gate.

A few soldiers on sentry duty were holding onto spears and sitting against the pillars of Barracks Gate. Their heads were drooping and they were dozing off.

Shangguan Yuan smiled and observed for a while. After confirming that there were no more sentries around, he stood up from the grass patch and walked towards Barracks Gate.

Seeing this, the soldiers behind straightened their bodies and followed Shangguan Yuanyu out of the vast wasteland.

No matter how careful they were, the three thousand soldiers would make a slight noise when they walked. Very quickly, the guards outside the Barracks Gate heard the commotion, and all of them woke up from their dreams. However, just as they raised their heads, Shangguan Yuan who was right in front of them fiercely waved the sabre in his hand, and a long Spirit Wave shot out.

Those guards did not even manage to see what had happened clearly, and before they could even cry out in alarm, they were all cut in half by Shangguan Yuan's Spirit Wave.

His cultivation was too high, the Spirit Wave was too sharp, in a moment it had cut down a few soldiers, but the Spirit Wave did not weaken at all, its momentum did not decrease at all, and it swept towards the pillar of Barracks Gate, and with a clear cracking sound, the pillar that no one was able to grab was shattered.

BOOM!

The thick wooden pillar fell to the ground, producing a dull sound, which also opened the prelude to Shangguan Yuan leading the crowd to charge.

He pointed his blade forward and shouted, "Brothers, charge with me!"

Hua — — Shangguan Yuanyu and the three thousand soldiers under her command rushed into Zhong Wen's camp like a swarm of bees.

Upon entering, everyone followed Shangguan Yuan and charged at full speed towards the Central Army Tent located in the center of the main camp. The speed was so ferocious that it was as if there was no one around.

In reality, there was indeed no one who came out to stop them. The huge camp was completely empty, and not even the shadow of an enemy soldier could be seen. The entire camp was filled with a strange atmosphere.

Shangguan Yuan told his men to rush in and kill some more, but still didn't see any enemies. At this time, he started to feel that something was amiss, with their side having made such a ruckus, they should have heard it even if they were to die, why didn't he see anyone come out of the living quarters?

He thought for a moment. No wonder the other side had expected that he would come to steal the camp and set up an ambush.

He shook his head again. Zhong Wen was not an immortal, how could he have predicted that he would come to camp? Then he thought, "Who cares, even if there's an ambush, so what?" He would still kill him without leaving a single piece of armor behind! With that thought, he sped up his footsteps again and continued to rush towards the Central Army Tent.

Very soon, the Central Army Tent could be seen from afar, but right at this moment, the sound of drums came from all around them, followed by the sound of people shouting horses, and immediately after, countless soldiers dressed in red armor surged out from the back of the Central Army Tent, and after this group of people came out, they formed a square formation, with the halberd soldiers in front and spear soldiers at the back, and looked back again, and saw the same kind of archers, and that was not counting the fact, on both sides of Shangguan Yuan and behind him, over thirty thousand enemy soldiers appeared, with lanterns and torches lit up the entire camp, as bright as day.

"Ah — —" At this time, the faces of all the Tianyuan Army Warriors paled. The two Captains who were near Shangguan Yuan shouted in unison, "Not good! General Shangguan, we've fallen into a trap!"