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The Eagle's Castle was located in the north of the Xuzhou, less than two hundred kilometers away from the south of the Jizhou. It could be considered to be the secret area of the Darkhan Empire, and could be said to be extremely safe. However, just in case, a small stairway to the back of the mountain was built so that they could retreat to the back and wait for reinforcements in the event of a sudden attack.

After this small pathway was repaired, only High Ancestor Liu Peng went up it when he came to Eagle's Castle. In the following decades, this pathway was practically useless, because High Ancestor Liu Peng had never come here even once before. After the land of Chu was completely settled, all the Han troops in the Eagle's Castle withdrew, and the castle gradually turned into ruins. The small road at the back of the mountain was forgotten by the world, buried under dead branches, fallen leaves and thick moss.

"General, they're here!"

Gongsun Xu turned his head to look and saw a few sturdy and waist sized Bingzhou Army soldiers carrying Lv Bu, who was still unconscious, walking over with large strides. Chen Gong, Diao Chan and Yan Shi were following closely by his side while Diao Chan was still hugging the soundly asleep Lv Linger in his hands. Behind Chen Gong and the others, there were over a thousand Bingzhou Army soldiers. Their clothes were disheveled, and some of them did not even have weapons on them.

"Your subordinate greets the general!" Chen Gong bowed in greeting.

Yan Shi and Diao Chan did not speak, they only knelt down at the same time and greeted.

Gongsun Xu did not waste his breath, pointed to the stairs and said: "Mr. Gong Tai, you guys go up first!"

Chen Gong turned his head to look, only to realize that a large amount of torches had been lit two to three miles away, and that a large general was currently leading several hundred people to battle and retreat. There was no need to think to know that it was definitely Gao Shun. He quickly said, "The enemy is coming. General, why don't we go together?"

Yan Shi also whispered, "General Gongsun, please go up together!"

Gongsun Xu shook his head, and said with an impatient tone: "No need! Quickly go up, I will support General Gao Shun! "

If it was the past, Chen Gong might have been able to persuade her a little, but now, she had already sided with Gongsun Xu. Facing the other party's obvious impatience, he did not say much, and anxiously urged the few big sized men to carry Lv Bu up.

Diao Chan and Yan Shi quickly followed along. When they passed by Gongsun Xu, Diao Chan once again kowtowed, and said in a low voice, "General, take care!" Lv Bu had treated his subordinates pretty well, but someone like Gongsun Xu, who had retreated in order to cover the retreat of a large group of soldiers, had never done something like this.

Gongsun Xu smiled and nodded. He also had a lot of admiration and praise for this kind of extraordinary woman, but that was it, and he didn't have any excessive thoughts.

The more than one thousand Bingzhou Army soldiers all knew that the situation was urgent. Holding onto the stone fences on both sides of the stairs, they used their hands and feet to quickly climb up. The debris and dust on the steps were so thick that, with their hurried footsteps, dust and dried branches and leaves flew everywhere. Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to climb the slippery stairs in the middle of a rainy day.

After the time it took to boil a cup of tea, the last of the Bingzhou Army's soldiers also went up the stairs.

Gongsun Xu could not help but laugh, thinking that he was lucky. A few days ago, when he had escorted Yan Shi, Diao Chan and Lv Linger to this place, he had casually walked around inside and outside the castle and accidentally discovered this flight of stairs that had been abandoned for many years. At that time, he did not take it to heart.

The battle in front of them was getting closer and closer. Soon, they were two or three hundred steps away. Gao Shun raised his head to look ahead and discovered that it was extremely quiet. When General Gongsun brought him here, he saw that there were dozens of torches lit up at the bottom of the stairs. He immediately calmed down, looks like Feng Xian and the others have already gone up! He did not want to continue fighting and shouted "Retreat", then led the two hundred heavy cavalry s to turn around and leave.

The people chasing after Gao Shun and the others were thousands of people led by Li Feng. He had been holding in his breath the entire time, trying to regain Yuan Shu's trust. However, Gao Shun led the heavy cavalry s to retreat while fighting, and did not give the other side the chance to surround them, while ordinary arrows were useless against them, so Li Feng did not take any advantage of them. Just then, Gao Shun wanted to retreat. His eyes immediately turned red, and he quickly ordered his troops to chase after.

Gao Shun quickly rushed to's front and cupped his fists and said: "General, I'm back!"

Gongsun Xu said in a deep voice: "Feng Xianxiong and the others have already gone up. You guys should also go up quickly.

Gao Shun was startled, but he quickly replied with a shameful tone: "General, please head up first, this general is willing to stay behind and ask for General's permission! If you miss this matter, I will bring my head over to meet you! "

He had always felt that it was all his fault. If the General Gongsun had brought up this matter at that time, and he had fully supported her, he would have left the Eagle's Castle at this time. How could he be surrounded? Anger, guilt, worry and other negative emotions filled Gao Shun's heart, thus he ignored his own safety and tried to stop the enemy, even though he knew there was still a way out, the guilt in his heart did not decrease much. Now that Gongsun Xu had to put an end to it once again, the shame in Gao Shun's heart had reached its peak, which was why he did not hesitate to say these harsh words.

Gongsun Xu was startled for a moment and looked at Gao Shun with astonishment. Although he did not know what Gao Shun was thinking, he did not want to put him down. I will leave a hundred people for you, and you can retreat while fighting! "

"Here!" Gao Shun cupped his fists and replied: "This general follows General's orders, I will not let a single enemy charge forward!"

Gongsun Xu randomly picked one hundred people to leave with Gao Shun and the others to follow him up.

The rest of the hundred plus heavy cavalry s quickly led their horses and rushed to the stairs.

Gongsun Xu shouted: "Stay your horse!"

Everyone was shocked, they looked at Gongsun Xu with unwillingness to part with him. They had already formed deep feelings for him, even treating him like his kin. Right now, they clearly had the chance to bring their war horses and retreat, but General Gongsun had to order his war horses to stay! If not for the fact that they respected Gongsun Xu as a god, there would have been people who jumped out to oppose him.

"Stay your horse!" "Hurry up and go up, this is an order!" Gongsun Xu had no choice but to give the order again. The reason he kept his horses was mainly to numb Liu Bei and her, so that she wouldn't think that he had any intention to break out of the siege. He could ignore the blockade and send the people who asked for help from Gongsun Zan to quietly leave.

The White Horse Camp's order was like a mountain, although everyone was unwilling, they did not dare to disobey it, so they could only throw away the reins in their hands and follow Gongsun Xu up the stairs.

The horses seemed to know that they were about to be abandoned, and many of them whined.

The masters of the war horses heard the wails and felt as if their hearts had been stabbed by a knife. They turned around to look and for a time the morale was very low.

Gongsun Xu anxiously shouted: "The enemy will not harm the warhorses, and this general guarantees that in the future, I will definitely find all of them and bring them back!"

General Gongsun never lied in front of soldiers, he would keep his promise. White Horse Camp knew this very well, even the entire Youzhou Army knew it well. They increased their pace and quickly followed Gongsun Xu up the stairs.

Gao Shun withdrew his gaze from the stairs and looked at the enemy who was already more than ten steps away.

At this time, Li Feng also raised his head and looked forward. When he saw the small road behind Gao Shun, he immediately turned pale with fright, he did not know that the small road could only go up to the middle of the mountain, and thought that it was a path that led outside the Eagle's Castle.

Gao Shun ordered everyone to use their crossbow to block the enemy, and after a rain of arrows, they quickly rushed to the small path on the stairs, and then continued to attack the opponent with his crossbow.

Li Feng was so angry that he made the archers fight back, but to no avail. When he rode his horse to the bottom of the stairs, Gao Shun and the rest had already gone up dozens of steps.

A person at the side asked, "General, should we give chase?"

Li Feng hesitated for a moment. This place was easy to defend but hard to attack, furthermore, he did not know if there were any ambushes up there. If he continued his pursuit, it was very possible that he would be defeated, but if he did not pursue them, Yuan Shu would definitely rush over and severely reprimand him.

"Li Lu!" Li Feng waved and called out one of his trusted aides, then ordered loudly: "Bring a thousand people to chase after them!"

This Li Lu was a thin and tall man with an extremely fierce appearance. He cupped his hands in response and led a thousand men to charge forward.

"General Gao, the enemy is coming!"

Gao Shun turned to look and could not help but sneer, "Truly reckless! Brothers, show them what true strength is! "

Even though the opponent had a large number of people, the hundred White Horse Camp s beside Gao Shun were fearless. They all laughed and nodded in agreement.

Li Lu had just led his group up more than ten steps when they heard a hubbub above them. Before they could even react to what happened, they heard waves of bowstrings being shot out, followed by a wave of crossbow arrows shooting over. In such a small space, it was impossible to dodge the crossbow bolts that flew from above. In an instant, dozens of people were shot down and rolled on the ground with miserable cries.

"Kill!" Immediately after, another shout came from above, Gao Shun and his men quickly rushed down.

Li Lu and the others were caught off guard. They were instantly defeated and fled in defeat, leaving more than two hundred corpses on the stairs for nothing.

Gao Shun did not chase after him, and quickly ran up with his men.