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Branka was an experienced, calm and prudent old general Bei Sa, he was not as impulsive as Shauna. His Jinguang County was currently not under Tang Yin's control, and he was unfamiliar with the Generals And Soldiers of Self Army. At the very least, they would be in a much safer situation with several hundreds of thousands of Tianyuan Army accompanying them.

Before coming, Knies had already warned Shauna to listen to Branka's advice when leading troops to war, and also wanted to learn from him. Now that Branka had stopped her, even if he was unwilling, he could only reluctantly accept it.

Although there were only thirty thousand people left in the camp of the Tianyuan Army, those who knew the inside information would understand that the effectiveness of a mere thirty thousand cavalrymen on the battlefield was comparable to that of a hundred thousand infantry soldiers.

On the other hand, Zhong Wen's camp was deathly still. Even in the broad daylight, the walls of the camp did not have many Central Army patrolling or standing guard. At this time, Qiu Zhen felt that it was about to be the time for the final battle between the two sides. Either the two sides would take the initiative to attack, or Zhong Wen would lead his Central Army to break through the encirclement.

His prediction was not wrong, it was true that Zhong Wen could not hold on any longer. Originally, Zhong Wen had ordered him to watch over the horses in the army strictly. But now, he even took back this order, not to mention the soldiers below who were already starving to the limit, even his Personal Guard s were so hungry that their eyes were blurry.

If this continued, without even using Tianyuan Army to attack, more than a hundred thousand people's Central Army would starve to death in their own campsite.

That night, Zhong Wen summoned his and went straight to the point: "Tomorrow morning, our entire army will break through the siege!"

Ah? Although the generals had been waiting for Zhong Wen to give the order to break out, hearing him say this, they couldn't help but take in a breath of cold air. They looked at each other and remained silent.

Zhong Wen said faintly: "We can no longer wait for the reinforcements to arrive, or should we say, the reinforcements won't come at all. Right now, we can only rely on ourselves, if we don't want to sit down and wait for death in the camp, all of you generals can muster our energy and use all of our strength to prepare for tomorrow morning's battle!"

"Yes!" Your Highness! " Right now, Zhong Wen's identity was no longer ordinary, he was already the second prince of Peng Country, so the generals naturally addressed him as' Your Highness' as well.

Zhong Wen pondered for a moment, then asked: How many horses are there in the army?

"We've almost killed the horses that were carrying the heavy transport. There are only about a thousand war horses left now!" A high-ranking officer replied in a low voice.

Zhong Wen nodded his head and said: "Kill all the warhorses. Before the battle tomorrow morning, we must fill the stomachs of all the soldiers!" After a pause, he continued, "Including my warhorse."

"Your Highness!" The generals were shocked.

To the generals, a war horse was like a pair of legs, especially in a battle to break out of the encirclement. A war horse was even more important in a battle to break out of the encirclement. Whether or not one could break out of the encirclement, whether or not one could survive.

As a prince, it was really not easy for Zhong Wen to do this.

Waving his hand, Zhong Wen stopped everyone's dissuasion. He lightly sighed and said: "Since I work together with all of you, I naturally wish to live and die together with all of you. Even if I am outnumbered and the enemy is stronger, I will definitely not retreat a single step. If we can succeed in tomorrow's battle, all of you can return to Yan City and chat merrily about wine. If our luck turns out to be good, you and I do not have any complaints in our hearts.

Hearing Zhong Wen's words, all the Generals present flushed red in their eyes as tears welled up in their sockets.

Regardless of what kind of character Zhong Tian had, his son Zhong Wen could definitely be called an outstanding commander. Although he did not love his soldiers as much as his son, but he did not put on airs with the Generals beside him, and would often call them brother.

All the generals kneeled down on the ground and said in unison, "This general vows to follow His Highness at his side to the death. Even if my body is smashed to pieces, I will definitely protect His Highness from the heavy encirclement!"

The corners of Zhong Wen's mouth twitched, but in the end, he was unable to say anything. He turned around with his back to the generals and waved his hand with a slightly hoarse voice: "Everyone go back and rest first.

"Yes!" Your Highness! This subordinate will take his leave! " Everyone cupped their hands in salute and slowly left the tent.

After all the generals had left, Zhong Wen raised his head and sighed to the sky. Whether or not he could succeed in breaking out of the encirclement with his current military power and combat strength was something he had no confidence in. Right now, all he could do was to silently pray in his heart, pray that the Heavens would let his side succeed in their battle, and leave this bloodline for Peng Country.

At night, Zhong Wen's camp started to massacre the horses in the army. Afraid that the war horse's hissing would cause Tianyuan Army outside to become vigilant, Zhong Wen even ordered the Subordinate to seal his horse's mouth when he was trying to kill it.

This meal was a full meal that hadn't been served for a long time to the Central Army soldiers. As they gathered in groups, they would occasionally grab the horse meat that wasn't fully cooked and stuff it into their mouths before swallowing it whole. The horse meat was not tasty, especially the war horses, the meat was hard and firewood, but for the current Central Army soldiers, there was no other delicious food in the world that could compare to this.

Man is iron, and food is steel. That was true. After eating their fill, the officers and soldiers of Central Army were immediately spirited. Their faces all revealed smiles as they sat together in groups of three or five and chatted and joked.

When the sun rose high into the sky, Zhong Wen once again summoned the generals under his command and began to make detailed arrangements for breaking out of the encirclement.

What he meant was to split his troops into two sides and break through the encirclement to the south, all the way to the east, using both sides together to disperse the main force of the enemy forces.

Zhong Wen himself led a hundred thousand soldiers as the main force. From the South Camp gate, they slaughtered their way out, and from the remaining troops, Middle General Huang Baifei charged out with the eastern Camp Gate. Huang Baifei was one of Zhong Tian's trusted aides and was originally the regiment commander. After Zhong Tian became the king, he consecutively promoted Huang Baifei to Middle General.

After hearing Zhong Wen's plan, the generals had no objections and agreed to intervene.

Zhong Wen said to Huang Baifei, "General Huang, no matter who we are, no matter who can successfully break out of this encirclement, we cannot turn back to face the enemy. We must immediately head south, and retreat towards the Yan City!"

"This …"

"If I am unfortunate enough to die in the midst of enemy forces, and General Huang is able to return to the capital smoothly, after seeing my King Father, he must advise him to recover his Feng Country and chase after Former King Zhan Hua, in order to regain his pride, and should also release those important officials of the previous dynasty that were imprisoned to treat him well. Without their support, the King Father would have no foundation …" As he said this, Zhong Wen took out a letter from his bosom and handed it over to Huang Baifei, continuing: "The words I wanted to say have been written here. General Huang, please accept them on my behalf first!"

Huang Baifei stretched out his trembling hands and accepted the letter, his voice choked with sobs. "Your Highness …"

To the south was the main camp of Tianyuan Army, while the eastern was weaker. Although Zhong Wen was the main camp of Central Army, it was more likely that Huang Baifei would break out of the encirclement.

Zhong Wen patted Huang Baifei's arm and laughed lightly: "You must have the heart to die, and only warriors who want to die can have no greedy thoughts. As the commander, I must take the lead in the battle, and only then can the warriors follow me and fight." With that, he turned to the guard at the side and asked, "What time is it now?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, it is already the Yin hour!"

"Yin hour …" Zhong Wen muttered to himself, then nodded his head and said: "When the time comes, all troops will break out!"

"Yes!" Your Highness! "

With Zhong Wen in the lead, at 5 o'clock in the morning, the entire army would be dispatched to attack the encirclement of Tianyuan Army.

Just like what he had arranged initially, the near hundred and forty thousand Central Army soldiers were divided into two groups. One would be led by Zhong Wen himself, and the other would be led by Huang Baifei to lead the forty thousand Central Army soldiers to break out of the encirclement.

As Ning Jun's army suddenly rushed forward, the Tianyuan Army camp immediately erupted into an uproar, as everyone started shouting and shouting, shouts and orders unceasingly, the three hundred thousand Tianyuan Army s that were already prepared started to move in unison, either to hold up the camp or to form a square formation, and with every blade out of its scabbard, arrows nocked, and ready for battle.

Although Tang Yin did not really care about the military rules and discipline, he had always trained his soldiers extremely strictly. The soldiers he asked for were all soldiers, everyone could fight in close combat and also could shoot with their arrows, there was no distinction between close combat soldiers and archers.

At this time, Tianyuan Army was quickly forming a square formation in the camp, each square formation had a hundred people in length and width. Each square formation had ten thousand people in each division, and the surrounding area was filled with long halberd hands and spear hands.

Qiu Zhen handed over the command of the eastern camp to Liang Qi, and the most important part, the command of South Camp would be given to the experienced and trustworthy Xiao Muqing.

On the battlefield where the two armies battled, Xiao Muqing's usual flattery had disappeared without a trace, and he had once again changed into the commander who was able to take the lead while remaining calm. He stood atop a tall platform at the front of his own camp, and facing the vast crowd that was rushing towards him, his face did not have the slightest hint of panic.

He raised his eyes to observe the situation of the enemy's attack while commanding calmly. From time to time, he would issue orders to arrange the formations of his own troops. As the enemy entered range, he waved the flag in his hand. The regiment commanders below the stage were all raising their heads to watch him give the order. Seeing that the order flag only shook a little, the regiment commanders of the first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth divisions of Pingyuan Army shouted to their soldiers, "Release the arrows!"

Whoosh!

Five legions of fifty thousand people shot at the same time. The concentrated arrows were like a black cloud, rising from the heads of the Pingyuan Army camp, whistling as they flew into the air, drawing a long arc and falling straight towards the Central Army camp.