When Sun Ce's subordinates saw that Sun Ce was going to challenge Taishi Ci in a duel, they naturally did not dare to help, but all turned their eyes to Yuan Xi.
Yuan Xi was almost frightened to death. He kept telling himself that he must not reveal the truth, otherwise it would be all over!
Thinking of this, he showed a fierce look on his face, "Are you going to fight in turns, or attack all at once?"
"I have been roaming the North for more than ten years, and I have killed many of you rats!"
Sun Ce's subordinates were stunned. Could this be a famous general?
Over there, Taishi Ci had already started fighting with Sun Ce. Hearing Yuan Xi threatening people, Taishi Ci, who knew Yuan Xi's strength well, could not help but sigh inwardly. Now he could only leave everything to fate.
Sun Ce was a strong enemy on the opposite side, so Taishi Ci didn't dare to be distracted at all. He had to cheer himself up and fight with him.
Yuan Xi tried to remain calm, but when he saw that Sun Ce's men were ready to make a move, he shouted, "Who dares to come up?"
"Are you guys ready for your heads?"
Just as Sun Ce's subordinates rode forward a step, they were stopped by Yuan Xi and looked at each other in bewilderment.
Sun Ce wants to duel with Taishi Ci, so it's not a good idea for us to rush in all at once. But if we fight him alone, seeing how confident the opponent is, as if he treats us as trash, his strength must be very high!
Who will be the first to take the lead?
On the other side, Sun Ce and Taishi Ci had already used dangerous moves. The two sides tumbled and rolled for more than a hundred rounds with no clear winner. At this time, their horses were facing each other, very close to each other, and their spears were each held by the other. Neither dared to let go, and they both pulled hard, and rolled off their horses.
Sun Ce took the opportunity to pull out the short spear from Taishi Ci's back, but Taishi Ci pulled off Sun Ce's helmet and the two sides started fighting.
Yuan Xi saw that things were not going well. If things continued like this, Sun Ce's generals would probably go to help Sun Ce!
Those who had not been on the battlefield at that time thought that Sun Ce had an advantage because of the halberd in his hand, but those who had been on the battlefield knew that it was even more dangerous if the helmet fell off.
This was the result of a slight difference in experience that led to different choices. However, what surprised Yuan Xi even more was that Taishi Ci, who was more than ten years older than Sun Ce, could actually be on par with him in terms of physical strength, which was really puzzling.
Taishi Ci still had a short spear at this time, so he could free his hand at any time. As long as he was not stabbed in the face by the opponent, his life would not be in danger.
But Sun Ce has no head protection, so he cannot make any mistakes!
At this point, both sides were already blood-thirsty, stabbing and smashing around with the things in their hands, and Sun Ce's men couldn't help but be attracted to them.
Yuan Xi saw the opportunity and decisively pulled out a rocket from the saddle bag. With his other hand, he took out a lighter from his bosom and lit it with a flick of his hand.
When Sun Ce's generals heard the sharp sound of air flow, they turned around to look. Suddenly, a fire signal shot out from Yuan Xi's hand, slowly rose into the sky, and then exploded with a loud bang.
Sun Ce turned his head in the midst of his busy schedule and saw it, thinking to himself, isn't this the rocket that Zhou Yu mentioned, the enemy army would explode?
He immediately understood that the other party was notifying the reinforcements!
Sun Ce immediately shouted: "Quick battle, quick decision!"
Yuan Xi knew that he had reached a critical moment, but he could not abandon Taishi Ci, so he shouted: "Jiangdong tigers, if you can't beat them, just beat them up in groups, how shameful and ridiculous!"
Sun Ce's face flushed and he shouted, "Nonsense! I..."
When he looked up, he saw Yuan Xi had already drawn his bow and arrow, aiming at him. He shouted angrily, "You are the despicable and shameless ones!"
As he was distracted, Taishi Ci hit him in the face with his helmet, and his face immediately became swollen.
Sun Ce was furious and stabbed Taishi Ci in the chest with his halberd. The force was so great that it pierced through the armor and penetrated half an inch.
Both sides felt pain and kicked the other away, then went to look for their own horses.
Just as Sun Ce pulled the reins of the horse, he heard the sound of a bowstring behind his head and the sound of a bowstring breaking through the air. He quickly turned his head and an arrow grazed his face and shot into the horse's belly. The warhorse neighed and galloped away, but fell to the ground after running only a few dozen steps.
Sun Ce's face looked extremely ugly, he was almost ambushed because of his carelessness!
At this time, Sun Ce's subordinates had already reacted. The opponent just wanted to challenge openly, but he was so shameless!
More than a dozen riders angrily rushed towards Yuan Xi. Yuan Xi saw that something was wrong and quickly put away his longbow and fled on his horse desperately.
As he fled, he shouted: "Jiangdong rats, if you can't beat them, just beat them up!"
"Your general was shameless and couldn't win first, so I attacked him. You do the first day, so why can't I do the fifteenth?"
When everyone heard this, they were furious. They started shouting and chasing even more urgently.
Taishi Ci got on his horse and ignored Sun Ce, and rode after Yuan Xi. It didn't matter to him whether Sun Ce lived or died, the most urgent task was to save Yuan Xi!
Yuan Xi rode his horse down the hillside, with the horses' hooves tumbling behind him. A dozen cavalrymen were chasing him closely, and some of them had already drawn their longbows and aimed them at Yuan Xi's back.
With a sound of bowstring, the man was hit by an arrow in the arm and his longbow fell off his horse.
Everyone turned around and saw that it was Taishi Ci who had caught up with them!
Sun Ce saw this from afar and couldn't help but curse. The battle with Taishi Ci just now was really exciting, but it was really frustrating in the end!
Not only did the opponent launch a sneak attack and shoot an arrow, which almost killed me, but he also put the blame on me in the end!
He shouted, "If I catch you, I will tear you into pieces!"
Yuan Xi had already run down the hillside, and his voice could be heard from afar.
"Come and catch me. If you catch me, I'll let you do something..."
Seeing that the enemy was getting closer, Sun Ce's subordinates drew their weapons one after another. At this time, they heard the sound of horse hooves coming from all directions.
They saw from afar that cavalrymen were constantly rushing out from all around, even from Guangling City. They reacted immediately and turned around and rushed up the mountain.
The enemy reinforcements are coming, but Sun Ce has no horses!
Everyone rode their horses up the mountain, and one man gave his warhorse helmet to Sun Ce. Sun Ce got on the horse, extremely angry. This experience was really disgusting to him!
He relied on his bravery, but failed to capture the enemy general Taishi Ci, and also let Yuan's army in the city know his whereabouts. I'm afraid that the sneak attack at night will be ruined!
Thinking of this, he shouted: "Kill them all!"
One of the subordinates looked down the mountain and said, "General, they have all come out of the city. There are nearly a thousand cavalry and infantry!"
Sun Ce looked at the dense crowds of heads at the foot of the mountain, and his face turned extremely ugly, but he was also a man who knew the current situation, so he could only shout: "Retreat!"
After hearing this, everyone followed Sun Ce over the hill and left.
When Taishi Ci saw Tian Yu coming with his cavalry, he said a few words to him, and Tian Yu led the cavalry to bypass the hill and chase after Sun Ce's army.
Taishi Ci rode over and said to Yuan Xi, "Sir, this is dangerous. Let's go back to the city first."
Yuan Xi nodded, his back covered in cold sweat, and he and Taishi Ci entered the city gate one after another and arrived at the door of the mansion.
Seeing that Yuan Xi was reluctant to dismount, Taishi Ci asked curiously, "What's wrong, young master?"
Yuan Xi smiled bitterly and said, "My legs are weak and I can't get off the horse."
Taishi Ci listened and praised: "Young Master, you are already very capable. There are several brave generals among the dozen or so people. If it were me, I would be afraid and might even do worse than you."
Yuan Xi wiped his sweat and asked with lingering fear: "Are there any powerful people among them?"
Taishi Ci thought for a moment and said, "Looking at the armor and banners of those people, as well as the information revealed by Qiao Rui, among those dozen people, there should be several trusted generals of Sun Ce, who will be very difficult to deal with."
"I heard that there are Han Dang, Song Qian, Huang Gai, Zhou Tai and so on, all of whom are no less capable than me and Tian Yu."
Yuan Xi's eyes went dark and he fell to the ground. If he had known that these people were also among them, he would have been scared to death!
Fortunately, these people are proud of their status and disdain to fight alone, otherwise if any one of them comes up, even dozens of them would not be enough for them to kill!
He said in a hoarse voice: "I am ignorant and fearless!"
"If I had known they had so many powerful generals, I would have told Brother Ziyi to run away."
"However, Ziyi was so calm in the face of so many powerful enemies, and even had the courage to challenge Sun Ce in a duel. He is truly a fierce general!"
Taishi Ci smiled bitterly and said, "Sir, do you think I am willing?"
"How can I possibly run away when I run into a group of people like that?"
"At that time, I thought it was definitely over. It would be better to fight Sun Ce and use him as a scapegoat. If you know the opportunity, you can escape immediately and there will be a glimmer of hope."
"I didn't expect that the young master had deceived them."
The two men then understood what the other was thinking. They stared at each other in amazement, and then burst into laughter at the same time.
Yuan Xi wiped his sweat and said, "The other side has so many powerful generals, won't Guo Rang suffer any loss? Why don't we give him an order to come back?"
Taishi Ci said, "On the contrary, Tian Yu has more people than us, a thousand versus a dozen. If we don't take advantage of these powerful generals being alone and beat them up now, how can we have such a good opportunity in the future?"
Yuan Xi thought about it carefully and realized that this was indeed the truth!
The screaming lasted for more than half an hour. Yuan Xi saw that the sun was about to set and was afraid that Tian Yu would be in danger, so he ordered the soldiers on the top of the city to sound the retreat. Soon, Yuan's soldiers returned to the city under the leadership of Tian Yu.
Yuan Xi and Taishi Ci heard from Tian Yu that later on, Sun Ce's army continued to receive reinforcements, and finally hundreds of people came one after another. Tian Yu had not gained any advantage, and just when he heard the horn sound, he gathered his soldiers and returned.
Taishi Ci said, "It seems that Sun Ce is marching day and night. I think he will attack Guangling City tonight or tomorrow. Fortunately, he brought people here to investigate the situation and we encountered him."
Yuan Xi was glad in his heart, thinking that Sun Ce was probably trying to learn from him and attack Guangling at night. Fortunately, he ran into him in advance, otherwise it would have been a big trouble.
He said, "In this case, please hurry up and set up your defenses. However, since we are prepared, it will not be so easy for them to succeed."
Taishi Ci and Tian Yu both accepted the order.
Yuan Xi then felt as if he was exhausted and was about to return to his residence, but his legs were weak and he failed to get on the horse several times.
He barely managed to hold on and went back to see Guo Jia. Guo Jia saw that Yuan Xi looked very unhappy and asked curiously, "What happened?"
When Yuan Xi told Guo Jia about what happened outside the city, he advised him, "I have already told you not to take risks, but you just won't listen!"
"You said that as a lord, you also personally went into battle, but Liu Bei and Sun Ce are both first-rate generals, and there are not many people who can kill them."
"But if you take into account your martial arts skills, you can't even beat Sun Li, right?"
Yuan Xi's face froze. Was it necessary to say it so bluntly?
He said with shame: "Master, you have taught me a lesson. I will not be reckless next time."
Guo Jia nodded in satisfaction and said, "Jia is waiting for you, young master, because things are a little unstable in Beixin City."
Yuan Xi was startled, "What's wrong?"
Guo Jia took out two bamboo slips and sighed, "Young Master, read it for yourself."
Yuan Xi unfolded the bamboo slips and read them carefully, then remained silent.