Dawn, the night is as dark as ink.

Three miles outside Yan County, there are continuous camps forming a huge arc, with bonfires dotted all over the place.

"Lord, four Yuan troops have left the camp and are heading towards Yuan Shao's camp."

The four Hanoi soldiers who had come to monitor Wen Chou and Xin Pi's body moved away. Huang Zhong hurried to Tao Ying's side, waiting for the next order to break out.

Tao Ying raised his head and glanced at the sky, his expression becoming more solemn.

"Order all soldiers to immediately put on Yuan Jun's uniforms and follow me to carry Paoze's body."

While Tao Ying whispered orders to Huang Zhong, he quickly took off his armor that smelled of blood and put on an ordinary piece of armor ripped from the corpse of a Hanoi soldier.

"Come on, your size is too eye-catching, so I will stay here to take care of the horses for now!"

Seeing Dian Wei's actions, Tao Ying immediately stopped him.

"Lord, this is too risky!"

When Tao Ying picked up the corpse of Pao Ze who had changed his clothes and died in battle, Huang Zhong immediately stepped forward to block Tao Ying's way, with a worried look on his brows.

"Let the general go on this first trip!"

Tao Ying glanced at Huang Zhong with his stern eyes, bypassed him and continued walking quickly towards the north of Quyi's defense line.

"Don't wait any longer. Immediately call for thirty cavalrymen. Each of them will carry a few Paoze corpses and follow me."

Seeing that he could not stop Tao Ying from taking risks, Huang Zhong glanced at Dian Wei who looked calm, gritted his teeth, threw down the sword in his hand, picked up his bow and arrow alone, said hello to everyone around him, picked up a corpse and followed Tao Ying.<

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"Zhongben will repay the lord's kindness with his own death!"

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Tao Ying, who was carrying the corpse forward, had just approached the defense line of Quyi's camp. Four or five Yuan troops on night patrol immediately stepped forward. They all waved their spears as if facing a formidable enemy, pointing at Tao Ying and his party, making a posture of stabbing at any time.

"Who?"

Facing the spear tip that shone coldly under the firelight, Tao Ying calmly stopped and replied dissatisfiedly to Yuan Bing who shouted loudly.

"Are you blind? Can't you see that we are collecting corpses?"

Unlike Tao Ying, who looked calm, Huang Zhong, who was following Tao Ying, looked extremely nervous. He stared at the several Yuan soldiers in front of Tao Ying with a pair of cold eyes, and a big hand was secretly touching the crossbow.

"Collect the corpse?"

Tao Ying and his party were all wearing Yuan Jun's clothes and armor, and they were also carrying Yuan Bing's corpses. They naturally knew Yuan Bing from the night patrol, but they were curious as to why Qu Yi didn't receive the order to clean up the battlefield.

"Just because General Wen died in battle, we were asked to collect his body in the middle of the night..."

"Why are General Qu's men and horses sleeping soundly..."

"How about we dump the body near General Qu's camp and let them bury it, so that we don't have to travel a long way..."

Seeing Yuan Bing's doubts, Tao Ying looked at each other and the several soldiers he had discussed with, immediately muttered loudly, dropped the corpse he was carrying, turned around and left.

……

"General, the Wenchou soldiers in charge of collecting the corpses dumped the corpses near the camp!"

Lieutenant General Zhang Nan, who was on duty at night, hurried into the tent and reported what happened outside the camp to Qu Yi, who was lying down again.

"Huh?"

Qu Yi opened his eyes and looked at Zhang Nan doubtfully.

"If they do this, won't they block our army's way to attack?"

Earlier, Tao Ying's troops were cleaning the battlefield and collecting corpses everywhere. Qu Yi witnessed it with his own eyes, and Yuan Shao did not object. Now Yuan Jun collected the corpses, and Qu Yi was not surprised at all.

"The soldiers were dissatisfied and did not want to travel long distances to bury corpses in the middle of the night..."

Zhang Nan heard the soldiers' complaints clearly and was not slow to report them.

"Are you sure it's Wen Chou's remnant and defeated general?"

Fighting back his sleepiness, Qu Yi sat up, gently rubbing his temples while thinking, his sleepy eyes changing.

"Did they behave abnormally?"

"I have been observing for a long time, but the soldiers collecting the corpses are not armed with weapons, their clothes and armor are in pieces, their movements are slow, and they are complaining everywhere!"

Zhang Nan shook his head firmly. He had doubts like Qu Yi before.

"The fire at Taoying Camp was bright, and no one or horse moved!"

Qu Yi took a breath and lay down again.

"Open a passage and ask them to remove all the corpses around the camp!"

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"Leave half of the people and all the horses, and the rest will go back with me to continue moving the bodies."

Half a mile outside the Quyi defense line, Tao Ying put down his body, turned around and walked quickly towards the encirclement.

"My lord, you finally escaped from danger, why do you want to risk it again?"

Huang Zhong, who frowned slightly, stepped forward quickly to block Tao Ying's path and looked at Tao Ying with doubts.

"Han Sheng, if we don't go back, it will arouse Yuan Jun's suspicion. Not only will we not be able to escape, but Pao Ze who has not yet come out will not be able to escape!"

Tao Ying did not stop, walked around Huang Zhong, and explained to Huang Zhong with a stern face, while nodding to the soldiers who were walking out of the encirclement one after another.

"I understand Zhong!"

Huang Zhong responded softly and thoughtfully.

Tao Ying's explanation made sense to Huang Zhong, but he never believed that it was Tao Ying's reason for risking his life.

"Perhaps my lord can't let go of Dian Wei?"

Huang Zhong, who was tightly wrapped behind him, stared at Tao Ying's back. Suddenly, he had the illusion that what was standing in front of him was not a body, but the majestic Mount Tai, which could block wind and rain, and could change his destiny against the will of heaven.

, can even overturn the world.

"My lord, if you don't give up on Dian Wei today, you will also not give up on me, Huang Zhong, tomorrow!"

In an instant, Huang Zhong's originally complicated eyes suddenly became determined and inspiring, and his steps forward became more brisk. There was no hesitation or flinching on his face, only a fierce fighting spirit and a determination to die.

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"Is it going to be dawn soon?"

When Tao Ying returned to the camp for the second time, he raised his head slightly and saw a faint bright color in the eastern sky.

"If you are evil, wrap your head with Yuan Jun's flag. We must quickly pass through the corpse transport channel."

Tao Ying, with a solemn expression, quickly tied his spear to the horse with a flag, picked up the three corpses, loaded them on the horse, turned around and left.

With an indifferent look on his face, Dian Wei glanced at the corpse collection team, which had less than a hundred people, and quickly tied his pair of large iron halberds to the horse's belly like Tao Ying, then picked up three corpses and pressed them on, and followed Tao Ying closely.

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"Crossing the sky, my lord is truly a god!"

Staring at the back of Tao Ying who was walking calmly in front, Dian Wei's dark eyes flickered in the night.

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"Hey, why are there fewer and fewer people cleaning the battlefield?"

"Someone has to dig a hole and bury the body to transport it..."

"I think there are more and more lazy people, right?"

"I took the opportunity to run away a lot..."

"Why didn't you run?"

"I have nowhere to go, so maybe I can still have something to eat if I stay!"

Tao Ying dealt with the soldiers of the Quyi tribe who were watching the excitement, while covering Dian Wei behind him and leading his horse through.

"Brother, is there anything to eat? I'm starving to death!"

"Hey, didn't you hear my stomach growling too? Just bear with it, there will be something to eat at dawn..."

……

When all the surviving cavalry and infantry escaped from the siege, whether they were Huang Zhong, Dian Wei, Hao Shuai, or ordinary soldiers, they all suppressed their voices and looked up to the sky with laughter in excitement.

"We emerged from the siege of nearly 100,000 troops..."

"We are like tigers returning to the mountains and forests, and dragons swimming in the sea..."

"My lord's plan to conceal the truth is comparable to Zhang Liang's..."

Huang Zhong glanced at Tao Ying and saw that Tao Ying had a cold expression, with no trace of excitement on his face.

"Huh?"

Tao Ying's indifference was definitely not artificial, Huang Zhong caught a hint of deep worry from the depths of his eyes.
To be continued...