Chapter 1152

"Dead..."

"Dead?"

"Good riddance, he deserved to die! He was useless!"

"Who is leading the five thousand people now?"

"A person named Li Ming is leading those five thousand people."

"Fine, let them into the city. I want to see what this Li Ming has to say."

Li Xin originally planned to reorganize them casually, but seeing that the leader was also surnamed Li, this made him inexplicably feel quite a bit of goodwill.

Especially, the ten-thousand-man commander was dead, and he not only survived but also led five thousand people to run out.

As expected of the Li surname, he didn't lose their face.

"Your name is Li Ming?"

"Reporting to General Li, yes!"

"Very good, how did you lead them to escape here?"

"We were dying and injured at the time, and the enemy had thirty thousand people."

"They originally wanted to capture us all alive, and many brothers still resisted to the death."

That Li Ming actually shed tears as he spoke. Li Xin could imagine the spectacular scene.

Ten thousand people, besieged by thirty thousand, and yet five thousand survived and returned. It was truly strong!

However, what Li Xin didn't know was that there was no such thing as thirty thousand people; there was only one thousand.

And the reason they lost was all because of those old soldiers.

However, they had already discussed it on the way; they were defeated by an army of thirty thousand!

That's right, they decided to lie together because they were afraid of punishment.

If Li Xin knew that the troops he led were all these stinking fish and rotten shrimp, he would definitely kill them all!

"Then what happened later? How did you survive?"

"We also wanted to resist to the death, but in the end, we decided to pretend to surrender to preserve our strength, so that we could avenge our brothers!" Li Ming said, clenching his fists. Li Xin directly cheered.

"Brave and resourceful, not bad!" Li Xin looked at Li Ming, his eyes full of appreciation.

In his view, in such a situation where strength was disparate, preserving strength was the most important thing; surrender was only temporary.

As long as their hearts were toward Great Qin, one day, maybe they could even become insiders.

"Then how did you come back after being captured?"

"At night they relaxed, and we killed our way out. After a night, we finally arrived at the Beicheng!"

Li Xin looked at Li Ming. Hmm, no lies.

The fatigue on his face couldn't be covered up, as well as the dark circles under his eyes and the faint scent of blood on his body.

"Alright, you go down first."

"Right, you take this token. Now you are my deputy!"

Li Xin directly threw over a token that symbolized his status.

Having that token was like Li Xin himself. In other words, now in the army, besides Li Xin, the person with the highest status was Li Ming!

"Li Ming thanks General Li!" Li Ming decisively took the token and then knelt on the ground and said.

Seeing Li Xin wave his hand, he then retreated.

"Find me when you wake up."

"Yes!"

After Li Ming left, Li Xin walked back and forth in the City Lord's Mansion.

After discovering it was an empty city, Li Xin used the most luxurious City Lord's Mansion as his residence.

Although there was nothing in the City Lord's Mansion, it was luxurious.

Li Xin just liked these things.

At this time, Li Xin was very uncomfortable. One South City had thirty thousand people, while the Beicheng was empty.

Could it be that the entire Bashu only had thirty thousand soldiers?

This certainly wasn't very likely. If that were the case, then the soldiers of the East and West cities would definitely have sent news.

Instead of having no news at all like now.

However, just then, the messenger who ran out before came again!

"What is it again?"

"Eight thousand large troops have arrived outside the city, all Qin troops. They look like they have lost a battle!"

"???"

"What do you mean?"

Li Xin was stunned. Lost a battle?

Qin troops?

How is that possible!

"What's going on?"

"It's the Qin troops at the Xicheng..." The small soldier said timidly. He was a bit afraid that his general would be angry.

After all, five thousand routed troops had just arrived, and now eight thousand more had come. Who could handle this?

"Where is the ten-thousand-man commander? Call him to see me!"

"General!" At this time, a big man walked in. He looked at Li Xin with a face full of guilt.

"What's going on? How did you lose?" Li Xin looked at this ten-thousand-man commander with a face full of anger.

Ten thousand Qin troops, and they weren't even asked to attack the city, just to surround it. How were they defeated?

"This subordinate deserves to die!"

That ten-thousand-man commander didn't say anything else and knelt down directly with his head on the ground.

Li Xin frowned even more dissatisfied, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

"What exactly is the situation? If there is a justifiable reason, I will count you as innocent!"

Who knew that as soon as Li Xin finished that sentence, the ten-thousand-man commander started crying!

"We, we, we were chased and killed by thirty thousand Bashu troops!"

"In one encounter, brothers died and were injured. We finally sacrificed two thousand soldiers and finally charged out!"

"We were chased all the way, and only after seeing General Li's flag at the Beicheng did they retreat!"

The ten-thousand-man commander cried as he spoke, looking truly heroic.

Li Xin frowned even more. How could the Xicheng also have thirty thousand people!

Then would the East City also have thirty thousand large troops?

This couldn't help but make Li Xin hesitate.

Should he retreat with his ten thousand, or continue to hold the Beicheng, or attack the Imperial Capital?

However, what Li Xin didn't know was that the ten-thousand-man commander lied!

What he encountered was only one thousand Bashu new recruits led by Zhao Yun!

Three hours ago.