Seeing that the situation was critical just now, Qian Xiaoxing was so shocked that he sweated coldly. He wiped his arms and said, "It turns out that he is the boss, thank you for saving him."

Xiong Yitan laughed and said, "This time you fell into my hands again, and I can exchange you for money again."

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Qian Xiaoxing was stunned when he heard this. He thought he was here to save him, but he didn't expect to be a hostage to exchange for money. He was speechless.

"Boss, let's retreat quickly, otherwise the way down will be blocked by Hu Jun and we will not be able to escape." The second son Hu Suoyuan said hurriedly.

"Okay, then let's retreat first. This time we killed a lot of Hu soldiers, and the results of the battle are good. Take him back to the Black Dragon Cave first." Xiong Yitan ordered.

More than 30 bandits from the Black Dragon Cave escorted Qian Xiaoxing back to the Black Dragon Cave. After such a struggle, the sky was gradually brighter. The bandits escorted Qian Xiaoxing into a cave, leaving behind people to guard the entrance of the cave, and detained him inside first.

In the hall outside, several people were nervously discussing things.

"Boss, what are you going to deal with him?" asked the second son Hu Suoyuan.

Xiong Yitan thought for a while and said, "I don't know what to do. Third brother, can you use him to exchange for money?"

The third brother Wu Tong touched his beard with a horoscope, thought for a while and said, "Boss, this depends on your attitude. If you don't want to be a citizen of Si State and be a refugee all your life, then go and exchange for money. However, according to my analysis, even if we get the money, we will not be able to stay in the Black Dragon Cave. Si State will definitely come to wipe out us."

After hearing this, Xiong Yitan asked immediately: "I also want to be a citizen of Si State, but we have formed a bond with Si State before, will Si State still accept us?"

Wu Tong smiled and said, "Although only one of Si Guo was saved this time, I think this person's identity is important. If he is sent back, wouldn't it just represent our sincerity to surrender?"

"Do you think this can be done?" Xiong Yitan asked distrustfully.

Wu Tong glanced at the cave where Qian Xiaoxing was locked up and said, "Whether it can be done, it depends on the last time you exchanged for this person with a thousand taels."

"How do you say this?" Hu Suoyuan asked.

Wu Yong replied: "I think this person has an important position in Si State. As long as he promises to take us in, we can go back to Si State. So you are still detaining him now. If you get angry, you will not take us in. That would be a mistake."

"Third brother, don't you say it earlier!" Xiong Yitan was anxious after hearing this, and immediately came to the cave where Qian Xiaoxing was imprisoned and said to Qian Xiaoxing: "This young general has offended him so much just now. In fact, he didn't want to use you to exchange for money and joke with you."

Seeing Xiong Yitan's attitude change by 180 degrees, Qian Xiaoxing was confused at once. However, after hearing what he said, he originally wanted to hide his identity and felt it was unnecessary, so he replied: "Then I won't hide it from you. I am Qian Xiaoxing, the chief of staff of the Independent Regiment of the State of Si. I have 5,000 soldiers under him. If you let me go, everything will be easy to talk about in the future."

Xiong Yitan was stunned when he heard this. This character actually had five thousand soldiers and horses. It would be amazing if he offended him. Moreover, the Independent Group attacked Panlong Pass without any effort. Xiong Yitan knew these deeds clearly and immediately replied: "I didn't say I'm arresting you, a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding, just invite you to come and have a drink of water."

When Qian Xiaoxing saw Xiong Yitan's attitude, he stopped scaring him and said, "But this time it's thanks to you who saved me. It's okay to give you some money at that time."

"Is there any money to give?" Xiong Yitan was immediately happy when he heard this. He thought it was wrong. If he took the money, the favors for saving people this time would be cleared. He would have no hope of returning to Si State. So he said, "No, don't have money, I just have something to ask for."

"Oh, tell me what's going on?" Qian Xiaoxing asked in confusion.

"Chief of Staff, come to the hall and say." Xiong Yitan invited Qian Xiaoxing to the hall and humbly asked Qian Xiaoxing to be on the main position.

Qian Xiaoxing saw a chair covered in tiger skin on the hall, and sat up politely and asked, "Tell me, what's the matter."

At this time, Wu Tong said: "Chief of Staff, we will never get to know each other without fighting. We will have a few encounters before. We are considered old acquaintances. We are also very happy to be lucky enough to help the Chief of Staff get out of trouble this time."

When Qian Xiaoxing heard that Wu Tong was still a little clever and took the rescue to himself to ask, but Qian Xiaoxing was also ready to repay this life-saving grace and asked, "Third brother, don't beat around the bush. Last time you saved me, this time I saved me again, I will definitely help you."

When Wu Tong heard this, he knew that Qian Xiaoxing was also a wise man, so he said bluntly: "We don't want to be bandits anymore. Can we let us return to Si State?"

After hearing this, Qian Xiaoxing laughed and said, "I thought it was something, a trivial matter, you just come back."

Xiong Yitan asked hurriedly: "When I come back, I won't arrest us? What happened before is written off?"

"Uh..." Qian Xiaoxing thought for a while, thinking that the army was short of manpower, so he offered a condition and said, "If you come back, you must join my independent regiment and contribute to the Si State's resistance to the Hu army."

"This, no problem. We are just trying to avenge our relatives and kill Hu Jun." The second brother replied.

"We are willing to join the independent group!" other bandits answered one after another.

After hearing this, Qian Xiaoxing shouted, "Okay, bring the wine." Xiong Yitan immediately asked someone to bring out a jar of wine. Qian Xiaoxing signaled everyone to fill it up, raised the bowl and said, "After drinking this bowl of wine, everyone is the brother of the Independent Group. Things were written off in the past, and no one dared to cause trouble for you."

After hearing this, Xiong Yitan raised the wine bowl tremblingly. It was too long to hear this sentence. In the past, Si Guo was bullied by Hu and could not go back. Later, he became a bandit and committed evil deeds. Si Guo could not go back. Now he can finally be a citizen of Si Guo. He was like a newborn, and immediately shouted happily: "Do it!"

Everyone finished drinking and cheered. Qian Xiaoxing finished drinking, thinking that Hu Jun was close to him and guarding Panlong was important and that he could not delay here, so he said, "Everyone set off immediately and return to Panlong Guanzhong with me."

"Let's go!" Everyone broke the wine bowl and followed Qian Xiaoxing to Panlong Pass.

The sky gradually shone, and the fire in the Black Dragon Path was still burning, but the middle part had already burned, with thick black smoke rising. Hu Baojin, the general of Hu Jun's expedition, looked at the scene in front of him and saw that the big trees had been burned and only had their charred torso. There were many black and scorched corpses lying in a mess on the ground. He was very angry and shouted angrily: "Chen Xuan, where is Chen Xuan?"

Chen Xuan hurriedly ran over from a distance and said with a sad face: "General Hu, I'm here."

Hu Baojin looked at the soldiers who survived in the open space last night and ordered: "Count the number of people!"

"General Hu, I have counted it just now," Chen Xuan choked up his voice and replied: "Originally, 40,000 elite soldiers, but now there are only more than 13,000 left. However, there are still many soldiers who broke through last night. I wonder how they are now?"

Hu Baojin was stunned after hearing this. Before he arrived in front of Panlong Pass, the 40,000 vanguard team lost two-thirds. He really regretted not listening to Chen Xuan's advice last night. If he had traveled fifteen miles overnight, there would have been no such thing. He couldn't help but curse: "Damn, Si Jun is really tricky."

After hearing this, Chen Xuan shook his head helplessly, and was also very guilty of not insisting on his opinion yesterday and not persuading Hu Baojin. Tens of thousands of soldiers died in their negligence. However, it is useless to regret it now. He thought about it and said, "General Hu, only the current plan is to lead the troops back to Longzhan City first. Otherwise, more than 10,000 people will be camped outside. Although the other party is 5,000, it will still be very dangerous to us."

"Get back, retreat!" Hu Baojin was in a state of fear after he had learned this lesson.

Chen Xuan looked at the soldiers who had experienced life and death last night, sitting on the burned black and scorched soil, most of them were smoky with dark faces, damaged clothes and messy hair, and they were all dejected. Chen Xuan sighed. If these elite soldiers went to the battlefield to kill the enemy, they would be extremely brave. However, last night, the enemy did not kill one, but so many people were burned to death, which also hit everyone.

"Get out of the troops and retreat!" Chen Xuan ordered. After a while, the soldiers gathered together. Most of them did not have the momentum they had when they came. They bowed their heads and slowly returned to Longzhan City.

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Chapter completed!