At that moment, a soldier from Mingyi Country screamed, "General Fan has been beheaded!"
The other Mingyi soldiers, upon seeing this, began to retreat en masse. Hou Wei, sitting on his horse, shouted anxiously, "Retreat, everyone retreat! For your marshal's sake, kill those who dare desert in the face of the enemy—with military law you will be dealt!"
The cowardly soldiers of Mingyi Country, having retreated, heard the marshal's cry and dragged their heavy feet back into the battlefield.
Hu Liujin bellowed loudly, "Their general has been killed by me—look, this is their general's head! Soldiers, they are like a dragon without a head, let's charge!" He raised Fan Qingqiang's head, which hung from his great sword, high on the battlefield, attempting to provoke Hou Wei while boosting his own soldiers' morale.