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“…… What can be done, we have already done it, whether we can stabilize that Zhou Hu depends on the will of God. ”

After returning to the South City Gate Tower, Chen Miao said to Guan Shuo with a thoughtful look.

Guan Shuo nodded, and immediately discussed with Chen Miao: "Then how to retreat?" At night? ”

"Hmm." Chen Miao nodded and said in a deep voice: "Take advantage of the daytime work to distribute the remaining food in this battalion to the sergeants and soldiers, and give them about ten days' rations per person, so the vacated grain carts can be used to carry some lightly injured soldiers, and the rest of the large baggage, war drums and other items are all abandoned for light retreat." ”

Guan Shuo nodded in agreement, and then couldn't help but ask again: "How many camps, should they also be left to Kunyang?" You know, Kunyang is currently short of firewood, if you leave my camp with Liu De to Kunyang......"

"It's all this time, do you still care about this? …… As soon as you set fire to the camp, wouldn't Zhou Hu know? ”

Shaking his head, Chen Miao Zhengse persuaded: "It's just two empty camps, stay and stay, Kunyang will only dismantle them for firewood, and the military camps on the south bank of the Shahe River can be set on fire to prevent them from being ...... by Ye County."

"Hmm."

After discussing the general situation, Guan Shuo summoned the two generals, Zhu Wei and Huang Kang, and made the decision made by him and Chen Miao to speed up the two.

After listening to Guan Shuo's narration, Zhu Yan asked cautiously: "Guan Qushuai, what ...... What about the soldiers in the city? ”

Guan Shuo glanced at Chen Miao quietly, and immediately said: "The brother of Jiangxia Yishi, he will give priority to retreating when the time comes......"

"It's not." Zhu Yan shook his head and explained, "The last general wants to ask, what about the soldiers under your command in the city, Guan Shuai?" ”

"......" Guan Shuo was silent.

There is no other reason, after all, in order to prevent Kunyang from learning immediately, he is bound to leave an army, on the one hand, to stabilize Kunyang's soldiers, and on the other hand, to break off the rear if necessary, to buy time for the army to retreat.

As for what will happen to this army that has been left behind, think about it.

"Zhu Yuan!"

Chen Miao said in a deep voice: "Guan Shuai has his own considerations, you don't have to intervene." ”

“……”

Zhu Wei glanced at Chen Miao, lowered his head and expressed his obedience, but he still said his heart: "The last general thinks that at least Cao Wu must be removed...... Although the battle did not go well, Cao Wu performed very well, and if he abandoned it...... It's a shame. ”

Cao Wu is a general under Guan Shuo, and Zhu Wei is a general under Chen Miao, the two originally belonged to two armies, but in the siege war a while ago, Cao Wu was temporarily under Zhu Miao, after a period of getting along, Zhu Mi appreciated this famous general very much, so today he will resist the pressure of Qu Shuai Chen Miao, intercede for Cao Wu, to avoid Cao Wu and his soldiers being regarded as outcasts.

Chen Miao praised Zhu Yuan's behavior very much, after all, this is a manifestation of righteousness.

But the problem is that this matter is not easy to operate, and secondly, this is the internal affairs of the Yishi of Changsha - he can only come up with ideas and persuade Guan Shuo at most, but he can't make decisions for Guan Shuo.

Hearing Zhu Yan's plea, in fact, Guan Shuo was also hesitating, hesitating whether to withdraw Cao Wu alone.

It is impossible to remove everyone under Cao Wu's command, and the sudden large-scale rotation in the city at this moment is easy to arouse the suspicion of Kunyang.

"Can you tell the Green Forest Thief to break off?"

Huang Kang made his suggestion.

Yes, even though the battle of Kunyang has come to an end, there are still many Green Forest Thieves.

Some people may wonder, could it be that Guan Shuo is so benevolent and righteous, and would rather have 30,000 or 40,000 casualties among his own righteous soldiers, but also keep the 'allies' of the Green Forest Thieves?

Of course, this is not the case, the Green Forest Thieves have been able to survive to this day because they are too bad, except for being able to pose some threats to Kunyang at the beginning, after that, as Kunyang gradually trained many strong pawns, the Green Forest Thieves were completely useless.

The real Green Forest thieves are afraid of death, and the pseudo-thieves who are enslaved by them are not strong, and this kind of thief army sent to Kunyang can only be used as a sacrifice to consume the physical strength of Kunyang's pawns at best.

As the weather gradually turned colder, Guan Shuo became more and more eager to take Kunyang as soon as possible, so he sent more righteous soldiers, and as for the green forest thieves, he left them behind.

It wasn't until Huang Kang mentioned it today that Guan Shuo remembered that there seemed to be so many green forest thieves of four or five thousand.

But can this group of people be used as an army after the break?

It's a pity that this group of people is not even qualified to be abandoned after the break.

You know, even if the broken army is lost, it is not just anyone who can do it, at least you have to block the chasing soldiers for a while and buy time for the army, right?

If you can't even do that, what's the point of leaving it behind?

If Guan Shuo left the group of green forest thieves to break off, there is no doubt that those people would collapse the moment Kunyang chased them out of the city, and they would flee for their lives, completely exposing the back of his righteous teacher to the sword of Kunyang pawns.

All in all, a rabble like the Green Forest Thief is not even worthy of being an abandoned child after the break!

After pondering for a long time, Guan Shuo said in a deep voice: "You wait...... Let's get ready to go. ”

"Yes!"

Huang Kang and Zhu Yu will clench their fists and leave.

Immediately, Guan Shuo ordered the left and right guards: "Call Cao Wu over." ”

"Yes!"

A moment later, the Qu general Cao Wu came to the South City Gate Tower.

Seeing that there were only Guan Shuo, Chen Miao and a few guards in the city gate tower, and no other generals, Cao Wu was very puzzled, and cautiously hugged his fists and said: "Cao Wu has seen two commanders. ”

"Hmm."

Guan Shuo nodded, motioned for Cao Wu to take a seat, and after the latter sat down on the chair in the building, he said with a straight face: "Cao Wu, my righteous master must retreat." ”

“……”

Cao Wu was stunned and nodded immediately.

He also knew that the righteous master was going to retreat, wasn't he negotiating with Kunyang.

Unexpectedly, Guan Shuo said again: "Tonight, the righteous master will start to retreat!" ”

"Huh?"

Cao Wu looked stunned and asked, "Isn't it ...... with Kunyang?"

As if guessing Cao Wu's thoughts, Chen Miao said regretfully: "That is an expedient measure to deceive Zhou Hu, not to mention that my righteous master does not have a thousand quilts and three thousand winter clothes, even if there is, my righteous teacher will not hand it over to Kunyang ......."

Immediately, Guan Shuo said on the side: "Tonight, a part of the lightly wounded soldiers, as well as the baggage, will take the lead in retreating, and at dawn tomorrow, the whole army will withdraw to the Shahe River and withdraw to the south bank of the Shahe River...... During this period, if the people of Kunyang find out that something is wrong and tell Zhou Hu, then Zhou Hu will inevitably realize that he has been deceived, and it is ......"

He licked his lips and said in a deep voice, "...... It is necessary to leave an army behind to buy time for the army to retreat. ”

Hearing this, Cao Wu's face turned slightly pale.

He is not stupid, Guan Shuo summoned him alone at this time, told him about the matter, and said that after the army was broken, where would he not be able to hear the extraneous sound?

"Guan Shuai is hope...... Is there hope that the end will be broken? Cao Wu said with mixed feelings.

Guan Shuo nodded, and shook his head again: "Yes and no." ”

Seeing Cao Wu looking at him with puzzled eyes, Guan Shuo lowered his voice and said, "I only ask you to delay Kunyang for a period of time, so that my army can retreat to the south bank of the Shahe River...... And in between, you can evacuate halfway. ”

Cao Wu's face changed slightly, because Guan Shuo's words were clearly hinting that he could leave his soldiers behind and escape alone if necessary.

"Guan Shuai ......"

Cao Wu stood up in a panic and said with a bit of pleading: "The righteous soldiers in the city have fought with the Kunyang soldiers every day during this period of time, and they have worked hard and made great achievements, no, you can't abandon them......"

"They can't survive this retreat." Guan Shuo shook his head and said with a sigh: "You don't know, my righteous master lost Dingling, and the despicable people of Yexian took the opportunity to seize Dingling while my righteous master was fighting with Kunyang...... Our righteous master could no longer retreat to Dingling, which was sixty or seventy miles away, and could only retreat to Yuncheng and Zhaoling further east, and had to brave the wind and snow to walk more than 100 miles...... Even if it is a lightly injured soldier, it may not be able to survive the wind and snow, let alone a seriously injured soldier? Besides, Kunyang and Yexian will not let our righteous division retreat, and will inevitably send troops to pursue and intercept it...... Rather than let them freeze to death on the way, it is better to let them stay in Kunyang and buy time for the retreat of the rest of the soldiers. ”

"Qu Shuai ......"

"Enough!" Raising his hand to interrupt Cao Wu's words, Guan Shuo said in a deep voice: "I have no will, you can just do what you order!" ”

"The last general...... Comply with orders. ”

Cao Wu opened his mouth, and immediately lowered his head and hugged his fists.

Looking at Cao Wu's dejected back, Chen Miao sighed slightly.

It is undeniable that Guan Shuo's orders are cruel and ruthless, but in the overall situation, Guan Shuo's orders are undoubtedly correct.

For example, most of the wounded soldiers did not survive this retreat, so why drag down the other soldiers?

And this is also the reason why Chen Miao did not dissuade him.

This was the price of his righteous division's failure to capture Kunyang and lose the battle: some of the wounded had to be discarded in order to allow more intact soldiers to retreat to the cities and counties in the rear, so as to retain their strength as much as possible.

Shaking his head slightly, he turned his head to Guan Shuo and said: "I don't dare to guarantee that I can deceive that Zhou Hu, but considering the wit and cunning of that Zhou Hu, as long as my righteous master starts to act, he will definitely be aware of it...... When Zhou Hu led the troops to pursue, he severely frustrated his spirit, as long as Zhou Hu was defeated and he gave up the pursuit, Ye County alone was not enough to hinder the retreat of my righteous division. ”

"Hmm."

Guan Shuo nodded approvingly.

At the same time, Zhao Yu was taking Jingnu and Niu Heng to make sacrifices in a side room of the county government, because today was the death day of his Luyang Zhao family.

For the sake of secrecy, and due to the rush of time, Zhao Yu only had a brief sacrifice with Jingnu, and Niu Heng, the only one in the city who knew the inside story, stood outside the house and guarded, and no one was allowed to approach.

Not long after, Wu Zhi of the east city wall hurriedly came to the county office, but was blocked out of the house by the cow.

Wu Zhi hurriedly said: "Escort Niu, I have something important to see Leader Zhou." ”

"Not right now." Niu Heng shook his head and refused.

At this moment, Zhao Yu opened the door and walked out, saw Wu Zhi, and asked, "What's wrong, Deputy Lieutenant Wu?" ”

Wu Zhi hurriedly clenched his fists and said: "Back to Leader Zhou, as you expected, the rebels are suspected of preparing to retreat, Commander Wang asked me to ask Leader Zhou, when will we pursue?" ”

"There's no hurry."

Zhao Yu shook his head and said: "The rebel army at the moment seems to be a tired strong man, although he is tired, he still has the strength to fight, if I don't want to be knocked to the ground by his fighting blow, it is best to wait for him to turn his back first......"

"Uh...... What if the rebels run away? ”

"Don't worry, he can't run." Zhao Yu said calmly.

At dusk that day, several black tiger thieves hurriedly came to Ye County and handed over Zhao Yu's letter to Yang Ding, the county commander of Ye County.

There was only one sentence in the letter: Today and tomorrow, the rebels will retreat.

After reading the letter, Yang Ding stood up and instructed his hometown generals Wei Dong and Ye County Gao Chundao: "The rebels are about to withdraw, old man, send someone to inform General Wang Yan and Wei Chi, tell them to prepare for the interception, and then send cavalry to monitor the movements of the rebels." Gao Chun, immediately gather the soldiers in the county and prepare them to pursue the rebels! ”

Gao Chun hesitated and said: "General Wang Yan and Wei Chi have taken away a lot of soldiers, with the current strength of my Ye County, I am afraid that I will not be able to support ......"

Yang Ding glanced at the letter in his hand, and said lightly: "After nearly two months of hard work, now that I finally see the hope of victory, do you think that Zhou Hu will ask us to pursue the rebels alone and pick up the credit for nothing?" How could he be so kind? …… If he hadn't been strong enough to bite a piece of meat off the retreating rebels, do you think he would have been kind enough to inform us? ”

“…… Quite right. ”

Gao Chun nodded with a strange expression.