After thinking about it, Wang Ying finally decided not to tell her father Jing Yuanbo about the matter, which was originally decided by Deputy General Tian, and the matter was also revealed.

But the matter itself was not simple, and in the end, it could not simply slip away from Wang Ying's heart.

After the refusal to transfer troops to Mengyang City was decided, General Zhang Rui still found Wang Ying and told Wang Ying some sporadic information he had obtained from the heralds at that time. Unlike Tian Li, Zhang Rui is not the supreme commander of the garrison army in one position, and he has always been actually in charge of staff work, and he still considers the details of the war quite deeply.

Among the senior generals in the Battle of Luchuan, Zhang Rui is unique in terms of strategy and planning, and he is not only good at strategy, but also extremely good at martial arts.

In the original time and space that Jiang Yugang did not cross into the battlefield of the Battle of Luchuan, that is, in the last years of orthodoxy in history, because of the collapse of the defense line of Mengyang City, the Battle of Luchuan ended before the Miao Rebellion in Guizhou.

Some other generals and soldiers have returned to their original positions, including General Zhang Rui. After the original Battle of Luchuan, he returned to the Xuanfu Fortress in the north and continued to serve as a general.

In the battle of Yingzong's personal conquest of Warat, Zhang Rui was selected as the guard of Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty because of his astuteness and bravery.

And now, because of the existence of Jiang Yugang, until the summer of the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, the defense line of Mengyangcheng still did not collapse, the Ming army still continued to fight with the Luchuan army, the battle of Luchuan did not end in time, Zhang Rui did not return to Xuanfu in the north, and was selected as an escort to participate in the war of Wara, from a certain point of view, his life has changed completely, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Jiang Yugang saved his life.

But Zhang Rui himself naturally couldn't know this, but he had always been cautious, and with Tian Li, the deputy chief soldier behind his back, secretly communicated with the herald sent by Bai Qianfan, the garrison of Mengyangcheng, and got some information about Mengyangcheng from the herald.

He did this mainly because of the key position of Meng Yangcheng. Although Mengyang City was located behind the battle line, it seemed to be no different from Longchuan and Nandian, which had been controlled by the Ming army, and did not need any extra troops to defend it.

However, Zhang Rui, as a general who fought all the way from Yunnan to the hinterland of Luchuan, still has a deep understanding of the situation in Luchuan, and he knows that on the north and south sides of Mengyang City, on one side is the barrier of the Indoji Great Lake, and on the other side is the jungle of the Ava Kingdom.

In neither direction, the Ming army pursued in depth, and there was no doubt that the Luchuan Kingdom still retained a strong influence in these places, and they were fully capable of gathering men and horses from the areas in both directions to launch a large-scale attack on Mengyangcheng.

Once Mengyang City falls, the Ming army in a large area south of Mengyang will not be able to guarantee timely supplies, and it is easy to fall into the siege of the Luchuan army, and it will not be able to support the high-intensity war of attrition between the current and the Luchuan army.

And because he was not directly responsible for the command of the positions around Jiangtou City, Zhang Rui was more concerned about the situation in Mengyangcheng, because under the exchange of the heralds, he had a deeper understanding of the situation in Mengyangcheng.

The current Mengyangcheng is different from the Mengyangcheng when they left, when the Luchuan military camp in the area of Mengyangcheng was all captured, and the big leaders of the Luchuan army did not know what to do, and the Luchuan army was in chaos, and it was completely unable to organize enough combat effectiveness.

Because of the key to Mengyang City, Jingyuan Bo still left the extremely elite soldiers of Qujing, Pingyi, Yuezhou and Luliang Siwei stationed here, and allocated a large number of people and craftsmen for material dispatch.

Although the soldiers of Qujing Siwei are not the soldiers of the guard post under the jurisdiction of Fucheng, but they are the most experienced troops in the 130,000 army, they have been fighting in the Luchuan area for many years, and seven or eight out of ten are veterans of a hundred battles, and the young soldiers are also from the guards of Fucheng to supplement the elite soldiers of the past.

Because of the long years of warfare, their manpower and equipment support are the first, and they are very sophisticated; In addition to this, they are more adapted to the local climate and even have no barriers to accent communication.

Such a force was originally intended to be used as a front-line attack, but out of the importance of Mengyang City, Jing Yuanbo finally chose to let the troops of the four guards garrison Mengyang.

Tian Li's reluctance to transfer troops to support Meng Yangcheng is also related to this to a certain extent - he has already dispatched no less elite troops than the Chinese army to stay in the rear to guard, and now he has to ask for tens of thousands of soldiers.

Now in Jiangtou City, although it is claimed that there are still 100,000 troops, Tian Li, as a senior general, knows in his heart that there may be less than 70,000 soldiers who really have sufficient combat capabilities, and it would be good if there are 10,000 elites.

The long-term harsh climate and environment, coupled with the troubles of injuries and diseases, the situation on the front line of Jiangtou City is gradually on the verge of the limit.

As Tian Li thought, if Jiangtou City could not be conquered, the forces of Luchuan would never be able to be solved, and it would continue to drag on, the Ming army had no geographical advantage and no one way, only a way to retreat, so he could only ask the defenders of Mengyang City to defend the city, as long as Mengyang City was not captured, everything would still have room to turn around.

And Zhang Rui doesn't think so, he thinks that although the Ming army in Jiangtou City is getting worse, but the situation of the Luchuan Army is not optimistic, although the Ming Dynasty conquered Luchuan, Ava's attitude is ambiguous, and he did not send troops to aid the Ming Dynasty as before, and attack Luchuan together, but Ava and Luchuan can not be regarded as friendly neighbors no matter how much they say, Jiangtou City drags on, and the Luchuan army has no way to retreat.

The military strength of the Ming army in Jiangtou City still has an advantage over the Luchuan army, and it will not let itself fall into trouble by dividing its forces to temporarily aid Mengyangcheng, but Mengyangcheng is different, north of Indoji and southeast of Mengyangcheng, Luchuan retains a lot of influence.

Zhang Rui didn't know how much manpower Luchuan could gather from those places, and after in-depth discussion with the heralds, the heralds gave him a message that made him uncomfortable: "The Mengyang garrison is estimated to have more than 60,000 troops, and the officers of the defense line under his jurisdiction have given a relatively accurate figure of 40,000. ”

Whether it is 60,000 or 40,000, Zhang Rui is not very sure of the accuracy of these figures, after all, they are not horse scouts and counting officers with many professions like the Chinese army in the big battalion, but from these numbers and Meng Yangcheng's urgent request for help, Zhang Rui has a vague feeling that the Luchuan army may have taken out more than 20,000 soldiers, and in addition, there may be a terrifying number of people, that is, miscellaneous soldiers who can barely make up the number.

A few months ago, there were less than 7,000 defenders left in Mengyang City, and after many skirmishes and injuries, it would be good to have 5,000 soldiers to fight now.

With 5,000 tired soldiers, it is not a simple matter to resist the attack of tens of thousands of Luchuan soldiers and civilians, and it can even be said that it is completely unfeasible.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhang Rui finally felt that it was inappropriate, so he hurried to the barbarian temple village and informed the son of Jing Yuanbo, Wang Ying, the garrison of the camp. It is not appropriate to inform Jing Yuanbo directly about this matter, and inform Wang Ying that it is the best candidate.

After receiving Zhang Rui's information and listening to Zhang Rui's detailed analysis, Wang Ying was also restless and restless for a while. He followed his father, and he was also familiar with the art of war since he was a child, and he fought hundreds of battles in the south, experienced countless battle formations firsthand, and knew the complexity of war.

Since then, the matter of Meng Yangcheng has weighed heavily on Wang Ying's heart like a boulder, and he has been struggling with whether to tell his father about it, on the one hand, he is worried that it will affect the key battle situation in Jiangtou City, and on the other hand, there is information that may completely change the situation of the war.

In the end, Meng Yangcheng's intelligence was still defeated by "inaccuracy", and the news was passed on repeatedly, from the Secret Academy, to Bai Qianfan, to the heralds under his command, to Zhang Rui, and finally to Wang Ying, because of the distortion in the process of information transmission in ancient times, Wang Ying thought that he could not bear the possible consequences of transferring troops from the big camp to Mengyang.

After all, Meng Yangcheng wants more than 10,000 soldiers, and even a large battalion does not have so many troops for additional scheduling, once it is withdrawn from the battle line, it may affect the battle situation of the entire Jiangtou City. The terrain outside Jiangtou City is complex, and every camp is an important place that must not have an accident, once there is an accident here, it is controlled by the Luchuan Army, and it is almost the same as saying that the previous achievements have been abandoned.

So, under what circumstances can we go to support Meng Yangcheng? In Wang Ying's mind, this has almost become an unsolvable problem, as long as Mengyang City does not fall or loses the battle outside Mengyang City, there seems to be no conclusive evidence to mobilize troops to support.

But if it really comes to support Meng Yangcheng at that time, will it be too late? There is no straight line to go from the Ming army camp outside Jiangtou City to Mengyang City, and it will take two days to walk at the earliest, and it will take a day and a night to march day and night.

When passing through Mengyang City, Wang Ying was also stationed there for a few days, he knew that it was not a big city in the Central Plains, there was a strong and tall city to defend, with the defense of Mengyang City, once the defenders were defeated, at most one or two hours, the Luchuan army could control the entire city, and with this as the center, cut off the logistics line of the Ming army, threaten and even counterattack Longchuan.

The news of Meng Yangcheng has quietly become a piece of Wang Ying's heart, and what makes him a little unacceptable is that while he is still thinking about it, new information from Meng Yangcheng has come.

"Mengyang City has fallen, the defenders have been defeated, retreat to the defense line near Mengyang City for the final battle, please Jingyuanbo send reinforcements." Wang Ying repeated the contents of the letter in his heart, and after reason gradually took control of his body, he resolutely took all the letters in the hands of the herald and strode towards Jing Yuanbo's military tent.

After walking a few steps, Wang Ying felt that it was too slow, so she ran in stride. The wind blew in the middle of the night, and the soldiers on both sides of the night patrol showed curious and puzzled expressions when they saw the way they were running.

However, Wang Ying didn't care about it completely, he just ran in the direction of his father Jing Yuanbo's military tent, like a soldier who was eager to convey the military situation to his commander, and like a child who was eager to seek his father's help.

He thought that the fall of Meng Yangcheng was not his responsibility, even if he investigated, he couldn't find himself, and Zhang Rui, the only one who knew more about this matter, had no reason to put the fault on himself, but Wang Ying's heart was still full of fear that made him almost unable to breathe.

That is the fear of losing a war, for this war, the Ming Dynasty invested countless manpower and material resources, and even gave up many key northern defenses, spending ten years in the southwest of the river, is it going to be defeated at this point in the end?