In the central village of the Wei army, a big banner with the word "Wei" was hung listlessly in front of the gate of the camp, and there was no vigor and slaughter in the village, and most of the Wei soldiers were busy packing their belongings in their respective camp tents, preparing to retreat to Liyang Cangcheng.

"Did you hear that? The Sui army has already broken through our twenty-four camps, and they are about to hit our central village! ”

"Hey, that killing god Yuwen Chengdu is too inhumane, I don't know how much blood has been stained with our brothers these days!"

"No, I'm afraid of this killing god! Now, General Guo has asked us to prepare to pack our bags, just wait for the order, let's leave the camp! ”

"Let's go, let's go! It's not a matter to stay here, go back to Liyang City, there are walls and moats to rely on! ”

"Hey, no matter if the above decides to run away, anyway, my Lao Li is determined! Our Lao Li ran all the way back from the thirteenth line of defense, and his life was at stake! ”

At this time, the soldiers of the Wei army had no fighting spirit, and they did not shy away from discussing in private, as if the evacuation of the Wei army was only a matter of one or two days.

The big tent of the Wei army, Zhang Liang sat on the marching sand dunes, the villain with the word "Wei" has been pulled out more than half of it compared with half a month ago, and the villain with the word "Sui" is overwhelmingly piled up in front of the villain with the word "Wei".

Guo Xiaoke, while carefully packing his bags and packing all the valuable things, said earnestly: "General Zhang, don't think about it, lead the army with me to withdraw to Liyang City as soon as possible, with Liyang City, we can resist for a little longer, wait here, then we are really waiting for death!" ”

Zhang Liang looked at the marching sand table unwillingly, frowned and said, "I'm thinking that there is no other way than to return to Liyang?" Back to Liyang, that's our last way out! ”

Guo Xiaoke shook his head and sighed: "It's useless if you think so much!" Now the morale of the army is weakened, there will be no will to fight, and the soldiers have no fighting spirit, since our reinforcements were wiped out in that time, and the brothers in the ninth camp were slaughtered by the Sui army, our army now has more than a dozen camps without a fight! Do you think these camp leaders surrendered willingly? At least I know, Leader Zhang and Leader Yang were unwilling to surrender and were beheaded by their subordinates in the three-way drum! In this situation, do you still want to fight? ”

Zhang Liang hesitated: "But after all, we didn't receive the military order from General Xu, and led our troops to withdraw to the city without authorization, isn't it!?" “

Guo Xiaoke sneered: "Then may I ask, is it our army that continues to stay here, and then is completely annihilated by the Sui army one by one?" Or General Zhang, are you better to be shelf-necked by your subordinates with a knife rack? ”

Zhang Liang calmly analyzed: "No, there is still a way!" The reason why the soldiers are so afraid of the enemy is mainly because when we made arrangements in the early stage, we only considered how to delay the time for the Sui army to enter the army, but we did not expect that the Sui army's response methods would be so effective, so our army would be completely defeated. I think, if we gather all the soldiers in the central camp now, as the saying goes, there is great strength in numbers, let's hold together, the Sui army will not be able to eat us easily, and the sense of security in the hearts of the brothers will be greatly improved, then we will not have to withdraw to the city, and we can also form a horn with Liyang City and take care of each other! ”

Listening to Zhang Liang's thoughts, Guo Xiaoke shook his head and vetoed: "It's not that I haven't thought about this, but I think that doing this is likely to give the Sui army a chance to eliminate us in waves!" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Liang's face changed and asked, "Why?" We still have nearly 100,000 people! Even if you don't have the strength to fight because of morale problems, it's always okay to defend the camp! ”

Guo Xiaoke shook his head and said: "It seems that we still have nearly 100,000 people, but many of them are deserters from the front stockade, if we converge together, they will definitely bring the emotion of fearing the enemy like a tiger to the whole army, and then the panic will walk the whole army, with 100,000 sheep trapped in the lonely camp, in the face of 200,000 wolves, General Zhang, can you have the confidence to defend it!?" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Liang's face twitched, Guo Xiaoke didn't wait for him to speak, and continued: "Even if you can defend it, how can the food problem be solved?" At present, the food in our central village is limited, and it is impossible to supply 100,000 people for a long time. At that time, we still need food support in Liyang Cangcheng, and the Sui army will definitely surround us and cut off our grain routes, as long as our army eats all the food, when the time comes, we will have to surrender if we don't surrender! You and I were captured, if General Xu didn't have these 100,000 guys to guard Liyang Cangcheng, only relying on more than 30,000 people in the city, even if there was more food, it wouldn't last long! ”

Zhang Liang said bitterly: "In this way, our army can only keep the fire by returning to Liyang and fight with the Sui army!" ”

Guo Xiaoke nodded and said: "In addition to paying attention to equipment training, we also attach great importance to the fighting spirit and morale of the soldiers!" The equipment and training of the army far exceed that of our army, and now our army has been defeated in successive battles, and its morale and fighting spirit have long been gone. It is better to retreat to Liyang City as soon as possible, rely on the city wall and moat to resist danger, and rely on the city defense to give the Sui army a large number of casualties, and restore the morale and fighting spirit of our army, which is the way to fight with the Sui army for a long time! ”

Guo Xiaoke's spittling words did go to Zhang Liang's heart, and he had to admit that Guo Xiaoke was right, so he had to close his eyes helplessly and sighed: "But if you withdraw now, you will be chased and killed by the Sui army's iron cavalry!" Moreover, even if we return to Liyang safely, our army has lost all the defense lines in the periphery and is trapped in Liyang City, where the city defense system is not perfect, then it will sit back and wait to die! ”

Guo Xiaoke hooked his lips and said: "As long as we don't give an order now, and when the squad suddenly returns to Liyang at night, even if the Sui army is aware of it, it is afraid of being ambushed because it is dark, and they dare not chase it deeply!" As long as we bring these 100,000 people back to Liyang safely, if the Sui army wants to easily break in, I'm afraid it won't be so easy! ”

Hearing this, Zhang Liang opened his eyes helplessly, nodded and said, "Then listen to you, give orders to all battalions, and withdraw to Liyang City tonight!" ”

Guo Xiaoke nodded, his face suddenly relaxed a lot, and he was about to turn around and prepare to give an order, but he saw a large number of people standing at the door of the Chinese army's tent, a young man with gauze wrapped around his left chest was supported by his own soldiers, the young man's face was still very pale, but his eyes were extremely firm: "At this time when our army is at stake, our army must not retreat at this moment!" ”