"Now the rumors are rampant, and the morale of the army has been shaken, which is very unfavorable for us to break through the encirclement and fight." Seeing the rapid deterioration of the book's servant, Yu Shi Duyan was even more resentful of Wei Wensheng's decision-making mistakes, and his words were full of anger, "The soldiers have been fighting for a day and a night, and they are exhausted, and now there are interceptions in front of them, and there are chasing soldiers in the back, and they are under the enemy's back, even if they are out of the encirclement before dusk tomorrow, the loss is incalculable." ”

Everyone can feel the resentment from Du Yan's tone, but the important thing at this moment is unity, and it is to work together to fight out of the encirclement, Du Yan's attitude will only be despised by others, and it is really unwise to isolate himself from the group. Wei Jin glanced at Du Yanlian and signaled him to keep his mouth shut and not to tell the truth.

Wei Wensheng looked at Du Yan with a blue face with disdain, without any shame, without any sense of responsibility, his contemptuous eyes were full of provocation, and he seemed to be justified, I just brought the Xijing army into a desperate situation, what can you do with me?

Ming Ya was angry, with a "black" face, looking at Du Yan, and her tone was stern, "This is a war, not a drill, there will be casualties in the war, but if you die for the country, you will die as you deserve." ”

The tense atmosphere suddenly made the "temperature" in the lobby rise rapidly, and many people were sweating profusely.

"Rumors are indeed terrible, but any rumor is vulnerable to the facts." Ming Ya waved her hand vigorously and said loudly, "Tell the soldiers, we are surrounded by rebels, we must fight against the water, and we must kill them before dusk tomorrow." A certain believes that in order to survive and for their own glory, the soldiers of Xijing will definitely overcome fear, move forward, fight bloodily, and step on the corpses of the enemy to fight a bloody way. ”

Everyone looked at each other, worried, but could not object. At this moment, whether to refute rumors with the truth or with lies actually bears huge risks, and no one can estimate the pros and cons of them, and no one can afford the consequences of failing to refute rumors.

Wei Wensheng remained silent, indicating that he supported Mingya's opinion, and most of the soldiers in the Xijing army had experienced the tempering of war, and their courage and belief were still trustworthy, so considering it, the result of refuting the rumors with the truth might be better, and it would be more possible for the soldiers to unite and fight to the death.

Since no generals expressed opposition, and Wei Jin, the servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Shi Duyan, the book-bearer, did not openly "disagree", then this decision was made to the point of view, and after the military discussion was over, the armies would return to their headquarters to truthfully inform the officers and men of the current battle situation, and as for the outcome, it was only up to fate.

"It is indeed very difficult to break through the encirclement, we are under the enemy's back, and we have to fight on two fronts, so the forces are scattered, and we cannot concentrate all our forces to break through the enemy's encirclement." Minya continued, "Our rebels must know that we have been cut off from food and weapons and can only fight for a day and a night, and they will do their best for the next day and night, and if they hold on, victory is within reach." ”

Ming Ya looked at the generals and asked, "So the top priority is, what method can we use to break through this dead end and break through?" ”

There was silence and no one answered.

Mingya looked at Du Yan with an inquiring expression. The point of Du Yan's "difficulty" just now is here. Now that you see the crux of the problem, do you have a solution? There is no point in posing a problem, the key is to solve the problem, and if you solve the problem, then it is called ability. Du Yan snorted coldly, turned his head angrily, and ignored it. Of course, he has no solution, he is the imperial history, his duty is to supervise, and leading the army to break through is the task of the commander of the army.

Mingya also sneered, and then continued, "If we want to break this deadlock, we must not be led by the rebels in the first place. The rebels intercepted us in the direction of Michi and pursued us in the direction of Xiaoxin'anseong, and if we broke through all the way to Michi, and stopped the pursuit of the rebels all the way, we would have fallen into the enemy's trick. The division of our forces into two roads makes it impossible for us to concentrate all our forces to break through the siege, and if we can't attack for a long time, and when time runs out, we will be dragged to death by the rebels, so we must concentrate all our forces on one road, so that we can hope to break out of the encirclement. ”

The crowd fell into deep thought. Mingya's analysis is right, if the rebels lead the way by the nose and the troops are divided into two ways to break through the siege, they will not be able to concentrate all their forces to tear apart the enemy's encirclement, and they must do the opposite, but how to do the opposite? When the Xijing army concentrated all its forces to break through in the direction of Michi, who would stop the rebels in the direction of Xiaoxin'ancheng? This is a dead end, and there is no way to solve it.

"An Degong, what's the plan?" Wu Benlang couldn't help but ask respectfully.

Mingya didn't want to test everyone's wisdom anymore, so she immediately said the answer, "Concentrate all your forces on Xiaoxin'an City, deal a heavy blow to the rebels who are following and pursue, make them lose the strength to fight again in the short term, and give us time to break through and leave." ”

The generals were surprised, this answer was beyond their expectations, and the direction of this breakthrough was indeed unexpected, "doing the opposite", it is estimated that even those rebels who came to kill at the tail could not have imagined that the Xijing army that was deeply encircled actually "jumped over the wall in a hurry", and suddenly turned around in desperation, and tried his best to kill them, and fight with them.

Wei Jin and Du Yan were also surprised, but they immediately understood that Wei Wensheng was still insisting on his decision, and he still had to fight to the death with Yang Xuangan, especially when he was surrounded by rebels, and after the breakthrough was basically hopeless, he gave up the breakthrough and decided to burn Yang Xuangan's jade stone, so that the Xijing army was annihilated, but Yang Xuangan's main army was also very little, and his strength plummeted, and then it would be difficult for Yang Xuangan to enter the Guanzhong again, after all, the combat effectiveness of those patchwork armies was too weak, In the face of Tongguan's natural danger, there is basically nothing to be done, take a step back and say, even if they break through Tongguan, they can't take Xijing, and if they can't take Xijing, Yang Xuangan will definitely die.

Wei Jin and Du Yan were very angry, Wei Wensheng sacrificed the Xijing army to quell the rebellion, which was equivalent to making Xijing bear most of the cost of counterinsurgency, which was too damaging to Xijing's interests, and it was also a heavy blow to the local aristocratic group in Guanlong, which was unbearable. However, under the current situation, you have to endure it, you can only knock out your teeth and swallow blood, because the Xijing army is doomed to be wiped out, Wei Wensheng deliberately forced the Xijing army to the edge of the cliff in order to achieve his own goals, and now the Xijing army only has two ways left, either jump off the cliff by himself, or jump off the cliff with the enemy, undoubtedly it is best to jump off the cliff with the enemy, at least it can win the political interests of Xijing, so as not to let Xijing "lose his wife and break his soldiers", and lose even his underwear.

"This is a plan to burn all the jade." Zhang Jun, a veteran of the Wei Mansion, spoke, "But I think that we are not in a desperate situation yet, we still have a chance to break through, and we still have the ability to save the lives of more than 20,000 soldiers." ”

This Guanzhong Wu Benlang will not be able to accept it, after all, the Xijing army still has combat effectiveness, and there is still time to break through, as long as the direction of the breakthrough is placed in the direction of Mianchi, there will definitely be a chance to break out of the encirclement, but Mingya's strategy is equivalent to directly giving up the breakout, giving up the opportunity to break out of the encirclement, and it is clear that he wants to take the lives of more than 20,000 soldiers in Xijing to win the victory of this counterinsurgency. The power center of the Eastern Capital is "cold-blooded and ruthless", unscrupulous in order to achieve the goal, and regards human life as a mustard, which is tolerable and unbearable.

Wu Yalang's general Liang Yuanli also questioned, "An Degong, when we are engaged in a decisive battle with the pursuing rebels in Xiaoxin Ancheng, if the rebels in the direction of Michi swarm, what should we do?" Where is the opportunity to break through? You're not going to run away with us up the mountain, are you? ”

Ming Ya smiled slightly, stroked her beard and said, "You're right, we can only break through the encirclement by going up the mountain." ”

Everyone was amazed. Mingya once again gave everyone a surprise, and it was a big surprise. After talking for a long time, Wei Wensheng and Mingya did not want to fight with the rebels, but to break through, and the reason why they wanted to deal a heavy blow to the rebels in Xiaoxin'an City was completely to get rid of this chasing army. Only by getting rid of this chasing army can the Xijing soldiers calmly go up the mountain and evacuate calmly. To evacuate up the mountain, you have to throw away all the baggage, throw away everything you can throw to lighten the burden on your body, but you can't throw the wounded, and it takes a lot of time to carry the wounded over the mountains and mountains, if the rebels are still ghostly and follow behind, not to mention that the Xijing army escaped with the wounded, hunger and fatigue are enough to ⊥ their entire army annihilated.

In fact, everyone thought of evacuating from the mountains before, but the conditions were really not available, in addition to the rebels being flanked in front and rear, there was also the problem of the wounded, which was related to morality and conscience, and if an army and a commander lost even the most basic morality and conscience, would they still have military spirit and morale? With no military morale, no morale, and the rebels chasing and killing, the evacuation from the mountain will inevitably evolve into a rout, and the result of the rout will inevitably be the annihilation of the entire army, so this choice was immediately abandoned.

No one expected that Wei Wensheng and Ming Ya, the two supreme commanders of the army, would choose this most unlikely evacuation route.

"It's too risky to go up the mountain to evacuate, please think twice." Pang Yu, the general of the prison gate Zhige, did not hesitate to raise an objection, "Even if we defeat the pursuing rebels here in Xiaoxin'an City and fight them so that they are unable to fight anymore, what about the rebels in the direction of Michi? Will they watch us go up the hill and evacuate? ”

"A certain insisted on breaking through from the direction of Michi." Wu Benlang General Hu Si Wanshou also had a negative attitude, "The rebels will definitely use the front and rear flanking attacks to slow down our breakthrough speed, when we fight fiercely with the rebels in Xiaoxin'an City, the rebels in the direction of Michi will definitely kill them, in this case, we might as well break the cauldron and sink the boat, fight against the water, kill Michi, and survive in the dead." ”

The other generals also objected and wanted to advise, so Mingya decisively shook her hand and signaled everyone to be calm and not excited, and listen to him first.

"I just want to ask you, if we kill the city of Michi at a heavy price, only to find that Michi has fallen and the retreat has been cut off, or the rebels light a fire outside the city and its surrounding area to prevent us from breaking through with fire, where do we go?" Mingya raised her hand to the west, "Now that the pond is covered in billowing smoke, this is the omen." Since the rebels have set up suspicious formations with thick smoke, we cannot but consider the possibility of the army being burned in the sea. Do you want to die in the fire? ”

There was a dead silence.

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