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On the 7th day of the eighth month, the Holy Lord issued an edict to the Liaodong base camp and the front headquarters of the expeditionary force.

The Holy Lord reaffirmed the strategic significance of the Crusade and its importance to the future of Middle-earth, so that the Crusade must be victorious and the Crusade must continue, although the Crusade suffered a heavy setback, this does not mean that Middle-earth will abandon the Crusade, on the contrary, it strengthens the determination of Middle-earth to carry the Crusade to the end. The Holy Lord and the Central Pivot demanded that the Liaodong base camp and the front-line headquarters of the expeditionary force should do a good job of comforting the expeditionary soldiers, and at the same time, come up with a suitable and effective strategy for the current situation of the Far East and the Eastern Crusade, and fight for the victory of the Eastern Crusade.

It is clear that confrontation will only exacerbate contradictions and will not help, and in the face of the cruel reality, the Holy Lord and the center wisely chose understanding and compromise. Now the Holy Lord and the Center have returned to the Eastern Capital to deal with a series of crises caused by the failure of the Eastern Crusade, and the battlefield of the Eastern Crusade has been handed over to the military, how to fight the next battle, the Holy Lord and the Central Center are no longer involved, in fact, even if they want to Yu Shi, they are too far away and weak, so Yu Crisp delegated power, as long as the military supports the Holy Lord and the Central Center to continue the Eastern Crusade, as long as the expeditionary force is willing to do its best to prepare for next year's Eastern Crusade, then the two sides have common interests, and they will choose to compromise and cooperate. They will not embark on the path of confrontation so that they will be strict with each other.

On the same day, the Holy Lord led the palace to speed up the return journey, and rushed to the eastern capital day and night.

On the same day, the front headquarters of the expeditionary force withdrew to the base camp in Liaodong.

The civil department of Shangshu, the general of the left Wuwei Fan Zigai, the general of Wei Weiqing, the right general of the inspection school Liu Quan, the general of the left Yiwei Duan Da, and the commanders of the military department Hu Sizheng and Ming Ya went out to welcome thirty miles. At the moment of meeting, the central ministers and commanders of the armies were relatively speechless, and everyone was overwhelmed with grief and indignation in the face of the unprecedented fiasco since the reunification of Middle Earth, the destruction of 200,000 soldiers, and the unbelievable ending.

Fan Zigai read out the edict of the Holy Lord that he had just received.

The Holy Lord decreed that Fan Zigai, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Liu Quan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Hu Sizheng, Ming Ya, and Duan Da, the general of Zuo Yiwei, would immediately set off to return to the eastern capital after the expeditionary force was withdrawn.

He also ordered that Yu Zhongwen, the right Yiwei general, Yu Wenshu, the left Yiwei general, Liu Shilong, the right Shangshu and Liu Shilong, the left Xiaowei general, the right Houwei general Wei Wensheng, the right Yiwei general Xue Shixionggui, the right imperial guard general Zhang Jin, the right Houwei general Zhao Xiaocai, and the left Wuwei general Cui Hongsheng and other commanders of the expeditionary force withdrew to the Liaodong base camp and immediately set off to return to the eastern capital to report on their work.

He also ordered that Li Jing, the general of the Right Military Guard, and the Imperial Servant Qing and the inspector Zuo Yiwei Wu Benlang will sit in the base camp of Liaodong and be the chief and deputy commander of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, and be fully responsible for the Eastern Expedition.

After the edict was read, there was a dead silence in the tent.

In this edict, personnel arrangements are secondary, and the central decision-making is important.

The decision of the Holy Lord and the Central Committee was to continue the Eastern Crusade and attack Pyongyang again next year, so as to achieve the strategic objectives of the Eastern Crusade.

Since the central decision has been made to continue the Eastern Crusade, what strategy should the expeditionary force implement in terms of the current situation of the Eastern Crusade? Should we sweep south of Yalu Water before the arrival of winter, stabilize the front at Yalu Shui, and continue to implement the "two-step" strategy, or should we stop the military operation here, withdraw across Liaoshui, and rest and recuperate within the Sino-Turkish border to recharge and make a comeback next year?

Obviously, with the current state of the expeditionary force, if the "two-step" strategy is forcibly implemented, the consequences will be unimaginable, and once it suffers another defeat and loses more men and horses, for the military, it is not a question of whether the eastward crusade can be carried out next year, but whether the security of northern Xinjiang can be guaranteed, and for the Holy Lord and the center, the eastern crusade cannot be continued, and all kinds of crises explode at the same time, it will be a political disaster, and even if they do their best, they may not be able to survive the crisis.

However, at the critical moment, the Holy Lord and the center dug another "hole" for the military.

They should not be involved in military decision-making, they have to be involved, and now they need to be involved, and when they need to give the order to withdraw from Liaoshui, they are not involved again, and they are unwilling to take this responsibility

Before, the Holy Lord and the Center were unwilling to take responsibility for the military defeat, which is understandable, but now that they have failed militarily, and this responsibility is also borne by the military, it has nothing to do with the Holy Lord and the Center, they can completely order the withdrawal of troops, how much responsibility can this bear? It's just a little embarrassing, and the face is not good-looking, but just for the sake of meaningless face, the Holy Lord and the central center are not even willing to give the order to withdraw the troops, and they have to force the military to make the withdrawal order themselves, and then blame the military, and all the responsibility from defeat to withdrawal is attributed to the military. Is this way to avoid their own responsibility? Can the old accounts and new accounts be settled together, completely liquidate the military, suppress the military, and control the military?

The generals' hearts were so cold that they didn't even have the heart to scold.

Now the "two-step" strategy will definitely not be implemented, and the expeditionary force will certainly not have the strength to occupy the south of Yalu Water this year, and what the military has to do at present is to withdraw its troops and return to Middle-earth across Yalu Water, which is the wisest, safest and most correct thing, but who will bear this responsibility? Who is willing to sacrifice their lives to die and take the initiative to jump into this "pit" dug by the Holy Lord and the Center?

Yu Zhongwen resolutely stood up, pointed to his pale color, and said in a very calm tone, "Tomorrow, the remnants of the expedition will be withdrawn from Liaoshui, and all the blame will be borne by a certain force." ”

Then Yu Zhongwen left the tent with firm steps and never looked back.

The generals stood up, stood solemnly, looked at the old handsome's back, and were all sad. A generation of legends has just fallen.

Yu Zhongwen is the supreme commander of the expeditionary force, and the headquarters of the expeditionary force has no subordinate relationship with the Liaodong base camp, both of which are directly under the orders of the Holy Lord and the center, so Yu Zhongwen has the right to decide that the expeditionary force should withdraw from Liaoshui. If the expeditionary force retreats through Liaoshui and returns to Middle-earth, the army that the Liaodong base camp can command is only tens of thousands, and it can't even defeat Liaodong City, let alone implement a "two-step" strategy, so it can only retreat with it. In this way, the military withdrew its troops without the consent of the Holy Lord and the center, and the responsibility was entirely on the military, and Yu Zhongwen, who was determined to withdraw to Middle-earth with the expeditionary force, should naturally bear the greatest responsibility.

Yu Zhongwen has no business, not only is he guilty, but he also has a huge sense of guilt against the dead. For him, the end of his fame is not important, the important thing is that he has no shame to see his ancestors and ancestors, no shame to face the relatives of the fallen soldiers, and no shame to live in the world. Anyway, it's all death, so what's the difference between more sin and less sin?

That night, the Liaodong base camp played urgently, with a report from the front headquarters of the expeditionary force. The expeditionary force had lost its combat effectiveness and had to withdraw to Middle-earth for recuperation, and the base camp had to be withdrawn with it, so that this year's crusade was over and the war was temporarily suspended.

On the 8th day of the first month of August, Yu Zhongwen led the expeditionary force to cross Liaoshui west and withdrew to Middle-earth.

On the same day, Fan Zigai, Duan Da and others also embarked on the road back to the Eastern Capital.

On August 18, the Holy Lord led the palace to Linyu Palace in Beiping, and ordered the eastern capital to immediately transfer grain, grass, weapons and other war materials from Liyang, Luokou and other national warehouses, and send them to Luhe Town, Wanghaidun and Huaiyuan Town in the northeastern frontier through the six roads of water, so as to ensure the needs of the Eastern Expedition battlefield.

The edict ordered the chief of the sailor to come to Hu'er and immediately rush to the eastern capital to report on his work.

Under August, southwest Lu.

The kings of Qi, Yang Lan, Wei Fusi, and Wei Baoluan received a secret letter from the Eastern Capital, and the content of the secret letter was very simple: Pyongyang was defeated and the Eastern Expedition was lost.

Yang Lan and the others were extremely shocked. Li Fengyun's deduction of the battlefield of the Eastern Crusade turned out to be a fact, and the Eastern Crusade really failed, the unbelievable result, the incredible fact, how did this qiē come about?

The content of the secret letter is simple, obviously the Eastern Capital does not know the specific process of the failure of the Eastern Crusade, and at present, it has only heard the results through private channels, but this result is the long-awaited good news for Yang Lan and others. Although in their hearts, they did not want to see the defeat of the Eastern Crusade, the humiliation of the kingdom, and the damage to the interests of Middle-earth, but they were concerned about their personal interests, and their moral conscience could only be put aside.

If the Eastern Crusade fails, the Eastern Capital will inevitably explode into a political crisis, and the size of the political storm is directly related to the defeat of Cheng Dù. If the Eastern Expedition is only a small defeat, and the expeditionary force still achieves some results and realizes part of the strategic intention, but the Eastern Expedition will continue until the second year, then the political storm in the Eastern Capital will not be too big, on the contrary, if the Eastern Expedition is defeated and the expeditionary force fails to achieve the expected results and fails to realize the strategic intention, then the political storm will be big, and once the political storm gets out of control, it is unknown whether the Eastern Expedition can continue.

For Yang Lan, if the political storm is smaller, it is not good for him, and if the political storm is larger, it is beneficial to him, but if the political storm gets out of control, it will be dangerous for him, who dares to guarantee that he will not be swept away by the out-of-control political storm?

However, the news of the Eastern Capital was not a big defeat, but a fiasco. What is a fiasco? The expeditionary force will either lose more than half of its strength and lose its combat effectiveness; Either the whole army will be wiped out, and there will be no more. In the view of Yang Lan and others, the defeat of the Eastern Crusade may lead to a storm out of control, so the consequences of the fiasco can be imagined, and the possibility of the storm getting out of control is almost ninety percent.

Yang Lan immediately thought of Li Fengyun, immediately made an appointment with Li Fengyun, immediately told him the news, and then listened to his prediction of the future political situation in the Eastern Capital.

Li Fengyun has become a god. Yang Lan thought so, Wei Fusi and Wei Baoluan also thought so, such a strange person, extraordinary, perhaps, this is the fate of King Qi, if there is such a person around King Qi who can predict the future, the probability of King Qi reaching the top will definitely be greatly increased.

Three days later, Wei Fusi sailed on the river and had a secret meeting with Li Fengyun.

Hearing the news of the fiasco of the Eastern Crusade, Li Fengyun's feelings were very low, and he sat in the cabin for a long time. He had expected that after the twelve ladies of the Cui family went north to the battlefield in Liaodong, she would use her extraordinary ability to infinitely amplify the effect of her butterfly flapping her wings, but the fact is impossible, the strength of one person is too weak, and the strength of a group of people cannot change history.

Wei Fusi waited patiently for a long time, and finally couldn't help but break the silence.

Now, the two sides can formally cooperate and form a secret alliance, but the premise is that the political storm in the eastern capital cannot get out of control, otherwise the possibility of the continuation of the Eastern Crusade is very small, so he is eager to know what Li Fengyun has to say about the future situation.