When the city of Mianchi was surrounded by fire, Guo Ming, the commander of the alliance, and Xiahou Zhe, commanded the first, second, fourth, and fifth armies of the alliance to dig a trench on the avenue eight miles east of the pond, and dug a two-zhang trench every fifty steps, and a simple horse rejection deer was erected between the trench and the ditch, and the avenue was surrounded by hills and woods, and weeds were grown. The alliance army adapted measures to local conditions, exhausted all means to stop the Xijing army, and at the same time tried to reduce its own losses and preserve its strength to the greatest extent.

Li Fengyun and Li Mi sent messengers down the valley to find Yang Xuangan, and told him about the battle situation in Michi, now Wei Wensheng has been surrounded, and the grain and grass weapons of the Xijing army have also been cut off, and then they are about to break through, in the face of a desperate, vicious, and desperate crazy opponent, Li Fengyun and Li Mi implore Yang Xuangan to invest all their strength, fight bloodily, and annihilate the Xijing army at any cost.

On the morning of June 29, on the battlefield of Gu Bobi, the two warring sides fought all night, but instead of exhaustion, they became more and more courageous, and the sound of killing shook the sky. The battlefield is narrow, the number of troops put into the battle is limited, whether it is the Xijing army or the mutiny alliance army, the generals have to take turns to fight, and the abundant body of the soldiers makes the battle extremely fierce, so the two sides are deadlocked, but the more so, the more they dare not relax, at this time, who relaxes first, who retreats successively, who will be defeated, and this defeat is dangerous, and it is very likely that the army will be defeated.

Wei Wensheng didn't sleep all night, he couldn't support it after dawn, he took a nap on the desk, but after waking up, the battle situation changed, and the world was turned upside down.

"Michichi Falls?" Wei Wensheng was still lying on the desk, still maintaining a napping posture, and he hadn't fully woken up from his ignorance, and even he couldn't believe that Mingya, the soldier standing in front of him, told him a shocking news in his tired, hoarse, anxious, and hurried voice, "Lost food?" ”

Wei Wensheng slowly sat up straight, thought expressionlessly for a moment, and then looked at Ming Ya, "An Degong, is the news exact?" Is it verified? ”

"I've already sent someone to gallop to the pond." Mingya sighed in frustration, "There will be no mistake in the news, it is rumored that the raging fire has burned half of the sky, and it can be seen more than ten miles away." The post station closest to Michi immediately sent people to investigate, and on the way they met some fugitive people, only to know that Michi had been attacked, and then saw heavily armed guards chasing and killing from the direction of Michi to the vicinity of the post station, and quickly blocked the avenue. ”

"Guards? Our army? Wei Wensheng turned his eyes to Wei Jin, the servant of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, who was standing beside Ming Ya, and Yu Shi Duyan, who was holding a book, with a cold light in his eyes.

Last night, there were a lot of troops inside and outside the city of Michi, among which inside the city was the army of Zheng Yuanshou, the general of the right guard, outside the city there was the army of Dugu Wudu, the commander of Jingfu Dugu, and a part of the Jingzhao local army led by Jingzhao Zanwu Wei Fu Award was responsible for escorting grain and grass baggage, that is to say, if the fall of Michi was done by insiders, it must be related to them, not one of the three of them, or a subordinate of someone, and the most suspicious of them is Wei Fu Award.

Wei Fu Award's cousin-in-law is Yang Lan, the king of Qi. The year before last, the case of King Qi's "immorality" broke out in the Eastern Capital, and the direct cause of the outbreak of this case was that King Yang Lan of Qi had an affair with Princess Wei's sister and had a daughter. Princess Wei's sister had already married into the Yuan family, and King Qi and his sister-in-law were "adultery", which was immoral, and King Qi fell out of favor. In the past, the Guanzhong wealthy Wei was the biggest support force for the King of Qi, but as the King of Qi gradually lost the right to inherit the imperial line, the support of the Guanzhong Wei family for him declined rapidly, and at present, only the Wei Princess continued to support him, and the important figures who are currently active in the court are Wei Fuzi, Wei Fusi, and Wei Fuxi.

After the storm broke out in the eastern capital, the "positive expression" of Yang Lan, the king of Qi, was extremely eye-catching, and many people even suspected that Yang Xuangan's mutiny was behind the shadow of Yang Lan, the king of Qi, and it was very likely that the king of Qi would use this mutiny to enter Beijing to seize the imperial unity. The situation has developed to the present, although the king of Qi is still in Liyang, there are already "signs" of entering Beijing to seize the imperial unification, which makes the province and various reinforcements have to do their best to prevent the king of Qi from entering Beijing, and countering the rebellion and suppressing the thieves has become a secondary task.

Wei Wensheng and Xijing also have the same suspicions, and at this moment, the Xijing army is fighting with Yang Xuangan, it is the critical moment when the Xijing army enters the battlefield of the Eastern Capital, but something happened to Michi, the grain and grass were burned, the back road was cut off, and he was stabbed in the back, and it was a fatal knife, which made Wei Wensheng have to speculate on the true intentions of the perpetrators behind it with the greatest malice, and had to use conspiracy theories to explain this unbelievable thing. If Yang Lan, the king of Qi, and Yang Xuangan joined forces to create a storm in the Eastern Capital, if they won the support of the Wei clan in Guanzhong and reached an agreement with the local aristocratic group in Guanlong in terms of political interests, then this was a conspiracy, a grand conspiracy to annihilate the Xijing army, seize the imperial unity, overthrow the Holy Lord, and split the country.

When Wei Jin and Du Yan first heard this shocking news, their first reaction was that someone had defected internally, and the first person who thought of it was also Wei Fu Award, but they immediately denied it.

Guanzhong Webster is a whole, even if each house and branch cannot achieve life and death together, there are contradictions and conflicts in the interests of the appeal, but in the position of dealing with this storm, the opinions are unified, the decision-making is unanimous, and it is impossible for Wei Fusi and Wei Fusheng brothers to ignore the entire Wei family for their own selfish interests. Besides, so far King Qi has not entered Beijing, but the sailor has come to support, and King Qi has actually lost the best opportunity to enter Beijing, and Wei Fu Award is clear about this. Now that the King of Qi has been "surrounded" by reinforcements from all walks of life, since the possibility of King Qi and Yang Xuangan joining forces to manipulate the "Storm" is very small, and even the development of the entire situation is not conducive to Guanzhong Wei's taking the opportunity to destroy the Eastern Capital, even if Wei Fu Award has selfish intentions, even if he has different ideas, he has to give up at this moment. In other words, he had no reason to betray Wei's in Guanzhong, let alone stab him in the back of the Xijing army, even if he was crazy and wanted to commit suicide in such an unbelievable way, he would not help Yang Xuangan kill tens of thousands of Xijing soldiers, let alone bring Wei's and Guanlong's local nobles to accompany him to the funeral.

Seeing the "cold light" in Wei Wensheng's eyes, Wei Jin and Du Yan both knew what Wei Wensheng thought, so Wei Jin sneered without hesitation, "Tongliang Gong, not all of them are Wei Fu Jun in yellow uniforms. Look at Yang Xuangan's rebels, what is the difference between them and the Weifu army? The armor, the weapons, the armor, and even the banner are all the same. ”

"Our attack speed is too fast, from Matou Mountain to Mianchi, and then chase all the way to Qianqiu Pavilion and Gu Bobi, without a moment's pause, people do not take off their armor, non-stop, galloping, and our soldiers are also arrogant, following the rebels and chasing after them, thinking that the rebels are vulnerable, and they don't realize that Yang Xuangan is also a man-eating wolf." Du Yan's spearhead was directed at Wei Wensheng, revealing his strong dissatisfaction with Wei Wensheng in his words, and even put the responsibility for the Xijing army falling into today's crisis on Wei Wensheng.

Wei Wensheng's face was expressionless, his joy and anger were invisible, but the murderous aura in his eyes had been somewhat restrained, obviously he had quickly made an analysis after he cleared his head, and he had no intention of wasting his limited energy and time on meaningless things. Now it makes sense to track down the culprit? Can you turn the tide and get out of trouble? The top priority at the moment when the pond is lost, the grain and grass are burned out, and the army is in a desperate situation, immediately come up with a survival strategy, otherwise there will be a disaster of annihilation.

Wei Wensheng pondered. Ming Ya, Wei Jin, and Du Yan looked grim, and they stopped talking. At this moment, the importance of Wei Wensheng, a veteran of a hundred battles, is highlighted, when life and death are at stake, the prestige and interests of the official are not important, the important thing is how to survive, and in terms of the art of war alone, the old general undoubtedly has absolute authority.

After a long time, Ming Ya finally couldn't help but speak, "If Yang Xuangan has already decided to fight with us outside the Hangu Pass, it is very likely that he will ambush our troops on both sides of the valley first, and after we enter his encirclement, his ambush soldiers will come out again to cut off our retreat, and complete the encirclement of us." Ming Ya glanced at Wei Wensheng, who was calm and composed, with a look of guilt in her eyes, "We did despise Yang Xuangan. Yesterday, the speed of the attack was too fast, so that we were unprepared, and as a result, we accidentally fell into Yang Xuangan's trap. ”

Wei Wensheng looked up at Ming Ya with a cold gaze. Mingya's words sounded like self-reproach and review, but in fact, they were a negation of the decision made by the General Headquarters yesterday to kill Hanguguan in one go. At that time, Wei Jin and Du Yan both objected and asked to slow down the attack, but Wei Wensheng and he insisted on speeding up, and it turned out that Wei Wensheng and he were wrong. This was obviously not conducive to the unity within the high command, so Mingya had to lower her profile in order to win the concerted efforts of Wei Jin and Du Yan.

Wei Wensheng has no intention of "compromise", although he very much agrees with Mingya's analysis, thinking that it should be Yang Xuangan's ambush that attacked Mianchi, the Xijing army has indeed fallen into the encirclement of the rebels, and the military needs are cut off, and the shape is very critical, but he does not think that the Xijing army has fallen into a desperate situation, on the contrary, he thinks this is an excellent fighter, he would rather the whole army be annihilated, he would rather the jade be burned, but also hit Yang Xuangan hard, and Yang Xuangan suffered heavy losses After the strength plummeted, it would be difficult to kill in Guanzhong, Trying to contend with the Holy Lord again is simply a fool's dream.

Wei Wensheng only wants to be the final winner of this storm, and the outcome of this battle in front of him does not matter to him. What if Yang Xuangan wins? Yang Xuangan won this battle, but lost the entire mutiny, and the gains outweighed the losses. It's just that the price of the jade burning situation is too heavy for Xijing, and the Xijing army must have little left after this battle, so Wei Wensheng will never reveal his true thoughts, let alone make any "compromises" to Wei Jin and Du Yan, on the contrary, he wants to show that he is extremely strong, and he must make full use of this rare opportunity in front of him to firmly grasp the command, and use this life and death crisis to suppress Wei Jin and Du Yan, so that they will not have any chance to restrain themselves, so that this decisive battle is in the palm of his hand. And Yang Xuangan is what he has in his pocket.

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