Wei Fu Award definitely can't stay to defend the city, looking at his attitude, he can't put it behind his back, the risk is too great, once he stabs him in the back at a critical moment, his life will be gone.

If Wei Fusheng can't stay, he will definitely drag Zheng Yuanshou on, the idea is Zheng Yuanshou, even if he wants to die with Yang Xuangan, he will also pull Zheng Yuanshou to accompany him to the funeral. Besides, Zheng Yuanshou is from a wealthy family in Shandong, and the Wei Fu Award is from Wei's in Guanzhong, there is no trust between Shandong and Guanlong people at all, even if the two families have an in-law relationship, but the political marriage cannot solve the conflict of interest. This time, the Xijing side came to the eastern capital, and wanted to destroy the eastern capital, and the rise and fall of the eastern capital was directly related to the interests of the Zheng family in Xingyang.

Only Dugu Wudu was left in the city. It is a good thing to stay in the city, after all, there is a life guarantee according to the city, and it is very dangerous to go out of the city to fight in the field, the sword and arrow have no eyes, and it will be over if you are not careful, but it is not a good thing for Dugu Wudu, he has a lot of troops, and it is more than enough to defend the city with a thousand soldiers, and the rest of the army will follow Zheng Yuanshou out of the city to fight, commanded by Zheng Yuanshou, it is conceivable that Zheng Yuanshou of course "makes the best use of things", and charges into battle with the Jingfu army. His own children hurt themselves, and the Jingfu army was the "child" of Dugu Wudu, of course he didn't want to see his children die on the battlefield.

However, at this point, he has expressed his resolute support for Zheng Yuanshou, and it is too late to regret it at this time, so he can only knock out his teeth and swallow blood, swallow his anger, and secretly scold Zheng Yuanshou to the point of blood.

Wei Fu Award is a "tacit understanding" to cooperate with Zheng Yuanshou, and as soon as the two sang and harmonized, they "handed over" the important task of defending the city to Dugu Wudu.

Dugu Wudu's face is also ugly, how can I not be angry when you two hit me in the face together? But the overall situation is important, I endured it, and what followed was a bloody battle, and I saw which of you could have the last laugh.

"Gong Xin, when will you go out of the city to attack?" Dugu Wudu asked again.

"Rest easy." Zheng Yuanshou shook his hand and said, "We first show the enemy to be weak, and make the illusion that we can't hold out, just wait for my main army to kill, and the rebels outside the city fall into a bitter battle, and it is difficult to take care of the end of the head, we will do our best to kill, and give them a surprise attack, so that we will be able to kill with one blow and win the battle." ”

Outside the city of Michi, on the embankment of the Gushui River, Li Fengyun, Li Mi, Yuan An, Zhen Baoche, Xu Shisan, Guo Ming, Xiahou Zhe and other alliance managers stood in the shade of trees, and they were also fiercely discussing strategies to attack the enemy.

Li Fengyun's sneak attack strategy succeeded, but it did not win a round of applause. His previous plan also caused a lot of controversy among the governors, but he did not win unanimous support, and the focus of the debate was whether the time for the sneak attack was appropriate, and whether the attack should be launched on the first night after the Xijing army took Michi.

If the Xijing army marches eastward slowly, and on the night after taking Mianchi, there are not only grain and grass under the city, but also thousands or even tens of thousands of troops, then the sneak attack may fail, and the failure of the sneak attack will also mean the failure of the decisive battle; On the contrary, if the Xijing army rapidly advanced eastward and the sneak attack was successful, the Xijing army would lose its grain and grass and fall into the predicament of being attacked by the enemy on its back, but the Xijing army would launch a counterattack like crazy because it did not fight hard with Yang Xuangan and desperately broke through in the direction of Mianchi, which would cause huge losses to the alliance army. Therefore, some managers believe that Yang Xuangan should first lure the Xijing army to Hangu Pass, and consume the Xijing army with repeated hard battles, and then the alliance army will sneak attack Michi and cut off the retreat of the Xijing army.

Li Fengyun vetoed it, the reason was very simple, the alliance army had no more time to stay on the battlefield in the eastern capital, and it was necessary to leave as much as possible, otherwise with the drastic change in shape, the alliance army was very likely to be surrounded by the Weifu army under the eastern capital, and there was a danger of annihilation.

Li Fengyun came up with two of the latest news brought by Li Mi, one news came from Yang Xuangan, there is evidence that the Donglai Naval Division is coming for reinforcements, and it is close to the Eastern Capital, which is also the reason why Yang Xuangan can't wait to have a decisive battle with the Xijing army, and it is also the reason why the alliance army must leave the battlefield in the Eastern Capital as much as possible. Another piece of news came from Lü Xingxing, who took the Jindi Pass, opening the way for the allied troops to withdraw from the battlefield in the eastern capital, but Han Xiangguo and Song Yuyi's army treacherously crossed the trench defense line and returned to their hometown along the Tongji Canal. Lu Xingxing's troops are limited and isolated, and he is still somewhat sure of holding on to Jindi Pass in a short period of time, but after a long time, the Weifu army will be killed on all sides, and he will be unable to hold on, so he can only evacuate, otherwise he will be finished. Once Lu Xingxing evacuated the Jindi Pass, the road for the alliance army to retreat east was broken, and finally he could only flee south to Yuzhou, and from Yuzhou to the north, not only the road was far away, but also had to climb all the way over the Tongji Canal and other obstacles, the time was too long, and after a long time, the variables were great, once the Holy Lord and the expeditionary force returned, blocking the waterway of the big river, this alliance army could not reach the sky and the ground, and the trouble would be big.

Li Fengyun has prestige, and the reasons he came up with are very sufficient, and he swore that he would do his best to preserve his strength, and at the same time would closely cooperate with Yang Xuangan to annihilate the Xijing army, of course the managers believed him, and finally reached an agreement and unconditionally followed Li Fengyun's decision.

The sneak attack was successful, and the pre-war goal was achieved, but the hidden worries that the commanders had worried about before also appeared.

According to the prisoners' confessions, Dugu Wudu and Jingzhao Zanwu Weifu were stationed in the city that night with their troops, and some grain, grass and weapons were also transported into the city. This news made Li Fengyun and others attach great importance to it, and after many verifications and verifications, it was finally determined that there were at least more than 5,000 people in the city's Weifu army, and there were enough food, grass and weapons for them to fight. Obviously, the strength of Michi City should not be underestimated, and Zheng Yuanshou has the restraint of Dugu Wudu and Wei Fufei, and it is unlikely that he will shake their military morale through intimidation, rumors and other means, so that they will not dare to go out of the city to fight.

"The Xijing army will soon be killed, and when we fight fiercely with Wei Wensheng, the Weifu army in Michi City will inevitably go out of the city to attack, so we will suffer from the enemy on our backs." Zhen Baoche was stationed in the iron crutch with one hand, and waved vigorously with the other, feeling a little excited, "The loss of troops is secondary, the key is that we may not be able to stop the Xijing army, once they break through, the previous efforts will be lost." ”

"The Yang brothers are carried away by hatred, and they have to rush to a decisive battle, if they can lure the Xijing army to the Hangu Pass and give us enough time to attack Michi, then the shape will never be as critical as today." Guo Ming was also very angry, glared at Li Mi with a gloomy expression, and shouted.

Li Mi didn't say a word. The alliance managers only knew that the decisive battle strategy came from Yang Xuangan, and they didn't know that this strategy actually came from Li Fengyun, and after Yang Xuangan changed this strategy, it was indeed unfavorable to the alliance, but Li Fengyun still accepted it and took a lot of effort to convince the managers under his account. Since Li Fengyun can feel it on behalf of Yang Xuan for the sake of the overall situation, of course, he can only let the alliance managers vent their grievances.

Li Fengyun shook his hand at Guo Ming and signaled him not to lose his temper indiscriminately. The shape of the battlefield is changing rapidly, who can predict the prophet? In his opinion, the current shape is already very good, and whether or not the Xijing army can be completely annihilated to achieve the expected goal is not on the alliance's side, but on Yang Xuangan's side.

"There are still difficulties, but so far we have a lot of advantages." Li Fengyun said calmly, "We have seized a large amount of grain, grass and weapons, solved the urgent need of insufficient military supplies, and captured tens of thousands of craftsmen and people, which greatly alleviated the difficulty of our shortage of manpower. With the available manpower, we can dig more trenches, cut down more trees to make rejuvenated deer, and light fires in more places to create smoke. With these defenses, combined with plenty of arrows, we can not only slow down our opponents' attacks, but also kill more enemies with minimal cost. ”

When Li Fengyun said this, he looked at the people around him, and said with a relaxed smile, "The prisoner's explanation is very clear, the soldiers of Xijing only carried three days of grain with them, and they had consumed one day yesterday, so they can hold out for two days at most, that is, today and tomorrow, if they can't fight their way out of the encirclement before dusk tomorrow, then there is only one last way left except surrender." Li Fengyun raised his hand and pointed to the rolling mountains in the north, "Go up the mountain and survive the death, although most people can survive, but their morale has been lost, their vitality has been injured, even if they are barely retracted, it will be difficult to recover their combat effectiveness in the short term, so it will give Yang Xuangan enough time to enter the pass in the west." ”

"But will we be able to hold out for two days under the enemy's front and rear attacks?" Zhen Baoche asked unceremoniously, "Ming Gong, our opponent is the Xijing garrison, at the moment of life and death, these people are red-eyed, and they will burst out with extremely terrifying combat effectiveness, just relying on these trenches, rejecting horses, and fireworks, they can't stop them at all, once the two sides fall into a fierce battle, our losses are incalculable." ”

Li Fengyun still smiled and patiently persuaded him, "This is a decisive battle related to life and death, the alliance must do its best, Yang Xuangan must also do its best, and we must give each other the greatest trust." Yang Xuangan believes that we can cut off the retreat of the Xijing army in the direction of Mianchi, and we also have to believe that Yang Xuangan will follow the Xijing army at any cost and desperately pursue and kill. The faster he chases and kills, the more frightened the enemy becomes, plus rumors spread, the morale of the army will soon collapse, and an army without morale, how far is it from destruction? ”

"Ming Gong has so much confidence in him?" Guo Ming is skeptical.

"Believe so." Li Fengyun said with a smile, "Wei Wensheng dug up the ancestral grave of the Yang family, this is a deep feud in the sea of blood, Wei Wensheng must die, otherwise what will the Yang brothers take back to worship their ancestors?" ”

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