(Foreword)

Cold ice can't break the water, and dead wood can meet spring again.

(Text)

"General, quickly gather all the officers and soldiers of the army, I still have one last military order on me." I said to General Wu beside me.

"General, why is this the last military order?" Wu Ban seemed to realize something, and said again and again, "No matter what military orders the general has, please think twice!" ”

"General Wu doesn't need to say much, I have made up my mind, and I will go and gather the soldiers as soon as possible." My tone was unwavering.

"The last will obey." After General Wu Ban finished speaking, he turned around and left.

"Cheng Yin, what do you mean by the last military order you just said?" Lin Yun's reaction was extremely sharp, "Did you come up with any arbitrary decisions again?" Want to go through all the difficulties alone? ”

I didn't speak, I knew I wasn't going to fall here, I had my own calling. But today's situation is special, everyone has their own responsibilities, everyone lives for their own reasons, contradictions and non-contradictions are superimposed, forming everyone's unique character, and at this time, all of them are just for the call in my ear.

The most wrong sentence of all the words of the "mysterious man" is that I have never fulfilled my promise, but he is wrong, and I live for it, for her in my heart. Even if the road ahead is full of thorns and dangers, I will see it as if it were flat ground, and this time I am completely sure that I finally understand the secret of this "strange array".

"Cheng Yin, don't act recklessly, I want to trust those researchers from AEF, they will definitely try to save us. We just have to wait and see what happens, and maybe there will be a turnaround. "Professor Wu's words are very cautious, but it is this caution that makes him a professor, but I know very well that this choice is very serious for us. If I was right, the situation should not be as calm as we are now, and even greater storms are sweeping towards us.

"Newspaper~~! Report to the general, no...... Oh no...... Big things are wrong! The general who spoke was panting and flustered, and I knew from his eyes that the storm was coming.

"Tell me what's going on? Why the panic? While Cui Li spoke, there was a feeling that hatred of iron could not be rigid.

"Report to the general, General Wu ordered me to come and say...... He said...... "The soldiers who reported could not utter a complete sentence for a long time, and we were so anxious that we were angry."

"Friend, you should say it quickly, we will wait for you! You can't say a word for half a day, what do you mean? Cui Li lost his temper at the soldier, and this tone was like the usual appearance of Professor Wu when he reprimanded him.

"Cui Li, don't rush him, this soldier, you speak slowly, don't worry." Xia Cheng stopped Cui Li's excited words.

"Oh no, the whole army is in a mood and has decided to withdraw to His Majesty's camp!" Just before the soldier finished speaking, Zhao Yuyu shouted in shock: "What?!" What did you say?! Withdraw to Liu Bei's camp? Are you kidding?! The Yiling Pass that we finally won was given up like this? I really don't know what this group of soldiers is thinking? Is it flooded?! ”

"It's no wonder that the strength of our army is far inferior to the enemy's army, and Yiling Pass has been seriously damaged after the previous attacks of our army and the panicked retreat of the Wu army, and it is simply unable to resist the enemy's 50,000 male soldiers, not to mention that Lu Xun, Zhou Tai, and Han Dang almost all the famous generals of Eastern Wu are gathered here, and it is basically impossible to resist such a rapid division." Xia Cheng's words seemed so helpless, but he also said the current situation of the battle.

"What then? Don't you have to let them all withdraw, leaving a few of us to resist the army of Eastern Wu? Cui Li's tone at this time was a little angry.

"I didn't mean that, it's just that our only chance now is to convince those soldiers to continue fighting, and maybe they can hold it for a few more days with Yiling Pass." Xia Cheng's thoughts coincided with mine.

"Persuasion? How to convince them? There were 50,000 men in front of them! It's like letting a newborn tiger fight a ferocious lion, it's simply beyond our strength. Although Zhao Yuyu's analogy is a bit exaggerated, it is also in line with the current situation.

"But if we were those soldiers, it would be absolutely impossible to fight this battle with no chance of winning." Lin Yun said with emotion.

"yes, what would we have decided?" Li Ruina said with deep feelings.

While we were talking about this, a man suddenly came up from under the city wall.

"Zhang Xinran! Why are you here? You're not ......," Lin Yun asked suspiciously.

"I, I was transported to a remote town, and it took several days to return to this Yiling battlefield, but what I didn't expect was that you had already captured Yiling Pass, which is really amazing! How do you say we can get out? "Obviously, Zhang Xinran has only just arrived at Yiling Pass, and he doesn't know that the difficulties we are facing in front of us are even more severe, even ten times or a hundred times more than before.

"Zhang Xinran, maybe things are not as you imagined, we can't leave here for a while. Although we won the victory at Yiling Pass, 50,000 of the Eastern Wu soldiers appeared in front of us, and to make matters worse, we had less than 10,000 of our own troops left. And these soldiers, who are less than 10,000 people, are now in conflict with us, and it is really difficult to explain. Xia Cheng briefly summarized the situation we are facing now.

"How so? Isn't it just a matter of capturing the Lower Yiling Pass to win? How could this be? Zhang Xinran rushed to the stands of the city wall and looked into the distance, and the mighty army of Eastern Wu couldn't help but let her take a few steps back.

"This ...... It can't be, it can't be! How can this be? It was hard for her to imagine that her father was in such a difficult situation in the first place, which was far beyond what she knew about the Odd Array. Endless obstacles are coming, like a small boat that has just weathered the storm and is about to face a bigger storm. No one knows how many more storms have been in this unknown sea.

"This ...... How is this possible, it's not true, you guys tell me it's not true, we can't stay here forever! "Zhang Xinran was a little panicked, I have never seen her have such a look, but such a look is not just on her body, most of us all present have a similar look to her, helpless, helpless, desperate...... We no longer know how many times the small ship we are in will go through many hardships and dangers before quietly sinking into this unknown sea.

"Zhang Xinran, calm down, we still have a chance." Xia Cheng's words were not firm enough.

"Calm down? How do you calm me down? Do you know how many people who think they are peerless clever have entered here, but only a few people can really leave here? And we're in a completely different situation now. Zhang Xinran said and raised his bracelet again, "Originally, there should be an exit button here, right here!" But now? But now?!" Zhang Xinran pressed the button on the bracelet again and again like crazy, "But now it's out of order, do you know what it means?!" It means that if we can't leave this strange array, we will be trapped here forever until the moment this world ends, and disappear with it. It's gone! Not out! Do you understand?!!! ”

Zhang Xinran's expression was hideous, she was obviously on the verge of collapse at this time, and we must not give her the last straw.

"Zhang Xinran, we still have a chance, believe me, we must have another chance." Xia Cheng repeated these words repeatedly, which made Zhang Xinran's expression soften.

"Cheng Yin, should we find a way to try to convince those soldiers who are making trouble?" Xia Cheng turned around and asked.

"Of course, that's exactly what I do." I looked around at everyone's desperate expressions, all I needed at this point was to get out of here, and I had to find a way to get out of here anyway. I must not be trapped by these simple walls of light, even if everyone chooses to give up, I will still choose to continue.

"Are you really going to convince the soldiers? You can imagine their current mood, the enemy is several times our strength, and there is no chance of survival in this battle! How do you say move them? On the contrary, they may riot at any time, and when the time comes, it will not be the 50,000 Eastern Wu troops outside the city walls who will kill you, but our own 10,000 soldiers. Cui Li reminded sternly.

"No, I'm sure they won't, they'll never do that." There was confidence in my tone.

"Won't? You know again? How can you guarantee that those soldiers won't do that? Don't forget that you are just Cheng Yin to them, you are not Liu Bei, why should they listen to you? Is it because of the token in your hand? They can take your token away at any time, and then you will be nothing more than a nobody to them, unheard of, unseen, and what will you do to convince them when I see it! Zhao Yuyu's emotions were already a little out of control.

"Righteousness. The reason why Liu Bei can stand with Cao Cao and Sun Quan is not because of his ambition like Cao Cao, nor his family inheritance like Sun Quan, but because of his benevolence. Gather the righteous people of the world and rejuvenate the spirit of the Han. At that time, he faced Cao Cao's claimed 800,000 iron cavalry, and led the soldiers and people all the way south to form an alliance with Sun Quan. The soldiers of such a righteous man will never be a treacherous person, and I have reason to believe that they will choose to advance and retreat with us. ”

(End of chapter)