The real high-level of the Yongchang Army know how bad the environment is today, and it can be said that they have entered a desperate situation.

The grain is less than 200,000 stones, and no matter how much you save, it can only last for half a month at most, and all other military supplies have basically bottomed out.

In particular, the shortage of medicine forced Wang Yan to issue a cruel order, the seriously injured were not treated, the lightly injured were not treated, and hundreds of seriously injured people died every day.

Only the Yongchang soldiers and the people of the wheel guard can ensure the supply of rice and meat, and the meat is still rough horse meat that is difficult to eat, and ordinary people can only eat one meal a day, but it is still a bowl of sticky rice porridge and a small piece of multigrain cake.

Even the most valuable war horses had to be slaughtered to maintain the meat needs of the soldiers, which shows how difficult the situation of Yongchang City is.

Wang Yan also heard the generals tell that those hungry and crazy people secretly ate the corpses that died for various reasons, and even directly killed the old and young women and children who had lost the protection of their relatives and fed them!

In the original history, Wang Yan and Lu Kai could hold on to Yongchang City and wait for the source of the Shu army, but now there was an accident.

Meng Shu stopped the Middle Route Army and the East Route Army, although the entire Tongtian River front was crumbling, and every day the Shu army crossed the Tongtian River and fought fiercely against the Shu army, but it had not yet been penetrated by the Shu army!

Originally, Wang Yan, who was white and fat, smiling like a rich man all day long, was difficult to connect with the state pastor who was ranked 30th on the Hidden Dragon List, had extremely powerful combat power, and was the first in authority in Yongzhou.

Today's Wang Yan, the fat on his body has basically disappeared, and his figure has become strong and burly, with more murderous aura, the smile on his face has disappeared a long time ago, and his brows have wrinkled into a mountain shape.

If it weren't for the fear of affecting the fighting spirit of the generals and soldiers, Wang Yan would have already held back his violent temper.

Despite this, the servants and maids in the palace were already frightened and cautious in what they did, lest they accidentally provoke Wang Yan, you must know that there were more than ten slaves who were beaten to death by Wang Yan during this time!

The 300,000 allied troops surrounding the city, as well as hundreds of thousands of Minzhuang village soldiers, suddenly stopped the attack, giving the crumbling Yongchang army a rare chance to breathe.

Although Wang Yan knew that the Tri-State Coalition Army would never retreat, the short rest was just accumulating strength to prepare for the next more fierce and brutal attack.

I don't dare to say anything, the temporary retreat of the enemy army still relaxes the tense spirit of the Yongchang army, and those soldiers and generals on the first front can take a temporary rest, many of them have not had a good rest for three days and three nights in a row.

Soldiers can rest, but Wang Yan, the chief general who fought on the first front, cannot rest like ordinary soldiers, although he has not closed his eyes for seven or eight consecutive days.

For the sake of secrecy, only a few generals and high-ranking officials of the Yongchang Army were able to attend this meeting, because the topic of this meeting was too important.

Wang Yan didn't know if there were other details hidden in the army, and there had been many incidents of mutiny of generals before.

Yonghong and other rebellious ministers and thieves secretly bought and instigated many high-level and wealthy families in Yongzhou, which brought a heavy blow to the Yongchang army.

Here, history and the history of the Three Kingdoms known by Chu He have deviated, Lu Kai was originally the Taishou of Yongchang County, and now Wang Yan is the governor of Yongzhou Prefecture and concurrently serves as the county governor, and Lu Kai is the governor of Yongchang County, and Wang Yan fell over.

In any case, Lu Kai, as the second person in the authority and strength of Yongchang County, one of the two six-rank powers, is definitely qualified to participate in this secret meeting, if even Lu Kai is bought by Yonghong and others, it is impossible for the Yongchang Army to support it until this time.

Zhuge Wenxiang has a word to support the character of the two: Yongchang County official Lu Kai, Fucheng Wang and his wife, etc., loyal to the domain, more than ten years, Yonghong, Gaoding forced its northeast, and Kai and others did not communicate with the righteousness. The minister does not mean that Yongchang customs are straight.

Of course, this official position is somewhat incorrect.

Chu He still doesn't know if this is the history of the Three Kingdoms mentioned in the romance, except for some general important events, basically many things are not right.

The other two, one is engaged in Wang Du in Yongzhou Zhizhong, and the other is Zhang Kuo, the general of Wupin Zhennan, who is responsible for the two important tasks of Yongzhou Yiwen and Wuwu, and is also a Wupin cultivator, which can be regarded as Wang Yan's left and right arms.

The last one is Tian Lang, a local general in Yongchang County, who was born in the local wealthy Tian family.

The Tian family is a wealthy family in Yongchang County for generations, and at least a quarter of the 100,000 soldiers who defend Yongchang City are related to the Tian family, including dozens of family children and 20,000 private soldiers, of course, there is no possibility of collaborating with the enemy.

Tian Lang was originally only a fourth-grade Jin Wuwei general, but after a series of battles, his cultivation was further improved and he was promoted to the fifth-grade copper furnace master.

He was born with divine power, and he didn't know how many Sanzhou rebel generals he had killed with a lotus iron rod in his hand, including a nephew of Yonghong, who was one of the main generals of the Sanzhou Coalition Army.

The number of people participating in the meeting was not large, including Wang and his wife, there were only five people, but these five people could decide the life and death of the two million soldiers and civilians in Yongchang City.

Wang Yan handed a pale golden piece of paper to Lu Kai with a calm face, and everyone naturally knew that at this time, the highest level of gold page transmission in the army was a means that could only be used in the six-grade way.

There are not many contents recorded in the Golden Pages Legend, but the speed of transmission is fast, and it can reach thousands of miles away, and it is extremely difficult to be intercepted by the enemy.

Of course, the price of the gold page is also quite high, it needs to be made of pure gold as the main material, and it can be refined by the six pins of Fangshi for a long time, this thin gold paper, at least 100,000 taels of silver, only really important information, will use the gold page to transmit.

"This is a battle report from Li Huidu, the governor of the Middle Route Army. ”

Wang Yan said with a gloomy face: "The strength of the Southern Barbarian thieves exceeded Zhuge Wenxiang's estimate, although Li Hui summoned warships and organized men to storm the Baozhou section of the Tongtian River, and many times they crossed the Tongtian River were blocked by the Southern Barbarian thieves, and tens of thousands of horses were killed and wounded, and they could not enter the territory of Baozhou. ”

After reading the battle report, Lu Kai handed it to Wang Du and the others, and said with a worried face: "Governor Li Hui asked us to hold out for another month, he is contacting General Ma Zhong to try to break through the front of the Southern Barbarian Army and let 20,000 elite cavalry support our Yongchang County." ”

"But now that we are short of supplies and rice and food, I am afraid that the official will not be able to support it for a month. ”

Wang Du's face changed gloomily a few times, and finally gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "We still have 200,000 stone rice grains now, if it is only for the soldiers and the people to eat, it is not a big problem to support it for a month." ”

Tian Lang's face suddenly sank: "How can the more than one million people in the city support it?"

Wang Du said coldly: "They have some grain in stock, even if they can't support it, then there is no way, do you want to use the rice grain of the army to support them?"

"Now that Yongchang is in danger, the 200,000 young and strong army are all in my hands, General Tian must not be a woman's kindness!"

Tian Lang glared at Wang Du angrily: "If we watch these more than one million innocent people starve to death, wouldn't it be worse than the rebels?

Although the three-state coalition army even went down to the counties of Yongzhou, the military discipline was okay, and they did not raise their butcher knives against the surrendering troops and the people.

After all, under the pressure of the Shu army moving south, setting off a bloody storm on their own territory, forcing the people to resist the rule of the three states to the death, will only bring more trouble to the three states.

Wang Yan led the Yongzhou army to retreat and fight, it was difficult to protect how many Yongzhou people, and now most of the soldiers and civilians in Yongchang City are the original Yongchang soldiers and the people of Yongchang County.

As the largest wealthy family in Yongchang County, these soldiers and civilians have an inseparable relationship with the Tian family, and Tian Lang certainly can't watch them starve to death.

If this is the case, even if Yongchang City can be saved, the Tian family will not want to gain a foothold in Yongchang, it will definitely end up in disrepute, and even the ancestral grave will be dug up by the angry Yongchang people to whip the corpse to vent their anger.

Wang Yan saw Tian Lang and Wang Du fighting each other, and he also had a headache, and said coldly: "What time is it now, we are still fighting among others, how can we resist the edge of the rebels!"

Wang Zhizhong's words don't need to be mentioned again. Even if it can support a month, the soldiers and horses of Li Dudu and General Ma may not be able to come to Yongchang!"

Baozhou, the main attack of the Middle Route Army, is thousands of miles away from Yongchang City, and the East Route Army led by Ma Zhong is in the easternmost of the four states.

Even if the elite cavalry that marches like the wind can be sent into the land of Nanzhong, it can travel thousands of miles in a day, but under the encirclement and pursuit of the rebels, the speed must be slowed down a lot, and it is by no means a matter of ten days and a half months to support Yongchang Prefecture.

Lu Kai pondered for a long time, and finally sighed: "It seems that Yongchang City can't be defended." ”

Zhang Kuo, the general of Wupin Zhennan, frowned: "Could it be that Lu Fucheng plans to withdraw from Yongchang City?"

Lu Kai nodded: "Not bad!"

"Although we can take advantage of the dangerous terrain of Yongchang City to resist the successive attacks of the rebels in Sanzhou, but now the soldiers are tired, there are many wounded soldiers, and there is a shortage of materials, and we are no longer able to defend it, and the only way to survive is to abandon the city and leave. ”

Zhang Kuo's face moved, and finally he shook his head and said, "Abandoning the city is a big crime!"

Lu Kai shook his head: "We have been holding on to Yongchang for a long time, and now we have nothing to do, abandon the city and flee, the court can understand." ”

"What's more, our abandonment of the city is not to surrender to the enemy, if we can disrupt the arrangement of the rebels in the hinterland of the rebels, not only will it be a great achievement!"

Wang Du pondered for a moment, and then nodded: "Lu Fucheng is right, the question is how can we break through the blockade of the rebels and leave Yongchang City?"

The implication is that he supports the army to abandon the city and leave.

Lu Kai looked at Wang Yan, who had been silent, and then said: "The east, west and north are entrenched by rebels, and the land south of the city is dangerous, and the rebels cannot entrench it, so we can retreat from the city and go deep into the southern region." ”

Tian Lang is the head snake of Yongchang County, and he is very familiar with the nearby terrain, and when he heard what Lu Kai said, he shook his head: "The land in the south of the city is densely ravine, full of miasma and poisonous smoke, and there are many swamps and forests, it is difficult for ordinary soldiers to march in the south. ”

"Besides, a hundred miles south of the city, there are hundreds of thousands of elite troops of the three divisions of the Yellow Turban Demon Army. ”

"If we lead the elite soldiers to leave Yongchang City, the rebels of Sanzhou can easily break through the city and attack the Yellow Turban Demon Army, we will definitely suffer heavy casualties, even if we can escape, how can the remaining few men and horses do much!"

"Tian does not agree to withdraw from Yongchang County!"

For Tian Lang, despite the dangerous situation, the Tian family used most of their strength to protect Yongchang City, and hundreds of disciples of the clan participated in the war, but before the war, many outstanding juniors had been transferred away.

It is naturally impossible for such a wealthy family to put all their eggs in one basket.

The Tian family is in Yongchang, but in the major states and counties, there are also distant branches of the Tian family, plus the departed clansmen, even if all the children of the Tian family in Yongchang City are killed, if the reputation is still there, the Tian family will not fall, and will only grow rapidly under this reputation of loyalty, and even more prosperous than the current Tian family!

As long as the name of the Tian family's loyalty and righteousness spreads far and wide, the Shu Kingdom will inevitably fully support the Tian family, otherwise there will be a big family willing to be loyal to the Shu family in the future?

Although he is General Jin Wuwei of Yongchang County, he is also a member of the Tian family, and he needs to seek benefits for the Tian family, even if he sacrifices his own life.

Neither Lu Kai nor Wang Du spoke, Tian Lang and Zhang Kuo meant to defend Yongchang City, but the only one who could really decide to stay was Wang Yan.

This Yongzhou Prefecture Mu, the strong man on the Hidden Dragon List, is far above them regardless of strength, authority, and reputation! In the Yongzhou army, even if Lu Kai and the four of them are combined, their prestige is not as good as that of Wang and his wife!

Wang Yan held his head with one hand, muttered for a long time, and finally said in a deep voice: "Since Li Dudu let us hold on for another month, we have no other choice!"

"Lu Fucheng, General Zhang, and Wang Zhizhong, you try your best to organize the people to defend the city, and if you are over 12 and below 60, regardless of men or women, you have the responsibility to defend the city! The people and the strong troops will be changed from one round every three days to one round every two days! For those who do not participate in the war, the food supply will be halved!"

When Lu Kai and the others heard the order, they all got up and said, "The last general/subordinate officer will receive the order!"

Tian Lang's mouth moved, but he didn't speak after all.

Wang Yan did this, and it was not the same as Wang Du.

Let those people who have not been trained directly participate in the battle to defend the city, and it is still a round every two days, which is obviously to use the hands of the enemy army to reduce the food pressure in Yongchang City!

The people who did not participate in the war could only get a bowl of rice porridge and small pieces of multigrain cakes a day, and if it were halved, I am afraid that I don't know how many people would starve to death.

But this is also a way out of the way, at least by doing so, it can also make the Tian family a fig leaf, so that they will not be scolded by all the people of Yongchang.

Wang Yan then turned his gaze to Tian Lang: "General Tian is familiar with the land south of the city, you can select local hunters in the city, etc., try to draw a detailed topographic map of the south of the city, and plan the route for the retreat of the army!"

He sighed: "If there is really no way, you can only leave from the south of the city." ”

Tian Lang could only say in a deep voice at this time: "The last general will definitely live up to the trust of adults!"