All night, the enemy did not attack again, as if they were waiting for something.

Ye Guan inspected all the sergeant garrisons in the entire Zhu'an City in detail, and checked the temporary station, the situation was roughly the same as he imagined, but Ye Guan's mind was not here at all, but he kept thinking about the possible conspiracy in Tianqing City.

Early in the morning, Ye Guan did not rest for long, he got up, gathered the four core generals, discussed the affairs of the enemy army, he wanted to express his worries in the process, and arrange for the sergeant to retreat as soon as possible, this Zhu'an City is located in the middle of nowhere, behind him are deep mountains, if it is really surrounded by the enemy, the consequences are unimaginable.

Receiving Ye Guan's summons, Ding Jiang Koulong took his deputy generals Ren Zijin and Tu Xingping to the courtyard in the depths of Ye Guan as quickly as possible.

The conditions are relatively simple, Ye Guan exempted a few people from the etiquette, and after arranging a few people to sit down, before the generals could speak, he said: "A few generals, I invite you to come today, if you want to discuss, and ask a few people to make a detailed plan, today, we will withdraw from Zhu'an City and go back to Dongwangfu." ”

When the four generals heard this, their faces showed disbelief. Looking at each other, now the battle is going on to such a stalemate, Ye Guan's return has led to a great boost in the morale of the army, this moment should be the time to attack, according to past experience, one blow, attack when the enemy retreats, this siege battle will definitely end in victory, don't look at the number of sergeants on the other side several times their own, but the four of their generals did not take the enemy too seriously, the previous battle was aggrieved, but Ye Guan returned, there must be a strategy to break the enemy, a few of them thought that Ye Guan was looking for them to make an attack plan, but they didn't expect it to be an order to retreat。

"This ......" Kou Long frowned slightly, looked at Ye Guan with a sad face, and said softly: "Chief Leader Ye, the battle has reached this point, it is not that you can withdraw if you withdraw. ”

"Yes, Lord-General. On the side, Ren Zijin also echoed: "If we retreat now, the enemy army will definitely counterattack, Zhu'an City is a day's journey from Zongqiu Mountain Pass, the mountain road is rugged and cannot be fully loaded and marched by the army, the speed will inevitably be slow, if the enemy army is killed from behind at this moment, we are in danger of annihilation." ”

Ding Jiang and Tu Xingping also looked solemn, looking at Ye Guan, obviously very puzzled by his proposal.

This situation was expected by Ye Guan for a long time, seeing the faces of several generals, Ye Guan said with a smile: "Retreat is a must, this matter involves a lot of secrets that we can't solve, now is not the time to attack Zongqiu Mountain, naturally, we can't directly abandon the city and retreat, find a few generals to come, but also to discuss how to retreat to be more secure." ”

Ye Guan's words did not answer the questions in the hearts of several generals at all, Tu Xingping frowned slightly, looked at Ye Guan, and asked softly: "Your Excellency, can you tell me what the reason for the retreat order?

Several other people naturally had this question, and they all looked at Ye Guan, Ye Guan withdrew the smile on his face, talked softly, and did not answer directly, but said: "Think about it, how did we take this Zhu'an City." ”

Several generals glanced at each other, and they all felt inexplicable, this city is an empty city, how can you take it down, the army entered the city, wasn't it your order?

Ding Jiang hesitated for a moment and said, "It was the army that drove straight in." ”

Ye Guan immediately nodded and continued: "Before that, General Ding, General Kou, what happened in the city where you two entered with me in Zhu'an City, can you still remember?"

"Naturally remember. Kou Long immediately said, this matter has been deeply imprinted in his heart, how can he forget it in such a short time: "The memory is still fresh!"

Ding Jiang on the side naturally nodded in agreement. How Zhu'an City became a dead city, the two of them can be said to have seen it with their own eyes, and they are not as immersive as Ye Guan, but as bystanders, they have also seen many strange pictures.

"Then have you ever thought that after our Dongwangfu army entered Zhu'an City, Zhu'an City suddenly became a dead city, how is this matter from the outside world?" Ye Guan's face was calm, he glanced at several generals, and asked softly.

Several of the generals present were all experienced in a hundred battles, and they reacted immediately, Ren Zijin suddenly thought, and said in a lost voice: "Everyone else will think that we did it!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the faces of several generals present immediately changed. This matter does not need to be said too thoroughly, several generals are the mainstay of the East Prince's Mansion, and this simple matter is naturally clear. The reason why I didn't find out before is because things are too tight and people don't allow people to think quietly. If it weren't for Ye Guan's mental turmoil and going to Tianqing City once, when he came back, he would not have been able to escape the feeling that Ye Guan couldn't see Mount Tai.

Now, this matter has been broken by Ye Guan, and all the generals have a chill in their hearts.

"Commander Ye...... What do you mean......" Kou Long naturally thought of the next thing, but he was not sure, and his voice trembled a little. This enclave is going to use the East Wangfu as a whetstone!

"I mean, when we entered the enclave of Dongwangfu, there were other forces behind it, and after we entered Zongqiu Mountain, their actions finally began. Ye Guan looked serious and said solemnly: "What happened in Zhu'an City, if nothing else, will also happen in other cities under the control of the East Palace, and this matter will be done quickly, and the final responsibility will naturally be borne by my Palace, and the forces behind it are transcendent in the enclave, and my East Palace, as an external force, is speechless, and finally ......."

"In the end, the whole army may be destroyed, and even the palace may fall. Ding Jiang frowned, and a nameless fire suddenly rose in his heart, this is a feeling of being calculated and realized, he is not only angry with the enemy, but also angry with himself, why didn't he find the enemy's strategy at all.

"This matter, they did not leave a trace, if I have stayed in Zhu'an City, I am afraid that I will not be able to react now. Ye Guan heard the anger in Ding Jiang's tone, and said softly: "I am a first-hand witness to this matter, although I see it most clearly, but it is also the most paranoid, I always thought that they were planning some big conspiracy, but now it seems that there is no big conspiracy at all, they just want to unite all the forces in the enclave, and our Dongwang Mansion is this whetstone." ”

"Damn!" Tu Xingping on the side immediately couldn't help it, and scolded: "What kind of person is this, who actually uses such a destructive method to treat human life as a mustard?"

No one answered him, and Ding Jiang and Kou Long, who had experienced this incident, both knew that for cultivators with such magical powers, the lives of ordinary people might not be as good as grass mustard.

After these words, the whole room fell silent.

No one knew it before, but it could be someone else's conspiracy. Because the lives of hundreds of thousands of people were involved, they had never seen such a conspiracy, and they had never even thought about it.

After a while, General Ren Zijin said slowly: "Your Excellency, what are you going to do?"

Ye Guan's face was calm, and he said softly: "If things are really as I thought, in this way, the purpose of the enemy army outside Zhu'an City who have been attacking the city is not to take Zhu'an City, but to try to drag us down, especially when I appeared on the city yesterday, they may become even more serious when they learn that I am back, and make the illusion of desperately trying to recapture Zhu'an City, so as to confuse us and make us feel that this is a simple war." ”

"Then, in the enclave, the other cities we occupy, there will inevitably be the events that happened in Zhu'an City before, coupled with the propaganda and agitation that can be done, within a few days, the entire enclave will arouse the sentiment of rejecting the Dongwangfu, and the people behind it will definitely take advantage of this trend to form troops, and then surround the living forces of our Wangfu in the enclave. ”

"Even if it is a recruit who has not received any training, the entire enclave has a population of millions, and it is not something that tens of thousands of elite soldiers can handle. ”

"Now, what we have to do is to pretend that we don't know anything, use the way on the battlefield, crush the enemy army, and then quickly evacuate. My conjecture has already informed General Yongning that he will coordinate the overall situation, and after withdrawing from Zhu'an City, we will enter the Blackstone City Wall with all our troops and keep all dangers out of the wall. ”

After Ye Guan's words were finished, all the generals were silent, all frowning slightly, considering what Ye Guan said.

"Your Excellency, if time is running out as you said, and the troops we send into the second half of the enclave will not be so easy to withdraw. Kou Long frowned slightly, and expressed the worry in his heart: "If we evacuate Zhu'an City before this, then the other party will also guess our intentions, and it will be even more difficult for them to retreat at that time." ”

Hearing this, Ye Guan nodded lightly and said, "I have also considered this matter, so, regarding the battle of Zhu'an City, we still have three days, and after three days, no matter what, we will defeat the enemy army, if it is too late, I am afraid that it will be too late." ”

The atmosphere suddenly became solemn.

The generals had just recovered from the joy of Ye Guan's return yesterday, and they immediately got such news, which made it difficult for people to accept it for a while. Although the previous battle was a little aggrieved, it was far from being defeated, let alone threatening the Dongwang Mansion. But now Ye Guanyi said that several generals followed this line of thought and found that there was indeed such a possibility, and it was extremely likely.

Especially Ye Guan, he became more and more sure that Tianqing City had such a plan, thinking of the mysterious black-robed man, his existence was like a dark cloud, Ye Guan had never been able to guess the true intentions of this person. If he really needed a large amount of death qi cultivation, he didn't have to choose such a time to do it at all, and slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people at once, no matter what kind of exercises this person cultivated, he would definitely not be able to use such a huge amount of power.