"There are rumors now that the morale of the army has been shaken, which is very unfavorable for us to break through the siege." Du Yan, the Censor of the Censor, saw that the situation deteriorated rapidly, and he was even more resentful of Wei Wensheng's decision-making mistakes. His words were full of anger. "The soldiers have fought for a day and a night, exhausted. Now there are blockages before and afterwards, and pursuers are attacked from both sides. Even if they break out of the siege before tomorrow dusk, the great losses are still unestimated."

Everyone can feel the resentment from Du Yan's tone, but the important thing at this moment is unity, and working together to break through the siege. Du Yan's attitude will only be despised, and it is really unwise to isolate himself from the group. Wei Jin winked at Du Yanlian and signaled him to shut up and not to make a statement.

Wei Wensheng looked at Du Yan with disdain, without any shame or responsibility, his contemptuous eyes were full of provocation, as if he was justified. I just brought the Xijing army into a desperate situation. What can you do to me?

Mingya got angry, with a "black" face, looking at Du Yan, and her tone was stern, "This is a war, not a drill, there will be casualties in war, but if you die for the country, you will die as the only way."

The tense atmosphere immediately caused the "temperature" in the lobby to rise rapidly, and many people were sweating profusely.

"Rumors are indeed terrible, but any rumors are vulnerable to the facts." Mingya waved her hand vigorously and said loudly, "Tell the soldiers that we are surrounded by rebels. We must fight with our backs and fight before tomorrow dusk. I believe that the soldiers of Xijing will definitely defeat fear in order to survive and for their own glory, and fight in blood, step on the enemy's corpses and fight out a bloody way."

Everyone looked at each other, worried, but could not object. At this moment, whether to use the truth to defy rumors or use lies to defy rumors, they actually bear huge risks. No one can guess the pros and cons, and no one can afford the consequences of the failure to defy rumors.

Wei Wensheng remained silent, which showed that he supported Mingya's opinion. In addition, most of the soldiers in the Xijing army have experienced the tempering of war, and their courage and belief are still trustworthy. Therefore, the result of using the truth to refute rumors may be better, and it can unite the soldiers and fight to the death.

Since no military general expressed his opposition, Wei Jin, the Minister of the Civil Affairs Department, and Du Yan, the Censor of the Censorate, did not publicly "sing a rebellion", then this decision was passed. After the military agreement was over, the generals of the army returned to the headquarters to truthfully inform the current situation of the soldiers under their command. As for the result, it was only left to fate.

"It is indeed very difficult to break through. We are attacked from both sides and have to fight on both sides. With such dispersed forces, we cannot concentrate all our strength to break through the enemy's siege." Mingya continued, "Our food and grass weapons have been cut off, and we can only maintain a day and night of battle. The rebels must know this. For this reason, they will do their best in the next day and night, and as long as they persist, victory will be at your fingertips."

Mingya looked at the generals and asked, "So the most urgent thing is, what methods can we use to break through this dead end and break through?"

Everyone was silent, no one answered.

Mingya looked at Du Yan with his eyes showing his inquiry. The focus of Du Yan's "attack" just now is here. Since you have seen the key point of the problem, do you have a solution? It is meaningless to put forward the problem. The key is to solve the problem. If you solve the problem, that is called ability. Du Yan snorted coldly, turned his head angrily, and ignored it. Of course, he had no solution. He was the censor, his duty was to supervise, and leading the army to break through was the task of the commander-in-chief of the army.

Mingya also sneered, and then continued, "If we want to break this dead end, we cannot be led by the rebels first. The rebels blocked us in the direction of Mianchi and chased us in the direction of Xiaoxin Ancheng. If we break through to Mianchi and cut off the rebels' pursuit, we will be caught in the enemy's plan. The troops are divided into two groups so that our troops can be dispersed, and we cannot concentrate all our strength to break through. If we can't capture it for a long time, we will be dragged to death by the rebels alive. Therefore, we must concentrate all our strength along the way, so that we can have hope of breaking out of the siege."

Everyone fell into deep thought. Mingya's analysis was correct. If the rebels led by the nose and the troops were divided into two groups to break through the siege, they would not be able to concentrate all their strength to tear open the enemy's siege. They had to do the opposite, but how to do the opposite? When the Xijing army concentrated all their strength to break through the siege towards Mianchi, who would block the rebels in the direction of Xiaoxin'ancheng? This was a dead end, and there was no way to crack it at all.

"Duke And De, where is the plan?" Wu Benlang General Cui Shi couldn't help but ask respectfully.

Mingya didn't want to test everyone's wisdom anymore, so she immediately gave the answer, "Concentrate all her strength on Koshima Ancheng to give a heavy blow to the rebels who followed him, so that they would lose the power to fight again in a short period of time and give us time to break through."

The generals were surprised. The answer was beyond their expectations. The direction of the breakthrough was indeed unexpected. "Take the opposite way." I guess even the rebels who came to the right could not imagine that the Xijing army, which was deeply trapped in the siege, was "rushing to jump over the wall". At the end of his way, he suddenly turned around and tried his best to kill them, fighting with them with all his might.

Wei Jin and Du Yan were also very surprised, but immediately understood that Wei Wensheng was still sticking to his decision and still fighting to the death with Yang Xuangan, especially in the siege of the rebels. After being surrounded by rebels, he had basically no hope of breaking through, Yu Qian gave up breaking up and decided to burn his eyes with Yang Xuangan. In this way, the entire Xijing army was wiped out, but Yang Xuangan's main army was not much left, and his strength was reduced sharply. Next, it would be difficult for Yang Xuangan to enter Guanzhong to ascend to the sky. After all, the combat effectiveness of those troops that were pieced together was too weak, and they had basically no choice but to face the natural dangers of Tongguan. To take a step back, even if they broke through Tongguan, they could not take down Xijing, and if they could not take down Xijing, Yang Xuangan would undoubtedly die.

Wei Jin and Du Yan were very angry. Wei Wensheng sacrificed the Xijing army to quell the rebellion, which was equivalent to letting Xijing bear most of the cost of suppressing the rebellion. This would be too great to damage Xijing's interests and would also be a heavy blow to the local aristocratic group in Guanlong. However, under the current situation, you have to endure it and have to endure it. Because the Xijing army was doomed to be wiped out, Wei Wensheng deliberately forced the Xijing army to the edge of the cliff in order to achieve his goal. Now the Xijing army has only two roads left. Eijing army either jump off the cliff by himself or jump off the cliff with the enemy. It is undoubtedly best to jump off the cliff with the enemy. At least it can win political benefits for Xijing, so that Xijing will not "pay money for his wife and soldiers" and lose even his underwear.

"This is a plan to burn both jade and stones." Zhang Jun, a veteran general of the Wei Dynasty, spoke, "but I think that we are not in a desperate situation yet. We still have a chance to break through, and we still have the ability to save the lives of more than 20,000 soldiers."

This Wu Benlang general from Guanzhong could not accept it. After all, the Xijing army still has combat effectiveness and time to break through. As long as the breakout direction is placed in the direction of Mianchi, there will definitely be a chance to break through. However, Mingya's strategy is equivalent to directly giving up breaking through and giving up the opportunity to break through. It is clear that it is to take the lives of more than 20,000 soldiers in Xijing to win the victory of the rebellion. The power center of Dongdu is "cold-blooded and ruthless". To achieve his goal, he uses all means to treat human life as grass. It is tolerant.

Wuyalang General Liang Yuanli also questioned, "Dong Ande, when we are fighting the chasing rebels in Xiaoxin Ancheng, what should we do if the rebels from Mianchi flock to us? Where is the opportunity to break through? You won't take us up the mountain and run away?"

Mingya smiled slightly and said, "You are right. Only by going up the mountain can we break through the siege."

Everyone was shocked. Mingya once again gave everyone a surprise, and it was a big surprise. After talking for a long time, Wei Wensheng and Mingya did not want to fight with the rebels, but wanted to break through. The reason for giving the rebels a heavy blow to the rebels in Xiaoxin'an City was entirely to get rid of the pursuers. Only by getting rid of this pursuers could the soldiers of Xijing calmly go up the mountain and evacuate calmly. Going up the mountain to evacuate requires throwing away all the supplies and throwing away everything that can be thrown away to reduce the burden on their bodies, but they cannot throw away the wounded. It takes a lot of time to take the wounded over the mountains and ridges. If the rebels keep their ghosts behind and chase after them, the Xijing army will not escape with the wounded, not to mention the wounded, hunger and fatigue will be enough for them to be wiped out.

In fact, everyone thought about evacuating up the mountain, but the conditions were really not met. In addition to the rebels attacking each other, there was also the problem of wounded people, which was related to morality and conscience. If an army and a commander even lost the most basic morality and conscience, they still have morale? Without military morality and morale, and with the rebels' pursuit at the tail of the ranks, evacuating up the mountain will inevitably turn into a major escape, and the result of the great escape will inevitably be annihilation of the entire army, so this choice was immediately abandoned.

No one expected that Wei Wensheng and Mingya, the two supreme commanders of the army, would choose this most unlikely evacuation route.

"The risk of evacuation up the mountain is too high, please think twice." Pang Yu, general of the Zhige Pavilion of the Supervisor, raised his objection without hesitation. "Even if we defeated the pursuit of rebels in Xiaoxin Ancheng, making them unable to fight again, what about the rebels in the direction of Mianchi? Will they watch us evacuate up the mountain?"

"I insist on breaking through the direction of Mianchi." Wu Benlang General Huswanshou also held a negative attitude. "The rebels must attack from the front and back to delay our breakthrough speed. When we fight with the rebels in Koshin-Ancheng, the rebels in the direction of Mianchi will definitely come here. Since this is the case, we might as well burn our boats, fight with our backs, kill Mianchi and survive in the death."

The other military generals also had the intention of opposing it and wanted to advise him. At this time, Mingya shook her hand decisively and signaled everyone to be calm and not be excited, and listen to him first.

"I just want to ask you one thing, if we go to the city of Mianchi at a heavy price, but find that Mianchi has fallen and the retreat has been cut off, or the rebels lit a fire outside the city and surrounding areas to prevent us from breaking through with the fire, where can we go?" Mingya raised her hand and pointed to the west, "Now Mianchi is covered by rolling smoke, which is a sign. Since the rebels have set up a suspicion array with thick smoke, we must not ignore the possibility of the army being buried in the sea of ​​fire. Do you want to be buried in the sea of ​​fire?"

There was a dead silence.
Chapter completed!