After one night, the enemy did not attack again, they seemed to be waiting for something.

Ye Guan inspected all the garrison sites in Zhu'an City in detail and checked the temporary garrison. The situation was roughly the same as he had imagined, but Ye Guan's mind was not at all, but was always thinking about the possible conspiracy in Tianqing City.

In the early morning, Ye Guan had not rested for a long time, so he stood up and summoned four core generals to discuss the enemy's affairs. He wanted to express his concerns in the process and arrange for the soldiers to retreat as soon as possible. Zhu'an City is located in a remote place, with deep mountains behind him. If he is really surrounded by the enemy, the consequences will be unimaginable.

After receiving Ye Guan's call, Ding Jiang Koulong led his deputy general Ren Zijin and Tu Xingping to the courtyard deep in Ye Guan as fast as possible.

The conditions were relatively simple, Ye Guan waived the etiquette of several people and arranged for several people to take the seat. Before the generals could speak, he spoke: "Several generals, please invite you to come today. If you want to discuss it, please ask a few people to make a detailed plan. Today, we will withdraw from Zhu'an City and return to the East Prince's Mansion."

When the four generals heard this, they all looked unbelievable. They looked at each other. Now that the battle is in such a stalemate, Ye Guan’s return has led to a great boost in morale. At this moment, it should be the time to attack. According to past experience, they will act in one go and attack when the enemy retreats. This siege will definitely end in victory. Although the number of soldiers on the other side is several times that of their own, the four generals did not take the enemy seriously at all. The battle was frustrated before, but Ye Guan’s return must have a plan to defeat the enemy. The few of them thought that Ye Guan was looking for them to formulate an offensive plan, but they did not expect it to be an order to retreat.

"This..." Kou Long frowned slightly, looked at Ye Guan with a puzzled look on his face, and said softly: "General Ye, the battle has reached this point, and it is not something that can be retreated just by evacuation."

"Yes, Master General." Ren Zijin on the side also echoed: "If all our troops retreat now, the enemy will definitely counterattack. Zhu'an City will be one day away from Zongqiu Mountain Pass. The mountain road is rugged and the entire army cannot move on, so the speed will inevitably be slow. If the enemy is blocked from behind, we will be in danger of the destruction of the entire army."

Ding Jiang and Tu Xingping also had serious expressions. Looking at Ye Guan, he was obviously puzzled by his proposal.

Ye Guan had expected this situation long ago. Seeing the faces of several generals, Ye Guan smiled and said, "Retreat is necessary. This matter involves many secrets that we cannot solve. Now is not the time to attack Zongqiu Mountain. Naturally, we cannot abandon the city and retreat directly. We will find several generals to discuss how to retreat together to make it safer."

Ye Guan didn't answer the questions in the minds of the generals at all. Tu Xingping frowned slightly, looked at Ye Guan, and asked softly: "Master General, can you tell me what the order for retreat is? We mobilized the troops to Zhuan City, Zongqiu, and now we have taken down the city, but why did we suddenly evacuate?"

The other people naturally had this question, and looked at Ye Guan. Ye Guan took back the smile on his face, talked softly, and did not answer directly, but said: "Think about how we took down Zhu'an City."

Several generals looked at each other and felt puzzled. This city was an empty city, so how could it be taken 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 nodded and continued, "Before this, General Ding, General Kou, you and me entered Zhu'an City. What happened in the city? Do you still remember now?"

"Of course I remember." Kou Long immediately said that this matter had been deeply imprinted into his heart. How could he forget it in such a short time: "I still remember it!"

Ding Jiang, who was standing by, naturally nodded. How Zhuan City became a dead city? The two of them could be said to have seen it with their own eyes. Sui was not as immersive as Ye Guan, but as bystanders, they also saw many strange scenes.

"Then you have thought that after our Eastern Prince's Mansion Army entered Zhu'an City, Zhu'an City suddenly became a dead city. What's going on in the outside world?" Ye Guan's face was calm, he glanced at the generals and asked softly.

The generals here are all experienced in battle and immediately reacted. Ren Zijin suddenly thought of it and said in a lost voice: "Everyone else will think it was us!"

As soon as he said this, the faces of the generals present immediately changed. This matter does not need to be said too thoroughly. The generals are the mainstays of the Eastern Prince's Mansion, so this simple matter is naturally clear. Why didn't you find it before? It was because the development of things was too tight and people could not think quietly. If Ye Guan had not been to Tianqing City for a mess, he would have flashed his mind when he came back, and he would have been unable to avoid the feeling of being blinded by Ye.

Now, this matter was broken by Ye Guan’s point of view, and all the generals felt a sense of coldness.

"General Ye... what do you mean..." Kou Long naturally thought of what happened next, but he was not sure, and his voice was a little trembling. This enclave was to use the Dongwang Mansion as a whetstone!

"I mean, our Dongwang Mansion enters the enclave, and other forces are driven by the back. After we enter Zongqiu Mountain, their actions finally began." Ye Guan said solemnly: "What happened in Zhu'an City, if nothing unexpected happens, will also happen in other cities under the control of the Dongwang Mansion. Moreover, this matter will be done very quickly, and the final blame will naturally be carried by my palace. The power behind it is transcendent in the enclave. As an external force, my Dongwang Mansion cannot defend itself, and finally..."

"In the end, the entire army may be destroyed, and even the royal palace may fall." Ding Jiang frowned, and a nameless fire suddenly rose in his heart. This was a feeling of enlightenment after being plotted against others. He was not only angry with the enemy, but also angry with himself, why did he not discover the enemy's plan at all.

"They did not leave any traces of this matter. If I had been staying in Zhu'an City, I would probably not be able to react now." Ye Guan heard the anger in Ding Jiang's tone and whispered: "I am an eyewitness in this matter. Although I see it the clearest, it is also the most paranoid. I always thought they were planning a huge conspiracy. Now it seems that there is no huge conspiracy at all. They just want to unite all the forces in the enclave, and our Dongwang Mansion is this whetstone."

"Damn it!" Tu Xingping, on the side, couldn't help it and cursed: "Who is this? Why is this person who actually treats human life with such a sinister method? Is it a mustard?"

No one answered him. Ding Jiang and Kou Long, who had experienced this, knew that for practitioners with such supernatural powers, the lives of ordinary people may not be as good as those of Cao Jiao.

After this sentence, the whole house fell into silence.

No one realized before that this might be someone else's conspiracy. Because it involved the lives of tens of thousands of people, they had never seen such a conspiracy, and they had never even thought about it.

After a while, General Ren Zijin slowly said, "Sir, what are you planning to do?"

Ye Guan's face was quiet and said softly: "If things are really as I thought, then the enemy troops who have been attacking the city outside Zhu'an City are not to take down Zhu'an City, but to try every means to hold us back. Especially yesterday, I appeared on the top of the city. They learned that I would become more severe when I came back, and they would make the illusion of fighting to regain Zhu'an City to confuse us and make us feel that this is a simple war."

"Then, in the enclave, other cities we occupied will inevitably have the events that happened in Zhu'an City before. In addition to the possible publicity and encouragement, the entire enclave will arouse the rejection of the East Prince's Mansion within a few days. The people behind it will definitely take this trend to form troops, and then surround the living forces of our Prince's Mansion in the enclave."

"Even if there are new recruits who have not received any training and the entire enclave has a population of millions, it is not something that our only tens of thousands of elite soldiers can withstand. Then, they will bloom from all sides and solve any solution for me."

"Now, what we have to do is to pretend not to know anything, defeat the enemy in the battlefield, and then quickly evacuate. My guess has already informed General Yongning that he will coordinate the overall situation. After evacuating from Zhu'an City, all of us will enter the Black Stone City Wall and block all dangers from the city wall."

After Ye Guan said something, the generals were silent, frowned slightly, considering what Ye Guan said.

"Sir General, if you say that time is tight, we will probably not be able to withdraw the troops entering the back half of the enclave." Kou Long frowned slightly and expressed his concern: "If we evacuate Zhu'an City before this, the other party will also guess our intentions. It will be even more difficult for them to retreat again."

Ye Guan nodded slightly when she heard this, and said, "I have considered this matter too. Therefore, we still have three days to fight in Zhu'an City. In three days, we will defeat the enemy in any case. If it is too late, it will probably be too late."

The atmosphere suddenly became solemn.

The generals recovered from the joy of Ye Guan's return yesterday and immediately received such news. This was difficult to accept for a while. Although the previous battle was a bit awkward, it was still far from being defeated, let alone threatening the Eastern Prince's Mansion. But now when Ye Guan said that several generals followed this idea and found that there was indeed such a possibility, and the possibility was extremely high.

Especially Ye Guan, he became more and more sure that Tianqing City had such a plan. When he thought of the mysterious man in black robe, his existence was like a dark cloud. Ye Guan could not guess the true intention of this person. If he really needed a lot of death energy to practice, he would not have to choose to do it at such a time point. Moreover, he slaughtered tens of thousands of people at once. No matter what kind of martial arts this person practiced, he would definitely not be able to use such a huge power.
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