On that day, although the Qin and Liang coalition forces did not capture Heyang, everyone could see that the morale of the Wei army in the city had fallen to a low point. Even Wei Wuzhang, the backbone of the Wei army, was no longer as proud as before, under the name of more than 300 crossbow chariots.

Finally, they ended up until dusk and saw the Qin and Liang coalition forces slowly retreating. Long Jia and Rang Ni looked at each other at the same time and walked into the Dongcheng Gate Tower together.

"We must break through."

Long Jia said to Rang Ni in a deep voice: "If this continues, our army will definitely wipe out the entire army."

Hearing this, Rang Ni remained silent.

In fact, he also tended to Long Jia's judgment. After all, in the last two siege battles, the Qin and Liang coalition completely occupied an asymmetric advantage. He used a total of 15,000 crossbowmen to suppress the Diheyang City without any counterattack. When they sent Wei Wushu to resist the crossbow shooting of the Qin and Liang coalition forces, the other party built hundreds of more powerful crossbow chariots. Although it did not cause much casualties to Wei Wushu, a total of more than a thousand martial soldiers died today. There was no major casualties for the martial soldiers with a base of 20,000. However, it is an indisputable fact that the martial soldiers have a low morale because of this.

If he had known this, his 60,000 Wei army would have been better than competing with the 120,000 Qin and Liang coalition forces. Although the outcome was unpredictable, it was better than the number of people at the moment, but the soldiers had almost no morale.

After a long time, Rang Ni asked hesitantly: "Then... Daliang's order is what?"

Daliang's order, that is, the order of the King of Wei, was to hope that the 60,000 Wei troops stationed in Hexi would drag the Qin army while maintaining the current situation and not retreat to Hedong to avoid aggravating the Qin's arrogance. At the same time, Heyang would also use the Wei and Han coalition forces to resolve the Qi, Chu, Song and Wei coalition forces in Sui County, and then counterattack the bridgehead of Hexi again. Naturally, it would not easily fall into the hands of Qin and Shaoliang again.

But obviously Daliang did not know the strength of the Qin and Liang coalition forces. The Qin army, coupled with the surprise soldiers and crossbow soldiers of Shaoliang, had no advantage in front of the opponent's 120,000 coalition forces.

"I can't care about that much." Long Jia said seriously: "You can't watch the more than 60,000 people being wiped out!... You also saw that the soldiers in the city were almost unethical. Shao Liang's soldiers could attack the city at any time. Once they opened the city gate, they would lead the Qin army into the city..."

Hearing this, Rang Ti thought for a moment and said hesitantly: "Yin Qi, the doctor of Shaoliang, can he threaten Shaoliang's army with them..."

Long Jia looked at Rang Ti in surprise, shook his head and said, "The Qin and Liang coalition forces are not led by Shao Liang. Even if Shao Liang retreats temporarily due to threats, the Qin army will not retreat. Besides... Are you sure you want to use this method to force Shao Liang to surrender? Don't forget that Shao Liang's surprise troops can even abduct the King of Qin from Liyang."

It is undeniable that threatening a country with hostages and forcing this country to cede land and city is not new in the world. However, for a country that has the ability to abduct the King of Qin from Qin, Long Jia thought it would be better not to use this kind of external trick, so as not to completely anger the other party. If he offended it, he might be his family members who will be invited to visit Shaoliang next time.

"That's right." Rang De nodded in a clear way.

After reaching a tacit understanding, the two discussed the retreat in detail.

First of all, there are the retreating personnel. Twenty thousand Wushangs will definitely withdraw. After all, Wushang is the most elite in Wei State and the largest army invested. It is a pity to die in vain. As for the other 40,000 ordinary Wei soldiers, Long Jia and Rang Ni decided to sacrifice half of the number to create opportunities for evacuation for other troops.

The second is the evacuation route. In fact, when his Wei army attacked Hexi, he built a simple camp in the river-side area east of Cangcheng, which is called the Hezhai. There were even more than 20 ships used to cross the river.

But this route will be cut off by the Qin army at any time. Although there has not been a news of the Qin army entering Hezhai for a while, if you think about it carefully, you will know that once Ying Qian realizes that the Wei army wants to evacuate, he must first order the Cangcheng soldiers to take the Hezhai and cut off the route of the 60,000 Wei troops retreating to Hedong.

Therefore, the Wei army needed another route to retreat.

Regarding this route, there are only two plans in front of Long Jia and Rang Ni: First, not retreat but advance, at least, Dongliang City in Liang territory, sent people to send ships across the river to Linfen County, which is across the river, or build a floating bridge to meet his Wei army's retreat; second, it is to go down along the Heshui River to the other side of Puyang, almost near the river village, and retreat from there to Hedong.

Weighing the pros and cons, both of them thought it would be safer to take the Dongliang road. After all, Shaoliang only has 20,000 troops in total, and they are currently in Heyang area. The domestic troops are empty, so there should be no intercepting troops, but it is safer.

"Then decide that..."

On a spread out map, Long Jia pointed to the map and said to Rang Ni, "... At that time, 20,000 main troops will raid the coalition camps and 20,000 main troops will evacuate to the He camp. During this period, the military soldiers will take another road and retreat from the Dongliang area to Fenyin."

"Is there only Wu Zuo?" Rang Ni hesitated.

In his opinion, if there is about 90% chance of evacuation in Dongliang, then the chance of evacuation in Heying may be less than 50%. As for the other 20,000 who were sacrificed, the Wei army sent to attack the Qinliang coalition camp head-on, the possibility of survival will naturally be slim.

Long Jia was silent for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Preferential to ensuring the smooth evacuation of the Wushu."

Rang Ti nodded with a complicated expression. In fact, he also understood that the value of 20,000 martial soldiers was more than that of 40,000 ordinary soldiers.

After the discussion, Long Jia ordered the two guards around him to say, "After night, you two will lead 200 martial soldiers to Dongliang and ask Fenyin to prepare for the response of the martial soldiers. In any case, before the Yin hour tomorrow, you will definitely build a floating bridge on the river in the Dongliang area."

"Yes!" the two guards left.

After nightfall that day, Long Jia and Rang Ni were summoned to the city gate tower and told them about the evacuation.

Although the generals had speculations in their hearts, after Long Jia personally told them about retreating, they were still a little worried and instinctively could not accept the "defeat" incident - although Long Jia was talking about evacuation, everyone knew that it was a defeat and escape. After all, the morale of the Wei army in the city was no longer enough to compete with the Qin and Liang coalition forces.

It is worth mentioning that Long Jia did not propose the 'retreat from Dongliang to Fenyin' at first, because it was the evacuation route he reserved for the Wushu. But unexpectedly, the two thousand men under Xiayangjun, General Zheng Hou, raised it: "...Why not retreat from Dongliang to Fenyin? The Shaoliang army was all out, and there were almost no garrison in the country. I think Dongliang does not have the ability to stop our army from evacuation. Just say hello to Fenyin in advance and ask Fenyin to send someone to pick us up and cross the river. Compared to evacuating from Heying to Puyang, I think it is actually safer to go to Dongliang."

From the side Huajia also clasped his fists and said, "Mr. Zheng and I have been in Shaoliang for a long time and know very well about the Dongliang area. We can lead the way for the army."

“…”

Seeing that Zheng Hou's proposal had won the approval of many generals, Long Jia and Rang Ni looked at each other without saying a word.

Considering that this matter will sooner or later be known to everyone, Long Jia thought for a while, and finally revealed the truth with a complicated expression: "I want to give priority to ensuring that the Wu Zuo evacuated safely..."

In the room where I was talking nonsense just now, there was a sudden silence.

Except for a few Wei Wushang's five thousand generals who looked at each other, they did not make a sound, so as not to arouse public anger, the other generals of the army were speechless.

Long Jia's seemingly inconsistent answer made them realize immediately that it was not Long Jia who could not have thought of taking the Dongliang road, but that was the evacuation route of the Wu Zu. In order to ensure the smooth evacuation of the Wu Zu, their ordinary army could only evacuate through the Heying camp, attracting the attention of the Qin and Liang coalition forces and making sacrifices for the smooth evacuation of the Wu Zu.

After a long silence, a Wei army 2,000 generals unwillingly made his suggestion: "Why not take the opportunity to seize Dongliang? As long as Dongliang is occupied, everyone can evacuate from Dongliang, right?"

This proposal made Rang Ni's heart slightly moved. He asked Zheng Hou, and Hua Jia and said, "Zheng Hou, Hua Jia, what do you think? Can you seize Dongliang?"

"this……"

Zheng Hou and Hua Jia looked at each other and said tactfully: "I can't guarantee that Dongliang is now one of the two most populous cities in Shaoliang. The other is Old Liang. Although there are not many garrisons in the city, there are tens of thousands of people living there... I only have one impression of the Shaoliang people, that is, two years ago, even after the most dangerous things in Shaoliang, no Shaoliang people surrendered to the Qin army. If the Qin army had not restrained the massacre at that time, I think Shaoliang people might not have chosen to die with the Qin people, regardless of women, children, old and weak..."

The implication is that he warned everyone: Just cross the river from the Dongliang Ferry, don’t provoke Dongliang, anyway, Dongliang will not dare to attack them.

Although he had a little bit of protection from Shaoliang, he also knew that Shaoliang was indeed not easy to mess with. Didn’t he dare to kill too much in Shaoliang before seeing Ying Qian? He was just afraid of arousing the revenge of Shaoliang people, especially Shaoliang Qibing.

Unfortunately, his good intentions were questioned by several Wei generals.

"Mr. Zheng, are you protecting Shaoliang?"

"At this point, you still protect Shaoliang? Do you know how many soldiers of Shaoliang's army helped the Qin army kill our army?"

Zheng Hou, who was questioned many times, looked red in his face.

Heaven and earth can be seen. In this battle, he never favored Shao Liang at all. Even when facing the old acquaintance of Shao Liang, he spared no effort and immediately dispatched a crossbowman to shoot the other party. Unexpectedly, his kind warning was questioned by his colleagues.

He replied indignantly: "If you don't believe it, you can try to attack Dongliang. Let's see if you can conquer Dongliang within half a day. If you can conquer Dongliang, I will let you deal with it. If you can't defeat it, hum! Then the 120,000 Qin and Liang coalition forces will arrive, and I see what you can do!"

His words coincided with Long Jia.

In fact, Long Jia and Rang Ni had also considered seeking Dongliang before, but Long Jia felt it was too hasty.

After all, according to his estimate, they only had half a day to attack Dongliang at most. After this time, the 120,000 Qin and Liang coalition forces would definitely react. Maybe Dongliang would not be able to capture by then, and even 20,000 Wei Wushou would not be able to withdraw.

Therefore, for the sake of safety, he made a consistent decision with Zheng Hou, that is, just pass by Dongliang honestly and don’t waste time going to Dongliang to get involved. However, he is more determined than Zheng Hou and wants to make priority to ensure the smooth retreat of Wei Wuzhang.

"Enough!"

Long Jia stopped the generals and said, "I have decided to do it. The military soldiers evacuate from Dongliang, and the rest of the army go to the river camp to evacuate! Just obey the orders!"

“…”

The generals looked at each other, stopped quarreling, and clasped their fists and took the order with a complicated expression.

In fact, the only one who was abandoned was his soldiers, not them. The two thousand generals and five thousand generals had a great chance of retreating smoothly. At worst, the soldiers under him would be asked to drag the Qinliang army and jump to the river to escape first.

But the generals were a little angry when compared to the treatment of the martial arts soldiers.

After leaving the city gate tower, Hua Jia said to Zheng Hou jokingly: "What should I do? Maybe this time I really want to use the 'that move' to save my life."

Zheng Hou did not say a word, but his eyes moved slightly.

Yes, compared with other Wei troops, their soldiers may have a move to save their lives.

That was a special treatment that only they enjoyed by the "Yuanli Wei Zhu".

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