Lan Qiao, Feng Yeling, Bai Xueyin, Hua Yuxi, Ling Yufei, Meng Xiliang and Du Shiqi entered the village gate. Yunhe's left-behind army and other returning soldiers cheered and shouted in unison for this beautiful battle.

Applause, morale was so high that it was almost boiling.

They proved with ironclad facts that even on a frontal battlefield, they were not without the power to fight Xu Huizu's 150,000 troops.

For this proactive attack, they spent almost all their strength and wisdom. Fortunately, they achieved their goal and burned down Xu Huizu's vehicle array, delaying Xu Huizu's general attack for two days.

After the joy, everyone will start to worry about their next survival.

The food storage in the mountain city is only enough to last for five days, and now three days have passed, which means that when Xu Huizu builds the car array and attacks again, they will be in the embarrassing situation of running out of food.

Although he had no choice but to do so, Lan Qiao still ordered the daily food distribution to be halved in order to survive Xu Huizu's upcoming stormy offensive for two more days.

He also held a simple but grand funeral for the soldiers who died in today's battle. By the time he dragged his exhausted body back to his bedroom on the second floor of the Guan Building, dusk had already fallen.

The room was pitch dark, and when he lit the lamp, he discovered that Hua Yuxi, without a mask, was sitting next to his bed in her true form as Li Jingshu.

"Why are you here?" Lan Qiao was startled.

The flowers were as quiet as a beautiful sculpture. After a long time, he turned his bloodshot eyes to the blue bridge and said quietly: "I don't want anyone to see me coming."

"Don't you want Ling'er and Junior Sister to see it?" Lan Qiao felt hot in his heart. He sat next to her and held her little hand and said, "Did you come to me because... hey..."

Hua Yuxi rolled her eyes at him sadly, withdrew her hand and said slightly angrily: "Is it possible that someone comes to see your husband at night just for that matter?"

Lan Qiao was just about to say that she was being tough, but even in the dark, she still refused to admit it. Then she paused for a moment and then said seriously: "Besides, we have limited food now, so we should try to reduce physical exertion as much as possible. Sexual intercourse is extremely harmful.

One profit."

"Then why can't you see people? You have to hide and wait for me." Lan Qiao saw her serious expression and knew that she did have other important matters.

"I'm afraid that people will see it because what I'm going to say next must not be known to anyone." Hua Yuxi added word by word, "Including Xiao Ye and Xue'er."

"Why is this?"

"Because they don't have enough city, if they know such a big secret, they probably won't be able to hide it."

Lan Qiao's curiosity was aroused by her and she couldn't help but said: "What secret? It's so serious."

"It's a big secret related to the survival of our army." Hua Yuxi sighed softly when she said this, and then said slowly: "We may be destined to die trapped here."

"Don't get discouraged so easily. Didn't we just win the battle?" Lan Qiao said disapprovingly, "Maybe as long as we delay for a few more days, the king's reinforcements will arrive. Counting the days, if everything goes well for them, they might have already arrived.

Defeated Sheng Yong and crossed the Yangtze River south."

"That's what I want to say." Hua Yuxi shook her head, "We may never be able to wait for reinforcements."

Lan Qiao was suddenly startled: "What do you mean?"

Hua Yuxi looked at the lights swaying in the breeze and sighed again: "I am very familiar with my fourth uncle and know his ambitions. Even if he can defeat Sheng Yong and cross the river south, do you think he will come to support us?

?”

"Wrong. At that time, he will only have the capital as the only destination in his eyes, and he will never do anything that may cause complications."

"We are in the mountains hundreds of miles south of Yingtian. It is not easy for a large army to enter the mountains. It is also easy to encounter sneak attacks and ambushes. Spending so much time on detours to rescue us is not the behavior of a wise man."

"Imagine you are the fourth uncle. When the capital is right in front of you and the throne is within your reach, how could you give up the ideals you have fought for for so many years and waste your precious time on a mere 30,000 raiders?"

"If during this period, King Qin's troops from other prefectures and counties in the world arrive in the capital, his plan of appeasement will be in vain. Therefore, he will march to the capital at all costs. Only when his throne is stable will he think of us.

At that time, we had already died in Xu Huizu’s siege or starved to death.”

She sounded alarmist, but after Lan Qiao thought about it for a moment, it was indeed true.

In the past, he only regarded Zhu Di as his ally. If he was in trouble, how could his ally not save him? But when he followed what Hua Yuxi said and truly considered Zhu Di from his perspective, he found that he was "buried deep in the mountains"

The surprise attack team is indeed nothing worth mentioning compared to the grand goal of quickly entering the capital and seizing the throne.

"How long will it take if you wait for the king to enter the capital before he can take care of us?" Lan Qiao still refused to give up.

Hua Yuxi smiled bitterly and did not answer him.

Lan Qiao was not stupid, and he could calculate this debt by himself. If Zhu Di had taken the capital first after crossing the river, and waited until the situation was stabilized before sending troops into the mountains, it would have taken at least twenty days longer.

This is undoubtedly fatal to them.

"The reason why I am only saying this to you is because after this victory, our army has finally boosted its morale. Once the secret is leaked, the confidence of the soldiers will inevitably collapse. By then, some will mutiny and some will surrender to the enemy. Then

It would be disastrous."

"Is there really nothing we can do?" Lan Qiao looked at Hua Yuxi suspiciously, "No, if death was really inevitable and there was no other possibility, you wouldn't have said this to me."

"There is no way, but you don't want to hear it." Hua Yuxi avoided Lan Qiao's gaze.

"What can I do? Tell me quickly."

"I am not speaking from the perspective of the commander-in-chief or staff officer, nor am I speaking from the position of the leader of the Jingnan Alliance. I am simply speaking from the perspective of a wife to her husband." Hua Yuxi blinked.

With a painful and tangled look on his face, he said, "I don't know if you understand what I mean."

Lan Qiao said sadly: "I understand."

Is there any ingenious solution? Hua Yuxi's so-called method of "standing from his wife's point of view" is nothing more than asking him to abandon the army and escape alone with his outstanding martial arts, or to deliberately send troops to fight and let them die in order to save food consumption.

This is the cruel truth they face today.

And in order to maintain morale, they must hide all this from everyone.

"I can't do it. Whether it's escaping alone or sending my men to die to save food for myself, I can't do it."

"I know." Hua Yuxi seemed to have been relieved of a huge burden, she let out a long breath and smiled brightly, "I worry about the world first. He is indeed the young hero who fascinates me."

"But I finally told you everything I know. I gave you a choice and didn't lie to you." She tilted her head and leaned lightly on Lan Qiao's shoulder. "There are no secrets between you and me, not even until death."

"

"Okay, knowing this, I don't have any pressure now. Anyway, I just try my best. If I can delay one more day, I'll earn it." Lan Qiao smiled and smelled her jade neck, "Don't be confused when you are in a desperate situation.

, she is indeed the beauty in my eyes."

"I also have a little secret, let me tell you now." Lan Qiao smiled and took out a still warm sparrow from his arms, "I shot it on the mountain before dark. You have worked hard these days, so I will give you some supplements."

body."
Chapter completed!