As soon as the smoke rose, Wei Hanjun, who had already been ambushed outside the city, shouted, and marched towards the city gate with elite soldiers as the pioneers.

In Xinzheng City, which is separated by a section of the city wall in the palace area, some people have also seen the smoke here.

"Was Simon captured?"

Many of the people who had just repelled an attack by the Wei-Han coalition looked behind them, and the morale of the army, which had been stabilized by the victory of nearly a month, began to panic.

The northwest direction has not been the main direction of Wei Han's attack, which is guarded by elite armor soldiers, and there is Xinzheng's earliest city defense system with walls and horses, which is said to be the most solid.

The Wei-Han coalition relied on artillery, but the artillery was deployed in the east, because there were too few of them to blast through the walls.

And the copper cannon that can blast through the city wall is extremely troublesome to transport, and it is impossible for the city not to pay attention.

Time was pressing, and the second system of concave and convex defense lines built in the city could not be exhaustive, so they could only concentrate manpower in the direction where the Wei and Han forces were most likely to attack.

Moreover, in the past few days, the attack of the Wei and Korean coalition forces in the east has been very fierce, and after the increase in troops, the number of copper cannons has also increased, and it is more difficult to defend.

If the palace area was breached, the Wei and Han forces would soon attack the flanks of the defenders and civilians, and the defenses there would not be systematic at all.

Xinzheng City is a capital city with the Yuli system for examining workers, and the big city and the small city are separated, separated by city walls.

Even if you organize city defense, it is impossible to use the already stretched strength to defend the palace area, which is the most basic common sense.

If the west is breached, it will be equivalent to the most vulnerable part of the entire city defense being breached, which will directly lead to the collapse of the entire city defense system.

The panic of the soldiers and civilians defending the city was not unreasonable, and some of the ink men who were commanding on the front line also raised their heads.

Xu Miao stood up and asked everyone not to panic first, stabilize the situation here, and sent someone to ask.

Some of the nobles guarding here were also greatly alarmed, and after the leaders of the various personnel guarding the city met, the Mo family heard an unexpected and reasonable news.

The nobleman said that the king would inspect the city defenses today to boost morale, so as to inform the people that the Chu-Mo coalition army was about to rescue Zheng, so as to inspire everyone's confidence in defending the city.

Almost instantly, several people from the Si clan suddenly said: "The enemy is within the Xiao Wall!" The enemy is in the palace! ”

They had already woken up to the fact that if there was a siege of Wei Han, someone would definitely summon them.

But no one sent a message, even if the armor guards over there were all a herd of pigs, it was impossible to say that the Wei and Han coalition forces had just rushed to cause the city gate to be breached.

That must be someone there colluding with Wei Han!

Almost instantly, all the remnants of the Yang Yang Party were as pale as earth, and everything that had supported them before seemed to have been emptied in an instant.

Xinzheng is over, the fall is inevitable, they are bound to die.

Once that side is let go, it won't be able to hold it at all, even those who have just learned to defend the city know it.

There was only one layer of defense, the city walls, and the walls of the palace and civilian areas did not have much defense power at all.

And there is precisely the vest of the entire city defense system, where a knife is inserted, not to mention that the morale of the people collapses instantly, and even if it does not collapse, it is too late to make adjustments.

At this moment, the drums beat again, and the Wei-Han coalition launched another attack after the retreat had just begun.

Obviously, this is cooperating with the actions of the other side, making the side even more chaotic and unable to make support.

The inkers are very calm.

Because Xinzheng City is not theirs, at least not for the people they are guarding now, the ending of dog eats dog is unexpected to them, but it can be regarded as a loss.

As long as the main force that came to support was not the righteous master of Sishang, then there was no need for them to hold on.

Their calmness stems from the fact that they don't care about the gains and losses of the city.

But in the eyes of the Yang Yu Party, the ink man is so calm, and there may be a means to stick to it.

Several nobles who were still sober thought to themselves, when Mo Zhai was in his time, the Mo family was good at defending the city, and the good defense made the attackers unattackable, and they were often able to kill people in adversity.

These ink artists are so indifferent, could it be that they still have the means to guard?

Immediately, those people saluted and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the city is in danger, if there is a way to hold on, please speak." Not only our soldiers and private soldiers, but also ourselves, are also at our disposal! ”

Several ink masters glanced at each other, and the ink artist who had been presiding over Xinzheng's activities said, "Our rules need to be discussed." ”

The nobles immediately heard from these words a feeling as if a drowning person had heard a raft, and agreed again and again, only if the ink masters were so calm, there must be a means.

It is not yet known what is happening in the west, and at this time we can only send people to investigate, which will take some time.

It is said that if it is a famous general, it must be necessary to make a decision immediately at this time.

However, war is in the service of politics, and if the purpose is not clear, how can it be warned?

These ink artists quickly gathered together in a no-man's land, and they didn't have the cumbersome words of the usual meetings, so they made a judgment on the current situation.

There must be an accident in the palace area to the west, but as for what happened, there is a chance that Zheng Guojun is treason now.

Xu Miao asked bluntly, "Shou?" Or are you not keeping? ”

If you follow the plan of the Mo family at the beginning, in fact, at this point, it doesn't matter if you keep it or not.

Defend it, and fight against the king of Chu and the nobles and ministers of Zheng State.

If you don't keep it, you have to fight against Wei Han.

For the public, the difference is really not much.

There is a situation here and now, which is completely different from the situation at the end of the Warring States period, when hundreds of thousands of people were beheaded at every turn to kill people in order to weaken the war potential of various countries.

At the end of the Warring States period, all countries had basically implemented reforms, and a large number of yeoman farmers or farmers who gave land became the main military force of each country.

The nations are in conflict, and only a few great powers remain, and the decapitation and weakening of the main hostile countries is not only because of the helplessness of logistical support, but also because the hostile countries completely lose their war potential.

And by that time, all countries already had a little sense of nationality, which was of course the awakening of nationalism caused by the long war, but also because the main population of each country changed from farmers who closed their fields to farmers who cultivated their fields and farmers who granted land.

Now, the population is still small, the laws of various countries have not changed, and all kinds of work always need people to do it.

It is impossible for Korea to slaughter the Zheng people, it is unnecessary and harmful, and there is also the Heze Covenant and the powerful force of the Mo family to maintain this alliance that is completely different from the previous era.

That being the case, in the eyes of the Mo, it is a struggle against Zheng Junchen, a Chu person; There is actually no essential difference from the struggle with Wei Han.

Under the premise that the concept of the people of the world includes all the countries of Zhuxia, in fact, there is only the dispute between the "common people" and the "nobles" within the Mo family.

Under this premise, the ink practitioners who participated in the discussion almost unanimously agreed: "If you can't keep it, you won't keep it." ”

Xu Miao asked this question, and he also replied: "I also have this intention. Our purpose of defending the city has basically been achieved, and the people have learned a lot of truths and understood a lot during this period, and they are already very inclined to us. ”

"How is this going to end? It still needs to be discussed. ”

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A quarter of an hour later, the ink writers who participated in the discussion came back one after another, still with a nonchalant face, and it seemed that they had clearly reached a conclusion.

This indifference made those nobles happy, thinking that this was a manifestation of "can be kept, and there is still a way to keep".

However, after leaning over, I heard the ink man say in an extremely indifferent voice: "I can't keep it, it's hopeless, give up." ”