"If you don't teach me, you will fight, which is called abandoning me." Lu Min was furious, slapped the table, blushed, and waved her arms and said loudly: "I don't agree. If you want to do this firmly, then let me open the city to meet the enemy. After I die in battle, you can do whatever you want."

Xia Yu held the knife ring tightly, and the blue veins on the back of his hand swelled up. He and Lu Min have been together for a long time. He knew that Lu Min was not a false threat. If he insisted on seeing him, Lu Min would definitely fight to the end, and fighting to the death was not just empty talk. Of course, he did not dare to let Lu Min die in battle. How to explain to Lu Zhi was still the future. He was facing the anger of thousands of refugees in the city.

Lu Min taught the children of refugees to study, which received a great response among the refugees. The refugees' respect for Lu Min far exceeds that of him, Xia Yu. Perhaps only Zhang Ming, the Taiping Taoist, can compare with Lu Min. If the refugees know that Lu Min died because he refused to sacrifice them for nothing, then the culprit he, the culprit, will be the subject of thousands of men, and the city will inevitably be in chaos.

Unless he ordered the killing of all those who dared to jump out and cause trouble, he believed that in the face of the threat of death, people who truly had the courage to uphold their sense of justice were the few after all.

But this is definitely not a good idea.

Xia Yu turned his gaze to Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu lowered his head, but from his tight fists, he could see that he did not agree with this method. Xia Yu looked at Zhang Ming again, and Zhang Ming frowned slightly, with an unhappy expression. Yang Feng behind him even raised his eyebrows and looked angry.

After all, they were scholars. They didn't know the cruelty of war and could only talk in their mouths. Xia Yu sighed, and for the first time he felt that it was not a complete thing to invite Lu Min to be a long-time official.

Xia Yu slowly let go of his hand and coughed. Zhang Wu knew it, and quickly stood up, walked to Lu Min and bowed: "Zi Xing, this is just a suggestion, not the final decision, why should you be so excited? If you disagree, we will find another way. There is no need to be so loud, right? You are the chief and the deputy general of the emperor. The chief and the deputy general are disagreeing. If people outside hear it, what will they think? Can people's hearts be stable? How can people's hearts be unstable? How can they defend the city?"

Lu Min frowned in anger. Of course, he didn't believe Zhang Wu's words that this was just a suggestion. Xia Yu definitely wanted to do this in his heart, but because of his prestige, he did not dare to act against it. However, he was not easy to refute Zhang Wu's later words, so he had to shake his sleeves and return to his seat, with a gloomy face and silent.

Zhang Wu was very embarrassed and said to everyone: "Everyone, how can you sit? Everyone thinks about ways to see how to win this war."

No one said anything. The people brought by Lu Min felt that Xia Yu was too cruel. In order to make his contribution, he wanted to let the refugees die in vain. However, Xia Yu thought that this was natural and that in order to win this war, someone must consume the patience and strength of the Xianbei people, so that they could see the hope of breaking the city, and they were reluctant to leave. The attack was exhausted and their morale was depressed, and then it was possible to decide in a battle. Lu Min and others did not know about military affairs and had the kindness of women, but they did not know that this would only make bad things.

Zhang He pulled Liu Xiu's sleeve. Liu Xiu turned his head and saw Zhang He signaling him to speak. He pulled the corners of his mouth and knew that Zhang He's suggestion was right. Confrontation in such a silent way would only make the opposition more intense, and only when he stood up and spoke would be accepted by both sides. However, he very much disagrees with Xia Yu's suggestion that there are sacrifices in fighting, but sacrifices in the army are natural, because your responsibility is to defend the country. Why do you let the refugees sacrifice? If I had known that I would be sacrificed by you, why would I have to spend so much trouble to recruit refugees into the city?

It’s not that refugees cannot be sacrificed, but they cannot be sacrificed by you like this.

A general's success is a thousand bones. This is very heroic and satisfying. But if you are not that general, but that person, what should you think? Even if you are that general, how can you be so at ease and righteous?

Liu Xiu knew that from an objective standpoint, Xia Yu's proposal was right. Only by doing this can the Xianbei people be beaten and afraid of being beaten, making them dare not invade easily, and reduce more deaths. However, when things come, how many people are absolutely objective? Today he can sacrifice refugees, but will you not sacrifice Liu Xiu tomorrow?

Seeing that Liu Xiu was not moving, Zhang He had to move to him, and attached himself to his ear and whispered: "Deran, fighting without teaching is called abandonment, but we still have time, we can fight while teaching, and while teaching."

Liu Xiu didn't quite understand and rolled his eyes.

"If these refugees were not allowed to participate in the war, the strength of the lieutenant's office would be too large, and even if we gained an advantage, it would be limited, because in the end, the lieutenant had no troops to pursue and expand the results of the war. And once the city was broken, what would the consequences would these untrained refugees? Either they were killed by the Xianbei people or became slaves to the Xianbei people. Since that's the case, why didn't we teach them to fight first? Although the Han Dynasty had cancelled the test, these refugees had been wandering outside for so long, and they were still somewhat daring to fight desperately."

Zhang He explained patiently, and Liu Xiu quickly understood what he meant. He thought for a while, "Yun Yi, why don't you say it yourself?"

Zhang He smiled, shook his head gently, and held his hand on Liu Xiu's shoulder hard: "We are together."

Liu Xiu smiled, he nodded slightly, stood up, bowed to Xia Yu and Lu Min, and explained Zhang He's suggestion just now in his own words. Seeing that although his proposal was not what he wanted immediately, it was not very different, Xia Yu barely agreed. Lu Min thought for a while, and felt that although Xia Yu was cruel, there was no better way other than that, he nodded and agreed. Then everyone discussed the details, such as how many people Xia Yu arranged to help with training, and Lu Min acted as how to appease the refugees and persuaded them to cooperate with training and participate in the war. This matter finally achieved a unified opinion.

In the next few days, Xia Yu made certain adjustments to the troops in Feng Yuan outside the city. On the one hand, he increased some manpower. On the other hand, he allowed some brave refugees to join the city first to participate in the battle. After being mentally prepared, he sent them to Feng Yuan to cooperate in the battle. In order to prevent excessive casualties from happening in the city, he strengthened the density of crossbow attacks on the city and trained troops in the city. Not only did he train the refugees, but he also trained the cavalry to be used to go out of the city to pursue them.

In order to make up for the losses of Xia Yu, Liu Xiu proposed the suggestion of equiping these cavalry with stirrups.

Xia Yu didn't take it seriously at first, but after trying it out, he immediately discovered the magical use of this seemingly simple thing. He immediately ordered someone to make two thousand pairs, and at the same time prepared long soldiers such as halberds and spears for all the knights. In order to let the knights get familiar with these equipment in the shortest time, he demolished the backyard of the lieutenant's mansion and built a runway about 500 steps along the north wall, so that the two thousand knights could divide them into groups, and practice day and night.

Looking at the knight who went from unfamiliar to skillful, Xia Yu patted Liu Xiu's shoulder intimately for the first time and said, "Deran, this stirrup can at least double the combat power of our army, which is enough to compensate for the loss of combat power caused by hundreds of people. I am now confident that I will face to face with the Xianbei people who are twice as good as mine and win. This thing is a good thing, so don't tell others, especially the Xianbei people."

Liu Xiu touched his head. He had given Gongsun Zan the stirrups before, but Gongsun Zan disagreed with this and had a great blow to him. He thought that only people who were not good at riding would take the stirrups seriously, but Xia Yu's reaction was far beyond his imagination, and what he thought was far more thoughtful than him. No wonder Xia Yu specially put the knight on his long leg armor. At first he thought it was just to strengthen protection, and it turned out that there was an intention to not see the stirrups.

It seems that the experienced and inexperienced are different.

Huai Zong and Dou Gui couldn't see how to prepare for the battle in the city. All they saw was the change of guards in Feng Yuan. There were fewer and fewer experienced soldiers, and more and more clumsy soldiers. Although the defense in the city was getting tighter and tighter, Feng Yuan was broken more and more times.

Dou Gui first felt the meaning of this. He told Huai Zong that the city had insufficient troops and they might have used refugees to defend the city. Huai Zong was overjoyed and discussed with Dou Gui to step up the attack, further consume the troops in the city, and strive to break the city as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!