In order to keep their own people as much as possible, seeing that they could no longer retreat, Shen Ze had to order them to rush into a small city, then defend and give up the breakthrough.
Before that, after retreating only more than 100 kilometers, they sacrificed tens of thousands of people. Now, there are only more than 400000 people remaining in the small town.
The enemy has mobilized nearly 1.2 million troops to encircle the whole town.
Of course, even though the number of Shen Ze's soldiers is much smaller, their combat effectiveness is still very strong. Under the condition of guarding the small town, the enemy troops can't encircle and suppress them for a while.
It's night.
In a hotel in the middle of a small town.
Shen Ze called a meeting of the generals.
"The current situation is not optimistic. More and more troops are mobilized by the enemy. If this continues, we will be completely trapped in this city." Li Guangrong said in a deep voice. He gave a general account of the current situation.
After listening to Li Guangrong's description, everyone's faces became dignified.
Obviously, everyone is deeply aware that the situation is very bad.
"I think we need to break through as soon as possible, otherwise if we continue like this, we will have less and less opportunities." Someone suggested.
"Yes, if we don't break through the encirclement as soon as possible, the enemy will mobilize more troops to encircle and suppress us. At that time, we won't have a chance to break through completely." Someone echoed.
The others nodded in agreement.
Li Guangrong frowned and said in a deep voice, "now it's very difficult to break through. The enemy has mobilized millions of troops to encircle this small city. They are too many to deal with."
Hearing Li Guangrong say that the enemy has mobilized millions of troops to encircle the city, others frowned and their faces became more dignified.
It is very clear to all that there are only over 400000 people on our side, while the enemy country has more than one million troops. The disparity of strength is so great that there is no hope of breaking through.
Is it true that we are in a desperate situation and can only wait to die?
This is a thought that has sprung up in everyone's mind.
Although we have such an idea, we are still very unwilling to die here.
After a silence for a while, someone said in a sonorous voice: "even if the enemy has mobilized millions of troops to encircle the city, we have to break through the encirclement. If we are all dead, I would rather die standing!"
"Yes, I'd rather die standing than live on my knees. Since I don't break through the encirclement, I'm just waiting to die. It's better to fight. Even if I die in battle, the enemy will pay a huge price!"
"Yes, we are ready to sacrifice before we come here this time. If the final result is death, then we should die with value. We can't die in vain."
"It's a good deal to break through the encirclement at this time. You can break through as much as you can, no matter how many you have, and you can kill people from the enemy."
"Yes, let's break through now. We have enough resources to fight back."
It has to be said that everyone is very bloody and will not choose to sit and wait for death. They are all very aggressive and want to break through, even if they die in battle.
Except that Shen Ze didn't speak, everyone else seemed to have reached a consensus. They all wanted to break through and supported it.
Of course, whether we want to break through now depends on what Shen Ze thinks.
After all, Shen Ze is the backbone, he is the Grand Marshal, everything is decided by him.
Therefore, after you expressed your views, you all turned your eyes to Shen Ze. Everyone wanted to hear Shen Ze's ideas.
Aware of people's eyes, Shen Ze knows that everyone wants to know what he thinks.
So, after pondering for a while, Shen Ze said, "my idea has always been to take everyone back to the Dragon kingdom. Of course, this kind of thing can't be done now, but I still want to take as many people back as possible."
"I know that everyone is not afraid of death, but as a Grand Marshal, this is my responsibility, my plan and what I want to do."
"What you have said is very reasonable, and I can imagine that now is really the best time to break through. No matter what, it is better than breaking through later, but we will pay a great price for doing so."
"In my opinion, we can wait a little longer."
Shen Ze glanced at the crowd and then said, "I told you before that Zhao Xinghua came to support us with the Kirin army."
"If we wait for Zhao Xinghua to come here with 300000 Kirin troops and cooperate with each other inside and outside, then we can make a breakthrough, which is much better than the breakthrough now."
After listening to Shen Ze's words, everyone suddenly felt reasonable and nodded at the same time.
However, some people questioned: "can we hold on until Zhao Xinghua and the Kirin army come to support us?"
"Not to say that the enemy will mobilize more forces to encircle us, but to say that our supply resources can not last for many days. If the time is too long, it will be useless."
This person is obviously true.
This time, in order to advance quickly and attack the enemy's territory in the shortest time, Shen Ze did not ask the troops to bring a lot of resources, but only ten days of resources.
Now, three days have passed, and the war is too fierce, and the consumption is still more. Now there are almost only five days of supply resources left, and this is still under normal circumstances.
If we break through the encirclement, we will consume more resources. Five days' supply resources may only take two or three days, which is very likely.
As Shen Ze said, it would be the best if Zhao Xinghua could bring the Kirin army to support him. However, he was afraid that Zhao Xinghua's support would be too slow and Shen Ze would run out of resources.
If the supply resources are used up, Shen Ze and his family will be like tigers with their tusks pulled out, and they will not have much combat power.
If that happens, even if we can cooperate with Zhao Xinghua's Qilin army, it won't work.
After all, if the main forces on Shen Ze's side are no longer effective, it would be fantastic to break through.
In that case, not only Shen Ze will be buried here, but Zhao Xinghua and his army will also be buried here.
It can be imagined that if everyone was buried here, then all that was done this time would have no effect, because the loss of the Dragon kingdom was so great that it was almost like breaking free.
Even if the enemy's losses are not small, they are better than the Dragon's.