Three days later.

Danube, Pier 1 of Brotherly Port.

The Eternal Night Army leader and the Kingsley family conquered the Eastern Army, two forces that had fought countless battles in the open and in the dark, and held a high-level meeting.

On the Danube, there are many warships, and the elite are everywhere, and the brother port is encircled, and if there is a problem with the meeting, the commander of the Eternal Night will launch a full-scale landing operation.

In Brother Harbor, the Kingsley family's Eastern Army was also nervous, outside the No. 1 dock, surrounded by large armies, and even defensive siege equipment was pushed up, and they were also afraid that the Eternal Night Army leader would engage in small means.

At the first meeting, the two sides had not yet established the most basic trust, and they were afraid that the other side would attack their commander.

For this meeting place, the two sides racked their brains and argued for several days.

In the end, it was the Eternal Night Leader who made concessions and reached an agreement.

Compared to Akmesser, the Eternal Night Commander is more confident in both the overall situation and the means.

Whether it is the black collar air support or the soul beast card, it is Sean's means to save his life, and Akmesser knows the former, but he doesn't know the latter.

If the calculation fails, Akmesser will push the Eastern Army into a hell from which it will never return, and the enraged Eternal Night will cut off all possibilities for negotiation.

Due to the thorough preparation, the initial meeting was smooth sailing and there were no accidents.

Both sides entered the venue in a very low-key manner, and there was no sensitive move to show off force, so there was no point in doing anything other than stimulating the sensitive nerves of the other party.

After all, the two sides have been fighting for countless rounds in the open and in the dark, and the out-and-out old opponents can be regarded as knowing the roots.

"Your Excellency, you are younger than I expected. Akmaiser said with a smile.

"The marshal was not the first to say this, and I believe he will not be the last. Sean smiled and replied, "Your Excellency, you're also younger than I expected. ”

"Is the baron complimenting me, or scolding me?" said Akmeiser, ruffling his gray hair and beard, "and is that still young?"

"Your Excellency, Marshal, the truer personality is as rumored to be. Sean snorted and diverted the subject, "Let's get started." ”

"Let's get started!" Akmeiser's personality would not have been bitten at a flattering word, and if he had been so serious, he would not have sat in his current position.

Sean was sitting in a precarious position, opened the door and entered the mountain: "The tentative work, I believe that the people below have done it, Your Excellency Marshal, let's not waste any more time on both sides, you should know that the lives of 20,000 crocodile civilians can't be your talisman, open a real price, let's carry out the next step of the matter, the longer these 20,000 crocodile civilians stay in your hands, the faster the depreciation will be, and when they are all dead, you don't even want to exchange food for a grain." ”

"The Baron is not only a qualified lord, but also a qualified merchant. Akmaiser couldn't help but sigh.

"Thank you, Your Excellency, Marshal, for your compliment. ”

"The load of grain for a thousand merchant ships shall not be less than twenty tons each. Akmaiser said directly.

"20,000 tons of grain, an average of one ton of grain per person, is Your Excellency the Marshal slaughtering us as fat sheep? Or is it doing 20,000 crocodile civilians as real money? Your Excellency the Marshal still has no sincerity. ”

Akmaiser is a typical lion's big mouth, 20,000 tons of food is enough for his 200,000 army, and he eats frugally for half a year, and he really takes the leader of the Eternal Night Army as the head of the wrong.

Sean sat on the ground and returned the money and said, "Two hundred tons of grain, no more." ”

"Your Excellency the Baron has always made me a little sincere, and when I got to my side, I didn't see any sincerity, and I cut off ninety-nine percent as soon as I started, which is a little too ruthless, that's 20,000 living people, even if it's 20,000 pigs, it's more than this price, right?"

"Everything has to be divided into circumstances, if it is a normal situation, human life is priceless, let alone 20,000 human lives, even if it is two human lives, we will not hesitate to start a war, but now is a time of war, human life is cheaper than pigs, at least pigs can still eat, they are in the hands of the marshal, it is an out-and-out trouble, do you say this is the reason?" Sean said in a serious manner.

"You're a sophistry in the truest sense of the word. Akmaiser said with a cold face, "Human life is human life, this will never change, I heard that the baron has just annexed the crocodile people, don't you care about the life and death of your own people?" As the baron said, just drag it on, it will be your people who will die at that time, whether this bad debt will be recorded on us or on the body of His Excellency the Baron, it is really difficult to say, after all, it is a foregone conclusion that our Kingsley family will withdraw from the swamp of despair, and His Excellency the Baron will continue to rule here, so let's make a step for both of you and me, 18,000 tons. ”

You see, even if we are unsuccessful, we have already expressed our sincerity, and I have already come in person, but the final result is caused by your exorbitant asking price, how can you succeed if you let someone else do an impossible task? Two hundred and fifty tons, no more. ”

"The unaccomplishable task? The baron is joking? Not to mention how easy it is for you to directly transfer grain from the Plains of Asia Minor now that you have the best of the location, the grain in the hands of the grain merchants of the Huayu Plateau alone is no less than 8,000 tons, haven't you just reached an agreement?"

"The marshal's news is really well-informed, that's right, we have indeed reached an agreement, but reaching an agreement is one thing, whether we have the ability to eat it or not is another thing, our family has a small business, and we are engaged in construction, and we are fighting, we have long been unable to make ends meet, there is no way to eat it at one time, and it is already the limit to be able to take a small part of it, not to mention that our army and the people also have to eat. ”

There is not much difference between the two sides, the bargaining between you and me, and the confrontation between the small traders and the vegetable buyers in the vegetable market, but the numbers in their mouths are larger.

As the seller, Akmeiser asked for the price, and Sean, as the buyer, sat on the ground and paid the money.

It's just that the psychological price of the two is far apart, and the difference is nearly 100 times, and it will be difficult to reach an agreement for a while and a half.

In the end, Akmaise bit 10,000 tons and refused to surrender again, and his eyes were fixed on the 8,000 tons of military rations that the grain merchants of the Huayu Plateau should have delivered to them.

And Sean's side has increased the price to 1,000 tons, and he refuses to continue to increase the amount, and it is true that the Eternal Night Army Leader wants to save the 20,000 crocodile civilians, that is, on the premise of not affecting their overall plan, if too much military food is put into the hands of Akmaise, it will increase the variables, and a fool will do it.

The first day of the meeting lasted three hours and ended unhappily.

The two seem to have been talking about food, and there are a lot of things mixed in with the gossip.

For example, Sean hinted that as long as Akmeseken led the army to surrender, the Eternal Night Commander would treat him with the highest standard and still lead a group army.

Akmesser not only refused cleanly, but also expressed that as long as the Eternal Night Warlord let go of the river and let the Kingsley family return home from the Eastern Army, they not only unconditionally let go of the 20,000 crocodile civilians in their hands, but also promised that the Kingsley family could sign a non-aggression pact with the Eternal Night Warlord and give up peeping into the Swamp of Despair.

This proposal was also ignored by Sean, and he finally caught a big fish and didn't blow up two catties of oil from him, how could he be worthy of his previous hard work?

Both sides are taking this opportunity to test each other's bottom line, and the results are not very good.

For the Commander of the Eternal Night, Akmether's will to resist is still very tenacious, unaffected by the difficult situation, this kind of experienced and indomitable veteran is the most difficult, even if there is no hope ahead, he can hold out to the end.

Such a person, let the Eternal Night Army lead the rat to drag the egg, nowhere to put his mouth, and it is too difficult to find a breakthrough from him.

For Axmer, Sean is more difficult than expected, at a young age, his political skills are very spicy, and his words are not revealing, and you can't tell which of his words is true and which is false.

If Sean didn't pay attention to the life and death of the 20,000 crocodile civilians, the Eternal Night Commander not only agreed to the negotiation, but Sean, as the supreme leader, personally stepped in.

If it is said that they pay attention, Sean exudes endless indifference in his words and deeds, in his mouth, 20,000 crocodile civilians are just a cold number, and he is not willing to pay even a grain of food for them at all.

The life and death of these 20,000 crocodile civilians must stand aside for the interests of the Eternal Night Army Leader.

Their behavior now is like the ropes that were thrown from the walls of the city during the defense of Brother Port.

They only care whether they make this gesture or not, and as for how many people can be saved, it is secondary.

It's a battle of wits and power.

Both sides are dragging their feet, and it depends on who can't hold back first and make the biggest concessions.

Time is obviously more unfavorable to the Kingsley family's expedition to the east, and as time goes by, the military rations in their hands are shrinking at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Usually, you can still cut down on food and clothing, everyone is half full, and now you are in a tense state of negotiation, so naturally you can't do this, otherwise the enemy hasn't made a move, and your own people will be in chaos first, and that's the big trouble.

An army of 200,000 people eat horses and chew horses, and the amount of grain and grass consumed in a day is a terrifying number.

I don't know if the Eternal Night Commander realized this, Sean seemed to consciously drag the negotiations into an impasse, dragging Akmaiser every day, and in the end, it was a few tons of grain.

Akmesser is the asking price of tens of thousands of tons, according to this method, cut to the year of the monkey?

Before the results were found, the Kingsley family's Eastern Army ran out of food first.

It was useless for Akmesser to be in a hurry, and once he made concessions, he fell into the ruses of the Eternal Night Lord.

Just when this negotiation in the swamp of despair is at an impasse, there is also a political confrontation going on in Valesta, the royal capital thousands of miles away.

"I'm sorry, Your Excellency, but Her Royal Highness went to the Convent of Our Lady of the Virgin for a retreat and has not yet returned. Princess Regent's personal bodyguard, Biluo, stopped in front of Grand Duke Buck and said.

"How long will it take for Her Highness to return?" asked Archduke patiently, this was his thirteenth visit to Princess Regent Sophielia, but not once.

Every time, Her Royal Highness the honorable princess regent is either ill or has something to go out.

God is pitiful, when did the great knight become so delicate as the noble ladies in the boudoir?

I have consciously blocked each other several times, but they all ended in failure.

This is the royal capital Valesta, the other party's world, if the other party is blocked by him, an outsider, then something is really wrong.

Knowing that the other party was deliberately hiding from him, Grand Duke Buck could only hold it in his stomach if he had fire, after all, he came to beg for help this time.

"It's hard to say, sometimes it's two or three hours, sometimes it's days, and the princess regent stays in the convent of the Virgin Mary for a few days. Biluo replied ambiguously.

"Today, no matter what, I will see Her Royal Highness the Princess, and no matter how long I have to wait, I will wait here. "Grand Duke Buck is also determined to see Sophie.

However, there was no mention of going to the Convent of the Virgin Mary, who knew that after they ran away, they found that the Princess Regent had returned to the palace by another coincidence, and when they chased her, the other party went out because of other coincidences.

He has seen too many such coincidences, no matter how fast people run, they can't catch up with the fast flying eagles.

This time he made up his mind to defend the palace, he didn't believe that the princess regent could hide for the rest of her life?

The supreme ruler of the Kingsley family is shameless, and the royal family of Lancelot is also shameless?

Grand Duke Buck sat down in front of the palace with a golden sword, ignoring Biluo's request to invite him to the drawing room.

On the corner tower of the royal palace, which was no more than a hundred meters away from Archduke Buck in a straight line, there was a group of people looking down on Archduke Buck's every move.

At the head of the group is none other than Princess Regent Sophilia, who is supposed to meditate at the Convent of Our Lady of the Virgin.

The middle-aged man standing side by side with him smiled when he saw this: "The situation is really bad to such an extent, and it is actually allowed to let the grand duke of the dignified army use such indiscriminate means?"

"Uncle Arnold is not unaware of the greedy face of those old guys, no wind or waves can toss things for you, not to mention that the Kingsley family is deep in the quagmire this time, they are like sharks that smell fish, they want to bite from the Kingsley family, just three days ago, the southeast army waited for the Adolf family to bring up the old matter, asking for a new ruling on the ownership of the disputed Nansi Hills area, and then mobilized 5,000 noble private troops to block all the roads leading to the Carthusian military territory in the Nanth Hills area, and expelled all the nobles and mine owners here。 ”

"So serious?" the smile on Arnold's handsome face couldn't help but retract.

There is a dispute over the ownership of the Nansi hilly area, not a matter of one or two days, and the Byron Union has not been able to break it out at the beginning of its establishment, not to mention that after three hundred years of inheritance, the nobles here have married each other, and the inheritance rights have changed back and forth, and it is even more unclear that the way is clear.

Most of these areas will fall to the side with the bigger fist.

As for the axiom?

A lot of times, a big fist is an axiom.

For the past fifty years, the Nance Hills have been under the rule of the Carthusian military lords, and the Adolf family is undoubtedly a military provocation to the Kingsley family by doing so.

In the past, the Kingsley family's army would have been driven long ago.

Even if they want to talk, they will not talk until they cut off the claws stretched out by the Adolf family.

Because once they show weakness, their neighbors in other disputed areas will use this as an excuse to make a move.

When the time comes, they will not simply take back ownership of disputed areas, but will even take the opportunity to create more disputed areas.

Although Arnold does not play politics, he is very familiar with politics in his eyes and ears.

"Grand Duke Buck, this time the bet is too big, in the Swamp of Despair, they have invested too much, victory is a brilliant victory, defeat is a complete defeat, and now the result is the latter, the most elite troops of the family, are trapped in the Swamp of Despair, not to mention, they themselves are also in a financial crisis, even if the trapped troops are rescued, they still have no way to get rid of the eyes of the wolves. As a bystander, Princess Regent has a clearer understanding of the Kingsley family's dire situation.