Chizhou.

Lu Weiyi limped around the city*, which had been stained red with blood, and most of the soldiers were exhausted, and the bodies of many soldiers who had died yesterday were still lying on the city*, and they had not had time to clean up.

In the past ten days, the Tang army launched an attack from the four gates of Chizhou at the same time, and the battle was more tragic than the battle of Tongling, and even Lu Weiyi himself was cut in the leg by the soldiers who boarded the city*.

However, with a strong city* and powerful repeaters, each enemy army had to pay a great price to reach the city*, which has allowed them to defend it to this day.

Through the battle in the past few days, he fully realized the role of the repeater, and his thoughts gradually changed.

In the past, he felt that fighting a war relied on strong soldiers and iron cavalry, and only valued talents who were good at fighting, but this time, if it wasn't for an ordinary craftsman who imitated the crossbow and lost it, he was afraid that Chizhou City would have been defeated by the Tang army long ago.

Just as he sighed, Xie Rang, who looked haggard, walked quickly to the city* and reported: "Jie Shuai, none of the several teams that broke through last night were successful. ”

Lu Weiyi was silent.

During this period of time, although the city was defended, the morale of the soldiers was declining, and the casualties were increasing.

The only opportunity at the moment is to break through the siege and ask for help from the Hui'an Mansion.

Although the chances of the other side sending reinforcements were slim, it was better than sitting back and waiting, but unfortunately the Tang army was too tightly surrounded, and all the reinforcement teams he sent for several days failed in succession.

So what do you do now?

Lu Weiyi raised his eyes to the sky, and for a moment, he couldn't think of where his hope of survival was.

Three days later, Jinling Mansion.

Next to the garden pool, two ladies in fancy costumes were chatting casually while feeding the fish.

From time to time, the two of them covered their mouths and let out a crisp laugh, and after laughing, they would secretly glance in the direction of the pavilion, hoping that the laughter would attract the attention of the person in the pavilion.

It's a pity that the man in the pavilion didn't look this way from beginning to end, and one of the noblewomen couldn't sit still, got up, and walked to the middle of the pavilion.

She stroked her hair and said to Li Jingsui, who was studying Zhenlong's chess games, "Your Highness, what's the point of playing chess alone, come and play with us." ”

Li Jingsui didn't raise his head and said, "Jingda and the others are coming over, you can go and play by yourself." ”

The lady saw Li Jingsui's serious expression, it seems that she really has something to do when she waits, her biggest advantage is that she knows how to be measured, and after giving a blessing, she turned around and went.

It didn't take long for Li Jingda's somewhat restless figure to enter the garden, he sat down in front of Li Jingsui, poured a cup of tea and drank it all, completely losing his former elegance.

"What's the matter, isn't it someone from Hui'an Mansion who left?" Li Jingsui asked.

"No, that kid is like no one, he has either gone to participate in some poetry meeting in the past three days, or has gone to the suburbs, it looks like he has come to Jinling to play, and he is not in a hurry at all." Li Jingda didn't have a good airway.

Li Jingsui said softly: "That's no wonder, the current situation in Hui'an Mansion is not critical, he is naturally not in a hurry, maybe Lu Yuan sent an envoy not to surrender to Cheng, let's meet him first." ”

Li Jingda got up and said, "Okay, I'll go and summon him over." ”

"Wait." Li Jingsui stretched out his hand to stop it, and said slowly: "I'll go see him in person." ”

Li Jingda was slightly taken aback, thinking that the second brother seemed to be indeed a little anxious.

The two rode all the way to a small courtyard in the west of the city, knocked on the door, and a family member invited them in.

Entering the courtyard, I saw an elegant man holding a kettle watering flowers, and after seeing Li Jingsui and his party, he smiled and said: "When the distinguished guests come, please talk in the hall." ”

As he spoke, he put down the kettle and made a gesture of please.

Li Jingsui glanced at the other party and nodded secretly, the other party looked calm and extraordinary, for a person of Li Jingsui's status, it was quite acceptable to deal with such a person.

Entering the lobby, Li Jingsui's newly raised favor suddenly disappeared without a trace, only to see the other party sitting on the main seat, choosing to entertain Li Jingsui with the gift of the guest and the host, rather than the courtesy of the monarch and the minister.

Li Jingsuo didn't even ask the other party's name, and said straight to the point: "I don't know what happened when Lu Yuan asked you to come to the palace?" ”

Su Qingzhe said lightly: "My family marshal wants to surrender to the Tang Kingdom through His Highness, but to be honest, I don't think His Highness will agree, so I don't say it." ”

Li Jingsui smiled angrily: "Then what are you looking for this palace?" ”

"I hope that His Royal Highness will immediately persuade Emperor Tang to let Li Hongyi collect his troops and return to Jinling Mansion."

Li Jingda sneered on the side: "What, are you worried that after our Tang Kingdom destroys Chizhou, you will be the next to be destroyed?" ”

"It's not Tang Guo, it's Li Hongyi." Su Qingzhe corrected: "And the reason why I asked His Highness to do this is to save His Highness's Xi NG's life." ”

"Hahaha." Rao is Li Jingsui's cultivation, and he couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard this: "You think about this palace, do you still want to thank you." ”

Su Qingzhe's expression remained unchanged, and he said calmly: "I am an official of Hui'an Mansion, everything I do is for the sake of Hui'an Mansion, Your Highness doesn't have to thank me." ”

Li Jingsui put away his smile, the other party's calm attitude didn't look like full of nonsense, he frowned and said, "I don't understand what you mean." ”

Su Qingzhe said: "The reason why I saved His Highness is because if His Highness dies, Li Hongyi will inevitably ascend the throne, this person is extremely belligerent, sooner or later he will take the initiative to attack the Zhou State, in my opinion, it is not difficult for the Tang army to hold the south of the Yangtze River, if it takes the initiative to attack the Zhou State, it will inevitably suffer the disaster of annihilation, without the Tang State against the north, Hui'an Mansion will be annexed by the Zhou State sooner or later." ”

This is very much in line with Li Jingsui's thoughts, he has always felt that Li Hongyi's reckless military force will bring military disasters to the Tang State, and when he heard Su Qingzhe say this, most of the anger in his heart disappeared.

"Without the Tang Kingdom, not only your Hui'an Mansion, I'm afraid that all the southern countries will not be able to escape the doom, what you said is quite reasonable, but what you said about saving the palace, where do you start?"

"Does Your Highness know that there are pro-Tang factions and pro-Wu factions in Hui'an Mansion?" Su Qingzhe asked rhetorically.

"I haven't heard of it."

Su Qingzhe said in a deep voice: "There is a pro-Tang faction below, it is not a secret, King Wu Yue has sent an envoy to Hui'an Mansion to recruit surrender, and now the pro-Wu faction in Hui'an Mansion is very powerful, under their persuasion, Lu Jieshuai originally planned to take refuge in Wu Yue, but it was in the next persuasion that it was delayed until now." ”

Li Jingsui exclaimed: "You beheaded Wu Yue's envoys, also defeated Muzhou, and annihilated the Yijin army, how could Wu Yueguo surrender you?" ”

Su Qingzhe shook his head and said: "At this time and that time, now that Qingyuan is preparing to attack Wuyue Fuzhou, King Wuyue has no choice but to surrender to our army. ”

"You said Qingyuan wants to fight Wu Yue?" Li Jingsui was even more shocked.

"This matter is already obvious, otherwise why don't they continue to attack Tang Guo in a good situation, but instead put on a defensive posture?"

Li Jingsui pondered for a long time and asked, "Even if you take refuge in Wu Yue, what danger do I have?" ”

Su Qingzhe sighed: "Your Highness really doesn't know anything, King Wu Yue has gathered 100,000 troops on the border of Muzhou, that is, after our surrender, he plans to join forces with our army and attack Li Hongyi's army together. ”

"What's the reasoning?" Li Jingda interjected.

Su Qingzhe said slowly: "If our army and the Wu Yue army win, then the coalition army will directly go north to attack Jinling Mansion, and the Jianwu army will also rebel and attack Jinling, does Your Highness think that only 50,000 forbidden troops can hold Jinling?" On the day the city is broken, will His Highness still have a chance to live? ”

Hearing that the Jianwu Army would mutiny, Li Jingda's face changed greatly, his wife was the daughter of the Jianwu Army's envoy, and she ran away some time ago.

Li Jingsui also heard from his subordinates that the Jianwu Army had recently been abnormal, so he did not speak out against it.

Su Qingzhe continued: "If Li Hongyi wins, his prestige in the army will reach its peak, and even the Tang Emperor will no longer be able to balance him at that time, His Highness should know about Li Hongyi's xi NG, will he spare His Royal Highness's Xi NG life after he ascends the throne?" ”

Li Jingsui was silent.

Su Qingzhe said: "So if Your Highness wants to live, you must immediately persuade Emperor Tang to recruit Li Hongyi to return to Jinling to avoid this battle." ”

"That's not right!" Li Jingda said loudly: "Why would you help us, if the Hui'an Army and Wu Yuejun defeat us, it will only be beneficial to the Hui'an Mansion." ”

Su Qingzhe shook his head and said: "I have already said that I am a pro-Tang faction, and I have always thought that as long as the Tang Kingdom dies, it will be difficult for Hui'an Mansion to survive, so I have been persuading my family to join forces with Tang to attack Wu." ”

After being silent for a long time, Li Jing then spoke: "What are the conditions for Lu Yuan to send you over to join our country?" ”

"The conditions are a bit harsh, does Your Highness really want to listen?"

Li Jingsui nodded: "If I go to persuade the imperial brother empty-handed, he will never listen, so let's just say it." ”

"The requirements of my family's marshal are to call the ministers not to pay taxes, not to enter Beijing, and to ask the Tang State to recognize the identity of my family's marshal and festival envoys, and to be a marquis, and Chizhou is also under the same conditions." Su Qingzhe uttered a series of demands.

Li Jingsui slowly closed his eyes, and after a long time, he opened his eyes: "Sure enough, it was the lion who opened his mouth, but this palace promised you." ”

Su Qingzhe was stunned for a long time, looking very surprised, and only after a long time did he speak: "Your Highness really agreed?" ”

"Will you regret what this palace said?" Li Jingsui said unhappily.

Su Qingzhe bowed: "That envoy will thank Your Highness on behalf of my family." ”

A smile appeared under the hidden face.

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