The Sogdian envoy was an unlucky one.

The Liang army sentry caught the messenger, and without saying a word, he beat him up first.

The messenger was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, pushed and shoved, and came to see Kong Xiaoxian.

Kong Xiao asked Ming first, his eyes were round with anger, and he scolded the sentry and loosened the envoy.

The envoy sat down, looked at the rice wine in front of him, picked up the wine glass, and drank it all.

The 3rd Division was in possession and was talking to the Sogdian envoys.

"Aliday, our Sogdian god of war, let me bring a message to General Kong. The god of war wants to drink with the general under the city of Jiuquan. Neither of us is allowed to carry weapons, only horses. Ten men from each side. I don't know, yours, dare to go, drink. ”

The messenger spoke slowly, stiffly, and could barely understand what he could say.

Kong Xiaoxian didn't respond immediately, but looked left and right.

Wu Dongdao, the superintendent: "The two sides are fighting, what is there to talk about?" ”

The messenger said: "The god of war said that this battle will be fought sooner or later, and when the battle is over, no matter who wins or loses, peace must be restored." After peace, the two sides still have to communicate. ”

Wu Dong smiled dryly: "Then we have to wait until the battle is over." ”

Kong Xiaoxian said: "Who told you that you will be at peace after the war?" How do you know that my Shence army will not fight back against Jiaohe City? ”

The envoy sneered: "If you had that strength, you would have come a long time ago, can you wait until today?" ”

Kong Xiaoxian sneered: "How strong our strength is, it's like your king sitting in a well watching the sky, and he doesn't know how big the sky is." I can tell you that your small victory today is nothing more than a moment of arrogance. When the eighteen sons of the Tang family take power and set foot in the sixteen countries of the Western Regions, it is just around the corner. ”

The envoy's face became ugly, he picked up the wine glass, and smashed it: "General Kong, you are very arrogant and arrogant. You're not going to end well. ”

"He's going to come to my military camp to scold the commander? I don't think you want to live anymore! ”

Kong Xiaoxian was not angry yet, but Dian was on fire, and he was about to cut people when he pulled out his waist knife.

"Be loyal and not reckless." Kong Xiao waved his hand first and said to the messenger: "I think Ali Dayi sent you, it won't be for you to give away your head, right?" If you dare to scold me, then tell me, why do you dare to scold me. If you can't give a reason, I'm going to cut you in half. ”

The messenger said: "Our god of war has said that we will discuss trade with you, and if you can agree, we can withdraw our troops." ”

"Withdrawal?"

Everyone in the room was stunned.

Kong Xiaoxian asked with a straight face: "Is your god of war more effective than your king?" ”

The messenger said in a loud voice: "The reason why our king wants to fight you is because you have closed your trade with us. If you can reopen the way of trade, our king will not beat you. Of course, the troops were withdrawn. ”

Hearing this, Wu Dong came to his senses, stood up and said, "Is this true? ”

"We Sogdians never lie."

Kong Xiaoxian shook his head and got up with a sneer: "Didn't your god of war treat me like a child?" The reason is simply laughable. If you really want to negotiate peace, shouldn't you go to General Shence to discuss? What does it mean to send you to me? Just now you said that I was arrogant, but I am not crazy enough to dare to make decisions for the court. I understand what Ali Dayi meant by sending you, that is, in the name of being an envoy, come to my Dazhai to have a look, and see how many people and supplies we have. Alas, this is the level of your god of war? ”

Kong Xiao stretched his waist first: "I won't tell you, now we really lack manpower." Hey, by the way, Chen Mu, I asked you to supervise the production of the heavy crossbow, is there a shortage of manpower on your side? ”

Chen Mu smiled: "There is a lack of one to brush the toilet." ”

"Alright, let him go."

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Today must not be an auspicious day for the Sogdian envoys, but simply unlucky.

When he came, he was beaten by the sentry, just sat down and drank a glass of wine, and was slapped out by the pawn allegiance, and then followed Chen Mu to the mountain.

Mountain sappers are crafting various defensive weapons such as heavy crossbows, which require a lot of wood.

At this time, the Sogdian envoys stayed with several prisoners and did the heaviest work.

During the last battle of Jiuquan, Li Xiu killed some of the prisoners, but he had not completely killed them all. Among them was the Hungarian general Balben who wanted to avenge his brother.

This messenger was not small in stature, not much different from Balben, and the two of them went in pairs, carrying wood.

Falling into the hands of Chen Mu was actually not very miserable, but Chen Mu didn't care about him at all, threw him to the lame man, and let the lame man arrange it.

In the hands of the lame, the captives are not people.

I don't know if the lame man hates the Hu people, or the lame man takes revenge on the world, in his eyes the captives are livestock.

At the end of the day, the Sogdian envoy was half dead of exhaustion, and the Hungarian general Balben had fallen asleep in the haystack.

The Sogdian envoy could not sleep, and sighed.

At this time, Chen Mu walked over, squatted down, and stared at the Sogdian envoy sitting on the ground.

"What's your name?"

"Agilhan. ”

"Why do you speak Chinese?"

"In my early years, my family was in business, and my father found me a Chinese teacher, hoping that I would continue to do business in the future."

"Oh." Chen Mu took out a piece of mint and handed it to Agilhan.

Agilhan was stunned for a moment, then smiled, took the mint and put it in his mouth to chew, then folded his hands, put it behind his head, and lay down to savor it.

It seems that this guy usually enjoys it, and he is not a child of an ordinary family, even if he is now a captive, but he does not see a trace of humility in him, but sees arrogance and laziness.

"Your family is a nobleman in Sogdia?"

"Descendants of the king."

"Then you're a little prince too."

"Hey, my dad is not a king, how can I be a prince." Agilhan squinted at Chen Mu: "You look like my teacher. He said that this temperament is called gentleness. You can be an officer at such a young age, you must be from a noble background in the Liang Dynasty. ”

Chen Mu didn't speak, and sat down with a smile: "You god of war Alidayi, why did you come up with such a bad idea?" ”

"No, our god of war doesn't have a bad idea, he really wants to negotiate with your general."

"But the third division Zhonglang will be at this level, I'm afraid it is not enough to negotiate."

"Our God of War is not an ordinary person, he thinks about problems and thinks long-term. He believes that you, General Kong, are very likely to become the general guarding Hexi in the future. Establishing good relations with General Kong in advance now will be beneficial to our Sogdia in the future. In addition, our god of war knows that there are not many of you left, but he does not come to fight you, but wants to make friends with you. Our god of war also said that this time Wuwei fights, if it can't be fought within a month, then Alandor will definitely withdraw his troops. ”

"Why?"

"He can't afford it."