In the palace of Yecheng, a group of senior generals of the Qi army who were captured by Xiao Yao in Northern Xuzhou, but were released back to Yecheng by Xiao Yao, were all frightened and knelt on the court in silence, and Emperor Gao Wei was looking at the armistice proposal and letter that Xiao Yao had written to him with a puzzled face, with a puzzled and puzzled face!

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you think that Xiao Shilang's letter to me is true or false? Didn't they have already defeated Gao Changgong and occupied Xuzhou, and now they have taken Northern Xuzhou bloodlessly, and they have also captured Zu Yan, isn't this the time when their morale is at its highest? Didn't you all say that Qingzhou was in danger before, and I wanted to send reinforcements to Qingzhou to defend our last chassis in Huaibei! But why did they suddenly take the initiative to propose peace to us now? Gao Wei asked suspiciously.

"Your Majesty! This Xiao Shilang is notoriously sinister and cunning! Therefore, his proposal and letter are absolutely unbelievable! Although now the Chen army has taken Xuzhou and North Xuzhou, and the front of the army is directed at Qingzhou, but in fact, the main force of this Chen army is only Xiao Yao's unit called the Forward Brigade, and this Forward Brigade only has a strength of 5,000 people, even if they have the kind of artillery weapons that are said to be very powerful, but they have such a small number of people, the grain and grass reserves, and all kinds of military materials are definitely not much! Therefore, Weichen suspects that this so-called peace letter is actually a delaying tactic by this Xiao Yao, because they have been fighting for more than two months, and they have occupied so many cities, and there must be a shortage of troops, food and grass, in order to cover up these crises within them, this Xiao Shilang will take the initiative to propose peace to us, so as to confuse us and make us take it lightly, and then they will take the opportunity to replenish all the military supplies they need, and then they will definitely tear up this so-called armistice and peace agreement. Continue to attack our Great Qi, then we will be caught off guard by them, and we will lose more cities and territories! So we should take the initiative now, send reinforcements to Qingzhou, and then take advantage of the fact that Chen's army has stopped attacking now, and then sneak attack them and recover Xuzhou, which they occupied! One of the main war ministers said alarmistly.

A minister who supported the peace negotiation retorted: "Your Majesty, at this time, we must not send reinforcements again, but Qingzhou and the Chen army continue to fight!" At this time, the morale of the Chen army is booming, and we must avoid its edge, since they have now taken the initiative to propose an armistice and peace, then we should accept this peace, take the opportunity to truce with Chen Guo, and coexist peacefully! After all, our main enemy is the Zhou Kingdom, which is eyeing us in the west! Moreover, the purpose of Chen's so-called Northern Expedition this time is to regain their previous territory, and now they have also taken Xuzhou and have completed their purpose, presumably they do not have the strength to cross the Yellow River and attack our territory in the north of the Great Qi River, so we don't have to blindly increase troops in Qingzhou, and the situation that has begun to stabilize will become more complicated and dangerous! Moreover, the Jianghuai area of Henan was originally the place of their Han people, and in the past ten years, in order to appease and assimilate them, we have always exempted them from taxes and forced labor, so that the Jianghuai region has made no contribution to the development of our Qi country! On the contrary, these Han people are not at ease under the rule of our Great Qi, and there are often rebellions and rebellions, and now they have been recaptured by the Chen State, and there is no loss to our Great Qi at all, we can't waste our Great Qi troops for such a chicken place, resulting in a great reduction in the strength of the Western Confrontation Zhou State, which will give the Zhou State a chance to continue to attack our Luoyang! If Luoyang is broken, then our Great Qi is really in danger of destroying the country! ”

"You are cowardly before you fight, afraid of the enemy and betraying the country! The territory of that country was not fought by the soldiers in bloody battles, and the Jianghuai area has been ruled by our Great Qi for more than ten years, how can it be said that it is chicken ribs, and I don't care if it is recaptured! If the land is taken away by the enemy, and we don't react, then where is the national prestige of our Great Qi? Today, the three countries of Qi, Zhou and Chen are facing each other, and everyone has the intention of eliminating the other two opponents, how can we only focus on the Zhou State and ignore the Chen State? Do you think that when Chen Jun has to advance an inch and hit under Yecheng, that is the critical time? Zhou is indeed the feuding enemy of our Great Qi, but after last year's Luoyang War, the Zhou army has been heavily damaged by us, so now when Chen is attacking our Huaibei and fighting fiercely with our Great Qi army, Zhou has not been able to take the opportunity to attack our Luoyang! We should clearly identify who is the most threatening enemy to our Daqi at the moment, and distinguish between priorities and priorities! Now we should first extinguish the arrogance of the Chen State, completely scare them, and make them dare not covet any of our cities in Daqi again, and then we should concentrate on dealing with the Zhou State!" The Minister of War retorted indignantly.

"Hehe, that's a nice thing to say! Scared Chen Jun? How? Send the entire main force of our Qi army to deal with a forward brigade of only five thousand men? Not to mention that the king of Lanling, who was praised as the god of war by the soldiers, was also beaten by Xiao Yao's forward brigade and did not dare to fight Xiao Yao again, but took the initiative to give up Xiapi County and withdrew to Northern Xuzhou overnight. According to what you said, the current letter of cessation of peace is Xiao Yao's delaying tactic, and their army is actually in short supply now, and there is no food and grass, but don't you know that this forward brigade led by Xiao Yao, since last year's Layue expedition to Huaibei, in fact, it was only a battle with the king of Lanling in Chenggao County, and the rest was to take over Xiapi County, which was abandoned by the king of Lanling, without spending a single soldier, and now it was only besieging Lanling County for half a day, and then he was so frightened that Zu Yan raised troops to surrender and dedicated Lanling County to Xiao Yao. Let Xiao Yaobing successfully take North Xuzhou without blood! In this way, they are just really fighting a battle, so how can they be like you said, so quickly there is no food and grass? If we take the risk of sending the elite of the whole army to Qingzhou for reinforcements, but we are defeated by this forward brigade, resulting in the loss of the main elite, it will be even more dangerous for our Qi country at that time! King Lanling had already explained when he came back to Yecheng that the reason why he gave up Xiapi County was to preserve the strength of our army, and when our Great Qi also developed those powerful weapons, he would be able to counterattack Chen Guo! A battle-hardened god of war, in order to preserve the strength of our army, dares to say such words to avoid the enemy's edge, are we going to let the main force of our army fall into the danger of no recovery for the sake of the so-called national prestige in your mouth? The people of the Lord and the faction also retorted-for-tat.

"Don't make any noise! I don't want to hear you arguing! What should we do now? Should Xiao Shilang's armistice peace letter be believed or not, is it really so difficult to decide whether we and Chen Guo are at war or peace? Gao Da said angrily.

Because Gao Wei was originally a person without opinions, so now in the face of Xiao Yao's proposal and letter, he didn't know what to do at all, he wanted these ministers to make up their minds for him, but now they quarreled in the court first, and Gao Wei hated it the most when he heard the ministers quarreling in front of him, and the quarrel was so loud that he couldn't get a result out of the red face and ears, which suddenly made Gao Wei angry!