Cui Hongdu obviously had expected this a long time ago, and bowed slightly: "Please speak." ”

Li Xinchen and Pei Zilie subconsciously glanced at each other, and couldn't help but sigh in their hearts. The children of these families are really stable in the face of such a situation. This Cui Hongdu came to the army to really condescend, maybe it would be better to be a civilian official.

Li Xinchen then said: "Of course, General Cui can only go back alone, and it is impossible for us to allow so many soldiers to follow General Cui, but General Cui can rest assured, as long as these brothers on the mountain can take the initiative to put down their blades, a certain guarantee will definitely not embarrass them." ”

"This ······" Cui Hongdu raised his eyebrows.

This is clearly to make them surrender, to be able to say it so tactfully and politely, it is also "embarrassing" for Li Xinchen.

Seeing that Cui Hongdu seemed to be a little hesitant, Li Xinchen's hand slowly fell on the hilt of the sword: "What, General Cui thinks that we have no way to take down this mountain?" Allowing your troops to lay down their swords at this time is also our goodwill to Wei Xiaokuan, if General Cui doesn't appreciate it, then I'm afraid that what we say today will not have much meaning. ”

Cui Hongdu smiled bitterly, and when it came to this, he obviously didn't give him another choice. Anyway, Cui Hongdu didn't expect to be able to make any more waves with such a small amount of troops, and since Li Xinchen promised, he could only believe him.

At least Cui Hongdu thinks that Li Xinchen's words are still sincere.

He stared at the calm liquid in the glass, slowly lifted it again, and drank the wine from the glass.

After drinking, how much pain there is, I'm afraid only Cui Hongdu knows it in his heart.

Putting down the wine glass again, Cui Hongdu said slowly: "Since you go back to resume your life, naturally you can't be empty-handed, I don't know what conditions General Dangkou has, I want to tell the two old generals." ”

Li Xinchen looked at Cui Hongdu with a smile, and Cui Hongdu was uncomfortable. And Pei Zilie coughed lightly, smiled and said: "General Cui, I'm afraid these shouldn't be said now, at least these conditions should be discussed between General Dangkou of my family and General Wei Xiaokuan or General Wei Chi Hui of your army." ”

Cui Hongdu opened his mouth, and what Li Xinchen said also made sense. Although Li Xinchen can't be compared with Wei Xiaokuan and others in terms of official titles, the actual identities of both sides are the supreme commanders of Southern Chen and Northern Zhou in Bashu, so it is true that these things should be a fair dialogue between Li Xinchen and Wei Xiaokuan, and Cui Hongdu, as the commander of a partial division, is not qualified enough.

Let a general like Wei Xiaokuan negotiate with Li Xinchen, a young miscellaneous general, Cui Hongdu feels a little weird, but the matter has come to this point, if he can come up with a result that is satisfactory to both parties, then presumably Wei Xiaokuan will not care about these things anymore.

Cui Hongdu immediately stood up and solemnly arched his hand: "The meaning of the two of you has already understood, and a certain person will go up the mountain to make arrangements, and then immediately go to the outside of Changgu to see General Wei." ”

Li Xinchen and Pei Zilie glanced at each other, Cui Hongdu agreed so happily to make them a little surprised, but after thinking about it, now Cui Hongdu has no other choice, obviously there is hope for life, he still doesn't want to die.

Cui Hongdu didn't talk nonsense with Li Xinchen much, and walked directly to the mountain with a shake of his hand.

And Pei Zilie looked at Cui Hongdu's back, and said slowly: "Shizhong, no matter what, we are negotiating with Wei Xiaokuan now, and we have not gone through the imperial court. ”

It seems that Pei Zilie has long expected that he will say this, Li Xinchen chuckled: "The imperial court is thousands of miles away, and news exchanges, it has been several months since this matter was confirmed, and this situation has long been unknown to what it will become." ”

Pei Zilie frowned: "Shizhong, but we crossed the court like this, I don't know if the court will ······ if it knows."

"Attacking Ba County, attacking Shu County, when did we obey the orders of the imperial court?" Li Xinchen said lightly, "The matter has come to this, the wood is finished, do you still plan to wait for the order of the imperial court to decide what we should do?" ”

Taking a slight breath, Pei Zilie wanted to refute, but for a while he found that he couldn't find a suitable reason at all. Although the battle of Bashu was not allowed by the imperial court at the beginning, it was agreed by the East Palace, and the subsequent battle of Langzhong and so on were the enemy's initiative to hit the door, even if the imperial court did not agree, it was impossible to sit still.

But now he took the initiative to negotiate peace with Wei Xiaokuan and others, and in Pei Zilie's opinion, Li Xinchen was somewhat self-asserted.

Looking around, Li Xinchen's voice was lowered: "Dashi, to put it mildly, do you think we are still loyal ministers in the hearts of the imperial court?" What is the attitude of the imperial court towards us, don't you see clearly? ”

Pei Zilie was speechless for a while, he knew very well what Li Xinchen meant, he also knew how the court saw them, and Pei Zilie had expressed his dissatisfaction to Xu Deyan and others under his command more than once, but when it was time to tear his face, Pei Zilie was still a little hesitant.

After all, what he has been instilled since he was a child is the idea of "serving the country with loyalty", and what the court has done is a bit excessive, but it is definitely impossible for Pei Zilie to completely cut off contact with the court.

Li Xinchen was not in a hurry, but said lightly: "As for why you want to make peace with Wei Xiaokuan at this time, you must be very clear in your heart. If this battle can be fought, X definitely doesn't want to give up, but X can't fight anymore. ”

Pei Zilie bowed slightly, he knew Li Xinchen's considerations.

This battle has lasted for more than three months since the Chinese New Year, and the dispatch of the army and the back and forth of the campaign have reached the point of collapse for Li Xinchen's weak system. If it weren't for the fact that there was grain and grass secretly from time to time on the Jiangling side, and Pei Zilie had made a breakthrough in Shu County, I am afraid that it was not Wei Xiaokuan but Li Xinchen who would be the first to cut off food.

This campaign has been delayed until this year's spring ploughing, Li Xinchen obviously does not want to continue to delay until the summer and then delay the summer harvest, not to mention that the operation of the southern county workshop in the rear has also reached the limit, I am afraid it will be difficult to replenish more blades and arrows needed by the front line in a short period of time, especially when the front line is pushing farther and farther.

Of course, there is another reason, that is, Li Xinchen still has a lot of prisoners to be resettled, and there are still many Ba people who came out of the mountains to settle down, which does not allow Li Xinchen to continue to stay in this Cangxi Valley for too long, after all, he cannot hand over all these things to Tang Yishun, Tang Zhengliang and others in the rear, so that Li Xinchen's life can be completely in the hands of the Xiajiang Tang clan.

Fortunately, Gu Yewang brought a lot of talents to Li Xinchen from Jiangling, at least now there is no obvious situation of dominance in Li Xinchen's rear, but the group of dragons has no leader, and Li Xinchen, as the commander of the entire system now, cannot let his rear remain in such a state, so he also wants to end the war in front of him as soon as possible.