Zhang Jie lowered his head and said, "My lord said that the price is all over the sky, and the money is paid back on the ground, so it's okay to give a little less if you don't give so much." If you don't have 200,000 kan, you can do 100,000 kan. ”

Chen Cheng smiled dumbly, shook his head and said, "Does Duan Xuan think this is buying vegetables?" Still haggling? ”

Zhang Jie hesitated for a moment and said, "Lu Bu's army is rushing towards Chencang........."

Yang Qiu shouted: "Even if Duan Xuan and Lu Bu join forces, there is no need to be afraid!" ”

Chen Cheng smiled and said to Zhang Jie: "I know what General Duan means, you will go and tell him, my conditions are still the same as before." If he surrenders within three days, he will be named Taishou, if not, then there will be no such good conditions. ”

Zhang Jie opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything. What else could he say? He was only an infantry lieutenant, and he had no right to negotiate, just passing news back and forth. He hung his head and said, "I'll tell my lord." ”

Duan Xuan was still waiting for news in the city this time, but his mentality was completely different. Before, he was on pins and needles, but now he is confident. Han Sui was right, although he was being attacked from both sides, he was the target of Chen Cheng and Lu Bu.

Chen Cang is stuck on the exit of the Great Plain in Guanzhong, and the terrain is dangerous. If Chen Cheng gets Chen Cang, it will be equivalent to opening the door to Guanzhong. If Lu Bu gets Chen Cang, he will also be able to enter and leave Xiliang freely. Duan Xuan sat in the city and thought smugly: The so-called strange goods are here, and this is the current situation!

After Zhang Jie returned to Chen Cangcheng again, Duan Xuan asked very easily, "How many things did Chen Envoy give us?" ”

Zhang Jie was stunned and replied honestly: "Chen Yuanjun said that his conditions are the same as before. ”

Duan Xuan was also stunned, and asked in disbelief, "What did you say?" ”

Zhang Jie repeated, "Chen Yuanjun said that his conditions were the same as before. ”

"Didn't you say that you would allocate money and food to us?"

"No," Zhang Jie glanced at Duan Xuan and said in a low voice: "Chen Yuanjun said that if Kaicheng surrenders within three days, he will still be crowned as the prince of a county." Beyond this period, there will be no such good conditions! ”

Duan Xuan's face turned red, and then turned white again, red and white, white and red, as if he was performing the face-changing stunt of Sichuan Opera, and he said violently: "How dare he do this? Aren't you afraid that I will fall to Lu Bu's side? ”

Zhang Jie: ".........."

He actually wanted to say that people were not afraid, but now Duan Xuan was angry and couldn't listen to anything.

"Bastard!" Duan Xuan said angrily: "Chen Cheng has fewer soldiers and horses this time than last time, but he just took advantage of the civil strife in Guanzhong to take advantage of the fire to rob, how dare he look down on me so much?" Be sure to let him know we're awesome! ”

His fierce and introverted appearance felt very ridiculous in Zhang Jie's eyes. The Xiliang army is reinforcing the camp, and the next thing is to transport the trees cut down in the rear to make siege equipment, and the people are really preparing for war, and their own lord just wants to give others a little bit of power.

Just looking at it like this, you will feel that the situation on your side is not very good. After Zhang Jie and Duan Xuan calmed down a bit, he reminded: "My lord, the Xiliang people are building a camp, maybe they won't attack in three days, but within six days, their catapults will be pushed down and the city will be down." ”

"Hmph, does Chen Cheng really think that only their Xiliang Army has a catapult? We have the same on our side! ”

Huangfu Song once sent someone to imitate the catapult, although he failed to make a counterweight type, but the lever type made some. There are less than ten three-tip catapults in Chencang City now, which is one of the reasons why Duan Xuan dared to try to resist. In addition to catapults, he also sent people to thicken and strengthen the walls of Chencang, even if stone bullets were smashed on them, they could not be easily destroyed.

Well, this is what Duan Xuan thinks himself, whether this is the case or not, only God knows.

Duan Xuan decided to delay it for another day or two, anyway, he was not in a hurry now. He is not in a hurry, and Chen Cheng is even less anxious. For this campaign, he has been in Xiliangwo for three or four years, and he has waited for such a long time, and waiting for another ten days and eight days is nothing at all.

The Xiliang Army was carrying out the reinforcement of the camp in an orderly manner in accordance with the drill code. First, a trench was dug out, and then a wharf was built on the edge of the Weishui River, so that the wood transported from the rear could be salvaged and used in the construction of the camp. On the temporary wharves, a large number of pulleys and other modern tools were used to easily transport goods and wood from boats and rivers to shore.

The Xiliang army only dug a shallow trench, and when they camped at night, half of them retreated ten miles. There were thousands of soldiers and horses in the camp casually fenced with wood and ambushed all night, but Duan Xuan had no intention of attacking at night, even if the Xiliang army built the camp under his nose.

In the following two days, the camp was quickly reinforced, the ditch became deeper and wider, and various functional buildings such as barracks, stables, kitchens, toilets, warehouses, and medical rooms appeared one by one in the camp, faster than mushrooms after rain. While the Xiliang Army was methodically preparing for battle, Duan Xuan's mood was constantly changing.

After thinking that he had figured it out, Duan Xuan was very calm at first, thinking that Chen Cheng was just pretending. Chen Cangcheng is so strong, even if it can be defeated, how many people will die? Even if it was quickly captured last time, but after being prepared, where is it so easy?

It's just a matter of asking for money and food, even if you don't have 200,000 yuan, you can give 100,000 yuan! Didn't you say that? The price is sky-high, and you can pay it back on the ground. If you don't agree with each other, you will set up a position and prepare to attack, what kind of famous general is this?

As time passed, Duan Xuan was no longer calm. When the Xiliang army built a camp, he ran to the city to see, and he could still maintain the appearance of Chen Zhu. When the big camp outside the city was almost repaired, and the small wharf on the edge of Weishui began to transport wood and other things to the city, his heart was half cold.

When those catapults gradually took shape, Duan Xuan's heart began to transform from being half cold to completely cold. He cursed Lu Bu on the one hand, and cursed Chen Cheng in his heart on the other. This kind of person who is not forced to do it, how can he achieve the position of Liangzhou Mu?

Lu Bu seems to be a monkey who can fight very well, so at first, Chen Cheng is not much better, at most he is just a more capable gorilla.

It's now the fourth day, and Duan Xuan has changed from sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai to being anxious.

Lu Bu's soldiers and horses had been repairing in Chang'an for a day and were rushing towards Fufeng. Fufeng County has 70,000 or 80,000 households, 50,000 soldiers and horses, and if it can be swallowed up, Lu Bu's strength will be increased by 40%. Therefore, Lu Bu only stayed in Chang'an for a day, and regardless of the complaints of the soldiers under his command, he rushed to Chencang along Weishui.

Seeing that the sun was gradually rising, the Xiliang army was still preparing for a strong attack in no hurry, but Duan Xuan couldn't wait any longer. He originally thought that Chen Cheng would take the initiative to send someone over today to make some concessions, but now that the sun was about to rise to the middle, there was no information coming. So for the sake of his own future, Duan Xuan had no choice but to send Zhang Jie out again in the spirit of "If the mountain can't come, I'll go over".

Zhang Jie complained a little in his heart about his father-in-law, either he simply surrendered, or he stubbornly resisted to the end. Why bother to flip and jump sideways like this? But since the lord had an order, he had no choice but to fly the white flag again and walk towards the camp of the Xiliang Army.

Compared with the defensive facilities that were still thin and rudimentary four days ago, the current Xiliang Army camp has become murderous, and it looks like a fierce battle from a distance. In several large camps, soldiers are on duty on high guard towers. In the middle of the camp, soldiers with dogs can be seen patrolling back and forth.

Corridors were also built between the battalions to facilitate the movement of soldiers and the transportation of supplies. Seeing the scene in front of him, Zhang Jie's heart gave birth to a deep sense of awe. He carried the white flag to a place more than a hundred steps outside the camp, and met the rangers who came forward to interrogate.

"I am General Duan Xuan's envoy, and I was ordered to meet Chen Envoy!"

He has been here several times, and Zhang Jie did not panic in the slightest. He held the flag in his right hand and loudly explained his intention to the Xiliang Army rangers who approached. Just like the first two times, he was soon taken outside Chen Cheng's Chinese army tent.

After entering the camp, Zhang Jie found that the various buildings in the camp were scattered with each other, and it didn't seem to be straightforward. It seemed like a doorway, but he couldn't see what it meant. After the tooth soldiers brought him to Chen Cheng, Zhang Jie said respectfully: "Meet Chen Envoy!" ”

Chen Cheng whispered something to Liu Qian on the side, then turned his head and said, "Now that three days have passed, the previous conditions are no longer counted." ”

Zhang Jie sighed in his heart, then raised his head and said loudly: "My lord has just persuaded the soldiers and the people in the city under his command, and he immediately came to surrender to the envoy, can't the envoy be more tolerant?" ”

"Tolerant .............", Chen Cheng's eyes looked into the distance, as if he was reminiscing, and as if he was looking at some kind of picture scroll, "I do know an era when the government advocates mutual tolerance and jointly create a harmonious society, but later it turned out that it was just making peace with the mud." However, the way of civil and martial arts, one by one, cannot be said to be wrong. ”

"Huh?" Zhang Jie didn't understand what Chen Cheng was talking about at all, where did this go? I tell you about tolerance, but what kind of harmony do you say, this ......... Forgive us for being shallow and unable to keep up with your train of thought.

Liu Qian on the side saw this familiar scene, and couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh, letting out a laugh like a silver bell.

Chen Cheng turned his head sideways and asked, "Is there anything funny?" ”

"I didn't laugh!" Liu Qian said seriously: "I am the first place in the first class of the army primary school for two consecutive years, and I have undergone rigorous training. When you're on duty, you're never going to laugh.......... Unless you can't help it! ”