Zheng Fei sent a message to Hu Sanniang and Gongsun Sheng, telling them to first ensure the survival needs of the victims and do their best to ensure the stability of the rear. And then on this basis, try to raise some grain and grass as much as possible to continue to transport to the front line, but the grain and grass transported to the front line is not too much, the current stock of the front line can support a month, and within a month, the army will retreat, so it doesn't matter how much grain and grass can be replenished to the front line, and it doesn't matter if there is no way to replenish it.

At the same time, Zheng Fei ordered the whole army to stop the offensive and still oppressed the Song army, but instead of informing Li Gang and Yao Gu of his preparations for negotiation, he released the best carrier pigeons to Bianliang, Tokyo, and sent a message to the spies in Tokyo, asking them to tell the Great Song that we want to negotiate an armistice with you.

The reason why he overtook Li Gang and Yao Gu in the negotiation was because Zheng Fei, with his own understanding of Li Gang in history, thought that Li Gang would not agree to the peace negotiation, and not only would he not agree, but he might also sabotage the peace negotiation, and telling him that the matter of peace negotiation was purely useless.

Taking a step back, even if Li Gang agrees to negotiate peace, he will convey Zheng Fei's meaning to the imperial court, but the speed of their transmission of news is a little too slow, the Great Song Dynasty court will have at least five or six days to get the news, and it will take another five or six days to make a decision, and then send envoys, come to the front line again, and negotiate again, the whole process is not enough for a month, and the time left for Zheng Fei to negotiate is only more than a month, and after a month, even if the negotiation is inconclusive, Zheng Fei has to withdraw his troops, so Zheng Fei must make use of all the time available.

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The Heavenly Dao Army suddenly stopped attacking without warning, Li Gang and Yao Gu in the Daimyo Mansion were puzzled, but they did not dare to slack off in the slightest, their first reaction was that the enemy army was going to temporarily truce, and then prepare for a larger-scale attack or even a siege war, so they still let the Daimyo's Mansion and the Song army all over the line maintain twelve points of vigilance,

But after waiting for a few more days, the Tiandao army was still quiet, and there was no intention of launching an attack, Li Gang and Yao Gu were even more puzzled, after thinking about it, they thought that the most likely reason was that the enemy army could not force them down, this was to change the strategy, start a protracted battle with them, and start fighting for food! Because the lack of food in the Great Song Dynasty is an open secret, although now because of the defection of the Liaoxia and Xia armies for the Great Song Dynasty to save a lot of food, but the overall food and salary situation of the front-line army is still not optimistic, even under the personal supervision of Li Gang The use of food and salary has been almost optimized, but it is only enough for the Song army to be used for less than three months, and now a month has passed, two months later, if the imperial court can no longer squeeze out the food and pay to the front line, the Song army can only surrender without a fight.

On the other hand, the Heavenly Dao Army has always put on a posture of "what the Lord has is money and food", fighting for consumption, and the Heavenly Dao Army has an advantage, but this is not the main reason why Li Gang and Yao Gu mistakenly think that Zheng Fei is going to fight with them, because Li Gang believes that the reason why the Heavenly Dao Army, which is in an overwhelming advantage in terms of strength, has never dared to have a head-on duel with him for more than a month, but blindly oppresses himself with long-range firepower and forces himself to surrender. The most fundamental reason is precisely from their internal ----- the Heavenly Dao Army has just recruited hundreds of thousands of Liaoxia troops, these hundreds of thousands of troops are a strong army if they are used well, and if they are not used well, they will have the opposite effect, and even eat their bodies, and Zheng Linfeng must have not completely leveled the hundreds of thousands of surrendered troops, so he did not dare to launch a decisive battle easily, once the war is unfavorable, the two Liaoxia armies will rebel, and then he will be finished!

As a result, under the influence of these two inertial thinking, Li Gang and Yao Gu misunderstood Zheng Fei from the beginning, and although their own situation was still grim, the truce of the Heavenly Dao Army also gave them a rare respite to some extent, and it was also undesirable for them.

Li Gang quickly made a decision, ordering the entire Song army to seize the time to make adjustments, repair the city walls, strengthen the defense, recuperate from the wounded, rest when it should rest, adjust the state as soon as possible, and wait for his further orders at any time. And he always pays attention to the movements of the Heavenly Dao Army, because he knows that this protracted war is not so easy to fight, the meaning of protracted means a long time first, no matter who it is, there will be slackness and fatigue for a long time, as long as there is slackness and exhaustion, it is possible to expose flaws, what he is waiting for is this flaw, as long as he catches the flaws of the enemy army and attacks it, the Song army may come back to life and turn defeat into victory! Just like the battle of Guandu during the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao, who was at a disadvantage in all aspects, caught a flaw in Yuan Shao in a stalemate with Yuan Shao, who was far superior to him, and burned Yuan Shao's grain camp, turning the tide of the battle in an instant!

It's a pity that Li Gang never dreamed that Zheng Fei had already crossed him to negotiate with the Great Song Dynasty, Zheng Fei's guess was right, he was indeed a staunch main battle faction, because he believed that the piece he left for Zhao Huan before leaving Tokyo would definitely impress Zhao Huan, as long as Zhao Huan could do what he asked, everything he did on the front line would be worth it, and when the time came, it would not be certain who would die in this battle!

But the reality is cruel, he is the main battle faction, it doesn't mean that others are too, especially those cronies around Zhao Huan .......

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A few days later, Kaifeng Mansion, on an ordinary morning, it was still early, the pedestrians on the road had just increased, only to see an ordinary man carrying two baskets of cooking cakes along the street to sell, from time to time the patrol soldiers appeared on the street around him one after another, but none of the soldiers would look at him twice, because this person has been selling cooking cakes in the Daimyo Mansion for several years, the cooking cakes he made are fragrant and thick, full of weight, Tong Su is not bullied, has been a famous "cooking cake Zhang", No matter who is a thief or a remnant of Zheng Juzhong's party, he can't be!

Cooking cakes while selling, while warmly greeting the neighbors he knows, unconsciously came to Kaifeng Mansion outside the office, his footsteps suddenly stopped, only to see him put his burden and basket on the ground gently, and stretched out his hand to gently pat the burden that has been with him for several years as if he said goodbye, and then raised his head to look at the plaque of "Kaifeng Mansion" and smiled slightly, and strode into the Kaifeng Mansion .......

It didn't take long to see a team of soldiers and servants rushing out of Kaifeng Mansion in a hurry, carrying a sedan chair in the direction of the palace, the person in the sedan chair was none other than Kaifeng Mansion Yin, and it didn't take long for Zhao Huan to learn a message from his mouth that stunned him for a moment----- Thief, want to negotiate peace!"

Zhao Huan immediately summoned a group of cronies and ministers to enter the palace ceremony, half an hour later, Geng Nanzhong, Tang Ke, Wu Min, Zhang Bangchang and other ministers arrived in the palace, and the cooking cake Zhang was also brought into the palace from Kaifeng Mansion.

Zhang Yi changed the caution and caution of the small traders in the past, and in the face of Zhao Huan and the ministers, his face remained unchanged, he held his head high, raised the rope in his hand and asked first, "Is this the courtesy of the Great Song Dynasty to the envoy?" ”

Zhao Huan's face changed, he frowned, and ordered someone to untie the rope for the cooking cake.

Cooking cake Zhang knelt down and made a big salute to Zhao Huan, this is not a matter of principle, kowtow two heads and kowtow two, it's not a big deal,

Subsequently, the cooking cake Zhang said the words of Zheng Linfeng, the commander of the Heavenly Dao Army, word for word,

"Zheng Linfeng, the commander of the Heavenly Dao Army, is kind-hearted, cares about the people of the world, and doesn't want the war to be further ignited and cause misery, so he ordered the envoy to ask the new emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Huan, if he is willing to negotiate peace? The conditions for my Heavenly Dao military peace are very simple, there are only three things, first, the Great Song Emperor recognizes the status of our emperor and the Heavenly Dao army, and the emperors of the two countries are called brothers. Second, the younger brothers and sisters of the emperor of our country, the twelfth son of the emperor Zhao Zhi, the emperor of Shunde Zhao Yingluo, the emperor of Roufu Zhao Duofu and the twenty-second son of the emperor Zhao Ji will be returned to our country. Third, cede Hebei East Road to our country. ”

After that, the cooking cake Zhang said, "Our commander's words have been brought below, please make a decision quickly, if it's okay, I want to go back to the embassy to rest first, by the way, you haven't arranged an embassy for me yet." ”

When Zhao Huan heard this, he really wanted to go up and slash the underwhelming face of the cooking cake Zhang, but he could only wave his hand and ordered someone to take the cooking cake Zhang down and settle it first.

As soon as Zhang left, Zhao Huan urgently discussed with the ministers whether to negotiate with Zheng Linfeng, to be honest, they never dreamed that they would suddenly get this news, the latest battle situation on the front line is every day, they all know how bad the situation on the front line is, the Daimyo's Mansion and all places have been attacked by an army of thieves several times their size, although the Daimyo's Mansion has not been breached, but that is only because the thieves have not launched a siege war, Zhao Huan is made by these news every day. I'm afraid that one day I will suddenly receive the news of the loss of the Daimyo's Mansion!

In addition, there is another thing that also makes Zhao Huan sleepless all night, that is, food, the treasury is really empty, and there is no way to squeeze out a little silver to transport to the front line, the only way is to levy taxes again, but according to the current situation, Zhao Huan does not dare to levy taxes again, otherwise if he forces a group of people to rebel at this time, then the Great Song Dynasty will really be over!

So, no one expected that Zheng Linfeng, who had absolute superiority in all aspects, would actually take the initiative to propose peace, which was really unexpected by everyone.

But no matter what, this thing really happened, negotiating peace means a truce, and a truce means that you can get through the current crisis that can even destroy the country, without destroying the country, then everyone's power can still be preserved, the wealth that should be rich, the power that should be in power, continue to enjoy the glory and wealth, most of the ministers instantly fell one-sidedly in favor of peace, and the conditions of the thieves are not so unacceptable, such as the first article, we recognize them, which is equivalent to them also recognize us, Your Majesty and Zhao Kai are also brothers, it's not a big deal to continue to call each other brothers. For example, the second one, Zhao Kai's biological mother Xiao Guifei died last year, and his younger brothers and sisters are still children, and we all know that Zhao Kai is just a puppet in the hands of Zheng Linfeng, and we can't threaten Zhao Kai with these children at all, just give it back to him. Looking at it this way, the third condition is more difficult to accept, but don't forget that Hebei East Road borders on Liao, and Liao sent a large army to attack Zheng Linfeng, and Zheng Linfeng surrendered the Liao army, they are actually mortal enemies, and letting Zheng Linfeng border Liao is equivalent to letting him border with the enemy, so that not only does Zheng Linfeng have one more mortal enemy, but also relieves the pressure from Liao to retaliate against us.

When Zhao Huan heard that this was really the case, he couldn't help but be even more moved, but he still couldn't make up his mind, except because of the strong opposition of the only two ministers of the main battle faction, Ouyang Xun, the young ruler and Zhongshu squire, and Sun Fu, the secretary of the military department, and because he had been scared of Zheng Linfeng all these years, he was worried that he would fall for Zheng Linfeng again this time.

Unexpectedly, after hesitating for two days, a piece of news reached the palace that the thieves acted again after a few days of truce on the front line, and they had conquered the five counties of Linqing and Boping!

Zhao Huan knew that this was a naked threat, but he knew that it was a threat but there was nothing he could do, this was a huge gap in strength, and he didn't dare to delay any longer, so he immediately decided to accept the terms of peace according to the advice of the ministers of the Lord and the faction!

Of course, it can't be accepted in vain, Geng Nanzhong and others also came up with some additional conditions that seemed to be beneficial to the Great Song Dynasty, and the enemy army had to accept it, so that the Great Song Dynasty would fully agree to negotiate peace.