Chapter 690: Life is Frustrated (32)
In this way, both sides were holding back a breath of energy, and there was a never-ending posture, so it lasted for a long time, during this time, both sides suffered heavy losses, double losses of human and financial resources, and even many innocent people were implicated in the war, displaced, and their families were destroyed.
But no matter what, Cangguo was still at a greater disadvantage, losing more soldiers and property, and being defeated and retreating, but Ji Jingsheng just refused to surrender, and he would rather die than give in.
It's just that such an advantage is not something to be happy about for Du Weizhen at all, the soldiers died one after another, the people wailed, and the misery of Yi Zi and eaten, all of them were like hundreds of needles pierced in Du Weizhen's heart, what he didn't want to do was this, he loved peace by nature, never took the initiative to provoke war, in his opinion, no matter what the purpose of the war, it was evil, because the most affected were the most innocent and lowest-level people.
Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer.
He would rather give up to achieve the final victory, as long as Cangguo surrenders, he is immediately willing to withdraw his troops, and the two countries are not opposite, but he is such an opposite, and Ji Jingsheng would rather burn the jade, so no matter how advantageous he is, for him, it cannot be called a victory.
Du Weizhen is long-awaited sigh in the eyes of the ministers is also quite worried, they don't want the country and the people to be safe, there will be no war, but the sad thing is that only they think like this.
At this time, Wang Suping put forward an idea, "Your Majesty, you see, how Ji Jingsheng is unwilling to surrender like this, then we can give up starting from his side and turn around from other aspects." For example, the imperial capital of Cangguo, we can attack from other directions, as long as we break through the Cangguo country, Ji Jingsheng has lost domestic support, how long can he hold on? If you are not willing to take it by force, you can salute them before you soldiers, and find out their attitudes, if they also want peace, wouldn't it be better? ”
Du Weizhen's eyes lit up, and the depressed emotions that had been entangled in him for several months were swept away, and he was full of praise to Wang Suping, "Wang Aiqing is really a virtuous minister. ”
Wang Suping was not arrogant, and hurriedly praised it.
In this way, on the same day, Du Weizhen arranged for someone to secretly enter the imperial city of Cangguo, wanting to contact the king of Cangguo, but as soon as they entered and found that the situation in the imperial city was turbulent, they were greatly surprised, and after a little check, they checked the situation clearly.
It turned out that not only was the imperial city in chaos, but even the palace was in chaos, and the ministers were all in danger. It turned out that they all knew that the war situation outside the country was extremely bad, but the prince was resolutely unwilling to surrender, but he could not force the king to be in turmoil, so he was defeated and retreated. In addition, King Cang suddenly became seriously ill and couldn't get up for a few days, and the imperial doctors were also at a loss, so King Cang had to hand over the affairs of the court to several ministers to deal with together.
Du Weizhen's people immediately passed back the information they had found, and Du Weizhen was greatly surprised, and immediately felt that he could salute the move first, see how the other party did it, and then decide whether to use force, and handed over this matter to his subordinates over there to deal with.
Fortunately, Du Weizhen was thoughtful at that time, and the people sent over were not all strong martial arts and could not speak, but there was also a person with an extremely sharp mouth, Du Weizhen was thinking about what the situation was, and he had good ideas, but now it just came in handy?
The man used the name of Du Weizhen to quickly summon all the people who were temporarily in charge of handling government affairs, and he was very good at communicating with people.
He coughed a few times and cleared his throat, his voice was clear, "My lords, what our emperor means is that as long as you surrender, we will withdraw our troops, and at the same time, we will bring back Her Royal Highness the princess of Kunguo." ”
A minister hesitated, sighed and said, "It's not that we don't want to, it's just that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is in charge, and we can't control him." ”
In fact, they are all resentful in their hearts, and they make it clear that they can't beat them and they insist on hitting the stone with an egg, which is not called bravery, but stupidity. But it was their Royal Highness the Crown Prince who made a fool, although they said that they were in charge of government affairs for the time being, but they couldn't get past anyone to take care of the prince's affairs.
The man smiled meaningfully: "You can't do it, but there is one person who can, our emperor doesn't like war, but he is not afraid, the current war situation, who loses and who wins in the end, you can see it at a glance, right?" ”
The ministers looked at each other, and they all saw fear in each other's eyes, indeed, they have no chance of victory against the Kunguo now, the bigger the official, the more they spare their lives, they can't give up glory and wealth, and no one wants to die!
When the man saw them like this, he knew that the matter was already ninety percent sure, and he was a little proud in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel a little proud, this time he had done such a big thing, and the emperor might not necessarily reward him with something after he went back.
They separated, but the ministers all walked towards the palace with the same goal, and then met the seriously ill King Cang.
The man on the bed seemed to have aged more than ten years all of a sudden, his hair was all white, his face was thin, his eyes were cloudy, and he was no longer shining, and even his reaction was much slower. When the ministers saw it, they couldn't help but sigh in their hearts.
After the maidservants fed King Cang the last sip of medicine, a minister, as a representative, told King Cang about today's events.
Cangguo's voice was hoarse and ugly, and there was a "gurgling" sound in his throat, "What do you think?" ”
The minister hesitated for a long time before gritting his teeth and saying, "Your Majesty, now that we are in a good situation, we will definitely lose if we continue like this, and we will even lose more cities." It's better to stop the loss in time, invest and surrender, we have lost too much and can't go on like this. ”
A heavy, suppressed sigh rose in the dormitory, making people feel sad for no reason, producing a sense of sadness in the twilight of the hero.
King Cang closed his eyes before he said: "Just listen to you, sign with Kunguo, and call the prince back, he is also not young, he shouldn't be so ignorant." ”
The surrender agreement went smoothly, and King Cang later said that he would recall the crown prince as soon as possible, and then the two countries would no longer be at war. Of course, Cangguo compensated a lot of things and property, and also gave up several cities. King Cang is not distressed, but compared to destroying the country, losing a few cities is really not a big deal, at least, the war is finally over, and the Cangguo that has been greatly injured can recover for a long time, and he can recuperate with peace of mind without worrying about it from time to time.