By the time the battle was over, it was already midnight.

Half of Mali's army surrendered, and the rest became ghosts of the Han army.

Hua Xun was bloodstained with half of his body, and reported to Su Lu and said:

"In this battle, our army annihilated 6,000 enemies, escaped about 1,000 people, and captured 8,000 prisoners.

"Lord Wang, do you want to cut down all these captives?"

Hua Xun's eyes flashed with a hideous light.

Su Lu waved his hand: "It's a pity to cut it, these are strong laborers, and there are many things for them to do." ”

"Dongji Port is being repaired, and some of it will be sent to Su Ping, so that he can use it to dig the port and clean up the silt."

"Let's stay behind the rest and prepare to renovate the southern port, and the fortress ballista will be built, otherwise the big ship of the Mali people will come, and we will only have to flee for our lives."

Hua Xun was a little reluctant:

"These are captives, and it is very troublesome to manage, and if someone makes trouble, it will be a big trouble."

"It's better to cut them all, it's a hundred, open a mountain and build a fortress or something, there are our guards, and there are also people, it's all easier than these people."

Lin Gang next to him said with a smile:

"Governor Huaxun, these are Mali sergeants, if they are in our hands, if the Mali people want to attack us again, they will be bogeyed, they are alive, and they are also our bargaining chips with Mali."

Hua Xun took off the hood, rubbed his head, and said in a depressed tone.

"Although I say so, these people are not easy to manage, they are lazy in their work, and they are always making trouble. Last month, the Qi army we captured blew up the camp in Linzi, and attacked the Minfu camp, destroying a lot of grain and grass, and Su Ping lost a lot of money. ”

Su Lu glanced at Hua Xun, this kid is afraid that these Mali people will make trouble like the Linzi bombing camp again, this is to ask for ideas with himself.

"Go back and set a number of money for these Qi people, how much each person is worth, or they contribute money in the army, or they work by themselves, how much money they earn every day, and buy them out by themselves, so that it will be easy to manage."

Hua Xun's eyes lit up when he heard this, this sounded like a solution.

"How much is the right amount of money, my lord?"

Hua Xun smacked his fingers, and began to think in his heart, how much should be appropriate.

Su Lu said casually:

"Don't have too much, let them see no hope, at least do a year or two of hard work, you can redeem yourself, not too little, they come to our Qi country to make trouble, don't pay enough price, suffer enough, next time it will be even more troublesome."

"Of course, if there is no work to do, you can also let them open up the wasteland and farm, there is always some output."

Hua Xun's eyes brightened, and in this way, things were much easier to solve.

There are so many ways for the prince.

Su Lu looked at the back of Hua Xun who hurriedly went out, and instructed Lin Gang to say:

"Send a message to Joseph that we have 10,000 Mari captives, and ask him to find a way to mediate between them and let the Mari people buy these captives back."

Lin Gang's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he began to sit down and write papers.

Half a month later, Joseph arrived from the Northland.

He had brought with him the envoy of the Mali, Shantes, and with him a letter from the former minister of Mali.

As soon as Shantesi saw Su Lu, he made it clear that he was willing to exchange the Chu land he now occupied for these captives.

Sulu shook his head and rejected Shantes' proposal:

"The north of your army is the Tang Kingdom, the west is the mountains, and the east is still our Han army, there is no hope of escaping, and the place they captured was originally my land."

Hearing this, Shantes hurriedly said:

"Lord Wang, although you are an invincible god of war, no matter how powerful you are, if you start a battle, won't there be dead people under your command?"

"If you are not afraid of death and injury and insist on going to war, I Mali will not be able to save these soldiers who are attacking the Chu State, but I Mali has a strong crossbow, and the fish is dead and the net is broken, which is not a good thing for the prince."

Next to Lin Gang Zhengse said:

"General Sha, it's serious, if you negotiate with such an attitude, then we don't need to say it anymore, just ask you to go back, we will use our own means to see whose strong crossbow is powerful."

Shantes took a step back: "Little general, our sincerity is already very sufficient, it is your army that is insatiable, and our army is willing to sacrifice the land of Chu State to contribute, just in exchange for the captured sergeants." ”

Su Lu waved his hand and stopped Shantes from continuing:

"Okay, forget the, I'll just say it."

"If your army really wants to exchange, then exchange it for the Chu State, and once you capture the entire Chu State, I will send all the Mali Sergeant gifts out of the country."

"As long as Mali doesn't interfere in the internal affairs of our Han country in the future, I can suffer a little loss and send you all away."

Shantes was annoyed in his heart, Su Lu is really shameless, let us attack the Chu State for you.

After whispering a few words with the entourage next to him, Shantes immediately became deflated after he had an understanding of the current battle situation in his heart.

Counting the land of Chu that has now fallen into the hands of the Han army, his own family has captured most of the cities of Chu, and more than half of the remaining half of the cities have already sent a surrender table and are willing to surrender Mali.

It can be said that there are not many cities that need to be attacked by their own soldiers, and they only need to break the palace capital, and all of them can be captured.

"Okay, since the prince is quick to speak, then I, the former minister of Shantes, promise Your Excellency, if the prince can guarantee that the gift of my Sergeant Mali will be safely on board, we will exchange."

Next to Hua Xun looked at Shantes in confusion, there are more than 200 cities in the Chu State, and now there are more than 100 cities under the control of the Chu Imperial Court, and the Mali people are willing to attack these cities in exchange.

There's something wrong with this man's head.

Attacking so many cities, there will definitely be a lot of soldiers, and even if the Mari people fight with their own family, they may not die so many people.

He actually agreed, what a spineless envoy.

Hey, it's a pity, my own family has calculated the value of each of the Mari sergeants, and is watching them do their hard work in full swing, and this is about to be ransomed.

What a pity.

Su Lu nodded:

"Okay, since General Shantes has agreed, then please ask your army to attack Chu as soon as possible, as for the city occupied by your army, I will send a sergeant to receive it, you have to communicate well."

"Don't fight with my Han army again."

Shantes said angrily:

"Don't worry, we can still handle this matter."

Joseph was secretly surprised to see that the two had completed the negotiation so quickly, and Shantes must have known that the Han army had developed a new type of flying bird, otherwise he would not have confessed so easily.

It's a pity that I don't have the opportunity to profit from it.

"Don't worry, with my Taixi as the middleman, these things will definitely be done."

Su Lu glanced at Joseph when he heard this, and said in a cold voice:

"You Taixi is not a good thing, the three kingdoms have made an appointment to attack the Inter, and now the Inter has been destroyed, what about the special gold that you and the two countries have divided the Inter, and promised in advance?"

Joseph stammered......