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Ye Yin was silent for a moment, and said to Liu Ce for a long time: "It turns out that the military governor already knows that it is indeed an idea for the herdsmen to cause such a large number of casualties.

It was I who hinted that Mu Kuo should step up his pursuit of Hu Nu, and let him lose his troops to clear the obstacles to victory for Huo Qing and Zhuo Shaoyun's iron cavalry. ”

"Punishment?" Liu Ce sneered, "Ye Gongzi, you are stumped by the military governor, strictly speaking, you are just a staff officer who travels with the army, you have not held any position in the army, and you have not committed a serious crime, and the military regulations are almost unrestrained against you.

What's more, your tactical arrangements are reasonable, helping Huo Qing and them achieve such a brilliant victory, how can this military governor bear to punish you?

It's better to do this, this time the merits and demerits are offset, even if it is a punishment for you, what do you think? ”

"Thank you Lord Commander for your understanding...... Ye Yin also expected that Liu Ce would not dispose of him, so he thanked him with a salute.

"Excuse me, since you're here, there happens to be something here for you to see, it's a letter secretly sent by He Danluo's order, take a look......

As he spoke, Liu Ce threw out a letter to Ye Yin and motioned for him to open it and take a look.

After Ye Yin took it and read it carefully, he immediately sneered and said to Liu Ce: "Lord Military Governor, is this a peace letter or a challenge letter?" ”

"Accident?" Liu Ce leaned back comfortably in his chair, put his hands behind his head and said with a playful expression, "My first reaction when I saw the content of the letter was the same as that of Ye Gongzi, what do you think about this?" ”

Ye Yin pointed to the peace conditions proposed on the letter, and said with a wry smile: "It seems that the talent is still too shallow, this kind of peace conditions is really eye-opening, can't they tell the current situation?"

Since the Northern Expedition, our army has been like a bamboo, and it is only a matter of time before it takes the entire Jizhou, but this He Danluo is good, and the peace conditions put forward are completely in the posture of the victor.

Let's look at this one, immediately stop the war, and our army will return to the southern border of Hebei by the same route, and return to all the city land north of it, including Jucheng? Was he dreaming?

In addition, compensate for the losses caused by this battle to the Hulan people, a total of 100 million taels of silver, and pay the corresponding grain, grass and horses? Hehe, don't say anything else, don't you just want to ask the military governor, is the military governor's mansion taking out 100 million taels of silver now? ”

Liu Ce said with a smile: "You said that 100 million taels of silver, even if you can't take out 10 million taels, this military governor still owes Ruoyan tens of millions of silver and hasn't paid it back.

Besides, even if there were, do you think this military governor would take it out to do such a stupid thing? After all, I'm not a slave locust kneeling, making a move to take advantage of victory to seek peace, and would rather be with friends than house slaves, leaving a stink for thousands of years......"

"Emperor Jiannu?" Ye Yin frowned when he heard this, "Lord Military Governor, is this a personal name or something else?" Why haven't you never heard of it? ”

"Uh~ This is just a long-ago allusion, and it's normal that Ye Gongzi hasn't heard of it......" Liu Ce consciously said that he missed his mouth, prevaricated casually, and continued, "In short, it is impossible to let this military governor do this kind of thing, to this point, the Hulan people still think about these marginal things, it is simply a fool's dream." ”

Ye Yin nodded and said: "I don't think that He Danluo is not a brainless person, the reason why he wrote a peace letter is purely a plan to delay the army, so he simply ignored them, and the army continued to advance towards Shuoyang, and after taking Shuoyang as soon as possible, he turned to Yuyang Pass to join the military division." ”

Liu Ce shook his head when he heard this, took the letter from Ye Yin's hand and said, "A plan to delay the army? Does he have any reinforcements? There is chaos outside the Saiwai now, Wang Han is busy dealing with the various tribes that disobey him, and he is so busy that he can't spare time to come to Jizhou's aid.

The Monroe? Unless their brains are watered, they will return to Nusur Khan for a few months, and before they can rest and digest the results of the expedition, they will take advantage of the cold season to march to the Far East?

As for Yuyang Pass, Chen Qing and Xu Wenjing are already about to hit Yancheng, plus the grain and grass transported to the checkpoint were burned by Huo Qing, it is impossible to take such a big risk to rescue Shuoyang in the cold weather, and the strategic position of Yuyang Pass is far more important than Shuoyang, even if they want to send troops, the Mengluo people will not agree,

The reason why he wrote such a seemingly insincere peace letter, the military governor thought that He Danluo's current situation was extremely difficult, and you must know that Shuoyang City was now full of Hulan nobles who had taken refuge.

Now that our army is about to enter the city, he has the obligation and responsibility to protect these nobles from the scourge of war, but he also knows that the situation of the war is very clear now, and if he continues to fight, it will only increase casualties.

He wrote this peace letter out of sheer desperation, deliberately putting forward so many harsh and ridiculous conditions, just to have room for bargaining during formal negotiations.

In that case, why didn't the Governor ignore it? If the fat meat sent to the door doesn't slaughter him, will you be willing to change a few catties for Ye Gongzi? You must know that the military governor is really poor and crazy now, and there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command to feed.

To tell the truth, this time the 100,000-point Northern Expedition is already the limit, and since the expedition has been in January, I don't want to take a second look at the food and materials consumed, it's too sensational......"

Ye Yin also sighed deeply, knowing that fighting a war is actually about money in the final analysis, whoever has a hard foundation can win the final victory, based on the consumption of four catties of grain by an ordinary soldier a day, the food consumption of 100,000 troops alone is 400,000 catties a day, 12 million catties a month, and 80,000 stone of grain, which is only the consumption of soldiers.

If you count the horses, if you want to maintain your energy without losing weight during the march, you need at least five to seven times the amount of feed for an ordinary soldier, and the 70,000 horses on this expedition are undoubtedly an astronomical amount.

These are only the necessities of marching and fighting, not including the salaries of soldiers, post-war pensions and a series of huge expenses, Liu Ce seems to be in high spirits for the Northern Expedition, in fact, the Military Governor's Mansion has long been on the verge of bankruptcy crazy temptation, but if you don't know the price of firewood and rice, the difficulties are all Liu Ce is enduring alone......

In fact, Ye Yin has always felt that Liu Ce's Northern Expedition is not the right time at this moment, and it should be reasonable to send troops when the finances are no longer so tight after a few years of recuperation, after all, everything in southern Hebei is waiting to be revived, and the people are not rich......

But Liu Ce insisted on launching an offensive against northern Hebei, and Xu Wenjing's explanation on the surface of the reason was to resolve the contradictions in the army and twist into a rope, in fact, the real purpose of the inside is to let the world know that the Central Plains people under his leadership Liu Ce are capable of defeating all the invincible Hu people, so as to achieve their own political prestige, and at the same time awaken the blood in the bones of the Central Plains people, and no longer fear the butcher's knife of the Hu people.

Seeing that Ye Yin was silent, Liu Ce continued: "Ye Gongzi, you will order someone to send a letter to Shuoyang, just say that the military governor promised to negotiate peace with them, in order to show sincerity, temporarily stop the attack on the two fortresses of Huchuan and Yinting on the front of Shuoyang, and wait until you talk with the negotiating envoy before making plans." ”

When Ye Yin heard this, he quickly cleaned up his mood and said to Liu Ce: "Why don't you order someone to deliver the letter later, this person will send the letter, why don't you let Zhuo Shaoyun's eldest brother Xie Ping'an go?" ”

"Let Xiao Yu also go to ......," Liu Ce said, "Since it is Yanran's relative, I can't help but give him a chance to perform, I have seen this Xiao Yu twice, he is sleek and courageous, much more reliable than Xie Ping'an, with him going with him, I can also be a little more relieved......"

Ye Yin nodded, suddenly sat down in front of Liu Ce, with a rare smile on his face, and said to Liu Ce: "Lord Military Governor, can you tell you about the allusion of Shicai about taking advantage of victory to seek peace, and would rather be a slave with a friendly country?" I'm very interested in these anecdotes......"

"Gossip ......" Liu Ce looked at Ye Yin's handsome face, and couldn't help but smile, "Okay, anyway, it's okay to talk to you......

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