Chapter 68 One Night, High Moon, Oblique (1)
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But this is just the so-called sky-high asking price in a general sense, while raising their own price, they also explore the bottom line of Xiangyang. Yueli replied unhurriedly with his hands: "Two thousand taels of gold and silver in exchange for the lives of a city of people is quite cost-effective. What's more, even if the people in the city hid the gold and silver, after the city was broken, it would not be returned to the Mongol army? At that time, people were killed, and gold and silver were taken away, was it not a situation where people and money were empty, and now giving up gold, silver, silk and silk to save their lives is by no means a loss-making business. ”
Zheng Yunming smiled slightly and said: "What Zun Jia said is indeed true, but the price of the negotiation needs to be obtained through the victory or defeat on the battlefield. The Mongols thought that they only put 500,000 troops outside the city and wanted Xiangyang to obediently accept the money, maybe your guards in the Western Regions could do it, but it was not the attitude of my Song boy. Now that your two armies are holding each other, the Mongolian army has been attacking the city for many days, and not an inch of the city has been captured, the Central Plains has a saying in the art of war, one drum, then decline, three and exhaustion, I think the morale of the Mongolian army is no longer enough to support them to capture the city, but I am afraid that your grain and grass will also see the bottom as the morale of the soldiers, right? ”
Too detached to take a step forward and shouted; "The warriors of the Great Khan will never retreat, there are still cattle and sheep in our army, neither cowering nor hungry, please Zheng Nayan don't worry about this, you are not willing to accept the conditions of King Tath, and when the city is broken, it will be too late to beg for mercy."
Zheng Yunming laughed and shouted, "It's not me who should be afraid, but him!" He led more than 100,000 Mongol troops to attack Xiangyang. Instead, let the boss Qu out be killed by our army! When he returns to his teacher, he will wait to be beheaded by the Great Khan who lost his beloved son!"
Tai Deyin was shocked in his heart, and shouted angrily: "However, yesterday the meteor that used the flying fire to drag the smoke attacked us, is it really your fox's trick!" ”
Zheng Yunming responded with a smile: "Exactly, my gunpowder flying arrows are 1,500 paces, and the sound is shaking in the sky, if Tasi listens to my good words, he will collect his troops and go back from now on, and the two countries will be on the border, no swords and soldiers, and enjoy peace, otherwise, there will be 100,000 gunpowder arrows waiting for him in the city." Let's see if the Mongolian soldiers are really copper-tendoned and iron-clad, or if my explosive arrows are more powerful! ”
Tai Deyin Buhua suddenly burst out with a sneer, and shouted: "That Yan's words are too full!" What kind of gunpowder arrow do you, although it shoots far away, and the sound is not small, but it is a pity that the accuracy is too poor! I'll tell you the truth today, I'm not afraid that you won't believe it, yesterday's few rockets actually killed five pawns in our army and injured dozens of people, as for the patriarch of Nayan and above, there were no casualties, let alone the king! If Zheng Nayan thinks that he can hold Xiangyang firmly with this kind of rocket, please don't daydream about it! ”
"The big tent of the Chinese army has been blown up by our army, and I am not ashamed to say this!" Zheng Yunming shouted: "Since Qu is safe and sound, why not let him come out and show his face, so that I can also see the demeanor of the Great Khan Prince?" ”
Tai Deyin didn't bare his eyes round, and shouted: "That Yan really wants to see?" ”
The muscles on Zheng Yunming's face twitched, and then he said loudly: "Naturally, I want to see you!" ”
"Don't talk too much!" Tai Deyin did not spend a lot of time and said: "Please follow me to Xicheng to have a look!" ”
Zheng Yunming looked at Zhao Kui and only looked at how he ordered. Zhao Kui touched his beard and was silent for a moment, then said angrily: "It's okay, but the city defense is important, the two have special identities, and it is quite inconvenient to go to the city, so people come!" ”
A guard from the government office came in and bowed his hands to obey the order.
"Go and inform the city inspector, call the lookout to wait in the northwest city tower, and report the movement of the Mongolian camp in the west of the city all the time!" Zhao Kui shouted: "Tell him to send someone to report as soon as there is a slight movement in the opposite camp, there must be no mistake!" ”
The guard answered, turned around and ran away, and the moon flickered and Tai Tu sat down without flowers. There was a subtle silence in the hall.
The system made Zhao Kui sit in a precarious position, as if he was about to parade on weekdays, and he didn't say a word of gossip to the two of them, Zheng Yunming leaned on the back of the chair, pretending to be relaxed, and couldn't hide the occasional trace of anxiety flashing between his eyebrows.
In the month, Hu Ma and Tai De didn't spend their flowers, but they were calm, and even gossiped with Wu Qian and Bai Yijie, such as how the style of the Western Regions was, what the temper of everyone in the Mongolian formation, etc., as if they were sure that Qu Chu was really still alive.
After a while, news came from the city: "The generals of the Mongol Chinese army have assembled, and it seems that some ceremony is going to be held!" ”
Zhao Kui and Zheng Yunming glanced at each other, these two people were conclusive, naturally they were not unprepared, what tricks the Mongolians wanted, just wait and see.
After another moment, another messenger came to report: "A person in the Chinese army tent with a golden helmet and gold armor has come out of the Chinese army tent surrounded by cowardly Xue guards!" It seems that the generals in the Mongolian battalion are paying homage to him! ”
Zheng Yunming's face changed slightly, and he opened his mouth but did not make a sound.
Yueli suddenly said proudly: "The Mongolian camp is far away from here, and the lookout post of your army should be carefully watched to see if this noble king is the king himself." ”
He was sure in his heart that at such a distance, no one with excellent eyesight in the Mongol army could see the faces of the people on the city wall clearly, and naturally the lookouts at the head of the city could not really see the face of a person in the Chinese army camp in Mongolia.
The most important thing is that it is not necessary for Zheng Yunming to really believe that Qu Chu is not dead, but to make him doubtful, and the goal has been achieved.
After a while, the city patrol officer sent someone to report: "The golden armor general is patrolling the camps under the escort of the generals and honor guards, and everywhere he goes, the Mongolian army is cheering, and people are constantly coming to bow down!" ”
"That's enough, isn't it?" Yueli suddenly smiled and said, "Just like that, Zheng Yehu still doesn't believe that King Quchu is really alive?" ”
Zheng Yunming snorted and said, "Even if Qu is not dead, and he has not made an inch of success in attacking Xiangyang City for a long time, it is absolutely impossible to blackmail our army over this!" ”
Zhao Kui coughed, and Zheng Yunming closed his mouth in recognition. After all, the one who can make the final decision in Xiangyang City is the envoy himself.
"The conditions of your envoy are known to the government, please go down and rest for a while, and when the government and the civil and military officials discuss the results, they will come and inform them in person."
He made a gesture of please, and the moon flickered and Tai Tuyin stood up and said goodbye.
The soldiers led the two to a side hall in the east wing to rest, and as soon as the two entered the door, the door and window were immediately full of guarded soldiers. Obviously, the Song people were quite uneasy about the safety of these two envoys, or rather about the actions of these two envoys.
The two sat in the side hall for a whole hour, and only then did they see Zhao Zhizhi take Zheng Yunming, the deputy commander of Jing'e, Ma Guangzu, and Bai Yijie, the senator, into the side hall.
After everyone sat down, Zhao Kui went straight to the topic: "I heard that Mongolians are all straightforward characters, and there is no need to be clever. 200,000 silk silk, 2,000 taels of gold, Xiangyang can not be taken out, even if Qu out really breaks through Xiangyang, it will never be able to search for so many property, the current inventory of the treasury, only about 300 taels of gold, 1,000 taels of silver, 20,000 horses of silk. This is the maximum amount that Xiangyang can take, please return to the two of them, and allow it, if not, Zhao can only fight the army with Xiangyang City until the last person. ”
"It can't be!" Tai De Yin did not spend the case and shouted: "There is so much shortage of contributions, how can the prince of Quchu be satisfied!" If Xiangyang can only get such a small amount of money, just wait for the city to be slaughtered after it is broken! ”
Zheng Yunming raised his eyebrows and said: "I have this intention, if I am not satisfied, I will send troops to try it myself, look at these 20,000 silk silks, and he will not take an inch by force!" ”
Yueli frowned and said: "These treasures are too few, and it is really difficult to explain them in front of the king." ”
Zhao Kui said: "Xiangyang goods were originally crowned in Jinghu, but last year your country went south, the government in order to avoid the treasure being robbed, most of the gold and silver silk silk was transferred to the south of the Yangtze River, last year Xiangyang was provoked by your country to mutiny, the chaos burned a lot, this year continued to fight, but also consumed a lot, your envoy believes, does not believe, Xiangyang can get out of the things, are already on the list, but also ask your envoy to go back to mediate, be sure to make the peace successful." ”
Yueli suddenly had a bitter face, as if he had really encountered a great difficulty, and said: "If you don't talk about the gold and silver silk, why don't you see the boys and girls?" ”
Zheng Yunming said: "The Central Plains say clearly, God has the virtue of good life, I heard that the Turks believe in Allah, and the Mongols believe in immortality, both advocate filial piety and compassion, take children away from their parents and send them to the north to be slaves, this is not the way of a gentleman, the way of a saint, the whole city of Xiangyang fought to the last man, and would never agree to such conditions." ”
It is a common law in the world to buy and sell people as goods and even as tribute, and in the view of the Mongolian tribes who are not civilized enough, it is more natural to ask for slaves as property, but the value of slaves may not be as good as the price of a sheep and a horse. Zheng Yunming didn't even want to hand over a single slave, and Yueli could only guess that this Lord Ye Hu was particularly stingy with slaves.
However, he did not come this time to quarrel, if the negotiations broke down, the Song army held out for a few more days, and the Mongol army had to leave for the north. In addition to reaping the benefits of the peace negotiations as much as possible, one of the most important tasks was to ensure the safety of the Mongol army when they retreated.
"The discussion of boys and girls will be discussed later." Yueli Hu Ma said: "Let's talk about the first two, the forts around Xiangyang are all over our army, once our army retreats, what should they do if they suddenly attack our army from the rear?" Therefore, the fortress near Xiangyang must be withdrawn from the defenders and handed over to the Mongol army to guard, and only after our army has safely withdrawn will it be exchanged with you. ”