Zhang Zhun is nibbling on flatbread. After five days of fierce fighting with the officers and soldiers, all the soldiers were exhausted, and Zhang Zhun was no exception. Even eating, he was busy, and there was no such thing as a proper meal, and when he felt hungry, he took out the flatbread from the cloth bag next to the saddle and took two bites. He was gobbling up a mouthful of bread and water. It may be due to the fact that the flatbread is too dry to swallow, and it is often gnawed until the eyes roll white.

Seeing Song Degang appear, Zhang Zhun put down the cake and said with a smile: "Huh? Old Song? You've come at the right time! Come on, eat a little! ”

After that, he enthusiastically took out a flatbread that he had never eaten and handed it over.

Song Degang shook his head again and again, and said with a smile: "I've eaten, I've eaten, I don't need it, I don't need it." ”

Invite me to eat flatbread when we meet, you are really too polite! I haven't eaten flatbread for many years, so I'm also a dignified chief military officer, okay? If you still eat such vulgar food, you will be laughed at.

Zhang Zhun took back the flatbread casually, didn't feel embarrassed at all, and said casually: "If you don't want it, then forget it, I don't care about half a meal, I'm really reluctant to give it to you." ”

Song Degang looked around and saw that many soldiers were like Zhang Zhun and were gnawing on the cake, so he couldn't help but feel a little emotional, and couldn't help but say: "Zhang Zhun, why are you suffering?" Wouldn't it be nice to be your Aoshan Guard's commander, eat fragrant and drink spicy food? Get the wind to eat and sleep, these flatbreads...... Seriously, your brother hasn't eaten it for years. ”

Zhang Zhun said disappreciatively: "This topic is too profound, we are also friends, so I won't talk to you about such a serious issue." I don't want to eat flatbread, I also want to eat shark fin bird's nest bear's paw every day, the problem is that there are no such conditions! Let me tell you, at this time, it's good to be able to eat flatbread. ”

He didn't mean to complain about it. In fact, it is. These days of fighting, the Ming army is certainly hard, but why is the Tiger Army not hard? The number of cavalry of the Tiger Ben Army is one-fiftieth of that of the enemy, and it has to deal with fifty, no matter how advanced the weapons are, they can't cope with it! Many fighters rely on one force to fight, and once the battle is over, they will soon be exhausted. Since yesterday, the Tiger Ben Army has seen non-combat attrition, and many war horses have been exhausted. Now everyone is gritting their teeth and holding it up.

Song Degang sighed with emotion, saluted formally and said: "Lord Governor, there is a matter of official affairs for a humble position......

Zhang Zhun said casually: "Don't be so literate, you are not human, what do you do when you learn to be so sour?" Lao Zhu sent you to negotiate? Is he unable to hold on? ”

Song Degang said seriously: "No, he just asked me to visit you." ”

Zhang Zhun said with a smile: "Meet me, a thief? Interesting, interesting. Okay, I've decided to accept your visit. You are not an outsider either, if you have something to say, if you have a fart, you can let it go! ”

Song Degang got straight to the point and conveyed Zhu Dadian's meaning. Zhu Dadian refused to say the word negotiation to death, but a fool can understand it. Since Zhu Dadian has such thoughts, Song Degang naturally wants to express it.

"Negotiations?"

"Good! I agree! ”

Zhang Zhun nodded without thinking and said briskly.

After more than ten days of fighting, the cavalry of the Tiger Ben Army was also very tired, and its combat effectiveness had been seriously affected. Negotiation is also good for the Tiger Army. After all, this is not a level of battle at all, one person faces fifty people! Even if you kill ten people on the other side, there are still forty people on the other side. This is equivalent to a swarm of wasps, entangled in an elephant, although it can cause a lot of trouble to the elephant, but if you want to make the elephant fall, it is not enough, and after the elephant falls, more elephants will come.

As long as Qingzhou City is in Zhang Zhun's hands, as long as King Heng cannot return to his fiefdom, the imperial court will have to send more troops for the sake of his own face. In other words, the battle will not be heard. If the stalemate continues, the non-combat attrition of the Tiger Ben Army will definitely become more and more serious. In the end, the newly formed cavalry of the Tiger Ben Army will be dragged down by endless battles.

To be precise, Zhang Zhun's cavalry team was not trained at all. This battle is completely a load use, and it is used in advance. This kind of use of troops is very risky. Since Zhu Dadian can't hold on, there is no need for Zhang Zhun to slap his swollen face and become fat. Take it when you see it. It really takes time to breathe a sigh of relief. Whether it is Zhu Dadian or he Zhang Zhun, they need this time.

Song Degang said: "Then I'll go back and tell him." ”

Zhang Zhun said: "You tell him, as long as he is sincere, I am also sincere." ”

Song Degang nodded, and then left.

After returning to the camp of the Ming army, Song Degang quickly conveyed Zhang Zhun's meaning to Zhu Dadian.

Zhu Dadian finally breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Zhang Zhun agrees to negotiate, it will be easy to do. As for the specific conditions, Zhu Dadian was not too worried. The current situation is obvious, Zhang Zhun and him both want to disengage as soon as possible. After the two of them got out of the fight, they both had a butt of things to deal with. From this angle, Zhang Zhun will not open his mouth widely.

Besides, this son has already plundered a lot of money in Qingzhou City, and it is said that he has plundered hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, what else does he want? Can't you move the entire Hengwang Mansion back to Laizhou Mansion? After thinking about it for a night, Zhu Dadian immediately appointed Song Degang as a secret envoy to negotiate specific conditions with Zhang Zhun. He rarely granted Song Degang great power.

Soon, Song Degang appeared in front of Zhang Zhun again.

It's still the same place we last met. Zhang Zhun sat on the east side of the rock, Song Degang sat on the west side of the rock, and in the middle of the two, there was a pot of wine and a bag of air-dried beef. The two drank wine and ate beef jerky as they began to negotiate. In fact, the so-called negotiations are basically Zhang Zhun putting forward conditions. Zhu Dadian's only condition is to recover Qingzhou City.

"Brother Song, don't cheat me!" Zhang Zhun said half-jokingly.

"In this world, there may be people who dare to pit you, but it is definitely not your brother and me." Song Degang said with a wry smile. He dares to cheat Zhang Zhun, isn't he tired of living?

"Okay, what does Lao Zhu mean?" Zhang Zhun was really unkind, and directly put Zhu Dadian as the best book city from beginning to end. }}} is called Lao Zhu.

"What can he mean, his net worth and life are in Qingzhou City." Song Degang shook his head and said.

"Qingzhou City, I can give it to him. But what can he give me? Zhang Zhun also said cheerfully.

If you don't give up Qingzhou City, it is absolutely impossible. Qingzhou City is where the Heng Wangfu is located, and the Heng King must go back to the Heng Wangfu to live, otherwise, the royal family will have no face, and Emperor Chongzhen will definitely not be able to step down. The Tiger Ben Army controls the Hengwang Mansion, which will only provoke a steady stream of attacks, and there is no need for that. The valuable things in Qingzhou City, in the past ten days, everything that can be moved has been moved. Leaving Zhu Dadian an empty city, it's no big deal. The key is what kind of price Zhu Dadian is willing to use in exchange for Qingzhou City.

"What do you want to need?" Song Degang said.

"I want this." Zhang Zhun unceremoniously took out a piece of paper.

Song Degang took it and looked at it, shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Zhu Dadian will definitely cry when he sees this piece of paper. However, there is no way, if he wants to recapture Qingzhou City, he must agree to Zhang Zhun's request. If he couldn't let King Heng go back to Qingzhou City, the brain on his head would definitely not be saved. That's right, it is indeed not your Zhu Dadian's responsibility to lose Qingzhou City, but it took you half a month to recover Qingzhou City, that's your problem. Between his life and this piece of paper, Zhu Dadian naturally knows how to choose.

In fact, it is not too much to seriously study Zhang Zhun's requirements.

The first request was to give Zhang Zhun 500 war horses.

There's nothing to say, Zhang Zhun stared at Zhu Dadian's riding camp. How many war horses are left in the cavalry camp, Zhang Zhun can calculate clearly. He has been working as a rich man for the past few days, specifically counting the number of war horses in the cavalry camp. These 500 war horses are equivalent to emptying the cavalry camp.

This point is not unacceptable to Zhu Dadian. Five hundred war horses, it is difficult for Zhang Zhun to get his hands on them, but he Zhu Dadian has no difficulty. As long as there was money, the Ming army could buy a large number of war horses from the Mongol tribes. Five hundred war horses, as long as 10,000 taels of silver, can be directly replenished from Shanxi to Shandong.

The second demand is to acquiesce to the control of the Huben army over the Laizhou capital.

This one...... It seems to be a fact already. Even if Zhu Dadian didn't want to admit it, there was no way. He didn't admit it, so the only way to go to war was to continue. Continue to fight all the way from Jinan City to Laizhou City. Zhang Zhun is barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes anyway, and if he fights along the way, even if the Tiger Ben Army is consumed, the imperial court will be almost finished. Even if the court is not finished, he Zhu Dadian will definitely be finished.

The third requirement is that Zhu Dadian arrange for Liu Zeqing or Song Degang to lead the army to garrison Qingzhou Mansion.

This is, of course, to create a buffer zone. Zhang Zhun and Song Degang have a relationship, and Song Degang is stationed in Qingzhou Mansion, which is conducive to communication between the two sides. As for Liu Zeqing, although he has no friendship, Liu Zeqing also knows that Zhang Zhun is powerful, stationed in Qingzhou Mansion, he will only obediently look at his own one-third of an acre, and he will never take the initiative to provoke Zhang Zhun if he has nothing to do.

In fact, such an arrangement is also beneficial to Zhu Dadian. There is a buffer zone between the two sides, at least there will be no friction as often. Without friction, everyone can live with peace of mind and wipe their buttocks. Of course, if there is another governor of Shandong, it will be a different matter.

As for Liu Zeqing and Song Degang...... Do the two of them have a choice? Whether Zhang Zhun asked them to garrison Qingzhou Mansion, or Zhu Dadian asked them to garrison Qingzhou Mansion, both of them had to obediently obey orders. Whoever it is, it's the two of them who can't afford to mess with.