Regardless of whether Ma Hui guessed the result or not, it was useless to continue pondering.

Ai Tang and Ah Li Guo left the big tent, left the camp, and headed towards the Qing army camp. The group had just reached the halfway point when a drizzle began to fall in the gloomy sky. After a while, the drizzle turned into a pouring rain, and the bean-sized raindrops fell to the ground and soon wet the road.

Ali Guoshen walked on the muddy road with one foot and one shallow foot, looking depressed and discouraged.

Now there is no village in front of you, no shop in the back, and no place to hide from the rain.

The heavy rain soaked Ali's clothes, making Ali look like a lost dog. The thick hair was scattered and scattered, and drops of rain were constantly flowing down the hair.

At this time, Ali Guo was in a terrible mood.

"Ouch!"

Suddenly, Ali Guo's feet slipped, his body fell forward, and his sturdy body fell to the ground with a thud.

"Wow!"

The mud splashed everywhere, and Ali Guo landed in the posture of a dog eating, his mouth was full of mud, and his body was also covered with muddy mud, completely becoming a mud figure fished out of the mud.

"Shit weather, shit weather!"

Ali Guo kept scolding, with an indignant expression on his face.

With the support of the guards, Ali Guo stood up cautiously, but he looked nervous, afraid of falling again. Aitang looked at Ah Liguo, who was as embarrassed as a dog, and suddenly had the urge to laugh, but when he thought that he was drenched in the heavy rain, the smile in his heart disappeared cleanly, and was replaced by a thick sense of loss.

Aitang shook his head and sighed, but did not speak.

The group walked forward silently, one foot deep and one shallow, and the speed was very slow.

Arriving at the Qing army station, the heavy rain stopped and the sky cleared.

The golden sunlight penetrated the clouds and sprinkled on the earth, and under the reflection of the water on the ground, the golden patch of the eyes was full of vitality. Ali Guo couldn't be happy, this ghost weather seemed to be specifically aimed at him. After leaving the camp, it began to rain halfway through, but when I arrived at the Qing army station, it stopped raining and began to clear up.

At this moment, Ali Guo's face was covered with mud, and the pieces of mud on his body were still dripping, which formed a strong contrast with the clean and refreshing soldiers in the Qing army station.

"Ahh

Ali Guo couldn't help but sneeze, feeling his head groggy and seemed to have a cold.

Ai Tang shook his head and sighed, secretly saying that today is simply the doom day of Ali Kingdom. When Ali Guo and Ai Tang stood at the gate of the camp, the soldiers standing guard laughed heartily, and even laughed crookedly. The laughter reached Ali Guo's ears, and it was extremely harsh. He frowned and wanted to scold, but thinking of the embarrassment at the moment, he simply stopped talking.

A soldier quickly went to report, and soon Li Zhen came out with Huang Shihai, Yang Banhou and others.

At the same time, Adams followed suit.

Adams looked at Ali Guo's embarrassed and dejected appearance, and stood in place for a moment before suddenly exclaiming, "My God, dear old friend, how did you become like this?" ”

Adams pondered in his heart, wondering if Ali Guo did this on purpose, trying to win Li Zhen's sympathy.

Yang Nengge and Lan Weiwen were also surprised, Adams just lost the battle, Ah Liguo didn't have to torture himself like this? Yang Banhou and Huang Shihai laughed, and Li Zhen immediately shouted: "Whatever you laugh at, shut up." ”

At that moment, the two obediently closed their mouths, not daring to make a sound.

Seeing that Li Zhen stopped his subordinates from ridiculing him, a trace of gratitude rose in his heart. Immediately, Ali Guo said pitifully: "Dear General Li, Aitang and I have become soup chickens, I also fell in the mud and felt uncomfortable, can you let me take a bath in the camp and change into clean and refreshing clothes?" ”

Li Zhen nodded and said, "Yes, I will arrange it for you immediately." ”

Li Zhen instructed Huang Shihai to ask the soldiers to boil water to bathe Ah Liguo and his party, and then prepare clean clothes.

The next step must be a negotiation between the two sides, and Li Zhen didn't want to talk to the dirty Aliguo, so he gave it a convenience. Half an hour later, Ah Liguo, Ai Tang and other accompanying soldiers finished washing up and walked out wearing clean and refreshing clothes. However, there were no suits and shirts in the Qing army camps, and only the clothes of soldiers in the army could be worn.

In the big tent, Li Zhen, A Liguo, Aitang and others sat down separately.

Yang Nengge and Lan Weiwen were absent and were detained by Li Zhen.

Ali Guo took a sip of hot tea and said, "Dear General Li, I would like to express my heavy apologies and condolences to the dead soldiers for His Excellency Adams's impulsive attack on the Qing army garrison. Adams is still in custody, can you give it back to me and let me take it back? Even though Ali knew it would be difficult to bring Adams back without paying the price, he had to try.

Li Zhen asked rhetorically, "Mr. Aliguo, do you think it is possible?" ”

Ali Guo sighed in his heart, knowing that he was going to bleed profusely.

In particular, the person in front of him is arrogant and domineering, belongs to the hardliners, and is not threatened at all. Ali Guo was silent for a moment and asked, "General Li, if you want to redeem Ah Li Guo and the others, what are the conditions?" ”

Li Zhen said with a smile: "It is very simple to redeem all the British prisoners, a fixed price, 100,000 taels of silver, 1,000 breech-loading rifled guns, and 200,000 rounds of ammunition. As long as these three conditions were met, I released the captured British soldiers. However, this was for the captured British soldiers, and Adams had to be counted separately. ”

Ali Guo's brows furrowed, and he secretly scolded Li Zhenshi in his heart.

Li Zhen continued: "Adams is the commander of the British fleet, and he is also the commander of the British and French forces this time, and it is definitely not possible to redeem him according to the standards of ordinary soldiers. Adams alone needed four hundred thousand taels of silver. That means you need to pay 500,000 taels of silver, 1,000 rear decoration rifled guns, and 200,000 rounds of ammunition. ”

"Five hundred thousand taels of silver??"

Ali Guo exclaimed in surprise and said loudly: "So many silver taels, why don't you go and grab it." ”

Li Zhen smiled and said, "Is 500,000 taels a lot?" I think it's still very few. For Mr. Consul, 500,000 taels of silver was just a small amount that could be easily paid. Mr. Aliko, this is quite a fair price. If you don't want to, ask Mr. Alikook to go back and think about it, and then come back and negotiate the price. ”

Ai Tang noticed that Li Zhen only mentioned the British prisoners, and knew that he was about to hemorrhage.

Ai Tang was a little nervous in his heart, but he still asked: "Your Excellency the General, you mentioned that it was the British soldiers who were redeemed, should my French soldiers also redeem the soldiers alone?" ”

"Clever!"

Li Zhen nodded and said: "There is no big man like Adams among the French prisoners, and the price will be lower." I pondered it carefully, and after paying 300,000 taels of silver, 1,000 rifled guns, and 200,000 rounds of ammunition, I released the French soldiers who were held in the battalion. Your Excellency Aitang, this is already quite a fair price, and I believe you will agree. ”

Aitang frowned and said, "Your Excellency General, we don't have a boss, why do we have so much money?" ”

Li Zhen explained with a smile: "The reason is very simple, there is no commander like Adams among the French prisoners, but there are many junior officers. These officers are the future of the French ** team, and they will later be the commanders and marshals of France. Shouldn't the price of such a promising officer be a little more expensive? Good value for money, they are worth the price. ”

The corners of Aitang's mouth twitched, and his heart kept dripping blood, and he said in his heart that Li Zhenzhen could afford to look up to French soldiers.

This time, it's really going to bleed.

ps: two of the three watches;