Li Shenfu bowed his head and was silent, Wang Jun knew his worries, and said: "Why don't you send someone to talk to Xu Shiji, and see what conditions he needs to let the prince go to Hanzhong, what does the prince think?" ”

"Will he say yes?" There was a clear lack of confidence in Li Shenfu's tone. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"This ..... It's hard to say about his subordinates, but when he attacked Luoyang, didn't Zhang Xuan also let King Qin go? King Qin's army withdrew from Hangu Pass safely, there is a precedent ahead, it can't be said that it is impossible at all, the key is that the prince wants to send someone to talk, if the other party is willing to agree to let us withdraw to Hanzhong, I think the general conditions can be agreed. ”

Just then, there was a 'Boom! There was a loud bang, which frightened Li Shenfu to stand up, and a personal soldier ran in and said, "Lord Wang, the Xicheng Tower has collapsed." ”

The collapse of the Xicheng Tower undoubtedly crushed the last trace of luck in Li Shenfu's heart, and he finally nodded, "Okay! I'll send someone to talk to Xu Shiji. ”

........

Li Shenfu did not let Wang Jun go out of the city to negotiate for him, but let one of his henchmen and soldiers climb down from the east city wall under the cover of night, and went to the camp of the Zhou army.

When the day was almost dawn, the personal soldiers sent by Li Shenfu finally returned, he was worried about kneeling down and bowing, took out a letter and handed it to Li Shenfu, "This is Xu Shiji's handwritten letter to the prince, please take a look at it." ”

Li Shenfu snatched the letter, approached the light and read it impatiently, his face was cloudy, at this time, Wang Jun also came over and asked in a low voice: "Lord Wang, what do you say?" ”

Li Shenfu didn't know whether he was happy or nervous, and his voice trembled slightly, "He promised me to return to Hanzhong, and put forward three conditions, one is to close the treasury, and all food materials are not allowed to be taken away, only dry food for seven days is allowed." ”

"It's only seven days of dry food, it's far from enough!" Wang Jun frowned.

Li Shenfu looked at the letter again: "Seven days is counted from Pu'an County, and he allowed us to replenish once in Zitong County, Pu'an County. ”

"Even so, I was very nervous, and I had to march urgently to barely get out of Shu Dao."

"The conditions are indeed very harsh, the second condition is that we are not allowed to bring long weapons, bows and crossbows, and we are not allowed to wear armor, except for generals who can ride horses, and the army is not allowed to bring war horses and livestock, and we can only walk through the Jianmen Road with swords."

"What about the third condition?" Wang Jun asked again.

"The third condition is time, which requires us to leave before dark tomorrow night, otherwise we will surround Beicheng."

The most stringent of these three conditions is the first condition, if you wear armor and helmets, and travel reloaded, carrying seven days of dry food is also the limit, and you can't take it if you have more, and it takes at least nine days to go to Jiange to Hanzhong, so the food for seven days is very tight, but now there is a second condition, they must travel lightly, then they can carry ten days of dry food, if there is ten days of dry food, then it is not a big problem to go to Hanzhong.

Therefore, Li Shenfu was deeply embarrassed, Wang Jun thought about it and smiled: "Actually, there is no way to solve it. ”

Li Shenfu hurriedly asked, "What way?" ”

"First of all, such harsh conditions show that Xu Shiji really let us go north, if the conditions are very relaxed, I suspect that he is not sincere."

Li Shenfu nodded, "You are right, the conditions are too lenient, I can't believe it, but how to solve the food problem?" ”

"Lord, he said that seven days of dry food refers to from Pu'an County to Hanzhong, but we also bring seven days of dry food from Chengdu to Pu'an County, and when we arrive in Pu'an County, we consume up to four days of dry food, and there are three days of dry food in hand, plus seven days of supplies, that is ten days, and my subordinates feel that Xu Shiji is saying this, not only we are allowed to bring seven days of dry food, he must also know that seven days of dry food is not enough."

After a pause, Li Shenfu said again: "Another plan is that after the supply in Pu'an County, we will disband another 5,000 Bashu soldiers, so that there will be a lot more food in our hands, and it will be enough to support us to get out of Shu Road." ”

Li Shenfu remembered that this was a method that Li Xiaogong had used in Fushui, and he sighed for a while and said, "I really don't know if I should believe him or not?" ”

"But does the prince have any other choice?"

Li Shenfu's expression darkened, he really had no choice, he walked a few steps with his hands in his hands, and suddenly said: "What about Chai Shao?" ”

Wang Jun sneered, "Your subordinates can dispose of him." ”

Li Shenfu was taken aback, "He is a colt, you must not kill him." ”

"Don't worry! Subordinates won't kill him. ”

Wang Jun whispered a few words in Li Shenfu's ear, Li Shenfu nodded, this method is good, he repeatedly told him not to let Chai Shao have an accident, Wang Jun agreed one by one.

........

The opportunistic attack of the Zhou army stopped at dawn, the huge trebuchet also withdrew the big ship, the fleet left Chengdu and returned to the Minjiang River, the city was busy, the two rows of houses on the city wall in Xicheng were basically burned down, hundreds of casualties were killed, more than half were soldiers, and many civilians who ran home to check the situation were also burned to death and burned, the Xicheng tower was also burned and collapsed, and the two warehouses on the head of the city were burned to the ground, and the losses were heavy.

After dawn, the vicinity of Xicheng was in shambles, full of ruins and broken walls, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of burning, and thousands of soldiers were busy cleaning up the mess above and below the city.

Just after noon, Chai Shao took more than a dozen officials to patrol around, followed by dozens of soldiers, Chai Shao also had a thousand soldiers under him, mainly county soldiers, although Chai Shao wanted to seize the military power of Li Shenfu, but the Son of Heaven had not yet arrived, and he could only endure it temporarily.

"How many of you?"

Chai Shao pointed at several soldiers with a horsewhip, and saw four soldiers carrying a wooden piece with the thickness of a bowl, which made Chai Shao angry.

The four soldiers were so frightened that they hurriedly put down the wood, and Chai Shao was about to reprimand, but found that there were thousands of soldiers lying crookedly under the city wall, all of them lazy and unfocused, in comparison, the four people carrying the wood were not bad.

Chai Shao had to hate and say: "Just carry the wood alone, and the others will do other things." ”

The three soldiers hurriedly turned around and ran away, leaving only one person listlessly dragging the wood, all the way down, Chai Shao's anger grew bigger and bigger, the soldiers who rummaged for people's wealth, the soldiers who gathered to gamble, the city winch was only guarded by two soldiers, but there were nearly a thousand soldiers deployed under the city gate, and many soldiers on duty didn't even know where their posts were, so they randomly found a place to sit down and rest.

Chai Shao was almost angry, Li Shenfu was not allowed to ask about military affairs, but the defense he deployed was disorganized, morale was low, military discipline was sloppy, and the soldiers' work efficiency was extremely low, which really made Chai Shao unbearable, if the Zhou army was officially attacking last night, I am afraid that Chengdu has fallen now, and it is absolutely impossible to go on like this, Chai Shao finally couldn't tolerate it anymore, he went down to the city, whipped his horse and ran towards the military office.

Chai Shao rushed into the military office angrily, and rushed straight to the front of the official room, and the two personal soldiers hurriedly stopped him, "Please Chai Shangshu stop!" ”

"Where is your lord? I want to see him. ”

"The prince is not in the official room."

At this time, Wang Jun walked over from the side, "Chai Shangshu is looking for the prince?" ”

Chai Shao was very disgusted with Wang Jun, a dog-headed military advisor, not to mention the unknown origin, and came up with some bad ideas, but there was no plan to defend the city, especially the existence of this person, which made it very difficult for him to seize the military power of Li Shenfu, and Chai Shao hated him even more.

"I'm looking for the prince, where is he?"

"The prince is discussing the military situation with me in the inner hall, and it is inconvenient to see Chai Shangshu now, so why don't you wait for someone to report Shangshu."

Since Chai Shao had already rushed into the military office, where could he wait a little longer, he turned around and strode towards the inner hall, Wang Jun hurriedly shouted: "Shangshu, please stay!" Please stay! ”

Chai Shao ignored him and rushed into the inner hall in one breath, only to find that the inner hall was empty, and there was no one, where was the figure of Li Shenfu, Chai Shao couldn't help but be stunned, what was going on?

At this moment, a soldier suddenly rushed in from outside the inner hall, and before Chai Shao could react, the soldier raised his stick and fell, and knocked him unconscious with a stick, and immediately more than a dozen soldiers came up to tie his hands and feet, and his mouth was also blocked, and he put a bag on his head.

Li Shenfu and Wang Jun walked in from outside, and Li Shenfu asked a little worriedly, "He doesn't matter, right?" ”

"Don't worry! Wait a while for his subordinates to get him drunk with spirits, and when he wakes up, it's been three days, anyway, I won't betray him, let him go to a reliable family, and then he will come back by himself if he wants to go back to Chang'an, but I persuade the prince to hand him over to Zhou Jun better, as long as Zhou Jun doesn't let him go, the court can't know what happened, what does the prince think? ”

Li Shenfu pondered for a moment, then finally nodded, "Okay then! Hand him over to Zhou Jun. ”