Chapter 209: Murder with a knife
The victory of the Baekje people greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers in Baekje Castle, and the king of Baekje happily gathered his men to discuss how to regain the advantage on the battlefield.
The minister of state, who had just made a great achievement, smiled and said: "King, don't we have nearly 20,000 Ma Han captives in our hands, I don't think King Chen should want it, right?" Ask the king to send someone to their camp to negotiate, and let them exchange the Jin army's 500 heads in exchange. Of course, the Jin army designated not to give it, but the Mahan people were certainly not willing to give up the prisoners. Doesn't this succeed in provoking contradictions between them? Won't we be profiting from the fisherman? ”
The king of Baekje nodded and instructed the minister to handle the matter. Baekje's envoys soon arrived at the Mahan camp.
Yi said to King Chen with a crying face: "King, Baekje has sent someone to release our prisoners, but we can't agree to the conditions, so please make a decision." ”
King Jin hurried into the big tent and saw the Baekje envoy. He himself felt that he was a king, and he had to hold it calmly and steadily. He put on the posture of a king and pretended to say, "Who are you?" ”
The Baekje envoy smiled and said, "I am the envoy of Baekje who came to negotiate with you, but your general can't be the master, so I'll tell you, right?" As long as you take the 500 heads of the Jin army, we will release 20,000 of your prisoners. ”
After listening to the other party's conditions, King Chen's heart was about to spit out, and he wanted 500 heads for the Jin army? Not to mention five hundred, even five he can't do it. But he coveted 20,000 captives, and if he exchanged 500 horses and Han heads, he would definitely agree to come down.
The Baekje envoy saw Ma Han's worries and hurriedly said, "If you don't agree, it's okay, we will cut down some of the prisoners every day." Until we finish cutting, we don't have that much food anyway, so we can save a lot of food. ”
King Jin had no choice but to agree first, and wait for the Baekje people to leave. He summoned his generals and advisers to discuss countermeasures. Everybody, you look at me, I can't think of anything you pay attention to.
Yi borrowed and said: "King, do you want to discuss with the Jin army." ”
King Chen was on fire at that time, "Discuss a fart!" You bastards. I think I'm amazing, what can we take Baekje City, and what can our army be invincible in the world, if I don't fucking run fast this time, I'll die. ”
King Chen is very aggrieved. If you hadn't fallen into someone else's trap. Mahan won't be so miserable! In the end, King Chen had no choice but to send an envoy to discuss with the Jin army. At this time, Tao Kan was formulating a military plan with his subordinates, and suddenly heard the soldiers tell him that the envoy of Ma Han asked to see him, and he hurriedly put away the map and sent the envoy in.
Tao Kan, the commander of the Jin army, was not idle during the Great War, and kept inquiring about the situation in Baekje City in many ways. Although the city of Baekje is besieged. But the walls were strong and heavily guarded.
For the defeat of the Mahan people. Tao Kan was not surprised. It's only natural to lose a battle. Some generals were also happy to run into the military tent and said; "General, how can Ma Han succeed this time?"
Soon the envoy of Ma Han came to the Jin army camp to ask for a meeting, and Tao Kan did not embarrass the other party. Even the envoy of Ma Han himself has no face to say goodbye to Tao Kan, but it can't be seen if he doesn't see it! His own people are in the hands of Baekje, and there is no hope for his army at the moment.
Although the Mahan people have always been very capable, they say that they can take Baekje without the Jin army. You don't need people to send troops, give you a map, you say it's a frame-up. This time, the city was not taken, and more than 30,000 horses were lost. The more the envoy thought about it, the more angry he became, these useless things. It was useless to be angry, Ma Han's troops were insufficient, and the prisoners were saved, so he had to be cheeky and beg the Jin army to send troops.
The envoy came up and bowed deeply and said: "Dashuai, I am very grateful for not bothering with the villain, saying that 1,000 to 10,000 is my Ma Han's fault, I hope that Dashuai will send troops to rescue each other in the face of the friendship of the two families." ”
Tao Kan didn't laugh at the Ma Han envoy, but asked, "Is there anything wrong with the envoy looking for Ben Jiang so late?" ”
The Ma Han envoy didn't say anything, Tao Kan felt very strange, but he didn't know what the reason was. In the end, the envoy stubbornly said: "Dashuai, someone from Baekje City said that as long as the Jin army's 500 heads were released, 20,000 prisoners of my Ma Han would be released. ”
Tao Kan became angry when he heard this, slapped the table and said, "It's too much of a deception!" ”
Seeing that the commander of the Jin army was angry, the envoy hurriedly said: "The marshal is angry! The handsome man was angry. Hurriedly knelt down to apologize, and the Mahan envoy was frightened.
Captain Yao Gezhong said angrily: "General, there are no good people in Ma Han in your humble position, and you still treat them as good people!" I see that if we pull out and kill, we will immediately send troops to destroy the Mahan army first and then take Baekje. ”
Yao Gezhong, Li Xiong and a large number of captains and lieutenants have all exploded!
At this time, Tao Kan shouted: "Stop arguing! Isn't it just 500 heads? Can we have tens of thousands of soldiers in Dajin lack 500 heads? ”
He helped the envoy of Ma Han up and said: "We can all understand that King Chen is eager to save people's hearts, and it is Baekje's plan to divide the Jin army with 500 heads!" Have you ever thought about it? What if you kill 500 of our army and can't get your people? We'll lose a lot of money by then! ”
Tao Kan learned through a period of time and knew that the people on the peninsula were ungrateful, and there was one who had spoken. Samhan, Baekje, and Gogo-yeo are all a bunch of bastards.
The envoy said with a bitter face: "General, what do you think is going to happen?" ”
Tao Kan smiled and said: "Since it is a prisoner who rescued you, it is better to kill five hundred of you, anyway, they will not recognize it." Even if you can't save your people, it's your Ma Han to be buried! I don't know what the messenger thinks? ”
The envoy of Mahan thought to himself how could this be done, but he didn't dare to say it, if he said that, he would have to die here. At this time, Su Guang, who joined the army, secretly said a few words in Tao Kan's ear, Tao Kan nodded and said: "Messenger, otherwise, I will send troops to help you conquer the capital of Baekje, so that your captives will be rescued, but we also have conditions." ”
The envoy was overjoyed when he heard this, and asked, "Commander, please speak?" ”
Tao Kan Shi Ran replied: "One hundred thousand taels of silver." ”
Ma Han's envoy was a little reluctant to hear 100,000 taels of silver, but he had no choice but to agree after hesitating for a long time in order to save Ma Han. And King Chen didn't say anything after knowing it, but he held back a breath of fire and fell ill.
Several generals asked for battle to rescue the prisoners, but King Chen did not say a word, thinking to himself that if you bastards don't listen to you, can I get to this point today? If I listen to you this time, then Ma Han will have to finish the fun. King Chen had no choice but to follow Tao Kan's instructions to take out 100,000 taels of silver from his army's salary and send it to the camp of the Jin army.
Tao Kan took other people's money and had to eliminate disasters for others, he had already thought of countermeasures, and after 100,000 taels of silver entered the military camp, Tao Kan immediately ordered Su Guang, who joined the army, to go to the capital of Baekje
What to exchange hostages? As soon as Baekje released Mahan's captives, the Great Jin immediately withdrew its troops.
Su Guang, who joined the army, was very powerful, sharp-toothed, and very talented in debate. When the king of Baekje saw that the Jin army had sent a young man in his twenties, he felt much more relieved. The civil and military officials of Baekje stood on both sides and were imposing, and Su Guang, who joined the army, said the terms of exchange.
The king of Baekje laughed and said, "Do you think I replied to you to withdraw from the army?" ”
Su Guang said disapprenously: "King, can you think about it?" If you don't let the prisoners go, it will only force our Jin army to attack. You don't know how powerful the soldiers of our army are, do you? Don't compare the strength of Ma Han's army with our Great Jin army. If we attack the city, you will have nothing. ”
"The reason why we haven't attacked all this time is because of the incompetence of the Mahan people, and we don't need to die for such people anyway. To tell you the truth, in order for us to send troops and horses, Han gave us 100,000 taels of silver. ”
When the king of Baekje heard this, he was moved, but he also wanted to hear the opinions of others. The king of Baekje glanced at the minister of state and the general Park In-seok. The prime minister has not spoken, he is also thinking, he knows very well what the king of Baekje means. It would be better if the Jin army retreated. He had to find out if it was true.
After pondering for a moment, the prime minister said, "We will answer you tomorrow." ”
The next morning, his subordinates reported: "The Jin army has indeed received 100,000 taels of silver from the Mahan people, and the Jin army has packed up their things and prepared to evacuate." The little one also heard that when the Jin army commander was evacuating, a general was killed if he didn't agree. ”
"Do you know why?"
"It seems to be the reason for the lack of money I get."
The prime minister thinks that the situation is true, he thinks that the Jin army also loves money as life, and who in this world does not love money? It's human nature. The prime minister immediately told the king of Baekje his thoughts, and when he went to court again, the king of Baekje agreed to the request of the Jin army.
He was so happy to join the army, but he felt that he had to make them believe in themselves thoroughly. So he took out a piece of paper and said, "My lord, in order for us to keep our promises to each other, we have to sign and draw a pledge." ”
When the king of Baekje saw that a large seal of the Jin Dynasty had been detained on the paper, he was very happy and hurriedly signed, but he was afraid that the other party would regret it. Since sending silver to the Jin army, King Chen withdrew Ma Han's troops. He completely lost confidence in his army, and in order to avoid suffering greater losses, King Chen didn't even need food, grass, and weapons, and retreated with his men and horses, and retreated a hundred miles in one breath before slowing down.
After reaching an agreement with Baekje, the Jin army also began to retreat to the belt according to Tao Kan's plan. At this time, the Baekje people were also arranged, and after Su Guang left, Baekje sent cavalry to secretly ambush five hundred miles outside the county seat of Wonju.
The Mahan people did not expect that there would be ambushes in the retreat, and the Mahan army was ambushed less than five hundred miles from their jurisdiction. When the Mahan army heard a cannon fire and shouted to kill, they immediately lost their hearts and threw down their weapons and fled in all directions. The Mahan army was in disarray, and by protecting King Chen, he fought his way out of a bloody way and fled to Wonju County.
The whole hill is dyed red! There were few tens of thousands of troops left in Mahan, and King Chen arrived in Wonju County with less than 10,000 troops, and in this battle, the main force of Mahan's army was completely annihilated. (To be continued......)