Chapter 912: Wu Begging's Concession
Since Xiao Zhizhou brought the navy of the Great Song Dynasty, in Xiao Dilie's opinion, as long as he let the navy of the Great Song Dynasty fire a few cannons at the Jurchens, and then go ashore to start the Jurchens, but now Xiao Zhizhou actually ventured into Kaizhou City, which made him a little puzzled.
"This matter is a long story, and I ask General Xiao to take me to meet His Royal Highness the Prince, and then you will understand my intention." When Xiao Zhizhou said this, he couldn't help but show a little wry smile on his face, he didn't plan to enter the city, but he didn't expect the generals of the Great Song Dynasty to discuss a plan, which needed the cooperation of the Liao army in the city, and it happened that he was also in the fleet, so it was most suitable for him to come forward as this envoy.
Hearing this, Xiao Dilie also saw that Xiao Zhizhou didn't seem to be lying, and there were only a few of them, even if they saw the crown prince, there was no danger, so after hesitating for a moment, he finally nodded and agreed to take them to see Yelu Yanxi.
Yelu Yanxi has also been frightened for the past few days, and he can't sleep at night, and even if he finally falls asleep, he is often awakened by nightmares, and he is always worried about being killed by the Jurchens outside the city. Tonight is no exception, Yelu Yanxi finally fell asleep in the second half of the night, but after sleeping for a while, he had another nightmare of a Jurchen catching him, and as a result, he jumped up in a cold sweat in fright, and then he couldn't sleep anyway.
It was also when Yelu Yanxi tossed and turned in bed and couldn't fall asleep, Xiao Dilie and Xiao Zhizhou finally came outside to ask to see, Yelu Yanxi heard that Xiao Dilie actually came to see him at this time, and brought someone to him, and his heart was very strange, anyway, he couldn't sleep, so he put on his clothes and summoned the two in the living room.
"Minister! Xiao Wenyuan, the governor of Chenzhou, visited His Royal Highness the Prince! I saw Xiao Zhizhou enter the living room and see Yelu Yanxi, and immediately trotted forward and saluted.
"Huh? Xiao Zhizhou, why are you here? Sure enough, Yelu Yanxi was also very surprised when he saw Xiao Zhizhou.
"Prince Qiyu. The minister heard that the prince was trapped, so he persuaded the Great Song Dynasty to send troops to rescue him...... "When Xiao Zhizhou saw Yelu Yanxi, he immediately stepped forward and spoke, and the first sentence pointed out his own merits, and then told him how he persuaded the Great Song army, of course, the words highlighted his own merits in this matter.
"Good! All right! Xiao Zhizhou really deserves to be the pillar of my Daliao. In this time of crisis, Xiao Zhizhou was able to persuade the army of the Great Song Dynasty to come to the rescue, which really pleased me! Yelu Yanxi had long been frightened by the Jurchens outside the city, and now when he heard that Xiao Zhizhou had brought the army of the Great Song Dynasty to the rescue, he immediately showed a ecstatic expression and said, now as long as he can save him, he doesn't care about any face problems.
"Thank you for the compliments of His Royal Highness the Prince, the lower officials are just doing their duty as a courtier." When Xiao Zhizhou heard Yelu Yanxi's praise, his heart was already happy. However, on the surface, he still made a righteous and awe-inspiring expression.
"Xiao Aiqing is too polite, by the way, where are the reinforcements of the Great Song Dynasty, when will they be able to drive away the Jurchens outside the city?" Yelu Yanxi praised Xiao Zhizhou again, and then asked impatiently.
"Your Highness, the reinforcements of the Great Song Dynasty are on the open sea south of the city, and they can be killed at any time, but they want to teach the Jurchens a hard lesson. So he came up with a plan, which allowed the minister to enter the city. Discuss with Your Highness, and if Your Highness agrees, the minister will immediately rush back overnight and inform them to attack tomorrow! Xiao Zhizhou said excitedly at this time, if he could save Yelu Yanxi immediately, and at the same time eliminate a large number of Jurchens. Then his credit is too great, and the loss of some face is nothing at all.
"What kind of strategy, Xiao Zhizhou, please tell me quickly!" Yelu Yanxi said eagerly again.
"This strategy is actually very simple, you only need His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to order the defenders in the city to cooperate......" Xiao Zhizhou then explained the strategy formulated by the Great Song Navy during the day today, and Yelu Yanxi also nodded again and again after hearing it. According to Song Jun's plan, they don't need to exert much force at all, it's just to cooperate with Song Jun to act in a scene, and then it will be up to them to see if the Jurchens outside the city will be fooled?
At the same time, in the Jurchen camp outside the city, Wu Qimai walked out of his big tent and stretched his waist, and then turned his head to look at the Kaizhou city wall that was already shrouded in the morning light not far away, and his face also showed a sneer, a few days ago they received the news of Xizuo, knowing that Yelu Yanxi, the prince of Liao, had come to Kaizhou City, and he and his eldest brother Ah Guta immediately led troops to surround Kaizhou City.
Originally, according to Wu Qimai's plan, he wanted to capture Kaizhou City and then capture Yelu Yanxi alive, which could not only deal a heavy blow to Liao, but also use Yelu Yanxi's identity to exchange a large amount of materials from Liao, which can be said to be a profitable deal.
However, Wu Begging's eldest brother Aguda thinks more long-term than him, in his opinion, it is far from enough to capture Yelu Yanxi alive, for such an important person as Yelu Yanxi, every cent of value on him must be squeezed dry, so they formulated a plan to encircle and send reinforcements, and now he is leading 3,000 people to besiege Kaizhou City, but Aguda has taken 2,000 people to quietly ambush in Liaoyang Mansion to Kaizhou City, as long as the reinforcements of Liaoguo dare to come, they must be given a heavy lesson, At that time, he broke through Kaizhou City, took Yelu Yanxi away, and then slowly negotiated the terms of exchange with the Liao people.
Thinking of the above, Wu Qimai couldn't help but show a smug smile. But at this moment, I suddenly heard a commotion from the barracks, as if someone was arguing, which made Wu Qimai's face sink, and he strode over, only to see that next to a fire where breakfast was being prepared, two groups of Jurchen men were nervously confronting each other, and it seemed that they were about to start fighting if they didn't agree.
"The barracks are heavy, who dares to make trouble here!" Seeing this situation, Wu Qimai immediately roared in a deep voice, in fact, he didn't need to ask him to know that among these two groups of people who were facing each other, the group of Jurchens on the left side of the fire were neatly dressed, and they were also wearing simple leather armor, these people were the people of their Wanyan Department, and the people on the other side were wearing all kinds of fur, and the hairstyle on their heads was also a little different, but it could also be seen that they were Jurchens, but they were obviously different from the people of Wanyan.
"Wu Qimai, we respect your brothers as heroes, so we agreed to raise troops to follow you to attack Liao, but you are too unrighteous, why do your people have fresh broth to drink in the morning, but we can only drink the soup made from the leftover bones gnawed last night?" As soon as Wu Qimai's words fell, I saw that someone in the group of Jurchens who were obviously not Wanyan stood up and said angrily, only to see that this person was tall and burly, and he was black, standing there like an iron tower, and a pair of big eyes like copper bells were also full of anger glaring at Wu Qimai, as if if the other party did not give him a reasonable explanation, he would immediately start beating people.
Seeing this tower-like man, Wu Qimai also had a headache, because the other party's background is extraordinary, his father is the young patriarch of the western part of the sea who has just formed an alliance with their Wanyan Department, Wu Gutu, in recent years, the Liao State has died with their Wanyan Department, although they have not been able to eliminate them, but it has also made the Wanyan Department lose a lot of troops, and now there are only more than 3,000 soldiers who can be used to fight, in order to make up for the shortcomings of the lack of manpower, they have to form an alliance with the Jurchens in the western part of the sea.
Haixi is not a big tribe as a whole, but an alliance of Jurchen tribes, this alliance looks loose, but there are hundreds of tribes large and small inside, with a total population of fifty or sixty thousand people, which is a great population supplement for the Wanyan Department, so Ah Guda took a lot of effort to form an alliance with the other party, this is the first time they have jointly sent troops, but out of caution, Haixi only sent two thousand people, and this black bone in front of him is the leader of these two thousand people, and he is also the son of the leader of Haixi, Although Haixi is only a loose tribal alliance, and the leader of the alliance is not fixed, the father of the black bone still has a huge influence in Haixi, and if he really offends him, I am afraid that their alliance that is not strong will collapse.
Thinking of this, Wu Qimai had no choice but to show a faint smile at the black bone protrusion and said: "Brother black bone protrusion, we are both allies and brothers, if you have any dissatisfaction, just mention it to me directly, there is no need to quarrel with the people below!" ”
"I don't want to quarrel either, but since you Wanyan Department invited us to send troops, then we are your guests, but your Wanyan Department actually gave the guests to eat the remaining bones, but you yourself ate good meat, is this the hospitality of your Wanyan Department?" Although the black bone protrusion looks very rude on the surface, he is actually quite intelligent, otherwise his father would not have sent him to lead the troops, and he also has a task, that is, to test the true attitude of the Wanyan Ministry towards their western part of the sea, after all, the reputation of the Wanyan Department in recent years has not been very good, and even at the beginning, the black bone protrusion was actually against forming an alliance with the Wanyan Ministry, but the other tribes in the alliance were lured by the Wanyan Ministry, and most of them agreed to form an alliance, so he couldn't oppose it.
"Brother Wugutu, this must be the negligence of the people below, I will let someone replace us with fresh broth, and as for the bone soup, all of them will be eaten by our Wanyan Department!" Wu Qimai retreated again, in order to maintain the alliance between the two departments, he also had to make some concessions, especially at this critical moment, but he was ruthless in his heart, it was imperative for them to complete the face of the Haixi tribe, as long as the Haixi tribe was annexed, it would definitely make the Wugutu father and son look good.
Seeing Wu begging to give in, Wu Gutu couldn't say anything, but at this moment, I saw a Jurchen spy rushing into the camp and reporting loudly: "General Qiyu, the Liao army in Kaizhou City is moving!" (To be continued.) )