For Huai Xiang Meng Chuliang, he didn't expect that the court would sit down calmly to negotiate, and the result was negotiated later.

In fact, the result is not satisfactory, the three-month armistice agreement is better than nothing, the war should still be fought, and the world will not rest because of this. Both sides didn't put too much thought into this armistice agreement, and Meng Chuliang even forgot what the specific content of the agreement was.

Whatever he is.

After negotiating the agreement, Meng Chuliang and Zhou Ying were about to lead the envoy team back to Huaidi, and they would arrive soon after crossing the river, but Meng Chuliang was not in a hurry to leave.

Meng Chuliang asked to see the new emperor and the forward general Liu Yu again, but he didn't get it, Meng Chuliang didn't care at all about not seeing the new emperor, the new emperor had few opportunities to show his face, but he still didn't mind Liu Yu, the most powerful opponent he had ever encountered.

On the evening of the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, Meng Chuliang arranged for the envoys to pack up, and Zhou Ying also came back that night. In this war for the world, not only did the imperial court place fine works in the Huai army, but the Huai King made more detailed works in the imperial army, but none of these fine works brought back the news of Liu Yu's surprise attack to the south. However, the imperial army had mastered all the movements of the Huai army's military operations.

"That Liu Wenyan, what a big shelf." Zhou Ying heard that Meng Chuliang hadn't seen Liu Yu, and said a little angrily.

"It doesn't matter if you can't see him, seeing him alone will not turn the tide of the battle because of this, on the contrary, you can't see him, maybe you still retain a little mystery, and you will pay more attention to it next time." Meng Chuliang seemed to finish thinking about it, and suddenly looked at Zhou Ying, "Wenliang." Something for you to do. Is it done? ”

"Hmm."

Zhou Ying suddenly smiled treacherously. nodded. Closely guard a secret.

In fact, what Meng Chuliang asked him to do was to get the patterns of the new weapons of the imperial army and secretly transport them out of Yangzhou City.

As long as there are the secret weapon drawings of the imperial army, the Huai army can also be manufactured in large quantities, and this war will not be one-sided in the previous year.

Huaidi's meticulous work cost a lot to get the opportunity to get in touch with the new weapons research institute, and then buy the top-secret materials and send them out of the city, all of which tested the Huai army's ability to do great things. Facts have proved that as long as you have money, it is easy to do things, and Liu Wenyan's secrecy work does not seem to be doing very well.

"Meng Xiangguo, there is one more thing, I don't know whether to say it or not." Zhou Ying said suddenly.

"Speak." Meng Chuliang didn't talk nonsense, and said indifferently.

Zhou Ying said cautiously: "It is reported that Liu Wenyan is organizing people to develop new weapons again, but this time it is more secret, and there are very few people who have come into contact with this new weapon, and there is no way to win it over, whether it is ......?"

"Any news?" Meng Chuliang asked.

"It's a bit of a wind, but not exactly. It is said that the new weapons are also related to firearms. It seems that there will be a large area of burning, which is the news that we have come back from the risk of death. ”

Meng Chuliang frowned. He couldn't understand Liu Yu's purpose. Studying the musket can already make the imperial army invincible, and then study, does he have that ability?

Before Meng Chuliang saw the musket, he thought it was a very mysterious thing, but later found that it felt like it was just a transformation of the firecracker, and he didn't expect that the transformed firearm would have so much power, and this powerful but ineffective weapon in the past was not in his eyes at all. As for the artillery, Liu Yu only turned the cannon that originally fired lead pellets into sulfur shells, but this slight change was very effective, and with other weapons, Meng Chuliang couldn't think of anything else worth transforming.

As for the invention of new weapons, Meng Chuliang felt that Liu Yu, as the son of an official family, might not have that ability.

"Burning weapons? How can it be judged? Meng Chuliang asked.

"It's also the news that I got from the words of the core members of the research weapons, they are very interested in something that can burn quickly, by the way, and this!" Zhou Ying took out something that looked like rags, opened it, and it looked like it was no longer burned, and he couldn't tell what kind of thing this small piece of blackened broken steps came from.

"What is this?" Meng Chuliang looked at a few rags and didn't know the point.

Zhou Ying explained: "These are obtained from Liu Wenyan's weapons research institute, and they seem to be left over from the research of new weapons, as for what can be done, I still don't know." ”

Meng Chuliang looked at it again, and he couldn't form a clue at all, these didn't look very light, but they seemed to be very fire-resistant, and they were burned to gray and black, but they were still very strong, and they could only be torn off by tearing hard. Throwing the broken steps into the fire, and it didn't burn quickly, shows that the cloth is very fire-resistant, and there is no other clue to it.

Zhou Ying looked at Meng Chuliang eagerly, hoping to get a definite answer from Meng Chuliang. But Zhou Ying was disappointed, and Meng Chuliang didn't see why.

Meng Chuliang smiled bitterly: "Liu Wenyan is looking for something that can be burned, won't it be just to burn these cloths?" Or did he want to revamp the artillery and replace it with something else that would be easier to burn? Forget Wenliang, Yangzhou City is not peaceful after all, and if the people on the court find out about our purpose, they will not let us leave easily. Tomorrow we will leave for Huaidi to report the news to the emperor. ”

There are no two masters in the country, and now there are two main masters in the world, as long as one of them is not inferior, this war will continue until the winner is decided. Originally, King Huai was called the emperor, even if he couldn't win the world, he would be able to hold Huai Di as the Son of Heaven of Huai Land, or the north and south would be separated, it would be no problem, but now King Huai is going in an increasingly unfavorable direction. Even if they have ten percent confidence in King Huai and the Huai army, they now have to reduce their confidence in victory to fifty percent.

No one knows what will happen after the beginning of spring.

Meng Chuliang left with the envoy on the fourteenth day of the first month, and the court sent to see him off was still the generalissimo Chai Jin, who was a little too enthusiastic, and when it came to the most reluctant, he also specially said that it was Liu Yu, the vanguard of the army, and realized that the members of the envoy group would go back to visit relatives on the Shangyuan Festival, so the armistice agreement was negotiated as soon as possible.

When he went out of the city and saw that Chai Jin was sent off from afar, Zhou Ying couldn't help muttering in a low voice: "I don't know if he is really stupid or fake." ”

It is very clever for the imperial court to send Chai Jin to negotiate, but this also proves that the imperial court does not have the sincerity of peace talks, which is actually very similar to King Huai. Their team of envoys was not here to negotiate in the first place.

From Yangzhou City to the riverside. It only takes an hour or two to walk slowly. Now ride the horse. Faster. Hearing Zhou Ying's complaint, Meng Chuliang glanced at him, obviously the future son-in-law of King Huai had some contempt for Chai Jin. Chai Jin, although he is very stupid on the surface, as long as he has dealt with him, he will find his connotation, if no one finds Chai Jin's advantages, a stupid person like Chai Jin will not be in the position of rebelling against the generalissimo, and he is doing a good job.

"On the boat side. Is there any progress these days? Meng Chuliang asked suddenly.

At this time, the envoy team had already left the south gate of Yangzhou for a while, and there was no large-scale transfer on the way, except for a few guards escorted by the imperial army. Now the imperial court's defense line in Yangzhou is still dominated by a city in Yangzhou.

"When our army went south, even if the ships in the north of the river were not requisitioned, they were all burned, and now the imperial court is only researching new weapons, and there is no intention of building ships, maybe a group of ships will be transferred from other cities along the river these days." Zhou Ying said, "But according to the students' guesses. Even if the imperial army wanted to take the route to the south, it would not go directly south from Yangzhou. ”

King Huai's intelligence work in the north is very good, and the court can't hide King Huai's eyeliner if there is any wind and grass. For example, the manpower and material resources used to transfer ships or build ships are huge, and they cannot hide it if they want to. If you say no, then it's probably true.

"Wenliang, are you saying that Liu Wenyan will lead the army directly from the southwest of Jizhou to avoid the Huai army's river defense?"

"Wouldn't he?" Zhou Ying said, "If he goes directly south from Yangzhou, how many elite soldiers and good generals he will be buried on the river, the northerners are not accustomed to water warfare, if our mighty fleet cooperates with the artillery studied by Liu Wenyan......"

Meng Chuliang glanced at Zhou Ying and said, "Being in the enemy territory, you can't talk nonsense!" ”

King Huai's giant fleet is the secret weapon of King Huai's reversal of defeat, as long as the imperial army dares to go south from the river, as long as it is caught by the sailors of the Huai army, it will definitely beat the water dog, this time the water dog is really the water dog. Most of the northerners are not accustomed to water, and even if they are accustomed to water, the big ship suppresses the small boat, and it does not help to have muskets, and the artillery cannot exert any power at all in the small boat.

Zhou Ying suddenly seemed to think about it: "Xiangguo, today's students heard a news, saying that someone in Yangzhou City fell from a high height and broke his bones, will there be anything strange?" ”

"Who fell to his death?"

Zhou Ying shook his head and said: "I don't know, it seems that I jumped from the city tower and died. Later, looking at the cautious appearance of the imperial court, it is not quite like it, do you say that this has anything to do with this war? ”

Chen soldiers from the north and south were on the shore, and suddenly a soldier committed suicide by jumping off the city tower, which was very strange, but after thinking about it, there was not much strangeness.

Now it is a cold winter, and the city wall of Yangzhou City has been in disrepair for many years, even if a person falls down, it is not uncommon, Meng Chuliang was about to carefully consider whether this matter is related to the war, and he saw from a distance that the soldiers and horses seemed to be mobilized on the riverside. A young man he had seen before, on a horse, escorted by a group of guards, seemed to be waiting for the arrival of the envoy of the King of Huai.

Liu Wenyan.

"Sure enough, it's him." Meng Chuliang couldn't help sighing.

Liu Yu was not waiting for Meng Chuliang and his entourage, Liu Yu was inspecting the Jiangfang by the river, and when he heard that the team of the envoys of King Huai was coming here, he dropped by. For Liu Yu, he also misses the opponent he met in Jiankang City, and it is difficult not to pay attention to his opponent in chess.

"Huai Xiang, it's time to call the Minister of State." Liu Yu got off the horse to greet him, and said with a smile, "This general Liu Wenyan is polite." ”

The last time Meng Chuliang saw Liu Yu, he felt that although he had a momentum, he was not yet at the point of turning his hands into clouds and turning his hands into rain, and now it has only been two months, and Liu Yu has jumped from a small pawn with only power and no experience in leading troops to an absolute commander who changes the situation of the war. Meng Chuliang finally realized that he hadn't looked away at the beginning.

"Fortunately, fortunately." For Meng Chuliang, it doesn't matter who Liu Yu is, he wants to finish the original game of chess.

After playing that game of chess, there is still a game of chess waiting for them.

"Chess?" As soon as Meng Chuliang said, Liu Yu was stunned for a moment, and then smiled, "It's just an endgame, it shouldn't be anything important, it's better to calm down the world in the future, let's sit down and finish it well, and today we will replace the wine with tea and send Huai Xiang across the river!" (To be continued......)