The camp of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Camp" was set up very quickly, and it began to take shape before the evening, and the soldiers of the logistics team had already begun to make a fire and cook for everyone.

Everyone in the camp was in full swing, but Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin, and others in the Chinese army's tent were calmly surrounding a sand table made according to the terrain near the "Zishi Village", and discussing specific tactics against various materials obtained from reconnaissance some time ago.

I heard Qian Yuanshan say: "According to the various information we got before, although the number of soldiers in this 'Purple Stone Village' is not as large as that of the 'Baihua Village', there are only more than 500 people. But because this village is close to the official road from Youzhou to Ulzhou, Shi Song, the owner of Dazhai, is a thoughtful and good old Jianghu, so it is very sufficient in terms of money, and the supply of minions in the village is very good, and the physical fitness is much stronger than that in the 'Baihua Village'. Good physical fitness also means that his usual training will be more sufficient, and his combat skills should be stronger than that of the rabble in 'Baihuazhai'. In addition, Shi Song knew where to save money and where not to save it, and he invested a lot of money in the weapons and armor of his minions, so his minions should far surpass the minions of the 'Baihua Village' in terms of combat effectiveness. ”

"Yes," Zeng Zhilin replied, "This may be one of the reasons why he was able to take root not very far from Yizhou City and wreak havoc near the official road for a long time." ”

"No matter how tough the bandits are, they are all scum in front of the guns of our 'Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion'" Muttel said disdainfully, "I don't believe that their performance can be much stronger than those minions in the 'Hundred Flowers Village' when the artillery fire hits past." In my opinion......"

"Thirty-fifth brother, don't talk about it," Tang Chao stopped Mutel, who was about to continue, "A cannon fire scattered the opponent's minions, and then chased after him and killed him for a while." It's a pleasure to be like this, but how can we achieve the purpose of our 'tempering action'. In addition to bombardment and pursuit, there is no face-to-face, head-to-head battle, how do you plan to improve the soldiers' will to fight and melee experience? If this battle is just a copy of the experience of the last 'Baihua Village', then why should we run all the way for more than 100 miles to carry out a battle without any exercise, and just let the artillerymen practice shooting in the 'Feilong Village'? Anyway, as long as the artillery is accurate, all that remains is for the infantry to walk over and clean up the mess. ”

Muttel was taught a lesson by Tang Chao, and immediately deflated like a deflated ball -- after the battle of "Baihuazhai" ended, Qian Yuanshan was also present when he made a review of Wang Kunjun and other committee members who welcomed their victorious return, and naturally understood that fighting like last time, even if they won, there was nothing to show off. Just now, he just didn't think that the two brothers, Qian Yuanshan and Zeng Zhilin, valued a group of bandits so much, so he impulsively said a few words of contempt for the enemy.

After teaching Muttel a lesson, Tang Chao said to Qian Yuanshan and Zeng Zhilin: "Shi Song is cautious and old-fashioned, and it is said that he has been in this area for almost 20 years, and he has a lot of experience in the rivers and lakes. In my opinion, he will definitely not be like Bai Fei, who tried to use intrigues and tricks against us before the battle, and after losing the first battle, he shrank in his lair and waited to be annihilated.

I think that with the experience of Bai Fei of 'Baihua Village', after he learned the news of our arrival, his first thought should not be to think about how to win the battle, but probably to send someone to contact us in accordance with the rules of the rivers and lakes. Then, according to our strength and the demands we have put forward, we will decide whether to finally resolve this crisis in a peaceful way, or whether to fight and solve everything by force. ”

Regarding Tang Chao's inference, Qian Yuanshan and Zeng Zhilin both nodded in agreement. Qian Yuanshan said: "The twenty-fourth brother is very reasonable, this Shi Song is indeed far more difficult to deal with than that Bai Fei. ”

"Since Brother Twenty-Four has analyzed this stone pine so thoroughly, there must already be a way to deal with it, right?" Zeng Zhilin interjected.

Tang Chao nodded and said, "There are generally two ways to deal with this kind of person. One is to show weakness, let him believe that your strength is not as good as him, this time he came to just bluff, and wanted to take advantage of the prestige of the last big victory over the 'Baihua Village', and come to his 'Zishi Village' to knock a bamboo bar. In that case, he will naturally not miss the opportunity to destroy us and strengthen himself.

The second is to press forward step by step, making him believe that unless he fights to the death with us, there will be no day of peace in 'Zishi Village'. Only in this case will he change his cautious style and fight with us. ”,

Qian Yuanshan nodded and said, "Last time, we completely wiped out the 'Baihua Village' within a few days, and the other cottages around us are afraid that they have already gotten the news." It is not even ruled out that a few scattered 'Baihuazhai' minions have defected to other cottages to spread the story of the battle between the two sides. Although Bai Fei's character is not very good, 'Baihua Village' is the largest cottage near Youzhou after all, and its strength is not weak. In this case, no matter how much we show weakness, Shi Song will not be able to believe it. So, this first method doesn't work. We can only work on the second method to force Shi Song to take the initiative to find us to compete with him. ”

Speaking of this, Qian Yuanshan paused and turned to Tang Chao: "Since the twenty-fourth brother can summarize these two methods, he must already have a clever plan to make Shi Song take the bait, right?" ”

Tang Chao replied: "I can't talk about the tricks, it's just some immature suggestions, let's discuss it together." So saying, he explained his thoughts to his brothers.

Tang Chao's strategy was approved by the other brothers, and after everyone discussed and perfected the strategy, they began to prepare for the implementation of this strategy.

Although Qian Yuanshan and the others did not think that the cautious Shi Song would come to rob the camp at night, out of habit, the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" remained on high alert on the first night of its stationing in White Horse Mountain. Not only were there open sentry, dark sentry, and mobile sentry, but Mutt and Tang Chao also took turns to be on duty on the watchtower, using night vision devices to observe the situation around the camp.

However, it turned out that Shi Song was indeed as cautious as the brothers had analyzed before, not only did he not send people to rob the camp that night, but even the spies of the "Purple Stone Village" did not dare to approach the camp of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Camp", but peeked into the camp from two arrows away from the camp.

On the second day after the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" arrived at Baima Mountain, at noon on the 16th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, Qian Yuanshan and others, who were discussing matters in the Chinese military tent, received a report from the sentinel, saying that two people had come from outside the camp, claiming to be the messengers of the "Purple Stone Village", and had come to visit the family members of the "Flying Dragon Village".

Seeing that Shi Song really sent someone to contact him as everyone expected, Qian Yuanshan and the others were secretly happy in their hearts, and ordered the sentry to bring the messenger into the tent.

There was not much time, and the sentry brought in two men dressed as ordinary scribes. As soon as these two people entered the Chinese military tent, they first glanced at Qian Yuanshan, who was sitting behind the table, and Zeng Zhilin and others next to him, and then bowed respectfully, and reported to their families: "Zhang Degao/Li Maocai, the envoy of the villain White Horse Mountain's 'Purple Stone Village', has seen you all in charge. ”

Qian Yuanshan and the others asked them to get up and speak, and at the same time carefully looked at the two envoys. But seeing that the two messengers were tall and short, fat and thin, there was a stark contrast. The guy named Zhang Degao may be more suitable to be tall, this guy is 1.9 meters tall, but he is very thin, a typical slender and tall bean sprouts type. And that Li Maocai is short and fat, and he can get out of a moving jar.

The peculiar appearance of the two envoys made Qian Yuanshan and the others sigh, and secretly sighed that "Zishi Village" really has everyone, and they can find two people with such a sharp contrast to be the envoys. However, as the saying goes, "people can't look good, and the sea can't fight", "If people have strange appearances, they must have strange abilities". Since Shi Song was able to send these two people, it means that these two people must be extraordinary.

The ensuing conversation proved that the judgment of Qian Yuanshan and others was not wrong at all. Although these two men are strange-looking, they are excellent in both eloquence and quick wit. Not only were they cautious and meticulous in their conversations with Qian Yuanshan and others, which might be more appropriate to call them negotiations, they did not leave any opportunity for the other side to exploit the topic. In the face of the "arrogance" and "arrogance" deliberately displayed by Qian Yuanshan and others, he was able to maintain an attitude of neither humility nor arrogance, and did not fall into the prestige of "Zishi Village".

When Qian Yuanshan said that the "Feilong Village" is here to eliminate harm for the people, and to level the "Zishi Village" like the original treatment of the "Baihua Village", the tall Zhang Degao even refused to fight, and talked about how the owner of the village, Shi Song, is benevolent and how he only seeks wealth without harming his life, which is far stronger than the sinister and cunning Bai Fei, and the people in the Baima Mountain area all call him "the master of the benevolent and righteous stone village".

Qian Yuanshan and the others naturally pretended not to take it seriously -- in fact, there was no need to pretend at all, no matter whether Zhang Degao said the truth or not, Qian Yuanshan and the others would take it as a deaf ear -- saying that they would never believe that there were robbers and bandits who did not kill people in this world. This time, if the soldiers sent to White Horse Mountain, if they couldn't level the "Purple Stone Village" in one fell swoop, they would not be able to explain to the big boss after they went back. ,

Although the other party did not let go, the two envoys Zhang and Li were not discouraged at all, and on the one hand, they continued to "tell the facts and reason" with Qian Yuanshan and others to prove the benevolence and righteousness of their own village owners. On the other hand, they talk a lot about the fact that the green forests in the world are one family, and that "Zishi Village" and "Feilong Village" have no grievances in the distant future, and there is no enmity in the near future, so why should they lose both sides for the sake of a false name -- Shi Song believes that the reason why the "Feilong Village" has mobilized the people this time is that after fighting the "Baihua Village" and then fighting the "Zishi Village", in addition to the historical grievances with the "Baihua Village", it is more to compete for the title of "No. 1 Cottage" in Youyun, and Zhang and Li also negotiated with Qian Yuanshan and others on this basis.

Seeing that the heat was almost over, after Zhang Degao said a lot of the truth that "peace is two benefits, and war is two harms", Qian Yuanshan pretended to be hesitant and said to Zhang Degao in embarrassment: "Although what Zhang Envoy said also has some truth, there are also certain difficulties. First, Qian came this time to follow the order of the big boss, if he didn't retreat without a fight, he would return to the 'Flying Dragon Village', and the blame of the big boss was down, and he was afraid that his life would not be guaranteed. Second, Qian did not come alone this time, but came with hundreds of brothers. Braving the heat of the summer, the brothers followed a certain family in the mountains for several days, trekking more than 100 miles to reach this place, and they did not suffer much along the way. If the battle is not fought, and you don't even see the appearance of 'Zishi Village', you will turn around and go back, and Qian will not be able to explain to them. ”

Zhang Degao saw that Qian Yuanshan's words were loosened, and in addition to hesitation, there was also a trace of greed in the other party's eyes, he immediately understood the meaning of Qian Yuanshan's words, and hurriedly said: "The difficulties of Qian Yuanshan's family, the master of my stone village naturally understands." Don't worry, my owner will never embarrass you. As long as the Qian master agrees to strike the army, I'm willing to serve the 'Flying Dragon Village' as the leader of the alliance of the Youyun Villages, and obey the orders of the 'Flying Dragon Village'. In addition, the owner of my village is also willing to give 1,000 taels of gold, on the one hand, as a meeting gift to the big boss of your village, and on the other hand, as the hard-earned money of the brothers of the 'Feilong Village'. ”

As soon as Zhang Degao's gift of 1,000 taels of gold came out, Qian Yuanshan's eyes immediately lit up - this expression didn't need to be pretended at all, anyone's eyes would shine in the face of 1,000 taels of gold, even if it was a traverser who could earn tens of thousands of taels of gold a year.

Of course, the eyes are shining, and the later scenes still have to be done. Especially when he found that Shi Song's bottom line was far lower than he imagined, and he took the initiative to "break the fortune and avoid disasters" without his own pressure, he had to calm down and not let the other party see that his bid had far exceeded his expectations.

Therefore, Qian Yuanshan did not answer immediately about Zhang Degao's proposal, but pretended to be in a dilemma, and looked at Zeng Zhilin, Tang Chao and others on the left and right.

Qian Yuanshan's expression and movements once again gave Zhang Degao confidence, and he deliberately lowered his voice and said: "The owner of my family also said that if Qian Yuanshan and several other masters can accept this deal, he will also give two hundred taels of gold to several masters alone to express his gratitude. ”

At the beginning of the negotiation, the drama that should have been done has basically been done, and there is no need to continue to go around in circles with the other party. Therefore, after Zhang Degao offered the second benefit, Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin and the others exchanged glances, and then said: "The master of Shizhai is too polite. As the saying goes, 'one stroke can't write two green forests', there was no unsolvable grudge between the two villages, and it came to the point where they had to meet each other. Before coming to White Horse Mountain this time, Qian Mou had made many suggestions to the big boss, saying that the Shi family has always been kind-hearted, and he is by no means a heinous villain like Bai Fei, and he should not rashly send troops to attack. Today, I listened to the story of Zhang's envoy, which further verified Qian's statement.

That's fine. Qian made a claim on his own this time, and turned the war with Guizhai into a jade silk. After fighting to go back, he was blamed by the big boss, and he also had to make a friend of the master of the stone village. ”

Zeng Zhilin and others next to him also echoed their words at this time, expressing their willingness to advance and retreat with Qian Yuanshan, and bear the responsibility of withdrawing the army and truce without the permission of the big boss.

Zhang Degao saw that Qian Yuanshan and others accepted the idea of "exchanging money for peace" of their own village owners, and he also breathed a sigh of relief and said: "In this case, we will make a decision." Early tomorrow morning, the villain will bring someone to send 1,200 taels of gold to the camp of 'Feilong Village'. When the time comes, I hope that all of you in charge can keep your promises, stop the army, leave Baima Mountain, and return to Xiayunling. ”

"This is nature," Qian Yuanshan said, "the day the gold is delivered, it is the time when a certain camp is raised." ”

After getting Qian Yuanshan's promise, Zhang Degao and Li Maocai did not dare to delay for a moment, and immediately quit the camp and went to the "Zishi Village".

Looking at the distant backs of Zhang and Li, Qian Yuanshan and the others all had smiles on their faces - although their smiles were very bright, in the eyes of the soldiers around them, the smiles on their faces looked like treacherous smiles after the trick had succeeded.

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