The voice in the hall immediately fell silent, and the scene was very embarrassing. Xiao Chen's words, what he said, Ambassador Li Cheng has no temper at all, his strength is stronger than ours, and if he wants to destroy himself, it will be like playing. At the same time, Xiao Chen's strategic ideas are indeed very good, and it can be said that this strategic idea can be called the best strategic deployment in Donglin City at present.

Zhang Yun could only smile helplessly for a while, and said respectfully to Xiao Chen: "I, Li Cheng, really want to form a strategic alliance with Donglin City, I don't know how the king will agree to form an alliance?" ”

Xiao Chen smiled, girl, finally lower your proud little head.

"It's okay to form an alliance, but Li Cheng must agree to several requests from this king."

The main dish is up, but in the end, you still have to pay some price, and it is impossible to get something for nothing. I just hope that the king in front of me won't open his mouth.

"Please also make it clear to the king!" Zhang Yun bowed and said.

"First: If an alliance is formed with Lê Cheng, no matter which of the two forces goes to war, the other side must support unconditionally. Otherwise, the alliance is automatically terminated. ”

"Second: If the two forces do not fight together, the city obtained by the other side will be owned by the other."

"Third: If I want to fight the enemy in Donglin City, Licheng must unify the roads, of course, our army will not enter the city, you can rest assured."

"Fourth: Li Cheng's monthly tax in the future must be paid to Donglin City one-tenth, and Donglin City promises not to interfere in any affairs of Li City."

"If you agree to these four articles, we will immediately sign an alliance agreement. If you don't agree, tell your king, the day you don't agree, that is, the day our army sends out. ”

Zhang Yun listened to these four requirements, and his face suddenly turned into a bitter melon face, with a bitter smile on his face. Once this alliance agreement was signed, Li Cheng became a subsidiary force of Donglin City, and the two parties were not on an equal footing at all. However, Xiao Chen's last sentence also said that if there was no alliance, then the army of Donglin City could threaten Li Cheng at any time.

Zhang Yun didn't dare to make decisions on his own, although he was in charge of anything related to the alliance, but the other party's requirements were too harsh. I am not qualified to agree at all, and I dare not agree to form an alliance immediately, otherwise after I go back, it will be a dead word to carry such a big black cauldron.

"King Qiqi, this matter is very important, and the foreign ministers cannot decide on their own, and I hope that the king will wait for two days. Wait for the foreign minister to go back and discuss with the king before making a decision. ”

"Yes, there is a lot of time for the king, but you don't have much time. Come on, please return to your place of residence, and if you want to go out to observe the development of my Donglin City, you can also ask the guards to guide you. After Xiao Chen finished speaking, he waved his hand and left the palace directly.

"Congratulations to my king, long live my king, long live long live!"

After Xiao Chen walked out of the palace, he hurriedly turned into another small palace next to him, and secretly watched a few guards lead the group of envoys out of the palace. After that, Xiao Chen hurried out.

Wu Feng, the ministers led by Li Ming are planning to clean up and hurry home to continue playing. Who knew that as soon as he left the council hall, he saw his boss running back again. This is the rhythm of what to do, it won't be to continue to go to court, right, don't be so pitiful, okay? The big guy finally survived until the messenger left, and they all went home full of hope to play happily.

Xiao Chen ignored the various colored glances of the other ministers, and went straight to Wu Feng and Li Ming, and said, "General Wu, Prime Minister Li, come, follow me to the study." ”

"No!" Wu Feng and Li Ming glanced at each other, not knowing what the boss was going to do, so they had to answer, and then walked behind Xiao Chen.

Walking into the study, Xiao Chen sat in his place, then pointed to the two chairs next to him, and said to the two old fathers-in-law, "Two fathers-in-law, please take a seat." Xiao Dezi, serve a cup of tea to the two adults. ”

The latter hurriedly answered, and then went out.

The three of them sat on their chairs and began the Big Three conversation in Donglin City.

"Two fathers-in-law, you see, will my Donglin City continue to form an alliance with Li Cheng, or will it be deployed according to the strategy I just said?" Xiao Chen frowned and asked. Because Xiao Chen just discovered that in fact, the strategic deployment he proposed in the court was also very feasible.

"King Qiqi, as a military general, he naturally hopes to be able to fight on the battlefield for my Donglin City. However, the old minister still thought that he should form an alliance with Li Cheng according to the previous agreement. General Wu said first.

"General Wu, what do you think, let's talk about it." Xiao Chen didn't dare to have a little fun at this time. This kind of thing is related to the development of Donglin City in the future, how can it be careless?

"First of all, Lao Chen will first talk about the military strength of our two sides. At present, our army now has 7,000 soldiers and horses, and all of them are elite soldiers who have been on the battlefield for a long time. At the same time, in sixteen days we will have another 4,000 troops, and by that time our army will be 11,000. ”

"However, before Li Cheng captured Tengcheng, he already had an army of 5,000 men. Even if Li Cheng lost 2,000 men and horses in the attack on Tengcheng, after 20 days, the enemy army would still have 5,000 men and horses. Even if our army goes to attack Li Cheng now, it will not get a good result. As long as the old wolf in Li Cheng has a little IQ, he will definitely concentrate all his forces in the city, and he will not engage in field battles with our army. ”

"Your Majesty, the results of the attack on Kells City, I am sure you will not forget it." Wu Feng smiled bitterly. Speaking of the siege of Kells a few days ago, the boss of Donglin City definitely thought that his side had won a big victory. You must know that a siege battle is enough to lose nearly a thousand elite veterans. If the loss is a recruit's egg, not many people will feel distressed, but a thousand veterans are enough to make anyone's flesh hurt.

Anyone who knows a little about military affairs will know that there is a gap between veterans and new recruits. A veteran is not only equivalent to two or three recruits in terms of combat effectiveness, but also a new recruit unit, as long as there is one-fifth of the veterans, the combat effectiveness of this army can be tripled. The most important thing is that veterans can teach new recruits combat experience and survival experience, so that they can minimize the casualties of recruits during the battle and train more veterans.

Xiao Chen listened to General Wu's report, and couldn't help but feel a headache. Do you think this soldier can't train longer? If it goes on like this, unless you spend a few months with Li Cheng, you can concentrate superior forces to attack Li Cheng, otherwise it is better not to fight.

"It's not just the problem of troops that makes it impossible for us to start a war with Li Cheng, and the reserves of various materials are not enough to attack Li Cheng. Unless our Donglin City uses all its strength and resources to fight a decisive battle with Licheng, otherwise, our army may not be able to defeat Licheng. Li Ming also interjected.

After listening to the advice of the two ministers, Xiao Chen also planned to give up his previous thoughts. He also deeply realized that his strength was still insufficient, especially when Li Ming said that the resources were not enough to attack Li Cheng. The army only needs food, and since Li Ming said this, he also indirectly said that the food resource reserves in Donglin City are not very much. The army is short of food and the morale of the army is unstable, so it would be strange if they were able to fight and win.

"Prime Minister Li, is the imperial court's grain reserves running out?" Xiao Chen frowned and asked Li Ming.

Li Ming smiled bitterly, "Your Majesty, it's true. Although our army kept fighting everywhere, it also captured a lot of grain and grass materials. But don't forget that we still have 50,000 slaves eating the food of the court. Now there are only 600,000 grain and grass left in the nearly one million units of grain that our army had previously stockpiled, if it were not for the 500,000 grain and grass obtained from Kells City. In a few days, the slaves will be completely out of food, and our army will be left without food. ”

Well, it's all come to this point, and it's still a hairy battle. If the food is not enough, if you can win the battle, Han Xin can worship you as a teacher.

"By the way, do our people have a lot of surplus food in their homes now? Why don't we buy food from the people? Xiao Chen's mind turned, and he came up with such an idea.

"Well, the king is wise. It seems that the old man is still old, hahaha old. "Li Ming shook his head full of white hair, and kept saying that he was old.

Wu Feng looked at Li Ming's expression and was speechless. "Come on, old man Li, I see my sister-in-law getting more and more beautiful every day, this is all your achievement. You're still old, I think you can live for decades. ”

"Wu Feng, you old Qiu Ba, get out of the way for me. How old a person is, still talking like this in front of juniors. Old man Li was depressed and wanted to die, so he said a word, and he was immediately ridiculed by Wu Feng, and he lost a lot, "Hahaha, old man Li, you also admit it." ”

"Hahaha" Listening to the conversation between the two big old men, Xiao Chen couldn't help laughing, two old and indecent guys.

In this way, the small study room was suddenly filled with loud laughter.

A day later, Zhang Yun returned to Licheng. On the way back, Zhang Yun really realized the strength of Donglin City. Not only is the economy very developed, but the army of Donglin City has shocked itself far more than everything else.

Soldiers of his own forces, he has also seen. At that time, he thought that his army was powerful enough, but when he saw the soldiers of Donglin City, he realized that he was sitting in a well and watching the sky. Not to mention that the discipline and training of the soldiers in Donglin City were very strict, and the most important thing was that he saw the end of the force from these soldiers who were not afraid of death and dared to fight. Especially the two thousand soldiers who seemed to have just returned from the battle, they were full of evil spirits, and every face had a fierce aura.

The earth-shattering murderous aura and the smell of blood made these two thousand people look like demons who have just come out of hell. Zhang Yun still remembered that he was standing in front of that group of soldiers at that time, and in just a moment, he broke out in a cold sweat.

The spirit of these soldiers made Zhang Yun feel particularly surprised. You must know that among the soldiers in your own power, there is no soldier who can compare with the soldiers of the Upper East Forest City, and there are at least two thousand soldiers in the East Forest City to this point, which is definitely a battle-hardened warrior. Although the soldiers of Li Cheng also had thousands of soldiers and horses, only a few thousand people had experienced a battle. Once the two armies fought, even Zhang Yun, who did not understand military affairs, did not feel the hope of his own victory.

This news is extremely bad news for Li Cheng. Once the two parties can't form an alliance this time, then Xiao Chen, who is angry, is definitely likely to send troops to Li Cheng. At that time, no matter what Li Cheng did, it would be impossible to save the defeat. However, Donglin City's requirements are too harsh, and the king may not agree.

After Zhang Yun returned to the city, he immediately went to meet the old wolf.

The old wolf and Zhang Yun were in a palace, and no one knew what they said. Everyone only knows that when Zhang Yun came out, his face was not good-looking. When the old wolf came out, he was even more frightening, his eyes were bleak, his face was pale, his hands were clenched, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

The next day, the old wolf and Zhang Yun took more than 100 guards together and ran to Donglin City together.

Originally, Zhang Yun was very reluctant to let his own king go to Donglin City in person, which was too dangerous. However, the old wolf insisted on going to meet the most powerful king in the region.

Soon, in half a day, the old wolf and Zhang Yun came to Donglin City.

When Xiao Chen arrived at the news, he was still wandering the street. So, he hurriedly took more than a dozen guards around him and quickly ran to the south city gate. Luckily, the time was just right.

When Xiao Chen came to the South City Gate, the old wolf had already arrived. Xiao Chen saw at a glance who the figure standing in front of Zhang Yun was, so he rode his little lion to the old wolf's side.

"Chen Xiaotian." "Old wolf."

The two shook each other's hands, and from this moment on, the two were deeply inseparable, and the friendship of brothers would be proven on the battlefield in the future. Let him be stormy, and we will just move forward side by side.

"Old wolf, good. Please! Xiao Chen smiled and nodded, then stretched out his right hand to make a gesture of invitation.

"Please!" The old wolf also hurriedly said politely.

For the old wolf, Xiao Chen could see that the other party was not a treacherous and sinister villain. Although the age gap between the two sides is very large, it still can't stop Xiao Chen's good impression of the old wolf. From the old wolf's every move, it can be seen that the old wolf has not only been in the world for a long time, but also is absolutely good at protecting himself. is respectful everywhere, so that people can't find a flaw, which is enough to show the old wolf's caution. Of course, in a situation like the old wolf that almost surrendered without fighting, Xiao Chen didn't mind. If the old wolf had to decide whether to form an alliance after fighting with him, Xiao Chen would never agree, and a person who couldn't see the situation clearly was a king-sized oil bottle.

The two of them didn't talk much along the way, just walked silently to the council hall. The two sides did not say anything, and directly signed the alliance agreement.

After that, it's time for you to play. And Xiao Chen and the old wolf came to the study together to have a deep conversation with the leaders of the two sides