Grim: "Oh! He said, "He should still be there, and I will immediately send someone to invite him over." ”

Yun Zhonglong watched the three mothers and daughters of the Leng family enter the inner hall, and said busily: "This is not in a hurry, I have thought of a way, maybe I can let the Shi family jump out automatically, and there is no need to sacrifice the happiness of the frosty girl." ”

Leng Jun said happily: "This is very good, I am worried about this matter, so you can talk about it, what should I do?" ”

Yun Zhonglong said: "We can put some scarecrows from the city wall to the outside of the city at night, but we deliberately let the Zhai people know, so that they mistakenly think that we want to attack at night, and when they come over, they will find that it is actually just a false alarm." They harassed the enemy again and again, and when they stopped paying attention, they put them under the city as real people, and then found an opportunity to attack them. On the other hand, it also provides convenience for the Shi family to contact the Zhai people, so that we don't have to worry about how they contact the Zhai people, so that we can kill two birds with one stone and get twice the result with half the effort. ”

Leng Jun listened, even called the clever plan, and after discussion, he went back to the study to study how to implement the plan as soon as possible.

At this moment, Yun Zhonglong surprisingly hoped that the war could end as soon as possible, if he really wanted to, he would withdraw from the rivers and lakes, no longer pay attention to the battles in the world, and live a comfortable life of seclusion. When he returned to the room, he found that Lu Mengxue and the girls were waiting for him worriedly, and his heart suddenly warmed.

Lu Mengxue stepped forward like a wife, helped him take off his coat, and said casually, "Do you want to eat something first?" ”

Yun Zhonglong nodded, told them about what happened, ate the pastries brought by Ah Xiu, quarreled with Xia He, put aside the matter of the big war for the time being, and seemed to return to the happy times in the past.

Since the siege of Chaoge City by the Zhai army, Wei Wengong only cut off the right arm of the favored minister Quartz in a cold and angry manner, and when the army at the head of the city was in chaos, he went to the city wall once, and then he has been cowering in the palace, handing over all the fortifications to Sima and Xiangguo, and he also knows that leading the troops to fight and defend the country can only rely on Sima, and Xiangguo is still needed to strategize, and the favored quartz can only be entertained in the peaceful and prosperous times.

The next day, Wei Guo Sima Leng Jun negotiated with Xiangguo Shangfu first, and then summoned the city guards of the four gates of Chaoge City to discuss together, and decided to use scarecrows to test the Zhai army at night.

As expected, the Zhai army saw that thousands of people were dropped at the head of Chaoge City, but the guards in the city finally couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to take the risk of attacking them at night to relieve the siege of the capital.

Although the Zhai people are barbarian tribes and do not know how to govern the army, their people are fierce and fierce, and they are not afraid of death, which is much stronger than the ordinary Central Plains people, which is determined by the environment in which they live.

Just listen, the drum beat loudly, and suddenly the shouts of killing sounded from all sides of the city.

After a few days of calming down, the war seemed to have started again.

After all, the Zhai people are not stupid, they did not use cavalry to attack, but relied on simple fortifications, first stabilized their positions, and then advanced to the city step by step, waiting for the battle.

When the Zhai people entered the attack range, the stones and arrows on the city wall poured on the heads of the Zhai army like rain.

Suddenly, the Zhai army was killed and wounded, and they did not dare to attack rashly, but shot arrows at the guards standing in the city, or used the spears in their hands to directly nail those people to the wall.

The battle lasted until almost dawn, and then both withdrew their troops and quit the battle.

Chaoge City was full of joy, and the casualties caused by the arrows were only a dozen people in the night, and thousands of Zhai people's army were killed, which can be said to be a rare victory since the war between the Patriotic and Zhai people.

After Zhai Ren waited for the dawn, he realized that the people killed by them in the city last night were just scarecrows carefully made by the guards, although he was angry, but he was also helpless. After all, Chaoge City has thick walls, and if the Zhai army is desperate to attack, even if they can finally capture the city, they will have to pay a heavy price that they can't believe.

For three consecutive days, the guards harassed the Zhai people every night, although the Zhai people were fooled once, and the casualties were reduced a lot, but the blow to their morale was unusually large. They have to be prepared every time, afraid that the guards will really attack at night, and what makes people crazy is that every time the guards can kill them, they can't help the guards.

On this day, Sima Lengjun and Xiangguo Shangfu convened a military meeting of the city guards and important generals in the army.

Xiangguo Shangfu glanced at everyone and said: "The siege of Chaoge by the Zhai army is really a shame for me to defend the country, fortunately, the monarch is wise, and everyone performs their duties, so they did not get their wish." But now that it is still early in winter, the Zhai people are reluctant to retreat, lest it will change after a long time, so I have just discussed with Lord Sima and decided to negotiate peace with the Zhai people, temporarily relieving the siege in front of me. I don't know what you think, everyone must work together to serve the monarch and fight for the defense of the country. ”

For a while, everyone was divided into two factions, war and peace, each saying its own reasons.

Shang Fu glanced at Shi Xiong, the city guard of the West Gate of Song City, and asked, "Shi Cheng Shou, you are guarding the West City Gate, and you are the younger brother of Doctor Shi, I don't know what you think about the peace discussion?" ”

Shi Xiong didn't expect him to suddenly point out and ask himself, so he hurriedly stood up and said: "Zhai people are tigers and wolves, so they will withdraw from the army with various benefits, but I am afraid that they will violate our realm again in the coming year, and in the long run, the defense of the country will be unbearable!" ”

Everyone looked at him, expressed their approval, and said "Yes!" again and again! "That's a good point!"

Shang Fu looked at him with a slight emotion, and said, "Then according to the opinion of Shicheng Shou, what should I do?" ”

Shi Xiong smiled slightly and said, "It's just a small city guard below, how dare you talk about the rise and fall of the country?" ”

Sima snorted coldly and said: "The rise and fall of the country is closely related to us, so everyone should do their best to share the worries of the monarch, win the livelihood of the people, and seek benefits for the community." ”

Shi Xiong saw that everyone was nodding, and looked at himself again, so he said, "Since this is the case, I think we should negotiate peace!" ”

Suddenly, I heard an upright person called Liu Qi's general, and said: "It's really not the husband's work to defeat himself without a fight!" ”

Shi Xiong looked at him and said, "It is said that it is a peace, but it is actually a war!" ”

Everyone was confused by him, Shang Fu thought for a while, and said, "What do you mean, pretend to negotiate peace, and then delay time, and when the cold winter comes, the Zhai people will retreat to the north." ”

Shi Xiong nodded again and again, and said: "What Xiang Guo said is very true, but Zhai Ren has been deceived by us miserably in the past few days, and he may not believe it, so those who go to negotiate peace will inevitably have a great risk." But if they send out people who don't matter, and they don't seem sincere, they will be incredulous and misguided. ”

Sima said coldly: "Since this is the case, then I will go out in person." ”

Shang Fu hurriedly dissuaded: "This is absolutely impossible, now it is not easy, our army has a little morale, if you have any accident when you go out of the city at this time, how can this battle be fought?" ”

Everyone also persuaded in unison, Sima Nai was the head of the army, how could he be alone and so on.

At this time, Liu Qi got up and said: "The last general is willing to go, although he will die!" ”

Xiangguo Shangfu praised: "Okay, really a good man!" At the same time, he said worriedly: "This is not only dangerous, but also very important, in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, there must be a person with outstanding strategy and extraordinary adaptability to succeed." ”

Seeing that everyone's eyes fell on him, Shi Xiong hurriedly stood up and said, "Since everyone can afford Shi, I should go all out, and I will definitely not disappoint you." ”

Xiangguo Shang Fu said: "No matter the success or failure of this trip, the two will always become the heroes of my country, for the success of this trip, if anyone dares to leak this matter, I will condemn the monarch of the country to punish its nine clans." Seeing that everyone looked serious, he said: "Okay, Shicheng Shou, General Liu, you go back to rest for a while, and go to the West City Gate at noon to negotiate with Zhai Ren." ”

Only then did everyone disperse, Shang Fu and Leng Jun glanced at each other, and said, "I hope what he said is right, otherwise, we will all become his accomplices, and our crimes will be great!" The defense of the country will also perish! ”

Leng Jun was stunned and said, "At this moment, do we have any other choice?" After a while, he couldn't bear to say again: "Xiangguo, do you think we should tell General Liu the truth to him?" ”

Shang Fu shook his head and said, "No, Liu Qi is too straight, if he knows that the Shi family wants to collude with Zhai Ren, it will definitely be bad!" ”

Leng Jun couldn't help but say: "Then he is going, wouldn't it be more auspicious." ”

Shang Fu said indifferently: "The two armies are fighting, and the casualties are not limited to a little, everything depends on his creation!" ”

Leng Jun also understood, and said: "Then I'll go back first, if they really reach an agreement, it is likely that these two days will be a battle of life and death, we must be fully prepared." ”

The atmosphere of the war became stronger and stronger, and the two separated with heavy hearts at the moment and went home separately.

When Sima Lengjun returned home, he immediately consulted with Yun Zhonglong about countermeasures.

Yun Zhonglong heard that Shi Xiong promised to go to negotiate peace with Zhai Dajun, and he knew that the situation was on the verge of breaking out, so he couldn't help but say: "The most important thing now is to do a good job of fortifying the west city gate, and in order not to startle the snake, after Shi Xiong left the city, he still let his people be the city guards, giving them the illusion that everything is under control." It's best to grasp as much as possible about the movements of the Shi family, especially after Shi Xiong returns to the city, and know what they talked about? ”

Leng Jun nodded and said: "The people of the Shi clan have rarely seen a trace these days, and I heard that Quartz took leave of absence from the monarch, saying that he was recuperating at home, so naturally he didn't want outsiders to know his secret." ”

Yun Zhonglong secretly screamed in his heart that he was lucky, if he hadn't heard a clue and then went to eavesdrop, then all this that the Shi clan had done really kept everyone in the dark. Today's Shi Xiong's performance makes people unable to see any flaws, I am afraid that only the moment the truth is revealed, everyone can see their faces clearly, but at that time it will be too late.

At noon on the same day, the Minister of Defense, Sima Lengjun, Shi Xiong, Liu Qi, and several people who were guarded by the generals and the soldiers climbed on the wall of the west gate of Chaoge City.

The drummer beat the giant drum, and for a while, the drum beat loudly, and the sound shook the sky.

The Zhai people under the city besieged Chaoge for many days, although they had severely damaged the patriotic army on that day, and almost almost directly attacked the city, but in the past few days, the guards used the scarecrow tactic, which not only damaged many of the Zhai people's manpower, but also fell their morale, and because they were harassed by the guards, most of them did not rest well. Just when they thought that the guards would only take advantage of the night to engage in some tricks of pretending to be gods and ghosts, during the day, they resolutely did not dare to send people to provoke. Who knew that it was the sun shining on this day, and the drums that shook the sky sounded. So, everyone cheered up and returned to their positions one after another, waiting for the provocation of the guards.

Just when the Zhai people lined up their troops under the city and lined up in formation, they found that the guards had no intention of fighting them at all, and only two senior officials stood at the head of the city accompanied by everyone, and they couldn't help but feel very dissatisfied and confused.

Shang Fu sent a person among the guards who was fluent in the Zhai language to shout out the request for peace to the Zhai people.

When Zhai people heard this, they were all overjoyed, although after the peace was negotiated, they could no longer wantonly plunder the goods and women of the guards, but it was not a blessing that there was no more bloodshed and fighting, not to mention that the guards would also pay a very considerable price for this.

This time it was the lord of Zhai who led the army to invade the south, he thought that he could loot the territory of the defenders, and then he could go back to the north for a solid winter, after all, although the defenders were weak, but the city of Chaoge was extremely strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it was almost impossible to capture in a short time, if the cold winter came in advance, the guards did not need to do anything at all, and they might suffer heavy casualties; If it is delayed, it will change, if the Qi State and the Jin State around the Wei Kingdom come to help, the consequences will be even more unpredictable. In 660 B.C., the Zhai people once captured Chaoge, but later the prince of Qi Huan, who dominated the Central Plains at that time, ordered the prince to lead the army and the Wei people to defeat the Zhai people without loss, which did not let the Wei Guo die. However, he may not know that although more than 20 years have passed, the Qi State at this time is really very different from the Qi State at that time.

Lord Zhai also sent people who were proficient in Chinese, and reached an agreement with the Wei people, and decided that the Wei people would send two envoys to Zhai Da's camp to discuss the details of the specific peace talks. The Zhai people have always been neighbors and enemies with the Central Plains countries, and have invaded the south many times, especially the weaker Weiguo, which has become the main target of the Zhai people to fight the autumn wind. Where there is war, there is an intersection, so it is not uncommon for both sides to have people who are fluent in each other's language.

With the consent of the Zhai people, the guards used hanging baskets to put Shi Xiong and Liu Qi, the representatives of the peace talks, under the city.

The two were then escorted to the camp by the heavily armed Zhai people to negotiate with the Zhai representatives.

Shi Xiong and Liu Qi bargained with the Zhai people's representatives according to the agreed set before, and finally decided to give the Zhai people 2,000 taels of gold, 5,000 pieces of cloth, and 300 beauties as conditions for the Zhai people to withdraw from the army.

Just when the two sides were negotiating peace, in a tent in another camp, Lord Zhai immediately summoned his important generals and main strategists to discuss countermeasures, and sent people to take strict precautions to prevent the defenders from making false plans and starting a real war.

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