Chapter 259: Agreement
"But the soldiers of the pioneer battalion all said that this time my father sent Uncle Xun Yu to negotiate peace, because I was afraid of his heavenly spirit, and in the confrontation for three months, we did not have a single soldier to cross the Werner River, if it was before, the Zhuohua army would have been defeated."
"This time is different from the past, my eldest nephew, you have to understand, in the past, we were a counterinsurgency, and the people everywhere supported me, but now we want to unify and fight a battle of the imperial court itself, and the people who have just eaten are unwilling to fight, and the foundation of the sky is unstable, and peace talks are the best choice now."
"Does my father think so?"
Toshihiko looked at Yungu with a solemn face.
"What you said, I have heard it recently, the soldiers have more or less opinions in their hearts, every time they send troops, there are such problems, and when the peace talks are over, Tianling has withdrawn, and the grief and anger of the soldiers will disappear."
Xun Yu smiled and patted Yun Gu's shoulder and said, "Go, change your clothes, your father gave you a new errand." ”
"What errand?"
"Your father wants you to come with me to make peace with the Celestials."
"Peace talks? I'm not going. ”
"Don't play with the temper of a child, your father is for your own good, and when the peace talks are over, you will also be noted in the merit book, the current Tiandu is different from three years ago, your father should have some trustworthy right-hand men."
Yun Gu lowered his head and thought about it, then shook his head helplessly, and walked alone towards the outside of the military tent.
"This kid, although he has a stubborn heart, he still has some general demeanor between his eyebrows."
Boya nodded slightly.
"We are all old, and after a few years, it is time to hand over the power in our hands to these children."
"But Your Majesty is still very young."
Shunyu glanced at Toshihiko and Boya pointedly.
"Lord Wang, the criminal lord is coming, Junyan and I should not have heard this, and you should not say it again in the future."
Shunyu smiled and nodded.
"Sure enough, the people of Tiandu, the disciples of Uncle Wen, only have the righteousness of the family and the country in their hearts."
The sound of armor colliding came from outside the account, and Zijing and the criminal lord arrived one after another.
"What are the orders of the heavens?"
"Peace talks."
Zijing clapped her hands excitedly, and Xingjue also looked at Liang Wei and Wolf Gu with a smile.
"It seems that Your Majesty guessed correctly, and the generals don't want to fight."
"Lord Wang, you are not in the army, you don't know the hardships in the army, you are not at the border, you can't see the people here."
"How do you say this, is the border really to the point where the people are struggling to make a living?"
"This is the entry flow table of the border departments in the past three months, and I have spent a long time recording it, but in the army, I know that the army's heart cannot be disturbed, so I have been pressing it and not presenting it to Your Majesty, and the sky should stop."
Xun Yu took the fold in Zijing's hand and looked at it carefully.
"I didn't expect the situation to be so critical, and if these nearly 300,000 displaced people don't think about resettlement, once someone instigates it, they are likely to rise up."
"The prince has been on the battlefield for a long time, and he has seen countless disasters, how should this matter be dealt with now?"
Xun Yu lowered his head and thought for a while, and then said: "The news of the peace talks will be sent out immediately, the army will retreat ten miles again, General Zijing will take the report and return to Beijing overnight, and I will take the peace talks envoys from Huayuan Pavilion to send a letter to Tianling early tomorrow morning." ”
Just as anxious as Shunyu were the Heavenly Spirit soldiers on the other side of the Werner River.
"How? What is the attitude of the sky? ”
Fan Ming grabbed the fine work from Tiandu and asked anxiously.
"Tiandu gave an order yesterday, saying that peace talks are going on, and now the Tiandu army on the other side of the Werner River has retreated for twenty miles."
"Retreated, finally retreated."
Kong Jie seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, they went out with the arrogance, it has been three months, and today the capital of the spirit is disrupted, the old king is seriously ill, the eldest prince is waiting in front of the king's couch, and the other two princes are out with troops, if the old monarch really dies, the eldest prince will succeed to the throne in front of the spirit, and the arrogance will think of the soldiers, and the second prince will not agree.
"Your Highness, they have withdrawn, I will say, they can't hold on."
His brows tightened, and he looked preoccupied.
"It's us who can't hold it now, it's impossible for Yunxiao not to know, I'm afraid that they are pretending to negotiate peace, and as soon as we withdraw our troops, they will attack in a big way."
"Your Highness, don't worry, if that's the case, that kid from Yunxiao won't send Xunyu here."
"Xun Yu, the prince of Baiyue?"
Kongjie smiled and nodded.
"Laid down half of the ancient country, this person has made great contributions, I thought that Yunxiao would imprison him to death, but I didn't expect that he would be given the opportunity to be a peace envoy."
"Yunxiao even dares to let this kind of tiger go, he won't care about us, when we declared war on the country of clouds, under the situation of absolute disparity in strength, it still made Yunxiao fight a lose-lose battle, he is a great talent, but he is a little arrogant."
Arrogant reached out and rubbed his eyebrows.
"They will definitely put forward conditions, and even find a way to support us, I don't care what method you use, within three days, you must reach peace talks with Tiandu, the boss has little time left for me."
Fan Ming looked up at the arrogant, and there seemed to be something difficult to show in his expression.
"If you have anything to say, now we have been forced into a corner by them, the people in this military tent today are my henchmen, if I lose, you will also be defeated with me, the eldest and the second, will not let go of anyone here."
"Since His Royal Highness has spoken, then I will make it clear, in case the old monarch doesn't hold on, will we fight the battle back to Beijing?"
The generals in the military tent bowed their heads and were silent, this is the crime of rebellion, if they win, they will be added to the rank and knight, and their names will be immortal, but if they are defeated, it will be the crime of the nine clans.
"Generals, I know that most of your family members are in Beijing, if this battle is fought, the boss may kill the generals' families in a hurry, but if we don't fight, we will return to Beijing without a soldier or a pawn, the boss will still not let us go, even if the boss is benevolent and righteous, but the second one, the civil officials who rule the world in the middle of the court, but they are all his second son's old department, forming a party for personal gain, coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, when the time comes, the second child will not let us go."
"Your Highness, since we are with you, we will put our net worth and life on you, and we have gambled on this battle of life and death."
"Yes, we bet."
"Both horizontal and vertical are dead, and the two princes don't leave us any room, so we will fight with him to the end."
The crowd in the military tent was excited for a while, and he looked at them arrogantly, he knew that he didn't fight for himself in this battle, and since ancient times, there has been no innocent prince in the king's family.
"When I was very young, my father and several uncles competed for the throne of the monarch, my father was defeated, and the second uncle demoted us to Hanzhou City, and my father tried his courage in lying on his back, and it took ten years to raise troops to force my second uncle from that position."
He paused, and then continued: "On the day I entered Beijing, my father told me that my grandfather had passed the throne to him, but he had never fought my second uncle, and then my second uncle couldn't bear to kill him, so he asked him to take the throne back. He said that whoever is appointed as the heir is the same prince, and that only one of our three brothers can sit in that position, and he said that we must be ruthless, and if we sit up, we must sit him firmly. ”
The arrogant raised his head and smiled, "The old man is the fairest, the military power is half of my second brother and I, and the Kyoto and garrison are handed over to my eldest brother, he knows that we will fight." But he didn't expect that before he died, we would encounter Tiandu, internal and external troubles, this battle was fought well, to protect the century-old foundation of my Tianling, if not well, as soon as the scorching army of the clouds crossed the Werner River, my Tianling would no longer exist. ”
Kong Jie's face was solemn, he knew what he was worried about.
"Your Highness rest assured, what Your Highness can think of, the two princes must also think of it, the battle to return to Beijing will be fought, but you can't send too many troops, Your Highness thinks that before the peace talks, Your Highness should talk to Your Royal Highness first."
Arrogant looked up at Kong Jie, and he stared intently for a long time.
"Talk to the second child, why don't you talk to the boss?"
"His Royal Highness knows better than us, among the three princes, the second prince has many henchmen, although he is not good at leading troops, but the generals under him are all heroes who pacified the world with the old king, if on the way back to Beijing, the second prince preemptively captured us, that day Lingke really has nothing to do with the third highness."
After thinking about it for a long time, he finally decided to negotiate with his second brother first.
"You find a way to stabilize this Xunyu, the second one, I'll go and hand him over, we can withdraw, but the army has to stay."
Kong Jie glanced back at Fan Ming, they seemed to have discussed a long time ago, let Qiang Ao leave the camp, and then meet with them privately.
"Uncle Xunyu, I don't understand, why does my father want me to go to the peace talks with you?"
They had just crossed the Werner River, and the proud camp was less than a mile away.
"Your father doesn't believe me, he asked you to follow you so that you can be an overseer, and he is worried that Baiyue and Tianling will have some kind of ulterior relationship."
"Uncle Yu, will you, will you betray my father-in-law?"
"The hearts of the people are back, your father has taken my military power, and I hate him as much as the princes of the fiefdom. But the heavens are not your father's alone, and we don't want to see him perish. ”
Yun Gu smiled and glanced at Xun Yu.
"Actually, my father-in-law still trusts my uncle very much, there are so many ministers in the court, I don't necessarily have to let you send an envoy, if I guessed correctly, my father-in-law must have promised Uncle Xun Yu to give you soldiers and horses to return to Baiyue to quell the civil strife, right?"
Shun Yu looked at Yun Gu with some surprise.
"I didn't expect that you were so young that you could actually guess the agreement between me and your father, it seems that the foundation of Tiandu for a hundred years is stable."
Shun Yu took Yun Gu and soon came to the outside of the military tent of the Heavenly Spirit, and it was Kong Jie who received them.
"In Xiakong Jie, I have seen the prince of Xunyu."
"We met when we fought the Dark Legion, what about your Highness, why didn't he come out?"