Red Leaf Fortress.

Vega's 300,000-strong army has been stationed here for more than five days.

In the past five days, he did not rush to attack, but quietly waited for someone-

Messenger of the Empire.

When he took the Red Leaf Fortress, Vega knew that the Empire would definitely send an envoy to him for peace talks, because everyone could see that the Empire's primary target now was not him, but the rebels in the country.

Continue to let it go.

As the rebels continue to expand and become out of control, it becomes very difficult to strangle them again.

But the premise of cleaning up the rebels is that they cannot be taken advantage of by other forces.

This other force refers to Vega himself.

As long as he does not leave the territory of the Empire, the Empire will not dare to make a bold move against the rebels.

Therefore, it is best to send an envoy to sue for peace and ask him to withdraw his troops.

If you want him to withdraw from the army, you must need a bargaining chip, and this bargaining chip is self-evident, that is, the entire East Coast.

Knock Knock Knock –

While Vega was leisurely, one of the guards knocked on the door.

"Your Excellency, the Empire's emissary has asked to meet with you. ”

"It's finally here, the Empire is really in a hurry. ”

Everything was as Vega had guessed beforehand, the Imperial Emissary had indeed come to the Red Leaf Fortress, and it only took five days from making the decision to sending the Emissary, which surprised Vega.

In the event that air routes are blocked.

From the imperial capital to the Red Leaf Fortress, a large-scale march takes at least 10 days, a squad of about ten people is lightly armed, and if you rush day and night, you can arrive in about three days, but for such a big matter, it only took two days for the empire to make a decision, which is what surprised Vega very much.

Or is it ......

When he took the Red Leaf Fortress, the Empire had already discussed it?

If this matter was indeed discussed in advance, then the empire must have prepared to take action against the rebels, after all, the premise of taking the rebels was that he retreated to the west bank, and this kind of thing can be speculated as soon as possible.

Therefore, Vega did not rush to meet the messenger.

He instructed his adjutant, "Send someone to the rebel Coverdale and tell them that we are about to withdraw our army, and that the Empire is expected to attack them in the near future to keep them on guard." ”

"Yes, Commander. ”

After sending the lieutenant, Vega went to the meeting room to meet the emissary of the Empire.

"I've seen Your Excellency the President. ”

Since Vega's real title to the outside world is the temporary president of the Jialan Empire, it is not wrong for the envoys of other countries to call Vega like this.

"You may be seated. ”

Vega motioned for the messenger to sit down, then looked the other up and down.

The envoy is a lieutenant general, and letting a lieutenant general come to the enemy camp alone, the empire can be regarded as giving Vega enough face, after all, for the empire that has been cut off by Qi Lisi, every general is especially valuable now.

"Your Excellency President Xie. ”

The messenger sat upright, not daring to be presumptuous.

This is a world of difference from the arrogant empire at the beginning, if this had been placed in the past, the envoy of the empire might have put on a lofty posture, as if I was looking up to you when I negotiated peace with you.

Seeing the humble scene of the Empire, Vega did not smile.

Instead, he frowned.

A proud, arrogant, and life-worthy empire that values glory and dignity is not terrible in Vega's eyes.

Because dignity, glory, brilliance, and responsibility...... These things, in Vega's view, can indeed improve morale and the soldier's sense of belonging to the force, but it will also form a huge obstacle to the force, and there is a saying that the arrogant soldier will be defeated.

So in general.

Once you attach too much importance to such things as glory and dignity, it will cause great harm to a force, and many times you will be bound by the fetters of these things, or act arbitrarily.

See the big in the small.

Now that this emissary has given up his former glory and dignity and treated him with humility, it is likely that the empire has abandoned those burdens and truly embarked on the highway by any means.

Therefore, Vega did not show any joy at the attitude of the messenger, but was worried.

Modesty, humility, this is synonymous with the weak.

But it is precisely because of humility and humility that the weak have the possibility to defeat the strong, and now that the empire has picked up the two most powerful weapons, Vega realizes that the good days of the rebels are coming to an end.

I'm afraid for the rebels.

After this winter, it is no longer a spring full of flowers, but an ice age with no end in sight.

"Your Excellency. ”

The emissary of the Empire didn't notice the turmoil in Vega's mind during this minute, and he didn't even notice the deep wariness behind Vega's expression towards him and the Empire.

Seeing that the time was about the same, he said straight to the point: "Your Excellency, this time, on behalf of the Empire, I want to make a deal with you, the content of this deal is that your army will withdraw from the territory of the Empire, and promise not to invade within five years, and our country will also transfer back the troops on the east coast of your country, I don't know what you think?"

"When will your country withdraw its troops?"

Vega's answer was nothing crisp, not even bargaining.

This also made the lieutenant general who had prepared a tirade subconsciously stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Vega's answer to be so crisp, so he hurriedly said: "As long as you agree, our country can immediately order the withdrawal of troops, and everything is based on you." ”

"In that case, let's have a good time working together. ”

Vega stood up, saluted the messenger, and then exchanged a few polite words before leaving the reception room, which did not even add up to more than half an hour, which made the messenger feel very unreal.

"This Vega Saint Laurent. ”

The messenger smiled wryly, and then returned to the capital with the contract.

Vega also began to order the whole army to prepare for retreat, and there was no place to drag mud and water.

And rightfully so.

He doesn't have an absolute advantage in this transaction, and the lion really opened his mouth and angered the empire, they may have dispelled the idea of peace talks and used the huge army base to fight him to the death.

Really start such a war.

Vega felt that he had no possibility of advancing the front at all, and when the time came, he would be exposed to his strong and middle-class situation.

And withdrawing the troops on the east bank, I'm afraid this is already the bottom line of the empire, and it is very unrealistic to make them pay more costs, so instead of wasting saliva here, Vega feels that it is better to pack up and go home early.

It is also because the empire does not want to entangle with Vega.

Vega wanted to quickly reclaim the east bank and reorganize the rivers and mountains.

So the two parties hit it off and reached such a contract.

As for the promise in the contract that he would never violate it for five years?

Now that the summits of all countries have completely collapsed, and international treaties have become non-existent, it is not a matter of thought whether to attack or not.