Zhu Wen galloped all the way with seven or eight guards who escaped by chance, not daring to stop.

After running for two days, I finally entered Xiangcheng.

The defenders of the city were only 5,000.

Zhu Wen immediately issued an edict to let the states gather troops again and gather them at the Xu Governor's Office. And he himself selected a hundred people to ride straight to the long society.

November 12th.

Zhu Wen, the king of Liang, finally entered Changshe City.

This is the government of Xuzhou.

At this time, Han Jiangang came from Chenzhou and brought more than 10,000 soldiers and horses.

The other states did their best to bring troops to the rescue.

For a time, the entire Zhuwen district was busy transporting troops and grain to the southwest.

Zhu Wen never thought that he would lose so badly in this battle!

He has been fighting for more than ten years and has not yet encountered an opponent.

I underestimated Li Yu, this person will be in great trouble.

For a time, Xuzhou was heavily armed.

Zhu Wen judged that Li Yuding wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, at least eat Ruzhou, Xuzhou or Yuzhou.

The pursuit battle that Zhu Wen expected did not take place.

After Li Yu finished picking up Zhu Wen's 100,000 army, he returned to Nanyang.

Well? Odd.

Zhu Wen convened the civil and military forces and held a meeting at the Changshe.

What is the purpose of this?

"My lord, I'm afraid that the king of Germany is not enough to have soldiers."

Li Zhen went out of the class and said.

"In a battle with my 100,000 army, King De's troops will be damaged, and breaking into the land of Henan will be a drop in the bucket."

"My lord, I think King De thinks the gains outweigh the losses."

Jing Xiang played.

"Oh? What do you mean by that? ”

"Now there is a great drought in my land, and there is no harvest, and the people are hungry and thirsty. What's the use of him grabbing such territory now? It's just a burden. ”

Jing Xiang analyzed.

"Well, that makes sense."

"My lord, it's not appropriate to fight again, it's better to negotiate peace."

"Well...... this"

Although Zhu Wen did not admit defeat in his heart, when he thought of the serious losses of the army now, don't look at the Changshe and gathered another seventy or eighty thousand troops, which could not be compared with the army at Fangchengguan.

Coupled with the fact that the grain and grass are running out, this battle is indeed unbeatable.

As the overlord of the Central Plains, Zhu Wen is really unbearable in this face-saving matter.

has been the king and hegemon for so many years, and he has beaten others by himself, when have he been beaten?!

This time, the loss of troops in front of Fangcheng Pass, and the annihilation of 100,000 troops, really woke up Zhu Wen at once.

Since he joined the war from a thief more than ten years ago, he has fought invincible opponents all over the world, which has made him feel that there are no heroes in the world!

Now it seems that Li Yu is his nemesis.

Now that his morale is high, he should bow his head and have a chance to clean him up in the future.

Having made up his mind, Zhu Wen turned his head to look at Li Zhen.

"You are the one who hosts the peace talks."

"Yes."

However, it was said that Li Yu's army annihilated Zhu Wen's army in one go, and many generals proposed to take advantage of the victory to pursue and annihilate Zhu Wen, except for a big trouble.

Li Yu asked with a smile, "What do you think?" ”

Wang Houxie said: "My lord, Zhu Wen is no longer a concern for me. ”

"Hmm."

"It's all said that you want to take advantage of the victory to pursue, can you?"

"Lord, it is not good for me to destroy Zhu Wen at this time."

"Oh?"

"Zhu Wen is the overlord of the Central Plains, in the north of me, he can block the south of Hedong and Hebei, if he is destroyed now, who will be the buffer?"

Wang Houxie continued: "These two are the two of them, there is a big drought in Henan, and there is no harvest. If I kill Zhu now, it will be very simple. But what awaits us are two or three million mouths, what to do with them? It's not enough to take out all the food. ”

"Rather than being flattering, it is better to temporarily return to Nanyang, focus on developing itself, and then try to do other things when there is food."

"Well, Houxie's words are very old-fashioned."

Li Yu didn't even want to capture Yexian, and the army escorted the prisoners and the grain and grass back to Fangcheng Pass.

In this battle, more than 50,000 people were captured and surrendered.

The general Liu Zhijun surrendered, Yang Shihou's whereabouts are unknown, and Zhu Wen fled back to Changshe.

In Fangchengguan, the men and horses were repaired and the troops were reorganized.

More than ten days have passed, and it seems that it has entered December.

Someone came to report, and Li Zhen, the envoy of King Liang, asked to see him.

Li Zhen finally walked into Fangcheng Pass with a delegation of 100 people.

The blood stains on the Fangcheng Pass are still there, this is the Guancheng that is difficult for 100,000 Bian's troops to capture, but he walked in.

It can be seen that sometimes the workaround is much more clever than the hard one.

Li Zhen passed through the city and saw that the camp stretched for more than ten miles behind the wall.

No matter how you look at it, there are more than 100,000 troops.

The camp is exquisitely arranged, rigorous and orderly.

The light and dark sentinels of the soldiers of each gate are not worth it.

Li Zhen saw it in his eyes, and secretly thought in his heart, it seems that King De is not not fighting the Central Plains, but is gathering soldiers and horses!

He thought that he had seen through Li Yu's next move, and he was worried in his heart, for fear that King De would move north, and then Bianzhou would really have no power to resist.

Entering the big tent of the Chinese army, Li Zhen looked up and saw that a handsome young man was sitting on the couch.

This is not who the king of Germany is!

When Li Yu wanted to move to Nanyang, Li Zhen once received him and gave Li Yu beauty and money.

Li Zhen took two steps and stepped forward to greet him.

Li Yu was still very polite and asked the reason.

"Your Highness, there was an unpleasant occurrence between my lord and His Royal Highness because of the instigation of the villain, and my lord and gentleman regretted it, so I asked the minister to negotiate peace. The two sides called off the army and made peace and rebuilt the old good. ”

"Oh? Negotiate peace, huh? Then it depends on your sincerity. ”

"Yes. My lord has decided that he can compensate His Highness for his losses. ”

"How to compensate?"

"Three million yuan of money, fifty thousand stones of sea salt."

Li Yu's heart moved.

Li Yu, who has no money, doesn't care, but he cares about salt.

The Nanyang system is not close to the sea, and salt must be trafficked, and the preciousness of salt is more than copper coins.

This year, a large amount of salt is needed to resettle the refugees, and Li Yu has had to use a large amount of strategic reserves.

"Sea salt 100,000 stones."

"This ......"

Li Zhen was secretly happy in his heart, as long as you bargained.

"Your Highness, there is a great drought in my Henan jurisdiction this year, and there is no harvest, if Your Highness can exchange it for food, you can consider it."

Li Yu knew that salt was usually precious, and the price ratio with grain was one to five, but now that Zhu Wenkong has salt and no grain, the price comparison has been greatly reduced.

"It's one to one."

"What? Hehe, His Highness joked. ”

Li Zhen pulled the corners of his mouth and said with a dry smile.

"One to four."

"No, one to two, just change it, if you don't pay it back, forget it."

"Your Highness, I can only exchange this ratio for 100,000 stones."

"Specifically, you will discuss with the king master."

Next is Wang Houxie and Li Zhen grinding their teeth.

Three days later, the two sides reached a peace agreement.

The two sides will make peace with each other, and there will be no hostilities for three years.

The king of Liang compensated King De with 3 million copper coins, 100,000 taels of gold, and 200,000 taels of silver.

Compensation for sea salt 100,000 stones.

According to the ratio of one to three, it can be exchanged for 300,000 stone of grain.

This is also what Li Yu intentionally did.

You must know that Zhu Wen is running out of food, and if he is extremely hungry, he will still come to fight Nanyang.

It is also good for yourself to exchange your own grain for some salt.

You can't push him too quickly, the dog jumps the wall when he's in a hurry, and the rabbit will bite when he's in a hurry.

Li Yu wanted to lure Zhu Wen to the north.

After all, now that Zhu Wen is weak, Hedong will be strong, and when Li Keyong becomes bigger, he can't control it.

Li Zhen returned to the Changshe and said the conditions of both sides, and Zhu Wen nodded slowly.

Now gold and silver are useless to him, and food is the most important thing.

If you have 300,000 stone of grain in Nanyang, how can you hold on for a while.

Let's recuperate and recuperate.

Since Nanyang doesn't come to attack him, he has to strictly guard against the old thief Li Keyong in the north, this old guy is not as good as King De.

Soon, all the state capitals and counties opened their coffers to pool money.

At the end of December, King Liang's transport brigade came to Fangcheng Pass.

Thousands of oxen and wagons pulled copper coins and gold and silver.

As for sea salt, we have to go next.

Wang Houxie and Chen Ban took the officials to count the number and register it.

At this time, the large camp behind Fangcheng Pass had already been withdrawn.

The army went back to its own house.

Zhao Kuangning, Zhao Chenggui, Quan Shilang, and Li Duo followed Li Yu back to Nanyang City.

Because of Zhao Kuangning's proximity, he can come several times a year, and everyone else is the first time.

Looking at Nanyang City from afar is a bit incredible.

In recent years, Nanyang City has been repaired according to the plan every year, and now the construction of Nanyang City has been completed.

Nanyang New Town, wrapping the old city in it.

The circumference is eighty miles.

Twenty miles on each wall.

There are 12 city gates.

There were three gates on each side. The middle is the main city gate, and there is a secondary city gate on each side.

The city is ten zhang high, and the city tower is twenty zhang.

The project is huge.

Speaking of which, there are a large number of refugees who need to be resettled this year, and Li Yu has really requisitioned 100,000 refugees to build the final city wall.

At the time of development, it was still in the end.

The construction has now been completely completed.

As for the castle, construction began several years ago.

The land that should be sold is sold, and the land that should be kept is kept.

The population of the city has already exceeded 400,000.

In this cold winter month, the streets and alleys are still lively.

Among these people, Zhao Chenggui is the most weak-hearted.

First, I was about to see my cousin, and I was a little panicked. The second is that this King De is not as useless as he imagined.

It can be seen from last year's Hunan War that Li Yu is brave and strategic. This year, he had to lead Jiangxi, and he fought with Zhu Wen, and his brother-in-law was not afraid of danger, and he was even a king.

Especially this war, it was really beautiful.

You must know that there are 100,000 troops in Bian, which is a heroic division that can build a country, but it was wiped out by the king of Germany, can you not accept it? !

Looking at this Nanyang City, it is majestic and magnificent, much larger than Jiangling and Changsha.

I heard that it is still newly built?

Amazing!