The time entered the middle of October, and even the Jiangnan realm gradually had a little early winter feeling.

And the crusade around Yangzhou has also entered the final end in full swing.

After the Jiangnan coalition army confirmed that the Lu family was the internal response of the Zonghenghui more than half a month ago, they immediately turned their guns and besieged all parts of Yangzhou under the control of the Lu family.

Before the absolute superiority of the troops, even if the Lu family did make precautions before, the county capitals that were not too strong were quickly knocked open and captured, and by the eighth day of October, except for the isolated city of Yangzhou, where the Lu family was located, everything around had fallen.

The Lu family, who was trapped in the lonely city, had also fallen to the last moment of exhaustion, and the people in the city were even more affected by them, and they were in panic all day.

However, the attack and defense around Yangzhou City finally encountered some obstacles, although the strength of the coalition army was more than five times that of the remnants of the Lu family, but under their united heart and desperate resistance, it was difficult to break through the city after five or six days, but it added a lot of casualties to the various armies.

In this way, several coalition forces did not dare to attack with all their might, after all, in addition to the internal worries of the Lu family, they also had to face the Liangzhou army that could make a comeback at any time.

To this day, there is even a trace of disagreement between several large armies, the Wu family still advocates a strong attack on the city, but the Gu family has already proposed to use negotiations to solve the problem.

"I know that your Wu family has suffered a lot this time, and I hate the Lu family even more. But I also hope that you can focus on the overall situation, in order to take Yangzhou City, we have filled in five or six thousand lives, but it is still difficult to overcome its city gates. Will it take the lives of another five or six thousand people to make you breathe this evil breath? ”

Gu Yaotian sighed and said: "Don't forget, now Jiangnan has been greatly injured due to several accidents, and if we continue to lose our troops, even if we take Yangzhou, we may not be able to defend our own territory in the future."

"So in my opinion, it's better to stop for the time being and negotiate with the Lu family to come up with a result that everyone can accept. Whether it is for them to severely punish the murderers, or to compensate your Wu family with money. In this way, we can ensure that we Jiangnan still have the strength to protect ourselves. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he was strongly opposed by Wu Tiexiong: "It's ridiculous! At this time, I still want to strike the army and negotiate peace, no wonder people in the world always say that I am cowardly in Jiangnan, and the root is here!

"Have you ever thought about why my Jiangnan has been turbulent and chaotic in the past two years? Isn't it because there are lackeys like the Lu family who are doing mischief? If we let them go today, we will not only be unable to bear the people of those dead and injured families, but also be irresponsible to everyone in Jiangnan.

"Do you dare to say that if we strike and return today, they will no longer collude with the Zonghenghui in the future, and they will not suddenly launch a sneak attack from the side when our army is engaged with foreign enemies?"

These words are not unreasonable, even the people of the Gu family are not easy to refute, so they can only bow their heads and be silent.

In the end, Gu Yaowu could only say with a cold face: "Now is not the time to talk about responsibility and whether it should be or not, I will talk about how to end it!"

"Then how much can you do if you continue to attack the city according to your wishes?

"Yangzhou is already easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Lu family is determined to defend to the end, even if we really continue to attack regardless of casualties, I'm afraid the grasp is no more than seventy percent, right?

"And don't forget, it's the winter moon soon, and the weather is getting colder, which is even more favorable for defense and attack. Also, we are afraid that our grain and grass logistics will not be able to support it for a few days. ”

After saying a few words, the atmosphere in the tent was even lowered, and no one said anything.

In fact, everyone present knows these problems, but all of a sudden, no one can come up with a proper response.

Just when everyone fell silent and stared at each other, a subordinate outside the tent came to report: "Generals, the Lu family sent a messenger, saying that he wanted to talk to you. ”

"Let him come in and talk." After Gu Yaotian groaned for a while, he still agreed.

After a while, a middle-aged man with an elegant temperament slowly came to the big tent of the Chinese army under the escort of dozens of soldiers.

Just looking at his demeanor and smile, it really doesn't look like he has come to the enemy camp, but like a literati and a friend meeting.

In fact, he still had a considerable friendship with everyone present, and when they met at this time, they even nodded politely and greeted: "Brother Wu, Brother Gu, Brother Qian...... Are you all right? ”

"Lu Dingze......" Wu Tiexiong stared at him faintly, his expression was very unkind, "You are really bold enough!" ”

"It's not that I'm bold, it's because I believe you're not the vile people who can't do anything to kill the messenger." Lu Dingze said with a smile, and showed a letter in his sleeve, "Everyone, this is the price that my Lu family is willing to pay after reaching an agreement, and I hope you will listen to me." ”

"If you talk about despicability, who can compare to your Lu family? Eat inside and climb outside, inside through the outside enemy! Wu Tiexiong sneered again, but when these words fell into the ears of the other party, he didn't even frown.

"Don't talk too much, let's talk about it, what kind of compensation will your Lu family make?" Gu Yaotian was quite practical, and when he opened his mouth, he asked the other party what chips he had.

"Well said. Our Lu family did do something wrong before, and we also paid a great price. So this time, when we were attacked by various families, we also admitted it.

"But after all, my Jiangnan nine surnames have a hundred years of friendship, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, and the same qi is even a branch. As long as each family can raise their noble hands and retreat, then my Lu family is willing to obey the orders of the Gu family from now on, except for Yangzhou City, all cities will also be handed over to the Gu family.

"Also, as a sign of sincerity, we are willing to give 500,000 taels of gold, 3,000,000 taels of silver, and 300,000 horses of silk to be distributed among your families. As for Lu Dingqian and other related people, they can also be handed over to you and sent them together!

"I don't know if you can look at the friendship for many years, no longer attack my Yangzhou, stop fighting each other, and return a peace in the south of the Yangtze River?"

When he said this, the eyes of everyone in the Gu family lit up, and the expressions of the people of the Wu family changed.

What a good means, well versed in the way of division, to completely break their alliance in such a hemorrhagic way.

Just because the Lu family is willing to give up so much city land to the Gu family, it is enough to make the Gu family moved.

Not to mention that the entire Lu family will be obedient to the Gu family in the future, which can make the Gu family truly become the existence of Jiangnan!

The Gu family was still thinking about how to speak, Wu Tiexiong had already slammed the table, and said angrily: "Those cities are not in your hands for a long time, what is the point of being generous to others at this time?" Also, what your Lu family has done is really a heinous crime, and you should be destroyed in order to calm the anger of everyone in Jiangnan and compensate for the crimes you have committed! ”

After a meal, he shouted directly: "Blast him out for me!" "It's just giving orders.