There is no such thing as a war agreement, and there is no such thing as a war-free card in these years, or in other words, there is no such thing as a war-free card in history.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, there were some war-free rules, which belonged to the battlefield morality that both sides had to abide by, but there was no such strange battlefield rule that I would hang up a war-free card if I didn't want to play, and take off the war-free card if I wanted to play, and there was no such thing as a war-free card.

This thing is the same as the military order, all of them come from, such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", such as "The Complete Biography of Yue", etc., which is just the conjecture of a group of literati who are not familiar with war.

The two sides made an appointment, and there were only two outcomes.

Promise, or don't.

It's okay to agree, the two sides set up a position and just fight.

It's okay not to agree, but it's equivalent to admitting that you're not an opponent, which will seriously hit the morale of the military. On a cold-weapon battlefield with extremely high requirements for the morale of the military, not agreeing to a war is basically equivalent to a defeat, which is an unimaginable consequence.

Unless you have enough confidence and thickness, most people will not refuse to fight.

For example, in history, Sima Lao Fox faced the challenge of Prime Minister Zhuge and closed his door, if he wanted to settle the influence, he must also be an excuse to invite the Son of Heaven, and then Cao Yi issued an edict not to fight, so that Sima Yi can say that the Son of Heaven is not allowed, not that he is cowardly, so as to minimize the degree of damage to the morale of the army.

Even so, Sima Lao Thief was ridiculed by his own people as "afraid of Shu like a tiger", although in fact he was indeed a little afraid to fight the prime minister head-on after the Battle of Lucheng.

All in all, if you don't have a special reason for this kind of war, you have to say yes.

Therefore, even if Zhang Xi wanted to withdraw his troops and return to Chongquan, when Cao Zhen's battle book came down, he couldn't just leave, he had to fight a battle first, and then consider whether to withdraw.

Another is that it is because Cao Zhen did nothing after arriving in Dali County, which caused all kinds of uneasiness and worries to Zhang Xi and Wei Yan. Now that Cao Allah has made an appointment, this is a reaction, just to use this covenant to find out what Cao Zhen's real intentions are.

Therefore, it is reasonable to be reasonable, this appointment is naturally to be agreed.

The two sides agreed to fight, and early the next morning, both sides naturally led troops outside Dali County, and the main force was exhausted.

As for Zhang Xi, he still follows the sharp arrow array that Zhang Xi is most familiar with and the most comfortable to use.

The arrow is naturally Wei Yan, the left wing is Xiang Pet, the right wing is Zhang Yi, and Zhang Xi is in charge of the Chinese army.

On the Cao Wei side, Cao Zhen also fought in a sharp arrow formation, the arrow was Wang Chang, the left wing was Dai Ling, the right wing was Han De, and Cao Zhen was in charge of the Chinese army.

After the two sides set up their positions, they watched each other for a while. The coaches on both sides are anxious in their hearts, and today's battle is estimated to be difficult to fight.

Zhang Xi looked over at a glance and found that the strength of Cao's army was really around 40,000 to 45,000 people, and the strength was indeed superior, and it was not a real strategy to play, it was a real battle with so many troops.

And Cao Zhen looked over at this side, but found that the armor rate and ordnance possession rate of the Shu thief soldiers seemed to be much higher than in the last battle of Guanzhong.

Where did the special Shu thieves get so many iron tools and leather money and food, and dare to arm their soldiers like this?!

In the last battle of Guanzhong, Cao Zhen had more than 40,000 Great Wei Central Forbidden Army in his hands at that time, and now Cao Zhen has not many Central Forbidden Army in his hands.

The forbidden army is a thing that can only be cultivated after strict training and many battle formations, but it is not so easy to raise the remaining central forbidden army, after two northwest wars, there are about more than 20,000 people, half of which are in Cao Zhen's hands, and the other half is in Luoyang to protect the safety of the Son of Heaven.

The rest of the so-called Central Forbidden Army are basically recruits who have just been recruited and trained in Yecheng for less than two years, and they are useless.

Anyway, the more Cao Zhen looked at it, the more determined he was to make the decision that he couldn't fight Zhang Xi Zuo Fengyi, and he had to drag Zhang Xijun first, and wait until Guo Huai, who was on the right to support the wind, completely succeeded, and then cooperate with Guo Huai to encircle and annihilate this group of Shu thieves.

And today's protagonist is not him Cao Zhen.

After watching the battle, according to the general process, it is time to answer before the main generals of the two sides.

Hawkers, although it's very old-fashioned, it's nothing more than ruthless words on both sides, but the process has to go.

Zhang Xi and Cao Zhen rode out of the battle one after another, and came to the open space in front of the two armies, ready to complete the process.

It's just that this time it's a little different.

According to the rules, this answer must be a separate meeting between the commanders of the two sides, and except for a soldier with a cover in hand, no one else is allowed to be brought with him, otherwise there is a suspicion of breaking the rules and assassinating the enemy's commander.

But this time, Zhang Xi came out alone, and Cao Zhen. He took an old man, also riding a docile mare, and slowly came to the formation together.

Zhang Xi was a little dissatisfied now.

There are no so-called martial arts masters these days, Zhang Xi is really not afraid of an old man who looks at the past and can't find a single black hair on his head. But you're really breaking the rules like this, okay?!

Zhang Xi immediately gave Cao Zhen a dissatisfied look.

Cao Zhen saw it, but he subconsciously turned his head and coughed, as if he didn't see it. It wasn't what he asked, it was that this old man had to say that he had a way to drag Zhang Xi, and he had to come out and talk a few words.

is seventy-six years old, and his prestige is high, and Cao Zhen, who is still the envoy of the Son of Heaven, can't help it.

That's right, the one who came out to see Zhang Xi was naturally the new Situ of Dawei, Wang Lang, and Wang Jingxing.

Of course, Wang Situ of our time and space is not bold enough to think that with his three-inch incorruptible tongue, he can persuade Zhang Xi to surrender.

After all, today's comparison of forces is different from history, although there is no such thing as "scolding Wang Lang" in history.

This time, Wang Lang took the initiative to propose a verbal battle with Zhang Xi before coming to the battle, which was really not for the purpose of persuading Zhang Xi to surrender.

Today's Han Dynasty, under the successive battles, has occupied the four states of Yongliang and Jingyi, and is the second only force in the world to Cao Wei. Now the weakest force is Dongwu, which occupies the four states of Qingxu and Yangjiao, but it is also much stronger than in history.

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Wang Lang felt that he had the ability to persuade Zhuge Liang to surrender, because he felt that Ji Han only had one Yizhou in hand, which was basically equivalent to fighting against a country with one place, and he was not the opponent of Great Wei at all.

Now the purpose of Wang Lang's argument is to complete Cao Zhen's strategic purpose, attract Zhang Xi's attention, and contain Zhang Xi's main force of Yongzhou County soldiers in Zuo Fengyi.

Actually, Cao Zhen was really reluctant to let Wang Lang do this.

On the one hand, Cao Zhen is a military general, he believes in it more, or the one on the battlefield, victory is commanded by the general, it is fought hard by the soldiers, not by the mouth of a scribe.

On the other hand, since it is a tongue debate, there will naturally be winners and losers.

Although it is true that you Wang Lang is a scholar, but it is rumored that Zhang Xi is also a famous family that is deeply influenced by the true inheritance of the Yingchuan Xun clan, if you lose in the future, you can't say that others, if this affects the morale of the army in the army, what can you do? !

But Wang Lang didn't care at all.

First of all, Wang Lang, as a great Confucian in the world, has lived for so long, of course he knows the difference between open classes and closed-door teaching, he also has his own connections, and knows that Zhang Xi has only listened to a few public lectures conducted by the Yingchuan Xun clan at most, and it is impossible to be the true disciple of the Yingchuan Xun clan.

It's just that because the Yingchuan Xun clan didn't refute the rumors, he Wang Lang didn't have much to do to debunk this rumor.

The family, most of them have complicated thoughts, and the Yingchuan Xun family thinks that this is not a bad thing, does he Wang Lang have to be a bad guy and slap the face of the Xun family? !

Secondly, Wang Lang, as a master of scripture in the world, even if he was asked to debate the scriptures with Xun Shuang, he didn't think he would lose, let alone Zhang Xi, a student from a poor family.

In the final analysis, this kind of thing depends on its own cultural accumulation, and a seventy-six-year-old man who has been immersed in the study of scriptures all his life can not compare to a kid who is just forty years old and has been fighting on the battlefield for 20 years? !

Finally, and most importantly - take a step back and say that losing, it will not affect the morale of the army.

Those who can understand tongue debate must have at least some literary skills, otherwise they can't even understand what the two sides are saying, how can they judge winning or losing?!

In the final analysis, the two sides argued with each other, not for the soldiers present, and with the literacy rate of this era, it was impossible for the soldiers on both sides present to understand what the two men were saying, and naturally there was no problem of affecting the morale of the soldiers.

In fact, this war of words is mainly for those generals who can understand, and even for the corporal of the world.

If Zhang Xi loses, then Zhang Xi can only prove that his point of view is right through practical actions, and he can't give up easily, otherwise he will become the laughing stock of the world, so he will definitely not withdraw for the sake of his reputation.

If Wang Lang loses, then Zhang Xi will not be able to retreat. said that you ran away instead, is it because you yourself know that you are just winning by quibbling, but you actually have no bottom in your heart, and you don't dare to compete with the Great Wei Heavenly Soldiers?!

In Wang Lang's view, winning or losing is beneficial to Dawei, as long as Zhang Xi agrees to this tongue debate, then the one who benefits must be Dawei.

The only trouble is that if Wang Lang loses, Wang Lang's reputation will be affected a little, but considering his age and his attainments in scripture, I think people in the world will not criticize him as a seventy-six-year-old man because of the victory or defeat of this tongue debate.

Wang Lang himself is quite open about this matter.

It was through such rhetoric that Wang Lang persuaded Cao Zhen, took him to the front of the battle, and met Zhang Xi.

After seeing Zhang Xi, Wang Lang also had a kind smile, looked at Zhang Xi for a while, and then nodded slowly, as if expressing his approval of Zhang Xi.

Zhang Xi's reaction was very real - who is this old man, laughing so obscenely and so strangely.

Then, Zhang Xi almost blurted out a "nest" that he had forgotten for almost twenty years, just because the old man opposite said something that was almost engraved in Zhang Xi's DNA.

"It's Zhang Yuanchang"

The debts of the day are made up. Because there is no manuscript saved, it is now driven out, so it is inevitable that there are some typos, please forgive me, pause.

(End of chapter)