Feng Ji thought that Tian Feng was worried that Yuan Shao would ask for guilt, so he was willing to submit to Wei Xuan, ready to persuade him. But I heard Huang Zhong say: "Mr. Feng, Yuan Jizhou wants to ask for peace, but show some sincerity." It is impossible to want my father-in-law to release General Zhang He. In order to get General Zhang He, my father-in-law planned for more than half a month, and General Zhang Wenyuan led his troops around Zhang He many times. Mr. Yuan Hao is a guest at my lord's house, and he walks casually in the general's mansion, and the magistrate of a state and a state can choose at will. Don't worry about yourself and your family as you did before. So no matter what General Zhang He and Mr. Tian think, it is impossible for my lord to release a few. Otherwise, I think General Zhang He might end up with the same corpse as Yan Liang. ”

Feng Ji was stunned, it seemed that Yuan Shao and himself were wrong, Zhang He was even worse than Yan Liang in terms of martial arts, if Wei Xuan didn't dig the foot of the wall with his heart, he might be wiped out by Zhang He instead of Chun Yuqiong, and it was Zhang He who disappeared instead of Yan Liang. It turned out that Wei Xuan had long been thinking about Zhang He and others, no wonder Zhang He was able to lead his troops to hold out to the end.

If Zhang He and Tian Feng ???????????????? Waiting for others to refuse to go back, and Wei Xuan is trying to get talents, so he can only persuade Yuan Shao to give up the redemption of Zhang He and others, but he still has to fight for ordinary soldiers, so Feng Ji turned to ask: "May I ask General Huang, how many soldiers survived in Jizhou in the previous battle, and please Si Li and the generals can raise their noble hands and let them go back." ”

Huang Zhong smiled and shook his head and said, "Mr. Feng, don't be joking, General Zhang and Mr. Tian have to ask for their own opinions when they go to stay with my lord, and those captured captains and ordinary soldiers have no choice." Zhong can directly reply to Mr. and Yuan Jizhou, and it is absolutely impossible for the captives to be put back. If they were not willing to continue to be soldiers, they would have to stay in the tuntian. It is absolutely impossible to put back the reason for continuing to fight us on the battlefield. ”

Feng Ji was speechless, Huang Zhong was right, the captives were also people, and they were strong men, Wei Xuan had just expelled the Huns and seized Guanzhong, and a large number of people were needed to resume production. The captives and the people were the most suitable candidates. The key is that the people who dug up Jizhou are also weakening Jizhou in disguise, so why not do it.

Feng Ji can be regarded as having seen the world, although Huang Zhong's tough attitude he still smiled and said: "Then please ask General Huang to tell General Zhang Wenyuan and Wei Sili that my general is sincere peace talks." Please also ask Si Li and General Wen Yuan to raise their noble hands. ”

Huang Zhong nodded: "Zhong can't be the master of this matter, is Mr. Feng here waiting for news or going to Huai County together?" ”

Feng Ji thought for a while and said, "Ji just wait here, and ask General Huang not to rush to attack these days." ”

Huang Zhong smiled bitterly: "Zhong can only say as much as possible about this matter, once General Zhang has an order, Zhong will not dare to disobey." ”

Feng Ji was a little embarrassed, he was a messenger, of course he had no right to command Huang Zhong and other generals to act. So he turned to Tian Feng: "Yuan Hao, you and I are in Jizhou after all, but we can't see that this great river and mountain have been destroyed because of the war." In the end, it was the Jizhou fathers who were hurt. ”

Tian Feng was speechless, Zhang Liao separated him from Zhang He, and he had not yet adapted to his status as a member of the army. Now that Feng Ji said this, he just wanted him to come forward to persuade Huang Zhong and others to stop the march, and Tian Feng felt that he did not have such a big face.

However, since Feng Ji proposed it, Tian Feng couldn't help but respond, so he said: "Yuan Tu, Si Li is now facing enemies on all sides, and he is recruiting soldiers everywhere, and what he lacks is grain and grass. If we could have seen the grain and grass earlier, the war would have ended. ”

Feng Ji glanced at Tian Feng helplessly, he knew that Tian Feng's current identity could say that this was already benevolent and righteous. Now it's up to Zhang Liao and Wei Xuan's replies.

From the border of Wei County to Huai County, the envoy went back and forth in two days. However, in the past two days, Huang Zhong and the others did not forget to continue to advance towards Yecheng for twenty miles. Now the four groups of men and horses have been camped more than ten miles outside Yecheng, in a semi-encircled posture.

Zhang Liao's reply was expected by Feng Ji but was beyond Feng Ji's expectations, first of all, about the handling of the captured soldiers, Zhang Liao did not let go at all, saying that all the people had already made arrangements, please Yuan Jizhou don't worry about it anymore.

Regarding the withdrawal of troops and compensation, Zhang Liao said that he could only stop the offensive for the time being, and whether to stop the war or not, he needed to consult Wei Xuan. Of course, the inner yellow ???????????????? It won't let it out. The siege of Yecheng without attacking by the four men and horses is the biggest concession. Zhang Liao sent an envoy to Huang Zhong's camp with letters, and everything was very clear.

Zhang Liao also mentioned the possibility of peace talks in his letter, and he believed that the war between the two sides was provoked by Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao was the initiator of the five-party alliance. Therefore, it is necessary for Yuan Shao to compensate Wei for the grain and grass mobilized by more than a dozen routes of soldiers and horses, assuming that the war is completely over within half a year, and a total of nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses from 14 routes and 100,000 people will be transferred to Bingzhou, Chenliu, Yingchuan, Nanyang and Hanoi. Counting the consumption of cavalry, the consumption of grain and grass for half a year is at least three million stones!

Feng Ji was a little speechless when he saw the people here, Zhang Liao's algorithm was correct, but if the grain and grass of the 200,000 soldiers and horses needed to be borne by Yuan Shao alone, it would be too bullying. But now that the soldiers are coming to the city, it is Yuan Shao who takes the initiative to sue for peace, and they have not said that Yuan Shao is guilty of disrespecting the court and not respecting the Son of Heaven.

So Feng Ji could only pin his hopes on Wei Xuan's reply. Soon Wei Xuan's reply arrived, but it was not the ordinary messenger who came, but Jia Xu, Wei Xuanbo An Jia Xu was the Jizhou Assassin Shi and Pingdong General, and Bai was the Hebei War Director Army, responsible for commanding and dispatching all the soldiers and horses in Hebei, including Zhang Liao and Zhang He.

Not to mention the pertinence of the Jizhou Thorn History, just sending a supervisor to command all the soldiers on the front line at this time shows Wei Xuan's attitude, Jia Xu's qualifications are enough to be the supervisor of these soldiers and horses, he has also been a supervisor, but he has to receive a heavy weight in Yuan Shao's army, and his status in Wei Xuan's strain is second only to Xi Zhicai! This is to completely take down Yuan Shao's Jizhou! This is the signal of the main battle.

With the arrival of Jia Xu, Huang Zhong naturally gave the main account to Jia Xu, and Jia Xu also met with Yuan Shao's envoy Feng Ji for the first time.

Jia Xu didn't wait for Feng Jiduo to say but said: "My lord knows what Yuan Benchu meant, you go back and tell him, prepare for a decisive battle with our army." This time, you have to give your best no matter what, otherwise if you lose this time, you won't have a chance to turn over. ”

Feng Ji's face was embarrassed: "Mr. Wenhe, my general has regretted it, and please ask Mr. to stop the war on the past relationship between Si Li and my general, I Jizhou is willing to welcome the Son of Heaven, and the people of Jizhou are also the people of the Han Dynasty, and my general is also willing to compensate, and the prison army can talk about the conditions first." ”

Jia Xu glanced at Feng Ji and said: "The peace talks will have to wait until Yecheng is taken, otherwise Yuan Benchu will repeatedly underestimate us, and next time he will say that he will not be able to make any alliance, and the soldiers will also be on fire in their hearts." By the way, you can go back and tell Yuan Benchu that he can prepare compensation first, three million stone grain and three billion money, so that we can no longer enter other counties other than Wei County. If you don't want to, we can mobilize 50,000 soldiers and horses from Jizhou to go directly out of the pot to set foot in Jizhou, and merge with Jizhou for Jizhou There is no way out, how this deal is cost-effective. ”

Feng Ji's eyes widened, it seems that it is not good for me to continue to come, and Wei Xuan's order may be to take Wei County first, and then the two sides can choose whether to continue or not in the next long-term war of attrition, and one mouth is three million is not expensive to return Wei County, this appetite is too big.

"Mr. Wenhe, this ...... This...... Wei County has been Jizhou since ancient times. ”

Jia Xu was very disdainful: "Then Chen Liu's ???????????????? It's eye-catching, and Nanyang is not Jingzhou, but it's all from the Han Dynasty after all, so my father-in-law, Ah Jing, these places are all classified into Sili. If it weren't for the fact that my lord needed to save money to repair the Luoyang Palace, and also needed to prepare soldiers and horses to expedition to Liangzhou and the Xiongnu, just wait for these and I can sweep it between the ten days! You go back and tell Yuan Benchu that if you don't accept the battle, the prison army is waiting for him here, waiting for him to raise millions of Jizhou people to come and send people's heads. ”

Feng Ji really didn't expect Jia Xu, a famous man in Liangzhou, to be even more arrogant than the average general in the army. No, it should be that this Jia Xu is much more difficult to speak than Huang Zhong and others. The last thing a messenger wants to encounter is someone with a tough attitude.

Yuan Shao and others were dumbfounded when they heard that Wei Xuan not only did not withdraw his troops, but instead sent an additional supervisor and threatened to take the entire territory of Jizhou. And when Feng Ji relayed Jia Xu's wild words, he was even more dumbfounded.

Surprised, angry, unwilling, all kinds of emotions are mixed together. However, before they could discuss the results, Sima of the defenders of the city wall came to report: "General, the enemy outside the city has surrounded you, and the three infantry are ready to attack the city." It seems that a lot of siege equipment has been prepared. ”

Yuan Shao: "......"

Everyone: "......"

In the past few days of the truce, it seems that Wei Xuan has not stopped, and the various departments should be manufacturing siege equipment on the spot outside the city. It seems that what Jia Xu said is true, and if you want to talk about peace, you can wait until you take Yecheng. There are now more than 25,000 people in Yecheng, but most of them are recruited temporarily, and most of them are like farmers. The 10,000 cavalry of Weitong was deployed in the northeast of Yecheng, causing Yuan Shao to dare not continue to mobilize the soldiers and horses of Ajing's counties to Yecheng for a while. If you want to come, you must first gather twenty or thirty thousand to act together.

Many people have seen the combat strength of the Wei Xuan Army with their own eyes, although Yecheng is not an isolated city now, but there are two cavalry units in Wei County, even if Yuan Shao wants to mobilize soldiers and horses from other counties, he must have an unexpected command center in addition to Wei County.