"What? Xuande Gong not only wants me to cede Zhuxian and Ju County to him, but also wants me to be Tai Shi Ci as the Taishou of Donglai? That's why you're willing to give me armor and horses? The Cao thief attacked me for more than two months, and only then did he take my four counties in Bohai County! Now Xuande Gong is going to leave one of my counties all at once, more than Cao Thief has beaten down!

What kind of alliance is this? Did he think that our Yuan family had reached a desperate situation! The defeat of Cangting is a loss of troops, and our Yuan family can still afford it! If it weren't for my father's serious illness because of this, our Yuan family would have been able to continue to resist Cao Cao and row the Yellow River on their own.

I always thought that Xuande was a benevolent gentleman and wanted to marry as foreign aid, but he was so desperate to ask for the price? George, you've disappointed me too much! It took three months to negotiate such a condition! ”

Yuan Tan's first reaction was very intense after listening to Xin Bi's relay.

On the one hand, this is a tantrum with his subordinates after all, not with Liu Bei in person. If Liu Bei was on the other side, Yuan Tan would probably be more restrained, but he wouldn't have so many worries about scolding his own people behind closed doors.

On the other hand, the higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

Yuan Tan has always felt that Uncle Liu is really good to him, and the Zhuge brothers are also good buddies, and they have always helped him, but he didn't expect to talk about such a condition in the end when the catastrophe came. With such a big psychological gap, who can accept it all at once?

The most important thing is that Yuan Shao has not taken his last breath so far, Yuan Tan has always had illusions about Guo Tu's operation in Yecheng, and feels that he still has hope of taking over his father's class.

In this case, the Yuan family's power is much greater than Liu Bei's, how could Yuan Tan accept the conditions of a large amount of land cution?

If you wait a few more months, wait for Yuan Shao's last breath to swallow. Yuan Tan also found that his father did not choose him to take over the entire Jizhou after all, and then he would be much more sober than now, and Liu Bei's conditions would not sound so harsh.

After Yuan Tan preconceived and scolded Xin Bi, he was a little angry, and then said pertinently: "It is absolutely impossible to give up the entire Donglai County to Xuande Gong." As for the counties and Ju counties of Langya, it's okay.

When our army was able to enter Langya, it was Xuande Gong who sent Chen Yuanlong to inform us to start, and we didn't spend any money to get it easily. I also knew that Xuande Gong was afraid of offending Cao Cao and didn't dare to rob Cao Cao of Langya, so he introduced us.

The counties under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou should have belonged to Xuande Gong, and now Cao Thief has started a war with our army, and Xuande Gong has not yet started a war, and entrusting them with the remaining Mengshan defense line on the southern front is also a matter of mutual benefit.

What's more, the counties are the fiefs of the princes, and the brothers of the princes helped me so much at the beginning, and it is also appropriate to return the favor of their Zhuge family. The counties have been returned, and Ju County is already an enclave, and it is impossible to pinch it in your hands alone. ”

Seeing that the young master was discouraged, Xin Bi dared to continue to speak and explained euphemistically:

"The eldest prince Mingjian, his subordinates agreed to these conditions this time, and they also saw with their own eyes the abundance and strict armament under the rule of the Che Cai general, and they were able to provide strong reinforcements for our army.

The general of the Che Cavalry opened iron mines and copper mountains in the south, making steel and forging armor, which was much better than the armament of our army. In addition, it is only relayed below, which may be misleading, and the general of the Che Cavalry asked Tai Shi Ci to name Donglai Taishou, which is also to reinforce our name.

In fact, except for a few harbor counties in Donglai County, which should be handed over to the other party for management, so that they can be transferred, the rest of the places can be retained by our officials, and the local money and grain taxes will still be at our disposal as long as they bear the grain and straw of the Taishici garrison.

If the eldest prince still finds it difficult to accept, he can also gradually strengthen cooperation, and it is nothing more than the reinforcements of the general of the chariot cavalry will be delivered one by one. ”

Listening to Xin Bi's explanation, Yuan Tan finally calmed down from the initial shock, at least he no longer blamed Liu Bei.

In the end, he didn't agree to give Tai Shi Ci a table as Donglai Taishou immediately, and wanted to leave this title and wait and see, but just handed over the two additional small harbor counties of Buqi County and Dongmu County to Tai Shi Ci's garrison.

As for the counties and Ju counties of Langya, direct delivery is.

Liu Bei's original offer was one county and two counties, but Yuan Tan temporarily counteroffered to the actual delivery of four counties.

There is also Liu Bei's mention of "please Yuan Tan first put Han Dang back to Jiangdong, hand it over to Liu Bei for transformation, and feel the changes in Jiangdong with other Jiangdong veterans, and change their minds", Yuan Tan also agreed.

Because since Yuan Tan heard that Han Dang surrendered to cover the escape of Cheng Pu and Sun Quan, he put Han Dang under surveillance. Although there is no direct imprisonment, it is easy to lose the hearts of the people by dealing with the generals in that way, but he will never dare to let Yuan Tan directly reuse Han Dang.

What if Cao Cao sent Cheng Pu into battle to tell him about the situation of the old master, and Han Dang directly defected? So a general who can't be used, whether Liu Bei wants to use it for transformation or brainwashing, it has nothing to do with Yuan Tan, and he has no loss.

Liu Bei also promised that in the future, he would send some reformed Jiangdong generals over to be responsible for the reinforcements of the coastal water warfare landing war, and Yuan Tan still earned it in the end.

Xin Bi was also afraid that Yuan Tan would suspect him of betrayal, so he didn't dare to say any more, so he rushed back to Zhuxian with these conditions.

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A few days later, Tai Shici and Zhuge both received a reply from Xin Bi in Zhuxian County, and they didn't blame him.

Negotiation of this kind of thing is not a complete negotiation of performance at one time.

Xin Bi is an errand runner, and he has limited authorization, and he can do this step at present, which shows that he already feels that Liu Bei's camp is more promising.

Zhuge Jun also took care of official business, and first allocated half of the negotiated military aid materials and handed them over to the people of Xinbi to transport them to Linzi. Help Yuan Tan rearm an army as soon as possible, or regroup the army that has retreated from the previous defeat.

Tai Shici took the army and temporarily moved to Huang County in Donglai County to station.

Huang County was not ceded to Liu Bei by Yuan Tan this time, but more than a year ago. At that time, Liu Bei needed to open up the war horse trade in Liaodong, so he needed a port in the northern part of the Shandong Peninsula opposite the Liaodong Peninsula (Dalian/Lushun), so Yuan Tan allocated the seaport of Huangxian County to Tai Shici for use.

Compared with the counties facing the Yellow Sea, Huangxian is facing the Bohai Sea, which is also more convenient for Tai Shici to lead troops directly to the coast for reinforcements when there is a crisis on the front line of Bohai County.

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On Yuan Tan's side, after receiving the armor, horse sword and halberd given by Uncle Liu, he personally inspected the quality of these weapons, and only then did he change his attitude slightly, and his misunderstanding of Xin Bi was also smaller.

Because the weapons given by Liu Bei are indeed better than his own.

Yuan Tan was born in a wealthy family, and he has been exposed to military affairs since he was a child, so he can still see the quality of weapons and armor. Just by looking at the color of the steel, he knew that what Liu Bei gave was not ordinary.

"Come on, take a few pieces of waste leather armor and put them on a wooden stake." After Yuan Tan finished reading it, he ordered someone to prepare materials to test the sword.

The attendant immediately got what he wanted, put it on the stake, Yuan Tan held his breath, waved his sword, and slashed it diagonally. The stake, along with several layers of waste leather, was cut off.

"Good sword!" Yuan Tan's eyes instantly showed joy, and he asked people to replace the discarded armor tablets.

This time the situation was a little trickier, after all, the defense was also covered with metallic armor.

Yuan Tan slashed through with a sword, but failed to directly break the armor. If it weren't for the heavy back of the sword, it would be possible to break it directly if it was a sword with a thinner blade.

But Yuan Tan didn't feel disappointed, the horse slashing sword was not originally a direct slash at the iron armor, it was because he had too high expectations at the beginning. Moreover, this horse slashing sword does not have any blade gaps, which shows that its own strength can be.

He tried a few more swords, and finally slashed the subway and collapsed, which turned out to be the belt that was connected between the various pieces of iron in the armor, and as the belt was cut, the iron pieces naturally scattered.

After chopping, Yuan Tan looked at the blade again, and slashed the iron five or six times before and after, although the iron was not cut, but the blade itself was not notched, and the quality of this was obviously beyond the Yuan family's own equipment of the horse cutting sword.

"It seems that against Zajia, you can still count on slashing the armor to kill the enemy, but in the face of the general's fish scale armor, the seams are hidden under the upper fish scales, and the slash is useless.

Unless it's from the bottom up, the scales are lifted up, and the weak ones are attacked. But how difficult is it to use this kind of trick on the battlefield, and how high are the requirements for martial arts? Let's try straight stabs. ”

Yuan Tan secretly thought in his heart, and he had already assessed the actual combat power of Liu Beijun's horse sword.

He was reluctant to try a direct stab at first, but he was also worried that the horse slashing sword would not be able to withstand this impact, and the direct stab iron armor would always hurt the sword the most, and there was no other direction to unload the force. This test method should naturally be saved for the end.

Yuan Tan took a deep breath, and then used all his strength to sprint forward, like a spear charge, and stabbed it violently at the restacked scrap iron.

There was a tooth-sore metal grinding sound, Yuan Tan's eyes narrowed, and he opened his eyes again, only then was he pleasantly surprised to see that the iron piece had been directly pierced.

Uncle Liu's steel refining is at least a grade better than that of Yuan's family!

Yuan Tan looked at the tip of the sword again, and there was no obvious collapse. In order to test its limits, Yuan Tan continued to stab hard, until after stabbing the pile of iron three rounds of penetrating wounds, the tip of the slashing sword finally broke a small piece, but this was also very remarkable.

If it is really on the battlefield, it means that the three ironclad soldiers on the opposite side have been stabbed to death, and his horse slashing sword is only half scrapped and loses the ability to continue stabbing, but it can still be used to continue to slash unarmored targets.

After trying the horse sword, Yuan Tan asked people to test the halberd again.

The halberds provided by Liu Bei are all steel parts with only integrated forging, and in order to facilitate transportation, the poles also need to be matched by Yuan Tanjun himself.

Of course, Yuan Tan has no shortage of guns here, and when he tried the sword just now, there were already craftsmen who had assembled the halberd shafts. Then there was a marquis of Qu with a big waist and a round waist, holding a halberd and stabbing the hook and pecking.

The spear and halberd are the strongest armor-breaking weapons in this era, and they are the most likely to pierce the iron armor with all their strength, but the traditional spear itself is not hard and sharp enough, and it is easy to scrap and break.

But in any case, this long and heavy weapon relied on the kinetic energy of the sprint, and even if it did not break the armor, it could inflict serious internal injuries on the cavalry.

After the officers under Yuan Tan's command tried it, they found that as long as this kind of halberd could slid to the crack of the armor after stabbing the iron, it would break the defense almost instantly, without exception.

Yuan Tan asked people to change the fish scale armor again, the fish scale armor was very good just now, but when facing the integrated forged steel-filled halberd, it was also "vigorously miraculous", no need to be strong in martial arts, relying on the huge force of the sprint itself, even if it did not penetrate directly, it was easy for the halberd head to deflect upwards and slide away, and then lift the fish scales away and stab them inside.

"Excellent! Immediately equip this batch of swords and halberds to the descendants of the commander, and after a while, we will try to reinforce Nanpi and see if we can give the besieging Cao army a dismount! ”

Yuan Tan was overjoyed, and he had already realized that what Xin Pi brought back was indeed worth the control of the four counties.

Finally, he examined the five hundred sets of iron armor that Simbi had sent. This was also the only thing that disappointed him a little, because Yuan Tan found that these iron armors seemed to be of inconsistent materials, some were excellent, and some were inferior.

"What's going on? Why can't the workmanship steel be consistent? Yuan Tan called Xin Pi to question.

Xin Bi was also helpless, and explained euphemistically: The armor in Liu Bei's army was not all newly made after arriving in Jiangxia County, and some of them were old goods left over from history. This time, in order to reinforce Yuan Tan, Liu Bei needed too much at once, so he had to take out part of the inventory.

Yuan Tan couldn't get angry when he heard it. It's true that people give you inventory, and you can't say anything.

Can you still be too hungry to ask for food?

Anyway, Yuan Tan was ready to rely on the arrival of the new weapon, and he would do a wave with Cao Cao first, and by the way, he also invited Tai Shi Ci to take over and help - because Tai Shi Ci was not appointed as the Tai Shou of Donglai, Yuan Tan did not have the cheeks to directly ask Tai Shi Ci to take the lead, so he just asked him to take over as a reserve.

In this way, if Yuan Tan can win on his own, or at least draw, he can also show Liu Bei his strength, and strive to make Liu Bei's follow-up price lower.

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