"The little nephew wants to share the worries of the elders, and he doesn't want to lose his life, so he mustered up the courage and dared to give it a try."

Hearing Chen Ze's response, Cao Sheng couldn't help but take a closer look at Chen Ze.

Cao Sheng was dressed in battle armor and circled around Chen Ze a few times, and his expression couldn't help but be a little strange: "After your child is seriously ill, it really seems like a different person, which makes me extremely strange." ”

"This doesn't look like something came out of your Chen Houzhao's mouth!"

Cao Sheng was also quite puzzled for a while, Chen Ze was seriously ill a few months ago, he also went to the house to visit, at that time it was indeed burned in a daze, the whole person was completely unconscious, accompanied by a violent cough, and there were some breathing difficulties at every turn, there were already many doctors, the diagnosis should be lung fever, and a lot of heavy medicine had been used, but the situation did not improve.

At that time, Cao Sheng felt that Chen Ze was unlikely to survive, this disease was indeed very serious, and the doctors felt a little helpless, but they never expected that the disease would be cured soon, but after getting better, he found that the situation seemed to be something wrong, Chen Ze's temperament changed greatly, and he seemed to have forgotten a lot of things, and he opened his mouth to ask what dynasty and who the emperor was, and felt a little crazy.

I thought it was burning out my brain, but judging from the current situation, not only did it not burn out, but it also burned people to be smart and sensible.

Not to mention, Cao Sheng really hasn't heard of Chen Ze making trouble since he beat Chen Ze and got sick, and he hasn't heard of a conflict with a powerful family, and what is even more unexpected is that Chen Ze actually caught the traitor after going to Qingzhou and helped the Cao family save face.

Cao Sheng had always felt that Chen Ze was a blind cat who ran into a dead mouse and caught someone by mistake, but the reply he got from Cao Xiong during this time was different.

Chen Ze really did a lot of things in Qingzhou, and he delegated a large number of officials, and he reorganized the Qingzhou University Hall, and recruited tens of thousands of schoolchildren in Qingzhou to study in Qingzhou City, which made both father and son feel incredible.

Suddenly, he changed from a stubborn man who didn't learn and didn't know how to become a brave and knowledgeable teenager, and the change was really a bit confusing.

"Are you really Chen Houzhao?"

"Uncle, I don't even know how to answer this question?" Chen Ze said with a smile on his face: "Of course it's a thick photo!" ”

"It shouldn't be! Chen Houzhao is so sensible as you, and it is impossible for him to have such courage as you! ”

"Uncle, I know that I was really ignorant before, since I had a serious illness and went through the ghost gate, my little nephew and I had an epiphany all of a sudden, and many things suddenly became transparent."

Cao Sheng bowed slightly: "Are you really sure about this peace talk?" That Xu Qianqian is not easy to speak. ”

"I don't have much to grasp, but at the moment I can only give it a try, and it is naturally best to be able to talk peacefully."

Cao Sheng didn't say more, since this was Chen Wuping's order, his own sons had been let go to the peace talks, and Cao Sheng carried out the order.

Wutong County is not far from Hanzhou City, and the two-day march has reached the scope of Wutong County.

Chen Ze couldn't figure out why he sent tens of thousands of horses to suppress it before, but as soon as he looked at the terrain in Wutong County, he knew that if it was really a fight, it would definitely be a vicious battle.

The terrain is very steep, most of them are cliffs, and the location of Wutong County is sandwiched in a notch, and if you want to go through Wutong County to other places, you must cross the city.

During the Dali period, there was no Wutong County, and there was only one Wutong Pass, and then an important pass was slowly established as a city.

And if you want to enter Wutong County, there is only one road to choose, and the width is only enough to allow three or four carriages to pass, and if you want to carry out a siege war under such conditions, there is almost no advantage for the attacking side, and it is not realistic to set up a large army to forcibly attack the city.

Soon after, the army began to set up camp, and the position hung twenty miles from Wutong Pass.

The spies had already been sent out to inquire about the situation, and Cao Sheng and Chen Ze were waiting for news in the tent.

Half an hour later, the spies returned.

Wutong Pass has a large number of soldiers and horses garrisoned, roughly estimated at least about 1,000 people, and set up a lot of ballista at the pass, ready for battle.

When Cao Sheng heard this, he immediately summoned his subordinates and began to formulate a combat strategy, but Chen Ze could only wait.

If you want peace talks, you must first pass on the message that the other side is willing to hold peace talks.

At the beginning, Chen Ze must not be allowed to go directly to Wutong Pass as a messenger, and the people of Wutong Pass will be finished if one of them shoots Chen Ze carelessly, so they will usually send people and horses to contact and send letters in advance.

Now Chen Ze is waiting for Lu Qingyun's handwritten letter, and after getting Lu Qingyun's handwritten letter, he will try to negotiate peace.

As for combat deployment and the like, Chen Ze couldn't go to the table to discuss it together, not to mention that he didn't have any combat experience.

The battle cannot be fought for a moment.

After all, both sides must be prepared to fight, after all, the soldiers and horses must be renovated, and the logistics must keep up.

Cao Sheng's 10,000 men and horses were all in a hurry, without bringing logistics troops, only brought three days of dry food, and then needed logistics to quickly replenish supplies, and logistics people and horses to say 40,000 or 50,000 people, from the granary to transport grain, and wait for the logistics support to be sufficient before it could start, the time at least three or four days, at this point in time, Cao Sheng's group of generals need to deploy combat plans, and place sentinels everywhere to prevent people from stealing their homes.

Once the peace talks fail, war is on the verge of breaking out.

Chen Ze saw that the army had begun to prepare for battle, and he couldn't help but feel a trace of anxiety in his heart.

What he was worried about was that Xu Qianfang did not have any idea of peace talks, and if he couldn't talk about war, it would be inevitable.

And since there are peace talks, then the two sides must have their own demands.

What the palace is asking for is that Xu Qianfang disbanded the men and horses on the spot, disarmed and surrendered, and did not pursue other people's responsibilities, but Xu Qianfang needed to return to the palace to be tried.

It is unlikely that the palace will leave such an unstable factor, and Chen Ze feels that there is a high probability that he will not survive.

The main reason is that Chen Ze didn't expect that Xu Qianfang didn't leave a way out for himself at all, and killed most of the officials as soon as he captured the county seat, and the possibility of surviving in this situation is too low.

If it was just to capture the county seat, put officials under house arrest and the like, there would be more room for maneuver, but this time it was Xu Qianqian who cut off the back road.

But if Xu Qianfang really wants to revolt, the timing is not right at all, not to mention, Wutong County does not have much food in stock at all, it is not enough to raise troops and train soldiers, and it will not take long at all, even if he has tens of thousands of horses, it is a dead end when he goes out of Wutong County.

Hanzhou is the base camp of the Zhennan Army.

Therefore, Chen Ze felt that Xu Qianfang was more likely to be forced to be helpless this time, so there should be the possibility of peace talks.