Chapter 199: Conspiracy
Bai Chong also knew the self-acquaintance of the iron pillar very well, and couldn't help shaking his head and laughing at the moment, ordering someone to bring out a few jars of wine, and the group entered the camp tent and started drinking.
Yue Ningmei and Ling Ying talked for a while, and when they came back, Tie Zhu shouted loudly: "You want to punish wine!"
Ling Ying has always been arrogant, and at that moment, he and Yue Ning Mei entered the table and said with a smile: "It's easy to say, but the amount of wine in the iron pillar is excellent, we all have to drink together to be able to drink you!"
When Tie Zhu heard this, he was very proud in his heart, and he was about to float up, and he said at the moment: "This is really like what you said, although you can't drink me, but the wine that should be punished still has to be punished, this can't be tricked!"
Fang Yuhan knew that Tie Zhu had been fooled by Ling Ying, and now he had found a bunch of opponents, Tie Zhu's little amount of alcohol could withstand a few people to play?
"Okay, I should be punished, but after the punishment is over, all of us have to drink three bowls with you, otherwise how can it seem that you have a lot of alcohol?" Ling Ying said with a smile.
When Tie Zhu heard this, he also felt reasonable, and immediately said: "Okay, it's decided like this!"
Ling Ying drank the penalty wine, then stood up and drank three bowls with Tie Zhu, followed by Bai Chong. When they arrived at Fang Yuhan, Qianmo, Zhuo Qingfeng, and Yue Ningmei. Yue Ningmei also drank three bowls with Tie Zhu, Tie Zhu drank nine bowls at once, one and a half jars of wine were gone, Tie Zhu was dizzy at the moment, but he was on top of his head, he pointed to Fang Yuhan, Qian Mo, and Zhuo Qingfeng: "You also have to drink three bowls with me!"
Zhuo Qingfeng smiled helplessly and said, "Drink a bowl, I see you happy!"
Tie Zhu burped and said, "Since you are happy, why can you only drink one bowl?"
Ling Ying laughed out loud and praised: "The iron pillar is the atmosphere, even if Senior Brother Zhuo only drinks one bowl, you will drink six bowls!"
When Tie Zhu heard this, he directly filled the wine bowl and said, "Okay, you drink one bowl, and I drink six bowls!"
Without waiting for Zhuo Qingfeng to drink it, Tie Zhu had already drunk six bowls of wine, and at that moment Zhuo Qingfeng glared at Ling Ying, then shook his head and smiled, seeing that he was about to win, it was not a bad thing for everyone to be happy, it was Zhuo Qingfeng who drank that bowl of wine.
After Tie Zhu drank these six bowls, the whole person was already completely floating, he drooped his eyelids, looked at Fang Yuhan and Qianmo, and said, "It's just the two of you! You also want to drink six bowls with me······
After finishing speaking, the iron pillar fell directly on the table and fell asleep. Seeing this, Ling Ying and the others all smiled knowingly and went back to the barracks.
Early the next morning, they got up and took care of everything, and then they started on the road. It's just that Tie Zhu's heart is full of questions, why did he seem to be drunk alone last night?
Tie Zhu thought for a long time, and then recalled the words that Ling Ying praised him, and only reacted for a while, he seemed to have been fooled, but no matter what, as long as he could drink, it was a good thing.
Duke Zhou personally came out to welcome Fang Yuhan and them back, and at the moment, the four-way army, except for Gongsun Luo's road, all the rest gathered here.
At the time of the expedition, there were 200,000, but now it is only a little more than 130,000, excluding the 50,000 of Gongsun Luo, and more than 10,000 people who died of plague and battle on the battlefield.
It's only been three years, and so many people have died, if it is a perennial war? It is that Zhou Gong also has to sigh that the harm of this war to the people is too great, if he can, he hopes that there will be no war in the future.
"Now that the army is united, only Ji Xian's army is left, how to deal with it, what opinions do you have, you can speak freely!" Zhou Gong's eyes swept over everyone and said loudly.
Ji Fu said: "Right now, there are more of our people than them, so we will directly surround them and cut off their food and grass supply, and within half a month, they will definitely have to surrender!"
"No, they know that they can't escape the sanctions of the imperial court, and they won't surrender!" Qin Ruochan said.
Ling Ying said: "That's right, but the guilty person is just Ji Xian, and his subordinates are willing to surrender, it's not impossible!"
"So if we spread the news that the surrenderers will not be killed, the soldiers in Ji Xian's military camp will definitely not be able to sit still!" Bai Chong said.
"Now that this news is spreading, it is estimated that the effect is not good, if we can surround it and let them understand the seriousness of the situation, in this way, the effect achieved will not be too bad!" Ling Ying said.
Zhou Gongdao: "This method is not bad, we can implement it tomorrow!"
Zhou Gong had already made up his mind, so naturally no one said anything more. In Ji Xian's barracks, the three of them, father and son, were discussing strategy again.
Ji Yu said: "Father, if you surrender now, will Zhou Gong and them open the net and return to the past?"
Without waiting for Ji Xian to answer, Ji Shengxuan showed a bitter look and said: "No chance, Ji Du's fate has already explained everything, if it was earlier, maybe it was still possible!"
"Big brother, I don't like to hear what you said, I took advantage of the good situation earlier, why did you surrender?" Ji Yu said.
Ji Sheng preached: "Now that the road is at the end of the road, you want to surrender, but people still don't accept it!"
When Ji Yan heard this, he suddenly showed anger, but Ji Shengxuan's words made him irrefutable. At this time, Ji Xian suddenly said: "Xuan'er, her status in Tianxin Pavilion is extraordinary, can you use this relationship to talk about Zhou Zheng?"
Ji Shengxuan shook his head and said: "It's impossible to make an appointment with Duke Zhou, after all, they gave us a chance before, how could he come out to make a mistake at such a critical time?"
"You didn't do it, how do you know if you can?" Ji Xian said.
Ji Sheng preached: "What does my father want to talk to Zhou Gong?"
Ji Xian laughed dryly and said, "What can I do, see if I can surrender, if not, then I can only fight against the water." Xuan'er, we are father and son after all, whether your father and your brother can live or not depends on you!"
When Ji Shengxuan was in Tianxin Pavilion, he had always been arrogant and looked down on people, but now he has experienced too much, and many edges and corners on his body have been smoothed out. No matter how Ji Xian has squeezed him these days, but this is his younger brother after all, and it is impossible for him to watch Ji Xuan and Ji Xian die.
After thinking about it for a long time, Ji Shengxuan finally nodded: "Okay, I'll go to their barracks!"
The moon rises in the eastern sky, and the heavens and the earth become brighter. Before Ji Shengxuan entered the barracks, he was discovered by the patrolling soldiers.
"With a sigh of annoyance, Ji Shengxuan, a disciple of Tianxin Pavilion, begged to see the Pavilion Master and Lord Zhou!" Ji Shengxuan saluted.
Ji Shengxuan's identity is unknown to no one in the barracks, and the soldiers on patrol at the moment are all vigilant. One of them looked at Ji Shengxuan, but the other went to Zhou Gong's tent to report, this Ji Shengxuan's identity was too special, and these soldiers didn't dare to say anything.
After a while, the man who had gone to report came back and said, "My lord said please come over!"
To tell the truth, whether Zhou Gong and the Lonely Void Daoist will see him, Ji Shengxuan's heart has no bottom, until he hears this person's words, the big stone hanging in Ji Shengxuan's heart can be regarded as falling. He thought in his heart: "No matter what, I still have a place in the Tianxin Pavilion, if so, if the pavilion master and the lord are more magnanimous······
Ji Shengxuan had hope in his heart, and now he walked faster, he came to Zhou Gong's tent, and the lonely Taoist and Zhou Gong were all there.
"I've seen my lord, I've seen the pavilion master!" Ji Shengxuan saluted respectfully.
"It's been a long time, but you've grown a lot!" said the Lonely Void Daoist.
When Ji Shengxuan heard this, his eyes showed vicissitudes, he still remembered that in Tianxin Pavilion at that time, the Lonely Void Daoist was very tolerant of him, but at the same time he was also very strict. Such a contradiction is naturally due to different things.
Looking back now, Ji Shengxuan is embarrassed, if it weren't for the teachings of the Lonely Daoist, I'm afraid he would be no different from Ji Xuan today.
"People always have to grow, don't they?" Ji Shengxuan's words were full of indescribable old-fashionedness, but this was the true emotion in his heart right now.
The Lonely Void Daoist nodded and smiled slightly, and then asked, "What do you want to do when you come here tonight?"
"My father wants to ask Duke Zhou to talk about surrender and see if the imperial court can open the net!" Ji Shengxuan said.
Zhou Gong and the Lonely Void Daoist pondered for a while, only to hear Zhou Gong say: "This chaos was jointly initiated by Ji Xian and Wu Geng, they are the culprits, it stands to reason that they will not be spared, but for your sake, the death penalty can be avoided, and if you want to continue the previous fiefdom, it may be impossible!"
When Ji Shengxuan heard this, he just sighed, then he stood up and said, "Understood, I'll go back and tell my father, whether to surrender or fight, everything has to be decided by him!"
Zhou Gong nodded, and watched Ji Shengxuan leave. The lonely Taoist said to Zhou Gong: "Thank you!"
"Thank you, right now I know that the situation in Fengshenguan is very serious, this Ji Shengxuan is the reincarnation of Xuan Lingzhu, and now they are all here, for the sake of the common people in the world, if you want to ask others to do things, you can't kill the father of the family, right?" Zhou Gong said.
Lonely Dao said: "Poor Dao is just afraid that Ji Xian will not agree, after all, he attaches great importance to power, fame and fortune!"
"The situation is like this, and there is no room for him not to agree!" Zhou Gong said.
Ji Shengxuan returned to the barracks and reported everything, and then Ji Xian said: "As long as he agrees to sit down and talk about it, we will talk about other things then!"
Ji Sheng preached: "Father, Duke Zhou's attitude is very clear, this is also the greatest tolerance, we have no way out!"
Ji Xian said: "Even if it is a surrender, there must be a ceremonial handover, right? For example, how to arrange the nearly 100,000 horses under his command? You go back and ask, and say that if you don't agree to the peace talks, then you can fight, and it's hard to say what the result is!"
Ji Shengxuan listened, returned to the Zhou Gong military camp again, and explained too much about Ji Xian. To Ji Shengxuan's delight, Duke Zhou actually agreed to negotiate peace with Ji Xian.
For a while, Ji Shengxuan was indescribably happy, and at this moment, he went back and told Ji Xian about the place of peace talks agreed by Zhou, and Ji Xian did not object.
When Ji Sheng Xuan went out, Ji Yan couldn't help asking: "Father, do we really have no second way to go except surrender?"
Ji Xian smiled: "Who said I want to surrender?"