Chapter 80: The October Siege (23)

"King!"

In the pitch-black tent, Liu Chen opened his eyes from the meditation, and met the ghostly eyes of the night crow in front of him, he sighed, smiled bitterly and shook his head. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the night crow turned around and lit all the oil lamps in the tent, Liu Chen got off the bed and walked to the sand table step by step......

After being silent for a long time, Liu Chen asked leisurely, "Are they here?"

"Yes, King, they are outside the camp now, and the scout camp is protecting them!" Night Raven smiled, took the robe on the desk, and draped it on Liu Chen's shoulders very seriously.

"Let them come in!" nodded, Liu Chen frowned again and ordered: "You send someone to summon Uncle Ban Ziming and a few of them...... Don't tell me what the matter is!"

"Got it, King!"

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"That's the way it is, let's talk about it, what do you think?"

When all the people who should come arrived, Liu Chen sat down at the top of the head, scanning his eyes at the leaders of the Canglan Army present, and finally, his gaze fell on the face of Uncle Ban Ziming, who had been closing his eyes and recuperating: "Ziming, you say it first!"

"Yes!" Uncle Ban Ziming didn't get up, but after arching his hand, he took the time to tighten the light robe on his body, and after thinking about it for a while, he slowly opened his mouth and smiled: "According to the king's description just now, there are now a few respected Ruicheng Township elders who want to see us...... Is the king hesitating to see them?"

"That's right!" Liu Chen buried his head in tea, not letting people see the emotions on his face.

"After the explosion of the Armaments Division, Ruicheng was in turmoil, and we all know this...... In particular, Zhang Chen placed those displaced people of all ethnic groups who had just escaped from the sea of fire into the military camp in Beicheng, and it was inevitable that other ideas would breed among the people, combined with the information sent by the scout battalion to the General Staff, I think that these Ruicheng Township elders should have found us in a desperate situation, and the king might as well meet us...... Listen to what they have to say. ”

"Yes!" Uncle Ban had just finished speaking, and Liu Gu, who had just recovered from his serious injury, suddenly opened his mouth and added: "Just in the past few days, there are rumors in our camp, saying that Zhang Chen has begun to pay off the big households in the city in order to make up for the losses caused by the explosion, and these village elders should be the negotiators sent by those nobles!"

"Negotiation?" Liu Chen's eyes turned cold, and he immediately raised his head and sneered: "A group of traitors who have forgotten their ancestors, what qualifications do they have to negotiate with us?"

"Hey!" Haoqing, the prince of the demon clan, thought alone for a long time, then sighed lightly, raised his eyes and said: "It's better to bring them in first, if you can take Rui Cheng at the lowest cost, it will be a good thing!"

"Hmm!" Under Liu Chen's eyes, the Hidden Guards guarding the door bowed down and withdrew from the tent very tacitly, and walked far away towards the darkness of the camp gate.

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"Sinner Ke Youde, please Saint Wu Canglan King An! Please Demon Kingdom Yongxian Prince An! Please God Kingdom Piaoyu Eldest Princess An! Please all the generals An!"

The death-like silence suppressed the clouds above the heads of everyone in the tent, the swaying brazier, and also reflected the fiasco on the face of the old man, and as time passed, the people kneeling on the ground were already trembling, and the meaning was difficult to understand.

"Hmph!" After getting off the horse, Haoqing slowly got up, paced in front of Ke Youde, and said in an extremely indifferent tone: "Ke Youde, this palace will ask you, what do you ask for tonight?"

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince!" As if grasping a life-saving straw, Ke Youde raised his head suddenly, and a little expectation suddenly flashed in his cloudy eyes: "The criminal minister and others came today, and they just want to ask the king of Canglan to help save the three million people of Ruicheng who are in dire straits!"

"From thieves to kings, how many Canglan robes have died in the hands of the so-called Ruicheng soldiers and civilians...... With such a change, how can you convince this palace? Could it be that you are deceitful again, trying to murder us?" Haoqing's words were quite cold, which made Na Ke Youde and the others sweat profusely, and they could be panicked.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is discerning!" kneeling and approaching the corner of Haoqing's clothes, Ke Youde beat his chest for a while, and explained with tears in his eyes: "Zhang's chaotic country, we are originally the fish in the pond that have been affected, but we have the intention to kill the thief, and we have no power to return to the sky...... Over the years, the ministers have been sleepless at night, and they dare not forget their homeland in the Central Plains...... The sinner, I can't help but be overjoyed...... All the feelings have to be unavoidable, it is the thief who misleads the country and harms the people, and the ministers are cut off!"

Secretly exchanging a look with Liu Chen, Hao Qing sneered in his heart, and said softly: "In this case, then tell me how to save you?"

"Your Highness!" After kowtowing a few times, Ke Youde already had a big bag bulging in front of his forehead, but he didn't have time to pay attention to the pain or pain, and when he heard Haoqing's mouth, he hurriedly straightened up and said with tears in his eyes: "Three days later, the Zhang Mansion will hold a routine military meeting, and at that time, I will light a beacon fire in the city and open the south gate for Wang Shi......"

"You mean, let's enter the city from the south?" Haoqing frowned, and after thinking for a moment, his eyes were full of hesitation: "How does this palace know, will you catch turtles in our army's urn?" You know, you have done everything to use the people as meat shields, and there is nothing taboo in this world!"

It's a pity that the prince of the demon clan is still thinking about the death of nearly 100,000 innocent homeless people...... If you want to talk about the hatred for Zhang Chen, since that defeat, there is really no one in the entire Canglan Army who can compare to this gentleman-like Prince Yongxian......

"Please also rest assured, Your Highness, the criminal ministers and others will blow up Zhang Chen's grain storage division at the right time, and in addition, when the Wang Shi's soldiers come to the southern city, the three million people in Ruicheng will rise up from the unveiling of the rod and welcome the king into the city!"

Seeing that Haoqing was still unmoved, Ke Youde gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "We still have more than a thousand stones of gunpowder, just wait for the three rings of the war drum of the king division to ensure that the south wall of Narui City will be destroyed in an instant...... When the time comes, Master Wang will advance and retreat freely, and it will be effortless to take the head of that old thief Zhang Chen!"

"Then what do you want?" Liu Chen got up and asked with a smile: "Ke Youde, don't tell this king, the group of people behind you don't have any requirements!"

"The only request of the criminal ministers and others is to hope for the king's forgiveness, if they can follow the example of Wancheng Liu Du, it would be great......"

"That's it?"

"That's all!"

"That's good!" Liu Chen bowed his head and said unhurriedly: "This king is waiting for your good news!"

"Thank you, my king!"

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When the night crow entered the tent and took Ke Youde and the others away, the atmosphere in the tent suddenly exploded, and the joy in everyone's hearts was self-evident, before that, no one thought that the battle of Ruicheng would end in such a way, the grand event of recovering the south of Caiyun is close at hand, so many years of hard work, and finally saw the dawn of victory, so, how can people not be excited......

In the laughter, only Liu Chen and Beigong Huan, two insiders, always maintained a calm smile, of course, Zhuang Yuangong glanced at Liu Chen from time to time, as smart as him, he must have understood something, but when Liu Chen didn't want to say it, he pretended not to know...... (To be continued.) )