Murong Fu smiled and said, "So, if you send a signal now, it will only make the sacrifice of the returning army in vain. Why not cooperate with me?"
Although Huo Ayi was unwilling in his heart, he also understood that the current situation had only this option, "How to cooperate?"
"I will let the army of Xiangyang City come out of the city to cooperate with you, and wipe out all the Mongolian army outside the north gate in one fell swoop."
"What are the conditions?" Huo Ayi asked. He knew Murong Fu to some extent and knew that this man would not be able to afford it early.
Murong Fu laughed and said, "There are no conditions. My responsibility is to defend Xiangyang. If I can annihilate the enemy under the city, why wouldn't I do it?"
A look of suspicion flashed across Huo Ayi's face, and he pondered for a moment, "How will the horses in the camp be distributed?"
"What distribution?" Murong Fu looked at him with a puzzled expression, "Aren't those war horses supposed to be mine from Xiangyang City? Why should we distribute them?"
Huo Ayi sneered, "Sure enough, I knew you weren't that kind!"
Murong Fu smiled and said, "You have countless war horses returning to the headquarters, and even if you think about it, you won't care about these three melons and two dates."
"What three melons and two dates? That's 200,000 war horses, okay!" Huo Ayi was stunned for a moment, and almost smashed his face with a punch. Although there were many war horses, after all these years of consumption,
He also sold part of it to the Murong family. There was not much left, otherwise he would not have been defeated by Kublai Khan and forced to surrender.
After taking a deep breath, Huo Ayi smiled bitterly and said, "Now that the war horses are scarce and it is difficult to move back to the headquarters, you can't look at Qingtong's face..."
Murong Fu rolled his eyes and interrupted, "Qingtong is Qingtong, and you are you. When you led the army to attack Xiangyang City, why didn't you think of Qingtong's face?"
Huo Ayi's face was suffocated, "I...I didn't want to attack Xiangyang City in the first place!"
"Then I have nothing to do with it. Anyway, if I see you returning to the army, I will fight you."
"You...why are you so unreasonable?"
"Business is business, principles are principles. When doing business, we only talk about price. How can there be any reason?"
"Okay, since you said you want to negotiate a price, then I will go back to the headquarters to help you deal with the Mongolian army. There should be a price, right?"
"Why don't you help me? I can take care of them without your help. You are just the icing on the cake. At most, I will give you some travel expenses to return to the grassland afterwards. Oh, this is for Qingtong's sake, so there is no need to thank me."
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The two of them were arguing as if no one was watching, and Kublai Khan was almost vomiting blood as he watched from the sidelines. The battle had not yet started, and the outcome was still undecided, so they actually discussed the allocation of horses in front of him. It was really too arrogant.
In addition to the three of them, there was also a middle-aged scribe in the tent, none other than Military Advisor Liu. He quietly winked at Kublai Khan.
Kublai Khan understood that this was an opportunity for him to escape, so he couldn't help but secretly complain, "If I could escape, I would have already escaped, so why do you need to tell me?"
He had come into contact with countless martial arts masters and strangers. Even Master Lingzhi was not an enemy of Murong Fu Yihe, so how could he escape.
At this time, Murong Fu waved his big hand, "Okay, no need to say anymore, the war is about to end, and this battle of Dayuanjing will no longer pose a threat to the Hui tribe. Why do you need so many war horses!"
Huo Ayi sighed secretly, and finally took a step back, "I don't need the horses in the horse camp, but the gains from killing enemies on the battlefield should belong to me, right?"
Murong Fu glanced at him faintly, "I used to think you were honest and honest, but I didn't expect you to be as cunning as a fox like your father!"
You must know that in addition to the horses in the horse camp, there are more than 80,000 Mongolian cavalry in this camp. If they can all be retained, that would be 80,000 war horses. What Huoyi refers to as "the proceeds from killing enemies on the battlefield"
Even with these 80,000 horses, Murong Fu would certainly not be fooled.
Huo Ayi took this as a compliment, and a smile appeared on his resolute face, "I am my father's biological son, so I naturally want to inherit some of his things."
"Okay, okay, you thought I was praising you," Murong Fu waved his hand impatiently, "On the battlefield, of course whoever captures belongs to whom, and if you didn't capture it, don't even think about it. It's settled like that, otherwise you can
Go back to the headquarters immediately, I'm too lazy to talk nonsense to you."
"No friendship at all." Huo Ayi snorted and finally agreed, "When will your army leave the city?"
Murong Fu took out a signal bomb and said, "As soon as the signal is sounded, they will leave the city and return to the army to pretend to resist. When our army becomes entangled with the Mongolian army, you will order the defection."
Huo Ayi nodded and suddenly turned to look at Kublai Khan, "What about him?"
Murong Fu seemed to have just remembered Kublai Khan, and was stunned, "It turns out that the Fourth Prince hasn't left yet. I thought you had run away."
Kublai Khan knew that he deliberately opened his eyes and told lies, but he was not angry. He always maintained a calm and peaceful expression on his face, "There are distinguished guests here, and I should entertain them well. How could I leave alone and neglect the distinguished guests?"
Murong Fu looked at him for a long time, then nodded slightly, "Your temperament is okay, but compared to Temujin, you are still a little bit behind. Do you know what it is?"
Kublai Khan was startled when he heard this, "What's missing?"
"That's courage!" Murong Fu said with a smile, "If Temujin Khan were in your situation, he would have tried every means to get out just now. He knew he couldn't do it but did it. You knew you couldn't do it but didn't do it. That's it.
Diandian, you will never be able to compare with him."
When Kublai Khan heard such words, he naturally felt uncomfortable, but he said calmly, "My grandfather is a genius of his generation. How can unworthy descendants compare with him?"
Murong Fu shook his head, not bothering to expose his thoughts, and changed the subject, "Fourth Prince, let's not talk nonsense. Are you a decent man? Do you want to do it yourself, or do you want me to help you?"
Kublai Khan felt a chill in his heart, "Your Excellency, there seems to be no need to fight to the death between you and me, right?"
Murong Fu naturally understood what he meant, but he pretended not to know, "I don't think you have any capital to fight with me. I only need one finger to kill you."
Kublai Khan's eyes flashed, "In terms of martial arts, of course I am not your opponent, but you are in my camp, and if you kill me, you may not be able to escape. There is not much conflict of interest between you and me. Maybe we
You can sit down and talk."
Murong Fu was stunned, "What do you want to talk about?"
Kublai Khan did not answer the question immediately, but instead said, "I have heard your plan just now. To be honest, I don't think you can succeed."
"Oh? Then you can tell me." Murong Fu looked at him with interest.
Kublai Khan continued, "My king's army is all brave and capable men who have experienced hundreds of battles. You can ask General Huo next to you about this. Most of the generals in our army are selected from the army. Many of them
People of low origin, there are not even a thousand but hundreds of people like this."
Murong Fu and Huo Ayi both looked at him with confusion.
Kublai Khan smiled and said, "You may not understand this. Let me put it another way. The few you killed were at best just a few of the better ones among the tens of thousands of troops. But this does not mean that there are no soldiers in our army.
Excellent generals exist, and I can guarantee that once you start a war, my army will never be left without a command."
Murong Fu suddenly understood, but his face remained calm, "Do you believe me?"
Kublai Khan shook his head, "You just said that I have no courage, so I might as well make a bet with you. Just kill me and then order an attack to see if my words will come true."
When he said this, Murong Fu felt a little unsure. Of course, what really made him unsure was that there were only more than 20,000 defenders at the north gate of Xiangyang City, and the return army was only 40,000 at full strength. He wanted to deal with 80,000 cavalry.
It's really not easy.
His original idea was to lose some horses and set fire to the camp, and then use the Xiangyang defenders as bait to create an opportunity for Huo Ayi. Although the 80,000-strong army was large in number, but without a general to command, the opportunity was still great.
But now that Kublai Khan said it, he couldn't make up his mind again. Wouldn't it be very embarrassing if the bamboo basket failed in the end and tens of thousands of troops were lost instead.
In fact, it is also his fault that he was too greedy and wanted to keep those 200,000 horses. Otherwise, he would only have to send troops to prevent them from supporting Temujin. Even Kublai Khan was here. He did not need to send a single soldier, just waiting for Temujin.
It's enough to be completely defeated over there, there's no need to bother at all.
But then again, how can you win without being greedy?
Kublai Khan spoke at the right time and said, "Young Master must have heard what I said outside the tent before. I don't necessarily want to support the Great Khan, so we have no conflict of interest."
Murong Fu pondered for a while, "What do you want?"
Kublai Khan's eyes flashed and he said, "I can promise not to move my troops, and I can give you 30% of your war horses. The condition is that I will be allowed to leave, and I will not be allowed to deal with my army."
After speaking, he looked at Huo Ayi again and said, "If I can successfully reach the top, I can guarantee that I will never use troops against the Hui tribe again in my lifetime."
After hearing this, Huo Ayi couldn't help but feel a little moved. Kublai Khan could live for at least twenty or thirty years. He would have this time to recuperate when he returned to his army, and he was not afraid of the Great Yuan's comeback in the future.
But Murong Fu sneered, "Thirty percent? Are you sending beggars away?"
Kublai Khan hesitated for a moment, "At most half, you know, I still have great use for these war horses. If I give you too much, then what's the point of doing all this?"
Murong Fu weighed the gains and losses in his mind, and after a while, he finally said, "I want 150,000 horses, and I can't do anything less than one."
A trace of anger flashed across Kublai Khan's face, but before he could speak, Murong Fu waved his hand, "Except for the 150,000, you still have 50,000. Plus the troops in this camp are all cavalry, that's 130,000, half of them."
Eight taels per catty, not bad."
Kublai Khan almost spit out a mouthful of old blood. Thirty thousand of the eighty thousand cavalry were his own, and the other fifty thousand were already in his pocket, but now they were taken out and distributed by Murong Fu. What kind of logic is this?
At this time, Murong Fu added faintly, "My lord, please don't forget that after death, nothing is left. They are all external things and are fleeting, so why bother clinging to the present moment."
Kublai Khan's expression changed for a while, and finally he nodded, "Okay, I agree!"
Suddenly, Huo Ayi said, "Fourth Prince, if you promise not to return to the army to use troops during your lifetime, does that count for anything?"