The commander-in-chief of the Sichuan and Zhen coalition forces, Ren Fang, sent an envoy to invite Tang Yin to meet him out of the city. The first reaction of the generals in the Feng army was that this was a trap by the enemy. They must be plotting something evil secretly and must not agree to it. Tang Yin also felt that it was inexplicable that the two armies were fighting.
On this occasion, what did Ren Fang want to talk about?
Tang Yinyou asked the Sichuan envoy to enter the city, but did not immediately invite him into the meeting hall. He was considering whether he needed to see the envoy.
At this time, Qiu Zhen came out and said to Tang Yin: "Your Majesty, Sichuan has always valued etiquette and integrity. If Renfang really invites you, I won't do anything secretly. I'm afraid... Zhenjun will use the name of Renfang.
, to trick the king into leaving the city."
The Zhen Kingdom and the Sichuan Kingdom are completely different. They are barbaric, cunning, cruel, capricious, only interested in profit, and have no credibility at all. If the Zhen Army used the excuse of letting go and Tang Yin believed it, the consequences would be disastrous.
Tang Yin rolled his eyes and asked: "Qiu Zhen, do you think that if the envoy is really sent as he pleases, what will he want to talk to me about?"
Qiu Zhen thought carefully for a while and said: "There are only two points, one is to persuade to surrender, and the other is to negotiate peace."
"Oh?" Tang Yin's eyes lit up. We had just won a great victory in the Mo Kingdom. We had joined forces with the Mo army to repel the 400,000-strong Huan army. Now we were gradually reversing the situation between the enemy and ourselves. We were letting all the people want to attack us.
It is impossible to persuade him to surrender, and he would not be so self-righteous. So, does Ren Fang want to negotiate peace with himself?
The temptation of negotiating peace was too great for Tang Yin. After this period of fierce fighting, Fengguo had been tortured to pieces, especially the army, which suffered heavy losses, with more than hundreds of thousands of casualties, which can be called vitality.
He was seriously injured. If the fighting continues, Feng Kingdom may not be able to recover for decades. It would be great if a truce could be reached to give our side a chance to breathe.
He looked at Qiu Zhen with bright eyes and asked, "If the envoy is really sent by Ren Fang, then he must be here to invite me out of the city to discuss peace?"
Qiu Zhen nodded and responded: "It is unlikely to persuade them to surrender, but it is very possible to negotiate peace. The key issue is... we don't know whether this envoy is from Sichuan or Zhen."
Tang Yin pondered for a moment, looked around, and asked, "Who is familiar with Sichuan country and Sichuan people?"
Everyone looked at each other, but no one said anything. After a moment of pause, Tang Yin's two guards, Ah San and Ah Si, raised their hands and said, "Your Majesty, the last general has been to the Sichuan Kingdom and has some understanding of the situation in the Sichuan Kingdom."
Tang Yin looked at Ah San and Ah Si on his left and right, nodded with a smile, then raised his head and said to the guard at the door: "Let Envoy Sichuan Zhen come in!"
Not long after, the Sichuan envoy came in from the outside. The Sichuan envoy was a middle-aged man in his forties, with a white face and short beard, and a dignified appearance. Although he had a very arrogant attitude towards Feng Bing Feng General, Tang Yin
You must be respectful before the king of a country.
Without being blocked by the guards around him, he walked to a place five meters away from Tang Yin and stood there automatically. Then he lifted up his clothes, knelt down respectfully and kowtowed to Tang Yin, and gave a great salute to the king, "Chun Yu Yang, see
His Highness the Wind King."
Tang Yin looked Yu Yang up and down for a while, then Fang said with a smile: "Master Yu, please get up!"
"Thank you, Your Highness King Feng!" Yu Yang responded, kowtowed again, then stood up and stood with his head bowed.
The surrounding generals nodded secretly, looking at the people's courtesy, they looked more like Sichuan people than Zhen people.
Tang Yin asked: "When the two countries are at war, what do you do for me when you come to see me?"
Yu Yang replied: "I am following the orders of my general to invite His Highness Prince Feng to come out of the city to meet me."
Tang Yin looked up and smiled and said: "I have no friendship with General Ren, so if you invite me to meet you, you can't just reminisce about old times."
Yu Yang said seriously: "The general wants to discuss the matter of peace between the two parties with His Highness Feng Wang."
"Oh?" As expected. Tang Yin squinted his eyes, looked directly at Yu Yang, and asked, "Is this what General Ren means?"
"That's right!" Yu Yang cupped his hands and said, "I hope His Highness the Wind King will give me permission."
Tang Yin smiled and said nothing more. At this time, Ah San who was beside him suddenly asked: "I wonder where Master Yu's hometown is?"
Yu Yang was startled for a moment, then turned to look at the person who asked the question. He saw that although the person was not good-looking, he was wearing a general's helmet and was standing close to Tang Yin. His identity was unusual. He answered truthfully: "I am Yi from Tangming County, Sichuan Province.
A native of Feng County."
Ah San made a sound, rolled his eyes, and said, "I have actually been to Yifeng County before. If I remember correctly, there is a Twin Mountain there."
Huh? Yu Yang's heart moved. He didn't expect anyone in the Feng Army to have been to his hometown. He nodded and said, "What the general said is right. The Twin Mountains are indeed in our Yifeng County. Although they are not famous places, they are picturesque."
Ah San added: "Yang'a Lake at the foot of the mountain is also very beautiful."
Yu Yang said without thinking, "The general remembered wrongly. Although Yang'a Lake is in Tangming County, it is not in Yifeng County. It is in Dingyang County. At the foot of Shuangzi Mountain is Zihe Lake."
Listening to Yu Yang's eloquent talk, he knew everything about his family, and was able to correct mistakes accurately. Ah San nodded secretly, it seemed that this person was true. He stopped asking any more questions, turned to look at Tang Yin, and winked quietly.
Tang Yin understood, raised his head, pondered for a moment, and said, "Okay! After Master Yu returns, tell your general that I will meet him at the Yingxiang Teahouse outside the city at 10:00 tomorrow morning."
The Yingxiang Teahouse he was talking about is located in the middle of the outer city of Jinyang, not far from the inner city of Jinyang and the camp of the Sichuan-Zhen Allied Forces. The meeting place was chosen here out of fairness.
Yu Yang was not very familiar with Jinyang's environment and did not know where the so-called Yingxiang Teahouse was located. He asked, "I wonder if the teahouse that His Highness Feng Wang said is located..."
Tang Yin said: "I will send someone to take you out of the city and show you."
"Thank you, His Highness Feng Wang." Yu Yang cupped his hands and thanked him.
The meeting between Tang Yin and Ren Fang was successfully confirmed, and the news was sent back to the Sichuan Zhen camp. Ren Fang was naturally very happy, thinking that this was a rare opportunity, while Zhen Jun's reaction was completely opposite. It was not until now that they knew what had happened.
Ren Fang and Feng Guo wanted to negotiate peace, and they took action.
Nie Ze, the commander-in-chief of the Zhen Army, personally went to Ren Fang to question the matter.
Ren Fang knew that the Zhenjun side would definitely oppose the peace talks between the two parties, so he did not notify the Zhenjun side in advance. Sure enough, when he saw Nie Ze coming in a rage, Ren Fang understood his purpose.
Ren Fang analyzed his side's situation in detail to Nie Ze. In short, he concluded that if the fight continued, his side would be in danger of being annihilated.
Nie Ze couldn't listen to this at all. In his opinion, the most difficult natural barrier in Feng Kingdom had been successfully captured by our side. Is there any place that our side cannot conquer? As long as we can persist, our side will win.
There were fundamental differences in the opinions of the two commanders. One advocated peace and the other advocated war. Neither of them was willing to back down. In the end, Renfang's opinion prevailed. It was not he who successfully persuaded Nie Ze.
But his military position was higher than that of Nie Ze. After all, he was the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces. No matter how dissatisfied Nie Ze was with his decision or had any prejudices, it would not help.
The argument was fruitless, and Nie Ze returned to his tent angrily, and the generals followed him in.
"General, Ren Fang has gone too far this time. He did not discuss such a big thing with Feng Guo without consulting us in advance. He is too arrogant and does not take us seriously."
"That's right! Our army killed more enemy soldiers than the Sichuan army, and achieved greater military success than the Sichuan army. The soldiers fought desperately in the front, but the Sichuan army actually acted up behind them, and it was too deceiving."
Listening to the complaints and grumblings of the generals, Nie Ze's anger grew stronger and stronger. He had fought countless big and small battles throughout his life, but he had never been so useless as he was now.
At this time, counselor Guo Song stood up and spoke again. His eyes darted around and he said: "General, I think... our army has been plotted by the Sichuan people."
Nie Ze didn't quite understand what he meant, and asked in confusion: "How can Mr. Guo Song say this?"
Guo Song said: "I suspect that Sichuan and Feng have colluded for a long time. At least there is communication between the two countries and a certain tacit understanding has been established."
This is another argument! Zhenjiang had proposed such speculation before, but Nie Ze denied it. Now that Guo Song brought it up again, Nie Ze naturally still didn't believe it.
Knowing that he did not believe such a thing, Guo Song explained quietly: "In the Battle of Pingxiang, our side was defeated. All our soldiers were killed by the Feng Army, but what about the Sichuan people? They were all released by the Feng Army. This is why
1. Second, we captured Songqiu, Ningding, and Taifeng. We were not allowed to attack Songqiu or Taifeng, but we were allowed to attack Ningding. However, in Ningding, Feng was ambushed there.
The four armies of the country launched an attack from the southeast, northwest, and resulted in the annihilation of all 50,000 of our army. These troops could not have been temporarily dispatched, nor could they be that fast. This must have been a premeditated trap.
Now, despite losing consecutive battles, Ren Fang naturally wants to negotiate peace with Feng State. General, isn't this a coincidence? So I think that even if Sichuan State has not colluded with Feng State, at least there has been a relationship between the two countries.
Connect and communicate with each other.”
These words made Nie Ze take a breath. Yes, what Guo Song said was not unreasonable. Especially the battle of Ningding was too weird. Jinyang sent troops, and he knew about it, but the other three
Where did Lu Fengjun appear? We didn't hear any news from our side. Just like Guo Song said, it seemed that they had ambushed near Ningding in advance.
Could it be that, as Guo Song said, the Sichuan Kingdom had already secretly communicated with the Feng Kingdom to leave a way out for themselves? If so, wouldn't Zhenguo be plotted against by the Sichuan Kingdom?
"Damn it!" Nie Ze stood up from the table, raised his leg and kicked the table in front of him far away. The Zhenguo generals and counselors around him were trembling in fright and stood with their heads lowered.
Dare to breathe.
"General, calm down!" Guo Song said with a smile: "The villain has a plan, which can not only destroy the tacit understanding between Sichuan and Feng, but also make the battle to extinguish Feng twice the result with half the effort."