The reason why Li Xingchen said so confidently was because Wei Xiaokuan had not once stood on the dividing line of choice in history, especially during the Rebellion of Captain Chi Jong in history, when Wei Xiaokuan faced the call of his relatives and the wooing of Yu Chi Jong,
In the end, he was unmoved, defeated Yuchi Jiong in one fell swoop, captured Yecheng, and prevented the Northern Dynasty from being divided into two again.
It can be seen that Wei Xiaokuan can still grasp the general situation, and Li Xingchen believes that Wei Xiaokuan should know what the Northern Zhou Dynasty needs now, and he also knows how Li Xingchen will "treat" him well if he disagrees.
Compared with Wei Xiaokuan, Yuchi Jiong relied on Yecheng to repel the Sui army several times in history. In the end, because there were too many people watching the battle, he had to shrink the defense line in order to avoid hurting the people, and eventually the entire line collapsed.
It can be said that Wei Xiaokuan and Yuchi Jiong, at least historically, have shown themselves to understand the importance and obey the overall situation, so Li Xingchen believed that they would know what to do.
"Li Xinchen..." Wei Xiaokuan stood in front of the map with his hands folded.
Cui Hongdu lowered his head slightly and stood behind Wei Xiaokuan. He had already conveyed Li Xingchen's intention to Wei Xiaokuan, and the rest was no longer for him, a defeated general, to make a decision.
Li Xun stood up and said: "General, the enemy is firmly defending Changgu. Our attacks in the past two days have basically failed. In addition, the grain and grass in the rear have been lost, and the morale of the army has fluctuated. Li Xunchen clearly does not intend to give us any other choice.
, otherwise we can really only...”
There were only two people in the camp, Li Xun and Cui Hongdu, so Li Xun did not conceal some of his words. Wei Xiaokuan knew what the situation was here now. The army was exhausted from long battles and lacked food. They wanted to
Although it is only a matter of time to capture Changgu, opening up the road from the south side of Cangxi Valley to the bottom of Jiange is not as simple as imagined.
Li Xingchen's strategic intention has been fully revealed at this moment. What he wants is not to rely solely on the mountains to deal with Wei Xiaokuan, nor does he really want to defend every step of the way.
He wanted to directly block the road on the north side after effectively wiping out the active troops under Wei Xiaokuan's command, and finally force Wei Xiaokuan and Yuchi to negotiate with him.
After all, the status of the two sides was unequal before. Li Xingchen's military weakness made him unqualified to talk to Wei Xiaokuan and others on an equal footing, but now it is different. Although Wei Xiaokuan and Yuchi Jiong still have a large number of soldiers and horses, but so
The life and death of many soldiers and horses has been completely in Li Xinchen's hands.
Li Xingchen already has enough qualifications, and he is even a head above Wei Xiaokuan and others. Now Li Xingchen takes the initiative to come to negotiate with them instead of waiting for Wei Xiaokuan to be unable to bear it and bow to Li Xingchen. It is already a great honor.
At least it shows that Li Xingchen is sincere.
Wei Xiaokuan sighed softly: "This kid's calculations are quite clear..."
Li Xun and Cui Hongdu looked at each other with a solemn expression. It could be said that Li Xunchen had already considered the entire future war situation, so the only thing they could do seemed to be to sit down and talk calmly with Li Xunchen.
Looking back at the map, Wei Xiaokuan felt a little emotional. He thought that when he first entered Shu, he was surrounded by famous generals such as Wei Shou, He Lou Ziqian, Li Xun, etc., but now half of the people have followed Wei Shou or He Lou Zi.
After Qian died in battle, the only ones left that Wei Xiaokuan could truly trust were Li Xun and Cui Hongdu.
Wei Xiaokuan couldn't even figure out the purpose of this battle for a while, but the matter had come to this, and there was no use regretting it. Wei Xiaokuan had to solve the situation at hand and lead his soldiers out of this desperate situation.
"Send someone to tell Li Xingchen that the negotiation location is at the military camp in Changgu." Wei Xiaokuan said in a low voice, "And send someone to contact Yuchi Jiong immediately."
Li Xun and Cui Hongdu glanced at each other subconsciously. They knew that Wei Xiaokuan had obviously made up his mind. At this time, they had to admire Wei Xiaokuan. After all, Wei Xiaokuan could endure such huge pain and failure to negotiate with Li Xinchen. In this state of mind, they
Ask yourself if you can’t do it.
When Wei Shou's body was delivered by Li Xunchen, Li Xun once thought that Wei Xiaokuan would be so angry that he wanted to fight Li Xinchen, but Wei Xiaokuan was still arranging many matters in an orderly manner and presiding over the attack, and did not seem to be distracted by this.
, especially now that Li Xingchen has come forward to negotiate with Wei Xiaokuan, it is equivalent to making Wei Xiaokuan give up the last chance to take revenge.
However, Wei Xiaokuan still accepted it.
Perhaps this is what is called "being able to endure what ordinary people cannot endure", or perhaps this is the biggest gap between them and Wei Xiaokuan.
Wei Xiaokuan just tapped the table lightly. He could vaguely guess what Li Xingchen's fundamental purpose was. He only hoped that he could still compete with Li Xingchen by then, so that at least the Northern Zhou Dynasty would not lose too miserably in the Bashu affairs.
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Li Xinchen stood at the mouth of the long valley, looking at the smoke-filled valley entrance.
It has to be said that Wei Xiaokuan's strong attack still made Li Xingchen sweat. However, since Li Xingchen placed a confidant like Xiao Shilian in Changgu, he obviously also made his position clear. Changgu, who guards the chokepoint of north-south transportation, he
Li Xingchen will never give in.
Xiao Shilian did not live up to Li Xinchen's trust in him. Wei Xiaokuan left hundreds of corpses at the mouth of Changgu in vain.
"Shizhong, do you really plan to have peace talks with Wei Xiaokuan?" Xiao Shilian walked quickly to Li Xingchen's side, with a hint of dissatisfaction in his voice.
Li Xingchen glanced at him. With Xiao Shilian's character, Li Xingchen expected that he would be dissatisfied, but he believed that Xiao Shilian could follow his own opinion: "Why, I think it's impossible..."
"We have been fighting for so long and finally had peace talks with Wei Xiaokuan. I feel a little aggrieved." Xiao Shilian spread his hands helplessly, "So many brothers have fallen. In the end, I don't know if this is the result they want to see."
Li Xingchen was not in a hurry to speak. He knew that such thoughts must not only be held by Xiao Shilian, but also by Du Qi, Li Xun and other Ba people's commanders. They were also unwilling to see Li Xingchen compromise with the Northern Zhou Dynasty at this time. After all, the Ba people and the Northern Zhou court
The hatred between them is not small.
However, Li Xingchen believed that the Ba people would definitely not give him any advice directly. After all, he and the Ba people still had a leadership relationship. These Ba people had already received too many benefits from Li Xingchen, and Li Xingchen's actions also told them that he
There was no compromise with the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
Therefore, Li Xingchen could use his actions to explain to the Ba people, but now he must first explain his considerations to Xiao Shilian.
If even Xiao Shilian doesn't understand him, then Li Xingchen really doesn't have much confidence in whether peace talks can be achieved.
In essence, Li Xunchen's right-hand men - Xiao Shilian and Pei Zilie - are two people with different personalities.