Chapter 230: Dividing the Sheep in the Big Tent (Luyang)
The hot wind blew across the wilderness, and at the gate of the front camp of the Yan Army facing south, the leading general looked at the greeting card in his hand and handed it back to the Wei State on the opposite side. The envoy showed disdain in his eyes.
"You, the monarch and his ministers of the State of Wei, cannot defeat us, and want to come and seek peace? Haha, let's go in..."
"Thank you, the sergeant."
Deputy Envoy of the State of Wei Being teased by a small school guard guarding the gate, I felt extremely uncomfortable, but I didn't dare to show it. I bowed respectfully to the other party, then returned to the carriage and whispered a few words to the envoy Liu Gun inside.
The team then resumed their journey and slowly entered the camp gate.
The Wei soldiers who were guarding the carriage were frightened. Most of them saw the officers and soldiers of the Yan army who were patrolling and on duty. Many of them still had blood stains on their armor. They were staring at them with cold eyes and hands. They were all pressed to the hilt of the knife, as if they could be killed at any moment.
"These are the soldiers who have always won battles and killed many enemies." Liu Gun looked through the corner of the curtain at the cold and murderous faces outside.
Going further inside, there are many bonfires with large pots placed on the fires. Many soldiers of the Yan Kingdom were sitting together on the fires, chatting and laughing, or applauding two shirtless comrades not far away who were wrestling. , when they saw the carriage approaching, they tacitly stopped everything and instinctively reached for the weapons beside them.
As they approached the camp gate of the Chinese army, the envoy team was stopped. Liu Gun was asked by the soldiers to get out of the car, so he could only bring his deputy envoy in.
Such rules are common. Liu Gun bowed his hand, thanked the soldier, and followed him with his deputy into the most central position of the Yan army.
"The two envoys are waiting here." The soldiers leading the way led them to a stop more than 200 steps away from the commander's tent, then went to the tent entrance to meet Wu Zixun outside, who looked towards Liu Gun glanced here, then dismissed the soldiers with a smile. When he walked up to Liu Gun, he did not salute, shook out his sleeves, put his hands on his hips, and looked at the opponent with a smile.
"Hey, this is not the envoy from last time. Why are you here to see my king again? Is there no one in the Wei court or does anyone else dare not come?"
As The envoy, Liu Gun, naturally remembered the people around King Xia and raised his hand with a smile.
“Every minister in the court is busy, but I have nothing to do here.”
"Humph!"
Wu Zixun is not a fool. The other party's words were obviously to exalt the Wei State and belittle the Yan State, so he left a sentence: "The king is having a banquet with the generals. Since you have nothing to do, why don't you come here?" Just wait here for the summons."
After saying that, he turned around and left. When he arrived at the commander's tent, he only waited outside and did not go in to inform him.
Liu Gun suddenly had the urge to slap himself in the mouth. Why is he addicted to mouth? This is to offend the other party.
At this moment, I was standing here in embarrassment. From time to time, the carriage was pulled back by slaves from outside, and the carriage was filled with some bloody Wei-style armor and weapons.
Seeing that such a strong barbarian was actually among the Yan army, doing hard work, Liu Gun was speechless in surprise. Such a strong and tall figure was the seed of a strong soldier in the Central Plains.
He actually works as a cart puller here...
Soon more slaves appeared, talking and joking in the slave language in twos and threes, but they were not as attracted as Liu Gun thought. Slavery.
Around them, dead and injured horses that had been brought back from the battlefield were hung up, their skins were peeled off, and their stomachs were disemboweled. The bloody smell rushed over them, leaving Liu Gun and Liu Gun feeling nothing but I felt nauseated and nauseated. Looking at the cunning and ferocious movements of these soldiers in the camp with their knives, it was not difficult to imagine how terrifying it would be for them to fall on their own soldiers with their knives on the battlefield.
At this time, Wu Zixun over there suddenly waved to them. The deputy envoy beside Liu Gun quickly reminded Liu Gun, and the two of them immediately stepped forward.
"You two, go in. The king has agreed to see you, but... it's best not to talk nonsense. The king and the generals in the army are not soft-hearted people like me."
"Yes."< br>
Liu Gun said with an apologetic smile, why didn't he know what kind of person that King Xia was? He heard in the court before that he wanted to come over again, and his calves felt cramped.
He took a deep breath, suppressed the timidity in his heart, and shouted loudly into the tent: "Foreign Minister Liu Gun, come to see King Xia of Yan!"
"Come in. ”
Following a faint word from inside, Liu Gun stretched out his hand, tremblingly opened the curtain, and walked in together with the deputy envoy.
The warm light of fire hit me.
In his field of vision, a bonfire was roasting a golden whole sheep, and on both sides were figures wearing armor or military uniforms, crowding the handsome tent.
This is a different feeling from what I saw before at the Riverside Camp in Chendu County.
Except for a few familiar Yan generals that I had seen before, the rest were all unfamiliar faces. There were so many generals leading the army around King Xia of the Yan Kingdom that it was frightening. They all looked majestic and majestic. You can tell by looking at him that he is a battle-hardened veteran.
The burning bonfire, the aroma of roasting mutton, filled the tent.
Liu Gun walked through the middle, peeking around from time to time.
On the right are Xia Houyuan, Zhang He, Le Jin, Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, Lu Bu, Ma Chao, and Ma Dai. On the left are Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, Gao Shun, and Niu Gai. Qin Qiong and Zhang Yu are also sitting here, such as Qi Youhu, Zhong Ji, Anuhu, and Meng Tuo, who has just surrendered, in the rear camp. The disposal of prisoners and the construction of siege engines did not come.
The generals also stopped joking and looked seriously, or looked at the Wei envoy with a ferocious sneer as they stepped forward.
"Foreign Minister...Liu...Liu Gun pays homage to King Xia!"
Stopping, Liu Gun took a look at Su Chen, who was first in the middle and was dressed in royal robes, as well as Li Xuanba and Dian Wei standing on both sides, and couldn't help but swallowed his saliva.
"Envoy Liu, we are all acquaintances. There is no need to be so outspoken. Come, bring a chair to the two envoys." Su Chen boldly ordered Wu Zixun at the entrance of the tent.
"No, no need!"
Liu Gun waved his hand quickly, "The foreign minister came here this time to talk to the king..."
"Negotiate peace?"
Su Chen interrupted him directly, and then looked at the generals in the tent, "Wei Guo came to discuss peace again, are they not afraid that it will be like last time?" Previously, Su Chen had persuaded Wei Guo to collect things, The story of moving all the people in the city was spread throughout the Yan State. It was also spread in the Wei State for a while, causing a lot of commotion.
When Su Chen said it in such a tone, everyone in the tent burst into laughter. Zhang Liao whispered about it to Qin Qiong and Zhang Yu who had just arrived, smiling. .
Liu Gun blushed and raised his hand again.
"The foreign minister is indeed here to negotiate peace."
At this time, Zhang Fei stood up and came over, shouting to Wu Zixun outside to come over and share the meat. Su Chen sat behind the long desk and continued: "Since we are negotiating for peace, you should know that sincerity is indispensable, and... Gu's appetite recently Very good.”
The deputy envoy of Wei quickly took out the gift list and handed it over with both hands.
Su Chen only glanced at it, then threw it aside, leaned back, and raised his fingers: "These belongings can no longer satisfy Gu, so let's do this... Gu only has two requirements, Hun The three states on the south bank of the river, namely Linzhou, Junzhou, and Shangzhou, are all ceded to the State of Yan; secondly, how about the Emperor of Wei recognize the Emperor of Yan as his uncle? "
How about the first request? He used a knife to cut off the flesh of Wei State. Everyone knew that the Emperor of Yan State was only a four or five-year-old child. For an emperor in his fifties to worship him as his uncle, this was purely to tease them. .
"Your Majesty...these demands are indeed too much."
"Isn't it too much for Ambassador Liu to come to discuss peace with the idea of procrastination?" Su Chen looked at him with a smile, and then pointed to the mutton that was being divided by Zhang Fei and Wu Zixun.
"The current state of Wei is like a sheep on fire. Do you really think the emperor can turn the tide?"
Su Chen stood up, walked up to Liu Gun and patted him on the shoulder, "Or do you think Gu's army has fought so many battles and lost so many soldiers that it can no longer continue fighting? If you and the emperor, civil and military officials behind you think so, they will suffer losses and continue to die."
"Yes." Liu Gun felt a deep chill from these words, and nodded repeatedly like a chicken pecking at rice, "The foreign minister will go back now and inform my emperor of King Xia's conditions."
“Well, go ahead.”
Su Chen waved his hand and sent the two of them away. He walked back to the long desk with a smile, "Do you really think that the orphans will put conditions on them?"
Zhang Fei, who was cutting the meat over there, raised his face: "What if they What should I do if I really give it?”
“Is there such a good thing?” Zhang Liao also laughed, “Of course I will take it if he gives it, and continue to fight!”
Haha! !
The tent was filled with laughter again.
Su Chen took the mutton, cut off a small piece, and held it in front of his eyes for a moment: "Whether they accept this condition or not, we will do whatever we want. Generals, you may as well step forward and cut it yourself if you want to eat any part of the lamb."
"Haha, if the king says this, then I won't be polite!"
Zhang Fei, who was cutting meat, took Wu Zixun and threw him aside, took the knife and cut a sheep directly Cut off the leg, "The tower belongs to me and my second brother!"
He said and took a bite of the leg of lamb.
The generals in the tent suddenly became noisy. They all stepped forward to grab the knife from Zhang Fei's hand and cut off a large piece of meat from the roasted sheep.
Xia Houyuan pulled off the forelimb and threw it to Zhang He: "The right section of the north gate wall belongs to our Qingzhou soldiers!"
In the crowded crowd, Li Jue squeezed out of the crowd, and he also held a leg of lamb in his hand. , "The left section belongs to me, Xiliang..." Before he could finish his words, Gao Shun snatched it away and threw it into Zhang Liao's hands.
"...now it belongs to me and the Bingzhou Army!"
Dong Zhuo stamped his feet angrily when he saw this, pointed at Li Jue and cursed, "You can't stay like Guo Aduo. You are such a careless person that you lost all the lamb legs you got!”
The tent was buzzing with noise and people were shouting. They were a group of brave generals, fighting and fighting. Li Jue hugged Zhang Liao, but Guan Yu held his head with one hand and pushed him away, knocking down Zhang He who was behind him. Le Jin spat out the mutton in his mouth and rushed towards him without saying a word. Xia Houyuan quickly stopped him and hugged him. Even so, Le Jin Still in Xia Houyuan's arms, he kept kicking Li Jue and waving his fists.
Li Xuanba was so excited that he was about to go down, but Dian Wei drank him back.
"What are you doing, are you going to beat someone to death?"
There were also people sitting in the tent and Ma Chao asked Lu Bu: "Why doesn't Marquis Wen go?"< br>
"Can you and I cavalry attack the city? Let them fight over these things." Lu Bu sneered, tore off a piece of mutton and threw it into his mouth, watching the fight in front of him with relish.
“Okay!”
At the head of the table, Su Chen took a sip of wine and looked at the scene of everyone crowding into a ball. His lips were slightly opened: "Lu Yang is great. There are still four countries to fight in the future... How can a mere Wei country be defeated?" It's worth letting all the generals fight for it like this."
This sentence made everyone quiet. Li Jue took his finger out of Gao Shun's nostril and wiped it on his robe.
"That's right, why are you fighting? Return the leg of lamb to me quickly." "Here it is!" Zhang Liao threw the leg of lamb back to the other party and said with a smile: "But when you enter the imperial city, you have to give it to me Bingzhou. Army!"
"Okay!" Dong Zhuo slapped his thigh, "That's it!"
The generals were all satisfied and looked at the person who finally made up his mind. On the other hand, Su Chen would naturally not object. After all, he couldn't ask for such enthusiasm from the generals!
After that, all the eyes in the tent fell back on the messy whole sheep that had been cut up. They lost their appetite and picked up the empty bowls, asking Zhang Fei to quickly open the wine jar.
“I know you are thinking about my drink!”
Zhang Fei babbled and reluctantly took out the drink from under the chair. For a time, there was a lot of drinking and drinking in the tent, and the fatigue of the continuous fighting made the same and different generals sit together to drink and eat meat, holding bowls to each other and talking and laughing.
In the rear camp, Zhuge Liang and Yang Yuhuan came with a large number of craftsmen and were busy repairing and building batches of siege equipment. Soon after, the outline of the war was revealed in a few days!
(End of this chapter)