Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

But at this moment, a person suddenly rushed in from outside Shuai Zhang, and directly bumped into Jingyang.

Jingyang was caught off guard, and fell to the ground with a bang, the back of his head came into close contact with the ground, and immediately screamed in pain, unable to speak for a long time.

The visitor was also taken aback, and hurriedly helped Jingyang up: "Sima, I've offended you."

Jingyang was furious, and found that the person who came was Chun Shenjun's captain of the bodyguard, he couldn't help roaring: "Don't you have eyes?"

The captain of the guard explained with a look of panic: "There is an urgent military situation to report, and I ask Da Sima to forgive me."

Chun Shenjun couldn't stand it anymore, and hurriedly opened his mouth to make a relief: "What is it?"

The captain of the guard hurriedly said: "It's not good, my lord, our vanguard was defeated by Zhao's cavalry!"

After hearing this sentence, everyone in the handsome tent, including Jing Jing, was taken aback.

It turned out that just a day and a half ago, under the order of Lord Chunshen, the chariot and cavalry group of Chu State, which was rapidly approaching Shouchun, ran into the [-] cavalry led by Sima Shang head-on.

Under the fighting between the two sides, the Chu state's chariot group suffered a disastrous defeat without any suspense. Most of the chariots were destroyed, more than 5000 people were killed in battle, and tens of thousands were captured.

After hearing the news, Shuai Zhang fell silent.

Chun Shenjun's complexion was extremely complicated, and he said after a while, "These Zhao people, shouldn't they be domineering in Shouchun City?"

The captain of the guard didn't understand the quarrel in the tent just now, so he said subconsciously: "My lord is joking, the man who leads Zhao's army is the dignified Lord Wu Xin, how can he relax his vigilance?"

The captain of the guards did not intend to target Jingyang with this sentence, but in this situation, the sentence seemed to slap Jingyang's face heavily like a slap in the face, giving Jingyang a hot feeling. Feel.

But Jingyang also knew that the captain of the guard was not targeting him, so he couldn't refute it.

Jun Shen took a deep breath and said, "Where is the battlefield?"

The captain of the guard hurriedly said: "On the east bank of Hu County!"

After hearing this sentence, Jingyang's expression became even uglier.

If Jingyang's plan is to take the water route to surprise Shouchun, Hu County is the place to go.

Now that a large number of Zhao troops are operating near Hu County, the possibility of a large number of Chu State navy troops going down the river along Hu County without being discovered is basically zero.

How can this be done?

Chunshen Jun glanced at Jingyang, and said slowly, "Dear Sima, you should be able to sit back now, right?"

Jingyang was silent for a while, then sat back in his original position sullenly.

This is also helpless, if you ask Jingyang to take 5000 people to surprise Shouchun, it may succeed, but if 5000 people go to fight Shouchun head-on, it is a gift.

What Jingyang wanted was to defeat Zhao Kuo, not to give Zhao Kuo his life.

After Jingyang sat down, the atmosphere quickly returned to normal, and the captain of the guard also left knowingly.

Zhao Zhong broke the silence and said, "What should we do now?"

Originally, Shouchun City was occupied, and now the vanguard army has been beaten to the brim. Anyone who looks at it knows that the current situation is very, very serious.

Jun Shen rubbed his forehead and said, "What else can I do?

Let's talk honestly with Wu Xinjun.

After all, he also has concerns, so it shouldn't be too much. "

Why did Chunshenjun want peace talks wholeheartedly, because Chunshenjun knew Zhao Kuo's bottom line.

Zhao Kuo had no way to annex the entire Chu State, because Zhao Kuo didn't have enough troops.

With this bottom line, we can talk.

Otherwise, if Zhao Kuo made up his mind to pay attention to the destruction of Chu, then there would be no discussion, and everyone would fight to the death and the matter would be over.

Jingyang snorted heavily and said, "Zhao Kuo won't go too far?

Let me tell you, he is greedy and will definitely open his mouth! "

Facing Jingyang's rebuttal, Jun Shen wanted to rebut, but he opened his mouth, but couldn't speak.

Because Chun Shenjun thought about it carefully, and felt that what Jingyang said seemed to be correct.

Zhao Kuo is not only very sharp when fighting, but also extremely fierce when negotiating.

Want Zhao Kuo to let you go during the negotiation?

impossible.

What Zhao Kuo usually does is to squeeze out the last drop of blood from the opponent during the negotiation, so that there is no drop left.

At this time, the captain of the guard came back again.

"Master, Wu Xinjun's negotiating envoy has arrived!"

Chun Shenjun suddenly felt a little weird when he heard this.

Based on the distance, Wu Xinjun's negotiating envoy should have come with Sima Shang's troops.

In other words, when Zhao Kuo was planning to negotiate, he had already made up his mind to hit the Chu army hard.

Chunshen Jun couldn't help but let out a sigh of emotion: "Others are courteous first and then soldiers. It is really rare to see someone like Wu Xinjun who first soldiers and then courteous."

Feelings are emotions, the envoy still needs to meet, after all, Chunshen Jun also planned to negotiate at the beginning, right?

Soon, Li Si appeared.

"Li Si has met Mr. Chunshen, my lords."

Although he was in the tent of the Chu army, Li Si behaved extremely calmly, without any expression of fear.

For those present, Li Si, the "Diplomatic Envoy of Zhao State to Chu State", was very familiar to everyone.

Jingyang said to Li Si angrily, "Tell me the conditions of your master!

"When Li Si was still visiting the nobles of Chu State in Shouchun City, Jing Jing was one of the very few people who directly refused to meet Li Si.

Li Si glanced at Jingyang and said with a smile, "Da Sima, your eldest grandson is said to have contracted a cold these days and is very ill."

"what?"

Jingyang's expression changed drastically upon hearing this.

One must know that Jingyang likes this eldest grandson the most, and has even declared in front of everyone that he will pass on the Jing family's family business to this eldest grandson in the future. How can he sit still after hearing the news now?

Li Si said with a smile: "But please don't worry, Da Sima, my lord has already sent a famous doctor Twelve Hours to take care of your eldest grandson."

Jingyang: "" Jingyang is not a fool, of course he can hear Li Si's subtext.

The so-called twelve-hour personal care is actually another term for twelve-hour personal surveillance.

But for the sake of his precious grandson's life, Jingyang took several deep breaths, suppressed the anger in his heart, and did not continue to quarrel with Li Si.

Chun Shenjun was also a little embarrassed watching this scene.

After all, Chunshen Jun is the coach of the Chu army, so even if there is a conflict with Jingyang at this time, he still has to stand by Jingyang's side.

Chun Shenjun said slowly: "Li Si, we are very clear about the current situation, so you don't need to remind us anymore.

Tell me about Wu Xinjun's conditions. "

Li Si nodded, not talking nonsense, and said very simply: "My lord's condition is very simple. From now on, the border between Zhao State and Chu State will be the Huaihe River to Funiu Mountain as the boundary."

Although they had already made psychological preparations, all the Chu people present couldn't help being shocked after hearing Li Si's condition of Zhao Kuo.

With a bang, Jingyang slapped the table directly.

"This Zhao Kuo has too much appetite!"

Chapter 1063 Ceded one-third of Chu

This time, not only Jingyang thought so, but all the Chu people present also thought so.

The condition proposed by Zhao Kuo is to use the Funiu Mountain and the Huaihe River as the dividing line between the two sides. What kind of concept is this?

To put it simply, Chu State wants to cede one-third of the land to Zhao State!This third of the land also includes Chencheng, the former capital of Chu State.

More importantly, Zhao Kuo asked Chu to cede all the land in the Central Plains, and the Central Plains is one of the most densely populated places in Chu.

Therefore, the one-third of the land that was ceded also included 40% of the population of Chu State.

This is simply not cutting flesh, this is to shed the blood of Chu State.

Jingyang stared at Li Si viciously, and said: "You people from Zhao Guo are really whimsical, and it is absolutely impossible for us to agree to this condition!"

Li Si looked at Jingyang with a very calm expression on his face.

Now that such harsh conditions have been put forward, Li Si was of course prepared for it.

Li Si said slowly: "Jingyang Da Sima's words are wrong, let me put it this way, even if your Chu State doesn't cede these lands to us, wouldn't our Zhao State be able to conquer these lands?

The reason why we choose to negotiate a truce now is because my lord is kind and considerate of the situation of the Zhao-Chu alliance, I will give you a chance in Chu. If you Chu people are obsessed with obsession, then don’t blame my lord for mobilizing more soldiers. Ma, directly leveled the entire Chu country! "

Li Si came up with a wave of threats.

For the current Li Si, he didn't need to negotiate with the Chu people in a friendly manner.

The King of Chu was in Zhao Guo's hands, and the family members of Chunshen Jun, Jing Jing and others were also in Zhao Guo's hands. Li Si said with certainty that these guys would not even dare to hurt Li Si's hair, so what was Li Si afraid of?

Hearing Li Si's threats, Jingyang became more and more angry, and said with a sneer: "Okay, very good, then let your Wu Xinjun mobilize troops and horses, and let's have a good fight!"

Li Si raised his eyebrows, stood up, and cupped his hands towards Chun Shenjun: "Farewell."

After finishing speaking, Li Si walked towards the door of the big tent without looking back.

When Li Si left, Chun Shenjun and the others immediately panicked.

What the hell, the envoys are all gone, so why not talk about it.

Jun Shen hurriedly said, "Envoy, please stay!"

Li Si had no intention of stopping.

Zhao Zhong and Qu Feng also panicked, and said in unison: "Envoy, please stay!"

Li Si then stopped, turned around, and said calmly: "Why, do you want to talk again now?"

Jun Shen hurriedly apologized with a smile and said, "Talk, we must talk.

Da Sima was a little emotional just now, the messenger forgives me. "

Zhao Zhong and Qu Feng nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, yes, it is Da Sima who is too excited. The envoy sit down and let's talk slowly."

Although the three major families are considered to be in the same breath on weekdays, but at this time, everyone is thinking about how to save the lives of the clansmen, and all the in-laws are simply thrown aside.

Listening to Zhao Zhong and Qu Feng's words, Jing Jing's face became more and more ugly, and suddenly he said: "If you want to talk, you can talk to him, anyway, the old man won't talk!"

After finishing speaking, Jingyang left angrily.

Watching Jingyang leave, Chun Shenjun and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

If Jingyang continued to stay, I don't know how much trouble would happen.

Chun Shenjun came back to his senses, and said to Li Si very sincerely: "Messenger, it's not that the old man and others don't want to talk to you, it's that the condition you put forward is too much.

If so much territory and population are ceded all at once, the king will know in the future that he will kill the old lady's head! "

Zhao Zhong and Qu Feng nodded repeatedly, obviously approving Chun Shenjun's words.

With a calm expression, Li Si said to Jun Shen, "Of course I can understand you, but please also understand me.

Frankly speaking, my master's request cannot be changed. If I can't fulfill it, he will kill my head, and then directly send troops to continue fighting with you.

I don't know if Jun Hou thinks it's better to watch me die and fight a war, or just agree to my conditions right now? "

The two sides argued for a while, but Li Si did not give an inch at all.

In desperation, Jun Shen had no choice but to ask Li Si to leave temporarily under the pretext of having lunch.

Afterwards, Chun Shenjun summoned all the generals of the big families in the Chu army, and told everyone the matter directly.

After everyone heard Zhao Guo's conditions, they all looked at each other in blank dismay, and many of them cursed like Jingyang on the spot.

"These damn Zhao people are too much!"

"That's right, my wife and children were all kidnapped by them, yet they still make such exorbitant demands!"

"Uh, when you think about it this way, peace should be the most important thing."

For everyone, their thoughts are probably the same, and the safety of their wives and children is the most important thing.

Chun Shenjun looked around and said, "Old man and Zhaoqing, after discussing with Qu Qing, they think that there is no way to refuse the cession of the land.