Great Song Pirate

Chapter 425
Li Hong hadn't rested all this time, just sitting in his big tent, thinking about how to deal with the situation in front of him, when he suddenly heard a loud rumbling sound coming from the direction of Aizhou City, he immediately stood up in shock, at this moment A projectile hit his big tent, and the big tent couldn't withstand such a blow, it collapsed and covered him, no matter how hard they struggled, they couldn't get out. He tried to tear open the big tent and rescue Li Hong from the tent. At this moment, a group of black-armored troops roared past, and the soldiers drew out their waist knives and fought with these black-armored troops. Before they could display their combat power, they were pierced by the three-edged spears piercing from all sides, and they all fell into a pool of blood. Then these black armored soldiers roared past without stopping, no one noticed. You Zi struggled alone under the collapsed tent.

Yang Zaixing swung his spear, and immediately there was a rain of blood. He led his black-armored infantry to charge around the entire Annan camp, and Daniel followed behind him impressively, swinging a mace like a blowing wind. Generally, those Annan soldiers will die when they are next to each other, and they will be injured when they encounter them. Cooperating with each other, the spears stabbed out and the sabers waved, which also brought up a rain of blood. The whole team of black armored infantry was like a sophisticated killing machine, sweeping away all the living Annan soldiers they could see. However, they turned every living life into dead bodies, and killed them until the Annan camp was strewn with corpses. After hearing the sound of gold ringing in the city, these black-armored soldiers lit up the fire starters they carried with them one after another. After the fire began to spread, it rushed out of the Annan camp and disappeared into the night again, coming and going without a trace like ghosts, only in the Annan camp. There were an unknown number of corpses inside.

After struggling to get out of the big tent, Li Hong only saw the raging fire everywhere and the corpses of his subordinates everywhere, so he looked up to the sky and shouted: "Heaven will kill me!" He picked up a saber next to the corpse of one of his own soldiers, put it across his neck, and pulled it suddenly. In the flames, his neck sprayed out a mist of blood, and after standing for a while, he fell straight down. He fell down and fell into the dust.

After the news reached Shenglong City, King Li Chao sat down on the dragon chair and didn't say a word for a long time, which frightened the servants next to him. After a while of shouting, his eyes came back to life, and he wailed: " How can this be good!..."

The reason why he panicked was not only because he heard the news that Li Hong's entire army was defeated and Li Hong killed Sheng Ren, but also because there was an urgent report on his case, which wrote "Red River Estuary Falls, Skeleton Ship" The troops are aggressively invading the river mouth area! Please send troops to support quickly..."

The ministers in the panic-stricken hall saw that their lord had somewhat recovered from the huge blow, and they were a little relieved. They all knelt down and shouted: "Please mourn, Your Majesty, the dragon body is still used as an excuse." Heavy!……"

King Li Chao listened to the unnutritive comfort of the following ministers, and said angrily: "Shut up! What I want now is for you to give me advice and tell me what to do now?"

The ministers below immediately fell silent, lying on the ground one after another, no one dared to speak anymore, the hall was completely quiet, as quiet as if a needle could be heard, until that Zhang Xiao kowtowed again and said: " As far as I can see, we should agree to their request right now! If we continue to let them go on like this, I'm afraid our dynasty will suffer even greater losses!"

In the few days after Annan's army was defeated, the surrounding area of ​​Aizhou City gradually quieted down. The Annan remnant army retreated for dozens of miles, and then under the restraint of some generals, they gradually gathered and stationed on the spot, never daring to approach Half a step in Aizhou City, just waiting for the new order from their lord.

In this night attack on the camp, Annan's army once again lost nearly [-] soldiers, and Li Hong's [-] soldiers and horses lost more than half of them in one day. It was a tragic defeat, but this time it was only their most elite infantry that lost. Since then, the Skeleton Army has completely become a lingering nightmare in the hearts of Annan people, and has become an invincible terrifying army in their hearts.

After the news of this battle was sent back to Thang Long, no Annan general dared to ask for orders to come to a decisive battle with the skeleton army. They regarded Li Dynasty's most elite imperial guards in the capital. Cheap, on the contrary, he was massacred by the opponent like a chicken, and he didn't even have the power to fight back. Those terrifying killer weapons that could make a roar were even cast a layer of mystery by the rumors of Annan's collapse.

All the defeated troops insisted in one voice that the Skeleton Army is definitely not a mortal. They can control the sky thunder and fire bombs to kill any enemy who dares to offend them. This kind of rumor quickly spread throughout Annan, scaring the people of Annan. No one dares to conquer this skeleton army.

So Xu Yi led his followers to live a very healthy life in Aizhou. Apart from patrolling the city every day, there was nothing to do. If they continued to rest like this, they would all get fat, which made Xu Yi laugh out loud.

On this day, an Annan army finally appeared outside the city. After hearing the news, Xu Yi rushed to the top of the city and looked up, and found that the Annan army outside the city was only a few hundred people, and there was no one who came to fight. However, he stopped at a distance, sent a guard, carried a small white flag with a spear, rode to the ditch outside the city, and shouted loudly to the top of the city in Chinese: "We are the Annan Mission, not here to fight your army. Mr. Zhang implores your army to let us enter the city!"

Xu Yi said to Cui Yan: "Ask him which Master Zhang?"

Cui Yan immediately shouted: "Which one is your Master Zhang?"

The An Nan Wu Bian outside the city shouted: "Our Master Zhang is Zhang Xiaozhang who went to Mei Island to meet the leader of your army last time! This time I came here specially to ask to see the leader Xu. I wonder if the leader Xu is here. ?” The Annan man’s words were very respectful, and he did not offend the Fubo Army in the slightest.

Xu Yi nodded and said a few words, Cui Yan shouted: "Our lord has an order, your mission is stationed outside the city, Master Zhang can bring ten entourages into the city!"

This Annan Wu Bian agreed with his hands, and rode his horse towards the mission. After Zhang Xiao heard about it, he had to let the soldiers and horses accompanying the mission to station on the spot, and then led ten subordinates, and rode towards the city of Aizhou.

After Zhang Xiao brought people into the city by the Fubo Army, he saw that the city was deserted, almost no Annan people could be seen in the entire Aizhou City, only some Fubo Army troops were patrolling back and forth on the street, and the entire city was heavily guarded. Wei Wei is secretly startled, wondering how the Fubo army will deal with the people here.

Anxious Zhang Xiao got off his horse and followed Cui Yan who came to greet him all the way to the official office in the city, which is now Xu Yi's temporary commander's residence.

As soon as they entered the official office, they saw two rows of guards lined up on both sides, staring at them, making Zhang Xiao and the others jump in their hearts a few times before quickly entering the hall , was seeing Xu Yi sitting behind the Shuai case head-on, looking at them with a sinking face.

Zhang Xiao took a breath, calmed his mind, and quickly clasped his fists and said to Xu Yi: "Zhang met Mr. Xu, when he was in Mei Island, he told Zhang that he would wait for us within [-] days." news, but I don’t know why the big boss didn’t keep his promise, and immediately sent troops to capture my city of Aizhou before the time came?”

Xu Yi smiled slightly, first beckoned someone to bring a chair to Zhang Xiao, let him sit down, and then said: "Master Zhang came here today to ask the teacher for his crimes! But I can't blame me for this matter. I can blame your captured sailors and generals for being too restless. We served them delicious food and drink, but they took advantage of our unpreparedness to create chaos, attacked and killed a large number of my soldiers, and tried to seize Our warships have caused us immeasurable losses. We have no choice but to come to you to discuss this account, and your ships attacked our sentry ships at sea. We regard such unfriendly behavior as you do not want to pay us. The reason for the peace talks is why we sent troops. This responsibility cannot be counted on us. Besides, didn’t you, Li Chao, send a large number of soldiers to attack us? Let’s not talk about this anymore, since Master Zhang is here now , I would like to know, did your lord agree to my request?"

After hearing what Xu Yi said, Zhang Xiao knew without thinking that this was his excuse, and it might be true, but his purpose need not be discussed, it was to force Li Chao to submit to their Fubo Army, and promised them to raise These harsh conditions are obviously Sima Zhaozhi's heart, and everyone knows it. Even if he blames him, it is useless. Who will let Li Chao's soldiers and horses fight and lose repeatedly in front of them?Even though he knew he was lying, there was nothing he could do, so he had to swallow his breath and said politely: "Zhang doesn't dare! It's just that Zhang just returned to the capital and was talking about this matter with me, Wang Qi, when he heard that your army made a big move. Sending troops to capture our city of Aizhou, my king was furious, thinking that your army had betrayed his promise, so he sent troops here. This is just a misunderstanding. This time, Zhang Mou came here specially to meet with the big boss according to my king's will. Discussing the specific compensation matters, my king does not want us to go on like this, and is willing to stop fighting, but on the conditions proposed by some big bosses, I also hope to discuss with the big bosses, and hope that we will stop fighting as soon as possible and become friends! "

A knowing smile appeared on Xu Yi's face, and all the generals beside him also smiled. Seeing their expressions, Zhang Xiao blushed suddenly, and really wanted to find a crack in the ground and forget it. Such a negotiation It's really not a good job, I represent the defeated side, basically speaking, coming this time is almost like begging for surrender.

After Xu Yi saw Zhang Xiao's face, he didn't want to embarrass him too much, so he waved his hands to let the innocent people leave the lobby, and ordered several tables to be brought up, forming a long table, inviting Zhang Xiao and his entourage The officials sat on one side, brought some generals with them, and sat on the other side, which was basically similar to the negotiation table of later generations. At least Zhang Xiao and the Annan officials didn't have to stand and look up at him to talk. Go up a little bit.

"When my king sent me here, I had some objections to some of the conditions proposed by the big boss. The conditions proposed by the big boss were too harsh. For example, let us compensate your army with 50 taels of silver. It is also difficult for the national treasury to take out so much silver taels to pay back to your army, and I hope that the big boss can raise his hand, so how about reducing it?" Zhang Xiao first said to Xu Yi cheekily.

After taking a sip of the fragrant tea leisurely, Xu Yi shook his head and said, "I'm afraid this is not possible. Because of your reasons, our army came to conquer you this time, which cost a lot of money, and our soldiers suffered a lot of casualties. We need to comfort you. 50 Ten thousand taels is already the bottom line, and now this figure is probably not enough. After this battle, we obtained a large amount of your military rations. If you want to return these rations, you can’t just open your mouth and let us return them to you. No matter what you say You have to show something, 50 taels can’t be less, and you have to give us an additional 5 taels of silver for these military rations, otherwise, this matter can be avoided!” Xu Yi not only They didn't answer their request, but another lion opened his mouth.

Zhang Xiao and other officials in Annan suddenly turned pale, and an official in charge of the household department shouted: "How can this be done? The grain and fodder belong to us. How can you sell our things to us? How can there be such a thing in the world?" reason?"

Xu Yi and the generals of the Fubo Army rolled their eyes, looked at the agitated official, and sneered, "Reason? What is reason? The two countries fought, and you lost, and you still want to get back your things without a penny. Does this make sense? Our soldiers took these things back with their lives. If you don’t accept it, you can send troops to get them! Anyway, we haven’t burned these things with a fire, and we have left them for you. There is room for it, if you don’t want to, we can’t want these things, we can just burn them down!”

Xu Yi's words almost made the Annan official who spoke so angry that he vomited blood and died on the spot. His whole body was trembling and his face was ashen, unable to say a word for a long time, and he was supported by a colleague beside him before he sat down again.

(Chapter 3 is here, brothers should give a few monthly tickets to commend the bumps! Haha!)
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