Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 130 The Peace Negotiation Failed
Xiande three years, March [-]th.

Guo Rong stood on a high place and looked at Shouzhou City, silently.

One of the most correct decisions Li Jing made in his life was to appoint Liu Renshan as the Qinghuai Jiedu envoy to town Shouzhou, an important place in the west of Huaihe River.

Compared with the ridiculous Liu Yanzhen, Liu Renshan lived up to the title of famous general.

Guo Rong's strategy for Huaixi is to make more flowers. First let Luo Youdu and Zhao Kuangyin go deep into the hinterland of Jianghuai, let them play their best, disrupt the entire Huaixi, and gradually begin to send generals to the surrounding areas to eat up other state capitals in Huainan.

But from the very beginning, Guo Rong knew very well that if Shouzhou did not go down for a day, no matter how many cities Luo Youdu, Zhao Kuangyin or other generals captured in the hinterland of Huaixi, it would be useless.

The strategic core is in Shouzhou from beginning to end.

As long as Shouzhou is stuck on the Huaihe defense line, Huainan can be cut off from the Central Plains.

It is also because of this consideration that Guo Rong will forcefully recruit 20 Dingfu to assist the army to attack the city together.

With 20 Dingfu and 30 soldiers, nearly [-] people surrounded Shouzhou tightly, and they attacked the city day and night.

For a full month, it never stopped.

In such a high-intensity siege, Liu Renshan managed to defend the city.

Relying on his extraordinary prestige, Liu Renshan mobilized the entire city's army and civilians to defend the city. No one else went down the tower for a month, and they ate, drank, lazed and slept on the city. Cover up, and repel Zhou's attack again and again.

This kind of strong opponent made Guo Rong feel helpless and respectful. He sent people to surrender many times but failed, and even went to the city to persuade him to surrender regardless of the danger.

Liu Renshan looked at Guo Rong downstairs from the top of the city tower, and his heart was naturally shocked, and he sighed in vain: How could the Southern Tang Dynasty resist such a king in the Great Zhou Dynasty?If there was such a monarch in the Southern Tang Dynasty, why worry about the uncertainty of the world.

Seeing Guo Rong's demeanor, Liu Renshan thought that the Southern Tang Dynasty could not escape this catastrophe.

But different people have different pursuits.

Even if they foretell their own future, what people like Liu Renshan think is nothing more than horoscopes.

If you die under the city, you will never lose your integrity.

Therefore, Liu Renshan guarded the city with the heart of death, and Guo Rong had nothing to do even if he had the upper hand.

"His Majesty!"

Prime Minister Fan Zhi and Wang Pu came close.

Fan Zhi said: "The envoys from the Southern Tang Dynasty have arrived. They are Zhong Mo, a scholar of the Imperial Academy and a minister of the household department, and Li Deming, a minister of the Ministry of Industry and a bachelor of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Both of them are famous scholars in the south of the Yangtze River and can speak eloquently. Besides themselves, they also paid tribute. Royal clothes, tea and medicine, 500 taels of gold wares, 8000 taels of silver wares, [-] bolts of silk brocade, [-] head of army cattle, and [-] dendrobiums of wine."

Guo Rong turned around, looked at the second minister, and said: "Let the soldiers line up with swords, and I will personally meet these two eloquent Jiangnan celebrities."

Zhong Mo and Li Deming walked into the Dazhou military camp with Jiangnan's trust in them.

Looking at the layers of fortresses around them, which were scattered in a row, they walked along the road, and groups of patrolling soldiers passed by them energetically.

How could Zhong Mo and Li Deming not know that the other party was showing off the majesty of the Zhou army to them.

Even knowing the intention of this move, it is still shocking.

At least in their Southern Tang Dynasty, they couldn't produce such a brave army.

All the way to the imperial tent of the Chinese army.

On the left and right sides of the imperial tent, there are a hundred ferocious warriors, holding silver swords and keeping their eyes on each other.

Zhong Mo and Li Deming suddenly felt their scalps go numb, even though they knew that the other party was trying to intimidate them, they couldn't help secretly panicking. They walked into the big tent tremblingly, and when they saw Guo Rong's majesty, they all bowed down and bowed down: "By the order of my lord, I will pay my respects." Son of Heaven."

"The widow? The widow?"

Guo Rong asked with a smile all of a sudden, apparently remembering the conversation Luo Youdu had about expelling the envoys from the Kingdom of Shu.

The sentence "I Luo Youdu only has the emperor of Zhou in my eyes, and there is no emperor of Shu" kept him in mind.

Zhong Mo and Li Deming have obviously heard this allusion.

After all, the deeds of how Luo Youdu forced him to surrender to the Kingdom of Shu have already been spread throughout the world.

Zhong Mo bowed deeply: "Your Majesty does not rule a corner of the south of the Yangtze River, and dare not compare with the king of a great country. I would like to respect your majesty as a brother and take your majesty as the main one. I only ask your majesty to stop fighting for the sake of the people of the two countries."

Guo Rong asked pleasantly: "I heard that your lord Li Jing claims to be a descendant of the Tang family?"

Li Deming said solemnly: "The widow is the fifth grandson of Li Ke, the son of Tang Xianzong..."

When Guo Rong heard this, he was furious: "Since you are a descendant of the Tang family, you should know the etiquette and righteousness. It has been more than six years since Taizu came to my throne. Your country is only separated from me by a river, but you have never sent an envoy to repair it." .On the contrary, they traveled thousands of miles across the ocean to collude with Khitan. Forsaking China and doing barbarians, what is the morality? The two of you came here and wanted to say that I will stop fighting, and that I would be stupid. With a three-inch tongue, words can be deceived? "

"Go back and tell your master, let him come to see me in person."

"Apologize in person, and I will let him go."

"Otherwise... I heard that Jinling is rich and a paradise on earth, but I want to see if the Jinling treasury is enough for me to reward the three armies."

"At that time, you monarch and minister, don't regret it!"

After Guo Rong said that, he threw up his sleeves and walked away, without giving Zhong Mo and Li Deming a chance to speak.

Can speak eloquently?

I won't tell you anything, let you go back and argue with Li Jing.

Guo Rong's tough attitude made Zhong Mo and Li Deming look ashamed, so they could only leave Zhouying in despair and return to Southern Tang.

After hearing Zhong Mo and Li Deming's report, Li Jing was too angry to say a word.

But there is no doubt that Guo Rong's attitude also strengthened Li Jing's determination to fight to the end.

Li Jing sent more troops to Huainan again, and this time he directly dispatched Qi Wang Li Jingda as Marshal of the various soldiers and horses, but it was inevitable that Chen Jue would be the envoy of the supervising army, and Bian Hao would be the envoy of the supporting capital.

At the same time, Pan Chengyou, Honglu Minister, was sent to Quanzhou and Jianzhou to recruit brave people to resist the invasion of the Great Zhou Dynasty with the strength of the whole country.

Faced with Li Jing's arrangement, Han Xizai from Zhongshushe put forward different suggestions.

"Believe in the prince, trust in the marshal, why use power to supervise the army?"

As a prince, Li Jingda should be the most trustworthy, but also as a marshal, his power is actually not as powerful as the military supervisor.

Han Xizai directly pointed out the biggest inadequacy of this appointment.

Li Jing naturally didn't listen to Han Xizai. Compared with his younger brother, he felt that Chen Jue was more trustworthy.

Since then, Han Xizai has been disheartened, and he doesn't say a word in Li Jingchao.

The news that Li Jing once again arranged for soldiers and horses to enter the Huai River for rescue soon reached the ears of Luo Youdu in Luzhou and Zhao Kuangyin in Chuzhou.

Zhao Kuangyin, who was waiting in the Chuzhou military camp, was grinning excitedly, his dark skin showing bright teeth.

Luzhou Luo Youdu also looked excited, not because he was excited about Tang Bing's arrival, but because he was calculating how much money he had made in total.

Huaiyan is flooded in Huainan, and the Huaihe Yan family in the Central Plains is the only one, and the price of salt remains high.

In just over ten days, Luo Youdu received [-] hu of Huai salt without spending a single copper.

　Thank you for the [-] rewards for the handsome guy in the small town, the [-] rewards for the civet cat who fell in love with the moon, and the [-] rewards for He Zai He Ye, thank you for your support!

　　
　
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