Chen Jiujing couldn't go to see Bourbon Henry in the first place, he had two things to do.

The night before, his scouts engaged Billund's scouts in the woods on the right bank of Bordeaux, and a lightly armed force of 200 men attempted to move from the south around the trenches to the coast, but was defeated by the Jurchen cavalry camping out under Kanguru's command.

Early in the morning, Billund sent riders with iron-eating beasts to negotiate the return of the prisoners and try to persuade Chen Jiujing to leave Bordeaux and leave France.

First, he had to meet Billon's messenger first; Secondly, the Protestants from Cherolal, north of Bordeaux, sailed five ships to the mouth of the river north of the city, saying that they would provide the king of Navarre with some support from England.

The iron-eating beast flag in Billund's hand was sent by Chen Jiujing to a knight from Bordeaux, and they communicated more easily, and it was very clear to Billund what the flag meant: surrender, armistice, and peace.

But Billund's envoy did not come to see him, at this moment, Marshal Billund of France still thought that Chen Jiujing of the Ming Empire was no different from Toledo of Spain, they were all mercenaries found by Queen Margot, and he believed that the key to the matter was still in the hands of Margot.

The meeting place between the two sides was a vacant house in the city of Bordeaux, because Chen Jiujing was unwilling to follow the rules of others to meet Billon in the middle of the battlefield in person, let alone let Marguerite run to a dangerous place, and Billund had no other way but to send a viscount who knew Marguerite into Bordeaux with his advice.

The path through which the envoys passed was strictly regulated and designed, and Chen Jiujing deliberately let him cross the streets inhabited by Huguenots, and removed the Baishan battalion and the Restoration Army from the city, replacing them with Bourbon Henry's poorly equipped rebels and wounded rebels standing on the city walls.

He hoped that the messenger would return with some information to lure him into attacking the city again.

Chen Jiujing said to Margaret when arranging all this: "If you defeat them again, you will have no strength to fight again." ”

In fact, it is now gone, and the soldiers who can still fight are less than 10,000 soldiers, and they only enter the first line of defense in a hard fight, and they are obviously facing the dilemma of insufficient troops.

"Queen, I didn't expect to see your beautiful face when I left the Louvre." On the small second floor of this room, which was worthy of the four walls of the house, the messenger sent by Billon easily spotted Margaret's figure, saluted the crowd, and said, "I bring Marshal Billund to negotiate the war. ”

Although Chen Jiujing was sitting in the middle, the messenger's words were addressed to Margaret.

After all, in their eyes, Queen Margaret of Navarre is the protagonist.

Margaret looked at Chen Jiujing, the young general was intently fiddling with his pipe, and a soldier from the Xiyong Battalion who was proficient in two languages in West and France was interpreting beside him, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Old acquaintances?" ”

"Probably."

The queen was ambiguous, and turned to the messenger and said, "Thank you for your compliment, but ...... Who is Your Excellency and where have we met? ”

Such words will undoubtedly cause embarrassment, at least Chen Jiujing frowned when he heard it, but this viscount seemed to take it for granted, still maintained that pretended reserved smile, and bowed his head slightly: "In Paris, the king's ball." ”

"Which prom...... Forget it, it doesn't matter. Margaret rubbed her forehead, she really couldn't get up, and simply asked bluntly: "What did the marshal send you to talk about, he is ready to surrender?" ”

"I'm afraid not, we still have many soldiers, the marshal of the kingdom, the marshal of the three roads, Dofiné has been surrounded by Marshal Mayenne, the rebels of Picardy are also besieged in the city, and soon there will be a steady stream of troops coming to Bordeaux."

The envoy paused deliberately at this, and then smiled at Queen Margot: "The marshal thinks that at this moment, the queen will be able to get the most decent treatment by leaving Bordeaux with an army loyal to you, and by withdrawing from this rebellion. ”

"You're right."

Margaret agreed very much in words, but her expression was not like this, and she raised her finger and waved it gently, paused twice, and said, "It sounds like Marshal Mayena and Martijon who besieged Picardy are both besieging it, and it's dangerous. ”

"But is their siege the siege as I understand it, or is it the kind of siege that Marshal Billon drops thousands of corpses and retreats out of sight?"

"You have wisdom commensurate with your beauty." The envoy still had a smile on his face and said: "Of course it is the kind of siege you think, the situation is not good for the rebels, the Prince of Condé of Picardy has entered Germany when he sees that the situation is not good, Rafeel is surrounded by the king's legions, the army is well supplied, the weather is good, and the siege is very easy." ”

"Despite the prestige of the King of Navarre among the rebels, the people did not believe in his commanding skills, and many places did not rebel as agreed, and there was no hope for the war, and the queen withdrew at this time, leaving the city of Bordeaux and the prisoners behind, and Marshal Billund was willing to agree to an armistice, allowing the queen to retire calmly."

Margaret listened and nodded, as if she had been convinced, but at the end she said very seriously: "Thank you for your sincere information, which means that only His Excellency Billon has not done well enough among the three marshals, and he should be very anxious." ”

"You say you'll get a lot of reinforcements soon, which means you don't have any reinforcements coming at this moment; The marshal's willingness to agree to an armistice shows that he has not the slightest confidence in the short-term victory over us. ”

"You see, if you listen to the same thing in reverse, the advantages you say are all the flowers in the mirror and the moon reflected in the water, which is meaningless."

As she spoke, Marguerite turned to Chen Jiujing and threw a small look waiting for praise, turned back to the envoy and said: "But I am willing to sign an armistice, as long as the royal army's army is farther away from Bordeaux and does not cross the south bank of the Dordogne River, we will not attack the marshal, he can do what he wants." ”

The envoy opened and closed his mouth very helplessly, how should he describe to Queen Navarre that the most important thing Marshal Billon wanted to do was to send troops into the city of Bordeaux?

Chen Jiujing, who was about to break the pipe, stopped this embarrassing negotiation, and he sat up straight and said: "Okay, obviously after being beaten, don't pretend that you still have the strength to spare, don't use the three-way marshal to scare me, if you have the ability, let the three-way soldiers and horses come over, Chen is waiting here, not half a step away from Bordeaux, until this battle is over." ”

"When will Billund surrender, when will this battle end, go back and tell Billund, that pasta iron beast flag is for you to surrender, I don't need to negotiate, if you don't surrender, go back and prepare for war."

"Then tell the marshal that whenever he intends to surrender, I will allow him to leave behind artillery, muskets, ammunition and armor, and lead his army to leave calmly."