How can you talk like that, they have already surrendered, and you still have to take away their horses, armor and weapons, even the nobles of the countryside will not do that. ”

Chen Jiujing led the horse to walk in front, and Margaret led the horse to chase behind, shouting as she walked: "This makes me ashamed!" ”

In the background of the open gates of Bordeaux on the left bank, small carts with torches, loaded with shining armor, swords, spears, and servants led horses along the road to the trenches outside the city.

Suppressed cries were heard from the city, and the adults in silk and embroidered shirts watched as the heirlooms grew farther and farther away from them.

Chen Jiujing pulled the reins in one hand and pressed the saber on his waist, frowned and walked forward slowly, I don't know how long he walked, before he finally turned his head at the door of the tent and raised his chin slightly and asked, "Do you think you won a battle?" They respect you as a princess and a queen, so they surrender? Or do you think I care about the tattered armor - my Siyong battalion can buy it for a month's salary? ”

He didn't say anything about the horses, because he really wanted them.

Margaret, who was walking with her head down, was frightened by Chen Jiujing's sudden stopping, turning, and replying, and took half a step back and took two deep breaths before complaining in a low voice: "If you don't talk for a long time, haven't we finished talking about this topic?" ”

Chen Jiujing didn't care about those: "Surrender because resistance is useless, my artillery has damaged the city wall, which proves that as long as I want to attack the city, the city wall will not stop me; We are outnumbered, and they are no opponent in street fighting, and stubborn resistance can only increase casualties. ”

Margaret was stunned.

She really thought the topic was over.

She doesn't understand military matters, and only politically will she be willing to mix and mix, so despite her curiosity, she will not go against Chen Jiujing's military propositions, and the reason why she said those words was just to complain and complain, but she didn't expect Chen Jiujing to tell him very seriously: "Your identity is just a step for them to make it easier to say about surrender." ”

"So you're deliberately firing a salvo and then not giving the order again." Margaret realized, "Do you know that I can persuade them? ”

Chen Jiujing shook his head stiffly: "I don't know." I agree with you to go, only because my Korean interpreters were not shot with muskets while speaking, which shows that their will to fight is weak, and even if you go, there will be no danger, because they dare not kill my people. ”

"So, why not take the city?"

"Because it's easy to destroy a city, but it's troublesome to repair a wall, so I'll tell you a story."

Chen Jiujing handed the war horse to his soldiers, and walked into the tent as he said: "In Guangdong, along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, there is a Guanghai Acropolis, which was built in the 20th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, and has been 202 years so far, and it is a strong city. But nine years ago, a gang of Japanese invaders took possession of it, and the Japanese were the sea bandits from the Japanese kingdom, and they were extremely vicious. ”

"My father-in-law was ordered to fight against the thieves, and all the pirates in the city were annihilated, and the city was also destroyed in the war, and it has been nine years now, no, it has been ten years."

The young General Chen clapped his hands: "Guess what?" Many years ago, my father-in-law felt that it was too difficult to repair the wall that he had broken, so he simply built another city somewhere else. Guanghaiwei ...... Nope. ”

"Bordeaux, my city. If it's broken, I have to fix it, so why should I fight? ”

Your city?

Margaret's very masculine hands folded around her chest and leaned back slightly, her delicate little nose wrinkled under the open visor, and she repeatedly chewed on the words 'my city', which was meaningful.

But Chen Jiujing did not have this awareness, but seriously pointed to the sketch of France that he got from Spain hanging in the tent and said: "If Billund comes next, do you have any way to ensure that they will not turn against us when we go out to meet or defend the city, is there a way?" ”

Without waiting for Margo to answer, Chen Jiujing asked himself and replied, "There is no way." ”

"No, they promised me, we have an agreement, they will not go to war."

"Pull it down, you're twenty-six or seventy-one years old, do you still believe this?" Chen Jiujing's eyes widened and he laughed at Margo's innocence, and said, "You can make an agreement with them, and your brother the king in Paris can even more so to make an agreement with them." ”

Chen Jiujing waved his hand and said, "Don't say it's impossible, if the agreement works, thousands of people won't die at your wedding, and the war in France won't have to go on until now." ”

Speaking of these, his words inevitably carried a mocking contempt: "The powerful pretend to use the mouth of the gods to satisfy their own private party and fight against each other, thinking that this can deceive the world, but they don't know that the gentleman is cautious, can he deceive others and deceive himself?" ”

"The soldiers are fierce and dangerous, and if you are not careful, your head will fall to the ground, don't think that victory will come so easily, you just need to move your lips."

"Huh."

Margaret huh.

She still maintained the movement of wrapping her hands around her chest, the bulging and curved breastplate made her arms a little unnatural, and looked at Chen Jiujing with a sneer: "My general, are you saying that I am old?" ”

Chen Jiujing: ???

"I've said so much, and you remember that I said you're old?"

Just then, a letter from Montauban Navarra arrived outside the camp.

The letter was written by Henry Bourbon of Navarre, but not to his wife, Margo, and the messenger was instructed to hand over to Chen Jiujing, the commander of the Ming army.

Chen Jiujing, who was sitting in the middle of the military tent, was stunned when he heard the words of the downed Navarre messenger, and confirmed it with Margaret in disbelief before accepting the letter presented by his own soldiers.

As if knowing that Chen Jiujing didn't know French, the letter was written in Spanish, and after reading the letter slowly, Chen Jiujing, who was sitting with a golden knife, sighed deeply, and his heart was mixed.

He turned his head to look at Margaret, and could see that the queen was anxious, but she did not ask herself about the contents of the letter, but slowly got up and took two steps, and asked softly in front of the messenger, "Are the city of Cahors and the king all right?" ”

The messenger, a young man who looked like a guard, looked up and said, "Queen, the city of Cahors is still under the patronage of King Navarre, and the king is all right. ”

After the messenger was put down to rest and drink some hot soup, Chen Jiujing put down the letter, got up and searched the map hanging behind him with his eyes, and asked Margaret, "You don't want to know what the letter says?" ”

"If you want me to know." Margaret said lightly: "Will tell me, if you don't want me to know, it won't do any good if I know." ”

"Your husband had taken Cahors three days earlier, leaving a thousand soldiers to garrison, and had returned to Montauban to recruit more troops, and on his way to Bordeaux, he was stopped by an army of three thousand men left behind by the king's army, which he wrote before the battle, and he thought that Billund was leading his main force towards it."

Chen Jiujing smacked his lips with emotion, thinking about whether he should say the following words: "Your husband is a very special person. ”

At the end of the letter, he told me that the kingdom of Navarre was so small that the king did not know if he would survive the next few days. But if he doesn't die in the rest of the battle, Navarre will always be a refuge for Queen Margot and her loved ones...... I've never seen such a love for the house and the black. ”