"Unconditional surrender?" Jin Zhizhen's face turned a little blue, and she said in her heart that the Tang Dynasty was too deceitful and too much, and she was going to force the whole country of Silla to surrender unconditionally before she even fought? How can there be such a bully, you Datang didn't be able to help me Silla back then, what can you do this time?

Thinking of this, Jin Zhizhen said indignantly: "Marshal Li, the lower officials have already told the reason for the incident, it is not our Silla country that has caused all this, it is Japan that has been blaming our Silla country, and wants to provoke the contradiction between the Celestial Empire and my Silla country, so that a big war will break out between us!" Why doesn't the marshal believe me? And to force my Silla whole country to surrender unconditionally? Is it too much of a bully for the Celestial Empire to do this, or does the marshal think that the Celestial Empire will win this battle? Thinking that back then, a great war broke out between the Celestial Empire and our country, and the Celestial Empire failed to defeat our Silla Kingdom, and wanted to make my Silla Kingdom surrender unconditionally, is it a little whimsical for the marshal? ”

The Tang generals and officials in the lobby were suddenly furious, and someone shouted: "Bold! ”

Liu Donglin directly reprimanded angrily: "Jin Zhizhen, this official has also heard of the war between my Celestial Empire and Silla more than a hundred years ago, do you really think that your Silla Kingdom can compete with my Tang Dynasty?" If it weren't for the fact that the war with the Tubo State dragged on for a long time and needed to increase troops, the imperial court had to transfer back most of the troops from Baekje, I am afraid that your Silla would have been destroyed a long time ago, I actually naively thought that my Celestial Empire could not take your Silla Kingdom? In this case, what else is there to say, just start fighting! ”

Jin Zhizhen held back his anger, looked at Li Baozhen and asked, "Marshal Li, do Lord Liu's words mean the marshal?" Is it the meaning of the Celestial Empire? ”

Li Baozhen said coldly: "That's right, we are here to fight this time, to continue the war that was not fought a hundred years ago, this time what can the Tubo State contain our troops, now the Tang Dynasty is peaceful, there is no opponent, and there is a strong Western Qin State as the backing, unless the regent orders the commander to withdraw his troops, unless you Silla surrender unconditionally, if the Silla country does not destroy your Silla country, write the name upside down!" ”

"Good, good!" Jin Zhizhen smiled angrily, "Marshal Li really has the courage, the lower officials will convey your marshal's attitude to our queen mother and the lord, convey the attitude of the Celestial Empire, and ask Marshal Li and the generals to wait for good news and leave!" ”

Li Baozhen stretched out his hand and pointed outside: "Don't send it!" ”

After sending Jin Zhizhen away, an official in the lobby sighed: "There is no possibility of peace talks now!" ”

Li Baozhen looked at the official who spoke, his eyes were a little scared, "If you want peace talks, Ben Shuai will not lead the troops here, whoever wants to do this errand will not do it!" The purpose of this marshal is to fight, win the war, beat the Silla country to the point of crying father and mother, and beat them to destroy the country! ”

The generals were quite excited when they heard this, and they hugged their fists and said: "I am willing to follow the commander to break through Jincheng and destroy Silla!" ”

August 13, only one day later, trapped in the residence of Jin Jingxin can not hold on, he is worried about the Tang Army and Jin Zhizhen to reach an agreement, strike the army and cease the war, in this way, his king Jin Ganyun can only be a puppet king forever, the day of pro-government is far away, this is absolutely unwilling, his mission this time is to let the Tang Dynasty soldiers stand on the side of Jin Ganyun, force the Queen Mother and her party to hand over power, let Jin Ganyun pro-government.

But judging from the current situation, Jin Jingxin found that the Tang army was obviously unwilling to spend here, they wanted to fight, and wanted to use force to force the Silla rulers to submit, he wanted the Tang army to help Jin Ganyun take back the pro-government power from the Empress Dowager's party, but also did not want to watch the Tang army enter Silla and let the vitality of Silla be injured, and the Tang army wanted him to draw a map of the Silla army's troops and the information of the guards of each pass city, if he took these things out, Silla would be like a little girl without clothes in front of the Tang army, This made him very conflicted inside.

Because of worry, Jin Jingxin, who had been unable to sleep all night, couldn't sit still anymore, he decided to test Han Zheng's reaction first, and wanted to see from Han Zheng's words and deeds whether Jin Zhizhen had reached any agreement with Tang Jun, so he asked his entourage to find Han Zheng.

But Han Zheng sent someone to invite him a day later, that is, on the morning of August 14, Jin Jingxin was invited to a mansion.

The two sides met politely, and after sitting down, Han Zheng said with a casual look: "Yesterday, the people below told the official that Lord Jin wanted to see the official, and the official was busy at the time, so he only remembered it this morning, and asked Lord Jin to forgive me!" ”

Han Zheng's attitude made Jin Jingxin's heart sink, which made him have a bad feeling, could it be that Tang Jun was making some secret agreement with Jin Zhizhen, and did Jin Zhizhen promise any benefits to Datang? Otherwise, Han Zheng would not have been so contemptuous of him!

As soon as this thought appeared in Jin Jingxin's mind, it could no longer be erased, it became stronger and stronger, which made Jin Jingxin's heart begin to go up and down, and he thought that if the Queen Mother and her party reached some agreement with the Tang Dynasty to make the Tang army retreat, then the lord of the country would be completely hopeless.

Jin Jingxin thought for a while and asked, "My lord, why is Jin Zhizhen here······ Is he gone? ”

Han Zheng's eyes flashed, and he smiled: "Not yet, what is Lord Jin doing for this?" ”

"Has the lord already sent someone to report to Chang'an about my lord's plea and request?"

Han Zheng's words flickered: "Well······ Not yet, you also know that this piece is not so easy to write, and this official needs time to think about it or two! ”

What to consider? For a civil official who was born as a jinshi, it is not difficult to write a piece of music at all, and Han Zheng is obviously deliberately delaying time, leaving this time to negotiate with Jin Zhizhen, so as to get more benefits from the Queen Mother's party.

Han Zheng's flickering words made Jin Jingxin more and more convinced that the Tang Army was negotiating some agreement with Jin Zhizhen, and he knew that he couldn't wait any longer, so he immediately said: "Lord Han, didn't you say yesterday that you wanted the map of our country's troops and the information of the guards of the cities in each pass?" I promise you, within two days I will give you a map of the deployment of troops, as well as the information of the guards of the various passes! However, if I hope that after I hand over these two things, the Celestial Empire can stop contact with the Queen Mother's party and drive away Jin Zhizhen, and if any agreement is reached with the Queen Mother's party during this period, it will also be invalidated, if the Lord can agree, I will not only hand over these two things, but also cooperate with the Heavenly Soldiers to attack, what does the Lord need me to do, as long as I can help, I will not refuse! ”

Han Zheng obviously didn't expect Jin Jingxin to say this so unreservedly, he was stunned for a moment, looked at Jin Jingxin after a few seconds of silence, and asked, "Is Lord Jin serious?" ”

Jin Jingxin raised his hand and said solemnly: "If there is a lie, I will not die well!" ”

"Okay, on behalf of the imperial court, this official promises you, as long as you draw a map of the deployment of troops and the information of the guards of each pass city, and actively cooperate with our army to attack and eradicate the power of the queen mother's party, we will immediately drive out Jin Zhizhen, and abolish all the conditions negotiated with him, and in the future, we will eradicate the strength of the queen mother's party, and let the lord of your country be in charge of the government and never break his word!"

Jin Jingxin was overjoyed and said: "In this case, please let the adults prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and the next official will begin!" ”

"Come on, prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone for Lord Jin!"

After Han Zheng finished speaking, he said to Jin Jingxin: "Lord Jin, this official is waiting for your good news!" ”

"Yes, Xiaguan must complete it as soon as possible!"

After Han Zheng returned to the meeting hall, Li Baozhen asked, "How is the situation?" ”

Han Zheng smiled: "He agreed!" ”

The soldiers spent the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Black Bone City, after the Mid-Autumn Festival is late autumn, the weather will begin to slowly turn cooler, this battle does not know how long it will last, fortunately, the imperial court has been continuously transported materials from Youzhou to Liaodong, including a large number of grain and grass and cotton clothes, since the West Qin planted cotton clothes and fully used cotton cloth and cotton to make winter clothes, cotton seeds also spread to the Central Plains, North China began to plant cotton extensively, in recent years has also obtained a bumper harvest, a large number of cotton cloth spun out of the cotton cloth was made into cotton clothes, Now Tang Jun's winter clothes have also been changed to cotton clothes, and it is much warmer than before to wear them for the winter.

On 16 August, Li Baozhen had just instructed the logistics quartermaster: "In the next few days, you have to send someone to urge the Youzhou side to transport all the winter clothes over as soon as possible. ”

The logistics quartermaster promised: "Don't worry, the commander has already sent someone to urge!" ”

Li Baozhen nodded, and at this time, Han Zheng came over with a roll of maps and said with a smile: "Marshal, Jin Jingxin has got out the map and the information of the Silla generals!" ”

"Oh? Bring it to me and see it! ”

A large map was spread out on the table, and Li Baozhen was surprised: "This Jin Jingxin's painting skills are so good?" ”

Han Zheng shook his head and smiled: "How can it! I asked him to redraw it according to his original drawing, and I also confirmed with him one by one the locations and the number of troops in the garrison, he should not dare to deceive us! ”

"With this troop deployment map, Silla has no secrets to us, great!" Li Baozhen couldn't help but be happy, pointed to Hanzhou City on the map and said, "Hanzhou, this is our first attack target!" ”

Han Zheng nodded and said, "I don't know where the Southern Route Army has arrived and whether it has landed!" ”

Li Baozhen said: "According to the time, the Southern Route Army has arrived at the seaside of the former Xiongjin Governor's Mansion, and they will take the sea route much faster than us, but if they encounter wind and waves, they may have to delay their departure!" Ignore them first, they beat theirs, we beat ours! Come on, summon all the generals above the fifth rank to come to the discussion! ”

Soon, the generals who had been notified arrived one after another, and Li Baozhen ordered the generals: "Order, leave the camp in five days, and the army will arrive in Pyongyang City within six days!" ”

Pyongyang during this period was practically abandoned, and only a small number of Tang troops were stationed here, and Pyongyang was already the border between the Tang army and Silla.