Fang Xuanling sent someone to send Yuan Gai Suwen to the post house to rest first, and he himself came to Zhang Xuan's official mansion, Zhang Xuan stood in front of the sand table and asked with a smile: "How are you talking?" ”

"The subordinate told Yuangai Suwen the first condition, and he immediately looked embarrassed."

Fang Xuanling smiled slightly: "He said that those transoceanic boats are also the important weapons of Goguryeo, and he has no right to agree, and he wants to explain that there are no more than eight transoceanic boats, and there are only five in their hands." ”

Jang Hyun nodded, "I know, two of them were exchanged by Silla for 30,000 Goguryeo fugitives, but where did the other one go?" ”

"He said it crashed in the bay of Despicable City, and they crashed into the reef at the beginning of the year while they were transporting supplies, and finally sank, along with more than 200 people at the bottom of the sea."

Zhang Xuan thought for a while and said, "This matter can be confirmed with the Goguryeo prisoners of war, even if there are only five ships, is he unwilling to exchange?" ”

"He said he was going back to ask his father, and he wanted to know, what was the other condition?"

"There is another condition, you might as well tell him, I want 50,000 sets of Mingguang armor."

Fang Xuanling gasped, "Fifty thousand sets, will they agree?" ”

Zhang Xuan smiled dumbly, "Of course they won't agree, but the price is all over the place, just sit on the ground and pay back, in fact, I don't care if Mingguang Armor wants it or not, the key is that I want five transoceanic boats." ”

Although Zhang Xuan already had the craftsmen's drawings and many parts of the original demolished Hengyang boat, he finally found that it was not easy to build a Hengyang boat, and the key point was that it would take time, it would take several years, and he Zhang Xuan could not afford to wait.

The Sui army could only build four ships a year, and their shipyard could only build one ship a year at most, and they couldn't build other ships, so they couldn't afford to delay it. So Zhang Xuan thought about it, and he still had to find a way to get back a few of Goguryeo's Hengyang.

Fang Xuanling was silent for a moment and said: "But the Liaodong Peninsula is also very important to us, and it is of great strategic significance, does the marshal really want to return it back?" ”

Zhang Xuan laughed, "The peninsula won't grow wings and fly away, so why not give it back to them." Can't I take it back? ”

Fang Xuanling knew that Zhang Xuan would say this, but it would be discredited, and after a while, he nodded silently, "The subordinates obey the decision of the marshal." ”

Zhang Xuan took a few more steps, and then ordered: "Let General Zhou Meng come to see me!" ”

Not long after, Zhou Meng, the general of the second battalion of the navy, came to the official room quickly, Zhou Meng was a member of the navy recruited by Zhang Xuan in Jianghuai, and he was originally a general under the Jiangnan bandit Liu Yuanjin. After Liu Yuanjin was defeated by Wang Shichong, he was reluctant to follow Shen Faxing and returned to his hometown Jiangdu.

But he was unwilling to be buried, when Zhang Xuan recruited a naval army in Jiangdu, he enlisted in the army, and soon showed outstanding martial arts and commanding ability, and was promoted to lieutenant by Zhang Xuan, and then promoted to partial general. is loyal to Zhang Xuan, and is deeply valued by Zhang Xuan.

Zhou Meng knelt down on one knee and saluted. "Humble duty to see the handsome!"

Zhang Xuan said to him: "Goguryeo is very likely to send a naval army to attack the city of Beixu, you can lead 5,000 naval troops and 100 warships to support General Qi, once the Goguryeo naval army attacks, teach them a hard lesson." ”

"Obey!"

In Pyongyang, in the resplendent royal palace, the king of Goguryeo, Ko Won, reclines on a soft couch. His face was puffier than before, as if he had been stung by countless wasps, and it was an unhealthy sallow yellow, and his eyes were narrowed and dull. He did not speak, but listened intently to the arguments of several important ministers.

There are three people standing under the golden steps, it is the three most powerful ministers of Goguryeo, Mo Lizhi Yuan Taizuo, the great pair Lu Quanhuan and the general Eulji Wendeok, just last night, the envoy sent by Yuan Taizuo, who is also his eldest son Yuan Gai Suwen, returned to Pyongyang, and he brought the conditions proposed by Jang Hyun.

Ning Shoude, who was captured in Liaodong, was Yuan Taizuo's confidant and was extremely important to him, but he was unexpectedly sent to Jiangdu by Zhang Xuan, which made Yuan Taizuo extremely angry.

However, Yuan Taizuo did not despair, but felt a little lucky, it was easier to get people back from the hands of the Great Sui Court, the Great Sui Court wanted a false name, as long as he wrote a sincere letter of apology and guarantee, the Sui Dynasty would generally put people back.

It's not easy for Zhang Xuan to do it here, this person doesn't want to be famous, he wants practical benefits, and the current difficulty is Zhang Xuan's here.

In the power infighting of Goguryeo, Ulji Wende and Kwon Huan formed an alliance, and Ulji Wende hoped to compromise with Jang Hyun and return to Jian Wuqi, and Kwon Huan also fully supported him.

But Yuan Taizuo didn't want to compromise.

"It's impossible for me to agree to Zhang Xuan's conditions, we can't build a transoceanic boat, I've been trying for three years, and we don't have that ability."

Yuan Taizuo was telling the truth, the Hengyang Boat represented the highest level of science and technology in the Great Sui, and Goguryeo's ability was far from being able to reach it, and they couldn't even build a 3,000-stone warship, let alone a 20,000-stone Hengyang Boat.

At the beginning, Silla proposed to exchange 30,000 fugitives for two transoceanic boats, and Yuan Taejo also resolutely opposed it, but Kwon Huan received the support of King Gao Yuan, and finally agreed to Silla's conditions and handed over the two transoceanic boats to Silla.

He said with a gloomy face: "Secondly, we can't take out 50,000 sets of Mingguang armor, although there are indeed 50,000 sets in the warehouse, but this is our war preparation materials, and we must not hand them over to him." ”

Quan Huan finally couldn't help but said coldly: "If the ship doesn't give, and the Mingguang armor doesn't give it either, then what will we do to redeem people and the lowly city?" Is it just a letter of apology from Lord Mo Lizhi? ”

Yuan Taizuo turned his head and looked at him sternly, "This is a matter of principle, how can we trade with principle?" ”

"I don't think a few ships and a few pieces of Mingguang armor are principles, I think people and territory are principles, and Lord Mo Lizhi seems to be putting the cart before the horse."

"What putting the cart before the horse!"

Yuan Taizuo said angrily: "The Hengyang Boat is the important weapon of the country, we only have five left, and people can be cultivated again, but the Hengyang Boat is gone, but we can't build it anymore, which is more important, can't I weigh it?" ”

At this time, Yizhi Wende next to him played a round and said: "Lord Mo Lizhi, it's better to do this, let's negotiate with Zhang Xuan well, the conditions he is proposing now are only his asking price, we can bargain, such as taking two transoceanic boats and 20,000 sets of armor to exchange with him." Maybe a compromise can be reached in the end! ”

"No way!"

Yuan Taizuo categorically refused, "I won't give any of the oceanic boats." ”

Yizhi Wende and Quan Huan glanced at each other, both of them were silent, since Yuan Taizuo said so much, then there is no point in discussing, let Yuan Taizuo solve it himself!

Then. King Gao Yuan, who had been silent, broke the deadlock, and he asked in a hoarse voice, "Lord Yuan, you mean that we give up the Liaodong Peninsula, right?" ”

Yuan Taizuo was silent for a moment and said: "What Weichen means is that people can be cultivated again, and the city of despicable luxury can be recaptured!" ”

"Take it back?"

Quan Huan sneered: "The Humble City is five hundred miles away from the Black Bone City, the official road has been deserted, the forest is dense, and it is difficult for the army to move an inch. Master Mo Lizhi said let's talk about it, how to get it back? ”

Yuan Taizuo said coldly: "I have already carefully considered this problem, it took five days for the soldiers of Humble Luxury City to escape back to Black Bone City, we can let the army prepare ten days of dry food, and rush to Huilong Town in the north of Humble Luxury City on foot, where we can dock a thousand stone sea boats, and our supplies and grain will be sent over by water, and we will join the army in Huilong Town." Then use Huilong Town as a logistical center to attack the city of Beixu, and I believe that we will be able to recapture the Liaodong Peninsula. If you catch a prisoner of war from the Sui army, you can exchange it for Jian Wuqi, but you really don't want to, and you can also turn around and return if you have ten days of dry food. ”

Only then did the three of them understand that Yuan Taizuo had no sincerity in negotiating at all, he just wanted to use the negotiation to confuse Zhang Xuan. His real purpose was to use force to recapture the city of Beiluxe, and in order to confuse Zhang Xuan, he did not hesitate to send his eldest son to the envoy, this person is scheming and unmatched.

Quan Huan snorted softly. "If I'm not mistaken, Lord Mo Lizhi is ready."

"That's true, I have deployed 10,000 troops in Wugu City, and 100 cargo ships at the mouth of the Yalu River, loaded with food and supplies, and I can set off when Gai Suwen returns, I will be lost first."

He bowed to King Gao Yuan, turned around and walked away quickly.

Looking at Yuan Taizuo's distant back, Quan Huan said coldly: "Dispatch troops, we don't know anything, he has so much power!" ”

At this time, the pen in Gao Yuan's hand 'clicked!' The thud snapped in two, and a terrifying murderous intent shot out of his eyes.

………

In fact, on the night of Yuan Gai Suwen's return, Yuan Taizuo issued an order to send troops, it was impossible for him to agree to Zhang Xuan's conditions, Jian Wuqi usually relied on the support of Eulzhi Wende to oppose himself, and it was better for him to die in the hands of Zhang Xuan.

As for the humble city, if it can be recaptured, why should it be exchanged for five transoceanic boats and tens of thousands of sets of armor, not to mention that the transoceanic boat is such a national heavy weapon, even if it is Mingguang armor, he is reluctant, and they can't make such a strong armor.

On an abandoned official road on the Liaodong Peninsula, an army of 10,000 people is marching southward, the official road was built by Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, it was originally a wide and flat avenue, leading to the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula.

However, since the Central Plains entered a period of division and chaos for hundreds of years after the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Liaodong Peninsula was gradually abandoned, and the official roads gradually disappeared, until Goguryeo occupied the Liaodong Peninsula a hundred years ago, re-immigrated and developed, and at the same time dug a small road on the basis of the original official roads.

But even this trail has become overgrown with vegetation because it has been abandoned for several years, and it is extremely difficult to walk, and the carts cannot go on the road at all, so they have to go alone, so every soldier has ten days of dry food on his back, and the army marches southward.

The leader of the general is called Han Qiming, he is burly, his martial arts are very strong, his maternal grandfather is a Han who fled to Goguryeo from Youzhou, and his father is also half of Han blood, but Han Qiming grew up in Goguryeo since he was a child, he has regarded himself as a Goguryeo, very loyal to Yuan Taizuo, and has always been Yuan Taizuo's right-hand man.

Han Qiming is a person who does not smile, his face is gloomy all day long, he doesn't know what he is thinking, but this time his pressure is relatively great, they only carry ten days of dry food with them, and a lot of heavy equipment, they must rush back to Long Town within five days, and they can't be delayed on the way, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.

He rode on a war horse, constantly waving a big gun to urge the soldiers to speed up the march, after several days of marching day and night, the soldiers were exhausted, but under Han Qiming's fierce urging, they had to beat their spirits and speed up the march.

But there are some things that Yuan Taizuo never imagined, marching on the Liaodong Peninsula, the physical exertion is much greater than usual, and the food consumption is also twice as much as usual. (To be continued.) )