"The longer it drags on, the better it is for us, and it's all a delaying tactic. Therefore, what we have to think about now is how to negotiate peace with Goguryeo and buy us more time. Mao Xi said.

Chen Kefu smiled slightly, he really has an old man like a treasure in the family. How can I say that Jiang is still old and spicy, these people are all military generals, and when they face the war, they think about how to win on the battlefield.

But now that he was pointed out by Mao Bo, he suddenly understood that most of the time this victory could be decided outside the battlefield.

"Now that we are fighting like this, how can the Liao people be willing to talk to us?" Lu Shishen said suspiciously.

"No, they will definitely make peace with us." Chen Kefu suddenly smiled mysteriously.

"Handsome? Why did the Liao people want to negotiate peace with us, didn't they just say that if they can't recapture the Liaoshui line, there will be a danger of losing the country? ”。

The king of Goguryeo was Gao Yuan, but the power of Goguryeo was in the hands of Lu Yuanziyou. Now Gao Yuan Yizhen relies on the support of the southern faction led by his younger brother Gao Jianwu, but Gao Jianwu is supported by the noble lords in the south of the kingdom.

And the eldest pair Lu Yuanziyou, as the lord of the first tribe of the kingdom, has been in charge of the government for many years, and is basically the representative of the northern forces of the entire kingdom. At present, the power of the Yuan clan in Buyeo has been completely wiped out, and its strength has been greatly damaged. However, Gao Jianwu was also defeated in Liaodong City and fled back alone. And the largest neutral faction in the kingdom before, Eji Wende, also lost 80,000 cavalry a month ago.

The tripartite forces of the entire kingdom still maintain a delicate balance, and at this time, if Chen Kefu sent someone to find Yuan Ziyou and propose peace talks, on the condition that Yuan Taizuo and the Yuan clan's soldiers and horses were exchanged for prisoners of the Sui army. Then, he believed that Yuan Ziyou would definitely be moved. On the one hand, Yuan Taizuo and Yuan Gaitong are his eldest son, and the other is his younger brother. On the other hand, if you exchange Yuan Taizuo and his soldiers and horses, then Yuan Ziyou will be able to break the balance and become the strongest side among the three forces of Goguryeo, so that he can easily deal with Gao Jianwu and his southern faction.

"But isn't this a return to the mountains? That Yuan Taizuo is indeed very strong. Now the Liao people are running out of soldiers and horses, and now we let them go, so if they turn around and increase their efforts to beat us, isn't that a big wrong? ”。 Shen Guang was a little puzzled, now is before the big war, at this time, put the Liao people back, isn't this to enhance the enemy's strength.

Mao Xi and Chen Kefu glanced at each other and said with a smile, "We will release it, but how to release it and how to release it is up to us to decide." Releasing people is not the goal, we are releasing people in exchange for the captured Sui army officers and soldiers, and the soldiers who are exchanged can also strengthen the strength of our army. And on the other hand, we're not saying. Let them go all at once. This exchange of prisoners, the two sides have to negotiate, right? There are many words that Liaodong City and Pyongyang are thousands of miles away, let's talk about it, don't we be able to drag it out in this time. Let's change some people at a time and try to gain as much time as possible. ”

Li Jie shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's not okay to just exchange prisoners, right?" Many of these captives are Yuan Ziyou's clansmen, and Yuan Ziyou is willing to exchange, but I am afraid that if Gao Jianwu is like them, they will not sit idly by. ”

"Then we can also talk about it, such as releasing some of the captives, and returning the mountain cities such as Baiyan and Anshi, which are close to the lower reaches of Daliangshui and Liaoshui, to Goguryeo. Anyway, these mountain towns are already empty, and we all have to give up and simply use them as bargaining chips. As for the people who were released, we can return the children and women. In short, we did everything possible to negotiate peace with the Liao, to gain time, so that we could have more time to train the army, and wait for the arrival of reinforcements from His Majesty. Mao Xi said. …,

Chen Kefu stood up, glanced at the people in the hall, and said loudly, "Okay, let's talk with Liao on the one hand, and make a plan to delay the army and gain more time." On the other hand, stepping up the training of the army will not necessarily improve the combat effectiveness of the entire army and horses in a short period of time. In addition, send someone to send a letter to Your Majesty immediately, asking Your Majesty for reinforcements. A two-pronged approach that goes all out"

Bright moonlight poured into the hall from the windowsill, as if to frost the marble floor. The military conference has long ended, and the generals attending the meeting have already left, and in the huge military conference hall, only Chen Kefu is left, and the spacious hall is empty, and the silence makes people feel a little cold.

At this moment, he felt full of exhaustion, since Yang Guang returned to the Central Plains, the entire Liaodong has been regarded by him as his own territory. But now, he felt a little scared. At present, the decisive battle with the Liao people is inevitable and victorious, so he will inevitably go to a higher level from now on. And once he fails, even if he doesn't die in battle, the best outcome is to return to the Central Plains and start from scratch, and then his great cause of recovering the country will be further and further away from him.

What you can never get, even if you can't get it, you won't have too many regrets in your heart. But seeing that such a thing is about to be caught in his hands, it is one step away, but now it is very likely to be snatched away by others, and this kind of feeling of gain and loss is the most annoying.

If possible, he didn't want to fight with the Liao people now, and now he has just started the team, and he is still so fragile. After such a tough battle, I don't know how many soldiers and generals will be killed, injured and disabled, these are all the capital of his restoration of the country, and he is like a stingy old man, he is not willing to waste a penny.

In the eyes of others, Chen Kefu is infinitely beautiful. was born as the son of the crown prince of the Southern Dynasty, even if he died in the end. However, in a short period of time, he was able to make meritorious contributions all the way from a small gang commander to a marshal, from a dying royal family to a national duke. And the future wife is still the daughter of Li Valve Tang Guogong, an official residence, a knight and a duke, young and a very popular minister.

But only Chen Kefu knew best what he wanted in his heart, he knew that the path he chose would be full of thorns, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult.

A man sat alone in the empty hall, pondering for a long time. After his mind calmed down, Chen Kefu let out a long sigh, got up and left the military conference hall, and walked outside. Outside the military conference hall, the officers and soldiers on duty all saluted Chen Kefu one after another.

Outside the gate, it was already the middle of the moon at this time, and the night was as cool as water in the night of nearly September. The bright moonlight covered the whole earth with a silver veil, cold and quiet.

Seeing Chen Ke come out, Zhang Jin, who had been waiting there for a long time, immediately greeted him with a team of marshal guards.

As soon as he turned the corner, Chen Kefu saw a slender and beautiful figure standing there under the bright moonlight. The two looked at each other, and on their faces as white as moonlight, they immediately showed a smile as bright as a flower.

"How did you get here?"

"I see that you haven't returned home so late, so I'm here to wait for you." Ye Lisha is not very thick, the slender Confucian skirt is not very warm, and after standing for a long time at night, the cold mouth is cold, and the words are a little unclear.

"Dashuai, you've been busy all day, and you're still hungry, I asked the house to prepare a meal, hurry back to eat."

Chen Kefu stretched out his hand and held her cold hands in his hands, rubbed them gently, and said with a slight smile, "I'll naturally go back when I'm done, just wait in the house." It's such a cold day, and I don't know how to wear more clothes, let's go, let's go back. ”

When she got home, Ye Lisha gently accompanied Chen Kefu to eat, pouring wine and vegetables, which was very gentle and warm. …,

Before the meal was finished, the soldiers came to report, and Mao Sima from the Marshal's Mansion came to see him.

Mao Xi didn't come alone, there were forty or fifty people who came with him, in addition to Mao Xi, there were also Lu Shishen, Mao Yi, Chen Qing and other generals in the army of Chenjiazhuang, followed by dozens of elders of Chenjiazhuang, who used to be the head of the village, and now they all understand that most of these are the courtiers of the East Palace of his father, the crown prince Shen.

As soon as everyone came up, they wanted to worship, Chen Kefu hurriedly ran over and grabbed them one by one, and said with a smile, "Everyone is my elder, watching me grow up, we are all a family, this is a mansion, not a military camp, how can I be worthy of you to salute me." Today's military meeting was too late, thinking that your uncles have worked hard all the way, so I didn't go to see you, I planned to wait for everyone to rest for one night today, and tomorrow I will have a good banquet in the mansion to welcome the arrival of your uncles, but I didn't expect everyone to come first. ”

Lu Shishen's uncle, Lao Lu is also a person with a similar temper as Lu Shishen, just over fifty years old, five big and three thick. In the past, he was responsible for killing pigs and sheep in Chenjiazhuang, and Chen Kefu learned a lot of kung fu from him. In the past, he once followed his eldest brother Lu Youda as a tooth general of the Southern Dynasty, very brave, and even more enthusiastic.

At this time, he walked up, and a pair of big hands like a fan slapped Chen Kefu's shoulders more than ten times, and happily said to the others, "I just said, what kind of person is our young master, can he be the kind of person who forgets his roots when he is rich?" Don't say that today he is just a marshal of the country, even if he becomes the emperor in the future, he is also our Lao Lu's apprentice. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was startled, and Mao Bo glared at him fiercely.

"Uncles, don't worry, this house is full of people who have been trusted by their own families. Uncle Lu is right, I, Chen Kefu, were raised by everyone, no matter what happens in the future, it is impossible for me to forget everyone's kindness. If one day, I, Chen Ke, will restore my Chen family, then I will definitely share the world with my uncles. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was very relieved and happy, after the Chen family destroyed the country, they could still guard Chen Kefu, the prince of the dead country, for more than 20 years, and the loyalty in this can be imagined. If you want to say who in this world will make him the most confident and most assured, then these people in Chenjiazhuang are the people he believes in the most.

Lu Yao knows the horsepower, the road has seen the hearts of the people for a long time, these uncles in Chenjiazhuang are all people who have been tested by more than 20 years, so many years have passed, not to mention the righteousness of the monarch and the servant, there is already a family relationship between each other.

Asked for a ticket, half a month has passed, and everyone has checked Doudou to see if another monthly pass has been consumed. Some of them voted for Muzi, ......,