Sudartie on the side laughed loudly and said: "Hahaha, it seems that these two-legged sheep are scared out of their wits."
After Sudarte's smile broke out, several other tribal leaders also burst into laughter. Shi Le, who was sitting on the stage, could not restrain his excitement and said to the middle-aged man below: "You Daxia people are really as timid as mice. Tell me what conditions the Xiguan guard has put forward. "
The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment and then said slowly: "Replying to the Great Khan, the content of the letter is very short. They only asked if they could agree to their conditions, but they did not specify the specific conditions."
Everyone present was stunned again, "You didn't write any conditions?"
"Yes, Khan, look!" As he spoke, the middle-aged man unfolded the letter, with only a few words on it.
Shi Le looked at the letter in the middle-aged man's hand, was silent for a while and said, "Okay, then you write him a letter and ask him what conditions he wants to put forward. As long as they are willing to surrender, Ben Khan can agree to any conditions."
As night fell, two Jie soldiers came to Xiguan with torches. When the soldiers guarding the city saw torches approaching from the city, they hurriedly shouted and asked, "What are you doing?"
The two Jie people, Ulawala, talked a lot, but no one could understand them.
Then they tied a sheepskin scroll to an arrow and shot it up the city wall, and then they turned back.
The soldiers guarding the city hurriedly took the sheepskin scroll to the meeting hall and handed it to Lu Biao. Lu Biao looked at the crooked Chinese characters on the sheepskin, which seemed to have been written with blood on his fingers.
"General, what does the letter say?" Tian Ying and others asked curiously.
Lu Biao passed the letter to everyone and said with a smile: "The Great Khan of the Jie Clan asked us what conditions we would like to impose before we surrender."
A burst of laughter suddenly erupted in the meeting hall, and Fan Zhi said: "As long as he hands over his head, we will surrender."
Another general, Mo Yu, smiled and said: "Just one of his heads is not enough, we have to hand over all the heads of the 60,000-strong army."
Lu Biao said: "Our goal is to delay them as much as possible. Now it seems that the enemy really thinks that we are going to surrender. Counselor Dong, you can send them another letter and mention something reasonable, but let them feel If the condition is sore, I will send someone to deliver it at noon tomorrow to delay it a little longer."
Dong Yu, the military counselor, responded hurriedly: "Yes, general."
Early on the next morning, Shi Le waited for a reply from Xiguan Nei, and sent someone to send a letter to inquire about it. It was not until noon that a letter was delivered to the Jie tribe's former military camp.
In Shile's big tent, the middle-aged man read out the contents of the letter one by one. He first expressed his respect for the Jie tribe's Great Khan, and then put forward some conditions. Generally speaking, he wanted 50,000 war horses and 100,000 taels. Bai Yin also needs to send the children of a tribal leader to marry him, so as to ensure their safety after surrender.
After listening to the middle-aged man's words, Sudartie hurriedly said: "Great Khan, this is not appropriate. Gold and silver women don't matter. Fifty thousand war horses must not be given."
Tuge Dami, the leader of the Tuge tribe, said: "Don't be anxious, Chief Suda. Even if we want to give it to them, we won't give it to them until we get to Xiguan."
Shi Le also nodded and said, "Tugoda Mi is right."
After hearing Shi Le's words, Sudartie sat back down in his seat.
"But what if they can't get anything and refuse to open the city and surrender?" Utanjida added.
"Then what else can we do? Let's continue the fight. Is it possible that we really have to give them 50,000 war horses? What if they take the war horses but refuse to open the city?" Sudartie retorted.
For a while, the camp fell into an embarrassing situation. Finally, Shi Le said: "First agree to their conditions and let them hand over Xiguan. If they don't comply, then they have no sincerity in surrendering."
In the afternoon, before Sudartie led 5,000 Jie soldiers to Xiguan, the defenders on the city wall immediately became alert. However, the Jie people quickly stopped in an open space in the distance, and it seemed that they had no intention of attacking the city.
Soon a Jie soldier shot a sheepskin letter onto the city wall, and the soldier ran back to the meeting hall with the sheepskin letter.
The Jie soldiers outside Xiguan were repairing on the spot, waiting for a reply from the city wall. However, an hour passed and there was still no reply from the city wall, which made Sudartie very angry.
Seeing that half an hour had passed, there was still no letter coming from the city wall. Sudarti lost his patience and was about to order an attack on the city when an arrow shot down from the city wall with a letter tied to the arrow.
Su Dart grabbed the middle-aged man and said, "Look, what's written on it?"
The middle-aged man opened the letter and hurriedly scanned the contents.
Then he said to Sudarte: "The letter said that they couldn't open the city to surrender because they didn't see what they wanted. What if they opened the city and we regretted it? They couldn't believe it.
However, the letter also said that they understood our feelings and would not trust them if we took out so many things at once, so they proposed that they could pay 20,000 war horses, 50,000 silver and a marriage woman first, and the rest could be opened. We will fulfill our promise later. "
Su Daltie kicked the middle-aged man to the ground: "Bah, you cunning Daxia people, two-legged sheep, think that we are stupid, let alone 20,000 horses, we will not agree to ten thousand or five thousand horses. .”
The middle-aged man cursed angrily in his heart: You should have said that you wouldn't give me a single horse, why should you give me fifteen thousand horses?
Then, I heard Sudar's iron command, and the siege horn sounded immediately. He was going to attack the city overnight.
After resting for two days, the Jie soldiers appeared extremely brave and launched attacks again and again, but in the end they failed to attack the city wall.
In the early morning, the sun slowly rose from the horizon, and the tired Sudarte tribe finally ordered to withdraw the troops that were attacking the city.
Just when Sudartie returned to Shile's camp, a letter was delivered again.
The letter initially accused the Jie people of not keeping their word and rashly launching a surprise attack during the negotiation. However, after just a few words of conversation, the conversation changed and they talked about conditions again.
The guard general of Xiguan said that the conditions could be lowered. As long as Shile Khan could provide 10,000 war horses, 30,000 taels of silver and a leader's daughter, he would surrender immediately.
This made the tribal leaders in the Jie tribe's camp calm down again. They could still afford to gamble with 10,000 war horses and tens of thousands of taels of silver. If they could capture Xiguan and enter Hebei Province, they could do it unscrupulously. Robbery to recoup losses.
Utangida does not agree with this idea. In his opinion, this is a conspiracy and a scam, but his opinion alone cannot influence everyone. In the eyes of others, even if it is a conspiracy and a scam, it is still worth going. try it.
Utanjida had no choice but to sigh.
As nomadic people on the grasslands, they did not need gold, silver, copper and iron as currency, so they did not carry any silver money with them when they went to war.
But they had a lot of silver decorations on them, including scabbards. These silver decorations were plundered from Daxia, so they were of very high purity.
Shi Le ordered everyone to hand over all the silver items they had on them. That afternoon, a dozen large boxes, 10,000 war horses, and ten strong women were brought outside Xiguan City.
When Lu Biao and others on the city wall saw this scene below the city, they couldn't believe it was true. They didn't expect that the Jie people actually agreed to the conditions they proposed.
Wang Dayong, who was standing next to Lu Biao, laughed and said: "Hahaha, I'm rich. Just wait, I'll go down and get the horses."
"Stop!" Before Wang Dayong could turn around, Lu Biao hurriedly stopped him.
"oh!"
Lu Biao whispered to counselor Dong Yu: "Send the message and tell them to retreat a hundred feet. After we have a clear inspection, we will open the city immediately."
Then a soldier was lowered into the city and ran toward the Jie people with a letter in his hand. A Jie person took the letter from the soldier and brought it back to Shi Le.
After a while, the Jie Clan soldiers began to retreat slowly. Seeing that they were almost retreating, the Jie Clan army began to slowly stop.
Lu Biao ordered the soldiers to open a city gate and sent a group of soldiers to slowly drive the horses away. The Jie army in the distance watched as 10,000 horses were gradually driven into the city.
Utanjida opened his mouth and said to Shi Le: "Great Khan, why not take this opportunity to let the cavalry charge. At this distance, it only takes one sprint to reach the city gate."
"Arrived at the city gate? Then how do you bypass those horses and rush into the city? Hum, I'm afraid before you get to the city, the arrows on the city wall will fly towards you. When the time comes, you will be blocked outside the city gate. A living target.”
Utanjida felt frustrated and stopped talking.
After all the war horses and women were driven into the city and the boxes were carried away, the city was closed again.
Soon after, the city gate was slowly opened again. The leaders of the Jie clan who were watching from a distance burst out laughing excitedly when they saw this scene. However, their smiles did not last long and they could no longer laugh anymore.
Ten Jie women were driven out of the city and ran towards them, and the city gates were tightly closed again.
When ten women came to the Jie tribe's army, Shi Le asked angrily: "What's going on?"
Ten women shook their heads and expressed ignorance, and one of them handed over a letter.
Shi Le asked the original middle-aged man to quickly explain the contents of the letter.
The middle-aged man opened the letter. There was very little content in the letter, only a few sentences. After reading the contents of the letter, the middle-aged man's face became increasingly ugly. He looked at Shi Le tremblingly, but he didn't know how to speak.
"Why don't you tell me what was written in the letter?" Shi Le cursed angrily.
The middle-aged man knelt on the ground with a plop and said in a trembling voice: "Great Khan, please spare my life. I, a villain, dare not say anything."
Sudartie cursed angrily: "You bitch, what nonsense are you talking about? Just say what the Khan tells you to say. If you linger any longer, I will chop you with my sword."
The middle-aged man had no choice but to kowtow three times on the ground before he said tremblingly: "The guard general of Xiguan said, said, said that the Jie people are shameless barbarians and do not know whether to live or die. Let the Khan withdraw his troops as soon as possible. If he dares to attack Xiguan again, let him The Great Khan died without a complete body."
After speaking, the middle-aged man continued to kowtow vigorously. Shi Le's face was distorted into an inhuman shape, and his eyes seemed to be on fire. He yelled, "Ah." Then he chopped off the middle-aged man's head with a knife.
"Siege the city!"
