nycdaug Chapter 152 Letter of Persuasion to Surrender
Chapter 152 Letter of Persuasion to Surrender
"Deputy General Wen takes care of the general even more attentively than I take care of my wife." Another person sighed.
"What if he is a deputy general and you are a fireman?"
"Hahaha……"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" The man's face changed slightly, and he turned around and said with a serious look, "If you had the ability of Deputy General Wen to fight against the enemy, you wouldn't be here to cook. Now you are making up stories about others?"
"Hey, just kidding..."
Those cooks were naturally just satisfying their desire to talk. Everyone knew how crazy Wen Nian was when he went to the battlefield. His blood-thirsty look was terrifying.
Over there, Wen Nian personally cooked a bowl of noodles for Zong Yanli, and he even made a special bone soup. It looked so delicate, as if this small bowl of clear soup noodles was some kind of delicacy. He solemnly carried it towards the main tent.
Zong Yanli was still sketching out and completing the military formation, as if he was carefully thinking about how to attack the city most safely, and arranging the positions of the soldiers.
Wen Nian walked in with noodles. Zong Yanli didn't even look up. He held up the blueprint of the military formation he had just drawn in one hand, and reached out to pick up the chopsticks to eat the noodles. He didn't feel that there was anything different about the noodles. He just ate them to fill himself up quickly.
Wen Nian stood aside, his eyes fixed on Zong Yanli, looking at her so secretly and seriously.
"There are still some flaws." Zong Yanli was not satisfied with the military deployment he had envisioned. He frowned and crumpled the drawing into a ball, then raised his hand to pick up the noodle soup and drank it all.
He didn't notice Wen Nian's extremely obscure and fiery gaze at all, and just picked up the pen again and said, "Grind the ink for me."
Wen Nian responded respectfully: "Yes."
Zong Yanli, who was sitting at the table, carefully and meticulously outlined the military formation. From time to time, she stood up and walked to the map, comparing it again and again as if she had rehearsed it in her mind thousands of times. She knew clearly that one negligence or one omission on her part would cost the lives of countless soldiers, so she never dared to be careless.
Wen Nian just stared at her, and that seemed to be the only scorching sun in his eyes.
he thinks.
How could he not admire, respect and be devoted to such a general?
The candle burned out, and Wen Nian stood up to pick up the wick on the table. Zong Yanli seemed to come back to his senses, looking at the messy drawings on the table, then looked at Wen Nian with a helpless smile and said, "It's so late, why didn't you remind me?"
"The general is busy with military affairs, and I dare not disturb him." Wen Nian said with his head down.
"Go back and have a rest." Zong Yanli sighed, and came out of her concentration. She seemed to feel the fatigue rising in her body. She stood up, stretched her arms and legs, and planned to take a nap on the bed.
Wen Nian sighed silently in his heart, resigned himself to his fate, cleaned up the table and got up to go out.
The next morning, Zong Yanli did not go to practice with the sword. After getting up, she called the mute slave in to help her put on the armor.
Gongsun Pu, Zhan Haoyue and others arrived early. They were not idle after returning home last night. They gathered together to discuss how to write a letter of persuasion to surrender. Then Gongsun Pu wrote it, and Zhan Haoyue and others gave advice and made some revisions before finishing it.
It was sent to Zong Yanli for review early in the morning.
Zong Yanli took a quick look and clapped his hands in applause. He directly called Jie Hu and asked him to deliver the letter of surrender to Luoshang Pass.
Xie Hu, carrying a longbow on his back, rode a horse to the foot of the Luoshang Pass tower, drew the bow and shot an arrow with great skill. The sharp arrow shot out with a buzzing sound and hit the flagpole directly from such a long distance.
The soldier guarding the pass was so frightened by the sudden arrow that his legs were shaking. He thought it was the enemy attacking the city, and turned his head hurriedly, but did not see any trace of the enemy army under the city wall.
When he turned back, he saw the letter tied to the arrow stuck on the flagpole.
His face changed slightly, and he climbed up with great effort to pull out the arrow, then turned around and hurriedly sent it to Sha Haoqian's military tent.
"Report——!"
"General, the enemy has sent a letter via arrows!" The soldier who brought the news held the arrows in both hands above his head.
Sha Haoqian squinted his eyes and strode forward, snatched the arrow, took off the letter tied to the arrow, and just glanced at it, his face turned blue with anger, and he cursed: "Zong Yanli actually wanted to persuade this general to surrender!"
The battle hasn't even started yet, but Zong Yanli is already trying to persuade me to surrender. Doesn't this mean he looks down on me?!
The generals who came over after hearing the news advised Sha Haoqian to stay calm and passed around the enemy's letter of surrender.
Most of the content in this letter of persuasion to surrender is belittling the Kingdom of Qing and belittling the Emperor of Qing for his inability to establish a country. It even uses sharp words to point out that the people of Qing are currently suffering from the war and the Qing army has no food to collect. If we continue to fight hard, the amount of military food consumed will be countless.
Do you really want to wait until the world is filled with starving people before you are willing to stop the war?
He also indirectly admired Sha Haoqian for being such a loyal and good general, saying that he shouldn't have followed the path of a tyrant and gone down the old path of Yuan Heng!
The letter of surrender was sharp and every word made sense, but to Sha Haoqian, every word seemed so sarcastic.
"He really thinks I don't dare to fight him!" Sha Haoqian gritted his teeth, feeling aggrieved and despised.
"General, it seems to me that Zong Yanli does not want to be an enemy of us." One of them stood up and said very seriously: "You and I are well aware of the current situation of Qing Kingdom. Does Qing Kingdom really still have the strength to fight?"
"I don't want to encourage others, but..."
"The food and military supplies in Luoshang Pass are indeed insufficient. Without backup, we won't be able to hold out for long."
The general who stood up was also Sha Haoqian's military advisor. His surname was Zhou and his name was Cang. Sha Haoqian's family had done him a favor, and he was also the one who had followed Sha Haoqian the longest among many generals. Others did not dare to speak to Sha Haoqian like that.
Zhou Cang probably saw Sha Haoqian's displeasure, so after saying the ugly words in advance, he changed the subject and said, "But I think our army is not without the ability to fight against the Wu army."
"Even if they want to surrender, they should make us convinced." Zhou Cang said very seriously: "Otherwise, wouldn't the Wu army look down on us?"
"If you ask me, we should just have a good fight!" Zhou Cang understood Sha Haoqian's psychology quite well.
The coldness on Sha Haoqian's face faded a lot, as he finally heard something he liked to hear. He snorted and said, "If I don't let him get through Luoshang Pass, he may not be able to break in!"
Zhou Cang nodded immediately, "Yes, but the price of holding on like this is too high. General, do you remember the battle of Donglong in Jin State?"
Zhou Cang took the initiative to mention that Zong Yanli led his army to besiege Donglong of Jin State, the place where Wu Taishi fought to his death, and the painful experience of Shao Weiyi defending Donglong are still vivid in people's minds. Jin State still has reinforcements, the king has hope, and the treasury can be used, but what about Qing State?
"General." Zhou Cang bowed to Sha Hao and said, "I have no intention of looking down on you, General. I just ask you to consider the safety of the people in Luoshang Pass!"