Chapter 371 Bad news? Peace talks?

On February 20, Qian Hongchu, the king of Wuyue, discovered that the Later Zhou army had continued to gain the upper hand, so he announced that he would obey Guo Rong's orders and sent the Northern Expedition Army to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty to support the Later Zhou army.

On February 21, Guo Rong ordered Han Lingkun and Bai Yanyu to lead his army to capture Yangzhou, and ordered Suizhou Governor Dong Zongben to escort food and supplies. Soon, Han Lingkun led his army to capture Yangzhou, but Dong Zongben was overworked during the escort, and had to hand over his post and return to Suizhou to recuperate. During the process of returning to Suizhou, Dong Zongben heard about the news that Dong Zunhui had captured Chuzhou and came to Chuzhou to see him.

Late at night, three days after the crackdown, an army suddenly came outside Chuzhou City. The soldiers guarding the city did not dare to slack off, so they hurriedly left the torch to light the Fourth Field Army and ordered the troops to retreat immediately.

The army heard the shouting from the city, and immediately a general rushed to the city of Chuzhou and shouted loudly: "I am Yang Guangyi, your chief general Dong Zunhui's sworn brother, and the escort of the army was even more of the boss Dong. I also asked the guards of the city to quickly open the city to welcome the boss into the city."

The soldiers guarding the city did not dare to make decisions, so they immediately sent someone to report to Dong Zunhui. After listening to the report, Dong Zunhui immediately came to the city of Chuzhou. He had been fighting outside for a long time and had not received any news at home recently. Who knows whether the city was true or not? There are many prisoners of the Southern Tang army in Chuzhou now, and it is not ruled out that the Southern Tang army will come to deceive the city!

When he arrived at the top of the city, the team under the city also lit a torch, and under the torch was his sworn brother Yang Guangyi. Dong Zunhui asked loudly: "Brother, you are not in Suizhou to guard the city, why did you come here?"

When Yang Guangyi saw Dong Zunhui, he was very happy and quickly explained, saying that he led his army to the front line to transport food and supplies to the army. But now the old man was seriously ill and had to go back to his hometown to treat him. He was busy introducing the situation, and the carriage transporting Dong Zongben also came to the front. The coachman quickly picked up the curtain and helped Dong Zongben walk out of the carriage and stood under the torch.

After Dong Zunhui was reincarnated, he was very close to his mother, but he was a little alienated with his father. However, when he was in a war, he was also very excited and shouted loudly: "Father, Guangyi said you are sick, have you consulted with the doctor? What medicine should the doctor prescribe?"

Dong Zongben was also very pleased when he saw his promising second son. He smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if your father's condition is not important. I have suffered another problem when I was young. However, if you are fighting outside, you must pay attention to safety!"

Yang Guangyi shouted loudly from the side: "Brother hasn't opened the city gate yet, so that the old man can enter the city to rest. He is very weak recently and must have some rest."

Dong Zunhui frowned slightly and shouted loudly: "Although father and son are close relatives, guarding Chuzhou is a task assigned to me by Your Majesty. The city gate should not be opened at will in the middle of the night! Guangyi, you first order someone to set up a camp outside the city."

Hearing Dong Zunhui's answer, the soldiers guarding the city felt that their commander was too cautious, but thinking about Liu Renzhan who came to make trouble not long ago, he felt that Dong Zunhui's decision was very correct. However, Yang Guangyi was very disappointed. What he admired was the flesh-and-blood Dong Zunhui, not a stern and serious old wood!

However, just when Yang Guangyi was disappointed, Dong Zunhui entrusted defense to Shi Shouxin, Han Chongyun and the others, and took two military doctors down the city with hanging baskets and came to visit his father's army.

When he got closer, he realized that his strong father, who was already fifty-year-old and extremely thin, was so thin that Dong Zunhui couldn't help but turn red in his eyes and fell to the ground: "My son is unfilial, which makes his father worried!"

When Dong Zongben saw his beloved son who was lying on the ground, he wanted to reach out to support him. But this was an era of kindness and strict fathers. He paid attention to playing with his grandchildren rather than getting close to his son. Dong Zongben could only cough gently and said in a deep voice: "Get up, you have fought everywhere for state affairs during this period, which is also hard." Then, Dong Zongben couldn't help but ask with concern: "Your mother is very concerned about you and is nagging almost every day, but I also know that the war is busy and no one has sent you a letter. I heard that you have fought several major battles in a row, and have not been injured recently, right?"

Dong Zunhui stepped forward a few steps, walked to his father, and said with a smile: "My son is mainly in commanding battles now, and he rarely charges by leading the way. Besides, I am born with divine power, who can hurt me?!"

Dong Zongben coughed gently: "Don't be careless, it's better to be careful when fighting on the battlefield..."

Dong Zunhui nodded repeatedly, called the two military doctors behind him, and introduced to Dong Zongben: "These two are famous doctors in the Imperial Hospital. Because they are interested in military affairs, they volunteered to join my medical team. The child specially asked them to help his father check his health and prescribe some prescriptions."

Dong Zongben nodded slightly, barely bowed to the two doctors, and said with a smile: "I'm working hard!"

The two doctors did not dare to accept Dong Zongben's great gifts, so they quickly stood up to avoid it, then walked up to take the pulse for Dong Zongben. While taking the pulse, they frowned.

Dong Zunhui asked worriedly: "How is my father's condition?"

The two doctors discussed it before saying to Dong Zunhui: "Major General, the old man suffered an old injury, and his hard work has been working hard recently, which has damaged his vitality. However, the treatment area is still timely. As long as we drink the prescriptions we prescribe, take care of our care, and think less and eat more, we can maintain a lifespan of at least ten years!"

Dong Zunhui couldn't help but frown. Is his father only ten years' life left?! This is a shocking bolt! He couldn't help but say, "How is this possible? You both are famous doctors. Please think of a solution! Please!"

While saying that, Dong Zunhui shed tears, but Dong Zongben smiled and said, "I thought the deadline was coming a few days ago, and I was very worried. Now, after hearing what you said, I feel great. Thank you! Daoan, life and death are destined by God, don't be a child! If you really feel a little regretful, then wait until you return to the army and hold a wedding as soon as possible to import my Dong family!"

After Dong Zongben said this, Dong Zunhui, who had always been thick-skinned, was a little shy and hurriedly urged the two doctors to prescribe medicine and order people to return to the city for treatment. It is February now, and the spring is cold and he is suffering very much in the camp in the wild. Dong Zunhui personally helped his father sit in a hanging basket and ordered people to send his father to the city guard's mansion to rest. As for Dong Zunhui himself, after sending his father away, he returned to the camp outside the city to talk about the recent war with Yang Guangyi and others, and stayed in camp that night.

The next morning, the city gate opened, and Dong Zunhui rushed back to the mansion to take care of his sick father. Three days passed in a blink of an eye, and Dong Zong had his beloved son to take care of him. In addition, the two doctors had good medical skills. His face finally had a bit of blood on his face and his body improved a lot. At this moment, Dong Zunhui received a message from the envoy of the Southern Tang Dynasty, saying that he would go to the city of Shouzhou to pray to His Majesty the Great Zhou!

A few days ago, Nan Tang was very stubborn, but why did he suddenly change his attitude? Dong Zunhui was very surprised, so he asked the Southern Tang envoy for information. The envoy also intended to make friends with Dong Zunhui, so he told everyone that he had told Dong Zunhui that the latest situation was revealed to Dong Zunhui.

It turned out that after Han Lingkun recovered Yangzhou, he immediately led his troops to capture Taizhou. Taizhou was the residence of the Yang family. Yang Pu of Southern Wu gave up Li Bing and died of illness in Danyang. After Li Bing established the Southern Tang Dynasty, he was afraid that the rebellion of the Southern Wu family would cause trouble, so he forced Yang Pu's descendants to Taizhou and detained them in Yongning Palace, and were not allowed to go out. Yang Pu's children could not go out and were not taken care of by his elders. When they grew up, they intermarried under the instigation of the defenders and gave birth to many dementia children.

Because of the fierce attacks of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Li Jing, the Tang lord, was afraid that after they captured Taizhou, they used Yang Pu's descendants to rebel in the south of the Yangtze River, so he quickly ordered Yuanyuan envoy Yin Yanfan to go to Taizhou, escort Yang Pu's descendants across the river, and sent them to Jinling to resettle.

After Yin Yanfan arrived in Taizhou, he counted Yang Pu's descendants, including more than 60 men and dozens of women. Because Han Lingkun's attack was fierce, Yin Yanfan was afraid of being caught by the Zhou army, and was also afraid that the descendants of the Yang family took the opportunity to resist, so he actually ordered all the males among Yang Pu's descendants to behead them and threw them into the river, leading only the women back to Jinling.

Yin Yanfan's move greatly angered the old minister of the Southern Wu. Many people were even more dissatisfied with Li Jing, which was reflected in the military. Fang Ne, the governor of Taizhou, retreated under pressure, and Taizhou was quickly captured by Han Lingkun; Chen Ze, the guardian of Changshanzhai in Ezhou, was betrayed by his subordinates and captured by Wang Kui, the governor of Langzhou; Geng Qian, the commander of Tianchang, surrendered to Zhou; Yao Yanhong, the commander of Jinghai, defected to Nanyue.

Li Jing was very scared. In order to appease the people's hearts, he immediately ordered Yin Yanfan to be imprisoned and quickly beheaded. At the same time, Li Jing also summoned Song Qiqiu, Feng Yansi and others to discuss military affairs, but at this point, Feng Yansi and the others had no choice but to suggest that Li Jing ask for help from the Liao Kingdom quickly.

Now Li Jing had no choice but to rely on the Liao Kingdom to recruit a large amount of money to order them to sneak to the Liao Kingdom with letters of help. The dead soldiers were very hard-working, but their luck was too bad. As soon as they arrived in Huaibei, they were stopped by the Zhou army, searched out the letter of the Southern Tang Kingdom asking for help, and sent them to the Zhou army imperial camp under the city of Shouzhou.

Seeing that the news leaked, the Southern Tang Dynasty had no choice. Feng Yansi, who was in charge of the rule, asked for peace talks with the Zhou Dynasty again, and appointed Sikong Sun Sheng, Minister of Rites Wang Chongzhi and others to submit a surrender to the Zhou Dynasty, willing to become a vassal state of the Zhou Dynasty according to the old rules and regard the Zhou Dynasty as the formality!

After Sun Sheng received the order, he said to Feng Yansi: "This time he was sent to the Zhou Dynasty, it was supposed to be your mission to Duke Feng, but if I refuse again, I will be really unfavorable to the emperor's favor. This time I would rather replace Duke Feng to go north. If I can negotiate peace with the Zhou Dynasty, then I, Sun Sheng, can be worthy of the trust of the two generations of Your Majesty in me; if I cannot reach a peace agreement, I, Sun Sheng, would rather die than be humiliated by Zhou! Duke Feng and others are in charge of the government affairs, so they should think more about the righteousness of the Lord's humiliation of the ministers and death, and don't be obsessed with party disputes and harm the country!"

According to historical records, Feng Yansi was very ashamed, so he ordered Li Deming, the Minister of Works, to travel with Sun Sheng and others. Li Deming had actually been determined to surrender to the Zhou Dynasty. After being appointed, he immediately sent a messenger to the Zhou Dynasty to report the message. The first stop of the messenger was Chuzhou.

Dong Zunhui interrogated for a long time, and found that the messenger was not deceiving, so he quickly sent someone to report to Guo Rong. This peace talk was a major matter, and he had to wait for Guo Rong's ruling. How dare Dong Zunhui make a decision?! Without Guo Rong's order, Dong Zunhui could not even allow them to pass through Chuzhou freely.

Soon, Dong Zunhui received an order from Guo Rong to show his military power to the Southern Tang envoys and sent capable troops to escort them to Shouzhou. So Dong Zunhui seized the time to select elite soldiers and train them to wait for the arrival of the Southern Tang envoys.

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