Those Huns were not vegetarians, and they drew their knives one after another and slashed with their compatriots!

Chang Yuchun observed that there was a young general in luxurious clothes, and there seemed to be some guards around him, all surrounding him. "Who are you! Who are you!" Chang Yuchun shouted at him and asked again.

The young general didn't seem to understand very well, but he should be able to guess what Chang Yuchun meant, or understand a word or two. He stammered in Chinese, "...Uh, prince! Prince!"

When Chang Yuchun heard it, a thought flashed: "A prince of a certain king of the Xiongnu?" It seems that there may be a change, or a coup or something. Chang Yuchun no longer hesitated, and immediately shouted: "Hey! Come into the city with us!" Then he made a gesture to go to the city. The Huns obviously understood and nodded again and again. Chang Yuchun ordered loudly: "Everyone, quickly retreat into the city!"

The fallen soldiers disengaged from the Huns and retreated into the city. The Xiongnu soldiers wanted to rush over, and the city immediately "swish, swish" and let out arrows. There were not many arrows, but each arrow hit the Huns in the front row, and the Huns were in chaos. Chang Yuchun took the opportunity to enter the city with a few Huns who fled.

The Xiongnu soldiers roared and attacked the city for a while, but they obviously didn't bring any equipment, and they couldn't get anything done under the city. Moreover, the arrows fell like rain on the city, and the Xiongnu soldiers suffered many injuries. They discussed it for a while, and apparently it was not their mission to siege the city anymore.

"Wang Shuo! Come and translate!" Chang Yuchun immediately shouted when he saw the Huns' retreat. His intuition told him that these few Hun fugitives could reveal to him the reason for the abnormality of the Hun army.

Chang Yuchun made a gesture of invitation and pointed to his battle command room under the city. Since he took office, he has never been to the Prefect's Mansion, and only lives in this battle command room. Usually, the government only sends Wang Shuo to deal with it. The Huns did not refuse and went in one after another. The sergeants outside the door obviously wanted them to hand over the knives on their waists, but the Huns were obviously not happy. Chang Yuchun laughed, raised his hand so that the sergeant didn't have to worry, and let a few Huns go in. Wang Shuo also followed. Both sides sat down.

"What is your identity...?" Chang Yuchun asked. He wanted to know the detailed identities of these people.

The Huns murmured, and Wang Shuo's expression changed drastically. He hurriedly translated: "The prince of the Xiongnu Dadan Yuqiangqu, yesterday's royal court coup, the Dadan Yuqiangqu has been killed by Zhongping!"

Although Chang Yuchun was prepared, he couldn't help being surprised.

So, he is the prince of Qiangqu, the heir to the throne of Xiongnu? And this is a shocking event for the Huns!

"The messenger!" Chang Yuchun shouted. A sergeant came in immediately outside the door. Chang Yuchun hurriedly wrote a brief letter: Yesterday, there was a coup in the Hun court, and Qiangqu was killed by Zhongping! Its prince avoided trouble in Shuofang, and I have met him! Prime Minister please instruct! Date attached. "Choose the fastest horse and report it to Chang'an immediately. No, Tongguan! Hand it over to the Prime Minister Luo! You must arrive as soon as possible!"

"Yes!" The messenger was flustered when he saw that it was so urgent. He stammered again: "I have never seen Prime Minister Luo Chen before!" It turned out that Luo Chen had never been to the northern grasslands. This messenger would go to Chang'an to report the situation of the Huns disturbing the border. How could anyone see Luo Chen directly? Chang Yuchun Extremely impatient: "You won't ask yourself! Idiot! If there is a mistake, you will be killed!"

Two days later, this extremely important letter was handed over to Luo Chen by this messenger. This messenger was reluctant to give the letter to other people, but in the end, he actually handed the letter to Luochen himself. Luo Chen read the letter and said nothing. After a while, he wrote a note with only one sentence on it: Chang Yuchun and the prince return to Tongguan quickly. It was handed over to other messenger soldiers, rode a good horse, and flew to Shuofang.

The messenger silently exited the hall, thinking that he would stay in Tongguan for a while and then go back. He was envious of the brand-new armor of the Tongguan soldiers, and he was even more surprised by the cavalry and first-class horses that could be seen everywhere. However, just after he walked a few steps, he was stopped: "Prime Minister Luo wants to see you!" The messenger hurried back, and Luo Chen smiled and said, "Reward him fifty taels of gold."

This news, I am afraid that only one person from the Central Plains knows about Luo Chen. Zhong Ping sealed the news tightly, because the dissidents in other places had not been eliminated.

Go back to Chang Yuchun. Before Chang Yuchun could think about it, he immediately ordered the news to be passed on to Luochen. Then he didn't know what to ask. This is really strange, how could Qiang Qu be killed so easily? How did his prince escape? More importantly, why did the prince of Qiangqu choose to flee to Shuofang and ask for help!

Chang Yuchun combed his thoughts and asked dumbly, ".'What's your name... We don't know yet."

"With Love." The prince said in the Xiongnu language. Wang Shuo didn't translate it, so what you hear is what it is!

"Why do you want to come to Shuofang for help?"

"Father ordered it."

Chang Yuchun was taken aback again. At the last moment, this Qiangqu explained that his prince came to Shuofang to save his life?

"My father was patrolling the left side of the Xiongnu. Unexpectedly, most of the generals and princes colluded with Zhongping. Zhongping attacked my father's station at night. At the last moment, my father asked me to go south to Shuofang, the nearest Luochen control area." The prince said. (Qian Qianhao) "Zhong Ping has a heavy army on the left, and there are 100,000 cavalry troops led by Zhong Ping's younger brother Zhong Ting near Shuofang, who are chasing us."

Chang Yuchun fell into deep thought. This Qiang Canal is a bit interesting. When he died, he didn't let his prince go to the right and run to other places. He didn't even let him go back to the royal court to gather troops and horses, but directly asked him to come to Shuofang...

"The messenger!" Chang Yuchun shouted again, and a messenger ran in: "Two! Go to Chang'an and Tongguan respectively, saying that Shuofang City is in great danger and may be bloodbathed at any time, please ask assistance!"

Wang Shuo came back to his senses when he heard this order. The Xiongnu soldiers saw this and Luo Fu enter Shuofang City with their own eyes. Very close to this are Zhongting's 100,000 cavalry. There is no reason not to attack... Wang Shuo's more and more panic, it's too bad! Maybe the Huns will arrive in the afternoon, and it will be a bad battle he has never experienced! .

Chapter 63 The Stars Are Bright

Back to falling dust. Then Cao Cao finally knew the reason for the Xiongnu's recent abnormality. Cao Cao's mind quickly turned: the Qiang Canal is dead, the Zhongping coup d'etat, the border report is attacking the border, at this time, can the north attack be profitable...

"I want to talk to Duke Cao." Luo Chen smiled and said, "It's really not good for both sides to fight, and I still want to fight the Huns..."

Cao Cao looked at Luochen in surprise, but still tried his best to pretend he didn't care. Is this Luo Chen so frank... Negotiation, negotiation... Cao Cao thought about it carefully, this seems to be a solution too! Both sides felt the other's strength and threat. The reason why Cao Cao insisted on fighting Luochen was that Luochen was causing trouble behind him. He originally wanted to fight Hebei, but Luochen was behind him, so he didn't panic! If the two sides talk, that Luochen's main force enters the grassland and fights with the Huns, he can eat Hebei with peace of mind, and Luochen can fulfill his wish to fight the Xiongnu (Cao Cao thinks that Luochen wants to fight the Xiongnu so much, does it have some strange wish? ), which is a mutually beneficial solution...

This proposal was very tempting to Cao Cao, but Cao Cao still had to discuss it with his advisors, especially Guo Jia. "Where are you going to talk?" Cao Cao asked coldly.

"Just in front of the two armies." Luo Chen laughed. As soon as he waved his hand, a few soldiers from the fallen army dragged out a huge cloud cover, a small table of 750 was placed under it, and seats were placed on both sides. "Our two armies retreat one mile each, and we'll talk here!"

Seeing that Luo Chen was so eager, Cao Cao hesitated. But Luo Chen was so decisive, he didn't want to go back and discuss it again... He replied, "Yes... but I want to lead my civil and military personnel to discuss together. I also need civil and military assistants to complete many small things." Although it was too late to discuss, Cao Cao planned to arrange civil and military participation in the meeting, and he could remind him at that time.

"Yes!" Luo Chen agreed without hesitation, "I will also bring my senior officials here."

Senior officials on both sides heard the words "negotiation" vaguely, but the specifics were not clear, because only Cao Cao and Luo Chen were riding on horses and talking almost face-to-face. Then the leaders of both sides slowly retreated. Then Cao Cao said: "Order the army to retreat one mile! Back to the camp!" All the civil and military officers were shocked: "Why don't we fight? Why should we retreat!" Cao Cao said: "Now we have to negotiate with Luochen, Luochen wants to fight the Huns. I don't have time to discuss it with you, I'll take you to talk about it..." As he was talking, the fallen cavalry also retreated, and those who had (bafb) returned directly to the city.

Under the blue sky, all the super bosses in the Central Plains sat down one after another. On Luochen's side, Ge Liang, Xu Da, Ma Chao, Xu Shu, Fazheng, Zhang Song, Zhang Heng, Sun Yuanhua, Ma Dai, Yan Qing and others. On Cao Cao's side, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Xun You, Cheng Yu, Mao Jie, Xu You, Xiahou Dun, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Le Jin, Cao Hong, Dian Wei, Xu Zhu and others. This mere twenty people are the highest military and political leaders in the Central Plains. For a time, the stars were shining brightly.

"I never thought that Luo Chen would have the opportunity to meet the legendary Cao Gong group's allies..." Luo Chen laughed, "I saw it today, it really opened my eyes! As expected of a hero!" Then Cao Cao also praised him politely: " Luo Gong is so young, I, Cao Cao and his subordinates, admire him very much."

The heads of the two sides had finished their greetings, and Cao Cao himself did not speak, indicating that Guo Jia would speak first. Guo Jia stood up to give the salute, and Luo Chen returned the salute one after another. Then Guo Jia slowly sat down and said, "Forgive me for being rude. Prime Minister Luo wanted to talk to us, but in fact he asked our army to retire unconditionally... I don't know how confident Prime Minister Luo has. Can you ask Duke Cao to retreat?"

Luochen laughed, but since Cao Cao didn't speak, he didn't speak either, so he signaled to Zhuge Liang to answer. Zhuge Liang stood up and saluted, followed Guo Jia's example, and said, "Cao's army is not unconditionally retreating, but the condition of his defeat is that I will mainly enter the desert to attack the Xiongnu and defend the peace of the Central Plains."

"Hahaha, this is also called a condition!" Xu You laughed, "It's clear that you are taking advantage of the Xiongnu's civil strife!"

"Could it be that Duke Cao can't get any benefits!" Zhang Song retorted, "I can't wait to bully Yuan Shao's stupid sons! Isn't Hebei Sanzhou coveted for a long time!" Zhang Song was busy recently and was looking for Personal scolding.

"Uh..." Xu You was at a loss for words, so he sneered and stopped answering.

That Luochen said frankly: "Everyone, it is useless to talk too much. I will simply tell all our considerations. We advocate that Cao Jun should retreat and attack Hebei. .In this way, Duke Cao can worry about the future, and it will be beneficial to both parties."

Cao Cao actually had some agreement in his heart. But he also knew that Luochen was a terrible character. As Guo Jia said, if he didn't fight now, he might have no chance in the future. The power of Fallen Dust develops extremely fast.

Now that Luochen was in a showdown, Cao Cao didn't hide it: "Luo Gong, even if your main force enters the desert, it's not my worries today, but it's even more of my worries in the future." Because to put it bluntly, it is too explicit. If you think about it later, you will know: the future is a worry for the future, which means that Cao Cao cannot tolerate Luo Chen to survive. That is to say, Cao Cao wants to destroy Luo Chen at the most favorable time, or at least beat him to a great extent, and he is unable to compete with Cao Cao. . The more explicit words are: "I want to beat you to death, no matter the price!"

How smart is Luo Chen, how can he not hear it!

Xiahou Dun, who was beside Cao Cao, also felt the murderous aura of this remark, and responded with a haha, "It won't take us a month for our army to take down Tongguan, go straight to Chang'an, and traverse the Guanzhong!"

When Ma Chao heard this, he was extremely annoyed: "Bullshit! I'll teach you that blood will flow like a river, and you won't be able to cross Tongguan in half a step! Do you still want to fight Tongguan again!"

Just as Xiahou Dun was about to scold back, Cao Cao spoke first: "Don't be rude! Listen carefully to what Luo Gong has to say!" Obviously, he wanted to hear Luo Chen's direct response.

Luo Chen laughed, didn't you spare any cost? I'll show you the price...I didn't answer directly, but looked at Zhang Heng who was sitting in the corner: "Mr. Zhang, introduce your gunpowder."

Everyone looked at the corner together and saw a pedantic-looking old man who seemed to be thinking hard with his head down. Zhang Heng felt that this murderous one would be boring, so he thought about making artillery!

Zhang Heng seemed to wake up from a dream: "Gunpowder? What's there to talk about... Didn't you say that you can blow up Tongguan to the sky." After saying this, he seemed to suddenly remember: "Ma Chao, don't waste it too much, just follow the The amount of the first few days, slowly burn, and I will make up for you in three months.”.

Chapter 64 Negotiations

It is said that Cao Cao Luochen brought important ministers to negotiate face-to-face. Facing Cao Cao's provocation, Luo Chen did not respond directly, but directly asked Zhang Heng to introduce gunpowder.

Zhang Heng's words were sloppy, but he sealed his throat with a sword. It is really called a seemingly nerd, but in fact he is super domineering.

Cao Cao was a little confused, he looked at Guo Jia. After all, gunpowder is a new thing. There are experts on Luochen's side, but Cao Cao's side doesn't know anything about it. As for the unknown, even if you are talented and talented, as an ancient person, you are inevitably in a state of ignorance, and you don't know whether Zhang Heng's words are true or not. If it is true, then Cao Jun's loss is immeasurable. This "whatever it takes" to defeat Luochen, is it necessary to carefully consider it, otherwise it is likely to lose a lot. Taking ten thousand steps back, even if what Zhang Heng said was not true, the power of their gunpowder was only half, which was terrifying enough. For Cao Jun, he still had to suffer huge losses.