Early December of the seventh year of Chengping.
Despite the heavy snow for several days, the Qin army launched an offensive against the capital city of Shangjing.
Princess Chong'er of Jin personally stood on the top of the city wall, wearing armor and going into battle.
After a long siege, the Qin army failed to capture the city, so they took a detour and captured all the prefectures and counties near Shangjing.
However, everyone knows that this war can no longer be fought.
The Qin army and the coalition forces of the aristocratic families are facing problems such as heavy snow and supplies. If they continue to fight to the death, the outcome will most likely be mutual destruction.
Then the rest of the forces will reap the benefits.
In the Qin army camp.
Ying Yuan and the elders of various families are discussing the withdrawal of troops.
The former slowly said, "Since our army and your family's coalition forces joined forces, we have conquered most of the territory of Jin in just six months."
"For you, this majority of the territory is enough to establish a nation."
"And our Qin army has also suffered heavy losses. If we continue fighting, I'm afraid it will not be beneficial to either of us."
"Therefore, I have decided to withdraw our troops soon!"
In fact, to put it bluntly, there was no such thing as a withdrawal due to heavy losses.
Ying Yuan was afraid that if he continued fighting, the State of Jin would really be destroyed.
After all, just a few days ago, he took advantage of the heavy snow to attack the city and fought the Jin army to a draw.
If the battle continues until the spring of next year, the Jin army will no longer have the advantage of weather, and I am afraid that the Qin army will really capture Shangjing City.
If this scene really happened before his eyes, he would think that it was more painful than death.
And Ying Yuan did not expect that if the war continued, then according to the results of the discussion between Jia Xu, Bai Qi, Zhu Di and others, it is very likely that the losing side would be the Qin army and the coalition forces of the aristocratic families.
The reason is simple. If the State of Jin really reaches a moment of life and death, then next year it will certainly mobilize the entire country to fight a desperate battle.
The reason why the Qin army was able to fight the Jin army on equal terms even without taking advantage of the weather was entirely because the morale of the Qin army was high.
But the morale of the Qin army could not remain so high forever.
Therefore, the best outcome is that both the enemy and us suffer losses.
If the result was any worse, the Qin army would have suffered a crushing defeat.
But Ying Yuan didn't know the result of their discussion. If he knew, he would have to continue fighting this war no matter what.
now.
Everyone thought that what Ying Yuan said was extremely reasonable.
The outcome of this battle was beyond everyone's expectations.
"I agree with your majesty's decision. This battle has ended long enough."
Wu Hua, the head of the Wu family, nodded.
As soon as he finished speaking, the other families also agreed.
Hearing their voices of non-objection, Ying Yuan always felt something was strange.
But seeing that his goal had been achieved, he no longer thought about those strange things.
"Since everyone has no objection, we will withdraw our troops together in ten days."
Ying Yuan was afraid that they would go back on their word, so he decided the matter immediately.
The withdrawal of a large army cannot be completed in an extremely hasty period of time.
A few days of buffer time is needed.
So, about ten days is about enough.
...
When Princess Chong'er of Jin learned of Ying Yuan's plan to withdraw his troops, she planned to meet with him.
When the latter heard this, he thought Ji Chong'er wanted to harm him, so he readily agreed.
But when they arrived at the meeting place, Ying Yuan finally understood that the other party really didn't have that idea.
Because I only brought one follower.
On Ying Yuan's side, he only brought Zhao Yun.
At first, the generals thought that it was a bit careless to only bring Zhao Yun with them to the appointment.
However, Ying Yuan's words and actions now do not allow anyone to dare to think of opposing.
At his strong request, only Zhao Yun was brought along.
To be honest, Ying Yuan didn't even want to bring Zhao Yun with him.
The place where they met was in the middle of the camp and Shangjing City.
Ji Chong'er ordered people to repair a pavilion here overnight.
The two sides sat opposite each other.
Zhao Yun and the guard brought by the Jin Emperor both walked a few steps outside the pavilion, turned around and didn't look at them.
The so-called king does not meet king.
Especially when two emperors get together.
Such scenes are rarely seen throughout history.
The best way to show respect to the meeting between the two emperors is to neither listen nor watch.
The discussion here is limited to the two of them.
"Emperor Qin, we finally meet."
Ji Chong'er smiled and poured him a glass of wine.
On the stone table in front of them, besides the wine, there were only two bowls of green plums.
Ying Yuan didn't care whether the wine was poisonous or not, and drank it all in one gulp.
After all, if it was really poisonous, he would be more than happy to have it.
However, after surviving the life-and-death situation at Hangu Pass, his body had been tempered to the point where it was immune to all poisons.
This also depends on the evolution of the Holy King Body.
Seeing Ying Yuan's unhesitating actions, Ji Chong'er was shocked in his heart and praised him repeatedly:
"You are truly worthy of being the emperor who developed a weak and small country into a great power today. You are truly admirable!"
"However, I do have a concern. Emperor Qin, aren't you afraid that this wine might be poisonous?"
Hearing this, Ying Yuan laughed unabashedly and said, "Poisonous?"
"If it is really poisonous, then I should thank you."
These words left the Jin Emperor puzzled.
After three rounds of drinking, the Emperor of Jin gradually thought of some things.
If I really poison Ying Yuan today, he can use this as an excuse to call on neighboring countries to attack our Great Jin.
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