Huang Ranhu was naturally furious when his subordinates reported this.
How dare a teenager ride on his shoulders and teach him how to do things?
"Gather the troops. I'm going to talk to the Prince of Zhenbei," the man said, standing up and instructing his men.
"Where shall we talk, Marshal?"
The man glared at the guard, then said...
"At the front lines!"
A truce sign was hung high at the entrance of the military camp. Huang Ranhu led his soldiers out of the camp. The man held a heaven-opening axe in his hand, his tiger eyes fixed on the direction of the Zhenbei garrison.
The sign of truce is to tell the Prince of Zhenbei that although I have brought my men out, we will not fight.
When the horn sounds, it's a signal to call the other party out to speak.
"Commander-in-Chief Huang Ranhu of Da'an requests that the Prince of Zhenbei come out for a talk!"
The sound traveled far and wide, and Long'er received the message.
"What did he ask you to go out for? Is he trying to frame you?" Da Ni'er instinctively stopped him.
"Here's what I'll do: I'll pretend to be you and go out, then you can throw excrement at the catapult from behind. If it dares to hit me, you can go out and beat it up."
Hou Xiangxiang ate next to Huo Xiaolong. Doctors usually don't have strict meal times, and they had just finished treating the wounded.
The little girl found it disgusting and instantly lost her appetite.
Huo Xiaolong felt that although his sister wasn't very bright, she was incredibly cunning and malicious.
No wonder they broke up after just a few words on the grassland. With her brain, even if she couldn't understand, she could guess why they broke up.
"No need, don't... don't do that disgusting thing, it's too filthy. Don't worry, he won't dare do anything to me today. I'll show you what negotiation is all about!"
The reason was simple: Huang Ranhu had to personally intervene. Looking at the Da'an soldiers hanging outside the camp, their faces were covered in needles, like hedgehogs. Even those few who were able to open their eyes were barely breathing.
If he doesn't come to the rescue, morale will be low.
If they were to save him and agree to Huo Xiaolong's suggestion to replace him, their morale would be somewhat weakened.
Warfare is all about morale.
He only saw a girl in red armor riding a white horse out, carrying a Green Dragon Crescent Blade behind her and a helmet in front of her. The girl was stunningly beautiful; with just that face, she could easily navigate the harem.
but……
That broadsword was no less heavy than his own Heaven-Opening Axe.
Around the girl, a group of female warriors surrounded her, and among the few men, there was a familiar face: Xiao Lanyi.
"The Prince of Zhenbei?" Huang Ranhu was the first to speak.
"Huang Ranhu?"
The man clasped his hands in a respectful bow to her and continued speaking.
"I only knew that the Prince of Zhenbei was an extraordinary woman, but I didn't expect her to be so beautiful as well."
"Stop praising me, just tell me what's wrong."
Huo Xiaolong disliked dawdling during battles. He wished Huang Ranhu were like the people on the grasslands, but that wouldn't work.
The man in front of me was very skilled in combat, and not just in terms of physical strength.
Huo Xiaolong could tell from his eyes that he was a cunning and scheming person.
It's difficult.
"The Prince of Zhenbei has captured over a hundred of my Da'an soldiers. Your Highness's conditions are rather harsh. Why don't we talk now?"
Huo Xiaolong raised his head slightly, his broadsword trembling slightly in his hand, and asked...
How should we negotiate?
"What's there to talk about? If General Huang thinks these soldiers are worth it, then we'll exchange them. If not, I'll dry them right here in the sun."
"The Prince of Zhenbei is so young, isn't he afraid of retribution for being so ruthless?" Huang Ranhu also brandished his Heaven-Opening Axe and said to Huo Xiaolong with a tough tone.
The girl was silent for a moment, then answered.
"You're this old already. You were fighting wars before I was even born, and you're talking to me about retribution?"
"I've definitely killed fewer people than you, so if there's any retribution, you'll be the first to suffer."
Huang Ranhu thinks Huo Xiaolong is mentally ill, while Huo Xiaolong thinks Huang Ranhu has a problem with his self-perception.
"With all these people combined, the Prince of Zhenbei wants me to retreat to a hundred li. Forgive my bluntness, but a hundred li is the border of the Great An Kingdom. Does the Prince of Zhenbei intend to lead his troops to attack my Great An?"
"Why would I fight if you're going to quit? If you just stayed where you are, would I have come all the way here? Why would I leave my comfortable life in the capital to come and mess with you?"
"Now that you're calling me Qu, what were you doing all this time?"
Huang Ranhu had never seen a woman from the border town before, so stunningly beautiful, so imposing in her armor, and so serious when she spoke to him just now!
His imposing presence was no less than that of a veteran general who had led troops for decades.
But now, even he's a little lost when he opens his mouth.
Do you understand?
Understand.
But I'm a little unsure how to respond.
"Twenty li is my bottom line. I urge the Prince of Zhenbei to think this through."
"No way! You're talking nonsense. Let's take a good look at the map. Your Da'an is fifty li away. You have to retreat into Da'an, or I'll kill them all. Are you going to retreat or not?"
This was Huo Xiaolong's first time personally negotiating with the opposing coach, and his sister, who was following behind, seemed a little uncomfortable.
There's nothing wrong with what you said.
That's the atmosphere, like haggling at a market.
Er Ya, in particular, was all too familiar with this feeling.
"We will not retreat! We, the sons of Da'an, are not afraid to die! To sacrifice ourselves for our country is an honor!"
Huang Ranhu raised his head and shouted loudly.
This means that he was telling the people following him that it wasn't that he didn't want to help, but that the boss on the other side was being too arrogant. He was telling them that if they died, they would be sacrificing themselves for the country, which was an honorable thing.
"Then what you're saying is even more ridiculous. You come here to bully others and call it Glory? What are you thinking? He's just sending you to be cannon fodder and die for nothing, and you won't back down, is that it?"
"Kill him."
Huo Xiaolong's voice could be heard by everyone on the other side, since Da'an and Da Yan spoke the same language.
The soldiers behind drew their bows and shot arrows, instantly turning the Da'an soldiers hanging above the camp into hedgehogs.
"Let's not travel another hundred miles, this person is dead."
“Huang Ranhu, fifty li away, as long as you retreat to the gate of Da’an, you can take these corpses back with you. We people of Dayan have a conscience and cannot bear to see these people’s bones left to be buried in foreign lands. You lead them to withdraw, and you can take the corpses with you.”
"Prince Zhenbei! You've gone too far!"
The Heaven-Opening Axe descended from the sky. Huang Ranhu was tall, and both the horse and the man were taller than Huo Xiaolong.
Long'er was having a heart-to-heart talk with him, and this guy felt that Huo Xiaolong was trying to outsmart him.
Long'er is so sincere. She came out today to set an example for Da Ni'er. Although we are not as professional as Sun Zixi, we will definitely not break up with each other. This is the cultural heritage of the people of the Central Plains.
Huo Xiaolong no longer thinks that way; he truly cannot understand human language from this group of people.
They just think they're right no matter what they do.
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