With the sound of the gong, a group of people came out from each side.
The first were two fat monks, Lu Zhishen and Deng Yuanjue who had just arrived in Xiangzhou.
"Haha, the Sa family has been waiting for you here for a long time."
The two led a large group of people to block the way, and Lu Zhishen shook his Zen staff and shouted loudly.
Tian Shi and Ma Ling were startled by this sudden change and hurriedly stopped the team.
Ma Ling looked forward with the faint light of the torch, and saw that behind Lu Zhishen and the others, there were densely packed Liangshan soldiers.
It looked like there were at least tens of thousands of them.
Originally, they were retreating, so their morale was inevitably a little low.
Now they saw that they were ambushed by Liangshan, and it was dark again, so they were inevitably a little nervous.
"Major General, there are a lot of bandits ahead, and it's dark and we don't know the situation.
I think it's better to retreat slowly and wait for dawn before making any plans."
Ma Ling was a cautious person, so he spoke out to persuade Tian Shi.
Tian Shi looked at the two great monks standing in front of him and stared at them eagerly.
His heart trembled for no reason.
He swallowed in shame, and then asked, "Will there be pursuers behind me?"
Ma Ling thought for a while and said, "Probably not.
We have been sending people to keep an eye on the rear when we came here.
We haven't heard of any pursuing troops coming out of Xiangzhou City."
After hearing this, Tian Shi nodded and said, "Okay, retreat first, and then make a decision at dawn tomorrow morning."
"Young General, let's go first, I'll take the lead," Ma Ling said when Tian Shi agreed.
Tian Shi didn't say much and directly ordered everyone to turn around and return to the camp.
When Lu Zhishen and Deng Yuanjue saw Tian Shi retreating, they looked at each other and smiled, but did not order a pursuit.
Lin Chong gave them a very clear task, which was to intercept Tian Shi and send him back.
In fact, when other brothers arrived one after another, Lin Chong had already thought that Tian Shi would escape, so he secretly sent people to ambush on the road between Xiangzhou and Longde Mansion early in the morning.
And Lu Zhishen and Deng Yuanjue are just one of them.
Lin Chong was worried that Tian Shi and Ma Ling would defeat them, so he ordered a desperate charge, so Lin Chong also deployed two teams of troops behind them.
The second team is Dong Ping, Fan Rui and Bao Xu, and the third team is Hua Rong, Shan Shiqi and Yan Shude.
Three teams of brothers each commanded 10,000 horses, and each team was ten miles apart.
Not only that, Lin Chong also deployed men in the other two directions, but they were all suspicious soldiers, just to prevent Tian Shi from escaping from both sides and to use it as a bluff.
However, Lin Chong overestimated Tian Shi and Ma Ling.
The two showed no determination to fight to the death.
As soon as they saw Lu Zhishen and Deng Yuanjue, they retreated obediently.
Tian Shi and Ma Ling hurried back to Dazhai.
Tian Shi said with lingering fear, "Fortunately, we didn't demolish the camp when we left.
Otherwise, I'm afraid there won't even be a place to stay now."
Ma Ling stood there with his head lowered and thinking about things.
After listening to Tian Shi's words, he replied, "Major General, our current situation is not good."
"Of course it's not good.
The Liangshan bandits now have an army of more than 100,000 people," Tian Shi rolled his eyes at Ma Ling and said.
Seeing that Tian Shi didn't understand what he meant, Ma Ling explained, "The general has misunderstood.
What the general said is not what he meant.
The general can think about it.
Now that the bandit has sent troops to cut off our retreat, then we But he became a lone soldier.
Today our retreat is blocked, and there are hundreds of thousands of bandits in Xiangzhou City, so the situation today is very unfavorable to us."
Tian Shi had just sat down, but when he heard Ma Ling's words, he stood up in fright, and said in a panic, "What should we do?
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What should we do?"
Ma Ling saw Tian Zhizhi's appearance and shook his head helplessly, thinking to himself, "I have long advised you to retreat quickly, but you always refused to listen.
Now I know you are panicking, ugh."
Mei Yu, Lu Qing and others below saw their expressions, and their hearts beat loudly.
At this moment, Li Yan, who was extremely anxious in Xiangzhou City, finally waited for a reply from the court.
Under the dim light, Li Yan looked at the reply letter in his hand and an agreement that had been drafted and stamped with a jade seal lying next to him.
A relaxed expression finally appeared on his face.
Li Yan put away the reply letter and agreement, then turned around and walked out of the room towards the yard where Lin Chong was.
At this time, Lin Chong was sitting in the hall waiting for Li Yan.
Lin Chong had already known the news that the messenger had returned.
You must know that it was war time and the gate of Xiangzhou City was closed.
Without Lin Chong's order, the messenger would not have been able to enter.
Got it.
Now that the reply had arrived, Lin Chong expected that Li Yan would come to him.
Sure enough, just when Lin Chong finished drinking a cup of hot tea, the soldiers came in to inform Li Yan of his arrival.
"Master Li, please come in," Lin Chong put down the teacup in his hand and said to the soldiers.
"Yes" the soldier agreed, turned around and walked out.
After a while, Li Yan walked in with a smile on his face.
"Master Lin Chong, I'm very presumptuous to come here late at night, please forgive me," Li Yan said when he saw Lin Chong, he cupped his hands.
"Hahaha, Mr.
Li is a distinguished guest of Lin.
You are welcome to come anytime.
Come, pour tea for Mr.
Li."
Lin Chong stood up and said happily.
Lin Chong let Li Yan sit on his seat, and the soldiers hurriedly came in to pour tea for Li Yan, then filled Lin Chong's tea cup, and then slowly withdrew.
"I wonder what Mr.
Li is calling for late at night?"
Lin Chong and Li Yan took a sip of tea and asked.
Li Yan put down his tea cup and replied with a happy face, "I think Master Lin must have also received the news.
The person sent by the imperial court to deliver the letter has returned."
Lin Chong did not hide anything and replied with a smile, "It seems that Mr.
Li has good news to bring me."
Li Yan shook his head and said, "The news was indeed brought, but it was not entirely according to the wishes of the leader Lin."
After Li Yan finished speaking, he picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
Lin Chong looked at Li Yan, who was pretending to be calm, smiled, and said loudly, "Master Li, you and I have been getting along for a while.
I have always regarded Master Li as a confidant, so if Master Li has something to say, you may as well say it directly.
Lin is all ears."
Li Yan was a little carried away by Lin Chong's words of "considering him a confidant", and immediately said, "It's great, in this case I won't beat around the bush.
The reply from the court has arrived.
There is no problem with the first and second of the four demands made by Master Lin.
As for the third compensation, His Majesty thinks that what Master Lin said is a bit too high.
His Majesty gave what he thinks is reasonable. number.
Of course, this is His Majesty's bottom line, but since Master Lin thinks so highly of me, I won't use any bargaining tactics and just say it.
The bottom line given by His Majesty in his reply was fifty thousand taels of silver, ten thousand stones of grain, five thousand spears, three thousand waist knives, two thousand simple swords, one thousand bows, ten thousand arrows, and one thousand sets of armor. , five hundred pairs of large and small shields each.
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As for the fourth point of surrendering all cities except Daming Mansion, we do not agree.
Lord Cai You can temporarily stay in Daming Mansion as a hostage.
This is the bottom line of His Majesty's reply.
If Master Lin agrees, then the non-aggression agreement can be signed now.
I don't know what Lin's plan is
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