In fact, the three villagers who went to Dengzhou to deliver the letter have successfully completed the task, this time the goddess of luck seems to have finally taken care of Zhujiazhuang once, none of the three people had an accident, and after receiving Luan Tingyu's handwritten letter, Sun immediately decided to persuade Shangguan to come to Zhujiazhuang's aid.
It's just that Zhu Chaofeng and even Luan Tingyu overestimated the efficiency of the imperial court, they are not like their Zhujiazhuang, as long as Zhu Chaofeng gives an order, he will immediately obey unconditionally, but the court involves countless intricate networks, although they are not enough, but the failure is more than enough.
For example, if Sun Li wants to send troops, it is not that he will take his soldiers to attack directly, he first has to submit an application to Ma Dujian, the highest military officer in charge of military affairs in Dengzhou, although this guy is far inferior to Sun Li in terms of martial arts and prestige, but he has an uncle who is a soldier in the imperial court.
And this soldier and horse eunuch has no right to decide such a huge military action without authorization, and must report to the prefect of Dengzhou Prefecture, who has all the power of the military, government and people, and then the prefect will discuss with his henchmen as many as dozens of subordinates, such as Yu Hou and the master, and will only approve it after weighing the pros and cons, and at the same time, it must also be reported to the imperial court and the military department for the record.
There are more than 100 officials involved, and how to divide the interests is also a very time-consuming and labor-intensive matter, which is far from being predicted by Zhu Chaofeng and others, who are not in the officialdom.
Therefore, in their opinion, what is enough to be completed in half a month is actually in Dengzhou, but it has just passed the high-level meeting, which is still under the premise of Sun Li's vigorous urging and the fact that Zhujiazhuang's return to Shun itself can bring many benefits to Dengzhou, otherwise there is no three or five months to do it at all.
Therefore, when Sun Li set out from Dengzhou with a well-equipped and well-coordinated army of 3,000 people, the target of his assistance had already completely disappeared.
It turned out that when the deadline given by Du Jia was approaching in twenty days, all the outer defenses of Zhujiazhuang had been dismantled, and even the people hiding inside began to suffer casualties, so they didn't wait for the people of Liangshan to attack first, and the people of Zhujiazhuang had to rush out first, they didn't know that Du Jia had a one-month attack period, thinking that Du Jia was going to slowly grind them to death like this, and it was better to fight to the death than to sit and wait.
This is naturally a good thing for Du Jia, compared with the street battle in Zhujiazhuang, the field battle is naturally more suitable for his own side, after all, geographically speaking, it is fair to both families, and in Zhujiazhuang, who knows where there are traps, where there are ambushes, and how each house is laid out, so that it will suffer a lot of losses invisibly, and at least increase the damage by thirty percent.
When the two armies faced each other again, the situation was completely different compared to the last time, and Liangshan's side was full of high spirits from top to bottom, looking at each other full of confidence in victory; And the people in Zhujiazhuang are all disgraced, depressed, and even standing crookedly in formation, as for the confidence I'm sorry, what is this, they can't see it at all.
This can't be blamed on them, anyone who has been shrunk in the house and bombarded by big rocks for more than half a month, and they don't even dare to raise their heads after they look like this, and it is not easy for them to dare to stand up with weapons.
Zhu Chaofeng seemed to be more than ten years old, and after seeing Du Jia opposite, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Lord Du Dazhai, I already know the military might of Guishanzhai, and I deeply regret the previous offense, but I don't know if there is room for peace talks between the two of us, as long as your army is willing to leave, the village is willing to compensate for 300,000 yuan worth of money and grain as compensation, and I will never dare to go against your army in the future, I don't know if the lord of Dazhai can raise your hand."
Zhu Chaofeng no longer has the coldness and arrogance of the previous one on his body this time, both his attitude and words are already quite humble, this is called peace talks, which is actually no different from surrender, and the huge compensation of 300,000 guan has also made many people secretly speechless, their army consumes about 40,000 guan per month, and now they have been out for less than three months, and they have spent about 100,000 yuan, which is already three times as much, even if you count the pension expenses of more than 1,000 casualties, it is more than enough.
And even the faces of the high-level people in Zhujiazhuang were quite ugly, obviously this 300,000 guan is also a huge number for them, which has long exceeded their current productivity, and it must be used to move the savings in their warehouse, and it is likely to move more than half.
However, Du Jia just smiled faintly and said: "I wish the old man, if you said that last time, it would be fine, but now you don't think it's too late, and besides, you seem to have made a mistake, as long as you destroy you, the money and food will be ours, you are equivalent to taking my money to give it to me, is there such a good thing in the world?"
Zhu Biao shouted angrily: "Du Jia, you are rampant, my father is giving you face, don't be embarrassed, don't forget that we still have more than 2,000 horses here, do you think they are all vegetarians?"
Du Jia still just smiled calmly: "It turned out to be the third young master Zhu, I don't know if the people you are talking about are vegetarians, but in the past 20 days, they have just been hiding behind and trembling, and they don't even have the courage to go out and fight with me, no matter how many such people are, they still have the face to come out and shout."
Zhu Biao was stunned for a moment, and then immediately said angrily: "Du Jia, don't forget that you still have six leaders in our hands, do you want me to cut them down first and show you that I think that scene must be very interesting, hehe." ” In the end, he actually laughed cruelly, and his face was very distorted with a smile, in fact, he was quite handsome, but after this month's torment, he has changed a lot from the inside out, this kind of grinding is like an oven striking iron, and only those who can survive can be sublimated into steel, but most of them have become residues, and Zhu Biao undoubtedly belongs to the latter.
When the soldiers of Liangshan heard this, they immediately let out bursts of roars and roars, and even many swear words came out, Zhu Biao's ancestors were scolded for eighteen generations, this group of rough men is using this way to express their feelings for their brothers, most of them don't know what politics is, what is the overall situation, only know that others are not allowed to hurt their brothers, otherwise they will not be finished with you.
Du Jia slowly raised his hand, and everyone quieted down, his face sank at the moment, looking at Zhu Biao's eyes and saying word by word: "Zhu Biao, don't forget that your two brothers are also in my hands, if you are not afraid of their death, take back the previous sentence, and if you dare to hurt one of my six brothers, don't blame me for digging the ancestral grave of your Zhu family."
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