Although the other party called him General Wei, not the emperor, Wei Daoer didn't care at all at this time. He was like a drowning person suddenly grabbed a piece of wood, his face became a little convulsed due to excitement, and the scar seemed particularly hideous. The Sui army actually wanted to negotiate with him.

He tried his best to restrain his inner excitement and bowed to Liu Chongyun and said, "Liu Shaoqing, please sit down!"

Liu Chongyun sat down, and Wei Daoer also sat down. He took a deep breath and said, "Liu Shaoqing, please tell me! What are the conditions for His Highness of the King of Chu?"

Wei Daoer knew in his heart that Yang Yuanqing's conditions must be very harsh, and whether he could accept it was still the same thing, but at least he had a glimmer of hope, Wei Daoer stared at Liu Chongyun nervously.

Liu Chongyun laughed slowly and said, "This time we advanced eastward, in fact, to attack Luo Yi, Youzhou, so we chose to go to Feihu Road. We have taken Feihu County and are in the city of Yi County. I believe General Wei also knows it. Our condition is to hope that your army will give up Shanggu County, so we can temporarily stop attacking Hengshan County."

Wei Daoer's heart suddenly became slackened. The other party's conditions were indeed harsh. He actually gave up Shanggu County. There were only two counties in total. After giving up Shanggu County, he only had Hengshan County, which was a bit too much.

But Wei Daoer also knew that it was imperative for the other party to march into Hebei. Either the other party would capture Shanggu County or he would give up Shanggu County. There was indeed no third way to go. However, not long ago, Dou Jiande sent an envoy to tell him that he must defend Shanggu County and Hengshan County. He now agreed to give up Shanggu County, so how could he explain to Dou Jiande?

Wei Daoer paced back and forth in the palace with his hands behind his back. He was really unsure of his mind. In fact, he still had a glimmer of hope, that is, Dou Jiande came to help him. If he agreed to the conditions of the Sui army, then Dou Jiande's hope of aid would be completely lost.

At this time, a guard hurried into the hall and came to Wei Daoer and whispered: "King, urgent news has been heard from Tumen Pass. Thousands of Sui army vanguards have arrived at Tumen Pass through Jingxing and are currently confronting our defenders at Tumen Pass."

This unexpected news made Wei Daoer both startled and angry, and scolded Liu Chongyun angrily: "Didn't you say you won't attack Hengshan County? But your army has passed Jingxing and reached Tumen Pass, how do you explain!"

Liu Chongyun said calmly: "I said that as long as you give up Shanggu County, we can temporarily stop attacking Hengshan County. However, General Wei has not ordered the surrender of Shanggu County. Of course, the Sui army will not stop using troops. Does General Wei understand?"

Wei Daoer stared at Liu Chongyun fiercely. Of course, he understood that the Sui army was at Tumen Pass to put pressure on him to cooperate with the Sui official in front of him. He felt extremely hatred, and after a while, he said angrily: "If I give up Shanggu County, can the Sui army withdraw from Jingxing?"

Liu Chongyun smiled slightly. "We can retreat to Jingxing Pass. It belongs to the Hedong border."

Wei Daoer had no choice but to defend the section from Jingxing Pass to Tumen Pass. In fact, there is no difference between retreating and not retreating, it was just a gesture made by the Sui army. He pondered for a moment and said, "Let me consider it, and reply to Liu Shaoqing tomorrow morning at the latest."

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In Yi County, 10,000 Sui troops stationed in the North City, and another 2,000 Sui troops guarded the Yishui River to protect the smooth transportation of food and grass. Qin Qiong had already obtained Yang Yuanqing's letter and knew that Yang Yuanqing was using political means to suppress Wei Daoer's army withdrew from Shanggu County. The army was fighting and plotting, and the army was the best without fighting. Qin Qiong was also an experienced general. He had no resistance, but actively cooperated with Yang Yuanqing to put political pressure on the enemy. He stationed outside the North City and left the South City for the army in the city to evacuate.

The outside of the northern city is also a snowy world. The fields are covered with snow one foot deep. In a field about two miles away from the city wall, the Sui army has cleared out a clearing and camped in a camp. A tent is arranged neatly. They cut down trees and formed a circle of camps around them. Six viewing towers stand tall. A small river passes through the camp. The river is covered with thick ice. The Sui army digs ice to fetch water and busy fetches water and cooks.

The Sui army has been camping here for ten days, and the Sui army has not taken any attacks for the past ten days. Qin Qiong is still patiently waiting for the changes in the current situation.

In the early morning, it was just dawn, and a giant stone catapult was slowly pushed out of the camp by more than a hundred Sui troops, and moved towards the city wall along the smooth ice of the river. More than a thousand defenders on the city immediately gathered. They were not nervous and afraid, but with an excited look.

The main general has not come yet. Perhaps they can get the documents cast by the Sui army. The giant stone-tower stopped about two hundred steps away from the city wall and laid it on the field. More than a hundred Sui soldiers shouted and pulled the throwing rod. One of the Sui soldiers put a huge wooden shell ball into the steel pocket. With a command, the long arm rod was thrown out and threw the huge wooden shell ball into the city. Countless pairs of eyes stared at the wooden shell ball.

This is the fourth time that the Sui army threw the leaflet in ten days, but there was no effect in the first three times. Qin Qiong suspected that it was confiscated by the enemy general, so before dawn, the Sui army carried out the fourth throw.

The wooden shell ball drew an arc in the air and flew towards the city. This time, the Sui army specially loosened the wooden shell ball. Perhaps because of the strong wind, the wooden shell ball opened in the air. Thousands of leaflets fell down and flew away to the city with the north wind.

On the top of the city, the soldiers exclaimed and jumped up to grab the propaganda documents floating in the air. Some soldiers grabbed five or six copies and stuffed them in their arms. Although they could not read, they could read them with literate people, and it seemed that there were pictures on them.

The first three times were broken because the wooden shell ball fell to the ground. As a result, the documents inside were stolen by the commander Zhai Que'er's personal soldiers. No one saw the contents inside. Today, the Sui army came before the day, and all of them floated out.

The Sui army's leaflets made the chief general Zhai Que'er very nervous. He specially ordered his personal soldiers to take turns to work on duty at the top of the city to keep an eye on the movements of the Sui army. Just after the leaflets were spread out, Zhai Que'er arrived after hearing the news.

Seeing that the leaflets had dispersed and the city was floating, he couldn't help but get furious and shouted sternly: "Everyone must hand over the Sui army's documents. Those who do not hand over the documents are punished for communicating with the enemy."

Under the powerful pressure of the main general Zhai Que'er, the soldiers had to hand over the flyers in their hands. Zhai Que'er refused to give up. He ordered people to search the soldiers on duty in the morning one by one, and sent troops to the streets and alleys to track down the flyers. For the whole morning, more than 2,000 Zhai Que'er's direct relatives searched the flyers from house to house. The soldiers took the opportunity to blackmail, causing trouble.

Zhai Que'er was about fifty years old and grew up with Wei Daoer. He was a subordinate of King Baxu. In the seventh year of Daye, Yang Yuanqing, who was the chief steward of Youzhou at the time, wiped out Wang Baxu. Zhai Que'er worked as a farmer at home until last autumn when Wei Daoer came to invite him to rebel together. He became Wei Daoer's deputy general, assisted Wei Daoer to conquer cities and villages, and made numerous military achievements. Wei Daoer proclaimed himself the emperor and empress, generously appointed him as the King of Shanggu, and granted Shanggu County his territory.

In fact, Zhai Que'er had received Wei Dao'er's order two days ago to give up Shanggu County and retreat south. However, Zhai Que'er was unwilling to give up Yi County, which had a wide wall. There were still 80,000 stones of military rations in the city, and he was sure to defend Yi County.

In the orthodox dynasty, there are still generals who are not allowed to be ordered by outside monarchs, not to mention the dynasty like Wei Daoer. Shanggu County is Zhai Queer's territory. When it comes to his vital interests, Zhai Queer will never be willing to give up his interests so easily.

Zhai Que'er thought back and forth with his hands behind his back. He could refuse to withdraw his troops on the pretext that he had not received the eagle letter, or he could use the excuse that it was difficult to withdraw his troops in the cold weather. In short, he had to find a way to drag it on.

In fact, Zhai Que'er didn't want to withdraw his troops. The key is that Wei Daoer did not clarify how to compensate him for the damaged interests. Wei Daoer's generals were surrounded by mountains, and the counties of Chiyang, Lingshou, Xingtang, Fangshan, Jingxing, Jiumen, Zhending, Shiyi and other counties were all granted the title of general. If he withdraws back to Hengshan County, how could he resettle him? Could it be that he would be allowed to follow Wei Daoer?

At this time, an officer walked to the door and reported: "General, we have confiscated 2,720 documents from the Sui army that have been thrown into the city."

Zhai Que'er turned around and ordered: "The Sui army must have invested in integers. There should be two hundred and eighty numbers left. Continue to search for me and try every means to confiscate me."

The officer hesitated for a moment. He thought that he could not defend himself at all. If the Sui army had projected in the middle of the night, they would have nowhere to search. The officer did not dare to say anything in the end, and lowered his head and turned around and went out.

Zhai Que'er was upset. The Sui army made a lot of good promises on the leaflets. If his soldiers saw it, they would seriously shake the morale of the army.

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In the afternoon, the defenders on the city began to change their guards, and the soldiers retreated to the city to rest. A veteran took advantage of the situation and reached out to take a hand from a broken brick in the city wall, took out a few flyers, quickly put them in his arms, patted his butt and followed the soldiers down the city.

When he returned to the camp, more than a dozen soldiers immediately surrounded the veteran, "Brother Wang, take it out and take a look."

"Don't be anxious! Don't be anxious! Let's take a look at what is written on it first?"

The veteran took out a leaflet and spread it on his legs. The soldiers surrounded him. There were words and strokes on the leaflet. They didn't recognize the words. The painting was a farmer driving a cow to plow the fields. In front of a thatched hut, a woman was spinning and weaving cloth. Several children were jumping and playing, and a dog and a few chickens. This was a situation that the soldiers were very familiar with. Unfortunately, they had already left them. The soldiers couldn't help but sigh.

"Go and find Xiao Liulang!"

After a moment, a thin young man was found. A rare literate man among his soldiers. The veteran waved to him, "Come on, see what is written on it and read it to everyone."

The young man took the leaflet and looked at it, and said to everyone: "The above said that the Sui Dynasty would implement the equal-field system in Shanggu County again. Ding gave 50 acres of land, and Ding gave 10 acres of mulberry and hemp fields each. It was exempted from duty for three years. All surrenders can enjoy it. If they refuse to surrender, they will not be granted land."

The big tent suddenly became a clamor, and someone shouted: "I'm right! My cousin has already distributed 50 acres of land in Mayi County, which is also exempted from tax for three years. This year's autumn tax has not been paid at all."

The veteran's eyes burst out and he said to himself, "Damn, this deal is good!"

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