"Meng Haigong's letter is here, and I don't know what he wants to do?" Li Baiyao presented Meng Haigong's letter to Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan read the letter briefly and sneered at Fang Xuanling: "Mr. Meng Hai is willing to give up his imperial title, just to be the prefect of Kuaiji County, and to be demoted from the emperor to the prefect. His request is too low!"

Fang Xuanling also smiled and said, "If I had known today, I would have been the prefect of Donghai County back then, and went to a big circle and returned to the starting point. Why bother?"

"I'm afraid this time he can't even go back to the origin, so I won't forgive him!"

"Your Highness simply agreed to him and let him disband the army and find another excuse to kill him in the future!"

Zhang Xuan shook his head firmly, "In this way, what's the difference between Wang Shichong? He included Zhu Jie. Should I also let me accept Meng Haigong? The military advisor doesn't have to persuade me to do this."

Zhang Xuan then Li Baiyao said, "Just let me feel wronged for a few days!"

Zhang Xuan shouted, "Come!"

Several personal soldiers appeared at the door of the tent, and Zhang Xuan pointed at Li Baiyao, "Take this person down and imprison him, and wait until the Duke Meng Hai is destroyed before he can be executed!"

Li Baiyao bowed deeply to Zhang Xuan and followed his personal soldiers down.

Zhang Xuan picked up a pen and wrote three words on Meng Haigong's letter, "Die can be forgiven!"

Then he asked Li Baiyao's entourage to take the letter back to Meng Haigong.

Fang Xuanling was really worried. He could no longer help saying, "Your Highness, Mr. Meng Hai is dead, but his soldiers should spare them!"

Before, Zhang Xuan slaughtered all the 50,000 troops of Meng Dangui, which really made Fang Xuanling feel worried. 50,000 lives! It was really against the will of heaven. He really didn't want Zhang Xuan to continue killing, so he just persuaded Zhang Xuan to accept Meng Hai's surrender and disband the soldiers.

But now it seems that Zhang Xuan was determined to fight the war to the end, and Fang Xuanling was afraid that another massacre would be coming.

Zhang Xuan understood Fang Xuanling's thoughts and said lightly: "The reason why I don't let Meng Dangui's army go is because they are too sinful and not dead is not enough to atone for their crimes. Although Meng Haigong's army also has the crime of massacre of aristocratic families, it is better than Meng Dangui's army. I will naturally distinguish and treat them. Kill what should be killed, release what should be released, and if the misdemeanor is not at ease, I will hand over the matter of dealing with prisoners of war to the military advisor."

Fang Xuanling stood up and bowed, "I just beg your highness not to issue a killing order first."

"The military advisor seems to have something in his words?"

Fang Xuanling nodded, "Meng Haigong's old nest is in Kuaiji County. How could he fight to the death with His Highness in Wu County? I believe he will withdraw from Wu County."

Zhang Xuan laughed, "Okay! If the military advisor tells me, then I will not issue a killing order!"

In the imperial palace of Wu County, Li Baiyao's entourage brought back two news to Meng Haigong. One was that Li Baiyao was ordered to be imprisoned by the King of Qi, and he would be punished for being a thief. The other news was Zhang Xuan's reply, "Die can be forgiven!\\'The three big words were written on the letter skin, which was particularly dazzling. The civil and military ministers in the hall were talking about it. They didn't understand why Zhang Xuan wrote these three words. Is it because the emperor asked Zhang Xuan for forgiveness in his letter?

Meng Haigong stood there for a while, suddenly became furious and pointed at the Sui army camp and cursed: "Jian Zhang Xuan, you are shameless. Do you think I, Meng Haigong, are really afraid of you? I, Meng Haigong, do you have a lot of fear in the world, why should I die? If I want to fight, I will fight you to the end!"

"A common man Zhang Xuan, you must die easily, it's thundering." Meng Haigong cursed for half an hour before shaking his sleeves and angrily returned to the palace.

Meng Haigong's palace was a palace built by Empress Chen at the foot of Huqiu Mountain in Wu County. It was called Gusu Palace. After the Sui Dynasty destroyed Chen, this palace became a Suzhou official school. Later, Chen Faxing moved it into the city as a whole and renovated it. It is now Meng Haigong's palace. After Meng Haigong ascended the throne, he chose 72 beautiful ladies and was named 72 concubines. He also chose hundreds of palace maids, drinking and having fun with him all day.

He also knew that his emperor was not long, so he kept promising lust in the palace day and night, desperately indulging himself and enjoying the taste of the emperor. It was not until Zhang Xuan's army captured Wuxi County and slaughtered Meng's 50,000 troops that had slaughtered Meng's ghosts. Meng Haigong finally woke up from his drunkenness and dreams and fell into endless fear.

Meng Haigong shouted and scolded in the palace with a harsh and bold look, pretending to show his courage in front of all officials, but when he returned to the inner palace, he showed his true form, and he was panicked and confused. He didn't know what to do. He paced back and forth in the inner palace with his hands, looking very anxious.

He had nightmares these days and nights, dreaming that he was stripped naked and threw it to a group of butchers. The butchers chopped him up and sold meat for a penny. Everyone in the city came to buy his meat and woke him up from his dream. Although it was just a nightmare, he knew that this dream might happen. Didn’t Meng Dangui die like this?

At this time, the two most beloved concubines held the wine and whispered: "I will accompany Your Majesty to drink with you. When you get drunk, you will relieve your worries. What does it have to do with Your Majesty if you are a soldier or general?

They were willing to think that the Menghai Guild would agree happily, and then hugged them and drank and had fun together. As usual, they stepped on Menghai Gong's painful foot today, and everyone could escape, but he, Menghai Gong, was furious, drew his sword, stabbed two concubines to death by one person and one sword, and shouted: "It's all you bitches who hurt me!"

Meng Haigong carried his sword and rushed towards the surrounding concubines and palace maids. The women were so scared that they screamed and stumbled and fled.

Just at this moment, his son Meng Yi came to inquire about the situation and happened to meet his father committing murder. He hugged his father's arm from behind, "Dad, calm down!"

The personal soldiers also rushed forward and snatched the sword from Meng Haigong's hand. Meng Haigong sat on the ground and looked up at the sky and cried, "The sky is about to destroy me, Meng Haigong, where will I go?"

Meng Yi advised: "Don't worry, Father, we still have 70,000 troops, and the number of troops is more than that of the Sui army. We can fight to the death with the Sui army. Even if we lose, we can retreat to Kuaiji County. We can even continue to go south and retreat to Yongjia County and Jian'an County. There is no one there. The Sui army cannot replenish supplies, so we will not continue to chase them. How can there be no way to survive?"

My son's words immediately made Meng Haigong's heart ignite another glimmer of hope. He chose Kuaiji County as his nest because he considered that there was a way out in the south, but now he forgot.

Gong Meng Hai quickly stood up and ordered his personal soldiers, "Go and invite Military Advisor Mao to see me!"

Soon, Mao Wenshen hurried to Meng Haigong's imperial study room and bowed and bowed: "I am here to see Your Majesty!"

Meng Hai Gong waved his hand, "I don't want to be this emperor anymore. Don't call him His Majesty anymore, just like before."

"Abide by the orders!"

Meng Haigong hurriedly pointed to the Jiangnan map in front of him and said, "I decided to fight to the death with Zhang Xuan. Where should I set up a battlefield?"

Mao Wenshen glanced at him and saw Meng Yi blinking at him. He immediately understood that Meng Haigong did not really want to fight to the decisive battle. He probably would fight if he could win, and run away if he couldn't win, just like in Donghai County.

Mao Wen pondered for a moment and pointed to Fuyang County north of Qian Tangjiang on the map and said, "I think I have to leave a way out for myself. The king can retreat to the Fuyang County area to fight the Sui army."

"Why?" Meng Haigong asked.

"King, Fuyang County is close to Qiantang River. We can first send an army to build a floating bridge on Qiantang River. If we win, it goes without saying that if we lose, the king can quickly retreat from the floating bridge south, then burn the floating bridge and intercept the Sui army north of Qiantang River."

After all, Meng Haigong was experienced in many battles. He immediately discovered the inappropriateness in this strategy and hesitated: "Most of our soldiers are mobs, and the cohesion of the army is too weak. Once the south retreats, the army will be out of control. If the Sui cavalry catches up, it will be impossible to let them line up to fight."

Mao Wenshen smiled bitterly and said, "The king won't really think that we can defeat the Sui army even if we assemble a large army!"

Meng Haigong didn't say anything anymore. He understood what Mao Wenshen meant. In fact, he was to use tens of thousands of troops to block the Sui army to cover him to escape. Although he felt very uncomfortable, he had to accept the reality. The two soldiers had similar numbers, and his army was definitely not a match for the Sui army, so there was no doubt.

Meng Haigong sighed, "I'm afraid it's too late to build a floating bridge temporarily."

"King, there is no perfect strategy in the world. We try to make up for the shortcomings. For example, we can use the golden plan to escape the shell and send an army to attack the Sui camp as a suspicious soldier to cover the king's retreat overnight. As for the floating bridge, there is actually no need to build it first. As long as you prepare it first, it can be built in the shortest time. Didn't we use this strategy when we attacked Shen Faxing's army?"

Meng Haigong suddenly remembered that when they attacked Shen Faxing's army, they sent soldiers to lock the head and tail with iron rings, and a string of them were moored on the shore. Later, the ropes at the west end of the fleet were cut off, and the fleet was washed over the river by the current. A floating bridge was formed immediately, without even half a stick of incense, which caught them off guard by killing Shen Faxing's army.

Meng Haigong slapped his forehead, "I almost forgot if I didn't say it, okay! We will follow the military advisor's plan and send a suspicious soldier to confuse the Sui army."
Chapter completed!