Chapter 233

Saying this, Su Xuan immediately had Xu Chu bring the Personal Guard Battalion out of the city, and soon arrived three miles outside the city.

From afar, he saw a table and chairs placed in the middle of the road two miles ahead, with a huge canopy set up.

"Xu Chu, follow me forward, others wait in place!"

After giving the order, Su Xuan immediately rode his horse and took Xu Chu to continue, and arrived at the table shortly after.

He sat down on a chair on one side, and then, using his internal strength to amplify his voice, shouted loudly at Lord Yuan Shu's army two miles away: "Brother Gonglu! I have come as promised, where are you? You wouldn't be afraid to come, would you? Huh? Hahaha!"

"You fart!"

Lord Yuan Shu heard this and immediately counterattacked in a rage.

Unfortunately, he didn't have Su Xuan's strength and ability, so his voice couldn't travel that far.

However, with Su Xuan's strength and hearing, he still heard it.

He immediately laughed loudly: "Haha! Since you're not afraid, then hurry over! I only brought one person, I won't do anything to you?"

"No matter what, you and I are friends, right? I won't cheat you!"

Lord Yuan Shu on the other side heard this, his face turned black, and he immediately took Da Qiao Rui and rode his horse to the negotiation table, dismounted, cursed while walking, sat down opposite Su Xuan, glared at Su Xuan and cursed: "Good for you, Su Su Boyuan! You still have the face to say we are friends? Is this how you treat a friend?"

"You captured my general Ji Ling and more than 30, 00 troops, and even extorted so much money and grain from me. Where in the world are there such friends?"

Su Xuan heard this, shrugged his shoulders and said: "This can't be blamed on me! This time you were the one who took the initiative to attack me first, not me attacking you first!"

"Brother Gonglu, good friends must also be reasonable, right?"

"Being a rogue is not okay!"

Saying this, Su Xuan poured a glass of wine for himself and Lord Yuan Shu, made a gesture of invitation: "Come! Drink! Drink!"

Lord Yuan Shu didn't refuse, immediately picked up the wine glass and drank, seemingly trying to hide his embarrassment.

After a while, he spoke: "I have already scraped together the money and grain, and placed it in Jiyang. When shall we hand it over?"

He just wanted to redeem his army as soon as possible.

Hmm! Sun Sun Jian and his army also had to be redeemed.

With more people and more fierce generals, he would feel more secure.

Otherwise, he was a bit afraid to continue staying in Nanyang.

Afraid that Su Xuan would attack Wancheng at any time and take him down directly.

"This can be done at any time!"

Su Xuan shook his head directly: "Since Brother Gonglu didn't bargain, I am naturally not an unreasonable person!"

"Let our subordinates handle the details of the handover later;"

"Let's talk about other things!"

"Hmm?"

Lord Yuan Shu was slightly stunned: "Can we still bargain?"

He suddenly felt he had lost out.

However, before he could think more, Su Xuan rolled his eyes directly: "Of course not! I was just saying."

Lord Yuan Shu: "..."

If you can't, why are you saying it?

Isn't this deliberately teasing people?

"Su Boyuan! Do you know that you are very annoying? If you can't, why do you say it? Are you trying to tease me?"

Lord Yuan Shu drank the wine in the glass in a rage, then, while pouring himself wine, continued to ask Su Xuan: "Tell me! What else do you want to talk to me about?"

Su Xuan smiled and replied: "Two things! Or one thing!"

"That is, do you need military equipment? I can sell you all the military equipment, warhorses, etc., that were confiscated this time at a discounted price;"

"Even, I can sell you more military equipment at a discounted price;"

"Currently, I still have quite a bit of surplus military equipment that can be sold. Don't miss this opportunity!"

"Now is the time for warlords to develop rapidly;"

"Military equipment is the most scarce;"

"Whoever has enough military equipment can expand more troops in a short time!"

"How about it? Am I good to you? With such a good thing, I thought of you first!"

"Don't say I didn't treat you as a friend."

Su Xuan had a look of sincere treatment.

"No!"

Lord Yuan Shu's face turned black: "Doesn't the ransom include the military equipment, warhorses, etc., that you confiscated?"

He felt he had been cheated again.

"Are you kidding me?"

Su Xuan widened his eyes and looked at Lord Yuan Shu in disbelief: "That's just the cost of redeeming people. Have you ever seen anyone redeem people and also redeem the confiscated military equipment and warhorses?"

"You only met me, willing to let you pay extra to buy it back. Otherwise, in the short term, you would be worried about preparing to build military equipment!"

"These things are not so easy to build;"

"Especially armor and warhorses, they are hot goods. I believe Brother Gonglu should understand this very well."

"So, give me an answer, do you want to buy it?"

Still want to redeem people, military equipment, and warhorses all at once?

Don't want to pay more money?

Simply dreaming.

Is he, Su Xuan, such a good person?

"You..."

Lord Yuan Shu was speechless after being retorted.

So angry his face turned red, after a while, he recovered, gritted his teeth and said: "Fine! I'll buy it! Tell me! How much money do I need for the military equipment and warhorses confiscated from my 50, 00-man army?"

"Also, is it true that you want to sell me more military equipment?"

"How is the quality? How many are there?"

"Are there high-quality armor? Bows, crossbows, and feathered arrows?"

Because the army expanded too fast, he was indeed very short of military equipment.

Especially armor, bows, crossbows, and feathered arrows.

The armor rate of his army before was less than 30%.

Among them, a considerable part of the armor was only leather armor, with limited defense.

As for iron armor, there were very few.

Although he was ordering people to hurry up and build them in Runan and Wancheng, these all took time.

And what he lacked now was time.

Just as Su Xuan said, he needed to expand his strength as soon as possible.

If he had 100, 00 or even 200, 00 troops this time, could Su Xuan still win against him?

Impossible!

Even if Su Xuan's troops were elite, he could pile him to death by numbers.

"For the confiscated military equipment and warhorses, I won't ask for much, just 200, 00 shi of grain and 200, 00 gold, just to make a point!"

Su Xuan replied faintly.

"You..."

Lord Yuan Shu widened his eyes and looked at Su Xuan, puffing up: "How can this be called not much? Why don't you go rob someone?"

Even bandits aren't as greedy as you!

"You can't say it like that, Brother Gonglu!"

Su Xuan smiled and sophistically argued: "That is the military equipment for 50, 00 troops, and it also includes nearly 5, 00 warhorses. This is not a small number;"

"This is already a bone-breaking price;"

"It's only because it's you, Brother Gonglu. If it were Lord Yuan Benchu, the price would have to be at least 30% higher!"

"If you really don't want it, I'll spend a little more effort and have someone make a trip to Bohai to sell it to Lord Yuan Shao!"

— Author's Notes —

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