When the Cizhou city gate opened, Liu Yixuan and Yuan coach Yuan, Wang Zichun and others brought five hundred crossbowmen and a thousand horse infantry out of the city to answer with Wanyan Gillie. Seeing a military horse coming out of the city, Wanyan Gillie set up a formation again and prepared to wait.

The Song army formed a formation and was only one hundred and fifty steps away from the Jin soldiers. Wanyan Jilie looked at the generals of the Song army. They were all young generals, without Zong Ze's shadow, and then asked, "Who is the person coming? Why didn't Zong Ze go out of the city to meet me?"

Liu Yixuan said: "We are all lieutenants under Zongze's tent. Today, we are ordered by the commander to come and negotiate with the prince! My marshal asked me to pass on a message to the prince Qiansui, and the son and the daughter are in our hands. As long as you have a considerable condition, we are willing to return the son and the daughter."

When Wanyan Jilie heard that Zong Ze was willing to negotiate terms with him, he was very happy. What he was most worried about was that Zong Ze was stubborn. If Zong Ze killed his children and then defended the city, even if he broke Cizhou and killed Cizhou without leaving any remaining children, it would not be possible to make up for the pain caused by the loss of children. After all, the old prince is nearly sixty years old and is very fond of Wanyan Hong and Wanyan Xueer. Seeing that things had turned around, his heart that had been hanging was somewhat comforted.

Wanyan Gillie smiled and said, "Since you want to negotiate, you should let your marshal come and discuss. You young generals can't make the decision, so why are you going to talk about? In my opinion, you should go back and tell your marshal, and say that I will prepare good wine and meat outside the city and wait for the arrival of the old general Zong!"

After hearing this, Liu Yixuan and Teacher Yuan looked at each other and felt that Prince Wanyan was still polite. He just wanted Zongze to leave the city to negotiate. That would never be agreed. If the Jin people were tortured and detain Zongze to threaten the officers and soldiers guarding the city, wouldn’t that be a mistake? Liu Yixuan said to Wanyan Gillie:

"We have appreciated the kindness of the prince Qiansui, but you have tens of thousands of soldiers stationed outside the city, which makes us a little worried! Besides, Cizhou City is the place where our brothers are established. The prince Qiansui comes from afar, and we should do our best to be a landlord, so we also ask the prince Qiansui to send envoys into the city and discuss with our marshal!"

"What? You still want me to send envoys into the city? Zongze is so arrogant!" When Wanyan Jilie heard that he could not trick Zongze out of the city, but also wanted to send someone inside. How could he agree? He continued to say: "As the prince of the Great Jin Kingdom, Zongze did not go out of the city to worship me, but instead asked my people to see him. It was so outrageous!"

Liu Yixuan smiled and said, "Don't get angry, Mr. Qiansui, you are a noble relative of the Jin Kingdom and a noble minister, but you are not our boss after all. There is an old saying in our Central Plains that is called "Accommodating with the Lord". Since Mr. Qiansui comes from afar, you should obey our arrangements!"

"What kind of guest is at your disposal?! My 50,000 army has arrived here, and Cizhou City is in danger. What qualifications do you have to let me follow your arrangements! It is absolutely not possible to let me send an envoy into the city!" Wanyan Jilie was cold-eyed and did not want to obey the arrangements of the Song army at all.

When Liu Yixuan saw that the old man was a stubborn donkey, it was no wonder that his children were so tough, so he said, "Since Lao Qiansui was unwilling to negotiate with us, we had to go back and sharpen our swords and prepare for war. But Ling Lang and Ling Qianjin were afraid they would suffer a little grievance!" As he said that, he was about to turn his head back to the city.

Wanyan Gillie hurriedly stopped him and said, "Little General, come back slowly, alas! Well, I am willing to send envoys into the city to discuss the redemption of your marshal."

"That's good!" Liu Yixuan was secretly happy when he saw that the old man had agreed to his conditions. He thought, since the old man had made a concession, he simply asked him to take another step back and continued, "But... my marshal also asked me to bring you a message, saying that during the negotiation period, the old man who was a thousand-year-old should retreat five miles to show his sincerity!"

"You!...Don't be too ruthless! I have already made concessions, why do you want me to retreat five miles?"

Liu Yixuan smiled and said, "I don't know that the soldiers on this city wall are my brothers. When they saw your troops at the city, they were all angry and were about to yell to kill your children to relieve their hatred. If you retreated the army for 50 miles, you also expressed your sincerity in the peace talks. My brothers will not cause trouble. This is also for the safety of Linglang and Ling Qianjin!"

After hearing this, Wanyan Jilie had no choice but to give in and said, "Okay, I will follow you and retreat the army five miles!" The generals who turned to the meeting and asked, "Which one of you is willing to be my envoy to negotiate with that Zongze?"

When the generals heard this, they looked at each other and did not dare to agree to this job. No one knew what tricks the Song army was playing, and they were afraid that they would lose their lives if they went there. Wanyan Jilie saw that dozens of generals under the tent dared to stand up as an envoy, and his face was also terrible. When he was embarrassed, he saw a general coming out and saying, "I wish to go!"

Wanyan Jilie turned around and smiled before breaking Yan and saying, "Okay, with General Qiu Chu as an envoy, I can rest assured!"

Qiu Chu was originally a general of Wanyan Jilie. In his early years, he served as the chief magistrate of the county prince's mansion. Seeing that he was very skilled in martial arts and was loyal to him, Wanyan Jilie promoted him to be a military commander and followed him to fight south and north. In June, when the old prince went north, he left Qiu Chu to assist Wanyan and sisters to guard Puyang. When the Song army attacked Puyang at night that day, it was Qiu Chu who vowed to fight the Song army to death and blocked Liu Hao's pursuit, which allowed Wanyan Hong and sisters to escape smoothly. After Qiu Chu got rid of Liu Hao's pursuit, he wanted to chase the brother and sisters, but disappeared, and then fled north to Handan. When the old prince went south, he realized that the two young masters had been captured by the Song army, so he asked to follow Wanyan Jilie to conquer Cizhou.

Qiu Chu walked to the front of the formation and glanced at Liu Yixuan. He felt that he had seen him somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while. On that day, Liu Yixuan dressed up as a scholar and smuggled into Puyang City. He lived in the government office for a few days. The generals of Puyang City had met him, but today he changed his clothes and couldn't remember it for a while.

Wanyan Jilie called Qiu Chu to his side, whispered a few instructions in his ear, patted him on the shoulder, showing his trust in him. Qiu Chu received the order, gave a deep salute to the old prince, and rode a horse out of the battle to come to Liu Yixuan and coach Yuan.

When Liu Yixuan looked at Qiu Chu, he was born with a positive appearance, with bright eyes, thick and black eyebrows, square faces, and eight-character beards, but he was also extremely brave.

Qiu Chu also took Liu Yixuan carefully and asked in confusion: "This young general, have you and I seen him somewhere?"

Liu Yixuan was completely blind. He had never seen any acquaintances in the Northern Song Dynasty and could not remember many faces. When he saw the Jin general coming to get close to him, he just smiled and said, "Hehe, is that right? We have seen him? Then I think it was probably in a dream!" He smiled and said, "Let's go, this general, our marshal is still waiting to see you!" Then he took the envoy back to the city.
Chapter completed!