El brought Humphrey and others out, clearly trying to let Su Cheng see the negotiation chips he held.
But Su Cheng saw through and didn't say it out loud, and led Alyssa to see the situation of Humphrey and others first.
On the two prison vans brought by El were 41 officials from the North General Administration, including Humphrey, Yarling.
Judging from their clothes and faces, their captive life these days has not been bad. It can be seen that El did not abuse them, but indeed he was treating them with delicious food and drink.
"Sorry... Leader Cheng, I've caused you trouble..."
When Su Cheng approached the prison car where Humphrey was, Humphrey apologized to Su Cheng in an apology tone.
"No need to apologize, Mr. Humphrey."
Su Cheng comforted Humphrey.
"This is not your fault. No one would have thought that a Sheeran army would suddenly pop up and capture Baidi City."
"Don't worry, Mr. Humphrey, I will definitely save you."
After saying that, Su Cheng turned around and returned to the wooden table on the high slope.
After Su Cheng came back, El waved to the coachman driving the two prison vans, indicating that they could leave.
After all, these are very important bargaining chips. After Su Cheng confirmed that Humphrey and others were safe, it would be better to let these bargaining chips return to the safe city.
After the two coachmen left in the two prison cars that detained Humphrey and others, Su Cheng asked El:
"You probably didn't get too harsh on the civilians in Baidi City?"
"Of course not." El replied without hesitation, "Before I began to attack Baidi, I had already repeatedly ordered my subordinates to prohibit harassing the civilians in Baidi."
"So please rest assured that apart from the death and injury of many defenders in Baidi City, there were no civilian casualties in Baidi City. If you don't believe it, you can send someone to the city to check it."
After Su Cheng was silent for a while, he shook his head.
"No need, I believe your words."
El is a smart man, there is no doubt that this is true.
As a smart man, El naturally would not do anything that would "harasse the civilians in Baidi City" that would anger Su Cheng and increase the possibility of the subsequent breakdown of the negotiations with Su Cheng.
Therefore, Su Cheng believes that what El just said is the truth, and the civilians in Baidi City were not harassed by his subordinates.
After confirming the safety of Humphrey and others with the civilians in Baidi City, Su Cheng said straight to the point:
"Tell me, how can I let Mr. Humphrey go?"
Like Su Cheng, El is a person who is not very polite and nonsense.
Seeing that Su Cheng had already made it straight to the point, El didn't do any extra politeness, and took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Su Cheng:
"It's enough to exchange 41 people written on this piece of paper. Just exchange 41 people written on the paper and ensure the safety of me and my troops."
"How many people are there in your army?" Su Cheng asked back while taking the paper handed over by El.
"Not less than 2,000." Elle also answered truthfully.
There is nothing to hide from the number of troops under his command.
After all, it’s okay to have 200 people in your hands, or 20,000 people.
Deeply trapped in the enemy's territory and isolated and helpless, if Su Cheng was determined to destroy them, even if he had 20,000 troops in his hands, it would only slightly extend the time for the entire destruction.
It doesn't make any sense to conceal reports, so El chose to report truthfully.
After spreading out the piece of paper handed over by El, Su Cheng began to look at it with a glance.
On this piece of paper are the names of people.
The first name among these people is Dominic Broy, the name of the commander of this Sheeran army.
And Su Cheng didn't recognize the second name afterwards.
——Camille Young? Who is this?
After searching in my mind, but not remembering who Camille Yang was, Su Cheng didn't think much about it, jumped over and looked at the name of the person he followed.
Su Cheng recognized most of the 41 names listed on this piece of paper. They were all famous senior generals and senior military officers of the Holy Hillan Empire.
El wanted to exchange these people for Humphrey and others. I believe these people must have participated in this expedition of the Holy Sheeran Empire and were trapped in the Eghar Corridor or the Muhaviz Fortress.
Su Cheng glanced at the list on his hand a few times and said:
"It's okay to ensure the safety of you and your troops, and to return to the Holy Hillan Empire safely."
"It's okay to exchange some people in the Muhaviz Fortress and some people in the Eghar Corridor with Mr. Humphrey and others."
"But you can't change so much."
After saying that, Su Cheng took out the pen and ink he carried with him and began to apply it on the list in his hand.
"These 20 people can only be used to exchange Mr. Humphrey and the others."
After saying that, Su Cheng handed over the list in his hand to El.
After El took back the list, he immediately started to look at it.
Dominic, Camille – The names of the two most important to El and Gabriel were not crossed out, which made El unable to help but breathe a sigh of relief.
However, the names of 21 other people were crossed out.
Looking at the 21 names that were crossed out by Su Cheng, El couldn't help but smile bitterly:
"Captain Su Cheng, I used 41 officials from the Northbound Administration to exchange for 41 people on our side, and 1 person is exchanged for 1 person. Isn't that fair? No, no one on this list can be missing."
"...El, IMHO, do you have a little bit of understanding your current situation?"
"Now the 300,000 Sheilan troops in the Eighar Corridor have cut off supplies, and they are my pocket."
"You have only 41 hostages, and I have a total of 300,000 hostages."
"And if I think your conditions are too harsh, I can end the negotiation at any time. Then send troops to wipe out you. Mr. Humphrey and others, you can kill me if you like it."
"At worst, I can just reorganize one Northern Border Administration. The Britannian Empire has more than 80 million people. Can't we find any personnel who can reorganize the Northern Border Administration?"
"So - the initiative in this negotiation is entirely in my hands, and whether the negotiation is successful or not will have much impact on me."
"But whether this negotiation goes well will have a big relationship with you."
"So-Do you understand your current situation? You have not had the qualifications to negotiate with me equally since the beginning. If I am willing to talk to you, you should be grateful and thank me for my great kindness."
Su Cheng's tone was very tough.
There is no room for El.
Su Cheng's toughness surprised Elle, and a bitter smile appeared on Elle's face again.
El didn't understand how he was now.
As Su Cheng said just now, the initiative in negotiations is entirely in Su Cheng's hands.
If Su Cheng is unhappy, he can terminate the negotiations at any time and no longer care about the life and death of Humphrey and others, and then directly wipe them out.
No matter Humphrey and others, they would no longer return any senior general or quartermaster of the Sheeran Army.
Su Cheng has the ability to turn over the table, but El didn't.
Chapter completed!