After Wu Sangui waited for Zhuo Luo to walk away, he smiled at Ma Weixing and the others: "Don't worry, if Zhuo Luo says about this battle, I will definitely report the details to King Xinjun." Ma Weixing and others were sarcastically ridiculed by Zhuo Luo, and they lost the heart to fight for merit. just politely said something to Wu Sangui, and then went back to the camp.

Wu Sangui found Zhuo Luo and said: "Lord Ezhen, you shouldn't accuse Ma Weixing and them on the spot, now that they are all in the army, if they conspire with the rebellion in the city, wouldn't we be a failure." Zhuo Luo disagreed: "It's because they value them too much, so they don't make a contribution, and always think that we must rely on them." In this way, they will become more and more bold, and only by pressing them, it is like raising a dog, you have to feed him too well, too full, the dog will not be faithful in a hurry, and he will be obedient if he is whipped from time to time. ”

Wu Sangui was also very angry when he heard this, but he still endured it and said, "Then what is the general going to do?" Zhuo Luo said: "It is your business to attack the city, we Manchuria Eight Banners only come to supervise the army, if you can't do your best, or if you don't fight effectively, I can kill you directly." After speaking, he ignored Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui walked out of Zhuo Luo's tent with a pale face, and suddenly a wave of anger suffocated in his chest. But he had surrendered to the Manchus for many years, and it didn't take long for him to recover himself, but one more thought kept spinning in his mind, thinking: "I must not go to Beijing again this time, otherwise I will be angry with these Manchurians for the rest of my life, even if it is a small commander." I must not go back, I have to find a way to stay in Yunnan. ”

Wu Sangui thought all the way back to his camp, and then Yang Wei, the general, came in and said, "Lord Wang, if Na Song and the others defend the city now, I am afraid that we will suffer a lot of casualties in attacking the city." Wu Sangui said: "What can I do then?" Is there still a way for you to get the people of the Eight Banners to attack the city? ”

Yang Wei said: "If the city is attacked now, only the prince's army will go up, and the prince should think of a way, otherwise it will be very unfavorable to the prince." At this time, Wu Sangui's staff Fang Guangchen also said: "I think the prince should have made a plan early, the king of Xinjun asked the prince to attack the city, obviously to use the siege war to consume the prince's power, after all, since the prince entered Yungui, he has collected a lot of former Ming troops." The strength of the prince is no less than sixty or seventy thousand. ”

Wu Sangui saw that his staff members also said this, and immediately said: "But now Zhuo Luo is also stationed here with Manchurian soldiers with white flags, and there are also many people with yellow flags, and there are also 10,000 flag soldiers of the Han Eight Banners. We can't pass the buck too obviously, and it will be very difficult to avoid siege casualties. ”

Fang Guangchen said: "Why don't you recruit Na Song and the others, this will not only reduce the casualties of our soldiers, but also shake the morale of the defenders in the city." Even if the surrender fails, it doesn't matter, if the surrender is successful, the prince will not only increase his troops, but also take the opportunity to establish contact with the Tusi in Yunnan. Wu Sangui thought for a moment and said, "Okay, you can try." Wu Sangui thought for a while and felt that if he came forward to surrender directly, Zhuo Luo would definitely be suspicious, looked at Yang Wei and said: "Tomorrow you go to the city to surrender, so that Na Song only needs to hand over Xu Mingchen, Gao Yingfeng and other old ministers against the Ming Dynasty, he is still the prefect of Yuanjiang, and he can still be hereditary." ”

Yang Wei didn't expect that this matter would fall on his head in the end, but seeing that Wu Sangui was resolute, he didn't dare to object, so he had to say: "Then I'll try it, and I don't know if it will work out." ”

So the next day, Yang Wei came to Yuanjiang City alone and shouted: "Is the prefect of Yuanjiang Na Song and the prefect there?" After a while, Na Song appeared on the city wall, and when he saw that it was Yang Wei, he immediately said: "Yang Wei, you traitor and thief, what face do you have to come to this city to talk to me now." Don't hurry back to your Manchurian master and shake your head. ”

Yang Wei knew that the people in the city hated him for surrendering to the Manchus, but so what? I will live a good life, as long as I persuade these people to surrender, then who will laugh at me? Immediately said: "Then don't worry, listen to Yang Wei's heartfelt words, now that Yongli has gone to Myanmar, do you know if he can come back?" What's more, Li Dingguo also lost the battle, and now he can only survive in the barbaric land of western Yunnan, do you say that such a Ming can still be saved? ”

Na Song hesitated a little, but still said: "As a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, I will naturally be martyred when the country is broken, so why care about this." At this time, Xu Mingchen also went up to the city wall and said: "Our well-known men, how can you thieves who sell their lords and seek glory understand." If you have the ability to attack the city, why waste so much saliva. ”

Na Song also said: "That is, you have to have the ability to attack the city by yourself." Yang Wei ignored Xu Mingchen and said to Na Song: "The prefect, although you rebelled against the imperial court, but now the king of Pingxi is willing to give you this opportunity, as long as you hand over Xu Mingchen and Gao Yingfeng to the prince, the prince promised that you are still the prefect of Yuanjiang, and you are still hereditary." The Ming Dynasty has already died, so why did the prefect ruin the family business for hundreds of years for these two people in vain, not to mention that as long as the war starts, the people of Yuanjiang will also suffer. ”

After listening to Yang Wei's words, Na Song was indeed moved. If you can keep the family business, and the lives of the people of Yuanjiang as an excuse, it is indeed a good excuse. Gao Yingfeng, who came up from behind, saw that Na Song wanted to agree, and suddenly became anxious.

Xu Mingchen also saw that Na Song was a little moved, and immediately said: "That governor, now that the Qing army is strong, there are 100,000 troops besieging the city, and I don't think we have any hope of victory." Otherwise, the governor accepted the conditions of the Qing army and tied me up with Gao Yingfeng and handed it over to the Qing army, in exchange for the safety of the people of Yuanjiang Mansion and the more than 10,000 troops in Yuanjiang City, so that Gao Zongbing and I could be regarded as worthy of death. ”

Na Song used to be the prefect of Yuanjiang in the Ming Dynasty, and after Yongli fled west, he was specially appointed to promote the title of Governor of Na Song and governor of Yunnan. The post of prefect of Yuanjiang was taken by his son Na Tao, and Na Song's brother Na Lun was added as General Zuo Ming, and Na Song was General Huaiming. Mu Tianbo, the prince of Qianguo, also gave his second son Mu Zhongliang to Na Song, and let Mu Zhongliang be Na Song's son-in-law, hoping that Na Song could contact various departments in Yunnan to resist the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, Yang Wei called Na Song the prefect, and Xu Mingchen called Na Song the governor.

When Na Song heard Xu Mingchen say this, his face immediately turned red with shame, and he said angrily: "For the sake of the Ming Dynasty, the three of us discussed together to resist the Qing Dynasty, how can we change our minds now because of our lives, can this little difficulty change our will to help the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Then he turned to Yang Wei and said, "You Yang Wei want to be the dog who surrendered, and I can't do it." You go back and tell Wu Sangui that he is willing to kneel and be a slave to the Tartars, not everyone in the world likes it, if he has the ability to attack the city himself. Why come here to persuade people to surrender and insult people's ears and eyes. After speaking, he ignored Yang Wei and returned to the city with Xu Mingchen and others.

That night, Xu Mingchen and Na Song were in the mansion to discuss the matter of defending the city, and then Na Song's son Na Tao hurriedly came in and said, "Father, it's not good. Na Song frowned and said, "What's the matter, so flustered?" If the Qing soldiers came to attack the city, they would go directly to the city to defend the city. ”

Na Tao took out a letter and said: "Father, if the Qing soldiers come to attack the city, I will not come to it, the Qing soldiers will not be able to recruit and surrender during the day, and they will shoot these letters into the city at night, so that the people and soldiers in the city will tie us up and surrender." If you don't go out and surrender, you will slaughter Yuanjiang City. ”

Na Song was startled, snatched the letter in Na Tao's hand, opened it and looked, and it was as Na Tao said. Na Song handed the letter to Xu Mingchen and said, "In this way, our military spirit will be shaken. Then he said to Natao, "Go to the city quickly, collect all these letters, and destroy them." ”

Xu Mingchen said: "Don't be in a hurry, there should be a lot of letters from the Qing army at night, and we can't collect them all." The anxious Tuan Tuan said: "How is this good?" and said angrily: "The Qing army shot us letters, and we also shot them to see who couldn't stand it first." ”

Xu Mingchen said: "This trick is useless against the Qing army, we are now surrounded by the Qing army, can we still make the Qing army surrender?" Na Song suddenly thought of something and said, "Yes, why didn't I think that we couldn't shoot letters to Qing soldiers, but we could shoot Wu Sangui." ”

After Na Song finished speaking, he wrote on the desk. Xu Mingchen was also curious about what kind of letter Na Song wanted to write to Wu Sangui, so he immediately walked behind Na Song and looked. Xu Mingchen looked at it and found that what Na Song wrote in the letter was all the crimes of Wu Sangui leading the Manchu Qing into the customs, poisoning the Central Plains, burning, killing and looting in the Central Plains, and doing all kinds of evil. Then he wrote very disgustingly on the outside of the envelope, "Shanhaiguan General Soldier Wu Sangui opened".

After writing this letter, he said to Na Tao: "Go and ask someone to copy a few more copies of this letter, and then shoot them all into the Qing army camp." Xu Mingchen laughed and said: "If this letter is shot into the camp of the Qing army, it is estimated that the camp of the Qing army should be lively." Na Tao also said happily: "Okay, I'll go and ask people to copy a few more copies, and then send them to Wu Sangui." ”

I don't know if this letter caused any excitement in the Qing army camp, but the next day the Qing army attacked the city like crazy, and Wu Sangui actually went directly to the front line to supervise the battle. Although Na Song, Xu Mingchen and others were happy for a while, they couldn't help but be a little frightened when they looked at the intensity of the Qing army's siege. But now it was useless to say anything, and the three of them had to defend the city with all their might.

Wu Sangui is a person who has fought for decades, and he has a lot of means to attack the city, such as ladders, cloud platforms, ramming rams, bows and arrows, and firearms. But the prefect of the Na Song family in Yuanjiang for hundreds of years is not in vain, and there are all kinds of city defense equipment on the city, such as rolling stones, sassal wood, bed crossbow arrows, cannons, bows and arrows. Seeing Wu Sangui attacking the city like crazy. Even Zhuo Luo was a little strange and said, "Since Wu Sangui entered Yungui, he has always wanted to preserve his strength, and he has vigorously encircled and surrendered troops. What's going on today? actually fought such a fierce siege battle, even our Eight Banners disciples are not much more heroic than this. ”

The general of the Han Army on the side, Guangxi Admiral Lian Guoan, said with a smile: "It's not surprising, last night that Na Song revealed the old scar of King Pingxi, it would be strange if King Pingxi didn't go crazy." Zhuo Luo said curiously: "What kind of scar makes Wu Sangui directly don't even want his life." ”

Lian Guoan took out a letter from his sleeve, held it in front of Zhuo Luo and said: "Last night, King Pingxi originally wanted to shoot letters into the city, instigating the people and troops in the city to tie up Na Song, Xu Mingchen and others out of the city and surrender, and also threatened to slaughter the city. As a result, Na Song was also ruthless, and directly replied to King Pingxi with such a letter. ”

Zhuo Luo didn't take the letter in Guoan's hand, but just looked at Guoan. Only then did Lian Guoan remember that this Gushan really didn't know Chinese characters, so he immediately took back the letter, opened it and read the content of the letter. Zhuo Luo was very happy after hearing this, Na Song is a good person, and his letter is so excited. Let Wu Sangui desperately attack the city, so that the purpose of weakening Wu Sangui's troops can be achieved, Zhuo Luo actually wants to thank Na Song and the others.

Zhuo Luo looked at Wu Sangui, who was still besieging the city, and said to Lian Guoan: "Look at them, urge them to capture Yuanjiang City today, now this grain is getting less and less, and Yunnan can't even collect grain." This is not a place for people to stay, how can we Manchurians suffer this, it seems that we have to ask the emperor for an order to return to the north. ”

Although Lian Guoan listened to Zhuo Luo's words, he looked down on Zhuo Luo a little, but he did not show the slightest performance on his face. Said: "I'm afraid that King Pingxi won't be able to defeat Yuanjiang City today, Lord Ezhen, you see that both the people and soldiers in Yuanjiang City are very hardworking, and such a city can't be defeated casually." ”

With the words of the line Guoan, the Qing army, which had been attacking the city for two hours in a row, really appeared to be unable to follow. Wu Sangui is also an old military officer, although he is still very annoyed in his heart, but seeing this situation, he still decisively ordered the troops to be collected and returned to the camp.

Seeing this, Zhuo Luo did not go to Wu Sangui's camp, and went back to his camp directly. Wu Sangui came back with the army dejected, and saw that Lian Guoan had just returned to the camp, knowing that he was supervising the battle in the back, and he didn't say anything. To Ma Weixing and the others behind him: "You all go back to the camp to rest, now our siege equipment has also been destroyed a lot, we must hurry up to build siege equipment in the next few days, otherwise we can only use the lives of soldiers to fill in." ”

Ma Weixing and others also agreed, and then returned to the camp. At this time, Wu Sangui's headquarters general Wu Guogui came over and said: "Lord Wang, Zhuo Luo, he knows about the letter, which is what Lian Guoan said. Wu Sangui glanced at the tents of Lian Guoan and Zhuo Luo and said: "I know, this is also something that cannot be helped, so I will lead a large army to attack the city today, otherwise Zhuo Luo will be suspicious." ”

At this time, Wu Sangui came over and said: "So the prince still has to think about himself, the Manchurians will never believe the prince." Wu Sangui was already upset, and when he saw that a small official was also talking nonsense, he immediately shouted: "What are you talking nonsense about a little scribe? Do your thing. After speaking, it was Liu Maoyao who looked at it again, and immediately apologized again: "It turned out to be Mr. Xuanchu, this king is reckless." Now this is also a helpless thing, if I can follow the example of the Ming Dynasty's Muwangfu Yongzhen Yunnan. ”

Liu Maoyao's eyes lit up and said: "Since the prince has this heart, why don't you work hard in this direction?" Wu Sangui didn't say anything, and then walked directly into the camp. Seeing this, Liu Maoyao didn't say much, just looked at Yuan Jiangcheng and muttered, "Da Ming, I can only do so much for you." ”