On the fifth day of the second lunar month, outside the city of Ganzhou, Song Yingchang and Cheng Xinyuan signed the armistice agreement on behalf of Zhu Yijun, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and Fang Nan, the capital of the People's Army, announcing the official truce between the People's Army and the Ming Dynasty.

There are three main contents in the armistice agreement, the first is that the Ming Dynasty compensated the People's Army for items worth 2.6 million taels of silver, and the specific items were chosen by the People's Army; The second is that the People's Army lifted the encirclement of the two Ming armies in Nahuguang and Fujian; The third is that the People's Army and the Ming Army are stationed on the border in the areas under their actual control, and the number of troops is not allowed to exceed 100,000.

Finally, there is the armistice period, five years.

Of course, both sides know that the five-year armistice period is a random number, and the actual truce will depend on the preparations of both sides for a few years; if the Ming court is prepared in advance, it will first tear up the armistice agreement and wave its army to attack the area ruled by the People's Army, and if the People's Army is ready, it will also find an excuse to tear up the armistice agreement and wave its troops out of Guangdong.

At present, the People's Army does not want to expand its territory in a short period of time, and there are not enough officials to manage it, and it cannot overthrow the Ming court at once.

The Ming court did not have the strength to defeat the People's Army in a short period of time.

A written armistice, even if both sides still don't believe in each other, would at least be better than an armistice without a written armistice.

Here Song Yingchang signed the armistice agreement instead of Zhu Yijun, on the other hand, Zhu Yijun in the palace in the capital wanted to kill people angrily, Daming signed an armistice agreement with a thief, this is the shame of Daming, it is the shame of him Zhu Yijun, in Zhu Yijun's eyes, the People's Army must be exterminated, and everything related to the People's Army is all punished by the Nine Clans!

Mei Yousong and Song Yingchang, who caused the Ming Dynasty to sign an armistice agreement with the People's Army, are even more evil, Mei Yousong has died in battle, but Song Yingchang is still alive, Song Yingchang should die, Zhu Yijun has decided to punish Song Yingchang's nine clans, only the death of some people can temporarily eliminate the anger in Zhu Yijun's heart.

The ministers obviously knew the emperor's anger, and did not dissuade most of the emperor's actions, if anyone dared to come forward, they would end up with Song Yingchang.

The armistice agreement has been signed, Song Yingchang returned to Ganzhou Mansion City, convened all the generals in Ganzhou Prefecture, Song Yingchang arranged all military affairs one by one, it looked like he was dealing with the aftermath, and there were already generals who had a bad feeling in their hearts.

After the meeting, he returned to his residence, and after sitting by the bed for a while, Song Yingchang took off his official uniform and stacked it neatly and put it aside.

After a little hesitation, Song Yingchang picked up the saber and pulled out the sword body, at this moment a few tears Song Yingchang slipped from the corner of his eyes, and then without hesitation, he wiped it hard, and a generation of famous ministers killed themselves.

Song Yingchang committed suicide, when the Ming court and the People's Army first conducted armistice negotiations, Song Yingchang knew his fate, only to die, as the negotiations continued, Song Yingchang felt that his family would also be affected by himself, and hurriedly wrote a letter back, asking the family to find a way to escape, it was really impossible to send a grandson away so that the Song family would have a bloodline.

From personally leading the army to fight with the People's Army to signing a negotiation agreement, Song Yingchang has thought about a lot of things in almost a year.

Song Yingchang once thought about why the People's Army was able to continuously defeat the Ming Army, and the sharp firearms equipped by the People's Army were the most important reason for defeating the Ming Army, but hundreds of thousands of young people joining the People's Army was also an important reason for the defeat of the Ming Army.

The common people of Guangdong are willing to join the People's Army and fight bravely for the People's Army on the battlefield, which is too different from the recruits in the Ming army, and I don't know how many recruits from the Ming Army came to capture strong men.

From the people of Guangdong enthusiastically participating in the People's Army, and then to the people of Guangdong supporting the People's Army, it was clear that the people under the rule of the Ming Court, but they fell to the Ming Court so quickly, Song Yingchang saw a very serious problem: the Ming Court was rapidly losing the hearts of the people.

It's okay that there is no people's army, there is only one ruler in this world, no matter what, the people's hearts fall on the Ming Dynasty, even if there are local people who are disloyal to the Ming Dynasty and choose to rebel, the Ming Dynasty can easily exterminate it, but there is a very strong people's army.

As long as the People's Army continues to defeat the Ming Army and continuously expand its territory, under the actions of the People's Army, those ordinary people who were originally loyal to the Ming Dynasty will quickly fall to the People's Army.

Daming has lost the support of the people, no one wants to join the Ming army, how should Daming defeat the people's army?

Song Yingchang thought of a way to resist or even defeat the People's Army, the population under the Ming Dynasty was ten times the population under the People's Army, and the strength of the Ming Dynasty was still very strong.

Even if the People's Army defeats the Ming Army again and occupies more territory, it will be difficult for the People's Army to gain the hearts of the people in the new territory, and if there are no more people supporting the People's Army, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably exterminate the People's Army in the end!

Song Yingchang wrote down his thoughts, but did not send them to the capital, Song Yingchang understood, it was difficult for the Ming Dynasty to do these points, the landlords were unwilling to distribute their land to the people at the bottom, and more importantly, the ministers in the court were all big landlords, and it can be said that one of the foundations of the Ming Dynasty was these landlords.

The closer death is, the more thoroughly Song Yingchang thinks about it, Song Yingchang understands that it is very difficult for the Ming Dynasty to defeat the People's Army, the original People's Army was very weak, and the 100,000 Ming Army can be wiped out, and now hundreds of thousands of Ming Army cannot defeat the People's Army, and the strength of the People's Army has been increasing rapidly since its appearance.

A few years later, the Ming Dynasty trained a million-strong army to go to Guangdong, and Song Yingchang couldn't imagine what a powerful opponent the million-strong army of the Ming Dynasty would encounter at that time, and would it be a one-touch collapse?

Song Yingchang is no longer willing to think about it, he is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, even if he dies, he will die in the land of the Ming Dynasty, Song Yingchang is unwilling to escape to the rule of the People's Army to survive, and he only pities his wife, son and daughter.

Song Yingchang died, under the arrangement of Song Yingchang before his death, the Ming army did not have chaos, and the People's Army soon received the news of Song Yingchang's death, but it did not have the idea of attacking the Ming army.

The People's Army would have fought a long time ago, with the current strength of the Ming Army on three sides in Guangdong, the People's Army would be able to defeat the Ming Army by paying some casualties, but there was no need for this, after fighting for so long, the People's Army was also tired and needed time to rest, as long as the People's Army was given more time to recuperate, and more muskets, artillery, and grenades were created in the rear, the strength of the People's Army would increase faster than that of the Ming Court.

With the delivery of all kinds of materials worth one million taels of silver to the hands of the People's Army, the People's Army surrounding the Huguang Ming Army retreated, and after seeing the retreat of the People's Army, one by one the Ming soldiers and officers cried excitedly, and it was the luckiest thing to be able to survive.

A war has come to an end for the time being, and everyone knows that maybe a year, maybe a few years, a new war will break out, and there will only be one left in the end between the Ming Dynasty and the People's Army!