In the capital city of Wuzhou in eastern Guangxi, 40,000 Ming troops were surrounded by more than 60,000 people's legions outside the city.

The gates of Wuzhou Mansion have been blocked on all sides, and the People's Army can only take Wuzhou Mansion by blowing up the city wall or using a ladder to climb the city wall, both of which will bring a large number of casualties to the People's Army, so He Yan has no plan to capture Wuzhou Mansion City, just to scare the Ming army here and complete the plan formulated above to promote peace by war.

In addition to promoting peace through war, He Yanbu also has an important task, which is to cooperate with the navy to capture Qiongzhou Mansion.

He Yan dispatched an infantry battalion of firearms, a Francophone artillery battalion, a regiment of the Xiandeng unit, a regiment of the grenadier unit, and two brigades of the cold weapons unit, totaling about 10,000 people, under the command of deputy commander Xu Gang, and immediately headed south.

He Yan continued to lead more than 50,000 men and horses to besiege the capital city of Wuzhou, encircling the north, south and east, leaving only the west, hoping that the Ming army in the city could leave the city and flee westward, which would give the People's Army a chance to destroy this Ming army.

The holy decree of the Zhao'an People's Army was finally sent to the capital of Ganzhou, and Song Yingchang was relieved to learn that the imperial court wanted to recruit the People's Army, he didn't want to continue fighting, the current Ming Army couldn't beat the People's Army at all, even if he gathered 500,000 troops, it was very likely to be defeated by the People's Army.

However, at this time, Song Yingchang also had doubts, would the People's Army accept the imperial court's recruitment?

You must know that at this time, the People's Army is strong and the army is weak, if the People's Army does not count the casualties, it is even possible to capture Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Huguang, and now that the People's Army is so strong, it is relatively unlikely that it will accept the imperial court's recruitment.

But this is the task given to him by the imperial court, no matter whether it can succeed or not, Song Yingchang has to give it a try.

The next day, Song Yingchang sent an envoy to Xinfeng County to inform the People's Army that the Ming Dynasty wanted to recruit An, but Wang Shengrong didn't even listen to the envoy and said the conditions given by the Zhao'an People's Army, and drove him away.

Looking at the subordinates who were driven back, Song Yingchang had a headache, and sure enough, as he thought, the People's Army was not so easy to accept Zhao'an.

Faced with the refusal of the People's Army, Song Yingchang thought about it behind closed doors for several days, and finally came up with an idea: If Zhao'an can't do it, then talk about peace.

The imperial court wants to recruit the People's Army, Song Yingchang can easily see the thoughts of the imperial court, the imperial court and the people's army are like this, the imperial court must be eager to destroy the people's army, and the recruitment of the people's army is likely to delay time.

Recruit the People's Army, the war can stop, and the imperial court will have time to recruit young and strong new troops, and when the time comes, a million troops will attack, and it is very likely that the People's Army will be annihilated.

Now Zhao'an can't be done, Song Yingchang thought that if the two sides negotiated peace, they could stop the war, and give the court time to expand the army, and the court should agree to replace Zhao'an with peace.

But how can the People's Army negotiate peace?

After thinking about it, Song Yingchang set his goal on the people.

After fighting with the People's Army for so long, Song Yingchang was a person who knew the People's Army relatively well in the imperial court, the People's Army, the People's Army, and his idea was to let the common people live a good life.

Now that the People's Army is at war with the Ming Army, the living conditions of the common people in the areas where the war is fought are very poor, and if this excuse is used, it is very likely that the People's Army will agree to negotiate peace.

After deciding to replace Zhao'an with peace talks, Song Yingchang immediately sent personnel to send the situation to the capital, and sent an envoy to Xinfeng County again to send a handwritten letter from Song Yingchang to Wang Shengrong.

The content of the letter was very simple: first explained that the army and the people's army were tired, then said that the common people in the areas where the two armies were fighting were having a hard time, and finally suggested that the two armies cease fighting.

Song Yingchang's handwritten letter is in traditional Chinese, Wang Shengrong can understand it in front of him, and after reading the letter, Wang Shengrong smiled and handed the letter to Cheng Xinyuan beside him.

Cheng Xinyuan is the Minister of Rites, the Ministry of Rites also has diplomatic purposes, the People's Army promotes peace with war, and the matter of peace is handed over to the Ministry of Rites to discuss, as a minister, Cheng Xinyuan personally came to the front line.

"This Song Yingchang is really unusual, and the most important thing in the letter is that 'the people in the war zone are living very hard'." Cheng Xinyuan said with some emotion after reading the letter.

Hearing the words of his old classmate, Wang Shengrong replied with a smile: "Song Yingchang is a talent who stands out among hundreds of millions of people in the world, if a waste is allowed to become a big official and lead hundreds of thousands of horses, then the Ming Court will have perished long ago." ”

Song Yingchang knew that the People's Army attached importance to the people, and the two retorted that as long as the People's Army defeated the Ming Army, Guangxi, Fujian, Huguang, and Jiangxi would all be occupied by the People's Army, and the people in these places would be able to live a good life at that time.

Wang Shengrong's letter did not write any content to talk about peace, partly to refute the words of Song Yingchang's letter, partly to describe the tragic situation of the common people under the rule of the Ming court, and finally wrote that "water can carry a boat and can also overturn a boat", the people's army will overthrow the Ming court, and persuade Song Yingchang to lead the Ming army to surrender as soon as possible.

Song Yingchang sent a letter to Wang Shengrong to talk about peace, and Wang Shengrong sent a letter of persuasion to Song Yingchang, which was translated into traditional Chinese by a special person after Wang Shengrong finished writing.

Soon, the letter of persuasion was sent to Song Yingchang, after reading the letter, Song Yingchang was expressionless, indifferent to the persuasion of the People's Army, thinking about how to reply to the letter, if the People's Army did not reply to the letter, it would be a troublesome thing for Song Yingchang, as long as there was a reply, in Song Yingchang's view, there was something to talk about.

The next day, Song Yingchang's second peace letter was sent to Wang Shengrong, the content of the letter was still to stop fighting with the People's Army, and the main content was twofold:

The first point is that the strength of the Ming army is not as good as the People's Army, but the Ming Army can hold on to a few cities, the Ming Dynasty has a vast territory and a large population, and it will soon be able to send more people over, and the People's Army will definitely not be able to occupy Jiangxi, Huguang and other places;

The second point is that as the fighting lasts longer, the people in the war area will inevitably starve to death due to the impact of the war.

In the exchange of letters between the two sides, the KPA did not want to talk about peace, to the KPA loosening, to the KPA considering peace talks, and finally the KPA had the conditions to negotiate peace.

The People's Army had the conditions to negotiate peace, that is, the Ming court had to pay some price before the People's Army would agree to a truce with the Ming army.

During the exchange of letters, the People's Army was still attacking the Ming army in various places, and Xu Gang's troops and the navy had already converged in Leizhou City and were about to leave for Qiongzhou Prefecture.

On the other hand, the matter of Zhao'an to negotiate peace has been sent to the capital, although the emperor and a group of ministers were very dissatisfied with the People's Army's refusal to accept Zhao'an, but in the end they still accepted Song Yingchang's turn Zhao'an into peace.

The imperial court's reply to Song Yingchang is still on the way, and Song Yingchang is already smiling at the People's Army's willingness to negotiate peace, as for the People's Army's conditional peace talks, then continue to talk, as long as there is a truce.