When Qian Mengjiu heard Li Xuan say that he wanted to send someone to negotiate with Su Jiakang outside the city, he was extremely panicked at the first time, he was afraid that his emperor was besieged in Zhengtai County, and completely lost the confidence to resist after the failure of the breakthrough, so he wanted to surrender to the Ming army. Updates are fast and ad-free.

And this kind of thing is very bad, not to mention that Li Xuan's own life cannot be saved after Li Xuan's surrender, and they, the main civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty, are afraid that their lives will not be guaranteed.

Although in most cases, in order to reduce the influence and break the cohesion of the rebel gangs, the imperial court often only pursues the first offender, and the servants are generally dealt with lightly, and some of the less important ones are sent to exile or put on dozens of boards, and those ordinary soldiers will even be disbanded on the spot.

But the servants mentioned here only refer to some people who are not very important, as for Qian Mengjiu and Fang Dongquan as their core backbones, the treatment they enjoy will not be much better than Li Xuan, and the best result is to cut off their heads.

In addition to the miserable end, Qian Mengjiu also did not want the Tang Dynasty to perish, this person is similar to Liu Bagou, they are all sitting on the dream of the founding hero, and even have a trace of stubbornness unique to literati.

He decided that he was going to rebel, and unless he died, he should not be expected to dismiss the idea.

In the past year or so, he Qian Mengjiu, Liu Bagou and others have worked hard to develop the Tang Dynasty from a few hundred people to more than 4,000 people, and now that Li Xuan said that he wanted to surrender, he would naturally agree.

Li Xuan glanced at Qian Mengjiu, who was already extremely worried, and said quite speechlessly: "When did I say that I surrendered, sending someone to negotiate does not necessarily mean surrendering!" ”

Qian Mengjiu was a little incomprehensible, and immediately said: "If it weren't for the negotiation of surrender, what else would we have to talk about with Su Jiakang?" ”

These two groups of people, one group is officers and soldiers, and the other group is a group of rebellious bandits, and they don't have any common topics at all, so can we still sit together and discuss how to rebel and how to suppress them?

Li Xuan continued: "I want them to make way for us to break through!" ”

Qian Mengjiu said: "If this is the case, it is naturally possible to talk about it, but in this situation, I'm afraid that the Ming army will not give us the way to break through, right?" ”

Su Jiakang was bent on annihilating them, and even capturing Li Xuan alive, although they failed to attack twice in the afternoon, they would definitely continue to attack in the future, as long as they broke through Zhengtai County, the fate of their own people was not up to Su Jiakang.

In this case, Su Jiakang will take the initiative to let them go?

Li Xuan didn't speak immediately, but turned around and looked at the city, and said lightly at the same time: "If he doesn't let us leave, I will order the slaughter of the city tonight, and there will be no more than 8,000 people in the city, and then all the fires will be burned!" ”

Hearing Li Xuan's words, Qian Mengjiu was stunned for a while, so that he didn't speak for a long time, and only after a long time did he mutter: "Slaughter the city? ”

Even if he has been a bandit for many years, even if he has ransacked many villages, even if he has done something to slaughter the young and strong of an entire village and plunder women and children, but Qian Mengjiu was still stunned after hearing this.

This is not an ordinary burning, killing and looting, but a slaughter of the city!

At this time, there were more than 8,000 people in the inner and outer cities of Zhengtai County, all of whom were unarmed ordinary people, and Li Xuan planned to slaughter the city in order to force Su Jiakang outside the city to give them a breakthrough passage.

Qian Mengjiu looked up at Li Xuan, and suddenly found that he didn't know the young man in front of him more and more.

Since when did this young man become so ruthless?

A year ago, Li Xuan was just a few young people who were forced to ascend to the emperor's throne, at that time, Li Xuan was ruthless, not to mention decisive, ruthless, and even soft-hearted many times, and once stopped the bandits of Huangzhu Mountain from going out of the mountain to 'collect grain'.

However, now in order to break through, he dared to use the lives of the people in the city as a bargaining chip to force Su Jiakang to retreat.

When Qian Mengjiu thought like this, he didn't know at all that Li Xuan didn't expect Su Jiakang to let him leave because of the lives and deaths of thousands of people in the city.

After experiencing so many things, Li Xuan's mentality has gradually changed, and now he is able to look at things with the mentality of a superior person with a high level of peace of mind.

What is the mentality of the superiors, that is, the life and death of the people is not a matter at all, there is no essential difference between the death of a hundred people and the death of 10,000 people, but the number on paper is larger.

Li Xuan dared to say such a thing as slaughtering the city, he believed that Su Jiakang would dare not care about the life or death of the people in the city!

But it doesn't matter, the lives of the people in the city really don't matter, thousands of dead and wounded people may be unacceptable for many people, but they are nothing to a person in power.

What is really important is that once Li Xuan slaughters the people in the city and finally burns down the county seat of Zhengtai, he Su Jiakang will be 100% beheaded by the imperial court.

Because in this way, the news that Zhengtai County has been conquered and even slaughtered will be all over the sky, and it will be reported all the way to the provincial capital and even the Beijing Division, Song Zhiwen and Su Jiakang will definitely not be able to cover this big hole even if they have three heads and six arms!

When the time comes, let alone Su Jiakang, it is estimated that the prefect Song Zhiwen will end up with a loss of office, dismissal or even beheading.

Li Xuan said that he wanted to slaughter the city, in fact, he was telling Su Jiakang, if you don't let Lao Tzu leave alive, then Lao Tzu will make a big deal about it, Lao Tzu is dead, you have to be finished, and everyone will be ruined.

Qian Mengjiu and they lacked knowledge, and for the time being, they couldn't understand the deep meaning of Li Xuan's saying that he wanted to slaughter the city, but this was still not important to Li Xuan.

Soon, Qian Mengjiu called a young man in a robe, this person is also an official of the Tang Dynasty, named Zhou Yibao, his life experience is also miserable, born in an ordinary peasant family, he also studied when he was a child, his father died in forced labor three years ago, and after a few months, his mother was tired from the heavy farm work and then died.

Two years ago, he was hit by a famine, his family had no crops, his wife and eldest son were starved to death, and then he fled with his young children all the way to the mountains, and fell into the grass like many homeless people in the mountains.

Many villagers who can't survive outside the mountains will choose to flee into the mountains as bandits, otherwise how did so many bandits in the mountains come about, because a large number of fleeing homeless people join them every year.

A year ago, the Tang Dynasty rose strongly in the mountains, and successively incorporated the large and small bandit dens within a radius of 100 miles, and he also joined the Tang Dynasty.

Because he read books when he was a child, he could barely read and write a few words, so he mixed into an official body and became a langzhong under the military department.

As for why he can serve as Langzhong just by recognizing a few words, it is because the Tang Dynasty did not set up civil official positions below Wupin Langzhong.

And the reason why Qian Mengjiu called him here today is not because he is full of poetry and books, but because he can speak well on weekdays, and he is not small, but he is the most suitable person for Qian Mengjiu to find to be the negotiating envoy for a while.

Then Li Xuan personally explained how he should negotiate with Su Jiakang, and when this person heard Li Xuan say that he wanted to slaughter the city as a threat, this person's performance was much calmer than Qian Mengjiu's, but his face changed slightly.

He is also a person who has seen life and death, when his hometown suffered a famine two years ago, almost half of the people in the entire village starved to death, and on his way to escape the famine, he saw countless roadside starvation.

Isn't it just that thousands of people have died, this is already difficult to shake Zhou Yibao's state of mind.

He waited for Li Xuan to finish in detail before he said, "Your Majesty, rest assured, the minister will definitely persuade Su Jiakang to open the passage!" ”

Li Xuan nodded slightly and said, "Well, when you talk to him, you don't need to exaggerate or intimidate, just tell him what I said!" ”

Li Xuan knew that Su Jiakang, the county commander of Zhengtai County, was a smart person, if he was not a smart person, it would be impossible for him to squeeze into the single-plank bridge of the imperial examination and become an official in the examination, and judging from his dealings with this Su Jiakang in the past year, this Su Jiakang does not look like a fool.

Dealing with a smart person is very simple, just tell him what you are going to do, and then he will judge for himself what the impact of doing this will be brought by you, and he does not have to waste his tongue on what to persuade at all.

It didn't take long for Zhou Yibao to sit in a hanging basket and be put down by the Tang New Army at the head of the city, holding a torch, and he walked to the Ming army camp outside the city alone.

The movements of the new Tang army at the head of the city were naturally monitored by the Ming army at any time, and less than 100 meters away, two Ming soldiers stepped forward with knives, and one of them shouted: "Stop!" ”

Zhou Yibao advanced with torches, and he did not carry weapons on his body, and he also wore the robes characteristic of literati, so these Ming soldiers did not shoot arrows at him at the first time, but sent people to inquire.

Because many people can guess this situation, this Zhou Yibao must be a messenger, and the two armies will not fight to make an envoy, which is an old tradition for many years.

Besides, since the puppet Tang thief army sent an envoy out, it must want to negotiate, maybe it just wants to surrender.

Soon, the news that the puppet Tang thief army had sent an envoy out of the city was reported to Su Jiakang!

"Emissary? Could it be that these pseudo-Tang thief armies are breaking through and not succeeding and want to surrender? Su Jiakang thought to himself, and immediately said with a hint of joy on his face: "Let him come in!" ”

It didn't take long for Zhou Yibao to be escorted into Su Jiakang's tent by several Ming soldiers, in order to prevent Zhou Yibao from injuring people and turning into an assassin, these Ming soldiers also searched him all over his body very carefully, and only brought him in after confirming that he was not carrying weapons such as daggers.

After Zhou Yibao entered Su Jiakang's tent, he immediately heard Su Jiakang shout: "Who is coming, don't kneel down quickly!" ”

Zhou Yibao was unmoved, and said with a full of anger: "This official is Langzhong of the Tang Dynasty Military Department, and he has come to discuss with Su County Order by the order of His Majesty the Tang Dynasty?" ”

Seeing that Zhou Yibao was an official and said something like His Majesty the Tang Dynasty, Su Jiakang showed a sneer: "Hmph, the foolish people in the mountain village dare to call themselves officials, come on, drag him down and behead him!" ”

After Zhou Yibao heard this, he was still unmoved, and let the Ming soldiers around him grab him and drag him out, but the corners of his mouth showed a sneer: "Zhou came today with a heart of death, but Su County Order, I don't know if you are also ready to face the destruction of your family!" ”

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