In order to show Ma Shaoyu's sincerity in the Qing army's peace negotiation, under great pressure, Fan Wencheng, with the consent of Huang Taiji, took Ma Shaoyu and held the hand of Emperor Chongzhen to the city of Guangning to inform the defenders of the city and ask Inspector Hong to come out and speak.

Ma Shaoyu is also an acquaintance of Inspector Hong, and as Lang Zhong, the staff of the Ministry of War, the two have met many times. When Hong Chengchou sent troops to Liaodong, Ma Shaoyu also lived in his army for several months.

Carefully read the handwritten edict of Emperor Chongzhen to Chen Xinjia that the soldiers tied up from under the city with hanging baskets, and Hong Chengchou, who was familiar with the emperor's handwriting, carefully read it several times, and also confirmed that it was the emperor's handwritten edict.

An acquaintance brought the emperor's edict to prove that the two families were negotiating peace, which immediately caused an uproar in the city.

Regardless of whether there will be reinforcements here, no one will die in battle. As long as the peace negotiation can be successful, we can still keep the whole family rich.

"My lord! Mr. Fan told the students that in order to show the sincerity of the discussion between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, Lao Han specially issued an order to retreat five miles from the besieging soldiers and horses, and the officers and soldiers in the city could go out of the city to collect firewood and horses, and get water and charcoal! ”

Trapped for almost the entire winter, tens of thousands of people were surrounded in this small city of Quang Ninh, and each one was already trapped to the point that his bones were moldy. Now that Huang Taiji has taken the initiative to show favor in order to negotiate peace, everyone can go out of the city to carry out activities, let horses fetch firewood and drink water, how can such a good thing not make everyone excited?

Outside the city is a secret envoy sent by the emperor to Liaodong to negotiate peace, and around him is a group of subordinates whose eyes are full of expectation, how could Hong Chengchou, who has been in the army for a long time, speak out against it at this time?

At that moment, he smiled and expressed his gratitude to Fan Wencheng, he should have invited Mr. Fan to enter the city for a while, but now that the peace has not been completed, everyone's identity is a little embarrassing, and he has to wronged Mr. Fan!

Fan Wencheng didn't say much, and after saluting the city, he led Ma Shaoyu and the others back to Huang Taiji's camp. Before leaving, he dropped a sentence: "Lord Hong, generals." If you want any letters, you can send someone to the middle of the camp Malang, your army's Wu Sangui department is now stationed in Songshan, the so-called beacon fire even March family letter is worth 10,000 gold. You might as well write a letter to report your safety home! ”

The soldiers and horses in the city learned that they wanted to negotiate peace, and during the peace negotiation, everyone could go out of the city to collect firewood and release horses, even if the peace was not negotiated. Wu Sangui's troops and horses have arrived at Songshan Fort, which is only a stone's throw away from Guangning! I think everyone can be safe this time! However, Hong Chengchou, the master of Hong, is an old traitor, and he can neither disbelieve Huang Taiji's statement, nor dare to believe it all. This kind of thing of luring the enemy to go deeper, let down his vigilance, and start a killing spree, he Hong Chengchou was not less useful when he exterminated all kinds of rogues in the Central Plains. As long as those rogues lay down their weapons and accept the recruitment. It's time to become the ghost of his Hongyan King!

"Although the slave chief Hongtai sent people to show goodwill, but the two armies are facing each other, and they are cautious in everything! The order went down, and all towns and battalions must not untie their armor and horses and leave their saddles. Sentinels strengthen their staff! ”

At the first time there was good news, everyone was also skeptical, and all the generals were skeptical about the military orders of Inspector Hong.

"My lord, strengthen the manpower. There is a shortage of soldiers and horses in various departments, can one soldier be transferred to the city? Cao Bianjiao hesitated for a moment. He asked Inspector Hong for help. Everyone knows what he means.

Since Zu Dashou surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, many battalions of the Guanning Army, because of their close relationship with the ancestral family, were withdrawn from the city by Inspector Hong in the name of rotating the guard, but now they intend to strengthen their vigilance. Isn't it unconvincing that these centaurs are sleeping in the city?

What's more, at present, in Guangning City, most of the soldiers and horses are the Guanning army, and Wang Tingchen and Ma Ke are all Liaodong generals. It is Cao Bianjiao. It is also inextricably linked with Liaodong. With the reason of worrying about colluding with the ancestral family to donate the city, it doesn't make sense now.

After a moment of silence, Hong Chengchou nodded and agreed to join the ranks of those troops who were not very trusted in the defense of the city wall.

"Be careful. Also, when going out of the city to collect firewood and release horses, you should also pay more attention to it, and you must not be careless. ”

Under the caution of Inspector Hong and the rank generals, hundreds of old and weak soldiers who went out of the city to collect firewood were taken down from the city walls.

Below the city, hundreds of people went to the mountains and forests to fetch firewood, and there were thousands of pairs of eyes staring at the whereabouts and movements of these people in the city.

Sure enough, when the sun went down, the men returned to the city with heavy firewood on their backs.

The next day, the number of people who went out of the city to collect firewood doubled, and dozens of weak mules and horses were released from the city, where they were watched, and they were greedily eaten in search of the budding grass outside the city.

In the distance, a thin figure on a thin horse, with tears in his eyes, staggered from the direction of the Qing army camp, and saw the Ming army flag fluttering on the head of the city from a distance, and couldn't help crying bitterly.

"Unexpectedly, I still have the day to see the Han family again!"

Someone found out that this was Lord Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong!

Qiu Minyang can be regarded as a disadvantage, at the beginning of the battle of Tashan, his Fubiao battalion shook the offensive of the whole army, if it was according to Li Huamei's meaning, he, the governor of Liaodong, would have been invited out of the Son of Heaven Sword Army before the law. Fortunately, everyone pleaded for mercy and barely saved their lives. Later, the last batch of supplies to Jinzhou was escorted into Jinzhou, and after entering the city, they were besieged in the city and were not allowed to go out. He also looked down on it, so if he died in Jinzhou, it was considered a martyrdom, and the imperial court would have a ceremony to give to his family.

The next thing was even more twists and turns, first Wu Biao, Wang Pu, Li Fuming and others led troops to rush into the siege and join the Jinzhou garrison. However, it didn't take long for the Ming army to kill the guys, and a good head of Wu Biao was sent to Dorgon, the prince of Nu Chieftain Rui. And after Zu Dashou and the others exterminated the model brigade, they found out that there was still a Liaodong governor in the city! As a result, he was sacrificed to Huang Taiji as the highest-ranking captive in Jinzhou City.

In order to show his sincerity in the peace talks, Huang Taiji sent the guy who was killed and said that he would not surrender to Quang Ninh, and by the way, he also saved some food for himself. However, Qiu Minyang did not come empty-handed when he entered the city, and Huang Taiji ordered him to bring the terms of peace talks with Ma Shaoyu to Hong Chengchou.

"Nanu Chief Hongtai said that he has used the treasure seal, as long as the emperor uses the seal, the war in Liaodong will stop, and the people will live and work in peace and contentment."

Seeing Qiu Minyang being released back to Guangning by Huang Taiji, the original doubts in Hong Chengchou's heart suddenly disappeared. In particular, Qiu Minyang took out a copy of Huang Taiji's seal from his protective book. There are the signatures of Ma Shaoyu and Fan Wencheng on it, and after the ancillary seals and terms of Ganglin and others, I believe more and more that this matter is true!

The above terms are undoubtedly much more lenient than Inspector Hong originally expected. It is not required to be called a son or grandson. It's not the Yuanyuan Alliance, but it seems to have left enough dignity for Daming. Huang Taiji went to the emperor, canonized as the king of Liao, and sealed Liaodong as his land, and he was responsible for guarding it. However, the Ming court would send officials to serve in various parts of Liaodong. There is neither a year coin nor a land, at most it is tributary trade and border trade. Such generous conditions couldn't help but make Inspector Hong and the others feel jealous for a while.

"If that's the case, then what are the decades of war we've been fighting?!" An adjutant general of the Guan Ning Army muttered a sentence in his mouth, which could be regarded as venting his dissatisfaction.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Hong Chengchou reprimanded. With his ability and authority over the army, the general was suddenly frightened and did not dare to speak.

However, this does not mean that Hong Chengchou agrees with this matter of peace negotiation.

He conceited himself as a ten-year-old superintendent, and he has been stumbling on the battlefield for many years, and now with more than 100,000 troops, he has consumed millions of food and salaries, but he can't break the thief in front of him, but he was easily dealt with by a small and medium-sized official in the court. Let him go to the emperor and restore the country. How can this humiliation be tolerated?

He now fully understands the inner feeling of Han Xin, the king of Qi back then! Lao Tzu's hundreds of thousands of troops fought for so long to defeat more than 50 cities, how can you say that more than 70 cities will come down?

Everyone in the history books praised those famous lobbyists, and praised their so-called three-inch incorruptible tongue lotus flower, which did not take a single soldier. But no, I never thought about the power behind these lobbyists. If there was no powerful Qin State behind him, would Zhang Yi be able to play hooligans and make muddy in the six countries of Kwantung? I'm afraid that someone will have been thrown into the oil pot to cook it a long time ago!

Even if Ma Shaoyu was born, he had a tone that was even better than Su Qin and Zhang Yi. If it weren't for Huang Taiji's own way of trying to get through the guò war to prompt the Ming Dynasty to recognize his rule over Liaodong and develop border trade, coupled with the Ming Dynasty's repeated military pressure, which also made the Liaodong rebels miserable, he would not have agreed to negotiate peace with you, and his stature was so low!

"Historically, those who have been literate must be armed. The court wants to negotiate peace. We are in the former enemy, and we don't know anything about the imperial court, so we naturally don't know what the emperor thinks. However, let's make good use of this time, be ready to continue to deal with Huang Taiji! ”

Inspector Hong didn't believe it, and at the same time, he didn't quite hope that the peace between the imperial court and the Liao thieves would succeed. In this regard, his understanding of the various factions within the imperial court can be regarded as a correct judgment. What he did was to make full use of this time, a large amount of reserves, mainly firewood, etc., and at the same time, rotate the horses that had been kept in captivity outside the city to graze outside the city and eat some grass, so as to lay the foundation for future wars.

At that moment, he explained his thoughts to Qiu Minyang, Cao Bianjiao and others one by one, and everyone said yes. I praise the Overseer for his very proper handling.

From the next day, the number of soldiers who went out to cut firewood and collect mushrooms and fungus in the mountains and forests suddenly more than doubled. Every day, the city gate is divided into morning and afternoon, and each time it is developed for half an hour, so that the horsemen and cavalry in the city can drive the mules and horses of each battalion and town to the outside of the city in phases and batches to graze and drink water.

"Your Majesty, according to the statistics made by the minions below, there were about 2,000 Ming soldiers who went out of the city yesterday, and there were more than 1,000 mules and horses. Today, the number has reached nearly 4,000 people who have left the city to harvest timber and prepare firewood and grass. More than twice as many horses are grazing out of the city. ”

Huang Taiji's side of the Kabush Xianzhang Jingwu Bai, while waiting for Huang Taiji to change into armor, motioned to the groom to prepare the two horses from heaven that Dolgon Jin presented to Huang Taiji, and was still communicating with Huang Taiji, telling the master of the changes in the military situation in the past few days.

"What's going on in my tiger's mouth?"

The tiger's mouth in Huang Taiji's mouth is his eldest son, the current Prince Su is the owner of the Blue Banner Manchuria.

Wu Bai naturally did not dare to slack off on the situation of the future emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom and the Great Mongolian Bogda Khan, not to mention that he knew everything well, and he could also grasp seventy or eighty percent.

"Prince Su's master ordered someone to report that the Ming soldiers who were collecting firewood and horses had crossed the first long trench, and almost all the wood in the long trench had been transported into the city by them. There are also more and more soldiers of the Ming army in the mountains on the left. Prince Su asked the emperor to show if he wanted to drive these Ming soldiers who were too close to the emperor farther away? So as not to disturb the emperor? ”

Huang Taiji's dark and chubby face showed a smug smile.

"Give a message to Zu Dashou. I'm going to send some of his men on errands. Sue sù Haoge, since the first long trench has been demolished by the Ming army, you might as well let the second long trench out! ”

That night, the city of Quang Ninh was brightly lit again.

Ma Shaoyu rode his horse with a spring breeze on his face, and hundreds of Huang Taiji's Kabush soldiers around him guarded him like stars holding the moon.

"My lord! The students are fortunate to be alive! Mrs. Han Hongtai had already agreed to the terms of the peace negotiation. And with the seal! The terms of the peace are now presented, and I would like to ask the old gentleman for some advice. If there is nothing wrong, please ask the old gentleman to sign with the student and send it to the Beijing teacher to ask His Majesty to judge! ”

"The villain has a will!" From Hong Chengchou to Qiu Minyang, all the way to the generals and guerrillas under Cao Bianjiao, Wang Tingchen, Ma Ke and others, such a sentence spontaneously appeared in their hearts.

However, people can be regarded as having achievements, but they have to be perfunctory.

At that moment, Hong Chengchou ordered people to put down the hanging basket and hang the text of the discussion and the peace to the city. Really. Above the signature of the envoys of both sides, Huang Taiji's seal is clearly covered with cinnabar. After a hasty glance, Hong Chengchou saw that the terms were the same as what he had seen before, but some changes had been made in the text.

"It's getting late today, so you might as well go back and take a good look. If there is nothing wrong, please ask the old man to use the seal. Send someone to Mr. Ma, and we will send it to Jingshi immediately! Under Ma Shaoyu, Fan Wencheng was also eager. shouted out his inner hope to the head of the city.

"The slave chieftain is in a hurry to negotiate peace, there must be a crisis in the country!"

Hong Chengchou from Huang Taiji's many tables. Such a conclusion was reached!

In order to make Hong Chengchou and the generals in the city agree to this document as much as possible, and jointly send it to Beijing to ask for Chongzhen's imperial approval, Fan Wencheng ordered the accompanying Baoyi Aha to put hundreds of pigs and sheep and a lot of wine, vegetables, tea and other things under the city, and asked Inspector Hong to reward them.

These pigs, sheep, wine, vegetables, and other things have dispelled the doubts in the hearts of the generals, and it seems that this battle will really end in the negotiation of peace. There is one who is quick-witted. I have already begun to think about how much silver I can earn by opening a border market in the future, and the castle in the defense zone where I am located.

"Lord Qiu, you work hard and distribute these pig and sheep wine syrup to the commanders." All of a sudden. Inspector Hong felt as if his body had been emptied, and his whole body was weak, if it weren't for the lights, his face would have been as white as the remnants of snow in the old forest behind Shanyin.

That night, the city cheered. The sound of slaughtering pigs and sheep was heard in all camps and towns, and many people forced themselves to fall asleep with saliva under the aroma of stewed meat.

After dawn, the sergeant on duty at the head of the city was even more pleasantly surprised to find that the Qing soldiers in the second long trench had retreated overnight, and they were almost out of the range of General Dingliao!

Amid the cheers, the gates opened, and numerous soldiers swarmed out to the second trench to tear down the fences and timber for the fortifications, and transport them to the city for fuel. It just so happens that the stew lacks firewood!

Occasionally, soldiers who were collecting firewood in the mountains and forests encountered the Qing army, and the two sides no longer fought for their lives. Those Qing soldiers from the Liaodong Army, on the contrary, will smile and report the troops they belong to, the commanders they were subordinate to before. To set friendships, most of these people are from Jinzhou, Zu Dashou's subordinates. Many of the Guan Ning troops who went out of the city to collect firewood were friends and relatives. Speaking of it at the moment, there are many familiar people in each other's camp, and for a while, they turned hostility into friendship.

Since they are all friends, they have to talk about it well, these former Qing soldiers of the Guanning Army took out the wine jug from their arms, took out the dry food and cooked meat from their waists, sat on the ground and pushed it slightly, and then drank happily.

If you pay a little attention to such a scene, you will find that in the mountains and forests around Quang Ninh, on the grass beaches, and beside the springs, there are Qing soldiers and those Ming soldiers who went out of the city to collect firewood and herd horses, gnawing on freshly baked flour cakes, sitting around drinking wine and eating meat, and talking very happily. From time to time, the Ming soldiers who were so drunk that their faces were flushed and the Qing soldiers who were also full of wine patted their shoulders and called them brothers.

Such a scene was taken into the eyes of the two commanders, one south and one north, with the help of the lenses of the telescope.

"Why did the subordinates of the slave chief Huang Taiji come here so laxly and slap in with our soldiers so much? Could it really be that there is something going on in the slave emirate that is in a hurry to collect troops? Or did these soldiers also know that peace was about to be concluded, so they came to have some friendship with these soldiers, so it would be more convenient in the future? ”

Holding the monocular with the brass mirror in his hand, Inspector Hong saw the scene clearly. The soldiers of the Ming army wearing eight-petal hats and iron-pointed helmets on their heads, and the former Guanning soldiers wearing folded scarves on their heads, supported each other all the way out of the mountains and forests.

He was very puzzled and sat on the artillery seat of the Dingliao General cannon at the head of the city, holding the slightly cool cannon body with his right hand, dazed and at a loss.

"Whatever he is, he will use his seal and sign today. The peace clause was ordered to be sent to the camp of Hong Tai, and ordered him to get out of the way, and the army wanted to return to Ningyuan Marquis! (To be continued......)