Chapter 294 Entering the enemy camp alone
Zu Dashou asked people to take pen, ink, paper and inkstone, write a reply letter, and when the ink was dry, he handed it to Liu Renyu and sent it when he wrote the war.
Liu Renyu received the reply, and then returned to his tent and rested in peace.
Early in the morning of the second day, Liu Renyu asked people to take out their court clothes and put them on in front of the vanity mirror.
"General, do you have to dress so formally when you go to see the slave chief?" Sun Wuxian was puzzled.
"Although the court doesn't admit it, but Huang Taiji is also the lord of a country, let's go to meet people, don't dress decently, and look rude. And since we want to wear high hats for others, we have to lower our posture ourselves, and this lower posture starts from the dress. Liu Renyu explained.
"General, the court clothes are used when you see the emperor, you wear the court clothes to see the slave chief, you are not afraid of being seen, tell the official?" Ma Wenshan said coldly.
"Yo, yes. The court clothes were worn when I saw the emperor, but you reminded me. Liu Renyu said vigilantly.
"General, you are now wearing a military uniform in addition to the court uniform, do you want to wear a military uniform?" Sun Wuxian asked.
"If I don't wear a military uniform, I just wear a cloak to cover the court clothes." Liu Renyu said.
"General, it's summer, wouldn't it be suspicious for you to wear a cloak!" Li Jiye reminded as if he remembered something.
"It's .........." Liu Renyu opened his mouth and was stunned, and then said helplessly: "Come on, I'll still wear a military uniform." ”
So he had to change into a military uniform again and put on makeup again.
After these preparations were completed, he asked Sun Wuxian to bring a team of soldiers, follow him with wooden planks, and go all the way out of the city.
Everyone went downstairs to the south gate, and the soldiers of the Liao army guarding the city knew that Liu Renyu was going to the enemy camp to deliver a letter, and they were very impressed, and they were very polite in their words.
The city gate opened, the drawbridge fell, Liu Renyu led his men to the edge of the ditch, Sun Wuxian asked people to bring the wooden planks to cover the trench, Liu Renyu passed, the planks were put away.
After passing another trench, Liu Renyu turned back to Sun Wuxian and said, "No disease, stay, just wait here, I will enter the enemy camp alone." ”
"General, let the disease-free go with you, in case something happens, it's good to take care of it." Sun Wuxian said uneasily.
"There's no need, if there's really something, tens of thousands of enemy troops, what are you going to do! Just wait for me right here. ”
"Yes, General." Sun Wuxian didn't say anything more, so he waited with his subordinates.
"Gone." Liu Renyu said goodbye to his subordinates, and then raised a white flag high and headed south.
The south side is the boundary of the Zhengnan Banner, that is, the defense ground of the banner led by Mang Gurtai.
Liu Renyu rode his horse and walked a few steps, and a person shouted loudly in Liaodong Han dialect, that is, the Beijing film of later generations: "Who is coming, and stop." ”
but they heard their voices, but they did not see their people.
"I am Liu Renyu, a guerrilla general of Jingbianbao in the town of the Yansui Army of the Ming Dynasty, and I was sent as a messenger by Zu Zongzhen to deliver a letter to the Ying Ming Khan of the Dajin Kingdom." Liu Renyu replied loudly.
"Dajin Kingdom Wise Khan! Heh, you Nanban is a bit interesting. ”
As he spoke, there was a burly, not tall, but quite sturdy soldier, wearing plate armor on his upper body, a girdle around his waist, a mustache, no helmet, and a money rat-tail pigtail behind his head.
They carried bows and blades, moved quickly under their feet, and soon surrounded Liu Renyu.
Liu Renyu looked at the situation in front of him, then turned over and dismounted, and said to the short and fat Houjin soldier with a big broom in his hand, and said with a smile: "This master, the last general came alone, without a blade, and several masters don't need to be nervous." ”
"Heh, you barbarian is a bit interesting, you also know the etiquette of our Dajin, and you are obviously a general, and you still salute me as a little soldier, which is really interesting." After that, Jin Zhanbing joked.
After Jin Zhanbing spoke like this, Liu Renyu knew that the other party was a little minion or something, but he didn't care, just a salute, not to lose face, and since he wanted to have a low profile, then simply lower it to the end.
"You Dajin soldiers have always been invincible, and the generals will admire them tightly, so it doesn't hurt to salute." Liu Renyu replied with an unchanged expression.
"Heh, you Southern Dynasty people just can talk. But whether you bring a blade or not, you don't know if you say it yourself, you have to check it to know. Come, take his horse away. ”
"Yes, master." An Aha pawn got the order and came to take Liu Renyu's mount.
"When you finish sending the letter, I will return you." Then Jin Zhanbing said.
"Yes." Liu Renyu said.
"Aren't you going to send a letter to the Great Khan! Follow me. After that, the Jin soldiers took Liu Renyu through several trenches and came to the camp behind the earthen wall.
Here, Liu Renyu was invited to the camp by several Houjin Aha to carefully check whether he was carrying a blade.
After confirming that it was correct, several high-ranking Houjin soldiers with relatively high-level armor took Liu Renyu to a large tent with a carved dragon and a phoenix, which looked very eye-catching.
When Liu Renyu entered the big tent, he saw a middle-aged warrior wearing a blue coiled dragon armor, no helmet, a Chinese face, sword eyebrows, murderous eyes, and a branded beard sitting in the middle of the big tent.
On either side of this person, there were a number of samurai sitting on each of the horses, and judging by the quality of the armor, he knew that it must be a figure such as a great official.
At this time, the middle-aged warrior in the blue armor was staring at Liu Renyu viciously, looking at the posture, he couldn't wait to tear Liu Renyu in half immediately.
The rest of the generals were also full of murderous and cold eyes.
"This is our Dajin Lord who commands the blue flag, and the one who delivered the letter should not hurry up and see the gift." A Houjin soldier who brought Liu Renyu in said.
"Foreign Minister Liu Renyu, the guerrilla general of Jingbian Fort in the town of the Ming Yansui Army, knocked on the blue flag of Dajin Guozheng and held the flag of Lord Belle, and Lord Belle was auspicious."
Liu Renyu watched many Qing palace dramas in later generations, and now he is just applying what he has learned, touching the ground with one hand and kneeling on one knee without saying a word.
"Heh, you barbarian is a bit interesting, there are a lot of envoys from the Southern Dynasty, and it is rare for someone like you to know the number of rituals of our Dajin Kingdom." Mang Gurtai seemed to be amused by Liu Renyu, his complexion was slightly loosened, and he no longer looked bitter and hateful.
Mang Gurtai's face softened, and the generals present no longer held it, and they all smiled.
"Thanks to Lord Belle's praise, the last general is very honored, but the minister is here to send a letter to the Wise Khan, please ask Lord Belle to take the minister to see the Wise Khan, the last general will finish the errand, and return to the ancestral town." Liu Renyu bowed down and pleaded.
"Yesterday's incident, I also know that Zilharang wrote a letter of persuasion to you, and I don't think that your ancestral town actually sent such a messenger to reply to you. Also, my Dajin Heavenly Soldiers have besieged you several times, and you have no food, why don't you come down early? Mang Gurtai asked.
"I have been sent as a messenger to show that we are serious about this matter. The generals in the city are all the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty who have received the grace of the country, and they should be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, do not send a single arrow, surrender without fighting, not to mention being vain as courtiers, at least as a man. Liu Renyu replied without humility or arrogance.
"What a presumptuous man, you barbarian said it well, I like people like you. Wait, and I'll take you to the Great Khan. Mang Gurtai slapped his thigh, first laughed, and then said to a general on the right: "Jue Luo Sele, I will take the messenger of the Southern Dynasty to deliver the letter to the Great Khan, and you are here to watch." ”
"Pierce." Zhenglan Flag Gushan Zhenjue Roselle responded.
"Barbarian, follow me and go to see the Great Khan together." After Mang Gurtai finished the arrangement, he invited Liu Renyu to go with him.
"The minister thanked Lord Baylor." Liu Renyu bowed and thanked him.
Subsequently, Mang Gurtai sent 4 guards, divided into front and back, left and right, surrounded Liu Renyu in the middle, out of the Zhenglan Banner camp, then turned to the west, and went straight to the Chinese army camp where Huang Taiji was.