Although He Sanjiang's excuse is very civilian, it is hard to believe that this is from the mouth of a general with tens of thousands of troops in his hands, but it still makes Sun Chuanting have to be cautious, and even hopes that what the other party said is true.

If there is such a rebel army returning to himself, and Da Ming He and his grandson Chuanting, it is really an act of sending charcoal in the snow.

Even if the other party is returned, with his strength, he is likely to listen to the tune and not listen to the announcement, but he also makes himself less worried and uses more energy to deal with the Dashun rebels on the south bank of the Yellow River.

"Take this General Han down to rest first, and come to the Japanese official to give you an answer?"

Sun Chuanting gradually retracted the shocked expression on his face, and after regaining his composure, he summoned his personal guards to invite Han Yao down, and turned his head to continue to convene the previous general soldiers to come to discuss the matter, but at this time, their deliberations were very different.

"What do you generals think, what is He Sanjiang's intentions?"

In the official residence, Sun Chuanting sent He Sanjiang to discuss the issue of returning to his own side, and did not hide any of them to inform the generals of the general army in this group, so that they could check for themselves.

"Lord Hui, according to his humble position, his intentions are ill-intentioned, and he may not be sincere!"

Zuo Liangyu is now the strongest among the general soldiers present, although he has been defeated several times, but he is still very trusted by Sun Chuanting, and in the face of a powerful faction with tens of thousands of troops in his hands suddenly joining, whether it is for the sake of his own position or in terms of crisis awareness, he is full of vigilance against the other party.

"My lord, even if there is no other party's return, with the current strength of our army, the gains and losses of fighting left and right are actually outweighed by the losses, why not agree to his words, and then wait and see what happens."

Suddenly speaking, it was Peng Zhihai, the general of the peasant army who was incorporated by Xiong Wencan when he was in office, and now he is also promoted to the general army because of his background, but he is much excluded by other colleagues around him, but he has a good command of the troops, and after a few years of brilliant results, he still can't stop the other party from becoming a general who is relied on by the supervisors.

"I worked with He Sanjiang under the command of the thief back then, and I know him a little bit, and I feel that although what he says with his personality may not be too sincere, it is also worthy of some trust."

"The thief seems to be righteous and heroic to people, but in fact, he is different from each other, and he is unfair.

Regarding his origin and origin, Peng Zhihai did not intend to avoid it at all, and at this time, he told everyone bluntly, but he asked Sun Chuanting to raise his head and look at him twice.

"That being the case, why don't the generals go to He Sanjiang's headquarters and find out?"

Sun Chuanting looked directly at Peng Zhihai with his eyes, and suddenly said a word in his mouth.

"The last general obeys!!"

Peng Zhihai responded without hesitation.

Others don't know the situation of He Sanjiang's group and don't dare to act rashly, but Peng Zhihai is different, he and He Sanjiang are from the Hongmen spy war station, so they don't need to worry too much.

And as early as before, the base camp had already transmitted a letter to him through a single line, asking him to help He Sanjiang when necessary, but it seemed that it was the right time at this time.

He Sanjiang's return, if you look at it from the perspective of Peng Zhihai, a person who knows more about it, is the most beneficial thing for the Ming Dynasty.

Judging from the information given by the base camp, He Sanjiang's purpose of reversing the Dashun Dynasty was to disrupt the other party's plan to prepare to go north to attack the Daimyo's mansion.

Therefore, at this time, after converging with a part of Baiyushan and occupying a territory of more than 100 miles in Caozhou, He Sanjiang suddenly showed favor to the Ming Dynasty, but it was also a logical thing, and there may not be too many conspiracies.

However, Peng Zhihai believes that even after He Sanjiang and them belong to the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that there will be many requirements, such as being independent, not fighting with Dashun, etc., which is to install the official name of the Ming Dynasty in disguise, but in fact, it is the matter of the princes who dominate one side.

However, at this time, the Ming Dynasty had to make concessions to He Sanjiang and them, knowing that the other party could be regarded as taking advantage of the fire to rob, but he was so happy.

Then everyone thought about it, but in the end they still couldn't reach any decision, it was too unbelievable and people had to be cautious, the only thing that could be done was to see after Peng Zhihai sent Cao Zhou He Sanjiang to the department.

With Sun Chuanting's boundless expectations, Peng Zhihai set off lightly on the second day, and followed Han Yao, who came to deliver goodwill, to Caozhou, where He Sanjiang was directly met.

Others thought it was a move of nine deaths and a lifetime, but in Peng Zhihai's heart, it was extremely relaxed, but what Peng Zhihai showed on his face was the contemplation that others thought of, which made people admire him a little more.

When they arrived at the Caozhou Prefecture under He Sanjiang and their subordinates, He Sanjiang and others, who completely occupied the Caozhou Mansion at this time, worked overtime to use the Caozhou Zhizhou Yamen as a daily office, and they met with Peng Zhihai and his party in the Yamen.

On the surface, I can't see anything, although Peng Zhihai and He Sanjiang were already familiar with each other's identities earlier, but there were outsiders, as well as unknown He Bu henchmen such as Ran Maochang around them, so that the two could not appear too close.

In the dark, even if the two had no way to meet in private, through the intelligence system of the Hongmen guards, Peng Zhihai informed the other party in detail about his intentions and the scruples and worries of Sun Chuanting's department, and He Sanjiang also wrote his true plans and the Hongmen base camp's knowledge of them to the other party.

He Sanjiang invited Peng Zhihai and others to walk around the He family's military camp, while Peng Zhihai pretended to euphemistically give Sun Chuanting's reply to him.

"The ultimate bottom line of our army is to ensure that our army's current territory in Caozhou is not disturbed by other armies of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, the military rations obtained will be provided to our army on time."

He Sanjiang finally gave Peng Zhihai's reply, but still did not back down in the slightest, after letting the team brought by Peng Zhihai personally visit the military camp of He Jiajun, he believed that in the information that these people reported to Sun Chuanting, it was not difficult to show that he actually had the strength to completely change the sky in Shandong Province.

"This is impossible, I have been in the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, except for the royal prince, I have never been a reckless general!"

Peng Zhihai also categorically vetoed, this is the conclusion reached by the two of them in private discussion, his intention this time is actually to see whether what He Sanjiang said is credible, so at this time, let He Sanjiang seek a little bigger, in fact, it can better reflect his sincerity, otherwise with his nearly 100,000 generals, quietly return to the Ming Dynasty without pursuit, that will make the Ming people feel uneasy.

A meeting ended unhappily, but the report that Peng Zhihai brought back afterwards reassured Sun Chuanting and them.

At this time, the Dashun army south of the Yellow River has begun to test the strength of the Jiangbei invention army several times, although it has experienced the sudden betrayal of He Sanjiang, so that the Dashun army has received a heavy blow without a fight, and also dissipated the morale of many soldiers in Jinzhong, but at this time the arrow is on the string, and it has to be sent, and the army that has finally gathered is not good to do two battles and then retreat, and the impact on the morale of the army is tantamount to a big defeat.

Therefore, at this time, although Sun Chuanting was concerned about the movements of He Sanjiang's headquarters in Caozhou, Shandong, more of his attention fell on the increasing number of Dashun troops on the south bank of the Yellow River.

After the battle of Lianfan, the army of Dashun and the Ming Dynasty suffered damage to each other, but the losses of the Dashun Dynasty were more in comparison, after all, the Yellow River moat was here, which was much more beneficial to the defenders.

However, several battles also exposed a major flaw in the Ming army's soldiers, that is, its troops were really small, and they wanted to strictly guard the long Yellow River border pass, but it made Sun Chuanting's more than 200,000 soldiers a little uncomfortable.

Of course, after all, the Dashun army has only used less than 100,000 troops for several attempts this time, and it is certainly a bit of pressure for the generals under Sun Chuanting, but it will not be bitter at the beginning.

It's just that the breakthrough of the Dashun army was not placed in Kaifeng and Luoyang, which was closer to the position of the main army, but suddenly appeared in the most dangerous places such as Sanmenxia, as well as the remote four generations west of the Yellow River.

Among them, it is also related to the direction of Sun Chuanting's military strategy, because in these dangerous or relatively remote places, Sun Chuanting and they think that the other party will not break through from here, so that the troops deployed in it are too much worse than the troops on the front line of Luoyang, Zhengzhou, and Kaifeng, which brought a false alarm to themselves.

However, Sun Chuanting then readjusted his strategy to make the deployment of troops along the river line more reasonable, making the battle line along the river more average in the future, but also weakening the strength of the main front.

"My lord, this move must not be, since ancient times, there have been several generals and ministers in our dynasty who can have such treatment, if it is a precedent, I am afraid that it will have a deep evil impact on future generations!!"

Sun Chuanting's advisers and civil officials, after hearing that Peng Zhihai had reported more detailed conditions to He Sanjiang after his return, first jumped out to object.

There are too many lessons in the history of the previous dynasties, so that the literati are vigilant, the Jiedu envoys in the late Tang Dynasty and the generals of all parties at the end of the Great Yuan Dynasty are all like He Sanjiang today, who mastered the military, government and people's livelihood of a place, and became the emperor of the soil, how not to let the literati be vigilant.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty began to respect literature and suppress martial arts since Emperor Hongwu, and now to the original Wenchen Yuan Chonghuan and beheaded the military general Mao Wenlong of the same rank without asking, in fact, there are not a few, if this precedent is opened, doesn't it mean that the status of this martial artist will be honored again, and become the existence of the root of their literati sitting together?

Among the literati, there are very few literati with wisdom and foresight like Sun Chuanting and Sun Chengzong, although everyone needs to rely on martial artists to ensure the safety of the country and the safety of their families, but in their hearts, they rarely look down on those vulgar and unruly local people who do not know the rules.

On the contrary, it was Zuo Liangyu, Deng Xi and other generals, but they didn't have too many opinions on this, although everyone was a little angry on their faces, but in their hearts, they began to look forward to the choice of the superintendent.

In the troubled times, to be honest, for these generals, even if they really don't have that bad heart, they also hope that the power in their hands can be greater.

Especially in the war, many fighters are fleeting, if they are delayed for one or two, the direction of the battle situation will be different, but their generals have their own superiors, many of whom are literati who are not familiar with military affairs, and the laymen guide the insiders, so that these generals who are crawling and rolling on the battlefield of life and death have not suffered less because of this.

Although what He Sanjiang asked for this time was a bit delusional, it was also a test for these generals to see if they could set a precedent for the generals.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty has been stormy until now, although there are supervisors everywhere on the bright side to guide the strategy, but in fact, there have already been many generals who listen to the tune and do not listen to the propaganda.

Here is headed by Li Tianyang, a Penghu sailor who is far away above the ocean, and followed by Dongjiang Town, which is nominally under the command of the governor of Xiashan, but is actually independent.

These two armies are actually related to Li Tianyang, but they are at least doing a good job in terms of face, but they are never slacking off, and they know how to keep their eyes on the plan, so that people can't grasp the handle and don't talk about it, but they are living a good thing.

And now He Sanjiang has put this condition on the surface as a bargaining chip, which makes both literati and martial artists pay attention to it, but it is another farce.

"As the last general saw with his own eyes, the troops in the hands of He Sanjiang are actually enough to disrupt the entire Shandong, if his troops are well commanded, I am afraid that the whole Shandong will also be in his pocket."

"The last general secretly visited a few leaders of the He Department who had some connections, and bought some information from their mouths, and heard that their troops originally had a secret hand in Caozhou, and they already had more than 10,000 troops in the local area under the development of the year, which is also the reason why He Sanjiang was able to take Caozhou without much effort."

"In the last general's observation, this person is not small, but he is also a person with affection and righteousness, and the intention of returning this time is also six or seven points sincere, but it has to be the conditions of the other party."

Since he had already secretly told He Sanjiang what to say and what not to say, Peng Zhihai already knew what to say and what not to say, but what he said at this time was to help He Sanjiang get better treatment and make him more trustworthy with Sun Chuanting.

"Of course, according to the last general, in fact, the other party is not without the suspicion of asking for a sky-high price, and the adults can also sit on the ground and repay the money, and the other party will have a good life and death price!"

(End of chapter)