Of course, Meng Ruhu didn't know Li Xing's head, and he didn't know whether this "piece of iron" Wu Ruyi was Luo Rucai's general. Fastest updates

But he knew that Yang Shien, the general of the Shaanxi Army under Wu Anbo, must have recognized Li Xing's head, and the large number of Cao Ying captives in Anding City must also recognize this Wu Ruyi!

In any case, bringing back these people who claimed to have come out of Lintao City to contact and ask for surrender can be regarded as a credit for coming out to patrol this time.

In the evening of the same day, Meng Ruhu, the first standard commander of the Fourth Town of the Guards who personally led the patrol, escorted Wu Ruyi and others back to Anding City.

The identities of "a piece of iron" Wu Ruyi and his personal soldiers, as well as the head of Li Xing, who was blind to death, were soon verified.

In the meeting hall set up by the courtiers of King Wu Anbo in the hall of Anding County, Wu Ruyi, who had a yellow face and thin muscles, told Luo Rucai's intention to send him and the situation in Lintao City.

In the end, he devoured in front of the royal courtiers, and ate eighteen boiled sweet potatoes in one go, almost choking himself to death.

Regarding what Wu Ruyi said, Wang Tingchen, the commander of the capital, Liu Xingzhi, the deputy commander of the fourth town of the Guards under his command, and the various standard commanders of the fourth town attending the meeting, were all suspicious.

Fortunately, Liu Xingzhi himself had the experience of liaising with the officers and soldiers in the enemy camp, which happened to come in handy at this time.

After everyone saw Wu Ruyi that night, Liu Xingzhi asked Wu Ruyi to be taken out, and then said to the hesitant Wang courtiers:

"Handsome! Regardless of whether he Luo Rucai is really as treacherous and capricious as Cao Cao, as long as he dares to agree to the conditions we propose, first sacrifice the city gate, and then hand over the team, completely hand over the men and horses of his department, and surrender with his bare hands, why don't we dare to accept his surrender? !

"If he refuses to hand over his troops and horses, and is at the disposal of the commander, then he is a fraud! Let's plan it, and then talk about it after breaking Lintao first! When the time comes, he Luo Ru will only be more than 5,000 people, and no matter how treacherous he is, it will be easy for my fourth town to destroy him!

"If he really obeyed the order, sacrificed the gates, and handed over the men and horses, then he really surrendered! From then on, the marshal reported to the court, and the long live lord will deal with it as he wants, and there is nothing wrong with listening to the long live lord! ”

Liu Xingzhi's words made all the generals under Wang Tingchen nod.

The courtiers of King Wu Anbo, who had been fighting horses for half his life, of course, also had their own judgments, and after looking around at this time, he saw that the various standards under his command were as powerful and fierce as a tiger, as well as Wu Sangui, the young general who he admired and valued the most in the fourth town of the entire Guards Army, all of them had an approving attitude, and immediately made a decision to accept the surrender of Luo Rucai and his Cao Ying.

However, as Liu Xingzhi said, on the morning of the fourth day of the first month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Wang Tingchen led everyone to bring Wu Ruyi and Wu Ruyi's relatives again, and put forward three surrender conditions for Wu Ruyi.

First, when the official army attacked Lintao, Luo Rucai had to unconditionally surrender the East Gate.

Second, after the official army entered the city, Luo Rucai had to unconditionally lead the army to fight.

Third, after the official army seized Lintao, Luo Rucai had to unconditionally hand over Cao Ying.

Wu Ruyi ate two full meals in a row, his complexion was much better, and he came to the front of Wang Tingchen again, and behaved more deferfully than the day before.

When he came this time, in addition to contacting and asking for surrender, of course, he also brought the task assigned by Luo Rucai, that is, to carefully observe the situation on the side of the observation officer and army.

For example, whether there are many or few officers and soldiers, whether the morale of the officers and soldiers is high or low, especially whether the food and salary of the officers and soldiers are sufficient, and the attitude of the officers and generals towards their surrender and whether they speak well or not, and so on.

If the situation on the side of the officials and soldiers in the city is the same as the situation in Lintao City, then he Luo Rucai will have to lose no time in putting forward his own conditions.

If it is said that the officers and soldiers on the side of Anding City have a large number of men and horses, high morale, and sufficient food, then he Luo Rucai has nothing to say.

And "a piece of iron" Wu Ruyi, since entering Anding City, has opened his eyes wide and pricked up his ears everywhere he goes, and he doesn't dare to miss anything.

However, all the discoveries he found after entering the city told him that if he could not surrender to this royal guard army before the official army attacked Lintao in a big way, then they probably would not have a chance to surrender from now on.

No matter what kind of surrender conditions the leader of his own family can reach with the officers and troops of Anding City at this time, it must be the best condition.

Unless the Cao Ying is willing to surrender to Wang Chengen, the chief soldier of the Shaanxi Army in Gongchang Mansion, will the Cao Ying surrender to Hong Chengchou's command?!

In the surrender of the Shaanxi army under the command of Hong Chengchou and the view that they continued to run west hungry, it was Wu Ruyi himself who preferred to continue to run west hungry.

After the courtiers of King Wu Anbo put forward their own requirements, they looked at Wu Ruyi, the general of Luo Rucai's subordinates, who was honestly kneeling on the ground thoughtfully, and after a while, continued:

"As long as he, Luo Rucai, agrees to the request of my royal courtiers and sincerely submits to the imperial court, my royal courtiers can guarantee that he and his subordinates and servants will have no worries about their lives. After the matter is completed in the future, my royal courtiers will definitely ask the court for a reward for him and his subordinates! ”

After saying this, Wang Tingchen paused slightly, stared at Wu Ruyi and continued: "Speaking of the original battle of stability, you yourself have seen it, and now the strength of my Ming official army is not something that you and other thieves and people can contend with?"

"If the weather becomes warmer after the New Year's Festival, our army will go out to take Lintao, and even if there is no Luo Rucai to lead his troops to surrender and respond in the middle, it will be easy to capture Lintao for the fourth town of my guards!"

In fact, Wang Tingchen didn't really care about whether Luo Rucai's troops surrendered or not.

Of course, it is good that Luo Rucai's troops surrendered, and it will be even more stable to capture Lintao when the time comes, but if he does not surrender, Wang Tingchen is also confident that he will rely on the many muskets and artillery of the fourth town of the Guards to take down Lintao City.

In the final analysis, whether or not to accept Luo Rucai's surrender is just a question of how much price his royal courtiers are willing to pay to capture Lintao City.

Therefore, Wang Tingchen did not give Luo Rucai's envoy Wu Ruyi and others any room for bargaining, and after saying what he had asked of them, he got up and left the meeting hall set up in the Ya Hall of Anding County in the Fourth Town of the Guards.

And the "piece of iron" Wu Ruyi's careful observation after entering the city also further recognized the huge gap in strength between the two sides, and at this time, he did not dare to make any requests.

During the day, Wang Tingchen confidently dispatched Wu Sangui, the general of the Chinese army, and led Wu Ruyi and several other leaders of the thief army from the Lintao Luo Rucai department, and generously let them go straight to several artillery battalions and musket battalions in the fourth town, as well as the grenadier battalion led by Wu Sangui himself, so that they could see the powerful power of the new firearms in the fourth town of the Guards.

At the same time, it also used the accumulation of the entire Fourth Town to deliberately create a scene of a mountain of grain, grass and military supplies, and a mountain of firearms and ammunition.

Although the mountains of ammunition and military supplies were deliberately created to scare Wu Ruyi, except for the mountains of ammunition and ammunition in the fourth town of the Guards, other grain, grass and military supplies were all real.

Of course, there are not many fine grains such as polished rice and white flour, but coarse grains such as potatoes and sweet potatoes have just been supplemented, and they are indeed piled up.

The only thing that was lacking, and needed to be replenished, was the ammunition of the Fourth Guards Town.

In the battle to capture Anding City, the standards, battalions, teams, and outposts of the Fourth Town of the Guards, which had just been equipped with all the new firearms, did not understand the importance of saving ammunition at all.

Although they took Anding City in one morning, the consumption of ammunition was too large, so they did not have enough ammunition to take advantage of the victory to capture Lanzhou or Lintao.

The location of the Fourth Town of the Guards was too far away from the Beijing Division compared to the other towns of the Guards, and the ammunition reserves consumed had not been fully replenished since the end of the Battle of Anding.

This is also the fundamental reason why the Fourth Town of the Guards Army has not launched another fierce offensive to the west or south in the two months after taking Anding City, although the standard battalions are full of confidence and morale are high.

Fortunately, for such a situation, Wu Ruyi, who came to contact and asked for surrender and watched it in a fancy way, was not clear.

And Luo Rucai, who was so hungry that he was about to go crazy in Lintao City and could barely hold on, had no way of knowing.