At this time, Li Liang and the ministers of North Korea were waiting at the head of the South Gate, and saw Zu Dashou coming to the South Gate with his guards from a distance, and Li Liang hurriedly led the ministers to meet them at the head of the city.

Although Zu Dashou was a minister of the Celestial Empire, he still abided by the etiquette when facing Li Liang, and first turned over and dismounted to greet Li Liang.

Li Liang didn't dare to support the big one, and hurriedly returned the gift to Zu Dashou.

Zu Dashou nodded to the ministers present again, and then asked: "Why did the king of Joseon urgently summon the general?" ”

Li Qi said politely with a smile on his face: "General Zu, Xiao Wang invited the general to come this time because he had something important to tell the general, and the Qing Dynasty sent someone to send a secret letter to Xiao Wang, asking Xiao Wang to betray the Celestial Empire and open the city gate to surrender!" Xiao Wang must not do such a rebellious thing, but he is worried about the safety of the mountain fortress of Namhan, so he specially invited the general to come and discuss! ”

Yin Ji stepped forward and took out the secret letter given to Li Liang by the Qing Dynasty and handed the secret letter to Zu Dashou.

Zu Dashou took the secret letter, held it in his hand and looked at it, and then showed a sneer: "The wolf ambition of the Qing Dynasty, if the king of Joseon agrees to the request of the Qing Dynasty, I am afraid that the country will not be a country in the future!" And when the time comes, I will be a soldier tomorrow, and I am afraid that it will be too late for the king of Korea to regret it! ”

"General Mingjian, I, Li Shi, am loyal to the Celestial Empire, how dare the ministers of a small country be ungrateful, fearful of the Mandate of Heaven, have a bad heart, and lose money and slavery! If this is the case, how can the subordinates be the subjects of the monarchy, the heavenly position of the ancestors, and the gods of the temples and shrines in the future? Li Qi whispered anxiously.

Wu Daji also said: "I, the state of etiquette and righteousness in North Korea, how can I kneel down and subjugate the beasts, so that I will offend the Celestial Empire and resentment the surnames, and surrender to the Qing Dynasty will not only bring disaster to the people, but will undoubtedly endanger the Korean community!" ”

Yin Ji couldn't help but say to Zu Dashou: "After the Qing soldiers retreat, we should go to Shenjing in person to apologize to the monarch's father, and I hope that the general will also play together at that time, and return my innocence!" ”

Zu Dashou hurriedly comforted Li Liang: "It is Ben Jiang's words, the North Korean Li Shi is worried about my Celestial Empire, more than the Celestial Empire's self-concern, hundreds of years of loyal ministers, how dare Ben General question Li Shi, this is a conspiracy of the Qing Dynasty, Ben Jiang has also received a handwritten letter from Huang Taiji in the past few days, and the emperor will never blame you for this!" ”

Huang Taiji is a very persevering, also very courageous, open-minded person, from his attitude towards Zu Dashou can see one or two, not only not because of Zu Dashou's deception and anger, but continue to write letters to Zu Dashou, now Zu Dashou out of Liaodong to guard North Korea, Huang Taiji's attitude is even more ambiguous, these days he not only wrote to Li Liang, but also sent Zu Dashou's nephew into the city in person, persuading Zu Dashou.

Li Liang and the others breathed a sigh of relief, and Li Liang whispered to Zu Dashou: "The Qing soldiers have been attacking continuously in recent days, although the terrain of my Nanhan Mountain City is dangerous, the people of the whole city are united, and there are generals who lead the heavenly soldiers to help, but they will lose if they defend for a long time, I intend to the Qing Dynasty to be false and wronged, pretend to surrender, delay time, I don't know what the general wants?" ”

Zu Dashou pinched his beard and muttered: "If you can make the Qing soldiers slow down the siege, it is naturally a good thing, but we have used this strategy before, Huang Taiji directly ordered the army to attack the city at that time, and I am afraid that this time I will not be fooled either!" ”

"General Zu, the subordinates think that Huang Taiji should agree!" Yin Ji suddenly spoke.

"Oh, what do you think?" Zu Dashou said curiously.

"The general is a generation of famous generals, according to the outside of the customs, inside the customs, can be called loyalty, the lower officials have heard that the chief emperor Taiji has admired the general for a long time, but the general is loyal and righteous, and has always refused. Now, if we tell Huang Taiji that there is a way to sacrifice the city, and then we can capture the general alive, I am afraid that he will definitely agree! Yin Ji said.

"What is Lord Yin going to do?" Zu Dashou asked with a frown.

"The Southern Han Mountain City is the general governor, this matter must have been known to the Emperor Taiji, my king can tell the Emperor Taiji, if the Qing soldiers retreat first, our king will take back the defense of the Southern Han Mountain City, and then I will open the city gate to welcome the elite of the Qing soldiers into the city, and the Huang Taiji will definitely agree!" Yin Ji talked slowly.

Zu Dashou, Li Liang and others were all stunned when they heard this.

"That's a brilliant plan! If it is done properly, maybe Ben will be able to take the opportunity to annihilate a group of Qing troops! Zu Dashou stroked his palms and laughed.

Li Qi also sighed and sighed: "Even if this plan can't be done, at least it can make me wait for a chance to breathe!" ”

Zu Dashou nodded: "This matter is very important, please send a shrewd and capable person to the Qing camp to personally persuade Huang Taiji." I don't know if you have a candidate? ”

Everyone frowned and worried, and they really couldn't find such a candidate for a while. After all, the position of the people sent to the Qing Dynasty camp this time cannot be too low, otherwise they will not be able to win the trust of Huang Taiji, and this trip is extremely risky, first, Huang Taiji is very likely not to believe it, and second, the Qing Dynasty is likely to detain the envoy as a hostage. When the time comes, the North Korean side repeats itself, and the hostages are afraid that they will die without a place to be buried!

Seeing this, Yin Ji said with a straight face: "Since this plan is my offering, it is naturally up to me!" If he can delay the Qing army and die for the great cause of his father, Yin will not let others go! ”

When Li Liang heard this, he pulled Yin Ji with tears in his eyes, and sighed as if it were true or false, "I can't do without Yin Qing!" It's better to choose one more person to go alone, and don't make Yin Qing in danger! ”

Yin Ji shook his head and flatly refused: "Now that the country is in danger, as a courtier, there are more than sins, how dare you steal your life and abandon all your life's ambitions?" The king doesn't have to persuade me, Confucius said to be benevolent, Mencius said to take righteousness, only loyalty to the end, with this body to serve the monarch's father to death, can be regarded as a clear conscience! ”

After that, Yin Ji looked at Wu Daji again: "After I leave, the responsibility of governing the country will be handed over to you, please work hard, be worthy of your father, and live up to the people!" ”

Wu Daji collapsed and fell to the ground and bowed.

Zu Dashou also looked up to Yin Ji's words, the leader of the Nanren Party, who controls the political affairs of North Korea, has some ability, and he has the courage to go out of the city to see Huang Taiji in person, but unfortunately he is afraid that he will not be able to come back.

That night, Yin Ji quietly went down to the city in a hanging basket from the south gate, and before he got close to the Qing army camp, he had already been captured by the Qing soldiers who had already discovered him. Fortunately, Yin Ji hurriedly spoke out and declared that he was an envoy sent by the king of Joseon, and he escaped.

Huang Taiji heard that his subordinates had come down to report to the Korean envoy, and summoned the generals to meet Yin Ji in the big tent overnight.

After Yin Ji explained to Huang Taiji, Huang Taiji did not hesitate to respond to the matter immediately, and even took the initiative to consider Yin Ji, and said to Yin Ji: "If Yin Ji is an important minister of North Korea and does not show up for a long time, I am afraid that it will arouse Zu Dashou's suspicion!" ”

Immediately repaired a book on the spot, took the initiative to send his cronies to send Yin Ji back to the city overnight, and promised to retreat fifty miles tomorrow.