The Manchurian officers and soldiers of the second town of more than 600 cavalry looked anxiously at the far north, hoping that a figure would appear on the horizon as soon as possible. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhou Peigong, the ambassador of the Anjun Army in the second town, was also a little anxious, because this was the first major event he was responsible for after he was suddenly assigned by His Royal Highness the King of Qi to be transferred to the second town. This major event was to pick up the families of the old white flag soldiers who returned to the Taiping Army from the Qing army.

After the surrender of the old white-flag Manchurian generals such as Gongjian Se and Wuert, Zhou Shixiang promised that as long as he defeated the Shunzhi army, he would definitely take them north to fight in Beijing and rescue their families. However, although Shunzhi was defeated and fled, the Taiping army also suffered heavy casualties in this battle, and it was unable to go north at all, not even Xuzhou, not to mention the city of Beijing, which was thousands of miles away.

Wang Fuchen truthfully replied to Zhou Shixiang about the desperate expressions of the Manchurian generals such as Wuerte after knowing that Fulin had fled, and after that, Zhou Shixiang always kept the matter of rescuing Baiqi's family in mind. This is not because Zhou Shi really regarded these Manchurian soldiers who surrendered as if they were relatives, but in order to appease them and let them fight to the death with their compatriots on the battlefield of the northward march in the future. To rescue the family members of the White Flag, how could it not be to use these family members as hostage control.

Sending Xu Yingyuan north to negotiate peace, Zhou Shixiang was not worried that Fu Lin would not negotiate peace, because he knew that Fu Lin needed peace more than him. If there is anything that Fu Lin can't let go, it's just his poor emperor's face. Just like Emperor Chongzhen back then, after the secret peace with the Qing Dynasty was revealed, for the sake of the emperor's face, he pushed Chen Xinjia out as a scapegoat.

Fortunately, although Fulin is younger than Chongzhen, he knows more about current affairs and knows what he needs most and what he needs the most.

The peace negotiations succeeded.

According to the secret armistice agreement between the Taiping army and the Manchu Qing army, the Qing court was required to hand over the families of the Manchu soldiers who had surrendered to the Taiping army, and the Taiping army would return to the Qing court the Manchu and Mongolian and Han army captives who refused to surrender after being captured. After several counts back and forth between the two sides, the Qing court needed to hand over more than 8,300 Manchu soldiers and their families to the Taiping army, and the Taiping army gave a list of 216 people, including a deputy commander with a yellow flag and two leaders with a blue flag.

The Taiping Army's list of handed over prisoners was obviously not accepted by Fu Lin, because although it was claimed that although the Qing Dynasty lost the Battle of Yangzhou, there were not many dead soldiers, and the strength of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners was not damaged, and the vitality was still there. However, in fact, the Qing army alone had more than 7,000 Manchurian generals killed, and the number of captured officers and soldiers was no less than 5,000. Therefore, Fu Lin thought that the Taiping army would return at least about 2,000 Manchu soldiers, but who knew that the other party only gave a list of 216 people, which naturally made Fu Lin furious and almost stopped negotiating peace. In the end, he accepted this fact under the persuasion of Ao Bai and Sony. The situation is weaker than people, and it is a reality that makes the emperor swallow his anger.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the person in charge of the Taiping army was Xu Yingyuan, and the Manchu Qing presided over the Ao worship. Specific to this transfer, the Qing court was responsible for the selection of Beile Tuntai stationed in Xuzhou, and on the Taiping army's side, Zhou Chang and Zhou Peigong, the ambassadors of the security army in the second town.

Zhou Peigong had performed in Anqing before, but he didn't have any chance to perform after that, he was just a move, and he was only a prison head before he returned to the Taiping Army, and he was not a big man. There are many such characters in Nanjing now. However, even Zhou Peigong himself didn't expect that Zhou Dashuai, whom he had only heard but had never seen with his own eyes, would name him and ask him to take up such an important position as the ambassador of the town security army.

Although he does not directly lead the army and is responsible for military command, he is the deputy of the general of a town, and is responsible for the personnel and military discipline of a town, and is an out-and-out key post. Generally, those who can be promoted to the ambassador of the Anjun army in the army are promoted from among the literate generals, and it is rare to directly appoint a person who has not led troops before as the ambassador of the Anjun army. Zhou Peigong broke this case, and Shao Chengguo, the town general of the second cavalry town at that time, was very surprised when he heard that the marshal had assigned him an ambassador to the army.

Zhou Peigong, who took office with apprehension and excitement, can be said to have died as a confidant, and almost all of the "Anjun Envoy Handbook" issued by the military department was torn by him, and the main points of the work of the Anjun envoys listed on it were almost familiar to him. Less than half a month after taking office, Zhou Peigong began to organize a meeting of the brigade security military envoys in the town, and won a certain amount of funds and teachers from above, and launched a huge literacy campaign in the second town. The results are very remarkable, and now the second town of the cavalry is the horseman auxiliary soldiers can read hundreds of words, for which they have been commended by the Jiangbei Army and the Jianghuai Economic Strategy Yamen and the Military Marshal's Mansion. The marshal Zhou Shixiang even took the second town of the cavalry to carry out literacy and literacy as a model during a military meeting, and asked the whole army to learn from the second town, and Shao Chengguo, who was happy to participate in the meeting, smiled from ear to ear.

This time with the Qing army to hand over the prisoners, to pick up the Manchu soldiers' families is another test for Zhou Peigong since he took office, if this can be successfully completed, he, the ambassador of the Anjun army, will obviously have a foothold in the second town. Therefore, the Manchurian generals are anxious, and he Zhou Peigong is also anxious, but as the ambassador of the Anjun Army, he can't expose his mentality like the people below, so his face is very light.

"Zhou An, when will they arrive?"

Baihu Yue Deji once again beat his horse and galloped to Zhou Peigong's side, this was the fourth time he came to ask.

Zhou Peigong glanced at Yue Deji, laughed, and said, "Don't worry, the handover time with the Qing army has not yet arrived." ”

"Alas!"

Although he knew that the answer he got was still the same as last time, Yue Deji couldn't help but sigh.

Seeing this, Zhou Peigong said with a smile: "If you are patient, people will definitely arrive." ”

"Hmm."

Although Yue Deji worked very hard to learn Chinese and participated in the literacy class in the army, he could not learn well, and after a few months, he only recognized dozens of Chinese characters, and he could barely speak Chinese if it was short, and he could not speak anything if it was a little longer or more complicated. Even if you can say it, you stammer. Therefore, he really wanted to ask Zhou Anenvoy again, but he didn't know how to open his mouth and shut his mouth.

After Yue Deji left, Wuerte came over on a horse, and he was very fluent in Chinese, and he was able to answer Zhou Peigong correctly. Wuerte is the deputy general of the second town of the cavalry, and he also bears the false title of Shandong General Army, whether in the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, this Shandong General Military Officer is a high-grade military attaché, but he does not look at himself because of this, but has a clear understanding of his identity.