Early the next morning, the Yangzhou army after getting up was not in a hurry, and after eating breakfast in a hurry, the artillery was in place, waiting for the order of the governor to shell Xuzhou City again.

Huang Degong took Luo Jian's telescope and carefully observed the city wall of Xuzhou, and saw that the defenders on the city wall today were much smaller than yesterday, and it was obvious that yesterday's shelling had scared them.

Yan Yingyuan adjusted his firing target today, and more than 70 artillery pieces were divided into two groups and aimed at the city walls on both sides of the south gate.

Luo Jian was about to order the artillery to start the shelling, and Weng Zhiqi, who was responsible for the defense of the rear of the camp, hurried with a group of people.

"Governor Dadu, Nanjing sent Qin!" Weng Zhiqi walked to Luo Jian's side, saluted and said.

Weng Zhiqi had just finished speaking, and Luo Jian saw Gao Qiqian who was following behind and walked up.

"Huaiyang Metropolitan Governor Luo Jian receives the order!" Gao Qiqian said loudly.

"What's the matter? Let's just say it! "Luo Jian didn't have a good face for Gao Qiqian at all, and he didn't know why he became a Qincha again when he was supervising the army in Yangzhou.

"The imperial court has made peace with the Manchu court, and the emperor has decreed that the governor of the capital should withdraw his troops back to Yangzhou as soon as possible!" Gao Qiqian saw that Luo Jian didn't accept the order at all, so he had to speak.

"Bring it!" Luo Jian asked Gao Qiqian to take the holy decree and handed it to Gao Xiaozhang, so that he could take a look at it.

After reading the holy decree, Gao Xiaozhang walked to Luo Jian's side and whispered, "That's probably what he said." ”

Since Dolgon made up his mind, he immediately began to arrange peace talks with the Southern Ming court, picked and selected, and finally selected Feng Quan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, as the ambassador of the peace talks to negotiate peace with the Southern Ming court.

It's just that the land route to Nanjing is all controlled by the Yangzhou army, and it is not easy for the ambassador to reach Nanjing, so in the end Fan Wencheng came up with an idea, that is, to take a boat from Qingdao to Nanjing by sea.

Feng Quan hurried and finally rushed to Nanjing and submitted a credential to the Southern Ming court requesting peace talks.

The arrival of the Manchu ambassadors for peace talks turned Nanjing into a sea of joy, but the great victory of the Yangzhou army in Huai'an was drowned in this joy.

Since Zhu Youxiang's surrender, the officials and people in Nanjing have felt that peace has finally come, and the Southern Ming court will no longer be harmed, at least for one or two hundred years like the Southern Song Dynasty.

Ma Shiying never dreamed that the Manchu court would take the initiative to find peace talks with the Ming Dynasty, remembering that last year the court sent an ambassador to Beijing for peace talks, but was insulted and embarrassed by the Manchu court in every way, and thought that this peace was really not easy to come by.

However, this belated peace made Ma Shiying feel ecstatic from the bottom of his heart, as long as the Nanming court is still there, his position as the first assistant will be imprisoned, and he should also cheer up and work hard, so that the Nanming can finally be maintained like the Southern Song Dynasty.

Moreover, the terms of peace negotiations proposed by the Manchu court were not harsh in Ma Shiying's view, and the Qing troops stopped launching attacks on Liangguang and Jiangxi, and only pursued the Dashun army in the Hunan Qing Dynasty, not the Ming army, and the two sides could also work together to destroy the Dashun army.

As for letting the Yangzhou Army stop the offensive operation, Ma Shiying thinks it should be, this is all peace talks, you are still fighting there, so how can you talk about it?

There is also the fact that the Southern Ming court must pay a tribute of 2 million taels of silver and some other things to the Manchu Qing every year, as long as peace comes, with the wealth of Jiangnan occupied by the Southern Ming, 2 million taels of silver is really not much.

Ma Shiying listened to the Manchu peace negotiation conditions, and really wanted to agree, but the Manchus still had one condition, that is, the canal should be opened to the Manchus, which made Ma Shiying feel embarrassed, because to open the canal, it must pass through the defense area of the Yangzhou army, and I am afraid that Luo Jian will not agree.

The peace talks were not negotiated in a day, Feng Quan and the Manchu envoys were not very anxious, the Southern Ming court treated them with great courtesy, Nanjing was much more comfortable than Beijing, but the Yangzhou army was now attacking Xuzhou, so they had to stop as soon as possible.

Ma Shiying reported the situation to the fat emperor, of course Zhu Youxiang was very happy, as long as peace can come, there is no need to fight, what's wrong with this, just agree.

As for who to send to pass the decree, the Ma Ge Department was embarrassed for a long time, and let Ruan Dacheng go, but he was resolutely refused, let Qian Qianyi go, Mr. Qian was sick in bed, and in desperation, the Ma Ge Department thought of a compromise solution, so that Gao Qiqian, who was supervising the army in Yangzhou, went to pass the decree.

Gao Qiqian, who got the holy decree, rushed to the Yangzhou army to find Luo Jian, but heard that Luo Jian had arrived outside Xuzhou, Gao Qiqian was afraid that the two armies had already fought, and he was in a hurry, so he arrived before the Yangzhou army shelled Xuzhou, but he didn't know that the Yangzhou army had begun to shell Xuzhou yesterday.

"Are the peace talks over?" Luo Jian asked.

"Not yet, the Manchu envoys asked the Yangzhou army to start peace talks after they withdrew." Gao Qi Qian saw Luo Jian asking him, and quickly replied.

"! Let the troops be withdrawn before the peace talks have begun? Whose idea was this? Hearing Gao Qiqian's answer, Luo Jian was so angry that he choked.

"Order, fire!" Luo Jian ignored Gao Qiqian and directly gave the order to open fire.

As the red flag fell in Yan Yingyuan's hand, the cannonball flew towards Xuzhou City again.

"This is what the emperor and Ma Gebu mean, if you miss the peace talks, you Luo Jian will be my Ming sinner!" Gao Qiqian's words are extremely reasonable.

"Fuck you! If you are here again, Lao Tzu will beat you! Listening to Gao Qiqian's shouting, Li Chengdong stepped forward and pointed at Gao Qiqian.

Gao Qi took a look, this Li Chengdong was not a good person, he really knew how to do it, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak anymore, and stood aside with a group of brocade guards.

The arrival of Gao Qiqian seriously affected Luo Jian's mood, and the artillery took turns to fight for half an hour, and did not give the order to stop.

This artillery did not stop, and Duoduo in Xuzhou City couldn't sit still, so he asked people to consult with the generals.

"The artillery shells of the Yangzhou army seem to be running out, if they fight in a different direction tomorrow, and continue to fight like this, our normal days are over, in my opinion, it is better to withdraw." Geng Jimao's troops have always been on the front line of being beaten, and they wish to evacuate Xuzhou as soon as possible, which is better than a peaceful birthday.

"Yes, people in Xuzhou City are already panicking, our morale is about to be defeated, it can't go on like this, King Yu has to make a decision early!" Tulai on the other side also felt that this kind of passive beating was extremely uncomfortable.

"Respectfully obedient to the king, your red-clothed cannon may fight back?" Duoduo asked Kong Youde.

"Back to Lord Yu, our red-clothed artillery can't hit the Yangzhou army, and the range is not enough." Kong Youde said, if I could get it, I would have beaten it a long time ago, and I still need you to ask?

"Withdraw!" Dodor made up his mind.

The Qing army was suddenly busy, the auxiliaries began to pack up the red-coated cannons, all kinds of grain and grass materials began to be loaded, and the troops slowly moved to the north gate.

Huang Degong, who had been standing on the high platform to observe the movements in Xuzhou City, noticed the abnormality, came down from the high platform in a few steps, walked in front of Luo Jian and said: "Governor, the Qing soldiers seem to be withdrawing!" ”

When Luo Jian heard this, he took the telescope from Huang Degong's hand, took a few steps up to the high platform, and looked towards Xuzhou City.

The city of Xuzhou was in a mess, with Qing soldiers walking around everywhere, large carts and small carts being pulled out of various courtyards, and supplies were being loaded.

Luo Jian carefully searched for the cavalry of the Qing army, searched carefully, but did not find it, Luo Jian secretly said in his heart, could it be that the cavalry of the Qing army had withdrawn from Xuzhou in advance?

But the scouts did not report that the Qing cavalry brigade had left Xuzhou, which alerted Luo Jian.

got off the high platform, called Huang Degong and several division commanders together, and expressed his doubts.

"Duoduo is not willing to withdraw like this, their cavalry is going to wait for us to pursue or enter the city, and give us a hard blow, the Grand Du, we can't be fooled." Liu Zhaoji said.

Hearing Liu Zhaoji say this, everyone echoed it, thinking that this was the case.

Luo Jian called a staff officer, handed him the binoculars, and asked him to carefully observe the movements in Xuzhou City on the high platform.

"The artillery stopped firing and prepared to maneuver." Luo Jian gave another order.

Duoduo did have the idea of cavalry assaulting the Yangzhou army, the cavalry was still motionless in the camp, but made all preparations before the attack, if the Yangzhou army rashly went out of the camp to pursue or enter the city, the cavalry would quickly assault, maybe the whole situation would be reversed.

Duoduo didn't have much hope for the Yangzhou army to be deceived, he knew that the Yangzhou army had something that could be seen very far, with this kind of thing, they could see everything in Xuzhou City clearly, the so-called ambush was impossible at all, how could tens of thousands of people hide?

Until noon, the supplies and infantry in the city had already left Xuzhou City, and the Yangzhou army did not chase after them, and Duoduo ordered the cavalry to also begin to withdraw from Xuzhou.

In fact, Luo Jian wanted to pursue very much, Duoduo had been searching the Xuzhou area for so long, and he carried a lot of materials, and the team was also extremely slow, if he could leave these materials behind, of course it would be better.

It's just that the current Yangzhou Army only has a special brigade of one division equipped with six or seven hundred Yangzhou Type 1 rifles, which can play a big role in positional warfare, and in pursuit warfare, when one round is finished, the Qing cavalry will not give you a chance to load a second shot.

This is also the main reason why the Yangzhou Army is still fighting in three or four divisions, if all divisions are equipped with Yangzhou one, even if it is half, each division must fight alone.

After thinking about it, Luo Jian gave up the idea of pursuit.

At about five o'clock in the afternoon, the Qing soldiers finally withdrew from Xuzhou City, and soon the people in the city opened the city gates.

Gao Qiqian saw the Yangzhou army fighting for the first time, the Qing soldiers withdrew from Xuzhou and directly subverted his cognition, in his memory, one or two hundred Qing soldiers dared to charge the Ming army tens of thousands of people, and now there are eighty or ninety thousand Qing soldiers in Xuzhou City, I heard that the Manchurian cavalry has tens of thousands, why don't you dare to fight with the Yangzhou army?

It was getting late, Luo Jian did not enter Xuzhou, and only sent a few hundred people into the city to maintain order, and the troops continued to be stationed outside Xuzhou.

After dinner, Luo Jian went outside the tent alone, thinking about everything that happened today.

The Manchu court took the initiative to negotiate peace with the Southern Ming court, which was unexpected by Luo Jian.

Is it true that as some history books say, the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not intend to seize all of China when they entered the customs, so were they really ready to retreat to the customs? Or was the Manchus just using the peace talks to get the Hongguang court to stop the Yangzhou army's offensive as a way to buy time?

Luo Jian felt that the latter possibility was greater, judging from the rapid change of the Manchu court in the past, the Manchu court headed by Dolgon in the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not as enterprising as the Qing court in the future, in order to win the hearts and minds of the people, they even gave up many interests of the Manchus, and from this point of view alone, they did not intend to withdraw from the Central Plains.

"Is the Governor thinking about peace talks?" Yan Yingyuan walked up to Luo Jian and asked softly.

"Yes, what kind of heart does the Manchu court have?" Luo Jian asked casually.