In Lu Yan's big tent, Lu Bu, Meng Kuo and others looked solemn. 《

Cao Wenzhao's face was a little heavy, and he looked outside the tent from time to time.

The three brocade guards took off their flying fish suits and stood beside Cao Wenzhao, with uncertain expressions on their faces.

Soon a wealthy merchant and two of his servants walked in, escorted by soldiers.

The merchant looked at the situation in the big tent, and soon realized that Lu Yan sitting on the main seat was the object he was looking for, so he hurriedly smiled, and then gave Lu Yan a look: "The villain Xue Shun has seen the King of Qin. ”

"Where are you from, and what are you here for?"

Lu Yan asked with a cold face.

"The villain is a native of Liaodong, and this trip is on the orders of the Heavenly Khan. Our Great Khan heard about the righteous act of the King of Qin to raise troops against the Ming court, and he deeply admired you, so he hoped that our two families could form an alliance to resist the Ming Dynasty. ”

Xue Shun said.

"Fight against the Ming Dynasty?"

Speaking of this, the corners of Lu Yan's mouth showed a playful smile.

He glanced at Cao Wenzhao and found that Cao Wenzhao's face showed an angry look, if it wasn't for Lu Yan's orders, I'm afraid he would have scolded a long time ago.

The three brocade guards also had ugly faces, if Houjin and Lu Yan formed an alliance, then the situation of Daming would be even worse.

Once they attacked both north and south, it was not impossible for the Ming Dynasty to be wiped out.

"What proof do you have to prove your identity?"

Lu Yan asked.

"The small one has a letter from our Houjin and a letter from the Great Khan, and I also asked the King of Qin to borrow a knife."

Xue Shun said with a smile.

Lu Yan nodded, and soon one of the guards untied his knife and handed it to him.

He walked up to one of the servants in the back, and took a knife and carefully cut open one of the servant's clothes, revealing the mezzanine inside.

Then he took out several letters from it and handed them to the guards.

Because they were afraid of poison, those guards did not hand it over to Lu Yan, but took it to Lu Yan themselves.

Lu Yan snorted coldly after reading it, and wrote it himself.

Can Hachi write?

I guess someone else wrote it, so I just stamped it.

Lu Yan didn't bother to expose them, but just asked, "How do you Great Khan plan to form an alliance with us, and what is the benefit of forming an alliance with you?" ”

"Our Great Khan is willing to support you to be emperor, as long as you are emperor, we hope that the two sides can send envoys to each other and recognize each other. At the same time, in order to alleviate your pressure, our Great Khan is willing to raise a large army and attack the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty cannot fight with you with all his strength. ”

Xue Shun said with a smile.

"Are you planning to attack Daming?"

Hearing this, Lu Yan's face changed slightly, and then he hurriedly asked.

He remembered that there didn't seem to be such a thing in history, and the large-scale entry of the Jurchens was after Huang Taiji ascended the throne.

"That's right, now that Da Ming has been beaten and defeated by you, of course, our Great Khan hopes to push the boat down the river and stab Da Ming in the back. As long as the two of us defeat the Ming together, we are willing to help the prince occupy the entire Ming Dynasty. Of course, in return, we hope that you will be able to hand over Shanxi and Shaanxi to us. ”

Xue Shun said with a grin.

Before leaving, Lu Yan's momentum had not yet become so big, at that time they thought that Lu Yan was just an ordinary anti-king, but they didn't expect that it had now reached the point where it was enough to threaten the entire Ming Dynasty.

Before leaving, Hachi told him that as long as the two families could agree to attack the Ming Dynasty together, it would put the Ming in a difficult situation with limited troops.

As for those promises, Hachi will never keep them.

As long as he defeats Da Ming, he will take Lu Yan with a knife.

"When are you going to attack Daming?"

Cao Wenzhao hurriedly asked.

"The Great Khan didn't say it, but it should be soon."

Xue Shun said.

Hearing this, Cao Wenzhao couldn't help but be anxious.

Daming has transferred 50,000 border troops to the south, and at this time, the border town is empty in strength.

If the Jurchens attack Da Ming at this time, then Da Ming is likely to be unable to resist.

He glanced at Lu Yan, but found that Lu Yan was deep in thought.

Historically, Hachi has never entered the Guannai on a large scale, and to a large extent, it is due to the fact that Dongjiang Town has been able to contain it.

But now Da Ming has abandoned his martial arts, made Dongjiang Town half dead, and even transferred most of the soldiers in Dongjiang Town, which made them completely lose the ability to contain them, so that ** Hachi can finally invade Daming unscrupulously.

Cao Wenzhao couldn't see through Lu Yan's thoughts, he thought that Lu Yan's heart was moved, so he hurriedly said: "Lu Yan, you must not agree to him." Do you still remember what the Northern Song Dynasty and the Jurchens got when they destroyed the Khitan? ”

Of course Lu Yan knew, wasn't it just that the two emperors were taken captive?

However, he never planned to cooperate with the Jurchens, otherwise he would not have let Cao Wenzhao and them come with him.

Xue Shun looked at Cao Wenzhao with some surprise, what kind of person was this person, who dared to call Lu Yan's name.

"Don't worry, I won't cooperate with the Jurchens."

Lu Yan said with a smile.

Hearing this, Cao Wenzhao relaxed slightly, but he still looked at Lu Yan with some concern, worried about when he would change his mind.

But Xue Shun's face changed, and he hurriedly said, "Why is this?" It's good for us all to work together. As long as the two of us work together, it will be easy to defeat Daming. ”

"There are some things in this world that cannot be measured by whether there is benefit or not, such as betraying the country, such as being a traitor. To cooperate with you Jurchens is to betray the country and to be a traitor. ”

Lu Yan said coldly.

"As long as he betrays the Han people, even if he is powerful and powerful during his lifetime, he will not be judged for the rest of his life, but sooner or later he will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history after his death. This is the torrent of the times, and this is the general trend that no one can stop, unless all the Han people are wiped out. ”

"Now I'm going to judge you three shameful traitors, come on, drag them out, break their legs and feet, and then hand them over to the Ming army."

Soon a guard stepped forward and dragged them down, and then there was a cry of begging for mercy and screaming like a pig.

Cao Wenzhao looked at Lu Yan a little stunned, he didn't understand why Lu Yan did this, didn't he ever think about how much benefit he would get from cooperating with the Jurchens?

Lu Yan smiled at him and said: "Maybe I am not a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, but I must be a loyal minister of the Han people, you just have to rest assured of this." ”

Cao Wenzhao nodded with a complicated expression, and for a while his heart was mixed, and he didn't know if it was right to bully Lu Yan like this.

The three brocade clothes twisted their knuckles with a cruel smile on their faces, and they had already begun to think about how to concoct those three traitors.

Jinyiwei's edict is famous in the entire Ming Dynasty, and it is enough to make the baby stop crying.

Soon, these three people were sent to Fengyang City by Jinyiwei.

Xiong Tingbi couldn't believe it at first after knowing the news, he thought that Lu Yan had seen through his trick, he wanted to trick him into transferring the border army back, and then try to break Fengyang.

However, this kind of thing was still interrogated after all, so he hurriedly ordered Jinyiwei to interrogate him overnight.

What all kinds of torture take turns, such as pulling out nails and nailing people alive, just listening to it is enough to make people feel creepy.

The three people couldn't bear the torture and finally confessed everything.

They are indeed from Liaodong, but they don't know much about Hachi's offensive plan.

These are military secrets, not something that they, the envoys, can know.

But it's probably not November, or December.

After knowing the news, Xiong Tingbi and some of the officials in Fengyang who were ranked first were taken aback.

At this time, they had already dispatched the border army to the south, and the strength near Gyeonggi was quite empty, what if the Jurchens came in?

When I think of this, many people are restless.

After thinking about it for a whole day, Xiong Tingbi finally wrote a note to Emperor Tianqi overnight, suggesting that the border army continue to move south.

Compared with the Jurchens, Lu Yan is the real confidant.

Because the Jurchens grabbed a handful at most and left, but Lu Yan occupied the entire territory.

There is an essential difference between the two.

The farming people have a strong resilience to the robbery of the nomads, and the days when the nomads went to the territory of the Han people to fight the autumn wind can be said to have lasted for more than 2,000 years.

But Lu Yan's behavior of occupying the territory has hurt Da Ming's roots, he is not cutting the flesh on Da Ming, but cutting off Da Ming's legs and even his heart.

Without these anointed places in the south of the Yangtze River, Daming can't recover even if he wants to.

Without enough food, the Northland will not be able to feed so many multilateral armies, and the Ming will only be more dangerous at that time.

After writing these memoirs, Xiong Tingbi quickly ordered people to send the recitals to Beijing in an expedited manner for 800 li.

As for how Zhu Youxiao decides, he can only leave it to fate.

Regarding the possible entry of the Jurchens, Lu Yan was also in a heavy mood.

However, he was more concerned about the reaction of the Ming Dynasty.

In this case, will they still transfer the border army to the south? If they continue to transfer the border army to the south, it means that their peace talks are only a delaying tactic, then they must fight with the Ming Dynasty.

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Time passed day by day, and Xiong Tingbi's twists and turns finally arrived in the capital.

After knowing that the Jurchens might go south, the court almost quarreled into a pot of porridge.

Some people think that what Xiong Tingbi said is very reasonable, compared with the Jurchens, Lu Yan is more like a confidant.

This is a rare opportunity, as long as Lu Yan can be killed, then the rebellion will be much easier to quell.

There are also those who believe that the border troops should be sent back, at least some of them should be sent back.

After all, it is the responsibility of the imperial court to defend the people, and to say that all the scholars of the Ming Dynasty are bastards is absolutely, and many of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty also have a conscience.

Besides, if the Jurchens captured a large number of people near Gyeonggi, the face of the imperial court would be disgraceful.

Finally, after several days of intense discussion, the imperial court finally made a middle-of-the-road decision.

That is, 10,000 border troops were dispatched back to Beijing, and the remaining 40,000 continued to go south to quell the rebellion.

Lü Yan's attempt to attack Fengyang completely angered the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao, and he decided to eliminate this anti-king at all costs.

Time passed day by day, and Zhu Youxiao's decision was still passed on, which made Lu Yan feel extremely disappointed, and it seemed that this battle had to be fought.

So he ordered his men to step up preparations for digging fortifications and preparing for the attack, and at the same time ordered people to transport grain from Qingjiangpu, where the largest granary in the Ming Dynasty was located, and he captured a large amount of grain there when he captured Qingjiangpu.

He also has a very big confidence, that is, in Guangdong, Zhang Xian and Yang Zaixing defeated the Guangxi and Guizhou coalition forces, and beheaded countless people.

Then Zhang Xian and Yang Zaixing attacked the city and plundered the land all the way, winning many battles.

At the same time, they sent part of the fleet to attack Hainan with soldiers, the Ming army in Hainan was very weak, although the number of Lu Yan's men was quite small, but still occupied a considerable territory in Hainan.

However, some of the Ming army still resisted strongly, and the orthodox status of more than 200 years is not a joke.

Finally, the border army of the Ming Dynasty crossed the Huai River, and then began to form a group about a hundred miles away.

And Cao Wenzhao and Lu Zhaoxiong also submitted their resignations one after the other for different reasons, but in order to avoid Lu Yan's suspicions, they still left a few uninformed pawns.

"Please take care of this trip, if you can't stay in the Ming Dynasty one day, come to me, and I will make you a general."

When bidding farewell to Cao Wenzhao, Lu Yan's face was a little sad.

Cao Wenzhao looked at him silently, and then shook his head, "I am Cao Wenzhao who belongs to the Ming Dynasty, I am a person of the Ming Dynasty in life, and I am a ghost of the Ming Dynasty in death, and I will never betray the imperial court." But I hope you can turn back as soon as possible and ask the court for your guilt. Now that you have not committed an unforgivable crime, the court will definitely forgive you. ”

Lu Yan smiled bitterly and shook his head, how can you understand my ambition.

"Send you a thousand miles, and you must say goodbye in the end, then I won't send you."

Lu Yan said with a gesture.

Cao Wenzhao also arched his hand, and then walked towards Fengyang with those brocade-clothed guards, but his back was indescribably gloomy.

After seeing them enter Fengyang, Lu Yan's face gradually became cold.

"It seems that what should have come will come after all, and since they intend to deceive me, then they have to pay the price for deceiving me."

"And it's the price of blood!!"