Chapter 385: Peace Talks
In the military tent, an oil lamp as yellow as a bean was lit, and Mi Yan sat in it alone, running around with ten deer in his arms, but he didn't dare to come out, for fear that someone would secretly watch and vent his confidence. The Tartars neither killed him nor consulted with him about negotiations, but what did the other party think?
All kinds of tangled thoughts are like a poisonous snake spitting bright red letters at him, but he does not open his mouth, he does not know when the poisonous snake will bite him, nor when the poisonous snake will leave. Deadly danger is like a sharp sword hanging over his head, which may fall at any time, and this highly tense stimulation actually makes Mi Yan, who is extremely tired, have his eyes wide open, and he is not sleepy.
Until the sky turned bright, the east was white, and Mi Yan's waist was stiff and painful, and finally someone came to spread the word, saying that someone was willing to see him. The other party is obviously a Han Chinese, the Chinese dialect is very authentic, and even has a Shandong accent, Mi Yan followed this person around the Qing army camp for a while, and came to a not very spacious Mongolia, only to see a burly man in cotton armor sitting in the middle.
"Mi Yan, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, has seen the general!"
The other party neither declared his identity nor asked, Mi Yan saluted first in order to avoid embarrassment, which would not be wrong. Sure enough, the other party laughed dryly twice, and asked in blunt Chinese: "What kind of officer are you in the Ming Dynasty army?" ”
Mi Yan felt the teasing in the other party's words, and said angrily: "What is the position of the officer, what is the general?" On behalf of the Ming Dynasty before the general Shanxi Town, the general of the Ming Dynasty, the general wants to negotiate with your army, and I also ask the chief general of your army to take the time to see! ”
The implication is that I represent the former general of the Ming Dynasty's expedition to the west, and I can only say that I am the general of your family, so don't ask so much about the superfluous!
The cotton-armored man was furious, stretched out his palm-sized palm and slapped it on the table in front of him, and there was an explosion immediately.
"Bold Nanban, believe it or not, I slaughtered you?"
Mi Yan was not afraid at this time, straightened his chest, and said coldly: "The two armies of the capital province are not fighting, not in the next word, I'm afraid the general doesn't have this power, right?" ”
These words choked the cotton-armored man speechless, the blue tendons on his forehead burst out, and he suddenly pulled out the steel knife on his waist with a bang, and was about to step forward. Suddenly, someone behind the account scolded, "Ortai, there is not enough to achieve and more to lose!" ”
Ortai was like a defeated rooster, wilting immediately. Before the sound could be heard, the curtain behind the tent was opened, and a tall man with long eyebrows and thin eyebrows walked in and sat down in the tent. Ortai, who was still arrogant before, stood aside cautiously like an angry little daughter-in-law.
"Messenger, please take a seat!"
Mi Yan carefully looked at this tall man with long eyebrows and fine eyes, he was graceful and magnificent, obviously not an ordinary person, and then looked at the fox and fake tiger before that, and the person called Ortai judged the demeanor of the two at this time, and felt that this person's identity was not shallow.
A servant brought a stool, and Mi Yan thanked him before he sat down.
The man with long eyebrows and fine eyebrows didn't get into the topic for a long time, gossiping, Mi Yan could only be secretly anxious, and he had the heart to ask if the other party was the one who was in charge, and he was worried. According to the rules of the Han people, when meeting someone with a higher status than themselves for the first time, you must not ask Taifu in person, either you have made sufficient preparations beforehand, or a third person will relay it.
Mi Yan didn't know if the Tartars were outsiders and didn't understand the etiquette of the upper and lower levels, or if they did it on purpose. His patience was finally worn out, and he said straight to the point: "The battle between the two armies is imminent, why should you and I be so pretended, let's talk openly, General Li wants to talk about the old days with the chief general of your army, Baiyin Tugu Mountain, I don't know if your army is really free, take the time to see?" ”
At the same time, Mi Yan took out Li Xin's handwritten letter from his arms, held it with both hands, got up and stepped forward, put it in front of the table of the long-eyebrowed man, and then retreated.
"This is a handwritten letter from General Li and your army Gushan, please forward it on your behalf!"
Intuition told sù Mi Yan that although this person in front of him has a bearing, but the nobility on his body is more than might, if the slave chief Taiji is a good general, he will never use this kind of person as the main general, it is to let go.
The man with long eyebrows smiled awkwardly and told the truth.
"Sir's eyes are really like torches, Abatai admires, Mr. can go back and tell your army General Li, it is really an honor to worship Tugu Mountain, and I am willing to catch up with him, as for the location, I chose an estuary on the north shore of the Qi'er Sea, how about it?"
Mi Yan didn't expect it to be so smooth, it seems that this has been discussed a long time ago, they let themselves wait all night, and sent that Abatai to threaten them, just to see themselves ugly, but fortunately, they all survived, and there was no danger.
"This is very good, without further ado, I will immediately go back and report this matter to General Li." Mi Yan patted his head again and added: "I almost forgot a big thing, since the location of your army has already made the decision, then the time will be determined by us, okay after noon today?" ”
Abatai nodded happily in agreement, "Just according to Mr.!" ”
Mi Yan saluted and retired, and Abatai actually got up and kept out of the tent, which made him feel inexplicably surprised, and an indescribable complicated feeling surged in his heart.
Mi Yan deliberately made a little understanding of the situation of the Qing court, and knew that this Abatai was the seventh son of the late slave chief Nurhachi, and was a serious Manchu royal family. This person is respectful to himself, and he also roughly guessed seventy-seven eighty-eight, at first out of natural contempt for the Han people, but after he showed amazing concentration and vision, this person was happy and convinced, and it was out of respect for the capable.
On the other hand, up and down the Ming Dynasty, the superiors are cronyistic, whether it is the public weapons of the state, or the life and death of their subordinates, they are just chess pieces and tools for them to compete for power and profit...... Mi Yan sighed in his heart, even if there is an extremely pragmatic official like a general in the Ming Dynasty, but he is covered in iron and can hit a few nails, can he change the situation and atmosphere of the whole dynasty?
After thinking about it a hundred times, the answer is no. Out of the Qing Army, Mi Yan's heavy mood was relieved, who made him a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, thinking too long is beyond the reach of manpower, it's a big deal to obey the destiny of heaven, whether it is success or failure is left to God to decide.
Cloaked in the golden glow of the rising sun in the east, Mi Yan returned to the coalition camp. After not returning overnight, some people already thought that he had been killed, and when they saw Mi Yan come back with all his beards and tails, many people swept away the prejudice projected on him by the Field Service.
Bai Yintu happily agreed to Li Xin's request to meet Jian yì, Lu Jiu immediately built yì, let the artillery battalion prepare, once this Tartar head appeared, ten thousand cannons will be fired in unison, and he will be blown into pulp, and the main general will die, maybe the Tartar army will collapse without a fight!
Li Xin denied this idea, the main force led by the other party was not the Eight Banners Army of the Manchu Dynasty, but the coalition army composed of Mobei Mongolia, the life and death of Baiyintu was actually not much of a problem for them, this person died of immortality, and the defeat of the alliance army of the Monan tribes was probably what they desperately wanted.
At the same time, the same Jianyì is also denied by the Baiyin diagram.
"What if Li Xin doesn't die?"
yes, what if Li Xin doesn't die? Abatai fell silent, if he didn't die, he would inevitably anger the Three Guards, and then he would inevitably strike with all his might, the fiasco of the first battle of Gaoyang was still vivid, and Yue Tuo's death shook them, and I still have lingering palpitations when I think back to this day.
Therefore, at that time, many generals of the banners who participated in the Battle of Gaoyang reached a consensus afterwards that it was best not to attack Li Xinqi and his people, but to use various strategies like chess, and use various strategies to force him into a desperate situation step by step, squeeze it out little by little, and then carry out the final blow.
Bai Yintu turned over the entire "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" seven or eight times, and finally came up with a brilliant idea, wanting to kill Li Xin, and stabilizing it now is just one step in these links!
At noon, the Baiyintu arrived as scheduled, and the mouth of a seasonal river on the north shore of the Qi'er Sea, facing each other across the bank, was a carefully selected place. He recognized Li Xin at a glance, compared with when he was under Gaoyang City, although only half a year has passed, the original horse thief is already the general of the Southern Dynasty at this moment, and this kind of promotion speed is rare in the history of the Southern Dynasty. At the same time, I also sighed greatly, it is a pity that this kind of talent can be used by my Qing Dynasty!
"General Li Gao Yang said goodbye, I didn't expect to see you today, I was warmly invited here, I don't know what to see?"
Li Xin also recognized Bai Yintu a long time ago, he has a very good memory, this person's voice and smile have always been in his mind, so he went straight to the point according to the pre-planned rhetoric: "Open the skylight and say bright words, as Gushan Ezhen saw, there has been some friction among the Monan tribes, and the Three Guards are here to mediate, and they don't want to be enemies with your army." Li Xin privately speculated that your army must not want to be the enemy of the Three Guards, I wonder if Gushan can really agree with Li Xin's words? ”
Lu Jiu, who was behind Li Xin, heard this, only felt that his face was hot, and his face was feverish when he heard this, and the two sides made it clear that they were here to fight, and they were even told by the thirteenth brother that something was serious. He glanced at Li Xin, and suddenly had an inexplicable strangeness, so he hurriedly rubbed his eyes, and then looked at the thirteenth brother who was talking, and the familiar feeling returned.
Bai Yintu said yes again and again, and claimed that he was here to mediate the grassland dispute, hoping that the two sides would stop talking and not cause trouble again.
As for the first battle, it was said by the two to be a misunderstanding. In the end, in order to avoid that kind of misunderstanding, Li Xinti yì, the two sides each pulled out of camp and retreated five miles to show their sincerity, Bai Yintu readily agreed, and a meeting between the main generals of the two sides ended in this unexpectedly harmonious atmosphere.