"Poof!"

As soon as he opened the newly seized letter, Yu Zilian was amused. Seeing that the people around him were looking at him with some confusion, Yu Zilian smiled and handed the letter to Yang Tinglin and Zuo Yin.

And this letter also amused Yang Tinglin and them, such an obvious sowing of discord is really insulting to their IQ.

"But it's hot to get this letter." Because he has not been in contact with Yu Zilian for a long time, Yang Tinglin is also up to the point.

"Then after entering Kaifeng, hand it over to Governor Gao! At most, let's write another piece of music with ambiguous semantics and present it together. Let the court deal with it itself. When the time comes, how the imperial court will deal with Wu Runing, we all have a rhetoric. Zuo Yin suggested.

Yu Zilian shook his head and disagreed with Zuo Yin's suggestion: "No matter what we do, we can't escape a jealous and jealous person, and we have offended Wu Yanfu." This time, the official is looking for a place for the Black Cloud Army, and maybe he will have to deal with Wu Weifu, so he doesn't want to make trouble in advance. Besides, Wu Yanfu is now in his wings, and he is only a three-foot book, what can he do? Why be a villain? ”

"But if you don't submit it, I'm afraid that the court will find out afterwards, which is not conducive to Dong Weng!" Zuo Yin argued.

"This official has recruited troops and food like this, and the people have long been resentful. If there is no Black Cloud Army, there will still be thorns in the road ahead without this matter, but with the Black Cloud Army, it will still be okay to have more. Yu Zilian replied.

"What do you want to do with it?" Zuo Yin asked.

"When you enter Kaifeng, the official will hand over this letter to Wu Weifu. If he is willing to hand over Ruzhou to his own officials again, that would be the best. Even if there is no result, it is also a good fate. Yu Zilian replied.

……

On September 13, Yu Zilian's Black Cloud Army rushed to Kaifeng City. On the second day, the three-way Runing army also came to Kaifeng, and the siege of Kaifeng City was lifted.

September 15th. The combined forces of Li and Luo had withdrawn to the area west of Kaifeng City, and the whole army was advancing towards Henan Province.

In the following ten days, the pursuing Runing army and the peasant army were about to leave, as if they were sending them out. And the Battle of Kaifeng ended.

In this battle, the losses of the Li and Luo combined forces were not large, in addition to the casualties of more than 20,000 old and weak women and children, the losses of the soldiers were only more than 20,000. Compared to the huge number of Li and Luo's combined forces, these casualties were very few.

On the side of the official army, Yang Wenyue's more than 7,000 people were almost wiped out. Although Yu Zilian's Black Cloud Army did not lose much in its total strength, it also lost nearly thirty percent of the recruits recruited. On the side of the Runing Army. The total number of casualties was 673 people.

But compared with such a small number of casualties in the Runing Army, the current Runing Army has completely controlled the eastern and central Henan regions. It can be described as a brilliant result and fully achieved the pre-war goal.

The reason why the Runing army did not occupy the western Henan region, and did not even enter Ruzhou City, was to make way for the Li and Luo coalition forces. I hope they will go to Huguang for a happy road trip. It is a pity that the Li and Luo coalition forces are entrenched behind Henan Mansion. but he refused to move his nest. made the Runing army a little helpless.

However, when the Runing army also followed to the border of Henan Province, it stopped and stopped pursuing. This made the war situation in the Central Plains temporarily calm. However, in Kaifeng City, all parties fought a "fierce battle" for more than 20 days for their own interests.

At the beginning, the officers of the Runing Army, who ate by their fists, could not play with the civilian officials who ate by mouth. But it is impossible for the Runing Army to give up its vested interests. So the negotiations reached an impasse. It was not until Zhang Xuebin and Wu Shili were urgently transferred to Kaifeng by Wu Shigong that the deadlock in the negotiations was gradually broken. After some disputes and compromises, the parties reached the following agreement:

First of all, it is necessary to solve the anarchy in eastern and central Henan. To put it simply, it is who should arrange the officials in these areas. The most rear. The Runing Army made huge "concessions" on this point.

About seventy percent of the local vacancies of high-grade officials (mainly county governors) were arranged by the Henan government, and the remaining thirty percent belonged to the Runing army. Of course, in principle, the personnel to be arranged must also be approved by both parties.

In exchange, Gao Mingheng, a high-ranking Henan official, also promised that before the peasant army was wiped out, the security in the territory would be solved by the Runing Army, and acquiesced in the implementation of the "Three Decrees" by the Runing Army in Henan. In this way, the grassroots officials at the township level were actually controlled by the Runing Army. Judging from the actual rights, the Runing Army is not a loss.

The second is the arrangement of the army. The Henan government agreed that Wu Shigong would nominally command all the official troops in Henan (excluding Yu Zilian's Heiyun Army). In fact, this is a matter of course, because Wu Shigong has the name of "Dangkou" general, so he is nominally one rank higher than the other general soldiers. And this time, it is nothing more than an official reiteration.

As soon as this decision was made, Chen Yongfu personally went out of Kaifeng City and came to Wu Shigong to meet him. At this time, Chen Yongfu definitely did not dare to disobey the order, and his son Chen De was still pinched by Wu Shigong.

But it was a pleasant visit. After Chen Yongfu returned to Kaifeng, he immediately drove the 9,000 Yu army under his command out of Kaifeng City and obeyed the command of Wu Shigong. And Wu Shigong will also let Liang Hui lead an association of the Runing Army, form a new town with Chen Yongfu's department, and go to the Taihang Mountain area in northeast Henan to exterminate the remaining bandits and homeless people in this area.

And the Runing army will march into Kaifeng City with a regiment, and they will be responsible for the defense of Kaifeng City together with Gao Mingheng's 1,500 Governor Standard Battalion.

The last is the arrangement of Yu Zilian's Black Cloud Army.

Both the Henan government and the Runing Army promised that if Henan Province was recovered, Henan Province would be used as a garrison for the Black Cloud Army. However, now Henan Mansion is still in the hands of the peasant army, and in order to compensate for the Heiyun army, the Runing army will transfer the 150,000 taels of opening fees paid by Kaifeng City to Yu Zilian.

And the Henan government and the Runing Army also promised: they will give the first credit for the relief of Kaifeng to the Heiyun Army. and strongly recommended Yu Zilian to the imperial court, so that he could take over the official position left by Yang Wenyue, the governor of Zhili who died in battle. Of course, the operation of the imperial court will have to worry about Yu Zilian himself. However, regarding this matter, the Henan government and the Runing army will work hard. Because the Black Cloud Army is a guest army after all, no one wants him to stay in Henan. If Yu Zilian succeeds as the governor of Zhili, then his Black Cloud Army can go to Beizhili.

Therefore, for the Black Cloud Army, this agreement has gained a lot. Among them, there is also the reason why Yu Zilian took the initiative to hand over the forged letter to Wu Shigong.

And in this agreement, all parties have their own place. However, it must be seen that for the strong position of the Runing Army, the Henan government is actually helpless, and in many places it acquiesces to the "offside" of the Runing Army.

In addition, it can be seen that in many aspects, such as: the appointment of vacant officials; The determination of the command of the Yu army, etc., the Henan region made its own decisions and no longer passed through the imperial court. And this also proves that the centrifugal force of the Ming Empire is also getting bigger and bigger. (To be continued......)