Episode 64 Receiving Qinling

Looking at the newspaper, Yonggui was simply knocked with a big stick, dumbfounded, dozens of seconds later, he looked up at Xiang Xiaoqiang blankly, looked at several other people, and the sweat on his head came down with a "bang".

Xiang Xiaoqiang leaned triumphantly in the chair, leaned back, stretched out two fingers of his right hand, and quickly presented a cigarette with a smile on his stomach, and then lit it. stretched out his left hand to Xiaoqiang again, and Hu Jiong hurriedly picked up the ashtray and put it in front of him.

Xiang Xiaoqiang took a puff, puffed out a few smoke rings comfortably, and looked at Yonggui with a smile.

Yonggui's face was already like a blank piece of paper, and his face was covered with sweat. He raised his eyes, glanced fiercely at the circle of people opposite, greeted their ancestors for eight generations in his heart, and then staggered to his feet, and said weakly:

"That'...... Well, that's it...... That's it...... Since you ...... has already solved it on its own, that...... I'm going to have to ...... with us. Emperor...... A retribution...... Lost ......"

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"Ah, Yong-sama, please."

Then he looked up and signaled, Hu Jiong opened the door for him, and Yonggui staggered out.

……

At this time, Guangwu in Beijing had just received a report that the Ming army had marched from Hanzhong to Ankang. This news is neither from Hanzhong nor from Ankang, but from Hanyin County. That is, when the Ming army rushed over from the mountain road in front of Hanyin County, the officials of Hanyin County were shocked and hurriedly reported to Beijing.

But this was news a few hours ago, after all, and it was already quite lagging behind at this point. After Guangwu was stunned, he was desperately using all means to verify. sent a report to Hanyin again, and Hanyin had no response. sent a report to Ankang, but Ankang didn't hear back! …… sent a report to Hanzhong, and there was definitely no response. Hanzhong had long been controlled by the Ming army.

At this time, the "verification" that Guangwu desperately wanted came. Yonggui, the envoy of the secret talks in Nanjing, sent a telegram saying that the Nanming side claimed that they had just taken control of the whole territory of Ankang half an hour ago.

Guangwu also sweated. What he fears most now is that the Ming army will see that his negotiations are a delaying tactic, and they will create trouble halfway through, find an excuse to terminate the peace talks, and resume the war.

When he received the telegram, he held his head and thought violently.

…… The focus of the deployment in Hanzhong is in the Hanzhong Basin, and the Ankang Basin has always been relatively secondary and not too important. Now it is a fact that Ankang is negligent in guarding, and it is completely possible to take Ankang with the consistent speed of the Ming army. Now that the Ming army is like this, there are two possibilities for it to suddenly start "grabbing openly" during the negotiations.

One is that he doesn't want to talk about peace anymore, and when he saw that he had won Hanzhong, Ankang couldn't talk about it for a long time, so he simply grabbed it, and he could take the opportunity to tear his face and start fighting again.

The second is that he still wants to negotiate peace, but he is afraid that the Qing Dynasty will deliberately delay time, and he will be impatient to wait, so he will snatch Ankang by himself, what to do next, then let's talk about it.

Guangwu analyzed it for a while and felt that the second possibility was greater. Because after all, the Qinling Mountains have not yet been handed over to Nanming, and the Qinling Mountains are completely lofty mountains, and it is impossible for Nanming to use the same set of raids on Ankang to raid Qinling. Of course, it is possible to use persuasion, but ...... Negotiating with the guards on the Qinling Mountains who are waiting to take advantage of the fire to loot and salvage is sure to be faster than negotiating with the central government of the Qing Dynasty?

The most important thing is that Guangwu does not dare to and cannot imagine that Nanming is about to start fighting. He can only put all his hopes on Nan Ming's patience to negotiate. As long as the negotiations can continue, everything is easy to say.

Now the Qing reinforcements are secretly marching at night, and in a few days they have entered Shanxi and passed Datong, and in five or six days, they will be able to reach Taiyuan. To the south of Taiyuan, the Jinzhong Plain is still relatively open, but to the north of Taiyuan, the Jinzhong Plain is over. The east and west sides of Taiyuan are mountainous, and only Taiyuan City itself is the pass to continue northward. As long as the five Eight Banner Divisions and the fifteen Han Army divisions were on the Taiyuan line, the northern half of Shanxi would be saved.

Thinking of this, he immediately stood up, called the left deputy chief Chongshan at the sticky pole, and commanded:

"Send a report to Yonggui immediately! Let him try and test at the negotiation table, listen to the tone of the Ming side, and figure out whether the Ming army raided Ankang or not? Is it intense if you fight? …… If he didn't fight much at all, or if he didn't fight a little and didn't fight big, let him insist on his caliber at the negotiating table, calling it a 'peaceful takeover', and resolutely not admitting that this was an armed attack by the Ming army! Even if the Ming army itself said that they fought a war, we should not admit it, and insist that this takeover was very peaceful...... Do you understand? Whether the peace talks can go ahead depends on how he behaves...... They occupied it so quickly, I don't think they would fight much. ”

Chongshan also understood what Guangwu meant, and leaned over and said:

"Huh!"

Chongshan went to send a report, but the more Guangwu thought about it, the more awkward it became, like eating a fly.

During the peace talks between the two sides, one side suddenly launched a unilateral attack and said with a big grin at the negotiating table: Yes, we have attacked you, what's the matter? …… Then, the other side has to accompany the smiling face, and vigorously refuses to admit it: where there is, look at what you say, how can you attack us, you are just taking over peacefully, anyway, we are talking about this place, you take over, we save trouble...... Hehe, it's okay, it's okay, let's continue to negotiate, don't hurt the peace......

Guangwu couldn't hold back the stuffiness in his chest, and finally broke out, roared, and kicked the chair over. The guards outside hurriedly rushed in, only to find that the emperor was hysterically kicking the chair on the ground, and one of the chair legs had been kicked off......

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In Nanjing, after receiving a call back from Beijing, Yonggui immediately understood the spirit of Guangwu and returned to the negotiating table. He first smiled and tried a few words, he didn't mention the words "raid" and "occupation", but casually said "take over", and then smiled all over his face, carefully paying attention to the reaction of the other side.

Sure enough, several representatives of the Ming side opposite, whether it was the young man Xiang Xiaoqiang or the old man Song Ruhai, did not react abnormally when they heard the word "takeover", and they still listened with a calm smile.

Yonggui secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and the Ming side still admitted that this was a "peaceful takeover...... Then, the basis for peace talks is still there, and it can finally continue.

The two sides continued to negotiate amicably. Since Hanzhong and Ankang are already in the hands of the Ming Fang, it is natural for the two sides to talk about Qinling next.

Xiang Xiaoqiang got straight to the point, opened his mouth to ask the Qinling defenders to surrender immediately, and the time limit was before 3 o'clock in the morning tomorrow, the two Qing army garrison divisions entrenched in Wuguan Road and Dasanguan Road all walked out of the fortifications, concentrated their weapons, and the whole army stood on both sides of the road, waiting for the Ming army to surrender.

Yonggui was taken aback, he didn't expect it to be so horizontal and so tight.

It's already five o'clock in the afternoon, and by three o'clock in the morning, that is, there are still 11 hours left. It was just the right amount of time. If you want to procrastinate, 11 hours is too tight. But if you don't want to delay, surrender in good faith, and give the order to "move" now, to be fair, those 11 hours are still more than enough.

Yonggui smiled:

"Lord Xiang, is this too ...... for you It's too one-sided and tough. Negotiations are always on both sides. If you take a place from us like this, then you will take a place from us, and then you will take a place from us...... Moreover, it is unconditional, and does not even leave us a little room for bargaining, so does this violate the basic spirit of the negotiations? Since it's a negotiation, it's definitely going to be a dealing......"

"Huh?" Xiang Xiaoqiang stretched out his hand and flicked the ashes into the ashtray, and said strangely, "What does Yong-sama mean by this?" Do you want to regret it? ”

"What does this mean, Lord Xiang?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang raised his eyebrows and said with a smile:

"Didn't our army stop in Shanxi a long time ago? If Xiang remembers correctly, 'immediately hand over Qinling Hanzhong' was a condition that you promised on the day in exchange for our agreement to stop in Shanxi. Qinling Hanzhong, this is promised to us as a whole, and now we have stopped in Shanxi for several days, but you have been grinding and delaying the full fulfillment of the promise, how can you now blame us for leaving no room for nothing? ”

Yonggui saw that the concept of stealing failed to frighten Xiang Xiaoqiang, and he smiled in embarrassment, and changed his strategy:

"Lord Xiang, you also know how efficiently I handle these things...... How can I say it, it's really not as good as yours...... Let's take today's incident as an example, you were a little anxious, and you didn't inform us, so you directly took over Ankang...... Of course, the results are not bad, and everyone is satisfied...... That's your efficiency! Hehe, Lord Xiang, to tell you the truth, if you really don't take over, just rely on our side to deal with it, it will take at least a day or so for the Ankang defenders to surrender...... Hehe, so you really can't be too anxious, your time limit is 11 hours, which is obviously to ask us for your efficiency...... Hehe, Xiang adults, a few adults, everyone is still a little more accessible, one day earlier and one day later, don't be so stuck in this kind of technical problem...... You see, this Qinling Mountains is not an Ankang Basin, if our side has not coordinated well, and you take over by yourself like this, then there may be a misunderstanding on the two passes, which will hurt the peace......"

When he said it, Xiang Xiaoqiang heard it, that is: Now that Qinling is in the hands of our army, if I say a little leniency, you have to give me leniency. Otherwise, I don't believe that you can raid the Qinling Mountains like a raid on Ankang.

Xiang Xiaoqiang sneered and said:

"That's good, naturally we won't 'take over' Qinling like we 'took over' Ankang, but we can continue to take over Shanxi."

Yonggui was stunned, he didn't expect this to speak to Xiaoqiang so much. Don't they want to negotiate? Don't you want to end the war with dignity and keep the fruits of your victory? Do they really want to fight in the north with millions of troops of the Qing Dynasty in the cold winter?

Xiang Xiaoqiang seemed to be very impatient, knocked on the table and said:

"Lord Yong, don't worry about it anymore, now it's better to go back and send a telegram to tell your emperor and ask him if he can do this before three o'clock tomorrow morning. If you can't, say you can't. 11 hours is quite generous, but it can't stand such a grind. Time is like an arrow, time is like a shuttle, and we all must cherish every minute and every second. ”

Yonggui decided to make a final all-or-nothing bet.

He frowned, and said bitterly:

"Lord Xiang, before 3 o'clock in the morning, that's your speed! We're not that fast! Xiang, sir, shall we all show some patience? It's really not easy for everyone to sit together, this battle is devastating, since we let it stop now. Just try not to let it fight again, okay? ”

Looking at Xiaoqiang, his tone changed a little, as if he was tending to be tough. As if to show that they are not afraid to continue the war even if they are forced to hurry.

Yonggui picked up the cup, took a sip of water, suppressed his impatience, and said softly:

"Lord Xiang...... You said three o'clock in the morning and three o'clock in the morning, why do you have to die so stuck? Can't you just get around? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled:

"Lord Yong, let me tell you why we insisted on three o'clock in the morning."

"Ah...... I would like to tell you about it. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang leaned forward a little, and said word by word:

"Because we are going to launch an offensive against Taiyuan at half past three in the morning. …… Well, now we're telling you plainly. Do you think you can get it through? ”

Yonggui was stunned for the second time in the afternoon.

He didn't say anything more, immediately got up to confess, and went to send a telegram to Guangwu.

……

An hour later, Yonggui returned, tiredly went there, and told the Ming representatives that the emperor had accepted it and would completely hand over Qinling before three o'clock in the morning.

When several representatives of the Ming side heard this, they looked at each other silently, but their hearts were full of joy.

In addition to the Yangtze River, another major natural danger between North and South China, the Qinling Mountains, has finally been "received" at the negotiating table.