Section 12 Surrender
There was no one in the tent, Yuan Feng and his disciples walked in cautiously, and after lowering the door of the tent, it suddenly became a closed space, isolating them from the wounded soldiers outside, and each of them seemed to feel a lot more relaxed at once.
"Good guys!" Yuan Feng strode towards a small wooden table in the middle of the tent, and lifted a yellow burden from it: "What is this?" β
While saying Yuan Feng, he untied the burden, and inside was a scabbard with a beautiful pattern, Yuan Feng pulled the sword out of it with force, and the crystal sword body suddenly reflected his face, and Yuan Feng gently stroked the sharp blade.
"Good guy," Yuan Feng shouted again, after so many years of wandering in the rivers and lakes, Yuan Feng immediately realized that this was a rare sword: "It's priceless." β
"Master, there's another handful." A newly recruited disciple found an identical yellow burden on the back of the table, and when the second burden was untied, a scabbard that was almost identical to the former's one was revealed.
"Could it be that this is Shang Fang's sword?" Another disciple looked at the two swords shining with cold light, and his saliva was about to flow out: "Master, look, there are dragon patterns on it." β
"Nonsense!" Yuan Feng pulled his face, he was well-informed in Kaifeng, and he still had a certain understanding of the system of the Ming Court: "Don't be so ignorant, Shang Fang's sword is anyone's own, at least you have to be an official to the governor to have one, this time there are only two, do you think Shang Fang's sword is a cabbage stick on the bad street?" β
While speaking, Yuan Feng's disciples rummaged through the tent, and one of them picked up the red silk bag on the table: "Master, it seems to be a seal in here." β
Sure enough, there was a golden seal inside, Yuan Feng's disciple couldn't understand what was written on it, so he handed the seal to his master with both hands, Yuan Feng didn't know what the words were after reading it for a while, so he spat on the seal and pressed it hard according to a piece of white paper on the table.
Four handwriting appeared, Yuan Feng stared at the piece of paper, and read word by word: "Bao-Ding-Governor-Governor." β
"Governor, it turned out to be the governor, this official is bigger than the governor." The reprimanded disciple just now shouted repeatedly, "Master, the governor will have Shang Fang's sword." β
"Of course the Governor has, but this is definitely not Shang Fang's sword," Yuan Feng glanced at the person who shouted sternly, feeling a little dissatisfied that this disciple actually questioned his experience, and even more dissatisfied that he actually spoke without thinking away: "The governor will not have two Shang Fang swords, since these two swords are a pair, then it is definitely not Shang Fang Sword." β
"Master, master," a disciple who was squatting on the ground looking for something reached under the table with his hands under the table and pulled out a silk bag from among the things that were all over the place: "There seems to be a seal here!" β
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"Sun Chuanting ordered General Chen to attack our army immediately to cover his retreat to Tongguan," Yue Mu handed a warrant to Chen Yongfu, whose face was like ashes, and said arrogantly, "So General Chen doesn't have to expect Sun Chuanting to come and save you." β
Chen Yongfu took the warrant from Yue Mu's hand with trembling hands, and the person who delivered the letter was captured by the Guards Battalion and found the letter from him, Chen Yongfu carefully looked at the seal behind the warrant, and then looked at the handwriting on the letter, and sat down in his chair weakly, and lamented to the subordinates and relatives around him: "It is indeed the handwritten letter of the Inspector. β
Now the military camp of the Henan General Army has been surrounded by tens of thousands of Chuang Corps, and it seems that the south may be slightly weaker, and the road leading to the hinterland of Henan has the least number of troops. First of all, Chen Yongfu knew that Xu Ping would never watch him escape safely; Secondly, even if the other party is not wary of being fled south by him overnight, this vast Central Plains is full of hostile people, Chen Yongfu doesn't know how far he can escape - he can't cross Henan, Huguang, and break through to Jiangxi, right?
"What else is General Chen hesitating about?" Yue Mu asked aggressively, "Does General Chen think that there is still a way to survive if he does not surrender?" β
Now Chen Yongfu has 10,000 regrets in his heart, when Li Zicheng opened the seal, he shot Li Zicheng's eyes blind and bragged, desperately trying to show merit to the court. If it falls into the hands of Chuang Ying today, whether Chen Yongfu can get a happy death is still unknown.
"Your envoy," Chen Yongfu's subordinates all cried with sad faces, and someone begged Yue Mu: "If my general puts down his weapon, can the general allow him a way to live?" β
"I have already said just now, General Chen's life and death The Great General has no right to decide," Yue Mu shook his head sharply and said coldly: "But the Great General promises that he will definitely send General Chen to my lord Chuang Wang, General Chen's subordinates and relatives can be casual, and they will treat each other with courtesy along the way." β
"Then, if I cut myself...... Chen Yongfu thought that Li Zicheng would probably not die well, and suddenly had the idea of committing suicide.
"Your Excellency."
"The head of the house."
The surrounding subordinates and relatives immediately burst into tears when they heard this, and Yue Mu shook his head again, and said coldly: "General Chen, don't bargain, I have already made the general's conditions very clear just now, General Chen surrendered to see my lord Chuang Wang, and the general guarantees that your subordinates will have no worries." β
Chen Yongfu looked around, these were all old brothers who had followed him for many years, and he really didn't want them to accompany him to Huangquan. After those relatives came into contact with Chen Yongfu's desperate gaze, they all shed tears one by one, and finally someone couldn't help but shout: "Family master, the little ones are protecting you desperately to break through." β
This shout didn't elicit much in response, and Yue Mu let out an undisguised sneer.
"Hugh wants to talk nonsense," Chen Yongfu vetoed the family's delusions before others, but his hands clenched and loosened, loosened and clenched, obviously not completely dead.
"General Chen, when are you going to think about it?" Yue Mu became impatient, his black clothes were particularly conspicuous in the Red Army uniforms full of camps, and he asked loudly: "Does General Chen want your 10,000 men to bury you?" β
"Your envoy ......" Chen Yongfu still had a hint of the illusion of negotiating the price with Xu Ping, and he politely said to Yue Mu: "Please do it for a while, the last general will be absent for a while." β
Immediately, a family member brought a chair for Yue Mu, but Yue Mu didn't mean to sit down at all: "Where is General Chen going?" β
"I'll go outside the camp and talk to the sons," Chen Yongfu planned to discuss with his henchmen again to see how to use the words to negotiate: "Your envoy, please use tea ...... first."
"I advise General Chen not to leave this camp until he is determined to surrender," Yue Mu interrupted Chen Yongfu and said loudly: "If General Chen does not agree and leave this camp, I will have to go back to General Qi: General Chen rejected his proposal." β
The Ming soldiers in the camp were all choked and speechless, and there were several people who looked at Yue Mu's eyes with angry expressions, and Yue Mu stood with his head held high without fear, slowly turning his neck to sweep his gaze from the faces of these Ming soldiers. After the sight of those Ming soldiers and Yue Mu made contact, the fierce flames in their eyes were immediately extinguished as if they had encountered ice and snow, and they lowered their heads one after another.
"Then, would your envoy like to move first," Chen Yongfu's lieutenant general hoped that Yue Mu would go out for a while, and he lamented: "Your envoy wants us to surrender, we must discuss it first, this request is not excessive." β
"Discuss it in front of me," Yue Mu's attitude was still as solid as ice, showing no signs of melting: "Do you want to discuss something that is unfavorable to the general or to me?" β
"Of course not." The adjutant general hurriedly explained.
"Then it's decided in front of me, and if you decide not to surrender, I'll know it right away." Yue Mu turned his gaze to Chen Yongfu again: "General Chen can start discussing, I'm already a little tired from standing, and the general is still waiting for me to go back and recover my life." β
There was silence in the barracks, and Yue Mu waited for a moment: "Aren't you guys starting to discuss?" β
"Your honor," Chen Yongfu sighed, "Does the general promise not to harm the lives of my subordinates?" β
"Have you ever heard of a general killing prisoners?"
"Nope." Chen Yongfu shook his head and said.
"Have you ever heard of the Great General breaking his promise?"
"No," Chen Yongfu said in a low voice, "The general's credit is very good. β
"Then General Chen doesn't think that your army is so special that it deserves to be made by the general to make an exception for your army, so that he will have a bad reputation, right?"
Chen Yongfu bowed his head deeply and said in a low voice: "What your envoy said is very true, the last general is willing to surrender. β
"Okay, please come with me to meet the general."
"Yes, your envoy, please move."
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"General, this is Sun Chuanting's seal, this is Yang Wenyue's seal."
After inspecting the two golden seals sent by Liu Junbao, Xu Ping laughed and said: "General Liu is really a tiger minister in the world, and he actually won the seal of Sun Chuanting and Yang Wenyue with thousands of people's training. β
"The general has won the award, this is all due to Yuan Daxia's work." Liu Junbao's face was also full of smugness, he pointed to Yuan Feng who was standing beside him, and motioned for him to open his mouth to report to Xu Ping about the process of seizing the seal.
Yuan Feng told it vividly, compared to when he showed his skills to Liu Junbao, this time his story was several times more thrilling, Xu Ping smiled and listened and nodded again and again: "Central Plains hero, it's really good." β
After listening to Yuan Feng's story, Xu Ping already had a plan in his heart, he wrote a few warrants in a hurry, and then stamped Sun Chuanting's seal letters, and then handed them to the guards around him, Xu Ping explained to the generals in the account: "These warrants are issued to the guards of Shaanxi, including Xi'an Wei, I asked them to quickly report the deployment of troops to the messenger with the letter." β
A lot of military uniforms were captured in this battle, and Chen Zhe had this kind of special forces, and they would immediately disguise themselves as Ming soldiers and carry warrants written by Xu Ping in the tone of Sun Chuanting to spy on the military situation of various fortresses in Shaanxi.
Most of the others didn't know about Chen Zhe's skills, so Liu Junbao said with some concern: "Isn't this too dangerous?" Sun Chuanting will say that his seal is lost. β
"He will say, but he has no evidence, he has to report the loss of the Governor's Great Seal first, and then the imperial court will create a new seal for him, and at the same time inform the Shaanxi army that the old seal is invalid, and so on, our people have already returned with military information."
Chen Zhe on the side also nodded again and again: "It's not child's play to change the seal letter, if a person doesn't have any credentials, he opens his mouth and says that so-and-so inspector and so-and-so governor have lost the seal, and all those who come with the seal are the enemy's meticulous work, and the armies will also obey the words, isn't it too easy to be disturbed?" Sun Chuanting's seal letter is preserved in all armies in Shaanxi, and our people bring it to be genuine, and they know it as a pair. In the past, Chen Zhe had painstakingly imitated the seal letter of the governor of Henan, but the effect was very bad, and the officers and soldiers could see the flaws if they were a little careful.
"As for these two Shang Fang swords," Xu Ping looked down at the two dazzling trophies placed in front of his table, stood up and walked down the camp, and walked in front of Liu Junbao and Yuan Feng with one in one hand: "In my opinion, General Liu and Yuan Daxia should each take one and go." β
Yuan Feng thanked loudly, and couldn't help but take the sword handed to him by Xu Ping, and although Liu Junbao was happy, after he took the sword, he pondered for a while, then knelt down on one knee and held the sword in both hands and said loudly: "General, the last general is willing to dedicate this sword to the general, please accept it." β
Yuan Feng was stunned when he heard this, and looked at Liu Junbao, with obvious sadness on his face, but he took a step forward and saw that he was going to follow Liu Junbao's example and sacrifice his sword.
"What do I want this sword for?" Xu Ping shook his head and smiled: "General Liu, Yuan Daxia, you can leave this sword at home and transfer it to future generations, and your descendants can point to this sword from generation to generation to tell the exploits of your ancestors." And if I want it, what will future generations say? Did someone on the battlefield fight to regain the sword and have it taken by me for himself? β
"General......" Liu Junbao still has to argue.
"That's it, put away your sword." Xu Ping waved his hand to prevent Liu Junbao and Yuan Feng from continuing to excuse himself, and he sat back in his seat: "We still have something to say." β
After Yuan Feng withdrew from the camp, Xu Ping said to everyone: "Chen Yongfu I have already sent King Chuang, King Chuang is now on his way back to Henan, judging from King Chuang's letter, he hopes that we will attack Tongguan and enter Guanzhong." β
"King Chuang is back?" Most of the people in the camp were not high-status generals, and there were not many who had a close relationship with Li Zicheng before: "Didn't the general say last time that King Chuang was going to attack Jiangxi?" β
"King Chuang thinks Guanzhong is more important." Xu Ping didn't want to say much in front of these people, but simply ordered: "All the kings have prepared early, if King Chuang comes back and sees that we have attacked Guanzhong, he will definitely be rewarded." β
"Willing to serve the general." Most of the generals in the tent were very happy when they heard Xu Ping's promise, and it was unlikely that this kind of meritorious opportunity would have been their turn.
After these people also left, Yu Shenhe and Chen Zhe, who stayed by Xu Ping's side, had no scruples: "How is the war in Jiangxi?" β
"It doesn't sound very smooth," Xu Ping's face showed a worried expression.
"What did King Chuang say?"
"King Chuang said that the people of Jiangxi are fierce, far beyond our imagination in advance."
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