"Oh, but will Huang Hou surrender?" Niu Jinxing was a little skeptical of Xu Ping's proposal, but he also thought it might as well give it a try: "The new army has been destroyed, and Huang Hou has no capital to bargain with us, but Huang Hou broke the contract first, and he promised not to send troops to Shanxi." ”

"In Huang Hou's opinion, we broke the contract." Xu Ping replied that since there was a secret agreement, the assassination was obviously not a violation of the contract.

"We have a clear conscience," Niu Jinxing said with a smile, although Jin Mancang's action was not approved by the top brass of the Shun army, it seemed that the Shun army had made a lot of money, and even the division of the north and the south no longer needed to be considered: "We will attack the Beijing division immediately, and after a short rest, we will send a section to the south along the canal, and we will cross the Yangtze River before June." ”

"Send one?" Xu Ping felt a little strange.

"Yes, we may need to watch out for sweating." Li Zicheng told Xu Ping that he had just received a letter from the Northern Captives, in which he asked to attack the Ming Court with Dashun: "Since the Northern Captives have the heart to get involved in the Guannei, of course we must guard against them. ”

"I originally advised the king to be humble and wrong, and the Beiyu hoped that we would recognize that Liaodong and Monan were theirs, and even hoped to be able to take away a part of the thistle" Niu Jinxing suggested that he might as well pretend to agree first, and then turn his face and deny people after the Ming army in the pass was completely cleaned up: "Aren't they daydreaming?" Forget about Monan, when did Liaodong become theirs? ”

"Even Mo Nan won't give it," Li Zicheng did not agree to reply to the letter to deceive, since he thought that the Shun army would one day send troops outside the customs, then he simply did not reply to the letter, so as not to break the contract in the future: "I don't even lie to Zhu Ming, how can I lose my trust in Hu Lu?" ”

"The king is right, it is the subordinates who do not consider it, otherwise there will always be some bad things in the future in the history of the Qing Dynasty," Niu Jinxing also did not take the threat outside the fortress to heart at all, so since Li Zicheng was too lazy to lie, he did not persuade more: "For decades, the Beiyu has been blocked outside the pass by the Guan Ning army, the Ji army and the Jin army, and after breaking through the Beijing division, we still let Jiang Ting, Tang Tong (Juyong Pass General Soldier), Gao Di (Shanhaiguan General Soldier) and Wu Sangui (Ning Yuan General Soldier) They continue to guard the pass, leaving one, 20,000 soldiers and horses responded to the border army in Beijing and Shanxi, and the rest went south. ”

Since the incompetence of the central army of the Ming court can assist the border army to hold the pass, Niu Jinxing thinks that this is not a problem for the Shun army, and there is really no need for peace with the northern captives.

"It's just that since the Beiyu also has the heart to get involved in the Guannei, we have to hurry up and march into the army, first take the Beijing Division, and then recruit An Tangtong, Gao Di, and Wu Sangui." Niu Jinxing suggested that Li Zicheng leave the new army of the three battalions that had defected in Shanxi, and send the fire battalions to Jinxi in Jindong, Xiliu and Taishan, so that these three battalions would have time to clean up the internal pro-Ming forces and unify the army's hearts, and at the same time be ready to respond to Jiang Pai, who was guarding the border: "Send another messenger to persuade Chongzhen Lao'er, the king might as well promise him, if he gives it to the king, he will be crowned a king." ”

"It's cheap, old man." Li Zicheng said that the world has been turbulent for more than ten years, and millions of people have been tossed to death by the Ming court, but in order to quickly end the war, Li Zicheng also agreed not to deal with this enemy who dug his ancestral grave.

"Who is the king going to send to persuade Emperor Ming to surrender?" Xu Ping, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly asked.

"I haven't thought ......about it yet" Li Zicheng planned to let the eunuchs who surrendered in Shanxi to persuade Chongzhen to surrender, but this effect is not expected to be very good, Emperor Chongzhen saw that the house slave he sent to fight Li Zicheng surrendered to the opponent in a blink of an eye, and then turned his head to persuade himself to surrender, most of them were so angry that one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ***. However, although the success rate will be higher if you send your own people, Li Zicheng estimates that no one is willing to take risks.

"The king, the last general is willing to send an envoy to the Ming court." Xu Ping said loudly.

"Brother Xu?"

"General?"

Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing shouted at the same time.

"Exactly, if you send a nobody to see Emperor Ming, he will most likely doubt the sincerity of the king, and the last general can be regarded as a little famous, through the conditions of the last general's mouth, Emperor Ming will believe in the sincerity of the king's fulfillment."

……

Outside the city of Taiyuan, there is an endless new grave, for several days the Shun army has been busy collecting the comrades who died in the battle into the coffin, so that they can be buried in the ground, and Niuwei Zhuang is still full of corpses full of mountains and valleys at this time, the corpses of the Ming army soldiers are unclaimed, and the busy Shun army has no time and cannot take care of the enemy's dead before properly placing the bodies of their comrades.

When Xu Ping stood on the top of the hill in the middle of the battlefield, it was as if he was in the Shura field, especially when night fell, he felt that his surroundings seemed to be full of Sen Sen's ghostly aura, as if he could already be detected by the mortal fetus of the flesh.

"My lord," Yu Shenhe, who came in a hurry, easily found Xu Ping, who had been circling around the battlefield for the past few days: "My lord, the last general just heard about ......"

"Are you here to persuade me?" Xu Ping smiled and pointed to Zhou Dongtian beside him: "He just said it for almost half an hour." ”

Although Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing did not agree at first, Xu Ping couldn't help but be stubborn, and finally agreed.

Yu Shenhe glared at Zhou Dongtian, and then opened his mouth to start persuading.

"The first time Brother Yu and I met, it was when I was in Texas, and at that time I was the same as these battalion officers of the New Army," Xu Ping waved his arm in a circle, and gathered all the New Army battalions that had been arranged here that day: "I think about how to get promoted and make a fortune, if I win the world's fame." I am as unscrupulous as them, they are pulling relationships and running favors, I have no relationships and favors, so I can only seek wealth and danger, and do everything possible to make meritorious contributions to the court, the Hou Ye and the new army, hoping to attract the attention of the court, the Hou Ye and the upper peak. ”

Yu Shenhe listened to Xu Ping's emotion, so he closed his mouth with interest.

"I got my wish, after I arrived at the Changqing camp, I didn't take the rights given to me by the Hou Ye to do favors, no matter who wants to intervene relatives in it, I will never agree; I have done everything that Hou Ye has explained, and I have never pretended to be blind to the wrong things in order to maintain a harmonious atmosphere among my colleagues. At that time, everyone scolded me for climbing up by any means, yes, I was unscrupulous, I recognized Hou Ye alone, and other people were willing to say and go. At that time, Xu Ping thought that there were more people with friends and connections, but there were really not a few people in the new army who were meticulous and conscientious, and their eyes were full of peacemakers with mud.

"It wasn't until I went to Texas again that I took the rights given to me by the Hou Ye for the first time in exchange for money, although I later handed over the money to the public, but at the beginning I did think that other battalions were not as good as me, and the Evergreen Battalion was stronger than other battalions." Yu Shenhe and Zhou Dongtian both knew about that incident, and when they asked Yu Shenhe to escort the Texas heroes, he also shared the benefits.

"Then Hou Xun gave an order, Wang Qinian's fire battalion, Zhan Tianhao's rock battalion, and He Ma's Xuanfeng battalion were killed together, and I led the two of you to Hou Xun to defend yourself, hoping to persuade Hou Xun to take back his life and prevent them from continuing to kill good and risky deeds, but I didn't think about the people at that time. Although they are very wronged, what I value more is that I need them to help me make contributions, I need these people's hearts to defeat King Ji, impress Hou Ye, and make the other new army battalions have nothing to say. If I hadn't met General Lin and General Zhou, I would never have known that there were some generals in the New Army who were so different from me, and they valued the lives of the people more important than their own lives and futures. ”

The loyalty to the Ming court was completely destroyed in the scholar's house in Shandong, and when he returned to He Baodao's barracks, Xu Ping made it clear that he wanted to report Hou Xun, He Baodao reminded Xu Ping that he had blood on his hands, and reporting Hou Xun was dragging himself down, but Xu Ping didn't care at the time, and he said that he would also report Hou Xun for killing good and risking his merits: "...... The new army can't tolerate me, all the people who are different from the other Ming army, the new army can't tolerate it, and in the end, they became like this. ”

Xu Ping stretched out his finger and pointed to the surrounding battlefield again: "If I want to be like them, then there is no need to rebel against the new army, and there is no need to fight against everyone from the beginning." Someone wants to put his nephew in the Evergreen Camp, I don't need to stop it, but I can accept favors; The whole army deduces that the ten battalions are messing around, I can pretend not to see it like everyone else, anyway, I will not be the only one who is unlucky; After losing the battle, they had to run together, the fire battalion took the lead, Panshi and Xuanfeng threw all the cannons and half of the soldiers ran away, why did I persuade Lord Zhang to save the Shanlan camp, it was their own fate; Eight battalions are killing good people and taking risks, and I don't need to report this matter if I am involved. ”

"So they have become like this," Xu Ping repeated what he had just said, and their small calculations became more and more refined, and they became more and more dissociated from each other, which led to defeat, and the military defeat aggravated the centrifugal tendency: "Since I have rebelled against the new army, I have to be different from them, otherwise I will not be full of food?" ”

Hearing this, Zhou Dongtian and Yu Shenhe knew that Xu Ping was no longer persuadable.

"In the past few days, more than one wounded soldier has held my hand at the moment of death, although some people have said it and some people have not, but I know that they are afraid that I will live up to their sacrifice, so that their wives and parents are still living a precarious life." Xu Ping took a long breath, he knew that this was impossible, the Ming court was now a lamb to be slaughtered, and there was no resistance at all: "There is no need for more dead people, as long as Emperor Ming surrenders, the world can be decided, you can be rich and glorious, the soldiers can be disarmed and returned to the field, and the people can live and work in peace and contentment." Xu Ping smiled at Yu Shenhe and Zhou Dongtian: "If Emperor Ming doesn't surrender, it will be the same with me or not, and whoever leads the army can easily break through the Jingshi." And this mission is my last chance to make meritorious service, to persuade Emperor Chongzhen to surrender and end this troubled era with my own hands. ”

……

Zhou Dongtian, Yu Shenhe and others who rushed to persuade Xu Ping were persuaded away by Xu Ping, and only the Qingzhi Taoist priest was left alone.

"General Xu thinks that this world no longer needs you?" After no one left and right, Qingzhi asked.

"yes, yes." Xu Ping laughed: "The master really knows my heart. ”

"I have an uncle to support, and when I was in the fire camp at the beginning, I was in too much danger because my uncle needed me alive." For so many years, Xu Ping's uncle has not been heard from, and he probably may no longer be alive, otherwise he should have found the camp a long time ago: "Then I have a sweetheart, I vow to love her, respect her, and marry her, she and my uncle need me to live."

"Then my uncle is gone, and my former sweetheart is married, I once wanted to retire to the mountains and forests, or simply die a hundred, but I have a brother's revenge that has not been avenged, and I can't die easily." Xu Ping glanced at Qingzhi: "Later, the brothers' revenge heart gradually faded, and they no longer cared about this matter, the master told me that I have the responsibility of setting things right, and there are countless people in this troubled world who are struggling to survive.

"Just like I said to the master, if Chongzhen has the blood of millions or tens of millions of people on his hands, then I also have the blood of hundreds of thousands of people." This is not the first time Xu Ping has seen thousands of war dead: "Especially the 200 innocent people in Shandong, unlike the battlefield, the blood of the innocent can never be wiped away, and they will accuse me of my sins in front of the king of Yama, which is a court I am destined to escape...... Now that most of my uncle is gone, and no sweetheart thinks about me, and her brother and husband die because of me, she must hate me to the core; No one wants me to avenge them, they themselves have a heavy army; There is nothing faint king still needs me to go to ***, after this battle, faint king must be ***; The world doesn't need me anymore, and no one still wants me to live. Xu Ping spread his hands: "The master said that whether the doppelganger of the broken military star is a successful retreat or a troubled party depends on each doppelganger's own beliefs - and I choose to retire after success." ”

"Then the grievances between King Shun and Huang Hou, does General Xu also plan to stay out of it?"

"King Shun won't lose, Hou Ye is already alone, and Dashun will win steadily. Just now, King Shun and Niu Junshi agreed to let me envoy to the Ming Court, just knowing that this is indeed the last bit of strength I can contribute. ”

……

There were not a few people who had the same idea as Xu Ping, and on an official road hundreds of miles away, thousands of cavalry waving banners protected the long convoy heading south.

"Ji Xinghui is really a bastard, no wonder he hasn't even moved out of his family property."

After separating from the battlefield, several thousand cavalry of the New Army rushed back to protect the salaries and property of the officers, as well as the carts and people collected along the way, and then immediately set off to the south.

"Anyway, we didn't participate in the siege of Shanlan Camp, so I didn't know He Baodao was so mad."

The battalion officials got together privately to talk about the changes in Beijing that only a few people knew, and said: "At that time, we just wanted He Baodao to persuade Hou Ye on behalf of everyone, who would have thought that this anti-bone boy really betrayed Hou Ye to serve the faint king, and kept hiding from us what Hou Ye was persuaded by him." ”

If tens of thousands of new troops were really brought to the south, the battalion officers were worried that Huangshi might really deprive them of their military power and leave them idle, but now it is different, almost all of the people in the Funing army who can fight have been transferred to the north and died, and now the remaining policies in the south, Liu Xiang, Zheng Chenggong, Jiang Min, etc., are almost all sailor generals with no land experience.

"Even if we train the army with our lethal strength, Hou Ye may not be able to train the new army again in a year and a half, if you don't want us, then what else will Hou Ye fight?"

If He Baodao really defeated the Shun army, the battalion officials felt that it was not bad to serve Chongzhen, after all, the military salary was issued by the imperial court, and the weapons were subsidized by Fujian. Besides, with the support of the new army, Fujian will have to weigh whether it dares not to continue to provide weapons allowances.

If He Baodao is defeated, then Huangshi still has to pull people to organize the team to continue to fight with the Shun army.

Even if Huangshi is confused and really can't get along with everyone, everyone knows in their hearts that the most reluctant to shake off the changes in Beijing is Huangshi himself, once it shakes out, his consistent good reputation is ruined, not to mention, and such infighting is a heavy blow to his prestige.

Since he couldn't shake things out, Huang Shi had no reason to kill a group of old subordinates, and the generals were convinced that although Huang Shi was already confused, he was not so confused.

So......

Tens of thousands of people, under the supervision of the cavalry of the new army, struggled to push the heavy carts southward with all their might.

Every cart was filled with gold, silver, and jewelry, and although it was impossible for all the business, shops, land, caravans, and cargo ships belonging to the Forces nouvelles to be moved to the south, even the gold and silver in this cart were still worth a fortune, the furniture that tens of thousands of troops, one of the most powerful armies in the country had earned in the last few years, and some of the most powerful senior officers in the country.

"Rich man," the battalion officers all had a disdainful expression when they talked about the arrangements that Huangshi had secretly prepared for them: "This doesn't need to be arranged by Master Hou, we can definitely do it." ”

followed He Baodao, contributed to the Ming Court, betrayed Huangshi, lost the battle and annihilated the whole army, and was finally broken up by Huangshi's anger, that is, to touch all the bad things again, the generals of the new army felt that their ending could not be worse than this result, and as long as their luck was not so bad, how could they mix better than the end arranged by Huangshi for them.

"Did the team escape?"

After learning that the imperial court issued an order to send Huangshi to the south on a business trip, the battalion officials knew that they had been deceived by He Baodao again, and that it was a pure lie to put Huangshi under house arrest in Beijing, and he must have escaped by Huangshi. Now what they want to know is who else in Yellowstone can be used to train soldiers besides themselves.

"No, Song Jianjun is locked up in He Baodao's house, I've seen it."

"The teaching team was served by He Baodao, and none of them could run away, this must be right."

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