Lin He sat on the Taishi's chair, with his little guard standing beside him, and he turned his head to ask people: "What did you say to people last time?" ”

"I told General Gong that our general army knows the current affairs, and we don't want to see the people of Nanjing suffer this catastrophe, and we are willing to turn hostility into peace with General Gong." His guards replied word by word, Lin He taught him this last time, and he told Gong Laoba and them like this.

Lin He said "um" and motioned to his guards to continue.

The guard said: "It was not General Gong who came to see me at that time, it should be his deputy general, surnamed Jiang." He told me that the siege of the city was indeed too exhausting, and that now that the commander-in-chief was willing to negotiate peace with them, he should show sincerity and talk to them personally. ”

Lin He raised his eyes and asked, "Don't ask me to go alone, doesn't this mean that I go deep into the tiger's den alone?" Not. ”

"No, no, no." The little guard said again and again, "My subordinates did say this to them, if we want our general soldiers to go deep into the tiger's den, this will definitely not work, we have sincerity, and you must also show ten percent sincerity." ”

In fact, at that time, Lao Jiang also said to the guards, you can come alone, why can't you be the general soldier. Xiao Qinwei was very excited at the time, and retorted: "Although I don't read much, I also know the truth that the thief captures the king first, I am just an insignificant little character, and if I die, it is just one more soldier in Nanjing City." But if our soldiers die at your hands, it will not mean the same thing. Now that Nanjing is an extraordinary period, we must be cautious, and I hope the general will understand. ”

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"After I had finished speaking to the general surnamed Chiang at that time, he told them to come into the city of Nanking to talk to the general soldiers." The little guards repeated what they said in the camp of the chaotic army and the reply of Lao Jiang at that time, word by word, to Lin He, "However, they said that since General Lin didn't dare to go alone, then they naturally couldn't do it, so they had to bring people in." ”

Lin He's brows furrowed again, and the two ends of his eyebrows were about to come together, and he always felt that the general surnamed Jiang had some unknown little Jiujiu in his heart, and he didn't know how to trick people.

"But they said that in order not to arouse the suspicion of the general soldiers, they brought only twenty men in." The guard replied, thought for a while, and explained Lao Jiang's words to Lin He in detail, "They said that they would enter through the Jiagang Gate at that time, so as not to cause trouble to the general soldiers." ”

Lin He propped his head with his hands and didn't speak, falling into a long thought.

This kind of silence was the most suffocating, so that the little guard next to him almost felt that he had said the wrong thing, he hesitated for a long time, and finally, the chief soldier of his family spoke before he was about to kneel down to apologize.

"And when thou shalt speak to them, say, I shall go down and let them enter the city in the day to come, and when the time comes, someone will open the door for them." Lin He stared at a cluster of jumping candlelight, there were so many candle tears on this candle that it almost drowned the only little spark.

The day after tomorrow is the twenty-first day of February.

On the night of February 21, it was very dark, as if it was a cover for Gong Laoba's people to come in. In the dark night, the one-person-wide latch of the guard gate was removed, and the two iron-clad solid wood gates were opened. The soldiers at the head of the city struggled to raise the jack gate outside the city gate, and under the heavy and sturdy jack gate, several people passed.

The soldiers standing at the head of the city numbered by the thin light, no more, no less, not counting the one who took the lead, but exactly twenty men.

The jack gate was lowered.

Lin He negotiated peace behind Lian Jie's back, so he chose such a time and quietly put a group of enemy people into Nanjing City.

This group of people is even wearing the armor of the Sichuan army, and they are all dressed up and down by the Sichuan army, and the people of Daheng all look the same, there are so many Sichuan troops, where can they all know each other?

This group of "Sichuan troops" was led by Lin He's personal guards and walked to their master's tent, and the group arrived quietly and quickly.

Lin He sat under the lamp, closing his eyes and recuperating, only to hear the guards whisper: "Chief soldier, General Gong has arrived." ”

Lin He immediately opened his eyes, looked at the one-eyed dragon in front of him, stood up, and saluted him: "Presumably this is General Gong, it is really extraordinary." ”

Gong Laoba nodded at the person: "General Lin is also like a rumor, he knows current affairs and can speak, isn't he?" ”

Before Lin He could speak, Gong Laoba waved his hand to the back and drove all the twenty soldiers who were blocking the door out of the tent: "I wanted to bring people here before, because I was afraid that the Sichuan army would mislead to us, but now that we have entered the tent of General Lin Bing, then we will talk openly and honestly, so Gong will not let this group of people in, please Lin Zongbing also invite all the people in the tent out, what do you think?" ”

"Well said." Lin He replied, and then instructed the surrounding people, "Let's all go down, and I'll talk to General Gong alone." ”

All the people around retreated, and only Gong Laoba and Lin He were left in the tent.

"General Gong sits." Lin He was polite, and waited until Gong Laoba sat down, and Lin He sat down.

Gong Laoba had heard that Lin He was a person who could bend and stretch, and was very good at making mud, but he didn't know that Lin He was so able to make peace with the mud, so he couldn't help but laugh a little: "General Lin is polite." He originally wanted to say, "The chief soldier has the appearance of a Daheng official, and I wish you a high promotion in the future." But after thinking about it, they are now under the banner of official coercion and civil rebellion, and they have also scolded a lot of "dog officials" and the like on weekdays, and when these words came out of his mouth, it was definitely not a good word, so he simply closed his mouth.

These two people were polite to me for a few time, and Gong Laoba finally couldn't stand it anymore, so he put the topic on the right track: "Since General Lin wants to negotiate peace with Gong, I don't know what kind of negotiation he is going to make, and he didn't let us take anything away, so let him withdraw from the army, which naturally won't work." Can Mr. Lin understand? ”

"Naturally, I understand." Lin He didn't talk nonsense with Gong Laoba anymore, and said directly, "Nanjing City, I can give it to you, but don't kill or injure the people after entering the city, and none of my soldiers are allowed to move, let us withdraw from the city in a good manner." ”

"And then? Where is Mr. Lin going? Gong Laoba looked at Lin He with interest and asked, "If the Daheng Imperial Court knows that General Lin will give up the rivers and mountains to others, then there is no way to let General Lin stay any longer, it is better to simply fall into the grass and forget it, and Gong will definitely not treat General Lin at a loss." ”

"It doesn't have to be." Lin He hurriedly waved his hand at Gong Laoba, "I pretended to be defeated, broke through the siege and went out of the city, the sky and the earth in Shuzhong are big, I will go home, with my father and my aunt to protect me, it is impossible to be rich and promoted, but it is still possible to save a small life." ”