"What?"

Li Chenggui and Cao Minxiu, after hearing the will, were both shocked and interrupted the messenger with an unbelievable expression!

The capital was secretly attacked by the Ming army, and it was still a battle, and all the important ministers of the court, including the king of Goryeo, were captured by the Ming army!

This kind of thing, even if it's a dream, you won't think of it!

How is this possible?!

However, the messenger who delivered the decree was not an ordinary person, but the imperial history of the DPRK and China, and several people rushed to the 800-mile hurry, and it was absolutely impossible to pass on the false decree.

However, this thing is too unbelievable!

Li Chenggui immediately asked to inspect the holy decree, but it was obvious that it was the real holy decree.

The reaction of the two of them was obviously expected. Then the messenger took out two more jade pendants, handed them to the two of them, and said, "This is the jade pendant of your family, and they are all in Kaesong, and they are under the custody of the Ming army." ”

Li Chenggui and Cao Minxiu were shocked again, and hurriedly took a look, and they both recognized that it was their own thing.

At this point, it can't be fake!

In addition to being shocked, the two of them, especially Li Chenggui, thought of the situation of the Ming army's attack on Shenyang City, and immediately understood it, so they immediately asked the messenger about the specific situation of the battle of Kaesong.

After the messenger roughly described it, Li Chenggui looked at Cao Minxiu and said with a bitter face: "That's right! Caught off guard, in the face of the powerful firearms of the Ming army, there is no city in the world that can be defended! ”

Although Cao Minxiu hadn't seen the scene in Shenyang City, he had already heard of it. At this time, when he heard Li Chenggui's words, he suddenly sighed heavily.

Then, he looked at the messenger and then at Li Chenggui, and said with a wry smile: "They all wanted to send us to Liaodong to make a profit, but their home was stolen by the Ming army, you say, what is this called!" ”

The messenger was a little impatient, and did not want to accompany them to sigh, but said to them in a loud voice: "Two generals, the king's will shall be carried out as soon as possible!" Otherwise, it will inevitably endanger the safety of the king, as well as the safety of your family and the families of the whole army! ”

Li Chenggui and Cao Minxiu listened and glanced at each other.

The two of them, after being taught a lesson by the Ming army, and seeing the combat strength of the Ming army, did not want to be enemies of the Ming army, and only thought about how to persuade the Mongols to let them go back.

Now that the king has been taken by the Ming army, the important ministers and monarchs of the court have all become prisoners of the Ming army, including their families and the families of their troops, which are also in the city.

If they didn't listen to the Ming army, they really couldn't afford this consequence.

After glancing at each other, both of them understood what the other meant, so they clasped their fists together and said to the messenger, "Your ministers obey!" ”

When the messenger heard this, he immediately said, "In this way, one of you will watch the army, and the other will go to Liaoyang with me to deliver a message to the Ming army." ”

Hearing this, Li Chenggui was a little surprised, so he asked, "Send a letter?" Is it a letter from the Ming army of Kaesong to the Ming army of Liaoyang? ”

"That's right!" The messenger listened, and carefully took out a letter from his bosom.

When Li Chenggui saw it, he was very curious: "Can the Liaoyang Ming Army believe it?" What if we forged it and just wanted to steal the city? Or, what if the letter is repackaged and the content is changed? The Ming army in Kaesong is so relieved? ”

Hearing this, not only Cao Minxiu was strange, but even the messenger himself couldn't figure it out.

Eventually, however, he replied, "What is there to scruple about when the king is in their hands?" ”

Li Chenggui's face was obviously curious, he looked at the letter and said, "It seems that this letter hasn't been sealed yet, or I'll wait and see?" If anything, even if we don't change this faith, we can at least be a little prepared, right? ”

When Cao Minxiu heard this, he immediately echoed: "That's right, if the Liaoyang Ming Army kills our past people, then who wants to go?" ”

Hearing this, the messenger hesitated, looked down at the letter in his hand, and it was indeed not sealed with fire paint. After thinking for a while, he stretched out his hand and handed the letter to Li Chenggui and said, "I gave you this letter, and you will forward it to the Liaoyang Ming Army." ”

The implication is that he didn't agree, but after Li Chenggui is in charge, he can't care if you like it or not.

Obviously, this is an approach that does not want to be held responsible.

In this regard, Li Chenggui was not surprised at all, did not refuse, and did not hesitate, took the letter directly, and then carefully took the letter in front of them.

When Cao Minxiu and the messenger saw it, they couldn't help but come over, and they all wanted to see what was written in the letter?

Seeing that Li Chenggui was very careful, to see if there were any marks inside, he slowly took out the letterhead, and then looked around to see if there was no problem before carefully unfolding the letter.

In this process, both the messenger and Cao Minxiu were very patient, and no one opened their mouths to urge, they all watched with wide eyes.

In the end, Li Chenggui didn't find any marks or anything like that, and directly unfolded the letterhead.

As a result, the letter was unfolded, but everyone, including Li Chenggui, was dumbfounded.

After a while, I heard Li Chenggui ask suspiciously, "What is this word?" What is it written? ”

Cao Minxiu and the messenger shook their heads when they heard this. The paper on the letter, never seen, let alone recognized.

Li Chenggui couldn't get an answer, so he frowned and said, "When did Ming Guo create a new word?" ”

They didn't know that Zhu Di wrote this letter with a password. That is, it is written in Arabic numerals. It's strange that these Koreans can understand it!

Several people looked at each other for a while, and Li Chenggui finally sighed and said, "No wonder this letter doesn't need to be sealed, and you don't have to worry about us forging it." It seems that the Ming army is really very thoughtful! ”

At this point, he looked at the messenger and said, "I'll go with you!" ”

The holy decree said that they should assist the Ming army in attacking the Mongols in Liaodong. Not only because the monarch is in the hands of the Ming army, but also because the whole army is small, including the families of their commanders, are also in the hands of the Ming army, so they can't help but listen, unless they don't want their families to go to the Mongols.

If the Mongols are in full swing, then they may still be ruthless and really go to the Mongols.

However, at this time, they have clearly recognized the situation in Liaodong, the Mongols will inevitably not be able to defeat the Ming army, and Liaodong will inevitably become the Ming army.

Therefore, after Li Chenggui finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Cao Minxiu and said, "Don't disclose the news first, restrain the army, and wait until I come back from Liaoyang." ”

Cao Minxiu was very grateful to Li Chenggui for taking the initiative to take over the matter of Liaoyang, so he immediately nodded and said, "Don't worry, with me in the camp, it will be fine." ”

So, Li Chenggui didn't ink, immediately discussed a plan, and then took advantage of the evening to accompany the messenger to Liaoyang City.

……………………

In Liaoyang City, it was Xu Da who was in charge, and after Lan Yu led the troops to withdraw to Liaoyang, he naturally had to listen to Xu Da.

The rotation at the head of the city, it happened to be his turn today, but he bumped into Li Chenggui and others to call the door.

If other generals heard that there were Goryeo people below who said that they came on the orders of King Yan of the Ming Dynasty, they would definitely not believe it.

Because Zhu Di led the troops to attack Goryeo from the sea, it was to be highly secret, and Lan Yu only knew.

Therefore, when Lan Yu heard the advice of the people below, he was immediately overjoyed.

These days, looking at where the enemy outside the city is every day, there is no possibility of attacking at all, and Xu Da is a little bored if he does not let the Ming army attack. In Lan Yu's mind, he was often thinking about the situation on King Yan's side.

No, there's news.

So, he immediately ordered the hanging basket to be lowered and several Koreans were hoisted up.

But after he got the coded letter, he immediately understood that this was definitely King Yan's letter.

So, Lan Yu immediately took these Goryeo people to find Wei Guogong.

When Xu Da heard the news, he immediately ascended to the hall and met with Lan Yu and a group of Koreans in the lobby.

"Guogong, His Royal Highness King Yan has sent a secret letter." As soon as Lan Yu saw Xu Da, he hurriedly said, "But the secret letter is for the big horse." ”

As he spoke, he presented the secret letter to Xu Da.

Xu Da took out the letter paper and looked at it, the first number on the letterhead of the secret letter was 1, this number represents the recipient, as agreed in the north, 1 is Zhang Yifan, and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, is himself, the code name is 0.

Xu Da read it, although he was a little anxious, he didn't know what King Yan's letter was going to say, but he couldn't help it, he couldn't translate the content of the letter. Because although the codebooks of several of them are the same, the way of encryption and decryption is different.

Therefore, he immediately ordered that the horse be sent to Haizhou in a hurry and hand over the secret letter to the big horse.

Then, Xu Dacai looked at a few Koreans and asked about the situation.

Both the messenger and Li Chenggui behaved quite docilely, asking and answering anything.

At least the messenger came from Kaesong and experienced the Ming army's attack on Kaesong. He told Xu Da about the situation at that time, and Xu Da, who had always been calm, was full of smiles and couldn't suppress it.

Lan Yu listened to it on the side, and he was also very excited. King Yan is destroying a country, and among them, he naturally has his restraining credit!

After the messenger finished speaking, Li Chenggui also clarified his identity and said that the Goryeo army outside the city obeyed the orders of the Ming army.

"Good, good, good!" Xu Da listened to it and said hello!

Before, although Zhang Yifan explained to him, saying that Zhu Di's actions would not be any problem. However, Xu Da was always a little worried. This kind of thousand-mile raid on the capital of a country is unprecedented.

As a result, I didn't expect that Zhang Yifan really said that Zhu Di had made a great contribution!

In addition to being excited, Xu Da immediately ordered the guards standing in front of him: "Go, call those Mongolians over!" ”

Li Chenggui understands Chinese, and when he heard Xu Da's words, he was a little confused: What do you mean, Mongolian? Where did the Mongols come from?

Thinking so, after watching Wei Guogong's personal guard leave, he hurriedly said to Xu Da: "Guogong, should we avoid it?" When you turn back and attack the Mongols, it is the surprise or the best. ”

No matter from any point of view, he actually didn't want to meet the Mongols, no matter who the Mongols were coming!

However, when Xu Da heard this, he waved his hand and said, "No, call them over, just to let you meet!" ”

Li Chenggui listened and was a little helpless. There's no way, it's not him who calls the shots here, so he can only obey.

After a while, two Mongols were ushered into the lobby. Li Chenggui didn't know them, but when the two Mongols saw Li Chenggui, they were stunned.

Then, one of the Mongols pointed at Li Chenggui and said in shock: "Guogong, this is the commander of the Goryeo army, called Li Chenggui, that's right, it's him!" ”

He obviously saw that Li Chenggui was not in the first place, and thought that Li Chenggui had ventured over under a pseudonym to listen to the movements of the Ming army.

Xu Da listened, but smiled and said, "Since you know each other, then there is no need to introduce it." ”

Speaking of this, he looked at Li Chenggui and introduced him: "The two of them, the representatives of Gao Basi Timur and Hong Boyan Timur, intend to submit to my Ming Dynasty, and are now negotiating. ”

When Li Chenggui heard this, he was a little dumbfounded. He never expected that the Mongols would want to return to the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, in the original history, in the twenty-first year of Hongwu, when Feng Sheng led the army to attack Nahachu, Gao Basi Timur and Hong Boyan Timur were also the first to surrender.

In this plane, although the scale of the Ming army's strength on this side of the war was not large, and it did not reach the 200,000 troops of the other plane, but the battle of Shenyang, which came and went freely, still shocked the two generals, and also gave birth to the meaning of surrendering to the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that at this time, the two of them still want to get more benefits in the negotiation of returning to Daming.

As soon as Xu Da asked them to meet, the meaning was also very clear. On the side of Goryeo, I just want them to see, the Mongols are secretly trying to submit to my Daming, your capital of Goryeo was occupied by King Yan, and the king was arrested, you can see that you Goryeo has no future, return to Daming, don't have any other thoughts!

As for the Mongols, it's simpler. Let them know that Goryeo has surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and it is wise for you to submit to the Ming Dynasty, trying to bargain with the Ming Dynasty, will the Ming Dynasty care about you?

Not to mention, Li Chenggui's side was shocked that the Mongols were secretly returning to the Ming Dynasty, and the Mongols were also shocked that Goryeo was accepted by the Ming army.

So, what happened next went unusually well.

Li Chenggui said here that the Goryeo army obeyed the military orders of the Ming army at any time and did whatever it wanted.

On the side of the Mongols, they said that they would immediately go back to tell the Ming army's request and would definitely not bargain.

As long as you are a little smarter, you will know that the situation on the side of Liaodong is considered to be the overall situation, and there will definitely be no good end for stubborn resistance.

Subsequently, two groups of people hung down the city wall overnight and returned to their respective camps.

The next morning, the fast horse from Haizhou also brought back a reply from the big horse.