Li Zhaoji stretched out his hand and pointed to the Shunzi banner beyond the arrow, and said: "Under the Minghuang flag, the person wearing the Mingguang Heart Protector and leaning on the waist of the tiger and beast swallowing is your lord." ”

Li Guo nodded lightly: "That's my Dashun Tianzi." ”

Li Zhaoji smiled and asked again: "Dare to ask, this place is a hundred feet away from your lord." ”

"That's my great shun Tianzi, shoot an arrow with my own eyes, and set this place of meeting." Song Xiance replied.

Li Zhaoji nodded and looked at Wu Sangui: "Ping Xibo, can your bow shoot so far?" ”

Wu Sangui smiled on his face and said: "Shun Zhu's bow strength is strong, far beyond ordinary people, but Wu has also practiced riding and archery since he was a child, and he shot sixty or seventy zhang, which is nothing." ”

As he spoke, he took out his hard bow from his bow pouch, bent his bow and shot an arrow at the side, the white feathers of which stood out on the gray-brown ground in the distance, and the two were contrasted at a similar distance.

Li Zhaoji said to the driver groom: "You drive to the place where the arrow fell and do what I instructed." ”

The groom immediately responded, he first lifted the straw mat on the big shield of the carriage, revealing the large wooden shield behind him, and one of the sides was nailed with a set of armor, which was quite beautiful mountain pattern armor, but compared with Li Zicheng's golden body, this set of black armor was gloomy and heavy.

Then he grabbed the reins and ran to the place where the arrow fell, and then he untied his wheel and pulled the horse aside. Li Zhaoji nodded to Tang Mu, and with Tang Mu's order, the forty musketeers lined up behind him turned neatly, and Li Zhaoji said to Li Guo: "Before the talks, our artillery was on display, and now I will fire it once, and ask General Li to play back to your lord, don't think that the two sides have clashed and misunderstood." ”

Li Laiheng hurriedly went to deliver the message, after his return, Tang Mu immediately ordered to fire, forty musketeers fired one after another, these musketeers are from Li Zhaoji's personal guards, they are skilled in archery, and they are also equipped with flintlock rifled guns, Rao is so, there are also six or seven people who have not fired, but Li Zhaoji did not care, let these people reload, and then turn, no longer shooting.

And the groom put on the carriage again, trotted all the way, and pulled the carriage back, Li Zhaoji said to Li Guo, Song Xiance and others: "Your envoy, let's take a look." ”

Li Guo and the others' eyes widened for a moment, and twenty or thirty holes were punched out of the huge wooden shield and carriage, at least five of which directly hit the mountain pattern armor nailed to it, and all of them penetrated through the armor, and even the three-inch thick pine plank behind it was pierced a lot, Li Laiheng jumped into the carriage, used a dagger to dig out a deformed lead bullet from an unperforated hole, bit it, and found that it was lead, not something else, and he looked at the mountain pattern armor again, and felt something strange.

So he stretched out his hand and pulled it, but found that there was still chain mail in the mountain armor, and when he tore off the two sets of armor, he found that the lead bullet had all penetrated and penetrated deep into the wooden plank.

Everyone on the Dashun side was afraid, and they understood what Li Zhaoji meant.

Li Zhaoji said lightly: "Ladies and gentlemen, if our side is not sincere, you can send someone to pretend to be Ping Xibo, and after approaching, shoot you with a musket, where is the lord of Dashun and the general of the army, and I asked for the identity, if so, your lord is now afraid that he will fall on the spot, the founder of the country, died before the war, in Dashun, is it a disaster of the collapse?" ”

Li Guo was directly speechless when asked by Li Zhaoji, this Dashun is newly established, if Li Zicheng dies, Dashun will inevitably be in chaos, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a collapse.

Li Zhaoji looked at Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Li Guo: "General Li, please present this letter to your lord, we are full of sincerity, please Dashun also show sincerity." ”

After that, Wu Sangui and the others turned over and returned to Shanhaiguan, but left the carriage behind.

Li Guo reacted, put away the letter, and went back to the camp to report, and when he came back, Li Laiheng had already come back to make the benefits and harms clear, and no one thought that the emperor and the generals were in danger, and they retreated and retreated to the depths of the camp.

When Li Guo came back, Liu Zongmin, Zhang Nai and other generals surrounded the carriage, each observing and exploring, Liu Zongmin shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, isn't it that trickery, where in the world is there a bird gun that shoots so far, and it shoots so accurately and so powerful."

Perhaps the shooting marks on the carriage had already been arranged, and then they pretended to shoot a shot to deceive and intimidate. ”

Song Xiance shook his head slightly: "No, Li Zhaoji ripped off the straw mat in front of us, and at that time, Weichen and Bo Hou both saw that the big shield was flat, the armor was complete, and there was no damage." ”

Li Guo said: "The military advisor is right, from the beginning of the carriage to the return, there is only one groom, the itinerary is all in our field of vision, and the groom has never been on the carriage at all." ”

Li Laiheng took out the lead bullet dug out of his arms, presented it to Li Zicheng, and said: "Your Majesty, after the carriage came back, this was dug out of the wooden shield by Weichen, and it was still hot at that time, obviously not long after it was entered. ”

Liu Zongmin still didn't want to believe it: "Everyone has fought an old battle, who of you hasn't seen that bird, where can you have such ability?" ”

Zhang Nai said: "That artillery, we have all seen it, isn't the power of the other party's small Hongyi cannon beyond your imagination?" Ruhou, Wu Sangui's department has been facing the East for decades, gathering the world's elites and sharp weapons, I also heard that the imperial court once invited Yangyi from overseas to teach artillery and gunning, and the Hongyi cannon was brought by Yangyi.

The world is so big, and there are some strange things, I can't say for sure. ”

Li Zicheng didn't want to say anything, he looked at Li Laiheng, and found that the young man seemed to have the meaning of speaking, and said, "Laiheng, you have something to say." ”

Li Laiheng said: "Back to the emperor, Weichen took a look at their bird guns and found that they were very different from those used in our camp.

Their bird had no arquebus, and as soon as they pulled the trigger, a flame of its own was born in the place where the arquebus was placed, and it was immediately fired. Wechen heard that there is a self-generated fire, maybe this is the kind of fire.

In addition, the gunpowder they used was different from that in the camp.

They don't use horns to hold gunpowder, but put gunpowder and guns together, the emperor, you see, when they finished fighting and reloading, they threw a lot of these things out, and Weichen seemed to be a paper tube. ”

As he spoke, Li Laiheng handed over the paper shell he picked up on the ground again, because there were a lot of paper shells, and everyone had one, Li Laiheng said: "Wei Chen saw with his own eyes, those people took out this paper shell from a box on his belt, and after pouring the medicine and gunpowder into it, he stuffed it again, and the gun was also different from what we saw, it didn't seem to be round, but it was loaded too fast, and Wei Chen didn't see it clearly." ”

"This is a bullet with a paper shell, which is recorded in Qi Nantang's new book. It's just that firearms are used in our camp, and there are many kinds of artillery, and even if they use guns, they are not only birds, so there is no need for such methods. Liu Zongmin looked at it for a while and said to Li Zicheng.

"In this way, Li Zhaoji is not cheating, but if he has a calculating mind, he can really shoot me and the generals on the spot." Li Zicheng said with a little worry.

Li Guo knelt directly on the ground: "Your Majesty, Weichen should be damned, he fell for the other party's thief's scheme, and told the other party that you are the emperor of Dashun." If the other party really opens the gun, then Weichen is the informant. ”

"People have the intention to calculate that you are unintentional, unintentionally lost, and there is no loss, what kind of sin is it, marquis, hurry up." Li Zicheng didn't care and let Li Guo get up.

He grinned instead and said, "Doesn't it mean that people spared my life, and they are indeed sincere." ”

As he spoke, he handed the letter to Song Xiance and said, "Military advisor, let's see, what request Wu Sangui made." ”

Song Xiance hurriedly dismantled it, and then said: "Wu Sangui said that in this meeting, Liaozhen's sincerity has appeared, but Liaozhen is submissive, and there are indeed difficulties, and many generals under his command are unwilling, and although he is the head of a town, his seniority is relatively low, and he needs his father Wu Xiang to come forward to persuade him."

Therefore, Wu Sangui proposed to ask Dashun to release Wu Xiang, and he could send his son Wu Yingxiong as a hostage to change his father. ”

"What do you think?" Li Zicheng looked at the generals.

Liu Zongmin shook his head, silent in thought, the generals seemed to be unspeakable, of course Song Xiance couldn't escape as a military advisor, so he said: "Your Majesty, although what Wu Sangui said has some truth, but it is always so deliberate, maybe there is some conspiracy, and it is difficult for Weichen and others to investigate for a while." ”

Li Zicheng laughed and said: "Of course he has a conspiracy that we can't see clearly for a while, but since people have the sincerity to spare their lives, Dashun will inevitably tell the truth if he refuses to release him." I not only want to put Wu Xiang back, but also add another head to him, the woman named Chen Yuanyuan, and return it to him, so as to fulfill his wish, see what else he can say.

Military advisor, you also have a careful discussion with the people below, this Liao town is submissive, what kind of charter is the placement, not to mention anything else, this Shanhaiguan Gate must be controlled by our descendants, otherwise this capital is unstable. ”

Song Xian responded, and he immediately said: "Your Majesty, what Wu Sangui said, how should we deal with the large-scale invasion of the whole country?" ”

Liu Zongmin immediately said: "This should be Wu Sangui's trick, what is the East Captive into the Kou, go straight to the capital, is to let us withdraw the army, he can reduce the pressure and facilitate the increase of value." ”

The generals nodded slightly, all thinking so, but Li Zicheng shook his head: "Everyone, the strong soldiers in the east and the world know that it is a big threat to my Dashun, and if this matter is what Wu Sangui said, I don't believe it at all." For Dashun Sheji, this kind of thing should be rather credible than non-existent.

If the Dongyu really came to attack, it would be a great disaster to say that the soldiers of the whole country were poured out, and the crowd of 100,000 people, even if it was 20,000 or 30,000 people, entered through the border wall of Jizhen. ”

As soon as Li Zicheng said this, all the generals raised their vigilance, and Li Guo also hurriedly said: "What the emperor said is reasonable, we don't know the movement of Dongyu in the end, yes or no, we all listen to what Wu Sangui is saying." Weichen then refused to wait from Jizhen to Xuanfu to go out of the border wall to investigate, and then ordered the merchants to provide information.

This capital is located at the border, our Dashun has just been established, the order has not been completed, internal and external troubles, how to guard against how to be vigilant can not be overstated. ”

Song Xiance said: "Your Majesty, since the news was provided by Wu Sangui, it should be proved that this soldier cannot easily retreat."

But there must always be a priority in things, and Weichen dared to ask the emperor, assuming that Dongyu really shows signs of entering the prison in a big way, what should we do? ”

"The words of the military advisor seem to be unfounded." Zhang Nai said.

Li Zicheng waved his hand to signal Zhang Nai not to interrupt, but said, "Strategist, but what did you think." ”

Song Xiance said: "In order to appease Liao Town in the past few days, Wei Chen has talked a lot with Zhu Ming, Wu Xiang and others, who are familiar with Liao Town, and learned a lot about Liao Town.

The generals may not know that Liaozhen is self-contained, and it has become a feudal town in the Chongzhen Dynasty.

Wu Sangui's maternal uncle Zu Dashou and his family have surrendered to Dongyu, and his siblings are also officials on the side of Donglu, Donglu is very fond of the generals of Liaozhen, and the chief Taiji of the captives is to arrange for Tatar women of equal status to marry these people as wives, in order to avoid these women from bullying their husbands with their mothers, they have also made it clear that if there is a bullying, ask the parents of the guilty mother.

It can be said that Dongyu has been wooing Liaozhen for decades, and at this time, we can't help but consider that Wu Sangui is betting on both sides.

I just talked about the Dongyu Koubian, the generals don't believe it, let me ask, if Wu Sangui surrenders to the Dongyu and introduces Yi soldiers into Shanhaiguan, can you still not believe it? ”

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