"Collect arrows." Soetu and several other imperial guard officers left behind were ordered to give orders to their subordinates. The breakout troops did not need bows and arrows, and the excess bows had been thrown down from the battalion wall. Although there was only one hour of battle, the arrows of the imperial guards were almost gone. They just threw a group of people outside the wall to suetu. Now Soetu and their quiver are empty.

The land in the imperial camp was almost covered with feather arrows, and the walls were filled with them. Soetu walked among the arrow shafts everywhere, pulling out arrows after arrows from the ground, and carefully observed their arrows. Most of the arrows were damaged in the impact, or were slightly deformed by the burning grease, and were full of hard blocks formed after burning. These will cause the center of gravity of the bow and arrow to shift, affecting the precise shooting and power. If you have time to repair it, Soetu and others do not have such time now, so they can only try to find some weapons with intact arrow shafts and complete arrows.

Many of the imperial guards' arms were sore that they could not lift them up. Now that the war was temporarily suspended, they felt a burst of pain coming from their arms. However, Soetu and the others did not take this seriously. Anyway, no one could live until the afternoon, and they could only carry out the final resistance in a while.

The imperial guards who were preparing to break through were waiting quietly. They had heard the cheers of the Ming troops outside. As long as Deng Ming agreed to surrender, they would start to walk out of the camp. The Ming troops around should have a paralysis period. Even if someone raised suspicion when the imperial guards gathered, it would not be possible to restore the tens of thousands of enemy troops who were celebrating victory to a high alert state. Most of the imperial guards who were preparing to protect the emperor to break through were also very tired, and tried their best to seize this short gap of the ceasefire to take a breath and try to recover their strength.

The Ming army outside the camp was mostly smiling at this time. Especially the auxiliary soldiers, the myth of the invincible Eight Banners was always a burden on their hearts. Although the Ming army was full and dressed warmly, they had meat and vegetables every day like the New Year, they could not eliminate their fear. When they marched to the Imperial Camp last night, Deng Ming asked these auxiliary soldiers to follow the war troops far away until they completed the encirclement and asked them to join the encirclement, because they were afraid that they would cause trouble because they were too nervous.

When they started attacking the imperial camp two hours ago, the auxiliary soldiers were still quite worried when they were ordered to go forward and shoot arrows. They were afraid that the Eight Banners of Manchuria would all pass through the glans of a hundred steps, so they could turn them to the ground in a blink of an eye. But they shot arrows at the Imperial Camp in turn without any counterattack. After an hour, these auxiliary soldiers were getting more and more courageous. Now, seeing that the Imperial Guards surrendered like this, the auxiliary soldiers were even more excited, and their previous fear of the Eight Banners turned into contempt.

"So the Manchurian Tartars are so hard to resist fighting." Almost all the auxiliary soldiers expressed similar feelings, and even began to understand why they were so afraid of the Eight Banners before. Many people laughed and said, "I haven't shot enough yet." More than 10,000 auxiliary soldiers took turns to shoot arrows, shot ten arrows without any pressure and then lined up again. Today's battle was almost a game for them.

Most of the auxiliary soldiers were completely unaware that the equipment and supplies of the Ming army today had an overwhelming advantage over the imperial guards. Before the war started, four provinces were continuously providing resources for the Ming army, and the rich Liangjiang and Huguang provinces were also rich, which gave the Ming army sufficient excellent equipment. Deng Ming could use 100,000 or 200,000 arrows to exchange hundreds of lives of the enemy without considering letting the Ming army infantry take the risk of attacking forward. If it were replaced by the Kuidong Army or the Green Camp, even if it had 30,000 troops, it would be difficult to break through the imperial camp guarded by the well-equipped imperial guards in such a short time. What is more likely to be killed or injured in front of the camp wall and return without success.

The envoy who requested the surrender walked up to Deng Ming and put forward the conditions under the vigilant gaze of the Ming army guards: "We are willing to surrender, and hope that the admiral can guarantee that he will not kill prisoners."

After hearing the envoy's words, everyone let out a sigh of relief. The brilliant victory was about to be obtained, and all the Ming soldiers were irrepressible ecstasy and excitement. Deng Ming was no exception, but he was not completely overwhelmed by joy. Instead, he remembered his promise to the governors of Jiangnan. Deng Ming replied: "I guarantee the safety of other people. Only your emperor, I cannot let him go. Let him commit suicide. If you hand over his body to me, I will let others go."

This answer was obviously beyond the expectations of the envoy of the Imperial Guards. He did not expect that surrender would be rejected. Because there was no law to restrain the prisoner or not, the surrender party was completely resigned to fate. Since the winner was not bound by the promise, he certainly would not care about this issue. He always agreed and then dealt with the prisoners of war according to his own feelings. The most important thing is that this was a battle for the world of Ming and Qing dynasties. In the eyes of the Imperial Guards, it was obviously more beneficial to the Ming army to capture the emperor than to kill him.

This completely unreasonable answer made the envoy ask for surrender stunned. After a while, he realized that delaying would inevitably make the other party suspicious, and argued: "If the admiral refuses to guarantee the emperor's safety, we will never surrender."

"Then don't surrender. I can't guarantee his life." The messenger thought that his threat was enough to allow Deng Ming to agree casually, but the messenger's threat was of no use at all. For Deng Ming, this was not a nonsense, but a guarantee of responsibility, so he replied without hesitation: "You go back and fight again."

The Ming army officers around them all knew Deng Ming's temper, and even if the Qing army did not surrender, it seemed that they could not hold on for long. Everyone was full of confidence in breaking the imperial camp before noon and annihilation of the Imperial Guards.

"That's right, let's fight again when you go back." Zhou Kaihuang and others shouted. Seeing that the negotiations were about to break down, Deng Ming's guards and flag bearers also looked solemn again and began to send signals that the Ming army was ready to launch an attack again.

"Admiral, wait a moment." Seeing that the plan of the Ming army was about to go bankrupt, the envoy who asked for surrender hurriedly said: "The villain will go back and report to you now, please wait a moment."

The envoy turned around and ran back to the camp gate of the imperial camp. After hearing Deng Ming's words just now, Ren Tang believed that the Imperial Guard would not surrender. He was not surprised by this result. The Ming army's soldiers had never participated in the war. When he saw the Imperial Guard envoys out of the camp to surrender, Ren Tang felt a little regretful that he had no chance to show it. Ren Tang even thought that it was good that Deng Ming would not accept surrender, and he just caught all the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

"Can they discuss our conditions?" Looking at the panicked back of the Imperial Guard, Ren Tang said with some confusion: "The Tartar Emperor is willing to sacrifice his life just to make his slaves survive? Or is it the Tartar Emperor no longer the final say in the camp?"

After hearing Deng Ming rejected the emperor's surrender, a fierce quarrel broke out in the officers around Shunzhi. Some people thought that they should try to talk to Deng Ming again to complete the paralysis of the Ming army, or simply send a body in a dragon robe out; but more people advocated breaking out immediately and not giving the Ming army time to react - now the Ming army is ready to continue fighting and will soon return to its previous alert state.

"We surrender!"

Deng Ming heard the emperor's camp again shouting, and then more shouts came: "We will come out to surrender now."

The door of the imperial camp slowly opened, and the first few imperial guard officers led their horses out dejectedly. After seeing the Qing army begin to walk out of the camp, the Ming army burst into deafening cheers.

"It seems that when Zhu Di accepted the surrender, he sent his own people into the city to surrender, not to let the enemy surrender." After hearing that the Imperial Guard actually agreed to his request, Deng Ming felt a little incredible. He recalled the history books he had read in his heart: "Zhu Di has experienced many battles, why did he never let the enemy surrender? Is there any reason?"

The Imperial Guard accepted the conditions of the Ming army so quickly. This fact was too bizarre. Deng Ming had not figured out the reason yet, and felt very uneasy in his heart. He shouted loudly: "Let them stop leaving the camp, and I will send people to the camp to surrender."

"Or hold your head and throw down your weapon," Deng Ming then added another order: "Just let them hand over the camp gate to us, and everyone else stays in the camp and don't move."

Although he heard the Ming army's shouts, the Imperial Guards did not stop their actions and were still pouring out of the camp gate. The envoys of the Ming army could not stop more Imperial Guards from walking out of their camp.

"Stop them!" In the blink of an eye, three or four hundred imperial guards came out of the camp gate with their horses, Deng Ming's doubts had completely become vigilant. He shouted loudly: "Attack them and force them to retreat to the camp."

After hearing Deng Ming's anxious tone, even the slow Ming army officers realized that something was wrong. The officers who were originally smiling all replied loudly.

After learning that the Imperial Guards surrendered, although the 8,000 soldiers of the Ming army cheered, they still stood on their posts, especially the 800 standing troops deployed to the camp gate. A total of 800 standing troops were deployed opposite the camp gate. No matter how excited they were, they did not shake the formation at all.

"Attack, launch an attack immediately, and the cannons fire!" Deng Ming saw that the Imperial Guards were still rushing out of the camp gate, and finally understood it completely, and shouted in his heart: "Isn't this the old trick of Liu Bang's deceiving surrender in Chenggao?"

"They are not surrendering in the camp, they are breaking through!"

The Ming army officers shouted loudly, and the artillery rotated the guns and began to aim towards the camp gate. The Changfang Army also responded and began to prepare for the battle. The recruited soldiers behind them also woke up like a dream. After a moment of shock, the joy on their faces began to turn into anger.

"It's too late." The leader of the Imperial Guard, who had already left the camp, saw the lineup of the Ming army changing, and also heard loud warnings from the Ming army officers and soldiers. The 1,200 Imperial Guards participating in the breakout had just come out. Now the emperor and the remaining more than 700 Imperial Guards have not had time to leave the camp, but it is obvious that before the entire army leaves the camp, the Ming army will recover from a slack state.

"All army assault!" Zuo Ling made a quick decision, shouted and turned over and rushed forward.

"Kill!" The officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guard who had just lowered their heads and pretended to be sad, also raised their heads with this order, pulled out their weapons and jumped onto the horse and shouted and rushed forward.
Chapter completed!