Section 59: Proposal (Part 1)
The morale of his subordinates has fallen and the food and grass is about to be exhausted. Li Guoying was afraid of the long night and dreaming, so he took the Shanxi Green Camp to break through that night. The north is a rugged and unmanned land. Deng Ming was unable to deploy defense lines there due to the number of troops. The Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, the Admiral of Shaanxi and the Green Camp in Shanxi had a full meal and set off in a hurry.
Seeing a large number of green camp soldiers leaving without armor or auxiliary soldiers, they only had dry food and weapons, the strong men suddenly realized that this was the main force who wanted to abandon them. For a moment, the camp was in a big uproar, and many Shanxi men rushed forward crying and begged to take them with them. Although they were always bullied on weekdays, they were their own people. If they were in the hands of the Ming army, who would know what would happen? Just thinking about what happened after being captured, these grain transport soldiers who came from Shanxi and Shaanxi were shuddered.
But every armourless soldier who rushed up was ruthlessly kicked away. Wang Mingde, Hu Wenke and others were prepared, and rushed out with a large number of fully armed armoured soldiers and captured all the troubled civilians back into the camp. The Qing army's broken rear troops standing on the walls of each battalion were not ruthless, and anyone who dared to approach the wall would shoot down the walls.
After leaving the camp where the crying sounded loudly, Li Guoying did not dare to delay and marched north at full speed. After walking in the middle of the night, the crying behind him was still vaguely heard.
"The Deng bandits use troops only, that's the case." Seeing that there were no Ming troops around to intercept them, Li Guoying breathed a sigh of relief. This kind of retreat would inevitably cause chaos in the morale of the army. Even the military affairs of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Governor Lao Yu could not avoid the armorless soldiers falling into chaos: "If Deng Ming set up camp nearby, how could we escape so easily?"
When Li Guoying was chased by Zuo Liangyu and the others, the painful experience was unforgettable. He followed the camp far away without leaving. If Li Guoying dared to break through like this, he would be chased and killed. Moreover, the troops that were cut off at that time were far from comparable to Wang Mingde's performance today. The Ganzhou Green Camp, which was left in the camp, was calm and firm, and had a rainbow of morale. Not only did no one escape, but he could also maintain military discipline meticulously. Wang Mingde and Hu Wenke and others showed in this great change.
Now, the Shanxi generals who fled with Li Guoying were shocked, and they were both admiring and sad. They not only felt regretful for General Wang, who sacrificed their own self-sacrifice, but also knew that the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi must be extremely sad at this moment. Such loyal and brave subordinates are definitely not to be found - all the generals of the Sichuan and Shaanxi Green Camp are like this. Sure enough, the elite Qin army is the best in the world. It can be seen that Qin Shihuang unified the six countries by no means only because of luck. Thousands of years have passed, and his moral integrity is still the same. Today, the performance of the Qin army is enough to change the color and the grass and trees are full of sorrow.
There were many people walking at night, sprained their ankles, and injured them. The Qing army who broke through the border ignored all the wounded people, leaving them all to the beasts in the mountains, and ran north with their heads in huddles.
"How far has the Governor been?" Wang Mingde, Hu Wenke and the Manchu General stood side by side on the wall, looking towards the north.
Originally, Hu Wenke was just a new guerrilla, and his official title and status were incomparable to Wang Mingde, let alone the Manchu generals. However, the three of them were once captured by Deng Ming together, which could be considered as having a deep friendship.
"Do you still remember the expressions of Admiral Deng when he talked about Governor General, Admiral Zhang, General Zhao?" The Manchu General recalled the scene when he met Deng Ming last time. It was obvious that even if Deng Ming did not hate these people, he regarded them as great enemies and would have to get rid of them quickly. So after hearing that Li Guoying was about to break through, the Manchu General made up his mind not to leave with Li Guoying, and would not agree to keep Zhang Yong behind.
"Remember, remember." Hu Wenke nodded repeatedly. He felt that Li Guoying had not walked far, at least he had not left a safe distance: "Wait a minute, we will go to Admiral Deng's camp tomorrow."
"It's not too late to go tomorrow." The Manchu governor nodded and deeply praised Hu Wenke's calmness. The governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi must successfully break through, otherwise the court will definitely blame him. Even if he is seriously interrogating the process of this battle, it will be a big problem.
"Where are there people behind?" Hu Wenke asked again: "Do you send someone to find them back? You can also sell them to Admiral Deng together."
Wang Xincheng's envoy had already come to Li Guoying's camp. When the generals of the Ganzhou Green Camp heard this, they had such good things: not only could they redeem their armored soldiers, but they could also make a fortune! Since that's the case, who would still fight to the death? Like Li Guoying and Yuan Zongdi, these generals valued their personal soldiers and armor, and it didn't matter to the armorless soldiers. The court was rich all over the world, and they were worried about not being able to attract strong men? For the court, as long as there was no need to re-issue armor and not lose a large number of combatants, the strong men would not feel sorry for the many soldiers. Anyway, when they were sent to transport food, they made up their minds to use them as consumables. After this expedition, dead auxiliary soldiers could be seen everywhere between Chongqing and Zhong County, and no big shot would blink.
"No!" Wang Mingde was not greedy. He felt that the goods in his hand were enough. How many of the Shanxi Green Camps could have? Spending time to search and rescue not only delays time, but also may cause the search and rescue team's Arc-less soldiers to take the opportunity to escape: "Breakthrough would have been damaged. If you can run away half of the road, you will be the emperor's blessing."
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The next morning, Wang Mingde and others, who were confirmed to have escaped, were ready to go to Deng Ming to "convene peace" and several Manchu soldiers stayed to cut off the rear, but they were still psychologically burdened. Seeing this, they couldn't help but sigh that the Han people were unreliable.
"The Han people are of course unreliable, so at the critical moment, we emperor slaves still have to look at us." The Manchu general agreed with this, but he taught his subordinates to deeply realize that although their behavior is no different from Wang Mingde and others on the surface, it is essentially different: "They don't know who Admiral Deng is, so this is called "heartlessness and disappointment of the grace of the court." But we are not, we just don't want to interfere in the family affairs of our masters. There are masters on all sides, and we who are slaves are hard to be human, so we have to help each other."
Although there are many rumors about Deng Ming's life experience, the Eight Banners in the garrison did not spread out. After a while, the Manchu governor pointed at Wang Mingde who had been prepared in the distance and secretly said to the people around him: "Did you see it? Admiral Deng has a deep meaning."
In addition to squatting down and surrendering, Deng Ming also began to demand that the Qing army adopt the etiquette of surrender or peace talks that comply with the rules. In short, they asked them to hold a white flag to express their intention to negotiate. Not long ago, Deng Ming explained this set of rules to Wang Xincheng very seriously, and then was quickly informed by Wang Xincheng's personal soldiers to Wang Mingde and others. In the distance of the Manchu governor, the flags on the flagpoles of Wang Mingde and Hu Wenke had been replaced by two square white flags.
"Let's change it too." The Manchu governor also prepared a exactly the same white flag. In the final analysis, he still couldn't trust these Han people, so he also had to participate in the "peace negotiation" to avoid being sold by Wang Mingde and others.
"But this is not Zhengbaiqi."
After hearing the commander's reminder, most of the Manchu soldiers showed a sudden enlightenment, but there were still a few boys who were still creating problems. They pointed out that the Zhengbai Banner should be a pennant, not a rectangular style. This white Banner looks very similar to the mahjong Banner by Deng Ming.
"Shh, whisper." The commander stopped his subordinates' loud questions in dissatisfaction, and then cursed angrily: "Admiral Deng is still hiding his identity now. He is still in the Ming army. Don't you need to hide it? Of course, you have to use the square flag. Do you think the masters are like you, the pig brain?"
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Last night, the provocate said that the Qing army camp seemed a bit messy, but because Deng Ming refused to pay for civilians to carry out military missions such as night attacks, the Ming army could only wait due to its limited number of troops. After dawn, Deng Ming sent several batches of reconnaissance troops, and carefully interrogated the provocate who returned to the camp. At this moment, the guards suddenly reported that a group of Qing generals came to the front of the camp with white flags.
After climbing the camp wall and taking a look, Deng Ming recognized his two old acquaintances, as well as the Manchu man who had met once.
"It seems that Li Guoying ran away." Deng Ming ordered the camp gate to open and invite Wang Mingde and the others into the Central Army's tent for tea.
"Good teaching Admiral Deng knows that there are now 62,000 unarmed soldiers in our military camp, all of which are strong men from Shanxi and Shaanxi, and there are no old or weak." After taking a sip of tea, Wang Mingde said his intention directly: "Our peace terms are as follows: First, Admiral Deng does not capture all armored soldiers, including the Manchu soldiers, and a total of 5,377 officers and soldiers. We guarantee that Governor Li and Admiral Zhang are not among them; Second, we will not take away our armor, weapons, flags, and whether a person has two swords or two swords.
Both armor or two horses can be taken away; thirdly, we are provided twenty large ships, allowing us to keep 500 sailors or lend us enough sailors, so that we can return to Chongqing safely and not attack us within fifteen days; fourthly, after our military rations are finished, Admiral Deng is responsible for giving us enough food for 5,000 officers and soldiers for fifteen days without any additional money; fifthly, we should pay us 5,000 life-effective release coupons, we need 2,500, and the rest should be settled in silver."
"Can you send a letter from a flying sword? Or is Deputy General Wang's subordinates so capable, they can explain it so clearly!" Deng Ming laughed after hearing this. For the first time, he realized that it might not be a good thing to let Wang Xincheng's confidant come to report the message: "Why should I give you so much?"
Chapter completed!