While Deng Ming was assigning a mission, someone suddenly shouted loudly: "The enemy has broken through!"

Now the Ming army only has a semi-encirclement of Guazhou and the camps outside the city, and the road from Guazhou to Yangzhou has not been completely blocked. The primary task of the Ming army who just landed is to protect ships and money and grain. Later, after discovering that it may be a misunderstanding, Wu Baoping and Jiang Nan were both a little guilty, so they did not siege Guazhou with all their might.

"There is indeed a conspiracy." Deng Ming raised his head and looked at it, immediately ordered the Rangers to go out to pursue the fleeing enemy, and then continued to assign combat tasks to others.

When the Ming army gradually surrounded the city, the Rangers also captured Lin Qilong and his group of people who were trying to escape. Deng Ming asked to bring the governor of the canal transportation. As soon as they met Deng Ming asked, "Lin Qilong! You and I have no grudges in the past, but why did you attack our army?"

"I'm wronged, Duke Bao." Lin Qilong was so anxious that tears were about to flow out: "When will I attack your army?"

"You tried to attack our army, but our army discovered it but failed. If it weren't for my subordinates' vigilance, you might have succeeded." Deng Ming's tone was still stern.

"How dare I? You are here to attack me." Lin Qilong shouted in his heart, but he did not dare to say this complaint! He could only defend himself desperately: "The sky is above and the soil is below. If I had the idea of ​​destroying the alliance and breaking the agreement, the sky would be struck by lightning."

"Since you don't want to attack our army, why run away?" Deng Ming still didn't believe it: "If you hadn't a ghost in your heart, why would you run away?"

Lin Qilong sighed.

The Ming army attacked Guazhou at night, and after dawn, landed on and took away all the canal ships. When Lin Qilong sent an envoy to ask for a visit, Deng Ming refused and ordered the Qing army to surrender immediately. Deng Ming's attitude had never been so tough in the past, and Lin Qilong suspected that the other party had bad intentions. At Deng Ming's request, Guazhou only stationed a small number of river officers and soldiers. The canal officers and soldiers outside the city had no combat power and were defeated. Lin Qilong even wanted to resist stubbornly.

In panic, Lin Qilong wanted to make plans before the encirclement was closed and fled back to Yangzhou. But the old man was not very good at riding and could not compare with Deng Ming's guards. He was captured like a chicken by an eagle. Lin Qilong knew the situation, but when he saw that he could not escape, he ordered the guards to throw down his weapons and surrender without any resistance, so the Rangers did not take his guards. As for Lin Qilong himself, he just tied his hands casually and tied them in front of him.

If to be honest, Lin Qilong was worried that he would accuse Deng Ming again, so he decided to start from the beginning. Starting from last night when the Jiangxi Cao Transport escorted officials to him, until he just sent an envoy to communicate with Deng Ming before breaking through. Lin Qilong tirelessly described every detail to Deng Ming. As he expected, the suspicion on Deng Ming's face became lighter and lighter, and in the end there was only a trace of dissatisfaction.

"... My messenger came back and said that the Duke refused to meet. Because I didn't sleep all night, my brain was not good, so I had a little doubt about the Duke's magnanimity. I deserve to die." Lin Qilong finally finished the preparation and could try to explain why he ran away: "But when I saw the Duke sending his personal guards to invite him, I suddenly realized that the Duke is a hero in the world, and I really judge a gentleman with the heart of a villain."

Lin Qilong raised his tied wrist. Since he flattered Deng Ming was a gentleman, the rope could not be tied up by the magnanimous Duke Bao: "So I tied my hands and came to take the blame to Duke Bao for guilt."

"Oh, Governor Lin is so serious," as Lin Qilong expected, Deng Ming's final dissatisfaction disappeared with his apology. Deng Ming said with a smile: "Although this time almost caused a major disaster, Governor Lin is a heartless mistake after all. The saint said that if he is unintentional to do evil, he will not punish even if he is evil."

After saying that, Deng Ming summoned his left and right again: "Help Governor Lin untie the rope."

"Thank you for not killing me." Lin Qilong hurriedly thanked me.

"If you don't forget the past and the next thing, you will be able to rob the grain in the future. If Governor Lin robs the grain again, you must communicate in advance. If it is not helpful, you must inform the matter later. If it is a big mistake of breaking the contract and breaking the alliance, what should you do?" Deng Mingyu said earnestly.

Lin Qilong wanted to say that although he forgot to inform him in advance - who would know that stealing things from the Qing court still needed to inform the Ming army? But he still paid attention to communication afterwards, but Deng Ming refused to see his envoy. However, his hand had just been released, and Lin Qilong knew that even if he wanted to defend himself, he would use a gentle and tactful tone. He rubbed his wrist and pondered the words in his heart.

"The key is to inform in advance," Deng Ming saw Lin Qilong pondering and guessed what the other party was thinking: "Governor Lin set fire to the ship at night and instructed people to dress up as our army. How do I know whether Governor Lin really wants to break the contract and break the alliance, or is unintentionally doing something to break the contract and break the alliance? Governor Lin only sent an envoy, how can I believe that this is not Governor Lin's delaying strategy?"

Deng Ming pointed out that since the situation of the two armies fighting each other was caused by Lin Qilong, he should of course come to the Ming army to clarify the misunderstanding in person.

"The Duke of the State is right, so I'm not tying myself to apologize?" Lin Qilong was very clear, accepted the criticism sincerely, and volunteered to persuade Deng Ming to surrender to the Qing army in Guazhou.

After Lin Qilong escaped, people in Guazhou were panicked. After seeing the Ming army surrounded, some people wanted to surrender, and some people wanted to resist stubbornly because they were worried that there was no way out. While the argument was endless, the Governor of the Cao Transport came back and announced to them that Deng Ming was generous and had forgiven the Qing army's attack yesterday.

In this case, a unified opinion was immediately formed in Guazhou City. Open the city gate and only the yamen runners were left in the city. All the river officers and soldiers were driven out of the city, put their weapons at designated locations, and then camped under the surveillance of the Ming army. Strictly speaking, this was not surrender to the Ming army, because the Ming army did not enter the city, and the Qing army did not hand over the weapons directly to the Ming army, but placed them in an uninhabited place. The camp they set up still had green flags flying, and the sentries at the camp gate were also green camp soldiers rather than Ming army, which means they were not prisoners - this was just a temporary peace with the Ming army. As long as this was maintained, it could be regarded as a delaying strategy after the Ming army retreated.

After seeing Guazhou City and the Ming army "convene peace", the adjacent Guazhou camp also sent envoys to request peace talks with the Ming army, but the conditions for peace talks were no different from Guazhou City.

The Guazhou camp is used to resettle the canal transport escort officers and soldiers. These Huguang and Liangjiang troops had no fighting spirit when facing the Sichuan army. If they had not seen the banner of the Kuidong army, they would have come out to negotiate peace with the Ming army before Lin Qilong. After a melee last night, most of the civilians and more than half of the escort officers and soldiers had been caught by the Ming army, so now those who came out to seize the gun are all the generals, their officers and their personal soldiers.

Deng Ming happily agreed to the Qing army's request. Since he could not shed blood, there was no need to let his subordinates sacrifice. Deng Ming's delayed military plans were the first in ancient times. Today he was captured in Guazhou City again, so let's come together. As the saying goes, there is no need to worry about too much debt.

Most of the Qing army officers and soldiers were very sensible, with only one Jiangxi general exception. He stubbornly wanted to resist to the end. Even after seeing that Guazhou City had already negotiated peace, he refused to negotiate peace even though he knew that resistance was to die. This guy was tied up by everyone and sent to Deng Ming.

"I don't agree, I don't agree!" When dragged to the Ming army's barracks, Wang Han from Jiangxi was still shouting loudly in anger: "I won't accept it even if I die!"

When the generals tied up in the tent were trapped by two black-clothed Ming soldiers, Deng Ming was surrounded by the generals of the Ming army, and there were also senior Qing army officials who had just reached a peace agreement, including Lin Qilong, the governor of the grain transport and the escort commanders of various provinces. At this time, they all became Deng Ming's guests. Although the Qing army handed over their weapons and drove out cities and camps, Deng Ming still asked all the generals to rest in the Ming army camp to prove that they did not have any hidden plans.

"Duke, this is a rough man." The first person to plead for the stubborn was the deputy general of Jiangxi's canal transportation. He tied up Wang Han because Wang Han was so fierce. If he didn't tie him up and hand him over to Deng Ming, the Qing army was worried that the Ming army would doubt their sincerity in peacekeeping. But after all, not everyone expressed their sincerity by killing their colleagues like Zu Dashou, and knew that Deng Ming was not a cruel person, Wang Han's boss spoke up for him as a subordinate.

Others also hope that the deputy general of Jiangxi can successfully plead for love, because if someone is killed, the matter will not be covered up. As long as the court does not report to the court to leave the city and disarm, it will be casually made up whether it is a delaying strategy or a bloody battle. However, if Wang Han is executed by Deng Ming, the matter will not be easily covered up, and the remnants may cause trouble.

But Wang Han had no intention of appreciation. The Ming army escorting him did not force him to kneel down. Seeing that the Governor General, his superiors and colleagues were sitting, Wang Han sat down carelessly on the ground, crossed his legs and raised his chin, looking arrogant: "I will not accept it even if I kill me!"

"What are you not convinced?" Deng Ming asked. The other party was not saying that he would not surrender, nor did he say that he would be loyal to the emperor and serve the country, but he insisted that he was dissatisfied.

"Why are you here to hit us?" Wang Han shouted: "Why?"

"Why can't I hit you?" Deng Ming asked with a smile, "The two countries are fighting, do you need a reason for the Ming army to fight the Qing army?"

But in Wang Han's opinion, there was really a reason. He asked angrily: "Last night was the first one to rob the canal silver. Why did I rob the canal silver? Because you came to Jiangxi again and again, you forced us to sell bonds! Now you not only owe the wages, but also give us your bonds as the moneys. If these bonds were not allowed to make a living, how could the brothers have the idea to rob the canal silver from the court?"

Wang Han shouted louder and louder, his face full of anger: "You are the Duke of the Ming Dynasty, we are the Qing army. If you come to rob the imperial court's grain transportation, we will fight to the death. If you kill me, I have nothing to say. That's because my skills are not as good as others. But now it's not. We are forced by your bonds to sell our children. We rob the imperial court's grain silver. What does it have to do with you?"

Wang Han asked questions one after another: "Why are you here to fight us? Is it okay if we rob Caoyin to buy your bonds? You have to take care of this too. Is there any reason for it? Can't we fight against Qing and support Ming? Are you the guru of the Ming Dynasty?"
Chapter completed!