"I understand. Three Inches of the World" Cheng Ben stood up and said respectfully: "No wonder Dongweng said this trip is important. If you want to be prepared for peace, the danger of Liaoxi will be in peace."

"That's right." Yuan Chonghuan stared at Cheng Ben and said straight: "Mr. Cheng must do whatever he wants to do, and he must make the peace talks. I think Huang Taiji is not as crazy as the old slave. It seems to be something to discuss. You have to make it clear that if you really want to discuss peace, now is the best time. After this period, it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to allow peace talks!"

"Yes, I know." Cheng Benzhi's eyes were full of fanaticism and completely accepted Yuan Chonghuan's explanation. He was Yuan Chonghuan's true supporter. After Yuan died, he kept complaining about Yuan's faults everywhere and wrote about complaining about Yuan's faults. At that time, many famous Mukes were such as Mao Yuanyi, later Xia Yunyi, Tan Qian. They were all famous Mukes, and most of them had written about them. However, later, the Mukes who stirred up the storm and caused hundreds of years of public cases, Cheng Benzhi was the first.

Yuan Chonghuan asked Liang Ji: "Have the Dongjiang soldiers ever arrived in Tianjin?"

Liang Ji shook his head and said, "Not yet, there was only one guerrilla who came with two hundred horse steps, saying that he was the one who fought in front of the front."

Yuan Chonghuan's eyes flashed with murderous aura and said, "Or there is no salary?"

"Yes, wages, equipment, and horses are all said to be insufficient. The salary is worth five taels per soldier, 30,000 soldiers cost 150,000 taels of silver, 100,000 stones of grain, and iron armor and mail, 2,000 chariots of cotton armor, 5,000 bows, 10,000 arrows, and 1 million straw bundles, 300 to 500 horses..."

Liang Ji's face was extremely ugly, and there was a rare look of negative anger in his expression.

In order to enrich the Jiliao defense line, Baoding Town used Yang Guozhu as the general, and Jizhen squeezed away Heiyunlong and replaced it with Man Gui, which also separated Man Gui and Zhao Rujiao, so as not to have a dispute between the two.

In history, Man Gui and Zhao Lujiao were incompatible, and later they did not obey Yuan Chonghuan's orders. Then Man Gui was moved to Xuanzhen. In the second year of Chongzhen, Zhao Lujiao led the cavalry to return to the rescue. When the soldiers were exhausted, they wanted to enter the city to rest. However, they were rejected by the defenders. As a result, they were ambushed by the Later Jin soldiers. Zhao Lujiao's entire army was wiped out. It was a fate that God did not bless the Ming Dynasty.

In terms of generals and talents, Zhao Rujiao is far away from Man Guizhi.

In addition to Baoding Town, Tianjin Fubiao Camp also began to recruit new recruits, and Shandong Town and Dengzhou Town were also ordered to train elite troops in the north to enrich Ji Town’s defense line.

In a hurry, Yuan Chonghuan was worried and anxious, he asked the Dongjiang Town soldiers in the naughty island to 30,000. The number of Dongjiang soldiers verified by the Ministry of War was probably the same. It also means that Yuan Chonghuan hopes to slow down the restraint and offensive against the Donglu, and focus on targeting and remembering the peace.

Thirty thousand Dongjiang soldiers were transferred out of the town, whether they were enriching Ji Town or placed in the capital, Baoding, Zunhua and other places, which was a great benefit and supplement to the defense.

Emperor Chongzhen also agreed with this proposal. If there is no plan to counterattack Liaodong for the time being, the Dongjiang River will be repeatedly frustrated, and the so-called restraint in Dongjiang will be useless. The battle of Liaoxi in the sixth year of the Tianqi period and the battle of Dingmao in Korea, Dongjiang's attitude of avoiding war is quite obvious.

If so, it would be better to transfer all the powerful soldiers in Dongjiang to the western Liaoning area to deploy, at least the strongest soldiers in Jizhen were.

However, the Maolong did not move at all, and the excuses were insufficient for insufficient wages and equipment, insufficient ships, and unstable morale in the army. In short, it was just one word: drag.

"The dragon has a strange ambition." Li Yanke said in a sequel: "This hero is not stable now, and he has to wait for the time being to move."

"The times are the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and he cannot survive alone." Cheng Benzhi said coldly: "This person does not know the general situation, and his pattern is really low."

"I don't have time to deal with him now." Yuan Chonghuan said tiredly: "No one can tell the time when Hutchison sent troops now. I can only send someone to urge Maozhen to send troops to fight. I will ask the capital for food, pay and equipment. The imperial court can take out the money."

Now the Ming Dynasty's government is full of red eyes. The Jingying camp is still counting at the end of the year. The emperor sent many nobles, eunuchs, and censors to clean up the Jingying camp. At the same time, he collected many troops from the north to enrich Xuanda. He also wanted to transfer the Dongjiang troops to the Ji Liao Baoding area, and would also enter the town, and the Shandong troops also moved to the north.

In a short period of time, the court hoped to deploy a defense line of millions of troops from Xuanda to Jiliao and the Beijing Battalion Army.

Of course, this is a number on paper, but if it is 500,000 or 400,000, there are always troops of about 400,000 or 500,000. There are about 100,000 people who can be called elite troops, about 60,000 Guanning soldiers, and 30,000 Dongjiang soldiers. These nearly 100,000 people can be called truly useful elite troops. If used properly, it will be quite useful for the fierce offensive of consumption and memorials.

In the eyes of many people, the Ming Dynasty had hundreds of millions of people, a solid nine-sided defense line, a wealth of tens of millions, and a million elite soldiers. Although Hutchison was strong, it was trapped in a corner of the grassland and lost the internal business of the Ming Dynasty, and it was very much lost, so it might not be able to invade the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Even Yuan Chonghuan's bottom line is Jizhen and the capital, and the gates are closed. As long as these places are guarded, the kings and soldiers are constantly coming, Hutchison cannot form a rule on the territory they have captured, and the capital is not lost, and the gentry does not support him. It is probably not as easy as expected to occupy the territory of the Ming Dynasty as if it were occupied by the grassland.

But everything has to be written according to the script of the Ming Dynasty. As far as Yuan Chonghuan knows, Dengzhen, Shandong, and Henan are now under the threat of thieves. Many local officials are still asking the court to send troops. The Beijing camp has just gone out for 5,000 people to Henan, not to mention gathering the troops of these provinces to the Jiubian and the capital.

In Ji Liao, the rebellion of the Korqin people was put down too quickly and did not play a role in restraining and recording at all. Mao Long hurried on Pi Island and refused to come out. At this moment, Yuan Chonghuan had no time to cook Mao Long, so he could only try his best to meet his needs. As long as Mao Long was willing to take his troops to Baoding, Ji Town.

If it really doesn't work, I can only ask the emperor to issue an imperial edict and a stern order to see if Mao Long has the courage to openly resist the imperial edict.

If he dares to publicly resist the order and refuses to obey it, no matter what excuse he makes, he will definitely be unable to escape the punishment in the future!

But the key to all issues is peace talks.

Yuan Chonghuan was eager for the success of peace talks. He had given Cheng Benzhi quite strong autonomy. Some conditions could not be written in formal books, but he might as well make a verbal promise. Liao, Liao, Liao, Liao, and Liao, will definitely not be guaranteed, but he will never give annual monies, nor will he call his brother or nephew country...

"I wish Mr. Cheng's trip will go well." Yuan Chonghuan took the lead in bowing, and everyone followed.

Cheng Benzhi's eyes were filled with tears. He felt that he was really trusted. If peace talks were successful, the court would have more chances of winning. If peace talks were not successful, then the internal and external attacks would be in danger!

"I will definitely promote peace talks. If not, I will never return them." In front of everyone, Cheng Benzhi could only guarantee this way.

...

A group of people wrapped in red scarves slowly walked towards the entrance of the village. In the distance were wildfires burning high and low, and further away, the setting sun was slowly falling, and a sense of a chaotic world arose.

Everyone was walking forward, and a yellow-faced man in the lead suddenly heard the sound of the horse team. He immediately threw the grain and dead chickens in his hand towards the edge of the ditch, and then hurriedly covered it with soil.

"Hurry up." The yellow-faced man kicked and beat him and scolded: "I don't know which killing star is here. Don't you bury the things quickly, wanting to kill me?"

"Damn it... I've never heard of being a thief so frustrated."

"Yes, it's better to have fun farming at home."

"We are the righteous masters, you are your mother." The yellow-faced man still kicked and beaten. Half of his teeth fell off, and the remaining half was seriously worn. However, he was tall and strong, with big hands and feet, and was in charge of a team of more than fifty people. He has just snatched some food and chickens and ducks from the village, but he may encounter a check-up team just after leaving the village, and his luck is not good.

Less than a quarter of an hour later, the sound of the horse team was from far to near. It was composed of a team of more than a hundred cavalry wearing cotton armor. A small number of people were wearing iron helmets, and most of them had red cloth on their heads.

The general in charge was a tall northwestern man with a blushing face, a body full of iron armor, and an extraordinary look.

The yellow-faced man and others had already knelt on both sides of the roadside, lowering his head and not daring to move.

The general said: "Go and ask the villagers if these thieves have killed or set fire to the fire."

Huangfeng said anxiously: "Go back to Gao Chuang King, we really didn't kill anyone, so we dare not."

The general was the King of Rebellion, Gao Yingxiang, and a famous hero in the Mizhi area. Many people followed him. Shortly after Wang Er rebelled, Gao Yingxiang raised an anti-bank, and thousands of heroes joined him. After less than a year, he also had more than 20,000 "soldiers" under his command. Of course, he was mainly composed of the powerful men of the people. However, unlike history, the rebel army claimed to follow the heavens and responded to people and attacked Zhu Ming. He did not kill people at will, nor did he kill officials at will. Only officials and gentry who had evil deeds would be killed. However, after destroying several county towns, most of the royal family members of Zhu Ming were to be killed. The property of the clan, whether it was gold, silver or grain, was also investigated.

After moving to southern Shaanxi, then to southern Shanxi, crossing the Yellow River to Henan, the rebels also fought for thousands of miles, with the number of people ranging from tens of thousands of mobs to 20,000 to 30,000 elite soldiers and more than 100,000 strong men.

Now most of the army is stationed in Ci County, Henan, and there is no decision on how to go next. However, after the thieves held a meeting, they decided to elect Wang Er as the general of the company battalion, claiming to be the Grand Marshal of Fengtian's rebellion. Gao Yingxiang and others also called themselves generals. Gao Yingxiang called himself the general of Fenggong and specifically eliminated illegal people for the righteous army.

In fact, looting is inevitable. The rebel army does not occupy a large area, so the looting food must be enough, but it is normal for people to want to eat some meat and some fine rice and white flour, and each department will not be too tight.

Sure enough, a small school rode a horse to report, and the yellow-faced group of people snatched something and did not dare to kill anyone.

"The general is so strong." Gao Yingxiang's face was murderous. The cavalry behind him tied more than 20 people behind the horse, all of whom were "rebels". They plundered the people's wealth and killed several villagers who dared to resist, and they called Gao Yingxiang to catch them.

"Since you haven't killed anyone, then get out." Gao Yingxiang shook his horse whip and cursed: "Damn it, there are noodles and meat in the camp every day, and he also ran out to steal the dog. Next time, I will cut you all."

Huangfeng quickly said, "Don't worry, King Chuang, I will never dare to do it again."

"I'm going to have a meeting," Gao Yingxiang said, "I don't have time to cook you, so leave quickly."

The yellow-faced party left quickly. Gao Yingxiang had no time to pay attention to them and continued to fight the horse. The city wall was shortly ahead, which was low and dilapidated. The city tower was dark and there were some arrows and blood on the walls. When the rebels attacked the city, the city only resisted for a short time, so they could only look at the battle traces near the city tower and the city gate. The rest of the world was clean.

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