Aspiration

Chapter 6 Secret Negotiation
Why is Hong Chengchou's standard camp ahead?This is Hong Chengchou's main formation of the Chinese army!

There is a fraud, Hong Chengchou is dead, he pretends not to die.

Stabilizing the morale of the army is the basic common sense of military strategists.

It is still in the plan, not only Li Zicheng's plan, but also Hong Chengchou's plan.Yuan Zongdi will turn south in the chaos, pretending to break into the king's department.It is estimated that the south is Hong Chengchou's strongest force.Hong Chengchou's main force was waiting for Li Zicheng in several directions.

Suddenly, the drums of war are rushing, and the enemy is further tightening the encirclement.The situation took a turn for the worse.If it doesn't stand out, this place will soon become a slaughterhouse.

Sun Chuanting looked at Cao Bianjiao, who was still in shock, and he had to admire Hong Chengchou's wisdom. After all, the teacher is the pillar of the country. With him in charge, this place is as stable as Mount Tai.Now, Li Zicheng's thousands of people are surrounded by tens of thousands of Hong Chengchou's elite soldiers, and they are powerless.

However, Li Zicheng's troops did not seem to be afraid of death, and they were not in the slightest state of confusion.Under the heavy pressure of tens of thousands of troops, the three thousand remnants did not have a trace of chaos, and they were unimaginably tenacious.

Sun Chuanting couldn't help sighing secretly.

It must be twisted into a strand and rushed in one direction.

without delay.Now I can only rush out without hesitation.

Li Zicheng began to hesitate again.Surrender, end this killing, the death of a few of us, in exchange for the lives of thousands of people.However, it was already too late, the officers and soldiers had the habit of massacring surrendered soldiers, not to mention all their families, it was impossible to survive.

Rush, or descend?Li Zicheng was still hesitating.Suddenly, he found that on the hillside in the distance, under the big banner with the word "Hong", there was a tall red horse, and a man of five or sixty years old was a graceful and luxurious man. Isn't this man Hong Chengchou?
"Hong Chengchou is not dead!" Li Zicheng and Li Laiheng exclaimed at the same time.

"Oh, forget it." Li Zicheng collapsed.

"No! King Chuang, I'll go out for a while!" Li Laiheng didn't wait for Li Zicheng's consent, he said to his more than 200 brothers: "Kill!" Before he finished speaking, he shot at Hong Chengchou's team like an arrow.

It was not easy to rush into Hong Chengchou's phalanx. Li Laiheng knew that it would be impossible for the remaining 200 elites to break into such an impregnable enemy formation in an instant.Hong Chengchou didn't take the initiative to attack, he just defended enough. To break into his first line of defense, it would take time, effort and blood.

Li Zicheng was taken aback, he was about to command the army to attack, when he suddenly found that two hundred soldiers of Li Laiheng had crashed into it.This time, instead of sharp knives, they became spherical.The spherical area is the smallest, and only in this way can they minimize the attacked parts.

This is an unplanned situation.Didn't Li Zicheng hope that something unexpected would happen?

At this time, he should organize the attack.However, he did not issue an order.Liu Zongmin did not issue an order either.All the soldiers were stunned by this scene.

Li Laiheng's spherical formation moved very quickly in the enemy's formation, wherever he rolled, there was a huge commotion.

"King Chuang, Laiheng has already entered for half a stick of incense." Li Guo reminded.

Yes, if you don't attack yet, Li Laiheng will definitely be exhausted.His spherical formation is also gradually shrinking.That is to say, his elite died, his number became smaller and smaller, and the spherical formation became smaller and smaller. If we wait any longer, there will be no spherical formation.

Li Laiheng couldn't remember how many people he killed, the blades of every one of his subordinates were dripping with blood.He only remembered that three generals of Hong Chengchou were assassinated by him. Now, he had to get close to Hong Chengchou and decide the life and death of three thousand soldiers with the last blow.Our own soldiers are getting fewer and fewer, and our energy is getting weaker and weaker. Now is the time.

Hong Chengchou is not a timid person, he is still watching the battle on the high slope, surrounded by sturdy guards and several battle-tested generals.It must be close to there, and Hong Chengchou must be captured alive.

Elite special forces have whimsical qualities, and what they do is whimsical.

Li Laixiang jumped up, and he used himself as a weapon to fight out.Over the head of one warrior, and another warrior's head, their heads became the place for him to step on, and with another jump, his whole body smashed into Hong Chengchou's mount.

The cold blade was attached to Hong Chengchou's neck.There was a faint pain in his fat neck.

Everyone is frozen in this moment.Being close at hand, one sword can stab Li Laiheng straight through.However, no one dared to push the sword forward a little bit.

In this way, he hesitated for a few minutes.Hong Chengchou's captain shouted: "Everyone back down!"

All the people dispersed in all directions, leaving a large open space.In the middle, only Hong Chengchou and Li Laiheng remained.

Without needing any words, Hong Chengchou understood Li Laiheng's request. The bargaining chip he got from fighting with his life had only one request, which was to exchange his life for his life.

Hong Chengchou understands and appreciates it. The bargaining chips won in this way must satisfy him.

But Hong Chengchou was worthy of being a famous minister of the Ming Dynasty. He was not frightened by this sudden change. He said: "You are very good, young man. I can give you glory, wealth and honor, and give you a wife and son. Let me go, the Ming Dynasty will not treat you badly, the country needs talents like you when the country is in turmoil. Do you believe in my personality? Yes, without further ado, I will immediately promote you to lieutenant general, and the commander-in-chief is just around the corner."

Li Laixiang said: "Lord Hong, I know what you are like. You can be regarded as a person with a bit of integrity. However, you cannot completely deny that you have a share of the credit for the entry of the Qing soldiers. To save a decaying dynasty. Of course, we may all be doing the same thing. Today, you are my bargaining chip, and you send us a day's journey. I think this is not too much to ask."

Hong Chengchou sighed, "Last night, were you the one who killed Eunuch Liu?"

"Yes. Fortunately, it was an eunuch, otherwise we would be doomed today." Ever since Li Laiheng saw that Hong Chengchou was not dead, he thought that the person who was killed last night must be an imperial envoy.There was a habit in the Ming Dynasty that eunuchs were often very powerful.

Li Laiheng was very fortunate that Hong Chengchou was not the one who killed last night, otherwise, he would not have any valuable hostages today.

"Well, it's fortunate. However, you'd better consider my conditions. I said, I admire young people like you very much. This is the truth."

"Thank you. Master Hong, I don't have to kill you today, but after you surrender to the Qing Dynasty, I will have to kill you."

"I surrendered to the Manchus?" Hong Chengchou was furious. A civil servant, who was particular about his integrity, was a second-rank minister of the Ming Dynasty who cared about the country and the people. He had a deep hatred for the Tartars. How could he surrender to the Qing people?He was very angry with Li Laiheng and said: "I wish I could eat the meat of the Tartars, can I surrender to the Manchus?"

People are always confident in themselves, especially in terms of quality and integrity, most of them overestimate themselves.Hong Chengchou is such a person, lofty and arrogant, who often thinks that his fame is more important than his life (according to Qing history, Hong Chengchou once went on hunger strike after being captured, but was persuaded to surrender after all.).Of course, Hong Chengchou was captured and defected to the enemy later. He had his own difficulties. Compared with Wu Sangui, he was more sympathetic than spurned.

It is impossible for Li Laixiang to talk about history with him, let alone talk about time travel. Now, he can only talk with him about how to survive.

"Master Hong, let's not talk about other things today, let's talk about fate, life for life, my condition is very simple, give us a ride, one day."

"Young man, I will send you a day's journey. Maybe you can survive. And I, you should know that there is no way out. Yuan Chonghuan, Lu Xiangsheng and others are role models. The only way for me, Hong Chengchou, to survive is for you to surrender. So , young man, our transaction is quite troublesome."

Hong Chengchou's words were very real, Emperor Chongzhen was suspicious, and he had no worries about killing the minister.In recent years, the title of Minister of the Ministry of War seems to have been cursed. No one can hold it for more than three years, and whoever does it will be unlucky.Not to mention that Hong Chengchou sent the tightly surrounded Li Zicheng out of the encirclement, even if Li Chuang turned into a bird and flew out, it would be a heinous crime.Therefore, it is unrealistic for Hong Chengchou to exchange his life for his life.

It is unreasonable to spend a lot of effort to capture the enemy's chief general, but the situation cannot be changed.

Hong Chengchou didn't want to die, he hoped he could live.If you want to live, there is hope.

Li Laiheng didn't believe that Hong Chengchou didn't want to live, but he also knew the character of Emperor Chongzhen.Fair deal.It's better to be realistic. It's hard for modern people to imagine what stupid things the famous ministers of the Ming Dynasty would do.Thinking of this, Li Laiheng had an idea. He said, "Lord Hong, your hanged emperor is very narrow-minded. Let me think about it for you too. The matter of surrender is out of the question. Can this work? Let's go back to South Shaanxi." , your credit is still there, stopping us in Tongguan, plus the more than 1 heads we have already been captured by you, you can completely buy your life from Emperor Chongzhen. You can send one or two generals to follow us, and You quickly return to the east and return to King Jingqin. This means that the boat and the rudder can pass smoothly, and we can all survive."

The hope of going east out of Henan was shattered, Li Laiheng thought, then let things return to the true colors of history.The historical fact is that Li Chuang was defeated at Tongguan and returned to Shangluo Mountain.Then, returning to Shangluo Mountain now has not changed history, and it should be a realistic consideration.Therefore, he proposed such a compromise idea.

Hong Chengchou pondered for a moment, he also felt that this was the only way, as long as Li Chuang was not allowed to break into Henan, there was still a way to survive.

"Okay, I agree to your terms."

The pre-battle negotiations came to an end soon.Very secretive, very few people on both sides know about it.Especially on Hong Chengchou's side, there were only three or five people who knew about it. Most of them disappeared quietly on the way back to King Jingqin, and Ding Qirui, Hong Chengchou gave him a big black gauze hat from the governor of Shaanxi, and sealed it tightly his mouth.

Li Zicheng returned to Shangluo Mountain.As soon as he entered Shangluo Mountain, he took Li Laiheng's suggestion, hid his banners and drums, and broke them into pieces, so that the officers and soldiers who followed immediately targeted him, so he had to go back to the station.

But Hong Chengchou led his elite soldiers back to King Jingqin, and before arriving in Hebei, the Qing soldiers had already withdrawn to the outside of the pass.As soon as he entered Beijing, he was summoned by the emperor.The secret agents of Emperor Chongzhen had reported the situation to him a long time ago, so it was natural for Hong Chengchou to be convicted.

Hong Chengchou was dismissed and investigated.Now, only Yang Sichang is left as the pillar of the imperial court.This pair of enemies, for the time being, came to an end with the victory of the surname Yang.But the emperor didn't go any further. He let Hong Chengchou spend time at home, and sometimes asked him to give advice on state affairs.It is only a matter of time before Hong Chengchou is activated.This is something for later, let's not talk about it for now.

It is said that when Li Zicheng returned to Shangluo Mountain, Li Laiheng got an extremely important development opportunity, but difficulties that he did not expect soon followed.

(End of this chapter)