"Thank you, General." Wang Hu cupped his fists and took a cup of hot tea.
Wang Yuncheng stood up from his seat and walked towards the coal stove in the tent. At the same time, he said, "I wonder what General Wang Hu wants to surrender to us?"
Although Wang Hu expressed his intention to surrender, he understood that Wang Hu's surrender would never be possible without any conditions, and their tiger-character flag was not high enough to make Ming officials and generals take the initiative to surrender.
"My general hopes to retain everything the Wang family has in Daizhou, especially the land. At the same time, after taking Daizhou City, my general will be responsible for guarding Daizhou City, and the Zhenwu Guard troops and horses will be commanded by my general. If you want to If you can agree to these conditions, my general can take the initiative to open the gate of Daizhou City for you." Wang Liang said the conditions that Wang Hu asked him to put forward with the bandits.
When Wang Yuncheng heard this, the hand that was replacing coal in the coal stove paused, quickly replaced the coal in his hand, and resealed the stove.
"The conditions you proposed are really harsh." In the big tent, Chief of Staff Lin Wenye sneered.
Wang Liang looked at him.
Anyone who dares to interrupt at this time must be an important figure in the bandit army.
"What a pity." Wang Yuncheng dropped the coal tongs in his hand, straightened up, returned to his previous seat, put one hand on the table, looked at Wang Liang and said, "Go back and tell Wang Hu that I have one of the conditions he proposed. They won’t agree.”
"Don't you want to attack Daizhou City?" Wang Liang asked doubtfully.
In his opinion, the conditions proposed by his general were not harsh. The other party was just an army of thieves. He didn't know whether they would survive when the imperial army came to suppress them in the future.
Now it is a very worthwhile thing to exchange a Daizhou City garrison for a general from Zhenwu Guard to join the bandit army. And with the support of their generals, it will be easy to capture Daizhou City.
He couldn't think of any reason for the rebel army to refuse such a favor at no cost.
Wang Yuncheng said in a calm tone: "Daizhou City is going to be attacked, and I will not agree to the conditions proposed by Wang Hu. If he wants to surrender, everything must be done in accordance with the laws of my Tiger Flag. If the family has too much land, it must be divided. However, , Wang Hu’s other property can be kept. As for the matter of Daizhou’s defense, I can’t decide, but if he wants to continue to be an official, he must go to the grassland to study. After he returns from school, he can naturally continue to be an official, but he can I can’t guarantee that it can’t be Daizhou’s defense.”
"It seems you have no sincerity at all." Wang Liang snorted coldly.
To help the rebels capture Daizhou City, the rebels not only wanted to divide the Wang family's land, but also gave the Wang family an official position and wouldn't use it back. He knew that his general would never agree to such conditions.
Wang Yuncheng picked up the teapot on the table, took a sip of water, and said, "Go back and bring a message to Wang Hu. If he is willing to surrender, what I just said can be fulfilled."
"What if my general doesn't accept it?" Wang Liang asked back.
Wang Yuncheng chuckled and said: "It doesn't matter if he doesn't explain. If I don't see him taking the initiative to surrender by noon tomorrow, when my army breaks Daizhou City, all the previous conditions will not count."
"You are not sincere at all in accepting my general's defection." Wang Liang shouted angrily.
He could not see any sincerity in the conditions proposed by the rebels.
His general, as the commander of the Zhenwu Guards, was also a fourth-grade military general. To join any rebel army, not to mention the position of a prefect, he should at least have the position of a commander.
In the words of scholars, this is called buying horse bones for a thousand gold.
But now, he couldn't see anything related to buying horse bones for a thousand gold, and the rebel army had no intention of paying attention to his general.
Wang Yuncheng said: "Just go back and bring the message to Wang Hu. As for whether Wang Hu is willing to come and vote, to be honest, I don't care. With or without him, Daizhou City cannot stop the pace of my army."
"You will regret it." Wang Liang snorted coldly, turned around and walked out of the tent.
"Send someone to see off Brother Wang Liang." Wang Yuncheng told the guard on the side.
Without anyone to lead the way, people like Wang Liang would not be able to go far without being captured by the patrolling Tiger Flag soldiers as ordinary Ming soldiers.
The chief who brought Wang Liang and others to Yanmen Pass looked disappointed when he saw that the talks between the two parties had broken down.
Because he didn't know if he could still stay in the bandit army and become a corps commander.
If it weren't for the position of corps commander, he would only need to spread rumors about dividing the fields with two other people in Daizhou City, and there would be no need to risk contacting Zhenwuwei commander Wang Hu.
"You are the commander-in-chief of Tian Qi when he was at Yanmen Guards Station!" Wang Yuncheng looked at the commander-in-chief who was standing in an inconspicuous place after Wang Liang left.
The chief bowed and said: "The young one used to be the commander of the Yanmen Guards Station, and Tian Qi happened to be in the same team as the young one."
"Don't be nervous. Since you can persuade Wang Hu to send someone to Yanmen Pass, whether he is willing to come or not, if he promises to give you the position of corps commander, he will naturally give it to you." Wang Yuncheng said.
When Na Shichang heard this, his face was filled with joy.
He heard from Tian Qi that the corps commander here at Tiger Character Banner was almost the same as the chief of Yanmen Guards Station, and he had to supervise two more people than the chief.
Wang Yuncheng turned to Lin Wenye and said, "I'll leave it to you to arrange it."
"I'm going to see Ren Guangyong soon, so I'll arrange for him to enter the supply camp." Lin Wenye said.
Wang Yuncheng nodded.
Although the baggage camp is not as good as the battle camp, it is still stronger than the garrison stationed in the local area.
On the other side, Wang Liang did not stop for a moment as soon as he came out of Yanmen Pass. He took several people with him and rode all the way back to Qianhusuo outside Daizhou City.
Sun Qianhu said angrily: "This Wang Hu's temper doesn't know how to change. He gets angry when he gets angry. Now he's better. Let the two men of the Yuan family dig a hole and bury him."
"If one is willing to fight, the other is willing to suffer. We, the Sun family, should not get involved in this matter. Our top priority is to think about how to defend Daizhou City. These bandits are not that easy to deal with." Sun Chuanting said with a frown.
Although he had long thought that Liu Tie would use troops to Daizhou sooner or later, he never expected that Liu Tie would take the initiative to send troops to Taiyuan Prefecture regardless of recruitment during the negotiation process with the imperial court on recruitment.
Sun Qianhu looked at Sun Chuanting aside and asked, "There are already thousands of soldiers and horses stationed in the city. Is it possible that we still can't resist the invading bandit army?"
"Datong and Xuanfu are full of soldiers and horses from the imperial court. In the end, they all fell into the hands of the Liu thief. It is difficult for a small Daizhou city to stop the thief army unless Yanmen Pass is still in our hands. ." Sun Chuanting was not optimistic that Zhenwu Guard could defend Daizhou City.
