Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 455 See you on your knees
Under the city of Laizhou.

The emperor came in person, and the morale of the soldiers besieging the city increased greatly. Even the surrendered generals who were praised by the imperial staff were gearing up to try their skills.

Flower horse Liu Liu Liangzuo, Li Chengdong, Tu Guobao, Wu Shengzhao, Zhang Guozhu, Gao Jinzhong, Yang Chengzu, Li Yuchun and others all requested to play.

The artillerymen in Shenji Town were all excited, they mobilized their cannons and blasted Laizhou City fiercely, knocking down many battlements.

Geng Er in the city thought that the conditions he raised made Da Tianzi angry, so he hurriedly braved the gunfire, and sent another trusted aide out of the city to deliver the second secret letter, with a much more respectful tone.

Zhu Yihai led the generals to watch the siege battle for a long time. The infantry and artillery coordinated and fought well. However, because of the lack of siege equipment, it was only the end of the point. After a while of clamor, it was over.

Although Laizhou City was far less fortified than Dengzhou City and lacked artillery, there were tens of thousands of people guarding it, especially the subordinates of Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde, who were considered elite soldiers at the end of Ming Dynasty.

Back then when they rebelled in Denglai, they were dominated by Liaodong soldiers, plus Mao Da’s Dongjiang soldiers. up.

The construction of siege equipment is still underway outside the city, but to attack such a fortified city, a lot of siege equipment has to be built, mainly various ladders, rushing cars, etc., not simple long ladders, but more complex and safer large ones. instrument.

In ancient times, the siege of the city did not move for several months or even years, and it took a long time to build siege equipment. Even in some dangerous and remote areas, copper materials were even used to cast cannons instead of transporting the cannons.

Go around and go back to the military tent.

After seeing Geng Er's second secret envoy, Zhu Yihai discussed with several imperial ministers.

"Geng Thief has no sincerity!" Shen Tingyang said bluntly.

"I feel that since Geng Zhongming is willing to send people to talk over and over again, it means that he still has some ideas and can fight for them." It was Yan Wogong who held this opinion.

This man is best at united front work, and knows a little bit more about the psychological journey of those surrendered generals.

After listening to everyone's opinions, Zhu Yihai smiled and said, "It seems that the death of Kong Youde has greatly shocked Geng Zhongming, and he is not willing to fight with us."

"I thought there was no need to step on Geng's bandits. Laizhou could be captured in half a month at most." said the commander-in-chief Jin Gongyu.

"I think that Geng Er is still worth splitting up and wooing. If he is willing to give up Laizhou, that's a good thing."

"But what if he just wants to stall for time?"

"Let Geng Zhongming come to see me in person, and if he is sincere, talk face to face."

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"In person?"

In Laizhou City, Geng Zhongming fell into deep thought after listening to the messenger's reply.

"Beware of fraud!" Xu Degong reminded.

Geng Zhongming took the exam for a long time, so he didn't intend to go out of the city secretly to meet Zhu Yihai.

Just now, the Ming army fired all the guns, which made Geng Zhongming feel no sense of security. If the Ming army really came to attack the city desperately, he felt that even if there were 1 people in the city, he would never be able to hold it for a few days. He couldn't wait for the reinforcements to arrive, and he thought that it was unlikely that Boluo's reinforcements would come.

Firstly, there was no food and grass, and secondly, the Ming army still had soldiers and horses dragging them to the south.

After careful consideration, Geng Zhongming took Chen Shaozong with him, leaving Xu Degong and Lian Decheng to assist his son Geng Jimao in defending the city. If Zhu Yihai didn't believe his words and lured him out of the city to hunt him down, they would stick to it.

After making some arrangements, both Geng Zhongming and Chen Shaozong put on the armor of the family team, and then quietly left the city.

Not far out of the city, they ran into the Ming army patrolling cavalry.

After claiming to be a messenger, he was taken into the camp.

"Isn't this Geng Erye?"

At the gate of the camp, a voice suddenly called him.

Geng Zhongming looked up, and it turned out to be Huama Liu Liu Liangzuo, one of the four Jiangbei towns in the Hongguang Dynasty.

"Is General Liu here too?"

"Well, I offered Xu Huai to His Majesty last year, and now I'm walking in front of the imperial court, Second Master Geng is going to do it anyway?" Huama Liu laughed.

Seeing this guy, Geng Zhongming was a little disdainful, but after thinking about it, he has reached this point now, so don't make fun of anyone else.

"I have come to pay my respects to Your Majesty."

"I'll take you there." Huama Liu had nothing to do when he was idle in the camp, so he simply took him there, chatting while walking.

Geng Er chatted with him all the way, but he recovered a little bit. He found that this guy seemed quite satisfied with his current situation.

Anyway, he made meritorious deeds in offering Xu Huai, so he was conferred the title of earl and the title of admiral. Although he didn't directly lead the army, he was able to walk in front of the imperial court and accompany his attendants, which is not bad.

At least there was no reason to liquidate it or something.

At the gate of the inner camp, Hua Ma Liu said, "I'll accompany you here, after you finish your interview, let's have a drink together."

"it is good."

After waiting at the door, the imperial guards came to lead the people.

After being searched, he was finally brought before the emperor.

It was the first time for Geng Zhongming to see the famous Emperor Shaotian, and he felt that he was too young.

"Tang Taizong raised his troops to fight the world at the age of 16, and became emperor at the age of 27. He made great achievements in his life and created the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. I only raised my troops at the age of 27. There is a big difference!"

Geng Zhong didn't expect his thoughts to be seen through, and he admired him even more. He quickly knelt down and paid respects.

Zhu Yihai looked at Geng Zhongming, he was tall and burly, his face was very dark, but his hands were very white and conspicuous.

Moreover, this person's tone of voice and speed are quite good, he deserves the name of being as cunning as a fox.

"Geng Qing said that he wanted to lead his troops to reopen Dongjiang?"

Geng Zhongming took up the conversation, saying that he was willing to donate Laizhou City, and then went to Phi Island to reopen the Dongjiang River, and even restore Guanglu, Shicheng and other Liaodong Islands.

He spoke passionately, but he didn't mention the fact that he didn't want to stay here and fight for Zhu Yihai.

Zhu Yihai also said nothing, but first asked about the situation in Laizhou City, the situation of Geng Zhongming's home in Liaodong, and some basic conditions of his soldiers.

Geng Zhongming didn't lie, he said something.

There are now 5000 soldiers in Laizhou City, and of course many of them are new recruits.He himself had 2000 troops, Kong Youde's general Sun Long had 1, and then he recruited [-] strong recruits to make up [-].

Although there are many soldiers, there is not enough food and grass in the city, which is enough for more than half a month, and the morale of the army is very unstable, and even most of the gentry and common people in Laizhou City are eager to move.

"General Geng, if Kaesong surrenders now and moves to Dongjiang, I'm afraid the Tartars will not let your family in Liaoyang go."

"Loyalty and filial piety are hard to have both!" Geng Zhongming sighed helplessly.

"I still have a way to achieve both," Zhu Yihai said with a smile, "I can arrange to let you out of the city in the middle of the night, pretending that you broke out of the city, and then floated to Liaodong in Laizhou Bay. You can go back to Liaodong first. Bring your family members back to Haizhou, and then go out to sea, reopen Dongjiang Town to Phi Island, and take your family members to wait there to garrison."

"In this way, the Tartars will not know the truth for a while, so your family members will be safe for a while, and you will even be able to return to Liaodong smoothly. When you receive your family members, you will kill the Tartars by surprise and seize Haizhou, In Liaoyang, rob him of his money, food and supplies, and then go to Dongjiang by sea, so that he can bring back his family, reunite the family, and have the supplies, money and food to open the town, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?"

"If you don't have enough ships, I can also arrange for the navy to send a ship to meet them and wait directly in Liaodong Bay. You can also set up a transfer site on Lianyun Island near Gaizhou or Changsheng Island near Fuzhou for temporary resettlement. How about transferring them to Phi Island, Lu Island, Shicheng Island, etc.?"

Zhu Yihai took out a map and allocated the Changshan Islands to the east of Lushun, Pi Island and Shenmi Island at the mouth of the Yalu River to Geng Zhongming.

Looking at the line drawn by the emperor himself on the map, Geng Zhongming was moved.

He previously proposed to withdraw from Laizhou and go to Phi Island to reopen the Dongjiang River. In fact, it is not all true, it is just a fiction.

Anyway, there is room for advancement and retreat.

Let’s leave the death place of Laizhou first, and wait and see on the fence after returning to Liaodong. If the situation of the Qing army is good, it can be said that it has broken through. If the situation of the Ming army is good, it is not too late to consider going to Dongjiang.

He didn't even think that Daming would agree to this proposal. Anyway, he just put forward a condition first, let's talk about whether it will be successful, and he can still bargain.

It would be best not to fight for Daming, but if it is not possible, then it can only be reconsidered.

The lesser of two evils.

But now the emperor's attitude moved his heart.

This arrangement is really good. If the emperor cooperates with them in acting, then he has a good chance to withdraw to his hometown in Haizhou, Liaodong, and even bring back his family members with his soldiers there.

And if the Changshan Archipelago and Phi Islands are really assigned to them to reopen Jiangdong Town, that would be very good. Now that the Central Plains is in such a state, there will probably be no results in a while. They will go to Phi Islands at this time. It was a place he was very familiar with.

He served in the army there for ten years, and later he also took down Phi Island with the Qing army.

Phi Island is in the sea between China and North Korea. Now, it is the rear. Even if it is backed by Denglai's Ming army, it is tantamount to being between the three parties, engaging in trade or something, and it will definitely restore Mao Wenlong back then. At that time, the Dongjiang River was in full swing.

Very tempting plan.

"The guilty ministers are all under His Majesty's arrangement!"

"Geng Zhongming listens to the order!"

"I granted you the title of Duke of the Liao Kingdom, plus the Zuo Dudu of the Governor's Mansion of the Right Army, the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Admiral, and the seal of the Liao Vanguard General to guard the Dongjiang River!"

Geng Zhongming knelt down to receive the imperial edict.

"At that time, I will arrange for you to go out of the city at night, but there is one thing you need to help with."

Zhu Yihai finally suggested that Geng Zhongming's 5000 men could leave, but Kong Youde's department couldn't take away Sun Long's 2000 men. At that time, the Ming army would lay a net over there and lay an ambush on all sides.

Sun Long and his two thousand German troops will be surrounded by the Ming army and either surrender or be annihilated.

"Although Kong Youde has a good relationship with you, he was defeated by me in Dengzhou. I heard that Sun Long betrothed him to his sons and daughters. Just in case, let them stay. I also relieved you of your worries. "

"As for the other [-] newly recruited soldiers, they are all Laizhou civilians, and bringing them with them is actually a drag."

Although Geng Zhongming was somewhat reluctant to part with Sun Long's two thousand elite soldiers, the emperor had said so, obviously deliberately not giving him a chance to annex the two thousand soldiers, so he nodded tactfully.

He even offered to let Geng Jimao, the son of the army, stay with the emperor as a bodyguard.

This is actually taking the initiative to hand over hostages.

After everything was negotiated, Geng Zhongming hurried back to Laizhou. When he returned to the city, he still felt a little dreamy. There was always a bit of unreal feeling in all of this, but he touched his chest, and the yellow imperial decree hidden in his arms But it's true.

Now, he is the Duke of Liao and the admiral of Liaodong conferred by Emperor Shaotian of Ming Dynasty.

　Thank you Fengwu Yufei for your reward
　　
　
(End of this chapter)