Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1397 Recruiting Golden Generals
The sky is getting brighter, a round of red sun is slowly rising, and the sky to the east of Lishan Mountain is red.

Jin Jun, who had been asleep, felt the warmth of his body, and slowly opened his eyes. The soldiers watched the red sun rise in the east, but their hearts were not warmed by the rising sun, and the top of the mountain was dead silent.

Li Benshen rushed forward lightly and rushed to the south to support. The soldiers hung a pot of water and a little dry food on them. They had eaten everything last night. How could the soldiers not despair now.

At the foot of the mountain, the soldiers of the Ming army built simple fences. The gunmen holding guns aimed at the top of the mountain.

Wang Pingfan stood on a rock, looked at the Ming army at the foot of the mountain, saw the smoke rising from the kitchen, turned his head and walked to the top of the mountain, and came to Li Benshen's side.

"Li Junmen, it is meaningless for us to guard Lishan Mountain. I see that the Ming army is making food at the foot of the mountain. Why not wait for them to eat and rush down the mountain to see if they can break through!" Wang Pingfan sat next to Li Benshen with chapped lips. Said.

Li Benshen was wiping the treasured sword in his hand, Wen Yu didn't answer, but turned his head to look around, there were all the soldiers of the Golden Army lying down or lying down, all without morale.Can such a soldier break out of the encirclement?Li Ben was deeply skeptical and no longer confident. However, their current situation was no different from that of Ma Su. They could only wait to die on the mountain. Li Ben sighed deeply, but nodded in agreement, "Okay! Give it a try!"

It was already dawn, and the sound of gunfire near Lintong stopped in the middle of the night.At this time, there was no sound of cannons coming from the surrounding area, and the Ming army at the foot of the mountain was quietly making food, and did not defend the back at all. This shows that the main force of the Jin army has been defeated. There may be no Jin army near Lintong, and they are probably trapped to the death. alone.In the current situation, they can only break through.

But having said that, in the current situation, not to mention whether they can stand out, even if they can stand out, where should they go, how should they plan, Li Benshen has no idea in his mind.

At this time, a group of cavalry suddenly galloped to the camp of the Ming army at the foot of the mountain. After a while, the fence of the Ming army was removed. Li Yuanyin only led two guards out, and then climbed directly to the top of the mountain.

Not far from the top of the mountain, a group of golden soldiers on the mountainside stopped him and stopped him from moving forward, but Li Yuanyin pointed at the golden soldiers with a horsewhip and said, "Are you waiting to die?"

The few golden soldiers obviously knew the current situation. Most of the famous generals who came up from the mountain came to surrender, and there was hesitation on their faces.

"If you don't inform your Li Junmen, just say that an old man is visiting, and he is here to save the lives of your entire army!" Li Yuanyin shouted again.

The soldiers of the Jin Army looked at each other, and a leader suddenly clasped his fists, "This general will be later!" After finishing speaking, he turned and climbed to the top of the mountain. After a while, he arrived in front of Li Benshen, clasped his fists and reported: "Qi report!" The military gate, the people from the mountain, said that they are old friends of the military gate, and they want to save our lives."

Li Benshen frowned slightly, and the faces of Wang Pingfan and He Chengzhi on the side changed, and He Chengzhi said: "This must be the Ming army who came to surrender."

When the soldiers of the Jin army around heard it, they couldn't help but looked at them together, with expectations on their faces, but also a little entanglement.

The Jin army had already been defeated, and the rational Jin army generals realized that the Great Jin Kingdom might be destroyed. For their own sake and their families, they should try to survive, but they were unwilling to surrender.

The ideas of the soldiers of the Jin Army are simpler. They don't like the Ming Dynasty, but they want to live, and they don't want to die on the mountain.

Seeing the soldiers around him, Li Ben didn't know when they all took up positions, and they came to watch him, he couldn't help sighing, "Bring them up!"

"Li Junmen, you want to..." He Chengzhi stopped talking halfway.Wang Pingfan remained silent and did not speak.

They eat the salary of the Kingdom of Jin, and have the responsibility to be loyal to the Kingdom of Jin, but these more than ten thousand soldiers are only serving as soldiers and eating food. They have fulfilled their responsibilities as soldiers and fought a bloody battle. Now that they have been defeated, it is impossible to demand that they also die for the country .

Hearing Li Benshen's words, the soldiers couldn't help being happy. After clasping their fists, they turned around quickly, and then walked down the mountain quickly. After a while, they greeted Li Yuanyin.

When Li Benshen saw Li Yuanyin, he was taken aback for a moment, and said in surprise: "Why are you?" He then stood up, stared at Li Yuanyin and said, "Uncle Yuan is so courageous, aren't you afraid that I will kill you?"

Gao Jie and Li Chengdong are very close, like brothers, Li Benshen is Gao Jie's nephew, and Li Yuanyin is Li Chengdong's adopted son. The two have similar seniority when they were in Xuzhou, so they have some intersections and know each other.

Wang Yan sent Li Yuanyin over, which surprised Li Benshen, but he could see that Wang Yan was thinking about recruiting and surrendering.

Li Yuanyin smiled and said: "There is nothing to be afraid of in this town when tens of thousands of troops besiege the top of the mountain. Besides, even if you don't miss the old love, you have to think about the tens of thousands of men on the mountain. They all have family members. You can't let them all accompany you." I will die."

Li Yuanyin's voice was heroic and loud. Originally, there was only a circle of generals around, but now the soldiers stood up and circled around a few times.

Seeing that the soldiers were all looking over, Li Ben let out a heavy breath, and said in a deep voice, "What do you want?"

At this time, Li Benshen couldn't offer any conditions, and he didn't want to raise any conditions.To be honest, Jin Guo treated him well, and this defeat has already made him disheartened. If it weren't for the tens of thousands of soldiers, he might not have let Li Yuanyin come up.

"Jianguo missed the old feelings, ordered my general, and told me to persuade you to surrender to Daming." Li Yuanyin didn't talk nonsense, sat down on the stone beside him, and said: "The situation is very clear now, Haoge only leads ten The rest of the people fled to the north bank of the Weishui River. I occupy Chang'an in the Ming Dynasty, and it is a foregone conclusion to seize Guanzhong. Now the mountains are surrounded by soldiers and horses, and you can't escape at all, let alone reinforcements. If you don't think about yourself, you should be ten thousand Soldiers, think about it. I won’t say too much, this is a letter from Jian Guo, I advise you to surrender!”

Li Benshen sat down at the side, his face was silent for a while, Li Yuanyin took out Wang Yan's letter and handed it to him, and continued: "This is a letter from the supervisor. , you can go to Nanjing to study martial arts, and then assign the troops."

Li Yuanyin's voice was very loud. He deliberately said it to everyone. After hearing this, the soldiers of the Jin Army around him couldn't help discussing it.Some people believe it, but some people think that the Ming Dynasty will not be so good, and they are worried that they will be forced to do hard labor after being tricked down the mountain.

Li Benshen hesitated for a while, but still took the letter. He opened it and saw that the content of the letter did not say any conditions, because Li Yuanyin would say that what Wang Yan wrote was some emotion.

In the letter, Wang Yan said that he was also a member of Xuzhou Town, lamenting that in the past 15 years, Xuzhou Town has fallen apart. He, Li Chengdong, Li Yuanyin, and Li Benshen, for various reasons, have taken different paths. Drifting in the middle, some go the right way, while others go astray.

Now that the world is about to be unified, and the ministries in Xuzhou Town have gone through all kinds of hardships, Wang Yan hopes that after 15 years, the ministries can come together again and stop killing each other and being enemies...

After reading Wang Yan's letter, Li Benshen was speechless for a long time...

When Li Yuanyin recruited Li Benshen to surrender, among the crowds on the south bank of the Weishui River, a Ming army envoy also came in front of Tang Tong, but his rank was not as high as Li Yuanyin's.

One of the big reasons why Wang Yan sent Li Yuanyin to surrender Li Benshen was because it was relatively safe and he had great confidence. Even if Li Benshen was unwilling to surrender, he would not kill Li Yuanyin.

Although Wang Yan's goal of destroying gold was to wipe out the barbarians, the war between the two was actually a war for hegemony. As long as one side was willing to admit defeat, it would be over, and it would not be like the Ming and Qing Dynasty, retaliation Sexual massacre, the hatred between the two sides is not so deep.

No higher-ranking person was sent to recruit Tang Tong, mainly because he had rejected the Ming Dynasty's surrender before and killed the Ming Dynasty's envoy. Zhang Mingzhen was a little uncertain, so he only sent a messenger.

"Duke, what did the Ming army say!" Tang Tong was also surrounded by many people. Seeing that Tang Tong was looking at Wang Yan's letter, a general couldn't help asking.

With a sullen face, Tang Tong handed the letter to the deputy general beside him, "The king of Chu gave us conditions to keep us safe, but we need to move our family to Nanjing."

"Isn't that just house arrest?" the lieutenant said in amazement.

Tang Tong smiled bitterly, "Do we have any other options now?"

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With the end of the Lintong War, the victory and defeat between Ming and Jin were decided.The Kingdom of Jin has completely lost the possibility of competing for world hegemony, which means that following the Kingdom of Jin will have no political future.

The officials of the Kingdom of Jin, who were originally difficult to recruit, were shaken in their thinking at this time. Not many people were willing to follow a regime with no future and continue to walk.

Of course, there are those who waver, and there are also those who are stubborn. The Ming army surrendered relatively smoothly in Lishan and the south bank of the Weihe River, but the golden general Liu Zhifu, who was trapped in the lake, refused to surrender. Carried his body out and surrendered.

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