Chapter 247: Negotiating Messenger

The big red Daming flag hangs high on the tower of the city gate of Dezhou, all the soldiers and civilians in the city have cut off the money rat tail, the gentry officials not only cut off the money rat tail, the officials also lost the flower feathers on the top, put on the red robe and black yarn, the gentry put on wide robes and big sleeves, and the people rushed to tell each other to welcome the king. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

When the Qiongzhou army entered Dezhou, it did not meet any resistance, and the local prefect had already changed the banner of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and opened the city gate to welcome Wang Shi long before the arrival of the Ming army. When the Ming army arrived in Texas, it was like a march, swaggering into the city, and occupied Texas without blood.

On the day when the Qingming Festival is approaching, the military and civilians carry sacrifices in their hands and walk to the graves of their ancestors.

The people of Texas finally saw the Qiongzhou Army, which has been famous for many years, known as the strongest army in the world, invincible and invincible, and has never lost a battle. When the Qiongzhou army drove to Dezhou City, the people who witnessed this army were deeply shocked.

This army is indeed the strongest army in the world, walking in the front, is a team of elite heavy cavalry wearing fine armor, riding tall horses, their armor flashes with white light, with a mask on their faces, the war horses are also covered with armor, the horses are hung with anti-arrow curtains, and the heavy cavalry carries sabers and short guns around their waists, and they know at a glance that they are an unstoppable heavy cavalry.

The heavy cavalry was followed by the dragoons, who rode much smaller Mongol horses and were not as well armored as the heavy cavalry, but each dragoon carried a fine gun with a short gun, a sabre, a grenade, and a bullet box around his waist.

The common people did not recognize the breech-loading rifled gun used by the dragoons, only that it was a new type of firearm. In Jinan City, two hundred musketeers rushed into Zhang Fengyi's mansion, and those musketeers who later loaded rifled guns and killed more than 300 martial arts masters were dragoons. In the face of the new breech-loading rifled guns, any high-level martial arts are floating clouds, and those masters of the Jin Shang Escort who have practiced hard for more than ten years, or even decades, were shot like prey in front of the dragoons.

Behind the dragoons, there was a flying cavalry artillery, which also belonged to the cavalry formation.

Then there was a night formation wearing green uniforms, carrying new muskets, and riding tall horses. Night is an elite special forces unit that can fight on horseback and dismount.

Behind the night, there were stragglers also dressed in green uniforms and carrying new muskets, but riding Mongolian horses. Compared with the dragoons, the skirmishers are really riding and maneuvering, dismounted infantry, although the dragoons also dismount to fight, but in many cases, the dragoons take on the task of light cavalry, can ride to chase the enemy, and the skirmishers do not have such a task, just simply used to break up the opponent's infantry formation, and can even shoot at the opponent's artillery.

Later, the majestic infantry teams in the past, and now the infantry of the Qiongzhou Army, have been mostly firearmed, and the elite troops in them all use rifled guns and are equipped with Mini bullets. The infantry squad walked over, the bayonets on their guns shining brightly.

All kinds of artillery formations, convoys, baggage troops, and teams walked over.

Seeing such a well-equipped and strong army, the people of Texas know very well in their hearts that the world that has been chaotic for decades is finally about to usher in peace! So when the Qingming Festival came, they did not hesitate to prepare the best sacrifices and worship at the ancestral tomb. Because in the past few decades, I don't know how many people have died, and those who can survive are all people who have good feng shui in ancestral tombs and have accumulated yin virtue.

At the gate of Texas City, a group of people dressed as caravans walked over.

"Stop! Take your hat off! "The Ming army stationed at the gate stopped the caravan.

The caravan stopped, and the caravan men and shopkeepers honestly took off their hats, revealing the pigtails of money on their heads.

"Over there! Cut off your braids to enter the city! The Ming soldier pointed to the braids placed at the city gate.

Looking in the direction of the Ming sergeant's finger, I saw a pair of shaving heads at the gate of the city, and a long line of people waiting in front of the shaving burdens, most of the people lined up and did not sit down, but just asked people to cut off their braids with scissors. There are also people who sit on stools and simply have their heads shaved big.

"How do you cut off your braids? Doesn't it mean that when our caravans come from the north and south, we only need to break up the braids? One of the shopkeepers of the caravan asked the Ming sergeant at the door suspiciously.

The Ming sergeant sneered: "You don't need to cut your braids, you just need to break your braids to enter the city, that is the old yellow calendar before!" At that time, I thought about taking care of the caravans that came and went, and if I returned to the Tartar puppet court without braids, I would be beheaded! But now it's different, Baoding Tartar is defeated, I'm afraid the capital is about to recover! Tartar himself is preparing to run away, who cares if you don't have braids? Everyone is Han, can you still keep the braids on your head? With this braid, you can't enter the ancestral grave even if you die! ”

The shopkeeper of the caravan had no choice but to show his identity: "We are not a caravan, we are the messengers sent from the north to negotiate peace with your prince, the old man's name is Wang Xi!" ”

"Wang Xi?" After all, Wang Xi was a Qing official, and when he heard this name, the soldier paused for a moment, and then reacted: "Since you are a messenger who came to the peace talks, please show your waist card or some other certificate?" Otherwise, how do we know if you are really Wang Xi? ”

Wang Xi took out the waist card and paperwork, and the soldier checked it and put Wang Xi and his party into the city.

The news that the Qing court sent an envoy to sue for peace had already been announced to Wang Yu. Hearing that it was Wang Xi, Huang Ji and Huang Xigon and others, Wang Yu put on the etiquette of officially welcoming the envoy, and ordered the Jinyi soldiers to line up on both sides of the road outside the temporary palace, the door of the palace was wide open, and a red carpet was spread from the gate of the palace to the lobby, Wang Yu put on a big red python robe, wore a black winged crown, and hung a jade belt around his waist, and sat on the seat in the middle.

Li Rui walked in and handed over his hand to report: "Dashuai, the Qing court envoy has been brought!" ”

"Let them in!" Wang Yu nodded and said.

Wang Xi walked into the lobby, saluted Wang Yu, who was sitting in the middle, and then asked people to present the gift list.

The soldiers took the gift list from Wang Xi and presented it.

Wang Yu opened the gift sheet and saw that it read: 500 horses, 100,000 taels of silver, 8,000 taels of gold, 3 boxes of jewelry, 100 quintals of silk, 20 quintals of ginseng, deer antlers, and mink.

"Your emperor is so generous! There is almost no silver left, and such a generous gift is sent! If this domain doesn't accept it, then I'm really sorry for your emperor! Wang Yu laughed.

Wang Xi said: "Lord, the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, originally to avenge the first emperor Sizong, because the Qing Dynasty entered the customs to exterminate the Liukou, the gentry, officials, soldiers and civilians came to vote. Although the people of Jiangnan resisted, it was a misunderstanding. Now the emperor is sage, punishing corrupt officials, copying profiteers, and using the stolen money to benefit the people, hoping that the prince can let our emperor go. ”