Chapter 855: Surrender
Xiao Qiang looked at Lu Dayuan in front of him, it seemed that he did not suffer most of the suffering in the Ming people's prisoner of war camp, on the contrary, he was a little fatter than in his image. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
In Xiao Qiang's gaze, Lu Dayuan's face gradually turned red, and he lowered his head a little uneasily. In the past, in front of Deng Hong, he was an equal figure with Xiao Qiang, but now, the two are no longer on a parallel line.
"General Lu, they are all old colleagues, and I won't go around, so I'll get straight to the point." Xiao Qiang looked at Lu Dayuan's cramped and uneasy, and was very satisfied, it seemed that being a prisoner of war had also worn out his pride.
"General Xiao, please speak, the last general knows everything." Lu Dayuan clenched his fists and lowered his posture very low.
"Okay, General Lu, the first question, why did you want to join me instead of Lu Ding?" Xiao Qiang asked. "In comparison, you have a better relationship with Lu."
Lu Dayuan smiled bitterly: "General Xiao, this question is very simple, because your son is going to marry the granddaughter of the prince, this is a wonderful move, the prince is only afraid that it will be rare to go out of the palace again in his life, as long as you have this daughter-in-law, the former Deng family will inevitably gather under your command, I am afraid that the prince will also be happy to see it." In this case, I naturally want to seize the opportunity, this is the first, and the second is that the last general has no face to see those former robes, and only asks to be under the command of the general, and will not divide me and them into an army in the future, and the last general hopes to lead an army alone. ā
"Of course there's no problem with that." Xiao Qiang laughed: "General Lu, the Ming people are really willing to release your 10,000 horses and horses back, this is not a small number, what are they trying to do?" If it's just a reward for my soldiers, I can't believe it. ā
"Of course it's more than that." Lu Dayuan sighed, "That old man of the Guo family, he didn't hide it from me, and told me bluntly, saying that General Xiao, your power is weak, even if you have Deng Shu, you can call yourself a strange thing, but I'm afraid that you can't bring everyone together like the prince, like Lu Ding, I'm afraid you won't be too convinced." So they feel that you need to strengthen your strength, otherwise you will definitely not be able to resist the suppression of the Bian clan and the royal family. ā
Xiao Qiang narrowed his eyes and snorted, "They won't be afraid that I will bite them back when the time comes." ā
Lu Dayuan looked at Xiao Qiang, and shook his head for a while: "I also asked Guo Lao'er this question, but he just laughed, but his attitude seemed to be very contemptuous." ā
Xiao Qiang sneered: "Okay, it's very good, but it doesn't matter, when I spread my wings, I will have their good looks." But the top priority at the moment is to get General Lu and your 10,000 subordinates back, that's the elite of our border army, with your 10,000 people joining, are you afraid that Lu will not bow to me? ā
Lu Dayuan smiled bitterly: "General Xiao, the Ming people are already preparing to transfer the Baoqing battalion to Yongping County." ā
"That's starting to guard against me!" Xiao Qiang laughed: "It seems that they are not as invincible as they say!" General Lu, do you mean that people are a little crazy and dare to put a general like you back. ā
"The general of the defeated army, how dare you speak bravely?" Lu Dayuan shook his head and said: "The Ming people don't care about my ten thousand people, what they want is that my Great Qin will never be able to settle down, and they want a powerful force that can fight against the royal family." ā
Xiao Qiang's eyes flashed: "What do you say about this matter, General Lu?" ā
"General Xiao, do I have a choice?" Lu Dayuan sighed: "I am the general of the defeated army, and I led 10,000 soldiers to surrender to the Ming people without a battle, although it was a helpless move, but did the emperor know the scene at that time?" He will only think that I am greedy for life and afraid of death, and in his eyes, he is only afraid that I should be killed hundreds of times, thousands of times. I am the prince's henchman, the prince has lost power, under the nest, there are no eggs, Lu must not be trembling now, he still has tens of thousands of troops under his command, not the same shrinking in Qingzhou City, His Majesty summoned him to Beijing several times, he didn't take advantage of his illness to go! We have no way out, if we want to survive and live better, we can only find someone like the prince, Daqin, and only you, General Xiao. Mingren plotted to do this, but it was also a great opportunity for Lu to get out of trouble, so he naturally had to grasp it. ā
After listening to Lu Dayuan's explanation, Xiao Qiang nodded with satisfaction, indeed, a person like Lu Dayuan can already be said to be cornered, if he doesn't want to be a prisoner of war with Mingren all the time, only he can give him shelter and wings.
"Brother Lu!" He patted Lu Dayuan on the shoulder affectionately, he used to call him General Lu, but now he has changed his words, that is, Xiao Qiang has officially regarded Lu Dayuan as his subordinate. "Why be so disheartened? It's just a small setback, and we'll get it back later. You are a fierce general in my Great Qin border army, and with your help, Xiao is like a tiger. This time, you will stay and help me, since the Ming people are willing to let you back, this time the battle of Hengshan, I can't say that I have to fight a good fight, even if it is the ransom of your General Lu. You are a veteran, just play your skills and teach Qi people a lesson. ā
Lu Dayuan's face flushed with a red tide, "No, my tens of thousands of subordinates are now building roads and bridges in Yongping County, and working as coolies for the Ming people, if I am not there, I am afraid that there will be chaos." Now that the Ming people can use me, where am I, they won't criticize my subordinates, and if I'm not there, God knows what will happen to them? I don't want to give General Xiao when the time comes, and what you bring back is a bunch of scrawny miscellaneous soldiers. And, I'm here, and they still have some morale, and they'll still listen to what I say. ā
Xiao Qiang nodded thoughtfully: "Brother Lu is right. It's just that Brother Lu will suffer for a few more days in Mingren. Brother Lu, when you return, don't be polite to the Ming people, I hope that what comes back is a fully armed army, you know, we are poor, 10,000 bare-handed people come back, I really don't know what to arm them! ā
"That's nature, and if they want us to work, they'll have to feed me." Lu Dayuan said with a smile: "You have to bring an army back instead of a refugee." ā
"Brother Lu, if you and I work together, we will definitely be able to revive Great Qin." Xiao Qiang stretched out his hand and shook it tightly with Lu Dayuan.
The drizzle is like silk, penetrating the dense leaves, silently soaking through the human hair, sliding into the neck, the damp air seems to make people stretch out their hands and rub it casually to drip water, it is the middle of October, the temperature has plummeted overnight, yesterday only need to wear a single clothes, today, I feel the chill.
A team of more than 100 people walked through the mountain road from Tiger Prison Pass to Yongping County. This road, once made Xiao Xin at that time suffer enough, thousands of elites, trapped in the mountains and forests of Youfeng, Laiyi these two counties, can not advance or retreat, but now, a road like a long snake, circling between the mountains and forests, although it is only leveling the road surface, playing the foundation, but has greatly improved the traffic situation here, the swarming caravan mules and horses, the convoy, will step on the ground solidly, and in a few days, this road is paved with stone seeds, and then dragged on the stone mill to press, that is a thoroughfare.
The speed at which the Ming people built roads and bridges shocked Xiao Qiang of the Tiger Prison Pass, and in just a few months, they completed a huge project that Xiao Qiang thought would take several years to complete.
Guo Jiuling is very happy, Daming has gone through several wars, and now the country is in ruins, and manpower is needed everywhere, and his eagle's nest is the same, so that he is a lot older, and he has to go out to run in person, but when he thinks that Daming is facing an unprecedented good form, he can't help but laugh from ear to ear.
Lu Daming was extremely bitter in his heart. The front hooves of the war horse stepped on a big frame in front of him, he couldn't help but look back at the back, the back was the land of Daqin, when his horse's hooves stepped on this bridge, he entered the land of the Ming Kingdom.
He jumped off the horse suddenly, fell to his knees on the ground, clucked at the ground with his hands, and began to cry.
Guo Jiuling waved his hand, and the entourage immediately retreated far away. Guo Jiuling squatted down and squatted next to Lu Dayuan, but he didn't make a sound to dissuade the other party, but just sighed slightly.
Lu Dayuan cried for a long time, raised his arm, wiped away the snot and tears on his face, looked at Guo Jiuling, and said, "I want to see Emperor Ming!" ā
Guo Jiuling nodded: "If General Lu wants to see His Majesty the Emperor, there is naturally no problem. ā
More than ten days later, Lu Dayuan, who galloped all the way, appeared outside the camp of the Ming army in Dengxian County. Guo Jiuling's physical condition is naturally impossible to support such a long journey on a fast horse, and after arriving in Yuejing, the one who accompanied Lu Dayuan has been replaced by Tian Kang.
After Lu Dayuan led his troops to surrender, the 10,000 people under his command, Qin Feng naturally would not raise them in vain, they were divided into several large pieces, respectively in Kaiping, Yongping, and Zhongping, they used their own strength to exchange their own strength for food, and the wages were naturally not available, but the food was full, and there were a lot of oil and meat, and if you want people to work, you naturally have to have people's strength. Kaiping and Zhongping were beaten by the Qin and Ming armies, and manpower was needed everywhere to invest in the reconstruction work, and Yongping, because it was necessary to build a road through Xuan'en County, Feng County, and Laiyi County to connect Yongping and Tiger Prison, also needed a large number of manpower.
Of course, it is always the big head soldiers who do the work, and a general like Lu Dayuan naturally does not need to carry a hoe and carry a steel drill to do coolies, on the contrary, their lives are still free, and they have been accompanied by the people of the Eagle's Nest in the past few months, and they have almost traveled all over the territory of the Ming Kingdom.
Qin Feng has a great plan, people like Lu Dayuan naturally have to fight hard, and after a few months, Lu Dayuan and the generals under his command have already seen a little numb. The thriving Ming Kingdom gave them a huge shock, they went to Zhengyang County, the granary of the Ming Dynasty, Shayang County, a major commercial county, and Changyang County, which was reborn in Nirvana, Qin Feng even asked people to take them to see Daye City and Taiping City.
Qin Feng's efforts were not in vain, Lu Dayuan was finally shaken, this trip to the Tiger Prison was just to make the last insistence in Lu Dayuan's heart collapse with a bang.
When Guo Jiuling heard Lu Dayuan's crying and heard that he wanted to see the emperor, his heart was full of joy, the sowing period had passed, and next, it was time for the harvest season.