348 Tartars retreated

(Today's chapter is presented, please collect and subscribe!!) Qi Wei in the previous chapter, it should be Han Tong, a clerical error, has been revised. ）

"120,000 taels for the Hou family, 100,000 taels for the Liu family, 100,000 taels for the Yu family......"

The next day, King De sent Zhang De, the chief of the guard, to pull out a cart of large boxes from the hands of major merchants, eunuchs and other large families in Jinan City, which were all filled with white silver.

Of course, all this was done in a cover-up, and King De looked at the statistical booklet sent by Zhang De with a smile on his face.

"I didn't expect these guys to be so rich, all of them are silver, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings.

Zhang De, leave those jewelry calligraphy and paintings, and make up for them with our cash silver, so that it will be troublesome for the Tartars not to want these jewelry calligraphy and paintings.

As for the jewelry, calligraphy and paintings left, they will be calculated according to half of the market price, and if they are not enough, let those guys make up again. King De said to Zhang De behind him.

"Yes, lord."

Zhang De prayed in his heart for those big businessmen, and his prince did not forget to suck blood from them at this time.

King De exchanged half of the market price for those jewels and paintings, and when the Tartars retreated, the situation returned to stability after a while, and these jewels and paintings were able to make a lot of money.

"Zhang De, is there no movement in the Tartar camp outside the city?" King Tak asked the question that was most of his concern at this time.

"Back to the prince, the Tartars outside the city have not attacked again so far, but a small group of Tartars have left the camp and gone west and north." Zhang De replied.

"Haha, I didn't expect this Li Zixiao to really be able to convince Tartar, okay." At this time, King De believed eighty percent of Li Zixiao.

"Lord Wang, is it really okay? But his subordinates always felt that the Tartars couldn't believe it. ”

"Haha, this king doesn't know it, but after these two days, the Tartar has not moved, and I have already believed this Li Zixiao's words.

It was the middle of winter, and time was more important to the Tartars than money, after all, they were fighting in an enemy country.

It is taboo to close the camp so much, and not to attack the city, once they are surrounded in the hinterland of my Ming Dynasty, they will be in danger of being destroyed at that time.

It is impossible for the Tartars to be so stupid, most likely they have really reached an agreement with that Li Zixiao, but even so, it is impossible for the Tartars to drag on for too long.

You send someone to send a message to Li Zixiao, saying that the money has been gathered, take advantage of the cover of tonight's night, and ask him to send it to the Tartars, and this king will see that there is not a single Tartar soldier outside the city of Jinan tomorrow night. ”

"Yes, my subordinates will go."

Soon, in the afternoon, Li Zixiao received a message from King De that the money was ready, urging Li Zixiao to send it to Tartar tonight and let Tartar retreat.

"Haha, it's time to close the net, I hope Li Yan and they won't let me down!"

Soon, Li Zixiao wrote a letter and asked the last monk who was by his side at this time, who could make him feel at ease and trust, to take him to the Tartar military camp and hand it over to Dolgon.

At this time, in the Liaocheng territory dozens of miles away from Jinan City, Li Yan and his party had quietly occupied a canal wharf, and then they were going to divide their troops here.

"General Han, I bother you to take a group of men and horses to stay at this dock, waiting for General Liu's fleet to arrive, I didn't see it here tonight."

"Okay." Han Tong responded.

"General Luo, please lead a group of men and horses north to the official road in the east of Gaotang Prefecture, hide there, if everything goes well on the general's side, you will see the Tartar army going north this evening.

When the time comes, the general will personally bring people to follow the Tartars to monitor them, and at the same time send people back to Jinan City to report to the general, in case the Tartars go and return, we can also make preparations. ”

"Is the general afraid that the Tartars will rebel?" Luo Chao asked.

"Tartars have never been trusted, we are seeking skin with tigers this time, so we have to be very careful, and the province will be bitten by the tiger." Li Yan said cautiously.

"Yes."

"General Zhao, then we have to trouble the little general to protect me, and the Tartar prince to take a risk, tonight we will enter Jinan City and cooperate with the general to play a play for King De."

Li Yan turned his head and said to Zhao Zilong.

"Okay." Zhao Zilong said eagerly.

"Okay, let's split up now, meet here tonight, and General Luo must rush back on time when the time comes.

If General Luo can't come back by then, we can't wait, we will immediately send a boat south, and General Luo will need to find his own way back at that time, and everything is based on safety. ”

Li Yan said to Luo Chao.

Thundered......

Soon, Luo Chao, Li Yan, and Zhao Zilong led two cavalry to the north and east respectively, and Li Yan went to Jinan City.

At this time, the Tartar camp had already made a noise, and it had been a day since the Tartars stopped attacking Jinan City.

On this day, the Tartars led by Yue Tuo and Hauge asked Dolgon for orders to attack Jinan City, and they must not wait like this any longer.

These Tartars also knew the news of the prisoner exchange reached between Dorgon and Li Zixiao, and when Yue Tuo and Hauge knew about it, they did not dare to say anything about giving up on rescuing Duoduo.

But after just waiting for a day in the world, they can't wait.

Their reason is very simple, they have been staying in Daming for more than three months, this is not outside the border, and it will be really dangerous to stay any longer.

Of course, Dorgon knew this, and even Dorgon would not be enough to keep their army of Tartars alive at this time.

Either attack, or retreat, anyway, you can't stay outside Jinan City all the time.

Dolgon knew that if Li Zixiao didn't send him any more news, he could only order the siege of the city.

Finally, while Dolgon was anxiously waiting, a person was brought in by the Tartars outside, and it was the monk sent by Li Zixiao to deliver a letter to Dolgon.

Dolgon also knew the monk, and when Dolgon was negotiating with Li Zixiao a day ago, he saw the monk guarding Li Zixiao's side and being Li Zixiao's personal guard.

"Dog Tartar, my lord sent me to deliver a letter to you, and you treat your grandfather like this." When the monk saw Dolgon, he sneered and said.

"Humph!" Dorgon snorted.

He could understand Chinese, and of course he knew that the monk was not a good word, and Dolgon didn't have the heart to punish the monk at this time, so he said to a guard next to him: "Go, find out the letter on him." ”

Soon, the Tartar guard took out a letter from the monk's bosom and handed it to Dolgon, who looked better.

Then Dorgon looked at the monk and said in fluent Chinese, "Go back and tell your lord that the trade can be carried out, just tonight."

Out of sincerity, this king will let his army withdraw immediately, but if you dare to tease this king, this king will slaughter five cities in a row before leaving your Ming Dynasty to avenge this king's younger brother. ”

After listening to Dolgon's threat, the monk said in a cold voice: "My lord, let me also tell you that when you trade tonight, come according to the previous discussion, and don't play tricks, otherwise it will not be good if something happens." ”

It's strange not to play tricks, Dolgon thought to himself at this time, but still said, "Of course. ”

In fact, both Dolgon and Li Zixiao are wary of each other, and they don't believe that the other party will obediently abide by the agreement and not play any tricks.

But at the same time, both sides also understand that at least they will not play tricks until the hostage deal between the two sides is completed, because neither side can afford to lose like that.

Especially on Dolgon's side, he will not brush tricks before the transaction is completed, but Dolgon must be on guard against Li Zixiao's tricks during the transaction.

Because in Dolgon's eyes, Duoduo's life is much more important than Li Zixiao's two subordinate generals.

Even if he killed ten or twenty such Ming army generals, he wouldn't be able to get back one Duoduo, which was also guessed by Li Zixiao and Li Yan beforehand.

But once the deal is completed, the two sides may immediately turn their faces, after all, both sides are still mortal enemies, and both are eager to skin each other alive.

Soon, the monk came back and brought back Dolgon's words, Li Zixiao snorted coldly after hearing this: "Dolgon's best not to play tricks, otherwise Lao Tzu doesn't mind cutting off the head of a Tartar prince." ”

Although Duoduo's head is very important in Dorgon's opinion, in Li Zixiao's opinion, it is far less important than Qi Lin and Qi Wei, these two tigers in the future.

And Li Zixiao naturally didn't plan to play tricks during the transaction, but he was always wary of Dolgon's turn of face after the transaction was completed.

After all, Dolgon has the confidence to turn his face in his hands, but Li Zixiao's forces are limited, so he can't turn his face.

Li Zixiao could only plan in advance, and when the time came, he could ensure that after they completed the transaction, they could retreat with the silver.

After the monk left the Tartar camp, Dolgon immediately summoned the Tartar generals and gave the order to retreat, leaving 3,000 elite horsemen alone to protect him, and he wanted to personally trade with Li Zixiao.

"Uncle Fourteen, no, you are the commander of the three armies, how can you risk your life, it is better to let your nephew stay and exchange for Uncle Fifteen, you lead the army north."

Yue Tuo stood up at this time and asked Dolgon, and Hauge on the side knew that Dolgon was not waiting to see him at this time, so he did not speak.

"The virtuous nephew has a heart, no, this king wants to stay in person in exchange for Duoduo, and the army will be handed over to you, I can rest assured."

Eventually, Dorgon declined Yueto's offer and insisted on staying in exchange for Dorgon himself.

After all, this was a major matter related to Duoduo's life, and he didn't dare to hand it over to Yue Tuo or Hauge, after all, Dorgon knew that Yue Tuo was also on the side of Huang Taiji.

Moreover, Dorgon and Duoduo have always been the targets of Huang Taiji's intention to weaken, and the relationship between the two brothers is too good.

Moreover, the combined strength of the two white flags also belongs to the middle and upper reaches of the Eight Banners, and for such a force that cannot be fully controlled, an emperor will be afraid of.

"Since Uncle Fourteen insists on this, then I wish Uncle Fourteen a smooth rescue of Uncle Fifteen tonight, and the little nephew will lead the army in the area of the old city and wait for Uncle Fourteen."

Yue Tuo is not Hauge, he will not tear his face with Dolgon, and he still said very respectfully.

And Dolgon is the same, although Yue Tuo is on the side of Huang Taiji, Dolgon will not easily offend Yue Tuo.

"It's just that, Uncle Fourteen, should we really give up attacking Jinan City? We can completely change back to the fifteenth uncle, and then wave our army to the south again and seize Jinan City! ”

Yue Tuo is still a little unwilling to give up taking Jinan City like this.

"It's useless, once we withdraw tonight, the Ming prince in Jinan City, as well as many businessmen and ordinary people, are estimated to flee from Jinan City.

Even if we come back again, it is estimated that what we will win will only be an empty city, and it will be a waste of time.

Rather than this, let's really retreat, since we can't take Jinan, then let's go north again, hit the river, which is also a big city, and then go out of the customs. ”

Dolgon said, in fact, Dolgon had already thought about his next move in his heart, with Dolgon's character, he would never withdraw from the gate easily after suffering such a big loss.

Since Jinan Mansion had to give up because of Li Zixiao's intervention, Dolgon chose a new target to replace Jinan.

And the river that had been leaked out by them to the south, and happened to be on the way to the north outside the pass, was targeted by Dorgon.

And Hejian, although not as good as Jinan, is also a city in Beizhili, and it is also quite wealthy.

"Pass the order, and the whole army will withdraw from the camp and retreat north."

With Dolgon's order, the Tartar army outside Jinan City quickly pulled out, and when the sun set in the west in the afternoon, the Tartar army of more than 40,000 was officially launched.

And Dolgon led three thousand elite horsemen to the place where Liaocheng negotiated with Li Zixiao and waited, waiting for Li Zixiao to arrive with Duoduo.

And the news of the withdrawal of the Tartars outside the city soon reached the ears of King De, which made King De's last suspicion of Li Zixiao almost dispelled.

"It seems that what Li Zixiao said is right, but I didn't expect Tartar to really be willing to withdraw first." King De was very excited at this time.

"No, for the sake of prudence, this king will try him one last time tonight."

King De thought in his heart, it was really three million taels of silver, the amount was too large, and he had to let King De be cautious and cautious.

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"Master Li, this king has made up all the numbers you want, I hope you won't let this king down."

As the sun went down and the sky became dark, King De personally took hundreds of his cronies and soldiers to escort more than 30 carriages to the gate of Jinan Xicheng, where Li Zixiao and Lu Xiangsheng were already waiting.

"Haha, don't worry about the prince, the lower officials will never let the prince down."

Li Zixiao's eyes glanced at the long row of cars behind, and his heart was hot, but he still said very calmly on the surface.

Then, Li Zixiao signaled to the monk, and the monk walked over and checked one car at a time.

After the monk opened a few boxes and saw that there were fifty taels of silver ingots filled with white flowers, the monk turned his head and nodded to Li Zixiao.

Regarding the monk's behavior, King De did not let people stop it, but took this opportunity to question Li Zixiao.

"Next, how do you trade with the Tartars?"

"I agreed with the Tartars to trade outside the city, after all, it is impossible for the Tartars to agree to trade in the city of Jinan, because it is a Tartar prince who came."

Li Zixiao knew that up to now, King De had not been able to fully believe him, but at least he had believed eighty percent, otherwise King De would not have really sent so much silver.