Chapter 472: Going South to Thanh Hoa (1st Shift)
After two days of negotiations, Li Yuntian, Le Li, and Ruan Yan finally reached an agreement on a solution to the situation in Jiaozhi.
The two sides agreed that as soon as the Ming army and civilians in Thanh Hoa City withdrew, the rebels would lift the siege of Anliang County, and then the Ming army would send troops from Xin'an Province to attack Langjiang Province, and the rebels of Langjiang Province would withdraw from the situation and give Langjiang Province to the Ming army.
The most important thing is that when the Ming army obtained Langjiang Prefecture, the garrison of Langjiang Mansion and Sanjiang Prefecture, two areas adjacent to Jiaozhou Prefecture, could not exceed 10,000 people, and the garrison of Jiaozhou Prefecture could not exceed 50,000.
Because Jiaozhou City was occupied by the rebels, the Ming army could only move the political envoy of Jiaozhi, the inspection envoy and the capital to Taiyuan City in Taiyuan Prefecture.
Moreover, in order to avoid unnecessary troubles and disputes, except for the Jiaozhou Prefecture, Sanjiang Prefecture and Langjiang Prefecture, the garrisons of the other neighboring prefecture capitals on both sides shall not exceed 5,000 troops.
In addition to the military agreements, the two sides also reached a series of agreements on trade and trade, clarifying the responsibilities and benefits of the rebels in trade and trade transactions, so as to ensure that trade and trade transactions could be carried out smoothly in rebel-held territory.
One of the most important is that one year after the implementation of the agreement between the two sides, if the rebels do not provoke the Ming army, then General Dingnan will play Emperor Xuande and crown Li Li as Tusi, and then Li Li will ask Emperor Xuande to surrender and pay tribute.
Generally speaking, if an important agreement is reached, the parties involved in the negotiation should sign an official document to ensure that the agreement is fulfilled.
However, this agreement between Li Yuntian and Li Li obviously cannot be signed on a piece of paper, otherwise Li Yuntian will be a collaborator and traitor, and Li Li will also be despised by his rebels, so it can only become a gentleman's agreement between the two.
Li Li now has an absolute advantage, so he is naturally not afraid of Li Yuntian's tricks, he only needs to wait a year to know if Li Yuntian is the toast who really named him Jiaozhi.
At the same time, during this year's time, Li Li also had to rectify the internal affairs of the rebels, handle the affairs of the occupied areas, secretly accumulate strength, and immediately start a war once Li Yuntian's dupulous intentions were discovered.
It can be said that Li Li is making a big gamble, he bets that Li Yuntianzhi is not in Jiaozhi, in that case, he can become the toast of Jiaozhi and sit on two-thirds of the land of Jiaozhi.
In the final analysis, it was the imbalance between the rebels and the Ming army, as well as Li Yuntian's two beautiful victories in Sanjiang Mansion in succession, that made Li Li realize that the Ming army was not as he imagined, so he had to be cautious.
Today is different from the past, when Li Li rebelled, it can be said that there was nothing, and now he is the famous king of Pingding in Jiaozhi, the family is big, and the courage is naturally small, and there is a little more worry and caution when doing things.
After negotiating a series of agreements with Le Li, Li Yuntian immediately set off for Thanh Hoa City, and at the same time sent three native soldiers to Xin'an Province.
The first was to inform the Mingding fleet docked at Yuntun Port to go south to the port of Thanh Hoa Province to stand by and prepare to transfer the soldiers and civilians who had been evacuated from Thanh Hoa City, and the second was to arrive in Guangzhou by boat by water, and then rush to Nanjing City for 800 li to send an official document to the Nanjing Military Department to send the naval division to the south.
"Brother Fan, wait a minute." Li Yuntian had just left Xiaohe Town with eight native soldiers and dozens of rebel cavalry, when a shout came from behind him.
He turned his head to see that Wu Qian was galloping on horseback, followed by two entourage.
"Miss Wu, aren't you going to Taiyuan City?" Li Yuntian couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he saw this, and when Wu Qian came to the front and asked, he had already arranged for a native soldier to take Wu Qian and the others to Taiyuan City.
"Brother Fan, my uncle thinks it's too dangerous here, let me go back to Hue Mansion, and he will take someone to Taiyuan City to see my uncle." Wu Qian smiled slightly and explained in a coquettish voice.
"I'm just going to Yi'an to do some things, if Miss Wu doesn't mind, you can go forward with Zaixia, and you can take care of it on the road." Li Yuntian frowned slightly when he heard this, he had already seen that Wu Qian was the head of that group, how could he be dominated by Wu Jinghao, it seemed that Wu Qian was deliberately trying to get close to him, but he admired Wu Qian and guessed that he was going south, so he smiled quietly.
"That's great, I don't have to worry about danger on the road if I'm here." Wu Qian looked surprised and agreed with a smile.
Li Yuntian shook his head helplessly in his heart, Wu Qian would definitely not follow her for no reason, she must have been suspicious, so she wanted to find out her details.
But this is also good, it gives Li Yuntian the opportunity to find out Wu Qian's identity, if it can be determined that Wu Qian is the envoy sent by the Champa State to Jiaozhi, then it can save him a lot of energy.
From Sanjiang Province to Thanh Hoa Province, on the way south, it was necessary to pass through Jiaozhou Prefecture, Jianping Mansion and Ninghua Zhili Prefecture in turn, because there were rebels to open the way, Li Yuntian did not encounter the slightest trouble along the way, and arrived at Thanh Hoa Province in turn.
At dusk that day, Li Yuntian and others entered the county seat of Qinghe County, more than 20 miles north of Qinghua Prefecture, and stayed at an inn.
"Miss Wu, there are some things to do next, I have to leave first, I have arranged someone to escort the girl back to Hue Mansion, I hope the girl has a smooth journey." Early the next morning, Li Yuntian knocked on Wu Qian's door and said to her.
"Thank you, Brother Fan, we'll have a meeting later!" Wu Qian's eyes lit up when she heard this, and then she bowed back to Li Yuntian and said quietly.
If Wu Qian didn't guess wrong, Li Yuntian was going to Qinghua City, because in the entire southern part of Jiaozhi, there was only Qinghua City and the Ming army, and it was obviously not a coincidence that Li Yuntian left at this time.
After saying goodbye to Wu Qian, Li Yuntian led the people straight to the direction of Thanh Hoa City, if he guessed correctly, the situation in Thanh Hoa City was not optimistic.
There were 20,000 Ming troops in Thanh Hoa City, with a total of more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians, half of whom came from the inland areas, which made it very difficult for the rebels to attack Thanh Hoa City.
However, the grain harvest in Cochin in recent years was not good, and Thanh Hoa Province was once the main activity area of the Loi Lai rebels, so there was not much surplus grain in Thanh Hoa City, and if the rebels continued to besiege it, there would be a food shortage, which would have a fatal impact on the soldiers and civilians in the city.
In order to take Qinghua City, Li Li mobilized an army of 50,000 to besiege it, because there were many soldiers and civilians from the inland in Qinghua City, so Luo Tong and Dazhong did not dare to break through the siege, otherwise the people in the city who migrated from the inland would definitely suffer a catastrophe.
The people in the city who migrated from the interior knew that they would be slaughtered once the rebels broke the city, so they hated the enemy and assisted the Ming army in defending the city, repelling the rebels' siege again and again.
When the rebels escorting Li Yuntian handed over the letter written by Li Li to him, Li Ge carefully read it three times before he put it away with a stunned face.
He really didn't understand why Le Ly asked him to withdraw the rebels east of Thanh Hoa City, let the Ming army flee to Thanh Hoa Port, a port in the eastern part of Thanh Hoa Province, and strictly ordered him not to pursue him, otherwise he would be punished by military law.
Although Rigo did not understand Le Li's intention to do this, since Li Li had already given the order, he had no choice but to carry it out, so he immediately arranged for the movement of the rebels east of Thanh Hoa City.
That night, Li Yuntian led the nine native soldiers to the city of Thanh Hoa under the cover of night, and asked the soldiers on the city wall to hang them in the name of Jiaozhi Dusi.
After Li Yuntian and the others went up to the city wall, they were forced by a large number of city guards with knives and guns, and the leading hundred households looked at them with a sneer.
The rebels are now besieging Thanh Hoa City, and there is no way for the people of Jiaozhi to enter the Guò rebels' defense area, and so many people have come at once, plus those native soldiers use Jiaozhi dialect when they shout, so this Baihu suspects that they are spies sent by the rebels.
"This official wants to see the prefect of Luo and the loyal commander!" Facing the guards of the city who were glaring at him fiercely, Li Yuntian looked at the hundred households who glared at him viciously and said, a standard Beijing accent.
"Who are you, and why do you want to see our prefect and commander?" The hundred households were stunned when they heard this, and they never expected Li Yuntian to speak in a Beijing accent, so he couldn't help but ask in surprise.
"You don't need to know who this official is, quickly take this official to see the Luo Governor and the loyal commander, if you delay the military situation, you can't afford it." Li Yuntian did not answer the question of the hundred households, but answered quietly.
"Search them!" The hundred households didn't know whether what Li Yuntian said was true or false, and after frowning, he gave an order to the soldiers on the side.
After all, the current battle situation in Jiaozhi is complicated, maybe Li Yuntian has surrendered to the rebels like Cai Fu, so they must disarm their weapons before determining Li Yuntian's identity.
The weapons on the nine native soldiers were quickly seized by the guards guarding the city, and one of the soldiers found the sealed official document from Li Yuntian's body, so he gave it to the hundred households.
"What is this?" The Baihu glanced at the official document sealed in his hand, raised his head and asked Li Yuntian.
"Urgent military intelligence." Li Yuntian knew that the hundred households did not dare to open the official document privately, and it was a felony to open the official document privately according to the Ming military system, so he said in a deep voice, "The latest military information from the Jiaozhi Dusi to the Luo Governor's Mansion and the loyal commander. ”
"It's better not to play any tricks, otherwise Lao Tzu guarantees that you will die a miserable death." Seeing Li Yuntian's calm and calm appearance, the hundred households didn't know whether what he said was true or not, so he was ready to send Li Yuntian to the government office and hand it over to Luo Tong for trial, and warned Li Yuntian sharply before leaving.
Li Yuntian smiled disappreciatively when he heard this, and then was escorted to the government by the hundred households, and stood in the courtyard outside the hall of the government and waited for Luo Tong to come.
The courtyard was brightly lit, and dozens of soldiers holding their handles stood around, looking at Li Yuntian and the others expressionlessly, just in case.
Li Yuntian waited for half an hour, just as he was sitting on a stone and stretching lazily, a sound of messy footsteps came from the gate, he turned his head to look, only to see two middle-aged men wearing civilian and military official robes walking in briskly surrounded by a group of soldiers.
Seeing this situation, a smile appeared on the corner of Li Yuntian's mouth, it was obvious that the thin and tall middle-aged man wearing the civil official robe was Luo Tong, and the other sturdy middle-aged man wearing the military general's robe was undoubtedly loyal.
Luo Tong did not intend to hang Li Yuntian, he had previously discussed with Da Zhong in the Thanh Hoa Wei command envoy Si Yamen about raiding the rebel camp to grab food.
After being besieged for nearly a year, the current grain stock in Thanh Hoa City is less than a month, and if we don't find a way to get food, the city will be in chaos and Thanh Hoa City will be self-defeating.