Zheng Jing was disarmed, confiscated his weapons, and threw them into the woodshed. He was hungry for one night. The next morning, Zheng Jing smelled the smell of stewed meat, and he was tied up and pulled him into a slightly larger room. The lieutenant who caught him last night pulled Zheng Jing into the room. Zheng Jing looked up and saw four or five people sitting around the stove, with a lieutenant colonel.

"Captain, two strange-looking Tartars touched in last night, and I caught them, and they were all here." The lieutenant said.

Zheng Jing had already made up his mind to hide his identity. Last night, he secretly reminded the guards around him. When he saw the master today, he never thought he was called a Tartar. Zheng Jing determined that the person in front of him was ambushing him. Now he said that he was a Tartar, and he should be confusing the public and escaping responsibility. He quickly threw off the hat on his head and shouted: "I am not a Tartar, I am a serious Ming army royal army!"

"Damn it, you dare to be arrogant!" The lieutenant cursed, picked up the whip and was about to hit him, but he heard a voice: "Let's wait, don't hit him!"

A young major officer approached Zheng Jing, lifted his chin with a knife, looked carefully, and asked with a smile: "Zheng Jing, don't you recognize me?"

Zheng Jing looked up in surprise, and couldn't recognize him. He quickly lowered his head and said, "What Zheng Jing, lord has recognized the wrong person."

The lieutenant colonel, who was in charge, came over and asked, "Do you know him?"

The major smiled and said, "Yes, this is Zheng Jing, the eldest son of King Yanping of Zhu Ming, and the prince."

"It turns out that they are your clan brothers, no wonder they recognize them." said the lieutenant colonel.

When he heard the clan brothers, Zheng Jing raised his head and looked at the major carefully. He couldn't remember it. The major laughed and said, "I'm Zheng Zuo. If I hadn't left such a mark on your forehead with a shovel when I was a child, I wouldn't have recognized you."

"Zheng Zuo, it's you!" Zheng Jing stood up.

Zheng Zuo is Zheng Cai's son. Although Zheng Cai and Zheng Chenggong were of the same generation, they were from the same era as Zheng Zhilong, and they were one of the eighteen Zhis at that time. They had real power in their early years. Zheng Zuo was raised in Zheng's mansion when he was a child and was Zheng Jing's childhood playmate.

"Come on, get up, and say slowly." Zheng Zuo saw this childhood playmate, and personally loosened his ties. He served a bowl of stewed meat from the big pot and handed it to Zheng Jing. Zheng Jing originally wanted to tell the difference, but he didn't eat or drink for a day and night. He picked up the bowl and ate it first. The lieutenant gave his subordinate a look, and the lieutenant also served a bowl of meat, took two steamed buns, and took Zheng Jing's guards to interrogate.

After eating, Zheng Jing immediately asked, "We Zheng Fan are obviously a member of the Hua League. Why did your allies ambush me for no reason and kill hundreds of my brothers?"

Lieutenant Colonel and Zheng Zuo looked at each other. Whether Zheng Fan is still an ally of the United States is not the limit, but the above order is not to take the initiative to conflict with the Ming army entering Shandong. They have always strictly abide by this order.

"It is impossible. All the troops in Yishui are under the command of this Chief Du. We did not ambush you." Zheng Zuo said.

Du Zhong asked, "Where did you encounter an ambush? Are you sure it is our army?"

Zheng Jing smiled coldly: "It's clear that you are still making trouble here. I can see clearly that the military uniforms are the same as you."

Zheng Zuo and Du Zhong looked at each other and sat down. Zheng Zuo said, "It should be done by that special Qing army."

"Zheng Jing, it's not you who ambushed us, but the Qing army. The Qing army had several cavalry teams, including some people disguised as our army, and usually a dozen of them had our equipment to carry out their operations. We are also looking for them. Think about it, are the soldiers you see wearing our clothes? What kind of war horse are they riding?" Zheng Zuo asked directly.

When Zheng Jing looked back at this time, he remembered that except for the dozen people he saw at the beginning wearing Dongfan military uniforms, the rest seemed to be not, especially the ambushing and pursuing cavalry, and the war horses they rode were not tall and big horses like Dongfan. However, Zheng Jing shook his head: "If it were the Qing army, how could he ambush us?"

Zheng Zuo smiled and said, "Zheng Jing, most of your cavalry under you just said are not Zheng Fanbians. Those guys were originally green camps. I think they haven't changed their equipment yet."

"That's true for this, the Qing army could not ambush us!" Zheng Jing said stubbornly.

Zheng Zuo smiled: "We often act as a green camp of the Qing army. I think you regard the Qing army as us, and the Qing army also regards you as us. Where did you encounter an ambush?"

Zheng Jing said: "It's south of Muling Pass."

Du Zhong called his men and ordered them to go to Muling Pass to find them. They appeared here to chase and kill these Qing troops.

Seeing that Du Zhong was serious, Zheng Jing asked, "The north of Muling Pass is Linqu. Your front-line camp should also be under your control!"

Zheng Zuo said: "It's okay to tell me. Linqu City and Linqu Camp have given up. Go back and tell King Yanping that he and the Ming army behind him can go north with peace of mind. Our army of the United States has retreated to Changle and Weixian. As for what the Nanjing court does, we can't control it."

"You let me go?" Zheng Jing couldn't believe it. After all, his identity was placed here, and Prince Yanping was a big bargaining chip.

Du Zhong said: "The order we received is not to conflict with you. I would like to advise you not to enter Laizhou if you don't want to conflict with us."

Zheng Jing wrote down this sentence carefully and repeated it again. Zheng Zuo called his adjutant and gave two thick cotton coats to Zheng Jing's master and servant. He also put a bag of dried meat and steamed buns, and prepared feed for the horse to take it away. Zheng Jing and the guards got on the horse. Zheng Zuo walked up and said, "Zheng Jing, you and I have the same clan. Although they belong to the two countries, the relationship between the same clan is still something to be said. My father now leads 15,000 elite troops to serve under the command of the head of state to resist the Qing Dynasty. If your father is still the Zheng Chenggong who has been the father who has saved the country, he should not be in the same rank with the Qing Dynasty. But if that day comes, my father and I are not afraid of meeting you and your son, so you can do it yourself!"

"Why do you have to tell him those? This guy is like those in Nanjing, and he is helpless." Du Zhong said disdainfully when he saw Zheng Jing leave.

Zheng Zuo said: "Captain Du, my father once told me that the head of state said that the last thing he wanted to see in the Nanjing court was Zheng Chenggong becoming a traitor."

"I have heard rumors that the Head of State was extremely tolerant of Zheng Chenggong and compromised. I didn't believe it before, but now I believe it!" Du Zhong sighed a little.

Yizhou.

"Are you sure that person is Zheng Zuo?" Zheng Chenggong asked with an unhappy expression.

Zheng Jing said: "You can't be wrong. He did this scar on my head, and no one else knew about it."

"That can't prove that what he said is true." Zheng Chenggong still couldn't believe that he knew the battle situation in Shandong. Dongfan has been operating the Linqu camp for a year and a half. How can he give up just by saying that he would give up?

Zheng Jing said: "No, what Zheng Zuo said is true. His son did not come back directly, but took the guards to Linqu first. Although it was impossible to get close to it, the surrounding area was full of Qing cavalry and camps. I think unless the Qing army surrounded Linqu, it would not be this situation."

Zheng Chenggong disagreed with the siege of Linqu? This was impossible, but it also proved that the withdrawal of Linqu in the East was a fact.

Zheng Chenggong was full of doubts, and then sent scouts to scatter everywhere, focusing on the investigation of Qingzhou and Jiaodong areas, but the result was similar. In Zhucheng area, the scouts were captured or surrounded by cavalry of the United States. After confirming their identity, they were sent to Yizhou. After the scouts who entered Qingzhou were discovered by the Qing army, they did not chase after them. The Qing cavalry also contacted the scouts, proclaiming that they were friendly and did not attack and kill each other. They even informed that the order they received was not to have any conflict with the Zheng Fan army.

This made Zheng Chenggong feel even more strange. It seemed that overnight, Zheng Fan became a powerful army that no one in the world could afford to offend, and became a popular commodity that all parties would flatter. Wasn’t it the same treatment as Li Mingxun and his United States before?

Two days later, he personally conquered hundreds of thousands of soldiers and soldiers and soldiers with the army. The baggage entered Yizhou City. Zheng Chenggong and his son were recruited to discuss the military affairs. Zheng Chenggong did not see the emperor in the temporary transformation of the government office. After asking, he realized that the holy body was slightly ill and the military affairs were entrusted to the merits of the merits. Zheng Chenggong knew that this was the emperor's cold war with the ministers in charge of the army.

The emperor wanted to celebrate the New Year in Nanjing, so he forced him to go to Huai'an. He was originally scheduled to go north after the New Year. After receiving the news that the Yizhou period was in the evening and retreated in the east, he was forced to go north by Hong Chengchou. He moved into Yizhou Prefecture in the snow and ice. The emperor made an excuse that he was sick, which was the only resistance he could do. Of course, Yongli did not change anything.

Without the emperor, the discussion among the people was even slower and faster. Hong Chengchou sat against the ministers and generals who followed the army, headed by Hong Chengchou's confidant Li Benshen and King Zheng Chenggong of Yanping and King Zheng Chenggong of Pingxiong.

"King Yanping, Dongfan really retreated to Jiaodong and gave up the Linqu camp?" Li Benshen asked in disbelief.

Zheng Jing gave his father something, and Zheng Chenggong unfolded it in front of everyone, as if it was a gray stone, but it was smooth and square. Several people didn't recognize him because they saw too much. Hong Chengchou only glanced at it and said, "This is cement, a building material unique to the Dongban. I think only important places like Linqu Camp can be used."

This indirectly proves the fact that the Eastern Banner had divorced from the Qing Dynasty. Wu Yingxiong pointed to the map and drew a large area of ​​the Central Plains, saying: "My people went north to find out that more than a dozen prefectures in eastern Henan, southern Hebei and western Shandong had been controlled by the Eastern Banner, and local officials were sent to form militias. It seems that this was the so-called mobile corps. According to locals, as early as a month and a half, the Eastern Banner began to allocate troops. Except for Jinan and Wuding, which were still occupied by the Qing court, the people in the other places either followed the main force of the Eastern Banner eastward to the eastward or all entered the city defense actually controlled by the Eastern Banner. The same is true for the southern Hebei and eastern Henan. Livestock and food must enter the city. When the Mobile Corps retreated eastward, the Eastern Banner sent a large number of new training troops to replace the defense zone of the Central Plains, and brought a large amount of artillery and ammunition to exchange defense with the Mobile Corps.

In other words, although the Dongfan united the main force, it still controlled the territory of Qingzhou Daying in both east and west. Shandong has been cleared by the strong walls."

This is not the news that Zheng Chengyi knew. He asked: "Li Mingxun did this, but the improper targeting the Qing Dynasty."

"It's just a trick to force Liangshan." Hong Chengchou said disdainfully.

"Forcing to Liangshan?"

Hong Chengchou said: "We went north this time with the help of the Qing court, forcing the Eastern Ban to recognize the imperial court. We must not only ensure the actual control of the imperial court over the restoration land, but also ensure that the Eastern Ban will no longer destroy the Qing Dynasty and attack us, so that the Ming Dynasty can follow the Eastern Ban, reform the military system, civil affairs, and revive and strengthen ourselves.

Nowadays, although the Qing court has many troops, it is extremely short of food. The Dongfan is in a strong wall and clearing the fields around it, which makes it difficult for the Qing court to obtain food because of its withdrawal. Just imagine, at this critical moment, the supply from the northern Central Plains must not dare to travel through the Dongfan occupied area to send food to Qingzhou. The Qing army in Qingzhou is not able to capture the cities occupied by the Dongfan one by one. Therefore, the Qing court is still short of food. What should the Qing army who does not want to starve to death do?"

Li Ben smiled coldly: "If the Qing army wants to survive, the food and grass can only be settled from us. Whether it is robbing or purchasing, I think Li Mingxun will make a big fuss about this."

Zheng Chenggong suddenly realized that the withdrawal of the Dongfan army was to create an opportunity for the Ming and Qing dynasties to deal with each other alone. If they fight, they would suffer losses and not fight. If they don’t fight, they would have to send food to the Qing court. That would be the crime of betraying the alliance and joining the enemy, and it would be even more impossible to get the support of the Dongfan.

"Since Lord Hong has already learned the Eastern Conspiracy, I don't think he will be fooled. It's really a blessing for my Ming Dynasty." Zheng Chenggong said with a smile.

Hong Chengchou did not respond. What if he understood it, what would happen if he understood it? Could it be that he could watch the more than 200,000 Qing court's army starved to death or collapse? Without this weight, how could he force the East to submit?

"Today we will come here first. No matter what, the army heads north and needs to adapt to the cold climate in the north. Let's talk about everything after the New Year. You will go back to manage the camp and wait for news of the court's negotiations with the Eastern Federation." Although Hong Chengchou is not sure about the negotiations, it is difficult to express his cooperation with the Qing court at this time, so he has to say so.

Everyone dispersed, leaving only Hong and Wu. Wu Yingxiong said coldly: "This Zheng Chenggong is really a fame-seeking person."

"Forget it, now we have to rely on his special relationship with Dongfan to negotiate." Hong Chengchou persuaded him to avoid conflict with Wu Yingxiong.

Wu Yingxiong said: "Now it seems that Dongfan has no intention of compromise, and he doesn't even send an envoy. What do you think should be done?"

"He doesn't let people come, but I want to let people go, but I always have to make the worst plan." Hong Chengchou sighed.

Wu Yingxiong asked: "How did you negotiate with Na Soetu?"

Hong Chengchou's face was filled with interest and said, "Soetu brought Shunzhi's kindness and was willing to destroy the Eastern Banner with the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the conditions were very attractive. He formed an alliance with our Ming Dynasty, went to the country to be the Pingfan, and was abdicated and surrendered. He also promised to withdraw from the border wall after the matter was completed and not take an inch of land in the Ming Dynasty."

Wu Yingxiong smiled: "He is just talking about it. He has more than 200,000 troops in his hands and many elite soldiers, after winning, he still doesn't know how to change his mind."

Hong Chengchou naturally understood and said, "Criminal, you have to rely on you for contacting Qing Dynasty. Soetu is secretly escorted to Qingzhou by you. Just like that, the Criminal needs to figure out the current situation of the Qing army, how long can the food and grass support, and how strong and morale are there."

Wu Yingxiong nodded: "I can't afford it. I just contact the Dongfan who will go. Zheng Chenggong is not the same as us, and I can't believe it!"
Chapter completed!