Kalahetun, 400 miles away from the capital, gathered at the tent of Prince Su Haoge, Prince Ying Ajige, Prince Yu Duoduo, Prince Pingxi Wu Sangui, and Prince Jingnan Zu Dashou.

Ajige is now the head of the Zhenghuang Banner Banner and the position of Minister of the Ministry of War. In this Western Expedition, Haoge was the general of the Western Expedition, but Ajige was newly arrived and did not regard Haoge as his superior.

He didn't raise his head and said directly to Wu Sangui, "Pingxi King, tell me the situation."

Wu Sangui nodded, "Prince Ying, Prince Su, Prince Yu, the current situation is not beneficial to us. Liu Jiye is quite cunning and has experienced military service. He voluntarily gave up outside the pass and retreated his troops into the Yanbei and Guanning line. Relying on the Great Wall defense line, the city cannons, the defense is strict. We originally wanted to bypass the Guanning line, not attack Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, but to Yanbei and even to the Xuanfu area to break through. But now we found that the defense line of the Yanbei Great Wall is no slack than the Guanning line, with forts everywhere and a large number of forts, especially those who are deploying defense in this area are all elites of the Chu army."

"How many troops do Liu Jiye have? Can he still prevent the entire eight hundred miles of line from the 800-mile line from the sky?"

"The original information was that Liu Jiye had six armies outside Zhili and Guanguan. Apart from the guards and the Imperial Guards and the Imperial Guards guarded the imperial palace in the capital, there were four towns. But now we have found that there are more than four towns arranged on the eight hundred miles of defense line in Guanning and Yanbei."

"In the Guanning area, there are at least two towns with troops, no less than 50,000. On the Yanbei line, from Jizhen to Miyun to Changping to Xuanfu, there are at least three towns. In addition, they are in Liaodong, Denglai still retains at least two towns, and there are two towns in Jingjin, which is not included in the guards and the imperial guards."

According to Wu Sangui's calculation, there are eleven towns of soldiers in the north. It turns out that the two military regions have six towns, and even if Beiyang and Denglai are added, they are only eight towns. There are three additional soldiers in the middle of the city. Where did they come from?

The 11 towns of soldiers are more than 300,000. This is not the Ming army that was a few years ago, and they often called for an army of 200,000 to 300,000. If this were all new troops dominated by the Chu army, then the 300,000 army would be enough to guard Guanning to the front line of the Yanbei Great Wall.

No one of the people present spoke, and the huge pressure made the atmosphere particularly solemn.

After a long time, Ajige couldn't help but sigh and said slowly. "Is this news true? Where did Liu Jiye's extra troops from the three towns be transferred from the Central Plains?"

"It shouldn't be." Zu Dashou replied, "As far as I know, Liu Jiye transferred tens of thousands of troops from Denglai and Huguang to suppress bandits in Henan. The newly-organized town of Henan is still in Kaifeng for training. Zuo Liangyu originally expanded his 10,000 troops after he arrived outside the pass, so Ningyuan Town does actually have two troops. But now the extra ones are 80,000 or 90,000 troops. I guess they are the soldiers trained by Liu Jun privately."

"The soldiers trained by Liu Jun privately?" Haoge was surprised.

"Actually, there is nothing to be surprised. Liu Jun has had the previous example. When he was still stationed in Liaodong, he asked his brother-in-law Zhang Shan to return to Hubei Township on the grounds of recuperation, and then secretly pulled up tens of thousands of people and horses to be the name of the village soldiers. Later, after repelling Li Zicheng, Liu Jun immediately changed the tens of thousands of people to Huguang Town, and then transferred the original Huguang Town troops to Sichuan. Now Liu Jun has money and food, and holds a huge military workshop. It is not difficult to recruit tens of thousands of people and equipment and train."

"Liu Jun is not a good person. Those who abuse power will sooner or later plan to usurp the throne." Zu Dashou said.

Duoduo pinched his chin and a light suddenly flashed in his eyes.

"Liu Jiye really has that ambition?"

Wu Sangui said, "Looking at Liu Jun's various actions, his full ambition is now Sima Zhao's heart, and everyone knows it. He plans to usurp the throne. That's just a matter of time."

Duoduo punched the table with a bang, and laughed, "If this is the case, it's actually a good thing."

"Good thing?" Wu Sangui was puzzled.

"It's indeed a good thing. After hearing the clear border defense situation mentioned by a few of you just now, it means that we underestimated the enemy before. We underestimated the Ming army and Liu Jiye. This time we made a big move and went to send troops, but there was no chance in front of us. If we attacked hard, it would be to attack the enemy's strengths with our own shortcomings. We would suffer a great loss."

Ajig glared at his brother, "Why are you saying such despicable words before you start fighting? You can win if you fight or not. You will know after you fight."

"It is courage to meet on a narrow road, knowing that it is defeated, but still showing the sword. But now we know that we are defeated, and we have a choice, but we still have to rush hard. That is not bravery, but just reckless. Liu Jiye now clearly wants to use his castle to make a strong and sharp guns and cannons to fight this battle with us under the Great Wall, which is thousands of miles away from Liaodong. This is obviously to drag us. No matter how we fight, we have no chance. And the longer we drag here, the greater the pressure on logistics supply, the higher the possibility of Liaodong being attacked. Even our supply line and our retreat may be cut off from the sea landing block at any time, so that our army has no food, no way out, and no room for death."

Azig was refuted by his brothers, but he couldn't refute it, so he had to sit down with breath.

"I think we should not continue to think about how to break the barrier now. With Liu Jiye's defense, it is difficult for us to break the barrier. Even if we try our best to break the barrier, the Ming army will far surpass us in terms of military strength and equipment, and it is difficult for us to gain advantage. We are here to win the battle, not to die."

Haug looked at Dodo, "What do you mean?"

Duoduo smiled, "We are negotiating with Liu Jiye."

"negotiation?"

"Yes, Liu Jiye is capable and an ambitious person. I believe that he must now think more about stealing the throne of the Southern Dynasties than to deal with us. If we take the initiative to negotiate with Liu Jiye and even express our attitude and willingness to support him in usurping the throne and becoming emperor, I believe he will be very happy."

Wu Sangui frowned and coughed a few times.

He said very unexpectedly, "We want to support Liu Jiye as the emperor?"

"That's right, if Liu Jiye usurped the throne and planned to be a dynasty, then there will inevitably be chaos within the Southern Dynasties, and there will definitely be many people who will oppose the uprising. At that time, we can sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight, or take advantage of the situation to rob."

The Kala River, also known as the Luan River. The Kala River Tun was once called Xingzhou Zhongtun Wei, and later occupied by the Kala tribe in the south of the Mongolian desert. Before, the Chu army went forward to sweep the Luan River line and cleared the line. The staff members marked the terrain and mountains of this area into the Yanbei military map of the Chu army. On this map, the original Xingzhou Zhongtun Wei was renamed Chengde. The left and right sides were renamed Luanping, Pingquan and other names.

As early as when the Ming army was still controlling Yanbei, several passages were built.

One of them is from Fengtai, the capital, passing through Shunyi Post, Miyun Post, Guxiao Post, Gubeikou, Luanping Qingsong Post to Chengde.

This is a very wide avenue, most places are as wide as ten feet.

There are five major inns built in four hundred miles.

One day at the end of March, a Qing army delegation followed the post road all the way to the Great Wall Pass of Gubeikou by Chaohe River, asking to see Liu Jun.

The Great Wall defenders at Gubeikou did not dare to make decisions without authorization, and quickly sent the news back to the head of the governor in Tongzhou.

"Report to the prince, the Gubeikou defenders urgently reported that the Qing people sent Wu Sanfeng as an envoy to ask for a secret meeting with the prince."

When Liu Jun heard this news, he was a little surprised, "Wu Sanfeng? Wu Sangui's brother, what are he doing?"

"It seems like I'm here to seek peace."

"Summon?"

Liu Jun was really surprised. He had just surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and was trying to seek peace again. What was going on?

"Prince, this is a letter from Wu Sanfeng."

Liu Jun opened the letter and glanced at it, and was even more surprised. Wu Sanfeng was not Wu Sangui's secret envoy, but Duoduo's secret envoy. What surprised him even more was that Wu Sanfeng actually directly expressed his plans in the letter. He came to secretly meet Liu Jun under the orders of several princes of the Qing army and expressed the support of the Qing army to him.

He expressed his intention to seek peace in the Qing army and said that he would support Liu Jun, but he did not say the specific one in the letter.

"You send a team to Gubeikou to bring Wu Sanfeng, remember to keep it confidential." Liu Jun called Luo Ping'an and asked him to take this trip secretly.

The Qing army wanted to discuss peace, but Liu Jun was willing to accept it. The relationship depends on how to discuss it.

Three days later, Luo Ping'an brought Wu Sanfeng in Chu army uniform to Liu Jun's tent in Tongzhou.

Wu Sanfeng entered the central army's tent, with only Liu Jun and several generals of the Chu army in the tent.

He glanced at it and knew it. He bent down and bowed to the ground.

"The Qing envoy Wu Sanfeng bowed to Your Majesty and wish Your Majesty a good health and a long life!"

As soon as Wu Sanfeng's words fell, everyone was shocked and looked at Wu Sanfeng in shock.

Liu Jun was just a prince, but Wu Sanfeng bowed and called him Your Majesty.

What Your Majesty can call randomly. That is the title that only the emperor can call him, just like calling him me.

Liu Jun sat there and looked at Wu Sanfeng. Wu Sangui's brother was not as handsome as Wu Sangui, but he was also considered a handsome talent.

"Wu Sanfeng, do you call Your Majesty when you see someone? Could it be that after you surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and became a traitor, you didn't even understand the basic etiquette?"

"Your Majesty did not say this? I did not make a mistake."

Liu Jun shouted coldly, "The word Your Majesty is the name of worshiping the emperor. How can you call others randomly?"

Wu Sanfeng smiled slightly and said, "Your Majesty, Wu is not talking nonsense, nor is he ignorant. But now in the world of Daming, you are the real lord of the Ming Dynasty. In this world of Daming, you command the Ming army and the court, and the world obeys your orders. The emperor in the palace is just a puppet in your hands. You are the real ruler of the world. How can you not be called Your Majesty?"

"You are here just to show off your quarrels and want to play some tricks of discord? If so, then you are too overestimating yourself and underestimating me to wait."

"Mr. Wu is definitely not here to make a plan to alienate, and what he said is the truth. The Ming Dynasty has long been corrupt. If His Majesty had not fought south, north, east and west in recent years, and had his full support, the Ming Dynasty would have been destroyed long ago."

"Wu also knew that Emperor Chongzhen was kind to Your Majesty, but benevolence was big and small, righteousness was strong and weak. Shang Tang did not do great kindness, but Xia Jie did not eliminate; Zhou Wu did not do good righteousness, but Shang Zhou did not go. Xia Jie, Shang Zhou did not go for a day, and the world was uneasy. Today, we are eager to eliminate the old and establish the new, so that the name and reality matched, rather than to have to work hard but barely support the corrupt Ming Dynasty. Your Majesty, our Qing Dynasty was not against Your Majesty, but against the Ming Dynasty."

Wu Sanfeng increased his voice a little and continued loudly, "My monarch, minister, and people of the Qing Dynasty are all willing to respect Your Majesty as the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, and to assist Your Majesty in the south with the power of the whole country, and to rule the world!"

As soon as he said this, it shocked everyone more than the word "Your Majesty".

Liu Jun sat there, expressionless, as if he was not touched at all.

Beiyang General Zhang Guodong blinked a few times, looked at Liu Jun, opened his mouth to speak, but when he saw Liu Jun's expressionless face, he held back.

The other Chu army generals also looked at each other in different expressions.

Bang.

Liu Jun suddenly slapped the table with a palm and shouted, "Come on, take down this traitor and push it out and chop it!"

Wu Sanfeng was unexpected and his face changed drastically, "The two countries will fight to fight, but the envoys will come if they don't kill them!"

"You are a nonsense, a traitor, everyone can kill him and lead him to chop him up."

"You can't kill me, under the Great Wall is my army of more than 100,000 in the Qing Dynasty."

"So what!" Liu Jun smiled.

Wu Sanfeng's face was pale, "Prince, I really came here on the orders of all the princes to come to join forces with the two families. The Qing Dynasty is really willing to help the prince to be honored in the south and rule the world."

"You are worthy of it?" Liu Jun said disdainfully.

No matter how Wu Sanfeng shouted, he was soon dragged out of the tent by Liu Jun's personal guards. After a moment, the head was placed on a tray and brought in.

Liu Jun looked at Wu Sanfeng on the tray and snorted coldly. Even if he did have the ambition to usurp the throne, Wu Sanfeng didn't need to come over to find out these things. It was up to him to seize the throne, not the Qing Dynasty.

The better the Qing Dynasty said, the more unreliable it was.

As for the peace talks, Liu Jun believed that if the Qing Dynasty was willing to discuss peace talks, even if he killed Wu Sanfeng, it would not affect him.

"Take Wu Sanfeng's head to Gubeikou and let the Qing people take it back. Tell them that they can fight and surrender as soon as they want, and do not use these tricks to make any divisive plans."

After the personal guards went down, the tent was quiet for a long time.

In the end, Zhang Guodong couldn't help but say, "Prince, I think the Qing people were not trying to make a plan of divisiveness."

"Okay, I know what you want to say, you don't need to say anything. I have my own plans and have made arrangements." Liu Jun interrupted Zhang Guodong. Although Zhang Guodong was his confidant, he participated in the entire process of the Tianjin assassination case and the leadership of troops into Beijing. But the matter he wanted to discuss is not yet time.

"Will our killing of Wu Sanfeng affect the peace agreement?"

"Don't worry, the Qing people are the ones who are most eager to discuss peace. We are now sitting firmly on Diaoyutai and being invincible." Liu Jun said with a smile.

"Then do we still have to negotiate peace with them?"

"If we can bring back all the benefits we deserve at the negotiating table, why do we have to meet each other? After all, there will still be damage when fighting. Now the Qing Dynasty is not our first goal, so we don't need to rush to fight with them." Liu Jun said. (To be continued.)
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