In Wuzhou Prefecture City in eastern Guangxi, 40,000 Ming troops were surrounded by more than 60,000 people's army outside the city.

The four gates of Wuzhou Prefecture City have been blocked. If the People's Army wants to take down Wuzhou Prefecture City, they can only use blow-down of the city wall or use a ladder to climb the city wall. Both methods will bring a large number of casualties to the People's Army. Therefore, He Yan has no plan to capture Wuzhou Prefecture City. He just scares the Ming army here and completes the above-mentioned plan to promote war and promote peace.

In addition to using war to promote peace, He Yan's army also had an important task, which was to cooperate with the Navy to capture Qiongzhou Prefecture.

He Yan drew up an infantry battalion and a Fran Machine Cannon Battalion. He first landed a regiment, a grenadier unit and two brigades of the cold weapon unit, with a total of about 10,000 people. He was led by Deputy Commander Xu Gang and immediately headed south.

He Yan continued to lead more than 50,000 troops to surround Wuzhou Prefecture City, surrounding the north, south and east sides, leaving only the west side, hoping that the Ming army in the city could escape from the city and escape west, which would give the People's Army the opportunity to destroy this Ming army.

The imperial edict for recruiting the People's Army was finally sent to Ganzhou Prefecture City. When Song Yingchang learned that the court wanted to recruit the People's Army, he felt relieved. He didn't want to continue to fight. The current Ming army could not defeat the People's Army at all. Even if the 500,000 troops were gathered, it was very likely that he would be defeated by the People's Army.

However, Song Yingchang also had doubts at this time, will the People's Army accept the court's envoy?

You should know that the People's Army was strong at this time, and if the People's Army did not care about casualties, it would even be possible to capture Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi and Huguang. Now that the People's Army is so strong, the possibility of accepting the imperial court's envoy is relatively small.

But this is a task given to him by the court. Song Yingchang must try it regardless of whether it succeeds or not.

The next day, Song Yingchang sent an envoy to Xinfeng County and informed the People's Army that the Ming Dynasty would recruit people. Wang Shengrong did not even listen to the envoy's conditions for recruiting people's army and drove them away directly.

Seeing his subordinates who were driven back, Song Yingchang had a headache. As expected, just like he thought, the People's Army was not so easy to accept and accept the recruitment.

Faced with the People's Army's rejection, Song Yingchang thought about it for several days and finally came up with a way of thinking: if you can't recruit peace, then let's talk about peace.

The court wanted to recruit the People's Army, and Song Yingchang could easily see the court's idea. The court and the People's Army had become like this, and the court would definitely want to destroy the People's Army. It is very likely that the recruitment of the People's Army was delayed.

By recruiting the People's Army, the war can be stopped, and the court will have time to recruit young and strong men to train new troops. At that time, a million troops will attack, and it is very likely that the People's Army will be wiped out.

Now the recruitment of peace cannot be done. Song Yingchang thought that if the two sides negotiated peace, they could stop the war and give the court time to expand the army. The court should agree to replace the recruitment of peace with peace.

But how can the People's Army negotiate peace?

After thinking about it, Song Yingchang put his target on the common people.

After fighting with the People's Army for so long, Song Yingchang was a person who knew the People's Army more well in the court, the People's Army and the People's Army. He advocated that the people all live a good life.

Now that the People's Army is fighting with the Ming army, the lives of the people in the war areas are very poor. If you use this excuse, it is quite possible to make the People's Army agree to a peace talk.

After deciding to change the recruitment to talks with peace talks, Song Yingchang immediately sent personnel to the capital city to send the situation to the change. At the same time, he sent an envoy to Xinfeng County again and sent a handwritten letter from Song Yingchang to Wang Shengrong.

The content of the letter is very simple. First, it means that the army and the People's Army are tired of fighting, and then the people in the areas where the two armies are fighting have a hard time. Finally, it is recommended that the two armies cease to fight.

Song Yingchang's handwritten letter is in traditional Chinese characters, and Wang Shengrong can understand it in front of him. After reading the letter, Wang Shengrong smiled and handed the letter to Cheng Xinyuan beside him.

Cheng Xinyuan is the Minister of Rites. The Ministry of Rites also serves diplomatic purposes. The People's Army uses war to promote peace, so the matter of peace talks is handed over to the Ministry of Rites for discussion. As the minister, Cheng Xinyuan personally came to the front line.

"Song Yingchang is indeed extraordinary. The most important thing in the letter is that 'the people in the war zone have worked very hard'." Cheng Xinyuan said with some emotion after reading the letter.

Hearing the words of his old classmate, Wang Shengrong replied with a smile: "Song Yingchang is a talent that stands out among the hundreds of millions of people in the world. If a waste was allowed to become a high-ranking official and lead hundreds of thousands of people, the Ming court would have perished long ago."

Talk and laugh, Wang Shengrong and Cheng Xinyuan decided on the content of the reply letter. Song Yingchang knew that the People's Army attached importance to the people, and the two refuted that as long as the People's Army defeated the Ming army, Guangxi, Fujian, Huguang and Jiangxi, they could all be occupied by the People's Army, and then the people in these places could live a good life. Under the rule of the Ming court, the lives of these people will still be miserable.

Wang Shengrong's letter did not contain any content of peace. Part of it was to refute the words of Song Yingchang's letter, part of it was to describe the tragic situation of the people under the rule of the Ming court, and finally wrote that "water can carry a boat and can overturn the boat." The People's Army will surely overthrow the Ming court and persuade Song Yingchang to lead the Ming army to surrender early.

Song Yingchang gave Wang Shengrong a letter of peace, and Wang Shengrong gave Song Yingchang a letter of persuasion to surrender. After Wang Shengrong finished writing this letter of persuasion to surrender, a special person translated it into traditional Chinese characters.

Soon, the letter of persuasion was delivered to Song Yingchang. After reading the letter, Song Yingchang was expressionless and was indifferent to the People's Army's persuasion of surrender. He thought in his mind how to reply. If the People's Army did not reply, it would be a troublesome thing for Song Yingchang. As long as there was a reply, it would be a matter of discussion in Song Yingchang's opinion.

The next day, Song Yingchang's second letter of talk was sent to Wang Shengrong. The letter still wanted to cease war with the People's Army. The main content was two points:

The first point is that the Ming army is not as strong as the People's Army, but the Ming army can hold on to several cities. The Ming Dynasty has a vast territory and a large population. It will soon be able to dispatch more people to come. The People's Army will definitely not be able to occupy Jiangxi, Huguang and other places;

The second point is that as the battle time extends, the people in the war area will inevitably be hungry all over the ground due to the war.

During the exchange of letters between the two sides, from the People's Army not wanting to discuss peace, to the People's Army being loose, to the People's Army considering peace, and finally the People's Army has the conditions to discuss peace.

The People's Army had the conditions to negotiate peace, that is, the Ming court had to pay some price before the People's Army would agree to a ceasefire with the Ming army.

During the exchange of letters, the People's Army was still launching attacks on the Ming army in various places. Xu Gang's troops and the Navy had already joined in Leizhou City and were about to go to Qiongzhou Prefecture.

On the other hand, the matter of reunion and peace talks has been sent to the capital. Although the emperor and the ministers were very dissatisfied with the People's Army's failure to accept reunion, they finally accepted that Song Yingchang turned reunion and peace talks.

The court's reply to Song Yingchang was still on the way. Song Yingchang was already smiling at the People's Army's willingness to negotiate. As for the People's Army's conditions to negotiate, we will continue to talk as long as we can get a ceasefire.
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