First Minister of Ming Dynasty

As soon as these words came out, many people fell to their knees one after another, crying bitterly.

"Pingzhang, we all want to go home!"

Chapter 555 A Strong Man Returns After Ten Years

"You all have to go home, me, where is my Li Siqi's home?"

This Dayuan Shanxi Pingzhang, with red eyes, pulled out his weapon suddenly, and slammed it on the bricks and stones of the city. Sparks splashed, and he roared sharply: "This is the end, why should I listen to your mercy? The big deal is that the fish will die and the net will be smashed! If you fight, you will die!"

Li Siqi's roar made many of his cronies feel sad... They are in the middle of the pass, with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. Isn't it good to be a local emperor?

Why should the Ming army surrender?

At worst, it's a fight, maybe whose head is upside down?

Almost at the same time, Li Siqi's second-in-command, Gao Gao, also led a group of soldiers and horses. These soldiers and horses were dressed in strong armor and most of them were horsemen.

They don't want to go home.

The battle between the two sides is almost imminent.

At this time, Li Wu and Cui De were extremely calm. After all, they were not many in number, and Li Siqi was the commander of the three armies. If the fire broke out, they would suffer.

But Li Siqi behaved strangely, speaking fiercely and decisively, but did not move.From this point of view, there is still room for redemption.

To put it bluntly, isn't this kind of thief up for grabs?

That being the case, give him what he wants.

Li Wu stretched out his hand, threw the weapon on the ground, then took off his helmet, and prostrated himself in front of Li Siqi.

"Pingzhang is kind and righteous. He took us in and did not kill him. We owe Pingzhang a lot. Even if this life is paid to Pingzhang, we cannot afford it. It is reasonable that we should not rebel against Pingzhang, but the brothers fought against us. It's too painful and I can't take it anymore. There is nothing we can do about it."

"Up to now, we can only ask Daming to treat Pingzhang well, preserve Pingzhang's position, give preferential treatment to Pingzhang's family, and arrange everything well. Otherwise, if they treat Pingzhang rudely, we, we will fight with them to death. !"

When Li Siqi heard this, he almost wanted to laugh, "You sound nice, you won't abandon me even after I got an official from the Ming Dynasty? If I lost my military power, I would be meat on the chopping board, how could the Ming army let me go?" ? Now that things are going on, are you going to play me like a three-year-old child?"

Li Wu was also at a loss for words for a while, but he was unwilling to give up, he just kept begging, and Cui De followed suit.

At the same time, Jie Gao and others rushed to the top of the city with soldiers and horses.

For a while, several people and horses quarreled into a ball.

Coincidentally, Feng Guoyong's letter also arrived at this time.

Li Siqi took the letter in his hand, and after reading it a few times, his temples bulged, and he was furious.

"Okay, he is so powerful! He still wants to threaten me! I, Li Siqi, have hundreds of thousands of soldiers and thousands of miles of land behind me, all of which belong to me. I will fight against the city, and the outcome is unknown!"

Ji Gao immediately roared angrily: "Pingzhang is right, how can a man be inferior to others! Let's fight!"

Li Siqi gritted his teeth, and looked at Li Wu, Cui De and others.

He suddenly laughed, "You guys want to go home, and I'm not that kind of bastard. But we have to make it clear, no one knows what the Ming army is planning. If he wants me to surrender, he has to take I am sincere. I will also send a letter to Feng Guo. If you dare to come over, meet me and discuss peace matters. I believe in Daming. If not, just lie to me with words. I advise you to be smart. point!"

"The Ming army can lie to me, and it can also lie to you! If you want to go home, you probably won't end well. Why don't you fight against the city with me? Maybe you'll have a better chance of survival!"

As expected of an old villain, Li Siqi's transfer of contradictions is really good.

Li Wu, Cui De, and many other soldiers were speechless.They really didn't know the sincerity of Daming. If they were arrested and beheaded when they returned home, it would be like sending someone's head to their door.

This group of people settled down for the time being, but Jie Gao and the others were overjoyed, "Ping Zhang has a good opinion, Feng Guoyong will not dare to come here, the Ming army is hypocritical, and it will be destroyed without attack."

Li Siqi didn't say much, but he asked people to prepare the house, and prepared good food and wine. If Feng Guoyong could come, please come in immediately, and the two sides should have a good talk.

Three days in a row, Li Siqi barely slept, his eyes were red from the heat, and he was haggard.The two groups under his command were quite distinct, some advocated surrender, while others shouted for beatings and killings, they confronted each other almost to the point of drawing swords.

Finally, the news came that it was Feng Guo who needed it.

This Commander-in-Chief Feng only had two attendants, one holding a red flag flying in the wind, and the other holding a gold medal, shining brightly.

"Li Pingzhang, Feng came here as agreed, what do you want to talk about?"

When Li Siqi got the news, he almost ran to the top of the city. When he saw Feng Guoyong, his eyes were almost red, and he hated seeing each other late.

"It's six hundred miles away, and Commander-in-Chief Feng came here so quickly, I really don't know what to say!"

Feng Guoyong laughed loudly, "Li Pingzhang, in order to meet the appointment, I ran to the death of three good horses in two days! But I think it's worth it. Let's meet. You have tens of thousands of soldiers. Regarding the elders, I also have tens of thousands of soldiers under my command. There is also the great cause of the Northern Expedition. Here I want to say that human life is more important than anything else, not to mention that the big guys are originally a family, and it is really not worthwhile to fight each other and kill each other!"

Li Siqi was greatly shocked, and said again and again: "You are right, you are right. Governor Feng, please enter the city!"

Li Siqi went down, opened the city gate, and greeted him personally.

Feng Guo jumped off his horse with a smile, walked like a dragon and walked like a tiger, and went straight into Fengxiang.

After all, he is a general, running around day and night, running for hundreds of miles, and yet he is still in good spirits.If it were Zhang Ximeng, he would probably have already fallen down.

But what is surprising is that Li Siqi's attitude towards Feng Guoyong is extraordinarily cordial, as if he had been an old friend for many years.

"Governor Feng, this way please!"

Li Siqi led Feng Guoyong to have a secret talk.

Unexpectedly, Feng Guoyong looked at the densely packed soldiers on both sides, stopped suddenly, and said with a smile: "Li Pingzhang, let's be honest and honest. This negotiation is not for the glory and wealth of one person, but for the tens of thousands of brothers. Without a proper arrangement, I believe that the big guys are not at ease. And most of you are also afraid of some black-box manipulation and behind-the-scenes transactions. Let's simply put everything on the table and talk it over!"

Li Siqi was taken aback, greatly surprised, he didn't play like this!

Just as he was about to stop him, Feng Guoyong went straight to a group of soldiers and horses. Coincidentally, these people were the subordinates of Qiao Gao. Feng Guoyong went to the middle of the crowd and sat down.

"What's the big guy, tell me, and I'll give you an answer!"

After being stunned for a while, Qiao Gao suddenly said: "You, what are you, do you mean what you say?"

Feng Guoyong was not angry, but waved his hand, asking the soldiers who accompanied him to take the gold medal.

"Have you seen this? This is the gold medal that the Son of Heaven bestowed on me! Your Majesty said that when Yue Fei made the Northern Expedition, Song Lord recalled the twelve gold medals. It was a strange injustice through the ages, and he caused endless disasters. Now I am ordered to go to the Northern Expedition, and a special gold medal is given to me. Take power on the Western Front."

When Feng Guoyong said this, he looked at Qiao Gao, and said with a smile: "This general, what do you think I am?"

Qiao Gao looked at the gold medal, and finally gritted his teeth, "So you are a man of words. Then I want to ask you, you are not Han Chinese, and you don't want to go back to your hometown to farm. What are you going to do?"

Feng Guoyong looked at this group of people, and from their appearance, he knew that there were not many Han people among them, and there were many Hu people.

He couldn't help laughing and said: "Do you know? Before I was ordered to go north, Zhang Xianggong specifically explained that since the Anshi Rebellion, for hundreds of years, the Western Regions have been cut off from the Central Plains. The number of Han people has dropped sharply, and the barbarians have survived." The number of reproduction is quite large. The homeland must not be abandoned, but it cannot be reckless. As long as the barbarians are willing to surrender, they can be canonized as official titles and temporarily rule over the various tribes. As long as they make meritorious deeds in the battle to regain their homeland, all rewards will be given to them. We are generally the same."

Feng Guoyong said with a smile: "The Western Regions are so big, it's time for heroes to make great achievements. Didn't Genghis Khan lead an army back then and lay down countless territories to the west? If you are willing to surrender to Ming Dynasty, we will settle down properly. You don't want to cultivate the land, You can herd sheep and horses. With our Da Ming as the backing, isn’t it easy to get what you want?”

As Feng Guoyong said, he took out a money order from his pocket, and said with a smile: "Here is a 30 guan banknote. As long as the big guy agrees to surrender, I will immediately order to set up a branch here to distribute military salaries to the big guy. The reward will arrive immediately. All in all, I came here with sincerity, do you have anything to say?"

Jie Gao and his colleagues looked around, and found that the faces of the Hu knight soldiers present had changed, and their hearts were greatly disturbed.

Li Wu, Cui De and others can't move anymore, are these Hu Qi really willing to fight hard?

After all, the big guys are exhausted and difficult to maintain.

They opposed surrender, but they were holding their breath, waiting for the price, and they did not want to be manipulated by others.

Coincidentally, Li Siqi also thought so.

He knew that he couldn't go on fighting, and he was unwilling to give up his position, so he came up with such a move and forced Feng Guo to use it for negotiation. When he saw Lao Feng, he was so happy that he was about to cry.

If it doesn't come again, if something really happens, Li Siqi can't stop him.

It's just that Li Siqi didn't expect that Feng Guoyong shook off him and communicated directly with the soldiers.

Anyway, you Li Siqi can't hold it anymore, why should I talk to you more, waste time!

You, Li Siqi, still want to use your soldiers to bargain with me?

What are you thinking?

Zhang Xiang has taught us for so many years, and let the middlemen make the difference, it is a negative teaching of Zhang Xiang!

Qiao Gao looked at Feng Guoyong again, and suddenly said: "Commander Feng, we Hu people don't know much, are you willing to become sworn brothers with us? If you are willing, we will believe you!"

Feng Guoyong laughed loudly, "Of course I am willing, but you must be clear, we are sworn brothers, and there is no other brotherhood."

Jie Gao gritted his teeth, and suddenly touched the ground on one knee, "Brother, I am willing to obey my orders!"

Feng Guoyong was overjoyed, he helped Qiao Gao up, and then said to Li Siqi: "Li Pingzhang, do you have any objections?"

Li Siqi's face flushed red, and he almost fell down with anger!

Not to mention all his calculations were in vain, these shameless bastards actually betrayed him face to face and rushed to Pan Gaozhier!

Kill!

All should be killed!

Feng Guoyong was full of bad water.

He deserves even more death if he is arrogant and shameless.

There are also Li Wu, Cui De, all of them are not good things... Li Siqi calculated silently, and suddenly realized that he had quite a lot of enemies.

In other words, he played himself as a loner, and now most of the people below listened to the Ming army, and he had nothing else to do except get angry.

"Feng Dadu is Gao Ming, I'm throwing myself to the ground!"

Feng Guoyong chuckled, "From now on, we will be a family, and we will assist His Majesty Zuo together to restore the homeland and achieve great things!"

Feng Guoyong took Li Siqi's tens of thousands of troops easily with only two entourages, which is simply a miracle... But for Li Xixi and others, these things have nothing to do with them.

Li Xixi just wanted to go home, tired, tired, and didn't want to fight anymore.

Keep [-] acres of land, a cow, marry a wife and have children, and live an ordinary life!

On the second day after Feng Guoyong arrived in Fengxiang, nearly [-] veterans stood up and, led by Li Xixi, came to bid farewell.

"Don't worry, big guy! I've already told Fu Youde to let them escort you back to your hometown. If you have anything to do in the future, just ask the yamen for help. You Northern Expeditionary Army have made great achievements!"

Hearing this, Li Xixi couldn't bear it any longer, and fell to his knees, "Da Ming has a heart full of grace! Li Xixi has no luck in this life to serve Daming. If the Li family has a descendant, he will be a pawn of Daming!"

The rest of the veterans also cried and bowed to the ground...

Chapter 556 Today, surpass the Song Dynasty!

Feng Guoyong sent people to escort Li Xixi and other veterans back home, but for the past few days, he had been living in the military camp in Jiaogao, with no one around him except for two guards.

He even deliberately opened the door curtain so that soldiers passing by outside could see it.

This move made the Hu cavalry soldiers admire this Governor Feng, so everyone turned their hearts, but Li Siqi was trembling, fearing that he would be betrayed by his subordinates, and offered it to Feng Guoyong as a gift.

Li Siqi had no choice but to try his best to please Daming.

On the day Li Xixi and others left, Li Siqi arrived at Feng Guoyong's tent alone.

"In the land of Guanzhong and Shaanxi, besides the subordinates, there are Zhang Liangbi, Tuo Liebo, Kong Xing and others. They have a lot of horsemen under their command, and the Semu people are in power. I'm afraid it will not be easy to surrender."

Feng Guoyong chuckled, "They don't want to surrender, so they go in and kill them! Could it be that this time the Northern Expedition, with hundreds of thousands of troops, can we still count on the soldiers not to die?"

After Feng Guoyong finished speaking, he said to Li Siqi: "Know the current affairs and know the destiny. Leading the army to surrender, the merit will last through the ages. I have asked His Majesty for the merit, and I will definitely reward you when the time comes!"

Li Siqi's heart was beating wildly. Although Feng Guoyong was powerful, he still meant what he said. With his words, he could still have a place in the Ming court.

That being the case, the next step is how to get more.

Li Siqi immediately said: "Commander Feng, if you don't give up, I am willing to be the vanguard, leading troops northward, taking over Yan'an Mansion, attacking Di Dao westward, and taking all the land in Guanzhong."

Feng Guoyong remained calm, but he was very happy in his heart.

Although the Ming army is very powerful, but when they first entered Guanzhong, they were not familiar with the roads and the people's conditions, so they really couldn't do without local snakes.

As for Li Siqi, the fact that he can live to this day shows that he is not bad. If he can use his strength to open up for Daming, that would be the best.

"Brother Li has this idea, and I naturally agree. That's it, I will let Fu Youde lead 3000 people to serve as your deputy, and you will go northward together. I, the governor, will come later, and we will join forces to recover Guanzhong!"

Li Siqi was slightly taken aback, Fu Youde was his former defeat!

"Okay! I will definitely strive to be the first and make contributions to the country!"

After Li Siqi was settled, Feng Guoyong felt a little more at ease, and immediately wrote to Zhang Ximeng to report the situation.

The West Road Ming army not only captured Tongguan, but also subdued Li Siqi, acquired tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and opened the gate of Guanzhong, which can be called brilliant results.

Wherever the news went, the people rejoiced and the people were encouraged.

In particular, Li Xixi and other veterans of the Northern Expedition came out of Tongguan, passed through Shanzhou and Luoyang, went to Kaifeng, and then returned to their hometowns.

Wherever they passed, countless people came to watch.

There are white-haired old people, middle-aged women, and teenage children. They cuddle together, stare at the crowd, and keep looking around.

When they saw similar figures, they pounced up and asked about the whereabouts of their relatives... Tens of thousands of Northern Expeditionary troops entered the pass, how many of them could come back?