Zhang Pengyi's troops originally had more than 10,000 people, except for the more than 1,000 troops in the Huaian Guards, most of them were recruiting fellow soldiers. On the way to Huaian to Muyang, three or four thousand people fled to their hometowns.

After entering Muyang City, more than 2,000 people were dispersed one after another. When the Huai army arrived at Muyang, Zhang Pengyi was desperate and surrendered, only less than 4,000 people remained.

In fact, it was not that Zhang Pengyi wanted to surrender his enemies, but that he would not be able to surrender, because his officers were already ready to move. If he insisted on not surrendering, he would probably become the lie of the people.

If he was sold by his subordinates, it would be better to sell himself. I have to say that Zhang Pengyi is also a ruthless person. Moreover, Zhang Pengyi did not think that he would be killed after surrendering to the thief. In addition to being the Huai'an general, he was the highest official who surrendered to the thief after the thief's rebellion, he was also because of his hatred of destroying the family.

"I have a grudge against the thief to destroy the family. Now I let go of this hatred and surrender to the thief. The thief will not dare to kill me, and we must rely on my priority to recruit him to surrender. If I kill me, who else dares to surrender to him in the future?"

The confidence that Zhang Pengyi will not be killed comes from the story of Zhang Xiu during the Three Kingdoms period.

Zhang Xiu took his aunt to attack Cao Cao and killed his eldest son Cao Ang, nephew Cao Anmin, and the powerful general Dian Wei. He had such a deep hatred, but Zhang Xiu followed the advice of his adviser Jia Xu and surrendered to Cao again. As a result, not only was Cao Cao named General Yangwu by Cao Cao, but he also married his daughter to Cao Cao's son Cao Jun.

From this we can see that in the face of interests, you can let go of any kind of deep hatred.

Unfortunately, Zhang Pengyi compared himself to Zhang Xiu, but Lu Si was not Cao Cao.

In other words, the Dashun Huaiyang Jiedushi had the ability of Cao Cao, but not the virtue of Cao Cao.

I was afraid of being uneasy to sleep and ordered the killing of Zhang Pengyi, which made the Huaian general reunite the family.

Zheng Biao thought that Zhang Pengyi's killing would make his troops descend, causing a stir. However, it was as if Zhang Pengyi had never been in this world. The surrendered soldiers were calm about the death of the chief general. The officers who directly participated in the action also worked hard to dig pits and shovel the soil.

These frightened birds now only need to have stuttering, just like the Shandong refugees brought back from Haizhou by Zheng Zhibao from Haizhou. They will carry the flag for whoever gives them food. As for whether they work hard, it depends on what treatment they give them.

Zhang Pengyi's death did not make the remaining Ming soldiers in Muyang, Andong, Guanyun and other places feel desperate to resist. Instead, after hearing that Suzhou was also taken down by the Dashun army, they rushed to join the Huai Army, which was also under the banner of Dashun.

Lu Si, the Ming army, including those "local thieves" brought up by landlords and gentry, was incorporated into the name of the Dashun Huaiyang Jiedushi, and was awarded seven commanders and more than a dozen chiefs of the divisions, which made the Huai'an rural forces, which were originally hostile to the Huai Army, all over the land.

Lu Si gave officials and local thieves gave food. The two sides got along well for a while, and the well water did not interfere with the river. The real thing is that the rebel team and the rebel targets were in harmony.

The food contributed by these local thieves also greatly alleviated the food shortage caused by the Huai Army due to the large number of surrendered troops. With the spread of news that the main force of the Dashun Army was about to take over Beijing, except for Xuzhou because of Liu Zeqing from Shandong's journey south, the landlords and gentry were in a wait-and-see situation, and the rest of the areas were basically ready to be the people of the New Dynasty.

After Sun Wujin and Zheng Zhibao had four rounds of confrontation, the two sides also reached a preliminary agreement.

The Zheng side will provide the Huai Army with 1,000 iron guns, more than 20,000 kilograms of medicine, 8 cannons, and 90,000 taels of silver. In addition, it is 50,000 kilograms of cooked iron.

If the Zheng family provides all the materials needed by the Huai Army as agreed, the Huai Army will release 1,350 Fujian soldiers led by Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Tai.

After receiving a letter from his younger brother, Zheng Zhilong, who was far away in Fujian, sent people to Zheng Hongkui, the Yangtze River navy, to let him be fully responsible for negotiations with the Huai thieves.

Muskets are nothing to the Zheng family. They have more cannon fleets, and 90,000 taels are a drop in the bucket. What is really valuable is the 50,000 kilograms of ripe iron.

Zheng Zhibao and Zheng Hongkui didn't want to pay so much, because the Zheng family didn't have much, so they needed to buy a lot of it, so they proposed to replace it with 200,000 taels of silver.

Seeing that money was jealous, Sun Wujin wanted to agree, but Lu Si firmly wanted to refuse silver.

Compared with silver, the Huai Army was even more short of iron.

Fifty thousand kilograms of cooked iron can allow the Huai Army to build several iron armor and weapons, which is the strategic material that the Huai Army is currently second only to food.

There is no iron ore in the Huaiyang area, but there is one in Xuzhou, but it takes a lot of time and manpower to start ore control, so Lu Si hopes to directly extort the Zheng family to resolve the urgent need of the Huai army. If it weren't for the Zheng family, there would be no war horses, he would probably have to ask the other party for hundreds of horses.

Zheng Zhibao and the people sent by Zheng Hongkui discussed and discussed, and finally gritted their teeth and agreed. After receiving the list of materials, Zheng Hongkui did not immediately order people to prepare. Instead, he sent someone to propose to the Huai Army that Lu Zhenfei, the governor of the canal transport, would not be able to reach an agreement.

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"What do they want Lu Zhenfei to do? The canal transportation is gone. What value does his department and hospital have?" Lu Si was very surprised.

Zheng Biao knew why, and now he told me that Lu Zhenfei was kind to the Zheng family when he was in Fujian in his early years, and said that Zheng Zhilong's eldest son Zheng Sen could be a student of the Imperial College because Lu Zhenfei asked the court for the Zheng family.

"In addition, I thought the Zheng family might have ambitions."

"Ambition?"

"The Zheng family may know that Beijing cannot be preserved, so they want to have a place in the Nandu regime. In this way, the governor of the Lu and Ministry of Water Transport is their best voice in Nandu."

“That’s it,”

Based on the performance of the Zheng family in history in previous life, Lu Si believes that the Zheng family may have really planned this. However, something Zheng Biao said later made him wake up.

"The Road Department once looked at the high wall in Fengyang, saying that there was a spirit of the emperor inside the wall."

When Lu Zhenfei told Shen Tingyang and Zheng Zhibao about this, he was just annoying, but Zheng Biao knew that there was no annoying. In fact, Lu Zhenfei believed that the Tang King in the high wall had the same style as the emperor.

The King of Tang, Lu Zhenfei, Zheng Hongkui, Zheng Zhilong, Longwu regime...

Combining a series of characters and history, Lu Si seemed to understand something.

To put it nicely, a group of people who are loyal to the Ming Dynasty are prepared for danger in peace and prepare for the last days. To put it bluntly, a group of people who claim to be loyal ministers had long wanted to establish a new master when Chongzhen was not dead.

Now King Fu, King Zhou and others are still in Weihui, Henan, and Huaiyang is occupied by the Huai army led by Lu Si. Then King Fu, who should have fled to Huai'an, would not be able to appear in Huai'an again. In this way, after hearing the news of Beijing's fall and Chongzhen's death in the country in Nandu, who can still be the emperor?

Who else can be there besides the Tang King who was imprisoned in Fengyang?

"It seems that Zheng Zhibao revealed the news to Zheng Hongkui, and then he wanted to turn around and turn the world. Tsk tsk, this support is indeed tempting, but"

Lu Si paved back and forth in the house with his hands behind his back for a few times, and suddenly stopped and asked Zheng Biao: "Do you think we can support the emperor too?"
Chapter completed!