Ming Dynasty entry: I am Chongzhen, the greatest emperor of all time!

Chapter 40: Zhu Youjian, the master of micromanipulation, appears online
After Song Ye left, the two did not stay for long.

The thirty-six heroes were very tempting to them, and they would even be willing to put on armor and go into battle now.

But for the petty officials below who have no hope of being selected as one of the thirty-six ministers, it is not as useful as two taels of silver.

If they want to complete the task assigned by His Majesty quickly, they still have to supervise it personally.

……

Xu hour and three quarters.

The envoy sent by the Ministry of Rites finally entered the camp of the rebel army.

After learning from the lesson of the last night attack, the management of the rebel army has become much stricter.

The three thousand cavalry were detained in the refugee camp.

Another 150 people were left in the surrendered army camp, and only 50 elite soldiers from the Yongwei camp were allowed to follow the envoy into the core of the old camp of the Chuang army.

This just suited Zhu Youjian's plan.

Wang Erhu, a captain of the Yongwei Battalion, stood bored in the camp of the surrendered soldiers.

There were more than a thousand surrendered soldiers guarding them.

It was not yet completely dark, and in the light one could clearly see that the faces of these surrendered soldiers were abnormally sallow.

Although they were surrounded, there were no rules at all.

Some people would squeeze together, some would squat on the ground alone, and some would even lie on the ground and sleep.

There was no sign of him from any of the hundreds or thousands of households.

If a real fight breaks out, Wang Erhu is confident that he can defeat this group of surrendered troops within two quarters of an hour.

Thinking of the task that Xiao Song Hanlin had assigned to him when he came here, Wang Erhu changed his mind and walked up to a surrendered soldier with a smile.

"Hey brother, you look familiar. Where are you from?"

The surrendered soldier did not suspect anything and replied in a muffled voice, "I am from Shandong."

Wang Erhu feigned surprise and spoke in authentic Shandong dialect, "Are you from Shandong? Fellow countryman? Are you from Shandong too? Where in Shandong?"

"You are also from Shandong! I am from Caozhou, Shandong, and you?" The surrendered soldiers were even more surprised. It was difficult to travel far in that era, and meeting fellow villagers outside was like meeting relatives.

"Oh, my Qufu, it's not far away!" Wang Erhu casually said a place name that he remembered, and then stretched out his hand to hook the surrendered soldier's shoulders, squeezed out a few tears and wailed.

"Oh, I haven't been home for over ten years. I never thought I'd run into a fellow villager here!"

The words "I haven't been home for more than ten years" hit the sore spot in the surrendered soldiers' hearts, and they couldn't help but shed tears.

"I haven't been home for seven or eight years. My child can run around the village, and I don't even know what he looks like."

"Me too! Woohoo."

After a few words, the two of them hugged each other and burst into tears.

The surrounding surrendered troops and soldiers of the Yongwei Camp were greatly shocked.

But the effect was very good. After hugging each other and crying for a while, the two of them became like real brothers.

Wang Erhu took out his own dry biscuits and shared them with the surrendered soldiers, while asking casually, "What's your name, brother? Why are you here?"

"My name is Zhao Youtian." Zhao Youtian grabbed the pancake and started to eat it.

"In the ninth year of Chongzhen's reign, I was sent to the north to repair the city wall. After less than two months, they took me to the west to repair the canal. Before the canal was finished, the higher-ups said there were bandits coming and they had to train me as soldiers. I stayed in Gongchang Prefecture for five or six years. Last year, the rebel leader came and my superior, General Yang Qian, took me to serve as his soldier again."

Wang Erhu lovingly handed over the water bag and said angrily, "Brother Youtian, you are so confused!" "I used to live not far from Gongchang Prefecture. When the rebels came, I wanted to serve as a soldier for them. I felt that something was wrong, so I brought more than a hundred fellow villagers to the capital. Look, now I am a captain too!"

"Oh my God, Brother Erhu is the commander of the Qian army!" Zhao Youtian almost knocked over the kettle and was about to kneel down and kowtow in panic.

Wang Erhu quickly pulled him back and said, "We are all brothers. Why are you kneeling? I am lucky. I surrendered to the emperor in advance, so I can get to this point."

"Oh~ Why didn't I think of running away! I didn't dare to think about becoming a captain or a lieutenant commander. Even if I am not good enough, I can still go home and visit my family." Zhao Youtian became even more envious after hearing this.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Wang Erhu quietly leaned close to Zhao Youtian's ear and whispered.

"Don't worry, Brother Youtian. I came out this time to protect the angel sent by the Emperor. I heard that they want to punish the thief Li. All the generals who follow Li will be beheaded!"

"Ah? You want to kill King Chuang?"

"He's rebelling. Not only must he be killed, but his entire clan must also be killed!"

"Ah!? Will the Emperor chop me to death too?" Zhao Youtian was so frightened that he didn't even eat the cake. He stared at Wang Erhu with a pale face.

"Grandpa Emperor said that only the main culprit should be executed, and the soldiers and common people below should not be killed."

"Just don't chop me down..." Zhao Youtian let out a sigh.

Wang Erhu added, "Brother, be careful on the battlefield. The Emperor has mobilized General Wu's army, which has been fighting the Tartars in the north for over a decade. I heard there are over 200,000 of them. And in the south, General Zuo, who just drove back the Western bandit Zhang Xianzhong, has an army of 800,000!"

"Ah!?" Zhao Youtian's heart, which had just been put at ease, was lifted up again. Asking him to fight against the elite troops who were fighting against both the Tartars and the Western Bandits, wasn't this the same as asking him to die?

In an almost pleading tone, he said, "Brother Erhu... please save my life!"

"Don't be afraid, brother. When you see the Emperor's soldiers, just kneel down and surrender. The Emperor said not to kill ordinary people..." Wang Erhu paused halfway through his words and said, "If you, Brother Youtian, dare to go against the Emperor, it will be considered a rebellion, and all nine generations of your family will be killed!"

"I dare not! I dare not!"

"See if there are any of our fellow Shandong natives in the camp. Save as many as you can. Remember not to let the higher-ups know. The Emperor wants to chop off their heads, and they won't surrender."

"I know, Brother Erhu, I owe you my life!" Zhao Youtian was panicked but with a hint of relief. He thanked Wang Erhu repeatedly and almost knelt down to him.

After finishing one, Wang Erhu didn't stay any longer and left with a random excuse.

Go straight to the next goal.

"Where are you from, brother? Bashu? How can you be from Bashu? Let me tell you... go talk to your fellow villagers..."

"Shaanxi? Uh? Shaanxi is fine too. I also look like Shaanxi..."

The same scene also happened in the refugee camp.

It’s just that they were not 3,000 cavalrymen, but Night Warriors disguised as refugees.

The rhetoric also became what Zhu Youjian did and promised at the Meridian Gate during the day.

Rumors are most likely to spread in a closed environment.

When Li Zicheng drove the envoy out of the camp in a rage, nearly one-third of the surrendered troops and refugees in the camp knew the terms of the negotiation.

Some even thought that the various royalist armies had surrounded the rebel army and were trying to escape.

……

The messenger reported that Li Zicheng would go hunting with Zhu Youjian at Deshengmen tomorrow.

Zhu Youjian was overjoyed. "Wang Banban, go and prepare some armor for me. Tomorrow I will go to Deshengmen in person and have a good meeting with Li Zicheng."

"Inform all camps to rest well. The Five Cities Military Command will patrol day and night to prevent a surprise attack. Urge Fan Jingwen to select 10,000 militiamen and hand them over to Wu Xiang!"

(End of this chapter)