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Following Deng Ming, Yang Youcai and Zhou Kaihuang rushed towards the enemy camp. In addition to Yang Youcai's original team, there were more than 4,000 soldiers of the same scholar. The original task of this group of troops was to be on guard and separate people to build the camp. However, when Yang Youcai and Zhou Kaihuang saw Deng Ming attacking the enemy camp with their vanguard, they felt that the situation was urgent and did not care about repairing the camp. They immediately commanded the army to attack and respond. At the same time, they also sent people to report to the back team and let the rear team come to support at full speed.

Soon Deng Ming led hundreds of soldiers into the first tent of the Qing army.

After getting closer, Deng Ming found that the Qing army's fortifications were built very simple, with only a short fence, and no horse-resistance or trenches were built on the inside. No wonder Di Sanxi rushed in with his cavalry at once. There were dejected people sitting in the camp, obviously all the Qing soldiers who surrendered to Di Sanxi. There were no Ming army cavalry in this camp, and the Qing soldiers sitting on the ground had no idea of ​​standing up. When they saw the Ming army rushing in, they shouted "surrender" desperately while bowing their heads to the ground.

Deng Ming did not follow up immediately, but ordered the camp to stick to the tent. After the cavalry entered the joint camp, the most worried thing was that the enemy encircled all sides, so Deng Ming first thought was to ensure the safety of the camp and leave a way out for Di Sanxi. But something even more unexpected happened. The Qing army camps on both sides did not have any counterattack. The Ming army was full of vigilance, but there was no drum sound or shouting on both sides, and there was no Qing army rushing towards this gap.

"You keep holding on." Deng Ming left half of the soldiers and continued to move forward with his other half.

Behind Zhou Kaihuang were Mu Tan and some Jiange soldiers. After hearing that the battle started in front, they immediately activated the army and all of them ran forward.

Xiong Lan ran faster than Zhou Kaihuang. Along the way, Xiong Guerrilla kept agitation around the team. When news of the battle came from the front, Xiong Lan happened to be near the Zhou Kaihuang team. He immediately led his subordinates who looked like propaganda team to run wildly. Zhou Kaihuang's thousands of scholars were just approaching the battlefield, Xiong Lan had already rushed into the Qing army's camp with his subordinates.

Now Deng Ming has joined the cavalry. After seeing Deng Ming, Di Sanxi shouted: "Admiral, why are you here?"

"Why did you rush in?" Deng Ming asked back, observing around vigilantly.

Today's battle was as easy as raiding Lang Tingzuo under Nanjing city, and even simpler. The Qing army in each camp stayed in the camp without fighting, neither reinforced each other nor tried to break through. After the Ming army rushed to the front, they threw down the wooden crutches in their hands and surrendered.

Deng Ming rushed from outside the camp to Di Sanxi, but he never saw the Qing soldiers who showed their swords and resisted: "Where is Gao Mingzhan?"

Di Sanxi shook his head. The Qing army had more than a dozen camps, and each camp looked like hundreds of people. If it were normal, after being raided, the most courageous Qing soldiers would spontaneously gather in the central army tent. Experienced generals on the attacking side could determine the approximate location of the enemy's head commander's tent just by looking at the direction of the enemy's movement. But today the Qing army opposite seemed to have no intention of resisting at all, and even the escape was not strong.

Just now, when Di Sanxi rushed outside the camp, he originally wanted to convey a message. But when Di Sanxi shouted out Deng Ming's name, he had not waited for him to explain that he was coming to make an appointment. Someone in the Qing army inside the fence had already thrown his crutches to the ground. Seeing that there was an opportunity, Di Sanxi rushed into the camp with the cavalry. As a result, none of the Qing soldiers in the camp resisted, and half fled in scattered, and the rest sat on the ground and surrendered.

Di Sanxi chased into the next military camp, and the Qing army performed almost the same. About half of the people fled, while the other half surrendered. When the Qing soldiers who fled from the first large camp saw this situation, they no longer spent their energy to escape. They threw their crutches down and sat on the ground and shouted "Give up your life."

Such a smooth progress surprised Di Sanxi and was both surprised and happy. He led the cavalry to continue to rush left and right in the Qing army camp, like the wind storming the broken clouds. When Deng Ming led his troops to catch up, the third Qing army camp also surrendered to Di Sanxi. Deng Ming stared at the enemy soldiers sitting on the ground and found that they looked haggard and their cheeks were deep. Many people looked like ghosts instead of humans.

The escaped Qing soldiers spread the news of the Ming army's attack to more camps. Deng Ming vaguely heard someone shouting in the distance: "Deng Ming is here! Chongqing is broken!"

"What does it have to do with the breaking of Chongqing when I come?" Deng Ming felt puzzled. However, he didn't have time to think about it. A large number of Ming troops behind him were quickly pouring in, led by Yang Youcai and Zhou Kaihuang. While taking over the work of surveillance of prisoners, he began to intersperse the Qing army camps and surrounded the several Qing army camps closest to them. Until now, the Qing army camps still did not organize effective resistance and did not connect to each other to form a front line. There were more and more desperate shouts of despair in each camp: "Chongqing has been broken, defeated, defeated!"

After all, the other side was an army of thousands of people. Deng Ming slowed down the cavalry and stopped the further attack. At the same time, the infantry tents were disarmed from the Qing army. The resistance encountered by the Ming army was very small, and some enemy soldiers in the tent seemed to want to resist stubbornly because of fear, but after obtaining the guarantee that the Ming army would not surrender, hesitated to put down his weapons.

In the team led by Mu Tan, when he ran to the battlefield with a spear, he saw that half of the camp tent had already hung the Ming army's red flag. Soon a messenger came out of the camp to pass on the order, saying that the Qing army in the camp had no major threat, and that the troops of Zhou Kaihuang and others were enough to subdue. Because some Qing troops fled the camp, Mu Tan's troops needed to spread the camp outside the camp to search for these fugitives.

After receiving the order, Mutan asked thousands of fellow scholars to scatter, forming a team of dozens of people, searching and chasing in a fan shape. There was a layer of snow on the ground, and the traces of Qing soldiers' escape were very easy to find. Li Yanpeng and his companions followed these footprints and soon discovered one single Qing soldiers after another.

When he heard that Deng Ming led the soldiers to fight, the Qing soldiers fled out of the camp and ran around aimlessly. After seeing the Ming army chasing behind him, some soldiers stopped and pulled out their knives to face the pursuers fiercely. The fierce appearance of the enemy made Li Yanpeng feel excited. He knew that these enemies were all the Ganzhou-Shaanxi Green Camps with the name of elite. However, when the Ming army marched side by side and approached with spear carefully, the last bit of courage to fight was also broken. First, they demanded loudly that the Ming army soldiers would not swear to harm his life. After being guaranteed, they put the knife away and surrendered to the Ming army.

"Is this the elite strong soldiers of the Tartars?" Li Yanpeng and his companions took out a rope to tie up one green camp soldier after another. He couldn't help but ask in his heart: "The elite soldiers of the Tartars look like this? What should those who are not called elites look like? How could our Ming Dynasty not even defeat such enemies?"

Tie people always waste time. After tied up a group of prisoners, Li Yanpeng estimated that the remaining Qing soldiers would definitely flee further. However, there was an order on the top of the mountain, so they must be captured as much as possible, so as not to become robbers who committed crimes, so Li Yanpeng and the others continued to pursue them.

After searching for a while, I suddenly saw two Qing soldiers walking towards the Ming army from a distance. Because I wondered if they were planning to fight to the death, the Ming army of each team immediately became alert. At the command of the leader, everyone raised their spears and pointed at them.

"Let us surrender, surrender!" These Qing soldiers were worse than the previous prisoners, and even forgot to propose exchange conditions without harm before surrendering.

These enemy soldiers were the ones with the strongest will to resist, the best mind, and the healthiest body among the Qing army. After hearing the news that the army came, these people knew that they would be defeated. With some physical strength, they quickly fled from the camp that was about to fall. But after running for a while, they found that there was a vast white wilderness around them, and there were no houses or roads, and there were no human footprints. Instead, there were several rows of claws of wild beasts. The will of these Qing soldiers were finally exhausted, and they turned around and walked back to turn back. After seeing these role models, the other Qing soldiers who were not interested in seeing these role models, they all followed silently and returned heavily to surrender to the Ming army.

Because he had received training in advance, Li Yanpeng knew what to do. He ordered Qing Jun to squat down with his head in his arms, and then went over with his companions and tied them up one by one.

Li Yanpeng felt that there was a Qing army who looked like an officer, so he was particularly alert, but this guy was very tame and acted completely according to Li Yanpeng's command. After carefully tying the enemy, Li Yanpeng breathed a sigh of relief, and the prisoner looked relieved. After a while, the officer began to chat with Li Yanpeng. He just felt that the Ming army soldier was very nervous, so he cautiously said nothing, afraid of causing misunderstandings to hurt himself: "Mr. Jun, can you give me some food? I'm really hungry."

"I will give you food when I return to the camp later." Li Yanpeng replied.

"Can Junye give me some first and make my stomach?" The officer was brave and glanced at Li Yanpeng and his companions: "I'm so hungry."

Li Yanpeng looked at each other with several companions around him, took out a bag of dry food from his arms, broke off a piece, and stuffed it into the captain's mouth.

"Thank you, Jun." The prisoner thanked him in ambiguously, and hurriedly chewed hard and swallowed the dry food.

"Mr. Jun, the villain wants it too." After seeing this scene, the prisoners around him also started shouting.

Many of their companions followed Li Yanpeng's appearance and took a little out of their dry food bags and put a piece in their mouths.

"Is this the elite of the Tartars?" Li Yanpeng shook his head: "It turns out that the elite Ganzhou Green Camp is like this."

...

After confirming that Deng Ming's army arrived, Gao Mingzhan also decided to escape immediately. After Gao Mingzhan escaped, Tan Yi tried to lead the soldiers to resist, but Tan Yi's call could not be responded to by ordinary Qing soldiers. After discovering that Gao Mingzhan had escaped, the Qing soldiers who did not dare to surrender followed him. The rest of them sat on the ground without waiting for the Ming army to persuade him to surrender, and they looked like they were left to fate. Seeing that things were not done, Tan Yi hurriedly fled with his followers. In this way, the Ming army took over one Qing army camp after another without any effort.

After asking about the situation, Deng Ming immediately asked Di Sanxi to lead the cavalry to pursue Gao Mingzhan and Tan Yi - Tan Yi actually appeared again, which was really unexpected. Deng Ming said to Di Sanxi: "This guy killed Mr. Li Qian's benefactor Fuhou. Last time in Chongqing, I almost killed thousands of people, including Zhao Qianhu and Mr. Zhou Qian, and thousands of people, are looking forward to the general's revenge for us today."

Di Sanxi responded loudly and urged all the cavalry to chase Tan Yi. He made up his mind that even if Gao Mingzhan was let go, he would capture Tan Yi alive.

Deng Ming's guards did not follow Di Sanxi. After leaving the camp, Di Sanxi asked 150 cavalry to divide into five teams and chase them in different directions. Those who followed Di Sanxi were his confidant guards.

"Didn't you say that the one who washed Shu Prince's Mansion was Tailor Zhao?" Seeing that there were no outsiders around, a personal guard asked curiously: "Why is Zhao Qianhu following Mr. Deng, and Mr. Deng even asked him to take charge of the central army, as if he had no intention of suspicion."

"Yes." Another confidant also had similar questions.

When they first met Zhao Tianba, Di Sanxi himself was also shocked. Although they knew that Deng Ming was not a person who liked to hold grudges, Zhao Tianba was the only son of the direct person in charge of the Shu Palace back then. They never thought that Deng Ming could be so magnanimous that even Tailor Zhao didn't care about it.

"Of course this is the explanation of the old immortal Nanhua. Haven't you heard of it?" Di Sanxi said seriously. The story about the prince of Shu King meeting an immortal is so amazing in Jianchang that everyone knows. After seeing Zhao Tianba, Di Sanxi thought repeatedly and felt that he had found the only reasonable explanation: "What the old immortal said is that he doesn't care about all the people in Xiying, King of Jin, and Tailor Zhao are also from our Xiying."

"Yes." In general, Di Sanxi's confidants were still happy about this: "Mr. Deng doesn't even care about Tailor Zhao, so he will definitely not settle the old accounts with us."

"Well, I must notify the king of the king as soon as possible." Di Sanxi thought much more than these subordinates. His relationship with Zhao Tianba was not good. In the past, when Sun Kewang was in power, Di Sanxi, as Feng Shuangli's confidant, disliked all the guards of the King of Jin's mansion. After the internal conflict between the three kings, Zhao Tianba and the people from the King of Jin's mansion were arrogant every time they went to Feng Shuangli's camp and never looked at Di Sanxi and the others: "Zhao Qianhu is the king of Jin. What do you mean by Zhao Qianhu's so flattery about Mr. Deng?"

"Ah!" After Di Sanxi reminded him, his subordinates realized the importance of the problem: "Is the King of Jin going to change his sect?"

"Hmph, the King of Jin knew that the emperor he supported was no longer good. He was as timid as a mouse and ran away to Myanmar and did not dare to come back. The King of Jin probably wanted to replace him, so he asked Zhao Qianhu to join Mr. Deng to find a new way for himself." Di Sanxi said contemptuously, but then a hint of worry appeared on his face: "Mr. Deng is the one we support, and we cannot be stolen by the King of Jin."

Although Di Sanxi did not regard Gao Mingzhan as his first target, Governor Gao did not escape from the camp, so he gave up the idea of ​​continuing to escape. While finding a cave to hide it, he sent his personal soldiers back to surrender to the Ming army.

These personal soldiers stopped Di Sanxi's cavalry and expressed that Gao Mingzhan was willing to surrender to the Ming army after obtaining personal safety guarantees. Di Sanxi considered that although Deng Ming seemed to have no grudge against Gao Mingzhan, the Ming army would probably kill a high-ranking official like the governor and then pass it on to the entire army. In addition to not knowing how Deng Ming would deal with Gao Mingzhan, Di Sanxi knew that Deng Ming was very careful of his credit, so he did not dare to agree rashly for Deng Mingming, so he asked several cavalrymen to bring a Gao Mingzhan's personal soldiers back to the camp to see Deng Ming.

If Deng Ming agreed to Gao Mingzhan's request, the problem would naturally be solved smoothly. If Deng Ming did not agree, he would not be afraid. Isn't this still a few Gao Mingzhan's personal soldiers in his hand? Di Sanxi was confident that there were many ways to let them speak out and tell Gao Mingzhan's hiding place.

Di Sanxi was not far from Deng Ming's camp, and soon the messenger brought Deng Ming's order back to accept Gao Ming's surrender. The personal soldier of Gao Mingzhan was also returned with Di Sanxi's envoy. Deng Ming personally promised him that he would not harm the life of the Sichuan governor.

After losing the army, Gao Mingzhan and his group would definitely not be able to escape back to Jiange alive, so Deng Ming's guarantee was the best treatment they could get. These personal soldiers took Di Sanxi to Gao Mingzhan's hiding place. The Sichuan Governor, who was already exhausted and almost exhausted, staggered out with the support of his subordinates and surrendered to Di Sanxi. The latter sent a team of cavalry to escort the big fish back to the camp, and then continued to search for Tan Yi's traces.

Shortly after Gao Mingzhan was sent back to the camp, Zhao Tianba also arrived in a hurry.

"Where is that thief Gao Mingzhan?" An extremely angry roar came from outside the tent. Zhao Qianhu people arrived with him. After breaking into the tent and seeing Gao Mingzhan, Zhao Tianba was even more angry and rushed forward and scolded loudly: "Gao Bidder, you are too incompetent! You don't let the soldiers eat enough, don't build the camp seriously, and even lose your weapons and armor. Are you here to fight, or to die?"

The more Zhao Tianba talked, the more angry he became. He hated Gao Mingzhan so much that his teeth itched.

"I got up early and went to the middle of the night to practice. I haven't had a day off for more than a month! When others were sleeping at night, I was still checking the newly-built flags. It was common for me to not sleep for three hours a day." Zhao Tianba was so excited that he got a little out of control. He clenched his fists and was about to pounce on him and beat Gao Mingzhan. Deng Ming and others hurriedly stopped him, and finally persuaded him, and then pulled Zhao Qianhu out of the camp to rest.

Tens of thousands of Ming troops arrived one after another, and Deng Ming ordered the entire army to camp and rest. As for the captured Qing troops, Deng Ming also provided them with steaming cooked food and noodle soup.

The thousands of captured Qing soldiers were in very poor physical condition. Many people were still having fever and diarrhea. Deng Ming ordered some quilts from Chengdu as soon as possible. He heard that there were still a group of scattered soldiers and stalkers who were still struggling in the mountains. Deng Ming discussed with his subordinates to form a search team and led them to the mountains to search for survivors: "Prepare some stretchers. If the Qing soldiers can't walk, carry them back, and save people as the first goal. If weapons and armor are found, just record the location. We will pick them up again in the future. Anyway, those things cannot run away without legs."
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