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"If we retreat for several miles, wouldn't Li Guoying see the flaw?" Deng Ming now had a feeling that Yuan Zongdi seemed to be afraid of the city Li Guoying defended.

"There will be a plan at the end. We can pretend that the camp caught fire and then retreat. Retreatment after the fire is a completely normal countermeasure. The Tartars should not be suspicious. If Li Guoying is guilty, he will definitely take this opportunity to withdraw his troops. We follow and chase, and we must defeat them and eliminate the main force of the Ganzhou-Shaanxi Green Camp, so that we will not worry about the north in the future." Yuan Zongdi pondered for a moment: "If Li Guoying leads the front army to retreat first, it will be much easier for us to defeat the Tartars, but Li Guoying will most likely cut off the back personally, and we must be careful even when chasing."

Deng Ming had no idea about Li Guoying, and knew nothing about the history of his previous life. In the history of Deng Ming's previous world, it was Li Guoying who finally destroyed the Kuidong Ming army. During the four-sided encirclement organized by the Qing army, Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun defeated the main force of the Qing army in other directions, leaving only the Sichuan army. Li Guoying personally led a small number of troops to defend the newly captured Wushan County and fought against the main force of the Kuidong Army. Li Laiheng, Liu Tichun, Hao Yaoqi and others led a large army to siege the city, and they had no choice but to attack him in turn. Li Guoying used this to exhaust the food and grass of the Kuidong Army, and the time to recuperate and a large number of troops; the Qing army in other directions also took this opportunity to revive the situation, and took advantage of the main force of the Kuidong Army being attracted by Li Guoying to press forward step by step again, resulting in the complete failure of the Kuidong Ming Army.

After arriving at the city of Chongqing, Deng Ming has been observing the Qing army's positions every day for many days, but Li Guoying's camp was arranged very complicatedly and fully utilized the cover of the terrain. Even the camp exposed in front also used many flags that were difficult to distinguish between reality and reality. Needless to mention Deng Ming, who had just arrived, even Yuan Zongdi had been here for so long, he was not sure about the specific deployment of the Qing army, so he was more cautious about the strong attack.

Although he felt that Chongqing was not easy to attack, Deng Ming felt that his fear of difficulties seemed to be inferior to Yuan Zongdi, so he asked: "General Yuan and Li Guoying have had many dealings. Let me tell me."

When Yuan Zongdi first met Li Guoying, Li Guoying was still the general under Zuo Liangyu. However, Zuo Liangyu was the attacking party at that time, Yuan Zongdi did not think that Li Guoying was special. His field battle level was not better than other Ming generals, and he had no reputation. After Yuan Zongdi turned to launch an attack on Zuo Liangyu, Zuo Liangyu fled repeatedly, and Li Guoying also ran with him. At that time, Yuan Zongdi despised this defeated general. After the Yipianshi War, the Qing army entered the pass, and Li Guoying followed Zuo Menggeng to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and transferred to Shaanxi to serve.

When Li Guoying arrived in Shaanxi, the main battlefields of the Ming and Qing dynasties had been transferred to Jiangnan. For Beijing, Shaanxi became a secondary battlefield. Li Guoying was always responsible for defense. From then on, Li Guoying let the old troops of the camp suffer. Later, the Xiying army drove out from Yunnan and Guizhou and launched a full-scale attack on Huguang, Jiangxi, Ganzhou and Shaanxi. Li Guoying's job was to defend, defend, and then defend. It is undeniable that Li Guoying completed this task very well.

"...Li Guoying is not only good at defending, but also courageous. A few years ago, the King of Shu and Sun Kewang mobilized the army repeatedly and vowed to capture Hanzhong and advance to Guanzhong. At that time, the capitulation court once thought that Hanzhong did not have to stick to it, and focused on defending Xi'an with all his might. Baoning, as the outpost of Hanzhong, seemed like a beacon tower in everyone's eyes. But Li Guoying stayed in Baoning and defended under the siege of Shu and Sun Kewang's army. When the officers and soldiers were exhausted, Wu Sangui came out of Hanzhong." Yuan Zongdi introduced Li Guoying in detail to Deng Ming. Although he was an enemy, Yuan Zongdi did not mean to belittle him. Instead, he said to Deng Ming seriously: "I came to Chongqing in the end and saw that it was Li Guoying who was defending the city, I thought that if it was not the last resort, it would be better not to attack."

Zhao Tianba, who was beside him, muttered softly, "That's because Li Zhe has never met King Jin." However, this sentence is just Zhao Tianba made excuses for the Western Camp. Zhao Tianba could not deny the defensive ability shown by Li Guoying.

"The two Han flag generals of Ganzhou and Shaanxi are good at defending and Zhao Liangdong are good at attacking." Because of the defensive achievements of the Western Battalions over the years, Li Guoying has been raised by the Qing court. Yuan Zongdi said to Deng Ming again: "Hong Chengchou attacked Yunnan and Guizhou and transferred Zhao Liangdong and others who are good at attacking. Now the Green Camp in Ganzhou and Shaanxi has more than enough defense but less attacking. Even if he attacks the capital, only surrendered generals like Tan Yi can be sent to Gao Mingzhan. If Zhao Liangdong, Zhang Yong and others are here, the admiral will not be able to win so easily. Although Li Guoying is good at defending the city, he is not good at attacking and is not good at fighting in the field. We just need to be careful not to hit his head and run blood in front of his strong city."

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When the Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi were resting, a guard suddenly came in to report that it was the Ming army camp on the other side that was on fire. Hearing this, Li Guoying hurriedly put on his robe and hurried to the top of the city to watch.

I saw that there was indeed a blazing fire on the other side, and the bright fire even dispelled some fog on the river. Under the red fog, a large number of Ming soldiers seemed to be rushing back and forth between the Yangtze River and the camp, busy carrying water to put out the fire. On both sides of these fire-breaking camps, the Ming army's positions were also brightly lit. Countless soldiers did not help put out the fire, but held torches high in front of the camp, obviously in case of the Qing army crossing the river and attacking.

After confirming that the Ming army camp unexpectedly caught fire, Li Guoying suddenly had a thought in his mind: "There is no way out!"

Li Guoying estimated that the Ming army could not tell for a moment whether they had a fire accident or whether the Qing army had a detailed plan to sneak into the battalion and set fire. When the two armies were at such a high level of tension, the other party must have been thinking of "it would rather trust what they had than what they did not", while being on guard, while checking and doing things in detail.

"The opportunity has arrived!" Li Guoying immediately realized that this was a great opportunity to retreat. After the camp was burned, the Ming army might be nervous all night, and for safety after tomorrow, most of them would have to retreat and camp. If the Qing soldiers could seize the opportunity to break through quickly, they could distance themselves from the Ming army before the enemy could react.

A series of mutually echoing retreat methods automatically emerged from my mind, and Li Guoying immediately asked himself a question: "What would I do if I were Deng Ming?"

Li Guoying planned to predict Deng Ming's actions and then began to deploy retreat operations in a targeted manner. Almost while asking his own questions, Li Guoying gave a number of answers. In addition to retreating and setting up camps, identifying camp soldiers, and inspecting posts, the navy that was always blocked by the Jialing River estuary was also needed to patrol along the Yangtze River to prevent the Qing army from traversing. Now the top priority of the Ming army is obviously not to pursue the retreating Qing army, but to guard against the counterattack of Chongqing defenders - if the Qing army made a detailed move.

But these answers did not occupy Li Guoying's brain for a long time, nor did he come up with any targeted strategies.

"What would I do if I were Deng Ming?" Li Guoying murmured to himself. This time he unknowingly recited the problem.

After a moment, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi suddenly shouted: "If I were Deng Ming, what would I do?"

The sudden stern shouting shocked Li Guoying's guards were all shocked, and they all looked at their boss blankly.

Li Guoying did not ask others about the intention. He no longer observed the situation on the other side, but paced back and forth quickly on the top of the city, and his mind was quickly turned: "If I were Deng Ming, after I was wiped out Gao Mingzhan and let the partial army leave Jiange, I would secretly bring the army to Chongqing city and hide in the dark waiting. When Chongqing received the news of Baoning's attack, I saw that Chongqing sent some reinforcements back to defense, and then let Yuan Zongdi take out the captured Gao Mingzhan's flag of seized suddenly; when the defenders hurriedly retreat, Deng Ming suddenly appeared and launched a full-scale pursuit. Well, if I were Deng Ming, I would probably do this."

Li Guoying stopped and looked at the other side again, falling into a long silence: "Now when I look back, it seems that the thief was leaking a little early, as if I wanted to scare me away. Moreover, today's fire seemed a bit too coincidental. When I was looking forward to a good opportunity to break through day and night, the enemy camp suddenly caught fire."

Heavy footsteps came from behind, and Wang Mingde and others rushed over after hearing the news. As soon as they climbed the city tower, they saw the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi who had arrived earlier. Just when everyone was about to come forward to ask for advice, Li Guoying, who was still rushing to the other side, raised his hand without looking back, stopping Wang Mingde and others from speaking: "Don't say anything, I am a little confused now, so I have to think about it carefully."

At noon the next day, Li Guoying walked out of the yamen again and climbed the city wall with all his thoughts. When everyone greeted him, the Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi seemed to have not heard it at all, without any reaction.

After walking up to the city, Li Guoying saw that many generals were happy on their faces, because the Ming army retreated for several miles overnight. The Ming army navy, which had always threatened the Jialing River, also scattered on the entire Yangtze River at this time.

"The reason why I asked Gao Mingzhan to choose to attack Chengdu at this time was because the mountains were blocked in winter were covered with heavy snow. Even if Chengdu knew that Jiange had fallen, it would not have time to ask Jianchang for help. Even if he asked for help in time, the Western thieves in Jianchang did not have time to send reinforcements. In addition, before Gao Mingzhan sent troops, I asked Wang Mingde to keep the pressure on Fengjie and Wanxian. Before I arrived in Chongqing, there was absolutely no fleet of thieves passing. Gao Mingzhan should not have encountered a large number of thieves. Jianchang did not have time to send troops. I was keeping a close eye on the east side of Sichuan."

Li Guoying looked at the Yangtze River, and was still thinking about the problem that had been thinking for a night: "If Gao Mingzhan was not defeated by a large army, then the news was leaked. Deng Ming knew in advance that Gao Mingzhan would attack Chengdu. He set up an ambush and defeated the restless Gao Mingzhan and Tan Yi. Because the road was difficult to move, few soldiers fled back after Gao Mingzhan was defeated. This battle may not be fought in Jiangyou at all, but was fought under the city of Chengdu. Although I was just guessing, I would rather believe that the news was leaked and Deng Ming was prepared than the emergence of tens of thousands of troops out of thin air."

When Li Guoying entered the city this time, he was fiddling with a copper coin. Whether it was his staff or his generals, he didn't know why the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi had been playing with this copper coin, and no one dared to ask.

Seeing that the Ming army's actions were as expected in advance, Li Guoying's face was not only not happy, but was stained with a heavier sense of worry, and he thought to himself: "If Gao Mingzhan was not defeated by the army, but by the Jianbi Qingye, then Deng Ming might not have sent troops out of the Jiange at all. He knew that if I left some troops behind, his side troops would be futile and ended up being the same fate as Gao Mingzhan; and now everything I see is the trick of the thief, he wanted to trick me out of the city, making me mistakenly think that I could take this time to get rid of the pursuit; if I guessed correctly, as soon as I left Chongqing, the enemy ships that looked like a piece of sand on the river would suddenly gather and rush into the Jialing River together. The main force of the thief who had been hiding miles away would come back as quickly as possible, bite our army tightly, and prevent us from getting out of safely."

When Li Guoying thought of this, he suddenly grabbed the copper coins in his hand with force. Although the river surface in front of him seemed calm, Li Guoying felt that there was infinite murderous intent hidden in it: "If I guessed wrongly, the thief did catch an accident, this is the last chance for the soldiers to escape; if I refused to leave because of my random thoughts, the thief would approach again in a few days, so that we could never leave easily; and within ten days, news came from the upstream that the thief had already killed from Jiange and captured Baoning and Guangyuan, because of my suspicion, tens of thousands of soldiers were killed."

Li Guoying looked around the generals around him and the soldiers in the city. He knew that the decision he was about to make was of great importance. If his judgment was wrong, it would mean the destruction of the Ganzhou Green Camp.

Last night, and this whole morning, Li Guoying couldn't tell whether this was Deng Ming's hidden murderous trap or the last chance of escape from the Sichuan-Shaanxi Green Camp. Like all the generals of this era, Li Guoying thought of divination when he was unsure.

"The villain dares to ask God to give mercy to these tens of thousands of soldiers." Li Guoying prayed silently in his heart, walked to the wall, and left all his generals behind him. He planned to throw coins secretly: "If this fire is really a matter of God's desire to save my Chongqing officers and soldiers, I dare to ask God to let this copper coin face upward."

After the silent prayer, Li Guoying put his hand on his chest and blocked all the gazes from behind with his body. With a light flash of his thumb, the copper coin flew into the air. After a slight stop at the highest point, he quickly fell down the wall. The governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi stared at the yellow tracks drawn by the copper coin in the air.

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Several miles away from Chongqing, Deng Ming and generals such as Yuan Zongdi were discussing military information. Whether it was Yuan Zongdi's 4,000 soldiers or the 8,000 soldiers under Deng Ming's command, they were all full of energy and had no sign of fatigue on their faces. Yesterday afternoon, the Ming army had already arranged the camp here. After the fog began to fog on the river at night, the Ming army's 12,000 soldiers, tens of thousands of auxiliary soldiers and sailors came here to sleep and rest. In fact, there were only a few thousand strong men acting at the fire scene.

"Li Guoying has been on the battlefield for a long time. If he really wants to retreat, he will show signs today and will start acting tomorrow at the latest." The main force of the Ming army is ready and can launch a pursuit at any time. As for the navy that is now cruising on the Yangtze River, the officers are also ordered to prepare. Once the Qing army evacuates from Chongqing, they will cooperate with the army to launch an attack and chase the Qing army on both water and land.

"Li Guoying has a strong personality and will definitely lead the Biao camp to break the rear." Yuan Zongdi once again gave the enemy a praise: "But the journey from Chongqing to Baoning is long, and he will definitely not be able to escape."

Yuan Zongdi introduced some experiences in pursuing Deng Ming. Most of the examples mentioned were the situation of pursuing the Ming army in the camp. After getting along with Deng Ming for a long time, Yuan Zongdi's concerns became less and less. He knew that Deng Ming only cared about military situations and never took these political issues to heart. At most, just pay attention to the title.

Finally, Yuan Zongdi also mentioned Li Zicheng's experience in pursuing Sun Chuanting: "At that time, the commander of the commander of the seven provinces, commanding the coalition forces of seven provinces, with 200,000 troops, half of which were the Ganzhou-Shaanxi Green Camp - they were still called the Qin army. The food route was cut off, and the commander Sun commanded the entire army to return to Tongguan, and the commander Chuangwang followed closely behind. At the beginning, the commander Sun challenged the commander Chuangwang several times, and the commander Chuangwangwang was not in the battle. Because it was still far from Tongguan, the commander Sun still had the power to fight. If the commander Chuangwang was unfortunately defeated, the commander Sun could return safely.

Tongguan. Therefore, the King of Chuang attacked the rear army of Sun Commander Sun every day. If he saw that the Chief of Sun Commander was interested in a decisive battle, the King of Chuang stopped to confront him. The Chief of Chuang wanted to fight but could not be obtained. All the injured people in the camp could be rescued, and the Chief of Chuang kept leaving the wounded. At first, the rear team of Sun Commander Sun could fight and retreat. As he got closer and closer to Tongguan, the daily rations were less and less. The morale of Sun Commander Sun Commander finally became in chaos, and no one was willing to leave behind the rear. Sun Commander himself abandoned his army and fled back to Tongguan. "

"In the end, the army can't control it?" Deng Ming asked.

"That is, there are only 200,000 coalition forces in the seven provinces, and only 300 people followed Sun to Tongguan." Yuan Zongdi couldn't help but smile proudly: "So, don't be impatient when chasing. The retreating side goes away, the more people's hearts become more and more confused, and it's easier to deal with it. Especially if the opponent's chief general runs away, he can win easily."

"Thank you for General Yuan's teachings." Deng Ming knew that Yuan Zongdi was reminding himself not to be greedy for merit and make a rash progress, but Li Guoying ran away.

"As long as the Tatar army leaves Chongqing City, they will never be able to enter Baoning City alive." Yuan Zongdi smiled: "Li Guoying is good to defend the city, but there is no point in retreating. General Liu and I chased him three times, two of which led to the entire army being destroyed, and we were spared only. The time he was letting him run away was because he was too anxious, and the pursuers were defeated by the troops who broke the rear led by Li Guoying."

"Well, I understand." Deng Ming turned around and looked at a middle-aged officer beside him and said to them: "You have just come, and you are going to work hard."

"It is exactly what we want to be able to serve the admiral and fight to kill the enemy." The middle-aged officer around him responded generously. He had just arrived in Chongqing with his brothers for a few days. In addition to bringing Li Laiheng's greetings, he also brought his own military flag - the pattern embroidered on the military flag, which was the three walls drawn by Deng Ming himself.

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