"It's another bad news." Li Guoying received a report from his subordinates, and Deng Ming, Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun issued an announcement that this is the third bad news since Gaoyou Lake.

The previous one was the imperial decree of the court, expressing its intention to continue to provide supplies and supplies to the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and even to draw green camps from Shanxi to reinforce Chongqing.

Originally, after the Battle of Gaoyou Lake, Li Guoying and his civil and military officials both judged that the court would switch from strategic offense to defense to survive the instability period in recent years. At that time, Li Guoying was even ready to withdraw his troops, intending to give up Chongqing and retreat back to Baoning in one breath.

After learning that the court would not only not weaken the supply of materials in Sichuan, but would continue to strengthen it to avenge Shunzhi, officials under the Sichuan-Shaanxi Governor's Office cheered, except for Li Guoying, thinking that this was excellent news - for the Sichuan-Shaanxi Governor's Office. Only the Governor himself disagreed with the public and believed that this was a stupid idea, because the Qing court needed to take out huge gambling to engage in this huge risky gambling.

"If the court takes the initiative to move into defense, then when will it be the court decides when to move into attack. But if it is a crushing defeat, it is hard to say when it can still be counterattacked." Li Guoying obviously did not look at the problem from the perspective of his Governor's Office. While he was heartbroken, he even cited the examples of Xiong Tingbi and Wang Zaijin, comparing their strategies with the strategies of today's Qing court: "Xiong Tingbi and Wang Zaijin in the previous dynasty believed that they must first have the ability to restore the entire western Liaoning before they could try to restore Jinzhou; they must have the strength to restore the entire Liaoning before they can consider restoring Guangning. This is very true. The problems encountered by the court today are very similar to the Liaodong problem encountered by the previous dynasty. Of course, the destiny is in this dynasty, but the situation still exists.

Some similarities. Now our army is in control of Chongqing and strangled the throat of Deng Zhe. Although his transportation is inconvenient and his mobilization consumes his strength again and again, he will sooner or later change this mistake. In the end, Chongqing's only use is to consume the power of Sichuan and Shaanxi. We have to spend a huge price to transport grain for thousands of miles, delaying the time for the Ganzhou-Shaanxi Green Camp to recover its vitality. Chongqing is only important when the court has the strength to pacify the entire Sichuan. Now Deng Ming has only 200,000 male men under him. So what if Chongqing is given to him? If Deng Zhe sent troops to garrison, he would have to garrison or transport grain, giving us the opportunity to raid him along the Jialing River; and if he doesn't want Chongqing, when the court wants to pacify Sichuan, we will send troops to occupy it again, why do we have to stay here?"

Although the imperial court had some savings over the years, it would undoubtedly cost amazing military expenses to draw troops from Shanxi to Sichuan and then divide their troops into several groups to launch an attack on Chengdu. Li Guoying could not imagine that if the attack failed, it might be a much more serious failure than the Battle of the Ming army's Sarhu. The Qing court would lose a lot of savings, strength and reputation, lose the right to strategic offensive indefinitely, and even cause the imperial court to lose its strategic reserves and a large part of its mobilization ability. In case of Mongolia, Japanese pirates or Zheng Chenggong, Li Dingguo took the opportunity to launch an attack, the imperial court would not be able to support other places, but could only hope that all places would withstand it with their own strength.

Everyone in the Governor's Office was excited and shouting that the court was wise, but Li Guoying was worried. Of course, he could not openly oppose the court's policies and appropriations. After all, his subordinates were waiting for the money and food. Even if Li Guoying was the governor's emperor, he would not dare to offend public anger. He did not want to be a governor who could not command the army.

Therefore, Li Guoying could only vaguely suggest that the court should not rush to launch a large-scale attack on Chengdu, and should consider Hong Chengchou's countermeasures back then, that is, to stabilize the defense and watch the Ming army have internal conflicts. The reason for not launching an offensive at the moment is not because of lack of power, but waiting for a better opportunity. If hasty action leads to a crushing defeat, no matter how good the opportunity appears in the future, the Qing court will not be able to take advantage of it.

In his letter to the Qing court, Li Guoying carefully analyzed the current situation of the Southern Ming Dynasty. He believed that the current situation in the Southern Ming Dynasty was very similar to that of the two famous queens of Li Dingguo. The original order within the Ming army was being disrupted, and the strength of various factions of the Ming army began to expand, but there was no leader with absolute authority. The Yongli Emperor's appeal to various units of the Ming army is worse than before the internal strife of the three kings. The loss of authority has led to the opportunity of generals of various factions of the Ming army to compete for leadership.

Li Guoying believed that as long as the Qing court stabilized its position, the Ming army would have another internal conflict and conflict in the fight for leadership. Li Guoying believed that Deng Ming, who provoked the internal conflict this time, was mostly Deng Ming, whose strength was rapidly expanding. Now Deng Ming has a huge reputation, a strong military force, and seriously broke the previous balance. When Deng Ming launched an internal unification war, his reputation and support he received would decline as rapidly as Li Dingguo back then. Once a large number of Ming army allies became Deng Ming's enemies and their power was defeated but had not been digested, that was the best time to eliminate Deng Ming as Li Guoying believed.

Moreover, Li Guoying also believed that the Qing court did not have to wait for a long time to see the internal strife initiated by Deng Ming. On the one hand, because of Deng Ming's power and reputation, there had been serious conflicts with other Ming troops; in addition, Shunzhi had just passed away, the situation of the Qing court's suspicion of young countries may cause Deng Ming to misjudgment, believing that this was a good time for him to launch an internal strife, and he could unify the Ming army while the Qing court stabilized its internal strife.

Once Deng Ming launches the war of unity, the Qing army can get dissatisfied surrenders, and can see Deng Ming loses his troops and supplies in the internal strife and destroys allies he could have counted on. At that time, the Qing army launches a full-strength attack and drives Deng Ming to the Tibetan area, so that he can never think of gaining a foothold in western Sichuan.

Until he received Deng Ming's announcement, Li Guoying was still full of confidence in his strategic concept.

"Deng Ming did not unify the military and political orders and was waiting for death. He should be very clear about this. He was definitely not a person who was willing to wait for death. So I always thought that he would take advantage of his high reputation and take a risk when the court was in chaos." Li Guoying put down the document and sighed to his staff at the left and right: "I didn't expect that he was so open-minded. He would rather be on an equal footing with people who were far inferior to his. It seems that they will not have internal conflicts in the short term."

"Governor General Don't be so disappointed," a staff member persuaded: "Maybe Deng Ming is just to paralyze his accomplices, and maybe new news will come tomorrow: Deng Ming slaughtered Liu Tichun and was fighting with Li Laiheng."

"No, since Deng Ming made a declaration, it means he understood very well. Not unified in government orders is a dead end, but unification of force is still a dead end; since he understands so well in his heart, he will never give us a chance." Li Guoying smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Do you know who Deng Ming reminded me of?"

Before the staff asked questions, Li Guoying took the initiative to give the answer: "It's Emperor Taizong."

"Ah." Many staff members exclaimed.

"Yes, it's Emperor Taizong. After Emperor Taizu (Nurhaci) died, our dynasty had only Liao, and it was a small place. The previous dynasty gathered heavy troops in the western Liaoning Corridor. Mao Wenlong behind it attacked him day and night. Mongolia and North Korea were all enemies and not friends, and they were fighting within. No matter how you look at it, they would be dead. Emperor Taizong also knew very well at that time that if the Eight Banners could not be united, the country would definitely be destroyed. If the Eight Banners were unified by force, even if they win, they would suffer heavy casualties. The defeated side would probably go to the previous dynasty, which was almost exactly the same as Deng Ming's current situation. Emperor Taizong chose the Eight Kings to discuss politics, and the four major beloruss were on equal terms. Everything was only carried out after the Eight Banners was discussed. Emperor Taizong would never make decisions without authorization."

Hearing this, a staff member asked, "What the Governor General means is Deng Zhe is learning from Emperor Taizong?"

"That's true," Li Guoying nodded, pointing to the declaration and said: "Emperor Taizong had any ideas when he was discussing politics. Everyone agreed before he did it. Although this made Emperor Taizong unable to control the Eight Banners as if he had his fingers, he first united the Eight Banners; secondly, Emperor Taizong did not need to use force to unify the government orders. Deng Ming's committee was obviously learning from Emperor Taizong. He did not want the Ming army to become a mess, but he would never use force."

"They also want Fengjie to be the judge!" another staff member said.

"This?" Li Guoying said without hesitation: "This is just giving Wen Anzhi a face."

After pondering for a while, Li Guoying said again: "Deng Mingxiong is talented and talented, and he should be destroyed quickly. Perhaps it makes sense for the court to attack Sichuan in a hurry."

"Tei Deng is just learning from Emperor Taizong of our dynasty. The Governor regards this beast too highly, right?" The aides felt that since Deng Ming was learning Huang Taiji, it would be nothing special.

"Otherwise, it is normal for human beings to eliminate dissidents. Many heroes and heroes fell to this barrier. Did they do little to kill each other in the previous dynasty? Only Deng Ming, whose military strength is stronger than the thieves of the Great East, has an unparalleled reputation for a while. He is still so young, but he can learn the nature of Emperor Taizong. Isn't this a big trouble for the court?" When Li Guoying thought of Deng Ming's age, he felt cold: "It's not scary to have martial spirits alone, but Xiang Yu is the worst. But Deng Ming is only in his early twenties, and his patience has the style of Liu Bang. Is that so great?"

...

"There is Kuimen ahead."

Deng Ming returned to Sichuan this time, and the Ming army brought many new recruits who had entered Sichuan for the first time. When the world's Xiong Pass appeared in front of him, the veterans introduced them to the new recruits: "After passing Kuimen, it is Baidi City and Fengjie, we are home!"

When the Ming army's fleet slowly passed through the mountain in Kuimen, beacon fires rose from Baidi City.

"Admiral's fleet!" The guards of Baidi City shouted excitedly: "A such a large fleet can only be the admiral. Please inform Fengjie quickly!"
Chapter completed!