After returning to the yamen, Wen Anzhi took out another letter to Deng Ming, which was sent by Li Dingguo's envoy from Kunming with rushing horses.

"The King of Jin wants to ask for an title for you." Wen Anzhi glanced at Deng Ming deeply.

Li Dingguo wrote letters several times before to Fengjie, asking Wen Anzhi about Deng Ming's life experience, but Wen Anzhi made excuses for not knowing it. Li Dingguo was the prince of Huang Yue, and fooling him like this made Wen Anzhi feel uneasy. After the news of the great victory in Gaoyou Lake reached Kunming, Li Dingguo sent someone to send this letter again.

If Deng Ming was a royal family, then he did not need Li Dingguo to ask for titles for himself. In other words, if Deng Ming intended to compete with Yongli for the throne of the emperor, then he could not agree to Li Dingguo to ask for titles for himself. But if Deng Ming was not a royal family, Li Dingguo's move undoubtedly showed the greatest kindness.

"The King of Qingyang in Jianchang seemed to have humiliated the envoy of King Jin several times." Wen Anzhi blamed Deng Ming without any trace when he was reading the letter.

"Is that true?" Although Deng Ming had never given Jianchang such a hint, he also knew that the account must be taken into consideration. Although Feng Shuangli and the King of Qin and the generals of the King of Shu had already had a marriage with Li Dingguo, due to Deng Ming's relationship, their behavior of despising the emperor and the court was undoubtedly more bold: "Did the King of Jin say it?"

"The King of Jin did not mention it," Wen Anzhi sighed. Li Dingguo not only did not tell Fengjie about Jianchang's rudeness and hostility, but also refused to mention his envoy in front of Wen Anzhi; but there was an envoy of Jin who had a few glasses of wine while eating in Fengjie. Suddenly, he couldn't help cursing Jianchang's people, which made Wen Anzhi hear the news: "The King of Jin was probably afraid that I would misunderstand and thought he took this matter to heart."

"Yes." Deng Ming nodded. After hearing Wen Anzhi explain the whole story, he became more determined to go to Kunming: "I heard that the food and salary of King Jin is difficult. This time I brought back a lot of food from Jiangnan and planned to transport 500,000 stones to Jianchang, half of which were for King Jin, and transferred from Jianchang to Kunming.

"That's great." Wen Anzhi also believed that the conflict between Kunming and Jianchang needs to be resolved. Now the tens of thousands of Xiying soldiers in Jianchang are all focused on guarding against Kunming. Using so many troops to guard against Li Dingguo is definitely a major waste of military resources, and it must have involved a lot of Li Dingguo's energy: "Why do you plan to reply to the King of Jin when the King of Jin is asking for your title?"

It has always been too much for Wen'anzhi's helper Deng Ming to cover up, but this time Deng Ming said he would not have to reply to him: "I will personally escort the food and grass to Kunming."

"Are you going to Kunming?" Wen Anzhi was stunned when he heard this, and waved his hands repeatedly, "No, you have to be careful of Li Guoying from Chongqing."

"Supervisor Mingjian." In Deng Ming's view, if he wanted to build trust between Chengdu and Kunming, the best way was to hold a face-to-face meeting with Li Dingguo. However, Deng Ming also knew that Wen Anzhi was worried about his safety: "It was Sun Kewang who advocated chaos back then, but King Jin and King Shu had some questions about the previous and subsequent countermeasures. King Jin never mentioned the envoys who humiliated him to us. It can be seen that King Jin was also reflecting on the mistakes that year. The general believed that King Jin would definitely not treat the general like King Shu. Besides, the current situation is so dangerous that the court only left a little place to set up a cone on the southwest line. If Jianchang and Yunnan were tensely confronted, it would only make the relatives feel sad and the enemy happy. The general also had some face in Jianchang, so this matter was imperative."

After several teachings by Wen Anzhi, Deng Ming rarely speaks so bluntly, but today he has no time to organize language in this matter, so he can say wherever he thinks.

Looking at the guards around him, although they were all confidants of the two, Wen Anzhi still coughed heavily: "Sun Thief betrayed the court, and King Jin was ordered to fight the thief. What's the point? Most of the King of Shu is a bit unspeakable. However, Deng Ming, you have not betrayed the court, nor are you the King of Shu, so you naturally don't need to worry about this."

"Yes." Deng Ming bowed and replied. He knew that Wen Anzhi had agreed with him, but he was still hinting that he should be careful in everything.

"Oh, by the way." Wen Anzhi remembered something again and slapped his head: "Your soldiers are very good at training. You might as well bring two thousand armored soldiers. No, if you take three thousand armored soldiers to Kunming, the King of Jin will definitely like it. Besides, the King of Jin must also want to meet these heroes who killed thieves in Gaoyou Lake."

"Yes." Deng Ming replied respectfully again, unable to help laughing on his face.

...

After a few days of rest during Fengjie, Deng Ming said goodbye to Wen Anzhi and led his army back to Chengdu. He gave the animals a rest in Wanxian.

When the Ming army sailed out of Tongluo Gorge, the vanguard general was Major Ren Tang. Whether it was Yuan Zongdi's intelligence or Sichuan Army's horse exploration, it proved that Li Guoying's entire army was staying in Chongqing. In this way, the Qing army's artillery could not pose too much threat to the Ming army. If the Ming army ships were sailing on the east and south sides of the river, they would not be threatened at all.

When he fought with Li Guoying last time, Ren Tang had not led his army to fight a few battles, and he had little military experience, and almost all of them were marching. However, benefiting from a series of experiences since then, Ren Tang learned a lot and accumulated a lot of experience. After this time, Ren Tang had been involved in decision-making and often discussed military affairs with Deng Ming, Mutan and Zhou Kaihuang. Not only did he know the reasons behind making each decision, but he also led his troops himself many times.

"Why did Li Guoying refuse to send a soldier to cross the Yangtze River to build forts here, equipped with muskets and cannons?" As early as when he entered Kuimen, Ren Tang asserted to Deng Ming that Li Guoying would not risk crossing the river. Now he discussed the pros and cons with the officers around him: "What would you do if you were in Li Guoying's position?"

Several officers thought that Li Guoying's countermeasures were appropriate. Last time, Li Guoying brought a 30,000 army across the river to attack Deng Ming, but was beaten to only 3,500 people fled back to Chongqing. Although now, with the strong support of the Qing court, Li Guoying might have concentrated more than 10,000 less than 20,000 troops in Chongqing, so naturally he did not dare to cross the river to fight again. The navy in Wanxian was stronger than the Jialing River navy. If the Ming army besieged the fortress on the south bank of Li Guoying with heavy troops, he could only squat in Chongqing city and watch.

Two officers believed that Li Guoying had missed the opportunity. If they were in Li Guoying's position, they would send troops to cross the river and attack. Even if they could not hurt the Ming army, they could cause trouble for the Ming army. As for the difficulties that the small Qing army might encounter, both officers felt that they could be solved by adapting to the situation. One person even believed that even the small troops that the Ming army besieged the river were beneficial to Chongqing, so that the shipping power of the Ming army's navy could be restrained and further drag down the Ming army's Yangtze River shipping.

Ren Tang did not judge the right or wrong of their opinions, but just kept the names of the two officers who advocated sneak attacks in their hearts and labeled them with a tendency to attack. Most officers who lack combat experience prefer defense. Although they now support Li Guoying's countermeasures to defend the city, they may not be a stable party. Perhaps as combat experience becomes more and more abundant, they will become more and more radical.

However, Li Guoying was different. As an experienced general, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi always showed obvious conservative tendencies. At the discussion meeting at Kuimen, Ren Tang pointed out that Li Guoying had a tendency to exaggerate the enemy's reaction speed and troubles he encountered. For example, when he was fighting with the Sichuan army last time, Li Guoying did not burn the camp when he retreated, obviously he wanted to mislead the Sichuan army as much as possible. In fact, even if Li Guoying burned the camp and supplies, Ren Tang's military ability at that time might not be able to stop the Qing army from retreating.

Chongqing's deployment is also the same trick. Li Guoying's rich combat experience made him realize that there are a lot of risks in any action. Before he came up with a safe solution, he would rather choose to avoid taking risks. This cautious attitude and careful thinking made Li Guoying show strong defensive ability. He has thought about all kinds of offensive forms of the Ming army, so he has also had a preliminary response.

Zhao Liangdong and Li Guoying are different. He tends to narrow down difficulties. The rich combat experience plays a role in Zhao Liangdong that is exactly the opposite of Li Guoying. Not only does it not make Zhao Liangdong more cautious, but it makes him full of confidence in overcoming all difficulties. When facing the severe military situation last time when facing the Sichuan Army, Zhao Liangdong still launched a counterattack with confidence, intending to defeat the Ming army one by one with rich combat experience - my soldiers are better trained and my reaction is faster, so even if everyone encounters unexpected troubles, I will solve them better and faster, but the result is still I will win.

Before, Zhao Liangdong had been ordered to go back to Shaanxi to train new recruits. Deng Ming and others believed that if Zhao Liangdong was in Chongqing, it would be possible that the Ming and Qing armies had already fought long ago - this was both a threat and an opportunity for the Ming army, and Chongqing's defense would never be as clear as Li Guoying presided over.

When Ren Tang's ship arrived near Chongqing, the river from Chongqing to Tongluo Gorge was already full of Ming army ships. The governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi was alarmed and had already run up the city tower to look up the river - this formation was somewhat similar to when the Ming army sailed out of Kuimen, but what they sent to Chongqing Qing army was definitely not joy.

Hu Wenke and others on the city tower were already surprised and could not speak and were greatly shocked. As for the low-level officers and soldiers, they even trembled at the river. Generals Wang Mingde and Zhang Yong performed slightly better, and did not tremble like soldiers, but there was no trace of blood on their faces.

In the 15th year of Shunzhi, Wu Sangui went from Chongqing to Zunyi. The Qing Dynasty drew a large number of ships from Liangjiang and forced the transportation of grain and fodder to Chongqing through the Three Gorges. At that time, Wang Mingde had seen the momentum of the Susong Navy escorting the Liangjiang transport fleet. But even the Susong Navy in its heyday was far from comparable to the Western Sichuan Navy that drove out of Tongluo Gorge today.

When Tan Yi rebelled, Wang Mingde and Tan Yi's joint navy chased Yuan Zongdi. When the navy chased Tongluo Gorge, it felt far enough and returned. But now the vanguards of the Ming army have all arrived at the city of Chongqing, and the fleet behind them is still driving continuously, as if endless...
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