Li Guoying is commanding the army to retreat from Wanxian.

Sun Sick, who was in charge of the transportation line, returned to Chongqing early, but he quickly messed up Li Guoying's arrangements and deployments on the transportation line. If there was a problem with Li Guoying, Sun Sick would not be able to sever the responsibility. Even with the favor of the Empress Dowager and the Royal Family, Sun Sick would not be corrected, and his future would be worrying, at least it was inconsistent with Sun Sick's original intention of using military merits to climb up.

"Follow the thieves, you must not let the thieves gain a foothold on the shore." Sun Sike once again ordered the entire army to follow the Ming army. After the eight banners of the Han Dynasty entered the pass, they have been engaged in military supervision for eighteen years. Most of the current members are the new generation who intend to make contributions in the army. After Sun Sike's order, the Eight Banners soldiers complained and ran back and forth for dozens of miles a day and a night. How could the banner soldiers suffer such a great loss? Amid the complaints, there were also many abuses at Deng Ming, shouting that Deng Ming would come and fight to the death with him, as if Deng Ming could hear it.

Fortunately, the Green Camp is relatively easy to drive, because Sichuan is full of mountains, and the people drawn from the Shanxi Green Camp are all elites who are good at mountain combat. Although the Green Camp is also dissatisfied with Sun Sike, who is commanding randomly, they cannot afford to offend the Eight Banners soldiers, so they have to go back on the road unwillingly.

Now, after discussing with the guards around him, Sun Sicke thought that Li Guoying's method was the best. The governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi was that the troops were covering each other and retreating, and the distance between them was not large, but they had to maintain communication. If the Ming army dared to land, the troops closest to the Ming army defended on the spot, or launched a counter-charge against the enemy who had just landed but had not yet gained a foothold; at the same time, the front army was suspended, and the rear army continued to marching. With pressure from both front and back, it was difficult for the Ming army to pose too great a threat to the Qing army. If the Ming army spent time and effort to send thousands of people ashore and was stuck by the nearest Qing army, they had to continue fighting with the Qing army that had arrived one after another, and could not calmly and retreat to the water without any damage.

Sun Sike arbitrarily modified Li Guoying's strategy to defend Yijing. After running for a day, he did not find an opportunity to fight the Ming army. Now if Li Guoying's strategy is fully restored, he feels too embarrassed to face. Since the Eight Banners soldiers refused to run away, Sun Sike asked the main force of the Han Eight Banners to take turns to rest, and the rest of the supervisors of Shanxi Green Camp continued to track the Ming army to ensure that Deng Ming could not go ashore to set up camp.

After walking for a long time, several of the guards Sun Sike's mounts were exhausted. At this time, the Ming army slowed down again and swayed in front of them slowly. As soon as they saw that the Qing army was slacking off, they began to land. When Sun Sike urged the Green Camp to rush up, they drove away from the bank of the river.

"Damn it, Deng Ming is treating me like a monkey." Although Sun Sike had long understood that the other party was deliberately trying to trouble him, his desire to be lucky was unscathed. He always felt that the Ming army might really land next time, and he was worried that if he let go, Deng Ming would camp on the shore with a swagger.

Whether it was armored or not, they were exhausted. Although the Ming army was not fast now, the green camp could not keep up even if it was like this. Sun Sike ordered, "Don't worry, take a rest, rest for a while."

After finally taking off his armor that had been wearing more than a day, the Qing soldiers wanted to jump into the river to wash away the dust on their bodies. However, the Ming Navy was not far away, and the officers whose clothes were soaked in sweat could only look at the river not far away in a daze.

However, after running for a day and a half, Sun Sike thought he could see the reality of the Ming army clearly. He sat under the shade of the tree and still felt wet and hot: "Just as General Zhao said, officers and soldiers can fight five thousand thieves when fighting head-on with one thousand armored soldiers, so the thieves just wandered on the water and had no courage to go ashore to fight."

Yuan Jiawenbi was by Sun Sike's side and agreed with the head coach's judgment: "The Governor is really a god. Deng Zhe really doesn't have many troops. If he dares to go ashore and fight with our army in a dignified manner, he will definitely be able to kill him without leaving any armor."

The two tired generals cursed Deng Ming's cowardice in unison, and they were so excited that they laughed happily with the guards. They felt a little more comfortable. The soldiers of the green camp around them all fell to the ground. Unlike the officers with horses, they didn't even have the strength to curse. Many people didn't feel hungry and wanted to lie on the ground and remain motionless now.

Soon the Ming army's close observation troops found that the Qing army was not moving. After receiving the report, Deng Ming said to the guards around him: "It seems that General Sun really can't run anymore, so let's stop and wait for them."

Soon the Ming army sent orders to the south bank, and the Ming army ships sailed to the south bank, and after the anchorage, a large number of small boats were put down, first of which were scouts and their horses, and then countless civilians. After landing, the Ming army chopped wood and made rice, preparing to let the whole army have a hot soup and hot rice.

When smoke rose on the shore, the officers asked the soldiers to go ashore to prepare for dinner. An officer shouted to his subordinates in the cabin, "Don't play cards, go ashore to have dinner."

"Oh, dry food is pretty good." Someone protested among the soldiers who were very playful. When the Ming army took Sun Sick on the shore, they did not let all the soldiers prepare for war. The sailors and Sichuan Army soldiers outside the duty were very bored, and they just played bamboo signs in the cabin just like usual.

"Nonsense, the battle is imminent, how can you not eat hot food?" The officer went up and disturbed the game: "Get off the boat and have a meal!"

After the meal, the Ming army was walking within the field of vision of the officers. They had been holding it on the boat for many days. Apart from eating, sleeping, playing cards and chatting, every soldier felt that he needed activities urgently.

At this time, Deng Ming also convened a meeting of all captains to introduce the situation to his subordinates, and the observed situation and his own analysis. After running more this day, Deng Ming was already optimistic about the situation in Wanxian. What he saw was the Qing army column that was constantly returning to the west, and the Jialing River navy all fled back to Jiangkou. If Li Guoying won or was in a stalemate in Wanxian, the Qing army's reaction should not be like this. Deng Ming optimistically estimated that Yuan Zongdi's victory ship might have been on the road at this time. After Deng Ming found that there was no threat on the water, he also sent a clutch to Wanxian and notified the merchant ships waiting in the west to board the road.

"If the Qing army was not so anxious to follow us, I wouldn't dare to land. After all, the enemy situation was unknown. However, it seems that this enemy soldier who had been following us was the strongest mobile force nearby. They couldn't walk and wanted to follow us, which only shows that the Qing generals knew what they had in mind. Their deployment on the shore had great flaws, and the Qing generals were worried that our landing would cause trouble for Li Guoying - the enemy generals would definitely know their truth better than us." Deng Ming sent a wide range of reconnaissance ships to find a location that could allow the large army to board the river bank safely: "If we did not find more Qing troops coming from the east this afternoon, we would fight this exhausted army."

In any case, the strength of the Qing army was far beyond Deng Ming's imagination, and Li Guoying was still nowhere to be seen. Deng Ming felt that the main force of the Qing army must still be with Li Guoying, so there was still a certain danger in landing and fighting. Deng Ming did not want to be stuck by the Qing army, and then had to fight an unknown number of enemy troops to the end - this was not the best choice for the Ming army with a mobile advantage.

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At this time, Chongqing.

Yesterday, as soon as Sun Sike left, Gao Mingzhan ordered all the ships and civilians to pick up Zhao Liangdong who was heading south from Baoning. At that time, there were guards who were worriedly reminding Governor Gao that if Sun Sike wanted to return to Chongqing and found that the ship was gone, he would definitely be very dissatisfied.

"Can you still care about whether he is satisfied or not?" Gao Mingzhan was unmoved. The wind direction is good now, and you can meet Zhao Liangdong, Wang Jinbao and others when you move up the empty ship quickly to help them come to Chongqing faster: "I have already seen it, Chongqing can only count on General Zhao and General Wang."

The remaining ships last night sent information from the other side several times. Seeing Sun Sike saying that he was about to catch up with Deng Ming, and then Gao Mingzhan was vigilant and guarding against the Ming army's raid, the Sichuan Governor sneered: "It's true that's not what I expected."

The facts this morning proved further that Gao Mingzhan's foresight. He came back halfway through the night and hurriedly ran to the east again. Sun Sike once again left a simple notice and asked Gao Mingzhan to be careful.

"What should I be careful? You took away all your armor, but I have nothing to worry about. When Deng Ming came, I sang the empty city plan. Haha, I have prepared all the Yaoqin. I am more generous than Zhuge Wuhou. I will send a hundred soldiers to sweep the floor at the city gate, and prepare four piano boys to ensure that Deng Ming was afraid to enter the city." Gao Mingzhan threw Sun Sike's letter aside contemptuously, and subconsciously touched his arms, confirming that the two coupons he was carrying were still where they should be.

After sending all the ships to receive reinforcements, Governor Gao felt that he had nothing to do, so he calmly played chess with a loyal old servant. Seeing that the servant looked restless, Gao Mingzhan comforted him and said, "Don't think too much. I'm just making it difficult for a good wife to cook without rice. General Sun took away his armor, but I'm going to be prepared or not."

"Master, why don't we run away?" said the servant.

"If you don't run, how can you run all the time? What if Admiral Deng doesn't come? Last time I ran because I knew that Yuan Zongdi and Tan Wen were not easy to talk to. But Admiral Deng is different. I have been to his camp twice, and there is not a single hair missing." As he said that, Gao Mingzhan also stroked his hands to show that his hair was still there: "What if General Zhao arrived first? Then I won't be alone in the face of danger and lie alone in the lonely city."

After two more moves, Gao Mingzhan talked about the past: "Admiral Deng is a generous and good man, but he has a very shameless man named Zhao Tianba. After I was captured last time, I actually wanted to beat me, saying that I would not let the soldiers eat enough, and I would not build a solid camp to die if I threw away my helmet and armor. Isn't it possible to rely on me? Is this my official's intention? I don't know if Zhao Tianba is still in Deng Ming's army. Now I am looking forward to him to see General Sun quickly, and then angrily scolding General Sun for not letting the soldiers rest and not letting the soldiers eat. He deliberately defeated the war and then beat General Sun."
Chapter completed!