Gao Mingzhan had no intention of turning against the Ming court. In his opinion, the Southern Ming Dynasty was just surviving no matter how hard it was. Although Deng Ming was invincible, from the Battle of Chongqing three years ago to the present, Deng Ming controlled only the surrounding areas of Chengdu, and it was accepted by the Ming general Liu Yao and Yang Youcai and others, rather than seized from the Qing army.

As for Jiange and other places that were originally under the control of the Ming army, they were also abandoned by the Ming army. Therefore, from the perspective of the territory, at least the territory of the Ming and Qing armies of Sichuan and Ming armies did not change much, and even the Ming army shrank slightly, and Chongqing was still under the control of the Qing army. Although Gao Mingzhan also admitted that western Sichuan was becoming more and more powerful, and Sichuan's strategic initiative was increasingly controlled by the Ming army, what if the Ming army could drive the Qing army out of Sichuan? The Qing court was

There were nine out of the world in the old ten. Although Deng Ming killed Shunzhi, burned Hong Chengchou to death, and captured and killed two governors, the overall situation of the Three Kings of the Southern Ming Dynasty was not changed. At most, he seized a piece of territory in the Han River Basin, which was to prevent the situation in the Southern Ming from continuing to worsen. Moreover, the Ming army conquered Jiangnan twice, although the Qing army was unable to maintain peace, it could not gain a foothold in Jiangnan in the end, let alone drive the Qing Dynasty out of the Liangjiang River.

Therefore, Gao Mingzhan still believed that Deng Ming would not be able to escape sooner or later, and what he had to do was to continue to stand on the side of the winner, that is, the Qing court, but he should not have a rift with Deng Ming, who was in a strong position. Gao Mingzhan did not want to be a martyr who died on the eve of victory.

Of course, the head coach could not reveal his thoughts. Seeing Gao Mingzhan so calm, the city of Chongqing, which was originally panicked, became stable. Some small officers below discussed privately that even Governor Gao, who had a record of abandoning the city and escaping, looked like a vague person, and the situation in Chongqing might not be very bad. Gao Mingzhan sent a large number of ships to pick up Zhao Liangdong quickly spread in Chongqing. Many people thought that Zhao Liangdong might arrive immediately, so that Governor Gao's calmness would have a reasonable explanation.

Gao Mingzhan inadvertently greatly stabilized the morale of Chongqing and morale, Sun Sick's army was still fighting against the sultry weather and the dangerous mountain roads. The spy reported that after the Qing army stopped, the Ming army's fleet also stopped. Soon after, Sun Sick received a second report, saying that large scattered smoke seemed to rise on the other side, and that the Ming army might be having lunch on the safe south bank.

"It turns out that they are timid!" Yuan Jiawenbi and Sun Sike cursed in unison. They had just found a mountain spring and swallowed some dry food with the spring water. Although they were the leader of the army, Sun Sike really couldn't find enough people to chop wood and cook rice now, and his guards were all exhausted.

After resting for a while, Sun Sike learned that some of the Ming army's fleet had been driving downstream, and he didn't know what to do, and the rest were still parked not far away.

"Brothers can't walk anymore," the officers who recovered came to report to Sun Sike. Many soldiers had fallen to the ground and fell asleep. It was fine if the green camp did not rest. As soon as they rested, they said they would not get up again. They whipped one with a whip, and when they turned to whip the other, the previous one fell down again: "Or why just camp here, right?"

"Who will cut down wood and build a fence?" The Ming army was not far away. Even if Sun Sick agreed to camp here, he could not completely ignore safety issues.

"There is a village a few miles downstream," an officer reported: "Yesterday, a battalion of armored and more than 2,000 unarmed soldiers were there overnight. We can expand it. Even if we don't expand it, we can almost live there."

"There are still several miles." Although there is no need to set up camp to make everyone's eyes shine, when they heard that they had to climb a few more miles of mountain roads, the Qing army began to fear difficulties again.

At this time, the Qing army spies came back to report and said that they saw the Ming army starting to land again from a distance.

"I want to cheat me again." Sun Sike cursed: "When I go over, they will get on the boat and leave again. I can't stand it. See when they can act?"

Now the Eight Banners of Han and the Green Camp do not want to drive away the Ming army. Anyway, the Ming army will leave by itself, so why should we do this? Moreover, Sun Sike and Yuan Jiawenbi both believed that today was a great victory. Deng Ming was repeatedly frustrated and was driven down the river by the Eight Banners of Han. This memorial report was also a memorial of Da Zhang's court spirit.

Since they realized that the credit had been obtained and they could not get the head of the Ming army, the Qing army generals naturally refused to waste their hard work. They felt that they would take a little longer and then set off to spend the night in the downstream camp. Tomorrow, the column would be re-opened to protect the armorless soldiers on the traffic line. When passing by the Ming army landing, the Ming army would definitely rush onto the ship and escape again. At that time, the Qing army could also laugh at these rats.

After landing, the Ming army quickly sent scouts to drive away the Qing army's spies, and these scouts also brought down physically energetic war horses from the ship. Soon after, the Qing army was not sure what was happening around the landing site.

"The thief will not really land, right?" Seeing that the momentum seemed a little wrong, some veterans of the Han Eight Banners, who were more experienced, began to worry: "The thief is the most vulnerable time when they land. If they were asked to form ashore, it would be difficult to fight."

"What are you afraid of? Even if they get ashore, they only have one or two thousand armored soldiers. Can such a few soldiers stop the Governor?" Sun Sike retorted. He was deceived for a whole day yesterday, and today he was cheated five or six times, and he almost jumped out of his throat. Don't you still have a memory to mess around?

After hundreds of vanguard infantry landed, Deng Ming started to get ashore with three walls. When he was busy transporting horses from the ship one by one, Deng Ming was also a little nervous. After all, this was the time when the Ming army was most vulnerable, and the reconnaissance around the landing site was limited. If a large number of Qing troops suddenly rushed out from the surrounding area, it would catch the Ming army off guard and prevent the Han Eight Banners from interfering again.

The boats shuttled between the shore and the big ships one by one, sending more and more soldiers and equipment to the ashore. After an hour, 1,200 fully armed Ming soldiers were already standing behind a simple position. Moreover, the Ming army also completed preliminary reconnaissance of the terrain around the landing site and determined that there were no large brigade of Qing troops passing by.

At this time, the surveillance ships in the upstream still did not issue an alarm, indicating that the Qing army had no abnormal actions, and the downstream also reported that the Ming army detachment sent successfully occupied the empty camp that had been discovered earlier and had completed the blocking and defense. At this point, Deng Ming finally breathed a sigh of relief. The Ming army had settled firmly, and the Qing army missed the best attack time.

More than three thousand civilians also set foot on land. After completing the camp setting, the civilians went to the shore to help and unloaded their equipment from the boat at full speed. The Ming army's landing speed greatly accelerated, and soon five thousand soldiers boarded the north bank of the Yangtze River.

"Over us are the Eight Banners of Han and a large number of green camps." Between the two landing sites, the Ming army captured several single Qing army baggage troops. Although Deng Ming still didn't know the total strength of the enemy, he already knew who the opponent was: "These green camps were drawn from Shanxi. The Shanxi Green Camp was the former Jin army, an elite force that guarded the capital, brave and good at fighting, and was known as the Xuanda Power Brigade."

In front of the soldiers, Deng Ming made his final pre-war speech: "Obviously, the Tartar Emperor in Beijing knew that the Ganzhou Green Camp was no longer our opponent, so he hurriedly transferred the Shanxi Green Camp to Chongqing for help, believing that this would stop our army's pace and stabilize the crisis in Sichuan - this is a delusion! Brothers, soldiers, let's kill these bad guys without leaving them!"

"kill!"

"Kill all these bastards!"

The Ming soldiers had already put on their armor and responded to Deng Ming and shouted to him.

"Set out!" Deng Ming waved his hand vigorously and led his army toward Sun Sike. There were only a few thousand people left on the opposite Qing army, and the five thousand Ming army might have a certain advantage in military strength. The Ming army fleet has been hovering nearby. If any large Qing army rushes to the battlefield along the river bank, Deng Ming will get news in advance.

When he learned that the Ming army was coming in large numbers, Sun Sike finally reacted and hurriedly ordered the entire army to wear armor to fight. The soldiers of the Green Camp were pulled up from the ground and urgently lined up towards the Ming army.

"Deng Zhe, a timid mouse, actually has so many armored soldiers!" Seeing the dense Ming army soldiers on the opposite side, Sun Sike shouted unbearably: "If you have so many soldiers, don't you dare to fight upright?"

Sun Sike ordered the three thousand soldiers of the Shanxi Green Camp who were following him to form a front arc front line, and the one thousand Han Eight Banners prepared for war in the Green Camp: "After fighting with the thieves, the front row reviewers will be beheaded, and the back row reviewers will beheaded, and the flag soldiers will beheaded."

At the forefront of the Ming army were Deng Ming's 100 musket soldiers. They carried light strips with them and stuffed lead bullets wrapped in silk into the barrel. The quality of these muskets seized from the Imperial Guards was very good, similar to those found by Deng Ming from the Kunming Arsenal. The muskets Deng Ming used to see were the same as cannons. Because of the danger of blowing the chamber, they used lead bullets smaller than the diameter. A large enough space could allow compressed gas to escape to reduce the risk of blowing the chamber.

Of course, this will further deteriorate the accuracy. Since the shells and bullets are much smaller than the gun, they don’t know where they fly as soon as they open the fire. The silk is very slippery, and shooters can easily send the lead balls to the bottom of the gun without much effort. If they don’t wrap the silk but use super-caliber lead balls, it will take a lot of effort to knock in it. It is estimated that they have to use a wooden hammer to knock the strips. Silk is also a luxury, but Deng Ming believes that the lives of soldiers are more precious.

The archers raised their muskets and aimed at the Green Camp soldiers opposite. The amount of medicine in the muskets was very sufficient. The tightly wrapped silk ensured air tightness and could achieve the highest speed of lead bullets. At a distance that the ordinary musket lacked lethality, there was a chance to penetrate the armor of the Green Camp soldiers opposite. All the archers were wearing armor, kneeling on one knee, and aimed at the enemy with all their attention. Their commander also stared at the battlefield intently, observing the effect of the first large-scale use of muskets.

"Open fire!"
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