After the meeting, Li Guoying returned to his room to rest. Since the last time Zhongxian suffered a crushing defeat, his health has deteriorated. In recent days, he has been exhausted and he feels a little exhausted.

"Governor, the thief is here to attack the city..." Gao Mingzhan shouted loudly and rushed into the yamen of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Governor. He stopped abruptly as soon as he said halfway through his words, because he saw the Sichuan-Shaanxi Governor covered in clothes lie on the table and fell asleep.

"Oh." Li Guoying, who fell asleep unconsciously, was awakened by the shouts. He raised his head, stood up, waved his hand to signal Gao Mingzhan not to blame himself: "I'll go to the top of the city now."

When the Governor and the Governor walked towards the city, Li Guoying suddenly sighed to his old friend behind him: "I just had a good dream. Deng Ming was not in the dream. Maybe he was drowned in the river when he ran away from Chongqing. I surrendered Ertan and forced Fengjie. Wen'anzhi was desperate and had to hang himself. I buried him with great burial and showed the court's respect for scholars to the world. Then our army rushed straight to Kuidong. Although the thieves from Kuidong were brave and could beat Huguang's troops to the sky, no one was my opponent. In the end, I was the emperor, well, pacified Sichuan for the previous emperor, E. Alas..."

Walking up to the city, Li Guoying saw a team of camp attacking the outer positions he set up outside the city. After watching carefully for a while, Li Guoying commented on Gao Mingzhan behind him and said, "Li Laiheng can't control the situation."

Through the meeting just now, Li Guoying basically controlled all the generals in Chongqing. The Qing army, who was in a desperate situation, could only place all hope on Li Guoying, hoping that he could repel the Kuidong Army and rescue the siege with Chongqing's own strength.

On the other hand, when the Ming army on the opposite side launched an attack under the banner of the Party and the Shousu, most of the other Ming troops did not participate in the attack immediately, and it seemed that the command of the Ming army was not very unified.

"Governor, can we go out of the city to fight back?" Gao Mingzhan saw some fighter jets and suggested excitedly: "Just like the battle of Baoning."

"Did I repel the battle of Liu Wenxiu?" Li Guoying smiled on his face.

"Yes, that time, lord drove the Liu thief back to his hometown." Gao Mingzhan rubbed his hands excitedly. At that time, Liu Wenxiu led the army to the northern expedition, with a huge momentum. He defeated Wu Sangui's generals many times, forcing King Pingxi to retreat step by step. It seemed that the King of Shu was unstoppable to attack Shaanxi. Li Guoying, who was defending Baoning, adopted a strategy to arrogance the enemy and constantly showed weakness. Liu Wenxiu believed that the weak Baoning Qing army was vulnerable, so he hastily ordered the entire army to siege. At that time, Liu Wenxiu's sight had crossed Baoning and looked at Hanzhong and Xi'an. Li Guoying suddenly concentrated his troops out of the city to counterattack the Ming army's attack. The defeated soldiers of the Ming army were layer by layer, resulting in an avalanche-like defeat. The 100,000 Ming troops were completely defeated by the desperate attack of the Qing army.

Li Guoying laughed loudly, full of complacent feelings in his laughter. After laughing, he shook his head slightly: "Liu Wenxiu is different from the Kuidong thief. He has many soldiers and horses, all of which are temporarily assigned to him by Sun Kewang, and a large number of them are his newly appeased Sichuan army. These people fear power but are not worthy of virtue. Although Liu Wenxiu was suspicious when he won, he was suspicious, fearing that he would be annexed or intentionally sacrificed. When the situation was not good, he would escape from his own victory, so our army would have won the victory of Baoning. And these Kuidong thieves..." Li Guoying pointed to the city: "They are all life-and-death friends who share joys and sorrows, and they really defeated the Party Shousu. Liu Tichun would rush up to save him like crazy; and if Liu Tichun defeated Liu Tichun, Yuan Zongdi would even protect his brothers from danger even if he fought his life."

Li Guoying shook his head again: "Another way is needed to deal with the Kuidong Army. This official will keep killing them. Seeing that Dang Shousu has been fighting hard, Liu Tichun will come up to help; seeing that Liu Tichun suffers heavy casualties, Yuan Zongdi will come up to fight desperately; when Li Laiheng sees his uncle Yuan and Uncle Liu's people flowing into blood under the city, will he sit on the wall to watch? No matter how much pain they feel, they will not retreat before they drain the blood."

"Governor General Ming sees it," Gao Mingzhan praised sincerely: "It turns out that Governor General has made a decision and is waiting for the thieves to come and fall into the trap."

Li Guoying didn't say anything else. He was not as sure as he said it. The Kuidong army was very morale, well-equipped, and had absolute military strength and surface advantage; while the Chongqing defenders had deep grievances, the soldiers' combat experience could not be compared with the opponent, and their equipment was also compared by the enemy. If the opponent's military orders were unified, Li Guoying felt that the chance of winning this battle was less than 10%, which was a little better than the inevitable defeat and voluntarily retreating.

Even if there is a problem with Li Laiheng's authority, the Ming army will win as long as it is undefeated. The Qing army needs to beat the Ming army away to be saved. Li Guoying said it easily, but he knew that the Ming army's chances of winning were actually much higher.

After standing silently beside the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi for a while, Gao Mingzhan suddenly asked in a low voice: "Governor, where is that Deng Ming?"

The more he recalled Li Guoying's analysis of Liu Wenxiu and Li Laiheng, the more convinced Gao Mingzhan was. He had been with Li Guoying for many years and often heard the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi make such incisive analysis of enemy generals. But Deng Ming was an exception. Li Guoying rarely commented on Deng Ming. In the past, it might have been said that he didn't know much about this person, so he could not speculate; but as Deng Ming became famous all over the world, his deeds became well-known, and Li Guoying's concern for western Sichuan was unparalleled. However, after fighting so many battles and collecting information for so long, Li Guoying's evaluation of Deng Ming became even less. After Deng Ming defeated Tan Hong and Tan Yi, Li Guoying made some simple speculations and analysis of Deng Ming based on the small amount of intelligence he had, but this year he had not even had a few words.

Gao Mingzhan's question made Li Guoying's smile froze on his face. He was still watching the battle in front of the city, but he obviously began to get distracted, and his thoughts left Chongqing where he was.

After a while, Li Guoying asked softly: "What you see is better, which is better than the Sichuan Army or the Kuidong Army?"

"Ah?" Gao Mingzhan was shocked and blurted out: "Can this be compared?"

Even the auxiliary soldiers of the Sichuan Army were full of energy and the team was neat when marching. If they were wearing armor, they would definitely be first-class elite combat soldiers. Not to mention the armored soldiers of the Sichuan Army, the uniformity of the military formation was beyond the reach of the elite soldiers under Li Guoying. Any Chongqing Army who had seen the momentum of the Sichuan Army's wall cavalry, even brave generals like Zhang Yong, Wang Jinbao, and Wang Mingde were all trembling. Besides Li Guoying, there were only Zhao Liangdong left.

Although the Kuidong Army is pretty good, its military appearance does not exceed other armies.

"You're right, two armies cannot be compared at all." Li Guoying agreed.

Li Guoying has been in charge of the army for many years and thinks he is very skilled and is kind to his soldiers. His direct descendants are respectful and afraid of him. Li Guoying also has the ability to control them, such as Zhao Liangdong, the generals of the sidelines. For example, in this decisive battle in Chongqing, Li Guoying is firm in his heart and able to make strategic decisions against the public; he can also bring the entire army to the path he thinks is correct through various power schemes; and he can also make everyone willingly obey his command in the end.

This requires a series of deceptions, divisions, and win over. The key is to have a group of absolutely credible direct descendants. Without Gao Mingzhan and Wang Mingde and other confidants, Li Guoying would not even think about getting things done.

But from the information, Deng Ming is a completely different kind of person. It is said that he is trustworthy and meets his subordinates honestly. What puzzles Li Guoying the most is that Deng Ming does not seem to have a group of absolutely loyal backbones. There is no need to mention the five generals under Deng Ming. None of them were trained by him himself. The other senior officials in western Sichuan are also the children of various warlords. Li Guoying asked himself that he would never use them as a direct line.

"Deng Ming hid himself very well." Li Guoying said to himself in his heart. He believed that all the information about Deng Ming was an illusion. If Deng Ming was really a person as everyone said, then he would never have a strong army. Since the facts were contrary to Li Guoying's perception, Li Guoying could only think that Deng Ming was unfathomable and completely covered up his true face, so that the Qing court could not see it.

"I can't see through only Deng Ming." Li Guoying came to his senses, said lightly to Gao Mingzhan, and then carefully observed the Ming army's offensive.

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The Qing army in Chongqing set up a cover camp outside the city gate. After Dang Shousu launched an attack, the Qing army in these camps showed some combat effectiveness. Perhaps because the Qing army had no way out, their resistance was much more tenacious than those of their companions by the river.

However, even so, the Qing army's resistance was gradually suppressed by the Ming army. When the battle was the second day, the Qing army on the west side was on the verge of collapse, so that Chongqing City had to send troops out of the city to prevent the Ming army from quickly seizing their camps outside the city and preventing the Ming army from approaching the city walls.

Originally, Liu Tichun planned to prepare some siege equipment first and then launch an attempted attack. Before coming to Chongqing, he had already made some big bells for blasting, but he had not had time to unload these equipment from the ship. Moreover, Liu Tichun also needed some time to observe the terrain and find the most suitable blasting location. After hearing about Liu Tichun's plan, Dang Shousu launched the first round of attack without saying a word. If he could break through the Qing army's front cover, Liu Tichun's blasting would naturally be easier to unfold, and the chances of the members of the precious blasting team being attacked would be greatly reduced.

After discovering that Dang Shousu was in a tough battle, Liu Tichun suddenly realized that he didn't have much time. The camp outside the city that Dang Shousu was about to take was supported by reinforcements that arrived later. In order not to let the blood of the soldiers in front flow out, Dang Shousu invested wave after wave of troops.

"It's not smart to brave the firepower in the city and attack the tent in front of the city, right?" Liu Tichun observed the battlefield for a while and saw that the guns and cannons in Chongqing were fired, causing considerable losses to Dang Shousu's army. However, the tent in front of the city was indeed in danger, and Dang Shousu's stubborn temper seemed to have also come up. When Liu Tichun sent someone to persuade him, he asked someone to reply, saying that as long as Liu Tichun was focused on preparing the blasting device, he would definitely clear the obstacles for Liu Tichun.
Chapter completed!