While Deng Ming shouted the order of "take action", he suddenly exerted force with his arms, overturning the table in front of Di Sanxi. The table top and the ink on it and the seal on it all hit Di Sanxi, who was sitting behind him. Di Sanxi, caught off guard, felt the darkness in front of him, and instinctively reached out to stop him. He was knocked back by the thing that hit him, and fell to the ground with the seat.

Deng Ming overturned the table and jumped forward. Seeing that the person covered by the table was struggling to climb out, he flew up and kicked Di Sanxi in the face. The latter shouted and covered his face and rolled around on the ground. At this time, there was a sound of scolding and fighting behind Deng Ming. He didn't look at him, staring at Di Sanxi, and then rushed over and held him, picking up the opponent's general's seal from the ground, and smashed it hard several times.

At this time, a person was snatched from behind. It was Deng Ming's personal bodyguard Wu San. He reached out to help Deng Ming grab Di Sanxi's arm and twist it back, and his knees pressed against the target's waist. After subduing Di Sanxi, Deng Ming had time to look back. Several Di Sanxi's guards in the house were knocked to the ground by Zhou Kaihuang and others. These people were already few, and because Deng Ming and Di Sanxi were constantly arguing, they kept looking in the direction of the two, and they were not prepared for Zhou Kaihuang and others who were eyeing him. Just now, when Deng Ming turned over the table, these people were so surprised that they didn't react for a while. When they wanted to go over and pull Deng Ming in one or two seconds, Zhou Kaihuang and others behind them had already pounced on them, and they beat them all to the ground with a chaotic punch.

The guards guarding the yard outside the door heard the chaos inside and rushed over again. However, due to the precedent of being revoked just now, they were a little slow this time. When the first few people rushed to the door, Deng Ming and his group had already subdued all the house. Seeing the messy scene in the house, the soldiers' minds were also in chaos, and they couldn't figure out what was going on.

Wu San also ran over at this time, and together with Wu San, he dragged Di Sanxi into the hall, pulled out his waist and put it on his neck. Seeing this, the guards at the door did not dare to act rashly. A more clever man dared to shout at Deng Ming: "Master, our General Di really surrendered."

Di Sanxi's face is now covered in blood and is constantly flowing down her cheeks. After hearing the defense from his soldiers, he laughed terriblely, raised his head and opened his mouth and said to Deng Ming: "You are not..."

Hearing Di Sanxi open his mouth, Deng Ming turned around and punched Di Sanxi hard on the mouth. The latter groaned, and the second half of the sentence that had not been able to be said was beaten back.

The current situation is not the best situation that Deng Ming expected. He hoped to use Di Sanxi to gather all the surrendered officers and then clean up them all. In this way, the Sanqian Qingyang Army in Jianchang will lose its backbone. When Feng Shuangli is released, the task will be completed successfully. But I don’t know why Di Sanxi suddenly became suspicious. Deng Ming thought it carefully in advance. If the other party is suspicious, he will start asking about the details of accepting Li Guoying’s orders. Any details may lead to the complete exposure of Deng Ming. Once this happens, you can only take action immediately. For example, this is the time for accepting the order. Deng Ming doesn’t know when Di Sanxi contacted Wu Sangui. If the time he reported was earlier than Di Sanxi and Wu Sangui reached an agreement, or the time was almost the same, then the money would be revealed immediately.

Now Di Sanxi has seen through the identity of these people, but he was stopped by Deng Ming without telling the truth. After blocking Di Sanxi's mouth, Deng Ming turned around and shouted at the guards: "If you really surrender, why don't you listen to the orders of the Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi?"

"We didn't refuse to listen." A Di Sanxi guard who was held down by Zhou Kaihuang said with a struggle, his tone full of grievances: "Didn't the Governor also ask us to listen to the orders of King Pingxi in his letter? King Pingxi has sent a team of people to Jianchang. Yesterday, one of their messengers arrived and said that they would be here in three days and we should prepare for the welcome."

"What did the messenger of King Pingxi say?" Deng Ming stared at the prisoner who was struggling to argue and asked loudly, secretly surprised: It turned out that Di Sanxi had actually contacted Li Guoying.

Di Sanxi twisted again behind him at this time, but his mouth was covered in blood, and he couldn't spit out a word but just made a few gurgles.

The guard was full of anger and told Deng Ming the original words of the Qing army yesterday that the group of people were stationed near Dongchuan Mansion southeast of Jianchang. After receiving the order from Kunming, he hurried over. The whole team had 800 people, led by a guerrilla. The army would help Di Sanxi control tens of thousands of civilians in Jianchang, and at the same time assist him in supervising these civilians and transporting the food stored here to Yunnan together - Kunming now needs food and grass urgently.

"But Chongqing also needs food and grass. The Governor asked me to transport this batch of food and grass to Chongqing." Deng Ming looked fierce and cursed: "I have no limits on the word, how can I know if you are lying to me? Is it true?"

"The people of King Pingxi will arrive soon, which is the event in the past two days." Di Sanxi's personal guard who answered with Deng Ming became more and more angry as he spoke. Now the place where he was injured was hurting on his face and his body was sore, and his voice was getting higher and higher: "We sincerely surrender, and when the envoys come, they beat and scold them. Is this the way to treat others?"

"Hmph, how did I know that you are not lying in the past two days? I can't hand my life in your hands." Deng Ming slowed down a little: "Okay, let General Di stay with me in the yamen these two days. If there is really an envoy from King Pingxi in two days, I will apologize to you again and accept the beating and punishment."

After saying that, Deng Ming pointed to the person who was talking to him and ordered: "Let him go out and tie up the rest first."

After letting this person go, Deng Ming threatened again: "Take your people away from the county government. Just bring in the meal in the past two days. Don't be fooled, your head is in my hands."

"What can we think?" The guard stood up angrily and looked at Di Sanxi behind Deng Ming. The latter had a knife on his neck. The guard bowed: "Sir, the younger one is out first."

Deng Ming glanced back and smiled miserably when he saw Di Sanxi, but this time he did not try to speak.

As soon as the guard left, Deng Ming shook his eyes. Li Xinghan went out and took a look, and quickly ran back to report: "Sir, they were standing far away in the yard to discuss."

"Okay, we won't be able to hide it for long. There must be so many people in Jianchang who are very smart." Deng Ming turned around and stared at Di Sanxi, and asked in a low voice: "Where is King Qingyang?"

Di Sanxi lowered his head and spat out a mouthful of blood, looking up at Deng Ming's gaze: "Are you sent from Chengdu?"

Deng Ming didn't say anything nonsense. With a wave of the seal in his hand, he smashed Di Sanxi's teeth and made him speechless again. Wu San pressed the knife down hard, and blood was already oozing from Di Sanxi's neck.

Seeing this, several Di Sanxi's guards who were still in the house began to struggle hard, but the guards beside them had already blocked their mouths and did not let them make a sound. Deng Ming was satisfied with their loyalty to Di Sanxi. He picked out four people who struggled the most intensely regardless of the steel knife on their necks.

"I will count three in a while. When it counts three, you will answer together. When it counts three, you will answer together. Deng Ming has no time to ask separately, and then he put out the old trick. He threatened: "If someone dares to shout, I will kill Di Sanxi; if someone says something different from others, I will kill Di Sanxi; if someone doesn't open his mouth, I will kill Di Sanxi; your answer must not be higher than the sound of my current speaking, otherwise I will kill Di Sanxi."

After repeating the rules twice to ensure that several prisoners understood them, Deng Ming did not give them time to think too much. He ordered the things they said to take out immediately and started counting: "One, two, three!"

"The King of Qingyang is in the backyard."

The four people replied almost at the same time, and they glared at Deng Ming, one of them showed a sudden enlightenment and said, "You are not..."

The man didn't have the chance to finish his words, and the guard behind him blocked his mouth again.

"Take me there, otherwise Di Sanxi won't want to live." The answer was beyond Deng Ming's expectations. He thought Di Sanxi would lock Feng Shuangli in a cell or his confidant's military camp. If it were the latter, it would be troublesome. Deng Ming would have to take another risk - and this time there would be a great possibility of failure.

Taking Di Sanxi and a few prisoners, Deng Ming and his party hurried to the backyard of the county government. Soon they walked through the corridor to a room, and a prisoner pointed to the door.

Deng Ming nodded, Zhou Kaihuang kicked the door open with one kick, and everyone with swords in his hand shouted in unison and rushed in together.

I thought I would meet a few guards, but I was even more worried that they would hear the movements in front of me and be prepared for it. The worst case was that Feng Shuangli had been transferred out. But after Deng Ming and the others rushed in, they saw that there was only one person in the room. The man was also startled and stood up from the chair and stared at the strangers who rushed in.

Deng Ming stared at the man and asked in a deep voice: "Is King Qingyang?"

The other party did not answer, but looked at him with caution, then looked around everyone behind Deng Ming, and finally his eyes fell on Di Sanxi who was being held behind, and asked back: "Who are you?"

At this time, Deng Ming also glanced around the house and could see that it was a study room, the windows were not blocked, and he could freely lead to the outdoors. There was a book on the table. Before they came in, the man was obviously reading a book.

"So... it turns out that it's King Qingyang, you want to surrender." Deng Ming suddenly rushed to his head with anger.

The other person also showed an angry look on his face: "Where are you from? How dare you be rude to me?"

"You are indeed King Qingyang!" Deng Ming sneered: "I came from Fengjie thousands of miles away by the order of Governor Wen."

"Are you the people sent by the supervisor?" Hearing this, the anger on Feng Shuangli's face turned into surprise. He looked up and down at the soldiers wearing Qing army uniforms: "Then why do you dress like this?"

"Just because King Qingyang, you wrote to the supervisor for help, we came on order. But when we arrived at Jianchang City, we heard that Di Sanxi was going to rebel against the enemy and tied up with you, King Qingyang." Deng Ming replied: "So we disguised ourselves as we risked our lives to come to the city to rescue you, the prince, but we didn't expect that it was Prince, you were going to rebel."

After hearing Deng Ming say it, Feng Shuangli's face was full of shame. He ignored the prince's honor and held his fists and saluted Deng Ming, "Who is the hero?"

"It's just an unknown little man." Deng Ming shook his head, already disheartened.

"You old thief!" Li Xinghan knew that today's affairs could not be done, so he gritted his teeth and was about to lift the knife forward: "I am ungrateful to the Lord!"

"The prince did not surrender." Di Sanxi, who had not been able to speak, was finally not interrupted this time. Seeing Li Xinghan walking towards Feng Shuangli with a murderous look on his face, he immediately defended himself in an ambiguous voice: "The prince is determined to die for the country, but he can't bear to let thousands of our subordinates die with him, so he asked me to lead everyone to surrender. At the order from Wu Sangui, we also asked us to escort the prince to Kunming and wait for the execution of the autumn after the death."

Deng Ming turned around and looked at Di Sanxi coldly: "I didn't realize that you are really loyal. At this time, I still want us to let King Qingyang live a way out."

"Everything I said is true, as if there is a false thunder strike." Di Sanxi looked at Deng Ming without fear.

"You will lose your head immediately, so don't wait for God to accept you." Li Xinghan turned around and said viciously to Di Sanxi. Since Feng Shuangli was involved in the surrender, this action was completely failed. He is now thinking about killing all the culprits, and then fighting to the death to see if he can save Deng Ming out of the city.

"Let's go." Deng Ming stopped Li Xinghan and looked back at Feng Shuangli: "Prince, if Jianchang surrenders, the officers and soldiers of Yunnan will be completely in desperate situation. Does the prince care about their lives or death at all? Is it that there is no prince, your relatives and friends among those in Yunnan?"

Feng Shuangli lowered his head and said nothing.

Deng Ming looked at Feng Shuangli, who was ashamed but silent, and sighed: "Let me guess. The prince felt that instead of worrying about the lives and death of the soldiers in Yunnan, it was better to find a way for his subordinates first; but the prince felt that this might be shameless to see the soldiers underground, so the prince did not surrender, but handed the matter over to his subordinates. Most of the prince wanted to, when Wu Sangui executed you, you could go underground to meet those who died peacefully. His subordinates also had a way out, which could be considered the best of both worlds."

The guards behind Deng Ming stared at Feng Shuangli together, and someone shouted: "Tell me more about this kind of corrupted bone, He Yi? Sir, let's do it."

"No need." Deng Ming waved his hand and did not continue to mock Feng Shuangli: "It seems that King Qingyang no longer needs the assistance of General Wen. Since that's the case, I will go back to Fengjie to report to the governor. Please ask King Qingyang," Deng Ming turned around and looked at Di Sanxi again: "There is General Di to send us a ride."

While the matter had just started to make a fuss and had not completely spread, Deng Ming hurriedly left the county government office and headed straight for the city gate. Feng Shuangli, who was guilty, also tried his best to cooperate, allowing Deng Ming and his party to leave Jianchang without any obstacles, and ordered his subordinates not to follow and follow.

He left Jianchang north with Feng Shuangli and Di Sanxi. After confirming that there were no pursuers behind him, Deng Ming stopped and asked his subordinates to loosen the hostages.

"Do you let them go back and surrender?" Li Xinghan asked, his eyes still full of murderous aura.

"When I left the city just now, I promised not to harm the lives of Qingyang and General Di. I have to believe it." Deng Ming asked his men to remove the shoes of the two and several other prisoners, and asked them to walk back to Jianchang barefoot so that their speed would not be fast, and it would take a long time to return to the army even if the thief was not dead.

"Jianchang still has 40,000 people and the food they have saved, which are owned by the imperial court. With Jianchang, many of the soldiers who were still fighting in Yunnan at this time still had a way out." Before letting them leave, Deng Ming persuaded for the last time: "At this point, I can only beg the prince and General Di to take advantage of the fact that the soldiers sent by Wu Sangui have not arrived in Jianchang yet, and think about it carefully, is it really going to force so many officers and soldiers to death."

"The emperor has abandoned the country." Di Sanxi whispered.

"This is why I let General Di go today," Deng Ming replied: "I only ask you to think carefully before Wu Sangui sends troops to Jianchang and don't rush to surrender."

Feng Shuangli wanted to speak but stopped, but did not agree but asked again: "I dare to ask the hero's name for the noble surname."

"I am Deng Ming."

Seeing that the people opposite were all showing strange looks, Deng Ming nodded: "It seems you have heard of me."

"So it's..." Feng Shuangli also heard about the matter in western Sichuan. He hesitated and tentatively said: "Your Highness?"

"Your Majesty just call me Deng Ming." Deng Ming asked again: "Before the soldiers sent by Wu Sangui arrive, please think carefully."

Since the other party was Deng Ming, Feng Shuangli immediately understood why Wen Anzhi felt that these twenty people could help him stabilize his morale by rushing to Jianchang. He said solemnly: "Your Highness is extremely heroic, and I really dare not look up to you."

This time, Deng Ming did not correct his name, but mentioned his request for the fourth time: "What I just said?"

"Your Highness's golden and beautiful words..." Feng Shuangli suddenly stopped again after saying a while, without impulse to agree, but promised: "I dare not ask Your Highness to follow you back to Jianchang, but what Your Highness said will definitely discuss with my subordinates carefully after returning to the city."

"So much thanks to King Qingyang."

Watching Feng Shuangli walk away, Zhou Kaihuang asked, "Does Mr. Deng think they will resist again?"

"No, Feng Shuangli was already discouraged and was thinking about how to save his life. He seemed to have the determination to die now, but when he really went to the Tatars to stay for a few days, I suspect that he could even smooth out his ambition to die." Deng Ming replied coldly.

"Why did that gentleman advise him to do for so long?" Seeing Deng Ming's answer so decisive, Zhou Kaihuang was quite puzzled.

"Because he was still swaying, even Di Sanxi felt guilty. They would definitely talk to their subordinates about this matter when they returned. I let them understand that surrender would kill many officers, soldiers and soldiers in Yunnan. These two people were still thinking about old feelings. Coupled with today's shame, they might not take the initiative to shave their hair before Wu Sangui's soldiers arrived." Deng Ming replied, and then added: "But when Wu Sangui's soldiers arrived, they would definitely not dare to break the contract, otherwise Wu Sangui would be furious and their own life would be cut off."

After hearing this, the guards all felt that Deng Ming did this. Since they knew that Jianchang would not dare to break the contract, what's the use of even if they were ashamed?

Feng Shuangli and the others could no longer be seen. Deng Ming waved his whip and pointed to the southwest: "Let's go here."

"Do we still have to be careful of Feng Shuangli repent and come to pursue us?" Seeing that Deng Mingzhi was not going back, someone asked.

"Jianchang won't come to chase us, and he can't catch us even if he chased us. But we don't rush to go home. Didn't you just hear that Wu Sangui sent 800 soldiers from Dongchuan?" Deng Ming replied: "Let's go find them."

After a moment of silence, Zhou Kaihuang took the lead and asked, "Are we going to ambush them?"

"Yes, I just heard that they will arrive in Jianchang in the next two days. If they don't stop them, we will go back to Fengjie two days late, and we will bring bad news to the supervisor two days late. If they find it, they will attack these 800 soldiers under the banner of Feng Shuangli. Do you think Wu Sangui is thinking that Feng Shuangli is cheating him?" Deng Ming asked.

"There are eight hundred people on the other side." Zhou Kaihuang reminded that the reason why the previous plan to attack Jianchang was approved by everyone was because everyone felt that as long as Feng Shuangli was rescued, everything would be fine and there was no need to fight hundreds of enemies.

"Accidentally, attack him without preparation," Deng Ming said calmly, as if this was a very ordinary plan: "You all heard it just now. Di Sanxi sent the golden seal of King Qingyang to Wu Sangui where did Wu Sangui beware of fraud? Where would anyone use the imperial seal to deceive hundreds of soldiers? And if Wu Sangui had not sent someone to come, he would not even have the chance to deceive these hundreds of people. This team of soldiers would definitely not be prepared, and there would be some transport masters. There must be only half of them who are truly capable of combat. Besides, we have the advantage of sudden attacks."

Everyone didn't say anything. Deng Ming saw someone shaking his head secretly and with a helpless expression on his face, he smiled and said, "The reason why we came to Jianchang is to ensure western Sichuan and to fight for a way out for the officers and soldiers in Yunnan. Because of the cold lips and teeth, and because the situation is dangerous, we have to fight to the death. The so-called "don't do it, and never stop. Since we have suffered so much and taken such a big risk, if we give up now, then the hard work and the risks we took before will be wasted?"

Li Xinghan was the first to agree: "Mr. Deng is not afraid. What's the terrible thing about a military man who is lowly?"

Someone took the lead, and these young men with strong spirits were motivated, and they all expressed their fear of death and were unwilling to let the hard work of the past be wasted.

"Okay, but this time we have to learn from the lessons, it's best to use the real thing." Deng Ming took out something from under the saddle and raised it for everyone to show it. It was Di Sanxi's general seal. Deng Ming just now held it in his hand after smashing it with it: "I forgot to return it to General Di just now."

...

"The Tartars have camped."
To be continued...