Deng Ming and Liu Tichun entered Yingtian Prefecture one after another. Deng Ming and the Sichuan Army were already regular visitors to Nanjing, so they did not feel that there were too many strange places; Li Laiheng's vanguard army also came once, so he was quite calm; but Liu Tichun's subordinates were much more excited, which was one of the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty and the heart of China. Even their commander Liu Tichun couldn't help but observe the city walls of Nanjing again and again, as if they had the urge to give it a try.

"General Liu, we agreed before." Seeing that Liu Tichun's eyes were getting worse and worse when he looked at the Nanjing city wall, Deng Ming hurriedly reminded him to pay attention: "If Jiang Guozhu is ungrateful, then we will burst the Nanjing city wall for him to see; but if Jiang Guozhu is honest, there is no need to show off his martial power, and it is convenient for others to be convenient for himself."

"Yes, I remember."

This time, Liu Tichun got a few new treasures from Deng Ming, one of which is called a timed fuse. It is a glass container that holds a liquid that has become a strong acid by Deng Ming. Before use, it will break the glass and let the acid flow out and corrode a metal wire. When the wire is burned, it will cause the tight spring to shrink suddenly, and rely on violent friction and heat or flint to ignite the gunpowder. The success rate is not very good, but it saves the time for laying wires. Sometimes it takes a lot of time to lay a long fuse, and the fuse also has the chance of failure to lead to the fire. Therefore, Liu Tichun believes that if this fuse can be improved, it is still promising. Moreover, since the success rate is low at this stage, you can place more. Even after the improvement in the future, you can continue to place it to ensure the success rate. However, the current cost of Deng Ming is extremely high, and the price may not be reduced in the short term.

Although these equipment was proven to be feasible on Liu Tichun's test field, it has never been tested on the battlefield since he sent troops. Liu Tichun's cabin was filled with piles of various blasting equipment, but the Qing officials who were aware of the knowledge along the way disappointed him again and again. Now seeing the Nanjing city walls so majestic, Liu Tichun's heart was shaken and he couldn't help himself.

"I think now, would it really be bad if I take down Nanjing?" Before the war, Deng Ming carefully introduced the purpose and intention of Liu Tichun to this time, and the Kui Dong Army also expressed his understanding, but due to the emotions of his subordinates and the attraction of the Nanjing city wall, Liu Tichun seemed hesitant again.

"Not good." Deng Ming shook his head repeatedly. He had to bring out the reasons again and reiterate it to Liu Tichun: "First, we cannot push the Southeast Governor back to the Qing court. The siege of the city will be left behind. We have to leave them a way out. Second, our military strength is not enough to control Hubei, Jiangxi and Jiangnan provinces. If we line up a long snake formation along the Yangtze River, we will be passive and beaten everywhere. Third, although these people provide us with more military expenditure than Beijing, as long as they are still officials of the Qing court for one day, they are attacking the prestige of the Qing court."

Even if these provinces did not make any resistance, they replaced the Ming army's flag, and Deng Ming, who lacked military strength and lacked talents, would have to retain a large number of officials from the southeast. They would also damage the public and private forces and test the Ming army's reaction and supervision capabilities. As they succeeded from scratch, the Southeast officials' fear of the Ming army will be reduced, and their evil deeds will also reduce the perception of the Southeast people's perception of the Ming army.

"Before we have the strength to take half of the rivers and mountains, it is best not to touch these governors. When we take action, we must have the momentum of destroying each position, and at the same time putting every position on ours." Deng Ming had not told Liu Tichun that the Sichuan Army now has the benefits of both rulers and challengers. It does not have to worry about personnel, justice, and disasters. However, relying on modern economic means and flexible diplomatic strategies, we can obtain more economic resources from the Southeast than the Qing court.

A large number of Ming troops continued to gather around Nanjing, and their strength was much higher than that of Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan's Northern Expedition. This was the first time that the Ming army on the Western Front had surpassed the Ming army in Fujian and Zhejiang in terms of military strength since the internal strife of the three kings. And their opponents were probably not as good as the Qing army at that time: Although it had been three years, the Susong Navy had not been rebuilt at all, and the Jiangxi Navy had no name. Ma Fengzhi fled to Chongming with many elite troops in Jiangnan Green Camp. The current river channel and Jiangning officers and soldiers have been severely hit by Deng Ming many times, and they were all rebuilt troops many times. What's worse is that they all knew that Deng Ming did not have the habit of killing prisoners.

Therefore, while sending troops to monitor Nanjing, Deng Ming also had the best efforts to organize Kuidong generals to travel in batches and visit ancient monuments such as Xiaoling.

After the Ming army entered Jiangnan again this time, a large number of young scholars joined the army, hoping to get the reception from Deng Ming. However, Deng Ming still followed the old example and publicly told them that the Ming army still had no plans to recover Nanjing this time, and asked them to continue to lurk in Jiangzuo like their predecessors, waiting for the royal army to counterattack. Many of the lurking scholars before also sent letters to ask if it was time to inquire. Deng Ming replied one by one, saying that the time was not yet ripe and they needed to continue to collect intelligence and win over Tartar officials in prefectures.

Most scholars accepted Deng Ming's instructions, but there were exceptions. Yi Zhen and Liuhe's representatives protested, saying that they really had no hidden work to do. After three years of lurking, everyone in the city now knew that they were Deng Ming's secret chess. After hearing that Deng Ming was on the south side of the Yangtze River again, before they could take their wine to the entrance of the Qing army camp to pretend to be caressed about their well-being, they talked from the guards, and the generals of the green camp stationed in the garrison sent Qian Zong to come in the night.

The roster of the garrison green camps given by the guerrillas said that in the past three years, these lurkers have been saying that it is too hard to go to the gate of the military camp in the past three years. From this time on, there is no need to work hard. In the future, just say hello to the guerrillas. If you want to know everything, you will have first-hand information. The Qiang President also said that they want to know how many bricks there are on the city tower and how many nails there are on the city gate. The green camp can send people to count on their behalf, as long as the Ming army enters the city and gives them a few good words.

Yizhen's underground scholars also had similar troubles. They were actively connecting with their classmates and friends to prepare for the uprising, the magistrate called everyone to the yamen... Jiang Guozhu had secretly told his aides that these senior underground workers were registered with Deng Ming, and no one was allowed to move, and even if they were engaged in literary inquisition in the future, they would have to circumvent them. As for the court, if Jiang Guozhu could hide it, he would hide it. If he could not hide it, he would use a long line and fish to explain it - the merit monument placed by Deng Ming in front of Nanjing City was protected by Jiang Guozhu. In the original words of the Governor of Liangjiang, he said: "It's not a big deal."

After seeing this group of underground parties, the magistrate told them with a kind smile that a Sichuanese who had just sold public debts. According to the reliable information brought by the Sichuanese, Deng Ming did not have a plan to restore Jiangnan this time, so the underground party did not need to mobilize the magistrate again for the third time, because there is no right or wrong. The magistrate also hopes that the underground party will be less disturbed and not sharpen the iron or sharpen the knife all day long. Although the magistrate has been taking good care of everyone in recent years, it is difficult for the county to deal with it too fiercely. Whether it is the Governor of Liangjiang or the magistrate Yizhen, they all think that these young people who are more enthusiastic and cautious are definitely not the secret chess that Deng Ming relies on. Since Deng Ming has sent letters to them every time he passes, the officialdom of Liangjiang also has to give Deng Ming face.

"Well, your lurking methods are indeed lacking," Deng Ming said after patiently listening to the reports of two underground parties, and pointed out that they should try to receive systematic lurking training, but Deng Ming could not openly hold a Ming army lurking training class in Nanjing. Doing this is not easy to keep confidential, but it can easily hurt the feelings of Jiang Guozhu, the governor of Liangjiang, the Qing Dynasty, and stimulated him to issue a solemn protest to the Ming army: "If you are interested, you can go to Chengdu. Chengdu has just established a new academy, which includes lurking subjects affiliated with special training and special equipment classification."

However, most of these young scholars have not had any fame yet. Deng Ming said that he could find a way to help with this. It was a bit troublesome for Jiangning students, but it should not be difficult for tribute students and scholars. At that time, they will be qualified to study and can buy long-distance boat tickets, take the boat to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, enter Sichuan and go to Chengdu.

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After sending off these young people, Deng Ming once again lamented the explosion of information in his previous life. These young people had no idea how to plan and organize a coup. Deng Ming had seen many confidentiality principles and means in children's TV programs, but people in this era just didn't know it. Not to mention children's books, even books for adults will not specifically introduce the deeds of rebels around the world. The process of their success or being suppressed - not only brief introductions but also gains and losses comments. You should know that although "Five Thousand Years of the World" are children's books, those who can leave their names in them are also amazing figures in human history. And those war films, those from previous lives, are old-fashioned works, and in this era they are definitely first-class rebellion technical manuals. The young people who have watched them can understand the existence of single-line contact, code words, transfer, stalking, and anti-stalking skills from them.

This time, Deng Ming also brought the surveying and mapping personnel who had just been trained. They drew many contour maps along the way. Nanjing is so important that the surrounding terrain must of course be repeatedly explored and drawn into a detailed map.

Although the maps drawn in western Sichuan still have great problems, the concepts such as scales and contours used in them have already made the Kuidong Alliance amazed. Compared with traditional freehand maps, this map can not only play a traditional guide role, but may even allow commanders to use it for simple pre-military deployments. In the past, this deployment was impossible to be completed by maps. It is necessary to have a correct general understanding of the battlefield landscape after scouts reconnaissance.

After seeing the new map, Wang Guangxing immediately expressed his intention to let his subordinates learn Sichuan's new drawing method, and others also made the same request. This time around Nanjing, Sichuan's subordinates tried to draw a 10,000-50,000 map around Nanjing with the alliance who came to visit and study. In this practice, various surveying and mapping ideas were discussed, and the design ideas of the tools emerged one after another.

"Our easiest section of our road has basically been completed." Today, Liu Tichun and Li Laiheng and Deng Ming stepped on the terrain in Zhongshan together with Deng Ming, using Nanjing as the imaginary enemy, and had some tactical discussions. Then the three of them talked about the next strategy. Deng Ming told them that there were envoys from Chongming, saying that Jiangnan and river officers and soldiers who bullyed the weak and feared the strong stopped harassing them: "After seeing Zhang Shangshu's envoy, we need to determine the target of this expedition and the enemy who was ready to attack."
Chapter completed!