At this time, outside Kunming City, Deng Ming and others had run to the third Qing army camp in the north of the city.

Like the first two, this was also the camp of Wu Sangui's old Qing army. The Qing army in the camp was also alarmed by the fire and sounds that appeared in Kunming City. A large number of soldiers stood on the open space in the camp wall. They looked at the red light above the city, with horror and uneasiness on their faces.

When Deng Ming approached the camp gate, after Deng Ming showed his waist sign to the guards, someone rushed in to report. Several other guards opened the camp gate and hurriedly led Deng Ming and his party in.

The central army tent was already brightly lit. The general summoned the officers in the camp and discussed what happened in Kunming City. Originally, the general thought it might be a normal fire, so he sent a team of soldiers to ask if Kunming needed them to enter the city to help put out the fire. However, the performance of the guards at Kunming City Gate made people feel a bit strange. All the gates were on high alert. The guards sent by the general heard the people on the city tower shouting, saying that Hong Jingluo strictly prohibited the city gate from entering and exiting.

When the generals and his officers heard the reward, they felt that there was a hint of strangeness in the incident tonight. There were no people in the city and no enemy troops outside the city. They didn't understand why Kunming suddenly acted like a big enemy and also isolated the communications inside and outside the city.

Some people suspected that Xiaozhao set fire, but when the Yongli court had fled far away and there was no Ming army near Kunming, the Qing army generals could not think of any troops coming to Kunming to cause damage, and they couldn't figure out how even the Qing army outside the city could not enter the city. Xiaozhao sneaked into Kunming and made such a big noise. Hearing that the personal guards of the King of Pingxi came outside the camp, the people in the central army's tent immediately breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that all the mysteries could be solved immediately and figured out what was going on in the city.

After Deng Ming was introduced to the Central Army tent, he immediately took out the command arrow from King Pingxi. Just like the actions in the first two camps, Deng Ming did not answer the people's verbal questions at all, but quickly spoke out his thoughts: "Earlier, someone in Kunming City made a rebellion, and the general had already cleaned them up, and soon there would be nothing in the city. The general was worried that the newly surrendered former Ming army outside the city was unstable, so he ordered them to stay in the camp and not go out. The general ordered the general to monitor nearby. If they had any actions, the general could do it cheaply."

When he heard the riots in the city, the tent exploded suddenly, and Deng Ming was buzzing all around him, but he turned a deaf ear to this, but finished what he should say in one breath.

"Who is in the city causing trouble?" The general listened to Deng Ming's words patiently, and then asked. During this period, he had been carefully observing Deng Ming's outfit.

"It's just a few thieves, so the general doesn't have to think about Kunming." After saying that, Deng Ming bowed and refused to stay for a moment, he said goodbye to the general: "I have to go to other places to pass orders and leave."

Seeing that Deng Ming was so nervous, the general knew that he would not answer if he asked any further, so he nodded and returned Wu Sangui's arrow to him. Deng Ming bowed to the Qing general again, then turned around and strode out of the tent.

The Qing general walked to the door, watched Deng Ming turn over his horse, and watched them roar away with a group of more than a dozen people.

"Who is causing trouble?"

After Deng Ming left, several young officers were still talking, while the more steady ones looked at the direction of Deng Ming's departure with their generals and thoughtfully.

"It seems that the chaos in the city is quite a bit of a sudden." The general sighed. He said to the subordinates who had not yet understood: "Didn't you see the outfits of the guards such as the Grand Marshal?"

If the situation in the city was as relaxed as the personal guard said just now, the general felt that Deng Ming would not have to be as tight as he said, and Deng Ming and his party's armed outfit increased the general's uneasiness. In the past, only on the battlefield would he see Wu Sangui's personal guard dressed like this. Now the personal guards of King Pingxi are all ready to fight to the death. Can the matter in this city be minor?

Moreover, there were tens of thousands of newly surrendered Ming troops outside the city. Wu Sangui did not point out which one was unstable, but wanted the Qing army to monitor it nearby. This shows that King Pingxi did not grasp the situation and the overall situation was quite chaotic. If there were problems with these tens of thousands of surrendered troops and there were already insiders entering the city, then the matter tonight would not be a good idea.

Thinking of this, the general felt that he was sweating. He did not dare to delay and hurriedly dispatched troops to prepare to go out to monitor the battalion of surrendered troops closest to him. At such a critical moment, he must perform well in front of King Pingxi and not let General Wu down.

Just like Deng Ming temporarily remarking to the arsenal, he was the idea that he had only on the way out of the city when he went to these military camps to send orders. He just saw that Wu Sangui was drunk, and after the fire broke out in the city, he probably wouldn't immediately think of who did it, and most of them would think it was an accident. When a drunk person encounters an accident, Wu Sangui will definitely devote all his energy to commanding and extinguishing the fire first. This is a chance to further create chaos for the Qing army outside the city.

Deng Ming heard that the officers and soldiers of Xiying who had just surrendered were about to be sent to attack Li Dingguo, and were all deployed in several camps southwest of the city, separated from Wu Sangui's old Qing army. I don't know who the generals of the Xiying were all, so I could not make up specific orders to indicate the target. At most, Deng Ming could do some very vague orders, so he asked the Qing army to guess. At first, Deng Ming felt that such orders might not be effective, but during the rest outside the city, Deng Ming thought carefully and found that he still had a chance.

There is a judgment about human nature, Deng Ming remembers it very clearly, that is, "anyone with rights will abuse his power." Deng Ming feels that it would be difficult to succeed if he conveyed a clear order to the Qing army generals and asked them to attack the surrendered army. Such an order is extraordinary. The Qing army generals would definitely ask the details very carefully and understand why Wu Sangui made such a decision.

Once the details are involved, Deng Ming feels that the possibility of revealing the situation will greatly increase. If these Qing generals are given the right to "do cheaply" in the name of Wu Sangui, it is a very reasonable order, and the details can be avoided. More importantly, the Qing generals are willing to accept such orders, because this order implies Wu Sangui's trust in the generals assigned to him. The Qing generals can feel a recognition of their abilities and judgments from it - who doesn't like compliments? Who would think that they lack ability and are not trustworthy? So Deng Ming did not hesitate to send the full trust of the King of Pingxi to the Qing army outside the city.

The progress was even smoother than Deng Ming imagined. No general questioned the orders brought by Deng Ming - indeed no one thought he was not worthy of the trust of King Pingxi. Very good. What we have to do now is to create an opportunity for them to abuse their rights, or in other words, to give them an opportunity to show that they will live up to the trust of King Pingxi.

After leaving the North City, Deng Ming hurried to the south of the city, where the former Xiying troops were stationed there. Deng Ming noticed that the atmosphere here was also quite tense, and it was obvious that they also noticed the incident in Kunming City.

This time, Deng Ming did not enter the military camp, nor did he even approach the camp wall. Instead, he stood in a faraway place with his team of people, and did not even get off the horse. He just raised Wu Sangui's command arrows to the opposite side. Zhou Kaihuang fired the torch and lit up the command arrows held in Deng Ming's hand, shouting for the generals leading the army to come out to answer. After someone on the camp wall claimed that he was the leader of the camp, Deng Ming immediately shouted to the camp wall: "The King of Pingxi has an order, and Kunming has caught fire. In order to avoid harming you, immediately set up a camp twenty miles south!"

After shouting three times in a row, Deng Ming put away the arrow he was holding and ran away from the camp with his subordinates.

Seeing the fully armed guard of Wu Sangui disappear into the night, the surrendered generals of the Western Camp on the camp wall stood silently for a long time, and finally ordered the guards behind him: "Transfer the order, detach the camp, set off overnight, and go twenty miles south."

"Sir, it's midnight!" After hearing the order, many of the guards shouted in dissatisfaction. After witnessing Wu Sangui's personal guards issued such a rude order with such a arrogant and arrogant attitude, many people were furious. Seeing that the superior really wanted to follow his order, they were almost furious.

"I don't know what happened in Kunming City, but it must be a big deal." The surrendered general said softly. Seeing Wu Sangui's obvious combat posture of his personal guard, he believed that something big happened in Kunming City. As a general who had just surrendered, he knew that the Qing army must have doubted him. The previous order of Wu Sangui to attack Li Dingguo as a vanguard was actually a humiliation, but since he had surrendered, he had to swallow his anger when encountering any insult. Today, seeing these confidants of the King of Pingxi did not even intend to hide their suspicion of him, the surrendered general felt even more desolate. He only thought about the lives of many subordinates. He could not help but bow his head: "The King of Pingxi will not let us stay by the edge of Kunming City, so let's go. Is it time to make King of Pingxi unhappy?"

Deng Ming, the other camps of the surrendered troops in the Xiying Army, also handled this as if, "The King of Pingxi is not trusting you, now there is something in Kunming City, and I don't want to see you nearby. Even if you go through the darkness and go to the night, you have to get out."

Perhaps some people will leave on orders, and some people will be angry and will not leave. However, even if they do not leave, even if the old Qing army and the newly surrendered army did not have any conflict, Deng Ming would not suffer any loss, but just wasted some words. And afterwards, Wu Sangui would definitely have to spend some effort to explain the situation to these surrendered generals and explain to them that someone was falsely passing orders, not that he was doubting them. If he did not force Wu Sangui to do this, he would have worked hard to set fire, and perhaps he would be covered up by Wu Sangui as an accident. As long as Wu Sangui could be forced to reveal the truth, it would be equivalent to making an advertisement for Deng Ming. In short, this is a business that would make a profit but not lose money.

...

The fire came straight towards the grain warehouse. Looking at the flames that were ten meters high, the Qing soldiers felt their scalp numb. The commanders of the barracks, the managers of the grain warehouse, and the hundreds of soldiers under their command, everyone was open their mouths, and they could not say a word when they looked at the flames.

Seeing that everyone was about to scatter, at this moment, a group of people suddenly came to gallop, and the general in charge shouted loudly: "Sir Jinglei is here!"

The visitor was the manager's personal guard led by Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou changed his clothes and walked out of the mansion. Someone came to report that the fire near the arsenal was no longer controlled. The soldiers stationed near the arsenal had fled from the fire and headed towards the upper wind area. Several teams sent by Hong Chengchou to assist were also blocked by the fire and could not get close to the arsenal at all. One of them was also isolated by the rapidly developing fire. Now the whole team has lost its information and is unknown.

The news that shocked Hong Chengchou even more was that the fire was about to burn into the grain warehouse. The general attack on Li Dingguo was imminent. Not only did tens of thousands of troops outside the city take away a lot of food, but they also needed continuous supply. If the food in Kunming city was burned up, it would not be easy to raise enough food and grass from the war-torn Yunnan.

It is related to whether the upcoming offensive can be launched - it must not be launched as scheduled. It would be great if this offensive can be launched now - Hong Chengchou made a quick decision and led the personal guards to the grain warehouse to supervise the formation at full speed.

Hong Chengchou found that he was here at the right time. The fire had spread. The Qing army around the grain warehouse looked like a group of frightened toads. He saw his mouth open and saliva flowing with his mouth open. No one stood up to try to defend the grain warehouse.

"Immediately push down all the houses in the street in front." After arriving at the scene, Hong Chengchou immediately began to issue orders without hesitation. He pointed to the block between the grain warehouse and the fire, and ordered the commander of the barracks to lead all five hundred soldiers to step forward immediately and clear out a fire barrier.

"Organize the long queue of people to transport water, and pour the soil on this street wet." Hong Chengchou immediately turned around and assigned the task to the warehouse manager behind him: "Also, lift water at full speed, wet the front of all warehouses, and water the ground, and do not have an inch of dry land."

Now I don’t care whether the food will get damp, so I have to keep the warehouse first.

Hong Chengchou kept giving orders at the fastest speed. He had many experiences in preventing fires and putting out fires. Although the situation tonight seemed particularly bad, it was not the first time that Hong Chengchou encountered an unprecedented bad situation, and most of them were reversed by his experience, determination and will.

"Fight the house in front of you, move the wood to the left and right, and drive the fire out." Hong Chengchou said while thinking that he estimated that the soldiers would suffer considerable casualties, but no matter how big the losses were compared with the grain warehouse. The materials stored in the grain warehouse were related to the great cause of unification of the emperor. Compared with such a great cause, any loss was worth it.

Once the fire is pulled away from the front, Hong Chengchou plans to continue to flatten the blocks on both sides and finally form a circular fire barrier around the grain warehouse. This does not completely ensure the safety of the grain warehouse. After all, the fire on the opposite side looks too amazing. However, Hong Chengchou will also do his best to organize people to water the fire barrier. As long as he persists, the fire will eventually become smaller and smaller. Moreover... Hong Chengchou looked up at the clouds in the sky. Perhaps a heavy rain will come in a moment.

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While Deng Ming kept sending orders and Hong Chengchou urgently organized the fire to put out, Wu Sangui was desperately pouring cold water on his face. After being drunk, he was awakened by his personal guards before he could sleep for half an hour. The loud noise from the arsenal did not wake Wu Sangui up. When the fire just started, the confidant general ordered the fire to be put out. At that time, they had no intention of awakening Wu Sangui. However, the rapid development of the fire caught everyone off guard. Not only could they not be able to control it, but a large area of ​​urban areas spread in a blink of an eye. The generals and the personal guards no longer dared to do their own things and hurriedly woke Wu Sangui up.

After being frightened and frightened, Wu Sangui had woken up a lot of wine, but he felt his head still dull. After hearing that the big explosion occurred in the arsenal, Wu Sangui was full of doubts: The whole city is full of his own people, and it is impossible to have a detailed work. There are many fire prevention measures inside the arsenal, and even the lanterns are specially made. There are hundreds of soldiers stationed nearby just in case, how can a big explosion occur and allow the fire to spread unhindered?

After repeatedly confirming that the fire was burned from the arsenal, Wu Sangui suddenly remembered that he seemed to have sent someone to the arsenal. When he asked about this, he hurriedly summoned the personal guard to see him, but the personal guard did not come back after he went out. They thought that it was dragged to drink by Mr. Baoning Qian, who was Zhao Liangdong's newly recruited subordinates.

"This bastard, no, these two bastards." Wu Sangui cursed, and he began to suspect that the accident was related to his personal guards and Zhao Liangdong's new subordinates.

Not long after, Zhao Liangdong ran into the Pingxi Palace in disorganized clothes. Today, he did not leave the city after drinking, but rested in Kunming. In the past, Wu Sangui and Zhao Liangdong rarely drank, but this time it was to entertain Hong Chengchou and to practice it for Zhao Liangdong who was about to go to war. Now Zhao Liangdong is also constantly yelling bad luck in his stomach. Yongli fled to Myanmar, and the surrounding Ming army either fled or surrendered. He had been peaceful for several months. Why did he relax and drink a little wine and suddenly become a fire?

Seeing that the fire was getting stronger and stronger, Hong Chengchou sent someone to inform the authorities that the court had rushed to the grain warehouse to supervise the battle. Supervise the battle! Hong Chengchou had already used this word to describe the crisis of the situation. Wu Sangui was considering whether it was necessary to summon the outside teams in the city to assist in the firefighting. He shook his head hard and tried his best to expel the heavy discomfort.

Wu Sangui did not mobilize the surrendered army, nor did he mobilize several battalions of troops who he felt were not well-disciplined. Instead, he selectively selected several generals who he thought were both reliable and loyal. For a moment, the guards rushed out of the Pingxi Palace with Wu Sangui's order. Wu Sangui seized the time to drink a few cups of tea, not only to sober up, but now Wu Sangui's head hurts and his throat is very uncomfortable.

The personal guards came back many times faster than Wu Sangui imagined. He was surprised why they were back in a blink of an eye. Unexpectedly, the personal guards shouted first: They were all blocked at the gate of the city, and the people holding Hong Chengchou's arrows argued with them endlessly, saying that they would not let them go out of the city.

The guards from the city gate tower were also accompanied by these guards. They did not dare to offend Hong Chengchou or Wu Sangui's people. They were sandwiched between two groups of generals and kept saying good things. They followed them to verify their identities - Hong Chengchou's personal guards said that they could leave the city after verifying their identities.

Wu Sangui's face darkened, and he was about to be furious, but suddenly he was shocked and turned to look at Zhao Liangdong. The latter had just drunk the sobering soup and was also thinking about the meaning of Hong Chengchou's order. Both of them knew that Hong Chengchou was not a ridiculous person.

Before the two could exchange views, a personal soldier suddenly stumbled into the door and howled at Wu Sangui: "Master, the big thing is not good! The fight started outside the city, and the shouts of killing were shaking the earth!"
Chapter completed!