A mistake was made. Some readers pointed out that the guardian of Daning was He Zhen, not He Jin. I have seen the view that "He Zhen, He Jin is one person" before. The original source was Wang Fuzhi. Today, I saw the reader's reminder and downloaded another study. This is indeed a very problematic view.

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After conquering Yunyang, Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun wanted to transport the population back to their base.

The city walls of Yunyang have been tortured by Liu Tichun and are difficult to repair. Besides, they are too far away from the bases of these two people, so they cannot divide their troops to defend. However, this plan was opposed by Deng Ming. His previous understanding of the idiom "Success King and Defeat Thieves" was: the losers were unfairly slandered; but now Deng Ming believes that this idiom should actually be understood as: the victorious bandits took off their thief names.

According to Deng Ming's modern values, although the Qing Dynasty was a robber, the behavior of these people in the camp was not much different from that of the bandits, and the actions of the Xiying in Jianchang were similar to those in the Ming army. Deng Ming felt guilty when relocating the people in the Ming army. This kind of migration from the hometown would cause some people to die sick on the road, and even if they did not lose their lives, the people would lose their hometown, land and property.

The people in the camp always boasted of being a benevolent and righteous army, because the behavior of the Qing army and the Ming government army greatly lowered the standards of the benevolent and righteous army in this era. They never regarded massacres and looting as rewards for soldiers. It seemed that they were the most benevolent and righteous army of this era - although they also collected food for free, relocated the people, and adopted a system similar to serfdom in their own military camps.

Since he was already in this era, Deng Ming could not push the camp to death just for his morality. Before breaking through Yunyang, Deng Ming pretended to be invisible even though he was dissatisfied with some of the Kuidong Army's practices; but now that he seized Yunyang's supplies, Deng Ming felt that he had the capital to slightly satisfy his conscience needs.

First of all, Deng Ming proposed the concept of voluntary joining the army. There would definitely be no voluntary joining the army before, because the Kuidong Army could not come up with something to buy people's hearts; but now the Kuidong Army can produce grain and silver. In this world, there are many people who are willing to join the army for a meal.

Deng Ming originally thought that this suggestion would be fiercely opposed by Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi, so he also prepared a set of rhetoric in advance to convince the two of them. For example, if it arouses hatred by the people, the people of other cities will help the Tatars defend the death in the future. Unexpectedly, after listening to Deng Ming's suggestion, Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi agreed: First of all, Deng Ming came up with a way to win the city, and of course his opinions should be respected; secondly, Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi did not know that making enemies with the people would bring hidden dangers, but they had no choice but to wake up, and now Deng Ming reminded them to wake up immediately and realize that they already have the capital to recruit soldiers. The most important thing is that after the initial excitement, these two people also considered that this place was too far away from the Three Gorges, and it was very difficult to relocate so many people in the past, and it was very expensive, and the mortality rate was probably not low.

After He Zhen returned to Yunyang, he also agreed to the decision to recruit soldiers. This place is not far from Hao Yaoqi's base. I believe that Hao Yaoqi will move most of the population away in the end. Then, he will ask Hao Yaoqi, that is, there is no need to stand up and be the evil person. Recruiting soldiers can collect a group of strong people among the residents. If these people have been trained, they may act as war soldiers.

That night, the Kuidong Army posted a notice calling on Youzhierlang from Yunyang to come to the military camp for dinner. The Kuidong Ming Army had prepared rice for them and had enough food. Relying on the temptation of the food, the Ming army recruited more than 2,000 people, and with more than 2,000 Qing troops who surrendered, Liu Tichun and others expanded the army from 10,000 to 15,000.

Although everyone could not be transported away, the camp and Xiying must still move some people away. Deng Ming suggested that he should try his best to take voluntary as the principle, and finally he could take out some settlement fees to compensate the losses of the migrant residents. The three generals of Kuidong told Deng Ming that they agreed deeply, not only would they give compensation, but they would also adhere to the principle of voluntary. Deng Ming praised their kindness, but whether they did this in the end, Deng Ming did not intend to inquire, nor would he ask whether the people who were moved were voluntary. For the time being, he could only do this for his own conscience.

After He Zhen came back, Liu Tichun kept yelling to cooperate with Hao Yaoqi to thresh the valley city. Everyone knew that Liu Tichun was a skill itch. He learned to blast but didn't try it. Liu Tichun would not be able to sleep at night. After listening to Liu Tichun's detailed description of the methods and effects of blasting, He Zhen was also moved. Not only did the Qing army collect materials, but there were also craftsmen and a large number of potential soldiers in the city. This time, He Zhen did not work hard to break through Yunyang and had no say in distributing the spoils. Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun had only thanks for part of him.

Before the Ming army arrived in Yunyang, in order to ensure the safety of the Han River Basin, the prefect also collected all nearby ships and put them together with the official ships, so as not to give the Ming army the opportunity to take advantage of them. The place where the Yunyang prefect hides the ships was provided by the surrendered Qing army. The Ming army had sent troops to take over all these ships. With these ships, the Ming army was also very relaxed to go down the Han River, and there was no need for Hao Yaoqi's wooden rafts and bamboo rafts. Now the Ming army has seized Yunyang's supplies and has suddenly become very generous. It can be maintained for a long time when it is left outside. If there is less population, it can be maintained for a longer time.

Yuan Zongdi also did not object to the attack on Gucheng, but he believed that there was no need for the three of them to go together. The soldiers were very fast. Yuan Zongdi felt that Liu Tichun and He Zhen could take Deng Ming to set off immediately, and he could bear the final work here alone.

"Anyway, I don't have many soldiers, so I can't help much in the war, but it's okay to escort the prisoners and supervise the team to transport the things back."

If a street battle broke out in Gucheng, Yuan Zongdi's 500 soldiers would not have any effect. Liu Tichun was eager to put the theory summarized in the past two days into practice and strongly agreed with the plan of splitting the action. He Zhen also wanted to go to Gucheng to divide things - help Hao Yaoqi take down Gucheng, and Hao Yaoqi would definitely not be able to take over the things there. He Zhen felt that Yunyang was actually quite unfair. He had no efforts because he did not contribute, but after careful consideration, Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun did not work. The solution was the third prince, and the guard was killed by the subordinates of the third prince. He Zhen asked himself, if Liu Tichun or Yuan Zongdi went to sweep the four suburbs, the things he did with Deng Ming would not be worse than the two. Standing by the side to watch the fun, could anyone be better than who would be better?

All three agreed, Deng Ming had no reason to object, and the next action was determined. Liu Tichun announced that he would set off on a boat early tomorrow morning, and then asked Yuan Zongdi for his portion of gunpowder.

"I agreed to have a portion of gunpowder for each person," Yuan Zongdi shook his head and said, "Your all exploded, and I started to think about mine. How much gunpowder do you want to waste on the walls of Yunyang?"

"You don't need it anyway. Do you still use gunpowder when you transport the grain and grass home? Give it all to me, I'll exchange the grain." Liu Tichun said anxiously: "Besides, I'm not using it to blow up Yunyang City Wall, I'm going to blow up Gucheng."

"He must have it in his hand with Hao Yaoqi's gunpowder." Yuan Zongdi still didn't plan to agree: "I don't need it on my way back, but what about the future? I will still need it when siegeing the city in the future."

"Will you make some more gunpowder then?" Liu Tichun shouted impatiently: "It's too stingy."

"Why am I stingy? Didn't the gunpowder I brought have been used by you to explode the Yunyang city wall?" Yuan Zongdi thought for a while, and finally let go: "Give it half of it, and exchange it for food."

After the discussion was done, Deng Ming went back to his camp to rest. Under Yuan Zongdi's strong instigation, he would set out with Liu Tichun tomorrow morning. Yuan Zongdi repeatedly pointed out that the terrain of Gucheng requires a blasting expert like Deng Ming to personally step on. Although he knew that he was not a blasting expert at all, Deng Ming felt that going to the front line might help improve the morale of the Ming army, and the earlier the meeting with Hao Yaoqi, the better, so as not to be misunderstood.

After Deng Ming left, He Zhen and the others talked about Zhao Tianba again. Today, Zhao Qianhu's performance was very eye-catching. He was the most popular figure other than Deng Ming. While discussing Deng Ming's strange plan in the Ming army, they also lamented that Zhao Tianba was invincible.

"It seems that Mr. Zhao Qian is better than your Zhou guard." Liu Tichun said to Yuan Zongdi. Zhou Kaihuang is also well-known in the Kuidong Army. Everyone knows that he is outstanding in martial arts, but he does not seem particularly outstanding in Deng Ming's guards.

"Who said it? In my opinion, if you talk about martial arts, Zhou Kaihuang is similar to Zhao Qianhu." Yuan Zongdi did not hide his tendency at all.

Although Deng Ming has not many guards, Yuan Zongdi and the others can tell at a glance that they are all good players. He Zhen is a little surprised why Deng Ming can have such a guard.

Liu Tichun heard about this: "Mr. Deng decided to lure the enemy with his own strength in the battle of Wanxian County, and the people he chose were all heroes from a hundred miles away. Starting from Wanxian County, one battle after another, from Jianchang to Kunming. Not to mention that they were all heroes, no matter how many people were not good, they became sharp men after so many battles. I am afraid that the young guards in our hands are incomparable. How many young people can go on battle more than ten times or dozens of times? I wonder if you have one, but I don't have one. That Zhao Qianhu was originally the capable subordinate of the King of Jin. The King of Jin sent him as an envoy and had many interactions in the territory of the Tartars, and he was even more a hundred-man enemy."

"It's Mr. Deng himself," Yuan Zongdi also held similar views. He had inquired in detail about what Deng Ming did in Wanxian, Dongchuan Prefecture, and Kunming from Zhou Kaihuang: "I personally participated in more than ten battles and fought for several months, and at least ten enemies."

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The next day, Deng Ming and Liu Tichun set out early in the morning, and in the afternoon, He Zhen also brought the army to board the ship. The two teams of 11,000 Ming troops drove towards Gucheng downstream. Yuan Zongdi told them that as soon as the matter here ended, he would take some personal guards to Gucheng to meet everyone.

"Come early, if you come late, Gucheng will be broken." He Zhen said, unconsciously revealing his thoughts: "If the city is broken, there will be no things to be divided."

"There are too much gains from sending troops this time." Yuan Zongdi said that he had never expected such a big gain in advance, so he was already very satisfied.

"No wonder you didn't learn how to explode seriously." He Zhen thought in his heart. After hearing about this new tactic of breaking the city, He Zhen was also itchy. Yesterday, he surrounded Deng Ming and Liu Tichun and asked repeatedly. Before Deng Ming and Liu Tichun left, He Zhen agreed with the two that he must wait until he arrived before starting the attack so that he could understand.

Although Deng Ming and Liu Tichun agreed immediately, He Zhen was still worried and sent a capable guard to lead a small team of people in his camp who were good at attacking the acupuncture. This afternoon, He Zhen was in a hurry to set off. One purpose was of course to ensure that he could arrive before the city of Gucheng, so that he could just divide things with legitimate reasons; the other purpose was to fear that the team sent could not learn the skills smoothly.

Yuan Zongdi said something well, which made He Zhen feel deeply, that is, he never expected to gain such a great achievement before sending troops. However, He Zhen thought that Yuan Zongdi's idea of ​​being at ease with a small wealth was not good. Thinking about the battle situation in Gucheng, He Zhen did not continue to nag with Yuan Zongdi, but hurriedly led his troops to set off.

After He Zhen left, Yuan Zongdi was at ease with all the aftermath matters. By the afternoon of the next day, he sent a subordinate who had gone with Liu Tichun to return to Yunyang to report safety to the left-behind Ming army. Deng Ming and Liu Tichun were smooth sailing along the way, and there was no interference from the Qing army along the way.

"Well," Yuan Zongdi listened carefully to his subordinates' reports, and it seemed that Deng Ming had gone far away: "Mr. Deng hasn't delayed it?"

"There was no stop on the way, and even the food was eaten on the boat. It was not stopping at night, and I kept rushing to the road." The subordinate reported that he broke up with the front team this morning and rode back on a horse and reported to Yuan Zongdi.

"Very good, Mr. Deng has gone far." Yuan Zongdi believed that the biggest interference factor had been ruled out and he could start his own experiment: "It's time for us to dig holes by the wall... Come on, get gunpowder and find a complete city wall, and we also need to blow it up."

Two days ago, when Liu Tichun was busy doing experiments, Yuan Zongdi was watching coldly, how to make the fuse and seal the walls. Yuan Zongdi had already found a group of clever subordinates, observed and inquired clearly. Before breaking Yunyang, Liu Tichun used half of the gunpowder used in the experiment was Yuan Zongdi. He shared this lesson with confidence.

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Yuan Zongdi's experiment continued to consume the few remaining city walls in Yunyang. When he left Yunyang with satisfaction, he thought that Gucheng had been captured by Liu Tichun and others at this time. However, Yuan Zongdi's expectations failed, and Liu Tichun's progress was not smooth. Gucheng was not yet captured by the Ming army until Yuan Zongdi arrived.

Liu Tichun led his troops to Gucheng and surprised Hao Yaoqi. He had never expected that the Ming army would have the ability to quickly break Yunyang. After listening to the former's proud introduction of the new tactics, Hao Yaoqi immediately urged Liu Tichun to explode the city. General Liu had planned this way until he found that there was water in the trench on the lower side of Gucheng.

In order to strengthen Gucheng's defense capabilities, the defenders drew water to some trenches. If someone else came, this change would not have any impact. There was still a considerable number of trenches in Gucheng without water, and the blasting conditions were not much different from Yunyang. However, Liu Tichun, who was in charge of the work, is already the well-deserved chief blasting expert of this era. If he was second in the world, no one could be called first, even Deng Ming, a time traveler.

When the blasting master Liu Tichun discovered that some of the walls of Gucheng were under the protection of the moat, he firmly opposed blasting the walls behind the trenches, but insisted on not being able to get along with these walls with moats. Hao Yaoqi wanted to take down Gucheng quickly and see the new tactics that are said to be powerful; He Zhen wanted to divide more things after breaking the city. If Yuan Zongdi came later, there would be fewer things to get. But Liu Tichun was different, and he was more concerned about how to improve this tactic that could dominate the world.

Liu Tichun insisted that he should use this opportunity to try to blast the city wall protected by moats, because the Ming army will definitely encounter more similar situations in the future. The Ming army will not only encounter city walls without moats, and the targets to attack in the future will not be as different as canals and dry trenches like Gucheng. No one can convince Liu Tichun, who is stubborn, and in the end everyone had to agree with his plan, digging the canal to lure away the water in the trench, and then starting to dig tunnels.

This of course greatly slowed down the progress of the siege, and what's worse was that Liu Tichun's first blast failed. Deng Ming believed that gathering a ball of high-temperature and high-pressure gas was very dangerous, so he waited for six hours before sending a suicide squad to check the situation in the tunnel. The inspection result was that the gunpowder did not explode at all.

Because the soil near this tunnel is relatively moist, water seepage occurs in the tunnel. For Ming Jun, this is a new situation, because in the past, if there were underground seepage problems, there would be relevant water pumping methods. However, the soil layer around Yunyang was relatively dry, and Ming Jun took it for granted that as long as the coffin filled with gunpowder was pushed under the wall base, closed it, and then ignited the arranged fuse, it would be done.

The first blast failed to explode, and Hao Yaoqi was fine. He had never thought of success in one go, and he had no special expectations for this new acupoint attack method. But He Zhen was extremely disappointed. He rushed all the way and finally arrived in time. He also saw the Yunyang City Wall that was ravaged by Liu Tichun, so he was extremely enthusiastic about blasting. He also took care of his subordinates to carefully record every detail of Liu Tichun's blasting - the result was not successful!

Fortunately, this was not a problem for the blasting genius Liu Tichun. While thinking and discussing with Deng Ming, he quickly came up with a solution and ordered the use of stone bricks to create a closed "blasting room" - this term was proposed by Deng Ming, and Liu Tichun accepted it happily. In the past, the Ming army just dug a hole, and the second attempt to blast Gucheng was the first time that the Ming army consciously took the initiative to create a blasting space. In order to prevent moisture, Liu Tichun also used dry soil to lay the foundation in the blasting room.

After completing these moisture-proof work, the Ming army completed the closure work as quickly as possible and detonated. This time the gunpowder exploded smoothly and the walls of Gucheng collapsed. Hao Yaoqi was surprised and happy to see this and wanted to order the army to seize the city. Unlike Deng Ming's first experiment, the Ming army had already predicted the consequences of the blasting, so Hao Yaoqi had prepared the commando.

However, the attack was miscarried under the interference of Liu Tichun. General Liu pointed out with pain that in order to ensure success, his charge amount was greater than when the blasting was made in Yunyang. The walls of Gucheng were not as strong as Yunyang, so there was no good breakthrough like Yunyang, which obviously meant that the power of gunpowder could not be fully utilized. Although the wall was blown down the second time, there was no clean gap like Yunyang, but a large slope similar to previous hole attacks. Liu Tichun speculated that this must be due to moisture. Although the blasting chamber was created, water vapor still invaded it during the closure process, and the moisture-proof effect of dry soil was obviously limited.

After preventing Hao Yaoqi's attack, Liu Tichun immediately began to organize the third blasting. This time he ordered the coffin to be treated by the fuse, and a layer of asphalt was painted on the inside and outside. When Yuan Zongdi arrived, Liu Tichun had just completed a new blasting room. After stuffing this specially treated coffin under the foundation of the wall, the blasting achieved the effect in Yunyang and blasted a large gap to the city wall.

Although the guess is correct and the improvement is done, Liu Tichun originally wanted to explode again to consolidate the new blasting skills that had just been developed. However, this time Hao Yaoqi and He Zhen would never give him the opportunity to interfere with the siege. In addition to the newly arrived Yuan Zongdi, they were unwilling to accompany Liu Tichun to continue making trouble. They did not want to burn the warehouse for the Qing army to satisfy Liu Tichun's desire to explode. Yes, the Yunyang garrison did not burn, but who dares to say that the performance of the Qing army in Gucheng would be as stumbled as Yunyang?

Before the smoke and dust had dissipated, the commando team carefully prepared by Hao Yaoqi and He Zhen rushed into Gucheng from the gap and easily subdued the Qing army around who had been shocked. Like Yunyang, the main force of the Qing army was busy defending the slope that Liu Tichun exploded for the second time, and busy repairing the wall.

The Qing army in Gucheng was 20% less than Yunyang, while there were more than 25,000 Ming army outside the city. The battle ended within an hour. The magistrate and the garrison were both killed by the Ming army. The Qing army, who were not killed, surrendered to the Ming army collectively.

After rescuing and recruiting new recruits, the Ming army in Kuidong had expanded to more than 30,000.

"Mr. Deng, let's take Xiangyang down!" Hao Yaoqi looked at Deng Ming with bright eyes. When he had just divided the gains from Gucheng, Hao Yaoqi was very happy and felt that he had made a lot of money this time. But this expedition was initiated by Hao Yaoqi, and he also sent the most troops. Seeing that Liu Tichun, Yuan Zongdi, and He Zhen had more expeditions than he had obtained this expedition, Hao Yaoqi suddenly felt a little unbalanced. He decided to put this resentment on the Qing army in Xiangyang.

"Agree!" After the city of Gucheng was broken, Liu Tichun was the first to run to the arsenal to protect the gunpowder. This time he exploded Gucheng, he was obviously not satisfied: "Go to Xiangyang!"
Chapter completed!