Deng Ming and Liu Tichun entered Yingtianfu successively, and Deng Ming and Chuanjun were already frequent visitors to Nanjing, so they didn't feel too strange; Li Laiheng's vanguard army also came once, so he also behaved quite calmly; But Liu Tichun's men were much more excited, one of the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty, the heart of China. Even their commander, Liu Tichun, couldn't help but look at the walls of Nanjing again and again, and seemed to have the urge to give it a try.

"General Liu, we agreed before." Seeing that Liu Tichun's eyes were getting more and more wrong when he looked at the Nanjing City Wall, Deng Ming hurriedly reminded him to pay attention: "If Jiang Guozhu doesn't know what to do, then we will blast the Nanjing City Wall for him to see; But if Jiang Guozhu is honest, there is no need for us to show off our strength, and it is convenient for us to be convenient with others. ”

"Yes, I remember."

Liu Tichun got a few new treasures from Deng Ming this time, one of which is called a timing fuse. It is to use a glass container to hold a liquid that has become a strong acid by Deng Ming, and break the glass before use, so that the acid flows out and corrodes a metal wire. When the wire is burned, it causes the tight spring to contract violently, and the gunpowder is ignited by violent friction or flint ignition - the success rate is not very good, but it saves time in laying the wire, and sometimes it takes a lot of time to lay a long fuse, and the fuse also has the chance of failure due to the wrong laying. Therefore, Liu Tichun believes that if this kind of fuze can be improved, it is still very promising. And since the success rate is low at this stage, it is completely possible to place a few more. Even after the improvement in the future, it can continue to be resettled to ensure the success rate, but the current cost of this thing is extremely high, and the price may not be able to drop in the short term.

Although these instruments proved feasible on Liu Tichun's test ground, they have not been tested on the battlefield since they were dispatched. Liu Tichun's cabin was filled with piles of various explosives, but the Qing court officials who were knowledgeable and interested along the way disappointed him again and again, and now seeing the Nanjing city wall so majestic and majestic, Liu Tichun's heart was shaken and he was embarrassed.

"I'm thinking now, if we take Nanjing, wouldn't it really be bad?" Before the war, Deng Ming gave Liu Tichun a detailed introduction to the purpose and intention of this dispatch, and Kui Dongjun also expressed his understanding, but due to the emotional influence of his subordinates and the attraction of the Nanjing city wall, Liu Tichun hesitated again.

"Not good." Deng Ming shook his head again and again, he had to move out the reason again and tell Liu Tichun again: "First, we can't push the southeast governor back to the Qing court, the siege of the city will be que, we have to leave them a way to live; Second, our military strength is not enough to control the three provinces of Hubei, Jiangxi, and Jiangnan, and if we form a long snake formation along the Yangtze River, we will be passive and beaten everywhere. Third, although these people provide us with more military expenses than they provide to Beijing, as long as they remain officials of the Qing court, they are attacking the prestige of the Qing court. ”

Even if these provinces did not put up the banner of the Ming army without any resistance, Deng Ming, who lacked troops and talents, was bound to retain a large number of officials from the southeast, who would also damage the public and private interests, and test the Ming army's ability to respond and supervise. As they succeed in testing again and again from scratch, the fear of the southeastern officials towards the Ming army will be reduced, and their evil deeds will also reduce the perception of the Ming army by the people in the southeast.

"Before we have the strength to take down half of the rivers and mountains, it is best not to move these governors, and when we make a move, we must have the momentum of destroying the withering and decaying, and at the same time, we can put every post on our people." Deng Ming has not yet said one thing to Liu Tichun, that is, the Sichuan army now has the advantages of being both a ruler and a challenger, and does not have to bother to govern the southeastern territory, and does not have to worry about personnel, justice, and disasters, but relying on modern economic means and flexible diplomatic strategies, it 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 greatly exceeded that of Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan's Northern Expedition, which was also the first time since the internal strife of the Three Kings that the Ming army on the Western Front surpassed the Ming army of Fujian and Zhejiang again in military strength. And their opponent is probably not as good as the Qing army at that time: although three years have passed, the Su Song Naval Division has not been rebuilt at all, and the Jiangxi Naval Division does not even have a name. Ma Fengzhi fled to Chongming with many elites of the Jiangnan Green Battalion, and the current Jianghe and Jiangning officers and soldiers have been hit hard by Deng Ming many times, and they are all rebuilt troops many times, and what is worse is that they all know that Deng Ming has no habit of killing prisoners.

Therefore, while sending troops to monitor Nanjing, Deng Ming still had the spare strength to organize Kuidong generals to travel in batches and visit historic sites such as Xiaoling.

After the Ming army re-entered the south of the Yangtze River this time, a large number of young soldiers joined the army, hoping to be received by Deng Ming, but Deng Ming still followed the old example and publicly told them that the Ming army still had no intention of recovering Nanjing, so that they continued to lurk in Jiangzuo like their predecessors, waiting for Wang Shi's counterattack. And many of the people who were lurking in the past also sent books to ask if it was time to start an incident. Deng Ming took the trouble to reply one by one, saying that the time was not yet ripe and that they needed to continue to collect intelligence and win over the Tartar officials in the prefecture and county.

Most of the scholars accepted Deng Ming's instructions, but there were exceptions, and the representatives of the sleeper scholars of Yizhen and Liuhe protested, saying that they really had no hidden work to do. After three years of incubation, Liuhe's underground organization now knows that they are Deng Ming's secret chess. After hearing that Deng Ming had arrived at the edge of the south of the Yangtze River again, before they could go to the gate of the Qing military camp with wine and pretend to ask for warmth and talk from the guards, the general of the green battalion stationed in the garrison sent President Qian to come at night. Mr. Qian presented the roster of the green battalion stationed in the guerrillas, saying that it was too hard for these lurkers to go to the gate of the barracks every time they heard the military transit in the past three years, and they didn't have to work hard from this time on, and they only needed to say hello to the guerrillas in the future, and they had first-hand information about everything they wanted to know; The Qian general also said that they wanted to know how many bricks there were on the city tower and how many nails were on the city gate, and the green camp could send people to count them on their behalf, as long as the Ming army helped them with a few kind words after entering the city.

The underground scholars of Yizhen also had similar troubles, and when they were actively connecting with their classmates and friends to prepare for the incident, the county magistrate called everyone to the yamen...... Jiang Guozhu once secretly confessed to his staff, these senior underground workers were all registered with Deng Ming, and none of them were allowed to move, even if they were to go around them in the future; As for the imperial court, Jiang Guozhu can hide it, and if he can't hide it, he will explain it by putting a long line and catching a big fish - Deng Ming's merit monument in front of Nanjing City was protected by Jiang Guozhu, and covering these secret chess pieces is, in the original words of the governor of Liangjiang: "It's not a matter." ”

After seeing this group of underground parties, the magistrate told them with a pleasant face that a Sichuan man who had just come to peddle public bonds, and according to the reliable information brought by the Sichuan people, Deng Ming had no plan to recover Jiangnan this time, so the underground party did not need to mobilize the magistrate for the third time anyway, because there was no right to oppose at all. Although the county magistrate has been taking good care of everyone all these years, it is too fierce and it is difficult for the county to deal with it -- whether it is the governor of Liangjiang or Yi Zhenzhi County, they all think that these young people who are more enthusiastic and less cautious are definitely not the secret chess pieces that Deng Ming relies on, and since Deng Ming has letters with them every time he passes by, to give them face, then the Liangjiang officialdom also has to give Deng Ming this face.

"Well, your latent methods are indeed lacking," Deng Ming patiently listened to the reports of the two underground parties, and pointed out that they should try to receive systematic latent training, but Deng Ming could not openly hold a Ming army latent training course in Nanjing, which was not good for secrecy, and it was easy to hurt the feelings of Jiang Guozhu, the governor of Liangjiang in the Qing Dynasty, and stimulated him to issue a solemn protest to the Ming army: "If you are interested, you can go to Chengdu, where a new academy has just been established, Among them, there are latent subjects that belong to the classification of special training and special equipment. ”

However, most of these young scholars have not yet made a name for themselves, Deng Ming said that he could find a way to help with this, Jiangning Supervisor is a little troublesome, but Gongsheng and Xiucai should not be too difficult. At that time, they will have the qualifications to study abroad, and they can buy long-distance ferry tickets and take the boat to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and enter Sichuan to Chengdu.

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Sending away this group of young people, Deng Ming once again lamented the information explosion in his previous life, these young people didn't know how to plan and organize a coup d'état, many confidentiality principles and methods Deng Ming had seen in children's TV programs, but people in this era just didn't know; At this time, not to mention children's books, even books for adults will not be dedicated to the deeds of various rebels around the world, the process of their success or repression - not only brief introduction, but also gains and losses, you must know that although "Five Thousand Years of the World" and other children's books, the names that can leave their names in them are also great figures in human history; And those war films, those from the perspective of the previous life, are old-fashioned, and in this era, they are definitely first-class rebellion technology manuals, and the teenagers who have seen them can understand the existence of one-line contact, code, diversion, stalking, and anti-stalking.

This time, Deng Ming also brought the newly trained surveyors who drew a lot of contour maps along the way, Nanjing is so important, of course, the surrounding terrain has to be repeatedly explored and drawn into detailed maps.

Although there are still big problems with the maps drawn up in western Sichuan, the concepts of scale and contour lines used in them have already made the Kuidong Allied Army amazed, compared with the traditional freehand map, this kind of map can not only play a traditional role as a guide, but may even allow commanders to use it to carry out simple pre-military deployment - in the past, this kind of deployment could not be completed by relying on maps, and only after scouting and reconnaissance can we have a correct general understanding of the battlefield topography.

After seeing the new map, Wang Guangxing immediately said that he wanted his subordinates to learn the new drawing method of Sichuan, and others made the same request one after another. This time, around Nanjing, Sichuan's subordinates tried to draw a one-to-fifty thousand map around Nanjing together with the allies who came to visit and study. In this practice, various surveying and mapping ideas were discussed, and the design ideas of the tools also emerged one after another.

"Our easiest part of the road is basically over," today Liu Tichun and Li Laiheng and Deng Ming trampled the terrain in Zhongshan together, taking Nanjing City as an imaginary enemy, and had some tactical discussions, and then the three of them talked about the next strategy, Deng Ming told them that there were envoys coming from Chongming, saying that the officers and soldiers of Jiangnan and Hedao, who were bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, had stopped harassing them: "After seeing Zhang Shangshu's envoy, we need to determine the target of this expedition and the enemy who is ready to strike." ”