After the meeting, Li Guoying went back to his room to rest. Since the last Zhongxian fiasco, his health has deteriorated, and in recent days, he has been exhausted and he feels a little exhausted.

"Lord Governor, the thieves have come to attack the city......" Gao Mingzhan shouted loudly, rushing into the yamen of the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and his words stopped abruptly in the middle of his sentence, because he saw the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi lying on the table and falling asleep.

"Oh." Li Guoying, who unconsciously fell asleep, was awakened by this shout, raised his head, stood up, and waved his hand to signal that Gao Mingzhan did not need to blame himself: "I'll go to the city to have a look." ”

When the governor and governor walked to the city one after the other, Li Guoying suddenly sighed to his old friend behind him: "I had a good dream just now, there is no Deng Ming in the dream, maybe he drowned in the river when he escaped from Chongqing." I surrendered Er Tan, and forced Fengjie again, Wen Anzhi had no choice but to hang himself. I buried him thickly to show the world the court's respect for scholars. Then our army went straight to Kuidong, although the Kuidong thieves were brave and able to beat Huguang's soldiers and horses to the bitter ground, but no one was my opponent. In the end, I pacified Sichuan and Hubei for the emperor, well, for the emperor. Alas......"

Walking up to the city, Li Guoying saw a group of troops attacking the outlying positions he had set up outside the city. After looking at it seriously for a while, Li Guoying commented on Gao Mingzhan behind him: "Li Laiheng can't control the situation." ”

Through the meeting just now, Li Guoying basically controlled all the generals in Chongqing. The Qing army, which was in a desperate situation, could only pin all its hopes on Li Guoying, hoping that he could repel the Kuidong army and rely on Chongqing's own strength to break the siege.

On the other hand, when the Ming army on the opposite side launched an attack under the banner of party defense, most of the other Ming troops did not immediately participate in the attack, and it seems that the command of the Ming army is not very unified.

"Lord Governor, can we go out of the city and fight back?" Gao Mingzhan saw some fighters and suggested with some excitement: "Just like the battle of Boryeong." ”

"Did this official repel Liu Wenxiu's battle?" A smile appeared on Li Guoying's face.

"Yes, that time the lord drove Liu Thief back to his hometown." Gao Mingzhan rubbed his hands excitedly. At that time, Liu Wenxiu led the northern expedition of the army, and the momentum was extremely huge, defeating Wu Sangui's generals many times, forcing the king of Pingxi to retreat step by step, and it seemed that the king of Shu waved his army to attack Shaanxi was unstoppable. Liu Wenxiu thought that the weak Qing army in Baoning was already vulnerable, so he hastily ordered the whole army to besiege - at that time, Liu Wenxiu's eyes had already crossed Baoning and looked at Hanzhong and Xi'an - and Li Guoying suddenly concentrated his troops out of the city to counterattack the Ming army attacking the city, and the defeated soldiers of the Ming army were pressed one layer after another, resulting in an avalanche-like rout, and the 100,000 Ming army was completely defeated by the Qing army's desperate blow.

Li Guoying laughed, and his laughter was full of pride. After laughing, he shook his head slightly: "Liu Wenxiu is different from Kui Dong, he has a lot of soldiers and horses, all of which were temporarily allocated to him by Sun Kewang, and there are also a large number of Sichuan troops that he newly appeased. These people are afraid of power but not virtue, Liu Wenxiu bowed his head when he was victorious, but he was suspicious in his heart, for fear of being annexed or deliberately sacrificed, and when the situation was bad, they would escape separately, so our army had the victory of Baoning. And these Kui Dong thieves ......" Li Guoying stretched out his hand and pointed to the front of the city: "They are all friends of life and death who share weal and woe and never give up, and they really defeated the party Shousu, Liu Tichun will rush up to save him like crazy; And defeated Liu Tichun, Yuan Zongdi fought hard to protect his brother from danger. ”

Li Guoying shook his head again: "To deal with the Kuidong Army, we have to use another set of methods, and this official will keep killing and injuring them." Seeing that the party was fighting hard, Liu Tichun would come up to help; Seeing Liu Tichun's heavy casualties, Yuan Zongdi would come up and fight hard; When Li Laiheng saw his Uncle Yuan and Uncle Liu's people bleeding under the city, would he sit on the wall and watch? No matter how bitter they are in their hearts, they will not retreat before the blood is drained. ”

"Your Excellency the Governor sees this," Gao Mingzhan praised sincerely, "It turns out that Your Excellency the Governor has already made up his mind, so he is waiting for the thieves to come and fall into the net." ”

Li Guoying didn't say anything more, he was not so sure in his heart at all. The Kuidong Army had high morale, excellent equipment, and absolute superiority in strength and water surface; The defenders of Chongqing had a lot of grievances, and the combat experience of the soldiers could not be compared with that of the other side, and the equipment was also compared with the enemy. If the opponent's military order is unified, Li Guoying feels that the chance of winning this battle is less than one percent, that is, it is better than the inevitable defeat of the initiative to withdraw the army.

Even if Li Laiheng's authority is questionable, as long as the Ming army is undefeated, it will win, and the Qing army needs to beat the Ming army away to be saved, Li Guoying said it easily, but he knew that the Ming army's chances of victory were actually much higher.

Standing silently beside the Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi for a while, Gao Mingzhan suddenly asked in a low voice, "Lord Governor, where is that Deng Ming?" ”

The more Li Guoying's analysis of Liu Wenxiu and Li Laiheng is recalled, the more convinced Gao Mingzhan becomes. He had been by Li Guoying's side for many years, and he often heard the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi make such a sharp analysis of the enemy generals. But Deng Ming is an exception, and Li Guoying rarely comments on Deng Ming. In the past, it may have been said that I didn't know much about this person, so I couldn't guess; But as Deng Ming's fame shocked the world, his deeds became a household name, and Li Guoying's concern for western Sichuan was also unparalleled. But after fighting so many battles and collecting information for so long, Li Guoying's evaluation of Deng Ming has become even less - after Deng Ming defeated Tan Hong and Tan Yi, Li Guoying once made some simple speculations and analyses of Deng Ming based on the small amount of information he had, but he didn't even say a word in the past year.

Gao Mingzhan's question made Li Guoying's smile freeze on his face, and he was still watching the battle in front of the city, but he obviously began to get distracted, and his thoughts left Chongqing, where he was.

After half a ring, Li Guoying asked softly: "As you can see, which is better or worse than the Sichuan army and the Kuidong army?" ”

"Huh?" Gao Mingzhan was taken aback and blurted out: "Can this be compared?" ”

Even the auxiliaries of the Sichuan army are also full of energy, and when they march, they are neatly organized, and if they put on armor, they are definitely first-class elite soldiers. And the armored soldiers of the Sichuan army, not to mention anything else, the neatness of the military formation is beyond the reach of the elite under Li Guoying. All the Chongqing troops who have seen the momentum of the cavalry of the Sichuan army wall, even brave generals such as Daniel Zhang, Wang Jinbao, and Wang Mingde are all trembling, and those who can be hard to the end are probably only Zhao Liangdong left.

Although the Kuidong Army was not bad, its military appearance did not far surpass that of other armies.

"You're right, the two armies can't be compared at all." Li Guoying agreed.

Li Guoying has been in charge of the army for many years, and he thinks that he is quite skillful, and he is both virtuous and powerful to his subordinates, and his descendants respect and fear him, and Li Guoying also has the ability to control the fierce generals like Zhao Liangdong. For example, in the decisive battle of Chongqing this time, Li Guoying was determined and able to make strategic decisions against public opinion; He was also able to bring the whole army to the path he thought was right through all kinds of tricks; It can also make everyone willingly obey his command in the end.

This requires a series of deceptions, divisions, and co-optations, and the key in particular is to have a group of absolutely credible descendants -- if there were no confidants such as Gao Mingzhan and Wang Mingde, Li Guoying would not have tried to get things done.

But judging from the intelligence, Deng Ming is a completely different person, and it is said that he is true to his word and honest with his subordinates. What puzzles Li Guoying the most is that Deng Ming does not seem to have a group of absolutely loyal descendants. Needless to mention, none of the five generals under Deng Ming were trained by himself, and the rest of the high-ranking officials in western Sichuan were also the sons of various warlords, and these people Li Guoying would never use them as descendants.

"Deng Ming hid himself very well." Li Guoying said to himself in his heart. He believes that all the information about Deng Ming is a fake, and if Deng Ming is really a person who is as everyone legends, then he will definitely not have a strong army. Since the facts contradict Li Guoying's cognition, Li Guoying can only think that Deng Ming is unfathomable, completely covering his true face, so that the Qing court cannot snoop on it.

"It's only Deng Ming, I can't see through it at all." Li Guoying came back to his senses, said a word to Gao Mingzhan lightly, and carefully observed the offensive of the Ming army.

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The Qing army in Chongqing set up sheltered camps outside the city gates, and after the attack of the Dang Shousu, the Qing troops in these camps showed some combat effectiveness, perhaps because the Qing army had no way out, so their resistance was much more tenacious than those of their comrades on the riverside.

However, even so, the resistance of the Qing army was gradually suppressed by the Ming army. By the second day of the battle, the Qing army was on the verge of collapse due to the west, so that the city of Chongqing had to send troops out of the city to prevent the Ming army from quickly seizing their camp outside the city and preventing the Ming army from approaching the city walls.

Originally, Liu Tichun planned to prepare some siege equipment before launching a tentative attack. Before coming to Chongqing, he had already made some large bells for blasting, but he had not yet had time to unload these equipment. And Liu Tichun also needs some time to observe the terrain and find the most suitable blasting site. After hearing about Liu Tichun's plan, Dang Shousu launched the first round of attacks without saying a word - if he could break through the cover in front of the Qing army, then Liu Tichun's blasting would naturally be easier to carry out, and the chance of the precious demolition team members being attacked would be greatly reduced.

After discovering that Dang Shousu was in a bitter battle, Liu Tichun suddenly found that he didn't have much time, and the camp outside the city that Dang Shousu was about to take was supported by the reinforcements who arrived later. In order not to let the blood of the soldiers in front of him be shed in vain, the party Shousu invested wave after wave of troops.

"It's not smart to brave the fire of the city and storm the camp in front of the city, right?" Liu Tichun observed the battlefield for a while and saw that the artillery on the city of Chongqing was fired in unison, causing considerable losses to the party's army. However, the camp tent in front of the city was indeed precarious, and the stubborn temper of the party seemed to have come up, and when Liu Tichun sent someone to persuade him, he also asked the person to reply to him, saying that Liu Tichun only needed to concentrate on preparing the blasting device, and he would definitely clear the obstacles for Liu Tichun.

"We are also at war." Liu Tichun felt that he had to do something for Dang Shousu, so he ordered the demolition team to continue to prepare, and at the same time pointed to several camps around the target of Dang Shousu's attack and assigned tasks to his subordinates: "Feint and scatter some of Chongqing's firepower, don't fight too hard." ”