In order to ensure the safety of the Chengdu soldiers, Deng Ming took this opportunity to draw up an agreement, which stipulated that when the Chengdu soldiers were captured for various reasons, including ship wrecks, they should be treated favorably by the Qing army, and would not be beaten to extract confessions, and the Ming army would be allowed to redeem them with money; Before these prisoners of war were ransomed, they should be given basic food and drink, and they would not be killed at will, Deng Ming announced that if the Qing army violated this agreement, then they should not want to be released, but this was still reciprocal, if the Qing army beat and mistreated the prisoners of war, they would have to bear the consequences of fines, and only when killing the Ming prisoners of war, Deng Ming would ask for compensation - Deng Ming did not intend to force those enemies who had a bad record of abusing the Ming prisoners of war to kill people.

This agreement was also made on the same day, and after signing this Zhongxian treaty on the treatment of prisoners of war and not knowing whether it could be implemented, Deng Ming immediately prepared to board and leave with half of the main force, leaving Ren Tang and Mu Tan to stay to deal with the issue of accepting prisoners of war.

So far, there have been almost 75,000 prisoners captured by the Sichuan army, and Deng Ming ordered it to be divided into two parts, Chengdu with 30,000 troops sent back 40,000 people, and Xuzhou, which gave 27,000 soldiers, sent 35,000 prisoners of war (excluding the 12,000 people who were intercepted by Yuan Xiang and them last time, it is 23,000). Seeing that Deng Ming actually agreed to let the number of prisoners of war exceed the original population of Xuzhou, even the business house owners who sent their men to support the front line were a little surprised.

"If I'm not mistaken, among the guys you use now, there are still many people brought to Chengdu by Gao Mingzhan, Daniel Zhang and Zhao Liangdong brought from Guizhou, and some of them were captured when they fought Li Guoying last time, aren't they all actively participating in the battle and contributing to the imperial court?" Deng Ming really wanted to open up, Sichuan zhèngfǔ must do his best to win the love of the people, otherwise it will be difficult to escape the end of destruction: "But if you are wrong, if the Xuzhou Imperial Assembly thinks it is inappropriate, you can send it to the capital by yourself, I guess there will not be many people on the side of Liu Zhifu." ”

Of course, these people are reluctant to be evacuated, no industry will suspect many people in this labor shortage, and this time the distribution plan was proposed by Deng Ming, and it was about to be used to silence Liu Jinge's mouth - when Deng Ming casually ordered all the prisoners of war to be sent back to Chengdu, they took the initiative to intercept them, but now the people in Xuzhou plan to say that they are just carrying out Deng Ming's orders. "One more thing, when these captives pay taxes, they will also be Tongxiucai, scholars, and then they will also not need to be subject to household registration restrictions, and they can move freely under the rule of the imperial court." The flow of Deng Ming's mouth is actually more relaxed than that of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty just does not need scholars to provide road guidance, but after all, there is a question of origin, and Deng Ming allows Tong Xiucai to choose where to live and work at will: "If they want to go to Chengdu to find a job at that time, I can't control it." ”

"Understood, understood." Everyone nodded their heads, and everyone knew that Deng Ming meant to let them treat the captives well, take over the kindness, and make them willing to stay in Xuzhou - the ordinary people of this era still value kindness very much, and they also have a very heavy benefactor complex; And when Tong Xiucai and their boss have a relationship, it is easy to be absorbed into the Chengdu system and become a supporter and supporter of Deng Mingzhèngfǔ.

After explaining these things, 7,000 soldiers of the Ming army and 15,000 people had already boarded the ship, and Deng Ming no longer said much to the councillors of the spoils distribution committee, and ordered a meeting of officers to be called.

Originally, Deng Ming believed that Chongqing lacked the ability to defend itself, but now that Li Guoying has fled, Wang Mingde has negotiated peace, and there are no threatening enemies around the Ming army, Chongqing is unlikely to receive support in the short term - at least in Deng Ming's opinion.

"Li Guoying mobilized about 100,000 people this time, last time we caught 10,000, this time we caught 62,000, and then throw away those who were caught by General Yuan, exhausted, and lost, 100,000 auxiliary soldiers have gone to 80,000." Before getting on the ship, Deng Ming told the officers about his thoughts and asked them to spread it throughout the army: "Without the support of auxiliary soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army's soldiers has decreased a lot, and the mobility has also been greatly reduced. "Li Guoying, who is fleeing north with 7,000 armored soldiers of the Shanxi Green Battalion, lacks intelligence and guides, and in order to avoid the interception of our army, he will definitely run desperately to the north, and only after running far away will he dare to turn around and go west. Deng Ming had no intention of taking the Ming army to chase Li Guoying, because there would be a lot of non-combat attrition when he went into the mountains to pursue the Ming army, and the benefits were probably not much: "Even if he rushes back to Chongqing, he has neither combat effectiveness nor mobility without armor and auxiliary support." There is no threat to our army in the short term. ”

After the agreement was signed, Deng Ming knew Wang Mingde's little abacus - Li Guoying threw all the armor of the green camp in the camp, but Deng Ming felt that there was no need to break the contract for this, reputation is now a part of Deng Ming, if he loses credit, his difficulties will be magnified ten times immediately. Moreover, these armors left by Li Guoying had to stay in Zhongxian for a month with Wang Mingde, at least in the next battle, which was meaningless to the Qing army; In addition to the armor issue, Deng Ming also asked Ren Tang and Mu Tan to accept the prisoners, and Yuan Zong Chapter 357, bringing news of Zheng Chenggong, saying that the Min army was ready for an expedition to Taiwan. The envoy left Xiamen in May, and finally arrived in Fengjie at the beginning of July, and it is not known whether there was any new news after that, because Li Guoying's attack also cut off the communication from Fengjie to Xuzhou.

Deng Ming was anxious to put an end to these troublesome things in Chongqing, destroying the Qing army's stronghold or cutting off Li Guoying's grain, which Li Guoying had brought out to fight with his auxiliaries, and the grain was probably still in the fields or in warehouses outside the city. Then he got out and went to deal with the affairs of Jiangnan -- there was also news from Wuchang, as if the Yangtze River had suppressed Prime Minister Deng's yamen and wanted to discuss something with Deng Ming.

When Deng Ming hurriedly left Wanxian, Guiyang ......

"The barbarian king of Burma sent a letter, willing to crusade against Yongli and serve the court." Xia Guoxiang reported to Wu Sangui.

"Strange." The king of Pingxi was stunned for a moment, if the Qing army approached the border of Burma now, it would not be unusual for the king of Burma to do this, but now Li Dingguo is still in Yunnan. Moreover, Deng Ming's successive battles and victories should also have some influence on the vassal states, such as Vietnam, which is a good example. Originally, the Vietnamese tone was quite tough, and they refused to see the envoys sent by the Qing army of Guangxi and Guangzhou, and even sent them directly to the Ming army camp, and also unanimously provided grain and soldiers to the western army in Guangxi. However, after Yongli abandoned the country, Vietnam's tone softened instantly, and it basically agreed to surrender to the Qing court, and under Shang Kexi's coercion, it even agreed to send troops to exterminate the Ming army that fled into Vietnam.

But after a series of events such as the Kunming fire, Vietnam completely overturned the agreement reached with Shang Kexi, and continued to shield the Ming army in Vietnam, after the battle of Gaoyou Lake, the Ming army began to recruit troops in Vietnam, Shang Kexi, Sun Yanling repeatedly asked the imperial court to crusade against Vietnam, but Beijing did not have enough resources to open up a new battlefield, and in Beijing's view, as long as it won in the main battlefield, Vietnam would naturally succumb to itself.

"Mang Bai said that as long as the officers and soldiers enter the border with Myanmar, he will sacrifice Yongli." Xia Guoxiang added.

"I see." Wu Sangui smiled slightly: "I still have to fight the officers and soldiers at the door of the house before they are willing to turn their faces." ”

"Not necessarily." Seeing that Wu Sangui seemed to be losing interest, Xia Guoxiang said again: "Judging from the last general, Mang Bai is already quite dissatisfied with Yongli, and the king knows?" Yongli has just issued an edict to give Deng Mingguo Gong and Zuo Duke. ”

The expression on Wu Sangui's face suddenly changed, but Xia Guoxiang hadn't finished speaking: "This prince still doesn't chase the three generations." ”