After separating from the guide of Yue Xiguan, Deng Ming's team hurried silently, and no one spoke for a long time. After a long time, Deng Ming broke the silence and let out a long sigh: "During the festival, Inspector Wen and I talked about the old things of the Lie Emperor. The superintendent said that there was a minister who went to Shanxi to supervise the army...... Deng Ming glanced at Zhou Kaihuang: "In order to resist the attack of King Chuang, he climbed the city tower and wanted to urge the soldiers to fight, but found that no one fired the cannon, and no one went to reload the gunpowder, the minister was very angry, so he personally filled the cannon with gunpowder, but when he wanted to open the cannon, the surrounding soldiers pulled him one after another, saying that he would not let him ignite the cannon." ”

Hearing this, not only Li Xinghan and other soldiers of the Sichuan army, but even the three people who broke into the camp also sighed, the morale in western Sichuan was much worse than that in eastern Sichuan, and the outposts in Yuexi and other places were the same as Chengdu, and they had no intention of preparing for war at all, as if they had accepted their fate and waited for death.

"This minister returned to the Yamen to judge himself, and before he died, he sent a table to the Emperor Lie, asking the Emperor to clean up the hearts of the people." Deng Ming stopped when he said this, and lowered his head to think about his thoughts as he walked forward.

"How do you clean up people's hearts?" After waiting for a while, Li Xinghan saw that Deng Ming didn't mean to continue, so he asked.

"He doesn't know, he only knows that he must find a way to clean up people's hearts, and the Lie Emperor obviously didn't find it either." Deng Ming paused and said to his companions around him: "Now this problem is ours, the Western Sichuan Army has no fighting spirit and will have no fighting spirit, how can we clean up people's hearts?" ”

Lugu is located in the middle of nowhere, there are not many Han people at all, and the outpost of the Ming army only plays the role of a post station. Although there have been continuous battles here for more than ten years, it seems to be very far away from the Sichuan Xingdu Division, and as in Yuexi, Deng Ming and his entourage only saw the guards after entering the grass hut-like outpost. A dozen or so guards in Lugu were eating at this time, and they were all stunned when they saw a rare group of knights suddenly rushing into the door.

"We are going to Jianchang on the orders of Inspector Wen," Li Xinghan, who was in the lead, jumped off his horse and walked to the guard closest to him. The latter stared at him in a daze, his mouth full of food and forgot to swallow it. Li Xinghan shouted: "We need a guide, hurry!" Fast! ”

Under Li Xinghan's continuous urging, these guards seemed to have just come to their senses, and they quickly swallowed all the food in their mouths one by one, and came over to lead the horses for Deng Ming and the others.

"You were sent by the Inspector Wen?" One of the guards asked again when he led Zhou Kaihuang's horse.

"yes." Zhou Kaihuang replied, he had already said it so clearly just now, he didn't understand why this soldier had to ask again.

"Oh." The guard's brows furrowed, his lips moved, as if he had something to say but hesitated but didn't say it, the hand holding the horse's reins was released and clenched several times, he stood in place and thought about it, and then looked at Zhou Kaihuang.

"You guy, you dare to hide the military situation!" The guard's hesitation was seen by Zhou Kaihuang, and he jumped up without hesitation, grabbed the guard's collar, and yelled: "What a gut! ”

While scolding in his mouth, Zhou Kaihuang had already pulled out his saber and put it on the sentry's neck. When the roar sounded, Deng Ming and the other eighteen people didn't see what happened to Zhou Kaihuang clearly, but as soon as they heard the sound of drawing the sword, they quickly drew their weapons without thinking, and in a blink of an eye, the outpost was full of the cold light of the sword and the intimidation of the sharp sound.

Deng Ming clenched his long sword and looked around the courtyard, and none of the sentries in Lugu had time to draw their weapons. When Zhou Kaihuang's scolding sounded, these people all looked at the place of the incident in amazement, and one or two people nearby seemed to want to persuade them, but as soon as they moved slightly, they were immediately pointed at by Deng Ming's guards with weapons, forcing them all to kneel on the ground.

"Is there anyone else in the house?" Deng Ming asked a subdued Lugu sentry, the man's face was pale at this time, and the guard behind him pressed the knife on the back of his neck slightly, and the man quickly shook his head, and the skin on the back of his neck was cut at once due to the excessive movement.

Li Xinghan rushed into the house of the outpost with three guards, and the rest of the people were still controlling these Lugu guards outside.

After a while, Li Xinghan came out of the house with the people, and they searched every corner of the outpost very carefully, and he reported to Deng Ming: "There is no one inside. ”

It seems that the guards at this outpost were indeed very careless, eating out without warning. Deng Ming nodded, put away the weapon in his hand, and turned to look at Zhou Kaihuang: "What's the matter?" ”

"They don't tell the truth......," Zhou Kaihuang said, and he found that the guard god of Lugu was panicked and stopped, and finally concluded: "They harbor evil intentions, please sir to be clear." ”

"Wronged ......" After hearing Zhou Kaihuang's words, some people immediately began to shout injustice.

"Shut up!" Guard Wu San turned his back to Zhou Kaihuang when the incident happened just now, and when he heard the scolding, he was not sure whether it was a language dispute or an emergency, but as soon as he heard the sound of metal, he knocked over the Lugu guard in front of him without saying a word, twisted his arm and pressed him to the ground and couldn't move.

The other people who wanted to speak out were also stopped by the guards, and after the silence in the courtyard was restored, Wu San asked Deng Ming for instructions: "Mr. Deng, I think that I want to separate them for questioning, the first one to tell the truth will be pardoned, and the rest will not be spared!" ”

Wu San didn't think that the guards in Lugu had any intentions against his people, because the other party was completely defenseless, and it seemed that he was an ordinary guard post, and he had never seen any battles, which was far inferior to ordinary battalion soldiers. As long as you intimidate, you can probably scare these guard guards, and when you ask them again, you will be honest and honest.

The dozen or so guards in the outpost were all farmers before, they had never been on the battlefield, and they had never killed anyone, and after hearing Wu San's words, they shouted injustice and begged for mercy, but they were stopped after only half a sentence, although these people seemed to have no city government, but Deng Ming's guards would not give them a chance to confess.

On the way to Jianchang, Deng Ming organized everyone to conduct emergency response drills many times during the break, and the training content came from various movies, TV and books he had watched, with stories and documentaries, these half-truths and half-truths Deng Ming took out all the things and shared them with the guards, and then gradually reached a tacit understanding through guò continuous practice.

For example, Wu San's words, as well as the strict control of the captives and the fact that they would not have any chance to collude with confessions, were all interrogation tactics that they had rehearsed. After Wu San finished speaking, Deng Ming took a deep breath and announced loudly to the people in the courtyard: "Don't be so troublesome, Wu San!" ”

"Humble duty." The guard, who was close to Wu San's name, replied in a loud voice, he had no prisoners in his hands, and was now standing on the outskirts of the crowd.

"You count to three in a moment," Deng Ming deliberately slowed down his speech so that every captive in the courtyard could hear clearly: "From the beginning, you slowly count to three, and when the word three comes out, everyone has to say the most important thing you know. The one who speaks first, slash! If you don't speak when you count to three, chop! If someone tells the truth, those who say they don't know, behead! ”

After saying the rules, Wu San began to count.

"One,"

"Two," Wu San tried his best to make a fierce look, while observing the expressions of the Lugu guards.

"Three......" he yelled fiercely.

As soon as Wu San's words fell, a chaotic shout sounded in the courtyard:

"Jianchang wants to surrender!"

"Qingyang has been arrested!"

"Jianchang wants us to surrender with them!"

The soldiers at the outpost didn't care that they had knives around their necks, and everyone scrambled to scream.

Originally, seeing the lax appearance of the Lugu outpost, Deng Ming didn't think that there would be very surprising news, and he also thought that Zhou Kaihuang might have misunderstood these guards - he had only entered the outpost for a minute or two, and even if he saw the flaws, he wouldn't be so fast, right? But I didn't want to hear such shocking bad news.

When Deng Ming and the others arrived in Leshan, the Jianchang envoys had already arrived in Chóngqìng, and their request was sent to Baoning by the Qing army for 600 miles, Li Guoying agreed without hesitation, and ordered Chóngqìng to send the news to Jianchang as soon as possible, urging Di Sanxi to surrender immediately, so as not to have many dreams at night. Deng Ming's group was relatively large, and they came to Jianchang and chose a safer road, while the messengers who set off from Chóngqìng had no scruples at all, they were very familiar with the road conditions, and did not take the road of Emei Mountain - although this road was controlled by the Ming army, the mountain road was rugged and difficult, and the messenger took the pass defense of the two armies directly through the mixed area of the Ming and Qing armies, and went straight to Xuzhou along the Yangtze River, and then rushed desperately along the road to Jianchang regardless of the danger of running a dead horse.

Just as Deng Ming and the others crossed the Great Snow Mountain, Di Sanxi had already taken over the military power from Feng Shuangli, wrote a letter of surrender to Wu Sangui, sent it to Kunming together with the golden seal of the King of Qingyang, and ordered to notify the garrisons around Jianchang to surrender together or leave the vicinity of Jianchang on their own.

After receiving the notice from Jianchang, the guards in the Lugu outpost have not made up their minds to surrender or refuse. There were no well-informed people in this outpost, the soldiers were all residents within a radius of 100 miles from their hometown, and none of them could understand the unpredictable situation in Sichuan, and they could not discuss a solution, so they had to wait and see what happened. They neither informed the other side of the snowy mountain, nor did they say to Jianchang that they would follow the unified action, and they were accustomed to continuing to receive them after seeing the Ming army coming in today.

Hearing that Jianchang was going to surrender, Deng Ming's guards all changed their faces. Since Jianchang has begun to call on the surrounding outposts to surrender, it means that the surrender faction has steadily controlled Jianchang's troops, and Deng Ming's departure not only failed to calm the people's hearts, but also automatically sent it to the Qing court.

"These guys are trying to hide it from us, and they must have made up their minds to surrender, and they can't stay." Zhou Kaihuang's hands tightened again, and asked Deng Ming for instructions on whether he would kill people.

Half of the guards in Lugu were so frightened that they couldn't make a sound, and the rest of the people who could speak were desperately shouting injustice, saying that they really hadn't surrendered yet, and that they had no intention of surrendering or concealing it. In fact, they were indeed wronged, when this group of strangers walked in, the guards in Lugu did not know them, and until now they have not even asked their names, and the customs defense has not been checked, how can they immediately report to them the changes in Jianchang? Who would have thought that Deng Ming's guards all had a heart that would rather be believed, and if they were a little suspicious, they would immediately attack people.

Deng Ming's guards were not completely incomprehensible to this, and if they were themselves, they would never talk about such important news to a group of strangers they had just met. However, they worked hard all the way to come, and when they saw the city of Jianchang, they found that they had run in vain, and if they didn't leave quickly, they would be in danger. The immediate troubles and the severe consequences of Jianchang's surrender were added together, and these guards became angry with the guards in Lugu, and several guards echoed Zhou Kaihuang's opinion.

Deng Ming pondered for a moment, then asked these people to stand up and gather together, he first reassured: "Since you know such heavy news, why don't you report it to Chengdu immediately?" According to military law, you should all be put to death, but if you are a first-time offender, you will be exempted this time. ”

Without waiting for the guards to express their gratitude, Deng Ming continued to ask, "Someone just said that Jianchang tied up King Qingyang there?" ”

"Yes, General." The guards in Lugu didn't know who Deng Ming was, and when they saw that he was the leader of this group, they called him a general: "I heard that it's General Di...... Di Sanxi betrayed the king of Qingyang, and had already tied up the prince to take Jianchang to surrender to the Tartars. ”

"Hmm." Deng Ming nodded, continued to ask a few words, and saw that these soldiers really didn't know any more important information, so he ordered them to be locked in the back room.

"In this way, Di Sanxi will definitely surrender to Wu Sangui." Deng Ming said to his subordinates. Jianchang is not far from Yunnan, from Jianchang to Kunming is much closer than to Baoning, and the road is much easier.

"If Jianchang surrenders, the officers and soldiers of Yunnan will be trapped in the south," Deng Ming has told Jianchang's important subordinates over and over again these days, so someone immediately said: "King Jin, and other generals from all walks of life, will not be able to come to Sichuan to join us." ”

The Ming army in Yunnan will not have the opportunity to enter the western Sichuan Plain, and can only stay in the poor mountains and remote places with no people and no production, or in a foreign land, and under this desperate situation, the other Ming troops who are still resisting will soon have the intention of surrendering.

"Yes, we can't sit idly by." Deng Ming said without hesitation: "We still have to go to Jianchang." ”

None of the guards objected, but looked at Deng Ming together, and they felt that there was no need for verbal objections. According to the soldiers at the Lugu outpost, Feng Shuangli had already been locked up and may have even been sent to Kunming, the rebels had already taken control of the situation, the Ming army was only twenty people, and in the face of Jianchang's thousands of troops, there seemed to be no second possibility except to send them to death.

"It's Di Sanxi who surrendered, not Qingyang." Deng Ming said. The news of the Lugu outpost is very limited, and if you don't know it, people will naturally think that Jianchang is in flames, and Feng Shuangli was seized by traitors: "It's not Qingyang himself who surrendered, which is not bad." It's just that a general takes the lead in surrendering, even if he controls Jianchang, it will not be very stable, Qingyang has governed the army for many years, how can he not have a little prestige in the army? It seems that Qingyang was not killed immediately, maybe he is still in Jianchang City, what do you think this means? ”

Everyone discussed it gossipily, and in Zhou Kaihuang's opinion, this is not a good thing at all: "It shows that Di Thief is not afraid of him at all, if he is worried that Qingyang still has prestige in the army, how can he not harm Qingyang?" ”

Deng Ming shook his head and said: "This army was pulled up by Qingyang, and it has been more than ten years with Qingyang, you said that Qingyang has no prestige in the army, do you believe it yourself?" ”

Zhou Kaihuang tilted his head and thought about it, and found that he really didn't believe it.

"So this shows that Di Sanxi didn't dare to kill him at all," Deng Ming analyzed for everyone: "It shows that there are still many soldiers in Jianchang who are loyal to Qingyang, Di Sanxi coerces the whole army by threatening Qingyang's life, and makes the officers and soldiers loyal to Qingyang throw a mouse, we just need to go in and catch Di Sanxi, and then force him to release Qingyang." We are not twenty against three thousand, we only need to deal with Di Sanxi and his guards. ”

The guards all felt that what Deng Ming said made sense, and the morale that had just been depressed suddenly rose again, after all, everyone had worked so hard to come here, and no one was willing to see their previous achievements abandoned at such a close distance from Jianchang.

"Without further ado, we'll rest here tonight and leave early tomorrow morning, so as not to leak the news." Deng Ming ordered the guards in Lugu to be locked up first, but not to hurt their lives, and then took out the razor: "Let's shave our braids and hair tonight, and tomorrow we will say that we are from Chóngqìng, and we are ordered by Li Guoying, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, that Jianchang is so far away from Baoning, Di Sanxi will definitely not contact Li Guoying, and he can't figure out the details of us." ”

Although he knew that it had to be so, looking at the razor in Deng Ming's hand, the guards were still complicated one by one, Deng Ming smiled and asked: "You don't even want your head for the country, do you still care if you don't have hair for a while?" ”

"I care!" Zhou Kaihuang replied loudly, but he no longer hesitated: "This account will be settled with Di Thief when Jianchang arrives." ”

"What is Mr. Deng going to say tomorrow?" When everyone began to shave their heads, Li Xinghan asked, "How can we explain to Di Thief that we will suddenly come to Jianchang." ”

"Let's not say anything, let's let Di Sanxi guess for himself." Based on his own experience of being mistaken for a clan, the key to winning people's trust is not how realistic what he says, but not to let people see obvious flaws. Deng Ming concluded that because he resolutely refused to admit that he was a clan, there was no need to clarify the details of his background, but on the contrary, others would not suddenly find out that he was really not a clan: "Di Sanxi may guess that Wu Sangui notified Li Guoying. ”

"So fast?" Li Xinghan is still a little lacking in confidence.

"Maybe it's a flying pigeon." Deng Ming said with a smile.

"Is there a flying pigeon between Kunming and Boryeong?" Many guards asked out loud, and Zhou Kaihuang also questioned: "Even if there is, why would Wu Sangui be in such a hurry to inform Li Guoying of this matter?" ”

"This is what Di Sanxi has to consider," Deng Ming laughed: "I won't say that it is the flying pigeon biography, if he says it, he will start to doubt like you, I just say that I came from Chóngqìng on order, and let Di Sanxi figure out how and why Wu Sangui informed Li Guoying." ”

"And when did we get the order?"

"He shouldn't have had a chance to ask that question." Deng Ming sneered.

……

Jianchang County Ya, a guard ran in to report to Di Sanxi that a team of Qing soldiers had arrived in the city, led by a Baoning Qianzong, who claimed to be from Chóngqìng, and with him came nineteen retinues, all of whom were uniforms of the Qing army, and it seemed that this team of people was at least one person and two horses.

Li Guo...... What did the governor do in such a hurry to send people to Jianchang? Di Sanxi was stunned for a moment, Li Guoying didn't mention this matter in his reply to him: "What did they say?" ”

"They didn't say anything, they said they wanted to see you." The herald replied, "That Mr. Qian showed the waist card to the lowly position. ”

"Where's the waist card?" Di Sanxi asked.

"I took it back, and I don't know it." The herald complained: "For this, I was scolded by Mr. Qian, saying that I couldn't understand it and wanted to see if it was itchy." ”

Di Sanxi was angry when he heard this, but now that he was under the eaves, he had to bow his head, although Li Guoying's reply was polite, but the Qing soldiers below would definitely be arrogant in front of them who surrendered, Di Sanxi figured this out and suppressed his anger: "Bring them to see me." ”

After a while, this team of Qing soldiers came to Jianchang County, all the way into the city, this team of Qing soldiers showed off their might, their chins were raised to the sky, now the army in the city has not shaved their heads, and the soldiers are still wearing Ming army uniforms, and they all stood on the side of the road after seeing this team of Qing soldiers, and looked at them silently.

"Are you Di Sanxi?" Deng Ming strode into the county office, with an arrogant face: "The governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi ordered all the soldiers and horses of Jianchang to leave for Chóngqìng immediately, and also bring all the grain." ”

It stands to reason that the other party should report to his home and then come up to salute, in the end, the other party is just a small Qianzong, but Di Sanxi is a general, seeing that the other party has no courtesy at all, Di Sanxi's anger that he had just suppressed suddenly rose again, and his guards in the county government also showed angry faces, and many people snorted coldly.

Deng Ming raised his chin and glanced at the county guards who made the voice with contempt, until he forced everyone to lower his gaze before he looked at Di Sanxi again: "These guards of yours, do you want to be unfavorable to me?" ”

Di Sanxi was surprised and angry, he never thought that the other party could be rude to such a thing, but seeing that the other party looked fearless, Di Sanxi swallowed this evil breath and asked politely: "What do you call your envoy?" ”

"I'm Li Ming." Deng Ming said with a big grin, and asked casually: "Now do you know why the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi asked me to come?" ”

Di Sanxi didn't know who Li Ming was at all, but seeing that the other party was so proudly claiming to be self-assured, he guessed that most of them were Li Guoying's henchmen, maybe they were righteous sons or something, and he only sighed in his heart that the surrender was really not done by anyone: "It turned out to be Mr. Li Qian, who has been admired for a long time." ”

"Now that you know who I am, why don't you gather the generals and leave for chóngqìng?" Deng Ming said impatiently: "Jianchang's strong men, grain, and the governor all want it." ”

"But the king of Pingxi has already ordered us to transport the strong men and grain to Kunming," Di Sanxi wanted to laugh at the other party for being just a thousand presidents after moving out of Wu Sangui's order, but in the end he still didn't do it: "The king of Pingxi has sent a flag officer to come, and he is already on the way, probably after the Ming Dynasty, Li Qian can always go and talk to him." After speaking, Di Sanxi gave an order to the guards: "Send Mr. Li Qian to rest." ”

"Nonsense, this is the boundary of Sichuan," Deng Ming shouted as soon as he heard this, and rushed forward to slap it on Di Sanxi's table: "How dare you disobey the orders of the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi!" ”

Seeing that Xiao Xiaoqian was so arrogant, Di Sanxi's guards couldn't help it anymore, and stepped forward to scold Deng Ming, Deng Ming shouted when he saw this: "What are you going to do here?" ”

After hearing this shout, Deng Ming and the other guards outside also snorted and poured into the house, all of which were the sound of drawing swords, and at the same time, Zhou Kaihuang also shouted: "Defend Qianzong!" ”

Seeing this, the guards in Di Sanxi's courtyard also followed, and they also made a fighting posture.

"It's okay, it's okay." Di Sanxi softened his tone, signaled the guards who were pulling with Deng Ming to retreat, and reprimanded the guards who followed up: "What are you looking at?" ”

Deng Ming waved his hand, Zhou Kaihuang and the others also put away their weapons and retreated, seeing this, the soldiers in front of Di Sanxi Hall withdrew, while Deng Ming's guards did not go out immediately.

"This is an official letter from the Governor." Deng Ming threw a letter on Di Sanxi's desk, and the seal on the envelope was engraved by himself, and the content was written by himself. If you want to come to Di Sanxi in the name of Deng, you will definitely not have the opportunity to see Li Guoying's letter: "Gather your subordinates and read the order to them in front of me, otherwise I will report it to the Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi according to the truth." ”

So far, Deng Ming felt that everything was in his plan, and if the other party gave himself a little more face and made a show of summoning all the officers and cronies to read Li Guoying's order, then Deng Ming's purpose would be fully achieved.

But Deng Ming saw that after Di Sanxi looked down at the seal on the letter, he didn't tear it open but looked up at himself, and there was a trace of doubt in his eyes—yes, Deng Ming was sure that it was doubt.

"When did Li Qian always receive orders?" Di Sanxi asked.

"Do it!" Deng Ming answered his question with a loud shout-

The author pressed, there was no double change on the weekend, and today I will update the small 7,000 words.