Li Guoying is directing the army to retreat from Wanxian.

Sun Sike, who was in charge of the transportation line, returned to Chongqing early, but he quickly made a mess of Li Guoying's arrangements and deployments on the transportation line, and if Li Guoying had a problem, Sun Sike could not escape responsibility. Even if he has the grace of the Empress Dowager and the royal family, Sun Sike will not be corrected, then his future is also worrying, at least it is not in line with Sun Sike's original intention of climbing up with the help of military merits.

"Keep up with the thieves, and you must not let the thieves gain a foothold on the shore." Sun Sike again ordered the whole army to follow the Ming army. Han Baqi has been engaged in military supervision work for 18 years since entering the customs, and most of the current members are the new generation who plan to come to the army to make meritorious contributions. Sun Sike's order, the Eight Banner soldiers all complained for days, running back and forth for dozens of miles of mountain roads in one day and one night, how could the banner soldiers have suffered such a big loss? In the cry of bitterness, there were also a lot of insults to Deng Ming, shouting that Deng Ming would come to fight to the death with him, as if Deng Ming could hear it.

Fortunately, the Green Battalion is still relatively easy to drive, because Sichuan is mountainous, and the people drawn from the Shanxi Green Battalion are all elites who are good at mountain warfare, although the Green Battalion is also dissatisfied with Sun Sike, who commanded indiscriminately, but they can't afford to provoke the Eight Banners, so they have to reluctantly return to the road.

Now Sun Sike and the surrounding guards have discussed, and they feel that Li Guoying's method is the best, and the view of the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi is that the various departments cover each other and retreat, and the distance between them is not large, but they must maintain communication. If the Ming army dares to land, the troops closest to the Ming army will defend on the spot, or launch a counter-charge against the enemy who has just landed and has not yet gained a firm foothold; At the same time, the front army was suspended, and the rear army continued to keep marching. There was pressure from both the front and the back, and it was difficult for the Ming army to pose too much of a threat to the Qing army. If the Ming army spent time and effort to send thousands of people ashore, after being stuck by the nearest Qing army, it had to continue to engage the Qing army that arrived one after another, and could not calmly and unscathed.

Sun Sike modified Li Guoying's strategy of calming down without authorization, and he didn't find a chance to fight the Ming army for a day, and now if Li Guoying's strategy is fully restored, he feels that his face is too much. Since the Eight Banners refused to run away, Sun Sike let the main force of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty take turns to rest, and the rest of the overseers of the Shanxi Green Battalion continued to follow the Ming army to ensure that Deng Ming could not go ashore and set up camp.

After walking for another half a day, Sun Sike's guards were tired and several horses died, at this time the Ming army slowed down again, unhurriedly dangling in front, and began to land as soon as the Qing army was slack, and when Sun Sike urged the green battalion to rush up, he drove away from the river bank.

"Damn, Deng Ming is using Lao Tzu as a monkey." Although Sun Sike had long understood that the other party was deliberately tossing himself, he was lucky, and always felt that maybe the next time the Ming army would really land, and he was also worried that if he let it go, Deng Ming would swagger and camp on the shore.

Whether it is armored or unarmoured, they are exhausted, and now although the Ming army is not fast, it is like this, and the green battalion can't keep up. Sun Sike ordered regardless of the situation, "No matter, rest for a while, rest for a while." ”

Finally took off the armor that they had been wearing for more than a day, and the Qing soldiers were eager to jump into the river to wash off the dust on their bodies, but the Ming army sailors were not far away, and the officers whose clothes were soaked with sweat could only look at the river not far away in a daze.

However, after a day and a half, Sun Sike thought that he had also seen the reality of the Ming army. He sat in the shade of the tree, still feeling damp and hot: "Just like General Zhao said, a thousand officers and soldiers can fight five thousand thieves in a head-on battle, so the thieves are just dangling on the water, and they don't have the courage to go ashore to fight." ”

Yuan Jiawenbi accompanied Sun Sike and deeply agreed with the commander's judgment: "The Governor is really expected to be like a god, Deng Thief really doesn't have many men, if he dares to go ashore and fight with our army in a dignified manner, he will definitely be able to kill him without leaving a piece of armor." ”

The two generals, who were tired and half dead, scolded Deng Ming's cowardice in unison, scolded to the point of excitement and laughed with the guards, and finally felt more comfortable. The soldiers of the surrounding green battalion all fell to the ground in all directions, unlike the officers with horses, they didn't even have the strength to scold, and many of them didn't feel hungry anymore, and now they wanted to lie on the ground and stay motionless.

Soon the personal observation force of the Ming army found that the Qing army was not moving, and after receiving the report, Deng Ming said to the guards around him: "It seems that General Sun really can't run, let's stop and wait for them." ”

Soon the Ming army sent the order, and the Ming ships sailed to the south bank, and after anchoring, a large number of small boats were put down, first the scouts and their horses, and then countless people. After landing, the Ming army chopped wood to make rice, preparing for the whole army to eat a hot soup and a hot meal.

When the smoke rose from the shore, the officers asked the soldiers to go ashore to prepare their meals, and one of the officers shouted to his men in the cabin: "Stop playing cards, go ashore to eat." ”

"Gee, dry food is fine." The playful soldiers still had people protesting. When the Ming army took Sun Sike to slip on the shore, they did not let all the soldiers prepare for war, and the sailors and soldiers of the Sichuan Army who were not on duty were very bored, so they played bamboo sticks in the cabin as usual.

"Nonsense, the big war is coming, how can you not eat a hot meal?" The officer went up and mixed up the game: "Get off the boat and eat!" ”

After eating, the Ming army walked around the officer's field of vision, and they had been holding back on the ship for many days, except for eating and sleeping, playing cards and chatting, and every soldier felt that he urgently needed to move.

At this time, Deng Ming also convened a meeting of all the captains to brief his subordinates on the battle situation, what had been observed, and his own analysis. After running for more than one day, Deng Ming was already full of optimism about the battle situation in Wanxian, what he saw was the Qing army column that was constantly returning westward, and all the Jialing River water divisions had fled back to the mouth of the river. If Li Guoying had won or reached a stalemate in Wanxian, the Qing army's reaction should not have been this way. Deng Ming optimistically estimated that Yuan Zongdi's ship might already be on the way at this time. After Deng Ming found that there was no longer a threat on the water, he also sent a clipper ship to Wanxian, and also notified the merchant ships that were moored and waiting in the west to go on the road.

"If the Qing army hadn't been in such a hurry to follow us, I wouldn't have dared to land, after all, the enemy situation is unknown, but it seems that this enemy army that has been following us is the strongest mobile force nearby. The fact that they were unable to walk just now and wanted to keep up only shows that the Qing generals knew very well that there were big flaws in their deployment on the shore, and that the Qing generals were worried that our landing would cause trouble to Li Guoying -- the enemy generals certainly knew their real situation better than we did. Deng Ming sent a wide range of reconnaissance boats to find a position where the large army could safely land on the river bank: "If we don't find more Qing troops coming from the east this afternoon, we will engage this tired army." ”

In any case, the strength of the Qing army is still much beyond Deng Ming's imagination, and Li Guoying has not been seen so far, Deng Ming feels that the main force of the Qing army must still be by Li Guoying's side, so there is still a certain danger in the landing operation. Deng Ming didn't want to be stuck by the Qing army, and then had to fight an unknown number of enemy forces to the end - which was not the best option for the Ming army, which had the advantage of mobility.

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At this time, Chongqing.

As soon as Sun Sike left yesterday, Gao Mingzhan ordered all the ships and people to go to pick up Zhao Liangdong, who was heading south from Baoning, and there were guards who worriedly reminded Governor Gao that if Sun Sike wanted to return to Chongqing, he would find that the ships were gone, and he would be very dissatisfied.

"At this time, can you still care if he is satisfied or not?" Gao Mingzhan was unmoved. Now that the wind is in a good direction, the empty boat will soon be able to meet Zhao Liangdong, Wang Jinbao and others, helping them to come to Chongqing faster: "I have already understood, Chongqing can only count on General Zhao and General Wang." ”

The remaining boats last night sent the information on the other side of the river a few times, and when they saw Sun Sike saying that he was about to catch up with Deng Ming, and Gao Mingzhan was about to be vigilant against a surprise attack by the Ming army, the governor of Sichuan sneered: "Sure enough, it is not what I expected." ”

This morning's facts further proved Gao Mingzhan's foresight, and after returning half of Shanxi Green Camp at night, he hurriedly ran to the east again, and Sun Sike once again threw down a simple notice and told Gao Mingzhan to be careful.

"What am I careful of? You took all the armor away, I have nothing to worry about, I will sing the empty city plan when Deng Ming comes. Haha, I've got the yaoqin ready. I am more generous than Zhuge Wuhou, I will send a hundred soldiers to sprinkle water and sweep the floor at the city gate, and I will also prepare four piano boys to ensure that Deng Ming will be scared to enter the city. Gao Mingzhan contemptuously threw Sun Sike's letter raft aside, and subconsciously touched his arms, confirming that the two coupons he was carrying were still where they should be.

After sending ships to fetch the reinforcements, Governor Gao felt that he had nothing to do, so he calmly played chess with a faithful old servant. Seeing that the servant looked uneasy, Gao Mingzhan comforted him and said: "Don't think too much, I'll make it difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, General Sun pulled the armor away, it's the same whether I am ready or not." ”

"Master, why don't we run?" The servant said.

"Don't run! How can you keep running? What if Admiral Deng doesn't come? The last time I ran, it was because I knew that Yuan Zongdi and Tan Wen were not good at talking. But Admiral Deng is different, I have been to his camp twice, and there is not a single cold hair missing. Saying that, Gao Mingzhan also made a gesture of touching his body with his hands, to show that the hair on his whole body was indeed still there: "What if General Zhao arrives first?" Then I won't be left alone in a lonely city that is not afraid of danger. ”

After playing two more moves, Gao Mingzhan talked about the past again: "Admiral Deng is a generous and good person, but he has a very shameless man named Zhao Tianba, who actually wanted to beat the official after I was captured last time...... Listening to what he means, do these things depend on his own officials? Is this the official's intention? I don't know if this Zhao Tianba is still in Deng Ming's army, and now the official is looking forward to him seeing General Sun soon, and then angrily reprimanded General Sun for not letting the soldiers rest and not allowing the soldiers to eat, but deliberately to defeat the battle, and then give General Sun a good beating. ”