Haoge returned to Beijing, and most of the Eight Banners Army he brought back to Beijing. Only less than 5,000 Eight Banners Army remained in Chengdu, and the rest were Green Camp soldiers, which was a good opportunity to recover Chengdu. However, the newly defeated Daxi Army has not yet cultivated and recovered, and its wounds are still bleeding. Kerosene has the opportunity to lick the wound. How can we go back to Chengdu to fight the Qing army? The morale of the Daxi Army is currently low, and even if we go back, it will die in vain.

"Zhongzhen Camp, my country's Duke can dispatch Zhongzhen Camp to help you! I wonder if you agree to work with Zhongzhen Camp?" Li Guodong proposed to join forces with Zhongzhen Camp to recover Chengdu.

"Uncle Li, my nephew dreams of avenging his foster father! Naturally, he is willing to join forces with Zhongzhen Camp. However, Chongqing is still in the hands of Emperor Yongli, how can Zhongzhen Camp send troops to Sichuan?" Li Dingguo, who was eager to avenge his foster father, was of course willing to cooperate with Zhongzhen Camp. However, Li Dingguo, who had been through many battles, also considered the problem of Chongqing's foster card halfway, how should Zhongzhen Camp transfer troops to Chengdu?

Li Guodong had forcibly entered Chongqing because there were few troops and no need to consider the issue of logistics and supplies. If the Zhongzhen Camp army passed through Chongqing, not only would the logistics transportation line be threatened by Zeng Ying, but the troops in Badong were also empty. Once Zeng Ying joined forces with the Qing army to attack Badong, then Zhongzhen Camp would be in danger.

Li Guodong said decisively: "Take Chongqing first!"

"But how do we take Chongqing?" Li Dingguo shook his head and said.

Chongqing is an important barrier that cannot be avoided by Zhongzhenying's western expedition. This mountain city guards the three-way intersection between the Yangtze River and the Jialing River. Chongqing has mountainous terrain, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Chongqing Fucheng is built on the mountain. The city wall is high. The city wall built on the mountain terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If you want to break through Chongqing, you need dozens of times the strength of the defenders to break through. Moreover, the city is backed by the river, so it cannot be besieged Chongqing and cut off its food and grass transportation roads.

Li Guodong said: "We can join forces with the Zhongzhen Camp to capture Chongqing together. Chongqing is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and cannot be attacked with force, but we can take it smart!"

Sun Kewang asked quickly: "How can the Duke of the State win Chongqing with wisdom?"

"This, my country's Duke has his own tricks. You all know that Li has fought so many siege battles and defended the city, and has never failed." Li Guodong said with a smile.

City offensive and defensive battles are Li Guodong's specialty and have never been defeated. Even a strong city like Chongqing, if the Huai Army is there, it will be defeated in three days if it is a super siege and heavy artillery bombardment. Now that the main force of the Huai Army is not there, Li Guodong can only defeat Chongqing.

However, the first thing at the moment is to take the Daxi Army to Badong first and meet with Zhongzhen Camp.

"Everyone, if you want to avenge General Zhang, should you go to Badong first with your Duke, and then join the camp to join the army westward." Li Guodong suggested that the Daxi Army bend east to the east.

Sun Kewang asked: "I wonder how many ships the Duke of the State has? Can we send all our more than 100,000 troops to Badong?"

At this point, under the slogan of Li Guodong's avenging Zhang Xianzhong, Sun Kewang could no longer resist Li Guodong. At this time, he also made up his mind that since he could avenge his adoptive father, it would be better to follow Duke Chu.

The Daxi Army still has more than 100,000 troops. It is obviously impossible to go all the boats along the Yangtze River to Badong at one time. The navy sent by Zhongzhen Camp this time was only to protect Li Guodong from Chongqing safely, and not many navy troops were brought.

So Li Guodong replied, "Let me do this, I will take some of your troops to Badong. You will leave a few people to take back the remaining soldiers scattered in various places, and then ambush them to the northwest of Chongqing. When our army arrives in Chongqing, your people will come out and join forces with us to break the city."

Sun Kewang made an arrangement. Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo led 10,000 troops to board the ship with Li Guodong to Badong. The rest of the troops were led by Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi, Bai Wenxuan and Feng Shuangli. They turned back into Sichuan, gathered the remnants of the Daxi Army scattered in various places, and gathered them together. After a rough estimate, the remnants of the Daxi Army scattered in various places could still be summoned to 70,000 or 80,000, so that the Daxi Army could be restored to a scale of nearly 200,000.

After everything was arranged, the next morning, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo took 10,000 soldiers of the Daxi Army, boarded the Zhongzhen Camp naval ship, followed Li Guodong downstream to Badong to meet with Zhongzhen Camp. Liu Wenxiu and others led their troops back along the original route to collect the remnants of the Daxi Army scattered all over the place on the road.

The Zhongzhen Camp Navy fleet flowed down the Yangtze River. When the fleet passed by Chongqing again, the city defenders discovered the Zhongzhen Camp fleet going down the river and immediately reported to the Chongqing general Zeng Ying: "Zeng Junmen, the treacherous navy who was going upstream a few days ago has come down again, and it seems to be going back to Badong."

After receiving the report from the soldiers, Zeng Ying climbed to the top of the city and looked at the Zhongzhen Camp naval fleet that was flowing down the Yangtze River. He found that the number of ships was not large, so he said disapprovingly: "They must have gone to pick up the people of Ying Xian Bids! Xian Bids were defeated by Jiannu and gave up Chengdu in a mess. Zhongzhen Camp must be afraid that the Xian Bids would join our court, so he sent the Navy fleet to pick up the troops. However, seeing that the trespassers were not many, it was estimated that the Xian Bids would not have many soldiers and horses to take away. Most of the Xian Bids would have no way to go, so they could only go to Yunnan to join our court."

The Zhongzhen Camp Navy fleet went downstream, and Zeng Ying's naval warships were not large, so he did not intercept them.

When all the naval fleets of Zhongzhen Camp left, Zeng Yingcai ordered the soldiers under his command: "We will let the bandit army go east and let them go. We can no longer let the bandit army go upstream. We must set up river stops on the river surface to stop the bandit army from advancing west to pick up the bandits. As long as the bandits are offered, the bandits cannot go to Badong, there is Jiannu behind them and we are in the east. More than 100,000 bandits have no way to go, so we can only go to Yunnan to join our army!"

Zeng Ying's army then started to move, set up river-blocking ropes on the Yangtze River, and also set down underwater stakes, blocking the waterway.

The fleet of Zhongzhen Camp successfully passed through Chongqing and returned to Badong. The fleet stopped at the riverside wharf, and more than 10,000 soldiers from the Western Army brought back by Li Guodong landed ashore.

Li Laiheng went out of the city to greet him and met Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo. Although he did not like the Great Western Army, Li Laiheng sighed at the death of Zhang Xianzhong.

"Two generals, in terms of seniority, they are also Li's uncles." Li Laiheng walked forward and said.

Although Li Laiheng is about the same age as Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, he is Li Guo's adopted son, and Li Guo is Li Zicheng's nephew, so Li Laiheng is Li Zicheng's grandchild. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were once brothers, and Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo are one generation higher than Li Laiheng in terms of age.

In fact, although Li Guo is Li Zicheng's nephew, he is older than Li Zicheng.

Li Guodong said: "In fact, the Daxi Army and Zhongzhen Camp are both their own families. Chongqing is stuck on the Yangtze River channel, which poses great threat to both the Zhongzhen Camp and the Daxi Army. Moreover, Chongqing garrison Zeng Ying may surrender to Jiannu at any time! We must seize Chongqing before Jiannu and resolve this threat."

"Dude, but we are not strong enough troops. How to seize Chongqing?" Li Laiheng said with a disgrace.

The Zhongzhen Camp stationed in Badong was less than 20,000 troops, and defending the city was enough, but the attack power was insufficient and it was impossible to conquer a strong city like Chongqing. Li Laiheng could not find the Zhongzhen Camp stationed in Huguang to dispatch reinforcements, because the Zhongzhen Camp stationed in Huguang shouldered the heavy responsibility of preventing the Qing army from going south and could not leave casually.

Li Guodong said: "There is no need to dispatch reinforcements anymore. The Daxi Army still has 170,000 or 80,000 troops. With your navy, Li will command this battle. You will surely break the city and capture Chongqing in one fell swoop."
Chapter completed!