If the Topic in your ESP MQTT config is "esp/ESP018" then you have to send commands to topic cmnd/esp/ESP018/<something>
Responses arrive on topic "stat/esp/ESP018/RESULT"
There are two approaches. You could send
"topic": "cmnd/esp/ESP018/backlog",
"payload": "deepsleeptime 600;"
Or
"topic": "cmnd/esp/ESP018/deepsleeptime",
"payload": 600
An example flow. You can import it but you will have to change the topic in inject and mqtt-in nodes to match your device and the broker details to match your broker:
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