On the land of Sichuan and Shu in September, although there is a hint of coolness, it still seems hot and dry in general.

The warm wind passed through the mountains and forests, swept over the rebel camp outside the city, and then reached the city, making a bleak cry along the way, making the already tense siege even more noisy.

In recent days, the rebel army commanded by Zhang Tong has launched a construction competition with the Ming army in the city.

Originally, the rebels were relatively numerous, and the earthen cages they had built were already high.

Hou Liangzhu, the chief soldier of Sichuan, mobilized the monks and soldiers of Yongxiang Temple, and quickly built a higher bell tower on the city wall.

Zhang Tong rode on a horse, looked at the three-zhang high bell tower, admired it in his heart, sighed, and waved his hand:

"Stop piling up, tell the brethren to withdraw!"

The chief on the side was also speechless, and said: "How can there be such a war, the bell tower nearly three zhang high, the surname Hou can think of it..."

Zhang Tong raised his head, looked up at the Ming army above his head, and turned to leave.

That night, a toast soldier broke into his tent in disgrace.

It is said that the Ming army in the city, under the cover of the bell tower, took the opportunity to go out of the city, wantonly covered up, and burned all the piled up earthen cages.

"Hou Liangzhu deceived me too much!" When Zhang Tong heard this, he couldn't help but be furious, and immediately put on his armor and personally led the troops to attack the city at night.

Unexpectedly, Hou Liangzhu had already led his soldiers to wait on the city tower, and when he saw Zhang Tong leading the rebels to come in the dark, he just laughed and said:

"This town is expected to be coming, and we have already prepared a big gift to entertain you!"

Immediately, he turned his head and ordered:

"Throw!"

In an instant, countless black cake-shaped objects on the bell tower were thrown down by the Ming army, and the rebels picked them up, all of them were shocked, and their sharpness suddenly decreased.

However, it was the Ming army who kneaded the rotten and rotten food in the city into pieces of dough and meatloaf, accompanied by feces and urine, stood on top of the high bell tower, and kept throwing them out.

Hou Liangzhu's move to attack the heart is quite effective.

The rebels were all toasters, and according to custom, they were not allowed to waste any food, and many of them were convinced that if they wasted food, an ominous disaster would befall them.

In the face of these rotten cakes mixed with feces and urine mixed with rotten and stench, no one will be stupid enough to really take a bite, and almost always subconsciously throw the cake to the ground.

After throwing away the cakes, an uneasy atmosphere began to spread among the toasters.

At this time, the Ming army on the bell tower began to fire bows and arrows, firearms, and the Tusi soldiers had no fighting spirit, and they were immediately defeated and scattered.

In the next few days, Zhang Tong attacked every city gate in Chengdu one by one, storming, building soil, using siege equipment, etc., all the methods he could think of, all of which he tried.

Hou Liangzhu's soldiers will come to block, water will come to cover the earth, and they will personally go to the city to fight in times of crisis.

In short, Zhang Tong was repeatedly defeated in Chengdu, lost his troops, and was humiliated by the Ming army in every way, but he was never able to enter the city.

Zhang Tong sent spies into the city, and when he heard that there was not much actual grain in the city, he changed his strategy and tried to make Chengdu City self-defeating without grain and grass.

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The chiefs of each Tusi divided their troops into four directions, drilled into the mountains and forests, first built a pass between the mountains, and then chose a place with a wide field of vision, and set up a place to camp troops and connect.

Three days later, rebel camps were everywhere in the valleys around Chengdu.

This is not the end, after camping in the mountains, the rebels also began to block the road and set up blocks, completely cutting off the freight and transportation around Chengdu.

Zhang Tong ordered that all those who wanted to enter the city, whether civilians or merchants, be killed.

Under such an order, all the Tusi chiefs became the little emperors of the various mountains, and they went their own way, beating and scolding the local mountain people.

The Tusi Army also quickly split into heinous bandits.

In a quiet valley, more than a dozen earthen houses stand here without controversy, and the local mountain people have lived here for generations.

"Xiu'e, go and dry your clothes!"

A man with a pitchfork in his hand came to the hut and began to process the thatch all over the floor, combing it, and not forgetting to turn back and shout.

There was an answer in the room.

A woman of average appearance, but good figure, pulled up her hair and walked out holding a wooden basin full of clothes.

The woman raised her head and glanced at the sky, the wind and the sun were beautiful, which made her whole mood much better.

"Xiu'e, the weather is good today, I'll take the children later, let's go out for a walk!"

At this time, the man cleaned up the wooden house, held a pitchfork in one hand, and shouted from afar, and the woman raised her eyes to see the man smiling at her.

Before the woman could reply, the next moment, an arrow pierced the man's chest.

The pitchfork fell to the ground with a bang, and the man subconsciously covered the pointed head that showed through his chest, and with a look of fear, he fell down.

"Take the kids and go ——!"

Before he could finish speaking, a toast soldier stepped forward, stabbed the man into the body, and raised his head to look at the woman who was covering her mouth with a frightened expression.

Immediately, a cruel smile appeared on his face, and he didn't even care about the knife that was still inserted in the man's body, opened his two big hands, and approached the woman step by step.

The woman reacted, and her first reaction was to rush into the house and pick up the child.

But as soon as she turned around, she saw the toast soldier who had killed her husband standing in front of the door, and pounced on him with an impatient expression.

Immediately, the screams of women, the cries of children, and the excited roars of toast soldiers resounded in the room.

The rebels rushed into the mountains and forests, burned down villages, dug up graves, killed all the men, and took the good-looking women to the camp in the mountains, where they committed adultery to death.

At this time, news from the front came one after another.

The extravagant Ming army defeated Nanchuan, Li Shiqi besieged and killed Fan Long, Zhu Youxiao came to Chongqing, Lu Qin successfully recovered the entire territory of Shunqing, and rushed to Chengdu in the starry night.

“……”

The news of the defeat all shows that the chaos that has caused turmoil in the whole of Sichuan for months is nearing its end.

In such a situation, Zhang Tong had the absurd idea of separating a corner.

After the last rebel force evacuated Chengdu, it swept through the imperial courts, counties, and guards around Chengdu.

Within half a month, Guan County, Peng County, Xindu, Chongqing Prefecture, Ningchuan Zhuwei, and hundreds of miles of land within a radius of Chengdu all fell into the hands of Zhang Tong.

After that, Zhang Tong sent an envoy to claim to be the Great Elder of Xichuan and offer a surrender table.

In this table, Zhang Tong first angrily denounced the treason of the army of Luxury Chongming, and then said that the thieves were all forced by Luxury Chongming, which was not his original intention.

After that, he is willing to bring 100,000 elite soldiers under his command to return to the imperial court, which can contain the divisions inside, and can conquer Liao from the edict outside.

His condition was that the imperial court allowed the Zhang clan to guard Xichuan for generations.

A few days later, Zhu Youxiao received the news on the way to Chengdu, and immediately burst out laughing, and while he was still on a horse, he directly gave a verbal reply.

Roughly speaking, you Zhang Tong was just a rebel general under Yu Chongming before, and the imperial court would not even admit that Yu Chongming called himself the King of Great Liang, let alone recognize you, the so-called Great Elder of Xichuan.

The Tusi who obey the imperial court will not recognize you as a great elder.

In the end, Zhu Youxiao also said that if you want to not connect the entire Zhang clan, you will dismiss your so-called 100,000 elite soldiers and go to Chengdu to ask me for his guilt.

Otherwise, when the army arrives, the entire Zhang clan will be punished.