On the New Year's Day of the fifth year of Chunhua, for the people of Chengdu, with the arrival of the New Year, it was not lively and festive, but panicked, no one went out to visit relatives and friends to worship the New Year, but hid at home and shivered, because in the early morning of this day, 100,000 rebels surrounded Chengdu City, and began a vigorous siege battle.

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Wang Ran gathered the jacket on his body and carefully curled up behind the wooden stack to avoid the invasion of the cold air of the early morning.

At this time, just after the beginning of the year, he is now under the city wall on the left side of the west gate of Chengdu City, and in two moments, he will work with the people around him to move the logs and rolling stones piled up nearby on the city wall, so as to start the busy day.

This is the thirteenth day of the anti-army siege of the city, since the early morning of New Year's Day, the government has been constantly recruiting people in the whole city, the battle has become more and more fierce, not only the casualties of the officers and soldiers defending the city are not counted, and even the people who do not have to fight with the anti-army head-on are also more and more injured, Wang Ran was forcibly recruited on the fifth day of the first month.

Su Daya originally found a relationship to make money and let him be sent to the relatively safe baggage team, but yesterday Wang Ran himself asked for the Daximen, which was attacked most fiercely by the rebels, and did the most dangerous errand. He needs to be on standby under the city wall before the hour comes, and then carry the city defense equipment up the city wall, and during the day he has to brave the stone throwing feathers to constantly replenish the weapons for the soldiers defending the city, and he is also responsible for carrying the dead and wounded soldiers down the city wall, so it can be said that he will always be on the verge of life and death.

Jin'er, I'm sorry, I still haven't been able to keep my promise to you, but in this city that is shaking in the flames of war, how can I be completely out of the way! Wang Ran silently comforted himself.

Chengdu will eventually be breached, but it seems that it can hold out for a while longer, which is a tacit idea of everyone.

On that day, the rebels came to the city, and Lu Bin sent tens of thousands of soldiers and horses out of the city to fight, but was defeated by the rebels in one fell swoop, and since then he has not dared to go out of the city to fight, and instead sent people to continuously strengthen the city wall, relying on high walls and strong walls to fight against the rebels, but people with a discerning eye know that this is just a lingering breath, and the rebels will definitely take Chengdu at all costs, because for them, the current situation is also unavoidable.

Since Wang Xiaobo gathered to unveil the rod, in just half a year, they have swept half of Shu, Shuzhou, Qiongzhou, Yongkang Army, Pengzhou, Hanzhou have been conquered by the rebels one after another, and the followers have grown to tens of thousands, but compared with the government, they still can't fully grasp the initiative, because there are still two most important positions in the hands of the government - Chengdu and Jianmen Pass.

Chengdu, the south of the Yangtze River in Shu, the famous city in the world, from the ancient Shu Kingdom 1,400 years ago, to the later dynasties, here is the absolute center of Sichuan and Shu, and the anti-army can only control the economy and administration of the entire Sichuan and Shu by mastering Chengdu.

Jianmen Xiongguan, the cliff is like a city wall, the lonely road is like a door, it is the throat of the ancient Shu Road, and it is also the place where the soldiers of the past dynasties must fight, but for thousands of years, the seventy-two sword peaks have witnessed countless bloody and bloody winds, but no one has ever broken through the Jianmen Pass from the front. This place is the most important gateway to Sichuan and Shu, and only by guarding the sword gate can the rebels be qualified to confront the entire Great Song Dynasty.

Therefore, for the rebel army that has mastered the entire Xishu, the top priority is to take Chengdu, and then move north to capture Jianmen Pass, so the rebel army is determined to attack Chengdu this time.

On the other hand, on the side of the government, the local Xiang army was already weak, and it was defeated and retreated by the anti-army before, and it was not realistic to expect them to hold Chengdu, and it was urgent for the imperial court to send troops to support. However, the imperial court has been tired of dealing with the Liao army in recent years, and it is unable to take care of Sichuan and Shu at all, so the officers and soldiers of Chengdu can only rely on themselves and fight alone.

Therefore, in this siege battle, everyone can feel that the officers and soldiers are sluggish, and they are cowardly before the battle, but they are struggling to support by relying on the absolute superiority of the defending side, while the opposing army is fighting with great momentum and has been attacking at the expense of casualties.

Therefore, the isolated Chengdu will definitely be broken by the rebels, but it is only a matter of time.

And it seems that it can hold out for a while, on the one hand, because the anti-army has no experience in attacking a big city like Chengdu after all, and there is no professional siege equipment, and at present, it can only rely on people to pile up the three-zhang high city wall, which is too difficult, although it seems that it is constantly improving strategies and manufacturing tools, but there is still a big gap from mastering the initiative; Second, it is because, although it is known that it cannot be defended, for the government, Chengdu can only be breached, and it must not be surrendered to the city, because no one wants to bear the notoriety that will be recorded in the history books, so the government ordered that the city should be defended and never surrendered.

All of the above has led to the current situation that the rebels will not be able to attack for the time being, but sooner or later they will attack in, and the government also knows that the rebels will attack sooner or later, but they have to defend it, and the two sides have formed an awkward balance, and the key point of this balance is the big west gate where Wang Ran is now.

Although the Great West Gate is only the outer city gate, there is a sub-city wall in the city, but as long as the Great West Gate is breached, the officials and masters will never want to fight with the rebels to the end, they have already prepared the people, and as soon as the city gate is broken, they will immediately take advantage of the chaos to break through and escape, for them, they can do their duty, but there is no need to do their lives.

Therefore, Daximen is now a rope hanging from their necks, and as soon as this rope is broken, they will have a reason to flee for their lives, and Wang Ran came here to cut this rope.

Of course, he didn't think about those officials and old men, he cared about the safety of his friends in the city, the life and death of thousands of ordinary people in the city, and at the same time, he didn't want to increase the unnecessary casualties of the soldiers on both sides of the attack and defense.

Whether the Great West Gate is breached or not is only a question of when the rope will be broken for the officials and masters, but for the rebels, the defenders and the people in the city, it is a meaningless consumption of human lives.

And what Wang Ran is most worried about is that the longer this situation stalemates, the greater the psychology of both the offensive and defensive sides.

For the soldiers defending the city and the people in the city, the protracted siege of the city by the rebel army and the sacrifice without fear of death not only made them panic all day, but also the image of the rebel army became more and more terrifying in their hearts, and the resentment was bound to deepen day by day.

And for the rebels outside the city, the siege war is the most sacrificial way of fighting, they are attacking with a bloody and courageous spirit, but this city is constantly wearing down their patience and life, their robes and even their families are constantly dying, the resentment in their hearts will be deeper and deeper, continue like this, if they finally succeed in taking the city after paying a huge price, can they still maintain their sanity and not kill innocents?

You must know that most of the massacres in history were born because of this! When the time comes, will Brother Wang and Second Brother Li still be able to restrain those soldiers who are full of resentment and just want to vent?

Wang Ran didn't have confidence in this, so he wanted to do something to try to avoid this from happening. From the tenth day of the siege of the rebel army, he began to patiently observe and probe, and finally drew up a plan, a plan that could break the deadlock, a plan that would make both sides not sacrifice meaninglessly, so he took the initiative to apply to Daximen yesterday to implement his plan.