What did Zhang Xianzhong toss Bashu into at this time, Zhang Bin learned about the situation after cleaning up He Renlong's father and son, and his brows couldn't help frowning.

Because of He Renlong's inaction, his subordinates can be said to know nothing about the situation of the thieves.

In fact, it is not very difficult to find out the general situation of the thieves, as long as you put on a tattered clothes, and cross Bazhou City at night wherever you want, no one will suspect that you are a scout of officers and soldiers, even if you carry weapons, it doesn't matter, even if you are in groups, these years there are homeless, hungry people, and bandits are everywhere, who cares about you!

However, He Renlong just didn't send anyone to investigate, they only knew that there were at least 100,000 thieves stationed in Bazhou City, and the rest was not clear.

The so-called knowing oneself and knowing that the other is victorious in a hundred battles, and not knowing anything, it is definitely not possible to lead the army to rush up, Zhang Bin can only lead the army to temporarily garrison in Nanjiang, and then send scouts to cross the city of Bazhou to carefully investigate the situation in Bashu.

This investigation, his brows furrowed even deeper, Bashu has almost become Zhang Xianzhong's world, and Zhang Xianzhong is a thing that makes people brag everywhere, claiming that he has a million troops under his command!

It is not clear how many people Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses are there for a while, but Zhang Bin has almost investigated the situation of the thieves near Bazhou City, not only there are more than 100,000 thieves stationed in Bazhou City, but there are also more than 100,000 thieves stationed in Tongjiang less than 100 miles east of Bazhou, and no less than 200,000 thieves are stationed in Baoning Mansion City less than 200 miles southwest of Bazhou.

That is to say, there are more than 400,000 thieves stationed in these three cities alone, how can this battle be fought and attacked?

No matter how garbage the thieves are, it's useless, people are also people with two arms and two legs, and they still have the city as a support, hard attack, how many people will be lost, it is impossible to estimate at all, according to the description of the remaining Henan army soldiers, the thieves are not a little combat effectiveness, people are forced by the supervision team to be afraid of death, and the city wall is full of thieves, rushing up and not even a place to stay, people are holding wooden sticks with spear heads poked in all directions, you don't have a few more holes in your body!

How is this situation good?

Of course, it's not just bad news from the scouts, but good news as well.

For example, with the assistance of Qin Liangyu, the stone pillar toast, Zhongzhou did not fall, and Qin Liangyu also told Zhang Bin through the scout that his white pole soldiers had expanded to more than 20,000, and it was not a problem to take the entire Chongqing Prefecture.

For another example, the former Sichuan governor Shao Jiechun stationed Deyang City has not yet fallen, and such a big nail near Chengdu has been nailed there, Zhang Xianzhong must have a headache.

Also, the Nei Ying he sent over has also successfully blended into Zhang Xianzhong's team, and many people have become small pipe teams, pipe teams, and even old pipe teams.

However, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng are not the same, he doesn't like to reuse fellow villagers and old people, but likes to train newcomers, take in his son, and the elite army that follows him is all led by his godson, and he can't control much military power if he gets in.

That is to say, this beheading strategy is basically not advisable, Zhang Xianzhong led tens of thousands of elites to nest in Chengdu City, Neiying couldn't get close to him at all, even if he sent thousands of elite masters over, he didn't know if he could kill him, but these thousands of elites must be finished, Chengdu City is thousands of miles away from Nanjiang City, and there are hundreds of thousands of thieves in the middle, once these thousands of elites are exposed, it is impossible to escape back alive!

This Zhang Xianzhong is not easy to clean up, after Zhang Bin understood the general situation, he also felt a little headache, but he was not at a loss, since he came, he had to deal with these eight kings!

What should I do?

Zhang Bin thought about it again and again, and decided to encircle on both sides, he ordered Ma Xianglin and Zu Dabi to lead an army of 30,000 Sichuan troops and 50,000 Guanning iron cavalry through Hanzhong, through Xixiang, to Taiping, first take Kuizhou Mansion, and then to Zhongzhou and Qin Liangyu convergence, gather troops to take Chongqing Mansion, outflank Chengdu Mansion from the southeast, and block Zhang Xianzhong's escape to Huguang.

He himself led the Fuguang army and the Shaanxi army to attack Bazhou, take Baoning Mansion, and press Chengdu Mansion from the northeast.

In this way, Zhang Xianzhong can only flee to the west or south, the west and south are basically snow-capped mountains, if he really escapes, he must freeze into a popsicle!

Ma Xianglin and Zu Dabi don't talk about him all the way, Zhang Bin set the strategy and then led the Fuguang army and the Shaanxi army to Bazhou, Zhang Xianzhong has one thing to predict is very right, this Bashu and the Central Plains, Huguang far away from thousands of mountains and rivers, Zhang Bin simply can't transport more than 1,000 catties of Franc cannons, if you want to blast the city wall into a bald man, unless you build a cannon factory in Nanjiang City, cast more than 1,000 catties of Franc cannons on the spot.

This is obviously a bit unrealistic, not to mention how to transport tens of thousands of catties of blister copper, just say that the machine tool for processing artillery is also thousands of catties or even thousands of catties, if you can find a way to transport the machine tool, more than 1,000 catties of Franc cannons can also be transported, in a short period of time, there is no need to count on these.

However, dealing with this city wall is not only artillery, Zhang Bin ordered someone to prepare a sharp weapon this time, an explosive tube!

The last explosion in Xiangshan Temple was mainly to create a "clear proof" of Chongzhen's dry heavenly anger, and it was also an experiment, which proved that the new explosives developed by Song Yingxing and Sun Yuanhua were still very fierce, and even the mountains could be blown up, and it was naturally not a problem to blow up the city wall.

Nanjiang is less than two hundred miles away from Bazhou City, Zhang Bin led more than 100,000 troops to walk for two days without hurrying, this Bazhou City is not a male city, the height of the city wall is a little more than a zhang, the thieves do not have much military literacy, they dug a little trench, even the moat they will not be tidy, it is not very troublesome to attack the city, just fill the trench, and then push the chariot on the line.

The thieves guarding the city saw more than 100,000 officers and soldiers rushing over, and the little liver was also frightened, but they didn't run away, Zhang Xianzhong is notoriously ruthless, if they dare to escape, they will definitely fall to the ground when they go back!

What do the thieves in the city think, Zhang Bin doesn't have so much heart to think about, since they don't surrender or retreat, there is only one way to attack.

The siege battle began, Zhang Bin directly ordered Qin Gongming to lead the Shaanxi army to fill the trench, fill in about a mile in front of the city wall, and he ordered Liu Wenxiu to lead his 10,000 horses to protect the artillerymen, push up a thousand tiger squat cannons and line them up, and set up the artillery carriage and began to bombard.

The thieves guarding the city are now pouring blood mold, because they are too numerous, there are 20,000 people stationed on the city wall in less than four miles, what is this concept, you can know it by simple calculation, one mile is three hundred steps, and four miles is only 1,200 steps, which means that there are nearly twenty people in a place one step wide!

Zhang Xianzhong's trick is indeed more shameless, you come to attack the city, there is no place for you to stay, and you will be killed directly!

However, his trick was blind to Zhang Bin, a cannonball bombarded past, and the thieves on the city wall suddenly suffered heavy casualties, they were densely lined up, and there was not enough place to dodge the cannonballs.

This is just the beginning, the Shaanxi army is still filling in the trenches, and then Zhang Bin ordered Ainengqi to lead 10,000 musketeers to push the chariot to the front of the city wall one hundred and fifty steps away, lined up, standing on the roof of the car, facing the city wall is a row of guns.

At this time, the casualties of the 20,000 defenders on the northern wall were almost more than 10,000, except for those who were nested under the arrow stacks, the others were basically lying down.

30,000 people filled the trench together I don't know how fast, less than an hour, the trench that the thief Kou worked hard to dig was filled, and then, Zhang Bin ordered Bai Wenxuan to lead people to push a hundred chariots covered with iron plates to rush to the city wall to cover their heads is a burst of digging, less than half an hour, the city wall under all the chariots was almost dug out of a half-person high hole, Bai Wenxuan gave an order, all the soldiers threw hoes and shovels into the chariot, Then he picked up the arm-thick explosive tube from the chariot and stuffed it into the hole he had dug, and when the hole was almost full, Bai Wenxuan gave another order, lit the fire, and left.

"Boom", it didn't take long for the city wall to sound a shocking noise everywhere, many thieves on the city wall didn't know what was going on and were bombed into the sky, and the entire city wall was bombed like a dog gnawed, and there were gaps everywhere!