Volume 8 Chapter 214
Zhang Xianzhong has a very moist life at this time, with the whole Bashu in hand, so that he does not worry about eating, drinking, food and grass, and the difficulties of the Shu Road are blocked, so that he does not have to worry about the attack of the officers and soldiers at all, and the officers and soldiers without the giant cannon are also dishes, and they can't beat the next Bazhou City for more than a year, what else is there to be afraid of.
People are happy to think about Shu, he doesn't want to stay in Bashu anywhere, the palace of the king of Shu is extremely luxurious, there are groups of beautiful women, living in it is like a fairy, what else does he have to pursue.
If you insist on saying that there is still a bit of pursuit, then one, the king.
However, he is not as eager as Li Zicheng, he has many sons, and there are a lot of godsons, so he is not in a hurry to be the king, Li Zicheng is not the king first, he will not be the king, this is the case in history, and it is the same now.
More than 100,000 officers and soldiers are in the Nanjiang River, he naturally found out about this, but he is not worried at all, because he does not believe that the officers and soldiers can transport the thousands of pounds of giant cannons from the Shu Road that is difficult to go to the blue sky, without the giant artillery officers and soldiers can only rely on people, more than people, he is not scared at all, he claims that the million army is not a blind bragging, although he does not have an accurate number of specific men and horses under his command, but there are absolutely seven or eight hundred thousand, it can be said that the entire Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers are not as many as others, he is afraid of a ball!
He was a little crazy at this moment, and he even thought in his heart that even if Zhang Bin's evil star came, he would be helpless to take him.
Maybe this thought shouldn't have come to his heart, Zhang Bin quickly told him with facts that it is useless to have a lot of people, even if there is no giant cannon, the explosive tube can also blow up, and he can't find the north!
The news of the fall of Bazhou City came, which really scared him, fortunately, Zhang Bin did not besiege the city, but caught the north wall of Bazhou City and stormed it, and many of the defenders in Bazhou City escaped, no way, the city wall was blown up by officers and soldiers like dogs, and they couldn't hold it at all, even if they knew that they would die if they escaped, many people still subconsciously fled to Baoning City.
At this time, where does Zhang Xianzhong still have the strength to think about killing deserters, what to do if the officers and soldiers can blow up the city wall, this is the problem he is most concerned about.
This trick is really hard to defend, no matter how many others there are, they can't stop the officers and soldiers from digging holes in the city wall, because the officers and soldiers are muskets and tigers squatting and cannons, and the people on the city wall can't raise their heads at all, and the officers and soldiers' chariots are also added with a layer of iron plates thicker than armor, unless people lift more than 100 catties of boulders, and smash the chariots of the officers and soldiers into pieces, otherwise the officers and soldiers can only stare dryly even if they dig the city wall through it.
What to do?
He thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a way, that is, to attack with fire, this fire attack is not to shoot with ordinary rockets, but to use straw and firewood to pile up, rocket firing iron plate is definitely useless, in the case of Ming artillery and musket suppression, he can not discharge a large number of rocketeers to eject, and with straw and firewood piles are different, after the chariots of officers and soldiers lean against the city wall, the straw and firewood are lit and thrown down, you don't need to look at it, as long as there are enough straw and firewood, you can bury the chariots of officers and soldiers in the fire, Will you not be able to light it in this way, the iron plate can be burned red for him!
Of course, this trick can not be used anywhere, the city wall must be spacious enough, because with this trick needs a lot of straw and firewood, if the city wall is not spacious enough, straw and firewood are all squeezed together, it is very likely that accidentally all ignited, then it will not be to burn the chariots of officers and soldiers, but to burn their own people, and only Chengdu City can meet this condition.
Zhang Xianzhong totaled, simply transferred all the more than 100,000 horses near Chengdu Mansion into Chengdu City, and ordered them to collect straw and firewood, and prepare to burn the chariots of officers and soldiers, as for the more than 400,000 subordinates in Baoning Mansion, he didn't bother to care, anyway, those are not elite, all are cannon fodder, if all are recruited back to Chengdu City, the food in Chengdu City is not enough for them to eat for a few months, let them stay there to consume the time of officers and soldiers, the key is Chengdu City, as long as Chengdu City is not broken, he will be fine.
Zhang Bin received the news from Neiying, and the big teeth were about to laugh, Zhang Xianzhong didn't think he died fast enough!
Originally, Zhang Xianzhong's people and horses left in Chengdu were led by his godson, and he should basically not be able to mix in, even if he mixed in, he couldn't grasp any military power, Zhang Bin still had a headache, because Chengdu City is also one of the most powerful cities in the world, in the absence of a thousand catties of Buddha Lang machine, just the explosive tube, it is not so easy to take it down, such a huge city wall, I don't know how many explosive tubes have to be buried to blow up the mouth, and Chengdu City also has a moat, it is very troublesome to fill it, this is good, Zhang Xianzhong found all the people and horses near Chengdu City back to defend the city, and almost all of the internal should was recruited back by him, and the city was almost broken without attacking.
How could Zhang Xianzhong think of this, all he had to transfer all the people and horses near Chengdu back was also a last resort, no way, Chengdu City is too big, and there are two inner and outer city walls, tens of thousands of his cronies and horses to guard a circle of city walls is not enough, if you don't transfer more than 100,000 people and horses back, this city can't be defended.
In fact, he shouldn't have chosen to defend the city at all, he should have chosen to escape, as soon as Zhang Bin led the army to Nanjiang, he hurried away, in this way, he might still be able to escape.
At this point, it's too late for him to escape!
The combination of the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army led by Ma Xianglin and the Guanning iron cavalry led by Zu Dabi is simply overwhelming, and the Kuizhou Mansion and Chongqing Mansion were not the focus of Zhang Xianzhong's defense, except for the Kuizhou Mansion Fengjie and Chongqing Prefecture Chengba County, the other city defenders are basically less than 10,000 people.
And the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army are already amazing in combat, and they came out of Zhongzhou between Kuizhou Mansion and Chongqing Prefecture, which is simply famous in these two prefectures, plus Zhang Bin equipped them with chariots, muskets and tiger squat cannons, and the thieves basically flee everywhere they go.
It's useless if the thieves don't escape, the white pole soldiers plus chariots, muskets and tiger squat cannons, it is easy to rush to the city wall, and it is also a piece of cake for the elite of the 30,000 white pole soldiers to overturn thousands of defenders, Zu Dabi doesn't even have to make a move, as long as he is responsible for pulling grain and grass for Ma Xianglin.
At this time, Ma Xianglin and Zu Dabi had already taken Kuizhou Mansion, and converged with Qin Liangyu, and began to attack Chongqing Mansion.
Zhang Bin's progress along the way is also rapid, after the city of Bazhou was broken, the thieves were originally demoralized, and Zhang Xianzhong was busy reinforcing the defense of Chengdu, there was no time to clean up the deserters of Bazhou City, and the thieves in Baoning Mansion wanted to run when they saw the officers and soldiers, as long as they blew up a few gaps in the city wall, they began to flee, and they had no intention of resisting at all.
Soon, Zhang Bin successively captured Tongjiang, Baoning Mansion and Zitong, the so-called army of more than 400,000 thieves was simply a thousand miles away, and they did not dare to flee to Chengdu Mansion, because they were afraid that the Eight Kings would cut them, and the Eight Kings had no time to take care of them, but it was different if you sent them to Chengdu Mansion yourself, if you dare to flee to him, it is strange if he does not hack you to death.
Therefore, most of the defeated thieves fled to Shunqing and Tongchuan between Chongqing and Baoning, and after Zhang Bin took Zitong, he did not encounter any resistance along the way, he led his army all the way through Mianzhou and across the Luojiang River, and soon arrived in Deyang to join Shao Jiechun, the former governor of Sichuan.