Xiao Tianjian is not short of food at the moment, firstly, before the expedition, the logistics prepared a relatively sufficient food supply for them, and when he conquered Fengyang Mansion, he captured some grain, and later captured a lot of military rations when he annihilated the Wan Yuan Ji Division, so he is not short of food and grass in a short period of time, so there is no need to collect grain on the spot at all, and even Xiao Tianjian in order to buy the hearts of the local people, he also ordered the army to give a certain amount of relief to the hungry people nearby.

In this way, the people around Luzhou quickly returned to the Xingtian Army, and began to rush to help the Xingtian Army in the war, helping to build roads, helping to transport materials, and helping the Xingtian Army to camp and cut wood and other things, so within a few days, the Xingtian Army set up a large-scale barracks in the area of Dashu Mountain.

In order to win the hearts of the people, Luo Li originally wanted to requisition Kaifu Temple as Xiao Tianjian's temporary camp, and temporarily drove out the monks in the temple to settle down, but Xiao Tianjian knew that Buddhism now has considerable influence on the people, and if such a large Kaifu Temple is forcibly occupied, it will inevitably anger some believers who believe in Buddhism, which is not conducive to the next step of local control. Therefore, he ordered the troops not to invade the monastery and not to interfere with the normal worship of the Buddha in the monastery.

Originally, the monks of Kaifu Temple were afraid of such a large group of soldiers and horses to attack Luzhou City, and the abbot of the temple personally led the monks to meet Xiao Tianjian, and also took out more than 100 stones of food to send to the Xingtianjun, but Xiao Tianjian refused, Xiao Tianjian told the monks not to worry, the Xingtianjun is a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and only takes the ill-gotten wealth of those unscrupulous gentry, but does not forcibly take the property of the temple, so that they can continue their lives with complete confidence. If there is surplus food, it is not impossible to open a porridge shed to help the hungry people in the surrounding area, but the Xingtian Army does not want their things.

After the monks of Kaifu Temple got Xiao Tianjian's assurance, they were grateful one by one, and they thanked them again and again, and they did not dare to slack off and immediately opened a porridge shed outside Kaifu Temple to help the hungry people around, and repeatedly said to the hungry people that this was the kindness of the Xingtian Army, so that they should not forget.

In this way, after the Xingtian Army arrived in Luzhou, it quickly settled the local people and won the hearts of the people, so more people began to come to help the Xingtian Army to help prepare for the siege.

After Xiao Tianjian arrived in Luzhou City, he sent someone to shoot a letter into the city to the prefect Wu Dapu, persuading him to surrender in Kaicheng, so as not to cause more casualties caused by the siege of the city by the Xingtian Army, and he could ensure that after entering the city, he would not commit any crimes against the people in the city, and all the original officials would remain in office, which was unusually magnanimous for Xiao Tianjian.

But Wu Dapu is a loyal minister of the imperial court, and he didn't care about Xiao Tianjian's letter of persuasion, when even if he tore up the letter in the city and threw it down, in Wu Dapu's view, the Xingtian army was so persuaded to surrender, which simply showed their weakness, he thought that Xiao Tianjian saw the solidity of Luzhou City, and felt that he was unable to take it, so he persuaded him to surrender, so he also proudly said to his generals that the Xingtian army had no way to take them Luzhou City, and the donkey skills would be so persuasive to surrender them.

Looking at the confetti falling on the city tower, Xiao Tianjian looked up at the sky, the sky was full of dark clouds at this time, and it didn't take long for the raindrops to fall the size of soybeans, and it began to become more and more dense, he suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, and without saying a word, he turned around and returned to the camp, and gathered the generals to begin to discuss the method of attacking Luzhou City.

Li Xin and other personnel of the staff department believed that it had begun to rain at present, which was not conducive to the siege of the city, and believed that the top priority at the moment was to clear the surrounding area of Luzhou City, start with the surrounding gentry and gentry, collect a large amount of grain, and wait until the weather was good before attacking the city.

However, the generals, who were mainly military generals, thought that it was not necessarily a good thing to drag it out, and it was better to attack the city as soon as possible, so that it would not drag on for too long, and they could strive to attack Nanjing faster, so as not to make complete preparations for Ding Qirui on the Nanjing side.

Xiao Tianjian listened to the opinions of the generals this time and decided that it was better to attack the city as soon as possible, otherwise it would be a long time to delay and there would be another variable.

So on the 13th day of May, Xiao Tianjian personally raised troops to arrive outside the Xiping Gate of Luzhou City and began the assault on Luzhou City.

The weather does not seem to be beautiful, the rain stops and falls, creating some trouble for the Xingtian army, and the wide city river also hinders the action of the Xingtian army, at the end of the day, the Xingtian army has not even been able to cross the city river, and the officers and soldiers in the city are even more in the city to bombard the soldiers and horses of the siege of the city, although the artillery of the Xingtian army also fired a salvo to suppress the officers and soldiers in the city, but the effect is not very good, although the officers and soldiers who beat are frightened, but they have not been able to kill and injure too many defenders.

This rain is a great help to Luzhou City, after the fourteenth, the rain began to become heavier and heavier, and it will not stop during the period, in this case, the siege is obviously no longer suitable, Xiao Tianjian looked at the heavy rain falling all over the sky, and had no choice but to order the siege to be suspended.

Xiao Tianjian can change history, but can not change the weather in history, in May of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, a heavy rain fell in Nanzhili and the south of the Yangtze River, and the rain was half a month, causing a large area of flooding in the Jianghuai area.

In late May, Nanzhili is Suzhou Mansion, Songjiang Mansion, Huzhou Mansion and other prefectures all had a major flood, for a time Jiangnan and other places became a Ze country, a large number of ordinary people were swallowed up by the flood, even if they were lucky not to be drowned by the flood, they could not find food, profiteers were closed to this reason, so that the development of the disaster situation was very serious, and the government was unable to help, but many officials secretly took the opportunity to hoard grain and make a windfall.

This continuous heavy rain also seriously affected Luzhou, although Luzhou did not induce a major flood, but the water level of rivers and lakes still rose a lot, and the heavy rain falling from the sky also made the gunpowder of the Xingtian Army damp, whether it was a flintlock gun or an artillery were greatly affected, so that Xiao Tianjian had to stop the attack on Luzhou.

And so many people are stationed outside Luzhou City, and the food consumed every day is also astronomical, although Xiao Tianjian has made relatively adequate preparations in the early stage, but such a heavy rain seems to be headless, and after half a month, the road is basically completely blocked, and the grain in logistics cannot be transferred from the direction of Fengyang Mansion to Luzhou City in such weather, so the food stored by the Xingtian Army began to decrease to a dangerous level.

The heavy rain didn't stop, and there was no way to even train the soldiers, let alone siege the city, so in order to save the consumption of food, Xiao Tianjian took the lead in changing to only eat two meals a day, and one meal was thin and one dry, trying to reduce the consumption of food under the condition of ensuring that it would not affect the body of the general.

Xiao Tianjian didn't expect to attack Luzhou City this time, but he encountered such a ghost weather, which made his plan impossible to implement, and if he continued like this, his food would soon be exhausted, and the war horses would also be brushed down a lot because they couldn't eat refined food and hay fat, and if the heavy rain didn't stop in the long run, this attack on Luzhou would probably end in failure.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian had to follow Li Xin's original suggestion and began to collect grain in the vicinity, but the object of grain collection was still limited to landlords who owned more than 100 acres of land.

This heavy rain to Luzhou is a great help, the defenders' military heart is not neat, many people are worried that they can't hold Luzhou City, now this headless heavy rain, it is reassuring them, they don't have to be rained in the city, they can watch the Xingtian army outside the city in the rain from the city tower, so the morale has risen a lot, and the grain storage in the city is enough for them to eat for another three months, they are basically not too worried about not being able to survive the Xingtian army.

Wu Dapu even sent people to Nanzhili to send letters one after another, saying that they could hold out for a while longer, but hoped that Ding Qirui could send them reinforcements as soon as possible, so that he could ensure that he could defend Luzhou City.

This rain is more than half a month, from mid-May to early June, but the sky has not yet cleared, and the Xingtian Army's military rations have begun to appear more serious shortages at this time, if they are not replenished, there may be a shortage of food in a few days, and if there is no food for a short time, the Xingtian Army may not collapse immediately like the official army, but after a long time, even the Xingtian Army will not work, at least it will seriously weaken their combat effectiveness, even if the weather improves, They no longer have the strength to attack Luzhou City.

For this reason, Xiao Tianjian had to convene the generals to discuss, and all the generals also felt very helpless for such weather, and the morale of the whole army was greatly affected, and it seemed a little sluggish, so although they were reluctant, everyone had to admit the fact of this failure, they were not unable to defeat Luzhou City, but this time they came at the wrong time, this thief God really didn't help them with the Xingtian Army, so all the generals revealed the idea of withdrawing their troops, and wanted to temporarily return to the Fengyang Mansion area to rest and recuperate. Wait until the weather is good to attack Luzhou City, and it is a big deal to attack Nanjing later, which is better than exhausting their strength here.

Xiao Tianjian sighed slightly, shrugged his shoulders helplessly and said, "The sky is not beautiful, it's no wonder that we are!" It seems that this Da Ming's qi has not been completely exhausted, and the thieves have to help them all the time, and we can only let his Zhu family survive for a while!

Brothers don't have to be discouraged, this kind of thing is about the right time and place, we didn't occupy the right time and place when we came here this time, at most it is to occupy the word "personal and", so Luzhou City and it is just shit luck!

However, the commander of Fengyang Mansion feels that it is not the best policy, once we retreat back to Fengyang Mansion, it is the result that the imperial court wants the most, how can we let Ding Qirui and the current emperor be so wishful? That would be too cheap for them!

So Ben Shuai thinks that even if we evacuate Luzhou, we can't just be so cheap for them, how about we do this? ……”

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's proposal, the generals immediately lifted their spirits, to be honest, it was a few days of heavy rain, which made everyone's hearts feel like hair, and it was uncomfortable.

Although God doesn't help, it's not their responsibility, but over the years, the Xingtian Army has really not been able to capture a city a few times, so when the generals were helpless, their hearts were also depressed enough, although for this reason, everyone also knew that continuing to stay outside Luzhou City, for them, there was not much effect, just empty consumption of soldiers' food, and the withdrawal of troops was really helpless, and it was also inevitable, but when they were really faced with such a choice, everyone still felt quite unwilling for this.

Now that Xiao Tianjian suddenly put forward such an opinion, everyone suddenly became energetic as if they had been injected with another stimulant, so the generals immediately went out to ask for battle.

After Xiao Tianjian glanced at the generals in the tent with satisfaction, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, nodded slightly, and finally pointed his finger at Liu Yaoben in the column......