Chapter 55: The Tree Falls and the Buddha Scatters

On the one hand, Yang Xuan sent scouts to inquire about the news, and on the other hand, he was prepared to quickly withdraw to northern Sichuan by taking advantage of the unfavorable situation. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The army is a place of words, and now Yang Xuan's military achievements are great, and speaking is an order, there is nothing to explain.

But the situation was still extremely grim, and even Yang Xuan, who was in Genting City thirty miles away, felt that Chengdu City was in danger.

In early August, as Yang Zhan led 3,000 soldiers and horses into the city of Chengdu, after the whole city began to implement a curfew, those who made up to enter the city were somewhat restrained, but everyone secretly hid around some temples and Taoist temples, plotting greater changes.

Everyone knows the seriousness of the problem, but everyone is helpless.

Seeing that the catastrophe was coming, the Shu Wangfu abandoned its previous suspicions and took out money and food to recruit soldiers, but now it is to no avail.

On the fifth day of the first month of August, Zhang Xianzhong led more than 200,000 people to pass through Ziyang, Jianyang, and Longquanyi, and led an army of 200,000 to rush to Chengdu City.

From morning to night, the cannon sound continued, and the rogues rushed to Chengdu like locusts, and then flowed along the city wall to the surrounding areas, slowly forming several camp tents with three layers inside, three layers and three layers outside the city.

Seeing that the Liukou was killed under the city of Chengdu, Liu Jiayin, the general of Sichuan, Yang Zhan, and others led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses out of the city, hoping to kill the other party by surprise.

But the Liukou soldiers are strong and strong, and there are nearly 10,000 cavalry galloping back and forth, impacting the flank of the official army, after a day of fierce fighting, Liu Jiayin and others are defeated, surrounded by Liukou in Zhuanhua River, and finally defeated and committed suicide.

Yang Zhan and Cao Xun led everyone to retreat to Chengdu City to defend the city and fight again.

Seeing that the Liukou army was so large, Long Wenguang, the governor of Sichuan, finally made up his mind and ordered Zhao Jiawei to dig up Dujiangyan and pour water from the Minjiang River into the Chengdu Plain.

Before the construction of Dujiangyan, the Chengdu Plain is a thousand miles of Ze country, if Dujiangyan is excavated, Zhang Xianzhong has to lead the soldiers and horses to leave, so that the officials and troops in Chengdu City will definitely be able to win a big victory.

But Yang Xuan, who was outside Chengdu, didn't know about Long Wenguang's conspiracy, and in order to stabilize the morale of the army, he sent detectives to listen to the news.

Zhang Xianzhong, who had just gained a foothold outside Chengdu, of course did not know about Long Wenguang's conspiracy, and summoned the four righteous sons Zhang Kewang, Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Wenxiu, Zhang Nengqi, Prime Minister Wang Zhaolin, Wang Shangli, the Governor of the Chinese Army, Wang Dingguo, the Governor of the Former Army, and Feng Shuangli, the Governor of the Later Army, to discuss the method of attacking the city.

On the same day, several caves were dug under the city of Chongqing, and explosives were planted to blow up the city wall and enter the city.

Now there are thousands of fine works in the city, and it will be easy to repeat the old tricks.

In the past few days, despite the lightning and thunder outside, and the storm, a group of officers and soldiers under the cover of archers and bird gunners rushed to the city wall with large wooden planks and dug crypts under the city wall.

At this time, there were not as many people in Sichuan as in modern times, and there were many large trees near the Chengdu Plain, and then people cut open the branches, hollowed them out, loaded them with gunpowder, and then tied them together with ropes.

This is probably equivalent to the earliest model of the blasting barrel in the previous life, the blasting barrel in the previous life was filled with high explosives and had a detonator, while Zhang Xianzhong made it with black powder, although the power difference is too great, but it can be said to be a big killing weapon in the seventeenth century.

On the ninth day of the eighth month, the sky cleared, and although the roads were still muddy, they had no effect on the siege.

Early in the morning, Zhang Xianzhong looked majestic on his war horse, and hundreds of thousands of troops stood behind him.

With an order, under the cover of nearly a thousand archers and bird guns, hundreds of rogues carried these primitive blasters, inserted them into the dug crypts, and after igniting them, the personnel left one after another, and the gunpowder of the blasters was ignited one after another, making a huge explosion sound, one after another, and it was clearly audible dozens of miles away.

Although the power of this simple blaster is not the same as that of the blaster in the previous life, the power is also quite violent, especially for the defenders who lack protection, and its deterrent power is even more amazing.

Every time there was an explosion, accompanied by flying sand and rocks, the ground shook and the mountains shook, and some of the officers and soldiers on the city wall could not hold it and fell to the ground.

Seeing that the rogue under the city was so cunning and actually developed a simple blasting canister in this era, Long Wenguang, the governor of Sichuan, felt that his ears were split, and on the one hand, he urged all the departments to defend the city walls, and on the other hand, he sent messengers to Pixian County to urge Zhao Jiawei to dig up the water of Dujiangyan and pour it into the Chengdu Plain.

However, the siege method of the Liukou was very violent, especially at noon, the Jinjiang Tower collapsed, and thousands of Liukou rushed to the gap like chicken blood, although Liu Jiayin and others led the official army to launch a counterattack, trying to protect the city gate.

But at this time, the rogues who infiltrated the city took advantage of the situation, and they set fire to it while shouting that the Great Western Army would enter the city.

The city wall of Chengdu spread for several miles, and it is not known whether the Liukou invaded the city and defended the city.

Now they heard the shouts of killing in the city, and the flames were soaring into the sky, and everyone mistakenly thought that the city wall had been broken, and the morale of the whole army was greatly affected.

Hearing the shouts of killing in the city, the city was full of flames, and everyone shouted loudly that the Liukou had broken through Chengdu City.

Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, was shocked, and rang the bell to summon the family of the Shu Wangfu, but many people were frightened, and there were only more than two or three hundred people gathered in the palace and the palace guards of about three thousand.

Seeing that there were only such a few people around him, Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, sighed, but thinking that Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered tens of thousands of royal relatives of King Xiang and King Chu, he had to lead these more than 300 people to kill out of the palace and run towards Bei'anmen.

But hearing that the city of Chengdu was broken, there were riots in the city of Chengdu, coupled with the fact that the rogues took advantage of the situation to make a rebellion, the royal guards were the first to return to the crowd, but the more they went, the fewer they went, and before they could get out of a street, they were scattered by the fleeing gentry.

After the dispersal, Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, only had two old eunuchs waiting around him, and the others did not know where to go.

At this time, the streets were full of running people, and the rogues had now entered the city.

Thinking of the tragic scene of Zhang Xianzhong killing the king of Xiang and the king of Chu, Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, trembled all over his body and fled with two eunuchs.

But in the past, the king of Shu was confined in the palace by the imperial court like other princes, and the door did not go out, although he lived in Chengdu for more than 40 years, he was still quite unfamiliar with the outside life, and finally he was desperate, only the old tears were vertical and horizontal, and he committed suicide.

Zhu Shuying, the county lord of Shu Wangfu, is much better, and the court is not so strict with the prince's mansion and county supervisor on weekdays, and the county lord of Shu Wangfu, who likes to dance with guns and sticks, often goes out with makeup.

Even so, there was a commotion outside, and it was scattered by pedestrians not far from the gate of the palace.

After regrouping, there was only one maid and two guards around, and there was no trace of the father and queen mother.

Now the army is in chaos, and everyone is crying and running to Bei'anmen with the crowd fleeing the famine.

As soon as I arrived at Bei'anmen, I saw that the city gate had been broken, and I saw more than a thousand people rushing into the city from a distance, and everyone was afraid of being discovered, so they wanted to hide behind the gate and hide for a while and then make a plan.

However, the order of the rogues was very chaotic, and they rushed into people's homes from time to time, searching for horses, mules and other livestock, and Zhu Shuying and others had no choice, so they were forced to put on makeup and then tried to escape from Bei'anmen.

At this time, the Liukou was entering the city, and the city gate was very chaotic, and Zhu Shuying fled out of the city gate in the crowd, except for the city gate, and ran to the north.

After running for a mile like this, everyone was panting, not caring about the image of the past, and hid by the field one by one to rest.

At this moment, I suddenly saw a patrol of the rogue, and now he was running on horseback.

Zhu Shuying and the others had already panicked, and when they saw the rogue soldiers and horses, they panicked one by one, and ran away.

And Zhu Shuying and the others were dressed in brocade and jade robes, and they knew that they were rich and noble at a glance, and everyone chased them over.

In order to protect Zhu Shuying, the guards kept turning to meet the battle, although the guards were strong in martial arts and very strong in fighting alone, but in the face of the swarming cavalry, they were far from being opponents of the other party.

Zhu Shuying and the others ran for half a mile, and the guards around them were also shot one after another, seeing the liukou fan-shaped surrounding, Zhu Shuying held a sword in both hands, hugged the maid, and felt a burst of despair.

Seeing that in front of him was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old beautiful woman in a brocade robe, with a fair face, staring at himself with a pair of eyes, Zhang Pu's heart moved, why not capture him as his wife?

Thinking of this, Zhang Pu motioned for everyone to stand back, turned over and dismounted, came to the front of the other party, and shouted loudly: "Little lady, you can't run."

If you follow Zhang Ye, you will enjoy endless glory and wealth in the future. ”

Within a day, his relatives were separated, and his life and death were unknown, and now hearing Zhang Pu say this, Zhu Shuying was extremely angry, and raised the sword in his hand to assassinate him.

Zhang Pu had the heart to play with the other party, dodged several times in succession, and suddenly saw the opponent's move to make the old, swinging the sword to block, Zhu Shuying's tiger mouth cracked, and the sword flew out of his hand.

Zhang Pu was overjoyed, shook off the big knife and was about to rush over to restrain the other party, when he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and more than ten riders suddenly appeared in front of him.

That's right, this is the reconnaissance team led by Yang Xuan.