The war in Huguang has just started, but the war in Sichuan and Shu has entered a white-hot stage.

After the failure of the mountain attack, the Ming army began to carry out civil engineering operations, and the digging of trenches and the excavation of the city were carried out almost simultaneously.

The Ming army braved the rain of arrows on the mountain to dig trenches, rushed to the city under the square table to dig the city, paid a lot of casualties every day, and at the same time there was no heavy artillery, the people began to build catapults and bombard the city walls.

By the middle of July, everything was going smoothly, and although the Ming army had not made great progress, it was also in order, especially the excavation of the city gave Wu Sangui great pressure.

But at this moment, a major event happened in the Ming army, Sun Kewang took 2,000 people and ran away from the army, which surprised Wang Yan, shocked the army, and also hit the morale of the Ming army and disrupted the rhythm of the siege.

For Sun Kewang, who ran away, Wang Yan is out of reach now, and he has no energy to take care of him at all, he ran away, but the impact of his departure on the Ming army, Wang Yan must think of ways to eliminate.

Sun Tzu's strategic thinking, said "ten to encircle, five to attack, double to fight", used in the siege, then the strength of the advantage, then a long-term siege, when its food is exhausted, naturally the city surrendered, if the disparity in strength is large, that is to rush and fight, directly break it, if the disparity in strength is not large, then you can only test the other side, find out the weakness, can fight the battle, can not fight then defend, then retreat.

At this time, the Ming army did not have time to trap Wu Sangui to death, and second, it could not pay a huge number of casualties to fight for the gains and losses of Wanxian County, so it could only find a way to find out the weaknesses to deal with the Qing soldiers.

The Ming army has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and it has been half a month since Kuizhou was trapped, if there is no success, Wang Yan can only withdraw his troops, let Wu Sangui leave Kuizhou, and then take Chongqing in eastern Sichuan and Luzhou in southern Sichuan as the foundation, and slowly compete with the Qing soldiers for the Chengdu Plain, so at the moment Wang Yan urgently needs a breakthrough, not to mention that one blow will be killed, at least let the soldiers know that this battle is hopeful, and the city can be broken.

In order to achieve this goal, reinvigorate morale, and eliminate the turmoil in the hearts of the people caused by Sun Kewang's departure, Wang Yan still decided to stop the city that could not be beaten for a while and a half, and first pull out the cottage of the Qing army.

Of course, although the digging stopped, the construction of catapults did not stop.

At this time, Wang Yan ordered to speed up the progress of digging the trench, and more than 100,000 men dug the trench from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside day and night, and then went straight to the bottom of the cottage.

It was at this time that the fighting immediately became fierce. Li Guoying on the mountain, naturally can't ignore this, the "zhi" shaped trench dug by the Ming army can basically avoid the rolling stones and trees of the Qing army, then he has 5,000 men and horses, and he is still hairy.

For a time, the Ming army dug trenches, and the Qing soldiers rushed out of the cottage from time to time to destroy, and the two sides fought bloodily on the hillside, and this interference of the Qing army obviously failed to work.

At first, the Qing army raided during the day, but the weather was too hot, and it was not enough to climb up and down the hillside, and they had to fight with the Ming army digging trenches, and some northern soldiers could not stand it even if they went into battle shirtless.

In the end, they could only attack at night, and there were mutual victories and defeats between the two sides, and often the Qing soldiers who attacked were killed by the Ming army, and some Qing soldiers rushed into the trenches and killed the people who dug the trenches.

Among the five loyal troops, except for the Shun army and Guan Ningjun, the others, including Wang Yan, have more complicated feelings towards Guan Ning, although they are angry at his behavior of recognizing the thief as his father, but it is not to the point of hatred, and the fight is only the master of each on the battlefield.

But as the fighting became more and more intense, the comrades on both sides died more and more, and after going back and forth, both sides had already killed red-eyed, and the state of torture and vendetta gradually appeared on the battlefield.

This incident began when Li Guoying captured several Ming soldiers and people who were digging trenches under a surprise attack. Li Guoying was afraid of the progress of the Ming army's trenching, so the next day, in front of the Ming army, he tortured and killed several people, gouging out their eyes and chopping their hands, hoping to scare the Ming army and slow down the speed of digging the trench.

That night, the Ming army set up an ambush, captured dozens of Qing soldiers, loyal to Yang Yanchang, and did not report to Wang Yan, so he directly ordered to cook at the foot of the mountain.

In this way, the two sides gradually formed a grudge of gnashing teeth, and it became an endless situation, and as the trench advanced, it was finally dug under the mountain plug, and the time to understand the grievances came.

After Sun Kewang fled, Wang Yan punished Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, who did not report the information, and beat each with 20 military sticks, but he also immediately reorganized the remnants of the Western Army, as well as the men and horses of Zhang and Huang, into the sequence of the Five Loyal Army, so as to calm the people's hearts.

Liu Wenxiu was incorporated into the superintendent's standard, and Li Dingguo was incorporated into Zhongyi, in short, the original structure was disrupted.

At this time, at the foot of the mountain, the banner was unfurled, and nearly 100,000 Ming troops were firmly established, and archers, firecrackers, spearmen, swords and shields, and cavalry were arranged in turn.

Of course, it doesn't take so many soldiers and horses to attack a mountain, and most of the phalanxes are to strengthen the formation and cheer up the attacking troops.

At this time, among the Chinese army, the war drums were beating, accompanied by the moving drums, and the shouts of the Ming army were higher and higher, and then they sang triumphant songs in unison.

This is also a habit of the five loyal army, before the war, first roar, sing a paragraph, hundreds of thousands of shouts at the throat, not only to frighten the enemy's courage, but also to boost the morale of the soldiers, and so on after the soldiers sing the war song, they are basically infected by anger, no need to mobilize the generals, one by one their eyes are bloodshot, blood boiling.

In the ancient battlefield, morale is very important, Yue Wumu once said that when you go to the battlefield, you can hold a gun in your hand and have spit in your mouth, you are a good soldier, and the current Ming army can undoubtedly do this.

In the shouts of the Ming army one after another, in contrast, both the defenders in the city and the Qing soldiers on the cottage were much colder.

For the Qing soldiers in the cottage, their fate was sealed from the moment the Ming army dug a trench at the foot of the mountain, and the time they had left depended on the progress of that trench.

Now that the trench is in front of the stockade, the time for understanding has come. In these days of fighting, they and the Ming army have become a state of life and death, and both sides are red-eyed.

They looked at the Ming army under the mountain, and could only put on the feather arrows with a heavy face, or hold their weapons tightly, looking for a sense of stability.

At this time, the general asked Li Guoying to come forward to mobilize, and also said some words to boost morale, but Li Guoying shook his head, and now he has formed a mortal enemy, especially the two sides abuse and kill each other, he doesn't need to say much, the Qing soldiers will also fight hard, and more than 100,000 people shouted under the mountain, he just spoke in the ears of the soldiers, and he may not be able to hear clearly, the most important thing is that they are few people, and they can't roar at the Ming army under the mountain at all.

At this time, the war drums under the mountain changed, a team of Ming army soldiers, from the foot of the mountain into the deep trench, the trench is like a big python coiled on the mountain, the tail is at the foot of the mountain, the head is on the top of the mountain, and the Ming army that enters the deep trench, after a while, can be like the letter in the mouth of the big python, spewed out from the mouth of the snake, and directly killed the Qingzhai on the top of the mountain.

(12 o'clock in the next chapter)

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