In the territory of Yizhou, in addition to the eastern half of the new capital of Dongyang and other cities, the western half of the four counties of Pixian and Xipu Shuangliu Guangdu, Li Congjing dispatched a large army to launch a comprehensive attack on Chengdu at the same time, according to Mo Li's strategy, sent a partial division to attack the latter four counties.

The army that was ordered to go out was the Rampage Army.

Among the forbidden army, in addition to the Hundred Battles Army, the Rampage Army is the most prestigious, sending it to attack all over the country, which is most likely to make the four counties afraid of the soldiers, so as to achieve the goal of surrendering the army without a fight, or even making it surrender to the wind.

The key to attacking the four counties is to fight quickly, and the Rampage Army is now complete in combat strength, which is the most suitable choice.

And the attack of the main force of the army on Chengdu is two words: strong attack.

According to the consistent habit of the forbidden army to attack the city and pull out the wall, after the initial preparations, the army attacked the city from all sides, first bombarding the city wall without counting the loss of catapults, in order to achieve the effect of seizing the people first, and destroy the city wall at one time to the greatest extent.

Secondly, it is attached to the army of ants.

Taking advantage of the forbidden army's nest car, siege tower car, ladder car, large bamboo pole crossbow and other armaments, with the fire support of the Tushan Arrow Tower outside the city, the city head was attacked.

At the same time, tactics such as digging tunnels and collapsing city walls were carried out at the same time.

The fierce battle of Chengdu's offensive and defensive battles was the biggest since Li Congjing received the order to attack Shu.

Both Li Congjing and Meng Zhixiang knew that this battle was the core battle, so they tried their best to keep each other, and the soldiers on both sides almost never stopped fighting, making the inside and outside of the city like a purgatory.

At the beginning of the war, hundreds of soldiers were killed and wounded every day, and at the height of the battle, the casualties on both sides even reached thousands.

When the battle in Chengdu reached the eighth day, both Li Congjing and Meng Zhixiang had a premonition that the war had reached the most critical time.

At this time, it is often the time to decide what to bear.

On this day, the brave generals in the royal division, such as Guo Wei, Meng Ping, Li Shaocheng, Huang Fulin, and even Shi Yanchao, Fu Yanlin and others, have all attacked the city.

Especially Shi Yanchao, even in a round of fierce battles, his feet stepped on the city twice, and one of them insisted on a full stick of incense.

At this point in the war, it is time to make all the plans for battle, and all kinds of arrangements and strategies have been implemented or are being prepared to be implemented, and the victory or defeat can be best exchanged for blood and life in the end.

Li Congjing observed the battlefield in the watchtower every day, he could clearly see that the soldiers fell one after another, he could see that a stream of blood stained the city inch by inch, his ladder cars were damaged one by one, he could master the armor and shouted and swung a giant axe to smash the bed crossbow at the head of the city, and he could fall from the head of the city like dumplings to the outside of the city.

However, what he did the most was the torrent of iron armor rushing towards the city wall, and the giant beasts in the torrent of iron armor - those large engineering equipment.

With keen insight, he observed the weak areas of Chengdu's city defense again and again, and then asked the flag bearer to wave the flag.

So, immediately a group of armor soldiers rushed to that weak point, sometimes Wang Shi broke the defense line of the thief army and rushed to the city, sometimes the thief army reacted quickly, the two sides fell into a fierce battle, and the weak point was no longer a weak point, and Li Congjing went to find the next flaw.

In this battle, from the commanders of the three armies to the ordinary soldiers, including the men and pawns and medical officers in the battalion, no one had a moment of leisure, and the war was ruined, and the army that supported this feast of destruction was full of vitality and extremely precise.

If you want to say that there is relatively nothing to do, there are only those civilian officials and civil servants who are waiting to take over the military and government of the city after breaking through the city.

In the past few days, good news came one after another, first Xipu was conquered, followed by Shuangliu, in the eighth night of the Hengchong army, Li Congjing received the news that Guangdu had been captured.

At the same time, the documents of officials in Pengzhou, Meizhou and other places were successively sent to Li Congjing, who were unwilling to be in the same league as the thieves and resolutely expressed their absolute allegiance to the imperial court.

Every time he received a good news, Li Congjing conveyed the good news to Chengdu, and at the same time threw it into the city, either the head of the rhino pu guard, or a letter stamped with the official seal of the Meizhou assassin.

The more the war continued, the more calm and calm Li Congjing became, and the more his eyes looked like something he was.

"Now there is only one question, that is, when will Meng Zhixiang give up."

On the seventh day of the war, Li Congjing said to the staff beside him.

Will Meng Zhixiang give up?

The obvious answer is that he won't.

is the same as Li Shaobin, Meng Zhixiang also needs to run at both ends of the city marshal's mansion every day, and unlike Li Shaobin, Meng Zhixiang has always looked like he is determined to win.

At least the soldiers who comforted and encouraged him every day thought that Chengdu would definitely be able to hold on.

Unlike Li Shaobin, when the treasury was short of money, he began to order the guards to move all kinds of objects in the palace - calligraphy, paintings, treasures and even daily utensils for his daily use.

When the war was difficult, although Meng Zhixiang did not personally draw his sword and rush to the battle array, he stood in a place where he could accommodate as many soldiers as possible, his expression was calm, and he did not retreat.

All kinds of measures have allowed Chengdu to persist day after day.

Even so, he still couldn't stop the deterioration of his shape, and when Meng Zhixiangpu guarded the head of the general, he knew that the situation he feared most had happened.

The crux of the matter is that Li Congjing's movements are too fast.

Whether it is to capture Xipu Shuangliu, or to obtain the allegiance of Pengzhou Meizhou Assassin Shi, it is too fast.

By now, Meng Zhixiang has long recognized that if the battle of Shuzhong is a game of chess, then Li Congjing's fall has been for several years, and if the battle of Chengdu is a hunt, then Li Congjing has already laid many traps.

In the past few days, people in Chengdu have been panicking, and there are rumors in the streets and alleys about what Meng Zhixiang is "the tenth wicked man"

, also said that the generals under his command were all reincarnated in Shura, originally in the eighteenth layer of hell, not to mention that the king who came to fight now is angry-eyed King Kong, and even more outrageous, he praised Li Siyuan and Li Congjing's father and son, called the reincarnation of the Buddha.

These are all things without a head and a shadow, and I can't find half of the factual basis, but I can't stand the three of them becoming tigers, especially in today's stormy times, it just so happens that these things without a head and no shadow are particularly inciting.

What is more vicious than these is the ten major crimes of Meng Zhixiang that circulated in the city, and some of them have not counted the evil things he has done since he entered Shu, and the first one is undoubtedly disloyalty and injustice.

It is worth mentioning that the fact that he killed Li Yan was greatly exaggerated, as a proof that he had long been opposed.

Compared with it, the vicious process of the back of the head is much lighter.

To these public opinions, Meng Zhixiang's response is to strictly prohibit false rumors, once it is found that there is no forgiveness for killing, but he also knows that the people's mouths cannot be blocked, and the mouth of the people is more important than the defense of Sichuan, so he instructed Su Yuan to announce the whole city, and those remarks were deliberately transmitted by the imperial court, in order to demagogue people's hearts and call on the people not to be fooled.

In order to prove his justice against the imperial court, he did not hesitate to arrange a few fish belly out of the silk book, and the temple appeared in the Buddhist oracle.

Of course, these silk books and Buddhist edicts must be written similar to "the court lost its way, and the princes cut it down"

of remarks.

The hearts of the people can be fought for, and the rumors can be dispelled, but the defeat of the war situation is irretrievable, and Meng Zhixiang is keenly aware of the changes in the minds of the soldiers and civilians in Chengdu.

Under multiple pressures, although forced by Meng Zhixiang's consistent grace, the soldiers and civilians in the city did not say that he was not, but the accusations about why the war situation was unfavorable to this situation and why Chengdu suffered such a catastrophe gradually rose.

Whether it is the common people whose relatives have died in the war, the officials whose property has been damaged, or the people whose lives have become miserable because of the war, there is a resentment in their hearts, and they need to vent this resentment now.

Meng Zhixiang knew that he had to do something to counteract this resentment, otherwise once this kind of public sentiment developed, it was likely to eventually turn into accusations and suspicions against him, or even rebellion.

On the eighth day of the war, after sealing a letter shot into the city by Wang Shi and having the seal of the Meizhou assassin historian, Meng Zhixiang came to the prison.

In the prison, there is a person who is very important to both Xichuan and Meng Zhixiang, and he has made many contributions to Meng Zhixiang's Xichuan great cause that others cannot match.

When Meng Zhixiang decided to rebel against the imperial court, he was the first to stand up and express his support; When Meng Zhixiang defeated Xuanwu City and fled back to Chengdu in a hurry, it was he who took the initiative to carry the black cauldron of defeat for Meng Zhixiang.

He is Li Renhan.

The light in the prison is very bad, and the rats and reptiles everywhere, as well as the damp and moldy corners of the walls for many years, all indicate that this is the most unbearable place in the world.

Although Li Renhan was taken care of, in order to avoid gossip from others, Meng Zhixiang did not give him much courtesy.

Chengdu is in a big war, and Li Renhan heard all the movements very clearly.

He often leaned on the window with his eyes wide open, desperately looking out of the window, although he knew everything, he still maintained this movement, sometimes he did not move for half a day, he desperately wanted to know the situation outside.

No one will tell him about the war, and no one will be able to tell him about the war.

Every time it came, Li Renhan would punch the hard wall, and his head would thump against the wall.

In the end, however, he could only sit down against the wall, his burly and tall body huddled in a ball, helpless in this damp, dark and miserable corner.

There was a ray of light coming through the window, but it was too weak, even if it was the most beautiful thing in the world, and it could represent hope, but it was too thin.

From the moment the sound of fierce battle sounded outside the window, Li Renhan asked Meng Zhixiang for his life to fight, even if he was just a pawn, he was willing.

But after all these days, his cries and hearts have not been answered.

His mind was full of the scenes of galloping on the battlefield in the past, commanding the whole army to gallop across the battlefield, what a great ambition, but now, in his eyes, he was in a three-foot cage - even the battlefield has become a luxury.

Suddenly, there was a commotion outside the cage, Li Renhan suddenly clevered, he heard the jailer's words, he quickly rushed to the wooden fence, his vigorous and powerful hands clung to the column, desperately looking outside, sure enough, the person he dreamed of.

"Dashuai!"

At this moment, Li Renhan's heart stirred up countless hopes.

Meng Zhixiang came to the front of the cell, and Li Renhan, who was pale because he had not seen the sun for a long time, touched the other party's eager and hopeful gaze, and his heart moved slightly, and this fifty or sixty-year-old fierce general actually showed a childlike look looking forward to sweets.

"Brother Li, you have suffered."

Meng Zhixiang sighed.

Hearing this affectionate salutation, Li Renhan's eyes almost burst into tears, he knelt down in the wooden fence almost helplessly, and said loudly in an old and trembling voice: "Li Renhan asks for his life to fight, please ask the marshal to agree!" ”

This cry for war has been shouted countless times by Li Renhan a long time ago, but none of them have been so enthusiastic as today.

Unfortunately, this time he did not get the answer he was expecting.

Across the bar, outside the cell, Meng Zhixiang's voice was a little weird, "Just go out to fight." ”

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