In May, Ningyuan Mansion City - Xichang.

Downstairs at the South City Gate, a thickened shield cart formed a solid umbrella-shaped shed under the tent of the two dilapidated city gates, completely covering the city gate. Dozens of Taiping soldiers went in and out of it, carrying the sand and stones in the city gate cave one by one.

Ningyuan Mansion has always thought that Shi Dakai is in western Sichuan. In April, the main force of a Taiping army of tens of thousands of people made a detour to western Sichuan, and then went north, approaching the Wenjiang River from Qiongzhou, crossing the Yangma River, and the provincial capital was shaken. Luo Bingzhang hurriedly mobilized his Qing troops to intercept it, and specially ordered Hu Zhonghe's troops to guard Peng County, Tang Jiong's troops to guard Shifang, and Tang Yougeng's troops to guard Qiongzhou to encircle them. But the Taiping army was brave and brave, and after crossing the encirclement of the Qing army, they found two ways to divide the troops and carried the main force of the Qing army on their backs. All the way north to Mianyang, breaking into the Liujia River in Miandong, and being followed and pursued by the Chushu battalions, without stopping, retreating from the Zi Building. rushed all the way to Shifang, and after Tang Yougeng, Hu Zhonghe and other troops came one after another, the Taiping army immediately fled.

In the eyes of everyone in Chengdu, the mighty Taiping Army is the main force of Shi Dakai, which was led by Shi Dakai himself. The Hunan, Chu, and Shu armies of the Qing army in central Sichuan were firmly contained by it. In addition, the Qing army in eastern Sichuan also looked at Li Fuyou's department, and in the eyes of all the officials, it was impossible for the Taiping army to appear in Ningyuan at this time.

But how did he know that the east and west roads were Shi Dakai's tricks to lure troops, Luo Bingzhang danced with the baton of others, and the loophole of "the emptiness of the south road" has appeared in the entire defense system of Sichuan.

In recent years, Shi Dakai has been plotting against Chengdu to manage a base across Yunnan and Sichuan provinces. Seeing Luo Bingzhang's plan, the middle gate was wide open, and he immediately led 50,000 troops out of Zhaotong, Yunnan, crossed the Jinsha River from the rice grain dam, and entered Ningyuan.

Qianluzhou County has fallen, and the prefect's heart and the prefect's city of Xichang will be attacked by Shi Dakai. But there were not enough troops in the city to defend it, and the Qing troops originally stationed in Ningyuan pursued and suppressed them into western Sichuan.

On the one hand, he quickly reported to Chengdu, and on the other hand, he ordered the Yamen messenger to contract with the green camp defenders, Ding Yong, and block all the four city walls and four gates.

Stones, bricks, sand.

The prefect prepared to defend Xichang in an attempt to temporarily block the Taiping army, hoping for the arrival of reinforcements.

Shi Dakai did not attack by digging tunnels to blow up the city wall this time, first, time does not allow, and second, Xichang City will be an important node for the Taiping Army to maintain the back road. It's easy to blast the walls, but it's hard to repair them.

Shi Dakai chose to attack. A burst of artillery bombardment before the siege knocked down the drawbridge in front of the city early, and the two city gates were also loosened by the shells.

The Qing army in the city blocked the city gate hole with earth and stones, and Shi Dakai was not surprised. In the more than ten years he has ruled the world, he has seen this kind of thing too many times. In less than an hour in the afternoon, the carrying team, which had worked hard for a long time, emptied the hole in the city gate, and piled up two hills in front of the city wall.

The only surprise to the Taiping army was that when the city gate was opened and they rushed into the city brandishing swords and guns, the Taiping soldiers were not faced with the Qing soldiers who were waiting for the battle, but a group of unarmed old and weak women and children. Behind them, there were countless knives and guns persecuting, and they had to cry and shout for mercy and rush towards the Taiping army......

Do not kill innocents indiscriminately, and do not harm the people!

The Taiping Army is no longer the original Taiping Army, and Shi Dakai, who has been fighting for many years, has been mixed in with many hated ruffians**, scoundrels who should kill a thousand knives, and the discipline is not much stronger than the Qing army at some times.

But no matter how bad the discipline of the Taiping Army was, no one dared to kill a group of unarmed civilians in front of everyone. Therefore, the Taiping soldiers who rushed into the city could only be forced out of the city by a group of ordinary people......

The Qing army took advantage of the situation to rush to the outside of the city gate to meet with the Taiping sabers and guns, and the Ningyuan Battalion Dusi made people knock down the two city gates, and temporarily blocked the city gate with thick wooden rafts, and when the Taiping army exploded with gunpowder again, the city gate hole inside was filled with a lot of earth, stone and sandbags.

Pulling out all the earth and rocks again, the sound of the Taiping army's rushing and killing sounded again.

"Kill, kill, ......"

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Shi Ji held a half-human-tall rattan card and rushed to kill with his life. A pair of blood-red eyes seemed to be oozing blood, and he strode past the corpses of the soldiers of the two armies lying on the ground, and charged towards the city.

His men and horses have been fighting hard for a morning, and the losses can only be described as miserable. Especially the elite of the army led by himself, more than 200 people served as assault sharps, and now only half of the people who can still carry knives and spears to follow him behind him are left.

On both sides of the street, unextinguished fires are blowing in the wind. This was set on fire by the Qing army defending the city in order to block the attacking Taiping army, but now the fire has been exhausted.

The black ground and the ruins were steaming freely. The soldiers of the Taiping Army with yellow scarves on their heads fell to the ground, and the ground was already stained dark red with blood.

Shi Jizhong is now completely red-eyed, and his mind at the moment is all about killing-

Kill, kill, kill! Kill into the prefect's yamen and kill all the demons!

Because as a middle-level general in the army, the twenty-fifth checkpoint on the right of the Ji Palace, Shi Jizhong knew the meaning of conquering Ningyuan. This is to open the door to Chengdu for our army!

And Shi Dakai's march into Sichuan this time, if he doesn't take Chengdu, he still has an army of 50,000, and he is sorry for Lai Yuxin and Li Fuyou who fought bloodily in western Sichuan and eastern Sichuan to give them the opportunity to create a zào.

Ningyuan battalion plus all the regimental training in the city, there were no more than 3,000 Qing troops in Xichang City, and the hand-to-hand combat and bloody battles again and again made their numbers shrink rapidly. The Qing army ordered houses to burn down the market, and used all means to stop the Taiping army's attack, but when the houses were burned down and the market was completely destroyed, from yesterday afternoon to noon today, the Qing army that had been defending the city for a whole day finally collapsed.

Ningyuan prefect **, Tongzhi committed suicide, Xichang County Ling died in a street battle, and the rest of the officials, large and small officials, the teachings and teachings of the county school, etc., either escaped and hid into the people, or hung themselves on the water, etc. Not many surrendered anyway.

And in the two days that the Taiping army attacked and killed under Xichang City, the news that Shi Da had entered Ningyuan had been reported to Luo Bingzhang by Pegasus.

Whether it was him or General Chengdu, his face was instantly pale to the point of no blood.

After Ningyuan Mansion, there was only one Dadu River in front of the Taiping Army. If Shi Da Kaishun lì through the Dadu River and advance into the Chengdu Plain, Chengdu will not be able to protect it.

That's right, Chengdu, the land of abundance, has always been known as easy to defend and difficult to attack. But Chengdu's easy to defend and difficult to attack is that it has the plateau and mountains around the basin as a barrier, and the surrounding areas of Chengdu are flat, there is no danger to defend, the Taiping army from the asbestos direction to Chengdu, close to Chengdu is from high to low, occupy a condescending situation, once attack Chengdu, the geographical advantage is on the side of the Taiping army, Chengdu is not only no danger to defend, but easy to attack and difficult to defend.

Therefore, as early as the eleventh year of Xianfeng, when Shi Dakai first sought Chengdu, Tang Jiong said, "If it is made to the flat land, Shu cannot be done."