The remnants of the search and suppression battle in Wanxian County lasted until the night of the same day.

The reason why he has been fighting for so long is also because Zhu Shuren has relatively high requirements and strict regulations.

Qin Liangyu, who was originally in charge of the west of the city, after seeing the fire in the city and learning that the Wang brothers in the east had ascended first, planned to attack the west gate and the city tower with all his might, focusing on breaking through the two-sided attack. As for the other sections of the wall in the west city, there is no need to besiege them strictly, and the south and north of the city can be vacated, allowing the thieves to flee.

After all, don't chase after the poor, don't stop the teacher. Although Zhang Mingzhi's men and horses are not strong, if the dog jumps off the wall in a hurry, it is enough for the white pole soldiers to drink a pot.

Since the city is destined to be broken, it is better to leave two openings, which can not only take advantage of the situation to cover up the killing, but also break the determination of the defenders to fight to the death in the alley.

However, Qin Liangyu's plan was prevented by Zhu Shuren in advance. Zhu Shuren left Zhang Huangyan, who was in charge of liaison, in advance to observe Qin Liangyu's command in the west of the city, and clearly demanded that Qin Liangyu "even if he sees the fire in the city and will definitely break the city, he is not allowed to relax the land blockade of the west city", and must not let the desperate defenders escape.

What Zhu Shuren wants is a complete encirclement and annihilation, and he must keep his tactics as secret as possible. In this way, some novel tactics can be used to play a few more suddenness, and they can continue to be used in the subsequent attack on Chongqing.

It would be a waste to use some new tactics if they were used only once, and they were immediately known to the enemy, and they were mentally prepared. In a small place like Wanxian, how can He De be worthy of letting Zhu Shuren expose a hole card?

On the other hand, Zhu Shuren also didn't want Bai Wenxuan in Chongqing to know the news of the fall of Wanxian too quickly, so that in the follow-up operations, the enemy could be blinded in the fog of war for as long as possible.

In addition, Wanxian is a place bordered by the Yangtze River on three sides, and it does have the objective geographical advantage of blocking the news, and it would be too wasteful not to make full use of it.

Qin Liangyu was still a little hesitant at that time, and tried to persuade Zhang Huangyan with the reason of "mentioning that the remnants of the defending army jumped over the wall in a hurry because there was no way to escape".

But Zhang Huangyan was very firm, and just analyzed kindly: "Qin Zongzhen, it's not Lord Futai who embarrass you, it's really for the overall situation." As for the dog jumping over the wall, you don't have to worry about this, you just need to completely seal the west of the city, and you don't have to worry about the south and north of the city.

As long as you prevent the enemy from leaving the city through the north and south gates, you can make a detour to the west and break through by land, and you will be considered a great achievement. After the land route is blocked, the thieves will definitely try to escape in a small boat directly from the south gate.

As for the blockade on the Yangtze River, you don't need to worry about it, I will lead the Huguang Water Division to do it for you. ”

As soon as Qin Liangyu heard that Zhu Shuren and Zhang Huangyan had thought so carefully before the war, he no longer had any doubts.

This is not really "surrounded on all sides", but it still leaves a seemingly alive way for the enemy to retreat, and the psychology of the dog jumping over the wall in a hurry cannot be stimulated.

It is only after you really embark on this retreat that you will find that this road of life is actually a dead end, a trap. But on the river, willpower is completely useless, and no matter how much the dog jumps over the wall, he can only feed all the fish.

The army is a kind of military that can rely on willpower to improve combat power.

And the Navy never was.

The navy is a cold-blooded technical arm, and no matter how enthusiastic the soldiers are, they are strong-willed, even if they are the same as kamikazes, there is a generation difference in technical and tactical level and equipment, and 10,000 will die.

……

Zhu Shuren's prediction was finally fully realized, and the battle continued until nightfall that day.

From the afternoon to the evening, thousands of thieves and deserters, realizing that the city was doomed, fled in large numbers from the north and south gates, unable to break through by land, and fled by boat.

In order to grab the ship, they also killed each other, which can be described as the middle finger of the boat.

But no matter how much they struggled, they were inevitably completely besieged and killed by the officers and sailors who had faster speedboats.

Unless you surrender, sink and knock over all the fish.

The guard general Zhang Mingzhi was also on the way to break through when he was knocked over by a naval warship led by Zhu Shuren.

It was not that the officers and sailors did not give him a chance to surrender, after all, they first shouted for a forced landing and then sank him. But the other party did not surrender until the moment of the collision, and there was still a fluke mentality of rushing out, so there was nothing to say after falling into the water.

The officers and soldiers harpooned the struggling figure in armor in the water, stabbed it into a hornet's nest, and then dragged it up with a rope tied to the tail of the harpoon, and pulled it back to the city to celebrate.

A number of local generals in Sichuan, including Qin Liangyu, were full of admiration for Zhu Shuren's deployment and prohibition.

Wang Guangxing and Wang Guangchang took the lead in bowing and expressing their attitude: "The military strategy of the national surname is really the reincarnation of Zhuge Wuhou!" The last general is really convinced. I'm ashamed, before the battle, the last general thought that the country surnamed Ye couldn't look down on us and other troops who had been thieves, and wanted us to do hard work and give credit to our descendants.

The last general was really blinded by lard, and he couldn't see the majesty and grandeur of the country's surname. This Hongyi cannon is loaded on the warship and directly bombards the city gate and tower, which is really happy! In the future, whenever there is another war, the surname of the country will fight wherever we are told! ”

"The defenders in the city, as soon as they see that we have such a powerful heavy artillery can directly collapse the city tower, they will definitely take advantage of the fact that our army's foothold is not stable and the number of people ashore is not large, and they will go out of the city to counterattack and try to seize the artillery and destroy the artillery.

It's really strategizing, winning thousands of miles away, such a clever calculation, I am saved! ”

Zhu Shuren was a little embarrassed to be touted by these people, the conscience of heaven and earth, the second point these people said, what "the defenders in the city know that if they continue to be bombarded in vain, they will die sooner or later, so they will open the door and rush out to try to destroy the cannon" This layer, Zhu Shuren really didn't expect it before the war.

It was completely a battle to this point, everything went naturally, and it evolved into this form.

But since the newly recovered subordinates want to make up for their brains and make up the coach's imagination more calculated, Zhu Shuren will not deliberately expose it.

Even if it's crooked, it's not good to put an extra layer and a half layer of Zhuge Liang's aura on yourself? "Zhuge Villager" has been loved and respected by the local people in Sichuan for thousands of years, and Zhu Shuren certainly knows it.

At worst, it can also boost more morale, so that in the subsequent military operations in Sichuan, when commanding the troops, it will be more handy, and the order will be prohibited. So let them continue to misunderstand.

So, he just said a few words of inscrutable modesty, but he didn't deny any specific judgment, just said: "Eh, it's not a big deal to go down with a drum and destroy 10,000 enemies.

To achieve such a result in this battle, my deployment only played a small role, and the key is the use of the lives of the old general Qin and you. Of course, the most important thing is that Zhang Xianzhong himself can't weigh the pros and cons, he is in a dilemma, and he doesn't know how to choose-

At the beginning, if he could have been able to take Chongqing in one go, and after taking Chongqing, he would have marched eastward, attacked Fengjie, and even taken Fengjie, and blockaded Qutang Gorge, where would we have the opportunity to fight today?

If he can't take Fengjie and block Qutang Gorge, then he should start with the whole army rushing straight to Chengdu, give full play to the thieves' wandering operations, and not send troops to stay behind the back road.

As a result, Zhang Xianzhong obviously wanted both, not only wanting to block the official army from outside Sichuan from entering Sichuan for reinforcements, but also wanting to take Chengdu quickly and eat the fattest fruit in his mouth, but the result was that at least one of the two could not be reached, and if the retreat was not in time, one of the people and horses would suffer devastating losses.

On the battlefield of Wanxian County, after Bai Wenxuan couldn't take Fengjie, he was reluctant to spit it out and didn't withdraw all his troops to Ba County, Chongqing, he had already lost! Today, we are just like taking the chips that the enemy has already predetermined to lose and taking them out of the bank! ”

(Note: There was a rich village in the Ming Dynasty, but there was no ticket number.) Since the beginning of the Song Dynasty, there have gradually been Jiaozi and flying money, but only in the Qing Dynasty did they have ticket numbers and silver tickets)

Zhu Shuren's words were full of momentum, and the audience was convinced, and their confidence was greatly increased.

All of this is better than the temple calculation, Zhang Xianzhong's partial failure in eastern Sichuan is something that he didn't know how to choose and couldn't give up at the beginning, and it was already doomed!

……

The neat victory of the Battle of Wanxian really made the morale of the officers and soldiers stronger, and the news was well kept secret, Zhu Shuren only rested in Wanxian for one night, leaving the wounded and sick and some sailors to defend the city and restore order, and the next day he took the main force and continued to march westward against the current.

There are still 400 miles from Wanxian County to Zhiba County, Chongqing Prefecture, and the speed of the Yangtze River counter-epidemic army in the mountainous area is still quite slow, and it can only walk 70 or 80 miles at most every day.

The official army arrived in Wanxian on the eighteenth day of the lunar month, and the nineteenth took and the twentieth set off again.

On the 22nd, it left the boundary of Kuizhou Prefecture and entered Chongqing Prefecture, arrived in Zhongzhou County on the 23rd, and arrived in Fuzhou County (the place of Fuling mustard) on the 24th.

In the two county towns along the way, the thieves did not leave any troops to garrison, only some local hooligans who had taken refuge in the thieves and changed their skins, and maintained local order there.

Therefore, as soon as the official army arrived, it was directly to roll the soup and Woxue, and Zhu Shuren only picked some of the people who were angry with the people, and the surviving people identified as assisting Zhang Xianzhong's army in looting and slaughtering, all of them were cut down to show the public, and the rest were temporarily put into hard labor camps.

On the evening of the 25th, Zhu Shuren's troops finally passed through the Causeway Gorge, thirty miles east of Ba County. Originally, if the army marched overnight, it was possible to rush to Ba County in the middle of the night, but Zhu Shuren considered that it was late and it was impossible to start the siege overnight, so he asked the troops to find a point with suitable terrain and camp at the west entrance of Tongluo Gorge.

Until this moment, Bai Wenxuan in Ba County did not know that the official army had been so close. The news he received before was only an urgent messenger sent by Zhang Mingzhi three days ago, saying that Wanxian was under siege.

Bai Wenxuan secretly screamed in his heart at that time, so he asked the emergency messenger to reply to Zhang Mingzhi, saying that it was impossible for the defenders of Ba County to save Wanxian.

Wanxian Chengchi Bujian has no meaning of holding on for a long time, it is just a springboard that was captured in order to attack Fengjie before, so let Zhang Mingzhi find a way to break through the siege by himself, and even give up part of the palace troops and flee back to join the division, Bai Wenxuan also promised that Zhang Mingzhi would not be held accountable for the crime of losing his teacher, and would excuse him in front of the eight kings.

The messenger left Ba County the day before yesterday and returned to Wanxian County to deliver the letter, calculate the time, if it is fast, it should have been delivered, and if it is slow, it will add another day at most.

Bai Wenxuan's news is so ill-informed, and he really can't be blamed, who let the rogue defenders in Zhongzhou and Fuzhou not send anyone to report to him at all, they only care about their own life and death.

Bai Wenxuan would not send the cavalry scouts too far late at night, and it was not surprising that Zhang Xianzhong had entered Sichuan for less than a month, and the local ruling foundation was also unstable, and the countryside had basically not established effective rule, so it was not surprising that he was so blinded.

……

It wasn't until the next morning that Bai Wenxuan realized that something might be wrong.

Because some of the sentinel scouts he routinely sent out to the city last night did not come back - Chongqing is close to the Yangtze River and the Jialing River, so in order to maintain reconnaissance militarily, it is necessary to send both cavalry scouts by land and sentinel scouts by water.

The location of Chongqing city in the Ming Dynasty was about the modern Yuzhong District in later generations, especially the area around Chaotianmen Wharf as the core. Therefore, the east and south of the city are the Yangtze River, the north of the city is the Jialing River, and the Chaotianmen in the northeast corner is the point where the Jialing River joins the Yangtze River.

Cavalry scouts could only reconnoiter the enemy by land in the west, while sentinel ships relied on sentinel ships in the north and south.

Before Zhang Xianzhong's troops entered Sichuan, they did not have naval warships, and after entering Sichuan, they began to grab ships on the spot from Banzhou. Therefore, the water force is very weak, which also leads to the fact that Bai Wenxuan can not send many reconnaissance forces in the direction of the waterway, and the boats are still poor.

After discovering that some sentinel ships had not returned, Bai Wenxuan's military sense of smell was not too dull, and he immediately became nervous, announcing that all the gates in Ba County were closed and he had entered a state of readiness.

Bai Wenxuan's nervous behavior also aroused the incomprehension of some other left-behind generals and civilian staff officers in the city.

One of the strategists left by Zhang Xianzhong to Bai Wenxuan, named Pan Duqiu, came to the door and talked to Bai Wenxuan in the former Chongqing prefect Yamen, where the current Bai Wenxuan shogunate is located:

"White Dudu! The king asked you to shepherd Dongchuan, why are you so cowardly to avoid the enemy! The day before yesterday, Captain Zhang sent someone to ask for help, but not only did you not send reinforcements, but also asked him to give up Wanxian and retreat on his own!

Even if you make the withdrawal of the army reasonable, but in the past few days, you have not sent troops to meet Captain Zhang's men and horses, and now when there is a disturbance, you will directly close the four gates to isolate the inside and outside, so what should we do with our men and horses in other places? If the official army can really come so quickly, will the Di Duwei people in Diaoyu City in Hezhou also have to be withdrawn? The other defenders from all over the world, knowing that you are so cowardly, won't the morale of the army be discouraged? ”

This Pan Duqiu's cultural level is actually not high, just like Song Xiance from Li Zicheng, he is a fallen talent, and he has been a talent all his life, and he will never be able to pass the test if he wants to take the exam, so he is a thief.

Pan Dufu was originally from Xiangyang Mansion and Yunyang Mansion in Huguang, since the ninth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong wandered to Xiangyang and the mountainous areas near Yunyang, until Chongzhen was appeased by Xiong Wencan in the eleventh year, Zhang Xianzhong still won a lot of hearts in the local area, and some readers mistakenly thought that Zhang Xianzhong could really wash his name and get a long-term identity, so some readers followed him.

Zhang Xianzhong's chief military advisor Xu Yixian followed at that time, and this Pan Duqiao was also attached at that time. These people are also very brazen to compare themselves with Zhuge Liang.

However, Zhang Xianzhong is not educated and does not have much knowledge of readers, so he is quite a bit of a set, Chongzhen fifteen years ago, as long as he was a showman, he could be reused.

This Pan Dufu is at least in the top five among the strategists under Zhang Xianzhong, and Bai Wenxuan doesn't dare to trust the other party too much.

In the face of doubts, he also accompanied him to explain carefully: "Master Pan, this governor has been fighting with the king for more than ten years, and his prediction of the enemy situation has always been very accurate, and he is careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years."

Some of the sentinel boats that went to the east and north of the city to reconnoiter the enemy's situation did not come back, probably because after the official army surrounded Wanxian, they divided their troops to bypass Wanxian and continue to advance rapidly. If the city is suddenly attacked by the official army, it will be very important.

But as long as we don't make mistakes, as long as Zhang Mingzhi on the Wanxian side has not been breached, he may cut off the official and military grain routes that go deep into the road. ”

Pan Dufu disagreed with this statement: "Can the official army come all the way to attack Chongqing? The Yangtze River Jialing River is in danger, and it will take a few days to cross the river, and it can still be attacked across the river?

Have you ever heard that throughout the ages, have there been any soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty who can directly attack Nanjing City in Guazhou or Quarry? You can sneak attack across the Yangtze River, you are scared stupid! ”

The two were arguing, but outside the yamen of the former prefect's mansion, an officer who reported an emergency hurriedly rushed in: "Right Governor, the warship of the official army has appeared on the river outside Chaotianmen!" At least a few hundred of them! ”

Pan Dufu was suddenly deflated, and he also sweated slightly.

Is there really an official army that can come so quickly? Fortunately, the Yangtze River is wide enough, and no one has been able to cross the Yangtze River or the Jialing River to attack directly.