When Tan Wen and the other three battalions arrived in Chongqing, Chongqing City had been besieged by the official army.

Although Zhu Shuren could not attack for the time being, the internal and external news had long been completely isolated, and Bai Wenxuan's ears and eyes had been completely obscured, and he did not know the subsequent development of the situation outside, so it was naturally impossible to know that the official army had reinforcements arriving.

On the day the reinforcements arrived, it was already the evening of the 28th day of the lunar month.

At that time, the official army ended a day's tentative siege of the city, and Zhu Shuren himself was in the big tent of the Chinese army, drinking wine to entertain Wang Guangchang and Wang Guangxing, two generals who had retreated from the sneak attack at dawn and had killed and injured hundreds of people.

"The two of you don't blame the official for letting you take the risk of sneak attack and temptation, the hundreds of brothers who are dead and wounded will be healed and compensated, and the wounded will be given good medicine and meat to nourish and nourish, and then three taels of silver will be given to each person, ten taels for each person who is disabled, and thirty taels for the war dead."

Wang Guangchang and Wang Guangxing are both thieves Anyway, the original bosses don't look at them very seriously. After starting to mix with Fang Guoan this year, Fang Guoan himself couldn't get much food and salary from the imperial court, so he followed the hunger and a full meal, and he was already very satisfied with this price.

"There will be casualties in the battle, how can there be a siege of the city with a drum again and again, it is the last general and other generals who are not strong enough to complain about others." Wang Guangxing took the lead in expressing his position.

Zhu Shuren nodded, and did not hide it from him: "Chongqing's terrain is complex and mountainous, and it is not possible to break through a city wall to determine the victory, the key is to ensure that the enemy army is demoralized before landing in the city, and as long as the wall is broken, there is no intention to fight again.

Although we have stopped at a shallow level today, and we have also stranded and damaged a few boats at the mouth of the Jialing River, Bai Wenxuan will become more and more slack. And the more urgent we attack in the west of the city, sooner or later Bai Wenxuan will transfer the veterans of the lineage who are deployed to defend it, and when the defenders are tired, they will naturally let you make meritorious contributions."

Wang Guangxing Wang Guangchang listened to Zhu Shuren's heartfelt remarks, and after carefully comprehending it for a while, he realized that everything was still under control, and he regained some confidence.

As soon as he said this, a guard came in to report that the soldiers and horses of the Tan family had come to join the army, and Zhu Shuren immediately asked people to invite the Tan family brothers to ask them face to face.

After a while, Tan Wen and the others were passed in, and when they saw Zhu Shuren, they hurriedly saluted.

Zhu Shuren asked for a long time, "How is the battle situation in Hezhou? Since you have been able to get this far, there must be no thieves in the counties east of Hezhou, right?"

Tan Wen took the lead in asking for merit in high spirits: "Entrusting Tai Hongfu, our army is going down the Qujiang River, and even in Pingshu County, no thief army dares to defend it. When we arrived in Hezhou, our army also divided our troops around the city according to your pre-battle orders.

And in the south of Hezhou, the Jialing River crosses the dangerous place of Tanjialing, the river goes down to the village, so as to cut off the return route of the Hezhou thief army south to Chongqing to join the division.

The thief army in Hezhou City, the grain and grass are said to be abundant and can be guarded for a long time. But after the news was cut off, they didn't know the recent situation in Chongqing in the south, so their hearts fluctuated, and they didn't know how long they would hold on to what year and month.

In accordance with your instructions before the war, our army used firewood and grass boats and stones every day or two to disguise grain ships, escorted them through the mouth of the Qujiang River and the Jialing River with a small number of troops, and then went down the river.

It was only said to the outside that "Wanxian has not yet been recovered by the official army, and the official army of the South Road only surrounded Wanxian, and the main force passed around the city and continued to attack Chongqing." Moreover, it is inconvenient to transport grain against the Yangtze River, so it is necessary to transport grain from Dazhou down the river to the front of the Chongqing Army."

After such a rumor spread for a few days, it was really captured by the thief army scouts, and Di Sanpin, the general of Hezhou, did not know the art of war, and finally couldn't hold his breath, and rashly went out of the city to rob and burn grain, trying to cut off our army's food route. However, in the dangerous place on the north river of Tanjialing, he was ambushed and intercepted by our army and defeated.

Di Sanpin should have been worried about the loss of Chongqing, and felt that it was hopeless to defend it, so he led the army over the mountains and mountains to break through, and our army took Hezhou, which was abandoned by the thief army, and then the whole division came here."

Zhu Shuren did not see the causes and consequences of the Battle of Hezhou, but after listening to Tan Wen and others, he also roughly knew that everything was not much different from his original plan.

The terrain of Hezhou Diaoyu City is indeed very dangerous, and it is not cost-effective to storm it. But the problem is that if even Chongqing is lost, there is no point in just defending Hezhou.

The thieves are already wandering and fighting, and the awareness of the base area is weak, and there is only a point where there is danger and no economic value, and it is lonely behind the enemy

It's hard to make people have the determination to stay for a long time.

The official army cut off the communication between Hezhou and Chongqing, and the thief army there had no idea what was going on in the main battlefield in the south. Coupled with the rumors spread by the officials and soldiers about the grain road, it sounds so real and reasonable-

Zhu Shuren is currently relying on transporting military rations from Fengjie to Wanxian and then to Chongqing, but this is actually a great loss and a certain degree of difficulty.

First of all, you have to capture Wanxian quickly, this is not something that ordinary people can do, and the Hezhou guards don't know that Zhu Shuren can do this.

Secondly, the water transport is easier to carry the heavy load counter-current empty ship downstream, and Fengjie to Chongqing, is to take the Yangtze River counter-current, from Dazhou Jinghezhou to Chongqing, but to take the Qujiang River, Jialing River downstream,

It is easy for the generals who underestimate the strength of water transportation to think that the official army is advancing so quickly that they must choose a channel with heavy loads and light loads along the river to protect it, and it is easy to believe that the grain fleet that the Tan Wen brothers have passed down from Hezhou City is true.

To put it bluntly, Di Sanpin has no military advisors by his side, he is like a military general with an intelligence value of thirty or forty in the Three Kingdoms game, and his plan is too normal.

The only regrettable thing about the Battle of Hezhou is that Di Sanpin abandoned the city and fled over the mountains after all, so it is impossible to be completely annihilated like Zhang Mingzhi in Wanxian.

The Tan family brothers only defeated part of the enemy army in the field battle of luring the enemy to rob the grain, and the total number of killings was less than 1,000, and the rest ran away, and finally only took over the city almost peacefully.

Fortunately, Di Sanpin had to go over the mountain, so he couldn't take away the heavy belongings, only brought fine soft and grain, and when he took the state, there was still some food in the city that was not taken away and not set on fire.

For the sake of this, Fang Fang has a way out.

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After figuring out the situation, Zhu Shuren thoroughly planned and synchronized the information in his mind, and then adjusted his plan for the next stage.

Early the next morning, on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, the official army continued to attack the city in the west of the city as usual, as well as destroy the outlying fortifications of the thieves. At the same time as the attack, Zhu Shuren did not forget to send scolding fighters to further hit the morale of the defenders.

He first asked people to shout, "Bai Wenxuan, listen! Hezhou has been taken by our army! Now that the Yangtze River and Jialing River waterways have been completely opened, this Chongqing City, our army has surrounded it for several months, which is more than enough! Don't worry about running out of food!

Finally, you will be given another chance to surrender and avoid death, otherwise you will not be left behind! Listen up, thieves! If the lord is greedy for wealth and refuses to surrender, as long as he kills his boss to surrender, he can avoid death, and he can also be integrated into the official army to eat food and salary!

The surname of the country is the most considerate to the soldiers, never withholding military salaries, and everyone has paid them in full for several years, so if you don't believe it, you can inquire about it!"

In the process of shouting, Zhu Shuren just concealed the fact that "Hezhou City was voluntarily abandoned by Di Sanpin due to the shaking of military movements and the isolation of internal and external news", and said that it was the Tan family brothers who attacked and fought to the death before breaking the city.

But in order to better combat the morale of the thieves, on the issue of the fate of Di Sanpin's department, Zhu Shuren provided the version to the scolding fighters, which also added fuel and vinegar, only saying that Di Sanpin's department had been wiped out, and even took a few heads of the generals of the Hezhou thief army, picked them on the spears, and showed off their might to the defenders of the city outside the Tongyuan Gate.

Anyway, Chongqing has been completely besieged, and Bai Wenxuan is also isolated from inside and outside, and it is impossible to verify it. More than 100 zhang away, no matter how good a person is, it is impossible for a person with good eyesight to see whether a human head that has been pickled with lime for several days is Di Sanpin's.

So the morale of the defenders at the head of the city became more and more depressed, and even Bai Wenxuan was slightly shaken, the only thing he could rejoice in was that he estimated that the official army must also have suffered heavy casualties - the steepness of the Diaoyu City in Hezhou was much more terrifying than the main city of Chongqing, and if the officials and soldiers really piled up their lives to attack it, even if there were cannons to break the city, they would definitely have to pay a great price.

After the siege battle of the day ended, the two sides collected their troops and returned to their camps, and the city of Chongqing was also shrouded in an increasingly sad atmosphere, and everyone was in danger and suspicious of each other.

are a little worried about whether their comrades-in-arms and even subordinates will want to suddenly make a black hand behind their backs, and then take their heads to surrender to the officers and soldiers in exchange for rewards and whitewashing.

Even ordinary soldiers are so suspicious of each other, and Bai Wenxuan and Pan Duqiu, the military advisor who supervised the army, will naturally further intensify their vigilance.

Bai Wenxuan also knew that Pan Duqiao was on guard against him, so in the process of discussing military aircraft, he could only be more inclined to listen to Pan Duqiao's suggestion to show that he had no dissent.

The two originally had to argue over "whether they should withdraw the elite old camp from the side along the Jialing River in the north of the city and return to the west of the city to strengthen the defensive line", but now Bai Wenxuan is afraid of intensifying the conflict, so he has to choose to listen to Pan Dufu again.

The two discussed the military aircraft for a while, and the atmosphere of mutual suspicion became more and more intense, Bai Wenxuan was about to end the discussion and let the suspicion cool down, and suddenly at this moment, a thief lieutenant in charge of the defense of Tongyuan Gate in Xicheng suddenly sent someone to report to Bai Wenxuan:

"Governor, there is suddenly a new besieger general outside the city, and he wants to send someone to contact the general. Liu Duwei didn't dare to open the door, but just hoisted the person up with a hanging basket."

Bai Wenxuan was also a little confused: "Oh? But are there only messengers, and no letters? Could it be a fraud? Let's bring someone up first."

Pan Duqiao listened to it next to him, and he was also suspicious: "Right Governor! Since you suspect fraud, don't you just meet like this?"

Bai Wenxuan's face sank: "Pan Junshi is still worried that I can't collude with the official army? Then you can sit in and listen."

Pan Duqiao was a little cowardly: "How could I be like this! I'm worried about the assassins sent by the official army! This Zhu Shuren has always been vicious and does not speak of martial virtues, he used a fire gun to assassinate the eight kings in Hengzhou, and I heard that this time in Kaifeng, he shot King Chuang into a one-eyed dragon, this kind of secret envoy from the army, how can it be easily seen? It's better to send more guards to protect you!"

Bai Wenxuan laughed, and did not say anything, but ordered: "Come on, find ten iron shield guards, and protect Pan Junshi!"

Pan Duqiu's old face turned red, and he didn't point out that Bai Wenxuan was sarcastic that he was afraid of death, so he cheekily continued to listen under the protection of the iron shield guards.

And the assassins obviously don't exist, and before they want to enter the former Chongqing prefect's yamen, which was temporarily appropriated as the shogunate, they will be strictly searched, and carrying weapons will only be self-defeating.

After a while, the envoy was brought in, and Bai Wenxuan also asked the identity of the other party very majestically, and the person who came only said that he was sent by Tan Hong, the garrison of Dazhou, and wanted to discuss some ways to avoid losing both sides with Bai Dudu.

Bai Wenxuan was full of suspicions: "It was sent by Tan Hong and Tan Yi's brothers? But Ben Governor has heard of them, so what should they consult with him?"

Bai Wenxuan said while also thinking about it, these people surnamed Tan had also dealt with Zhang Xianzhong's army when they attacked Wanxian and Fengjie before.

When Bai Wenxuan hit Wanxian at the beginning, Qin Liangyu's troops retreated in Fengjie, and if they didn't come to Wanxian to rescue, Tan Jiajun ran directly over the mountain to Dazhou, not like he was very backbone and willing to die for the Ming Dynasty.

The messenger really said, "I want to teach Bai Dudu to know that although the offensive of the official army has been fierce in the past few days, Zhu Shuren is really harsh on treating our local armed forces, as well as the people who have been thieves anyway!

The bitter and hard battles of these dead people's sins are all fought by our Tan family's army! In the past two days in the west of the city, the people who died were all the children of our Tan family, and the one who crossed the Jialing River in the north of the city a while ago was defeated by Wang Guangchang and Wang Guangxing.

The descendants brought by Zhu Shuren from Huguang are only responsible for supervising the battle, or they are operating the fire cannon to fire far away to cover! Even the remuneration he paid to the local people for transporting grain and pulling fiber was lower than usual! We Sichuan people, we really don't want to die with you for the sake of an outsider who will leave for a vote for him!"

When Bai Wenxuan heard this, his eyebrows suddenly raised, and he caught a key piece of information that he had never obtained before: "Wait, you say that Zhu Shuren is an outsider? What does this mean?"

The envoy was stunned for a moment, obviously he didn't expect Bai Wenxuan's news to be so ill-informed: "The imperial court only gave Zhu Shuren a surname and a knighthood, but he is still only the governor of Huguang, and he has not concurrently served Sichuan, nor has he been promoted to governor, doesn't the governor of Bai Du know this?" The new governor of Sichuan is Fang Kongzhi, the former governor of Huguang, who was dismissed because of Zhang Xianzhong's ravaging of southern Hunan."

Bai Wenxuan and Pan Duqiao glanced at each other, but Pan Duqiao couldn't help but roar to show his "Zhuge Zhizhi", and laughed wildly: "As I expected! That Chongzhen is stubborn and self-serving, jealous and jealous, and afraid that his subordinates will not be able to touch his tail, this is again

Zhu Shuren contributed, and did not give Zhu Shuren full authority.

I don't know how many times Zhu Ming's court has been out of this ugly state! If you can give the famous generals full power, King Chuang and the Eight Kings will not develop to their current power, Chongzhen is self-destructing the Great Wall! The strong attack of the Zhu Shuren will not last!"

Bai Wenxuan shook his head and said worriedly, "Even so, now that the official army is on the offensive, will your Tan garrison join the Eight Kings at this time and seek to stop sending Zhu Shuren to death? Why else are you here?"

Even if Bai Wenxuan believed that the other party had been treated unfairly by Zhu Shuren, he couldn't believe that the other party would defect to the peasant army at this time.

After all, Zhang Xianzhong's current situation is not good, but Zhu Shuren has repeatedly established his authority in the south.

After Bai Wen was elected to Sichuan, he also saw that the people of Sichuan were not living too hard, and they didn't look like they could be pulled up by Zhang Xianzhong.

It is precisely because the living standards of Sichuan people are relatively okay, and Zhang Xianzhong is not very good in history, so he will be slaughtered half and half by such a heavy hand, otherwise if he does not kill too many people and rob enough property, Zhang Xianzhong will not be able to take enough rewards to buy a large number of people to sell their lives.

If all this happened in Henan or even Shaanxi today, then Bai Wenxuan would never doubt the sincerity of the other party, because in Shaanxi, everyone really can't live, everyone will be thieves, and the mass base is not the same thing at all.

Fortunately, the henchman envoy sent by the Tan family did not say the words "The Tan family brothers want to join the peasant army directly because they were treated unfairly".

The other party just said, "Tan Dusi and Tan Shoubei really didn't think about submitting to the Eight Great Kings now, but it's always good to have more good karma and more back roads.

Our head of the family said that as long as Bai Dudu is willing to break through the siege and give up Chongqing, they will be in charge of the siege camp in the west of the city for a few days.

If you are afraid of being pursued by the official army, you can also be given a choice, our family master is willing to secretly allocate some boats assigned to them by the Zhu Shuren and send them to the bank of the Yangtze River in the south of Chongqing, and you can evacuate by the Yangtze River waterway.

If you really still can't believe it, then you can only ask your army to reach a tacit understanding with our army in the next few days, and we will not contribute to reduce our casualties. If the official army sends Huguang soldiers, the descendants of Zhu Shuren, to attack the city, our family master will naturally be willing to send a message to your army, and then your army will fight hard."

Bai Wenxuan thought about it, the other party's proposal was quite cautious, and it was not a surrender to Zhang Xianzhong, which added a bit of credibility.

After much deliberation, he added a question: "Why, then, does your lord not send letters, but let you speak only verbally, and if you have tampered with the terms, how will the governor know?"

The person who came seemed to have prepared this question, and said bluntly: "If the general is interested, he can write a letter back, stating the conditions that he is willing to agree, and after the villain brings it back, our head of the family will naturally send another letter to finalize it."

This time, if there is an accident and the letter is found, wouldn't it leave a handle? There is also a general Fang above the head of our family, and there are Zhu Shuren pressing, once it is leaked, it is not trivial. The general is in this city of Chongqing, but he has a monopoly on power, and he doesn't have to worry about being suspicious of anyone he wants to contact, how can this be the same?"

Originally, this sentence was just a rehearsal to deal with such an occasion and add credibility.

Unexpectedly, it hit Bai Wenxuan's most painful heartache, and he couldn't help but glance at Pan Duqiu, the military advisor left by Zhang Xianzhong, with the corner of his eye.

Who said that only the Tan family brothers would be watched by their superiors? He Bai Wenxuan also has to look at the face above!

At this moment, since the topic has come to this point, Bai Wenxuan, in order to avoid suspicion, simply put on a high posture and said to Pan Duwei next to him:

"Master Pan, it seems that outsiders don't know about it, since the words have come to this point, the specific conditions, return to the book, or you should write it, this governor is just rough and ink, I am afraid that the words will be inappropriate and cause a big deal."

Pan Duqiao was also a little embarrassed, but he still took the matter, which can be regarded as stopping the mutual suspicion.

Of course, it is impossible for the two sides to reach a thorough mutual trust so quickly in the first contact, and the follow-up will have to be carried out for a few more days.

However, after the deceitful envoy sent by Tan Wen returned to the official army camp with a reply, Tan Wen immediately sent the person to Zhu Shuren, and said everything about it.

Zhu Shuren also listened very carefully, especially when he learned that Bai Wenxuan was in Chongqing, and it seemed that there were still supervising army divisions who were controlled by others and Zhang Xianzhong was still left.

Zhu Shuren immediately realized that he seemed to be able to grasp a bigger crack again.

"Bai Wenxuan is in Chongqing City, and he can't even say anything? Then it seems that Zhang Xianzhong, the dog thief, detained the general's family again, so he can rest assured that they can lead the troops outside, and it seems that they can fine-tune the plan to surrender again......