When Zhu Shuren returned through the envoy sent by Tan Wen to use the plan, it was already the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month.

None of the bitter meat plans and deception plans conceived by Zhu Shuren before the war can be fully implemented as planned.

In the process of temptation, there will always be new accidents or small flaws, either the conditions here are not met, or the enemy there is more alert than expected, resulting in the need for more temptation and contact to win the trust of others.

The reason why Bai Wenxuan met with the envoy sent by Tan Wen so easily was also because Bai Wenxuan didn't intend to listen to the other party's words from the beginning, but in the spirit of having dates and not being able to hit a shot, he tried to get in touch and test each other's information.

This is like a modern person receiving a telecom fraud, even if they think that the other party is likely to be a liar, but some talkative people will still talk a few more words to the scammer, or even tease the other party. With the mentality of "it's okay to chat anyway, as long as you don't leak any passwords and don't send money", it doesn't matter.

Zhu Shuren should even thank Bai Wenxuan for this mentality, if the other party is a person who "hangs up directly without saying a word of nonsense when he receives a scam call", then he won't even get this harvest now.

It's just that after such a delay, Zhu Shuren is destined to be unable to enter Chongqing City to spend the Chinese New Year's Eve of Chongzhen for 15 years and the New Year of Chongzhen for 16 years.

But this is the normal situation, if the strategy can be as meticulous as expected at the beginning to let the enemy directly hit the scheme, it must be a retarded aura.

In the real world, there will be all kinds of accidents when starting a business, and the project managers are not anxious one day, and if it is more convenient to fight a war than to do a project, it will be a fool's dream.

If the plan can't keep up with the change, then readjust the plan, it's not a big deal.

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"Although it is impossible to directly deceive and deceive the city gate, it is not completely fruitless, at least it is an accident to find out that Zhang Xianzhong has left the important information of the prison army for Bai Wenxuan, which shows that Zhang Xianzhong no longer fully trusts Bai Wenxuan.

Even Zhang Xianzhong's trust in Li Dingguo must be further deteriorating, because Bai Wenxuan used to cooperate more with Li Dingguo - among the remaining governors under Zhang Xianzhong, Bai Wenxuan favored Li Dingguo, and Feng Shuangli favored Sun Kewang, we all know this.

In addition, according to the only few words that Bai Wenxuan and Pan Duqiao said in front of Tan Wen's envoy, there are also some clues, that is, Bai Wenxuan tended to feel that there was no need to be too wary along the Jialing River in the north of the city from the beginning.

He felt that the terrain of the rocky beach after the river water descended was too poor to be able to use siege weapons, and the few boats we ran aground a while ago further increased his confidence in thinking so.

However, because Pan Duqiao didn't know much about the troops and didn't understand the details of tactics, he just couldn't understand the deception of our painstaking deployment, and still insisted that the west and north of the city should deploy troops evenly and defend like pepper noodles-

It's not that Pan Duqiao is wise enough to see through my deception, it is precisely because Pan Duqiao doesn't know the details of the art of war, and our eyebrows are thrown to the blind. This reminds me of the ancients' commentary on "Romance of the Three Kingdoms": The empty city plan will also deceive Sima Yi, if you encounter today's bandits, I am afraid that you will go straight to the city gate and catch Kong Ming.

With the existence of Pan Duqiu's blind toss, it's no wonder that my misleading strategy at the beginning didn't work - but it doesn't matter, now that we have found out this information, let's adjust it.

General Fang can rest, so that Wang Guangchang and Wang Guangxing's men and horses can also rest, and all offensives in the direction of the Jialing River in the north of the city will be stopped.

On the west side of the city, according to what Tan Wen and Bai Wenxuan agreed, pretending to be sabotage for a few days, only firing guns every day, hitting the door and digging the wall with the rushing car and the wooden donkey cart, and pretending to dig tunnels, and then finding out after a few days that it is not feasible to give up.

In this way, it can be regarded as doing enough work, so that Bai Wenxuan can taste some sweetness first, and I believe that the local Sichuan army does not want to fight with him. A few days later, under the pretext that I personally intervened and was dissatisfied with the progress of the battle, the Tan family brothers were punished and replaced, and the descendants were transferred to attack the city.

At that time, we will have to make some death efforts, and then while attacking the city, we will secretly send Tan Wen to send a messenger to explain, one day we will find that Bai Wenxuan has finally been completely paralyzed, and the defense in the north of the city has been relaxed, and we will smuggle across the Jialing River in the north of the city to give Chongqing City a fatal blow!

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Zhu Shuren worked on the battle plan for a long time, and only then did he explain the adjusted full set of plans to Qin Liangyu, Zhang Huangyan and Fang Guoanhe.

Everyone was originally worried that the country's surname would love face, and after finding that their original plan could not be implemented, they would be annoyed and angry and insist on implementing it. Now that I found that the surname of the country has a flexible face limit, and I will change it immediately after finding that it is not feasible, everyone is also relieved, and I didn't find anything wrong with this plan, so I obediently implemented it.

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In the next three or four days, everything was implemented according to Zhu Shuren's adjusted new plan, the north of the city was quiet, and the troops on the other side of the Jialing River did not move at all, and they didn't even bother to harass and contain them.

In the west of the city, the battle seemed to be in full swing, but in fact, there were not many casualties on both sides.

Tan Wen pretended to play tacit understanding with Bai Wenxuan, so he replied to him and told him all about their follow-up battle plans, saying that they, the local generals in Sichuan, suggested that Zhu Shuren dig the city wall and dig tunnels as the main way to attack, and said that they should fight like this to deal with mountain cities, and Zhu Shuren did not understand the geography of Sichuan, especially the geography around Chongqing, and was deceived by them, so that they could passively slack off and die less.

Bai Wenxuan received Tan Wen's "secret report" in advance, and naturally believed a little more in Tan Wen's sincerity in preserving strength, and decided to wait and see the after-effects.

Of course, he is not afraid of digging tunnels and city walls.

This kind of mountain city, you might as well dig a tunnel to try! I thought it was the loose and dry Hebei Plain!

Even if you want to dig tunnels to attack the city in Sichuan, at least you will dig a city in the fertile plains like Chengdu, which is known as Tianfu, and dig a fart in the mountain city!

At the same time, from Tan Wen's standpoint, it is also very reasonable for him to suggest his boss - if he has been using flying ladders and cloud ladders to climb the city in hand-to-hand combat, then the casualty rate of the first dead soldier will definitely be very high, and the defenders will not risk letting them go up, even if they go up, the fight with a knife and a gun, the knife is fatal, how to play the tacit ball?

In contrast, digging tunnels and digging walls, the two armies will not be in direct contact, and they just have fewer dead people.

After Bai Wenxuan received the report, starting the next day, he saw that the official army really changed to the excavation siege method, and muskets and cannons covered groups of wooden donkey carts approaching the base of the city wall, and then dug up and down.

The defenders were able to save a little more expensive arrows and ammunition, and only threw them down with cheap and almost costless rolling stones.

However, the wooden donkey cart is relatively strong, and there is a sloping roof, which is covered with wet mud, which can bounce the wood and stone apart, like tilting armor to form a ricochet.

So after a day of fighting, there were not many deaths on both sides, and after the sky was completely dark, Bai Wenxuan sent someone to fall down the city with a hanging basket to secretly check the damage caused to the city wall by the besieging officers and soldiers during the day, and confirmed that the officers and soldiers really did not contribute to the work, and they did not dig much depth, so Bai Wenxuan trusted Tan Wen and other local armed forces in Sichuan a little more in his sincerity of cooperation.

"I didn't expect that the Eight Great Kings slaughtered Chongqing and killed more than 200,000 people, and the locals in Sichuan were still willing to cooperate with the Eight Great Kings...... Alas, I really don't understand it."

In addition to the truce, Bai Wenxuan couldn't help but think so.

After three days in this way, the time has come to the third day of the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen.

During the Chinese New Year, they all have to fight here, and I have to say that the officers and men of the two armies are really hard.

But this is the case in this era, long pain is better than short pain, what can be done.

On the third day of the first lunar month, Bai Wenxuan paralyzed people to throw wooden stones on the wall as usual, pretending to be short of arrows and ammunition.

But on this day, the official army suddenly strengthened the offensive, and also used the Hongyi cannon, which had rarely been dispatched in the past few days, and bombarded the city with shrapnel with a butt.

The troops digging the wall also changed the slack of the previous few days, digging very hard, and before the end of the evening of the same day, there were several wooden donkey carts that were covered and retreated, the defenders thought at first that they were still ordinary wooden donkeys digging the city, but who knew that the officers and soldiers hid a lot of gunpowder in the cars,

After pushing it to the bottom of the city, move the powder keg to the gap dug in the wall, and then fill the outside, leaving only a small hole through a lead, and finally ignite and retreat to blast.

The western city wall was severed

Destroyed in two places, the city wall was blown out of a gap of at least half of the height, the original wall of more than three zhang only left the ruins of one zhang high, if it were not for the complex terrain of Chongqing, the mountain was already steep, this gap in the official army under the charge, maybe the outer wall was directly lost.

In the end, Bai Wenxuan desperately threw himself into the hand-to-hand combat of the new army, and suffered heavy casualties before he repelled the official army.

At this time, he sprinkled the disadvantages of the main battalion brothers in the same pepper noodles all over the defense line, and it was revealed, when the city wall was damaged and a large number of hand-to-hand combat troops were needed, he could only fill it with Xinla's strong men, these soldiers did not have the fighting spirit at all, and the casualties in hand-to-hand combat were extremely miserable, and they almost trampled on each other.

The officers and soldiers did not collect their troops until night, but the exchange ratio of this day, the officers and troops definitely made a big profit, and the defenders suffered a great loss because of several surprises.

In the middle of the night, Tan Wencai sent a messenger to contact Bai Wenxuan again, saying that Zhu Shuren was not satisfied with their progress a few days ago, and if it weren't for the fact that they didn't want to change people during the Chinese New Year, they endured it until today and changed their descendants to attack the city, which is why they made such a contribution.

Tan Wen's envoy said that the head of their family was also temporarily replaced, so he couldn't give notice in advance, and hoped to continue to keep in touch with Bai Dudu, leaving one more way back, and if there was still a chance for them to attack in the future, he hoped that Bai Dudu would continue to work and not contribute, and both sides would die less.

Bai Wenxuan was a little startled, and became more and more incredulous: "You all almost took advantage of the sneak attack, how could you step on two boats at this time? Aren't you afraid that Zhu Shuren will find clues and liquidate after breaking the city?"

However, the envoy came to say a piece of news that surprised Bai Wenxuan: "Bai Dudu, our family master is very sincere in maintaining peace with your army, and he can't hide it, the reason why he is optimistic about your army is because our army has just received an urgent report today, and it was sent from Chengdu-

The Eight Kings actually attacked Chengdu on Chinese New Year's Eve, and the news was sent to Zhu Shuren's army in two days. It is not yet known who will die in Sichuan in the future, and we just want to follow the winning side and keep our wealth. If the Eight Kings are in charge of Sichuan, they can hand over the entire Kuizhou Mansion to our Tan family, who will not follow them."

"Did the Eight Kings really capture Chengdu? If you dare to tell me this kind of thing, aren't you afraid of boosting the morale of our army? How was Chengdu breached?" Bai Wenxuan was shocked, and he didn't dare to believe the truth or falsehood, and at the same time felt that if the other party used this to deceive people, it would be too bloody.

If this is true, it is completely possible that the morale of the defenders of Chongqing will be greatly boosted!

However, the person who came to this question did not answer, but said very shamefully: "Our family master doesn't know, I only heard that Chengdu may be too dilapidated, and the defenders are not wary of being attacked during the New Year.

This half-concealed statement made Bai Wenxuan believe a little more.

He also knows that Sichuan seems to be easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the terrain is dangerous, but the danger is mainly in the surrounding prefectures and counties. For example, Chongqing, Hezhou, and Fengjie are all important places, so it is difficult to attack.

And Chengdu ...... In fact, not long after Bai Wenxuan followed Zhang Xianzhong into Sichuan, he heard that in fact, the defense was not strong.

I heard that the city wall of Chengdu is a big dilapidated city that has fallen into disrepair for hundreds of years - and the reason why this is so is also because since ancient times, the separatist regime in Sichuan has never thought of maintaining the secession by stubbornly defending Chengdu.

To defend Sichuan, the guards are all periphery mountains and dangerous places, really into the Chengdu Plain, fertile fields for thousands of miles, and the warlords have surrendered early.

Liu Chan did not stick to Chengdu back then, and the Shu monarchs before and after the five dynasties and ten kingdoms who reused the "Shixiu Surrender Table Li Family" did not stick to Chengdu, nor did Ming Sheng, the young lord of the Ming Xia regime at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

(Note: At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it was Dai Shou, the prime minister of the Ming Xia regime, who had been holding on to Chongqing, resisting the Tang and Waterway Army sent by Zhu Yuanzhang, and did not let Tang He cross Qutang Gorge.

It is precisely because of the military characteristics of Sichuan over the past thousand years that it is destined that Chengdu's city defense will not be repaired by anyone sincerely, and there is no hope of defending Chengdu at all.

Regardless of whether this news is true or not, Bai Wenxuan is right now

Yu Tan's family, Wang Guangxing and other former thief armies can be regarded as believing seven or eight points, at least the information they provided about the deployment of the current battle situation is absolutely true.

Both sides want to work and not make efforts, so that their descendants will have fewer deaths, and let Zhu Shuren, an outsider, bear the damage, and in this regard, Bai Wenxuan and the local troops in Sichuan have common interests.

When Bai Wenxuan began to suspect a larger conspiracy, the previous small settings had already been regarded as common sense by him and believed by default.

He couldn't help but take the initiative to raise his objection to the deployment again with Pan Duqiu, the military advisor of the supervising army, in front of the envoy: "Pan Junshi, look! The governor has long said that the official army has completely abandoned the north of the city and crossed the Jialing River to attack! There is no way to pass heavy siege engines there!

Although the battle in the west of the city was dull a few days ago, but now that Zhu Shuren has changed generals in the battle, the offensive is so fierce, if he had listened to me earlier, and deployed all the brothers in the old battalion to the west of the city, when he was almost breached today, he would not have suffered such heavy losses!

If it weren't for the complicated terrain of Chongqing, there are several lines of defense in the west of the city, once it is broken today, the general trend will be gone! Do you still want to interfere with my command and miss the important affairs of the Eight Kings?"

Pan Duqiao was accused and squeezed by him like this, and he couldn't refute it for a while, so he had to promise Bai Wenxuan to withdraw the old camp in the north of the city to the west of the city as much as possible.

At this point, Bai Wenxuan and Pan Duqiao would not be concerned about whether it was possible for the officers and soldiers to spy on their defense deployment. Even if there are doubts, they all focus on the point of "if the Tan family brothers and Wang Guangchang propose to take refuge again, will it be a fraudulent surrender".

People are like that, when they hear multiple lies at the same time, the one that is less like a lie is less noticeable.

And Bai Wenxuan heard the news that "the Eight Great Kings have broken Chengdu" from the Tan family's envoy, and he didn't dare to immediately spread it in the army to boost morale.

He was afraid that there would be fraud in it, and the current situation in the defense of the city was not very tense, so there was no need to rush to announce the news. It's not too late to wait until the verification is conclusive, or when the battle situation is in danger and there is an urgent need to boost morale.

The morale-boosting effect of any good news is time-sensitive, and two or three days after the joy is over, it will be taken for granted and must be used on the blade.

After the "messenger of Tan Wen" left, the defenders of Chongqing were indeed redeployed in accordance with Bai Wenxuan's requirements, and the struggle and fingering between Bai Wenxuan and Pan Duwei in terms of command also further intensified the contradictions.

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After another two days, the attack on the west of the city became more and more fierce, but fortunately, Bai Wenxuan had already gathered all the old camps, and they were not broken for a while.

However, the final turning point occurred in the middle of the night after the fifth day of the first lunar month, or the early morning of the sixth day of the first lunar month.

Tens of thousands of elite officers and soldiers suddenly moved to the north of the long city of Chongqing, smuggled across the Jialing River in the middle of the night by boat, lined up to prepare, and unloaded improvised siege equipment.

More than a dozen warships equipped with heavy Hongyi cannons equivalent to 42-pound naval guns in the bow, a small number of shallow drafts sailed directly into the Jialing River, and those with deep drafts stayed at the mouth of the Jialing River of the Yangtze River and directly anchored and fell to the rocks.

At the end of the day, the officers and troops began to prepare for firepower, and more than a dozen super heavy artillery guns launched intensive fire on the relatively weak north city wall and city gate tower, and the firepower was only prepared with half a burnt incense, so as not to give the Chongqing defenders in the west of the city time to dispatch back to defense.

Moreover, at the same time as the fire was opened on this side, the Hongyi artillery in the west of the city also fired, and at the same time, a night attack was launched to interfere with the line of sight, confuse the eyes, and slow down the reaction of the defenders.

After a bombardment, there were gaps in several defensive lines in the north of the city, and then the officers and soldiers rushed up to fight bravely, and finally tore open.

At the same time, because the north of the city has not been the direction of Chongqing's easy attack since ancient times, there is no layer of fortification here, and after breaking the outer wall of the river, you can directly enter the street battle.

Unlike the west of the city, after breaking through the outer wall, there are mountain beams and temporary rammed earth walls and ditches to defend.

With the Ming army's sneak attack into the city, and the north of the city was full of strong men who had just pulled, the elite of the old battalion had long been paralyzed and carelessly withdrawn, and the city of Chongqing soon fell into complete chaos.

Bai Wenxuan was in the city in person at that time

Xidu battled, learned that the north of the city was broken, and then when he saw the fire in the city, he rushed to his head with a burst of blood, knowing that he couldn't explain to Zhang Xianzhong.

Pan Duqiao was furious, and while reprimanding Bai Wenxuan for his incompetence, he forced Bai Wenxuan to quickly organize troops to protect him and break through: "Bai Wenxuan, you waste on paper! This military division is the reincarnation of Zhuge , if you had listened to my words earlier, the west and north of the city would have been strictly guarded, how could there be today!

Don't hurry up and escort your own army division to break through together! Otherwise, when you arrive in Chengdu, I will definitely let the Eight Kings kill your whole family!"

Bai Wenxuan was stimulated by these words, and the nerves in his cheeks twitched, and all kinds of hidden worries came to his heart, he suddenly pulled out his knife, chopped Pan Duqiao with a knife, and then shouted: "Pan Duqiu is dead! Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered the city everywhere after entering Sichuan without a way, let's not give him his life!"

Bai Wenxuan actually didn't know if he could survive if he surrendered in this situation.

But if he fights, he will definitely die, and if he escorts Pan Duqiu to break through, if he plays right and wrong in front of Zhang Xianzhong, he may also be liquidated.

In this case, it is better to gamble, even if he is killed by the rebels, Zhang Xianzhong does not know how he died, and he may not be liquidated by his family.

After some chaos, under the circumstance of Bai Wenxuan's casting, there were at least seventy or eighty percent of the soldiers in Chongqing, which could be regarded as directly surrendering, and those two or three percent who were not long-sighted or had a bad life were killed in the chaos, and there was no way to do it.

Tens of thousands of people exchanged fire in the dark, and the ghost knows whether the other side said that surrender was really a vote, and it was normal to kill one more hundred and ten people after saying that they would surrender and then stop.

It wasn't until the sky was full of light that the bloody friction in Chongqing City stopped, and Bai Wenxuan was also kidnapped by Fang Guoan and Wang Guangxing and sent to Zhu Shuren.

When he saw Zhu Shuren, Bai Wenxuan had already knelt down lifelessly and yielded, and did not wait for the other party to interrogate, and first took the initiative to beg for a condition: "I only ordered to surrender when the sin will break the wall, and I dare not ask for the luxury of avoiding death.

If the surname of the country is willing to stay guilty, please also announce that I am dead for the time being, and then announce the news that I am alive in the future, so that Zhang Xianzhong thinks that I am killed in battle, and I will not be guilty of my family.

In addition, Pan Duqiu, one of Zhang Xianzhong's military advisors, is here, begging for a little absence."

Zhu Shuren looked at him quietly and did not say anything. After Bai Wenxuan finished speaking, he got up and paced back and forth in a good time, and played with the jade fracture fan a few times, then turned his back to the other party and said proudly:

"It is said that the wall will be lowered only after it is broken, and it is also a crime to be killed. But for the time being, it doesn't matter if you don't die, it depends on whether you have use value, how you perform in the future, and whether you are willing to make meritorious contributions.

In this way, you ask to keep your death secret, this official can't promise you completely, only a part of it—I remember, before Li Dingguo broke his trust in Zhang Xianzhong, you followed Li Dingguo the longest among Zhang Xianzhong's righteous sons, right?"

Bai Wenxuan didn't dare to hide it, and truthfully confessed: "It is true that he has followed the second general for the longest time, and he has also followed the third general for a while."

Zhu Shuren slapped the folding fan: "Okay, I will hide the news of your death from the outside world, but you have to choose a confidant who knows Li Dingguo and Li Dingguo can also trust, and send a letter to Li Dingguo.

Regardless of whether you think that Li Dingguo betrayed you, you have to do this, otherwise, I will behead you, but I will claim to the outside world that you are the one who sacrificed the city, or at least you did not listen to Pan Dufu's dispatch and lost Chongqing because of your improper use of troops! You know very well what Zhang Xianzhong will do to your family!"