On the night of the first battle of the siege, Chengdu was gloomy.

Because the city of Chengdu is too vast, and the water troops of the official army are from the direction of the Minjiang River in the southwest of the city, and the land troops are from the direction of Longquanyi in the southeast of the city.

Therefore, in the initial stage of the siege, the official army had not yet completed the full encirclement in all directions. The current situation is still a typical encirclement of three missing one, and the north of the city is empty.

However, Zhang Xianzhong and several of his main generals understood that the official and military posture was most likely deliberate. The retreat to the north of the city was left in order to make the defenders have no heart to fight, and they saw that there was still a way to live, so they were shaken.

It is precisely this kind of situation that makes Zhang Xianzhong always unable to stay in love with the stack a while ago, reluctant to Chengdu's property and strong men, and always feels that "the encirclement has not been closed for a long time, which shows that the official army is still insufficient, and it is too late to leave when there is danger."

Who would have thought that Zhu Shuren would actually arrange an encirclement network on the provincial map, so that Chongzhen could allow Cao Bianjiao to enter Hanzhong from Guanzhong, and directly stuck Chengdu to go to the north entrance of the Jinniu Road in Hanzhong.

This encirclement is big enough, if all this is true, even if Zhang Xianzhong escapes to Mianzhu, and then to Jiangyou and Jiangge, it will be absolutely in vain to defend according to the danger-

Although the Sword Pavilion is a well-known place in the world that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if the Sword Pavilion is guarded, the Sword Pavilion goes north, until the Jiameng Pass, and the long Golden Bull Road in the middle is simply a poor mountain and bad water. There is only a treacherous valley, with no population, no resources, no money and food, and sooner or later you will starve to death.

The officials and soldiers blocked both ends of the Golden Bull Road, and there was no need to attack at all, just wait for Zhang Xianzhong's remnants to kill each other without food at that time.

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The people around Zhang Xianzhong also know about these situations, so the atmosphere is so heavy at the military meeting in the middle of the night.

"All of them are dumb? Who thinks we should withdraw our troops, or continue to fight to the death with Shen Gouguan! I'm afraid that this city will not be defended for a long time, so it will not take three days to fight, and the city wall will be blasted open!

This king decided to divide his troops from the north of the city out of the city, and the people and horses in the city into a corner, if the official army starts to bombard the city wall like this tomorrow, let the soldiers and horses outside the city take a detour, from the flank to storm the official army Hongyi artillery position!

Our army has a large number of soldiers and horses, and the officers and soldiers are less than 100,000, which is several times superior to our army in numbers! So far, only in the chaos and chaos can there be a chance! ”

Zhang Xianzhong took the lead in expounding his views to the generals.

He can also be regarded as a soldier who knows a point, although when he was in Xiangxi last year, he was defeated and lost in the end because of the field battle with Zhu Shuren, but he knew that if he ran, these strong men would have to be lost, so it was better to fight, even if he lost in the end, he would try to fight out tens of thousands of people on the opposite side!

Bai Wenxuan had already died in battle (in fact, he surrendered, but Zhu Shuren promised Bai Wenxuan to declare that he would die in battle, so as not to kill Zhang Xianzhong's family), and Liu Wenxiu was sent to Jiangyou, so there were really not many people around Zhang Xianzhong who could speak.

He took the lead in asking Feng Shuangli, the governor of the Left Army, and asked him to express his position, but Feng Shuangli could only say in passing:

"What the king saw is also quite in line with the art of war, most of our soldiers have not been trained, once there is a gap in the city wall, I am afraid that the whole army will collapse immediately, and I will not have the courage to fight with the officers and soldiers in the streets.

If it is a division of troops, while defending the city, while sending people out of the city to attack, the troops who attack may dare to use their lives for a while for the sake of the city is still strong and there is still a way to retreat, but this kind of morale will not last for a few days. If there are no one or two field battles left, it will be the end of the morale of the whole army. ”

Zhang Xianzhong's cheeks twitched, he didn't comment, and then turned his head to ask the lower level Di Sanpin, Qi Sansheng and other generals, these people are not even governors, but now they have also got the opportunity to participate in this level of military discussion.

The two looked at each other, and then looked at Li Dingguo, who had been treated coldly for a long time next to him, and was a little afraid to open his mouth.

At this time, Li Dingguo ignored the fact that he had lost the trust of his father-in-law, and dared to say: "Why doesn't my father want to think about how to withdraw the army?" At the beginning, under the city of Hengzhou, our army took the initiative to attack, but the result is already well known, our army can only defend according to the danger, avoiding Zhu Shuren's troops, and the field battle really can't think of a way to break the enemy.

If you leave early, you will have time to take more belongings with you, so that you will not lose more than half of your belongings in a hurry like Hengzhou City. ”

Zhang Xianzhong was angry and slapped the table: "Of course, early withdrawal can take away the property, but what about these Sichuan soldiers who were finally pulled up?" Are they willing to die for the lonely? After eating the military salary of three months alone, you should leave your life behind!

Ten lives for one dog, the lives of officers and soldiers! Otherwise, after eating for nothing, let them submit to the dog official, and it will not become Lao Tzu who paid money and food to help Shen Dog Guan raise the people for three months! ”

Zhang Xianzhong's meaning is very clear, and he also knows that he can't beat him, but he just doesn't want the people who have eaten his food and taken his money to continue to live in vain without dying for him.

If the person who took his money still alive and left his rule, he would scratch his heart and panic.

After hearing these words, Li Dingguo also realized that Zhang Xianzhong was already a trapped beast and was forced into a trance. It's a pity that his identity can't be betrayed, so he has to change his perspective and finally say:

"Father, now try to retreat, we have to protect our belongings, and we can slowly retreat by land, and go to Jiangyou to find the third brother. Hanzhong may not have been really occupied by Cao Bianjiao sent by Chongzhen, we are flowing to northern Sichuan, and there is still a glimmer of life.

These gold and silver treasures, when they go elsewhere, can still pull up people, if they can run into Guanzhong, or bet that Li Zicheng can win Guanzhong, we have a big deal to serve him, for the sake of these properties, maybe we can leave some incense.

The people of Bashu are not of the same heart as us at all, they are forcibly sent to them, the military horses have no combat effectiveness at all, they have not been harmed by the hard days of thousands of miles of red land, and the hatred of the government is not as fierce as our Shaanxi people.

If we do not withdraw now, we will have to finish this last field battle, and even wait for the officers and troops to inflict heavy losses on us and close to encirclement. When the time comes, if you withdraw by land, the cavalry will not be able to bring out much money at all.

When the time comes, we can only bet that the rumors spread by the officials and soldiers are false, and the big brother is still waiting in the Dadu River to meet us, and we will rush to the Minjiang River, seize the boat and take the waterway, so that we can transport the property out. ”

Whether Sun Kewang has reached a tacit understanding with the official army and whether Cao Bianjiao occupies Hanzhong, these two points are temporarily publicized by Zhu Shuren today in order to hit the morale of the thief army.

From the standpoint of Zhang Xianzhong and Li Dingguo, these two points cannot be confirmed.

It's just that there are more clues and rumors before the previous point, and it looks more real. The latter point is completely without warning, and I only suddenly heard about it today.

Therefore, in Li Dingguo's heart, he felt that the probability of Sun Kewang having become self-reliant was higher, and the probability of Cao Bianjiao in Hanzhong was even lower. But his identity and position made him unable to say this conclusion in front of Zhang Xianzhong, who made Sun Kewang his brother-in-law, if he said that Sun Kewang had a greater probability of defecting to the enemy, it would be jealousy.

Sure enough, although Li Dingguo didn't say it explicitly, Zhang Xianzhong's eyes rolled for a while, and then he thought of a little: "You still have the face to say that your eldest brother!" You wish your son would abandon your father, and then you will be able to inherit the whole army!

Wang'er is not this kind of person! I raised him for many years, and he would be so ungrateful? decided, stay in the city, and fight with the official army for the last time! If the Sichuan soldiers are too dead and wounded and are unable to fight again, we will do our best to break through to Xinjindu, open a gap, and force ourselves to escape south of the Minjiang River!

There is a fleet available, and belongings can be taken with them. Even if the officers and soldiers have warships, the Minjiang River is flowing down the river, and the sails are full at full speed, and the officers and soldiers can still block it! ”

Li Dingguo knew that he couldn't persuade him, so he could only toss around blindly.

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The next day, the official army continued to attack the city, and Zhang Xianzhong divided his troops from the north of the city to camp in preparation. After a day of fierce fighting, Chengdu was not so quickly breached, but several city walls were obviously unable to bear, and the gap could almost rush in directly on the dirt slope. Zhang Xianzhong could only use the most senior brother of the old battalion to fight hand-to-hand combat, and fight for his life to block.

In the end, although the city was not broken, the casualty exchange ratio of Zhang Xianzhong's army became more and more tragic, and the troops were almost on the verge of collapse.

On the third day, when the official army attacked the city again, Zhang Xianzhong finally let the troops in the north of the city set up camp, and turned around to flank the artillery formation of the official army, and the troops out of the city were led by Feng Shuangli, with tens of thousands of horses, mainly cannon fodder for local Zhuang men in Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong did not expect these people to go back alive at all, as long as the artillery positions of the official army were crushed, these tens of thousands of people would not be sorry even if they died.

However, on the side of the official army, seeing that Zhang Xianzhong's troops finally dared to go out of the city to fight, they threw out a very terrifying killer weapon, and on the eve of the outbreak of the field battle, the morale of Zhang Xianzhong's army almost collapsed.

Seeing that on the eve of the thief army about to charge against the official army, Zhu Shuren suddenly asked a row of prisoners to be tied up in front of the formation and asked them to shout at Feng Shuangli's department.

The leader shouted: "Brother Feng, it's me!" I didn't die in Chongqing, but fortunately, the second general acted up and persuaded Zhang Xianzhong to let my family go. has come to this point, and following Zhang Xianzhong will definitely die. He just knew that he couldn't live, and he wanted to drag a few more brothers on his back, so what was the point of such a person giving him his life? ”

As soon as these words came out, Feng Shuangli's troops immediately became a little confused. Although the words could only be heard by most of the enemy soldiers through the relays of the scolding and the amplification of dozens of people, Feng Shuangli's sharp eyes were sharp, and based on the initial little voice and the observation of the other party's appearance, he could still vaguely see that the other party was Bai Wenxuan, who was said to have died when Chongqing was lost.

Feng Shuangli and Bai Wenxuan had a good relationship, but when he encountered this scene, he was a little overwhelmed, but there were some eyeliner chess pieces and prison strategists around him who were loyal to Zhang Xianzhong, and they hurriedly threatened him to protect the master: "Feng Dudu!" Don't let people shoot to death all the scolding hands on the opposite side who are bewitching and confusing the crowd! Charge! Charge! ”

Feng Shuangli was helpless, and he didn't believe it completely because of these few words, so he had to grit his teeth and ask the archer to step forward and release the arrows.

Seeing this, the officers and soldiers on the opposite side were also muskets, and taking advantage of the gap between the two rounds of fire, the prisoner suspected of being Bai Wenxuan shouted: "Brother Feng, don't be suspicious!" I am the court that killed Pan Dufu and surrendered! There is no shortage of capable readers! Killing these kobold military advisors can also be exonerating! ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the prison strategists around Feng Shuangli and Zhang Xianzhong's henchmen changed suddenly, but Feng Shuangli didn't say anything, and they didn't dare to make trouble, the entire army fell into a terrifying center of stagnation, and no one dared to give orders again, so the troops had to rely on inertia to rush forward and kill.

It turned out that after Bai Wenxuan was captured and surrendered, and killed Pan Duqiao as a voter, he originally agreed to Zhu Shuren and sent his henchmen back to Li Dingguo to intercede, so that Li Dingguo could find a way to use the news of his death and release his family.

But in the end, when it came to the implementation level, Zhu Shuren played a little trick again, he didn't let the people who were put back tell Li Dingguo that "Bai Wenxuan is still alive", and only let those people go back and say to Li Dingguo, "We broke out of Chongqing, and we just want to bring out the news of Bai Dududu's martyrdom", and then let Li Dingguo exert his subjective initiative and find excuses to release Bai Wenxuan's family.

Zhu Shuren arranged this for three purposes:

First of all, if these people who were put back didn't help Bai Wenxuan talk, they would directly tell Li Dingguo the truth, and even find Zhang Xianzhong to tell the truth. The result was nothing more than the leakage of the news of Bai Wenxuan's surrender and the killing of Bai Wenxuan's entire family.

Zhu Shuren has already made rescue efforts, no one knows how the intermediate process failed, Bai Wenxuan also commanded to hate Zhang Xianzhong more and more, and followed the court to avenge his family.

Secondly, if the person who was put back was very reliable and completely followed the order, and Li Dingguo also had compassion and ran up and down to release Bai Wenxuan's family, then in the future, the truth would be revealed, and Li Dingguo would be dragged into the water.

In the end, if the person who put it back is reliable, but Li Dingguo didn't help, then no one can complain, it can only be said that this is also a test for Li Dingguo, if Li Dingguo is loyal to Zhang Xianzhong, and doesn't care about the life or death of other brothers at all, if he wants to follow the single husband to the black, then he will have to be asked for a felony if he wins the battle in the future, and he can't reverse it. Zhu Shuren saw that he resisted the Qing Dynasty at most in history, and he just left him alive.

Fortunately, in the end, Li Dingguo didn't choose this path, he did seem to have a bit of humanity, and helped release Bai Wenxuan's family, so that Zhu Shuren could take advantage of this and suddenly hit the morale of the thief army when the final battle was about to start.

He didn't have to worry about whether Zhang Xianzhong would kill Li Dingguo directly after hearing this, because this matter would not be a crime to death, and Zhang Xianzhong would not kill his son because of a trivial matter.

Second, Li Dingguo himself may have been deceived by Bai Wenxuan, Zhang Xianzhong can't prove that Li Dingguo deliberately betrayed, he will also worry about whether this is a counter-plot of the official army, and if he wants to induce him to kill a righteous son, he naturally needs to think in the long run.

Zhu Shuren's repeated operations can be regarded as completely destroying the morale of the field troops sent by Zhang Xianzhong. When the troops completely lost the command center for follow-up fine-tuning, they blindly rushed forward with their heads buried in the instructions from the beginning.

Some units were demoralized and disjointed, and no one cared about them, and when they rushed halfway, the disconnection between the formations between the various units was already very serious.

And under the dense array of muskets and spears of the officers and soldiers, the thieves and soldiers who rushed up scattered were also vulnerable at all, and they were quickly broken by each one, and they were like broken bamboos.

Feng Shuangli was in the midst of the chaos, thinking only about how to protect himself and how to prove his innocence, and finally got into trouble with the few Zhang Xianzhong's advisors and henchmen around him.

Finally, when the defeat was approaching, the atmosphere between the two sides became more and more tense, and Feng Shuangli had no choice but to strike first out of self-preservation, and let his henchmen slaughter the prison strategists and Zhang Xianzhong's henchmen, and then reluctantly dropped the knife and surrendered.

Zhang Xianzhong sent tens of thousands of troops outside the city, but in this way, they only caused small casualties to the official army, and then completely collapsed.

After the old battalion was defeated, the remaining local peasants in Sichuan, who accounted for at least eighty percent, trembled and put down their rudimentary weapons and surrendered directly to their knees.