"Boom!"

The sound of wax moon and muffled thunder resounded in the southwest, and with the opening of artillery, a city located between the mountains and hills was being fiercely attacked by artillery.

As far as the eye can see, the city has been surrounded by the Ming army like a red tide on all sides, and the people in the city are the culprits who set off the rebellion of luxury, extravagant Chongming.

At this moment, he is embarrassed and in a hurry, and the huge Yongning Xuanfu Division is left with this Yongning Acropolis.

On the thirteenth day of the lunar month, Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of the five provinces, ordered the siege of Yongning and annihilated the rebels.

On the same day, Du Wenhuan and Cao Wenzhao made peace in Luzhou Weihui, and the 2,600-strong Duogan Battalion Weizang cavalry marched as the vanguard of the army under the command of Cao Wenzhao and the officials of the Siyi Pavilion as interpreters.

To the northeast, Wu Aheng led his troops to attack the stone village on the mountain range northeast of Yongningwei.

To the southwest, Yang Wenyue led 3,000 troops and continued to besiege the Taiping Division of 1,400 rebels.

Due south, Sun Chuanting arrived at Manisu, leaving 500 troops to garrison Manisu, commanding 3,000 infantry and 200 cavalry to garrison Pushisuo, successfully repelling the siege of more than 6,000 rebels of Fan Long.

Dongfang Hong Chengchou left 800 people to garrison Erlangba, and commanded 3,000 troops to cross the river and march to Linzhou City.

At this time, the ratio of the strength of the Ming army to the rebel army was 27,200 to 25,700.

With such a small gap in strength, if it was Nurhachi, he would definitely defend the Sifang Stone Fort of Yongning, and then send people to support Fan Hu in Linzhou City, seeking to defeat the Hong Chengchou Department who was far away from the other Ming armies on three sides, and then make a detour to cut off the Ming army's grain route.

But Yu Chongming did not have Nurhachi's generals, and he chose the most stupid way, which was to hold on and wait for An Bangyan and Song Wanhua to support.

Such stupidity also gave Zhu Xieyuan time to integrate the army and the Ming army to capture Yongning.

In the early morning of the thirteenth day of the lunar month, Du Wenhuan set out more than 400 large and small artillery pieces and bombarded Shangkanbao.

Shangkan Fort, which was garrisoned by only 500 men, was broken in the afternoon of the same day, and Cao Wenzhao led the Duogan battalion to ascend first and cut down the Shangkan Fort rebel garrison.

The northwest was broken, and the Ming army of nearly 20,000 auxiliary soldiers approached Yongningwei, and under the panic of Yu Chongming, he ordered Fan Long to defend the fortress of Pushi.

Sun Chuanting seized the time for Fan Long to return to defense, went out of the city to pursue, and won a lot, and after Fan Long left 1,000 people to garrison the land, he hurriedly led his troops back to Yongning.

On the fifteenth day of the lunar month, Du Wenhuan and Cao Wenzhao led the troops to Yongningwei, and the total strength of more than 14,000 luxury Chongming chose to stick to the city, and Du Wenhuan ordered the artillery to attack the city.

Four hundred guns of various sizes continued to bombard for three days, but they could not be captured because there were no powerful enough guns.

Seeing that the gunpowder was about to run out, Du Wenhuan wrote a letter asking for help, and Zhu Xieyuan, who was far away in Shihu Pass that night, immediately led 2,000 troops and 10,000 people to transport grain, grass, stone bullets, and gunpowder to Yongningwei.

On the seventeenth day of the lunar month, the Taiping Division, which was attacked by Yang Wenyue for seven days, fell, and all the 1,400 rebels in the city were killed, and more than 3,000 stones of grain and grass were seized, and more than 2,600 taels of silver.

According to the amount of grain and grass in the Taiping Division, Yang Wenyue judged that the rebels did not have enough food, so he wrote to Zhu Xieyuan.

Zhu Xieyuan, who rushed to Yongningwei, learned the news and immediately ordered Yang Wenyue to go to the land to attack the city, and ordered Sun Chuanting to go out of the customs to attack the land barrier.

At noon on the same day, Fan Hu led 5,000 troops out of the city and confronted Hong Chengchou on the south bank of the Gulin River.

Fan Hu led the remnants of the army back to Linzhou City, and Hong Chengchou's troops seized the baggage, not counting the baggage, a total of 725 people were beheaded and 1,324 people were captured.

After the war, Hong Chengchou ordered his subordinates to behead all the prisoners, and thus obtained two thousand and forty-nine beheadings in the first battle, which was the first merit of the Yongning War.

Hong Chengchou sent people to besiege the city, and did not besiege the west gate that could escape.

At the same time, he ordered people to attack the city with artillery and sent good news to Zhu Xieyuan.

On the eighteenth day of the lunar month, Wu Aheng successfully captured Shizhai with twelve artillery pieces in the army and beheaded 800 people, thus the northern and western gates of Yongningwei were completely lost.

In the afternoon, Wu Aheng led 2,300 soldiers and horses to Yongningwei after the battle, and the number of Ming troops outside Yongningwei reached more than 18,000 people, more than 7,000 auxiliary soldiers, and a total of 575 artillery pieces.

At the same time, Zhu Xieyuan, who learned of Hong Chengchou's great victory, did not rush to attack the city, but continued to let people shell the Yongning Acropolis with artillery.

The opportunity appeared in the early morning of the 26th day of the lunar month, Sun Chuanting and Yang Wenyue captured the southern gate of Yongning Wei, and on the 27th, he and Zhu Xieyuan joined the Yongning Acropolis.

At this time, the strength of the Ming army on the Yongning Acropolis reached 23,000, the auxiliary soldiers reached 10,000, and the artillery pieces such as the general and the Francophone reached 612.

That night, Zhu Xieyuan issued a general attack, and the Ming army also began to use various siege equipment and artillery such as Lu Gongcha, cloud ladders, and crash cars to attack the barracks outside the four city gates.

Before the early morning, the Yongning Acropolis camp was broken, and the rebels withdrew to the Yongning Acropolis, and Zhu Xieyuan ordered to rest for an hour before attacking again in the early morning!

"Boom!"

More than 600 artillery pieces fired in unison, and the entire Yongning Acropolis was shrouded in the dark clouds of war.

The moat was filled in, and the red Ming army rushed in with all kinds of siege equipment, and the defensive equipment at the head of the city had been beaten to pieces by artillery.

War has returned to its original essence and has become a game between people.

"Kill!"

Clang......

At the head of the Yongning Acropolis, with a roar, Cao Wenzhao, who was fighting in blood, rushed to kill at the head of the city, and the Lu bus behind him kept pouring out of the Ming army's brand-new cloth iron armor, tall eyes, deep nose, and dark skin Weizang soldiers.

At this moment, the head of the city, with the first arrival of the Duogan camp guards and Tibetan soldiers, the originally strong city defense was instantly torn open.

When the opening appears, it is not so easy to close it.

Fan Long, who led the supervising team, came from the city road, and when Cao Wenzhao saw this, he immediately rushed to Fan Long in the lead.

The Tibetan guards of the Duogan battalion did not understand Chinese, but they understood the behavior of the commander.

Seeing Cao Wenzhao charging, they also followed and fought while rushing, and soon the two sides fought on the two-zhang wide Chengtou Road.

This scene was seen by Zhu Xieyuan, who commanded the city, and immediately ordered: "Order all the troops and horses in front to increase the offensive, and the western city wall has been broken through." ”

"Yes!" When Du Wenhuan, who was not tall next to him, heard this, he immediately looked at the herald cavalry.

The cavalry rode away, ran to the front of the drum cart array, and immediately ordered the drum to be changed.

"Winter ...... Winter...... Winter! Winter! Winter! ”

In an instant, the melodious and long sound of drums turned into a rapid rain on a calm sunny day, and instantly let all the soldiers and horses know the progress of the battle.

Three hundred steps away from the city in the northern section of the western section of the city wall, Sun Chuanting, who was wearing a suit of armor, held the long sword at his waist tightly, and when he heard the sound of the drum, he immediately drew his sword and said:

"The rebels have been exhausted, kill with this governor!"

After all, Sun Chuanting, who was a civil servant, actually led the overseer team to keep up with the siege team.

He was very conspicuous in the crowd, but at this time, the defenders of the city wall were attracted by Cao Wenzhao, and Sun Chuanting led the troops to the top of the city immediately.

They tore open the weak hole, and the tall Sun Chuanting was not a paper tiger, he returned the long sword to the sheath, took the long-handled golden gourd hammer handed by others, and immediately led the Bijie soldiers under his command to start killing.

At this time, the surrounding rebels also poured over, and in their eyes, Bijie saw that the Ming soldiers were very powerful in firearms, but their hand-to-hand combat ability was not very strong, so they had always had the psychology of contempt.

But after really catching up, I found that the Ming soldiers were strong in hand-to-hand combat, and the Yi soldiers, who were considered brave in the southwest by Yu Chongming, were constantly repelled with the cooperation of the Bijie soldiers, and the rebel soldiers fell to the ground with screams every second.

Sun Chuanting, who couldn't touch the rebels with a golden gourd hammer, was in a hurry, snatched the spear of the soldier next to him, and squeezed behind the knife players in the front row.

He was very tall, so he had an advantage in stabbing with a spear, and under the protection of the knife player, he had already stabbed five or six rebel soldiers to death in succession in just a tea time.

The long knives held by those soldiers were like jokes in Sun Chuanting's eyes, whether they were slashed or cracked, they were not as fast and rigid as stabs.

Simple actions can bring huge casualties, even if there is an iron armor to protect the body, there are too many places on the body without armor.

With the financial resources of extravagant Chongming, there is no way to equip 20,000 Yi soldiers with the same armor as the Ming army.

The casualties on the battlefield were only a matter of moments, and the bad news spread little by little in the Yongning Acropolis.

Judging from the overall battlefield situation, the Ming army has occupied an absolute advantage.

They had blood on their faces and bodies, and they couldn't tell whether they were their own or the rebels.

The entire wall was like a huge grinding plate, stirring the rebel soldiers and the Ming soldiers together, until they could no longer distinguish each other, and the sound of fighting resounded throughout the whole world, as if the whole sky was bloody.

When the long road of the city wall was full of soldiers dressed in the armor of the Ming army, the Yi soldiers were defeated from the head of the city and began to rely on the street fortifications established earlier to prepare for street battles with the Ming army.

Zhu Xieyuan led people into the Yongning Acropolis, temporarily lived in the Dongcheng Tower, and then called the generals of various armies.

When the general walked into the tower, it was obvious that he was different from the others, and the faction could be seen from the position.

Du Wenhuan sat first on the left, and down there were local generals such as Zhang Yanfang, Xu Chengming, and Huang Yunqing, while Sun Chuanting sat first on the right, followed by Cao Wenzhao, and then Yang Wenyue and Wu Aheng.

It is not difficult to see from the seats that even in the military, there are factions.

Although Xu Keqiu and the Sichuan gentry helped a lot, when Zhu Youzhen did not have conflicts with the locality, Wu Aheng and Yang Wenyue still chose to get close and become members of the Qi Wang Party.

Such a situation, in the eyes of Zhu Xieyuan of the Zhejiang Party, represents the growing Qi Wang Party.

However, for him, the current Qi Wang Party is a party that is beneficial to the imperial court, and his good impression of the Qi Wang Party is still good.

Therefore, he did not care about this kind of camp, but said to the people:

"At present, the rebels have retreated into the city, and there are tens of thousands of civilians in the city, and if they storm the street fighting, there will be many casualties."

"After pacifying Yongningwei, we still need to go to Linzhou City, and then go south to Guiyang."

"Therefore, the old man wants to ask the generals, can you persuade you to surrender?"

"Absolutely not!" As soon as Zhu Xieyuan's words were finished, Du Wenhuan replied reluctantly:

"A thief is a thief, how can there be a persuasion to surrender, in Yongning City, if there are good people, how can they follow the thief?"

Du Wenhuan is the governor of the capital and a second-class official, so he is one level higher than Zhu Xieyuan in terms of false title.

However, Da Ming has always been more important than military attachés, so even if he is one level higher, Zhu Xieyuan can suppress Du Wenhuan.

It's just that for Du Wenhuan's opinion, Zhu Xieyuan still needs to listen.

After seeing Du Wenhuan say this, although Zhu Xieyuan did not agree in his heart, in order to give Du Wenhuan face, he still bowed his head slightly.

However, some people are used to Du Wenhuan, but some people are not.

"Mr. Du is serious."

Suddenly, Sun Chuanting spoke, attracting everyone's attention.

I saw Sun Chuanting looking at Du Wenhuan, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly:

"The people are stupid, where do they know that extravagant Chongming rebelled? What's more, today's son and King Qi have said that they will not blame the people under the command of the rebel Tusi in Guizhou. ”

"Therefore, in my opinion, it is possible to order someone to spread the news and tell the truth about the news that An Bangyan and Song Wanhua went to Zhenyuan Mansion, as long as this news is spoken, the rebels will be shaken internally."

"They have persisted until now, but it is just because Yu Chongming said that An Bangyan will lead the troops to relieve the siege."

"If the hope of reinforcements is shattered now, then the rebels will inevitably be divided internally, and we can spread the word that as long as we capture the son-in-law of Hao Chongming, we will be exonerated."

"In this way, I believe that there is no need to send troops, and there will be problems within the rebels."

"Good ......" Zhu Xieyuan listened to Sun Chuanting's words, smiled and stroked his beard with great satisfaction, while Du Wenhuan frowned tightly and said very unhappily:

"The rebels are cunning and alien, if they don't kill them today, they may bring disaster to the frontier in the future."

"I have been in my Han family for more than 200 years, how can I summarize it in one sentence?" Sun Chuanting responded seriously on the surface, but he sneered lightly in his heart.

The southwest is different from the north, and the nomads always have to come into contact, while the southwest is scattered because of the terrain, and can only rely on the Tusi to maintain the relationship between the various tribes.

As long as the Tusi of each ministry is captured and killed, the rest of the people will continue to cultivate honestly under the governance of the Ming Dynasty.

At present, as long as Hao Chongming is captured, the local people of Yongning will become a plate of scattered sand and cannot gather together.

"Okay......"

Zhu Xieyuan saw that the smell of gunpowder was getting heavier and heavier, so he immediately interrupted, and then said to Cao Wenzhao:

"General Cao, please ask your subordinate Duogan Camp to spread the news."

"The last general commands!" When Cao Wenzhao heard this, he knew that this was Zhu Xieyuan's opportunity to make meritorious contributions to himself, so he immediately returned the salute, and then after Zhu Xieyuan announced that they would return to the camp, he and Sun Chuanting and the other three left the city gate tower.

However, when they left, Zhu Xieyuan walked behind the female wall and looked down, looking at the backs of the four of them, his brows furrowed slightly, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a while, he also left the city, and Cao Wenzhao spoke on the way back with the other three:

"Three, now it seems that the rebels' rebellion should be extinguished soon, in that case, I wonder if the three of them want to be promoted after the war?"

Cao Wenzhao's words made everyone stop, and the reason why Cao Wenzhao said this was naturally assigned by Zhu Youzhen.

Although Zhu Youzhen wanted Wu Aheng or Yang Wenyue to stay in Sichuan, let Hong Chengchou return to the Governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and let Sun Chuanting go to Shaanxi.

But some things are not as good as he thinks, Sun Chuanting has done a good job in Shaanxi in history, which does not mean that he knows and favors Shaanxi enough at this time.

Therefore, he asked Cao Wenzhao to come to the stone to ask for directions, which can be regarded as seeing the hearts of these people.

Cao Wenzhao is a martial artist and doesn't know so much, so seeing that the war is not far from the end, he should also send a message to his Royal Highness, so he asked.

In this regard, Yang Wenyue was the first to respond: "If I can, I hope to go to Biansai as an official." ”

Yang Wenyue is not stupid, he knows that he is a person cultivated by the Sichuan Party, and if he stays in Sichuan, I am afraid that at the behest of the Sichuan Party officials, he will clash with King Qi who takes care of him.

At this point, in fact, from the beginning of Zhu Youzhen's action against the health office and private salt, Yang Wenyue had an idea.

Therefore, what he wants most is to transfer out of Sichuan, and it is better to stay away from Sichuan.

For his words, Cao Wenzhao responded slightly, and then looked at Wu Aheng and Sun Chuanting.

Wu Aheng didn't have any idea where to go, so after thinking about it, he said, "It's all up to the Shangguan in the capital." ”

The words were not too obvious, but Cao Wenzhao also knew that Wu Aheng was expressing his position, he looked at Sun Chuanting after bowing his head, but Sun Chuanting said something that surprised Cao Wenzhao.

"If I can, I hope that the imperial court can transfer me and my soldiers to Liaodong."

Obviously, Sun Chuanting was still very indignant about the Liao affair, and these words made Cao Wenzhao speechless.

He had only finished the Battle of Shenliao for less than half a year, so he naturally knew what the hell the situation in Liaodong was like.

If Sun Chuanting goes to Liaodong, it is estimated that he will have to work defense for a long time, and it is impossible to make merits.

Therefore, Cao Wenzhao vaguely reminded: "Liaodong has enough soldiers and horses at the moment, and the old slaves don't dare to easily offend the border, does Governor Sun want to think about the northwest?" ”

"......" Cao Wenzhao said this, Sun Chuanting frowned slightly, and immediately knew that King Qi wanted him to go to the northwest.

Although he still wanted to go to Liaodong, in order not to refute the face of King Qi, he still thought about it and said:

"If you can, Yansui is not bad......"

"Haha, Yansui is good, it's a good place!" Hearing Sun Chuanting's words, Cao Wenzhao laughed, then said goodbye, turned around and left.

Seeing this, the other three also took their leave, and then returned to their camps.

After Cao Wenzhao returned to the camp, he first wrote a letter to Zhu Youzhen, and then asked someone to count the people.

After the counting, there were still 2,600 people in the Duogan camp when they came out of Tibet, but now there are only more than 1,800 people left, which makes Cao Wenzhao feel a little heartbroken.

Although commanding this group of guards and guards needs the help of the officials of the Siyi Pavilion to translate, this group of guards and guards is really useful.

"No, I have to ask His Highness to add something to me."

With careful consideration, Cao Wenzhao praised the quality of the guards at the end of the letter, and then vaguely asked Zhu Youzhen if he could let the various departments of the guards and Tibets transfer some soldiers and horses.

"Whew!"

After writing the letter, he blew the ink, and then when the ink dried, he sent it to the capital five hundred miles in an urgent manner, and then arranged for the military scribe to write a letter of persuasion.

At night, Cao Wenzhao asked the guards to start using bows and arrows to shoot arrows carrying letters of persuasion, so as to spread the news.

Not surprisingly, when the contents of these letters of surrender were seen, the rebel army, which was already close to collapse, was completely disorganized.

"Bastard! Darn! ”

In the yamen of Yongning Xuanfu Division, Luxury Chongming, who was wearing a cloak, waved the long knife in his hand, constantly slashing the surrounding furniture, and Fan Long took people to protect Luxury Chongming's family scroll, for fear of being injured.

In just one night, more than 9,000 soldiers and horses surrendered and fled, and more than 3,000 were still expanding.

Lost......

At this moment, Fan Long understood that they had lost this battle, and they had misjudged the combat strength of the Ming army.

I thought that the Ming army had been beaten like that in Liaodong, and the strength of the southwest should be worse, but I didn't want to encircle and suppress them like this just by the southwest soldiers and horses.

Less than two and a half months after the start of the war, it was already at the end of its rope, and it was impossible to even break through......

"Fan Long!"

Suddenly, the extravagant Chongming who was slashing the furniture turned his head to look at Fan Long, and Fan Long also hesitated to take a step forward and said, "Father-in-law......"

"You lead someone to break through......"

In a word, Lu Chongming seemed to be more than ten years old, and his legs suddenly became weak, and the whole person knelt on the ground.

"Father-in-law!"

"Daddy!"

Extravagant Chongming's words made everyone unable to hide their sorrow, and they all bowed their heads and cried.

At this time, Yu Chongming raised his head and said: "Since I lost, the family scroll will inevitably be humiliated by the Ming army, if you are my blood, wife and daughter, you can do it yourself." ”

After that, Yu Chongming threw the long knife in his hand in front of the family scroll, and this practice made everyone take a step back.

No one wants to die, but the current situation is clearly not going to make a breakthrough.

The Ming army is more than 30,000 auxiliary soldiers, and the water surrounding the city gates is impassable, and there are still people inside them who continue to surrender, how to fight such a situation?

Fan Long gritted his teeth, then turned his head to his lieutenant and said:

"Lead someone to pour fire oil on the house, and after setting the fire, you will bring someone down!"

"General!" Hearing this, the adjutant general suddenly panicked and knelt directly on the ground with a frightened expression.

"Go!" Fan Long roared and raised his foot to kick him over.

The general came to his senses after kicking over, crawled out of the yamen with a roll, and then ordered someone to start pouring fire oil and preparing to set it on fire.

At this moment, all the extravagant family scrolls cried loudly, and many concubines ran to the door, ready to escape.

However, seeing this, Fan Long pulled out his waist knife and slashed at the person who tried to escape.

After half a ring, all of Xuan Chongming's family scrolls were killed by Fan Long, and he also carried a blood-stained waist knife and walked in front of Xuan Chongming, who ignored everything.

"Father-in-law......" He was struggling, but Yu Chongming looked up at him, got up and ripped off his clothes, bare his chest and breasts, and said, "Be happy!" ”

"Poof"

The voice sounded, Fan Long stabbed the knife into the heart of Luxury Chongming, looked at Luxury Chongming's eyes widened, subconsciously grabbed the back of the waist knife, and then knelt down unwillingly, fell to the ground and died.

"Ahh

！ ”

Fan Long roared angrily, and drew his knife and was about to wipe it off his neck, but after the knife was on his neck, he didn't do it for a long time.

"Fuck! Fan Long, you bastard! ”

For a while, tears and snot poured out from Fan Long's face, as if he was laughing at his cowardice.

It was also at this time that the Yongning Xuanfu Division was ignited by the fire, and there was a faint sound of shouting in the distance.

Fan Long, who didn't dare to kill himself, after hearing this sound, rushed to the gate like crazy, and at the same time cut off the bolt with a knife, he pushed open the gate and saw the Ming army rushing from the main alley.

"High in the Sky"

"It's good! It's all down! Ahh

He first muttered, then began to go a little crazy, and finally roared and rushed towards the Ming army, but was swallowed up by the crowd in the next moment.

At this point, the luxury Chongming department, which took the lead in rebellion, was all annihilated except for Fan Hu.