Chapter 301: Battle of Chengdu

After hearing the news of Wang Hongyu in Chengdu, some people were anxious and wanted to take the opportunity to attack directly at night:

"I heard that General Wang is a descendant of the Sichuan army, and the battle of the Hunhe River raised my bloody nature, and if he can come to support, the rebels will be shocked."

After thinking about it, Zhu Xieyuan rejected the plan to make a hasty attack: "The luxury family has a lot of troops, and they occupy a large area between Chongqing and Chengdu. The reinforcements arrived in Jiangling first, and when they came along the river, it is estimated that they will be blocked in Chongqing, and it is impossible to rescue us so quickly. ”

Everyone also knows this, isn't there still Yuan Keli of Yungui?

Zhu Xieyuan sighed and said: "The governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, it is easy to enter Guizhou from Yunnan, from Yunnan through the vast southern Sichuan, and then to Chengdu, but it is not easy, it will take at least a month to arrive."

Everyone was a little depressed, but Zhu Xieyuan suddenly climbed high and shouted:

"Chengdu must hold on for a month! I can't keep it for a month, and the responsibility is on me! In a month, reinforcements will arrive!

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His old bones seemed to have the power to cover mountains and rivers in an instant, and everyone was inspired by him and determined to stick to Chengdu.

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Extravagant Chongming fought all the way from Luzhou to Chengdu, and it can be said that he was like a bamboo, and he rarely encountered relatively large resistance.

Everywhere Bingfeng went, there was almost no decent resistance and it fell, and the remaining civil and military officials fled and surrendered.

He organized all these surrendered soldiers and gathered young men into an army, and also carried a large number of homeless refugees. His army had grown from 50,000 to 80,000.

This made his soldiers and horses swell rapidly, thinking that it was the will of the people and the destiny of heaven, and after conquering Ziyang, he established himself as the king and established the Great Liang State.

He made all the generals who rebelled with him a big official, claiming to have hundreds of thousands of troops, and the momentum was very big, and he wanted to take Chengdu in one go and completely occupy the Chengdu Plain.

The Yongning rebels left Hao Yin and Hao Yin to lead 40,000 Tusi. The mixed army composed of surrendered troops and young and strong troops guarded the area of Ziyang and Luzhou on the eastern front, and at the same time collected the stragglers, and prevented the Ming army from killing the large army from the east.

Luxury Chongming led a mixed army composed of 60,000 Tusi, surrendered soldiers, and young and strong to Chengdu.

I saw a sea in the west of the city, and half of the land in the east of the city was flooded. Scouts were sent to detour from the east of the city to the north of the city to check, and found that the north of the city was also an ocean.

Chengdu Mansion is in the middle of the Chengdu Plain and low-lying, the south of the city is slightly higher and has not been flooded, and now the water is flowing southwest. However, there is still a lot of water flowing from Dujiangyan in the northwest of the city.

Yu Chongming could only attack the city from the south and east of the city, and there was no submerged position.

Chengdu is a big city, the foundation of the city wall and its ground above the battle are all made of stone, the upper part is the rammed earth city wall with inner soil and outer bricks, the city wall is four battles high, very solid.

The extravagant family attacked Chengdu with a very large number of troops. He also became the king, made official wishes everywhere, and spread all kinds of rumors.

In the Ming Dynasty, civil officials were corrupt, and military attachés were treated as second-class citizens for a long time, and the people in the south never got rid of the status of five-class citizens in the Mengyuan and Yuan dynasties.

He saw that the south and east of Chengdu were heavily guarded.

Immediately send the people who were brought in to make a ladder and prepare to attack the city from the eastern wall.

In the afternoon, a pair of Tusi soldiers drove the soldiers and the young recruits carried ladders and set up ladders on the ditch, preparing to build a ladder at the base of the city wall.

The black pressure pressed a mixed army, surrounded the waterless place on the east side of the city wall, and there was a tendency for Mount Tai to press the top for a while.

The soldiers and civilians defending the city began to shout in bamboo tubes: "Listen to the people of the Ming Dynasty under the city: Don't die for Yongning Tusi, once you follow the Yongning Tusi soldiers to attack the city, you will become traitors, traitors, and traitors!" ”

"Even if you survive, you will always be nailed to the pillar of shame, and your children and grandchildren will carry a lifetime of infamy!"

At this time, the recruits who carried the ladder slowed down, and more than a dozen of them were killed by the Tusi soldiers behind.

At this time, a loudspeaker with a paper lake stretched out from the battlement and shouted: "Brother Da Ming who was arrested on the other side, did you see it?" This is what Hao Chongming said that all ethnic groups are equal, so why can Tusi soldiers kill Han people? ”

"You won't forget, will you? How many Sichuan people did Meng Yuan kill 300 years ago? Won't forget the humiliation of fifth-class citizens, right? ”

The sound of repeating the above words was heard in many places on the city wall, and it turned out that Zhu Xieyuan ordered many crank paper horns, and the synchronized sound came from miles away.

Chongming brought more than half of the troops and Qingzhuang, and the entire city instantly blew up the nest, and when Chongming saw that the situation was not right, he immediately ordered the troops to retreat.

He learned Meng Yuan's siege tactics, and when the number of prisoners exceeded the number of Tusi soldiers, using the prisoners as cannon fodder for the siege was to find death.

After returning to the camp, in order to buy people's hearts, Yu Chongming beheaded the Tusi soldiers who killed the captured recruits in public, and re-declared the equality of all ethnic groups, which calmed the emotions of the captured recruits.

The next day, the siege no longer let the captured recruits be used as cannon fodder, he knew that after all, the Yi people were much less than the Han people, and if they wanted to be the king of Sichuan for a long time, they must rely on the Han people.

Over the course of a few days, more than 100 people climbed the city walls only once, but they were quickly killed. There has been no effect since.

Yu Chongming found that the place on the east side of the city wall that had been covered by water had been trampled and had become muddy, so he simply changed the main direction of attack to the south of the city.

The rebels built bridges and attacked from the south, because the city wall was too high, and it was impossible to use the ladder, and the ladder full of people was overturned by two people with bamboo poles, and they gave up after killing and wounding thousands of Tusi soldiers.

The arrow attack was also cracked by the bamboo curtain invented by Hou Liangzhu, and more than 100,000 arrows were inserted into the bamboo curtain in a few days, becoming the trophy of the Ming army.

He used the night to transport the pre-made wooden bridge components to the trench, and during the day he held a shield to cover the carpenters to build the bridge.

Zhu Xieyuan and Hou Liangzhu arranged many small trebuchets on the city wall, specially throwing stones at crowded places, killing many shield soldiers and bridge builders.

Finally built several bridges, and was pushing the Lu bus onto the bridge, not wanting to fly out of the city more than 20 stone steps, hit the bridge and collapse on the bridge, hit the Lu bus and directly broke up.

It turned out that there was a lack of stones in Chengdu, and Zhu Xieyuan knew that there were quite a lot of stone steps in the city, so he just used a large stone thrower to launch from the city.

Luxury Chongming also tried to dig a tunnel, but the stone foundation of Chengdu City was too deep, and the water came out before digging under the stone foundation, and the tunnel was smashed down from the trench by a small trebuchet.

Zhu Xieyuan concentrated dozens of arquebuses in the city, ordered the gunners to wear helmets, masks, and two sets of armor, and shot the Tusi soldiers of the Tushan Army, so that the Yongning Tusi soldiers did not dare to go up the Tushan Mountain.

used a lot of tricks, all of which were cracked by Zhu Xieyuan, Hou Liangzhu and others.