Chapter 190 The First Battle

Although he was forced to rebel by Han officials, Luxe Chongming is still a man who loves and hates clearly. When he led his troops to attack Nanxi, he was met with stubborn resistance from Wang Shuofu, the chief soldier of his subordinates, Luo Zugui and other 17 members of the general army took the lead and died in the battle under Nanxi City. In the face of the red-eyed soldiers, Yu Chongming warned his subordinates: "Wang Zhixian is a filial son and a Qing official, and he must not be killed on the day the city is broken." After the city was broken, some Yi soldiers rushed into the government office and killed Wang Shuofu, and Yu Chongming blamed him for violating the order, beheaded the soldier in front of the army, and at the same time buried Wang Zhixian with a generous ceremony, and expressed his loyalty and filial piety in mourning. During the attack on Chishui, the Ming general Zhang Dazhuang was killed in battle, leaving behind two young grandchildren. Later, when the Lu'an coalition army attacked Wusa, the guard officer Guan Liang gathered more than 70 Han households to escape from Qingshuigou and Wuergou "Jianbi Qingye" to fight against each other. Soon the village was broken, and Yu Chongming did not think it was a crime, and told the Han people to live with peace of mind, and no harm was done......

After the rebellion, Yu Chongming called himself the King of Daliang, An Bangyan called himself the King of Luodian - and several Tusi also had little creativity to call themselves the King of Luodian, in order to show his transcendent status, An Bangyan later changed his name to "Four Great Elders". It can be seen from the king's name that these two are really forced to rebel - their highest ideal is just to try to stand on their own and not get along with the old Ming Dynasty.

But......

How can it be!

The Ming Dynasty's consistent style is to force people all the way to the point where they can no longer bear to rise up, until the situation deteriorates completely out of control, and then crush it with the world's largest size advantage at the time - although every so-called victory will make itself bleed more and make the empire take a big step towards the brink of collapse, and that is not at all costs!

Objectively speaking, the Ming Empire at this time was like a tree, and the officials were like moths on the tree, each of which was desperately sucking the nutrients that the tree relied on for survival. Because they know that no matter how much they suck, there will always be something harder than themselves, and if they stop their mouths because they can't bear it, they will immediately be squeezed aside by other moths, and they can only suffer by themselves. Of course, they also knew that if they continued like this, no matter how thick the tree was, it would be hollowed out and fall down sooner or later, but they also believed that as long as they were fat enough, they would have more opportunities to survive until they climbed another tree!

Yu Chongming's main direction of attack is Sichuan, while An Bangyan concentrates on Guizhou. As we all know, Da Ming's ability to carry trouble is far less than one percent of his ability to cause trouble. In the early stage of the war, the combined forces of Yu Chongming and An Bangyan have always maintained the strategic initiative and have always pressed the Ming army to fight, if it were not for the birth of two talents, the empire is likely to collapse ten years early.

After taking Chongqing, Hao Chongming successively captured Fushun, Neijiang, Ziyang, Jianzhou (now Jianyang, Sichuan), Xindu, Longquan (now southeast of Chengdu, Sichuan) and besieged Chengdu. After the previous Zhang Hu's entrenchment attack and Fang Ge's anti-water, Sichuan Province's military equipment has been stretched, coinciding with the expiration of the Sichuan Fu Chen Shibo returned to Beijing without a ruler, at this time the city defenders were less than 2,000, for a time Chengdu people were panicked, a number of police overnight, in danger......

It is also God blessed, the anti-thief soldiers are coming to the city, and the king of Shu rarely understands: he asked Zuo Bu's political envoy Zhu Xieyuan to act as the governor - the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty does not manage things, although he has no right to make personnel appointments, but the matter is urgent, and Chitose's words still work. This Lord Zhu can be called a capable official, and the first thing he did when he took on the responsibility of defending the city showed sufficient ability: the four suburbs of Chengdu Prefecture were limited to 200 li, and grain was transported into the city to ensure that grain was stored in the city. At the same time, Fei Fei transferred Shi Yan to Xuanfu and made Qin Liangyu rush to the aid of the provincial capital.

Zhu Xieyuan also wrote a sincere letter to Sun Jie. Of course, Lord Zhu knew that Sun Jie's troops stationed in Baoning were closer to Chengdu Mansion, but Sun Ying was not a soldier of Sichuan Province, and Mo said that he was just a acting governor, even if it was a formal Sichuan Fu, Sun Jie was not subject to his control, so he could only ask for good words. However, in the eyes of Lord Zhu, this young chief military officer may not be able to count on it: everyone has their own little abacus, the extravagant thieves are more than ten times that of the Sun Department, the battalion soldiers are the private property of the generals, and any person with a normal mind, who will use the capital of his life to work hard for others? Sun Jie has enough reasons to prevaricate. Of course, Lord Zhu also sent six hundred miles to expedite the imperial military department, but the distant water does not quench the thirst of the near, and when the imperial court's troop transfer order comes down, it will take more than a month, at that time, it may be too late! As for asking the King of Shu to come forward to give Sun Jie an order, there is no need to think about it: under the Ming ancestral system, the vassal king has no right to mobilize any soldiers and horses except for the palace guards, even if the palace guards are out of the city, they must be approved by the Holy Son of Heaven himself! Therefore, giving Sun Jie an order can only backfire, and the generals will have enough reasons to find a place to settle down and slowly fight a lawsuit with you - the referee is of course the imperial court, and the two sides have sent a few letters to the Jingshi, which is not too much, and it will take a year or two to grind back and forth a few times, which is normal.

In fact, Zhu Xieyuan has another layer of worry in his heart: Even if Sun Bu comes, what can he do? is so young, and he has not reached the sky in one step by virtue of his father's military qualifications. He did drive Zhang Hu away a while ago, but that was mainly because Ma Qiancheng helped, right? Now that Ma Qiancheng is trapped in the Jingshi Prison, can this young man deal with hundreds of thousands of thieves alone? Can the wolf-like generals under him willingly accept his command? But don't be like Zhao Kuo on paper, like that, Chengdu will be ruined......

However, to the surprise of Lord Zhu, it is estimated that on the day when the messenger arrived in Baoning Mansion, Sun Jie actually arrived in Chengdu Mansion! Looking at the bloodstained and heroic young general, Lord Zhu couldn't help but be a little surprised. Seeing this, Sun Jie hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted: "Boss, the last family will be blessed by heaven, and this is a matter of duty." ”

Zhu Xieyuan was even more excited when he heard this: "Okay, good, Sun Shuai understands the righteousness, and he went to the dangerous city in person, the old man, the old man, the old man really doesn't know how to say it......" But seeing that Sun Jie only brought six or seven hundred people, the heart that had just been put down was raised again, "Sun Shuai only brought these soldiers and horses, I think it is a loyal body to the country starry night gallop to help." Others, well, others Marco should be careful, you can't be without a commander in the army for a day, Mo taught that extravagant thief to take advantage of the ......"

Sun Jie laughed: "The boss is relieved, the last general really only brought the personal guard battalion into the city." Several other battalions were now camped twenty miles away from Chengdu Mansion as a countermeasure. So that the old man will know that the last general has taken the new capital, and the thieves there have been driven away by the last general. ”

These words made Zhu Xieyuan stupid: "What? You didn't wait for the old man's letter to take the initiative to attack, and it only took you ten days to march five or six hundred miles, and you also took it with you to conquer the new capital? ”

Sun Jie was a little embarrassed by Lord Zhu's words: "Back to the old man, my father has repeatedly taught the last general that if the army is marching and camping, the military intelligence reconnaissance horse must be scattered hundreds of miles away to deal with the unexpected, and the last general has been stationed in Baoning Mansion for a period of time, and several sentry posts have been set up in Tongchuan Prefecture and Shunqing Mansion, and the detective horse can run farther." Several sentry posts have been reported one after another, and the extravagant thieves have committed Ziyang Jianzhou in Neijiang, and they don't need to look at the map to know that this thief must be trying to invade Chengdu Mansion along the water. If the thief startles the king of Shu and the king of Chitose, he will die in the end! Therefore, the whole army immediately set up camp to meet the adults. The whole battle of Sichuan Province's grain and grass support should be safe, and our army fortunately did not miss the foot. There are only a thousand rabble of extravagant thieves in the new capital, how can they defeat my Ming Wang's master? It's just a half-day drum battle.,It doesn't take much effort.。。 ”

These words made Zhu Xieyuan burst into tears, and two lines of tears poured out of Lord Zhu's eyes: "Tiger father has no dog!" Heroes have been teenagers since ancient times! God bless Daming, this is God bless Daming! ”

Although there are many people in the extravagant Chongming, they are all mountain people, more than brave, and equipment training is a weakness, and it is not a problem to fight those guards who have almost become waste wood, how can the dignified battle be able to defeat the trump card of the Ming Empire? Sun Jie took the new capital with a charge, left the tiger camp to defend the city, and asked the deputy general Shen Chenggang to lead the main force to be stationed in the middle of Chengdu Mansion and the new capital at any time, and ordered Shangguan Fei's horse team to be responsible for ensuring the smooth flow of official roads in the three places, and then brought his own guard Changjie battalion into the city to appease the people.

The unwilling extravagant Chongming faction sent Liu Yangkun to recapture the new capital, but was ambushed by Shi Jingsheng of the Panshi Camp on the way. The two consecutive defeats made him understand that this Ming army was completely different from what he had encountered before, so he temporarily gave up the idea of sending reinforcements and devoted himself to Chengdu to the death.

It's a pity that King Lu's previous experience in attacking fortified areas was only limited to attacking other Tusi's stockades, so he began to pile up mountains of earth outside the city at a glance - according to previous experience, as long as the pile is higher than the wall, not only can you see the defense inside the wall, but the condescending bombardment of the earth cannons can not hurt a few people, but it can often bring a huge blow to the morale of the defenders. Zhu Xieyuan couldn't help but panic when he saw the big mound of earth that was going to rise a lot every day dozens of zhang away, and wanted to ask the defenders to set off artillery bombardment, but Sun Jie stopped him with a smile: "Boss, our cannons and shells are limited, and it's not easy to say the accuracy, so we have to keep the tower to deal with the thieves and crash." Dare to tell the old man to be relieved, wait for two more days, and wait for the extravagant thieves to pile up higher, and this trick will be broken in half a day. ”

"The bow and arrow can't reach it, the bed crossbow is useless, don't fire the cannon, does Sun Shuai want to counterattack at night? Sun Shuai, let's just have this little soldier in front of us! "It seems that the worried Lord Zhu can still be called a soldier to some extent.

"Don't worry, boss, you don't need to counterattack. The last general knows what to expect. Sun Jie replied with a grin. returned to the handsome tent, asked someone to find Shen Chenggang, the two said something, and then Deputy General Shen left the city and returned to the station.

Seeing that the mound was on par with the city wall, Sun Jie called his own soldier Sheng Degong, wrote a warrant and ordered a few words, Sheng Degong took the order and went to Shen Chenggang, and then Sun Jie invited Zhu Xieyuan to the city to watch the battle. Seeing this, Zhu Xieyuan thought that Sun Jie was going to transfer the main force over for a surprise attack, so he asked, "Sun Shuai, how far is Vice General Shen from us?" ”

This sentence confused Sun Jie's question: "Back to the boss, Lao Shen has been camping twenty miles away from Fucheng?" He would not have moved his camp without the order of the last general. ”

"That'...... After marching twenty miles, immediately into battle, will the soldiers lose their physical strength? ”

"Back to my lord. Definitely. No one can do that. You can't wear armor on the march, otherwise you will walk twenty miles with dozens of pounds of iron, and you won't have to fight, and you will be tired and paralyzed. Sun Jie immediately set his eyes on the outside of the city, and continued to respectfully give Zhu Xieyuan a popular science, "When marching, the armor and weapons must be placed on the cart pushed by the auxiliaries, about ten miles away from the enemy, oh, it also depends on the terrain, if it is an easy-to-walk and wide official road, and the opponent is a luxury thief such a non-armored or light rattan soldier is farther away, twelve or thirteen miles, if it is a pothole and difficult to enter the field, it can be closer, such as five or six miles, and the whole army will stop and prepare for battle." At this time, you can also take a little rest to recover some energy. Therefore, it is very important to scout the horses of the military situation, not only to observe the enemy's situation, but also to pay attention to the road conditions, hills, waters, bridges, traffic capacity, and so on. Be sure to search your surroundings carefully in case of an enemy ambush...... These scouts are the elite of the army, and they want to discover the enemy's situation, and pass on the information of the generals at the first level, and the first one can hide themselves, and they don't need to participate in the war, and they can receive the first-level beheading merit after the war......" Speaking of this, he suddenly understood, turned his head and smiled at Zhu Xieyuan, "Didn't the boss think that the last general was going to transfer Lao Shen up, and then the last general would open the door again to raid and respond?" Hahaha, no. ”

As he was talking, there was a roar in the distance, and I saw a white line rushing towards Chengdu Mansion - a few days ago, Shen Chenggang had sent Su Yinghui, an auxiliary officer, to dig Dujiangyan in accordance with Sun Jie's order, and today he received an order to ignite several buried gunpowder, and the torrent rushed down, and in less than an hour, the earth mountain that Yu Chongming had worked hard to pile up for many days was washed into a quagmire.

Looking at the Yi soldiers struggling in the muddy water, Zhu Xieyuan was in ecstasy at first, and then turned from joy to worry: "Sun Shuai's water attack is indeed wonderful!" It's just that...... It's just a pity that the farmland of the people outside the city has been lost...... Alas, there is no way, it is difficult to have both sides, and it has to be like this. When the old man turns around, he will be exempted from some fields in the coming year. ”

Sun Jie hugged his fists: "The boss is dedicated to the people, and the general will admire it." Then he smiled again, and changed his words, "Please rest assured, the boss will be measured in the end, and the farmland will be fine." ”

Sure enough, the water came and went quickly-in order not to cause large-scale flooding, Su Yinghui only released water for half a day according to Sun Jie's prior order, and then filled in the excavation. Zhu Xieyuan, who was pleasantly surprised, couldn't help but look at the young general in front of him again.

Luxury Chongming was half angry to death, it took so many days of strength, the defenders did not go out of the city and a single soldier, and it was wiped out in just over an hour, although the water receded quickly and did not drown a few people, but looking at the surrounding subordinates who were like muddy soup from head to toe, he really couldn't swallow this breath: "Order, the whole army will attack the city!" ”

Well, if you can't see what the city looks like, then you can storm it, anyway, there are people, and they will fight hard to take down the Chengdu Mansion - when the time comes, with the Ming Emperor's relatives in their hands, they can always have a good talk with the Han people.