In order to prevent the enemy's night attack, Ouyang Xuan ordered the whole army to sleep in clothes, and set up double posts and double posts to strengthen vigilance. It's just that the Mongolian army in the city did not come to attack at night, and they did not even harass it, which made the Perak soldiers really sleep well. When Ouyang Xuan woke up on the second day, he saw that the camp was shrouded in a vast thick fog, not to mention that he couldn't see the city two miles away, and even the breastwork outside the camp was shadowed in the white fog. Although the winter days in western Sichuan are always gloomy, such fog is also extremely rare, and it is impossible to attack the city in this foggy weather, and it is all up to luck for the artillery to hit the target like letting a blind cat catch a mouse. At the same time, there was still no news from the naval army in the direction of Xinjin City, so Ouyang Xuan had no choice but to suspend the plan to attack the city and wait for the dense fog to dissipate before making plans.

At noon, the dense fog had all dispersed, but there was still no news from the Xinjinzhai naval army. Early in the morning, Cao Ergou sent a clipper to brave the fog and go down the river to make contact. To say that Xinjin City is only fifty miles away from Chongqing Mansion City, even if the navy ship goes against the current for a day, it can be reached in half a day, if it is a fast boat can be reached in half a day, but so far not only has not seen the Xinjin Zhai big ship, even the contact boat has not seen one, which is really strange. The soldiers of the Thunderbolt Army were already gearing up to try, but Ouyang Xuan thought about it again and again and decided to wait for the Xinjin City Naval Army and wait for the two armies to join forces before attacking the city.

The walls of this Chongqing Mansion are tall, and the moat, arrow tower and horse face are complete, which is not a little stronger than the defense of Yongkang City, and it is definitely a difficult bone to gnaw. For example, the light artillery has limited effect on the brick-clad wall, and to open the gap, it is necessary to send someone to break through to the base of the wall, and use explosives packs to blast it many times before it can be blown up, but this will consume a lot of gunpowder, and many Thunderbolt warriors will be killed or wounded. Ouyang Xuan and other Xinjin City sailors attacked the city together, not only for political considerations, but also to minimize the casualties of the Perak soldiers.

At dusk in the afternoon, there was still no news of the Xinjin City Naval Army, which made Ouyang Xuan a little anxious. "The soldiers are fast", the longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable it will be to the besieging side. This time in the attack on Fucheng, the Thunderbolt army came to assist as a guest army, but the protagonist did not appear for a long time, which is quite a bit of the emperor's unhurried eunuch's urgency. You must know that after conquering Chongqing Mansion, the Pan Command will definitely send people to garrison, and the Thunderbolt army will only retreat to the mountains. The supply lines of the Perak army were too long and there were no ships, and the attack on Chongqing could only take a time-consuming and laborious land route, and the pressure on the logistics transportation of grain, grass, ammunition and other logistics was very great. Ouyang Xuan thought about it again and again, and decided to prepare for the siege before it was dark, if the naval army came tomorrow, he would attack the city together, and if the Thunderbolt army did not come, he would also attack the city alone. The officers and soldiers of the Perak Army were already impatient, and after hearing the order, they were busy one after another, in fact, many preparations had already been completed, but the artillery did not measure and calibrate because of the fog. Seeing the abnormal movement of the Thunderbolt army camp, the new annex army at the head of the city also became alert, especially when a few test-fired shells hit the city wall, which made the city head even more chaotic.

After finishing the siege preparations, it was already twilight, at this time, the head soldiers began to cook food, overflowing with fragrance to make everyone hungry, Ouyang Xuan's heart moved, and he called Tang Xiangwei, the commander of the sixth company, and asked him to select more than ten soldiers with loud voices to bring fragrant bacon, flour cakes and other food to the bottom of the city tower and shouted: "Brothers of Chongqing Mansion, don't work hard for the Mongolian Tartars, come to the Thunderbolt army to eat and dress warmly", the hungry and hungry defenders at the head of the city heard Tang Xiangwei and other old people shouting, naturally there was a commotion.

In the middle of the night, the liaison clipper sent to Xinjin City returned. Ouyang Xuan saw that Yu Lao and the entourage were shivering from the cold, so he asked them to roast and eat first. After eating hot food, the faces of several people who were blue from freezing slowly turned black and red, but Yu Laoduan still looked depressed. Ouyang Xuan opened the idle people and waited, leaving only Cao Ergou and Huang Dagen beside him, listening to a few people talk about going to Xinjin City to contact the navy.

Since the departure, several people have been carefully observing the situation ahead while paddling at the helm. Although the speed of the boat was already extremely fast, Yu Laodui was still too slow to urge the oars all the way, and then he simply grabbed the oars and rowed by himself. This was originally understandable, after all, more than ten days have passed since he was sent to Wanjiaping as a liaison officer a year ago, and he really misses his brothers in the navy. They looked along the way while sailing, but they never saw the naval ships that were supposed to go up the river, until they sailed to the naval camp in Xinjin City, they saw that the warships were still parked at the berth, and they had no intention of setting sail at all.

On the way to the Yamen of the Navy, Yu Laodug asked about the situation of the Navy's immobility, but all his colleagues were secretive. Yu Laodu, who was full of anger, had to go to meet the new leader of the navy, Pan Luohuan, with a stomach full of dissatisfaction, but was severely reprimanded by him: "When to send troops is a military aircraft, this official has his own opinions, you should be a subordinate of this official, but why are you led by Ouyang Xuan?" Did you take his favor and speak for him? You go back and tell Ouyang Xuan, I have my own opinions on when to send troops, and I don't need him to make noise." Yu Lao blushed and was about to defend himself, but Pan Luohuan didn't give him a chance to speak at all, and directly expelled him from the navy yamen.

Yu Laodug was unwilling to go back, so he quietly went around to inquire about the news. A colleague with a good friend secretly told him that now Pan Tongzhi had accompanied Yu Xing, the deputy envoy of Sichuan and the prefect of Jiading Prefecture, to lead the army to Chengdu, and now Xinjin City is Pan Luohuan's final say. The reason why Pan Luohuan didn't set off for a long time was that he wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, if the Thunderbolt army won, the city would also belong to the Pan family, and if the Thunderbolt army was defeated, it would be better. Compared with the gains and losses of the city, Pan Luohuan was more willing to see the defeat of Ouyang Xuan and the Thunderbolt Army to vent his hatred.

The more Yu Lao dug talked, the more angry he became, so he told Pan Luohuan about the rejection of dissidents and Pan Luohuan's wanton behavior one by one. Under the misdeeds of the uncle and nephew, the original generals of the navy army were excluded, either dismissed from their posts or left, and the vacated positions were naturally placed by the Pan family's cronies. Le Quanan and Yu Laodu, who were originally officers skilled in naval warfare, were deliberately sent as messengers and liaison officers, and their vacated official positions were replaced by sycophants.

"The uncle and nephew of the Pan family have mistaken the country, and now the naval army of Xinjin City has almost no combat power, and the future is worrying," Yu Lao sighed angrily.