Wu Xi presided over military affairs in Xingyuan Mansion for a long time, so he set up a left-behind division in the city, and handed over Chengdu to his most reassuring clan brother Wu Xi to guard, and there were 15,000 defenders. After Wu Xi officially rebelled against the Song Dynasty, he increased the defenders of Chengdu to 20,000. 10,000 are stationed in the city, divided into four military camps in the southeast, northwest and northwest, and 10,000 are stationed outside the city, divided into two military camps in the north and south, and the two main generals are Yang Juyuan and Ren Xin. Outside the east gate, there was a dense residential area, and Ling Xiang, who had infiltrated Chengdu in advance, had heard about these situations clearly, so he decided to set the direction of the raid on Chengdu at the west gate.

Before leaving, Li Haoyi told Yang Yan that he knew Yang Juyuan, the Hecang supervisor of the garrison outside the South Gate, and knew that Yang Juyuan was loyal and righteous, so he was willing to persuade Yang Juyuan to surrender. Yang Yan agreed with Li Haoyi's suggestion, but now he was not sure that Yang Juyuan would definitely surrender, so he decided to let Li Haoyi persuade him to surrender after launching an attack.

After thinking about it repeatedly, Cheng Mengxi, the magistrate of Jintang County, finally decided that he could only follow Yang Yan now, and there was no other choice, so he also suggested to Yang Yan that he and Yang Fu, the prefect of Chengdu, were jinshi in the same year, and the relationship between the two was good.

At this time, the Song army had rested for five or six hours, had eaten a full meal, basically recovered their strength, and now they were ambushed outside the city, and everything was ready. However, they did not have any siege equipment, only twenty rafts to cross the moat, and now they could only wait for the inner city to start first. It can be said that this is the most important battle since entering Sichuan, but now I can only wait patiently.

"It's been the second watch, why is there no movement in the city now?" Although it had only been there for a while, it seemed that she had been waiting for a long time, and Zhao Yueru couldn't help but feel a little breathless. In fact, everyone else also knows that this battle is very important, so they are somewhat anxious. It's just that it's not good to ask Yang Yan, and when Zhao Yueru asked, she also looked at Yang Yan.

Yang Yan also knew everyone's emotions, and said: "Don't worry, everyone, it's just the second watch day, Chengdu is a big city, even if Ling Xiang starts in the city immediately, it will take a certain amount of time to react, be patient." ”

As he was talking, suddenly on the city wall of Chengdu, there was a riot among the soldiers guarding the city, and the soldiers left their posts and ran back and forth on the city wall, talking to each other, obviously very flustered. Many of the soldiers left the battlements and turned to the side of the city, apparently because something had happened in the city.

Yang Yan perked up and said, "It must be Ling Xiang who made a move in the city, let's go quickly, we must capture Chengdu tonight." ”

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In fact, at this time, Ling Xiang and his entourage were ordered by Yang Yan to disguise themselves as businessmen and sneak into Chengdu for seven or eight days.

Although when Yang Yan pacified Manichaeism in the past, Ling Xiang also did something similar to sneaking into the city first to do internal response, but the scale of Chengdu was much larger than any previous city, with a population of more than 200,000 in the city alone, a garrison of 10,000 troops, and 10,000 horses outside the city, who could enter the city at any time to support. Although this time the Song army had thousands of people mixed into the city, it was not easy to break through Chengdu if they wanted to cooperate with the outside and break through Chengdu.

Therefore, Ling Xiang didn't dare to be careless, in the past few days, he had already figured out the main streets in Chengdu, and he also knew how to ambush, how to create chaos, and so on. He chose six places in the city as places to set fire to the city. And arrange for a hundred disguised soldiers to move in around each location, so that they can take advantage of the opportunity. These six places happen to be centered on Wu Xu's garrison department's yamen, forming a circle, and once they create chaos, they can also temporarily contain the attention of the garrison division. And without exception, it was a convenient place to get around, which was conducive to the soldiers to set fire and flee immediately. Now just wait for Yang Yan's army to arrive, and then you can start to proceed.

At noon today, Shui Yue, Shui Jing and Hong Shu'er entered the city to contact Ling Xiang, and agreed that at the second watch in the evening, the inside and the outside should be combined to break through Chengdu. Ling Xiang immediately passed down the order everywhere, and the second envoy acted tonight. Then he arranged the remaining more than 400 people to ambush near the gate of Xicheng, and waited for the chaos in the city, so he took the opportunity to kill the defenders who were defending the city, opened the city gate, and let Yang Yan's army enter the city.

But what Ling Xiang didn't expect was that the guards in the city were obviously strengthened tonight, usually there were only more than 500 guards at each gate at night, but tonight it was nearly doubled, with nearly 1,000 guards. Fortunately, most of them were stationed on the city walls, and only more than 200 people remained under the city to guard the gates. It is not too difficult to capture the city gates, but despite this, if the army outside the city does not follow up in time, then even if the city gate is captured, it may be recaptured by the defenders.

Sure enough, when it came to the second watch, six places in Chengdu caught fire together, and the fire burned quickly, and the residents who were sleeping were awakened and fled to the street, panicking and watching the fire spread. In addition, the Song army continued to create chaos in the city, one would say that it was robbers who entered the city to rob, another would say that Wu Xi colluded with the Jin soldiers to enter the city, and another would say that the imperial court had sent a large army to attack Chengdu and other rumors, which added to the atmosphere of turmoil.

Chengdu has been peaceful for more than 150 years, and even the southern invasion of the Jin soldiers did not reach the vicinity of Chengdu. The inhabitants thought they hadn't seen a sword fight for generations, so it could withstand such a shock. In less than half an hour, rumors suddenly spread in the city, and the people were panicked, and there were (56 books) The people closed the gate tightly and did not dare to come out, but most of the people were running around the streets, some people put out the fire, some people sought the yamen for help, and some people wanted to escape from the city.

Ling Xiang and the others were ambushed at the west gate, and although the turmoil did not spread here, the chaos in the city was great, and the silence of the fire everywhere could also be seen and heard. The soldiers defending the city did not know what was happening, and they were at a loss for a moment.

Ling Xiang took advantage of this opportunity and immediately gave the order to attack. Four hundred men came out of four streets and stormed the gates. There were not many soldiers guarding the door, and they were caught off guard, and they were suddenly disrupted, and they died and fled. The Song army soon captured the city gate hole, but there were thirty or forty defenders who were blocked in the city gate hole and could not get out, so they had to rely on the city and resist desperately, and they could not open the city gate without killing these defenders. Because of the narrowness of the place, the Song army could not spread its strength, and it was stalemate for a while.