When the news of the party guarding Su crossing the river was transmitted back to Li Laiheng, the commander of the Kui Dong Army frowned, he didn't say anything to the envoy of the party guarding the su, but after the messenger left, he couldn't help but complain: "Didn't you say that you would oppress the prisoners to retreat?" It's all said that it's good, why did it change as soon as it went to the battlefield. ”

Originally, Yuan Zongdi was asked to follow Dang Shousu, that is, to let the moderate faction go to see the radical faction, and after discovering the flaws of the Qing army, Dang Shousu immediately launched an attack, but Yuan Zongdi was unwilling to advance. After dragging on for a whole day and not seeing the Qing army send reinforcements, the party was really impatient, and launched an offensive on his own without waiting for Yuan Zongdi's coordination. Until Dang Shousu took the Qing army camp next to the Jialing River, Yuan Zongdi did not cross the river.

However, Liu Tichun on the other side of the Yangtze River did not know what was happening, and in the night, he saw the fire and heard the shouts of killing, and knew that there was a Ming army crossing the river. The incident happened suddenly, Liu Tichun couldn't understand why Yuan Zongdi suddenly crossed the river, he cared about his old comrades-in-arms, and hurriedly asked He Zhen to cover the back road, and took his headquarters across the Yangtze River to join the attacking troops. There were many ships of the Ming army on the Yangtze River, and Liu Tichun crossed the river very quickly, only to find that it was only a party guard, and Yuan Zongdi and Wang Guangxing did not follow.

After urgently interrogating the prisoners, they learned that the strength in Chongqing was still very strong, and Liu Tichun was afraid that the Qing army would go out to counterattack, so he was busy deploying defenses all night. But the next day, there was no movement in Chongqing, and when they saw that there was still a small camp of the Qing army by the river, they also took it.

After seizing the baggage in the Qing army's camp, Dang Shousu looked very proud: "I said a long time ago that the Tartars are vulnerable, right?" ”

The soldiers of the Shanxi Green Battalion who were captured all said that their commanders had been scolding the Ganshan Green Battalion since they left the city, saying that they were afraid of the enemy like tigers, and all of them were cowards. At first, the party was also suspicious, but after a day, he basically believed this statement: the strength of the Ming army crossing the river was far inferior to the Chongqing defenders, and the Ming army's foothold was not stable, and the Qing army's retreat and grain route were cut off, but the Qing army could not muster the courage to go out of the city to counterattack.

Last night, when Dang Shousu crossed the river and attacked secretly, he also knew very well that he was taking a risk, and if the battle situation was unfavorable, he would quickly retreat to the other bank; When deploying defense with Liu Tichun, the two of them also agreed that if the Qing army attacked fiercely and the friendly troops were not timely enough, they would still have to retreat to the beachhead and wait for reinforcements. But now Dang Shousu no longer thinks so, and after he brought out the food in the Qing army camp for the soldiers to eat, he suggested that Liu Tichun march to Chongqing side by side.

"It is indeed a group of defeated generals, and they have been broken." Liu Tichun also felt that he seemed to be a little overestimated by the strength of the Qing army. Thinking about what Dang Shousu said, it also makes sense, Chongqing has been defeated many times in these days, and his son said in a letter that even a general like Wang Mingde has been released three times -- if Wang Mingde is caught again this time, Liu Tichun probably won't have much intention of killing him.

However, the strength of the two was only a quarter of that of the Kuidong coalition army, and they had not completely crossed the river, so Liu Tichun felt that it was too reckless to march to Chongqing with such a small number of troops. At the same time that Dang Shousu reported Li Laiheng's victory, Liu Tichun asked his subordinates to inform Yuan Zongdi and He Zhen, asking them to abandon their original plan and cross the river to join forces with him.

Liu Tichun had just sent an envoy, and Yuan Zongdi's messenger had also crossed the Jialing River to meet the second general. If the Qing army went out of the city to counterattack, Yuan Zongdi suggested that they make way of a passage and still carry out the plan of encircling three queyi at the previous military meeting.

"It would be nice if Li Guoying had this guts." Dang Shousu snorted: "If he dares to go out of the city, of course it would be good to surround Sanqueyi, but now he will shrink in Chongqing City and wait for death." ”

After seeing Liu Tichun's envoy, He Zhen quickly led troops across the river to join forces with Liu Tichun and Dang Shousu, while Yuan Zongdi was still hesitating. After another day, Liu Tichun and the other three began to approach the Chongqing city wall, and Wang Guangxing also sent someone to ask if he needed to cross the river and launch an attack on Chaotianmen in order to contain Chongqing's forces.

At this time, Li Laiheng was in a dilemma, although the party did not do it completely according to the plan, but it was clear that the other party's camp was empty, and since the other party had flaws, it could not be said that it was wrong to fight. Liu Tichun saw the outbreak of war, and it was not wrong to rush across the river to help. On the other hand, Yuan Zongdi strictly followed the prior plan, and there was nothing that could not be said about the use of troops. The two sides are now fighting the pen and ink lawsuit to Li Laiheng and let him, the commander-in-chief, judge, and Li Laiheng feels that he has no sufficient reason to blame either side.

While the three generals crossing the river and Yuan Zongdi were arguing, their march to Chongqing did not stop. After learning that the Ming army had approached the Chongqing city wall from the west, Li Laiheng felt the need to revise the plan.

"General Liu and General Dang sent the prisoners, I personally asked, the Tartars in Chongqing City are indeed cowardly, since it is completely different from what we thought in advance, then it is also appropriate to change the original plan." Li Laiheng called Yuan Zongdi's subordinates and asked him to bring the words back with a pleasant face: "Our original plan was to let General Wang continue to stay on the other side of Chaotianmen and contain some of the defending enemies, but now I want to let General Wang cross the river together and let General Yuan take over General Wang's defense area, I don't know what General Yuan thinks?" ”

After the messenger who rushed back repeated Li Laiheng's words, Yuan Zongdi sighed and said to the left and right: "Dang Shousu has been shouting that the siege of Sanque Yi will not succeed, and he also used the defeat of the siege of Chongqing last time by Bengong and Admiral Deng as a reason; But at this time and at that time, now Li Guoying is isolated and helpless, and there are no reinforcements to relieve him, as long as we are patient, he will definitely withdraw his troops. But now that everyone has crossed the river, how can I pull them back? ”

Yuan Zongdi once again asked the envoy to reply to Li Laiheng, telling the other party that he would cross the river at a certain time and join everyone in the city of Chongqing. However, he told the envoy that he must not reveal his complaints to Li Laiheng.

After the envoy left, Yuan Zongdi asked his subordinates to prepare to cross the river. He called the henchmen of the main battalion. After the First Battle of Zhongxian, the combat effectiveness of this army became more impressive, and Yuan Zongdi also learned a lesson and kept this battalion at hand at all times: "You know that this duke does not advocate crossing the river, and he does not want to force Li Guoying and his gang into a desperate situation where they have to fight desperately. But General Liu is my brother, and he has been calling my father-in-law big brother for many years; Li Hushuai is the commander of this time, and he is also the junior of his father; They are all working the edge of Chongqing, and their fathers can't help it. ”

At the beginning, it was decided to leave Wang Guangxing on the other side of Chaotianmen to contain him, because his relationship with Chuang Ying was relatively estranged, and if Yuan Zongdi changed positions with him, it would be faintly as if Wang Guangxing was not regarded as his own person in Kui Dongjun. After explaining, Yuan Zongdi also crossed the Jialing River with soldiers and horses, and after he crossed the river, he saw that Li Laiheng was also commanding soldiers and horses to cross the Yangtze River.

More than 50,000 Ming troops, and more than 40,000 people appeared at the western end of the Chongqing Peninsula in the blink of an eye, blocking the road leading from the Chongqing Peninsula to Baoning.

When the Qing troops in Chongqing City saw this scene, they all looked solemn. Their armor was only half of the Ming army, and the road was so narrow that it was undoubtedly difficult to fight a bloody way out of the thick Ming army's position; Chongqing did not have a sailor who could compete with the Ming army, and it was impossible to break through from the waterway. A few days ago, when Liu Tichun had just crossed the river, many people were anxious to launch a counterattack, but Li Guoying dragged his feet, and the Ganshan Green Battalion also dragged his feet, resulting in missing the best opportunity for a counterattack, and now Chongqing has become a dead place.

When they were summoned by Li Guoying today, many generals were still full of complaints in their hearts, and they hated Li Guoying's slow response. However, before they could explode all these grievances, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi confessed: "I deliberately only let a thousand green battalion soldiers go out of the city to set up camp, just to attract Kui Dong thieves to cross the river and sneak attack, I know that they will definitely not honestly retreat after they succeed; And in the past two days, I have delayed time and disagreed to go out of the city to counterattack, also because I don't want to withdraw at all, so I hope that the Kui Dong thieves will block the retreat as soon as possible. ”

Seeing that the generals of the Ganshan Green Battalion were all calm, the people of the Manchu Han Eight Banners and the Shanxi Green Battalion immediately realized that these people were all accomplices.

Many people looked at Li Guoying's eyes and were about to erupt into flames, and Sun Sike asked loudly: "Why does the governor want to bully the people?" ”

"The officers and soldiers of the whole city should understand that if the city is broken, no one will want to live." Li Guo's tone was calm: "There is a saying in the art of war: if you die, you will fight, and now Chongqing is a dead land." ”

"Why doesn't the Governor speak to us?" Although Sun Sike understood Li Guoying's thoughts, he was still extremely dissatisfied with him hiding from him.

"This governor is indeed a bully," Li Guoying stood up, clasped his fists at those angry subordinates, and said, "This is indeed the official's." ”

No one made a sound, Sun Sike and the others straightened their waists, accepted Li Guoying's salute alive, and continued to stare at each other's faces tightly.

"This official has to make this decision because you can't trust this official. The reason why I didn't hide it from them," Li Guoying pointed to Wang Mingde and others: "It's because they can trust this official." ”

"Why can't we trust the Governor?" Sun Sike couldn't help but scream.

"You can't believe that this official can win this battle," Li Guoying replied calmly, "Isn't it?" ”

This rhetorical question left Sun Sike and the others speechless. But Li Guoying continued: "Now that the official is telling you bluntly, I will no longer deceive you, and I hope that you can repay the favor, believe in the official once, and believe that the official can win this battle." ”

Li Guoying announced his thoughts, because he was no longer worried about Sun Sike and they knew their intentions, but they were worried that they doubted their judgment and could not carry out their every instruction with confidence.

Sun Sike smiled bitterly, looked back at the Shanxi generals and bannermen behind him, they all hung their heads like defeated roosters, Sun Sike said to Li Guoying: "The life of the last general is in the hands of the governor, I just hope that the governor will not hide it from the last general in the future." ”

"I'll leave it to the official," Li Guoying nodded: "The official will definitely be with you." ”