In the next few days, the Kuidong Army continued to attack fiercely.

The next day, Yuan Zongdi's subordinates climbed the city wall again and cut a long section of the city wall around Dingyuan Gate into a bare wall. Li Guoying judged that the Ming army could move from Yuan Zongdi's position to attack the city at any time, so Li Guoying transferred troops from other areas to strengthen the defense in this area. The Ming army in all other directions was still attacking, and Li Laiheng and others believed that if they could achieve more breakthroughs, then it would be easier to achieve victory and not give the Qing army a chance to resist stubbornly.

On the third day, Li Laiheng's soldiers also stripped off dozens of meters of wall tiles, while Liu Tichun gave up the direction of his assault and turned to He Zhen's rear. Unable to stay alone in the south, Dang Shousu also moved to the northwest of Chongqing. At this point, the Ming army basically gave up the attack on the southwest of Chongqing, and the front of the attack became a way of taking Yuan Zongdi as the left flank, Li Laiheng as the right flank, and the other three people gathered in the middle.

After seeing the deployment of the Ming army, Li Guoying sighed lightly: "I finally have a chance to break the enemy." ”

Until this time, Li Guoying still held half of the armored soldiers as a reserve, and the casualties of the Qing army in the three-day fierce battle with the Ming army on the front line had exceeded 1,000, and the losses of the Ming army were almost twice the number of Qing army losses.

The next two days were the most difficult for the Qing army in Chongqing. Yuan Zongdi blew down a section of the city wall near the Dingyuan Gate, opening a gap in the seemingly impregnable Chongqing city wall. Li Laiheng also carried out a blast, turning a city wall near Tongyuan Gate into a slope. At this time of the battle, many Qing officers and soldiers suspected that Li Guoying had underestimated the strength of the Ming army, and the Ming army's ability to destroy the city wall was much beyond everyone's imagination, and it seemed that there was no point in holding on to the city tower.

Another day, Liu Tichun's men painstakingly carried two large bells up and stuffed them mouth-to-mouth into the gap in the city wall dug out by He Zhen - although He Zhen had been thinking about being the first to rush into Chongqing City from the first day, he could never find a suitable place to dig the tunnel. He Zhen had neither Li Laiheng's equipment nor Yuan Zongdi's elite soldiers, so he could not firmly occupy the head of the wall and tear off all the walls. After seeing that Li Laiheng and Yuan Zongdi's progress was far faster than his own, He Zhen found a few stonemasons and forcibly nailed rings to the city bricks in Chongqing, pulled out the wall bricks made of these mountain rocks, and then dug holes in the wall soil.

After three days of hard work, He Zhen and Liu Tichun, who arrived later, finally took out a big hole, and after stuffing the two bells into it, the two of them cheered in unison - after working hard for so long, the hard work finally paid off.

After the loud explosion, the Qing army saw a third large opening appear in the city wall. Many Qing troops felt hopeless, so many gaps would increase the rate of attrition, and now that the geographical advantage of the mountain city was close to being lost, it was impossible to maintain the exchange ratio at about one to two in the next battle - even if it was maintained at this ratio, it might not be able to win, let alone maintain it?

But at this time, a fierce quarrel broke out within the camp.

When the blasting was completed, Liu Tichun found that the military rations had not yet arrived, and he finally couldn't bear to let the envoy go to Li Laiheng to argue with reason, although the grain and grass were not rich, and the most important wings needed to be guaranteed first; Although the offensive on the front for which he is responsible is progressing slowly, he should not go without food and grass for two days.

Liu Tichun and He Zhen felt that their tone was already quite tactful, if it weren't for the old friendship for many years, it is estimated that Liu Tichun and He Zhen would have scolded their mother.

Liu Tichun's envoy found Li Laiheng to make trouble relatively late, it turned out that Yuan Zongdi's people had just come to Li Laiheng's side in the afternoon to make a big noise, and Yuan Zongdi said that his men were hungry, so they couldn't expand their advantage today. Yuan Zongdi demanded that Li Laiheng immediately stop driving his men away, so that the Wanxian army could receive their fair share of rations.

And Li Laiheng also held back the fire in his stomach at this time, because the auxiliary soldiers he sent to the west of Futu Pass to carry grain were driven away by friendly troops, and I heard that the people were also killed by friendly soldiers when they were arguing. At first, Li Laiheng thought that this was because the people below were ignorant, but after doing this twice in a row, he felt that it was necessary to take care of Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun.

Unexpectedly, before Li Laiheng had time to find a few of them for comment, these people came to the door with a complaint first.

After the various battalions in Kuidong sent envoys to accuse each other, they figured out that something seemed to be wrong, and the reports they received were almost the same, all of them were people from other families saying that the food stocks in their battalions had been exhausted, so they had to move first, and the auxiliaries of other battalions were not allowed to move. In the past few days, there has been fierce fighting in front of the city, and the officers are running back and forth on the battle line, or standing under the flags of the generals, and the officers think that the quarrel is just a dispute among the coolies in the rear, and they do not take it seriously.

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Looking at the sudden fire behind Futu Pass, the generals around Li Guoying were all happy, only the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi himself still looked indifferent - in Deng Ming's previous life, Li Guoying used this trick to defeat the Kuidong army that besieged him in Wuxian. And in this world, Kui Dongjun made the same mistake, which was also keenly noticed and used by Li Guoying.

"The thief thinks that he has the chance to win, so he is careless." Li Guoying had long observed that the Ming army was extremely careless in protecting the grain route, probably because Li Laiheng and others felt that the grain depot was not far from the front line, and the Qing army had been surrounded in the city, so Li Guoying had no possibility of going out of the city to attack.

Li Guoying also noticed that the people sent by Li Laiheng to transport grain simply tied a red rope on their heads as a mark, and from the clothes they seemed to be coolies, and there were no officers or soldiers among them. The Kui Eastern Army attacked Chongqing this time and sent all the fighters to the front line, exactly the same as when Deng Ming besieged Wuxian in his previous life. Li Guoying estimated that these auxiliaries were a plate of loose sand, and they were often bullied by the officers, so they were used to being obedient, so he immediately made a decision and sent a team of Qing soldiers to tie red ropes on their heads and disguise themselves as Ming troops to harass the Ming army's grain route.

After the Ming army moved all the main forces to the northwest of the city, Li Guoying finally found an opportunity to send death squads. As Li Guoying guessed, the auxiliary soldiers of the various departments of the Kuidong Army did not dare to resist when they encountered this kind of thing, but just reluctantly returned to the camp to report. Although the generals of Kuidong knew each other, their subordinates were not familiar with each other, and they were tossed by the enemy pretending to be the Ming army for several days before they understood.

After a fierce quarrel this afternoon, the generals of the Kuidong Army finally suspected that there was a ghost here, and it was not a conflict between friendly forces. After seeing the Ming army officers leading the team and a large number of armored soldiers rushing towards the grain warehouse west of Futu Pass, Li Guoying's death squad knew that the matter was about to be exposed, so they set fire to the Ming army's grain depot -- the Qing army had basically taken control of the Ming army's warehouse in the past two days, and they not only killed the Ming army's remaining personnel, but also deployed a large number of ignition materials, and put up desperate resistance in front of the warehouse to delay the Ming army's firefighting.

"If there is no Sichuan thief," Li Guoying sighed again: "Then the Kui Dong thief will be greatly injured this time." They will lose all offensive power without food and grass, and will have to retreat to their nests and wait for us to break them - alas, alas, they won't make that mistake again next time. ”

Whether it was the Battle of Wuxian or the Battle of Chongqing, for Li Guoying, a sneak attack on the Ming army's grain depot was a desperate gamble. Li Guoying looked at the Ming army camp in the night and said softly: "It's time for you to play chess." ”

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After learning that the grain depot had been burned, the Kuidong generals gathered in Li Laiheng's camp all had black faces, and none of them said a word. The army is only a few miles away from the grain depot, and it has been pressing the Qing army these days, but I didn't expect Li Guoying to dare to sneak attack the grain route of the Ming army at this time, and I didn't expect that he would be able to get it.

"Li thief is too despicable." After a long time, Dang Shousu was the first to speak, and he scolded hatefully: "If the Qing soldiers dare to come out openly......"

Dang Shousu can't go on when he talks about this. If Li Guoying's people really came out wearing the military uniforms of the Qing army, it is estimated that they would be cleaned up by the Ming army before they even touched the Futu Pass. Even if the Qing soldiers were lucky enough to get close to the granary of the Ming army, they would not be put in, although there were not many guards inside, but they could still be done for a short time. After all, the warehouse is located right under the nose of the army - if it weren't for the fact that it felt very safe, the Kuidong Army would not have stationed a team of elite soldiers in the grain depot.

If a family had come to attack Chongqing, it would have been fine, and the officers of the guards would have known their porters, but this time it was several public grain depots, and the grain that Sichuan West had brought to each family was disembarked at a wharf not far away and stored here -- only to be infiltrated by Li Guoying's men and exploited the loopholes; Everyone just thought about how to contribute, take Chongqing as soon as possible and then divide things, and did not guard against the sneak attack of the Qing army at all. Even if this thought flashes through my mind, I will think that others must be prepared and don't have to worry about it themselves.

"Let's go to Wang Guangxing and borrow some food." Li Laiheng said dejectedly, Wang Guangxing stayed on the other side of the Jialing River, and there was an independent warehouse.

"I'm afraid Wang Guangxing doesn't have much food." Yuan Zongdi felt that this method was not feasible, Li Guoying burned eighty percent of the grain stocks of Kui Dong's army with a fire, and Wang Guang only prepared food for his own two or three thousand people, how could he supply 50,000 troops?

"We can only hurry up and let Chengdu deliver grain to us, but I don't know if they have it." Even if Wang Guangxing was generous, the 50,000-strong army would still be able to stay under the city of Chongqing for a few more days.

Everyone knew in their hearts that the best way was to withdraw the army as soon as possible, and go home as soon as possible, so that they would have something to eat when they got home. However, seeing that Chongqing is ready to go, no one is willing to mention the word "withdraw".

"After Chongqing, Li Guoying will definitely have food in the city." Li Laiheng slapped the table hard. Since I met Deng Ming, this has unconsciously become a habitual action of Li Laiheng - now the grievance in Li Laiheng's heart is not to mention, and Deng Ming has been across several provinces, and he has never been the only one who makes up and sneaks up on others, why was he attacked by others with makeup this time?

"That's it, take down Chongqing, slaughter this old thief and drink!" Dang Shousu shouted, seeing that the opportunity to return to Guanzhong was in front of him, he was really reluctant to give up. Besides, if he withdraws in such a disgraced manner, I don't know how the people of western Sichuan will laugh at him behind his back.

In the end, everyone's eyes fell on Yuan Zongdi's body again, and the most important general of the Kuidong Army lightly bowed his head: "Li Guoying has used more than 2,000 Han and Eight Banners to participate in the war in the past two days, and the sneak attack on the grain depot is all his dead soldiers, and none of them surrendered or fled. As Hu Shuai said, are we afraid that we will not have food after taking Chongqing? ”