Li Guoying commanded his own governor's battalion and other 4,000 Ganshan green battalions to approach Wanxian, although the quality of the Qing army this time may not be as good as the last time, but under Li Guoying's unified command, even if the generals have resentment, it is not easy to attack. And Yuan Zongdi obviously knew that the Qing army still had 20,000 armor and more than 800 armored cavalry of the governor's standard battalion, so the Ming army honestly defended the city and had no intention of attacking again.

Yuan Zongdi didn't know that Li Guoying only brought 5,000 armor, but even if he knew, he would continue to defend the city, Yuan Zongdi thought that he had taken a big advantage, he captured more than 3,000 sets, nearly 4,000 sets of equipment, and captured nearly 10,000 prisoners of war. Now Yuan Zongdi wants to digest the fruits of victory with peace of mind, and don't accidentally spit it out again.

In order to destroy the military tun in Wanxian, Li Guoying ordered the siege of the city as soon as he arrived, and his reason was similar to what Liu Tichun said to Deng Ming back then, that is, the morale of the army would be damaged under the city, and some battles must be fought to maintain the morale of the army; And now the siege of the city has additional benefits for Li Guoying, that is, it makes Yuan Zongdi even more confused about his reality and reality, and stay in the city honestly and don't come out to interfere with his harvest. Now Li Guoying no longer despises Yuan Zongdi's strength, although he has hundreds of cavalry in the rebuilt standard battalion, if a fierce field battle really breaks out, Li Guoying has no confidence that he can complete the plan to completely destroy the Wanxian military camp.

There are sentry posts everywhere on the city wall of Wanxian County, and the key conservative city tower is full of armored soldiers, and there is a camp outside all the city gates to cover the city gates, so that the Qing army cannot easily approach the city tower. However, even if the Qing army could get closer, it would be useless, because according to the observation of people who had been to Wanxian, all the gaps in the city wall had been filled, as if the city tower had been raised a little higher. After finding a few experienced people to observe it closely, they also confirmed this statement, the city towers in Wanxian County seem to have different degrees of reinforcement, especially the south city tower is the most high, and the pre-built ladder must not reach the battlement of the city tower.

"Yuan Thief really planted a lot of land." On the way here, Li Guoying encountered no farmland, and the southwest of Wanxian County, where there were originally a large number of military tuns during the Xionglan period, seemed to have only more than 2,000 acres of land, and the crops in it were all robbed and harvested by Yuan Zongdi. But after receiving the report from the guards, Li Guoying firmly believed in his earlier judgment, that is, Yuan Zongdi cultivated a lot of cultivated land, recruited a large number of people, and the people gathered may even be small 100,000, otherwise it is impossible to explain how Yuan Zongdi could still renovate all the walls of Wanxian County when a large area was cultivated.

When he went to observe in person, Li Guoying found that the military camp in the southwest was not completely robbed, and a small amount of crops were still burned in the ground.

Li Guoying also saw the newly built wharf of the Ming army outside the south city tower of Wanxian County, which was protected by a stone wall together with the shipyard, and there was also a camp shelter outside the gatehouse, which echoed with the camp outside the south gate of Wanxian County. Between the two camps, there was also a passage fenced by Yuan Zongdi, which was guarded by soldiers.

It is definitely impossible to attack Wanxian, it will take a lot of time just to build new siege equipment, and it is estimated that Deng Ming has already sent reinforcements at that time; Even attacking this wharf may not be an easy task, the stone wall looks quite strong, and it is not far from Wanxian, it is difficult for the Qing army to completely cut off the communication between the two, when the Qing army attacks the wharf, it will not only be attacked by fire from behind, but also may be raided by the Ming army in Wanxian County.

"How many fields has Yuan Thief planted?" After Li Guoying saw the deployment of the Ming army, his heart was pounding, Yuan Zongdi knew this person very well, and his tactical level was not bad, after so many years of fighting, although he may not always have any wonderful ideas, but the battlefield reacted quickly, and he would not make any low-level mistakes; But Yuan Zongdi is not good at governance, in fact, all the generals in Yudong have no governance talent, including Wen Anzhi sent by the Son of Yongli, although he is quite good at integrity and open-mindedness, but he also has no unique experience in how to manage the territory in a difficult situation.

Looking at the posture in front of him, Li Guoying estimated that Yuan Zongdi must have gathered more than 100,000 people, and the efficiency of tens of thousands of military cantonments has been very low, and the surplus food of the legion not only has to feed thousands of armor soldiers, but also can supply tens of thousands of people to repair the city wall and build dock fortifications - Li Guoying feels that he must make a new evaluation of Yuan Zongdi's governance level, although it is difficult for him to figure out where Yuan Zongdi got so many people, but he can govern a military cantonment of 100,000 people, That's definitely an amazing talent, Li Guoying feels that he may not be able to control such a large military tun - if Yuan Zongdi actually doesn't use the military tun model, then he has to take a look at it.

But after the Qing army approached Wanxian, the Wanxian Naval Division, which had been cultivated for a long time, also drove out, and now the naval division of the Qing Army has retreated, and the river is full of Ming warships. After carefully observing Li Guoying's troops, the Ming army's cutting-edge warships equipped with cannons also drove to the riverside to fire on the Qing troops who tried to approach the dock.

"And the cannons, and the ships that can fit the cannons." Li Guoying found that Yuan Zongdi was constantly refreshing his estimate of Wanxian's strength, and now Li Guoying was completely unsure of how much manpower Yuan Zongdi had gathered here in Wanxian. And if Yuan Zongdi's manpower is rich and he starts to build gunboats, then what is the strength of his army? If Li Guoying was in Yuan Zongdi's position, he would not have started to tinker with gunboats when he only had a few thousand armor soldiers, just like when the enemy army is attacking now, gunboats cannot defend the city and the cultivated land outside.

Now Li Guoying is increasingly suspicious that Yuan Zongdi's army strength is more than a few thousand armor soldiers, and the strength of the last battle with Daniel Zhang and Wang Mingde is only the strength of the first part of Yuan Zong.

"Is there so much land around Wanxian County?" Li Guoying has never been to Wanxian, but he has listened to the reports of his subordinates, if a large number of livestock and tools are not transported, the output of the military cantonment here in Wanxian County will not be able to rise, and raising one or two or two or three thousand auxiliary soldiers and two or three thousand armored soldiers is a relatively efficient and less likely to cause contradictions.

Li Guoying is becoming more and more weak-hearted, but he can only continue to attack hard, if Yuan Zongdi is allowed to develop like this, then next year, let alone Chengdu, he will not be able to defeat Wanxian - the dignified governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, how can he fall to such a point? Can't even a county's rival deserve it?

The military tun in the southwest is closest to the direction of the Qing army, and Yuan Zongdi's harvest must have started from here, since a small number of the military tuns here are burned down, then the cultivated land in other directions must be safe and sound. Now Li Guoying can only move forward cautiously, while determining that Yuan Zongdi does not dare to go out of the city to counterattack - he even burned the cultivated land, obviously thinking that the field battle cannot defeat the Qing army - if he can burn Yuan Zongdi's fields, then Yuan Zongdi will be busy with how to feed the large number of people he does not know where to scavenge in the next year, if he can harvest most of the output of Wanxian - now Li Guoying believes that the output is considerable, then Chongqing will make a lot of money.

In order to prevent the Ming army, which could be very powerful, from attacking out of the city, the Qing army worked tirelessly to build camps around Wanxian, with trenches and antlers being three layers inside and three layers outside. The Ming army did not take the initiative to attack, and the search team of the Qing army could not find where Yuan Zongdi's field was.

"Yuan Zongdi's field should be over there in Wanxian." After a day of searching in the mountains west of Wanxian, the half-tired search team reported to Li Guoying: "If you climb over the mountains north of Wanxian, you should be able to see the thieves' fields." ”

"Northeast of Wanxian?" A Qing soldier who had followed Gao Mingzhan to Wanxian during the Xionglan period couldn't help but question: "There are mountains over there, it's not that some fields can't be reclaimed in the mountains, but they are all scattered small pieces." How much output can be produced? ”

"You also said that Wanxian County could not have the fields needed by 100,000 people." The search team members retorted dissatisfiedly, they felt that this was an accusation, accusing them of not finding the fields of the Ming army, but the fields were not broken silver, how could they not find them except for being blind?

"It's really impossible, this is not the West Sichuan Plain." The Qing soldier who served as a guide suffered a lot in the past two days, but it is true that there are tens of thousands of people in Wanxian, and the changes in the city walls and docks are also undoubted, this Qing soldier can only bow his head and admit his mistake, and now after seeing that the search team just can't find the fields in Wanxian, he mustered up the courage to start arguing: "It is impossible to have so many fields here in Wanxian." ”

"If you're not mistaken-" Li Guoying, who has been listening to the debate, spoke, he has never been to Wanxian, all the understanding is heard from other people's mouths, but after arriving in Wanxian for a day, he also feels that the terrain here does not look like a granary: "That is the worst thing has happened, Chengdu is supplying Wanxian, so Wanxian really does not need too many people, because there is no need to farm." And it makes sense that Wanxian attaches so much importance to the docks and warships, they are meeting the requirements of Chengdu, and it may even be Chengdu's order! ”

Li Guoying had heard about that committee, but until now, he didn't seem to have heard the news of Yuan Zongdi joining the committee, and he always thought that this might indicate that there was some contradiction between Deng Ming and Yuan Zongdi, and that there might be fierce territorial and population competition because they were both in Sichuan.

But the situation is obviously not as Li Guoying expected, Chengdu can fully supply the needs of Wanxian, this kind of logistical support not only means trust, but also brings corresponding rights and control capabilities. Isn't Wanxian vigorously developing the shipbuilding industry, even at the expense of the strength of the army?

"Yuan thief, he didn't farm." Li Guoying smiled bitterly, the hard work of the past few days, and the deployment of defenses in the camp all night made him feel that he couldn't support it anymore: "Withdraw the troops, retreat quickly." ”

Now Li Guoying is most worried about the reinforcements from Chengdu and Xuzhou, if the relationship between Chengdu and Wanxian is so close, it may not only be the sailors who are dispatched urgently.