In the evening of the same day, the generals of the Ming army gathered again in Li Laiheng's camp to discuss the next battle plan.

Li Laiheng's camp was set up at the newly captured Futu Pass. The Ming army took control of the Yangtze River, shared the Jialing River with the Qing army, and left Wang Guangxing's troops on the other side of the river, which is now the only direction for the Qing army to break through in Chongqing. At this meeting, Liu Tichun had the opportunity to explain to Yuan Zongdi in person why he wanted to cooperate with the party to seize this place and completely cut off the escape route of the main force of the Qing army.

However, Yuan Zongdi was not angry, and after he arrived at the battlefield today, he saw Liu Tichun's progress, and he also changed his opinion on how to attack Chongqing: if Li Guoying can be quickly annihilated, then it will undoubtedly be more beneficial to the Ming army, and he can collect prisoners and take advantage of Yu Yong to kill Baoning.

In addition to the overall interests of Kui Dongjun, if this goal is achieved, it will also have personal benefits for Yuan Zongdi. In the era of Li Zicheng, Yuan Zongdi once had a high position, when he was ordered to defend Xiangyang, attack Wuchang, and hold the offensive and defensive power of a strategic direction. After occupying Chongqing and Baoning, Yuan Zongdi will almost be a person in charge of the strategic direction. Li Laiheng is in charge of Jiangling, and he will definitely not come to fight with him, Liu Tichun wants to assist Li Laiheng, and most likely he will not come to rob his brother, as long as Kui Dongjun captures these two places, then Yuan Zongdi feels that he has a great chance.

"Since Li Guoying is already vulnerable, there is really no need to waste time with him here." Yuan Zongdi said that he also agreed with Liu Tichun's plan for a quick victory. On the way to the meeting, he dialed his little abacus several times. Yuan Zongdi thought that he had a good relationship with Deng Ming, and that he was a heavyweight of the Kuidong Army, and that he should be in charge of the newly occupied area of the Kuidong Army adjacent to Chengdu should be acceptable to both sides. However, with such a large piece of land, Yuan Zong would definitely not be able to take care of it alone, and he would not be able to take it alone. Dang Shousu and Ma Tengyun are still in the mountainous areas around the Three Gorges, and after the war, they will also ask to move into the Bazhong region, at least Yuan Zongdi's Wanxian County will have to be ceded -- Yuan Zongdi needs their assistance, just as Hao Shaoqi needs He Zhen and Li Laiheng needs Liu Tichun, and he plans to develop a good relationship with these generals.

After seeing the progress of Liu Tichun and Dang Shousu, Li Laiheng was also a little moved. Chongqing is some distance from his territory, and this time he sent troops entirely to help Liu Tichun and them; It was also because too many people told him that Deng Ming had signs of suspicion of Kui Dongjun, so Li Laiheng wanted to help his fellow partners develop their power, so Li Laiheng not only brought 10,000 soldiers, but also sent a lot of grain and grass out of his own pocket.

But in the final analysis, this is still the gate of Chengdu, neither Li Laiheng nor Yuan Zongdi is clear about Deng Ming's attitude towards Chongqing, although they are both vigilant, but they are also unwilling to have a bad relationship with Deng Ming, so this time they took advantage of Deng Ming's absence to attack Chongqing - I heard that Deng Ming has arrived in Jianchang, although he will not be able to return for a while, but the time should not be delayed too long. Chongqing was taken by the Kui Dong Army, and the Kui Dong Army had the right to decide how to dispose of it; Li Laiheng was worried about what if Deng Ming rushed back to participate in the war, and after the war, he proposed to control Chongqing?

Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun and Dang Shousu are all ambitious, He Zhen is looking forward to dividing things as soon as possible, Li Laiheng is not willing to dream a lot at night, and he also wants to return to Jiangling as soon as possible to take care of his territory. Therefore, everyone quickly reached a consensus, that is, tomorrow all the people will join the battle and attack the entire western front of Chongqing in an all-round way, so that all Li Guoying's weaknesses will be exposed.

"Wang Guangxing let him continue to defend on the other side of Chaotianmen, so as not to prevent Li Guoying's dog from jumping over the wall and escaping across the Jialing River with a wooden raft."

Wang Guangxing and Kui Dongjun have a lot of old grievances, and they have not made up for the relationship well over the years. After reading the secret letter from the king of Dong'an County, Wang Guangxing joined the committee, and everyone was polite and polite, but they were still wary of each other in private. Since this is the case, then let him honestly take charge of another way to prevent Li Guoying from crossing the river and escaping.

Although he was in favor of attacking the city, Yuan Zongdi still reminded everyone to be cautious about keeping an army at hand, and the example he gave was the battle in which Liu Wenxiu was attacked by Li Guoying: "In the end, there are more than 10,000 soldiers in Chongqing, and the rabbit is in a hurry and bites, we must be careful, maybe Li Guoying will go out of the city in a desperate attempt to sneak attack." ”

"Don't worry, brother." Liu Tichun said that the people present are all veterans of many years of war, and they will not be wary of this: "In case Li Guoying really comes out and fights hard, no matter who he fights, he must desperately drag it and insist on waiting for others to come to support." ”

One of the reasons for Liu Wenxiu's failure last time was that the generals escaped separately. At that time, there was already a contradiction within the Xiying, and the Xiying and the Sichuan army also distrusted each other, and the people who fled first even cut the pontoon bridge after crossing the bridge, and a large number of friendly troops who had not had time to cross the river drowned in the river.

"Understood."

"Don't worry."

"Don't you know this?"

The generals replied one after another, they are all companions who have been in trouble for many years, and this trust is still there.

Li Laiheng also added: "This time we have conquered Chongqing, first fill up the troops of each family, and then take prisoners on merit, how about it?" ”

Everyone shouted hello. Li Laiheng was worried that some people would feel sorry for the losses suffered by the troops, and proposed that this proposal was to ensure that those who contributed would not suffer losses. After discussing the details for a while, the generals of Kui Dong returned to their respective camps to arrange tomorrow's offensive.

In the early morning of the next day, Liu Tichun, Dang Shousu, Li Laiheng, He Zhen, and Yuan Zongdi lined up from south to north and launched an attack on Chongqing almost simultaneously.

After deploying some necessary troops to monitor the rest of the city walls, Li Guoying sent 5,000 armored and 10,000 unarmored soldiers to defend the western front, still keeping the original reserves in his hands and waiting for the right time to invest.

Looking from the city, there are red flags everywhere in the west, and the heads of people in front of Chongqing are all soldiers of the Ming army. When the soldiers were making diversionary attacks on the positions outside the city and in front of the city walls, the Ming army's auxiliaries continued to dismantle the obstacles around Chongqing and carry a large amount of earthwork up the mountain to fill the trenches.

"How many things did Hu Quancai and Lang Tingzuo send to Deng Ming?" Li Guoying shook his head again and again. During the last battle of Zhongxian, the equipment of Yuan Zongdi's department had already surprised Li Guoying, and he couldn't imagine that Deng Ming could give so much armor to Wanxian while arming the Western Sichuan Army; After the Battle of Zhongxian, Li Guoying judged that because Deng Ming needed Wanxian to assist western Sichuan, Yuan Zongdi's equipment could be so neat.

But after Liu Tichun's troops were pulled out yesterday, the Qing army in Chongqing noticed that the equipment of the Yiling army was also very good, and the bows and arrows of the Qing army could kill and injure a large number of people and horses who were guarding the party, but the killing effect on Liu Tichun's troops was very poor. After Li Laiheng joined the war today, Li Guoying noticed that the equipment of the Jiangling Army seemed to be a little familiar, very similar to the equipment in western Sichuan when he and Deng Ming faced off against Qijiang.

"Your Excellency the Governor, General Hu is asking for reinforcements." A herald hurried to report. Hu Wenke was responsible for the defense of the area, and He Zhen was the main attack.

After seeing the deployment of the Ming army, Li Guoying judged that He Zhen was the worse way of the Ming army: Yuan Zongdi's equipment was good, Liu Tichun's equipment was good, and Li Laiheng was the commander, but the Ming army always had some shortcomings, right? Li Guoying guessed that He Zhen's equipment level should be similar to that of the party Shousu -- the current equipment situation of the party Shousu is still in line with Li Guoying's cognitive level.

Li Guoying did not give Hu Wenke many troops, and Li Guoying did not think that He Zhen could pose too much of a threat to Chongqing, but not long after the battle, Hu Wenke felt that something was wrong. He Zhen's soldiers have many styles of armor, but the quality is decent, and it is definitely not the rusty iron armor that Kui Dongjun used to have; Similarly, He Zhen has a lot of feather arrows, all of which have genuine iron heads, and they are not the simple bamboo arrows in Hu Wenke's impression. Although there are various types of bamboo arrows, they seem to be the product of several green battalion troops, but they are all qualified products.

He Zhen's advance was quite rapid, and Hu Wenke's plan to rely on long-range weapons to kill the Ming army in large numbers did not have the slightest chance of success from the beginning. However, Hu Wenke's reaction speed was also very fast, as soon as he saw the rapid advance of the Ming army, he immediately sent people to ask Li Guoying for help - after the Ming army crossed the trench and attacked the city wall, then a war of attrition would begin, and once the manpower could not keep up, it was likely to be broken through by the Ming army.

After hearing Hu Wenke's request for help, the face of the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi became very ugly: "The equipment of the Kui Dong thief is actually better than that of the West Battalion?" Hu Quancai and Lang Tingzuo are all innocent. ”

Li Guoying realized that he had made a mistake in judgment and greatly underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Kuidong Army, so he turned to Sun Sike and said, "Let half of the Han Eight Banners prepare for battle." ”

Yesterday, Sun Sike had taken the initiative to ask for battle, but now he couldn't help but feel a sigh when he heard this. After the Ming army withdrew yesterday, Li Guoying confidently told him that the Ming army would not pose a serious threat to Chongqing within ten days and a half, and that during this period, the Han Eight Banners could completely recuperate, and when the Ming army was exhausted, they would launch a counterattack as a new force and drive all the exhausted Kuidong troops down the river.

"Yes." Sun Sike was stunned for a few seconds, but then he reacted and ordered Yuan Jiawenbi to march to the edge of the city with half of the Han Eight Banners, ready to enter the city at any time. At the same time, two Niu Lu were immediately sent to the place where Hu Wenke was defending.

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"General Liu said that the walls of Chongqing cannot be dug, but we have to try it ourselves." He Zhen was very satisfied with the progress of the troops, and he estimated that the Qing army in front of him would be more than a thousand people, and they would not all be armor soldiers. It is simply impossible for this amount of troops to stop the advance of thousands of He Zhen's subordinates.

He Zhen divided his soldiers into three groups, planning to take turns attacking the city wall to contain it, and at the same time digging a few more holes in the front of his own control, if he could blow up a city wall, then he He Zhen would be the first to rush into Chongqing: "General Liu must be an old mistake again, and he has to try all kinds of strange ideas of his again." We don't care about him, we blew up the city wall and rushed into Chongqing, and the things in the treasury are ours. ”