That night, the generals of the Ming army gathered again in Li Laiheng's camp to discuss the next combat plan.

Li Laiheng's camp was located in the newly captured Futu Pass. The Ming army controlled the Yangtze River, shared the Jialing River with the Qing army, and left Wang Guangxing's troops on the other side of the river. Now this is the only direction for the Qing army in Chongqing to break through. At this meeting, Liu Tichun had the opportunity to explain to Yuan Zongdi in person why he had to cooperate with the Party Shousu to capture this place and completely cut off the escape route of the main force of the Qing army.

However, Yuan Zongdi was not angry. After rushing to the battlefield today, he saw Liu Tichun's progress. He also changed his view on how to attack Chongqing: If Li Guoying can be wiped out quickly, it will undoubtedly be more beneficial to the Ming army. He can recruit prisoners and take advantage of Yu Yong to fight towards Baoning.

In addition to the overall interests of the Kuidong Army, if this goal is achieved, it will also have personal benefits for Yuan Zongdi. In the Li Zicheng era, Yuan Zongdi once had a high status. At that time, he was ordered to guard Xiangyang, attack Wuchang, take the lead in taking the entire offensive and defense in a strategic direction. After occupying Chongqing and Baoning, Yuan Zongdi would almost be the person in charge of a strategic direction. Li Laiheng was in charge of Jiangling and would definitely not come to compete with him. If Liu Tichun wanted to assist Li Laiheng, he would probably not come to compete with his elder brother. As long as the Kuidong Army seized these two places, Yuan Zongdi felt that he had a great chance.

"Since Li Guoying is vulnerable, there is really no need to waste time with him here." Yuan Zongdi said that he also agreed with Liu Tichun's quick battle plan. On the way to the meeting, he called his little abacus several times. Yuan Zongdi thought he had a good relationship with Deng Ming and was a heavyweight of the Kuidong Army. He was responsible for the newly occupied Kuidong Army adjacent to Chengdu. It should be accepted by both sides. However, Yuan Zong's first person would definitely not be able to take care of such a large area of ​​land and could not be taken into consideration. Dang Shousu, Ma Tengyun and his team are still in the mountainous areas around the Three Gorges. After the war, he would also ask to move to the Bazhong area. At least Yuan Zongdi's Wanxian had to be given up - Yuan Zongdi needed their assistance, just as Hao Yaoqi needed He Zhen and Li Laiheng needed Liu Tichun, and he planned to develop his relationship with these generals.

After seeing the progress of Liu Tichun and Dang Shousu, Li Laiheng was also a little moved. Chongqing was a little far away from his territory. This time he sent troops entirely to help Liu Tichun and the others. It was also because too many people told him that Deng Ming had signs of suspicion about the Kuidong Army, so Li Laiheng wanted to help his fellow disciples develop their power. For this reason, Li Laiheng not only brought 10,000 soldiers, but also sent a lot of food and supplies out of his own pocket.

But in the final analysis, this place is still at the gate of Chengdu. Neither Li Laiheng nor Yuan Zongdi knew Deng Ming's attitude towards Chongqing. Although they were both wary, they were unwilling to break up relationships with Deng Ming, so this time they came to attack Chongqing while Deng Ming was away. I heard that Deng Ming had arrived in Jianchang. Although he could not come back for a while, the time should not be delayed too long. Chongqing was taken down independently by the Kuidong Army, and the Kuidong Army had the right to decide what to do; Li Laiheng was worried that what if Deng Ming rushed back to join the war, and after the war, he proposed to control Chongqing?

Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun and Dang Shousu were all ambitious. He Zhen hoped to divide things early. Li Laiheng was unwilling to have too many dreams at night and wanted to return to Jiangling to take care of his territory as soon as possible. So everyone quickly reached an agreement that everyone would join the war tomorrow and attack the entire western front of Chongqing, so that all Li Guoying's weaknesses would be exposed.

"Wang Guangxing lets him continue to defend on the other side of Chaotianmen, so as not to avoid Li Guoying jumping over the wall and using wooden rafts to cross the Jialing River to escape."

Wang Guangxing and the Kuidong Army had many old grievances, and they had not made up for their relationship well over the years. After reading the secret letter from the Prince of Dong'an, Wang Guangxing joined the committee. Everyone was polite in their face, but they were still guarding each other in private. Since that's the case, let him be honestly responsible for another road and prevent Li Guoying from crossing the river to escape.

Although he agreed to siege the city, Yuan Zongdi still reminded everyone to keep an army at hand carefully. The example he gave was the battle when Liu Wenxiu was sneak attacked by Li Guoying: "After all, there are more than 10,000 soldiers in Chongqing. The rabbit is anxious and biting people. We must be careful. Maybe Li Guoying will go out of the city to attack again."

"Don't worry, old brother." Liu Tichun said that all those present were veterans who had been fighting for many years, and would not be unaware of this: "If Li Guoying really comes out and fights hard, no matter who he fights, he will hold on to it and insist on waiting for others to support him."

One of the reasons why Liu Wenxiu failed last time was that the generals escaped. At that time, there were already conflicts within Xiying, and Xiying and Sichuan Army did not trust each other. The people who escaped first even cut off the floating bridge after crossing the bridge, resulting in a large number of friendly troops who had no time to cross the river drowned in the river.

"clear."

"rest assured."

"Don't you know this?"

The generals from Kuidong replied one after another that they were all companions who had been together for many years, so there was still this trust.

Li Laiheng also added: "This time I captured Chongqing, I will first fill up the troops of each family, and then divide the prisoners into terms of merit. How about it?"

Everyone shouted loudly. Li Laiheng was worried that some people would feel sorry for the losses of the troops, so he put forward this suggestion to ensure that those who contributed their efforts did not suffer any losses. After discussing the details for a while, the generals from Kuidong returned to the camp to arrange tomorrow's offensive.

The next morning, Liu Tichun, Dang Shousu, Li Laiheng, He Zhen and Yuan Zongdi lined up from south to north, and almost launched an attack on Chongqing at the same time.

After deploying some necessary forces to monitor the remaining city walls, Li Guoying sent 5,000 armored and 10,000 unarmed soldiers to defend the Western Front, and still kept the original reserve team in his hands and waited for the right opportunity to invest.

Looking from the head of the city, there were red flags everywhere on the west side. In front of Chongqing, people were rolling in people, and there were soldiers of the Ming army. When the soldiers were constraining attacks on the positions outside the city and in front of the city walls, the auxiliary soldiers of the Ming army kept demolishing obstacles around Chongqing and transporting a large amount of earth to the mountain to fill the trenches.

"Hu Quancai, how many things did Lang Tingzuo give Deng Ming?" Li Guoying shook his head repeatedly when he saw it. During the last battle of Zhongxian, the equipment of Yuan Zongdi's troops had already surprised Li Guoying. He could not have thought that Deng Ming could also give Wanxian so many armor 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 was so neat.

But yesterday, after Liu Tichun's troops were pulled out, the Qing army in Chongqing noticed that the equipment of the Yiling Army was also very good. The Qing army's bows and arrows could kill Dang Shousu's troops in large numbers, 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 familiar, very similar to the equipment of his and Deng Ming in the west of Sichuan when they were in the Qijiang River. Not only were the armored models similar, but even the crossbows that shot up the city seemed to be made by the whole family.

"Governor General Hu requests reinforcements." A messenger hurriedly came to report. The area where Hu Wenke was responsible for the defense was He Zhen.

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

Li Guoying handed over many troops to Hu Wenke. Li Guoying did not think that He Zhen could pose too much threat to Chongqing, but not long after the battle, Hu Wenke felt something was wrong. He Zhen's soldiers had many types of armor, but the quality was average, and they were definitely not the rusty iron armor that Kuidong Army used to be. Similarly, He Zhen also had many feather arrows, each with real iron heads, not the simple bamboo arrows that Hu Wenke remembered. Although there were various types of bamboo arrows and looked like the product of several green camp troops, they were all qualified.

He Zhen's advancement was quite fast. Hu Wenke wanted to rely on long-range weapons to kill the Ming army in large numbers without any chance of success from the beginning. However, Hu Wenke's reaction was also very fast. As soon as he saw the Ming army advance rapidly, he immediately sent someone to ask for help from Li Guoying. After the Ming army crossed the trench and attacked the city wall, a war of attrition would begin. Once the manpower could not keep up, it would be possible that the Ming army would break through.

After hearing Hu Wenke's request for help, the Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi became very ugly: "The equipment of the Kuidong thief is actually better than that of Xiying? Hu Quancai and Lang Tingzuo are all dead."

Li Guoying realized that he had made a serious judgment mistake and greatly underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Kuidong Army. He turned to Sun Sick and said, "Let half of the Eight Banners prepare for war."

Yesterday, Sun Sike took the initiative to ask for the battle, but now he was stunned when he heard this. After the Ming army withdrew yesterday, Li Guoying told him confidently that the Ming army would not be able to pose a major threat to Chongqing within ten days and half a month. During this period, the Eight Banners of Han could fully accumulate energy. After the Ming army was exhausted, they would launch a counterattack as a new force and drove all the exhausted Kuidong Army down the river.

"As for orders." Sun Sike was stunned for a few seconds in surprise, but then he reacted and ordered Yuan Jiawenbi to take half of the Han Eight Banners to the edge of the city, ready to climb the city to join the battle at any time. At the same time, he immediately sent two Niulu to the place where Hu Wenke defended.

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"General Liu said that the city walls in Chongqing cannot be dug, but we have to try it myself." He Zhen was very satisfied with the progress of the army. He estimated that the Qing army in front of him was only more than a thousand people, and they would not be all soldiers. It was impossible for this amount of force to block the advancement of several thousand He Zhen's subordinates.

He Zhen divided his soldiers into three groups, intending to attack the city wall in turn to restrain them. At the same time, dig a few more holes on the front line he controlled. If he could explode a city wall, he He Zhen would take the first great achievement to rush into Chongqing: "General Liu must have been an old problem again, and he has to try his various strange thoughts again. We don't care about him, we explode the city wall and rush into Chongqing, and the things in the treasury belong to ours."
Chapter completed!