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 slashed a long section of the city wall around Dingyuan Gate into naked walls. Li Guoying judged that the Ming army might move from Yuan Zongdi's position to attack the city at any time, so Li Guoying transferred troops from other areas to strengthen defense in this area. The Ming army in all directions was still continuing to attack. Li Laiheng and others believed that if multiple breakthroughs could be achieved, it would be easier to win and not give the Qing army the chance to resist stubbornly.

On the third day, Li Laiheng's soldiers also pulled off dozens of meters of wall bricks, while Liu Tichun gave up his assault direction and turned to He Zhen's rear. Dang Shousu could not stay alone in the south, but also moved to the northwest of Chongqing. At this point, the Ming army basically gave up the attack on the southwest of Chongqing City, and the attack on the front became a way of Yuan Zongdi as the left wing, Li Laiheng as the right wing, and the other three people gathered in the middle.

After seeing the Ming army's dispatch, Li Guoying sighed softly: "I finally have a chance to defeat the enemy."

Until this time, Li Guoying still held half of the armored soldiers as a reserve force. The Qing army suffered more than one thousand casualties during the three days of fierce fighting with the Ming army, and the Ming army's losses were almost twice the number of losses of the Qing army.

The next two days were the most difficult time for the Qing army in Chongqing. Yuan Zongdi blew up a section of the city wall near Dingyuan Gate and opened a gap on the seemingly indestructible Chongqing city wall. Li Laiheng also carried out a blast, turning a city wall near Tongyuan Gate into a sloping earth slope. At this time of battle, many Qing army officers and soldiers suspected that Li Guoying 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 meaning to stick to the city tower.

Another day, Liu Tichun's men worked hard to carry two big bells and stuffed them into the wall gap dug out by He Zhen. Although He Zhen had been thinking about the first to rush into Chongqing from the first day, he could never find a place suitable for digging tunnels. He Zhen did not have Li Laiheng's equipment nor Yuan Zongdi's elite soldiers, so he could not firmly occupy the wall and stripped off all the walls. Seeing that Li Laiheng and Yuan Zongdi's progress rate far exceeds that of him, He Zhen found several stonemasons, forcibly nailed the city bricks in Chongqing, pulled out the wall bricks made of mountain rocks, and then dug out the 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, stuffed two bells into it, and cheered in unison - thank you for your hard work, finally paying off.

After the explosion, the Qing army saw a third big hole appearing on the city wall. Many Qing army felt desperate. So many gaps would intensify the consumption speed. Now the geographical advantage of the mountain city is almost completely lost. It is impossible for the next battle to maintain the exchange ratio at about one to two. Even if it is maintained in this ratio, it may not be possible to win, let alone not to maintain it?

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

After the blasting was completed, Liu Tichun found that the military rations had not been shipped. He finally couldn't bear it and asked the envoy to go to Li Laiheng to argue with reason. Although the food and grass were not rich, the most important wings needed to be given priority; although the front line offensive that he was responsible for was progressing slowly, he should not give any food and grass in two days.

Liu Tichun and He Zhen felt that their tone was already quite tactful. If it weren't for the long-term friendship, Liu Tichun and He Zhen would probably have cursed.

It was quite late for Liu Tichun's envoy to ask Li Laiheng to make trouble. It turned out that Yuan Zongdi's people had just arrived in the afternoon and had a big argument. Yuan Zongdi said that his subordinates were hungry, so they could not expand their advantage today. Yuan Zongdi asked Li Laiheng to stop driving his subordinates immediately so that the Wanxian army could receive the food they deserved.

Li Laiheng was also angry at this time because the auxiliary soldiers who sent to the west of Futu Guan to move grain were driven away by friendly troops. He heard that the civilians were killed by friendly troops when they were arguing. Li Laiheng initially thought that the people below were ignorant, but they did this twice in a row. He felt that it was necessary to take care of Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun and the others.

Unexpectedly, before Li Laiheng had time to find some of them to judge, these wicked people came to the door first to complain.

After sending envoys to criticize each other, they realized that something seemed wrong here. The reports they received were almost the same. They all said that the food in their camp had been exhausted, so they had to move first, and the auxiliary soldiers of other battalions were not allowed to move. These days, the city had been fighting fiercely, and the officers were running back and forth on the front line, or were on standby under the generals of the generals. The officers thought that the quarrel was just a dispute between the coolies in the rear and did not take it seriously.

...

Looking at the fire suddenly rising behind Futu Pass, the generals around Li Guoying were all happy, and only the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi still looked indifferent. In Deng Ming's previous life, Li Guoying defeated the Kuidong Army that besieged him in Wu County. In this world, the Kuidong Army made the same mistake, which was keenly noticed and used by Li Guoying.

"The thieves thought they were sure to win, so they were careless." Li Guoying had long observed that the Ming army was extremely careless in protecting the food road. Perhaps because Li Laiheng and others felt that the grain warehouse was not far from the front line, and the Qing army was surrounded by groups, 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. From the clothes, they all seemed to be coolies, without officers, and soldiers were among them. The Kuidong Army attacked Chongqing this time and sent all the fighters to the front line, exactly the same as when Deng Ming surrounded Wu County in his previous life. Li Guoying estimated that these auxiliary soldiers were a mess and were often bullied by the officers, so he got used to being obedient. He made a quick decision and sent a team of Qing soldiers to tie the red ropes on their heads and put on the Ming army to harass the Ming army's food route.

After the Ming army moved all its main forces to the northwest of the city, Li Guoying finally found the opportunity to send a suicide squad. The people he sent were all extremely vicious and ambushed and killed many Ming army's auxiliary soldiers. As Li Guoying guessed, the auxiliary soldiers of various departments of the Kuidong Army did not dare to resist when encountering such a thing, but just swallowed their anger and 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 actually tossed by enemies who pretended to be Ming army for several days but still hadn't understood it.

After a fierce noise this afternoon, the generals of the Kuidong Army finally suspected that there was a ghost here, not a conflict between friendly forces. After seeing the Ming army officers leading a team and a large number of soldiers in armor rushed to the grain warehouse west of Futu Pass, Li Guoying's suicide squad knew that the matter was about to be exposed, so they set fire to the Ming army's grain warehouse. The Qing army had basically controlled the Ming army's warehouse in the past two days. They not only killed the left-behind personnel of the Ming army, but also deployed a large number of fire-driving objects, and fought to the death in front of the warehouse to delay the Ming army's time to put out the fire.

"If there were no Western Sichuan thieves," Li Guoying sighed again: "Then the Kuidong thieves will be greatly damaged at this moment. If they have no food and grass, they will lose all their offensive capabilities and can only retreat to the nest and wait for us to defeat them - it's a pity, it's a pity that they will not make this mistake again next time."

Whether it was the Battle of Wu County or the Battle of Chongqing, for Li Guoying, sneak attacking the Ming army's grain warehouse was a desperate bet. Li Guoying looked at the Ming army camp in the night and whispered: "It's your turn to go chess."

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After learning that the grain warehouse was burned, all the generals of Kuidong gathered in Li Laiheng's camp were dark and none of them said a word. The army was only a few miles away from the grain warehouse, and they had been fighting against the Qing army these days. Unexpectedly, Li Guoying dared to sneak attack the Ming army's grain road at this time, and he unexpectedly succeeded.

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

Dang Shousu couldn't continue to say this. If Li Guoying's men really came out in the Qing army's uniform, they would probably have been cleaned up by the Ming army before they even found it. Even if the Qing soldiers were lucky enough to approach the Ming army's granary, they would not have been put in. Although there were not many guards inside, they could still be able to hold on for a short while. After all, the warehouse was located under the eyes of the army. If they hadn't felt very safe, the Kuidong Army would not have been stationed in the grain warehouse.

It would be fine if the family came to fight Chongqing, and the guards would definitely know their own porters. However, this time there were several public grain warehouses. The grain transported to each company in western Sichuan was disembarked at a short pier and stored here. As a result, Li Guoying's people infiltrated it and took advantage of the loopholes. Everyone was just thinking about how to do their best to capture Chongqing as soon as possible and then divide the things, and they were not wary of the Qing army's sneak attack. Even if this idea flashed through their minds, they would think that others must have prepared and didn't have to worry about it themselves.

"Go and borrow some food from Wang Guangxing." Li Laiheng said dejectedly. Wang Guangxing stayed on the other side of the Jialing River and had an independent warehouse.

"Wang Guangxing probably didn't have much food." Yuan Zongdi felt that this method was not feasible. Li Guoying burned 80% of the Kuidong Army's stored grain with a big fire. Wang Guangxing only prepared grain for his own two or three thousand people. How could he supply a 50,000 army?

"I can only ask Chengdu to transport grain to us as soon as possible, but I don't know if they have it." Even if Wang Guangxing generously donated the money, the 50,000 army would be able to stay under the city of Chongqing for a few more days.

Everyone knows that the best way is to withdraw the troops as soon as possible, and to leave the house quickly, and have something to eat when you get home. However, seeing that Chongqing is ready, no one is willing to mention the word "withdraw".

"Capture Chongqing, there must be food in Li Guoying's city." Li Laiheng slapped the table hard. Since he met Deng Ming, this has become a habit of Li Laiheng's behavior. Now, Li Laiheng's aggrievance is not mentioned now. He and Deng Ming have been in trouble for several provinces. He has never been the only one who sneaked into the table with makeup. Why was he attacked by others this time?

"That's right, conquer Chongqing and kill this old thief to drink!" Dang Shousu shouted loudly. Seeing that the opportunity to return to Guanzhong was right in front of him, he really couldn't bear to give up. Besides, if he had withdrawn in such a dusty manner, he still didn't know how the people in western Sichuan would ridicule him, Dang Shousu, behind his back.

Finally, everyone's eyes fell on Yuan Zongdi again, and the most stern general of the Kuidong Army lightly said: "Li Guoying has used more than 2,000 Han Eight Banners to participate in the war in the past two days. The ones who attacked the grain warehouse were all his dead soldiers. None of them surrendered or fled. He was exhausted. As Hushuai said, are we still afraid that we would have no food to eat after taking Chongqing?"
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