On the evening of December 14th, Tan Wen came to Tan Yi's camp angrily, and when he met, he asked loudly: "Why don't you do your best to attack the city?"

For so many days, Tan Wen and the Ming army under Yuan Zongdi's troops have been attacking continuously, in order to make the Chongqing defenders become exhausted soldiers. However, Tan Yi has been taking Tan Wen's position for two days, but he has been holding the troops still. Seeing that his colleagues inexplicably gave the enemy a breather, Tan Wen could no longer bear it and urged Tan Yi to go to the battle as soon as possible. He estimated that the other party must have the idea of ​​preserving his strength, and most of them would find excuses such as soldiers needing rest.

But now the situation in the world is so critical, how can we save our strength? Tan Wen made up his mind not to let Tan Yimeng wander.

When Tan Wen looked at him without hiding his anger, Tan Yi was not nervous at all and spoke slowly: "Can we really conquer Chongqing?"

"Why can't it?" To Tan Wen's surprise, the other party did not use the excuse of his guess. Tan Wen replied without thinking: "Our current military strength is more than twice that of the Chongqing thieves, and the army of the Wen Commander's army can arrive overnight. How can we not be able to conquer Chongqing?"

"Yes, once Chongqing is taken down, it will be isolated from the north and south. Even if the court is unfavorable in Yunnan, at the worst, the court can at least turn to Sichuan. Those remnants of the camp can also go south and join the remnants of the Xiying, and make a big splash."

Tan Wen and Tan Yi were both Sichuan Army of the Ming court before. They fought many wars with Li Dingguo of the Western Camp and had a lot of friction with Yuan Zongdi who broke into the camp. Tan Wen thought to himself that Tan Yi was probably unwilling to see these former rebels who made contributions. He was unhappy and was unwilling to work hard. So he persuaded him: "Ah, the country is in danger now. Let's join forces with them for the time being. After the Ming Dynasty's revival, it would not be too late to cut these treacherous thieves into pieces."

"At most, I just try my best to save it. Even if I conquer Chongqing, ZTE will probably have no hope." Tan Yi still looked slow: "I think it would be better to subdue it while we can still conquer Chongqing and have troops that can isolate the Yangtze River in our hands..."

"What nonsense is this!" Tan Wen slapped the table hard and shouted sternly.

"The Qing court has always been unchanged from the original title. The marquis who were on the Ming side were still marquis, and the earls who were on the Ming side were still Counts. Sun Kewang turned out to be a one-character king on the Ming side, and he was still 1-character king after he was on the Ming side. We are always better than the Ming side, right?" Tan Yi seemed to have not seen Tan Wen's excitement at all, and his speech speed remained unchanged: "Even if the Qing court demoted us from the past, being an earl of the Qing Dynasty would be better than the marquis of the Ming Dynasty who was in danger? Even the baron and viscount were much better than here."

"Is this still human words?" Tan Wen became even more angry in shock: "We must not surrender to the enemy!"

"Seriously?" Tan Yi clapped his hands, and a large group of armored soldiers rushed in. Everyone was unsheathed their swords, filling the central army's tent. Tan Wen and the few portable guards he brought were surrounded in a small circle that was difficult to turn around. Tan Yi took advantage of Tan Wen's surprise moment and quickly took two steps back and hid behind the armored soldiers.

Tan Wen's face turned very pale, and the other party had obviously made up his mind. If he did not agree with Tan Yi's proposal, he would probably be dismembered from the body in a moment. The breathing of several guards around him also became very rapid. These people were Tan Wen's guards, but with the strength of several people, they would definitely not be able to break through the siege.

"I was born in the Ming Dynasty, and died in the Ming Dynasty." Tan Wen finally spoke out his determination.

"Everyone has their own ambitions, I won't force it, just as you wish." Tan Yi, who was hiding behind the armored soldiers, laughed: "But it's useless to be a ghost and ask for a head, so I'll give it to me."

...

Wang Mingde stared at the messenger in front of him. After hearing the other party's words, he understood it for a while. Seeing that there were more and more Ming troops under Chongqing, he had never thought of living after siege outside the city two days ago. He just resisted with the idea of ​​dragging one day for more than one day. After nightfall today, the city gate guards reported that there were messengers coming outside the city. Wang Mingde had experienced a battle between heaven and man in his heart. He estimated that the other party was probably here to persuade him to surrender. Although he thought he had decided to die, he hesitated at the critical moment. Finally, he thought that he might as well give in a moment and see if he could delay for a while, at least not completely cut off the path to surrender.

But after the envoy was pulled up to the city by a hanging basket, he took off his hat as soon as he saw Wang Mingde. His black and shiny head was obviously a freshly shaved hair. The envoy was Tan Yi's personal soldier, claiming that his master had killed Tan Wen, the Fuhou of the Ming court, and the entire army shaved his hair and asked to surrender.

"This Chongqing city is about to be broken every night, why did he surrender to me?" Wang Mingde murmured in his heart. But if this matter is true, it would be a desperate situation. Wang Mingde asked repeatedly and gradually guessed that the other party might take this opportunity to surrender in order to make a fortune.

"If the general doesn't believe it, he can send someone to the camp to see it. Tan Wen's head is in the tent of my marquis." The envoy tried his best to explain.

Although Wang Mingde had extremely hoped that it was true, he was afraid that the other party would come to surrender to deceive the city gate, so he hung his two confidants down the city with the people. After more than an hour, the confidants sent finally came back and they saw Tan Wen's head with their own eyes.

"Oh, I, Wang," Wang Mingde cheered in ecstasy, and then added hurriedly: "The court is prosperous!"

While waiting, Wang Mingde thought about it carefully again and had to admit that the other party had a very good grasp of the timing of surrender. Now Sichuan's troops are empty, and Li Guoying, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi of the Qing court, would be very happy to learn about this and would definitely ask for credit from Beijing for Tan Yi.

A few Tan Yi's subordinates came back with Wang Mingde's two confidants. Seeing that Wang Mingde had already believed in him, the leader revealed Tan Yi's plan: "The large group of bandits were coming to Chongqing under the leadership of the pseudo-supervisor Wen Anzhi. The following were the giant bandits Li Laiheng (Li Zicheng's nephew), Liu Tichun, Hao Yaoqi (all former General Dashun) and others..."

When Wang Mingde heard these names, his backbone suddenly became cold. These were the elite troops of the remaining troops of the camp. They all came to the point that they could continue to attack after conquering Chongqing. If these men and horses arrived, even if Tan Yi's thousands of soldiers helped the battle, Wang Mingde would probably not be able to defend the city.

"The bandits have transported all the grain stored in each nest to the camps under the city. Now 40% are in the hands of my marquis, and the rest are in the camp of Yuan Zongdi's thief. As long as he breaks his camp, the bandits will have no food and grass." Tan Yi's subordinates reported all the virtual and realities of the Ming army. If they defeat Yuan Zongdi, Wen Anzhi would not have the ability to persist even if they came to Chongqing. Moreover, when they attacked Chongqing, the Sichuan-Europe Ming army mobilized almost all of their reserves. Once they were defeated, the Ming army would never have the ability to attack again before harvesting the food next year: "No one of Tan Wen's subordinates has escaped. Tomorrow, my marquis and generals will attack each other in front and back, and they will definitely defeat the thieves."

"Well, it will be necessary to defeat the thief." Since Tan Wen was killed and the news has not been leaked, then tomorrow his army will be headless.

Wang Mingde estimated that Yuan Zongdi would still use his main force to attack the city, and most of the camp was not prepared. If Tan Yi sneaked into Yuan Zongdi from behind, the possibility of success was also very high: "But Yuan Zongdi and the navy are there, it is estimated that the thieves can still escape a lot."

"My marquis also has an arrangement for this matter. If you have a small life, please discuss it with the general..."

Yuan Zongdi's naval commander was moored in the Yangtze River, while Tan Yi's ship was moored in the Jialing River, across the Chongqing city. Yuan Zongdi could not see the movement in the Jialing River, but the city of Chongqing could see his situation clearly. Tan Yi planned to let his envoy contact him with his banner at the city of Chongqing. After the Ming army was defeated, his naval commander would retreat. When Yuan Zongdi's naval commander retreated halfway, his naval commander suddenly rushed out of the Jialing River and divided Yuan Zongdi's naval commander into two.

"This plan is great." Wang Mingde smiled and immediately agreed to the plan.

What Wang Mingde was even more happy was that the visitor also reported that Tan Hong also planned to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. He was now setting up camp dozens of miles downstream of the Yangtze River to block Wen Anzhi's vanguard. After defeating Yuan Zongdi's navy tomorrow, Tan Hong wanted to intercept the defeated Ming army who had retreated from land, and defeat them all.

"I heard that Mr. Tan is resourceful for a long time, so it turns out. I will be named Mr. Tan, but no, I will be appointed as Mr. Tan to ask for merit from the Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi."

When Wang Mingde heard Tan Yi and Tan Hong's vicious plan one after another, he thought that he had been discussing for a long time. Tomorrow, he would have a lot of intention to make up for the plan and not be able to get half of Yuan Zongdi's ships fell into Chongqing. Those troops who had no time to board the ship naturally had no way to escape. Even if Yuan Zongdi himself could escape, he would no longer be a major concern for the Sichuan Qing army in the future. Without ships and military supplies, and with Tan Hong blocking them in front, Wen Anzhi probably wouldn't even see the city walls of Chongqing.

...

In the early morning of the fifteenth, Deng Ming looked at the rising Chaoyang and felt more and more uneasy: "After two days and two nights, there was no movement at all, and I didn't hear that any Qing army came to reinforce Chongqing. The army of the Wen Governor's army was probably coming."

In the past two days, Deng Ming reminded Yuan Zongdi indirectly to prevent the Qing army from coming to aid, but the other party did not take his words seriously. It is not a big deal that Yuan Zongdi did not take Deng Ming's warning seriously. Deng Ming had no idea about the deployment of the Qing army in Sichuan, the available roads and grain warehouses. Yuan Zongdi had been in Sichuan for so many years and had a good understanding of the situation of the Qing army. He had already sent a probe to explore the roads that might be used by the Qing army, and there was no need for Deng Ming to show off his skills.

The siege was already at an important time. Yuan Zongdi went to the front line to supervise the battle early today, and as usual, let Zhou Kaihuang and Zhao Tianba accompany Deng Ming in the rear. Deng Ming has been asking various military questions these days, and the two of them have questions and answered questions. However, Deng Ming felt heavy and became taciturn. Both of them were a little strange, not understanding why Deng Ming showed sorrow when the situation was getting better and better.

"Filling the trench is a must-do before siege, and there are a few important points..." Zhou Kaihuang pointed out the formation of the Ming soldiers in front of him to explain to Deng Ming.

As he was speaking, he heard a scream, and then more shouts came. Deng Ming saw a person who exclaimed and pointed his arm straight behind him, his mouth wide open and could not speak. He turned to look, but saw a thick smoke rising from the camp, and in a blink of an eye, a ball of fire rose up, and it was not until then that sounds heard coming from there.

"The camp caught fire!" Zhou Kaihuang shouted: "Left-behind bastard, our food and supplies!"

At this time, the shouts became louder and louder, not only sounding astonishment but also as fighting.

"The Tartars are coming." Zhou Kaihuang shouted again, left Deng Ming and ran towards the camp quickly.

Zhao Tianba was also surprised and suspicious. If there were Qing soldiers coming, the open and secret whistles around the camp would definitely find that even the soldiers left behind in the camp would issue cannons to warn them. Why did they catch fire and then start fighting? Could it be that there was a rebellion in the camp? Zhao Tianba wanted to return to the camp immediately to see what was going on, but he was still responsible for protecting Deng Ming, a big man, which made him hesitate.

"Do you want to send the third prince to a safe place first?" Zhao Tianba thought quickly and looked at it at the same time, and found that Deng Ming had reacted and ran strode behind Zhou Kaihuang. Zhao Tianba followed closely and thought to himself: "Although these third princes do not know how to use troops, they are a little brave. They do not retreat but advance when they see the enemy."

Deng Ming has been following Zhou Kaihuang these days, treating the other party as a companion. When he saw Zhou Kaihuang running towards the camp, he subconsciously followed. He didn't know what happened at this time. He was not familiar with the place. If he didn't follow someone he knew, Deng Ming wouldn't know where to go.

After running a few steps, the killing shouts in front became louder and louder. Zhou Kaihuang suddenly stopped and shouted, and suddenly realized: "How could the Tartars touch the camp and set fire? There must be a thief rebellion!" His face was flushed, and he was so angry that tears were about to come out, and he rushed towards the camp again.

As the camp approached the camp, the fire above soared into the sky, and the smell of fireworks could be smelled. The somewhat dissipated soldiers of Yuan's army ran towards Zhou Kaihuang in a daze. He reached out to grab one, and his big mouth almost hit the soldier's nose: "Which thief rebelled?"

"It's Renshouhou's soldiers," as Yuan Zongdi's guard captain, almost all the soldiers in the battalion knew Zhou Kaihuang. The soldiers said in a crying voice: "Renshouhou came a team of soldiers, and when he entered our camp gate, he started killing people, and then rushed in a lot of them."

"This dog thief, did he surrender to the Tartars?" Zhou Kaihuang shouted: "These dog officers and soldiers are the most unreliable!"

Zhao Tianba also grabbed a fleeing soldier. The man made it clearer. He saw a soldier of Tan Yi off his hat and found that they had even shaved their heads.

"Don't run away, take back the camp." Zhou Kaihuang continued to move towards the camp, and blocked the left-behind soldiers who escaped. Deng Ming and Zhao Tianba also quickly helped. The first few were difficult, but after holding a few, the number of people was pulled more and more. Soon, dozens of soldiers were collected and then headed towards the camp.

Zhou Kaihuang had already pulled out his sword. When he ran to the front of the camp gate, he picked up a spear from the ground and rushed into the camp with a spear. Seeing that Zhao Tianba was holding a spear in his hand, Deng Ming hurriedly looked around and finally found an abandoned spear. Deng Ming felt that he was not enough, so he picked up another sword and put it on his waist.

With a knife on his waist and a spear in his hand, Deng Ming felt his courage doubled, so he followed Zhou Kaihuang and Zhao Tianba's posture and rushed into the camp with a spear. The choking smoke came to his face. The soldiers who had gathered just now were fighting. Zhou Kaihuang's figure was reflected by the fire. He entered the camp two steps earlier than Deng Ming, and his face was covered in blood. Deng Ming saw him stabbed an enemy's chest with one shot, and then stretched out his legs to kick the enemy out of the tip of his gun. The blood arrow suddenly sprayed into the air and turned into blood rain and fell down.

Deng Ming stared at the red rain fog in a daze, and screams of people dying came from all around him.

"ah--"

A man in front of him made a deafening cry at Deng Ming, and the gun blade flashing with cold light followed the shouts and rushed towards Deng Ming. Although Deng Ming was shuddering, he still instinctively retreated repeatedly to avoid the spear that was pounced on him.

Deng Ming's movements were not as fast as the enemy soldier came over. In a blink of an eye, the enemy arrived in front of him. Deng Ming subconsciously raised the gun in his hand, not knowing whether he could block the attack. But before the enemy's gun that had pierced intersected with Deng Ming's weapon, a spear suddenly penetrated into the diagonal, lifting the pole that was pressing towards Deng Ming's chest. The owner of the gun hit Deng Ming's shoulder and hit him to the side.

Then the gun swayed and pierced into the opponent's heart. When the enemy soldier swung his pole to fight, the tip of the gun suddenly raised and stabbed it in from the enemy's wide open mouth.

At this time, Deng Ming realized that the person coming was Zhao Tianba. Zhao Tianba pressed his hands hard, pressing the enemy to kneel down, then kicked out, and hit the opponent's chest. However, the gun was very strong, and the tip of the gun blade had already emerged from the back of the enemy's head. Zhao Tianba failed to kick the enemy away, so he twisted the gun bar.

The rotating gun blade rubbed against the human skull, making a squeaking sound. The blood and white paste spit out of the mouth of the enemy soldier who were still staring at his eyes sprayed Deng Ming's face.

Zhao Tianba pulled out the gun and freed up a hand to hold Deng Ming, shouting anxiously: "Mr. Deng, what are you doing here?" Then he pushed him out of the camp gate.

The enemy soldiers near the camp gate have been repelled. Although Zhou Kaihuang was brave but not reckless, he did not pursue him but led his people out of the camp gate. Yuan Zongdi's camp had four gates, the central army tent and warehouse were in the center, and there were other military tents around him. In such a short time, the enemy soldiers set fire in the camp and had spare energy to seize the various camp gates. Obviously, it was not a minority. The fire in the camp is getting thicker and thicker, and the smoke has blocked the view in front of him. The dozens of people around him obviously could not extinguish the fire, and they also had to be guarded against the attacks of countless enemy soldiers.

Deng Ming looked towards Chongqing, and Yuan Zongdi's flag seemed to be moving here. He probably had noticed the abnormality of the camp and was eager to rush back to recover the camp and put out the flames.
Chapter completed!