The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 781 Free Fire
Wang Weizhong's striker pierced through the entire battalion of the Daxi Army in less than half an hour, and then arrived outside the city gate.

But looking at the peasant army fleeing in a panic, the forwards were not in a hurry to surround and kill them, giving them a chance to escape to the city.

The purpose of the Ming army was to block Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers and horses, so those who fled to the city did not chase them, but only blocked and blocked them outside.

About half an hour later, the four major battalions outside had been completely destroyed. All the peasant troops either fled into the city and were about to be killed or arrested.

The four soldiers and horses of the Ming army firmly blocked the four city gates.

"Report." Deputy General Zhou Guobo reported to Wang Weizhong.

A total of more than 2000 prisoners were captured, and another 10,000+ women and children did not escape.

"Immediately let them dig a hole and surround Chengdu."

So the Ming army divided the captives into several circles and surrounded the city of Chengdu from all directions. Then each captive was allocated a few meters, dug a hole, and then piled the excavated soil into a wall. blocked.

At this time, there were at least 20 peasant troops in the city. If Zhang Xianzhong led his troops out regardless of everything, they would not be able to stop them no matter which side.

Wang Weizhong can only hope that Zhang Xianzhong doesn't want to leave before dawn, and this hope is probably fine.

With Zhang Xianzhong's self-confidence, he would not pay attention to the Ming army outside.

At this time, not only the captives were digging, but also part of the Ming army was digging, first digging the gate of the city, first digging out shallow pits one by one, affecting the passage of soldiers and horses.

Dig the shallow pit deeper, and then dig out the tunnel.

Strengthen the fortification step by step.

Around dawn, the city gates were already criss-crossed, and more than a dozen pits blocked the gates.

Wang Weizhong's artillery and trebuchet also arrived at the scene.

In order to speed up the driving of his soldiers and horses, in addition to the catapults for attacking the city, [-]% of the artillery was placed in Tongchuan.

There are more than 1 people on his side, and only 12 6-pounders.

There are usually small carriages towed, but there will be a hundred Hercules hoarding troops to carry them in turn, and more than 100 people are responsible for carrying shells and gunpowder.

At this time, there was no reaction in the city, the sky gradually became brighter, and the gates of the city were closed tightly.

Zhang Xianzhong in the city hugged several girls last night and fell asleep after drinking.

I was woken up in the middle of the night, and only then did I know that the Ming army had raided the soldiers and horses outside, but the Ming army did not attack the city and stayed outside.

Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang looked at the city wall and judged that there were about [-] to [-] Ming troops outside, and they blocked the four gates and surrounded Chengdu.

Li Dingguo immediately reported back to Zhang Xianzhong, requesting to organize troops to rush out immediately, otherwise if the Ming army still has reinforcements and surrounds us in Chengdu, we will die.

Zhang Xianzhong was a little hesitant when he heard this, Sun Kewang took a look, and immediately said: "It's dark now, I don't know what's going on outside, and I don't know where this Ming army came from."

"In case there is an ambush in the Ming army, it's not just [-] to [-]. We rushed out recklessly, didn't we want to be ambushed?"

"We can wait until dawn to see the situation clearly before making a decision. We Daxi have hundreds of thousands of troops in the city, and we are afraid of only tens of thousands of Ming troops?"

Zhang Xianzhong nodded slowly, feeling that Sun Kewang was right.

Li Dingguo was anxious: "The Ming army must have only this number of soldiers and horses. If there were more soldiers and horses, they would have entered the city last night."

The Ming army was afraid of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in their city, so they dared not enter the city.

But what he said was useless, the other generals including Ai Nengqi and Liu Wenxiu also felt that they couldn't rush out at night, so Zhang Xianzhong decided to wait until dawn.

Moreover, they had just attacked Chengdu and hadn't grabbed a lot of silver, so he was a little unwilling to let him go now.

In the original history, they first robbed for three days before deciding to massacre the city.

It's just the first day I came in, and I haven't snatched enough, so why are you willing to leave?

So that night, the Ming army dug pits outside desperately. By dawn, they had dug a long deep pit and surrounded Chengdu.

There are countless other small pits.

After dawn, Zhang Xianzhong led the generals to the south gate.

Looking down, he hissed, but gasped.

I saw that the south gate was 100 meters away from the city gate, and there were shallow ditches on the ground.

The shallow ditch is not very long, only a few hundred meters, but it is right in front of the city gate.

It is equivalent to wrapping hundreds of meters around the city gate.

These shallow trenches are nothing, and the soil dug out behind is piled up, but they are not very high.

The key is that there is a deep ditch about 150 meters away, and the Ming army can still be seen digging in it.

The man who dug the ditch had more than half of his body in the ditch, which proved that the ditch was relatively deep. If it was wide enough, it would be difficult for cavalry to cross it.

The entire outside of Chengdu was dug by the Ming army and the captured peasant army.

"Whose soldier is this? It looks so elite." Li Dingguo looked incredulously at 100 meters in front of the south gate.

The Ming army probably also used binoculars to see that there were no cannons at the top of the city, and they knew that they were not very good at using cannons, so there was a long square formation 100 meters away, facing the gate of the city.

There are about 1000 people in the long square, two hundred in each row, all of them are gun soldiers, and there are three or four artillery pieces behind the gun soldiers.

The blunderbuss stood there motionless, quietly looking in the direction of the city gate.

There are many Ming soldiers and soldiers digging pits around, and the soil dug out will be packed into sandbags, and then stacked one by one in front of the gun soldiers.

The gunmen looked at the city gate motionlessly, looking very strange and even more elite.

"Xu Wenhu in the south."

"To the east is Huang Degong."

"There is no flag in the north."

"No Flags to the West."

Soon the news gathered in front of Zhang Xianzhong, surrounded by soldiers and horses from the Ming army, and only Huang Degong in the east was known to them.

Zhang Xianzhong and Huang Degong have fought against each other before, so he knows that this guy is also quite difficult.

"Where did they appear?" Zhang Xianzhong had a look of incredulity on his face, unexpectedly he appeared quietly last night.

"It should be from the north of Chengdu." Li Dingguo said to the point.

They attacked Chengdu from the south. The Ming army came from the north, one south and one north. The distance was too far, so they didn't notice it.

But when they attacked Chengdu, they had actually sent sentries to the north, but they didn't find this Ming army.

There is only one possibility, this Ming army arrived near Chengdu earlier than them, but hid.

But it doesn't make sense to think about it now.

What should I do next?
"The Ming army has more than 1 people on each side, and the four sides add up to only [-] to [-]." Li Dingguo said: "Father, let's go out."

"Chengdu is such a good place, why don't you leave without getting enough wealth?" Sun Kewang was dissatisfied.

Many generals were arguing, feeling that they hadn't enjoyed themselves enough and couldn't leave.

Tens of thousands of Ming troops are afraid of the hair, do they dare to attack?
Zhang Xianzhong didn't make a sound, but he had a feeling that he couldn't stay here.

"Your Majesty said that the brothers should rob for three days, and this is only one day." A general beside him said dissatisfiedly at this moment.

Before entering the city, Zhang Xianzhong said that his subordinates should be allowed to plunder for three days and do whatever they want, and this is only the first day, if they say rushing out, I'm afraid it will hurt the hearts of the brothers.

Zhang Xianzhong thought about this problem, and finally decided: "Why panic, there are only [-] to [-] Ming troops, when we have robbed enough and rushed out in one go, who can stop us?"

"On each side of the Ming army, there are only more than 1 people? Can they stop our hundreds of thousands of troops?"

Li Dingguo had no choice, and he didn't want to watch the Ming army dig a hole outside?

He asked to go to war, and led troops to attack Ximen Wang Weizhong's department.

If they win, they will attack other Ming troops, and if they lose, they will return to the city.

Zhang Xianzhong is still thinking about it.

Suddenly, boom, the Ming army fired at close range.

They were dumbfounded as the Ming army fired artillery in the outer city.

Bang bang bang, the Ming army artillery came over, and two artillery pieces hit the suspension bridge.

Katsa, the drawbridge was torn apart and shattered.

General Daxi was dumbfounded, what kind of operation is this?The Ming army knocked down the suspension bridge?Keep them out?

After a while, news came from all directions that the Ming army knocked down the suspension bridge.

Then, many Ming soldiers came to the gate of the city carrying things and began to assemble them.

Zhang Xianzhong looked at it for a while and saw that it looked like a trebuchet.

"The Ming army still uses this stuff now?" Ainengqi laughed.

Everyone laughed together, only Li Dingguo looked worried.

The Ming army under the city marched and retreated in a very orderly manner, and the army formation was dense. At first glance, it was the elite of the elite, which was completely different from the Ming army they had fought against before.

It would not be a good thing to be trapped by them. With so many soldiers and horses in the city, how long would it last for food?
He persuaded again: "Father, there are many soldiers and horses in the city. After a long time, I am afraid that there will be insufficient food."

"The warehouse of Shu Palace is piled up like a mountain. Don't worry about Dingguo, there will be more to eat." Liu Wenxiu laughed.

Besides, they are still robbing the common people, as long as they rob the whole city of food, they can eat it for a few months.

Zhang Xianzhong watched it for a while, and found that the Ming army only knew how to dig holes, and he really didn't pay attention to the Ming army, but he didn't want to be trapped here by the Ming army either.

Immediately, he ordered that the whole army grab more food and prepare to fight out.

Then he ordered Li Dingguo to organize people to fill up the moat and prepare for the army to go out.

Li Dingguo was overjoyed, and immediately organized thousands of soldiers and horses, all of whom filled bags with soil.

Then open the city gate.

"Rush." ​​The Daxi army rushed out one after another.

The Ming army outside the city looked at them and did not stop them or fire their guns.

So the Great Western Army dropped sandbags one after another and quickly filled the moat.

After filling it out for a while, Zhang Xianzhong felt that something was wrong. The Ming army was too strange. It seemed that they didn't want them to go out after knocking down the suspension bridge.

And let them fill in the moat at will, as if it doesn't matter.

What is the Ming army thinking on the other side?
But no matter what he thinks, the moat must be filled. There is no drawbridge now, and it must be filled to get out.

After more than an hour, Onishi finally filled in the first paragraph.

"Who would lead the troops to take the lead and crush the Ming army?" Zhang Xianzhong said at this time.

Li Dingguo originally wanted to lead his troops to charge, but seeing that the opponent was full of guns, he thought about it, but he still didn't make a sound.

Sun Kewang saw that Li Dingguo was intimidated, and was overjoyed: "My child is willing."

At present, Sun Kewang has ordered thousands of soldiers and horses, and everyone is a cavalry.

The Ming army outside the city also seemed to feel that they were gathering soldiers and horses in the city, and they remained motionless.

After a while, Sun Kewang gathered his soldiers and horses, and following Zhang Xianzhong's order, thousands of fine cavalry came out in a file.

But the passage of this city gate is relatively narrow, and at most two or three riders can rush out at once.

This is why Wang Weizhong deliberately blocked the gunmen and artillery within 100 meters of the city gate.

"Fight, shoot freely." Here, a thousand musketeers raised their guns one after another.

Bang, bang, hit the city gate.

(End of this chapter)