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Chapter 297
The remaining search and suppression battle in Wanxian City continued until the night of that day.

The reason why they fought for so long was also because Zhu Shuren had higher requirements and stricter rules.

Qin Liangyu, who was originally in charge of the west of the city, saw the fire in the city and learned that the Wang brothers in the east had climbed first, so he planned to make a desperate attack on the west gate and tower, focusing on breaking through the attack from both sides.As for the other sections of the wall in the west city, there is no need to besiege it strictly, and the south and north of the city can be left empty, allowing the bandits to flee and flee.

After all, don't chase after the poor, and don't stop returning to the teacher.Although Zhang Mingzhi's troops are not strong in combat, if they really jump over the wall in a hurry, they are enough for white soldiers to drink a pot.

Since the city is destined to be destroyed, it is better to leave two openings, which can not only cover up the killing while taking advantage of the situation, but also disintegrate the determination of the defenders to fight to the end in street fighting.

However, Qin Liangyu's plan was prevented by Zhu Shuren in advance.Zhu Shuren left behind Zhang Huangyan, who was in charge of liaison, to observe Qin Liangyu's command in the west of the city, and clearly demanded that Qin Liangyu "even if he sees the fire in the city, he must be able to break the city, and he must not relax the land blockade in the west city." The soldiers escaped.

What Zhu Shuren wanted was a complete encirclement and annihilation victory, and he wanted to keep the tactics as secret as possible.Only in this way can certain novel tactics be used a few more times suddenly, and they can continue to be used in subsequent attacks on Chongqing.

If some new tactics are used only once, the enemy will immediately know about them and have mental preparations, it would be too wasteful.In a small place like Wanxian, how could He De deserve Zhu Shuren to reveal a hole card?
On the other hand, Zhu Shuren also didn't want Bai Wenxuan in Chongqing to know the news of Wanxian's fall too soon, so that in the follow-up operations, the enemy could stay in the fog of war for as long as possible.

In addition, Wanxian is close to the Yangtze River on three sides, and it does have the objective geographical advantage of blocking news. It would be too wasteful not to make full use of it.

Qin Liangyu was still a little hesitant at the time, and tried to persuade Zhang Huangyan with the reason that "the remnants of the defenders had nowhere to escape and jumped over the wall to fight stubbornly".

But Zhang Huangyan was very firm, and only analyzed in good faith: "General Qin, it's not that Mr. Futai is making things difficult for you, it's really for the sake of the overall situation. As for jumping over the wall in a hurry, you don't have to worry about it. You just need to completely seal off the west of the city, and don't worry about the south and north of the city.

You only need to prevent the enemies who leave the city from the north and south gates, and detour to the west to break through the encirclement by land, which is considered a great achievement.After the land route was blocked, the bandits would definitely try to escape by boat directly outside the south gate.

As for the blockade on the Yangtze River, you don't need to worry about it. I will lead the Huguang Navy to do it for me. "

When Qin Liangyu heard that Zhu Shuren and Zhang Huangyan had thought so carefully before the battle, he didn't have any doubts.

This is not a real "surrounded by death", but it still leaves a retreat for the enemy that seems to be alive, and the mentality of jumping over the wall in a hurry will not be motivated.

Only after we really embark on this way of retreat will we realize that this way of survival is actually a dead end, a trap.But on the big river, willpower is completely useless, and no matter how anxious the dog jumps over the wall, he can only feed all the fish.

The army is a kind of arms that can rely on willpower to improve its combat power.

And the Navy never was.

The navy is a cold-blooded technical arm. No matter how passionate and strong-willed the soldiers are, even if they are the same as the kamikaze squad, there are generations of differences in technical and tactical levels and equipment. From 1 to 1 will die.

……

Zhu Shuren's prediction was finally fulfilled, so the battle continued until nightfall.

From afternoon to evening, after realizing that the city was doomed to fall, thousands of rogue deserters fled from the north and south gates.

In order to snatch the boat, they even killed each other, which can be said to be the best in the boat.

But no matter how hard they struggle, they will inevitably be completely besieged and killed by the official navy with faster and faster ships in the end.

Unless they surrender, they are all sunk and knocked over to feed the fish.

Guard Zhang Mingzhi was also on the way to break out of the siege, but was overturned by a naval warship led by Zhu Shuren himself.

It's not that the navy of the official army never gave him a chance to surrender. After all, he first called for an emergency landing and then sank him.But the other party did not express their surrender until the moment of the collision, and there was still a fluke mentality of rushing out, so there was nothing much to say after falling into the water.

The officers and soldiers messed up their harpoons and stabbed the armored and struggling figure in the water. After stabbing it into a hornet's nest, they dragged it up with the rope tied to the end of the harpoon and pulled it back to the city to celebrate.

All the local generals in Sichuan, including Qin Liangyu, admired Zhu Shuren's well-organized deployment and strict orders.

The two brothers, Wang Guangxing and Wang Guangchang, took the lead in paying homage and expressing their views: "The military strategy of Lord Guoxing is really the reincarnation of Marquis Zhuge Wu! The last general is really convinced. Shame, before going to the battle, the last general thought that Lord Guoxing didn't like me. I used to be in the army of thieves and wanted us to do the hard work and give the credit to the direct descendants.

The final general was really blinded by lard, and he failed to see the great talent and strategy of Guo Xingye, who was high-spirited and upright.This Hongyi cannon was mounted on a warship and directly bombarded the gates and towers of the city. What a joy!In the future, whenever there is another war, we will fight wherever the Lord Guoxing tells us to fight! "

"When the defenders in the city see that we have such powerful heavy artillery that can directly blow down the towers, they will definitely take advantage of our army's unstable foothold and the few people who have landed ashore to go out of the city and try to seize the artillery and destroy it. The surname must have been expected a long time ago, right?
It's really strategizing and decisively winning thousands of miles away. Such a clever plan, I am saved! "

Zhu Shuren is a little embarrassed by these people's flattery, the conscience of heaven and earth, the second point these people said, what is "the defenders in the city know that if they continue to be bombarded for nothing, they will die sooner or later, so they will open the door and rush out to try to destroy the cannon". Zhu Shuren really didn't expect it before the battle.

It's completely due to the fact that the battle has come to this point, everything has gone with the flow, and it has evolved into this form.

But since the newly regained subordinates want to make up their minds and make up the head coach's imagination even more cleverly, Zhu Shuren will not deliberately expose it.

Even if it's a crooked attack, it's not good to put an extra layer and a half of Zhuge Liang's halo on yourself? Of course Zhu Shuren knew how much "Zhuge village man" had been loved and revered by the local people's mythology in Sichuan for thousands of years.

At any rate, it can improve more morale, so that in the follow-up military operations in Sichuan, it will be more handy when commanding troops, and orders are prohibited.So let them continue to misunderstand.

So, he only said a few words of modesty in an inscrutable way, but he didn't deny any specific judgments, he just said: "Hey, it's not a big deal to wipe out ten thousand enemies in one go.

This battle can achieve such a result, my deployment has only played a small role, the key is the old general Qin and everyone.Of course, the most important thing is that Zhang Xianzhong himself can't weigh the pros and cons, he is in a dilemma, he doesn't know what to choose——

If he had been able to go all out at the beginning, after taking Chongqing, the whole army would march eastward, go straight to Fengjie, and even take Fengjie, blockade Qutang Gorge, how would we have a chance to fight today?
If he can't win Fengjie and stop Qutang Gorge, then he should go straight to Chengdu with the whole army at the beginning, and make the best use of the thieves' fleeing operations without sending troops to stay behind.

In the end, Zhang Xianzhong obviously wanted both. He wanted to prevent the troops from outside Sichuan from entering Sichuan for reinforcements, and he also wanted to quickly capture Chengdu and eat the fattest fruit in his mouth. The result was that at least one of the two would be out of reach. If he retreated If not, one of the people along the way will suffer devastating losses.

In this Wanxian battlefield, after Bai Wenxuan couldn't win Fengjie, he was reluctant to spit it out, and when he didn't withdraw all his troops to Baxian County, Chongqing, he had already lost!Today, we are nothing more than withdrawing the chips that the enemy has already planned to lose from the bank! "

(Note: There were Qianzhuang in the Ming Dynasty, but there was no ticket number. From the Song Dynasty, Jiaozi and Feiqian gradually existed, but only in the Qing Dynasty did they have banknotes and bank notes.)
Zhu Shuren's words were full of twists and turns, and his momentum was like a rainbow, which also convinced the audience and greatly increased their confidence.

All of this is better than temple calculations. Zhang Xianzhong's partial failure in eastern Sichuan was something he didn't know what to choose from at the beginning, and he was reluctant to get it. It was already doomed!

……

The decisive victory in the Battle of Wanxian really boosted the morale of the officers and soldiers. In addition, the news was well kept secret. Zhu Shuren only rested in Wanxian for one night, leaving the sick and wounded and some sailors to defend the city and restore order. On the second day, they took the main force again and continued to march westward against the current.

There are still four hundred miles between Wanxian County and Zhiba County, Chongqing Prefecture. The speed of the Yangtze River Reverse Army in the mountainous area is still very slow, and it can only travel seventy or eighty miles a day at most.

The official army arrived in Wanxian on the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month, took it on the [-]th, and set off again on the [-]th.

On the 22nd, they left Kuizhou Prefecture and entered Chongqing Prefecture. On the 23rd, they arrived in Zhongzhou County, and on the 24th they arrived in Fuzhou County (where Fuling mustard mustard is located).

In the two county towns along the way, the thieves did not leave any troops to garrison, only some original local hooligans who took refuge in the thieves and changed their skins to maintain local order there.

Therefore, as soon as the officers and soldiers arrived, Wo Xue was immediately tormented. Zhu Shuren only picked some people who were outraged by the people and were identified by the surviving people as helping Zhang Xianzhong's army to plunder and massacre.

On the evening of the 25th, Zhu Shuren's troops finally passed through Tongluo Gorge, [-] miles east of Ba County.Originally, if they had marched overnight, they might have arrived at Ba County in the middle of the night, but Zhu Shuren considered that it was getting late and it was impossible to attack the city overnight, so he asked the troops to find a suitable place to camp at the west entrance of Tongluo Gorge.

Until now, Bai Wenxuan in Ba County didn't know that the officers and soldiers had gotten so close.The news he received before was just an urgent messenger sent by Zhang Mingzhi three days ago, saying that Wan County was under siege.

Bai Wenxuan secretly screamed in his heart that he would suffer, so he asked the emergency messenger to reply to Zhang Mingzhi, saying that it was impossible for the Baxian defenders to save Wanxian.

The weak city of Wan County does not mean long-term defense. It is just a springboard for the attack on Fengjie, so let Zhang Mingzhi find a way to break through, or even give up some of the rear troops and escape to join forces. Bai Wenxuan also promised not to pursue it Zhang Mingzhi's crime of losing his teacher, and he will excuse him in front of the Eight Great Kings.

The courier left Ba County the day before yesterday and returned to Wan County to deliver the letter. Calculating the time, it should have been delivered if it is fast, and it will take another day at most if it is slow.

Bai Wenxuan's news is so ill-informed, and he can't really be blamed. Why did the rogue defenders in Zhongzhou and Fuzhou never send someone to report the emergency to him? They only cared about their own lives.

Bai Wenxuan would not send cavalry scouts too far in the middle of the night. Zhang Xianzhong had been in Sichuan for less than a month, and the foundation of local rule was not stable, and effective rule had basically not been established in the countryside. It is not surprising that he was so deceived.

……

It wasn't until the next morning that Bai Wenxuan realized that something might be wrong.

Because some of the sentry scouts he routinely sent out to the city last night did not come back—Chongqing is close to the Yangtze River and the Jialing River, so in order to maintain military reconnaissance, it is necessary to send both cavalry scouts by land and sentry ship scouts by water.

The location of the city of Chongqing in the Ming Dynasty is roughly the modern Yuzhong District, especially the area around Chaotianmen Wharf.Therefore, the east and south of the city are the Yangtze River, the north of the city is the Jialing River, and Chaotianmen in the northeast corner is the point where the Jialing River flows into the Yangtze River.

The cavalry scouts can only detect the enemy coming from the west by land, while the southeast and north rely on sentry ships to detect.

Before Zhang Xianzhong's troops entered Sichuan, they did not have naval warships. After entering Sichuan, they started to grab ships on the spot from Bozhou.Therefore, the water force is very weak, which also leads to the fact that Bai Wenxuan can send not many scouting forces in the direction of the waterway, and the boat is not enough.

After discovering that some sentinel ships failed to return, Bai Wenxuan's military sense was not too dull anyway, so he immediately became nervous and announced that all gates in Ba County were closed and entered a state of preparation for war.

Bai Wenxuan's tense actions also aroused the incomprehension of some other left-behind generals and civilian staff in the city.

A counselor Zhang Xianzhong left for Bai Wenxuan, named Pan Duao, came to his door and reasoned with Bai Wenxuan at the former prefect yamen of Chongqing and now the Bai Wenxuan shogunate:
"Captain Bai! Your Majesty asked you to guard Dongchuan, why are you so timid to avoid the enemy! The day before yesterday Captain Zhang sent someone to ask for help, but you not only refused to send reinforcements, but also asked him to give up Wanxian and retreat!
Even if you let the withdrawal be justified, but these few days, you have not sent troops to support Zhang Duwei's troops at all. Now if there is any trouble, you will directly close the four doors to isolate the inside and outside. What about our troops in other places?If the officers and soldiers could really come so quickly, would the Captain Didu in Hezhou Diaoyu City have to withdraw?The guards in other places, knowing that you are so timid, won't they lose their morale? "

This Pan Duao's cultural level is actually not high. Like Song Xiance from Li Zicheng's place, he is a failed scholar.

Pan Duao was originally from Xiangyang Mansion and Yunyang Mansion in Huguang. Since the ninth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong fled to the mountains near Xiangyang and Yunyang, until he was recruited by Xiong Wencan on the spot in the 11th year of Chongzhen. He won many people's hearts, and some scholars mistakenly thought that Zhang Xianzhong could really clean up his crimes and obtain a genuine long-term status, so some scholars followed him.

Xu Yixian, Zhang Xianzhong's chief military adviser, followed at that time, and Pan Duao also joined him at that time.These people also brazenly compared themselves with Zhuge Liang.

However, because Zhang Xianzhong was uneducated and didn't have much knowledge of scholars, he was quite fond of it. Before Chongzhen 15 years ago, as long as he was a scholar, he could be reused.

This Pan Duao was at least among the top five advisers under Zhang Xianzhong's command, so Bai Wenxuan didn't dare to trust him too much.

Facing doubts, he also carefully explained: "Mr. Pan, this governor has fought with the king for more than ten years. He has always been very accurate in predicting the enemy's situation, and he has been sailing carefully for thousands of years.

Some of the sentry ships that went to the east and north of the city to investigate the enemy's situation did not come back. It may be that after the government army surrounded Wan County, they divided their troops and continued to advance rapidly.If the city was suddenly attacked by the government army, it would be no small matter.

But as long as we don't make mistakes, as long as Zhang Mingzhi in Wanxian County has not been breached, he may break the detour and go deep into the official army food road. "

Pan Duao didn't take this kind of argument seriously: "Can the officers and soldiers come from thousands of miles to attack Chongqing? The Yangtze River and Jialing River are naturally dangerous, and it will take several days to cross the river. How can they sneak attack across the river?
Then, have you ever heard that throughout the ages, have there been any soldiers and horses from the Northern Dynasties who could directly attack Nanjing City at Guazhoudu or Caishiji?You can sneak attack across the Yangtze River, you are scared silly! "

The two were arguing endlessly, but outside the former magistrate's yamen, an emergency officer rushed in: "You Dudu, the warships of the official army have appeared on the river outside Chaotianmen! There are at least a few hundred!"

Pan Duao was immediately deflated, and also sweated slightly.

Is there really an officer who can come so fast?Fortunately, the Yangtze River is wide enough, and no one has been able to cross the Yangtze River or the Jialing River to attack directly.

(End of this chapter)