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Chapter 300 It took [-] more tricks to win Chongqing ([-]-character chapter)

It was already the 29th of the twelfth lunar month when Zhu Shuren returned through the envoy sent by Tan Wen to use tricks.

So far, none of the bitter tricks and false surrenders conceived by Zhu Shuren before the war can be fully implemented as planned.
In the process of temptation, there will always be various new accidents or small flaws. Either the conditions here are not met, or the enemy is more vigilant than expected, which requires more temptations and contacts to win people's trust.

The reason why Bai Wenxuan received the envoy sent by Tan Wen so easily is also because Bai Wenxuan did not intend to listen to the other party's words from the beginning, but just tried to get in touch with each other and tested each other out of the mentality of having a date. set of intelligence.

This is like the modern people who receive telecommunication fraud, even if they feel that the other party is probably a liar, some talkative people will still talk to the liar a little more, or even tease the other party.Holding the mentality of "it's okay to chat anyway, as long as you don't reveal any passwords or send money, it doesn't matter".

Zhu Shuren should even thank Bai Wenxuan for his mentality. If the other party is a person who "hangs up when he receives a scam call without saying a word of nonsense", then he will not even get this little gain now.

With such a delay, Zhu Shuren is doomed not to enter Chongqing to spend the 15th year of Chongzhen's New Year's Eve and the 16th year of Chongzhen's New Year's Eve.

But this is a normal situation. If the strategy can be as subtle as expected at the beginning and let the enemy directly fall into the trick, then it must be a mentally handicapped halo.

In the real world, when you start a business and start a project, there will be all kinds of unexpected accidents. The project managers will not be overwhelmed one day. If it is more convenient to fight a war than to do a project, then it is a dream.

If the plan can't keep up with the changes, then readjust the plan, it's no big deal.

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"Although it is impossible to open the city gate by swindling surrender directly, it is not completely fruitless. At least it is a surprise to find out that Zhang Xianzhong left important information for Bai Wenxuan to supervise the army. This shows that Zhang Xianzhong no longer completely trusts Bai Wenxuan. The text is selected.

Even if it can be deduced that Zhang Xianzhong's trust in Li Dingguo must be further deteriorating, because Bai Wenxuan used to cooperate more with Li Dingguo-in the remaining governors under Zhang Xianzhong, Bai Wenxuan favored Li Dingguo, Feng Shuangli favored Sun Kewang, We all know this.

In addition, according to the few words that Bai Wenxuan and Pan Duao said in front of Tan Wen's envoy, we can also draw some other clues, that is, Bai Wenxuan tended to think that the banks of the Jialing River in the north of the city should not be too wary.
He felt that the terrain of the rocky beach after the river water fell was too poor to pass through, and he could not mount siege weapons. The few boats we ran aground a while ago further increased his confidence in thinking so.

However, because Pan Duao didn't know much about soldiers and tactical details, he happened to be playing sideways and couldn't understand the deception we had painstakingly deployed. He still insisted on deploying troops equally in the west and north of the city, and defending like pepper noodles——

It's not that Pan Duao is smart enough to see through my tricks, but it's precisely because Pan Duao doesn't know the details of the art of war, so I let the blind see my eyebrows.This reminds me of the ancients' comment on "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms": the empty city plan is to deceive Sima Yi, if you meet today's bandits, I am afraid that they will go straight to the city gate and capture Kong Ming.

With Pan Duao as a nonsense, it's no wonder that my misleading strategy at the beginning didn't work—but it doesn't matter, now that we have obtained all the information, we can make adjustments.

General Fang Shen can rest there, so that Wang Guangchang and Wang Guangxing's troops can also rest for a while, and all offensives in the direction of the Jialing River in the north of the city will be stopped.

On the west side of the city, follow Tan Wenxuan's agreement with Bai Wenxuan first, pretend to be slow at work for a few days, and only shoot and fire every day. Impossible to give up.

In this way, it can be regarded as doing enough work to let Bai Wenxuan taste the sweetness first. I believe that the local Sichuan army does not want to fight him.A few days later, on the pretext that I personally intervene and are dissatisfied with the progress of the battle, the brothers of the Tan family were punished and replaced, and the direct descendants were transferred to attack the city.
At that time, we will have to put in some effort, and then while attacking the city, we will secretly send Tan Wen to send an envoy to explain. One day, we will find that Bai Wenxuan has finally been completely paralyzed, and the defense in the north of the city has been relaxed. We will then smuggle across the Jialing River to Chongqing in the north of the city. A fatal blow to the city! "

Zhu Shuren worked out the battle plan for a long time, and then he shared the adjusted full set of plans with Qin Liangyu, Zhang Huangyan, and Fang Guoan.

Everyone was originally worried that Guo Xingye was saving face, and when he found out that his original plan could not be implemented, he would become angry and insist on implementing it.Now that Master Guoxing has a flexible face limit, and will change it immediately after he finds it is not feasible, everyone is relieved, and since he didn't find anything wrong with the plan, he obediently carried it out.

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For the next three or four days, everything was implemented according to Zhu Shuren's adjusted new plan. The north of the city was quiet, and the troops on the other side of the Jialing River were completely silent, and they didn't even bother to harass and restrain them.

In the west of the city, the fight seemed to be in full swing, but in fact, there were not many casualties on both sides.

Tan Wen pretended to play tacit understanding with Bai Wenxuan, so he wrote back to him, telling him about their follow-up battle plan, saying that they, the local generals in Sichuan, suggested that Zhu Shuren dig city walls and tunnels as the main attack method, and said that dealing with mountain cities would be This is the way to fight, but Zhu Shuren doesn't understand the geography of Sichuan, especially the geography around Chongqing, so he was deceived by them, so that they can passively slow down work and reduce death.

Bai Wenxuan received Tan Wen's "secret report" in advance, and naturally believed in Tan Wen's sincerity in preserving his strength, and decided to wait and see.

Of course he is not afraid of digging tunnels and city walls.

This kind of mountain city, why don't you try to dig a tunnel!I thought it was the Hebei Plain with loose and dry land!

Even if you want to dig tunnels to attack the city in Sichuan, at least you have to dig a fertile plain city like Chengdu, which is called Tianfu, and dig a fart in a mountain city!
At the same time, from Tan Wen's point of view, it is very reasonable for him to suggest this to his boss-if you keep using flying ladders and ladders to climb the city and fight hand-to-hand, then the casualty rate of the first climbers will definitely be very high, and the defenders will not take the risk of releasing water to let them go. If they go up, even if they go up, they fight each other with a knife and a gun, and the knife is fatal, how can they play tacitly?

In contrast, digging tunnels and digging walls, the two armies will not be in direct contact, and it happens that there are fewer dead people.

After Bai Wenxuan received the report, starting the next day, he saw that the officers and soldiers really switched to the excavation method of siege, with muskets and cannons covering groups of wooden donkey carts approaching the base of the city wall, and then digging.

The defenders can also save a little expensive arrows and ammunition, and only use cheap and almost costless rolling logs and stones to throw down.

But the wooden donkey cart is relatively strong, and has a sloping roof covered with wet mud, which can bounce off wood and rocks, like inclined armor forming a ricochet.

So after a day of fighting, not many people were killed on both sides, and when it was completely dark, Bai Wenxuan sent someone to drop down to the city in a hanging basket to secretly inspect the damage caused to the city wall by the siege army during the day, and confirmed that the army was indeed out. The work did not work hard and did not dig much depth, so Bai Wenxuan trusted the sincerity of cooperation of Tan Wen and other Sichuan local armed forces a little more.

"I didn't expect that the Eight Great Kings slaughtered Chongqing and killed more than [-] people. There are still local people in Sichuan who are willing to cooperate with the Eight Great Kings. It seems that the reasons why General Sun and the Second General discouraged the Great King from slaughtering the city may not be all right... Sigh , I really don’t understand.”

During the truce, Bai Wenxuan couldn't help but think so.

After three days in this way, the time has come to the third day of the first month of the 16th year of Chongzhen.

Those who celebrate the new year have to fight here, and I have to say that the soldiers of the two armies are really hard.

But this is the case in this era, long-term pain is worse than short-term pain, what can be done.

On the third day of the first lunar month, Bai Wenxuan still paralyzed people to throw logs and stones on the wall as usual, pretending to be short of arrows and ammunition.

But on this day, the officers and soldiers suddenly stepped up their offensive, and additionally used the Hongyi cannons that were rarely dispatched a few days ago, and bombarded the city with shrapnel shells.
The wall-digging troops also changed from the slack of the previous few days and dug very hard. Before the end of the work that evening, several wooden donkey carts were covered and retreated. At first, the defenders thought it was still an ordinary digger. Cheng wooden donkey, but the officers and soldiers hid a lot of gunpowder in the car,
After pushing down to the city, move the gunpowder barrel to the gap dug out by digging the wall, and then fill the outside, leaving only a small hole through which a lead wire passes, and finally ignite and retreat to blast.

The west city wall was seriously damaged in two places, and the city wall was blown out with a gap of at least half the height. The original wall of more than three feet was only a ten-foot-high ruin. The gap was under the charge of the officers and soldiers, and the outer wall might have fallen directly.

In the end, Bai Wenxuan desperately threw the new force into hand-to-hand combat to block the entrance, and suffered heavy casualties before repelling the official army.

But at this time, his disadvantage of spreading the main force of the old camp brothers like pepper noodles all over the defense line appeared. When the city wall was damaged and a large number of hand-to-hand troops were needed, he could only fill it with newly recruited men. Unwilling at all, the casualties in the hand-to-hand combat were terrific, and they almost trampled on each other.

The officers and soldiers did not withdraw their troops until nightfall, but the exchange ratio of this day, the officers and soldiers definitely made a lot of money, while the defenders suffered a lot because of several unexpected surprises.

In the middle of the night, Tan Wencai sent another messenger to contact Bai Wenxuan, saying that Zhu Shuren was dissatisfied with their progress a few days ago. If it wasn't for the fact that they didn't want to change people because of the New Year's Eve, Tan Wencai had endured until today and replaced the direct troops to attack the city. That's why I worked so hard.

Tan Wen's envoy said that their patriarch was also temporarily changed, so there was no way to notify them in advance. They hoped to keep in touch with Governor Bai and leave an extra way out. There are fewer people to die.

Bai Wenxuan was a little frightened, and couldn't believe it even more: "You all almost took advantage of the sneak attack, how could you step on two boats at this time? Are you afraid that Zhu Shuren will find clues to liquidate after breaking through the city?"

However, the envoy came out with a piece of news that surprised Bai Wenxuan: "Captain Bai, our patriarch is very sincere in maintaining harmony with your army. I got an urgent report from Chengdu——

The Eight Great Kings actually broke through Chengdu on New Year's Eve, and the news was sent to Zhu Shu's army in two days.It is still unknown who will win the game in Sichuan in the future. We just want to follow the winning side and keep our wealth.If the Eight Great Kings are in charge of Sichuan, they can hand over the entire Kuizhou Mansion to our Tan family to have the final say, with whom? "

"The Eight Great Kings really captured Chengdu? If you dare to tell me such things, you won't be afraid to boost the morale of our army? How did Chengdu be captured?" Bai Wenxuan was shocked, not sure whether it was true or not, but at the same time felt that If the other party uses this to deceive people, it will cost too much.

If this is true, it is entirely possible that the morale of the Chongqing defenders will be boosted!
However, the person who came to this question did not answer this question, but said very bachelorly: "Our patriarch doesn't know, I only heard that Chengdu is too dilapidated, and the defenders are not worried that those who celebrate the New Year will be attacked by force. They are all in the army. It is rumored that our Patriarch is not qualified to read the emergency report from the government."

This kind of half-concealed statement made Bai Wenxuan believe a little more.

He also knew that Sichuan seemed easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the terrain was dangerous, but the danger was mainly in the surrounding prefectures and counties.For example, Chongqing, Hezhou, and Fengjie are all important places, so it is difficult to attack.

As for Chengdu... In fact, not long after Bai Wenxuan entered Sichuan with Zhang Xianzhong, he heard that the defense was not strong.

I heard that the city wall of Chengdu is a dilapidated dilapidated ruin for hundreds of years—and the reason for this is also because since ancient times, the separatist regime in Sichuan has never thought of relying on defending Chengdu to maintain the separatist regime.

If you want to defend Sichuan, you must guard the dangerous surrounding mountains. If you really break into the Chengdu Plain, there are thousands of miles of fertile fields, and the separatist warlords surrendered a long time ago.

Liu Chan did not stick to Chengdu back then, neither did the previous and subsequent Shu monarchs who used the "Shixiu Jiangbiao Li Family" during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, nor did Ming Sheng, the young ruler of the Ming Xia regime at the end of Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.

(Note: At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it was Dai Shou, the prime minister of the Ming Xia regime, who had been standing firm in Chongqing, resisting the Tanghe water army sent by Zhu Yuanzhang, and prevented Tanghe from crossing the Qutang Gorge. In the end, the young master Mingsheng was stolen by Fu Youde, the Ming army from the North Road. Du Yinping succeeded and voted directly, and Dai Shou knew "the ministers are about to fight to the death, why did your majesty surrender first?")
Because of Sichuan's military characteristics for thousands of years, it is doomed that no one will sincerely repair Chengdu's city defenses. There is no hope of defending Chengdu. It has been broken for hundreds of years, and it is easy to be destroyed by gunpowder or sneak attack is normal.

Regardless of whether the news is true or not, Bai Wenxuan now believes the Tan family and Wang Guangxing and other former bandit troops. At least the information they provided about the deployment of the current battle situation is absolutely true.

Both sides want to work without effort, so that their direct troops will have fewer deaths, and let Zhu Shuren, an outsider, bear the damage. On this point, Bai Wenxuan and the local Sichuan troops have common interests.

When Bai Wenxuan began to suspect a bigger conspiracy, the previous small settings had already been regarded as common sense by him, and he believed them by default.

In front of the envoy, he took the initiative to raise another objection to the deployment of the military supervisor Pan Duao: "Mr. Pan, look! The governor has long said that the officers and soldiers have completely given up the north of the city and crossed the Jialing River to attack! There is no way to pass through there." Heavy siege equipment!

Although the battle in the west of the city was uneventful a few days ago, but now Zhu Shuren has changed his generals, and the offensive is so fierce. If he had listened to me and deployed all the brothers from the old camp to the west of the city, he would not have suffered such a heavy loss when he was almost broken today!

If it wasn't for the complicated terrain in Chongqing, there are several lines of defense in the west of the city, once breached today, the situation would be over!Do you still want to interfere with my command and miss the important matter of the Eight Great Kings! "

Pan Duao was run off by his accusations, and he couldn't refute it for a while, so he agreed to Bai Wenxuan to withdraw the old camp in the north of the city to the west of the city as much as possible.

But at this point, Bai Wenxuan and Pan Duao had no intention of guarding against the possibility of the officers and soldiers spying on their defense deployment.Even if there were doubts, they all focused on the point of "if the Tan brothers and Wang Guangchang proposed to seek refuge again, would it be a false surrender?"

That's how people are, when they hear several lies at the same time, the one that is less like a lie is less noticeable.

As for the news that Bai Wenxuan heard from the envoy of the Tan family that "the Eight Great Kings have broken Chengdu", he did not dare to immediately spread it in the army to boost morale.

He was afraid that there might be fraud in it, and the current situation of defending the city was not very tense, so there was no need to rush to announce this news.It is not too late to speak out after the verification is confirmed, or when the battle situation is critical and morale is urgently needed.

The boosting effect of any good news on morale is time-sensitive. After two or three days of being happy and uplifted, you will get used to it and have to use it wisely.

After the "Tan Wen's envoy" left, the Chongqing garrison was redeployed according to Bai Wenxuan's request, and the conflict between Bai Wenxuan and Pan Duao over the command power and dictating further intensified.

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After another two days, the attack in the west of the city became more and more fierce. Fortunately, Bai Wenxuan had already gathered all the old battalion, so it was not broken for a while.

However, the final turning point happened in the middle of the night on the fifth day of the first lunar month, or in the early morning of the sixth day of the first lunar month.

Tens of thousands of elite officers and soldiers were suddenly mobilized to the north of the long stretch of Chongqing City, smuggled across the Jialing River by boat in the middle of the night, prepared in formation, and unloaded simple siege equipment.

And more than a dozen warships equipped with heavy Hongyi cannons equivalent to 42-pound naval guns on the bows, a few of them with shallow drafts sailed directly into the Jialing River, while those with deep drafts stayed at the Jialing Estuary of the Yangtze River and broke down directly. Anchoring stone.

At the end of Yin time, the officers and soldiers began to prepare firepower. More than a dozen super heavy artillery fired intensively at the relatively weak north city wall and city gate tower. The firepower was only prepared for half a stick of incense, so as not to give the Chongqing defenders in the west of the city time. Scheduling back to defense.

And at the same time as the fire here, the Hongyi cannons in the west of the city also fired, and at the same time launched a night attack to interfere with the line of sight, pretend to be fake, and slow down the reaction of the defenders.

After some bombardment, gaps appeared in several defense lines in the north of the city, and then the officers and soldiers rushed up to fight bravely, and finally tore open the gaps.

At the same time, because the north of the city has not been a direction where Chongqing is easily attacked since ancient times, there are no layers of defenses here.

Unlike the west of the city, after breaking through the outer wall, there are mountain beams and temporary rammed earth walls and trenches for defense.

As the Ming army entered the city in a sneak attack, and the north of the city was full of newly recruited young men, the old battalion elite had long been paralyzed and evacuated, and the city of Chongqing soon fell into complete chaos.

Bai Wenxuan personally supervised the battle in the west of the city at that time, and when he learned that the north of the city was destroyed, and then saw the fire in the city, his head burst into blood, knowing that he could not explain to Zhang Xianzhong.

Pan Duao, however, was furious, scolding Bai Wenxuan for his incompetence, and at the same time forcing Bai Wenxuan to organize troops to protect him to break through: "Bai Wenxuan, you useless piece of paper! This military advisor is the reincarnation of Zhuge, if you had listened to me earlier, The west of the city and the north of the city are strictly guarded against death, how can there be today!
Hurry up and escort the military division to break through together!Otherwise, when we arrive in Chengdu, I will definitely let the Eight Great Kings kill your whole family! "

When Bai Wenxuan was stimulated by these words, the nerves in his cheeks twitched violently, and all kinds of hidden worries came to his heart. He suddenly drew his knife violently, chopped Pan Duao with one knife, and then shouted: "Pan Duao is dead! After Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan without a way Slaughtering the city everywhere, we will not give our lives to him!"

In fact, Bai Wenxuan didn't know whether he would survive if he surrendered under such circumstances.

But ninety-nine percent of them will die if they fight. If they escort Pan Duao to break through, if he tells stories in front of Zhang Xianzhong, he may also be liquidated.

That being the case, why not take a gamble, even if he is killed by the rebels, Zhang Xianzhong doesn't know how he died, and he may not be able to liquidate his family.

After some confusion, at least [-]% to [-]% of the soldiers in Chongqing still voted directly under the circumstances of Bai Wenxuan's vote, and the [-]% to [-]% of the soldiers who were short-sighted or had bad lives were killed in the chaos. way things.

Tens of thousands of people exchange fire in the dark, and the ghost knows whether the opponent's surrender is really a surrender, and it is normal to kill a hundred or ten more people before stopping after saying the surrender.

The bloody friction in Chongqing didn't stop until the sky was bright, and Bai Wenxuan was also tied up and sent to Zhu Shuren by Fang Guoan and Wang Guangxing.

When he saw Zhu Shuren, Bai Wenxuan knelt down and surrendered lifelessly. Without waiting for the other party to question him, he took the initiative to beg for a condition: "Surrender is ordered only when the crime is about to break through the wall. I dare not ask extravagantly to avoid death. Sin will be beheaded, just don't tell the outside world that I surrendered, so that Zhang Xianzhong will not sin against my family.

If Guo Xingye is willing to leave the crime and save his life, please also announce that I am dead for the time being, and announce the news that I am alive in the future, so that Zhang Xianzhong will not offend my family if he thinks that I died in battle.

In addition, Pan Duao, one of the military divisions of Zhang Xianzhong's supervisory army, was here, begging for a little forgiveness. "

Zhu Shuren looked at him quietly and didn't express his opinion.After Bai Wenxuan finished speaking, he got up and paced back and forth leisurely, and played with the jade fracture fan a few times, then turned his back to the other party, and proudly said:

"According to the fact that the wall was broken before it was surrendered, you deserved it if you killed it. But it's okay to spare you for the time being, it depends on whether you have value to use, how you perform in the future, and whether you are willing to take the crime and make meritorious service.

How about this, you asked to keep the news of your death secret. I can’t promise you all of this, but only part of it—I remember that before Li Dingguo broke his promise to Zhang Xianzhong, you were the one who followed Li Dingguo the longest among Zhang Xianzhong’s sons Bar? "

Bai Wenxuan didn't dare to hide it, and confessed truthfully: "It is true that he followed the second general the longest, and he also followed the third general for a while."

Zhu Shuren patted the folding fan: "Okay, I will conceal the news of your death from the outside world, but you have to choose a confidant who knows Li Dingguo and can trust Li Dingguo, and send a letter to Li Dingguo. The letter must be read by me first, and you should ask him to persuade Zhang Xianzhong. Bai Wenxuan He has died in war, how about taking care of his family and taking the opportunity to rescue your family?
No matter whether you think Li Dingguo betrayed you or not, you have to do it, otherwise, I will behead you and claim to the outside world that it was you who dedicated the city, or at least you didn’t listen to Pan Duao’s command and used your troops improperly. Chongqing!You know exactly how Zhang Xianzhong will deal with your family! "

(End of this chapter)