Chapter 46: Conquering Chongqing
Chen Shiqi firmly controlled Tongluo Gorge, the waterway gateway in Chongqing, but Zhang Xianzhong sent people to cross mountains and ridges, and to Jiangjin upstream, and took Chongqing's land throat Buddha Pass.
Even Li Zicheng would be beyond his reach for such military talents, and Zhang Xianzhong's pride can be imagined.
Chen Shiqi was furious and had to withdraw all the elite officials and troops into the city before Zhang Xianzhong formed a double attack.
It is expected that the Heding Kingdom will go downstream from Fotu Pass. The official army of Tongluo Gorge could not withstand the attack and fled. Millions of troops in Daxi passed through Tongluo Gorge successfully and gathered at the only land gate in Chongqing - Tongyuan Gorge.
To conquer Chongqing, we must conquer Tongyuan Gate.
Chongqing City is built near the river, and a city of ten feet high is built with stones around the river. There are seventeen city gates, nine open and eight closed. There are nine city gates that are open daily, and eight are surrounded by the river.
It was summer, and the river water surged and there was no place to station troops outside the city gate. Zhang Xianzhong had to concentrate his troops to attack Tongyuan Gate.
He still adhered to his principle of first rituals and then troops, and sent someone to send Chen Shiqi a letter of persuasion to surrender, and advised him to consider the 100,000 officers and soldiers and the people of the city, open the city gate, surrender, otherwise the city would be destroyed and slaughtered.
Chen Shiqi gritted his teeth and tore through the letter of persuasion to surrender. He was righteous and took a sword and climbed to the city wall. This dismissed governor vowed to live and die with Chongqing.
At this time, he received another letter of request. Yang Zhan brought 5,000 Guangyuan cavalry to rescue Chongqing. He gathered reinforcements from all walks of life, and Qin Liangyu also brought the newly recruited three thousand white-rod soldiers, gathering more than 50,000 people in total.
They asked the governor to set a time to lead the 100,000 elite troops in the city to attack Zhang Xianzhong from outside the city, and caught him off guard.
Chen Shiqi disagreed and was too lazy to even return the letter. There were cannons, rolling stones, woods, muskets and arrows in the city. The city was strong and the cannon was strong and closed, so I didn't believe that Zhang Xianzhong had three heads and six arms, and could fly into the city.
To this day, what he still thinks is how to rely on himself and avenge his previous shame.
He did not expect that Zhang Xianzhong had very rich experience in siege, and there were no less than twenty cities of all sizes and sizes captured in the past two years.
Zhang Xianzhong divided his million-dark Western Army into two groups, one to resist Yang Zhan and other reinforcements, and the other to organize the siege.
The artillery fire in the city once suppressed Zhang Xianzhong's attack, and the Western Army suffered heavy casualties.
The tricky Zhang Xianzhong soon came up with a solution. He ordered people to dig out all the tombs outside Chongqing City and use the coffin board as a shield. No matter whether it is a cannon fire, musket, arrow, rolling stone, or wood, it can be blocked.
Chen Shiqi's artillery fire soon lost his power to Zhang Xianzhong because he had already attacked under the city wall.
Then use the rolling stone and the wood to smash it hard, but it hit it on the coffin board.
The Great Western Army attacked under the city wall, some soldiers held coffin boards, while others made holes under the city wall and placed gunpowder.
Just as Yang Zhan led reinforcements to the city of Chongqing, "boom", "boom", "boom", and the sound of explosions that shook the sky and the earth came from afar.
Chongqing is over! All reinforcements were immediately deflated and retreated one after another. Qin Liangyu also fought to the point of exhaustion, patted Yang Zhan on the shoulder, and returned to Shifu with the white pole soldiers.
But Yang Zhan didn't want to leave because Chongqing is the gateway to eastern Sichuan of Chengdu. If Chongqing is lost, Chengdu will have no danger to defend.
He tried hard to kill, using weapons on his body at the same time, arrows, swords, slingshots, and muskets took turns to fire, fists and feet, and approached the city gate step by step.
Gradually, Tongyuan Gate could be seen. In the sword light and sword shadows, he suddenly saw that the flag of the Daxi Army had already fluttered high above the city of Chongqing.
At some point, he was surrounded by the Western Army.
Fortunately, half of Guangyuan’s Iron Cavalry is still there. For the sake of the present, only by retaining this power can we deal with Zhang Xianzhong for a long time.
After making up his mind, he led his men out of the encirclement and retreated towards Chengdu.
Zhang Xianzhong didn't care about chasing Yang Zhan because he was busy going to the city to settle the matter.
After the city wall was blown down, the Western army swarmed in, and the people fled desperately to escape from the city. The city was in chaos, and there were endless shouts of killing.
Zhang Xianzhong rode a tall horse and drove into Chongqing City majestic with the accompaniment of Prime Minister Wang Zhaolin and other civil and military officials.
"Report, the king, the general has captured King Rui Zhu Changhao, the governor of Sichuan and other officials, waiting for you to go to the governor's office to deal with it."
"Send the order, the royal family, officials of all sizes, and wealthy families, and many of them are all fucking arrested!"
After walking a few steps, someone came to report, "No, the well in the city was poisoned, and dozens of people in the Daxi Army have been poisoned and died."
Zhang Xianzhong was furious: "Everyone in Chongqing deserves to die, I will slaughter them all!"
The messenger had not left yet, and he heard a soft shout, "Huang Hu, shouldn't you die?"
Zhang Xianzhong was stunned. Three soldiers escorted a woman to the front of him. The woman was carrying a big doll on her back and holding a small doll in her hand, looking at him with complicated eyes.
One of the soldiers reported: "King, this woman named her and wanted to see you. She said she knew which wells were poisoned."
Zhang Xianzhong turned over and dismounted, walked to the woman, grabbed her arm, and shouted in disbelief: "Yuzhen, are you really Yuzhen?"
Yuzhen's tears kept falling down, and she whimpered: "Brother Xianzhong, it's me. Why did you become like this!"
Zhang Xianzhong hugged her and screamed with pain, "Yuzhen, Yuzhen, I have been so hard for you. Where have you been there over the years?"
The sound of his speech was like a tiger roar, and the two dolls were so scared that they cried. Only then did he notice them, "Is this your baby? Where is their father?"
"When I was defending the city, I was beaten to death by you." Yuzhen calmed down and begged: "Brother Xianzhong, you promise me that if you don't kill the common people, I will tell you which wells have been poisoned."
Zhang Xianzhong was surprised and said, "How do you know?"
"Because I threw poison. If you don't kill the common people, it will naturally not affect you."
Zhang Xianzhong looked at Yuzhen, and was still the stubborn woman, but her face was covered in wind and frost.
"Why are you carrying a big doll? Can't he walk?"
"The big one was born by my husband's ex-wife, and the small one was born by me. I can't let others call me a stepmother."
Yuzhen's simple words made Zhang Xianzhong burst into tears. What a great woman! But I am no longer that yellow tiger.
"Yuzhen, I promise you not to kill innocent people. Take them there, point out the poisonous well, and come to me later."
"Brother Xianzhong, I am used to being free when you have something to do, so I won't come to you anymore. As long as you don't kill the people, it would be great that my children and I can survive."
Zhang Xianzhong pondered: "In this way, no matter where you go, you will always put a willow branch at the door of your house, and my subordinates will not make things difficult for you."
"Okay. Brother Xianzhong, take care of yourself and remember not to kill the people."
Zhang Xianzhong nodded frequently, and Yuzhen left with tears.
However, what should be liquidated still needs to be liquidated.
The first place is King Rui, who escaped from Hanzhong, Shaanxi. Zhang Xianzhong pointed at his nose and laughed: "You fled to Chongqing because you were afraid of Li Zicheng. Even though you knew that we were calling me, you didn't escape. Are you not afraid of me, Zhang Xianzhong?"
King Rui said helplessly: "Of course I am afraid of you, Zhang Xianzhong, but Governor Chen Shiqi told me that Chongqing City cannot be defeated."
Zhang Xianzhong laughed, "We have no city that we can't capture. You go to the King of Hell to sue Chen Shiqi."
As he said that, he slashed King Rui with one knife and slaughtered all his clans.
The second place was Chen Shiqi and other officials. Zhang Xianzhong said in a hatred: "You officials are all against me and resist the Western Army in every way, causing me to lose my troops and generals. Now it's time for me to fulfill my promise, pull them all out and execute them in Lingchi!"
Chen Shiqi cursed a lot. The more he cursed, the happier Zhang Xianzhong was. The pleasure of the winner, this pleasure was enough to stimulate the demonic nature. This magic nature was eventually vented on more than 37,000 surviving officers and soldiers.
Zhang Xianzhong ordered all the officers and soldiers to cut off their right hands, with the reason "In this way, they will never take up weapons to resist us again."
These official troops were expelled from the city screaming. Zhang Xianzhong said with a grim smile: "Let everyone in Sichuan see, this is the end of resisting me!"
Next, it was the turn of massacre of the people. Zhang Xianzhong had just promised Yuzhen, but was unwilling to go back on his word. While he was hesitating, a rumbling thunder sounded from the sky. Suddenly, the sky was dark and the wind was blowing.
Zhang Xianzhong roared to the sky: "You don't allow me to kill, then you will suffer for others!"
He ordered his men to fire guns into the sky. "Room, rumble", and a cannon sounded, the clouds cleared, the mist dissipated, and the wind was bright.
Zhang Xianzhong laughed, "Since that's the case, let's spare the people of this city."
After the liquidation, he rewarded the three armies, but his adopted son and generals were still attacking the surrounding counties and towns. While he was idle, Zhang Xianzhong rode his horse and wandered around the streets of Chongqing with the help of Prime Minister Wang Zhaolin. He was so uphill that he was very annoyed.
"Damn it, this Chongqing city is not even a flat ground as big as a palm, but Chengdu is still flat."
He was complaining that Zhang Kewang rode in front of him and shouted before he got off the horse, "Father, Father, great news, great news!"
Zhang Xianzhongqi said: "There is any bigger news than our attack on Chongqing City?"
"Li Zicheng entered the Forbidden City and became emperor! Chongzhen's old man hanged himself and committed suicide, and the Ming Dynasty collapsed!"
Zhang Xianzhong was stunned for a moment and said to himself: "Li Zicheng is really fucking capable. He said that he would become the emperor."
In a flash, I woke up, "No, can I say that I, the Great Western King, still bow to him?"
Ke Wang shouted, "How is that possible! The father can also be the emperor, let's establish the country in Chongqing!"
"No, you can't be here even if you want to be an emperor. Tell your brothers and generals quickly and let them come back and discuss, and within one month, you can fight to Chengdu and establish the Daxi Kingdom."
Chapter completed!