Although there is a hint of coolness on the land of Sichuan and Sichuan in September, it still seems generally hot.

The warm wind passed through the mountains and forests, passed through the rebel camp outside the city, and then arrived on the city. The bleak cry was heard along the way, making the already nervous siege even more.

In recent days, the rebels commanded by Zhang Tong have launched a construction competition with the Ming army in the city. Both sides have been back and forth and started to compete for construction capabilities.

Originally, there were a large number of rebels, and the cages built were more than 100 meters high.

Sichuan General Hou Liangzhu mobilized the monks and military and civilians of Yongxiang Temple and quickly built a taller bell tower on the city wall.

Zhang Tong rode on the horse, looking at the bell tower that was as high as three meters high, and was also admired in his heart, sighed and waved:

"Stop pile up, ask the brothers to withdraw them!"

The local chief on the side was speechless and said, "How could there be such a war? The bell tower that is nearly three meters high is a good idea. This man from the surname can think of it..."

Zhang Tong raised his head, looked up at Ming Jun above his head, and turned around and left.

That night, a chieftain soldier broke into his camp in shame.

It was said that under the cover of the bell tower, the Ming army in the city took the opportunity to leave the city, covered it up and killed it, and burned all the piled earth cages.

"Hou Liangzhu bullied me too much!" Zhang Tong was furious when he heard this. He immediately put on his armor and led his troops to attack the city at night.

However, unexpectedly, Hou Liangzhu had already brought his personal soldiers to wait on the city tower. Seeing Zhang Tong leading the rebels to come in black, he just laughed and said:

"This town is expected to come, and I have prepared a gift to entertain you!"

Then he turned his head and ordered:

"Throw!"

In a blink of an eye, countless black cake-like objects on the bell tower were dropped by the Ming army. The rebels picked it up and were shocked, and their sharpness suddenly decreased.

However, the Ming army kneaded the rotten and rotten food in the city into pieces of bread, meat patties, and sat on the high bell tower, constantly throwing it at them.

Hou Liangzhu's move to attack his heart has been quite effective.

Rebels were all chieftain soldiers. According to custom, they could not waste any food. Many chieftain soldiers believed that if they were wasting food, there would inevitably be unknown disasters.

Faced with these rotten cakes with feces and urine mixed with rotten stinky substances, no one would be so stupid that they really took a bite. They almost subconsciously threw the cakes on the ground.

After throwing away these cakes, an uneasy atmosphere began to spread among the chieftain soldiers.

At this time, the Ming army began to fire bows and arrows and muskets on the bell tower. The chieftain soldiers had no intention of fighting and were defeated and collapsed.

In the next few days, Zhang Tong attacked every city gate in Chengdu one by one, attacking, building up soil, using siege equipment, etc., and tried all the methods he could think of.

Hou Liangzhu soldiers come to block the enemy, and the water comes to cover the earth. In times of crisis, he will go to the city to fight in person.

In short, Zhang Tong was defeated repeatedly in Chengdu, suffered heavy losses, and was humiliated by the Ming army in every possible way, but he was unable to attack the city.

Zhang Tong sent spies to the city and found out that there was not much food in the city, so he changed his strategy and tried to destroy the Chengdu city without any food and grass.

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The chieftains of the chieftains divided their troops out in four places, drilled into the mountains and forests, built gates between the mountains first, and then chose a place with a wide view, set up a place to garrison troops, and connect.

Three days later, rebel camps were everywhere in the valleys around Chengdu.

This is not over. After setting up camps in the mountains, the rebels began to block the road and set up checkpoints, completely cutting off freight and traffic around Chengdu.

Zhang Tong ordered that all those who want to enter the city, whether civilians or merchants, be killed.

Under such orders, all the chieftains became little emperors on the hills. They did their own way and either beat or scolded the local mountaineering people.

The chieftain army quickly split into a heinous bandit.

In a quiet valley, more than a dozen earthen houses are standing here without competing with the world, and the local mountain people live here for generations, enjoying themselves.

"Xiu'e, go and dry your clothes!"

A man came to the wooden house with a pitchfork in his hand and began to deal with the thatch all over the ground. While combing, he turned around and shouted.

There was a reply in the room.

A woman with an average appearance but a good figure pulled her hair and walked out in a wooden tub full of clothes.

The woman looked up at the sky. The sunny wind made her feel much better.

"Xiu'e, the weather is good today. I'll take the kids with me later and go out for a walk!"

At this time, the man cleaned up the wooden house, held a pitchfork in one hand, and shouted from afar. The woman raised her eyes and saw the man smiling at her.

Before the woman could reply, the next moment, an arrow shot through the man's chest.

The pitchfork landed with a bang, and the man subconsciously covered the pointed head on his chest and fell down with a look of fear.

"Take the kids with you and go—!"

Before he finished speaking, a chieftain soldier stepped forward, stabbed the man's body with a knife, then raised his head and looked at the woman who was covering her mouth and looking terrified.

Then, a grim smile appeared on his face, and even Shang was not caring about the knife that Shang was inserted into the man's body, he opened his two big hands and approached the woman step by step.

The woman reacted, and her first reaction was to rush into the house and pick up the child.

But as soon as she turned around, she saw the chieftain soldier who killed her husband standing in front of the door and pounced on him with an anxious look on his face.

Immediately, the screams of women, the cry of children, and the roar of chieftain soldiers in excitement.

The rebels rushed into the mountains, burned the villages, dug up the tombs, killed all the men, and plundered women with good looks to the camp in the mountains, and raped them until they died.

At this time, news came from the front line.

She Fengming defeated Nanchuan, Li Shiqi surrounded Fan Long, Zhu Youxiaojun descended on Chongqing, Lu Qin successfully recovered the entire Shunqing area, and rushed to Chengdu at night.

“…”

The news of defeat all show that this chaos that caused the turbulent and uneasy Sichuan for several months is coming to an end.

Under such a situation, Zhang Tong had the ridiculous idea of ​​separating a corner.

After evacuating Chengdu, the main force of the last rebel army swept over the imperial prefectures and garrisons around Chengdu.

Within half a month, the land within a radius of Guanxian, Pengxian, Xindu, Chongqing Prefecture, Ningchuan Guards, and Chengdu were all under the hands of Zhang Tong.

After that, Zhang Tong sent an envoy to claim to be the Great Elder of Xichuan and offered a surrender.

In this surrender statement, Zhang Tong first angrily accused She Chongming of involuntarily treason, and said that following the thief was a disaster, all of which were forced by She Chongming, which was not his original intention.

From then on, I would like to bring 100,000 elite troops under my command to submit to the court, and I could stop the various departments within and conquer the Liao Dynasty outside.

His condition was that the court allowed the Zhang clan to guard Xichuan for generations.

A few days later, Zhu Youxiao received the news on the way to Chengdu. He laughed out loud and said, and he was still riding on the horse, so he made a verbal reply.

The general meaning is that you, Zhang Tong, was just a rebel general under She Chongming. The court would not even admit that She Chongming called himself the King of Daliang, let alone you, the so-called Great Elder of Xichuan.

The chieftains who followed the court would not recognize you as the great elder.

In the end, Zhu Youxiao also said that if you want to not implicate the entire Zhang family, you will dismiss your so-called 100,000 elite soldiers and go to Chengdu to tie up and apologize to me.

Otherwise, when the army arrives, the entire Zhang family will be killed.
Chapter completed!