So, without saying anything, Zuo Liangyu's troops and the chieftain immediately decided to attack Chengdu City first. It would be best to capture Chengdu before Li Zicheng's troops arrived.
This is not to say that they are very arrogant, but that they are familiar with Chengdu and know that the senior court official in Chengdu, that is, the governor of Sichuan, Chen Shiqi, is a scholar who does not understand military affairs and only knows how to write and write. Hou Xun has proved this.
During the period when Chen Shiqi was the governor of Sichuan, the military defense in Sichuan Province was relaxed. The same was true. It was successively invaded by Zuo Liangyu's troops and then by Li Zicheng's troops. All places fell quickly.
Therefore, in their view, if people like Chen Shiqi guard Sichuan and Chengdu, as long as they attack seriously, there will definitely be no problem.
As a result, they hit an iron plate.
Qin Liangyu is also an experienced commander who is used to fighting. Therefore, when faced with Zuo Liangyu's troops coming with a fierce momentum, she first showed her weakness to the enemy. Unexpectedly, this rebel army really ignored it and used 12% of its strength to attack the city.
Therefore, as long as the city of Chengdu was not broken, Qin Liangyu would always maintain the strength of the troops on top of the city and just increase the strength little by little.
Just like that, after fighting for a long time, Zuo Liangyu finally realized that something was wrong.
After fighting back and forth, it stands to reason that with so many attackers dead, the number of troops on the city must have been severely reduced. Unexpectedly, the strength of the troops on the city was almost the same as when he started the attack.
At this time, he came to his senses and realized that he had been deceived, so he quickly called for gold and retreated his troops.
However, even so, the initial fierce attack caused heavy losses to the rebel army. The morale that had been maintained with great efforts before was suddenly lowered when faced with the corpses everywhere under the walls of Chengdu.
The chieftains came to Zuo Liangyu's army one after another, mainly to ask Hou Xun about the situation.
"What's going on? Why is this Chengdu Prefecture so difficult to defeat?"
"It's really strange. The soldiers on top of the city are not just white-armored soldiers. They are also resisting so fiercely!"
"..."
Hou Xun knew about Chen Shiqi, he was just a junior, but he was a little confused. It is difficult to say that this kind of military strategy will suddenly enlighten you.
Looking at the big flag with the word "Qin" flying on the top of the city, he felt a little incredible: "Is it possible that Chen Shiqi was frightened and handed over the military power to that old woman Qin Liangyu?"
This would have been unimaginable before.
But now, as soon as Hou Xun thought of this, he immediately thought of his situation, glanced at Zuo Liangyu, and sighed in his heart: These are really troubled times! It is only in troubled times that the literati are the vassals of the warriors!
Naturally, he didn't know that Zhang Mingwei's butterfly effect had already changed the power in the city.
Zuo Liangyu and the chieftain both came to their senses and knew that Qin Liangyu must be in charge of the city and had full command. They knew that it would be very difficult to capture Chengdu.
Although Qin Liangyu is a woman and she is so old, the reputation Qin Liangyu has built for most of her life is not in vain.
In the original history, after Zhang Xianzhong invaded Sichuan, he was invincible, but he did not dare to harass Shizhu. This shows Qin Liangyu’s reputation!
At this time, Zuo Liangyu and the coalition forces of these chieftains knew that Chengdu could not be captured in a short time, so they simply stopped fighting and waited for Li Zicheng's men to gather together in Chengdu.
After the troops led by Hao Yaoqi and Tian Jianxiu arrived, they were quite gloating about the previous losses of these rebels.
He was ordered by Li Zicheng, so he would not attack Chengdu with all his strength. He would just bluff and pretend to attack Chengdu with all his strength. He would also mobilize his troops back and forth, sneak out at night, and show up again in the city of Chengdu during the day, looking just like him. There is a continuous increase in troops here to intimidate the imperial officers and soldiers in Chengdu.
However, what made him a little dumbfounded was that Tan Ma, who was ambushing and monitoring in the north, never saw any messenger from Chengdu Prefecture escaping from the north to ask for help, day or night.
At first, he thought that his men had missed him by detecting the horse, or that they were sneaking around at night. However, after multiple verifications, it was proved that Chengdu did not send anyone out to ask for help. At this moment, Hao Yaoqi was dumbfounded and heard him ask Tian Jian Xiudao: "Even if Qin Liangyu is not afraid of death, is the King of Shu not afraid of death? Why didn't Qin Liangyu send someone to ask for help?"
Tian Jianxiu also couldn't understand, because according to what they knew about the vassals of the imperial court, it was impossible for them to be virtuous enough to accept death.
So, while they surrounded the city of Chengdu, they sent people to report to Li Zicheng, and at the same time urged Zuo Liangyu to conquer Chengdu together and continue to exert pressure.
However, Zuo Liangyu already knew that Chengdu city would be difficult to conquer in a short time, so they gave up. Only those who were stupid would bang their heads against the iron plate.
Not only that, he also divided his troops to attack the remaining chieftains who had not formed an alliance with him.
What made Zuo Liangyu a little surprised was that the chieftains who were originally unwilling to form an alliance with him heard the news of the chaos outside Shu, especially the invasion of Jianlu from Liaodong, and defeated the capital. The current emperor Life and death are unknown, etc. After Hou Xun originally used these words to deceive them, and saw that in Sichuan Province, the imperial court could not even save Chengdu, they all changed their tune and agreed to form an alliance with Zuo Liangyu.
In fact, they had no choice because Li Zicheng refused to ally with them. They could either obey Li Zicheng's orders or be destroyed by Li Zicheng. Therefore, they could only form an alliance with Zuo Liangyu's troops.
As a result, Zuo Liangyu's troops became even more powerful. One after another, chieftain teams marched to Chengdu and joined the siege. This situation, of course, frightened Chen Shiqi, who was heartbroken, and wanted to ask for help, but Qin Liangyu refused.
I have said that I will persist until the beginning of spring, but I must persist until the beginning of spring.
In this way, Zuo Liangyu's troops were fine, but Hao Yaoqi was anxious, but there was nothing he could do.
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On the Kuizhou Prefecture side, Gao Yigong, who was gathering troops here, had been holding back. As soon as Li Zicheng's military order to adjust his strategy arrived, he immediately launched a fierce attack. For no other reason than because the person he wanted to deal with was Gao Jie, Li Zicheng's former subordinate.
It can be said that all the generals under Li Zicheng hated Gao Jie.
Because among the bandits, although Li Zicheng himself had broken the rules and did not talk about loyalty in the world and annexed other tribes when it was time to annex other tribes, at least the principle that brothers and wives should not be bullied was deeply rooted in the bones of the reckless hero. However, if Gao Jie did this, of course it would arouse public outrage, and they would want to stab Gao Jie three times.
When Gao Yigong was holding back, he was not idle. He kept thinking about how to beat Gao Jie, and it would be best to capture Gao Jie alive. When Li Zicheng gave him permission to attack with all his strength, he immediately launched a fierce attack on Gao Jie like a tiger emerging from the mountain.
All of a sudden, the imperial army's defense lines in Kuizhou Prefecture were lost one after another. Gao Jie's troops were less than half of Gao Yigong's, with only 8,000 men. They could not withstand Gao Yigong's 20,000 men. The rogue thieves attack with elite force.
With no other choice, he asked Sun Chuanting for help, but had to give up the Kuizhou Prefecture, which meant giving up the control of the Lychee Road in Shu, and retreated to Baoning Prefecture.
Not only that, Li Zicheng's troops originally assembled in Shunqing Mansion, namely Liu Zongmin and Yuan Zongdi's elite bandits, also began to move north and launched an offensive against Baoning Mansion.
Suddenly, urgent reports from all over the country came to Jianmen Pass.
Sun Chuanting was actually not surprised by this. The bandits had gathered their troops before and never attacked, which made him fearful. Now that the bandits finally started to attack on a large scale, he relaxed a lot.
However, he still did not expect that the fierceness of Li Zicheng's offensive exceeded his expectations.
Especially Gao Jie's side, they were defeated one after another and returned to Baoning Mansion.
From the previous contact battles with the bandits, Sun Chuanting already knew how powerful this bandit was. Therefore, regarding Gao Jie's defeat, he had no intention of killing Gao Jie as a warning to others.
Although Gao Jie's defeat gave up Li Zhi Dao's control in Shu. However, the Lychee Road is actually the Shu Road out of Shu. As long as the imperial court can hold the checkpoint on the Hanzhong side, there will still be no problem. In the Shu Road, the most critical thing is the Jinniu Road, which he personally guards.
Therefore, Sun Chuanting strictly ordered Gao Jie to resist step by step, in order to consume the bandits' vitality and morale. He must not be completely defeated or retreat without resistance.
Sun Chuanting's focus was still on Baoning Mansion. The leader of this gang of thieves was Liu Zongmin, the number one general under Li Zicheng. It can be seen from this that the main force of the bandits attacking Baoning Mansion must be from this route.
Therefore, Sun Chuanting dispatched troops and generals to strictly guard the rogue army in the south.
After the initial defeat, he unexpectedly discovered that Liu Zongmin's attack was far more powerful than Gao Yigong's attack on Gao Jie.
Sun Chuanting was not an idiot, and he immediately realized that it was Gao Jie's fault. For this reason, he couldn't help but regret a little. If he had known this, he would have just left Gao Jie in Datong.
But this is already the case. After more than half a month of fighting, the situation with the bandits has finally stabilized again. It felt like the two armies of the bandits were already a bit exhausted.
As a result, Sun Chuanting turned his attention to Chengdu Mansion.
What worried him a little was that Chengdu Prefecture had been asking for help almost every day. But when the bandits began to attack on a large scale, there was no messenger for help.
At the beginning, he was busy with the war in Baonyeong Mansion and didn't pay much attention to it. Now that the war has slowed down, he has doubts.
If the road is blocked by thieves, delivering letters will be much more difficult. But after so many days, at least one or two messengers can break out, right? There was none!
Is it possible that Chengdu Prefecture has fallen?
This idea immediately popped into Sun Chuanting's mind.
