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Chapter 969: Siege of Chengdu

The cavalry of the Ganzhou Green Camp in the Green Camp in Ganzhou was defeated. More than 10,000 cavalry rushed out fled less than two thousand people. Even the chief general Wang Jinbao was shot dead by the Daxi Army.

The infantry fighting head-on also suffered defeat. On the line of confrontation between the two sides, the bodies of soldiers on both sides piled up into a hill, and the number of people lost to both sides was equal, but the morale of the Qing army plummeted. Because of the cavalry's defeat, the Qing infantry eventually collapsed.

Murima did not let his Eight Banners elite rush forward at this time. Through the observation of the battle just now, he found that the morale of the Daxi Army was very high, and the proportion of firearms was quite high, and the power was extremely high. If the Eight Banners soldiers rushed forward at this time, facing the firearms, these five thousand Eight Banners soldiers were not enough to be sent, not to mention that the Qing army had already begun to be defeated at this time.

"Hurry up, let the Jin retreat!" Murima shouted, "Retreat the camp first!"

The Qing army retreated to its own barracks. Not to mention that these Ganzhou-Shaanxi Green Camps and the Eight Banners Army are worthy of being the elite troops of the Qing Dynasty. Although they were defeated, most of the cavalry were lost and one-fifth of the infantry lost, they were still orderly when retreating, and did not give the Western Army the opportunity to cover up the killing behind their backs.

"I really didn't expect that the thief army has become so powerful in just one year!" Zhao Liangdong sighed.

Sun Sike, who was once the personal bodyguard of Hong Chengchou, said: "Mr. Zhao, the bandits are so powerful! When the general was following Master Jinglei to fight the thieves in Huguang, he once saw Li Laoer's weapons, which were also these weapons, which were very powerful!"

"Li Laoer? Then, the weapons of the Western thief were given by Li Laoer?" Zhao Liangdong asked.

"That's true! Otherwise, where did the Western thieves get these elite firearms?" Sun Sic replied.

"Then let's withdraw back to Chengdu first, relying on the defending of Chengdu city, and then sending letters to the court and Lord Hong, asking Lord Hong to send troops to rescue our army as soon as possible." Zhao Liangdong said.

Sun Sike asked: "Mr. Zhao, why don't our army retreat to Jiange? If we lose, we can retreat to Shaanxi and regroup. However, if we are stationed in Chengdu, once the thief army is surrounded by the city, our army will be completely defeated."

Murima said furiously: "Retreat to Jiange? Wouldn't that give up the entire western Sichuan plain with fertile land to the thieves? The thieves can produce so much food to raise soldiers when they hide in the mountains. If they can get Chengdu, then it will be great? Chengdu cannot be given up!"

"Yes! Chengdu must not give in!" Zhao Liangdong nodded, "It's just that the last general can't understand why the combat power of those Western thieves suddenly became so strong. It's strange that every refugee, every bandit, and every prisoner can sacrifice their lives!"

Zhao Liangdong did not understand this problem. In fact, it was because Li Guodong gave the Daxi Army good conditions. He treated the Daxi Army like his own army. Every soldier who died in the battle could receive a generous pension, which was enough to allow his family to live a good life and arrange work for the families of the dead. Finally, there was another point that the dead would be arranged in specially established martyrs' tombs and monuments for heroes who fought bravely, which increased the morale of the soldiers.

Let the Daxi Army look at hope and treat them as their own people, so that the combat effectiveness and morale of the Daxi Army will naturally increase.

The Qing army withdrew to the camp and rested for a night. The next morning, it began to retreat steadily and gradually retreated to Chengdu. When the Qing army retreated, the Daxi Army launched an attack, but because the Qing army's retreat was orderly, the Daxi Army's attack did not achieve much effect.

The Daxi Army arrived outside Chengdu City, and the Qing army inside the city was ready for defense.

Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo ordered camps outside the city to prepare for siege.

After two days of preparation, the Western Army launched an attack on Chengdu on the morning of the third day.

The fierce siege battle began, and a large number of cannon fodder troops of the Daxi Army pushed shield chariots and sandbags, slowly approaching the city wall. The defenders at the top of the city fired fire and bombarded many shield chariots. But the Daxi Army's artillery also fired immediately and aimed at the exposed artillery positions of the Qing army, killing the Qing army on the top of the city.

The Western Army also used a powerful 64-pound mortar cannon to fire flowering shells at the city head. The cannonballs with fire fell on the city wall and exploded balls of fireballs, causing heavy casualties to the defenders on the city head.

After a fierce artillery battle between the two sides, the cannon fodder team of the Daxi Army finally approached the city wall and began to fill the moat. The Qing army at the top of the city fired fiercely at the cannon fodder team of the Daxi Army approaching the moat with bird guns, tiger squat cannons, light Franchises, turtledove-foot guns and bows, killing a large number of cannon fodders fell on the moat, or even fell into the moat with sandbags, and the river water was dyed red.

The Western Army dispatched elite rifled gunmen, stood in the car on the watchtower, and used firepower to cover the cannon fodder team to fill the moat. The rifled gunmen had extremely accurate shooting skills, and almost every bullet shot out could take the life of a Qing army.

Although the Qing army defended the city suffered great losses, they fought to the death, and the city walls were filled with the bodies of the cannon fodder team of the Daxi Army. After two fierce battles during the day, the Daxi Army finally filled a section of the moat with corpses and sandbags.

After filling out a passage, the Daxi Army began to launch a fierce attack on the city.

However, the various attack methods of the Daxi Army were restrained by the Qing army: the Daxi Army used simple ladder ants to attack the city, and the Qing army used wolf teeth to slap, yaksha slap, and gold juice to deal with it; the Daxi Army used a collision car to hit the city wall, and the Qing army smashed it with huge stones; the Daxi Army used a large ladder chariot to approach the city wall, and the Qing army used rockets and turbulent tanks to deal with it; the Daxi Army dug the tunnel, and the Qing army dug out the tunnel, and then dig water to irrigate it...

After ten days of fierce attack, the Daxi Army finally exploded a gap on the city wall. A large number of Daxi Army soldiers shouted and rushed into the gap. However, the Qing army fought desperately to block the gap. The two sides launched the most fierce fierce battle at the gap. The Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing army came up and cooperated with the Green Camp to block the gap with flesh and blood. In the end, the soldiers killed on both sides were built in the gap by the Qing army with bricks and stones, and turned into the building materials for the new city wall.

The Western Army took advantage of the explosion of a gap. The Qing army was attracted by the fierce battle at the gap. Some elite veterans took the opportunity to climb up the city wall, and some auxiliary soldiers exploded another gap. However, the elite veterans who climbed up the city wall were driven down by the Qing army. As for the other gap that exploded, Zhao Liangdong drove away the women, children, the elderly and the weak to block the gap, making Li Dingguo, who was kind and idly, dared not attack the gap.

The gap that was finally exploded was blocked by the Qing army again, which declared the failure of the Daxi Army's siege.

"This Zhao Liangdong is really hard to fight!" Sun Kewang said angrily.

Li Dingguodao: "There are more than 100,000 Jiannu defenders in the city, and there are also civil and auxiliary soldiers who assist in defending the city. Their total strength is no less than that of us."

"Second brother, you are so kind to the woman! Jiannu used women, children, elderly and weak to block the gap, but you won't beat him!" Sun Kewang blamed.

Li Dingguo shook his head: "They are all innocent people. I can't kill them!"

"How can a woman fight for a kindness?" Sun Kewang sighed.

Li Dingguodao: "It seems that we can only take siege and trap all the Jiannu in Chengdu to death in the city!"

With the advantage of many soldiers and widespread generals, the Daxi Army dug trenches outside Chengdu City and built a dirt city, surrounding Chengdu City like an iron barrel, and could not even fly out.

"The bandits are besieging the city!" A Qing army reported to Zhao Liangdong.

"Siege the city? Humph! Let them surround it! The food in the city can last at least one year! I see how long they can surround it! How much does their more than 200,000 troops have to consume in a day?" Zhao Liangdong sneered.
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