I'm really not the carpenter emperor

A little gunpowder combined with oil grass ignited on the wing. At first the rebels couldn't detect it, but when the rebels in the wing noticed it, the fire became more intense and could no longer be extinguished.

There was no other way, so Zhang Tong had no choice but to give up the wing building, looking at the pheasant tower at the top of the city that had been piled up into the clouds by the Ming army, looking at the sky and sighing.

It was no longer possible for Ximen to establish an advantage. After a few days of rest, Zhang Tongfu changed direction and focused on the North Gate.

This time the rebels adopted a different method at the South Gate and West Gate.

They turned into little girls and stayed in the camp all day. They actually weaved tens of thousands of bamboo cages, filled with earth and rocks, and used them to build a high platform, condescendingly jumping into the city.

Hou Liangzhu was eager to gain wisdom, and ordered the demolition of the bell tower of Yongxiang Temple in the city, mobilized the army and the people, and rebuilt it on the north gate to seize the commanding height.

The rebels piled up high platforms outside, while the Ming army rushed to build a bell tower on the city. The two sides played a construction competition at the four city gates of Chengdu.

Chapter 126 Great Elder Xichuan

On the land of Sichuan and Shu in September, although there is a little bit of coolness, it is still hot and dry on the whole.

The warm wind passed through the mountains and forests, past the rebel camp outside the city, and then arrived at the city, making bleak noises along the way, making the already tense siege even more turbulent.

In the past few days, the rebel army commanded by Zhang Tong has launched a construction competition with the Ming army in the city.

Originally, there were a large number of rebels, and the earth cage built was more than ten feet high.

Hou Liangzhu, General Soldier of Sichuan, mobilized monks and soldiers from Yongxiang Temple, and quickly built a taller bell tower on the city wall.

Zhang Tong rode on the horse, looked at the three-foot-high bell tower, and felt admiration in his heart. He sighed and waved:

"Stop piling up, tell the brothers to withdraw!"

The chieftain on the side was also speechless, and said: "How can there be such a war, the bell tower is nearly three feet high, thanks to this surname, I can figure it out..."

Zhang Tong raised his head, looked up at the Ming army above his head, turned and left.

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

It is said that under the cover of the bell tower, the Ming army in the city took the opportunity to go out of the city, concealed and killed them wantonly, and burned all the earth cages that had been piled up.

"Hou Liangzhu bullied me too much!" Hearing this, Zhang Tong couldn't help being furious, immediately put on his armor, and personally led the troops to attack the city at night.

Unexpectedly, Hou Liangzhu had brought his own soldiers to wait on the top of the city tower. When he saw Zhang Tong leading the rebel army coming in black, he just laughed and said:

"This town expects you to come, and has already prepared a big gift to entertain you!"

Immediately, he turned his head and ordered:

"Throw!"

In an instant, countless pieces of black cake-shaped objects on the bell tower were dropped by the Ming army, and the rebels picked them up, everyone was shocked, and their spirits were greatly reduced.

It was the Ming army who kneaded the rotten and rotten food in the city into pieces of noodle cakes and meat pies, served with excrement and urine, stood on the high bell tower, and kept throwing them at them.

Hou Liangzhu's move to attack the heart is quite effective.

The rebels were all chieftain soldiers. According to the custom, they were not allowed to waste any food. Many chieftain soldiers believed that if they wasted food by themselves, there would be unforeseen disasters.

Faced with these rotten cakes mixed with feces and urine, no one would be stupid enough to really take a bite, and almost subconsciously threw the cakes on the ground.

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

At this time, the Ming army on the bell tower began to shoot bows, arrows and firecrackers. The chieftain soldiers had no fighting spirit, and they collapsed immediately.

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

Hou Liangzhu soldiers will come to block, water will come to cover, and they will go to the city to fight in a critical moment.

In short, Zhang Tong was repeatedly defeated in Chengdu, lost troops and lost generals, and was humiliated by the Ming army in every possible way, but he was still unable to enter the city.

Zhang Tong sent spies into the city and found out that there was not much food in the city, so he changed his strategy, trying to make Chengdu city self-defeating without food and grass.

……

The chieftains of the chieftains divided their troops into four places, drilled into the mountains and forests, first built pass villages between the mountains, and then selected places with a wide view to set up troops and connect them.

Three days later, rebel camps can be seen everywhere in the valleys around Chengdu.

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

Zhang Tong ordered that anyone who wanted to enter the city, regardless of civilians or businessmen, be killed.

Under such an order, the chieftains all became the little emperors of the hills. They went their own way and beat or scolded the local mountain people.

The chieftain army also quickly split into heinous bandits.

In a quiet valley, more than a dozen earthen houses are standing here in peace with the world. The local mountain people have lived here for generations, enjoying themselves in harmony.

"Xiu'e, go hang your clothes to dry!"

A man with a pitchfork in his hand came to the wooden house and began to deal with the thatch all over the ground. While combing, he didn't forget to turn his head and shout.

There was a sound in the room.

A woman with an average appearance but a good figure rolled up her hair and came out holding a tub full of clothes.

The woman raised her head and glanced at the sky. The wind and the sun were beautiful, which made her feel much better.

"Xiu'e, the weather is fine today, take the kids with you later, let's go out for a walk!"

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

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

The pitchfork fell to the ground with a bang, and the man subconsciously covered the protruding tip of his chest, and fell down with a terrified expression.

"Take the child, let's go—!"

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

Immediately, a ferocious smile appeared on his face, disregarding the knife still stuck in the man's body, he opened his two big hands, and approached the woman step by step.

When the woman came to her senses, her first reaction was still to rush into the house and pick up the child.

But just as she turned around, she saw the chieftain soldier who had killed her husband standing in front of the door, rushing forward with a look of impatience.

Immediately, women's screams, children's cries, and chieftain soldiers' excited roars resounded in the room.

The rebel army rushed into the mountains, burned the villages, dug up the graves, killed all the men, kidnapped the good-looking women to camp in the mountains, and raped them to death.

At this time, news from the front line came one after another.

She Chongming defeated Nanchuan, Li Shiqi besieged and killed Fan Long, Zhu Youxiao came to Chongqing, Lu Qin successfully recovered the whole territory of Shunqing, and rushed to help Chengdu in the starry night.

"..."

The news of the defeat all showed that the chaos that had caused Sichuan to be turbulent for several months was coming to an end.

In such a situation, Zhang Tong had the absurd idea of ​​severing a corner.

After the last main force of the rebel army withdrew from Chengdu, it swept through the court prefectures and guards around Chengdu.

Within half a month, Guan County, Peng County, Xindu, Chongqing Prefecture, Ningchuan Wei, and hundreds of miles of Chengdu, all fell into the hands of Zhang Tong.

Afterwards, Zhang Tong sent an envoy, claiming to be the Great Elder of Xichuan, to present a surrender form.

In this resignation, Zhang Tong first angrily denounced She Chongming for treason, and then said that he was persecuted by She Chongming, and it was not his intention.

Afterwards, I am willing to bring one hundred thousand elite soldiers under my command to submit to the imperial court, so that I can contain the various divisions internally and conquer Liao externally.

His condition is that the imperial court allows members of the Zhang clan to guard Xichuan from generation to generation.

A few days later, when Zhu Youxiao received the news on his way to Chengdu, he burst out laughing and responded verbally while still riding his horse.

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

All chieftains who obey the imperial court will not recognize you as a great elder.

In the end, Zhu Youxiao also said that if you want not to implicate the entire Zhang family, you should dismiss your so-called [-] elite soldiers and go to Chengdu to ask me for guilt.

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

Chapter 127 Toast, please surrender

"Your Majesty, according to the news from the capital, Liao has raised troops again..."

The accompanying Qianqing Palace steward, Pai Chaofu, trotted beside the imperial horse, trembling his lips, as if a little scared.

Zhu Youxiao didn't speak, just rode on the horse, holding the sword with one hand, and continued to lead the army like this.

The rise of troops in the Liao region had been expected before. I led the Yongwei Battalion and the Three Guards of Tongzhou to conscript Ma personally. The slave soldiers would definitely not let go of this good opportunity.

Mao Wenlong didn't know what was going on. Under the offensive of Jianlu, even if he gave up Yizhou, he wouldn't blame him.

As long as Phi Island is not lost and the Dongjiang Township system is still there, it will still have the effect of restraining the establishment of slaves.

"What's more, why hasn't Wei Zhongxian's notebook arrived today?" Principal Zhu You asked quietly without turning back.

In fact, since leaving the capital, Zhu Youxiao has received the title books from the capital every day, and they were all submitted by Wei Zhongxian for approval by the emperor.

Wei Zhongxian did a good job in this matter, he sent the daily question book by himself, thinking about it, he was also afraid that he would suspect him.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao sneered.

But Wei Zhongxian is not a good bird. After Wei Chao went to Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum to guard the mausoleum, his godson starved and beat Wei Chao to death. How could it be possible without his instruction.

Now, Donglin is not as noisy as before, but the general trend is still there, and this "nine thousand years old" can't be allowed to dance too much. Zhu Youxiao still doesn't want to do anything to Wei Dang!

But Wang Chaofu clapped his hands and said, "These are the two women sent by Beijing..."

Zhu Youxiao was taken aback when he heard the words, then turned his head and looked over, dumbfounded.

The two women with ruddy complexions and slightly panting breath in front of them, one was wearing a green dress and the other was wearing a red skirt, obviously Wei Zhongxian picked them up during this time and sent them here to relieve his boredom.

"This Wei Zhongxian..."

With a laugh, Zhu Youxiao turned to instruct Wang Chaofu: "You, send someone back to Beijing to tell Wei Zhongxian that these two women are in my possession, and go back to Beijing to 'thank' him when you have time."

Thank you for these two words, Zhu Youxiao focused on it.

Chao Funeng came to the position of managing the board and was valued by Wei Zhongxian. Naturally, he was also a ghost, and he immediately understood what the emperor meant.

After he left, Zhu Youxiao continued to ride his horse forward, but slowed down, and asked lightly:

"You two, what's your name, where are you from?"

"Forget it, what are your names, I don't even bother to know." Zhu Youxiao laughed and said:

"Wei Zhongxian was afraid that I would be lonely on the road, so I asked you to come. The news has already been sent back, saying that I left you behind."

"Wei Zhongxian won't trouble you, so go back to your home."

The two women looked at each other, both were a little surprised, and quickly performed the etiquette, saying at the same time: "My servant, thank the emperor for letting us go home."

Zhu Youxiao looked around and said, "Huang Degong, find two trustworthy soldiers and escort them home."

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Ever since the rebels broke the siege on their own, the city of Chengdu has been in chaos.

Some said that they were attacking surrounding states and counties, cutting off Chengdu from the outside world, and trying to trap themselves to death.

It is also said that the imperial reinforcements came, and the rebels broke up by themselves. Anyway, there are different opinions, and there are all kinds of things.

It wasn't until the news that the government and army recaptured Shunqing and the emperor defeated the main force of She Chongming's rebel army in Nanchuan came one after another that people's hearts were settled.

By this time, everyone knew in their hearts that the chaos in Sichuan was finally coming to an end.

As for Zhang Tong's troops around Chengdu, some of them had tasted the sweetness when they set up camps on various hills, but in fact they no longer listened to his orders.

According to those chieftains, everyone listened to the orders of the King of Liang, and you, Zhang Tong, were nothing more than a general before.

The King of Daliang has fled to Bozhou, you don't go to join the King of Daliang, and then attack the official army, but you are thinking of being a great elder in Xichuan.

Doesn't this mean that we local chieftains have automatically become Zhang Tong's subordinates?

Outside Chengdu, although a large group of rebels have retreated, there are still many local chieftains who occupy the mountains and plan to become emperors.

These people are not a rope, they fight on their own.

The food in the city of Chengdu was about to run out long ago. Hou Liangzhu, the general of the Sichuan Army, led the troops to take the initiative to attack, and wiped out the rebels entrenched on the hill one by one.

The fighting in Chengdu is still going on, but Zhang Tong, after capturing Weizhou to the north, has directly established himself here.

After that, he had a daydream, and actually presented a surrender form to Zhu Youxiao, hoping to guard Xichuan from generation to generation.

Knowing that Zhu Youxiao was unlikely to agree, Zhang Tong then did another thing, which was to force the captive local civil servants to write a handwritten letter acknowledging that he was the Great Elder of Xichuan.