Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1011 Recalcitrant to the End
Li Dingguo was the first to attack the city, and he ordered the defenders in the city to surrender. His tone was very loud. If they did not surrender, they would all be lords, making the generals of the Jin Kingdom in the city pale.

If the higher-ups want to defend, people really don't take Li Dingguo seriously, they just think he is a fool, but the current situation is that Wu Sangui has evacuated most of Chengdu, and he has no intention of guarding Chengdu at all. The words of the army are taken seriously.

When everyone heard the howling of the Ming army, they were terrified when they heard Chen Ke's words again. Seeing that he obviously wanted to ignore Li Dingguo's words, they felt anxious.

"Junmen, this is not a joke! Then Li Dingguo became famous in the first battle when he ambush Oboi in eastern Sichuan. This time he captured Luzhou and ambushed the emperor. It was all his plan, and he has become a pillar of the Ming army in the southwest. He said If that’s the case, we still have to listen, besides, the king of Shu transferred most of Chengdu’s materials and soldiers, and there are only ten thousand old and weak in the city, how can we fight?”

As soon as Chen Ke finished speaking, someone came out to play against him. This person was the prefect of Chengdu. He knew the situation in Chengdu best. When he saw Li Dingguo leading [-] troops into the city, he was frightened and had no intention of fighting.

Self-knowledge is the most important thing in a person. In the current situation, it is best to surrender directly, otherwise the main force of the Ming army will be wiped out immediately.

The civil servants of the Kingdom of Jin could become officials in the Ming Dynasty by changing their clothes, but Chen Ke could not.

Hearing what the prefect of Chengdu said, he suddenly turned around, stepped forward and raised the prefect, angrily said: "What do you mean, do you want to surrender? Believe it or not, I will kill you!"

Zhizhou is a literati in his fifties. When Chen Keti lifted his feet off the ground, seeing his ferocious face, his face instantly turned pale, and he denied it in panic.

Seeing this, Chen Ke snorted coldly, threw him away, then glanced at the generals with sharp eyes, and said in a hateful voice: "You guys know everything about Hezhou, even if you ask for a crime, the Ming Dynasty will never accept it." They will let us go. The only solution now is to hold on and look for opportunities to break through."

After the Battle of Hezhou, Chen Ke was appointed by Hauge as the commander-in-chief of Hezhou because of his meritorious service to the city.

After Hauge's defeat, the Jin army rushed to Chengdu. He also gave up Hezhou and retreated to Chengdu. Give him command.

After Chen Ke was promoted, he naturally supported his subordinates, so most of the generals in Chengdu were descendants of the Ming army in Hezhou.

All the generals bowed their heads when they heard the words. Some of them went out of the city to surrender, and some followed Chen Ke to rebel. In short, they were wrong. They were worried that the Ming Dynasty would not forgive them. In addition, Chen Ke said that he would break out, so no one refuted Chen Ke's words.

Chen Ke also knew that Wu Sangui was fighting Hao Yaoqi in Hanzhong, and he was unable to save him, and it was impossible for him to defend Chengdu, so he decided to break through as soon as possible.

In fact, he also knew that Wu Sangui helped him fight for an official position and gave him troops to delay his stay in Chengdu for a while, lest Hanzhong be attacked by Ming troops from Sichuan and Huguang.

Wu Sangui took a fancy to him that he would not surrender to the Ming army, so he promoted him, but Wu Sangui miscalculated a bit, he would not surrender, but he would not be willing to wait to die either.

Right now the Kingdom of Jin is employing people, and he believes that although Wu Sangui did not act according to Wu Sangui's wishes, as long as he escapes into Hanzhong, Wu Sangui will blame him at most, and he will definitely not investigate the crime of running away.

Making up his mind, Chen Ke deployed soldiers to the city to defend against the attack of the Ming army, and at the same time ordered people to pack up and prepare to break through overnight, but he wanted to break out, but some people didn't want to leave Chengdu.

The Kingdom of Jin occupies Guanzhong, Hanzhong, Sichuan and other places. Compared with these places, Sichuan is not only the granary of the Kingdom of Jin, but also the most economically developed place.

Many Jin Guo officials in Chengdu are from Sichuan. They have land and houses in Sichuan. There is no need to abandon their homes and businesses and follow Chen Ke to Hanzhong.It is not good for them to be an idle official, it is better to stay and be a rich man.

Chen Ke was still packing his things, and the news that he wanted to evacuate was secretly spread outside the city.

Li Dingguo rushed to the city to prevent Chen Ke from escaping, how could he be satisfied, so he set up an ambush in the north of the city that night, killed hundreds of Jin troops, and Chen Ke was defeated and returned to the city.

If he failed to break through, Chen Ke could only order to deploy and mobilize troops to go to the city, stick to the end, and look for another opportunity.

Chen Ke is also a man who has experienced many battles. Although he is not a wise general, he is not stupid either.After failing to break out the first time, he knew that someone in the city had leaked the news, so he deliberately sent out the news again, and continued to break out from the north gate, but in fact he was making a lot of noise.

But Li Dingguo was smarter than him, and he was well prepared. After losing hundreds of people, he returned to the city again.

The breakout failed again, which made Chen Ke a little annoyed. He felt that he was older than Li Dingguo, so he didn't take Li Dingguo seriously, but what happened to the two failures?

When the time came to February [-]th, Chen Ke was still thinking about continuing to break through, but Ma Jinzhong's troops rushed to Chengdu to join Li Ding in the battle.

"Dingguo, you underestimated the enemy and rushed in this time. You dare to kill Chengdu with 6000 people. You don't know how worried this town is!" As soon as Ma Jinzhong arrived, he dismissed Li Dingguo with a few words, and He Tengjiao repeatedly asked him to be more stable. He was also planning to fight steadily, but he didn't expect that when he arrived in Jianzhou, his striker had run away without a trace. He was afraid that the former army might be caught in some tricks, so he chased him all the way to Chengdu, so he couldn't help but say a few words.

Hearing the words, Li Dingguo smiled and did not refute. After he finished speaking, he explained: "Marshal, Wu Sangui gave up Chengdu, I can be sure! He wanted to use Chen Ke to delay us in Chengdu for a while, but this Chen Ke also You’re not stupid, I’ve already broken through the siege twice before and after, and when I tried to escape, I stopped them and returned to the city. If I didn’t rush into Chengdu, maybe Chengdu would become an empty city.”

Hearing the words, Ma Jinzhong was taken aback for a moment, he was frightened by Dushi He's words, he thought Chengdu was not easy to fight, but he still had Wu Sangui's plan in mind.

Ma Jinzhong slowed down, smacked his lips a few times, "So, did Wu Sangui really abandon Sichuan and Baohan?"

As he said that, Ma Jinzhong took the whip and walked out of the tent, and asked as he walked, "How is the situation in the city now? Then Chen Ke failed to break through and never thought of surrendering?"

"It is wise for Wu Sangui to abandon Chuanchuan to protect the Han. If he wants to protect both ends, then both ends will be empty. This time our action is still a bit late, and it is a bit of a miscalculation for him to move a lot of things." Li Dingguo Sighing, he continued, "There are quite a few civil servants in the city who have written letters expressing their willingness to surrender, but the army is under the control of Chen Ke. That guy knows he has committed a serious crime, so he probably wants to fight to the end."

The two talked while walking, got out of the camp, rode on the horses brought by the soldiers, galloped out of the camp, and observed Chengdu.

(End of this chapter)