Zhu Dashan led people to observe Li Guoying's army on the city wall, and he didn't know what Li Guoying thought, so he actually sent a team of envoys to surrender. Zhu Dashan asked the messenger to come to the city, only to see that the messenger was a middle-aged scholar. He looked up at the people in the city: "I don't know which one is the leader Zhu Dashan, please come out and see it." ”

Zhu Dashan stood on the city wall and said: "Down there is Zhu Dashan, I don't know who you are?" The literati said: "The old man is now the prefect of Shuntian Mansion, Deng Ximing, and General Zhu is really a heroic young man, but why do you want to commit a rebellion?" Now that the Qing Dynasty Heavenly Soldiers have arrived, why not descend early and dedicate the city to the present. Your Excellency is a man who loves talents, and your Excellency should not make more meritorious contributions to the command of Your Excellency and seek a future for yourself. ”

Zhu Dashan really rolled his eyes when he heard this, he said it so rigidly, and he used the courage to persuade him to surrender. But Li Tingming was moved and said: "Master Hou, yes, now that the Governor has come to surrender, why don't you take this opportunity to surrender directly?" ”

Deng Ximing heard someone persuade Zhu Dashan and hurriedly said: "Your Excellency has also seen it, your subordinates all want you to surrender, which shows that the military is like this." Then the heart of the army is like this, how can you be sure of defending the city? Cheng Dequn next to him said: "He is not our Hou Ye's subordinate, he is the general of your Mianzhou battalion, his name is Li Tingming." ”

Li Tingming heard Cheng Dequn shout his name directly, didn't he cut off his back road? Originally, he could be said to have temporarily succumbed to the thief, and then surrendered with the Restoration Battalion, and he was invincible. Now that he has shouted his name, he has become a surrender and rebel, and how can he return to the warm embrace of Daqing. At will, Li Tingming looked at Cheng Dequn and couldn't wait to cut down this mouthy reckless man.

Cheng Dequn didn't care what Li Tingming thought, and said: "You see that your generals have surrendered, or you will surrender directly, and let our Hou Ye reward you with a county order." Cheng Dequn didn't care what kind of official he was, and directly asked the prefect of the family to be the county magistrate.

Deng Ximing under the city was shocked and angry, shocked why the general of the Mianzhou battalion surrendered to this group of traitors, and was angry that Cheng Dequn was talking nonsense, as soon as you are the prefect, you let me go to be the county commander. He immediately said, "Why should Your Excellency be obsessed? Look at the 20,000 troops outside the city, if you really want to attack the city. Can this small county really live? If you don't think about yourself, think about your soldiers, and the people of the city will not be spared from the war. Heaven has the virtue of a good life, and the comfort of the people of this city is not guaranteed, and it also accumulates some kindness for himself. ”

Zhu Dashan said: "You and I are fighting, what is the matter with the people in the city?" If the city is broken and I die, the people in the city will naturally live, but you say that the people in the city are innocent, do you plan to slaughter the city? Oh! By the way, the Qing soldiers seem to like to slaughter cities the most. It seems that it is you who do not accumulate kindness. I think it's just like what I said, if you surrender early, I will reward you with a county order to govern well, which is the accumulation of kindness. ”

Deng Ximing saw that Zhu Dashan was stubborn, so he had no choice but to say: "In this way, we can only see how many days you can guard, and then the city will be broken and killed." At this time, Liu Yingnan, who had been arranging under the city, walked up to the city wall and said: "You Deng Ximing is obviously the governor of Kuizhou in the Ming Dynasty, why are you now a small prefect?" People say that water flows low, and people go high. Why do you Deng Ximing live lower and lower? He even made a dog for the Tartars. ”

Deng Ximing's face turned blue with anger, but he couldn't refute it, he just said: "I obey the heavens in the Qing Dynasty, how can you wait for the grass to stop it, and now that Yongli has escaped, what else can you do?" The people in the city were shocked when they heard this, Zhu Dashan didn't dare to let him talk anymore, and hurriedly asked someone to shoot him away. Deng Ximing didn't expect his last sentence to play a big role, and when he wanted to say that the city had already shot arrows, he had to give up.

After Deng Ximing left, everyone surrounded Zhu Dashan and said, "Master Hou, is what he said true?" If the emperor really runs away, then what should we do? Zhu Dashan said: "It's not certain whether what he said is true, besides, the King of Jin is also hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in Yunnan, so how can he be defeated." The king of Jin used to fight the Qing soldiers who lost their armor, and even the prince died a few times. The generals calmed down when they heard Zhu Dashan say this, but their morale was inevitably hit.

Zhu Dashan said loudly: "Why, now that I hear a news that I don't know whether it's true or not, I won't fight?" The imperial court didn't give us anything before, didn't we fight well? Don't think too much about it, let's defend the city well. After defeating Li Guoying, we will discuss other things, if we can't defeat Li Guoying, can we get out of this Xichong County alive? At that moment, the Chinese people stopped talking, and went back to defend the city with peace of mind.

After Li Guoying got Deng Ximing's report, he said angrily: "Since they refuse to surrender, let's attack the city." Tian Guoxing, Huang Shijian, Deng Changji, tomorrow, you and the other three will attack the city first. Tian Guoxing, Huang Shijian, and Deng Changji were all generals of the Ming army, and they were surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the fourteenth year of Shunzhi and have been under Li Guoying. Now seeing that Li Guoying ordered the three generals at the beginning, the three of them did not dare to have any complaints, and hurriedly got up to answer.

There was nothing to say all night, and at dawn the next day, he heard the sound of horns outside the city, Zhu Dashan hurriedly asked everyone to go to the city to defend, and asked Cheng Dequn to defend the south gate of Li Guoying's main attack. Liu Yingnan guarded the west gate, Nong Kaiguo guarded the east gate, and Jia Si led people to guard the north gate. Only Li Tingming and the officials and officials of the former Xichong County were put by Zhu Dashan to deal with them, but they didn't dare to let them guard the city gate by themselves.

As soon as Zhu Dashan arranged the defense, when he came to the south gate, he saw that the Qing army under the city had begun to prepare to attack the city. Tian Guoxing shouted to his subordinates: "Brothers, as long as you capture Xichong County, the girls in the city, the money will be ours." When Tian Guoxing's men heard this, their morale immediately rose, and they all shouted to attack the city. Tian Guoxing saw that the morale of his subordinates was available, and as soon as he gave an order, he walked to the city with the army.

Zhu Dashan looked at the Qing army that had already gone into battle, and also said loudly in the city: "The Qing soldiers under the city, the silver they robbed all the way are on their bodies, as long as I don't take any of the silver of the Qing soldiers, it is all yours, and I will reward one or two silver for each Qing soldier." As he spoke, he carried the silver he had taken from the treasury of Xichong Mansion to the city wall, and for a while the soldiers and people who were guarding the city were all smiling. The Qing soldiers under the city have not yet entered the range of bows and arrows, and the archers in the city have been waiting quietly.

The Qing army under the city saw that there was no movement in the city, and they just walked forward quietly, and waited until they were one hundred and twenty steps below the city. Hearing an order from the city, a rain of arrows flew in the air, and for a while there was a muffled hum in the ranks of the Qing army. Tian Guoxing saw that he had entered the range of the bow and arrows, and hurriedly shouted, first taking the lead in rushing towards the city wall, and the Qing soldiers who were carrying the ladder behind them also ran frantically towards the city wall, and the archers who followed closely behind also quickly took place and fired arrows at the city. Before the two sides had even met each other, the arrows in the air were already fighting.

Zhu Dashan had already gathered all the people who could use firearms, and now seeing that the Qing army had entered the range of firearms, he saw Li Shuisheng, the general flag commanding firearms, "hit" with a "hit," and immediately the fire guns on the city wall were sprayed under the city wall, and for a time dozens of people were hit by lead bullets under the city. Falling to the ground and rolling and howling. This Li Shuisheng was the guard who guarded the south gate in Baoning before, and when he saw that the Fuming battalion was in a hurry to attack the city, he surrendered, and later followed Zhu Dashan to be promoted to the general flag of the firearms team.

The Qing soldiers under the city did not expect that the defenders in the city had firearms, and the Qing army in Sichuan did not have firearms at all, so Li Guoying's 3,000 firearms army stayed in Chongqing to prevent Kuidong from attacking Chongqing, so now the Qing army under the city of Xichong has no firearms army. Zhu Dashan found that the loading of firearms in this era was very troublesome, and the shooting interval was too long, looking at the shooting training of the archery team, he found that they were divided into several teams to take turns shooting to maintain the shooting speed, so he let the firearms also train in this way, and sure enough, the shooting speed of firearms was much faster. But in this way, it will suffer the Qing army under the city, only to see that the firearms in the city are endless, and the Qing army under the city is constantly falling. Before the city walls, more than 200 people had fallen.

Tian Guoxing saw that his subordinates suffered too many casualties, so he hurriedly scolded the army loudly and asked everyone to speed up. The Qing army returned to the city wall with another hundred casualties, but it was the people in the city who carried the boiled gold juice and splashed it violently under the city. Dozens of Qing troops under the city were suddenly burned and rolled on the ground. Tian Guoxing also hated at this time, pulled over a ladder, let the soldiers hold on, and climbed up with a knife.

The people in the city saw that the Qing army began to climb up the city, and the people with steel forks and spears in the back hurriedly stepped forward and stabbed downward, and many Qing soldiers could not dodge, and they fell down the ladder after being stabbed. But the Qing soldiers behind continued to climb up. The archers in the distance also kept shooting arrows at the city wall, and the casualties of the Ming army on the city wall began to increase.

Huang Shijian, who was following Tian Guoxing, saw that Tian Guoxing was close to the city wall, and hurriedly rushed to the city wall with his 1,000 people. Looking at the reinforcements rushing behind him, the Qing army who climbed the wall in front of him suddenly lifted his spirits, and many people rushed to the city wall for a while.

On the city wall, Minzhuang continued to carry the boiled gold juice to the city, and the Ming army behind saw that the Qing army rushed to the city, and was busy fighting with the Qing army. Tian Guoxing relied on his flexibility and fierceness, and at this time he also rushed to the city wall, Tian Guoxing swung a knife and hacked two people to death as soon as he got on the city wall, and the people next to him hurriedly dodged. Now that it has been like this, and besides, he was called by Cheng Dequn yesterday, and Li Tingming has no way out.

Seeing that Tian Guoxing was fierce, he hurriedly raised his knife and fought with Tian Guoxing, and the two of them were inseparable from each other. Seeing that the Qing army went to the city, Zhu Dashan was also busy stepping forward to help, and suddenly beat the Qing soldiers who climbed the wall to retreat for a while, and many Qing soldiers jumped off the city wall, but fortunately, the city wall was not high and was not injured. But there were fewer soldiers on the city walls. Zhu Dashan saw Li Tingming fighting with a Qing general, and directly rushed to the back of the Qing general. Fortunately, Tian Guoxing reacted quickly, rolled on the ground with his body, and dodged Zhu Dashan's attack. Otherwise, this knife can directly cut his head in half, Tian Guoxing looked around, the Qing soldiers who attacked the city wall had been driven down the city, and now there were less than ten people on the city wall.

Tian Guoxing turned around and was about to run, but just in front of him, there was a firecracker loaded, and it was a gun at Tian Guoxing. Tian Guoxing suddenly felt like a hammer blow to his chest, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth, Tian Guoxing didn't dare to stay, turned over and jumped off the city wall. Zhu Dashan and Li Tingming rushed to kill him, but they were one step too late.

At this time, it was only more than half an hour before the siege began, the Qing soldiers had already suffered almost 700 casualties, and the 1,000 people brought by Tian Guoxing were almost exhausted, but fortunately, he opened the way for Huang Shijian, and Huang Shijian only suffered less than 100 casualties and rushed to the city.

Huang Shijian is not like Tian Guoxing who went directly to the city, but hid under the city to command, and I saw him keep calling his soldiers to attack the city. On the city, the Ming army had just repelled a wave of Qing troops, and before they had time to catch their breath, the Qing army behind them attacked again. Wounded soldiers and corpses were carried away from the city. The others, as always, defended the city. However, the siege battle and the defending side of the city are very cheap, and they should have the city walls to hide, while the Qing army besieging the city below did not. Therefore, by the time the siege of the city was an hour, the number of military casualties under the city had reached more than 1,300.

Li Guoying, who was originally watching the battle from behind, saw that the Qing army went up to the city wall with a charge, and was a little happy, thinking that this group of Ming troops was nothing more than that, but before he was happy, he saw that the Qing soldiers in the city were driven off the city wall one after another. Then Huang Shijian's troops went up, although they also fought very fiercely, but they did not attack the city wall, and occasionally a few soldiers attacked the city wall, and the city could not be weathered, and they were quickly cut down.

Li Guoying didn't care about the life or death of these generals, and saw that Huang Shijian really couldn't attack the city wall, so he saw that he would attack the city for two hours. Li Guoying said: "Let Deng Changji go up, let him escort Huang Shijian forward, if he doesn't come forward, he will be engaged in military law." Then he said to his two hundred banner soldiers: "You go to supervise the battle of Deng Changji, and anyone who is unable to move forward in battle and escapes from the battle will be killed."

When Deng Changji heard Li Guoying's words, he smiled bitterly in his heart and had no choice but to accept his life. Huang Shijian originally saw that Deng Changji led the troops to replace him, and before he could give Deng Changji the range of a bow and arrow, he shouted: "The former army will attack the city quickly, and then the former will not be engaged in military law." When Huang Shijian heard this, he immediately scolded: "Deng Changji, you shit, you are forcing Lao Tzu to die." ”

Deng Changji also heard Huang Shijian's scolding, but there were flag soldiers behind him, and some didn't dare to say anything. just kept shouting: "The former army will attack the city quickly, and no longer engage in the former's military law." Huang Shijian saw that Deng Changji was ruthless, and he kept pushing his army forward, so he had to grit his teeth and climb the ladder to the city wall.