Hearing that Prime Minister Xia said that he was going to surrender to the Ming army, the generals present were stunned, and now you don't know what the situation of the Ming army is. Immediately, the previous general spoke: "General, are you thinking about it?" After all, everyone has seen the situation of the Ming army now, and the situation is not good. ”

This person was quite polite, he only said that the situation was not good, in fact, everyone could see that the Ming army had not been jumping for a few days. But Xia Guoxiang said: "Actually, everyone doesn't know that now Guizhou has been completely occupied by the Ming army, and the way for the Qing army to return to the Central Plains has been cut off." ”

Of course, Xia Guoxiang's words were bragging, how did he know that the Ming army and the Ming army had all occupied Guizhou, but now everyone wants to retreat, so he said a few words of reply to boost morale.

But these generals present didn't know, and when they heard Xia Guoxiang say this, they immediately became a little anxious. Wang Xu also said: "No matter what happens to the Ming army now? Can we stay here and let the Manchurians and the people of the Han army banner be forced to die? Xia Guoxiang also said: "Yes, think about it, we were forced to death by them in just half a day the day before yesterday, how many people do we have to force them to die?" ”

When these generals heard this, all the generals present immediately agreed to leave. Some people still think that as long as they leave here, they will not be able to wait for the Ming army, and it will be better to hide in the mountains by themselves.

But there are still a few generals who are unwilling to follow to surrender to the Ming army, and Xia Guoxiang doesn't want to delay much when he sees this, if he waits until dawn, it will be too late. With a wave of his hand, a group of soldiers rushed in from outside the big tent, directly covered their mouths and dragged out the few generals who were unwilling to surrender, and after a while, they sent the heads of several people over. The rest of the generals saw that Xia Guoxiang didn't plan to discuss with everyone at all, and he had to agree if he didn't agree.

Seeing that Xia Guo finally had no objection, he hurriedly asked several of his henchmen and generals to gather the army and bring out all the wounded. After nearly an hour of busyness, Wang Xu came in and said, "General, we are ready, and all the spies of the Han military banner in the camp have been taken." ”

Xia Guoxiang also knew that he was in such a hurry this time, and he couldn't hide his surrender for long. Immediately said: "Okay, Wang Xu, you take the wounded and General Wang Pingfan first, and I will break the back." ”

Wang Xu immediately agreed and went out, and after a while, there was a sound of talking in the barracks, and gradually some people went away. Xia Guoxiang looked at the generals in the big tent and said: "There must be many of you who are unwilling to follow me, but I tell you, as long as I leave, do you think the Manchurians will let you go?" ”

Xia Guoxiang's words shattered the last glimmer of hope in everyone's hearts, so he had to come out of the barracks with Xia Guoxiang and follow the injured people in front of him to the south. Although Xia Guoxiang was very sure of what he said, he still had no bottom in his heart, and walked five miles south, and he was about to enter the mountains. Still didn't see the people of the Ming army, and at this time, the other generals asked Xia Guoxiang one after another: "What's going on?" Why don't you see the Ming army to answer. Have we been fooled? ”

Xia Guoxiang actually didn't know, but Wang Xu came back and said that the Ming army would respond in Yizuo. It is said that Xia Guoxiang has led the army for many years, and he will not be so reckless, even if he wants to surrender, he will not directly lead the army to surrender without preparation. But now he was forced to have no choice, Luo Keduo only gave two days, and when it was dawn, the Qing army came to force him to attack Shengjing Pass, did he fight or not?

If you go, it is estimated that the remaining 10,000 Guan Ning troops will be scrapped, if you don't go, Du Lan and the others can instigate Luo Keduo to kill him directly Xia Guoxiang, I believe that Wu Sangui will not dare to pursue too much at that time. So Xia Guoxiang basically had no choice, thinking about it, although he surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty for many years before, every time he made a decision and docked with the Manchu high-level officials, Wu Sangui was doing it, and Xia Guoxiang had no contact at all.

Now let Xia Guoxiang deal with the Manchurians by himself, not to mention that Du Lan and others also deliberately targeted Wu Sangui, wanting to weaken Wu Sangui's power. Of course, Xia Guoxiang couldn't deal with it, so Xia Guoxiang could only make an extreme choice.

Now seeing that other generals came to ask, Xia Guoxiang had no choice but to say: "Continue to move forward first, the Ming army said that it would be answered in Yizuo." Then seeing that these generals hesitated a little, they said: "There is no way to retreat now, even if we go back, can the Qing army let us go?" Let everyone speed up, if they are discovered by the Qing army, everyone will have only a dead end. As long as we go far. Even if there is no Ming army to respond, we can avoid the pursuit of the Qing army, and then live with everyone. ”

Now everyone has no way to retreat, so they all immediately have to urge the army to speed up. When the army entered the mountain, there was a faint sound of shouting and killing behind them, so that the generals of the Guanning army did not dare to delay, and they all shouted to speed up.

It turned out that although Duran let the people of the Han Army Banner return to the city, he still left people on the city wall, and when the wounded soldiers left, everyone was smeared and set off, and the people were all mouths, and the people of the Han Army Banner did not find out. But later, when Xia Guoxiang led people out of the camp, a large number of horses were in a hurry and did not have time to wrap the horses' hooves.

Several people hurriedly ran down to see that there were still people in the entire barracks. Several people hurriedly ran to report to Duran, and Duran still didn't believe it when he heard it: "What? He Xia Guoxiang ate the bear's heart and leopard's gall, and dared to run away with the army. Do you see clearly? ”

The sentry said: "We can see it clearly, and we have also checked in the Guanning military camp, and there is indeed no one left." After listening to the sentinel's answer, Duran suddenly laughed and said, "Okay, they dare to run, go and gather the army immediately, and we will immediately go and kill them." ”

Du Lan's deputy, Ma Jiaolin, the chief soldier of the Guangxi Green Battalion, said: "Baylor, should we inform the King of Pingjun about them?" Du Lan said: "Now that the Guan Ning army has fled without authorization, we must be like a lost dog when we chase them, and there is still a need to inform the king of Pingjun, and wait until the people of our Han army banner will wipe out the Guan Ning army, and then come back They still don't know anything, then they show their faces." ”

Hearing Du Lan say this, Ma Jiaolin thought of the current Guanning army, and there were only about 10,000 wounded, so Ma Jiaolin didn't care, and immediately went to gather the army.

Waiting for the army of the Han army to be gathered, Du Lan did not wait for all of them to arrive, and with the seven thousand troops that had been gathered, he hurriedly chased in the direction of the march of the Guanning army. Ma Jiaolin kept persuading Du Lan and the other army to set off together, but Du Lan was only concerned about chasing and killing Guan Ningjun at this time, and he still listened there.

Sure enough, when I chased out about five miles, I had already seen the Guan Ning army in front. After the Guan Ning army left the barracks, the whole army had already lit torches to facilitate the rapid movement of the army. Duran encouraged loudly: "In front is the traitor of the Guanning Army, follow me to kill the traitor." At this time, the Han Junqi who followed also found that the Guanning army in front of him was only concerned about escaping, and he had no intention of turning back to block the army, and his morale was immediately high, and he shouted loudly: "Rush, kill the traitors of the Guanning army." ”

Guan Ningjun in front heard the Han army flag getting closer and closer behind, and suddenly someone began to complain about Xia Guoxiang, and said: "General Xia, you said that we surrendered to the Ming army, which means that someone in the army came to respond, and now the people of the Han army flag are getting closer and closer, and the figure of the Ming army has not been seen yet." If we had stayed in the barracks, we would all have died there? ”

When the others heard this, they immediately agreed, and Xia Guoxiang shouted: "What's the noise? It's all on this, is it useful to say this? If you are not afraid of death, go back with me, and defeat those dogs of the Han army flag, as long as you defeat these people of the Han army flag, even if there is no Ming army to respond, we will leave the same. After letting them for two days, I really thought that our Guan Ning Army was afraid of them. Then he turned his horse's head and stood in the middle of the road.

As soon as Xia Guoxiang's henchmen saw Xia Guoxiang like this, and now the people of the Han Army Banner are getting closer and closer, they also know that even if they go back now, they will not survive, so they immediately shouted: "Now that the people of the Han Army Banner will not let us leave and let us have a way to live, we will fight with them to see if the people of their Han Army Banner have more heads than us." ”

Seeing this, the others have no choice, now there are wounded soldiers in front, and they are moving slowly, if they don't block the people of the Han army flag, they can kill all these wounded soldiers, and then continue to chase and kill the Guan Ning army without hesitation. After figuring out this, the other generals also brought their own troops, followed Xia Guoxiang, and gathered in the middle of the main road, preparing to block the Han army banner.

Xia Guoxiang turned his head and saw that more than 1,000 people had gathered behind him, and the number was still increasing, and it was estimated that when the people from the Han Army Banner chased over, he could reach more than 2,000 people. Immediately, he had a bottom in his heart, and said loudly: "Brothers, even if the people of the Ming army don't come to meet us, we have to break a way out of our own life." Since these people of the Han army banner look down on us. Let's teach them a good lesson tonight, lest the people of the world look down on our Guanning Iron Cavalry. ”

Now these people are also iron-hearted, and they want to let the people of the Han Army Banner see the strength of the Guanning Army. In addition, these days, the people of the Han Army Banner followed Du Lan, and they bullied and suppressed the Guan Ning Army. Now everyone is holding their breath, it's really good to find these chasing Han army flags to vent their anger.

Du Lan, who was chasing from behind, chased all the way with the Han army flag, but the Guan Ning army in front just cared about hurrying and didn't look back, chasing all the way, and there were only six miles left from Yizuo. After turning another hill in front of Yizuo County, Du Lan was afraid that the Guanning army would enter the county seat, and it would be difficult to attack the city at that time, so he immediately urged the army to speed up.

Xia Guoxiang took the broken Guan Ning army and assembled on a dirt slope to wait for Du Lan, Du Lan saw that Xia Guoxiang and Guan Ning army were actually assembled on the dirt slope outside the valley, and immediately laughed: "He also said that this Xia Guoxiang is brave and strategic, he only thinks that he is convenient for cavalry charging on the dirt slope, but we now have 7,000 people, but he only has 2,000 people, doesn't this let me surround and beat him?" If he sets up a position at the exit of this canyon to prevent us from leaving the valley, I really can't do anything about him. But he didn't, it seemed that the sky was going to kill him. ”

Ma Jiaolin said: "Baylor can't be careless, now that Xia Guoxiang occupies a favorable terrain and is convenient for charging, our army has just come out of the valley and has no time to set up a formation." At this time, he sent troops to charge into battle, and it was difficult for us to resist. ”

Ma Xiong, the righteous son of Ma Jiaolin next to him, said: "Father-in-law, you are too worried, Baylor uses soldiers like a god, how can he be compared to Xia Guo." Our army is out of the canyon is endless, and he Xia Guoxiang only has 2,000 people to fight. Even if he rushes into battle, he can't rush out, don't forget that there is a mountain behind us, and he hasn't rushed up the mountain directly, right? ”

Du Lan suddenly said happily: "Yes, General Ma, it seems that you don't have as much insight as your righteous son." Ma Jiaolin didn't care about arguing, and said, "Baylor be careful, prepare to block Xia Guoxiang's charge, they are about to start charging." ”

It turned out that Xia Guoxiang also saw that Duran's army had just come out of the canyon, and when he saw that the people of the Han army flag were not on a stable footing, he wanted to rush the formation of the Han army flag in one go. In this way, the Han army banner can be defeated quickly, and the Guanning army can also escape smoothly and reach Yizuo.

When the Xia Guoxiang on the dirt slope had just made the Guanning army start to move, the Han army flag also began to set up a defensive position outside the canyon. But at this time, the woods of the Han Army's banner suddenly moved, and the woods were suddenly noisy, and countless torches were all lit in an instant.

For a time, although there were 7,000 people in the Han army banner, the torches on both sides of the army were still stretching backwards, following the ranks of the Han army banner until the rear, and then these people shouted: "Surrender and don't kill, resist and kill without forgiveness." ”

It was pitch black, and suddenly so many troops appeared from both sides of the army, and many people were covered with branches and weeds. With a loud roar, many soldiers of the Han Army Banner were frightened and fell off their horses, constantly kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, kowtowing and shouting in their mouths: "Grandpa Mountain God, spare your life, we have no intention of passing by, you let me go back, and tomorrow I will bring three animals to honor you." Someone else shouted: "Good man spare his life, we have no money, we surrender." ”

Don't talk about some small soldiers, even Duran was so frightened that he almost rolled off the horse, although he was held up, but the pants under his crotch were instantly wet. Fortunately, there are Ma Jiaolin and Ma Xiong next to them, and these two are back. I believe in Islam, I don't believe in the things of the Central Plains, and then I saw countless torches, only to find that these are all people dressed up, and when I saw that Duran was about to fall off the horse, I immediately grabbed it and shouted loudly: "Don't be afraid, these are all people pretending, kill these miscellaneous people who pretend to be gods and ghosts." ”

Xia Guoxiang and the others on the dirt slope were also taken aback, but they were far away, and the situation was better than that of the people of the Han military banner. In addition to their high terrain, looking at the torches lit up all the way, and the shouts of Ma Jiaolin's father and son, Xia Guoxiang immediately reacted. Regardless of whether it was the Ming army or not, he put on a big hat first, and shouted: "Brothers, rush, it is the brothers of the Ming army who have come to pick us up." Kill! ”

When the surrounding Guan Ning troops heard this, they thought that this was arranged in advance, and the Ming army was here to respond, and their morale was immediately boosted, and countless people shouted: "Long live the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, kill these Han army flag mongrels who are dogs." At this time, the other generals of the Guanning Army did not complain, and all of them led their soldiers down the mountain to rush to the Han army flag under the dirt slope.