I heard Daniel Zhang say the sentence "I surrender". Not only Zhu Youdong breathed a sigh of relief, but the Qing troops who were still resisting also dropped their weapons and surrendered. Before Zhu Youdong could answer Daniel Zhang's request for life, the surrounding Qing troops had already laid down their arms and surrendered.

Daniel Zhang didn't want to ask for anything at first sight, so his guards also laid down their weapons and surrendered. At this time, a few Miao heads came over and said to Zhu Youdong: "Master Hou, we can't spare these Qing soldiers, they killed so many of our Miao people, we have to take revenge." ”

The Qing soldiers around him, who had already laid down their weapons, suddenly became nervous when they heard this. Zhu Youdong saw that something bad was going to happen, and immediately said: "Ladies and gentlemen, listen to me, these Qing soldiers killed our compatriots and even our relatives. But now, even if we kill them, we can't bring our loved ones back to life. ”

As soon as Zhu Youdong's words came out, someone suddenly said: "Are we just letting them go?" They killed our loved ones, and now they want to pay for their lives. The other Miao people also rose up to kill these Qing soldiers. Zhu Youdong said: "You calm down first, the sins of the Qing soldiers are very deep, but the sins of the Manchurians are not deep?" Now that these Qing soldiers have surrendered to us, we will take them to fight the Manchurians and let them make meritorious deeds. ”

Seeing that those Miao people were still going to kill the Qing soldiers, Zhu Youdong said again: "Now that the Qing army still has hundreds of thousands of troops in Yungui, can we defeat them with more than 20,000 people here?" At that time, if we are defeated, the entire Miao people in Guizhou will face a catastrophe. ”

Hearing Zhu Youdong say this, those ordinary Miao people are nothing, but these leaders, the leaders have already begun to think. After all, they themselves are a big family, and if the Qing soldiers really fight again, they will suffer the heaviest losses. If they are allowed to use only more than 20,000 people to fight hundreds of thousands of Qing troops, it will be like eggs hitting stones. Zhu Youdong continued to persuade: "We alone will not be able to defeat the Qing army, and soon we will reverse the attack on Pingyuewei, and we will also occupy the entire Duyun Mansion." Can we stop the Qing army's counterattack? ”

With Zhu Youdong's questions one by one, even ordinary Miao people no longer insisted on killing the Qing soldiers. Zhu Youdong said: "So we need strength now, not only the Miao people, but also the Qing army who is willing to surrender to us, we also have to give them a chance, let them deal with the Qing army with us, and let them atone for their sins." ”

The Miao heads said, "Okay, it's okay for them to surrender, but those who slaughtered women and children can't let them live." Zhu Youdong also knew that it was impossible for these Miao people to completely give up their prejudices, so he had to say: "Yes, anyone who slaughters women and children and commits the most heinous crimes cannot be spared." ”

At this time, Daniel Zhang did not say a word, and the Qing troops under his command had already surrendered, and it was useless to say anything more. had to listen to Zhu Youdong's arrangement. Zhu Youdong asked all the surrendered Qing soldiers to be immediately put into custody, and after they had gathered all their weapons, they were asked to report to each other about the massacre of women, children, and people who had committed serious crimes.

To say that the sins are heavy, none of these Qing soldiers are clean, but Zhu Youdong can't kill them all now. I had to choose some particularly vicious and cruel Qing soldiers to kill about 200 people. Those Miao people saw that Zhu Youdong had indeed helped them avenge them, so they immediately didn't ask too much. Zhu Youdong took the opportunity to disrupt the surrendered Qing soldiers and those Miao people, let the soldiers of the Restoration Army lead the team, and then used the Miao people to press the Qing army to surrender.

In this way, the influence of the Miao head and the leader was invisibly weakened, and the troops were firmly held in their hands. Now with the addition of the soldiers and Miao people here, the number of people here is close to 5,000, so Zhu Youdong found Ta Tianbao and asked him to expand a guard with the personnel here now. After these things were done, Zhu Youdong immediately returned to Yangchangguan with the army. The defenders of Yangchang Pass did not expect to suddenly see so many Ming troops appearing, and they were caught off guard and soon lost Yangchang Pass.

This time, Zhu Youdong did not stop any longer, and directly led the army to chase the Qing army and arrived directly in Pingyuewei. At this time, Yang Yisi's Miao people also rushed over to join Zhu Youdong and others, and more than 10,000 Ming troops gathered directly outside Pingyuewei. Looking at the Ming army that suddenly appeared, Zhao Tingchen was a little covered, and he couldn't figure out where these Ming troops came out.

Yi Chi looked at the Ming army outside, and said with a pale face: "Lord Governor, there are not only Ming soldiers here, but also many Miao people. Zhao Tingchen said: "What's wrong with the Miao people? There were a large number of Miao people in Yongli's army, and they were not defeated by our Qing Dynasty in the end. As he spoke, he ignored Yi Chi and kept ordering the soldiers to strengthen the guard.

Zhu Youdong came to the city of Pingyue Wei and said to the people around: "Now there are about 4,000 defenders in this Pingyue Acropolis, and they are attacking at the same time with four separate gates, leaving no gaps for the Qing army. At this time, Daniel Zhang said: "Hou Ye, why not persuade the defenders in the city to surrender, now that they are cornered, I think I believe that they are very sure to persuade them to surrender." ”

Zhu Youdong looked at Ping Yuewei, shook his head and said: "The persuasion will not succeed, even if the soldiers in the city may surrender, but with Zhao Tingchen inside, the defenders will definitely not surrender." Ta Tianbao said: "How come? Could it be that Zhao Tingchen was so loyal to the Manchurians? ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Yes, Zhao Tingchen was originally a Han from Liaodong before, and he surrendered to the Manchurians very early, everything he did can be said to be given by the Manchurians, and he was very willing to be a slave to the Manchurians." In this way, he can not only make his family glorious, but also climb on the head of the Han people as a prestige. People like him have been kneeling for too long and will not wake up, and they would rather live their whole lives in the dreams that the Manchurians have woven for them. ”

Ta Tianbao said: "How can this person live like this. Zhu Youdong said: "It's their business what they live like, we don't care, we are now going to capture Pingyuewei." Then Zhu Youdong said to Yang Jiafu and others: "Prepare to attack the city, after the capture as soon as possible, I will completely run Duyun Mansion." ”

Yang Jiafu immediately led people out of the battle, and with the sound of war drums, Yang Jiafu gradually approached Pingyue Wei with the Restoration Army. Daniel Zhang said, "Hou Ye, give me a team of people, and I'll go and sneak attack." Zhu Youdong looked at Daniel Zhang and said, "No need, today I will let you see the strength of my Ming Restoration Army, lest you say that Daming is dead." ”

Daniel Zhang knew that Zhu Youdong saw that he wanted to escape back to the city in the name of a sneak attack, so he stopped talking at the moment. I saw the soldiers of the Fuming Army, first densely approaching the city wall, Daniel Zhang shook his head when he saw it, didn't such a dense team just happen to use the defenders' covering shot as a target?

But what Daniel Zhang did not expect was that just when the defenders on the city wall were about to shoot arrows, the Fuming army gave an order, quickly dispersed, and began to run towards the city wall. At this time, the archers of the Restoration Army also discovered the location of the archers on the city, and instead shot at the archers on the city wall.

In this way, the defenders on the city wall not only did not cause great damage to the Ming army, but were caught off guard by the archers of the Ming army under the city, and lost hundreds of archers. At this time, the defenders on the city wall also reacted, and exchanged shots with the archers of the Restoration Army, and there was no time to worry about the troops besieging the city.

The Miao people, who had already run to the city, used blow arrows and javelins to carry out relatively short-range air strikes against the Qing troops in the city. The Restoration Army, who carried ladders, rushed desperately to the city wall. The Qing army also defended the Ming army to attack the city before, but where did I see such a desperate Ming army, the previous Ming army siege was soft, and the battle was also timid, and the generals often had to spend a lot of effort to drive the siege.

Zhao Tingchen in the city looked at the Ming army desperately attacking the city and was also a little in a trance, but he was loyal to the Qing Dynasty after all, even if the Ming army attacked the city fiercely, but Zhao Tingchen was still confident to hold Pingyue Wei. Then they shouted at the defenders on the city walls and told them to step up their defenses. Yi Chi didn't dare to play tricks under the supervision of Zhao Tingchen, so he had to honestly arrange to defend the city.

At this time, the other three gates also sounded the shouts of the Ming army attacking the city, and Zhao Tingchen looked at the Ming army in front of him. Some are worried about whether the other three doors will be able to hold on. In fact, the siege army of the other three city gates is the main attack of the Miao people, so it seems that the offensive is very strong, but there is little cooperation between the various leaders and leaders, and the effect is not great. Now the south gate guarded by Zhao Tingchen is different, the main attack here is the Fuming army, and the teams are closely coordinated, and the advance and retreat are well-founded. Covering each other alternately, the defenders of the city who fought for a while did not dare to take the lead.

Daniel Zhang under the city couldn't help but sigh when he saw it: "When did Daming have such a powerful army, if there was such a strong army when it was against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, why did Shenzhou Dahao Heshan fall under the iron heel of Yidi." Zhu Youdong wanted this effect, and said: "Now the Manchurians think that they have occupied my great rivers and mountains, and now that we have such a strong army, it is not impossible to give them a strong blow while the Manchurians are proud, and recover the rivers and mountains of my Han family." ”

Ta Tianbao said: "What Hou Ye said is that if we can solve the hundreds of thousands of troops in the southwest, we will turn around, and there will not be many garrisons in Huguang in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and we will be able to quickly take Huguang and threaten Jiangnan." Zhu Youdong said: "These are still a little far away, we now want to stabilize Guizhou, and we can't let the Manchurians bring these hundreds of thousands of troops from the southwest back to the Central Plains." ”

Ta Tianbao said: "What Hou Ye said is right. At this moment, the city wall suddenly cheered, and the flag of the Restoration Army was also erected on the wall of Pingyuewei. Seeing this, the morale of the soldiers of the Restoration Army who attacked the city was greatly boosted, on the other hand, the Qing Army suddenly panicked, and was defeated and retreated by the Restoration Army, and many Qing soldiers began to retreat to the city.

As soon as Zhao Tingchen saw that the Qing army was beginning to retreat, he immediately took his own soldiers up, killed a few retreating Qing soldiers, and shouted: "Now that the four gates are all under siege by the Ming army, where can you retreat?" Those who dare to retreat will be killed. "The same is true of the retreating Qing soldiers, the four city gates are being attacked, and Zhao Tingchen has nearly killed a few retreating Qing soldiers, and suddenly the Qing army on the city wall fought hard to counterattack, and gradually stabilized the defense line.

Seeing this, Yang Jiafu, who was under the city, directly took the Sichuan soldiers around him, rushed forward and climbed the city wall. These people have been fighting fiercely with the Restoration Army now, I don't know how many times, and they are fighting with a fierce attack that is not fatal, which is very favored by Zhu Youdong. So now as soon as he found that the siege had been frustrated, Yang Jiafu rushed directly with his people.

With the addition of these people, the Qing army's defense line began to slowly retreat. Zhao Tingchen was still shouting loudly on the city wall to command the defense everywhere, Yang Jiafu came to the city wall and saw Zhao Tingchen commanding there, and immediately shouted: "There is a commander of the Qing army, and there are those who are not afraid of death to go with me to kill that enough day." ”

After speaking, he attacked Zhao Tingchen's defense line, and at this time, the soldiers of the Restoration Army who came up with Yang Jiafu also followed Yang Jiafu and attacked Zhao Tingchen together. After a while, Yang Jiafu had already attacked only three zhang away from Zhao Tingchen, but at this time, the Qing army's defense was getting stronger and stronger, and no matter how Yang Jiafu roared and shouted, he couldn't break the defense of the Qing army.

At this time, Yang Jiafu was also very anxious, seeing that the Qing army officials were all in front of him, but he couldn't attack it, and the soldiers of the Restoration Army who attacked with him were also falling down. Zhao Tingchen saw that the soldiers of the Ming army could not attack for a while, so he constantly dispatched troops to gradually divide the Ming army on the city wall into several pieces, wanting to destroy these Ming troops who attacked the city wall one by one on the city wall.

Ta Tianbao and Zhu Youdong in the distance also sent you this situation, and Ta Tianbao hurriedly said: "Master Hou, the situation on the city wall is not good, Yang Jiafu and they are about to be surrounded." Zhu Youdong said: "Let people use gunpowder to help Yang Jiafu and them open the way." Daniel Zhang was stunned, the siege combat force used gunpowder, and he didn't see the artillery brought by the Fuming army.

When Ta Tianbao heard Zhu Youdong's words, he immediately took his own soldiers to the firearms team. This firearms team was temporarily trained by people here after Zhu Youdong came to Duyun, so there were no firearms and no artillery. Zhu Youdong used the captured gunpowder to form a firearms team just to facilitate the explosion of the bridge and the use of breaking the mountain.

Inspired by the last attack on Fotu Pass, the Restoration Army filled gunpowder in clay pots, then loaded it with a fuse, and then used rattan to weave a pocket on a long pole. After lighting the gunpowder fuse, use a long pole to throw the clay pot filled with gunpowder directly into the enemy's formation. When the gunpowder exploded, the clay pot fragments flying everywhere caused a lot of damage. Such a gunpowder device is more convenient than artillery, and it is very useful in a mountainous area like Yungui.

With the order of Ta Tianbao, more than a dozen clay pots were thrown around the city wall Zhao Tingchen. With the sound of the explosion, a large number of Qing troops fell to the ground and rolled continuously, with a miserable howl coming out of their mouths. Seeing this, Yang Jiafu shouted: "The general of the Qing army was killed, kill." ”

Suddenly, the surrounding Ming troops were clamoring and launched a fierce attack on the Qing army. The Qing army, who didn't know the truth, turned their heads to look, and sure enough, Zhao Tingchen's position was now a cloud of smoke, and Zhao Tingchen's appearance could be seen clearly. Suddenly, many Qing soldiers thought that Zhao Tingchen had been killed, and kept retreating, and some Qing soldiers had already run down the city.