Zhu Youdong glanced at the soldiers with red flags who were sitting on the ground, and then turned to the soldiers and people below and said, "You have also seen it now, the Manchurians don't have more heads, nor do they have more hands. They are all afraid of death, and they will die the same. ”

Zhu Youdong paused and said, "If we can, we can work together to drive the Manchu Tartars out of the Central Plains just around the corner." Don't you want to avenge the death of your brothers at the hands of the Tartars? Don't you want to hate those sisters who were humiliated by the Tartars? Are you just going to hide at home and let them kill your family? ”

At this time, some people who were close to Zhu Youdong, heard Zhu Youdong's words, and watched the execution in the morning, and they were not much afraid of the Manchurians. Hearing Zhu Youdong ask, someone suddenly shouted: "We are willing to follow the general, go to the Tartars for revenge, and kill those beasts." ”

At that time, many people were coaxed by everyone, shouting that they would drive away the Manchurians with the Restoration Army, and return the Han people to a splendid country. Seeing this, Zhu Youdong immediately asked the soldiers of the Restoration Army to count those who were willing to join the army, and then let them gather alone.

As the number of participants increased, the Restoration Army had to split a separate area to gather these people. At this time, all the soldiers below had been taken away and taken to the Qing army camp outside the city. When Zhu Youdong asked these people to distribute the settling-in allowance for each person who had no food and silver for each person who joined the army, the city, regardless of the Han, Miao or Li people, all rushed to join the army at the registration office of the Restoration Army.

In just one day, the Restoration Army recruited 3,000 recruits in the city. As a result, Zhu Youdong now has an army of 24,000 people in Guiyang. This was a very happy thing for Zhu Youdong, who wanted to defend Guiyang and send troops to Shuixi.

Because Zhu Youdong killed hundreds of people alive at the same time in Guiyang City, no one in the entire Guiyang City now dares to disobey Zhu Youdong's intentions. Not only the soldiers in the city, but even the nearby Miao people were in awe of Zhu Youdong.

Zhu Youdong reorganized the troops again, and broke up all the recruits and surrendered troops into four guards, so that the army could step up training outside the city. After five days of drills, Zhu Youdong set off with the army of two guards to Longchangyi. Stay Yang Dong, Wang Liucang, and Zhu Shouquan take the remaining two guards to defend Guiyang.

By the time Zhu Youdong arrived at Longchangyi, He Zhen had already led the army to hand over to Shuixi's Tusi Ankun, and Ankun relied on his familiarity with the terrain to constantly harass the Restoration Army, making He Zhen and his party march at a speed like a turtle.

After Zhu Youdong learned of this situation, he divided the army into three routes, led by the Miao people who were accustomed to fighting in the mountains, and Yang Jiafu took Wang Xing to Zhenxiwei, crossed Yachi and went to Shuixi; Luo Ren took Hu Yiqing, Liu Dong took Lu Guang to the Dizhai Division to pick up He Zhen, and then Zhu Youdong directly took the rest of the generals and went to the valley to go straight to Shuixi.

Due to the large number of Miao and Li people in Zhu Youdong's army, the traps and harassments laid by the Qing army in Shuixi along the way were easily cracked by Zhu Youdong's army. Three days later, Zhu Youdong led a large army to capture Guliyi, and the defenders resisted desperately. But it couldn't stand the courage of the Restoration Army, and the valley post was broken in just half a day.

An Kun's subordinate Long Sheng was captured alive by the Restoration Army, and when Long Sheng was escorted to Zhu Youdong, Long Sheng Ren Ran said very arrogantly: "You let me go quickly, if we Tusi know, you don't want to stay in Shuixi for a day." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Oh? So tell me who your toast is? Long Sheng said: "My toast is Lord An Kun of the Shuixi Xuanwei Division, he is not only the toast of your Ming Dynasty, but even the Qing court of the Manchurians will crown our lord as the toast." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Okay, I'll tell you now, from now on there will be no more Tusi in Shuixi, An Kun surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and betrayed the Ming Dynasty, and I will directly declare his crime unforgivable." Long Sheng said contemptuously: "Who are you, you are ashamed to say that you want to abolish the hereditary official position of my family's Tusi?" ”

Zhu Youdong said: "It's nothing, I'm the Pingyu Marquis of the Ming Dynasty, and I now say that if I can abolish his toast, I will definitely be able to." After speaking, he asked people to take Long Sheng down first, and then Guo Liai said to Zhu Youdong: "Master Hou, do you really want to abolish the toast in Shuixi?" ”

Zhu Youdong said: "What? Can't you? Guo Li Ai said: "These toasts have been operating here for hundreds of years, and if they suddenly say that they will be abolished, I am afraid that they will cause joint opposition from the surrounding toasts, and it is not certain who will win between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing court now." Therefore, it is better for Hou Ye not to make extraneous branches, at least until the Manchurians are driven out of the Central Plains. ”

Zhu Youdong said disapprerovingly: "We are just too good for these people who seem to be beneficial, so everyone wants to vacillate between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, waiting for the price to sell." I just want to tell these people now that no matter who it is, it is absolutely impossible to play this game in front of me Zhu Youdong. ”

Guo Li Ai saw that Zhu Youdong did not listen to persuasion, and he had to analyze the stakes for Zhu Youdong again. But at this time, a messenger came in and said: "Hou Ye, An Kun received the news that we attacked Shuixi, and the fire rate army returned to Shuixi, and now Qi Hou and Luo Ren are chasing all the way with the army, and they have reached Zhongshan, An Kun has been pursued by the army all the way, and now only a few cronies have fled back to Shuixi from Gantang Town." ”

Zhu Youdong was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "Okay, wait for our army to join forces and then attack Shuixi." The next day, that is, on the tenth day of the winter month, He Zhen and Luo Ren came to meet with a large army, and Zhu Youdong happily met He Zhen. Luo Ren talked all the way about the battle with An Kun's army, and when it came to being excited, Luo Ren couldn't wait to roll up his sleeves and make a few more gestures.

Zhu Youdong and He Zhen, who were watching, laughed, and when they arrived at the Chinese army, Luo Ren took the lead in speaking: "Master Hou, this attack on Shuixi must let my people charge, I didn't have a good fight with An Kun two days ago, and I ran away before I hit An Kun." ”

Zhu Youdong said with a smile: "Okay, when the time comes, let General Luo fight when the time comes." He Zhen also said: "It seems that General Luo will not give me a chance, I am afraid that I can't make some military achievements, this way, General Luo, you are rushing to fight." ”

Luo Ren said: "You can't blame me, it's all the soldiers who have to rush to fight all the way." Zhu Youdong said: "Since this is the case, okay, let General Luo fight." ”

When the army arrived at the foot of Shuixi City, Luo Ren really led the army to fight first. As a result, before Luo Ren and the army began to attack the city, An Kun sent an envoy to surrender, saying: "General, our Tusi knows that we have made a big mistake, and now I ask the general for forgiveness, as long as the general accepts my Tusi's request to surrender, what request does the general make, my Tusi will agree." ”

An Kun also thought that this Zhu Youdong was the same as Wu Sangui before, as long as he surrendered, he could still be a Shuixi toast in peace. But where did Zhu Youdong want to get An Kun's verbal surrender, and said directly to the messenger: "Okay, An Kun can surrender if he wants, he can go out of the city immediately to accept the reorganization, and go to Tusi to be titled. ”

The messenger also knew what Zhu Youdong meant, this was the last thing Tusi wanted to meet. In this way, Tusi does not exist, and An Kun's official position is even more difficult to say. Immediately, the messenger's face turned pale, and he dared to agree for An Kun.

Seeing this, Zhu Youdong said: "You go back and tell An Kun now, as long as he agrees to my conditions, I can guarantee that his family is safe, and it is not impossible to follow my army to make war exploits and pay homage to the prime minister, if you still want to stubbornly resist, when my army breaks through the city, his An Kun family will be wiped out." ”

When the messenger saw that the Restoration Army had 20,000 troops, he did not dare to stay longer, and turned around to return to the city. When Zhu Youdong saw that the messenger was leaving, he immediately said to the messenger: "You wait a moment and bring this thing back to the city." As he spoke, he handed over to the messenger the military discipline song of the Restoration Army that Lin Asan had prepared, and as long as the Li people obeyed the government to change the land and return to the stream, they would be the same as the Han people, and the government would let them study, and they could also be officials in the imperial examination.

The envoy didn't dare to refuse, and hurried back to the city with the things given by Zhu Youdong. After An Kun received the words of Zhu Youdong brought back by the envoy in the city, he suddenly became furious and said: "This Zhu Youdong is simply too deceitful, thinking that I have settled in Shuixi for hundreds of years, and now only 20,000 people want to uproot my home." ”

Although An Kun said fiercely, he was also very anxious when he thought that Zhu Youdong had led an army to the city. In the afternoon of the same day, An Kun's uncle An Ruding asked for orders to lead an army of 5,000 people out of the city to meet the battle, and in less than an hour after the battle, Luo Ren led the army to break through the military formation. An Ruding's army fled back to the city in a hurry, and when it left the city, there were only 2,000 people who returned to the city, and the other 3,000 people were either captured or killed in battle.

Seeing that the Ming army entered the city strongly, An Kun and the others were even more anxious, An Kun said to his subordinate An Tong: "Now that Zhu Youdong has led a large army to the city, and the army has also been defeated, is it really difficult for my An clan to escape?" ”

An Tong said: "My lord, then Zhu Youdong said that as long as the adult accepts his conditions, he can protect the safety of the clan." An Ruding was also named a small toast, if An Kun was gone, he would not be able to have the position of toast, and immediately said: "These words are just used by the Han people to deceive people, and when his local officials come, we are not allowed to be manipulated at will." ”

An Kun said: "But what can we do in front of us? An Ruding said: "We can go to Langdai, or we can go to Wusa Mansion, there are all our people over there, can the Ming army still chase directly to where?" Now there are dozens of Qing soldiers in Yunnan, as long as the Qing army finds this group of Ming troops, they will definitely return to attack the Ming army, and then we will be able to take back Shuixi. ”

At this time, An Kun's wife Lu Shi came out and said: "Confused, the Qing army in Yunnan is not Han? At the beginning, they were in a hurry to attack Yunnan, so they gave us such treatment. But now that Yongli in Yunnan has run away, when the Qing army enters Shuixi, do you still want them to return Shuixi to you? ”

The few people present were all right in the words, and An Kun said irritably: "In this way, the Qing is death, and the Ming is also death, is our Shui Xian clan going to be lost in my hands?" Regarding this question, everyone did not dare to answer, and this matter could only be decided by An Kun himself.

After a night of detailed calculations, An Kun still couldn't make up his mind, and at this time, An Kun's brother An Yang came in embarrassed. An Kun was shocked when he saw it: "Anyang, you are not generous, why did you come back suddenly?" ”

An Yang cried: "Big brother, Dafang was lost, the Ming army suddenly attacked Dafang, and we couldn't defend and were broken by the Ming army." An Ruding also hurriedly said: "How can you be willing, why did you lose your generosity?" The Ming army is obviously under Shuixi City, how can there be a Ming army generously? ”

When Anyang heard this, he suddenly lost his soul and said: "It's over, our Shuixi is finished, why did the Ming army go to Shuixi City, how did you defend it." ”

An Kun said: "You haven't lost your generosity, we have more than 20,000 troops here." I don't know what method the Han people used this time, but those Miao people have helped the Han people. ”

At this time, Lu said: "Now if you want to keep the An family, there is only one way for the husband to go, otherwise the An family will face a catastrophe." Anyang said: "Sister-in-law, what road do you say?" Is there any other way we can do it? ”

The Lu clan told Zhu Youdong's conditions and said: "Now we can only keep the current An family if we surrender, you look at the Ming army outside the city now, they are different from the previous Ming army." The current Ming army is not dead at all when it starts fighting, and there are a large number of Miao people to help them, can we fight it? ”

For An Yang, he can't be a toast anyway, and whether he surrenders or not has no effect. immediately said: "Big brother, let's surrender, we have no chance of winning if we continue to fight." Now that the Qing army has gone to Yunnan, there are not many garrisons in Guizhou, so where can they come to save us now. ”

At this time, An Ruding also said: "Otherwise, we will down, Zhu Youdong will definitely not kill us if he wants to stabilize Guizhou." Now that we have the wealth to settle down, even if we don't have the position of toast, we can still get wind and rain in Shuixi. ”

An Kun heard that everyone wanted to surrender, and no one was willing to go to war with the Ming army at all. He sighed and said, "Okay then, let's surrender." Hearing An Kun say surrender, An Yang suddenly rejoiced in his heart and said: "Since the eldest brother is willing to surrender, I am willing to send an envoy to the Ming army to discuss the surrender." ”

An Kun didn't want to investigate what An Yang thought now, but waved his hand weakly and said, "Okay, then it's up to you to negotiate." After saying that, he got up and went to the house.