Everyone didn't expect Ling Yun to commit suicide, and they were stunned for a while. Seeing Liu Yingnan crying there, Zhu Dashan asked the other Qing soldiers to surrender their weapons, and at this time, those Qing soldiers saw that Ling Yun had committed suicide and did not want to fight anymore, so no one resisted, and they all handed over their weapons one after another.

Zhu Dashan asked people to watch Liu Yingnan and these captives, and then he was about to take people to help Zhou Dazhu, who had chased him out of the barracks, and saw Zhou Dazhu walking over with people and said: "The army of the standard camp has been completely dispersed, and we met Zhang Yongquan and Ma Yuanjie who came to support on the way, and now the Qing soldiers are scattered in all directions and can no longer form combat effectiveness, so I asked Lin Kejia and others to separate to pursue the rout, and I brought a few people over to see how the marshal was doing." ”

Zhu Dashan was also relieved when he heard that the Qing soldiers had all collapsed. Only to find that the sky is now white, and it is already dawn. Zhu Dashan asked everyone to clear the rout in the city separately and help the city extinguish the fire. He also asked people to inform Hu Jijiang to go out of the list as soon as possible, and instructed everyone to let the soldiers rest in turn as much as possible, last night they marched all night, and attacked the city and fought for so long, and the soldiers are now extremely tired. The crowd agreed to leave.

Zhu Dashan said to Zhou Dazhu, who was left alone: "Now we expect that there will be more than 1,300 prisoners, first tie them up and detain them in the barracks, and wait for the city to settle down to deal with them." After speaking, let Zhou Dazhu deal with it.

Zhu Dashan dragged his tired body to the governor's yamen again, he didn't know what was going on in the treasury and warehouse, if Gao Minzhan transported all the grain and grass materials collected to Mianzhou, then Baoning would be an empty shell.

When Zhu Dashan came, the governor's yamen did not see Hu Jijiang, only to see a literati he did not know commanding the people in the governor's yamen, arranging food, and asking people to go to the city to fight fires. Zhu Dashan asked someone and found out that this person turned out to be Wu Yiding, the prefect of Baoning, and when he saw that Wu Yiding's arrangement was the head, Zhu Dashan felt that this was a talent. Remembering that he occupied a small county town in the south at that time, and he didn't know what to do in the city in a hurry, he couldn't help but admire a little.

At this time, Wu Yiding also saw Zhu Dashan, only to see that the person who came was covered in blood, and his armor was now in tatters. Although this person's face was tired and didn't look at it, his eyes were bright, Wu Yiding knew that this was the general of the Ming army, but he couldn't tell who it was. Busy said: "Does this general have any orders?" If you are injured, there is Lang Zhong in the wing room for treatment, you can go directly, if there is any other need, just say, I can do what I can do now for the general. ”

Zhu Dashan said secretly: "This Wu Yiding is really good, and he has already arranged for the treatment of wounded soldiers in the governor's yamen", and now when he saw Wu Yiding asking, he said: "My injury is not serious, right, what about Hu Jijiang?" ”

Wu Yiding breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that there was no request, he knew that all the people who had just come down from the battlefield were murderous, and if they didn't pay attention to the punches and kicks, they were still light, and there were not a few people who killed people with knives. When he heard and asked where Hu Jijiang's people were, he hurriedly replied: "Governor Hu went to the city to appease the people, and said that he would collect the wounded soldiers and send them to the yamen for treatment, and asked me to arrange Langzhong in advance." I don't know what happened to this general looking for Hu Governor's Mansion? And are you? ”

The guards behind Zhu Dashan saw Wu Yiding asking Zhu Dashan's identity and said: "This is our handsome Zhu Dashan" Wu Yiding was surprised, but he didn't expect that the general of the Ming army was actually a twenty-year-old young man. This person is young and actually led people into Baoning City, this is a place where even Zhang Xianzhong did not hit, the Ming army's Huayang Hou Yang Zhan, and Liu Wenxiu, the king of Shu, once led troops to occupy Baoning and drive the Qing soldiers out of Sichuan, but they all returned with a feather! Wu Yiding hurriedly said: "It turned out to be Zhu Dashuai, the chief soldier of Daming Baoning"

Zhu Dashan was stunned when he heard this, when did he become the chief soldier of Baoning, and he didn't even know where the imperial court was from the beginning of the army. Can the imperial court make an official for itself? By the way, when did Hu Jijiang, a county magistrate, become the prefect of Baoning again? This Hu Jijiang has pulled a big tiger skin.

Wu Yiding saw Zhu Dashan stunned there, so he said again: "Governor Hu said that Zhu Zongbing was ordered by the Ming court to attack Baoning in order to cut off the back road of the Qing soldiers, and cooperate with the imperial court to attack the Qing soldiers who entered Guizhou on both sides. Zhu Dashan also reacted that Hu Jijiang was for the convenience of the people, and also for the management of these officials in Baoning, otherwise these people would not cooperate. Boryeong Mansion couldn't settle down for a while. Then he said: "Governor Hu is right, we still have 100,000 soldiers and horses led by Nan Anhou behind us. Hello, let's go on a business, I'm waiting for Governor Hu here. ”

When Wu Yiding heard that there were still 100,000 soldiers and horses behind him, his face changed and he agreed more respectfully to do things by himself. Zhu Dashan saw Wu Yiding go away, and was just about to go out to look for Hu Jijiang, when he saw Gou Xingwang and Hu Jijiang coming in together, Hu Jijiang shouted loudly as soon as he entered the door: "Congratulations to General Zhu, I just went to count it, and now there are 80,000 taels of silver in the treasury of Baoning Mansion, and there are 30,000 deniers of grain, and the entire granary is full." ”

Hu Jijiang's voice of General Zhu was called to a room full of people, or these Qing Dynasty officials heard that Zhu Dashan did not have any official position, and his subordinates carried two hundred self-appointed households, and the soldiers were only 500. It is estimated that there is no need to wait until the evening, and Zhu Dashan and others will be divided. Now that I heard that Zhu Dashan was a general soldier, I suddenly felt a lot of peace.

Zhu Dashan also knew that he couldn't say anything outside, so he led everyone into the back office of the governor's yamen. At this moment, Zhou Dazhu, Zhang Yongquan, Lin Kejia and others also came to the governor's yamen. Everyone in the Houya was very happy, and you and I told each other about last night's battle. Zhu Dashan saw that these people under his command were all vibrant, and he was finally happy that the Qing soldiers were not submissive, and there was no obstacle in his heart before, and when everyone was almost finished, he said: "Now we have conquered Baoning City, but we are also happy too early." If you want to be stable, you have to keep working hard. The Qing soldiers will not let us stay in this Boryeong City in peace, now let's talk about the casualties last night. ”

The first to speak was Gou Xingwang and said: "My side has counted, there were 27 people killed in the battle last night, 10 people who were seriously injured and could no longer fight, and the others were all minor injuries. Then Zhou Dazhu also said: "There are more people who follow Dashuai to the marking camp here, forty people died, and twenty people were seriously injured," Hu Jijiang said a little lowly: "There are only five of the baggage soldiers I brought who are alive now, and eighteen are dead." Lin Zhuang also said: "Twenty people died on my side, and twenty-five people were seriously injured" Cheng Deyi said: "The Minzhuang Xiandao I led didn't kill a few people, but the defeated soldiers of the standard battalion behind rushed over and died, with 50 dead and 30 seriously injured."

Zhu Dashan listened to the casualties and said: "In this way, although we successfully captured Baoning City last night, one hundred and fifty-five of the five hundred people we brought were killed, and eighty-five people could no longer fight, and only two hundred and forty people were still injured now." Zhu Dashan waited for a while before saying: "In addition, there are more than 130 people on Lin Kejia's side of the General Banner, and we now have less than 400 people of our own, so we must recruit troops as soon as possible, we can't hold Baoning City without soldiers." ”

After saying this, Hu Jijiang saw that everyone was a little depressed, so he said: "But how can you not die in a war, we have now conquered Baoning City, with 30,000 stone of grain and 80,000 taels of silver." We now have money and food, and we are afraid that we will not be able to recruit soldiers, so there are more than 20,000 people in this Boryeong City. Give me three days, and I can recruit 3,000 soldiers for him. ”

Everyone listened to Hu Jijiang's words and was refreshed, sweeping away the shadow just now. Hu Jijiang said: "Now our biggest problem is that we don't have official positions, if we want to manage the officials and those squires in Boryeong City, it is not easy to manage without official positions." This is not a southern county, this is where the Sichuan General Administration of the Qing court was located. ”

Zhu Dashan thought for a while and said: "According to Master Hu's previous name, he is the prefect, I am the chief soldier, the other people's original hundred households are generals, and the general flag is guerrilla. As soon as everyone heard that they were going to be officials, the voice of the general was endless.

Zhu Dashan saw that other things were not in a hurry for the time being, so he asked everyone to arrange them, go and rest first, and if there was still a war to arrange in the afternoon, everyone went out separately.

In the afternoon, Hu Jijiang came to say that he had recruited 1,000 soldiers in the city, so Zhu Dashan called Gou Xingwang and Zhou Dazhu over, looking at the recruits, both of them were very hot. Then Zhu Dashan asked the two to take the recruits to the standard camp, and the prisoners in the standard camp who were willing to surrender were also scattered and incorporated into the team. In this way, Zhu Dashan's army was directly expanded to 2,600 people, and there were not so many officers for a while, and he didn't dare to use the former Qing soldiers as officers, so Zhu Dashan had to promote all the people in his team to officers, and even the surviving Minzhuang were directly promoted, and Lin Kejia's people were also brought in to reorganize the army. In this way, the soldiers are also half surrendered and half recruited.

Zhu Dashan also knew that there was a big problem with the loyalty of the army formed in this way, and there was no combat effectiveness, but now Zhu Dashan had no choice. In the evening, the troops trained a little. The next day, Zhu Dashan brought Gou Xingwang, Lin Kejia, Song Gaoju and Jiang Chao.

After the four of them came, Zhu Dashan said: "Now we are in Boryeong City, but it is not easy to take Boryeong City. If we can take Jianmen Pass and Baizhang Pass in the north, we will only need to deal with the enemy in the south, which will reduce the pressure on us to hold Boryeong City by almost eighty percent. So now I have you each take a thousand men to the level. "When the four of them heard that they had taken away a thousand people each, wouldn't there be only six hundred people left in Boryeong City, and they didn't agree.

Zhu Dashan said: "Although I only have 600 people left, Hu Jijiang is still recruiting troops, and I have asked Cheng Deyi to take people to move the scattered people into the city near the city, and then there will be more manpower in the city. The army is not the people before us, the combat power is not strong, and the people's hearts are not gathered is the most difficult. In particular, the Jianmen Pass is the most important, if the Baizhang Pass is not down, you can also retreat to the Liangshan Pass of Dahou Mountain to hold on. Therefore, Baizhang Pass asked Song Gaoju and Jiang Chao to go, and brought the original Sichuan political envoy Wu Hongrong with him, in the name of inspection. If there is any accident at Jianmen Pass, he can only retreat to Jianzhou, but the city wall of Jianzhou is not high. It's also very difficult to defend, and I'm afraid that when the time comes, there will be more than one luck. All the way through Cangxi County and Jianzhou City, just Lin Kejia and Gou Xingwang. The four of them also knew that Jianmen Pass and Baizhang Pass were very important, so they didn't say much. Go out and gather the troops and horses, and then go north.

Then Zhu Dashan came to the arsenal again, it turned out that no one thought that there were not only a large number of knives and guns in the Baoning arsenal, but also tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder stored. Zhu Dashan found Wu Yiding to inquire only to know that this was for the army of Wu Sangui who invaded Guizhou, Wu Sangui originally led his own Guanning iron cavalry in Liaodong, but after entering the customs with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a large number of Ming army firearms troops were recruited in Hanzhong, so there were a large number of musket teams in Wu Sangui's army, and the troops of Li Guoying, the governor of Sichuan, also had a large number of musket teams. I don't know why King Jingnan didn't come again, but King Jingnan's army was also dominated by firearms, so Governor Gao Minzhan vigorously looted these gunpowders. Now it's all cheap, Zhu Dashan.

Zhu Dashan knew that the future army must be the world of firearms, and he didn't dare to think that there was gunpowder before, but now there is so much gunpowder. Zhu Dashan was like a firearms unit that had begun to be formed, but Wu Yiding told Zhu Dashan that there were now 200 muskets and 4,000 lead bullets in the treasury of Boryeong Mansion. The others were taken away by Wu Sangui and Li Guoying. Originally, this batch was also going to be sent to Li Guoying, because Gao Minzhan wanted to use it when he wanted to attack Chengdu, so he temporarily withheld it.

Zhu Dashan was not discouraged when he saw this, and if he had these firearms, he could also train some firearms seeds first. was not afraid that there would be no large number of firearms in the future, so he asked Wu Yiding to go to the city to collect craftsmen who could make firearms. Zhu Dashan hurriedly found Zhou Dazhu and asked him to go to the army to select soldiers who could use firearms, and if not, select some elite soldiers to train.