These people are his confidants, and they are usually loyal to him, but now he can't stop him from surrendering, everyone knows that staying here is death. But watching these men surrender will only die faster, and those with red flags will not look at their own color correctly.

In the end, Li Ruchun was also ruthless when he saw this, and directly put his weapon alone, and also surrendered to the Restoration Army. In this way, there were only about two dozen people with red flags left in the middle, Ba Sihan covered his shoulders with one hand, and said to Zhu Youdong: "If we surrender, can you take our lives?" Zhu Youdong smiled and said, "As long as you surrender, you can live." ”

When Ba Sihan heard Zhu Youdong's words, he said to the people around him: "Put down your weapons, we can't leave." "The other people with red flags, you look at me, I look at you. After hesitating, they all laid down their weapons and surrendered.

Seeing this, Zhu Youdong asked people to go up and collect all the weapons, and then asked people to look at Ba Sihan and the others. The soldiers of the Restoration Army naturally began to concentrate all the surrendered troops, and freed up manpower to clear the Qing soldiers in the city.

Look at these people who ran all over the city after them an hour ago, but now they have taken prisoners. For a while, Guo Liai's subordinates were full of emotion.

Luo Ren, who went to Yakou Village that night, also came back, Luo Ren only caught a few escaped soldiers in Yakou Village, looking at the large number of Qing soldiers imprisoned in the city, he immediately complained to Zhu Youdong: "Master Hou, you are so wrong, let me guard the Yakou Village, but there was no one, I just waited there." ”

Zhu Youdong said with a smile: "Don't worry, some are fighting, and the Qing army has hundreds of thousands of troops in Yungui." Luo Ren said: "Then next time Master Hou has to give me a good job, you see that now these rabbit cubs are all complaining about me, saying that I didn't fight for a good job, and I can't do it when I see so many Qing soldiers." ”

Zhu Youdong laughed out loud when he heard this, this time he did capture a large number of Qing soldiers in Guiyang City. Wang Xing and others had nearly 4,000 people, as well as 1,000 pairs of Guo Liai's men in the city, 3,000 people in the Huguang Qing army, 2,000 bannermen in the Han army banner, and 1,000 Manchurian Eight Banners.

After Wang Xing and others saw the powerful combat power of the Restoration Army, they did not dare to make any moves, obediently obeyed the arrangements of the Restoration Army, and also guarded the large number of Manchurians and the banner soldiers of the Han Eight Banners. Just as Zhu Youdong and Luo Ren were talking, another soldier suddenly broke in and said to Zhu Youdong: "Master Hou, the messenger to Wujiang Pass has returned." ”

When Zhu Youdong heard this, he said, "Bring it in." Then the messenger came in and saluted Zhu Youdong, and before he could speak, Zhu Youdong asked, "How is it?" Have you seen Qi Hou? The messenger said: "Back to the Hou Ye, the subordinates saw Qi Hou, and after I told the Hou Ye meaning, Qi Hou was a little embarrassed. ”

Zhu Youdong knew that He Zhen would not refuse his order for no reason. Hurriedly said: "Is there any difficulty in Qi Hou?" The messenger said, "Yes, although Qihou is stationed at Wujiang Pass, he now has only more than 2,000 men under his command, and he can't spare troops to cooperate with us at all." The messenger sent by Qihou to Chongqing to ask for help has not yet returned. ”

Only then did Zhu Youdong understand, and then asked: "What about the current situation on the Sichuan side?" The messenger said: "The situation in Sichuan is not very clear now, Qi Hou only knows that now General Hao Yongzhong has taken Luzhou and Xuzhou with a large army, and now he has divided his troops into Zhenxiong Mansion, and then attacked Chishuiwei and Bijiewei, preparing to meet in Bijiewei."

Zhu Youdong thought for a while and said, "Is there any other news?" The messenger said: "Now that the Qing army in Long'an Mansion has been defeated and retreated, the Qing general Ma Huabao was beheaded by Mao Shou, and Zuo Wei retreated to Long'an Mansion to hold on." Commander Gou Xingwang is leading his troops to attack, this is already more than ten days ago, and it is estimated that it has been defeated now. ”

Zhu Youdong said: "What about Chengdu? The messenger said: "The defenders of Chengdu have not waited for our army to arrive, they sent people to contact and surrender, and now Cheng Deyi is stationed in Chengdu, and Liu Yingnan is commanding the envoy to take Jiang Chao and others south to capture Jiading and other places. I don't know exactly where it is. ”

The messenger glanced at Zhu Youdong and said a little hesitantly: "But something seems to have happened to Kuidong." Zhu Youdong was stunned and said, "What happened to Kui Dong?" "Zhu Youdong has always thought that Kuidong is the safest, but now that there are Liu Tichun and Wang Guangxing's two guard armies, as well as Song Gaoju's Fifth Army, how can there be anything?

The messenger said, "It's not the army's business, it's the daughter of Linguo's business." Zhu Youdong frowned, for Li Xiao, Zhu Youdong couldn't tell what he thought. At that time, in order to integrate Kuidong's army, he promised to marry Li Xiao as his wife, but he didn't have any feelings for Li Xiao himself, of course, Li Xiao was also very beautiful. But for Kui Dong, the marriage was arranged almost in a state of coercion, and now Zhu Youdong's military strength has far surpassed Kui Dong, and Kuidong's soldiers have also been separated by Zhu Youdong and scattered, and now it is difficult to gather again.

Although Zhu Youdong agreed to take Li Xiao because of Kuidong's persecution, he himself is not unworthy of Zhu Youdong. So now Zhu Youdong doesn't know what he will do with Li Xiao. Now that he heard Li Xiao's story, he was suddenly a little nervous. Then he said to the messenger, "Oh, tell me what is the matter with her?" ”

The messenger was about to say that a messenger had broken in from outside, but it had been sent by He Zhen. As soon as the messenger entered the room, he said to Zhu Youdong: "Master Hou, Qi Hou has now received a letter from General Hao Yongzhong, agreeing to join forces to capture Shuixi and other places, and then attack Yunnan. Now Yasukuni has transferred 5,000 soldiers from Chongqing and has also gone south to reach Wujiang Pass. ”

After hearing the news, Zhu Youdong suddenly became upset, if he combined three forces to attack Shuixi now, it would be more than enough, but after the Qing army in Yunnan discovered this problem, he would definitely not wait for death in Yunnan. It is very likely that he will return from Guangxi in desperation, because his deployment in Guizhou has not yet been completed, and the troops going south to Guangxi are not yet ready.

At that time, once the Qing army that wanted to flee could not be stopped, then Zhu Youdong would face a defense line of several thousand miles from Sichuan to Guangxi. Zhu Youdong fell into a dilemma for a while. Seeing this, Luo Ren said to Zhu Youdong: "Master Hou, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, if we can capture Shuixi, we can now connect with Sichuan, and it is a great thing to fight against the Qing Dynasty in this way." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "I know that this is a great help to our resistance to the Qing Dynasty, but ......" Luo Ren saw that Zhu Youdong seemed to have some concerns, so he said, "What is Master Hou worried about?" Zhu Youdong said: "If we capture Shuixi now, the Qing army is very likely to flee back to Jiangnan through Guangxi at the risk of running out of food, so it will be more difficult for us to defeat the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and if we let some Qing troops go back, our defense line will increase by thousands of miles." ”

Luo Ren said: "Master Hou, I don't understand this, but if we let go of this opportunity, it is very likely that we will be defeated by the Qing soldiers in turn." Zhu Youdong was shocked when he heard this, and said: "Yes, I only thought that the Qing army could escape, in case he didn't run away, and in turn he would break us all, wouldn't it be a repeat of the mistake of King Jin the year before?" ”

Zhu Youdong immediately made up his mind and said: "Okay, we should attack Shuixi as soon as possible, and then seek to capture Yunnan." After speaking, he said to the messenger sent by He Zhen: "You go back and tell Qi Hou, just say that I will send troops to Shuixi as soon as possible, and join forces with them to attack Shuixi together." After speaking, he asked Lin Asan to reply a letter to He Zhen, and then sent the messenger back to Wujiang Pass.

In order to reorganize the army and set off as soon as possible, Zhu Youdong openly tried the flagmen with red flags and Han army flags in Guiyang the next day. The survivors and soldiers in Guiyang were all gathered together, and all the flag soldiers with red flags and Han army flags were escorted to the venue. At this point, the people with the red flag and the Han military flag knew that they couldn't escape, and immediately scolded Zhu Youdong.

After Zhu Youdong came to the venue, he asked the soldiers of the Restoration Army to maintain the venue. After waiting for everyone to be quiet, Zhu Youdong said loudly: "The fathers and people of Guiyang, kneeling in front of them are the Manchurian Tartars and banner soldiers who have plagued you, they want to surrender in exchange for their lives, do you agree?" ”

Of course, Zhu Youdong's voice can't be transmitted very far, so naturally there are soldiers from the Restoration Army in the audience to help repeat it. The people in the audience heard Zhu Youdong say that these are the culprits who plagued Guiyang, there are angry people, but there are more crying people. Without waiting for the people to answer, Zhu Youdong said again: "I originally resolutely didn't want to give them a chance, but now I want to give them a chance." ”

As soon as Zhu Youdong said this, everyone on and off the stage looked at Zhu Youdong in surprise, not knowing what Zhu Youdong meant by inciting the hatred of these people. Zhu Youdong continued: "They Manchurians all say that we Han people, Miao people are not as good as pigs and dogs, and they are their minions. I don't believe it, I'm going to let these Han Army Banner people kill these Manchurian Tartars now, as long as they are willing to kill those Han Army Banner people who are Manchurian Tartars, they can live, do you think it's okay? ”

Some of the people below did not dare to speak, but there were also people who were not afraid of death and hatred, and suddenly shouted: "Yes, let them kill those Manchurian Tartars and cut them with a thousand knives." Hearing the words of the people in the city, those kneeling Han soldiers suddenly turned pale, and many people trembled, but no one dared to step forward to kill the Manchurians.

Seeing this, the people below shouted even more, and none of the local soldiers spoke, but as long as it was a person, they could see that they were very embarrassed. Zhu Youdong asked people to take out fifty people from the Han Army Banner, and then handed the knife to them and said: "You only have twenty breaths, if you don't do it, I will kill you directly." ”

Those kneeling Manchurians with red flags all opened their eyes angrily, eager to cut Zhu Youdong with a thousand knives. Zhu Youdong saw that those people with Han military flags were reluctant to make a move, and turned to the people with red flags: "I can also give you a chance, as long as you are not an official, come out and kill a person with a Han military flag, and then kill one of your own officers to live, is this very fair." ”

Hearing Zhu Youdong's words, many red flag soldiers immediately expressed their willingness to complete this condition in exchange for their lives. Zhu Youdong also asked people to elect 50 Red Banner soldiers who were willing to complete the conditions, and they were also given weapons. These people with red flags did not rub like those in the Han Army Banner before, and directly took a knife and slashed at those Han Army Flag people without hesitation.

The people of the Han Army Banner did not dare to fight back, but just desperately dodged. But how can you dodge, in less than a quarter of an hour, those people of the Han army banner were all hacked to death. Zhu Youdong looked at the corpses of those Han military flags, and said to the people below: "Have you seen clearly, this is the traitor who surrendered to the Tartars and harmed his compatriots, and their fate is like this, don't think that you can get better if you are a dog, no matter how good your dog is, it is just a dog,"

The generals in the audience immediately lowered their heads, and even Wang Xing and others were eager to find a crack in the ground to drill down. Those who knelt on the Han army flag in front of them were even more ashamed, but there were still many people who glared angrily at Zhu Youdong without the slightest remorse and shame. even scolded Zhu Youdong, constantly saying that he was a loyal dog of his Manchurian master, and he was very willing to be a slave in front of the Manchurian master.

Zhu Youdong first asked the selected Manchurians with red flags to go up and kill a general with red flags, and then said to them: "Are you still Manchurians now?" "A lot of people were stimulated just now, and now there are a lot of people crying. Hearing Zhu Youdong's question, he immediately replied: "No, we are not Manchurians, we are Han." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Are you qualified to be Han? You don't have that right now. Those who carried the red flag were stunned for a moment and said, "We are not qualified, we are the slaves of the Han people." Zhu Youdong said again: "No, we Han and Miao people are the same, and we will all be the same Han people in the future." We don't need you minions, and we don't have the habit of doing so. You are not qualified yet, but as long as each of you can hand in five Manchurian Tatar heads, you can become Han Chinese, remember? ”

Those who put the red flag on it immediately nodded again and again, and said, "We remember, we must hand over the heads of the five Manchurian Tartars as soon as possible." Zhu Youdong nodded with satisfaction, and then said to Lin Asan: "These people will be counted by you in the future, and all their heads will be calculated by you, until they pay enough for five heads." Lin Asan immediately agreed.