Looking at the defenders who kept fleeing to the city, Liu Dongcai muttered: "It's over, it's all over now." If we can't hold it, what should we do. ”

Seeing this, Wang Mingchi yelled like Guo Liai and Liu Dongcai in a daze: "Let's go, what are you waiting for?" If the Manchurians catch us, we will die a miserable death. Without waiting for Guo Liai and Liu Dong to answer, they turned around and ran down the city.

At this time, the defenders of the city did not care about defending and fled to the city. Seeing this, the Qing army outside rushed directly into the city, and Chen Fu, who was supervising the battle behind, saw that the city gate was opened, and shouted: "The whole army will attack the city and kill into the city." Suddenly, all the war drums in the Qing army were beaten in a hurry, and the Qing army of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, which had been lining up behind, also ran desperately towards the city gate.

As soon as Wang Mingchi rushed down the city wall, the Qing army outside the city came in through the city gate, and Wang Mingchi's army bore the brunt of being wrapped up by the Qing army, and Wang Mingchi was instantly overwhelmed by the Qing army.

Guo Liai and Liu Dong on the city wall saw this, and they didn't dare to rush down the city again, and at this time, the Qing army that entered the city only cared about rushing to the city, and they couldn't care about the defenders on the city wall. Seeing this, Wang Xing said to Guo Liai and Liu Dongcai: "Now if you rush down, you will die, if you are caught by the Manchurians, you will also die, while the Eight Banners are entering the city now, you should flee quickly." ”

Zhu Shouquan and Wang Liucang also came over and said: "Yes, after all, we are colleagues, let's go, don't expose your name incognito in the future." Guo Liai pointed to Wang Mingchi, who rushed down just now, and said with a wry smile: "Look at how we go?" Now as long as you go to death, this head might as well be given to the brothers as a promotion capital. ”

Wang Xing and the others looked at the Qing troops who rushed into the city densely under the city, and their scalps were numb. At this time, Hu Yiqing, who was attacking the other side, came over and said, "Ouch, my God, what are you still standing here?" Run for your life. The others immediately smiled bitterly at the situation, and Hu Yiqing said: "You can't go from the city, and you can't escape from the outside." Go down the ladder of our siege and hurry up. ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard it, and then they saw that most of the Qing troops outside the city had already entered the city, and now only the Guizhou army under the wall remained outside the city. Guo Liai and Liu Dongcai were suddenly overjoyed, thinking that Wang Xing and the others hugged their fists without speaking, they went over to hold the ladder and slid down to the city. Guo Liai and Liu Dongcai's personal soldiers also followed suit, slid down the ladder into the city, and disappeared into the crowd.

Wang Xing and the others looked at Guo Liai and Liu Dongcai, who had disappeared, and said to the people around them: "If anyone says anything about this, be careful that my surname is Wang." Suddenly, Zhu Shouquan and the others also instructed everyone not to speak out.

When Wang Xing and the others turned their heads to look at the city again, the city was already a sea of fire, countless defenders were fleeing in all directions, and a large number of Qing troops were frantically slashing and slashing behind them. Even if the defenders surrendered on their knees, they would not be spared. The Qing army is still attacking the city, but these surrendered troops who have just died to attack the city can only watch from the outside, and at this time it is a carnival that only the Manchurians and the banner soldiers of the Han Eight Banners can enjoy.

Countless soldiers lay down and rested on the edge of the city wall, waiting for those Manchurians and banner soldiers to enjoy enough, so that it could be their time. Li Ruchun led the army to attack and kill the city, they were to open the way for the people with the red flag and the Han Eight Banner, and they could not let the threat interfere with the people with the red flag.

And the people with the Red Flag and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty have already begun to slaughter in the city, countless people are begging for mercy and wailing, but no one cares about this, whether it is the Manchurians or the people of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, they are laughing and chasing, slaughtering the people in the city.

Li Ruchun didn't feel inappropriate at all when he looked at these situations, and he also did a lot of such things in Huguang. He just ordered his soldiers to enter the city as soon as possible to control the important government offices in the city.

Let's say that Guo Liai and Liu Dongcai escaped from Guiyang City with the help of Wang Xing and others with hundreds of their own soldiers, and the two did not dare to go north, so they had to go all the way to the south. As soon as I walked out of Guiyang City, I entered the mountains.

When everyone entered the mountain, Guo Liai and Liu Dong breathed a sigh of relief. Liu Dongcai said: "Now that the army is gone, where can we go now?" Guo Li Ai gasped and said: "We betrayed the Ming Dynasty, and now we have betrayed the Qing Dynasty, is there still a place for us in this world?" I think it's better to go south all the way from here, hide in the mountains, rely on your and my skills, occupy a few mountains at will, and learn from those Miao people to occupy the mountains as kings. ”

Liu Dongcai was already in a state of confusion, and there was still a sense of attention, and when he heard Guo Li Ai say this, he said: "Just listen to you, hey!" We should get out of here quickly, for fear that the Qing army in the city will react, and we will not be able to get out. Guo Li Ai also said: "Okay! Then he said to his own soldiers: "You have been following us, and now you have no future, you can go wherever you want." ”

Those pro-soldiers looked at the knife in Guo Liai's hand and said, "What is the general talking about?" We followed the general to have a good life before, and now that the general is in trouble, how can we abandon the general. Liu Dongcai said: "All brothers are really loyal and courageous, and we will definitely share difficulties and blessings with you in the future." As he spoke, he let go of his grip on the knife.

Seeing this, Guo Liai was about to leave with everyone, when he heard a few regular cuckoo calls, and then the cuckoo's response was also heard in the distance. Guo Li Ai said to Liu Dongcai suspiciously: "It's about to be the winter moon, is there still a cuckoo calling?" Liu Dongcai was also uncertain: "It's not certain, what if there is, what do you care about now, let's leave quickly." ”

Guo Li Ai also felt that it didn't matter, stood up and said: "In this world, the Manchurian Tartars can still kill people all over the world, and there are still cuckoos calling when they are about to enter the winter moon." In troubled times, there will be demons, how can people still live. This was originally Guo Liai's complaint, but who knew that as soon as the words fell, the weeds and branches around everyone moved instantly.

Guo Liai and the others were just about to get up, but they were startled by the trees that suddenly moved around them, and before everyone could see what the situation was, a continuous reprimand sounded in their ears, saying: "Put down your arms and surrender, and you are not allowed to move." With the shouting, the surrounding trees and grass gathered around.

Guo Liai and Liu Dongcai were also frightened, and they dared to move there. Some timid soldiers even knelt directly on the ground and kept kowtowing. He kept saying: "Grandpa Mountain God, we didn't do anything bad, even if we did, it was ordered by the two generals, and it has nothing to do with us, please spare me, I still have an old mother to support at home." ”

When the other soldiers saw this, they also threw their weapons on the ground and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy. Some of them were bold enough to look up, but they found that there were people standing under the branches, holding weapons to face everyone. Liu Dongcai also reacted at this time and said: "I don't know which of the leaders of your family is under you, we are the generals of the Guiyang garrison in the Qing Dynasty, aren't you afraid of bringing disaster to your village by doing this?" ”

The pro-soldier who kowtowed listened to Liu Dongcai's words, and then he reacted and saw that he was indeed dressed as a person. Anyway, I returned to my soul, but I was also very ashamed of my performance just now and didn't dare to speak.

Those people listened to Liu Dongcai's words, and they didn't show timidity, but just stared at Liu Dongcai and Guo Li Ai with a sneer. Guo Liai and Liu Dong saw that these people did not speak or move themselves, and they were confused and didn't know what the situation was.

At this time, the soldiers of two people saw that these people did not take away their weapons, and immediately quietly went to get their weapons. As a result, before the soldier could get his weapon, he was stabbed to death by a man next to him who was carrying a tree branch, so that no one dared to move again.

Guo Liai wanted to communicate with these people and wanted to know what they wanted to do, but these people ignored him. Just when Guo Li Ai was anxious, a group of people suddenly came outside, and a young man came over in this group. Seeing the young man walk by, everyone else gave way.

Seeing their leader coming, Guo Li Ai said, "Where are you from?" I am Guo Liai, the general of the Guiyang garrison, are you not afraid that the Qing officials and troops will raze your stockade to the ground and then slaughter all your stockades? ”

The young man walked over and said with a smile: "If you dare to go to the Qing army now, I estimate that it won't take half an hour, and you will be cut by a thousand knives." When Guo Li Ai heard this, he suddenly fell into an ice cave, and he felt chills all over his body. "Who the hell are you?" How would you know? ”

The young man said: "Now there is only one way for you to live, and that is to take us back and fight back, if we can occupy Guiyang City, then you can live." Liu Dongcai exclaimed: "What? Do you want to fight Guiyang City? This is impossible, now that the Qing army has all attacked the city, how can you fight it, and you will be sent to death if you go. ”

The young man said, "You don't have to worry about this, get up and lead the way, and tell me how the situation is at the city gate now." Guo Li Ai couldn't figure out what the young man was now, so he had to say: "Now the defenders of the city are all Guizhou soldiers, and those Manchurians and Han Eight Banners have entered the city, they want to slaughter the city, and now they are robbing things in the city." It is estimated that the defenders in the city are still clearing, but there are really a lot of them, and you can't beat them. ”

The young man said, "How many of them are now?" Guo Li Ai said: "They have about 10,000 troops in Guizhou, and after a few days of siege, it is estimated that there are only about 5,000 people, 4,000 people in the Huguang Qing army, 3,000 people in the Eight Banners Han Army, and 2,000 Manchurians with red flags." ”

Guo Liai reacted when he said this and shouted: "We have been fooled, enough Manchurians." Liu Dong asked puzzledly: "What did you do?" What happened when the city was taken down? Guo Li Ai said: "The other gates of Guiyang City do not have Qing soldiers, that is fake. ”

Liu Dongcai said: "How is it possible? Don't we see that there are many of them? The young man said: "The Qing army came to attack you this time with a total of only 20,000 people, and the main force of the siege was the Guizhou army, and the casualties of the Qing army that attacked you when you defended the city reached 5,000 people, and now they are still guarding the city gates, where do they have so many troops to be stationed outside the four city gates?" ”

Only then did Liu Dongcai react and regretted: "The Qing army of the dog day is such a cunning method. The young man said: "You yourself are stupid and have the face to say this, hurry up and lead the way, if it is too late to wait for the Qing army to gain a firm foothold in Guiyang, we will not be able to fight." ”

The soldiers who were guarding Guo Li Ai immediately scolded and asked the two of their own soldiers to get up and go to Guiyang City. Guo Liai and Liu Dong saw that the young general was bent on going to Guiyang to die, so they had no choice but to take everyone to Guiyang City.

Guo Liai and others traveled four miles back and forth to Guiyang City, and when they went out of the city, they fled for their lives, and now they were urged by these unknown people to run to Guiyang City, so it was only half an hour in total. When Guo Liai heard the screams in Guiyang City again, the Qing army was still slaughtering everywhere in the city, and they didn't care about coming back to defend the four gates.

The Qing army outside the city has all entered Guiyang City, and the military camp left outside the city is also empty, at this time the young leader said: "If the Qing army is defeated and retreats, you must not dare to go to Sichuan and Huguang, and will definitely return to Yunnan, Luo Ren, you take a thousand people to Yakou Village in the west of Guiyang City to ambush, you must not let the Qing army escape." ”

When Luo Ren heard this, he immediately said: "Don't worry, Master Hou, even if I die, I won't let the Qing army get away." With that, he set off with the people. At this time, Guo Liai heard this young man named Luo Ren calling this young man Hou Ye, and immediately said urgently: "Hou Ye, no, you have more than 1,000 people now, let him take away 1,000 people, how can you attack the city?" There are still more than 10,000 Qing troops. ”

The young Hou Ye ignored Guo Liai, and then said: "Inform the whole army, immediately launch a charge on Guiyang City, and attack Guiyang City as quickly as possible." All departments should complete their tasks according to the pre-arranged tasks, and they should pay attention to the cooperation between the various departments. The heralds beside him immediately began to give orders, and then Guo Liai watched inexplicably, and these heralds learned cuckoo calls. After a while, there were also bird voices in the distance, and after hearing clearly, Guo Liai and the others were escorted to the front.

The young marquis said: "You run ahead, if you dare to stop, the people behind us will kill you directly." Come on. Seeing this, Guo Liai and Liu Dong had no choice but to pluck up their strength in front of the team and run towards Guiyang City.

Guo Liai took these people to run towards Guiyang City, and he didn't see these people beating drums and trumpets, and they were all silent. Guo Li Ai couldn't escape now, so he had to run in front, and when he ran out of the woods, he found that the people besieging the city were not only these people in front of him, but a large area came out of the mountains and forests horizontally, but they all had branches on their heads, and some of them were covered with weeds. From a distance, it looks like a small forest, and it is impossible to see that it is an army at all.