No matter how ruthless Luo Keduo and others were, it is now a fact that the Guan Ning army has fled and surrendered to the Ming army. At the moment, Duran and Jishiha could only prepare for the attack on the victory pass.

Xia Guoxiang and others came to Shengjing Pass with fear, although it was the second half of the night, they still saw a large number of people in Shengjing Pass, and these people did not have the slightest fear of the Ming army.

In the curiosity of Xia Guoxiang and others, everyone came to Zhu Youdong's residence, and when they saw Zhu Youdong, Xia Guoxiang was a little embarrassed, because this young man said that day, he only gave himself three days, but now he only has more than two days, and he really came to surrender.

Zhu Youdong was not particularly happy because of the arrival of Xia Guoxiang and others, but simply met and asked people to arrange for Xia Guoxiang and others to rest. After these people went out, Lin Zhuang said: "Master Hou, if Guan Ningjun and these people don't appease them well, I'm afraid that there will be chaos at that time." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Don't be afraid, now they have no way out, if we take too much fancy to them now, then they must feel that they are very important." But I didn't want to lose too many casualties to our Restoration Army. Lin Zhuang said: "Then I will ask the generals not to contact them too often."

Zhu Youdong said: "No, just let them do what they normally do, and where is Hao Yongzhong's army now?" Now that Luo Anmin's army has reached its position, it is waiting for this Hao Yongzhong. ”

Lin Zhuang said: "The military information sent yesterday, General Hao Yongzhong has already arrived in Jiaoshui, and it is estimated that Qujing has been captured now." Zhu Youdong said: "Don't estimate, now what we want to encircle is the Eight Banners of Manchuria, as well as more than 10,000 Eight Banners of the Han Army, we have no idea what the combat power of these people is, if one is not careful, it will lead to the annihilation of the whole army." ”

Lin Zhuang said: "Yes, I'll let them investigate strictly." Zhu Youdong said: "Now that Luo Ren is gone, there are many inconveniences for the Miao people in this vicinity to connect, but there are also many people who are willing to change their identities to become Han, you go to find some such people, let them go to Yizuo, and take a detour from Yuezhou Wei to Qujing to inquire about the situation." Now we are only one day away from the five days we have scheduled, and if we can't confirm it, our tens of thousands of troops will be wasted here. ”

Lin Zhuang also knew that the situation was complicated now, and once he failed, he would suffer heavy losses, so he immediately found a few Miao people who had just changed their identities. Then let Lin Zhuang's right-hand man, Shen Shijie, the captain of the guard of the former Sichuan governor Gao Minzhan, personally lead the team to investigate the situation.

After Lin Zhuang went out to arrange to investigate the military situation, Zhu Youdong found Zhao Shichao and said: "You have to take care of several generals of the Guanning Army, don't be discovered by them, and don't let them do anything." ”

Zhao Shichao said: "Master Hou, don't worry, I don't know what the situation is outside now, but none of the internal affairs of the Restoration Army can escape my eyes." Zhu Youdong paused for a moment and said: "Don't patronize the affairs of your own people, you still have to arrange the intelligence network, and it is best to arrange secret agents around Shunzhi, so that our battle will be much easier." ”

Zhao Shichao originally wanted to show his merits, but now he can't lead troops to fight, and he can't earn military merits, so when he came to Guizhou this time, he also wanted to show himself in front of Zhu Youdong, but as soon as he said it, he was pushed back by Zhu Youdong, so he had to sneer: "I will definitely try to arrange secret agents around Shunzhi." ”

Zhu Youdong knew that Zhao Shichao was also catching ducks on the shelves, and when he saw him like this, he said: "You don't have to be discouraged, I remember your credit." Zhao Shichao immediately felt comfortable when he heard this, and said: "I will definitely do my best to do things for the Hou Ye." ”

At this time, Tan Shuanghua came in and said: "Master Hou, Luo Anmin has taken people to secretly station between Yuezhou Wei and Yizuo, and Luo Ren has also taken people to the Qujing area, just wait for this Hao Yongzhong to come over and block the Qing army to close the net." ”

Zhu Youdong glanced at Tan Shuanghua and said, "Okay, that's it." You've worked hard for the past two days, so go rest first. Zhu Youdong went to the gate to patrol again to check the situation of the defense materials on the gate.

The following day, the Qing army did not come to attack the Shengjing Pass, the materials of the Restoration Army were ready, and now all the people have gone to the Pingyi Station, and there is a calm before the Great War in front of the Shengjing Pass. But the breath of war became more and more solemn, and it seemed that everyone was overwhelmed.

After a day's rest, the Qing army finally moved early on the morning of the third day. First of all, the people of the Han Army Banner gathered at the Shengjing Pass one after another, followed by the people of the Eight Banners of Manchuria. After so many days of waiting, the Qing army did not just wait for the Guanning army to attack, they made a lot of siege weapons with the help of the Han army banner.

Under the Shengjing Pass, there were several ladders, and ten city defense cannons were moved from Qujing. The army of the Han army had not yet begun to attack the city, and the artillery of the Qing army had already begun to roar. There are also cannons on the Victory Pass, but there are only six in total. It is impossible to want artillery to fight against the Qing army.

It's not okay to just be beaten and not fight back. Zhu Youdong observed for a long time, and finally with the help of the gunners, he roughly determined the artillery position of the Qing army. But it's useless to just find out, there are still too few cannons in Shengjing Pass. In the end, Zhu Youdong remembered the later generations, the scene of 10,000 cannons firing in the video, and he had an idea, the accuracy of the current cannon is too low, and only the cannon can have an effect.

Immediately, he found the master of the cannon and asked them to point to the artillery position of the Qing army to fire a few in unison. The master didn't do this either, but since Zhu Youdong said this, he immediately had to listen. I didn't think that the effect was really there, and after a few rounds of salvo, the Qing army's artillery was obviously missing several pieces. But the artillery of the Ming Army is on the battery, and now the artillery of the Qing Army has been scrapped several times, and there is no way to defeat the artillery of the Ming Army in response.

Just when the cannon was fighting, the Qing army of the Han army flag under the pass had begun to come to Shengjing Pass, and the Qing army with the Han army flag shouted slogans, lined up in formation and kept approaching Shengjing Pass, and the Qing army pushing the ladder also followed behind.

It is Wang Xing and Zhu Shouquan who are defending now, Zhu Youdong did not intervene in defending the city, if the army is here, Wang Xing and Zhu Shouquan can't defend it, then the two of them are useless. Looking at the Qing army that is getting closer and closer, only the archers are constantly shooting arrows, and now there are nearly 20,000 troops in this victory pass, not counting the injured people, there are about 3,000 archers.

With such a large long-range strike ability, of course Zhu Youdong would not use it, and directly sent someone to tell Wang Xing that all the archers in the customs were at his disposal. Wang Xing was not polite, and directly transferred 1,500 archers to close the wall, and the other 1,500 people waited under the gate, ready to replace the 1,500 archers on the gate.

Therefore, the blow to the Han army banner now is definitely much greater than the blow received by the Guanning army a few days ago. In addition, the Han Army Banner is not the Han Army Flag formed by Huang Taiji outside the Guan, and the current Han Army Flag has also absorbed a large number of Ming Army firearms troops, or field troops with relatively strong combat effectiveness.

This has an impact on the combat effectiveness of the Han Army Banner, the people of the Han Army Banner have not yet approached the Guan Wall, and many people have fallen from the arrows, and the Guanning Army a few days ago can not get up, not only the speed of progress can not be compared, but also can not dodge the arrows on the city, the Han Army Banner can be seen at a glance than the Guanning Army combat power is much lower.

But now that there is no Guan Ning Army to be cannon fodder, they, the people of the Han Army Banner, can only come by themselves. Although the casualties of the Han army were greater than those of the Guanning army, now that the army of the Eight Banners of Manchuria was assembled behind them, they had no way to retreat, so they had to muster up the courage to rush towards Shengjing Pass.

As the people of the Han army flag rushed to the victory pass, the archers in the Han army flag also shot arrows desperately at the wall. There were also many firearms that were fired at the shut, and some people were injured when they were shut, and the screams continued.

The Manchurian Eight Banners assembled in the back, seeing that the people of the Han Army Banner in front had begun to climb the wall to tackle the key problems, they immediately began to move towards the Shengjing Pass, and stopped when they reached the range of the archers.

The people of the Han army banner in front of them were driven by the generals, and they tried to climb up the ladder, and some people pushed the ladder cart close to the city wall. Due to the low accuracy of the cannons, the defenders, who originally only had six cannons, did not dare to let the cannons deal with these ladders.

As the ladder approached, the bridge board on the ladder "clanged" on the wall of Shengjing Pass, and countless Han soldiers rushed over from the ladder. The Restoration Army, which had already been guarding the wall, blocked it, and immediately exchanged hands with the Qing Army. The Eight Banners of Manchuria in the back saw that the ladder had been erected on the wall, and the soldiers of the Han Army Banner had rushed to the city wall, and immediately cheered loudly.

Seeing that there were more and more soldiers of the Han Army Banner rushing to the wall, the Eight Banners of Manchuria behind them also quickly rushed to the Shengjing Pass. Long Sheng and Anyang, who were watching the battle on the wall, as well as Wu Guogui and Hu Guozhu, who had just surrendered, Xia Guoxiang was very worried. Hu Guozhu said: "General Zhu, it is the Manchurian Eight Banners that rushed over to attack behind, is the strength of General Wang Xing and others a little thin, let's send some reinforcements." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "No, Yang Jiafu has already assembled a reserve of 3,000 people in Guannei, and there is no need to send reinforcements." After speaking, Zhu Youdong looked at Xia Guoxiang and the others: "You just have a day of rest first, and it is estimated that you will go to war in the evening or tomorrow." ”

When Xia Guoxiang heard this, he was stunned for a moment, why did it take his turn to fight? Could it be that Zhu Youdong wants him to go out of the city and fight the Qing army? Just as he was about to ask clearly, Wu Guogui grabbed Xia Guoxiang and shook his head.

Zhu Youdong didn't speak, just watched the Qing army attack the city intently. At this time, even Daniel Zhang and Tan Shuanghua came up, and Zhu Youdong said: "You should take a look, learn about the siege of the city, and find out where their weaknesses in the siege are, if you are allowed to attack, how will you arrange it." ”

The people present, except for Daniel Zhang, the people of the Guanning army mainly fought with cavalry, Long Sheng, Anyang and others did not lead the army to fight at all, and the other generals had not experienced such a siege battle, and immediately looked at it seriously.

The battle on the wall has become white-hot, human life is no longer worth anything at this moment, and no one cares about the dead. Because Zhu Youdong was watching the battle on the wall, the soldiers of the Restoration Army guarding the pass were also desperate, even if they died, they would not take a step back. With the addition of the people of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the defense line on the wall was still a little loose at the beginning, but it was immediately beaten back by the soldiers of the Restoration Army.

Later, no matter how desperately the Manchurian Eight Banners were, they couldn't advance for half a minute, and Ji Xiha, who was watching the battle, saw that the Manchurian Eight Banners had no effect, so he immediately said to Zhuo Butai: "You bring some veterans of our Manchurian Eight Banners up, and you must talk about opening up the situation, otherwise we will be flattened by the people of the Han Army Banner today, and it will not be easy for us to suppress them." ”

Seeing this, Zhuo Butai didn't say much, and immediately selected five hundred experienced veterans, and then rushed directly to the wall. As soon as these 500 people appeared, the surrounding Han Army Banners and Manchurian Eight Banners all gave way. Zhu Youdong in the city also saw this group of people, knowing that these people must be the elite of the Manchurian Eight Banners, and immediately said to Daniel Zhang: "You also bring some elites to block them, don't let them disturb the defense of the city." ”

Daniel Zhang immediately agreed, and then went to select elite soldiers. The 500 elites brought by Zhuo Butai were the elites of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and their actions were very agile, and they soon climbed the wall, attacking and killing the defenders was like chopping vegetables and cutting melons, and there was no one soldier. Seeing this, Daniel Zhang was also immediately angry, and immediately took the person he had selected and killed Zhuo Butai.

Zhuo Butai knew Daniel Zhang when he was in Huguang, and now when he saw Daniel Zhang killing, he asked: "Daniel Zhang, you dare to betray my Daqing now, do you know the consequences of betraying Daqing?" ”

Daniel Zhang didn't care and said: "What are the consequences of this, you just have to kill me, see if you kill me, or I will take your head" Zhuo Butai was furious when he heard this, and did not answer, and slashed at Daniel Zhang with a knife. Daniel Zhang was not afraid, and fought with Zhuo Butai on the spot, and the other elites of the Eight Banners who attacked the wall with Zhuo Butai were also blocked by the people brought by Daniel Zhang.

Seeing that Daniel Zhang led people to block the people brought by Zhuo Butai, the other defenders did not care about these people, but concentrated on guarding the wall, and Yang Jiafu under the city led five hundred people at this time, and went up to the wall and besieged Zhuo Butai's five hundred people with Daniel Zhang. Seeing that the follow-up Qing army could not come up, Zhuo Butai and the others were surrounded by the wall again, and Zhuo Butai did not care about fighting with Daniel Zhang, constantly approaching the soldiers guarding the pass, wanting to disturb the Fuming army defending the city, so that the Qing army behind quickly came to the city.

But Daniel Zhang had long seen Zhuo Butai's thoughts clearly, and had been dragging Zhuo Butai tightly. And with Zhuo Butai's attack on Shangguan's five hundred people, although extremely elite, but also two fists were invincible to four hands, under the siege of soldiers led by Yang Jiafu and Daniel Zhang, people continued to fall.