Zhu Dashan saw a group of people running on the opposite side, and it must not be the people of the Restoration Army who rushed out of the city at this time, so Zhu Dashan immediately called someone to go up and arrest them. And the people on the other side also saw Zhu Dashan and the others, and when they saw Zhu Dashan asking people to surround them, a few people immediately turned around and ran back, and the others drew their knives one after another and fought with the Fuming Army.

was fighting here, and a group of people chased after him, shouting while chasing: "Catch Li Guoying, don't let him run." When Zhu Dashan and Jiang Chao heard it, they knew that there was Li Guoying in the group just now. Immediately, people bypassed the Qing soldiers who were blocking and chased after them. Zhu Dashan himself followed, only to see the three people in front of him keep running, and from time to time there were scattered Qing soldiers who were chased by the Restoration Army.

Zhu Dashan saw that there were many Qing soldiers blocking the way, and shouted: "Surrender and don't kill." The soldiers chasing after all shouted "surrender or kill". The Qing soldiers who were running around in the city suddenly knelt down and surrendered, and Zhu Dashan said to Jiang Chao: "Quickly send people to control the south gate and the east gate, as long as the city gate is guarded, Li Guoying will not be able to escape." ”

As soon as Jiang Chao agreed to send someone to control the city gate, he saw a group of Qing soldiers running on the street in front of him, followed by a large number of Ming restoration troops. Seeing this, Li Guoying knew that he couldn't run, so he immediately asked the Qing soldiers who ran over to form a formation. Running over with the Qing soldiers was Dai Yu, who was defending the south gate, and he received an order from Li Guoying to gather excess troops to support the north gate. Dai Yu immediately gathered 500 soldiers and rushed to the north gate, but before he reached the north gate, he heard the Restoration Army rushing into the city with cheers.

Dai Yu didn't dare to go to the north gate again, and saw the Fuming army attacking from the north gate rushing directly to the south gate, thinking that there was a Qing army camp outside the west gate, and it was safest to go to the big camp. As a result, as soon as he turned the street, he was discovered by the Restoration Army, and chased all the way to the West Gate. Before the West Gate arrived, he was loaded with the governor Li Guoying, and as soon as he saw Li Guoying, he let the Qing soldiers he brought with him.

Dai Yu scolded in his heart: "What bullshit Governor, now this situation is not desperate to rush out, isn't forming a formation equal to waiting for death?" But Li Guoying has been the governor for many years, and this prestige is still there, and the Qing army heard that Li Guoying let him form a formation, and when he remembered that he invited the army, he began to move closer. Now seeing Li Guoying surrounded, Zhu Dashan is not in a hurry.

Immediately, Zhu Dashan asked Jiang Chao to ask people to transfer the archers behind him, and walked out directly and shouted to the Qing army: "Listen, now I allow you to surrender, as long as you surrender, you can avoid death." If you want to accompany Li Guoying's funeral, I'm not welcome, I'll give you ten breaths of time now. ”

When Li Guoying saw Zhu Dashan surrendering, he immediately said loudly: "If the husband dies, he will die, how can he bend his knees and beg for life." Zhu Dashan said sarcastically: "Li Guoying, you have such hard bones, why didn't Hongguang show it in the first year?" Was it because you were young at that time and your bones had not yet hardened? ”

Li Guoying said proudly: "I am in line with the general trend of the world, and good ministers choose the master." Zhu Dashan suddenly realized: "Oh, it turns out that it is a good minister who is a slave" and then Zhu Dashan did not want to say any more, because in the eyes of these people, there is no reason at all, and the life and death of the people are no match for the general trend in their mouths. Immediately said loudly: "You really don't want to surrender? ”

Although some of those Qing soldiers jumped to try, no one came out to surrender. Seeing this, Zhu Dashan said: "Shoot them all, and don't leave a single one." Suddenly, the Restoration Army was shot with arrows, and the Qing army was constantly killed by arrows, and the Qing Army saw that the Restoration Army really wanted to shoot them all to death. immediately kept dodging to both sides, and for a while, there were only the three people and Dai Yu who ran with Li Guoying before. After two waves of arrows from the Restoration Army, Li Guoying and others have been shot like hedgehogs. Seeing that he could no longer live, Zhu Dashan asked people to come forward and take custody of the Qing soldiers who fled to both sides of the street.

Then Zhu Dashan asked Jiang Chao to immediately control the city gate, and notified the generals in the city to begin to accept the surrendered troops and clear the Qing army in the city that refused to surrender, and appease the people. The Fuming Army was busy until the evening before Dingyuan settled down.

At this time, in the hall of the county government, in addition to the guard capital who guarded the prisoners, Suo Yanlong and the two others, the other generals of the Fuming Army and more than 1,000 generals all arrived at the county office. At this time, the statistics of the battle came out, Zhu Dashan looked at this statistics and was silent for a long time, although the Fuming Army captured Dingyuan County, and also defeated Li Guoying and beheaded Li Guoying, but the casualties of the Fuming Army were also very large. There were three thousand households killed in battle, namely Deng Bingzhi, deputy thousand households Xu Wu, Wang Aqi, garrison more, Chen Fuyi's three garrisons Kong Lingying, Qiu Xingyuan, Jiang Bochong all died in battle, due to the madness of Zhang Yongquan and Deng Bingzhi, only one garrison and crippled deputy thousand households remained in the two thousand households. Luo Daniu's thousands of households were basically disabled.

That is to say, in this siege of Dingyuan, the Fuming army disabled four and a half thousand households, with nearly 6,000 casualties, and more than 2,000 people died directly. But the results of the Restoration Army this time are also considerable, and the direct beheading of Li Guoying is of course the biggest gain. Without the governor Li Guoying, the Qing army in Sichuan was leaderless.

Then there are dozens of Qing generals who died in battle, including Jia Deng, Dai Yu, Cheng Tingjun, Zhao Sancai, Huo Guangxian, other garrisons, and deputy generals. When Zhao Sancai and Huo Guang were first competing for positions with Luo Da Niu, they saw that Luo Da Niu was defeated and retreated, and they were in a hurry to grab the credit. As a result, he didn't expect to be reversed by the Restoration Army, and he tripped and fell to the ground in a hurry, and before he could get up in a hurry, he was hacked to death by the Restoration Army chasing behind.

Cheng Tingjun was loyal to Li Guoying, watching the Ming army rush into the city on the city wall, Cheng Tingjun immediately returned to the city tower and fled into the city with Li Guoying, but the Ming army blew up the city gate, and the army of the Ming Army immediately entered the city, the two could not gather the Qing soldiers to build a defensive line, so they had to continue to flee to the military camp, and finally met Zhu Dashan with the army from the west gate, was surrounded and shot to death, and with them was the former Shunqing prefect Deng Ximing.

The surrender of the Restoration Army included Hou Tianci, Tan Xinchuan, and Deng Jiushao, and there were 23,000 prisoners, but there was not much food and grass, countless armor and weapons, and 2,000 Li Guoying's firearms troops. There were five thousand horses, and even more mules and horses. Looking at these seized things, Zhu Dashan felt that this adventure was worth it again. If the Qing army in Sichuan wants to organize such an army again, it will take at least three months.

When Zhu Dashan saw that everyone had arrived, he said: "No matter what the process is, we finally defeated Li Guoying and beheaded him. Now I give you three days, and the losses of each thousand households will be replenished by the captured Qing soldiers. But for those who have committed the most heinous crimes, there will be a public judgment. Let the soldiers understand their sins, and let them integrate into us as quickly as possible. ”

Zhu Dashan remembered the things that often appeared on TV in later generations to make the captives reflect on their sins, so he said: "You can let them reflect on their repentance and let them realize their previous sins, which is also a way." ”

Yuan Zongdi looked at Zhu Dashan and said, "Is this method really useful?" Those Qing soldiers have done so many bad things, if they can repent too much, they will regret it sooner. Zhu Dashan said with confidence: "They didn't repent before, that is, no one told them it, plus the generals are like this, they will go with the flow, join the stream, and follow the officials to do these things." Now we have to point it out to them and tell them that they have committed those sins. ”

Zhu Dashan didn't want to dwell on such a problem, he would talk about it if it was useful or not, continue if it was useful, and think of other methods next time if it didn't work. Zhu Dashan said to Chen Fuyi: "The casualties of the Broken Guards in this battle are the largest, so you have to rebuild the Broken Guards as soon as possible, and then return to Nanchong to join Gou Xingwang." Then you go and capture Yuechi and Quang An. ”

Chen Fuyi was brought in, but now that Zhu Dashan assigned him a task, he immediately agreed. Yuan Zongdi said: "Isn't this arrangement too urgent, after all, there are still more than 10,000 troops assembled by Wang Youjin, Chen Jian, Chen Xixian and others in Anju, and Lushan Wuyi General Du Xue, Qiongzhou General Yang Guoming, Meizhou General Wu Guoyong and others are also assembled near Yanting. ”

Zhu Dashan said: "Don't be afraid, now we have 23,000 captives, and no matter how these people choose, they can choose 20,000." After the loss of troops in our various units was replenished, there were still nearly 13,000 people, so Liu Yingnan and Cheng Deyi formed Zhenming and Xingming two guards on the spot. Ten days later, he returned to the south to meet with the Qing troops in Yanting. ”

Yuan Zong was the first to hear it: "Pingyu Hou is going to attack and capture Chengdu Mansion?" Zhu Dashan said: "Now that Li Guoying is dead, the entire Sichuan group has no leader, we should recover Sichuan as soon as possible and reduce the pressure on Yunnan." ”

Hao Yongzhong said: "We have such a big move, if the Qing army of Yungui comes back to help, then our forces are too scattered, how can we resist?" Zhu Dashan said: "We now have Dingyu, Zhenglu, Jingyu Sanwei in Dingyuan, plus 20,000 people in Hezhou's Song Gaoju Division, and we have 40,000 horses in Chongqing this time." At that time, we will only rely on the pass to defend it, and it should not be difficult to block the Qing army. When the time comes, the Qing army's food and grass supplement will give a problem, and it will retreat. ”

He Zhen said: "This is good, but we have too many troops, I am afraid that once there is a mistake at that time, it will be irreparable." Zhu Dashan thought for a while and said: "Tell those surrendered troops that if they surrender again and shake the morale of the army, their wives and children in his hometown will be punished, and most of these surrendered soldiers are natives of Sichuan, and I believe that such a punishment will still have a great deterrent effect on them." Moreover, all armies should strengthen military law and supervision teams to prevent these troops from failing to contribute to their work. ”

Yuan Zongdi said: "For the time being, it has to be like this, after letting them fight a few battles, it should be better." Zhu Dashan showed a fierce expression on his face and said: "If you really can't do it, you will take all the officers who surrendered as examples of repentance, and they will be publicly convicted and directly executed, and all of them will be killed." As long as there are no of these officers in it, only the soldiers remain. ”

Cheng Deyi wanted to kill these people the most, and immediately agreed: "Yes, let these soldiers go up to execute them, cutting off their back road." Luo Daniu also said: "Yes, anyone who surrenders can be appointed as low-level officers, and let them manage the surrendered Qing soldiers by themselves." ”

Zhu Dashan didn't expect that in just a few words, Luo Daniu came up with the method of using the surrender to manage the surrender. Zhu Dashan said: "Yes, anyone who does it can be a petty officer, they must have their own people, so that the opposition of the captives will be much smaller." ”

In the following three days, thousands of households and battalions were liquidating the captured officers, and many soldiers told their own stories of their previous sins. And then everywhere those officers at all levels were executed, as long as they stepped forward to do something, they could become officials, giving those who were a great temptation to surrender. Many people rushed to get this opportunity to do it, and in order to get this opportunity, the soldiers were instantly redivided into small gangs one by one, and then fought for the opportunity in groups.

Whoever gets the opportunity must have some supporters, and then these supporters, in turn, oppress the other surrenderers. But these people who have already gotten up, their rights are all given by the Restoration Army now, so they are invisibly tied to the chariot of the Restoration Army. became a loyal supporter of the Restoration Army, and then the Restoration Army only needed to manage these who had won the opportunity to become a surrender at the top.

This is the best for the current Restoration Army, but Zhu Dashan knows that this kind of situation has a great hidden danger to the Restoration Army. In the previous Restoration Army, almost every soldier knew that he was loyal to Zhu Dashan, but in this way, over time, a large number of groups would be formed in the army, which would form internal friction for the Restoration Army. In the past, the Restoration Army also had groups, but the generals were the mainstay, and the soldiers did not have such a thing, and now this kind of group has also been formed among the soldiers, which is nothing in the short term, but after a long time, these groups will be grouped together in the situation of the group, and then interest groups will be formed, which Zhu Dashan does not want to see.

Zhu Dashan looked at the chaotic scenes in the barracks, and secretly thought that the political commissar function of the deputy should be implemented as soon as possible, and only in this way would he try to avoid internal friction in the army. At this moment, Hou Tianci, Tan Xinchuan, and Deng Jiushao, who had already surrendered to the Restoration Army, came to Zhu Dashan with pale faces, and saluted Zhu Dashan in a proper manner: "Master Hou is looking for us, I don't know what to order." As long as Hou Ye orders something, we will go to Dao Mountain, and go down to the oil pot for Hou Ye. ”