Zhu Youdong saw Gu Duo say this, and said, "Yes, but I hope to hurry, after all, we need to be in a hurry." Gu Duo said: "Okay, I'll ask them to notify the nearby head people to come over today, and they can discuss it at night, and they can give Hou Ye an answer tomorrow." ”

Then Gu Duo asked people to notify the nearby heads, and then asked people to take Zhu Youdong and others to rest. In order to wait for Gu Duo's reply, Zhu Youdong also stayed in the Zhenzhou Division, and asked a guard to go back and explain to Ta Tianbao that he was optimistic about the soldiers and could not go out of the camp at will.

That night, the leaders of the neighborhood rushed one after another, and waited until Gu Duo told Zhu Youdong about it. The leaders and leaders immediately discussed, and they all had more contact with the Han people, and after listening to Zhu Youdong's conditions, everyone felt that it was good, and a few people immediately agreed. One person said: "The thing he said about going out of the mountain is easy to do, but the thing to go to Duyun is not easy to do, there are many Miao people there who don't deal with the Han people at all, even if we take it, they won't necessarily let them pass." ”

As soon as he heard this man say, others also said: "Yes, if they don't let the Ming army pass, can we still go out of the mountain?" Zhu Youdong knew that these Miao heads were discussing, and he also sat in the house with Gu Duo's consent. It's just that he hadn't spoken before, and when he heard this person's question, he said: "No problem, as long as you are willing to go out of the mountain, you can go out of the mountain no matter whether this thing is successful or not." Then Zhu Youdong said to Gu Duo: "Can we bypass those Miao people who don't agree with us?" Gu Duo said: "You can go around, but in that case, you have to go a long way." ”

Zhu Youdong said again: "Then if there is anything they need, we will take what they need to exchange with them." Gu Duo's eyes lit up and said: "They are short of salt, and the Miao people in the whole Guizhou are short of salt." Zhu Youdong was also overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "Okay, let's exchange it for salt." After speaking, he directly asked people to go to Chongqing to transfer 3,000 catties of salt.

Three days later, Yuan Zongdi heard that Zhu Youdong asked him to transfer 3,000 catties of salt to Zhenzhou Division, Yuan Zongdi did not hesitate, and directly asked the army to send it over. In the past few days, there have been 1,000 Miao people coming from all over the place, and these are all Miao people from all over the country. After receiving the promise of giving land outside after the Restoration Army left the mountain, most of the nearby Miao people joined the Restoration Army, and they had a lot of dealings with the Han people, and they were not afraid. As the news spread that they could get the fields outside the mountain, the nearby Gelao and Tu people also came out.

Zhu Youdong saw that the people were almost the same, so he asked Gu Duo to send someone to lead the way, and the accompanying Miao people, the Gelao people and the Tujia people, although they were a little rusty with the soldiers of the Restoration Army, but under the constraints of the military discipline of the Restoration Army, everyone was quite happy.

After three days of mountain roads, the soldiers of the original Restoration Army showed a tired demeanor, but these Miao people, Tujia people and Gelao people are still in good spirits, and the Restoration Army marches to bring ten days of military rations, plus weapons, and now each person carries ten catties of gunpowder and one catty of salt. In this way, each soldier carried thirty pounds of things, although the more he ate, the less he ate, the less he ate, but other things were indispensable. After two days of marching, everyone was tired enough, and the mountain road was difficult to walk, if it wasn't for Zhu Youdong's previous stimulation of the bloody nature of the Sichuan soldiers, I am afraid that they would have all fled by this time.

Those Miao people have eaten and slept with the soldiers of the Restoration Army these days, and when they saw that the soldiers of the Restoration Army were all carrying luggage, they all helped to carry things, so that the soldiers of the Restoration Army breathed a sigh of relief. Along the way, I met a lot of Miao people, Tujia people and Gelao people, but fortunately, Zhu Youdong's army also had their fellow people, and after some negotiations, they could always pass without danger, but they carried a lot less salt. However, the Restoration Army also exchanged a large amount of meat from these local natives, and in the end, the Restoration Army almost became merchants, and everyone was covered with food.

Zhu Youdong saw that the food in exchange for it was very delayed, so he ordered that as long as the food of the Fuming Army was enough, he would not accept food, and as long as these natives helped pass by, they could get salt. In this way, the local natives all smiled and led the way for the Restoration Army, and some people took the initiative to join the Restoration Army, the reason was that they were reluctant to leave because of the good food of the Restoration Army.

Although this road has been helped by many natives, the Fuming army is still extremely difficult, because the road is too difficult to walk, and there is no road at all in some places, so the natives can only go through with the rope first, and then the soldiers of the Fuming army will pull the rope to climb over.

After half a month of climbing mountains and mountains, this day finally arrived at the Hengpo Division of Yuanfu in Guizhou Town. As soon as Zhu Youdong entered the town with the Restoration Army, he saw that the town was in ruins, and there were corpses everywhere. Many people are still calling out the names of their families, and their houses have been engulfed in flames.

The people who were still very sad saw Zhu Youdong and others entering the town, and they all looked at this army of unknown origin with anger in their eyes. Zhu Youdong waved everyone to stop, and then walked forward by himself and asked in front of a young man, "What's wrong with you?" Who did it? ”

The young man looked at Zhu Youdong with red eyes and said, "It's you evil dog officers and soldiers who killed our relatives, and now you're pretending to ask who killed them." Zhu Youdong said confusedly: "We didn't, we just arrived here." How could it be that we killed it? ”

The young man pointed to the army behind Zhu Youdong and said, "Look at you troops who surrendered to the Manchu Tartars, you still say no, you wait, I will definitely avenge the villagers in our town." As he spoke, he went to look for a knife. Zhu Youdong turned his head and looked at his army, he had crossed the mountains and mountains in the past half a month, except for a body whose clothes had been tattered like a flower, he really didn't see where he looked like a Qing soldier.

At this time, an old man next to him came over and pulled the young man and said, "General, you have robbed everything you can in the town, you can let me go, we really don't have anything." As he spoke, he was going to kneel down for Zhu Youdong. Zhu Youdong hurriedly held on and said, "Old man, I don't know what you're talking about, but we really didn't shoot you, and we didn't kill your people, did you misunderstand." ”

The young man said angrily again: "What misunderstanding, now that the person you killed is in front of your eyes, you still want to deny it?" Zhu Youdong saw that the young man couldn't speak clearly, so he thought about the old man and said: "Old man, who did you say killed your people, I will definitely uphold justice for you, we are all dignified masters of the Ming Dynasty, how could we do such a thing." ”

When the old man heard this, he was stunned for a moment and said, "You are the army of the Ming Dynasty?" How could it be that last year, the Ming army retreated to Yunnan. At this time, the old man saw the hair on Zhu Youdong's head again, and said excitedly: "It seems that we really misunderstood, you are really the army of the Ming Dynasty." He said with tears in his eyes.

The young man also looked at Zhu Youdong in surprise and said, "You are really the army of the Ming Dynasty?" Where are you from? Zhu Youdong saw that the two of them were excited, and at this time, the people who were still alive around them also gathered, and the army of Daming who heard about it was a little excited, but it was very sad to think of his family.

Zhu Youdong said: "Yes, we are the army of the Ming Dynasty, and we are from Sichuan. The old man exclaimed, "What? Are you from Sichuan? How could the troops from Sichuan be here? Was Sichuan also occupied by the Qing army? Did you escape? ”

Everyone else also speculated like this, otherwise how could there be such an image, no different from calling Hanako. When I thought that these people were fleeing troops, I immediately felt a little nervous, and it was all too common for deserters to grab things. Zhu Youdong said: "No, let's not talk about escaping, although the Qing army occupied Sichuan before, but now Sichuan has been defeated by us and driven the Qing army out of Sichuan." ”

When everyone heard that the Qing army in Sichuan had been driven out, they were all a little moved, and the old man said: "Are you coming to Guizhou now to drive away the Qing army in Guizhou?" They're so brutal, they're not human! These Manchu Tartars who suffered a thousand knives. ”

Only then did Zhu Youdong say: "The old man told me what was going on, why did you think that we killed the person first?" Listening to Zhu Youdong's words, the young man before said: "Because the Qing soldiers who came to kill us were dressed the same as you, so we misunderstood." ”

Zhu Youdong couldn't believe it: "How is it possible? How could the Qing soldiers wear the same as us? The old man said, "I don't know, anyway, they are all dressed the same as you, so we misunderstood." They robbed everything, killed people, set fires, and humiliated women. It's just a brute, without a bit of humanity. The more the old man spoke, the more angry he became.

Zhu Youdong was afraid that the old man would be excited, so he went directly, and hurriedly changed the topic and said, "Old man, tell me where this is?" How do we go to Duyun? The old man said: "This is Zhenyuan Mansion, if the general wants to go to Duyun Mansion, he can use an official road to go five miles to the south." Zhu Youdong exclaimed: "It's already close to the official road here?" The old man said: "It's not another official road, this official road is smaller, and the general march and food delivery do not go here." ”

Zhu Youdong said with confidence: "That's okay, now we only have more than 4,000 people, if the Qing army comes, we will only have a dead end." After saying that, Zhu Youdong left some food for these people and was about to leave. The young man before pulled Zhu Youdong and said, "General, are you going to fight the Qing army?" Zhu Youdong said: "Yes, do you know where they are?" ”

The young man said, "Of course I know, but if you want to take me there, I want to avenge the villagers?" As he spoke, he squeezed his hands tightly. Zhu Youdong hesitated a little and said: "You are still too young to kill the Qing soldiers, and you can only kill the Qing soldiers when you grow up." ”

At this time, the old man also followed and said, "General, you can bring Ali with you, he knows the mountain road and the places where the people live nearby, and he can show the way to the general." Hearing the old man's words, Zhu Youdong said with a flash of inspiration: "Okay, I'll take him, old man, can you help me contact the Miao and Gelao people in Duyun, and by the way, the Tujia family." ”

The old man asked curiously, "General, what are you going to do with them?" Zhu Youdong said: "Old man, you have also seen it, we still have some salt, if they can take us to deal with the Qing soldiers, we can give them salt." And if I get food from the Qing soldiers, I can still give it to them. ”

When the old man heard this, he said: "Okay, I'll contact you about this, the Qing soldiers don't know how many villages have been harmed by the official road, and how many people have been killed by them." I'm sure they're all willing to help the general. Zhu Youdong was overjoyed and said: "Then there is Lao Lao's family." ”

Then Zhu Youdong asked the Restoration Army to leave 500 people here, and then the others followed Zhu Youdong to Duyun Mansion. Along the way, almost all the villages passed by were slaughtered, and it was difficult to find people's homes, but fortunately, with Ali leading the way, you can always find local people on the mountains on both sides of the official road. This allowed the Restoration Army to obtain more information about the Qing Army.

Zhu Youdong discovered that since the Qing army invaded Yunnan, the Qing army had rarely transported grain from the rear to the front. This situation has lasted for half a year, but recently the number of Qing army messengers on official roads has begun to increase, and the Qing army has also begun to come out to grab food, and it has been particularly frequent in the past month.

Of course, Zhu Youdong understands that the Qing army invaded Yunnan and got the grain stock in Kunming, so the army is not worried about the lack of grain at all, and now more than eight months have passed, and the hundreds of thousands of people in the Qing army should have eaten all the horses.

Because Zhu Youdong and others carried salt all the way and did not commit any offense against the people, many local people volunteered to join the Restoration Army along the way, so that the Restoration Army had 6,000 people. Seeing this, Zhu Youdong had no choice but to organize all these people into the Restoration Army, and after arriving at Duyun Mansion. Zhu Youdong was stationed in Maha Prefecture with 500 people, and then asked the local people to take the Restoration Army to attack everywhere in units of 100 households. There are also many people who actually infiltrated the area around Longli Bik Bik Pass, using explosives, shovels, and pickaxes to wreak havoc on roads and bridges.

For a time, the mountain roads of Duyun Mansion, Longli Division, and Xintiansi were full of broken passes, mountain collapses, and broken bridges. Most of the Qing troops stationed in these places were the original Ming troops, who were left behind after surrendering, and only a small number of Qing troops were stationed. But now it seems to have fallen into an endless trap, and whoever dares to go out alone will not be able to come back alive.