Zhu Dashan didn't want to pretend to win, for the Qing soldiers who attacked Mianzhou, it was just an improvisation. As long as you can find the weakness of the Qing soldiers and attack fiercely, you are not afraid that you will not be able to defeat the Qing soldiers, and there is still a Ming army in Chengdu, and you can also contact the Qing soldiers at that time. What Zhu Dashan was worried about was that if the Qing troops went to attack Mianzhou, how would Baoning's side defend, the southern county would basically not be able to hold it, and the southern county would not have a defender in the first place, and now Zhu Dashan would not have sent reinforcements to the southern county.

Zhu Dashan is very embarrassed now, the southern county can't hold it, and the best thing is to give up directly. Retreat to Boryeong. Then rely on the passes along the way to delay the attack of Li Guoying's troops. Then he first led the army to defeat the army in Mianzhou, and then turned back to defeat Li Guoying's army. But at this time, the rice in the field is about to be harvested, and at this time, how many people will listen to the people who want to give up the crops in the field and withdraw to Boryeong?

Zhu Dashan thought about it for a day and a night but didn't come up with any way, and the next day Zhou Dazhu and Liu Yingnan came to the governor's yamen again, and saw that Zhu Dashan had not yet made a decision. Zhou Dazhu said: "Master Hou, we can't delay, Huang Boyuan reported that Shunqing's messenger has been unable to escape." If nothing else, in four or five days, Li Guoying, who is in Chongqing, will know about the affairs in the south. ”

Liu Yingnan also said: "At that time, although Li Guoying would not send troops directly, the army he sent was a horse visitor. At most, eight days can find out the actual situation clearly, and then report it to Li Guoying. Last year, Wu Sangui walked for seven days from Baoning to Hezhou, and now Li Guoying will definitely urge the army to march quickly when he hears that there has been a change in Baoning. At most, ten days will be in the south, and there will be nearly twenty days to calculate it. It's better to let the southern side grab the rice. Although the production will be reduced, it will not be discarded completely. ”

After listening to Liu Yingnan's words, Zhu Dashan felt that it could be implemented, so he made up his mind and said: "Okay, send someone to notify the south immediately, and within twenty days, harvest the rice, and then retreat to Baoning." Then we will send troops to Mianzhou early tomorrow morning. ”

Zhou Dazhu said: "Do you want to send someone to Chengdu to contact the army in the city first?" Zhu Dashan said: "Of course, let the people who go to contact set off immediately, and then let Cheng Deyi prepare more grain and grass in Zitong, and we will not bring excess grain and grass when we go, only ten days' rations." ”

Liu Yingnan said in surprise: "With ten days of rations, does Master Hou want to go to Yanting County?" Zhu Dashan nodded and said, "Yes, let's go to Yanting, and then meet Cheng Deyi outside Mianzhou." Be quick, let the Qing soldiers in Mianzhou know that if we divide our troops, we will be defeated one by one. ”

Liu Yingnan didn't care about saying anything, so he went to prepare with Zhou Dazhu.

The next day, Zhu Dashan set off with Cheng Dequn, Sun Bin, Liu Yingnan and 1,300 troops, and Zhou Dazhu also wanted to go, but Zhu Dashan said that Baoning was the last base of the Fuming Battalion, and Zhou Dazhu should be left to guard it, and there could be no mistakes. Zhou Dazhu agreed to stay in Boryeong.

Zhu Dashan led the army to the south out of Nanjin Pass, and then westward through Liubianyi, Fucun into Yanting County. Because Zhu Dashan's march was during the day, Yanting County had already discovered the Fuming camp, and when Zhu Dashan brought people to Yanting County, the county town had been closed with four gates, and there were people on the city wall, and some officers shouted loudly for the soldiers to stand in a good position.

Seeing this, Zhu Dashan still sent an envoy to surrender, and Tao Yuanyou, the county commander of the city, reprimanded: "You and other thieves dare to come and surrender if they are rebellious, I, Tao Yuanyou, the court official of the Qing Emperor's order, has the duty of guarding the land, in fact, you and other thieves can surrender." If you have the ability, you will come to attack the city, and if the city is broken, I will report my death to the court. I was born a person of the Qing Dynasty, and I died a ghost of the Qing Dynasty. You are rampant for a while, and as soon as our Qing officials and soldiers arrive, they will instantly turn into ashes. I would like to advise you to surrender to the court as soon as possible, and to save the lives of more than a thousand of your men. ”

This Tao Yuanyou was originally a third-class jinshi in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, and later Li Zicheng's peasant army overthrew the Ming Dynasty, he surrendered to Dashun, and the Qing Dynasty surrendered to the Qing Dynasty after entering the customs. Now here they are shouting to defend the city for the imperial court.

Zhu Dashan didn't want to say much when he saw that he was so desperate for the Qing court, so he ordered the siege of the city, but the literati knew about the literati, and Yu Dai, a student who was thrown into the Fuming camp in Baoning, said: "Master Hou is not busy attacking the city first, this Tao Yuanyou knows his life, see me scold him." When Zhu Dashan heard this, a group of alpacas ran in his heart, what is wrong with this! Siege the city, siege the city, why do you have to scold two sentences first? In fact, Zhu Dashan didn't know that this was a habit of Sichuan people, they must scold before fighting, and whoever scolds and loses even if they win the fight later, they feel that they haven't won. There is still this kind of gentleman's performance in Sichuan now, although the mouth is fragrant, but it will not necessarily escalate into a martial arts. Therefore, in Sichuan, you have to see two people, two groups of people, as long as they quarrel on an equal footing, it is impossible to fight. You just have to sit on one side with peace of mind, and you must not try to persuade you, if you try to persuade you, you will fight 300 percent.

The topic was far away, and Zhu Dashan saw that Yu Dai was going to scold Tao Yuanyou, and he didn't stop it. Just secretly asked Sun Bin to take two hundred people from the rear to detour to the west gate, if he really wants to attack the city, when the time comes, when the east gate is in a hurry, launch a sneak attack from the west gate.

Yu Dai stepped forward and said: "Tao Yuanyou, you are a traitor, you were originally a Jinshi in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, you did not die for the country in the Jiashen national disaster, nor did you serve the country, but you shamelessly surrendered to Li Zicheng." When the Qing soldiers entered the customs, you were greedy for life and afraid of death, succumbed to the Tartar foreigners, and brutalized your compatriots. However, a family slave with three surnames now dares to talk about loyalty here. How do you go to see the ancestors and ancestors underground with this face, and now that the Hou Ye is leading the volunteers to restore his sight, you don't return to the Ming anyway and do your best to do your meager strength, you should also hide your head and tail and hide, and you dare to speak wildly. You really don't know what death is? ”

When Zhu Dashan heard Yu Dai's scolding of dropping his bookbag, he knew that Yu Dai was a nerd, originally he was just asked to copy documents in the army, but now he had to step forward to show off. Zhu Dashan was really afraid that Tao Yuanyou in the city would scold him to death with a vicious tongue. After all, there was an example more than a thousand years ago.

Zhu Dashan saw that Yu Dai was not using it, so he directly ordered the siege of the city. As a result, Tao Yuanyou in the city saw that Yu Dai was a sour ding, so he wanted to show his tongue, and Yu Dai, who wanted to scold, was ashamed of himself and destroyed the morale of the Fuming camp. Tao Yuanyou held his head high and was about to shout and scold, when he saw that the Fuming camp suddenly thundered with drums, and the soldiers also carried the ladder and came directly to attack the city. Tao Yuanyou didn't let out a breath and suddenly coughed on the city wall, the Ming army below didn't play cards according to the routine, and he started to scold and scold. Tao Yuanyou had no choice but to retreat to the back and let the soldiers defending the city come forward to guard.

Here, Yu Dai saw Tao Yuanyou coughing in the city, and thought that it was his righteous words that made Tao Yuanyou ashamed. came back and said to Zhu Dashan: "Master Hou is too anxious, just now the student has scolded Tao Yuanyou with no blood and blood, and he can't stop coughing in the city, if the student scolds a few words, the thief Tao Yuanyou will definitely vomit blood and die." ”

Zhu Dashan didn't want to entangle, so he said: "Mr. Yu's words are like knives, and he is really powerful." But we don't have time, we can only take Yanting quickly and rush to Mianzhou to meet Cheng Deyi. Yu Dai sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity, otherwise it's a good show to scold the dead minister Tao Yuanyou out of righteousness." The guards around Zhu Dashan, who listened, were all uncomfortable.

The Fuming battalion came all the way, and did not bring large siege weapons, only some ladders, and some cut a big tree on the side of the road as a ram to hit the city gate. With Zhu Dashan's order, the soldiers of the five hundred Fuming battalion lined up in a loose formation and walked towards Yanting City, and the defenders of the city were also in place. Defenders with wooden forks and spears stood by the battlements.

Soon the soldiers of the Restoration Battalion entered the range of bows and arrows, and the archers in the city immediately shot the arrows in their hands at the soldiers of the Restoration Battalion under the city. There were only about 100 archers in the city, but there were still more than a dozen soldiers of the Restoration Battalion who were wounded and fell, and only two were unlucky and hung up directly.

Liu Yingnan had a set of training, and the other soldiers of the Restoration Battalion didn't even look at it, and continued to run forward. Now that the bow and arrow are within range, only a quick approach to the city wall and a storm can change the situation of being passively beaten. After another thirty paces of progress, the poor archers of the Restoration battalion began to shoot arrows at the city, and firearms were also sprayed at the city.

The defenders of the city did not expect that the Restoration Battalion had firearms, and there was a period of confusion, and at this time, the soldiers of the Restoration Battalion under the city took the opportunity to set up a ladder and climb up the city. The city guards kept scolding and asked Minzhuang to pour the boiled gold juice down. The soldiers of the Fuming camp under the city were immediately burned and their flesh was rotten, screaming again and again, and the city was stinking. But under the military order, I can only have the backbone and courage to climb up, but fortunately, the city wall of Yanting City is not high, and it is only two zhang high like the south. Before Zhu Dashan saw that Yanting City was not high, he asked people to cut some thin bamboo poles that were more than two zhang long, and now there are two people together, and anyone who sees someone who comes to push the ladder or pour gold juice will use the bamboo pole to top. Some of them also directly overturned the gold juice brought by the people in the city, but burned the guards in the city.

The soldiers of the Fuming Battalion kept climbing up the city, and someone carried the cut tree to hit the city gate, Tao Yuanyou, the magistrate, looked at the soldiers of the Fuming Battalion who kept climbing up the city and the city gate that was knocked loudly, the pride just now was gone, and his face was pale and he did not dare to step forward, and only one guard was in command to defend the city.

This guard is not from Yanting County, and there was no garrison in Yanting originally, and even if there were more than a hundred troops stationed in such a small city. However, Gao Minzhan stationed his troops in Mianzhou in order to fight Chengdu, and this Yanting County became a necessary place for military grain transportation. Although you can also transport grain by going to Zitong, the road is dangerous and difficult to walk, so you choose to take Yanting. The general soldiers who led the troops in Chengdu turned into leopards to protect the safety of grain and grass, and they could also protect the back road from being cut off. He sent 500 people to guard the salt pavilion with the general Zhou Minxin.

Now in command of the city is Ma Huabao sent by the general Zhou Minxin. Otherwise, if you let Tao Yuanyou defend the city, he wouldn't have the courage. The soldiers of the Restoration Battalion climbed up desperately, and after a while, they attacked the city wall with more than 20 people, and Zhou Minxin immediately took the guards to drive the soldiers of the Restoration Camp on the city wall.

The soldiers of the Fuming Battalion in Shangcheng saw that they couldn't resist it, and they retreated step by step, and they were about to retreat from the city, and they didn't know who in the city fired a firearm that directly wiped Zhou Minxin's cheeks, and the frightened Zhou Minxin hurriedly squatted on the ground, wiping it with his hand and wiping it with blood, Zhou Minxin only felt that half of his face was unconscious. The others saw the guard Zhou Minxin squatting on the ground and thought he was killed, and the morale of the defenders suddenly fell, and the soldiers of the Restoration Battalion saw Zhou Minxin squatting down, and hurriedly shouted: "The guard is dead, the guard is dead" The other soldiers of the Restoration Camp saw that the guard just now was gone, and their morale was shocked for a while.

Zhu Dashan saw from a distance that the soldiers of the Fuming Battalion finally attacked the city, but before they were in a hurry to be happy, they were driven down by a general, and they were about to be driven out of the city. Then I heard someone shouting, "The guard is dead." ”

Zhu Dashan saw that the morale of the soldiers of the Fuming battalion was greatly boosted, and he hurriedly ordered the whole army to press.

Zhou Minxin instinctively squatted down, and just touched the wound before he felt fine. Just as he was about to get up and continue to kill the enemy, he heard someone shouting, "The guard is dead." "It's just a matter of suffering. Hurriedly shouted: "I'm fine, continue to kill the enemy." "But the morale of the guards was low just now, and they were rushed by the Restoration Battalion, and there were already as many as 100 people attacking the city wall. Originally, there were only 500 people, and he had to guard four gates, although there were only 20 people at the other gates, but now the east gate is still being hit. Zhou Minxin had to leave a hundred people below. Now there are only 300 defenders in the city, and now there are only 200 people who can move with the wounded defenders just now. Zhou Minxin saw that there were too many people in the Fuming Battalion attacking the city wall, so he was busy organizing people to attack the soldiers of the Fuming Battalion in Shangcheng.

At this moment, the West Gate suddenly shook the sky, and it turned out that when Sun Bin led people around the West Gate, Zhu Dashan had already begun to attack the city. Sun Bin did not dare to delay, and immediately launched an attack on Ximen. Because Ximen had not been attacked before, Zhou Minxin only left fifty people, and Minzhuang did not have one. was led by Sun Bin to rush onto the city wall in only a quarter of an hour, and there were more and more people. When the guards saw that they could not hold on, they fled into the city. Sun Bin did not leave anyone to guard, and entered the city with all the people, setting fire everywhere, while shouting: "The Ming army has entered the city." Sun Bin led people to set fire to the east gate and attacked all the way.