As soon as Wu Guogui's words fell, he heard a person next to him shouting: "Who said that the fortune of the Ming Dynasty is coming to an end?" Wu Guogui turned his head to see that it was a young man in his twenties. There were a large number of guards around this person, and he walked over directly. The guards around him are all extremely strong, and they kill people without delay. The surrounding Guan Ning army was powerless in front of them.

Wu Guogui saw that the Guan Ning army around him kept retreating, and the soldiers who went to open the door were entangled by the Ming army rushing over before they could open the gate. Only four people lifted the bolt of the gate, and the Qing army outside the door was desperately pushing the door.

This young man was Zhu Youdong, and Zhu Youdong said to Daniel Zhang: "Daniel Zhang, you take someone to block the gate." After Daniel Zhang listened, he glanced at Wu Guogui and turned around and rushed to the gate. Zhu Youdong said to Hu Yiqing behind him: "You take people to the wall and drive the Qing army down." He also said to Zhu Shouquan, who came together: "You also go to the wall, and all the troops who do not go down the wall everywhere and do not surrender will be killed." ”

Hearing Zhu Youdong's arrangement, the named generals immediately led their troops to kill them, although the Qing army next to the stone steps resisted desperately, but the Restoration Army that came this time was a new force, and most of them were veterans of the Restoration Army. Therefore, the Qing army was constantly retreating, and it seemed that they were all about to retreat to the stone steps.

Hu Guozhu, who was on the stone steps, saw that Wu Guogui was about to fall into the encirclement of the Ming army. Suddenly in a hurry, he shouted at Wu Guogui: "Wu Guogui, retreat, what do you want to do?" If you don't go, you can't go. At this time, Zhu Youdong looked up at Hu Guozhu and said, "Don't roar, neither of you can leave today." ”

Wu Guogui saw that Zhu Youdong directly ignored him, and sneered: "You are not very old, and your tone is not small. As he spoke, he rushed to the stone steps with the Guan Ning army beside him. As soon as Zhu Youdong waved his hand, the surrounding guards immediately pounced. There were many Miao people among these guards, and when they saw that Wu Guogui and the others were only concerned about escaping, they didn't engage in battle at all.

Seeing this, these Miao people immediately took out blow arrows from their bodies, and they blew arrows at Wu Guogui and the others who ran away. The Guan Ning army beside Wu Guogui fell a lot, but Wu Guogui still ran up the stone steps smoothly. As soon as Wu Guogui and Hu Guozhu converged, they immediately retreated to the wall.

At this time, Wu Guogui also turned his head to look at Zhu Youdong, as if to say: "Look, aren't I leaving?" But Wu Guogui saw that Zhu Youdong was still looking at him and Hu Guozhu with a smile. I saw that among the guards around Zhu Youdong, many people took out small wine jars one by one from their bodies, with a long line on them.

Then they saw them light the long threads with torches and throw them at the top of the stone steps. Then I heard an explosion on the stone steps, and Guan Ningjun, who was still alive just now, suddenly fell to the ground in large swaths and kept rolling, wailing.

The men fell, blocking all the stone steps leading to the wall. The Ming army, which rushed up the wall from the stone steps on the other side of the gate, had already beaten the Qing army back to the edge of the wall, and was recapturing the wall step by step.

Seeing a large number of Qing troops attacking the pass wall just now, Xia Guoxiang wanted to capture the Shengjing Pass in one go, so he immediately asked Wang Ping Fan to take 3,000 people to the pass, and then kill the pass as soon as the gate opened. But Wang Pingfan waited for a long time and didn't see the door open, and finally waited for Daming to move, but there was no movement.

Wang Pingfan hurriedly asked someone to step forward to push the door, but when he opened a gap, he saw that a large number of Ming troops inside were counterattacking the attacking Ning army. After Wang Pingfan knew about the situation in the pass, he immediately let his 3,000 troops immediately climb the city to attack.

Wang Pingfan even took the lead in climbing the wall, and Wang Pingfan climbed the wall in a few clicks. Just as Wang Pingfan had just climbed the wall, he was hit by Hu Yiqing, who was attacking the wall.

When Hu Yiqing surrendered before, it was received by Wang Pingfan, and when he saw Hu Yiqing, he shouted: "Okay, you Hu Yiqing, accept your surrender, let you pick up a life, and you will rebel against the Qing Dynasty again in just a few days." Hu Yiqing saw Wang Pingfan, and it was immediately difficult to start, and said: "General Wang, if you want to live, hurry up, if you can surrender, it is best, now that the whole of Guizhou has been recovered by Hou Ye, you have no way to retreat." ”

Wang Pingfan snorted and said: "You treat me as a capricious villain like you, and if you want me Wang Pingfan to surrender, you can dream about it." Hu Yiqing didn't persuade either, but said: "General Wang, if you don't want to surrender, just leave quickly, otherwise you won't be able to leave when Hou Ye's army comes." ”

At this time, Zhu Shouquan also killed the city wall, and saw that Hu Yiqing was still talking to Wang Pingfan, and immediately shouted loudly: "Hu Yiqing, what are you doing on a dog day?" If you dare to let Wu Sangui's people go, Hou Ye can't get around you. As he spoke, he rushed over directly and fought with Wang Pingfan.

As soon as Wang Pingfan and Zhu Shouquan made a few moves, they heard an explosion ringing in their ears. Wang Pingfan is also a person who has followed Wu Sangui to fight for more than ten years, of course, this explosion can't frighten Wang Pingfan, but Wang Pingfan turned his head and was stunned. I saw that at the place of the explosion just now, countless officers and soldiers of the Guanning Army were wailing in pain on the ground.

Zhu Shouquan took the opportunity to go up and slash at Wang Pingfan's left shoulder, almost cutting off one of Wang Pingfan's arms. Wang Pingfan suddenly screamed, and the whole person retreated, but Wang Pingfan forgot about the wall behind him. Wang Pingfan took a few steps back and fell directly from the wall.

The surrounding Guan Ning army was shocked when they saw Wang Pingfan fall off the wall, and at this time, Wu Guogui and Hu Guozhu on the stone steps had fallen into the encirclement of the Ming army. Seeing this, Guan Ningjun, who was on the wall, was immediately frightened and rushed to escape from the wall first. Many of the Guan Ning troops who did not have time to escape from the city formed their own groups and resisted desperately.

However, the number of Fuming troops rushing to the wall is much larger than that of the Guanning army, and Daniel Zhang and others under the city have also closed the gate again, and in turn surrounded Wu Guogui and Hu Guozhu and others.

When Zhu Youdong saw the wall, he had completely blocked the momentum of the Qing army attacking the wall. Then he turned around and thought about Wu Guogui and said, "What's the matter, I said you can't leave." Wu Guogui and Hu Guozhu didn't answer Zhu Youdong's words, they just snorted coldly and clenched the knife in their hands.

Hu Guozhu said: "If you want to kill, come up and see if your Grandpa Hu will frown." Wu Guogui also said: "Yes, if you are surrounded by you today, the big deal is death, but it is impossible for us to surrender." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Whether you surrender or not depends on whether I am willing to accept you." At this time, the Qing soldiers in the city were surrounded by the Restoration Army, and people kept screaming and being killed. Zhu Youdong said: "I'll give you a chance now, and I don't want you to surrender, as long as you lay down your arms, you can be regarded as our prisoner." ”

Hu Guozhu and Wu Guogui looked at the Guan Ning army around them, and also the people who kept screaming on the wall. The two glanced at each other, and Wu Guogui said, "You really don't ask us to surrender?" Zhu Youdong said: "Of course, I don't know if you have done anything to kill innocents, how can I let you surrender casually." ”

Hu Guozhu and Wu Guogui's faces suddenly turned ugly, to say that Guan Ningjun did not do the thing of killing innocents and mutilating compatriots, few people in the world can believe it. Listening to Zhu Youdong's tone, it seems that he still has to settle old accounts. Zhu Youdong knew as soon as he saw the expressions of the two that these Qing soldiers must have their hands stained with the blood of the Han people.

At this time, An Yang came over and said, "Master Hou, if all the people stained with innocent blood are excreted, then the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Qing army in Yungui will all be killed." When Zhu Youdong heard this, he was immediately embarrassed, if all these Qing troops were killed, how many people would die in the Ming Army? If they are not punished, what will happen to the people whose homes have been ruined by them?

Ding Yunfu saw that Zhu Youdong was embarrassed, so he said to Zhu Youdong: "Master Hou, it's not that we can't accept the surrender, we also have a large number of surrendered troops in our army, why not give them a chance?" If we really want to kill them all, I'm afraid we won't be able to bear this casualty. ”

Zhu Youdong looked at Ding Yunfu and An Yue, and then looked at the Restoration Army that was still fighting on the wall. Sighed and said, "Okay, as long as they lay down their arms, I accept their surrender." Listening to Zhu Youdong's tone, although he was a little helpless, Zhu Youdong still said that he accepted the surrender of these Qing soldiers.

An Yang immediately said to Wu Guogui and the others: "General Wu, surrender, you have no way out." Wu Guogui looked at Anyang and turned his head to stare at Hu Guozhu. Hu Guozhu smiled bitterly, he is Wu Sangui's son-in-law, I'm afraid Zhu Youdong will not let him go.

Seeing Wu Guogui looking over, he said, "Guogui, you surrender, my identity is impossible." When Wu Guogui heard this, he knew what Hu Guozhu was worried about. pointed to Hu Guozhu and said to Zhu Youdong: "He is Wu Sangui's son-in-law, can you spare him?" ”

When Zhu Youdong heard that this person was Wu Sangui's son-in-law, not only was he not embarrassed, but he was a little happy and said: "Okay, yes, as long as he surrenders, I guarantee that his life is worry-free." Wu Guogui was immediately overjoyed and said, "Okay, let's surrender." As he spoke, he dropped his weapon on the ground.

When the other Qing soldiers saw that Wu Guogui had dropped their weapons and surrendered, they all dropped their weapons and surrendered. Wu Guogui said to Hu Guozhu again: "Since he promised not to hurt you, I think he will surrender." We can't get out now. ”

Hu Guozhu said: "Even if we surrender, what about our families? If we surrender, the prince is afraid. Ay! Hu Guozhu sighed. Wu Guogui said: "We can't do it now." Besides, we didn't need to do this, it wasn't forced by those Manchurians. ”

Zhu Youdong heard the worries of the two, and said: "As for Wu Sangui, I don't care if he dies or not, even if he is not killed by the Manchus, I will not let him live in the world, but since you have surrendered, I can keep your family okay." ”

Hu Guozhu asked curiously: "Can you still influence the Qing Dynasty?" Zhu Youdong said: "There is no way to leave the Manchu Qing Dynasty for the time being, but there is still a way to keep your family small." After speaking, Zhu Youdong said to An Yang: "Go find two corpses that look the same as them, and similar ones can also be used." Then he cut off their heads, put the helmets of Wu Guogui and Hu Guozhu on them, and hung them on the Guan Tower, saying that the two had died in battle. ”

When An Yang heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, and turned around to look for the corpse. When Wu Guogui and Hu Guozhu heard this, they were also relieved, and if Zhu Youdong did this, the Qing army would think that they had died in battle, and they would never know that they had surrendered again.

When the Qing army on the pass saw that Wu Guogui and Hu Guozhu had surrendered, they immediately surrendered one after another. The Restoration Army regained control of the Victory Pass. Guo Liai and others, who were guarding the pass before, came to Zhu Youdong and asked Zhu Youdong for their guilt: "Master Hou, we didn't guard the victory pass, if Hou Ye didn't come in time, I'm afraid this victory pass would have been lost." ”

Zhu Youdong also knew that Shengjing Pass had been killed and wounded at that time, and Guo Liai and the others were only ready to withdraw from Shengjing Pass when there were only a few hundred people left. This can't be blamed on Guo Li for loving them, so he had to comfort them with kind words. Let them go and rest first, for today there are several hours of fighting, and everyone is exhausted.

Zhu Youdong then walked up to the wall and looked at the Qing army that was collecting troops under the city. At noon, the Qing army came to Shengjing Pass with high morale, but now they left in a low voice. Only the large number of corpses left in Guan Xia were ignored, and the Guan Ning army led by Xia Guoxiang was even more depressed.

Xia Guoxiang himself also wanted to get angry, originally if Luo Keduo listened to him and withdrew the army, it would be good for everyone, even if he didn't capture Shengjing Pass this time, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow will have a chance, but now it's good, Wang Pingfan's arm is broken, and people are crippled. Wu Guogui and Hu Guozhu, who attacked the city, had been killed in battle, and their heads were hung on the tower of Shengjing Guanguan.

Looking at the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Han Eight Banners, who took the lead in retreating to Pingyiwei, Xia Guoxiang's eyes felt like they were about to erupt into fire. Then he looked at Wang Pingfan, who was being carried by him, and thought that the four generals sent by the prince at that time were now only one day, and he was the only one left.

Xia Guoxiang looked at the army behind him, the army of 20,000, now there are only 10,000 left, and more than half of them are injured, where is this still the Guanning iron horse in the hands of the prince, this is not as good as the rabble.

Looking at the Qing army that was gradually moving away, Zhu Youdong suddenly had an idea, and hurriedly called people to go to the pass to carry those injured and curable Qing soldiers into the pass for treatment. This moved Wu Guogui, who had just walked on the wall, and said to Zhu Youdong: "More generals." ”

Zhu Youdong saw that it was Wu Guogui and said: "Don't thank me for anything, I saved them to let them do things, to be precise, let you do things, it is best to let Hu Guozhu go with you." ”