After getting the news that Yang Jiafu had defeated the Qing army's sailors, Zhu Dashan was overjoyed and said: "Okay, so that our sailors will be settled." At this time, Ta Tianbao also came over when he heard the news and said: "I heard that Yang Jiafu and they defeated the sailors of the Qing army? Zhu Dashan said: "Yes, only 2,000 people, not only defeated the sailors, but also intercepted all the warships and collected more than 3,000 surrendered troops. ”

Ta Tianbao smiled happily: "How did these Sichuan soldiers suddenly have such combat effectiveness, it's really unexpected." Zhu Dashan said: "Let Yang Jiafu and them take the prisoners and the warships of the sailor to be stationed in Jiansheng Town first, don't rush back." ”

The next day, Zhu Dashan led the army to Fotu Pass, looking at the gate in front of him, Zhu Dashan said to Tan Shuanghua beside him: "The loyal Marquis Qin Liangyu entered Chongqing from here, and then defeated Yang Yinglong." Tan Shuanghua said: "Of course, I don't know if you can get in today." Zhu Dashan laughed and said: "Don't worry, this little pass is still difficult for me." ”

After Zhu Dashan finished speaking, he said to Ta Tianbao: "General Ta, the next thing is yours." Ta Tianbao said confidently: "Don't worry, with what happened last night, I am now very confident in laying this Buddha Tu Pass." After saying that, he went directly to the front army.

As the drums of the attack began to sound, the troops who had just been reorganized into Fumingwei began to gradually approach Fotu Pass under the order of Ta Tianbao. This is not that Zhu Dashan deliberately used the surrender of troops as cannon fodder, but the surrender of soldiers themselves took the initiative to ask for it, perhaps for the promise of a foothold for his family.

The defenders at the gate were also actively organizing personnel to enter the defensive positions, and there was an endless stream of heralds running back and forth. The troops below who were preparing to join the ants to attack the city had not yet approached the wall, and the archers and firearms on both sides had already taken the lead in fighting. The Buddha Tuguan was equipped with a cannon, and at this time the cannon was also roaring, and the soldiers who walked in front kept falling, but the people behind still followed without hesitation.

Yuan Zongdi and He Zhen, who were in the Chinese army, both said one after another when they saw this: "I don't know what method Ping Yuhou used to let these Sichuan troops burst out with such combat power?" Zhu Dashan just looked at the battlefield in front of him and didn't speak.

To say that Zhu Dashan is very disgusted with this kind of ant siege, so even if he captures the city, he will suffer great casualties on his army, such as today, the Han people have not been killed much, and the consumption of every Han person is a loss for the restoration of vision. But now Zhu Dashan can only choose this, after all, this is the first time that the surrendered troops will attack the city, and if Zhu Dashan suddenly says that he will attack the city by other methods, I am afraid that these surrendered troops will not be able to adapt for a while.

Watch those soldiers descend like moths to the fire, pounce on Fotu Pass. Zhu Dashan frowned and said, "If the soldiers of Fumingwei only think of these siege tactics, we are afraid that we will not be able to defeat Fotu Pass." "Due to the topography, the Restoration Army did not bring too many siege equipment. Today's Fumingwei can almost only use flesh and blood to resist the siege. Yuan Zongdi in the back also said: "Yes, now that we can't swing the siege machinery here, it seems that we still have to think of other ways." ”

Zhu Dashan looked at the Goose Ridge next to him and said to Yuan Zongdi: "Jingguo Gong, you send five hundred archers up to see if you can attack Guanshan from the top of the mountain." Yuan Zongdi looked at the Goose Ridge and said: "It's too far up there, our bows and arrows can't shoot at the close, and even if they can shoot up, the arrows have lost their strength and can't hurt the enemy." Zhu Dashan also found this problem and said: "I just don't know how the loyal marquis attacked back then." ”

Tan Shuanghua said: "The white pole soldiers under the loyal marquis are the strongest soldiers in the world, and they are not inferior to the Eight Banners of the Manchurians directly. It's not like yours can compare. Zhu Dashan didn't care about Tan Shuanghua's words, and suddenly asked, "Go and bring some gunpowder we brought, and then find a clean jar." ”

After a while, someone brought things over, but the gunpowder of this era was not as powerful as the gunpowder of later generations, but Zhu Dashan still had to try it, let people put all the gunpowder into the jar, and then leave a lead. For gunpowder, Zhu Dashan was only used to fry fish, as for whether this is useful now, Zhu Dashan doesn't know. Immediately, let people take the risk of putting this jar in the place where the gate is closed, and let people use it to blow up the city gate.

At this time, the Fuming guards who attacked the pass in front of them struggled to climb the pass, and the Qing army on the pass fought hotly. Liang Yixun and the others on the wall looked at Fu Mingwei, who was attacking frantically, and couldn't believe that this was the local soldiers in Sichuan who had surrendered in the past.

But now is not the time to think about this problem, a few people defend in sections, and it is not easy for the soldiers of Fu Mingwei to attack the wall for a while. At this time, Liang Jiaqi also came to Fotu Pass, looking at the Ming army that went forward one after another, Liang Jiaqi said: "No wonder this Ming army can defeat the Governor, there is such morale, and it is natural to want to defeat those local troops." ”

Wang Tingxian on the side said: "General Liang, these are not people from the Restoration Army, they are the surrendered soldiers who surrendered to the Restoration Army a few days ago. Liang Jiaqi was shocked when he heard this: "What, how is it possible?" You don't know what the local soldiers in Sichuan look like? If they had this combat power, these troops of our Great Qing Dynasty in Sichuan would have been killed long ago. ”

Wang Tingxian said: "Who dares to lie about such a thing, you can see it by looking at their uniforms, and most of them have not yet come to shave their heads and braids." Liang Jiaqi listened to Wang Tingxian's words, and after taking a closer look, he found that many of these people who were besieging the city still had braids.

Liang Jiaqi said: "Only these people can fight such an offensive? I think it's the Ming army behind me who is pressing, and I think that as long as an elite soldier goes out and rushes them, they will scatter and flee. Seeing that Liang Jiaqi was so blindly confident, Wang Tingxian was a little anxious and said: "Lord Liang, don't be impulsive, these soldiers are so abnormal in their combat power today, and it is better for the lower officials to be safe." ”

But Liang Jiaqi walked out of the Qin Messenger Fu Dali behind him, and said to Wang Ting: "You Han dogs, you are greedy for life and afraid of death, you now have 3,000 troops to guard the pass, and Liang Jiaqi brought 3,000 soldiers from Chongqing, now there are a total of 6,000 troops, you can only defend on this wall." I think that if I have a hundred soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, I can chase after the thousands of troops against the Ming Dynasty, and I can't defeat them. ”

Wang Tingxian hurriedly said: "Lord Qincha, the situation is different now, Lord Governor has been." Before Wang Tingxian finished speaking, Fu Dali waved his hand and said: "Don't say it again, if you disturb the morale of the army again, you will directly engage in military law." Wang Tingxian was suddenly choked and speechless, so he had to look at Liang Jiaqi. But Liang Jiaqi also smiled bitterly, how dare he say anything.

At this time, more than a dozen imperial guards who came with Fu Dali came to the city wall, and Hui Yingzhao and Chen Xixian, who were still directing the defense, were also called. Fu Dali said: "Now you all go out of the customs to attack, if anyone dares to fear the enemy, be careful that my Qing military law will not be merciful." Then he said like Liang Jiaqi: "Liang Jiaqi, you will lead the team out to supervise the formation." ”

Liang Jiaqi didn't dare to disobey, so he had to go down to the pass to gather the three thousand people he brought, and the other Hui Ying Zhao, Chen Xixian and Wang Tingxian hurriedly followed Liang Jiaqi down the wall. As soon as he got off the wall, Hui Yingzhao asked Liang Jiaqi, "Why are they here?" Liang Jiaqi said: "The Manchurians of the dog day, they themselves also sent people to observe on the Goose Ridge, yesterday I was taken by Fu Dali for questioning as soon as I went, I told him before that the navy was going to transport grain to Dingyuan, to the Jialing River. As a result, they found out that our navy was going from the Yangtze River to Ba County. Fortunately, I was locked down in Chongqing, otherwise they would have known about it a few days ago. ”

Chen Xixian said: "However, they still know." Liang Jiaqi said: ", plus I gathered the army again this morning, so I couldn't hide it anymore, and I was seen by Fu Dali." But in the current situation, he can't run, because they don't have a boat, and if they can't run, they can only defend the Ming army with us, but I didn't expect that this dog day wanted us to go directly out of the customs to fight the Ming army. ”

Wang Tingxian said: "They have never seen the madness of the Restoration Army, and they know the strength of the Restoration Army. We're not going to die. Liang Jiaqi said disappreciatively: "You are too timid, aren't you, but you were scared after fighting with the Restoration Army once?" They are all people who have been in the army for decades, and the big deal is just a horse leather shroud. ”

At this time, I saw a few imperial guards coming down from the wall, probably to supervise the battle. The few men stopped talking and hurriedly gathered their ranks. Then Hui Yingzhao and the other three led the army out of the customs, Liang Jiaqi supervised the battle in the back, and Liang Jiaqi was followed by a few imperial guards who had just come down.

The team sent by Zhu Dashan had not yet broken into the gate, and was still more than ten feet away from the gate, when they saw the gate being slowly opened. The soldiers on both sides who were about to climb the gate saw that the gate was opened, and suddenly more than a dozen people rushed to the gate, trying to occupy the gate.

But at this time, there was a shout of killing in the pass, and a large number of Qing troops were seen killing from the pass. The dozen or so soldiers who had just rushed over were hacked to death by the Qing army who rushed out in an instant. The Fuming guard, who had previously besieged the city, did not guard against the Qing army, and was immediately rushed back by the Qing army.

Ta Tianbao, who was commanding in the back, saw that the offensive had been frustrated, and directly handed over the command to a deputy, shouting: "We didn't capture the wall, and now the Qing soldiers have opened the door themselves, if we can't attack it yet." This is our shame, we all touch our crotches, and those who have eggs are killed with me. With that, he led the guards and rushed directly to the Qing army who were out of the city.

The other Fuming guards who were still retreating, or did not rush to the wall, listened to Ta Tianbao's words. Originally, the attack on Fotu Pass thought that it was these soldiers who asked for it, and at that time, Zhu Dashan didn't want to hand over this task to Fu Mingwei, but now he was provoked by Ta Tianbao, and the generals of Fu Mingwei who knew the details were all blown up in an instant. All of them rushed to the Qing soldiers with the guards screaming, and they didn't even care about the arrows flying over their heads, and there were generals who led them like this, and the Fuming guards under the wall also rushed over, and for a while Fumingwei was like crazy and rushed to the team that the Qing army had just attacked.

The Qing soldiers who had just left the city repelled the Ming army that was attacking the city, and they didn't have time to catch their breath, and the formation had not yet been lined up. was rushed like crazy by Fu Mingwei, and immediately began to be chaotic. The anxious Hui Yingzhao and others shouted loudly, wanting to form a military formation. But the Fuming guards who were driven up by Ta Tianbao were already like crazy demons at this time, even if they were cut by the Qing army with a knife, they didn't dodge, just cut the knife in their hands to the Qing soldiers, such a crazy way of playing, immediately made the Qing soldiers retreat and keep squeezing back.

Just when Hui Yingzhao and the others shouted and reprimanded, they were actually squeezed together by the retreating Qing soldiers and couldn't move. At this time, the Fuming guards were like beasts, and the knife stabbed into the body of the Qing soldier and couldn't pull it out, so he actually pounced on him, biting with his teeth and hitting with his fists. The Qing soldiers saw such a way of fighting, no matter how Liang Jiaqi and the imperial guards in the back pressed it, the people who retreated after cutting four or five people in a row couldn't hold it down, and the Qing army retreated again and again.

The cannon in the city was still roaring, but it couldn't hide the roar of the closed door. At this time, Fu Dali and Feiyangu, who were standing on the wall, were already stunned by the scene in front of them, they didn't expect that the Ming army, who had just been killed, would suddenly counterattack the Qing army as if they were crazy, and beat the Qing army back and forth.

Seeing that the Ming army was about to rush into the pass with the retreating Qing army, Liang Yixun, who was on the gate, shouted: "Hurry up and close the door, otherwise the Fotu Pass will not be able to be defended." Liang Yixun roared, and Fu Dali and Fei Yang in the city reacted, and they jumped up and shouted: "Close the gate quickly"

Liang Jiaqi, who had already entered the gate, also scolded loudly and asked the soldiers to close the gate, but the Ming army outside the door was also desperately pushing the door inside, wanting to open the gate. Liang Yixun's fire team transferred from the city opened fire at the gate, and suddenly at the city gate, both the Qing soldiers and the Ming army were hit and fell to the ground, and the city gate was suddenly empty. The Qing soldiers took the opportunity to gradually push the gate from the inside, and saw that the gate was about to be closed.

A few people who were sent to blow up the city gate were also squeezed to the gate by the Ming army who rushed up, and seeing that the city gate was about to be closed, several people couldn't care so much. took out the fire fold, lit the fuse on the altar, and threw it directly at the head of the Qing army inside the gate.

The lead on the jar was not long, and it was carried up by the two and delayed for some time, but as a result, the jar was just thrown on the head of the Qing army, and a jar of gunpowder exploded suddenly, and the fragments of the jar that were blown up for a while flew wildly, and the Qing army was directly blown down, and fell to the ground and kept wailing.