Listening to the bursts of laughter coming from the city, Li Guoying's face became more and more ugly. When he looked at Deng Changji who was coming from the stage, he became more and more upset when he saw Deng Changji moaning, and turned around and left directly. When Li Guoying returned to the camp to count the casualties, he found that the casualties of the army besieging the city today had reached 2,000, and more than 300 people were injured and disabled. It is impossible to send these generals to attack the city tomorrow.

An hour later, Zhao Shichao, who went to attack the north gate, said that because the city was prepared, his subordinates also suffered heavy casualties. Li Guoying definitely didn't believe this statement, but now he had no choice but to urge Shunqing to transport grain as soon as possible, and at the same time to study the terrain of Xichong and prepare for a long-term siege. Thinking about the army he left in Chongqing, this time because this was a group of rebellious people, he only brought the local army from Sichuan, so he regretted that there was no descendant army to attack the city now.

Li Guoying listened to the laughter from the city and said, "Let you be proud for two days, and wait for me to break through the city and see how I clean you up." After speaking, he was about to announce the disbandment of the tent, when suddenly a flash of inspiration, and then he looked up at the city wall again, and said with a smile: "God really help me, I will definitely break the city tonight." Huo Guangxian, the general of Shunqing, and Daniel Zhang, the general who had not yet left, were surprised: "The governor has thought of a way to break the city?" ”

Li Guoying said: "Today, this group of rebels defended the city during the day, listen to their laughter in the city, how proud." The so-called arrogant army will be defeated, and at night they will be lax in their defenses, and then we will send our elite to climb over the city walls, open the gates, and take advantage of the opportunity to take the city. Huo Guangxian and Daniel Zhang were overjoyed when they heard this: "The governor has a wonderful plan, so that he will definitely be able to take Xichong tonight." Li Guoying also ignored the praise of the two, and said: "The two generals should go and prepare for tonight's night battle." Huo Guangxian and Daniel Zhang got up and said, "Oh" and then each went back to the camp to prepare.

Zhu Dashan saw that the Qing army had indeed retreated before letting people clean up the battlefield, and hung people down the city with ropes to search for the weapons and property of the Qing soldiers. For a while, the begging under the city wall continued, Zhu Dashan looked at the people begging under the city wall, and the people around him couldn't bear to look at Zhu Dashan. Liu Yingnan also came over at this time, and said: "Master Hou, these people were originally Qing soldiers, but now they are injured, I don't know if they can live, even if they survive, most of them are crippled, and the Qing army doesn't care, so why should we be nosy?" It's better to give them a good time, and we can be regarded as doing our part. ”

Zhu Dashan knew that Liu Yingnan was right, there were some sympathetic people on the city wall at first, but now they no longer looked at Zhu Dashan, and they also remembered that when the Qing army attacked the city just now, they killed a lot of people in the city and the soldiers of the Fuming battalion. Only a few people wanted to say it but didn't dare to say it, Zhu Dashan looked at the Qing soldiers who kept begging under the city, and finally didn't give up, sighed and said: "No matter what, we are still Han after all." Can we really be as dehumanizing as the Tartars? Bring them up, and cure them if they can be cured, and give them pleasure if they can't. After these people were rescued, they were all taken into custody by the government and served as hard labor for three years to atone for their crimes. ”

Listening to Zhu Dashan's decision, no one objected, just went to work silently. The people who wanted to speak before shouted happily outside the city, it turned out that the people they knew were relatives, and some were from the Lipeng Township Party. The rescue of these people is a burden for the Fuming camp, Zhu Dashan didn't know if it was right or not, and asked Liu Yingnan to temporarily guard the south gate, and clear the corpses under the city to the side and pile them up.

Li Guoying was a little nervous when he heard that Zhu Dashan was sheltering the injured Qing soldiers, and then he sneered: "With such a woman's kindness, this Zhu Dashan is just the king of the mountain." Deng Ximing, the prefect of Shuntian Mansion, went to Shuntian Mansion to urge grain and came back, and heard Li Guoying's words: "The governor should not underestimate this Zhu Dashan, he is buying people's hearts and disintegrating the fighting spirit of our army." ”

Li Guoying sneered: "You can break the city tonight, and when the time comes, kill this Zhu Dashan, even if he buys people's hearts, can he do this?" Deng Ximing was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "What the Governor said is reasonable, but he is humble and stupid. Li Guoying was also unimpressed: "You are a local political official, and it is normal that you don't understand military affairs." You go to urge food, it's hard work, go and rest first. Deng Ximing knew that this was the governor to deal with military affairs, so he resigned from the big account.

Then Li Guoying called Huo Guangxian and Daniel Zhang and said: "Today, during the day, Huang Shijian was martyred, and Deng Changji and Tian Guoxing were injured, and tonight's night attack can only be carried out by the two generals with 2,000 soldiers and horses, and Huo Guangxian will send people to steal the city first and open the city gate, and then you two will kill into the city, and you must capture the bandit leader Zhu Dashan." If we can behead the bandit leader Zhu Dashan in Xichong, it will be of great help to us in attacking the south and Boryeong later. I hope that the two generals will do their best to kill the bandit leader Zhu Dashan, and I will attack the two generals. ”

Huo Guangxian and Daniel Zhang hurriedly agreed in unison, and Li Guoying said again: "The two generals will arrange for the soldiers to bury the pot and cook as soon as possible, and steal the city tonight, and they will take Xichong before dawn, so let's prepare." ”

Zhu Dashan left Liu Yingnan to guard the south gate, and let the soldiers and people at the south gate go to rest. Let Wang Qing take people to guard the West Gate, this Wang Qing's performance in Mianzhou finally made Zhu Dashan feel at ease with him, and now let him carry a general flag alone.

When Zhu Dashan came down from the city wall, he felt that he was tired and couldn't stand steadily, so he had to rest in the county government accompanied by the guards, Zhu Dashan slept until the middle of the night and woke up, and before he had time to eat something urgently, he heard a shout of killing at the south gate, and it seemed that there was still a sound in the city. Zhu Dashan didn't care about eating, so he ran to the south gate with the guards.

When Zhu Dashan ran to the south gate, he found that the torches on the city wall were shining like daylight. I saw Liu Yingnan commanding on the side, and a group of Qing soldiers at the city gate had more than 100 people, resisting the attack of the Fuming battalion soldiers in the city, and cleaning the city gate, wanting to clean up the items blocked at the city gate and open the city gate.

Zhu Dashan came to Liu Yingnan's side, and when he saw him, he commanded with a relaxed face: "What's the matter?" Are these Qing troops here to steal the city? Liu Yingnan smiled and said: "Li Guoying really bullied us for not understanding military affairs, when I was patrolling the city wall, I saw that the Qing army camp was deserted when it was supposed to eat. I was still surprised, but it didn't take long for the camp to clear the camp and smoke again. Hmph, I don't eat when it's time to eat, and I come to eat again after the hour has passed, and I find that I know that the Qing army will definitely come back tonight to steal the city. "Zhu Dashan has also seen it, it turns out that stealing the city can still be discovered like this, it seems that these must be paid attention to when attacking the city in the future.

Liu Yingnan said: "I strengthened the defense at that time, but when I found out that the Qing army came out of the camp, I actually set up a position on the south gate, and sent more than 100 people to steal the city, instead of the army directly attacking the city, he wanted to open the city gate." ”

Zhu Dashan also understood when he heard this, as soon as Liu Yingnan saw that the Qing army wanted to open the city gate, he simply let these Qing troops enter the city, and then let the defenders guard the city wall. The Qing army didn't know that as soon as Zhu Dashan entered the city, he asked someone to block the city gate, so the Qing army who came in to steal the city gate was dumbfounded. How can this city gate be opened? At this time, the soldiers of the Fuming battalion who were ambushed at the city gate rushed out and surrounded the Qing army of about 100 people. At this time, it was impossible for the Qing army to retreat, so they had to go to the end one way, while resisting the attack of the Fuming battalion, while desperately trying to clear out the city gate, so that the Qing army outside could enter the city, even if they did not enter the city, they would have a way out.

Zhu Dashan saw that the outside of the city was also illuminated and said: "Let's speed up the elimination of these Qing troops, in case the Qing army outside the city finds out that something is wrong, we will not be able to take care of the city with all our might." When Liu Yingnan heard this, he said: "Okay, all go up and quickly take down these dog-day Qing troops." With Liu Yingnan's order, bows and arrows flew for a while, and swords and swords were everywhere. After a while, more than 100 Qing troops were left with only 20 people standing, and finally some Qing soldiers couldn't hold on, threw their weapons and knelt on the ground and said: "I surrender, I surrendered, don't fight," some people took the lead and others didn't insist, and in an instant, more than 20 people knelt on the ground, Liu Yingnan asked people to go up and collect their weapons, and they were all tied up.

Zhu Dashan came to the city wall and looked at the outside of the city that had been illuminated by the Qing army as if it were daylight. Looking at the neat Qing army under the city, Zhu Dashan felt very lucky that he let Liu Yingnan guard the south gate, if he let Nong open the country, Cheng Dequn, and Jia Si would definitely not find out about the Qing army stealing the city. If you let the Qing army into the city, the consequences will be unimaginable. But now if the Qing army is allowed to attack the city head-on, the chances of defending the city wall are much greater.

Huo Guangxian and Daniel Zhang outside the city waited for a long time and did not see the city gate open, but the city shouted and killed constantly, originally saying that they were stealing the city, but they were waiting here at the gate of this city. But this was the governor's order, and they didn't dare to change it without permission, so they had to send someone to report to Li Guoying, who also felt that his plan to steal the city was not working, so he asked the two to forcibly attack the city. Here, Huo Guangxian and Daniel Zhang did not dare to delay as soon as they received the order. Directly let the army attack the city, Huo Guangxian and Daniel Zhang kept shouting in the team to boost morale.

Just as Liu Yingnan in the city was dispatching troops to arrange defense, seeing that the Qing army was about to enter the firing range to attack the city, he saw that the Qing army's camp suddenly burst into flames, and the sound of killing shook the sky. The soldiers of the Fuming Battalion in the city and the Qing army under the city were stunned for a moment, and no one expected this result. Seeing that the fire in the Qing military camp was getting bigger and bigger, the figures were getting more and more chaotic. Huo Guangxian and Daniel Zhang under the city looked at each other and shouted: "The rear team becomes the front team, quickly return to the camp, quickly." ”

Zhu Dashan also reacted and said: "Go and open the city gate, it must be Cheng Deyi and they have robbed the camp, quickly." When Zhu Dashan and Liu Yingnan ran down the city, Li Tingming and Cheng Dequn, who came from the city, also said, and for a while, the people of the Fuming camp were like the Qing soldiers who wanted to open the city gate just now, desperately trying to clean up the things in front of the city gate and open the city gate.

At this time, Zhu Dashan said: "Go quickly, only 300 people will be left at each city gate to defend the city, and all the others will go out of the city to attack the Qing army camp." People from all walks of life should not be scattered too much and support each other. Wang Qing, who came from the west gate, saw that the gate could not be opened for a while, so he asked people to lower the rope on the city wall, and let the soldiers of the Restoration Battalion grab the rope and slide down to the city.

With the efforts of several parties, the city gates were also opened. Everyone rushed out, each with his own soldiers to the Qing army camp. When they arrived at the camp of the Qing army, they found that the Qing army was attacking around a place, and everyone killed them without thinking too much.

At this time, Zhu Dashan really heard Cheng Deyi's voice shouting: "Brothers, hold on, Master Hou has brought troops to save us." For a while, the morale of the people who were surrounded was high. In addition, Zhu Dashan led people to rush here, and he joined Cheng Deyi, Cheng Deyi was a little miserable at this time, one arm was hanging on the side weakly, and his leg was also injured and let the soldiers hold him.

Zhu Dashan saw that Cheng Deyi was still alive, so he just said hello to him, sent someone to send him to Xichong County, and then led people to attack the big tent of the Chinese army. The camp of the Qing army was originally disturbed by Cheng Deyi, but now it has just been somewhat stable, and it was attacked by Zhu Dashan and others in several ways, and it was chaotic in an instant. Previously, there were reinforcements from Li Guoying and Huo Guangxian, but now Li Guoying has been stirred into combat effectiveness, and Huo Guangxian and Daniel Zhang are also resisting the attack of the Fuming camp, and for a time there was no one in the Qing camp to preside, and they were attacked by Zhu Dashan and other roads. The Qing army could no longer hold on, and the soldiers fled one after another, and the Fuming battalion pursued after them. Even if an officer wanted to stabilize the formation, Zhu Dashan and the others chased after him.

Seeing that the Qing army camp was in chaos, Li Guoying had no choice but to retreat to Nanchong with his cronies and bannermen who could still keep calm. As soon as Li Guoying left, other generals who could be seen also fled south, and Zhu Dashan and others took the opportunity to shout: "The Qing army has been defeated, Li Guoying has been killed" For a while, the Qing army could only flee, and resistance could still be organized there.

The Qing army could not escape all the way, countless people were trampled to death, the defeated soldiers were like a flood, Li Guoying originally wanted to stabilize his position in Nanchong, and was chased by the Fuming battalion behind, and stopped there, and was wrapped by the defeated soldiers all the way to escape, all the way through Yuechi, and only stopped in Dingyuan. Li Guoying found that there were only more than 1,000 people left in the 20,000 army he led, and the generals lost more than 10 soldiers. Daniel Zhang was scattered by the rebels, rolled into a ravine on the way to escape, and was hung by vines and starved to death.

Li Guoying saw such a fiasco, and didn't know how to explain to the court for a while, and was about to draw his sword to commit suicide, when a messenger came to report that the holy decree of the capital had come.