Located in the middle of Qiyao Mountain, the location of Niulanguan is very important, and it is a key pass from Shizhou Wei to Wanzhou and Shizhu. Once it is breached, the entire Kuizhou Mansion will tremble!

Such an important pass has not been properly repaired in the past 20 years. This is because the Dashun army has an advantage in the face of the Shizhou army and the Yunnan-Guichuan army, and is in a strategic offensive, so there is no need to think too much about defense - the battle ranking of the Ming army is now like this, the strongest is the Guards Army, followed by the new army, then the feudal army in the north, then the feudal army in the south, and finally the local native army...... The combat effectiveness of the Dashun army was weaker than that of the Ming army, but it was significantly stronger than the southern feudal army.

The fundamental reason why Li Dingguo spent a lot of effort in southern Shaanxi and was finally defeated by the Ming army was that his Dashun soldiers could not defeat Wu Sangui's Anxi army and Hexi army. The occasional win can also come at a great cost.

But on the front facing Yunguichuan and Shi Zhouwei, the Dashun army was relatively easy. Although they never succeeded in attacking Shi Zhouwei, the battle damage ratio was not ugly, and they were able to grab a lot of things back every time.

The attack of the Dashun army on Zunyi Mansion was repeatedly blocked by the Sea Dragon Hoard, which was located in the north of Zunyi Mansion City, which was originally the base city of the Yang Tusi of Banzhou. Seriously damaged in the Battle of Banzhou in the Wanli period, Ma Shiying later lost Chengdu and retreated to Zunyi, so he asked Emperor Zhu for a sum of money to rebuild the Hailong Hoard, as the station of the Xichuan Army Jiedu Envoy.

The siege ability of the Dashun army was already relatively weak, and in the face of a fortress like the Sea Dragon Hoard, of course, there was nothing to be done.

But if you want the Xichuan army to leave Hailong Hoarding and go north to Loushan Pass, it will also be defeated!

As for the Ming army facing Qujing Mansion, the Yunnan and Guizhou armies were even more on the defensive, and it was the Dashun Combat Strength Platoon Dashun Imperial Battalion (the first was the Long March Mansion Army) that was guarding Qujing, and it was not at all that the Yungui Army could defeat.

However, the self-confidence of the Dashun army on the southern front disappeared in the first year of Dongping Daxing.

Dashun Chongqing, who presided over the military affairs of Chongqing, Kuizhou, Luzhou, Xuzhou and other places, stayed in Chongqing, and Sui Wang Tian Jianxiu began to repair the pass walls in various places from the beginning of the year, and at the same time hoarded grain in important cities such as Chongqing Fucheng, Yong'an Fort (Kuizhou Fucheng), Luzhou City, Yibin City (of course, grain was collected from the hands of working people) to make preparations for long-term resistance.

In addition, the soldiers and households of the four prefectures were ordered to start transferring the old and weak and their property to the four cities of Chongqing, Yong'an, Luzhou, and Yibin......

At the beginning of the year, Li Jinxue, who was arrested outside Shizhu City for "conspiracy and misdeeds", was not sent to Myanmar for the time being because of Tian Jianxiu's order, but was sent to work as a coolie at the Niulanguan construction site in the middle of Qiyao Mountain.

He is not an ordinary coolie in the status of a citizen, but a coolie in the status of a sinner! That's what you want to die...... Seriously, it's better to go to Myanmar! There are few Han people in Burma, even if he is an exiled criminal, he can have a civilian identity, he can also read and write, maybe he can mix a teacher or a clerk, as long as he is not tortured to death by malaria, he can still mix well.

But on the front line of the Bullpen Pass, he, like other sinners, did the hardest work, ate the worst food, and died of exhaustion!

After working for more than a month, Li Jinxue, who was originally quite strong, is now so thin that he is out of shape, and he doesn't want to be a Ming king, and he doesn't want to clean up that Du Mulan like this, and he doesn't even want to go to Myanmar...... I just want to be able to eat a full meal before I die, white rice, no need for vegetables, eat a beautiful meal, and close my eyes when I die.

However, this small dream is impossible to achieve after all, because the food supply of Qingfu and Kuizhou is becoming more and more tight. Even the people who served in the service began to starve, let alone the criminals.

On this day, when he was climbing the bullpen with a group of people who could still move, carrying a big log, to the head of the city, he suddenly heard a loud song to welcome the king.

"Eat his mother, eat his mother, eat not enough to break the king. If you don't pay for it, you don't pay for food, and everyone has a happy life. Seeking ascension in the morning and seeking harmony in the evening, it is difficult for the poor to survive recently. Open the door early to worship the king, and everyone will be happy......"

The people and sinners who were busy closing the bullpen were stunned, what was going on? Although they couldn't hear the lyrics clearly, they still greeted the king of Chuang, and they also heard the words "king Chuang...... Is there anyone who wants to meet the king now?

And listening to this singing is not singing in Shaanxi sound, it should not be the government soldiers of Dashun singing it themselves, nor is it Sichuan sound......

"This is the accent of the Jingchu area!"

"Isn't the Jingchu area a world of remnants? Will the people there want to meet the king? ”

"Look, look, there's an army coming, it looks like there are 5,000 people!"

"Where did they come from?"

The men who were working began to talk one after another, and the soldiers who were guarding the gates of the city did not stop drinking when they heard the people talking, but began to talk to them with a smile.

"They are the rebels from Shi Zhouwei!" A government officer proudly said, "I'm here to take refuge in Dashun!" ”

And such a stupid rebel army?

Li Jinxue's heart was cold...... He is now counting on the Great Tomorrow soldiers to come and save his life!

Now the Ming army has not come, but thousands of anti-Ming anti-thief troops have come - what happened to these anti-thieves whose brains have entered the water? Running here in Dashun, what are you doing here? As a soldier? Is there still land to be divided? Now many of the children of the government soldiers have no soldiers to serve. Even if you have a land coupon of 40 stones, you can only get an identity first, and there is no way to grant land to serve (you can't serve without land, you can only join the Long March Army), and you can gnaw at home...... Can they, outsiders, still give land?

Li Jinxue also squeezed to the battlement of the city wall and looked down - there were originally Dashun's government soldiers staring at him, but now because the rebel army in Daming came to the Ming Dynasty, those government soldiers also went to see the excitement, so he was able to take a breath.

He saw that the gate of the castle gate below had been opened, and the cavalry of the brigade (cavalry riding Sichuan horses) was swaggering out of the city surrounded by a man who looked like a general riding a tall horse (Tian Jianxiu).

The rebels who were marching outside the city stopped, and a dozen knights in the lead met the general, and then one of the knights turned over and dismounted, and saluted the general.

The general and the knight spoke for a few words, and then with a wave of his hand, motioned for the knight to mount his horse, and then they came together to the city pass. The brigade that had originally stopped also continued to move forward, singing the ballad of welcoming the king, and came in a mighty way, and entered the pass in a blink of an eye.

It seems that there is no way to live...... Senior Li Jin sighed, then moved his gaze to the city, and watched in a daze as the neat line of rebels drove in.

Suddenly, he saw two or three hundred armor soldiers walking in front of the team pull out their short spears out of nowhere! Two for one person, it seems to be a flintlock pistol!

What's going on? Why did you pull out your gun?

Bang! Bang! Bang......

Before Li Jinxue could react, he heard a dense burst of gunfire. In the smoke of gunpowder, he vaguely saw that the general and the knight at the front of the group, and the people gathered around them, were all planted from their horses.

The Dashun soldiers who were lining up on both sides of the street were also caught off guard, and were knocked down by the flintlock pistols of the suddenly attacked rebels.

Master Wang is here! This is Wang Shi...... Wang Shi attacked the bullpen mouth by surprise! The Holy Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty finally sent troops to save the Sichuan people!

Sichuan people have a way to live!

Li Jinxue's tears of excitement were about to fall, and he shouted loudly: "Master Wang is here!" Master Wang is calling! Daming Wansheng! ”

Just when he took the lead in shouting, the "Wang Shi" who had finished shooting all drew their swords and began to engage in melee hand-to-hand combat, and the "Wang Shi" who followed them also drew their flintlock pistols and swords, with a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other, and began to charge towards the city along the horse road of Chengguan.

For a while, there were loud gunshots, shouts of killing, weapons clashing and people's screams, and there were also bursts of screams!