It is said that Bao Nan burned the crowd and used the wheel tactics to consume Gong Shengfu's men, and Gong Shengfu had only more than 100 people left. Gong Shengfu raised his eyes and looked, black smoke rose from the sky, it was the sound of bullets from shotguns, not good! Reinforcements from the enemy came.

Gong Shenglu retreated to the middle of the dam with a team of less than 300 people, and also moved closer to Gong Shengfu's side.

Gong Shengfu was so anxious that he shouted: "Brother, leave me alone, let's go!" "There are more and more Miao troops pouring in, and Zhu Zhongguang is still fighting tenaciously.

"Big brother, we will die together!" Gong Shenglu shouted while fighting.

"Second brother, listen to orders! Withdraw—" Gong Shengfu shouted.

"I don't—" Gong Shenglu shouted.

"If you don't leave, it's too late! My Highness—" Gong Shengfu ordered again.

With tears in his eyes, Gong Shenglu quickly led the men and horses to a small road. Seeing that Gong Shengfu had no intention of surrendering, Bao Nanyao waved his hand, and the Miao army's bows and arrows were fired, and the heroic Xi family army fell to the ground one after another, leaving only Gong Shengfu alone to fight.

Bao Nanyao laughed: "Surrender, spare you from death!" ”

Gong Shengfu, who was hit by several arrows, spat out a mouthful of saliva: "I'm bah! Anti-thief, don't you think! Then he raised the long knife and killed dozens of Miao soldiers.

Bao Nanyao knew that Gong Shengfu would not surrender easily, so he said: "I'll give you two more chances!" Shoot the arrows—"

The archer shot two evil arrows and hit Gong Shengfu's thigh, causing blood to flow. Gong Shengfu rushed to kill, and the archers were swept away by thousands of troops, and the archers were killed instantly.

"Put it again—"

Dozens of bows and arrows were shot at Gong Shengfu, Gong Shengfu waved his long knife to block, and three of them still hit his right arm.

"I admire you for being a hero, and I'll give you one last chance, do you surrender?" Bao Nanyao has lost his patience.

"You go to die-" Gong Shengfu broke the arrow feather on his right arm, rushed towards Bao Nan and killed him, and took Xiang Shang's head.

Bao Nanyan was so frightened that he hurriedly retreated: "Let go of the arrows—shoot him—"

The Miao army hurriedly fired arrows, and the arrows shot at Gong Shengfu like a torrential rain. As a result, Gong Shengfu was martyred on the battlefield with blood.

Who knows, after Gong Shenglu broke out with the siege, because he lost his way, he fell into the siege of the Miao army again, and the whole army was annihilated. Gong Shenglu (Sipindusi) and another guerrilla general, Ding Yichang (Sanpin), who escaped, were ashamed that they could not communicate with Gong Jichang, so they both hanged themselves under a wooden sink with a horizontal ditch flying frame, and their tattered official robes fluttered in the wind.

Because the robes of the two were embroidered with tigers or leopards, the locals later called this place "Gatong Immortal Kegong" (Miao language, meaning tiger hanging ditch).

More than 1,000 soldiers of the Qinghe Army have not survived, especially Gong Shengfu, who has followed him for many years, died in battle, Gong Shenglu committed suicide, and his righteous son was designed to be eliminated by Bao Nan Yao, Gong Jichang was furious: "Bao Nan Yao, as long as the general catches you, you must be put in the retort and steamed you!" ”

A day later, after Gong Jichang discussed with Xi Qitian, he ordered his subordinates to sound the horn and fire the cannons, bluff, come to a dark Chen Cang, feint to attack the front defense line of the Miao army, and secretly ordered all departments to carry out a surprise attack on the east and west roads.

At this time, the Qinghe Army of the East Road launched an attack on the garrison of the Miao Army. Bao Da Belly was the commander-in-chief of Huang Piao's victory in the past, and he has rich combat experience.

In the face of the Qing Army's advanced foreign guns, artillery, and rockets, he resisted with "mixed tactics", causing the soldiers to fight into the tens of thousands of Qing Peace troops without risk, so that their advanced weapons could not give full play to their advantages.

In the white-knuckle battle, Bao Dabelly killed one of the opposing generals. It is rumored that the general of the Qinghe Army is also a big belly, and the result is that "Miao Big Belly" killed "Qing Big Belly".

Gong Jichang carried the armor-piercing gun, and turned over on the horse: "Brother Yanqian, let me lead a team of people and horses to go up and capture Bao Bigbelly alive!" ”

Xi Qitian shook his head: "Brother Jichang, you are the commander, you can't take risks. ”

"Brother Yanqiang, this brute with a big belly is scheming, killing my brother Rong Weishan and ambushing my two sons, if you let him escape today, there will be endless troubles." Gong Jichang said eagerly.

"Hey, generals, generals, handsome, generals. Er is the head coach and strategizing, which is the best policy. Don't be reckless. Xi Qitian stroked his beard.

"What then?" Gong Jichang asked.

"Artillery attack! Blow up the belly! Xi Qitian said with a smile.

"Brother Yanqian, there are our troops there, isn't firing artillery a self-defeating martial arts?" Gong Jichang disagreed with Xi Qitian's approach.

"I can't care about it so much. Pass the order down, and use artillery to target me at the big belly of the bag! Xi Qitian said without thinking.

"Brother Yanqian, you can't do this-" Gong Jichang dissuaded.

"Brother Jichang, don't hesitate any longer." Xi Qitian finally ordered, "Artilleryman, prepare, shoot at the Miao army!" ”

"Yes, sir!" The artillery captain received the order, and then gave the order and fired the cannon in front of him.

Xi Qitian made a desperate bet and ordered his foreign artillery team to bombard the two armies in the melee, and the two armies were killed and wounded, and those Qinghe troops didn't understand what was going on, so they were blown away by their own artillery fire, and they really died unjustly.

Bao Da belly in accordance with the marshal's mansion "can break through the siege that is, break through, go one person is good for one person, save strength, contain the siege", led his troops to kill a bloody road, and finally a small number of Miao troops ran out of the flint slope and went to the Nangao direction of Bazhai, and most of them retreated to the crow slope.

Immediately, the Qinghe army occupied the camp of Bao Da's belly, that is, the area of Xiaoyingpan (belonging to the southeast foot of Niujiaopo), and Su Yuanchun, Mao Shuxun, Huang Yuanguo, Zhong Kailan and other troops who attacked the top of the northern section of the crow from the southeast foothills of the crow slope have been looking at each other from a distance.

The two key ends of the deep stream between Niujiao and Crow Slope were controlled, and the strategic and tactical goal of Xi Qitian and Gong Jichang of "cutting off the crown into two, and then dividing and annihilating them" was basically achieved.

Liao Ying, Songying, Ma Yingfu, and other leaders of the Zhouxi Miao Army, who were stationed on the northeast slope of Yangniupo (Dalinggang) to contain the main attack force of the Qinghe Army, had a clear understanding of the battle situation between the two armies of Niujiaopo, and when the Qing He Army approached the Marshal of the Miao Army's mansion, they estimated that Zhang Xiumei, the king of Miao, was not far from defeat.

Liao Ying (Zheng Liupin) and Song Ying (Cong Liupin), who were originally Tusi's official products, especially those with special political backgrounds, shook their minds. Coupled with Xi Qitian's persuasion of rhetoric and both soft and hard, they soon went down the mountain to accept "Zhao'an", put on their robes again, formed "Miao Lian", and became Xi Qitian's right-hand man.

Later, Ma Yingfu also retired from Bazhai. The entire Niuyang Slope (Dalinggang) was lost, and then occupied by the Qing generals Deng Qiansheng and Hu Guocan.

On the eve of Niujiaopo being completely captured by the Qing army, the famine among the Miao army had reached a very serious level, and the people ate all the wild vegetables, even the leaves of the trees, and many soldiers and civilians starved to death in the mountains and forests. The mountains are full of dead bodies,

With nothing to eat, the hungry set up dozens of cauldrons in many places, burned fires, threw the bodies of the starving dead into the pots, boiled them, and devoured their bones. The cave at the bottom of the slope opposite the gate of Dayingpan is one of the places where the corpses are cooked.

There was a frequent cannibalism in the Miao army, and leaders such as Zhang Xiumei and Yang Daliu had no choice but to acquiesce in the behavior of "people eating people", because if they didn't eat human flesh, the Miao people would die faster.

And some of the Miao soldiers who were responsible for defending the marshal's sub-palace only counted two meters a day, boiling porridge mixed with wild vegetables to satisfy hunger. Of the remaining 1440,000 soldiers and civilians, only 30,000 are capable of fighting, and the contrast between the combat effectiveness of the two sides is already very large.

At this time, some of the elders and upper-level elements with high moral integrity began to be afraid of fighting with officers and soldiers. They usually only know how to be elders, but they don't know how to fight officers and soldiers, and they tremble when Gong Jichang's army is approaching the slope, and they all say: "The officers and soldiers are coming, and we are willing to surrender." ”

As the situation became more and more severe, the original wind of surrender within the Miao army and the refugees was revived, and it became public, and there were internal disputes between some people who were willing to surrender and some who did not surrender, and who quarreled every day, which weakened the fighting capacity of the Miao army to a certain extent.

In mid-March, after receiving the information that the Miao army had fallen into an extreme famine, the general headquarters of the Qinghe Army hurriedly advanced, quickly increased troops to the top of the slope, and launched an attack with artillery. After a day and night of fighting between the two sides, the Marshal's Mansion was destroyed by artillery fire and razed to the ground.

On the gentle slope above the "Ga to Ying", the Qing army shot and killed thousands of prisoners of war, which was Gong Jichang and Xi Qitian's order to create huge psychological pressure on the Miao army that continued to resist stubbornly, and also to avenge the annihilation of Gong Shengfu's entire army in the "Tiger Hanging Neck Ditch".

This is also the place where the corpses of the soldiers and civilians of the Miao nationality starved to death, and the descendants called the Miao in this place "Gasong Naida" (meaning the Dead Man's Ridge). In some small rock wall depressions on its southern slope, it is the place where the refugees abandoned their babies when they fled in a hurry. The mother holding the infant and toddler was huddled in the crowd of retreating like a tide, and her own child slipped out of her hands, and she couldn't take care of it, which shows how chaotic the situation was when the Miao army was defeated and retreated. Many years after the end of the war, some local cattle herders found the complete bones and hair of hundreds of young babies on these rock faces, which was terrifying.

Gong Jichang and his soldiers cleaned up the battlefield, and found that there were still undercooked human flesh in many cauldrons in some caves, and couldn't help crying: "Why bother resisting when you are hungry to this point?" Why not surrender sooner? You are all the people of my Qinghe Kingdom......"

Xi Qi, the commander of the Jingyi Battalion, ordered Gong Jichang to advance step by step and win frequently. Immediately, Xi Qitian set up viewing platforms at the Cattle Raising Slope (Changling Slope), Ganchao Flint Slope and Xiaoyingpan Facing Gate Slope, and invited the gentry, landlords, Tusi and sick and wounded generals from all over the country to cheer and supervise the battle, in order to flaunt his outstanding military exploits.

But Gong Jichang couldn't be happy, this protracted war had been fought for several years, and he had been in and out of Guimao County more than ten times, and the killing had never stopped. Killing is not to kill, and if Zhang Xiumei, who is bent on going his own way, will not have a peaceful day in Miaojiang. Gong Jichang decided to concentrate his superior forces and deal a fatal blow to Zhang Xiumei's Miao army in order to save more lives.