On 16 March, the Miao army camps, which were fighting separately and lacked unified command, were breached one by one, and all units broke through separately on a rainy night. Li Yuncai ran out of the encirclement with more than 1,000 people, retreated to Liping Mansion, and completely lost contact with Zhang Xiumei in Crow Slope.

On 18 March, Gong Jichang gathered 30,000 troops and launched an all-out attack on the Miao Army's Marshal Cifu and its southeast slope on the top of Niujiaopo Mountain. The soldiers in the Miao army who did not lie down from hunger took up their weapons and reluctantly went into battle to meet them, where were the opponents of the Jingyi battalion, and they died one by one under the artillery, swords and guns.

When the Marshal's Second Mansion (one of Zhang Xiumei's nests) was hit by cannon fodder, the camp and the Miao army that had gone into battle were surrounded by the Qing Peace Army, cutting off its connection with the outside world, and the white flags were planted all around it by the surrender faction.

The remnants of the Miao army retreated from the middle of the Niujiao Slope to the Crow Slope, and only the south side of the Niujiao Slope was occupied by Yang Daliu. Relying on his familiarity with the terrain, he led his troops to maneuver with the Qing and the army, rushing left and right in the smoke of artillery fire, appearing out of nowhere, prancing on a horse and crossing the sword, and bravely killing the enemy.

After that, the Qinghe army narrowed the encirclement of the west, north and east, lined up with cavalry, launched an attack, and forced Yang Daliu to retreat to the wooden bridge connecting the two ridges at the foot of the slope, and another fierce battle occurred.

When the Qing and the army approached Yang Daliu step by step, Yang Daliu hid at the bridgehead and squatted on the edge of the bridge, and the officers and soldiers saw it, the bullets were like sand, and the arrows were flying like sparrows.

Yang Daliu suddenly slapped his horse and galloped, facing the rain of bullets, only to see that his bullets shot the copper bell of the horse, and the horse did not fall, the arrow shot the foot pole, and no one was injured. Fought hard in the chaos and recaptured the position of Farewell Ridge.

Yang Daliu, Liu Tiancheng, Pan Laomao, Bao Nanyao, Jin Dawu and other generals and the Blue Wolf Army, riding war horses with the Qing and the army to fight the middle and upper sections of the Sect Slope Ridge.

This is the last narrow east-west slope of Niujiaopo still under the control of the Miao army. After analyzing the situation, Yang Daliu put forward his own opinions: "Now we are scattered like chickens leaving the shed, like ducks leaving the nest, there are too many officials and too many soldiers, one of us is in one place, and one cannot save the other. Let's go back and talk to Zhang Xiumei, one by one, one by one, one can afford to save one, and one can see one. ”

"What the marshal said is very true." Bao Nanyao and others agreed. As a result, Yang Daliu retreated from Niujiaopo to Crow Slope.

On 20 March, the decisive battle of Niujiaopo ended. The Qing army lost more than 3,000 casualties, including several generals, while the Miao army lost more than 30,000 deaths. In the meantime, Jiudabai was ordered to break through from the direction of Lengshuigou and go north, was pursued by Gong Jichang, and was killed in the Jiaoding River (now Bala River). Jin Gangan broke through from the direction of Dazhong, and was attacked by the Jingnan Army and the Guizhou Army Zeng Jifeng's east and west in the Majiang Baiwu Lazizhai mountain pass, Jin Gangan had to retreat, and died in the battle under Shimengyan (now the west side of Zhouxi Cement Factory). When Yan Dawu broke through, he died at the northern foot of Crow Slope; Jiang Laola was beheaded after being captured.

On March 21, Yang Daliu, Liu Tiancheng, Jin Dawu, Pan Laomao, and Bao Nanyao gathered at Crow Slope. Zhang Xiumei and Li Hongji were waiting for the battle. Except for the northeast corner, Crow Slope is surrounded by deep cliffs on three sides.

Xi Qitian, Gong Jichang and others knew that the strong attack would have to bear a huge price, and they also knew the courage of the "trapped beast", so they ordered Liao Ying, Song Ying, Ma Dawu, Ou Xiu Gang and other groups of defectors to take the microphone to the front of the western foot of the Crow Slope (now Dayingpan opposite the door slope) to shout and persuade them to surrender.

At this time, there were more and more wavering and willing people in the refugee camp, and the 800 soldiers of the Qinghe Army played the eight-foot trombone together, and the sound suddenly collapsed the mountains and cliffs, making people panic.

As a last resort, Zhang Xiumei and Miao's army severely executed some surrender factions on the spot, and Fang stabilized the position. Although the Miao army was numerous, due to the lack of grain, the soldiers could only feed their hunger with grass roots, bracken, bark, leaves, and chaff, and there were only more than 10,000 people who could fight.

The Qing soldiers sent more than 30,000 people, and the difference in strength was huge. Zhang Xiumei and Yang Daliu asked the generals to unswervingly lead the soldiers who still had combat strength to drink blood at the sky, saying that they would "swear not to surrender" and intend to rely on the special geographical advantages of Crow Slope to fight to the death with the Qing Peace Army. There are hundreds of capable fighters of the Blue Wolf Army, all of whom are in command at the front.

The deployment of the Crow Slope Miao Army array is: Yang Daliu, Bao Nanyao, Pan Laomao, and Jin Dawu in the northwest; Li Hongji to the northeast; Zhang Xiumei and Li Anong in the west; The southwest and southeast sides are the big belly and Zhang Xiu's eyebrows. The whole army is dominated by Zhang Xiumei and Li Hongji, who have not yet been severely damaged, and the Miao army also has more than 1,000 artillery pieces of various kinds and more than 100,000 catties of ammunition.

The deployment of the Qinghe army is: to the northwest of the crow slope is the commander Huang Yuanguo and the general soldier Zhong Kailan; To the west is the commander Xi Qitian, the admiral Gong Jichang, and the Taoist Xie Lan; In the southwest, there is the general Deng Youde, the general Zhou Dawu, the general Tang Kaiyou, and the general Zeng Jifeng; The southeast is Admiral Su Yuanchun and Admiral Su Yuanzhang; To the east is the General Soldier Mao Shuxun Division. After the two sides made such a deployment, they set up a decisive battle position.

In the middle of the night on March 22, the battle began. In the beginning, the scale was not large. According to the secret deployment of the generals before the war, Zhang Xiumei first feinted to attack Xi Qitian and Gong Jichang on the western front, while leading thousands of backbone and elite soldiers to break through from the foothills of the northeast slope.

Suddenly, in the always calm Shangli He Zhikai and Huaimian seats, the cannons whined and flew away, and the sound of killing shook the heavens and the earth. However, due to the starvation, many people of the Miao army rushed away for a while, and their combat effectiveness weakened in an instant.

Although Su Yuanchun, Su Yuanzhang, Ge Jian, and Mao Shuxun hurriedly responded to the battle and intercepted it, they were waiting for work. As a result, only Zhang Xiumei and hundreds of others broke out of the encirclement (the enemy did not know Zhang Xiumei broke through). With his understanding of the terrain of Crow Slope, Yang Daliu and Li Hongji, Li Anong and other generals covered Zhang Xiumei's breakthrough, and on the morning of the 22nd, he led the heroic generals with Zhang Xiumei as the main body, and once again fought against the Qing Peace Army with thousands of artillery and guns.

In this way, the fiercest artillery battle in the Battle of Crow Slope finally began! Thousands of cannons from both sides fired together, and the sky was dark in an instant, and there was no human figure in the vicinity, and the entire southeast side of Crow Slope and Niujiao Slope was shrouded in dense fog and smoke.

In the melee, Huang Yuanguo and Gong Jichang of the Qing Peace Army first attacked the northwest, changed the upward attack and flat attack to a downward attack, and launched a bloody battle with Yang Daliu, Pan Laomao, and Baonan. After the Qinghe army bombarded it, it launched rockets, causing a sea of fire in front of the Miao army.

There was a female leader in Zhang Xiumei's department, with the cloud-like gunpowder smoke as a cover, leading hundreds of female Miao troops, rushing out of the trail, wanting to detour through the ravine on the west waist of Niujiaopo to Lengshuigou and then to the north, when they reached the Tiankan of the gate slope of Dayingpan and was about to turn over the mountain, they encountered with the Qing and Qing army, and there was a fierce battle, and all of them were killed.

According to local legends, every time the rain and fog are hazy and misty, some people have seen the phantoms of these heroic female martyrs in armor and swords: they are not crying, but smiling proudly. It can be seen that the heroic sacrifices of the heroines are really earth-shattering, crying ghosts and gods!

Soon, Yangbang Shangzhai (now the north of the back slope of Dayingpan, the "same gall most" and "Yangyi Xue" area) was burned under artillery fire. This Miao village, which has only more than ten households, is the village with the highest geographical location in the central and southern sections of Niujiaopo and Crow Slope. Now only a Miao language place name can be verified, which is one of the "crow Miao villages" that is recorded in history.

Below the list, is the list of Dazhai (now Dayingpan). On the 22nd, the Qing and Qing armies approached the core area with the Marshal's Mansion of the Miao Army and the base camp of the Miao Army.

Yang Daliu and Gong Jichang fought above the Marshal's Mansion, and the two horses squatted and kicked the stone slab, and sparks flashed. The two sides fought for more than a dozen rounds, but Yang Daliu couldn't beat Gong Jichang, so he slapped his horse and ran away, so angry that Gong Jichang scolded: "Damn, don't run away if you have the ability——"

Nowadays, there are still several gravure marks that resemble horseshoe on this large stone slab, and the people of Dayingpan say that it is left by Yang Daliu's "wind chasing horse". In fact, it is very likely that this horseshoe print was left by Gong Jichang's leopard flower horse!

Yang Daliu, Li Hongji, and Jin Dawu saw that the Miao army's achievements were not obvious, and the Qing and Qing generals did not fold, and thousands of Miao soldiers had fallen in a pool of blood, and they were quite resentful, so they used a stratagem to send the daredevils to lure the Qing army down to the deep stream called "Ga to the Covenant", saying that there was a large amount of silver in the marshal's mansion hidden there. After the money-greedy Qing and the army were scheming, they were all annihilated by the Miao army's ambush soldiers, and one general was killed in battle.

Zhou Dawu of the Guizhou Army, Wen Guoxing and Ge Jian, Mao Shuxun of the Jingnan Army, Deng Youde of the Lu Chuan Army, Tang Benyoubu and Liao Ying and Songying (all Miao nationality) Miao Lian attacked Zhang Xiumei's troops who took the terraced fields as their positions and fortifications, and advanced step by step. Su Yuanchun and Su Yuanzhang climbed the steep slope in the southeast and forcibly broke Zhang Xiumei's camp, and Li Hongji's troops finally retreated due to bullets.

Yang Daliu, Jin Dawu and others immediately retreated to the top of the southern section of the crow slope to control the endgame. The tens of thousands of Miao troops in Yangbang Dazhai (Dayingpan) were all killed, and the Marshal's Mansion was already within the range of foreign artillery.

Because "the officials have grabbed the place (referring to the Liangpo Miao army position), the army has burned down the houses (referring to the Miao army barracks and refugee camps), and the brothers have no money in hand and no grain to import", when the situation was critical, Yang Daliu, Li Hongji, Jin Dawu and others had no choice but to lead their generals and backbone thousands of people to retreat from the northeast of the crow slope to Dangguo, Caifei and other places (now the Kaihuai Township Party draft and Zhongli Village), who knew that they encountered the encirclement of the Qinghe army again.

In the breakthrough, the soldiers of the Miao army were not afraid, they killed the officers when they collided, and they killed the soldiers when they encountered them, and they were all red-eyed, and their momentum was unstoppable. The losses of the Qinghe army were relatively large, but the Miao army that broke through also suffered heavy losses in the battle along the way.

When they rushed to the Jiaomi village southeast of Lei Gong Mountain, they ran into the Qing army of the Gejian Department head-on. The Miao army had to fight desperately, and when they broke out of the encirclement, there were only a few hundred people left.

In the evening, Yangbang Dazhai and the Marshal of the Miao Army were all turned into ashes in the battle, and the generals of the Qinghe Army led the division in the large field above Dazhai.

At this point, the battle of Crow Slope was declared over, and more than 1,000 Qing and Miao troops of Zhang Xiumei were killed.