On the morning of the next day, Zuo Menggeng asked someone to collect a small amount of snow on the mountain and melt the boiling water to drink.

However, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the north had severe droughts for many years, especially in Henan. Nanyang was located in central Henan. Although the drought conditions were better than those in Luoyang, Kaifeng and Guide, there was still a lack of snowfall in winter.

There were only a little snow on the top of the mountain. The snow water obtained after melting was just a drop in the bucket for 120,000 yuan. If you drink a few drops of it alone, you will lose water. Then you will suffer from thirst.

Seeing that the morale of the army was unstable, many people were ready to go down the mountain to surrender. Hou Fangyu stood on a big stone and opened his voice anxiously and shouted loudly: "Dear uncles, brothers, everyone, bear it. It has been a day. In two days, the mighty and invincible Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers of our Qing Dynasty will come to save us!"

The second difficult day passed. After nightfall, the officers and soldiers of the Zuo family and their families were lying down in pain and tried hard to calm down to let themselves fall asleep. However, until midnight, many people woke up from thirst and tried to find water to drink.

After waking up from thirst, people can feel uncomfortable if they can’t find water to drink. Those who have tried it can understand it.

That night, many soldiers of the Zuo family army, who were thirsty, sneaked down the mountain and surrendered to the new army at the foot of the mountain. A group of people who had run away had run away, and more than 5,000 people ran away. The people behind did not have time to escape. They were discovered by the servants who were loyal to Zuo Menggeng. As a result, there were crazy slaughter at night, and more than 3,000 people were killed.

When it was dawn, Zuo Menggeng, who was so thirsty that his throat hurt, ordered the soldiers to collect the snow again, but the mountain could not even find a little snow. The thirsty soldier had to chew the grass leaves and chew the bark. However, the grass leaves in winter were all yellow and had no moisture. And the bark? After many years of famine, the bark had been eaten up by the hungry people, and the remaining trees were all withered. Where was there moisture?

There was no way for the soldiers of the Zuo family to start drinking their own urine. Zuo Menggeng and his generals were better. They cut open the muscles of the horse and drank horse blood to quench their thirst. However, the war horse that had no water to drink could not last long. When the war horse died, there was no need to drink horse blood. Zuo Menggeng had to order to slaughter all the dying war horses and drink horse blood.

On the third day, the soldiers who were already thirsty were not waiting for darkness, so they took the risk of escaping down the mountain in the daytime and tried to surrender. Of course, most of the people were unable to escape. Only more than 500 people escaped to the foot of the mountain by chance. The rest were all killed by the Zuo family army themselves. Even Zuo Menggeng himself cut off more than a dozen heads with a knife.

After nightfall, more than 50,000 people fled, and more than 50,000 people mutinized and ran away. Zuo Menggeng led his servants to suppress him, but he could not stop the soldiers' collapse at all. Even Xu Yuxian, Lu Guangzu and Chang Deng ran away, and took more than 40,000 people away. At night, there were more than 10,000 Zuo's army who killed each other in chaos.

On this night, the Zuo family army reduced more than 50,000 troops, and at this time the Zuo family army had less than 70,000 troops left. What's more serious is that Xu Yuxian, Lu Guangzu and Chang Deng took away most of the war horses unethical.

On the fourth day, the remaining more than 70,000 Zuo family troops could no longer hold on. At this moment, Zhao Peng asked someone to bring an iron trumpet to shout loudly to the mountain: "Brothers on the mountain, please surrender quickly! Jiannu's army cannot come. General Gao Jinku is stationed in Nanyang City ten miles north. General Gao is the best at defending the city, and Jiannu just rests and conquers Nanyang."

The new army's call caused chaos in the morale of the Zuo family army.

"Master, the Qing reinforcements cannot come. Now that our army has been cut off for many days, the morale of the army is unstable. The only way is to break through as soon as possible." Hou Fangyu offered advice to Zuo Menggeng.

Huang Shu also suggested: "Now our army is already deeply trapped in a mortal enemy. As the saying goes, you can live by putting it to death. Now the soldiers are desperate. Only by breaking through the obstacles of Guan Gouzi in one go can you have a way out! Grandmaster, order to break through!"

Zuo Menggeng gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and made a heart-warming order: "The whole army is ready, rush down the mountain with one go, break through!"

After half an hour of preparation, the Zuo family army on the mountain suddenly sounded war drums, and the sound of killing sounds shook the sky. Holding various weapons in hand, shouting, and slapped down to launch a fierce charge towards the New Army position at the foot of the mountain.

"The enemy is powerful, and the Zuo family army, who has been killed in the death of the enemy, breaks through with the will of death. If our army blocks it at this time, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses. Pass my order to make way for the rebels. When they rush over, we will chase them behind the scenes!" Zhao Peng received the report from the sentry and made a quick decision to issue an order.

The New Army and the Jinyiwei opened a hole in the camp and made a way for the Zuo Family Army, who rushed down the mountain desperately. At the same time, various cannons and muskets were arranged on both sides of the passage, preparing to shoot the Zuo Family Army along the way. The Jinyiwei cavalry was ambushing the two sides of the avenue and waiting for the Zuo Family Army to rush over, and the Jinyiwei cavalry was behind the scenes. The infantry was ambushing the camp, and when the Zuo Family Army passed, the brigade of infantry would follow the Zuo Family Army and chase them all the way.

Groups of Zuo family troops rushed down from the mountain. With the order of "fire guns", the new army cannons spewed out flames from both wings, and the shells penetrated into the Zuo family's crowd in a cross shape, knocking down a large area of ​​Zuo family troops who were rushing in front.

The soldiers of the Zuo family behind were eager to escape, and they didn't care about the opponent's fierce firepower blocking, and rushed forward desperately. When they rushed to the opponent's camp, they found that there was no enemy blocking in front of them, and a spacious road ahead was waiting for them to rush over. So the morale of the Zuo family soldiers suddenly became bleak, and everyone ran wildly, just thinking about rushing out as soon as possible.

When the Zuo Family Army broke through, Zhang Yingxiang and Xu Ensheng were killed by cannons, and Hao Xiaozhong was beaten to death and was caught and captured after the war horse was beaten to death. At this point, all the generals of the Zuo Family Army, except for Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng, left the team themselves, Li Guoying, Xu Yong, Zhang Yingxiang, and Xu Ensheng were all killed. Xu Yuxian, Lu Guangzu and Chang Deng surrendered, leaving only Zuo Menggeng himself and Zhang Yingyuan.

Zhao Peng stood on a high platform in the camps on both sides. Wang Quan, the magic gunman beside him, picked up his own poison gun and aimed at a general of the Zuo family army riding a white tall horse and wearing a phoenix-winged helmet. He estimated that he aimed in advance and pulled the trigger.

With a crisp sound of gunfire, a high-speed rotating bullet flew more than two hundred steps, it accurately hit the general's neck and lifted him off the horse's back.

The general of the Zuo family army who was shot was Zhang Yingyuan. Wang Quan's gun broke his neck.

After firing a gun, Wang Quan immediately took off the ammunition belt at his waist, opened a small bamboo tube with fixed ammunition, and poured the gunpowder into the muzzle. Then he took out a silk-wrapped bullet from the bullet box, stuffed the bullet into the muzzle, and pushed it hard with the strip. After pushing it a few times, he couldn't push it anymore. He picked up the small wooden hammer and beat the strip, pushing the bullet to the bottom.

Then he opened the cover of the medicine induction pool behind, took off the medicine induction pot from his waist, squeezed a little medicine in the medicine induction pool, and then closed the cover of the medicine induction pool with his fingers fluctuating.

Wang Quan, who had finished loading, picked up the magic gun and aimed at a general wearing a red horse in red clothes. When he was about to pull the trigger, he heard Zhao Peng say: "That's a girl, save her life and hit her horse."

Wang Quan nodded, aimed at the horse under the girl's crotch, and pulled the trigger. He heard a "bang" sound, and a bloody flower appeared on the forehead of the galloping red horse. The war horse made a sad neigh, tilted on the roadside, lifting the female general on the horse's back off the horse.

This female general was Zuo Xianmei. She rode a horse and charged with infantry, trying to break through the siege. Who knew that someone had fired a cold gun, and she killed her war horse with one gun.

After Zuo Xianmei fell off the horse, she rolled a few times and tried to get up and prepare to escape, but she heard a "whoosh" sound, and a feather arrow shot and pierced her legs. Zuo Xianmei could no longer stand up, knelt on the ground with one knee, holding a weapon in her hand, and could only watch other soldiers running past her. After a while, she was the only one left in the open ground.

"Catch her! Catch the living! Don't hurt this little beauty." Zhao Peng personally surrounded her with a group of personal soldiers.

"Eagle Claws! Don't try to catch your aunt!" Zuo Xianmei threw away the spear, drew out the sword, and placed it on his neck to commit suicide.
Chapter completed!