After years of fighting, the Miao army successively occupied dozens of states such as Taigong, Danjiang (now Leishan), Kaili, Qingjiang (now Jianhe), Ping Huang, Shibing, Zhenyuan, Sizhou (now Cengong), Yuping, Duyun, Bazhai (now Danzhai), Dushan, Guzhou (now Rongjiang), Liping and Tianzhu. The first army and other people's insurgents of all ethnic groups spread all over Guizhou. Miao army cooperated with it for a long time, which dealt a heavy blow to the Qing army. In the spring of the first year of Tongzhi (l862), Miao Army invaded Huangzhou (now Xinhuang) and Yuanzhou (now Zhijiang) in Hunan, and returned to Guizhou because of the tight defense of the enemy. At the beginning of the fifth year, the Qing court sent more than 20 thousand Xiang troops to help Guizhou in three ways: the north road from Mayang in western Hunan to Tongren, and joined forces with the Sichuan army to attack the first route army. The middle road and the south road were stationed in Zhenyuan and Taigong respectively to attack the Miao army. In the face of the attack of the Qing army, the Miao army and the first army cooperated with each other and fought tenaciously. They used the tactic of "going deep into the disease" to invade Hunan, harassed the rear of the Xiang army, forced it to be rescued, and smashed the enemy's attack.
The following year, the Qing court ordered Sichuan, Hunan and Yunnan provinces to send more troops to help Guizhou, and adopted the policy of "seedling first, then one" and concentrated their forces to deal with one army first. Zhang Xiumei led a great army into Xiangxi, but was defeated by being attacked between Scylla and Charybdis. At the same time, the Miao army in northwest Guizhou and the first army failed one after another, which enabled the Qing army to concentrate its forces against the Miao army in southeast Guizhou, and the situation was very unfavorable. In March of eight years, after Shi Bing was captured by Xiang Army, he planned to join forces with the captured Sichuan Army in Ping Huang. In April, Huang Runchang and Rong Weishan led the Xiang Army 1.8 million people to capture Baixizhai and Wenggulong, the important strongholds of the Miao Army. There is a Huangpiao Gorge between Wenggulong and Ping Huang, and the terrain is very dangerous. Only narrow paths can pass through. Zhang Xiumei ordered his department to lead more than 10,000 people to ambush here, and another Miao army went out to lure the enemy. On the 22nd, the Fifth Team of Xiang Army filed in along the path and successively entered the ambush area. Miao Jun stands out, blocking the front and cutting the back. Rain and rain were coming, and the Xiang army was caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties. Miao army took advantage of the situation to kill, annihilated more than 10 thousand people, killed Huang Runchang, Rong Weishan and many other Xiang generals, and won the famous victory of Huang Piao.
The Miao army defeated the Qing army in Duyun Yang 'an and wiped out thousands of troops in Guizhou. Although Miao Jun won twice, he could not reverse the passive situation. 19991On October 25th, Xiang army captured Taigong. The following year, the Miao Army stronghold was completely lost, and Zhang Xiumei led the troops to retreat to Leigong Mountain (now Leishan). In March of the eleventh year, the Miao army was defeated in Wuwapo (now between Leigong and Kaili), and the whole army was wiped out. In April, Zhang Xiumei and others were captured and died in Changsha. 19 Miao uprising war finally failed.