After losing more than 500 people, the Qing army's auxiliaries and Minzhuang soon began to collapse.

"Kill the dog!" The rebels shouted and chased out, cutting down the slow Qing soldiers and Minzhuang one by one.

A young girl dressed as a Miao girl shouted: "Stop chasing! In a moment the Tartar cavalry is coming! We pushed the cannon down the hill and immediately withdrew! ”

On one side of the mountain road is a cliff, which is more than 20 zhang deep. The rebel soldiers worked together to push all six red-coated cannons to the bottom of the cliff.

The cannon of more than 3,000 pounds of "boom" and the gun carriage tumbled down the cliff together, the wooden gun carriage disintegrated and turned into fragments, and the cannon rolled on the stones and fell to the bottom of the valley.

The grain on the cart was removed by the rebels, and all the grain and forage that could not be moved were set on fire by the rebels. The oxen and mules pulling the carts were not spared, and all of them were pulled away by the rebels. These cows and mules are the best meat, and they can be slowly killed and eaten when they are pulled back.

By the time the cavalry of the Qing army heard the news, the rebels had already brought food, cattle and mules, and entered the deep mountains and old forests. The cavalry of the Qing army was afraid of an ambush in the mountains and forests, and did not dare to pursue, so they had to gather the defeated troops and return to Banling.

The baggage was attacked, the grain and grass were burned, the artillery was gone, the morale of the Qing army was extremely low, Gao Jinku really had no idea of fighting again, he had to decide to withdraw to Wanzhou.

The leader of the Eight Banners looked at Gao Jinku with a cannibalistic eye, and his hands were pressed on the handle of the knife, which made Gao Jinku shiver. He hurriedly explained to the Manchurian lords: "My lord, it's not that General Ben doesn't want to fight, but that our losses are too great. Moreover, the grain and grass were also burned by those barbarians, and the artillery was also destroyed, so this battle was really impossible to fight! ”

"Gao Zhentai!" The leader of the Eight Banners arched his hand, "In that pseudo-Ming City, there must be a lot of grain and grass!" If we can break through the earthen city of the Puppet Ming Haikou, we will be able to get enough food and grass! The location of Yazhou is very important, and now Yazhou is in danger, if you don't go all out to save you, I'm afraid that the court will blame you in the future, and you and I will not be able to explain! ”

"Then we will attack again tomorrow, and if we can't attack it, we will return to defend Wanzhou." High into the library back.

"Gao Zhentai! Let's attack for two more days! Don't we have a new arrival here? Let them craft siege weapons! Although the pirates have cannons, as long as we build enough siege weapons, their cannons won't be able to knock out a few shield carts! I looked at the earthen city, and as long as I got to the bottom of the city, I could dig it up. The leader of the Eight Banners made a request.

"Alright, then fight for two more days! If we can't attack it, then we will retreat to Wanzhou! "High into the reservoir road.

The auxiliary soldiers and Minzhuang brought back by the cavalry of the Qing army were organized by Yang Ji to cut down trees at the edge of the nearby mountains and forests, and began to build large-scale siege weapons such as shield chariots, chariots, watchtower chariots, and rushing chariots.

In the Yazhou camp, Wang Jinzhong took several Li and Miao rebels to report the good news to Wang Xinyu.

"General Wang! We destroyed the cannons of the Tartars and burned their grain and grass! Now that the Tartars have lost their cannons, they will definitely not be able to conquer Banling Tu City! Wang Jinzhong bowed to Wang Xinyu.

Wang Xinyu said with a smile: "You have made a great achievement!" But we have one more thing that we need your help with. ”

"What's the busy?"

"Aren't you familiar with mountain roads? I myself will take 2,000 men here, and let you lead the way, and make a detour through the mountain road to the back of the tartars. I'm going to annihilate Gao Jinku as much as possible in the Banling area! In this way, when we attack the capital city of Qiongzhou, we will reduce a lot of difficulties! This Gao Jinku is good at defending the city, if he is allowed to retreat to Wanzhou, we will not be able to attack the city at that time! ”

"We are familiar with mountain roads, please rest assured!" Wang Jinzhong readily agreed.

After Wang Jinzhong retreated, Li Rui whispered in Wang Xinyu's ear: "General, we only have so many troops, and we have already divided some of our troops to Banling, and if we divide two thousand troops, we can only attack Yazhou with more than 1,000 soldiers!" Everyone else is auxiliaries. Can this little man take Yazhou? ”

Wang Xinyu said with a smile: "I already have a plan to break the cliff state!" It's just deliberately dragging it, just to annihilate Gao Jinku! We're going to go to the back of the high warehouse tonight! You stay here and wait for the signal in the city! We have an inner response in the city. When they have taken the city, you will enter it. The governor of Yazhou didn't know how to defend the city, so he blocked the city gate himself! You're in the city, and they don't even have a place to run! ”

It was necessary to prepare to divide the troops and go out, in order to confuse the enemy in Yazhou, the Ming army still launched an attack on Yazhou in the afternoon.

Small cannons, bird guns, flintlock pistols, bows and arrows were constantly fired at the head of the city, and the Qing army that hit the head of the city could not raise its head at all. The shelling knocked down a section of the women's wall, but the Qing army blocked the gap with sandbags.

It was not until dark that the Ming army withdrew its troops and retreated to the camp.

"To block the retreat of the Tartars, setting up an ambush in the area of Ganshi Mountain is the best way! From Yazhou to Ganshi Mountain, if you don't go from the official road, from the mountain road, there are more than 30 miles of roadless forests, to arrive overnight, we Li people are used to walking the mountain road is no problem, I don't know if you can walk? Wang Jinzhong asked.

"No problem! Our men have all trained field marches! Wang Xinyu replied.

Wang Jinzhong said: "That's good, it's okay today, there is a moon." As long as your men follow us, we will be able to take you to the ambush site! ”

Those who served on the night march were all Ming troops brought by Wang Xinyu from Xiamen. These soldiers, who lived by the sea for a long time, were suitable for night marching because they did not suffer from night blindness. Among the prisoners of the Qing army and the soldiers recruited from Borneo, many of them had night blindness and were not suitable for night marching.

Wang Xinyu explained to the general manager: "If we want to march at night, we can't carry heavy armor, nor can we carry wooden armor that is easy to make sound, everyone is paper armor!" You can't carry long weapons, they are all short knives, bows and arrows, and birds. Also, everyone brought a shovel and a pickaxe. Go and get ready now, and you'll be ready to go at 10 p.m. ”

The soldiers were ready, and each soldier, in addition to his own weapons, brought dry rations that could be eaten for three days, and each of them carried a digging tool, which was fastened with a strap and tied to his back.

The weight of paper armor is very light, only more than 10 catties, plus weapons, dry food and tools, each soldier carries no more than 30 catties. Such a weight is not considered heavy.

At ten o'clock in the night, the army in the Ming army camp quietly moved and went out from behind the camp, led by Wang Xinyu himself, and led the way through the dense forest by Wang Jinzhong and the local Li people, and marched to Ganshi Mountain.

On the tenth day of the lunar calendar, there was a moon in the sky, which provided illumination for the Ming army marching at night.

When entering the forest, it is very difficult to walk at night, and climbing vines on the ground will make people fall if they are not careful; There are a lot of mosquitoes in the dense forest at night, and there are leeches, which are very annoying. However, Wang Xinyu's night marching team was very well prepared, and every soldier wore long sleeves and was tightly wrapped.

Mosquitoes that fly by from time to time, leeches that occasionally burrow into shoes, make people itch unbearably. The mosquitoes here are very large, and when they bite them, they are a big bag. Being drilled into shoes by leeches is even more annoying. Fortunately, the soldiers all wore leggings, and the leeches were not enough to burrow into the trousers.

During walking, someone who gets into a shoe by a leech has to stop and catch the leech out.

Walking in the mountains and forests, someone tripped over a climbing vine on the ground.

"It's near Banling!" Wang Jinzhong told Wang Xinyu.

Here in Banling, on the mountain road below, there is a large camp of the Qing army. From here, it is absolutely forbidden to make a sound.

All the soldiers had a piece of bamboo in their mouths, which was used to prevent people from making noises during night marches. As soon as you speak, the title will fall. Items that fall in the forest at night cannot be recovered. The next day, a soldier will inspect each soldier, and those who find that they have lost their titles will be punished.

There are a lot of mosquitoes in the mountains and forests, but it is forbidden to make a sound, and when passing near the middle of the ridge, anyone who is bitten by mosquitoes, or is drilled into the shoes by leeches, burrowed into the sleeves and gathered, does not dare to slap, dare not stop and catch leeches.

The night marching procession passed through the Banling area, where the Qing army was located, and the soldiers could finally take off their titles.

"After the danger area, everyone can take a break and catch the leeches." Wang Xinyu said as he caught several leeches from his shoes and sleeves.

Wang Jinzhong walked up: "What a good soldier trained by adults!" Passing through the mountain road more than five miles long, there was no sound at all! We can't do that with ordinary soldiers. ”

Resting in the mountains and forests at night is not pleasant. Although it is already winter, Hainan Island is still very hot. Some of the soldiers were so hot that they rolled up their sleeves and were bitten by mosquitoes so that their arms were covered with bags. Annoying mosquitoes are constantly flying on the face, around the ears, making nasty buzzing noises that make people even more upset.

"Almost, let's go!" Wang Xinyu stood up and gave the order to set off.

In the early morning, outside Yazhou City.

Li Rui, who was left in Yazhou by Wang Xinyu, quietly walked out of the camp with his soldiers and touched the Yazhou city wall.

In Yazhou City, Hong Xiguan, Cai Dezhong and other special combat team members and agents who had mixed into the city in advance came out of Renxin Temple one after another, and all the special combat team members wore night uniforms and carried rope grappling hooks to pass through the small alley.

Because it was wartime, the curfew was strictly enforced in the city, no one was allowed to go out, and there were Qing soldiers patrolling the streets, and if anyone was found to have violated the curfew, they would be killed immediately.

However, the curfew could not stop these special combat members, and Hong Xiguan and others, led by local monks, walked through small alleys to avoid the Qing soldiers patrolling at night.

The special combat team and the special agent team arrived at the section of the city wall outside the city where the Ming army was preparing to attack, and Hong Xiguan and Cai Dezhong climbed the city bricks, performed light skills, and quietly went to the top of the city.

There is actually this kind of kung fu, but it is not like in movies, television and novels, people can fly around, it is completely impossible. The so-called light work is to use certain tools, or with the help of walls and eaves, as long as there are supports in your hands and feet, you can walk on the wall and roof as if you were walking on the ground without making a sound.

Hong Xiguan and Cai Dezhong, who were strong in martial arts, went to the head of the city, and the Qing soldiers who were on guard at the head of the city only paid attention to the movement outside the city, and did not notice that someone appeared behind them.

In fact, it was not that the Qing army was too careless, and at the beginning they also prevented there from being in the city. But for several days, there was no movement in the city, and the Qing soldiers gradually relaxed their vigilance in the city.

At the head of the city, a bonfire was lit, and a Qing soldier facing Hong Xiguan was looking out of the city.

Hong Xiguan touched it from behind, covered Qing Bing's mouth, and twisted his big hand hard, breaking Qing Bing's neck.

Cai Dezhong had two Qing soldiers in front of him with their backs to him, and seeing that the Qing soldiers were defenseless, Cai Dezhong tiptoed forward, grabbed the heads of the two Qing soldiers, and touched them hard. Only the sound of bones shattering was heard, and the skulls of the two Qing soldiers were broken, and the huge impact force knocked both of their brains into a pulp.

Below the walls, the other commandos threw their grappling hooks and began to climb up the city.

Hong Xiguan solved another Qing soldier, but the Qing soldiers in other positions on the city wall heard the movement and found that there were attackers on the head of the city, and one of the Qing soldiers shouted: "Night attack!" ”

"Bang" a gunshot, the revolver in Hong Xiguan's hand spewed fire, and a bloody hole appeared in the forehead of the shouting Qing soldier, and he fell backwards on his back.

Cai Dezhong also fired iron beads one after another, killing three Qing soldiers who rushed towards him in a row.

"Hurry up! Control the steps! Hong Xiguan shouted anxiously.

From the east side of the city wall, eight Qing soldiers rushed towards Hong Xiguan.

Hong Xiguan pulled out two guns, opened his bow left and right, and the two revolvers sprayed fire one after another, and the Qing soldiers who rushed up sprayed blood mist one after another, and fell in a pool of blood.

"Haikou's Demon Magic!" One of the soldiers shouted, turned around and ran.

At that time, firearms could only be fired single, even if they were three-eyed, they could only be fired three times, and Hong Xiguan's revolver could be fired continuously, and he had already fired seven or eight shots from the left and right, which made the Qing soldiers think that it must be a demon who moved his hands and feet on the firearms, so that the firearms could be fired continuously, which made the Qing soldiers feel very frightened.

The special operators went up to the top of the city and quickly rushed in the direction of the steps.

At this time, the Qing army in the city had already blown up the nest, and a large number of Qing soldiers were crowded, shouting and rushing to the steps, trying to rush to the head of the city to defend.