Southwest of Wuchang, Wujian Mountain, here is the dividing line between Hunan and Hubei, and the official road between the Yangtze River and the two hilly mountains by the river passes through here. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe jungle here is dense, the lowest place is 50 meters above sea level, the highest peak is more than 500 meters above sea level, and it is a hilly area between 200 and 400 meters above sea level.

The official road of Wujian Mountain passes between two hills, and both sides of the official road were originally rice fields, because the Ming army captured Yuezhou and was about to attack Wuchang, so after the Qing army harvested the rice, the farmland was temporarily idle, and no wheat was planted for the winter. The fields are full of yellowed rice stalks, and there are no busy villagers around.

On the official road, a team of horses galloped by, and on horseback were knights in colorful military uniforms. Although these knights were fully dressed and carried sophisticated weapons, it was clear from their figures that these knights were fair women. They are the elite women's special operations team.

"There's a small village in front of us, let's go over and have a look!" Xia Yunshan pointed to the small village in front of her and said.

Zixin entered the village with ten female special combat members, but when she approached the entrance of the village, she found that the village was so quiet that there was no movement at all.

"Beware of Tartar ambushes!" Zixin reminded the team members behind her with gestures.

The female special operators cautiously approached the village, and some climbed a large tree nearby, picked up rifled guns with scopes, and observed the movement in the village from the scope. After approaching the village, some people quickly climbed onto the roof, pulled out six quick thunderbolts, and vigilantly observed the courtyard in the village.

Zixin, who climbed on a roof, picked up a telescope, and after observing for a long time, she found that the small village was empty, except for the occasional few rats emerging from the dilapidated houses.

"No ambush! If there is an ambush, there will be no rats coming in or out. In the nest over there, the birds were not alarmed. Zixin put down the binoculars and said.

When the special operators entered the village, they found that the village was indeed empty, the dilapidated houses seemed to have been uninhabited for some time, and the walls were covered with cobwebs.

Xia Yunshan walked into a house and found that the table was full of dust, and the beds made of a few broken wooden planks were empty, with no quilts and bedding. When I opened the water tank, I found that the water in the tank had grown green algae.

"It's been uninhabited for a while, at least two months!" Xia Yunshan said.

"Sister, are we going to spend the night here?" Zixin asked.

"Not staying overnight here! Let's go into the jungle! Xia Yunshan replied.

The female special operators left the official road and passed through the barren farmland and entered the junction of the hills and the farmland. Xia Yunshan made a gesture, and everyone dismounted. Several sharpshooters picked up rifled guns with scopes, crouched behind the bushes, and watched the movement in the jungle with their scopes.

Finding that there was no movement, Xia Yunshan made a gesture, and the female special combat team members went into the mountains and forests. The last two special operators led the horses and followed them into the jungle.

Because these specially trained men were extremely vigilant, they were very attentive to the search every step they took forward, and they did not move very fast, and they stopped to observe every twenty to thirty paces. At the same time, there were people who made a detour from the side, and someone who was ambushed in the bushes, guns raised and aimed far ahead.

After about two hundred paces of advancement, the special operators stopped again and carefully observed the front with binoculars and scopes.

In this era, the Qing army's latent ability is certainly not as good as that of the Qiongzhou army's special combat team, they do not have colorful camouflage uniforms, and they have not learned professional camouflage techniques, as long as there is an ambush, they will be discovered.

"There's someone in there!" A goddess gunman gestured.

"Isn't it a Tartar scout? If we run into the Tartars, we'll just wipe them out! Zixin said softly.

Xia Yunshan gestured and said in sign language: "Go to two people, go over there and have a look!" ”

Two female special operators made a detour from the side, each of them carrying two rifled long guns on their backs, and two six-shot rifled Thunderbolt short guns stuck in their waists, each of which could fire fourteen shots in a row in case of emergency. At that moment, there was movement in the grass fifty paces ahead.

"What people! Stand out! Otherwise, it's going to be fired! A female special operator raised her double-barreled long gun and shouted at the moving grass.

A woman's scream sounded in the grass, and several ragged women slowly stood out of the grass, trembling at the women in front of them dressed in strange clothes and holding firearms in their hands. In their eyes, although these people in front of them are also women, each of these women is murderous, and they know that they are soldiers at a glance.

Seeing that it was a woman, the hearts of the two team members relaxed.

"Who are you?" A female soldier asked.

An old woman who looked to be in her fifties on the other side replied: "Girls, we are villagers down the mountain, our men have been taken away, and we have fled here with our half-grown children. ”

When Xia Yunshan arrived, after inquiry, she learned that all the young and strong men in the village were arrested, either they were arrested to be green battalion soldiers, or they were arrested to Wuchang to be people's strongest, and even Xiang Yong came to rob people and arrested half of the children into the barracks. But in this way, the Qing army still refused to let go of those women, children, old and weak. When the grain was about to ripen, the Qing soldiers came and harvested all the grain in the farmland, and not even a single grain for planting was left for these women, children, old and weak.

"The officers and soldiers are so fierce, they came to arrest people, and my fourteen-year-old grandson was taken away by them! They also robbed us of all our grain, and they took away not a single grain of grain from the fields, and they took away what was left of the house. God, how do we live? The old woman said with tears in her eyes.

Another woman, about thirty years old, had her son in her arms, and the boy looked to be between ten and twelve years old. The woman hugged her son tightly, as if she were afraid that someone would come and take her son.

"They even arrested half-grown children, saying that they would arrest them and go to Wuchang to defend the city. Who doesn't know, if you go, you will be sent to death! An old man with gray hair said, "We can't survive anymore, so we all hide in the mountains with our children." On the one hand, we can find something to eat in the mountains, and on the other hand, we will not let our children be captured by the officers and soldiers. ”

In the mountains and forests after autumn, there are still some things to eat, such as wild fruits, wild beasts and the like. But all the people in the nearby villages ran away, and at least five or six thousand people hid in the mountains, and the wild fruits in the mountains were all eaten, and these people could only gnaw on the bark of trees, eat wild vegetables, or dig some tubers from the ground to satisfy their hunger.

Fortunately, they live in the south, if there is a war in the north, the people will not even have anything to eat, and they can really only eat Guanyin soil. (To be continued.) )