The heart of the Qing army fell to the bottom at once, he didn't expect that he was loyal to several adults, but those adults gave up on them and only cared about running for their lives! But how did he know, Li Guoying knew that if he didn't give up these soldiers, even Li Guoying and that group of Manchurian lords would all have to die here! It's better to throw away these soldiers and let them be captured by the rebels, and eat the poor rebels! As for the Green Battalion, it's just a matter of taking a look anyway.

"My lord, let's come down!" One of the generals stepped forward and knelt down.

"Slap" A loud slap hit the general in the face, and only Lord Dusi was heard roaring: "Down? Surrender to the traitor? I was born a Qing Dynasty person, and I died a Qing Dynasty ghost! How can you surrender to the traitors! If anyone lightly says that those who surrender will be killed! ”

The boss cried out: "My lord, Lord Li and Lord Manchuria, they have run away, but they left us behind, why do we still have to be loyal to them?" ”

"Fart!" Du Si roared, "We are not loyal to them, we are loyal to the court!" Even if they run away, we'll take it down! If we surrender now, the thieves will know that Master Li and they have retreated! The thieves sent troops to chase and kill, and Lord Li and they were in danger! The longer we hold out, the safer they will be! ”

The general muttered secretly in his heart: Lord Dusi, I don't want to live anymore, and I still want to drag us to die together? Nearly 100,000 troops ran out of food, the commander ran away again, the Eight Banners also ran away, and the abandoned green battalion soldiers were already scattered sand, and if they continued to fight, the whole army would be destroyed!

"My lord, what shall we do now?" Mr. Qian asked.

"Hold on! The brothers have not had enough to eat these days, and there is no commander to command, how can they go out to attack? As long as we hold on to Lord Zhang downstream and the Shaanxi flag soldiers in the north arrive, we will win! Duji said.

In the camp of the righteous army, Li Laiheng felt very strange when he saw that the besieged Qing army not only did not break through, but instead set up a large camp.

"Tell me about it. Why didn't the Tartars break through? Instead, camp for defense? They have long been out of food, and this will only be detrimental to them. Li Laiheng asked.

Liu Tichun relied on his own judgment and said: "This is not simple? Even Zhao Liangdong and Wang Jinbao, the two fierce Tartar generals, were beaten away by us, leaving the army behind and fleeing for their lives from the path, where does Li Guoying still have the heart to continue the attack? He must be preserving his strength and waiting for the Tartars downstream to come up and relieve him! ”

Speaking of Zhao Liangdong and Wang Jinbao, these two Qing army generals were drilling in the mountains and forests in embarrassment at this time, and the defeated soldiers who fled with them were basically lost, and there were less than 100 people left to follow them. These two Qing Mengs spent three months in the Shennongjia Mountains before they walked out, and when they walked out of the mountains. There were only twenty-three people left around, each of them had broken strips of cloth, the hair on the forehead and the top of the head was very long, the money rat tail braid on the back of the head had become a cow's tail braid, and the person was as thin as a skeleton, but he finally saved his life.

After Zhao Liangdong and Wang Jinbao returned to Shaanxi, they turned a great defeat into a great victory, claiming that their army had killed tens of thousands of thieves, but because of a lack of food. The physical strength was insufficient, and there were many thieves, so they lost thousands of elite soldiers. The escape of Zhao Liangdong and Wang Jinbao was a matter of later, and at this time the Western Expeditionary Army was fighting fiercely with the Qing army in Shaanxi.

The Qing army that came down from Xi'an. It was firmly blocked by the Western Expeditionary Army in the valley around Daning.

The Qing army in Shaanxi was the Qing army with relatively strong combat effectiveness in those years, whether it was the green battalion soldiers or the flag soldiers, the combat effectiveness was very strong, although it could not be compared with the eight banner soldiers outside the Guanwai. But compared with the Eight Banners soldiers in other parts of the country, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners in Shaanxi can be said to be the strongest, which may be related to the water and soil of the Sanqin land. As the saying goes, one side of the water and one side of the people. The land of Sanqin has always produced elite soldiers and strong generals, and when the Eight Banners arrived in the land of Sanqin, the speed of degeneration was not so fast.

The Qing army is an elite army, and the Western Expeditionary Army is not an ordinary army, Wang Jinzhong's Western Expeditionary Army is the first old mountain army formed by Wang Xinyu, and its combat effectiveness is very strong, not to mention that compared with the Qing Army in Shaanxi, even the Eight Banners outside the Guanxi can fight high and low!

The Shaanxi Eight Banners have strong bows and sharp arrows, the archers have a long range, and the archery skills are extremely strong, and the range of the strong bow is far above the bird guns of the Western Expeditionary Army, and even exceeds the range of the flintlock pistol. However, the Western Expeditionary Army had rifled guns, mortar guns, rockets and other new weapons, and they also occupied the advantage of the terrain, and as a result, the Eight Banners were killed and wounded heavily in the shooting.

On the top of the mountain, rifled gun bullets, flintlock bullets, mortar shells, rockets, rolling wood stones, and strong crossbows shot arrows like splashing water, and the archers of the Eight Banners used the cover of stones and trees to open their bows and arrows and shoot back at the mountain, but because of the unfavorable terrain, they were constantly hit and fell. Especially the elusive rifled gun, which is the nemesis of the Eight Banners Marksman! Whoever has the best archery skills will be shot through the head by a bullet from nowhere!

Seeing that the casualties of the flag soldiers were too heavy, the hearts of Hobusso and Sulma were dripping blood, and they only felt a pang of cramping in their chests. Although there are green battalion soldiers in front as cannon fodder, why are those sophisticated firearms in the hands of the "thieves" specifically aimed at their Eight Banners? This is too unreasonable!

"In the future, when the world is pacified, the use of firearms by the Han people must be prohibited!" Hobusso roared angrily.

Sulma also scolded: "This damn southern mountainous terrain! If it is in the northern plains, no matter how good the barbarians' firearms are, can they stop our cavalry? ”

The terrain in the mountainous areas of Badong and Hubei is extremely complex, the cavalry can only be used as cavalry infantry, and it is impossible to rush and kill on horseback, and the terrain here also seriously limits the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners, especially the Mongols, they grew up on horseback since childhood, and they are all lap legs when they walk, and they are not used to fighting in the mountains, and the Manchurians are better, they were originally fishing and hunting peoples, and they are also very strong infantry after dismounting.

Scold and scold, this battle still has to be fought. He Busuo could only let the Shaanxi Green Battalion increase the supervision team, and those who retreated were immediately killed. The Qing army increased the progress of attacking the mountain, and again and again launched an attack on the hill where the western expeditionary army was stationed like a mad dog.

Since ancient times, some passes have been important because they are important roads. Although there are feasible mountain roads outside the pass, they are all extremely difficult to walk, easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if it is only a few people to block it, it can cut off the passage of the army. If the Qing army in Shaanxi was not in a hurry to save Li Guoying, they would never have taken the risk of choosing such a path. Now that the road is blocked, Hebusso doesn't know that Li Guoying has run away, and thinks that Li Guoying is in danger. In a hurry to rescue him, he can only attack hard.

You can imagine how difficult it is to attack the top of the mountain on such a mountain road.

Once again, the Qing army left countless corpses behind and retreated in defeat.

At this moment, Ma Jinliang, the general of the Green Battalion, offered a plan: "Among the last generals, there are three people from the local people of Padang, who are familiar with the terrain here, and can take a detour from the path to attack the back road of the thieves!" ”

"Can those Southern Barbarians be trusted?" Hobusso asked, suspicious.

"Back to my lord! These three men had been following the last general for some time, and the last general had also observed them. Absolutely! They are loyal to our Qing Dynasty and just want to make meritorious contributions and become soldiers as soon as possible. Ma Jinliang replied.

"As long as they are willing to make meritorious contributions to the imperial court, not to mention turning into soldiers, they can always be generals!" Hobb Cableway. Originally, he wanted to say that he would carry the flag, but considering that even Ma Jinliang was not a flag man, he changed his words and promised to turn directly into an officer.

"Thank you, sir! With the words of the adults, several of them will definitely swear allegiance to the adults! Ma Jinliang replied with a humble face.

Hobusso nodded, and immediately asked Ma Jinliang to call the three people in, and carefully inquired about the terrain and roads in this area. Sure enough, there is a small road that can detour around and go around to the back of the Western Expeditionary Army. After learning about the situation, Hobusso ordered Aobai's nephew Surma to bring five hundred soldiers with eight banners. Five hundred Han and Eight Banner firearms soldiers and 1,000 Green Battalion soldiers made a detour around the path, trying to launch a surprise attack from behind the Western Expeditionary Army.

By the time Sulma took 2,000 Qing troops from the trail, there were already 500 Western Expeditionary troops waiting on the mountain. The Qing army was seen entering an ambush circle. Mr. Qian, who led the team, shouted: "Fight!" ”

The first thing that sounded was the firing of rifled guns, and several Manchurian Eight Banner soldiers in the team who were full of beards and looked particularly strong and conspicuous were regarded as live targets. The bullet pierced their skulls and bodies, and the Eight Banners soldiers screamed and fell off the cliff.

As soon as the three men who led the way heard the gunshots, they immediately turned around and climbed to a high place. Almost at the same time, ropes were dropped on the hill. The three men seized the rope and went to the top of the hill to judge. These three people are extremely agile, climbing mountains like walking on flat ground, and before the Qing soldiers can react, these three people have already climbed halfway. When the Qing soldiers took their bows and arrows from their backs and were about to shoot arrows, a large stone rolled down from them smashed more than a dozen Qing archers into meatloaf.

However, there were still Qing soldiers who shot sharp arrows, and one of the "people's husbands" was hit by two arrows in the back and fell from the mountain with a scream.

"It turned out to be a thief spy! It's actually mixed into our army! It's hateful! When Ben will go back, he will definitely kill Ma Jinliang, a dog minion! Sulma's face was hideous, his muscles bulging, and he roared angrily. Surma was right, these three so-called people were actually agents of the Heaven and Earth Society, and they had been lurking around Ma Jinliang for a while.

But at this time, the Qing army had already entered the ambush circle, with mountains on both sides and gourd valley in the middle, such a terrain was definitely a dead land! Once you're in, don't think about it! Rolling wood and gravel fell from a high place, smashed on the narrow mountain road, mixed with a few national bottles and 10,000 enemies, and from time to time there were a few mortar shells whistling down, blowing up the flesh and blood of the Qing soldiers.

Sulma is Aobai's own nephew, and his martial arts are not bad, but it's a pity that he has entered such a place of death, no matter how high his martial arts are, if he can't escape, it will be a dead end!

"Let's go! We've been tricked! Sulma shouted anxiously and retreated with his own soldiers to the exit of the gourd valley.

The valley was full of chaotic Qing soldiers, the people in front turned their heads and ran backwards, and the people behind did not react for a while, and when they understood what was going on, they all turned around and fled, trying to escape from the desperate situation. Being led into an ambush circle, the terrain must be an absolute disadvantage, even if the most elite troops fall into such a desperate situation, it will be a fiasco.

The chaotic defeated soldiers in front blocked Surma's retreat, and his Goshha (Eight Banners pro-soldiers) couldn't help but say that pulling out his knife was a burst of indiscriminate slashing, no matter whether it was the Green Battalion soldiers or the Han Eight Banners that stood in front of him, even the most noble Man Eight Banners as long as they dared to stand in the way, they were all cut off by Goshha's head.

All kinds of weapons on the mountain kept falling, harvesting the lives of the Qing soldiers in pieces. Desperate, Sulma, under the protection of Goshha, squeezed desperately in the direction of the valley mouth, knowing that if he ran slowly, he would definitely be killed here.

Sulma and the others were about to rush to the mouth of the valley, and they were about to escape, but they saw rows of rockets shooting down from the top of the hill and piercing into the ground. Strange to say, the rocket plunged into the ground, and immediately burst into flames, followed by a series of violent explosions, and the entire valley shook violently like a landslide.

It turned out that in this carefully arranged ambush circle, the Ming army had already buried the gunpowder canister! When the Qing soldiers found the ambush and wanted to escape, they shot rockets from the mountain, plunged into the ground, and ignited the gunpowder canisters buried in the ground.

There was a loud bang, a large pot of gunpowder exploded, and a large stone that flew up just smashed right next to Surma. Several quick-eyed Goshha pounced on him and pushed his master away. A large stone weighing several hundred pounds ran over it, crushing these minions who had no time to dodge into meat cakes.

Surma, who had narrowly escaped, stood up, and regardless of the minions that had been crushed to death, ran desperately towards the valley mouth, trying to escape from this dead place.

"Boom" was another series of earth-shattering explosions, and several huge stones on the mountain turned into a large mess of rocks, smashed down, and fell down along with the logs, blocking the mouth of the valley. As the stone fell, Sulma was hit by a boulder in his leg, shattering his leg bones and falling to the ground with a scream.

Stones, wood, gunpowder canisters, mortar shells, and projectiles rained down on the mountain, and none of Surma and the 2,000 Qing soldiers escaped, most of them died in the valley, and all those who survived were taken prisoner.

Hobusso heard the sound of artillery and explosions from afar, and his heart chuckled, and his sensitivity to the battlefield made him feel that Surma might have done something bad! So Hobusso sent several spies to follow the road that Surma had walked all the way to the valley where Surma was ambushed, and the spies were stunned: they saw that the mouth of the valley was blocked by stones and wood, and the valley was full of green smoke that had not yet dissipated, and there was a smell of burnt corpses in the air.

On the top of the mountain, the red flag of the Ming army was fluttering, and a general of the Ming army poked his head out, holding a human head in his hand, and laughed at the Qing army spies who came over: "Go back and tell you the Tatar general, just say that Aobai's nephew has died here!" ”

Upon learning of Surma's death, Hobusso was shocked and lost his own nephew, knowing that after he returned, Aobai would definitely not let go of his family! If you want to save your family's life, you can only defeat the Western Expeditionary Army in front of you, or let your army be wiped out here. (To be continued.) )