Ao Bai walked into the dilapidated Yuqian City, this small city has been empty, all the people do not know where to go, the stubborn "Southern Barbarians" resisted for two days and two nights, and finally could not hold on, and lost the small city to the mighty Qing Dynasty. In the past few days, the Qing army has conquered many small cities in a row, and the Haikou have been defeated and retreated, which has raised the morale of the Qing army. However, Aobai was not happy, because all he got were empty cities.

"Enxiang, the southern barbarians are using these small towns to resist and consume the strength of my royal division!" Bambul is good.

Mulima snorted coldly: "What we have lost is just some green battalion soldiers, how many of those Han dogs are there!" If you die one, you can recruit ten more! What do the barbarians do to fight with us! ”

Hearing the word "Han dog", Zu Zeqing and Liang Huafeng's faces suddenly became ugly, but the hardcore traitor Cai Yurong echoed: "My lord is right, those Han dogs want as many as they want!" If you're dead, you'll do it again! There are few thieves and soldiers, and if we consume them, they will naturally be defeated. ”

Zu Zeqing secretly scolded in his heart: Cai Yurong, you dog minion! You don't want to be ashamed, Lao Tzu still has a face!

Although they were all working for the Qing court, Wu Sangui's cousin Zu Zeqing still had a bit of self-esteem, and later responded to the slogan of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, rebelled, and asked the people to cut their braids and grow their hair, and resisted until the end, and was caught by the Qing army, and finally sent to the capital, where he was tortured to death by Kangxi.

And Cai Yurong, the son of Cai Shiying, a gentry in Jiangnan, is the real shameless. But such a loyal lackey was finally sent to Ningguta by the ruthless Kangxi, and after he was released from prison. This traitor thought that he was loyal to Kang Mazi, but in the end he was convicted of accepting Wu Sangui's granddaughter as a concubine, and he felt disheartened. Seeing through the red dust, he went to Jiufeng Temple in Tangxi Town, Wucheng District, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province to become a monk, converted to Buddhism, and finally died lonely and desolate.

Needless to say, Liang Huafeng's face is actually thinner than Zu Zeqing's. Zu Zeqing is somewhat because he is the son of the repeated general Zu Dashou, and his face is very thick-skinned, but he was scolded by Han Dog. was very unhappy, and Liang Huafeng's face was even more ugly.

Still Ao Bai drank Mu Lima: "Sixth brother! If we Eight Banners warriors want to conquer the world, we need the support of the Han people! There are no such Han Chinese. How do we lay down this thousands of miles! ”

"Lord Ao is wise!" Listening to Ao Bai speak for himself, Zu Zeqing and Liang Huafeng hurriedly saluted.

After the Qing army broke through Yuqian City, it continued to advance eastward on three routes.

The leader of the vanguard in the middle lane was replaced by Aobai with the calm veteran Luo Keduo, and Zhangtai served as the vanguard lieutenant. And Zhuo Butai, who was relatively impatient, was transferred to the second echelon of the middle lane by Aobai. The middle army of Ao Bai personally sat in town; The leader of the vanguard on the left will be Yue Le, who is familiar with the art of war and good at leading troops, and Zhuo Butai, the leader of the rear team on the left; The leader of the vanguard on the right is Mulima, and the leader of the rear team is Jieshu. In the two cities of Changhua and Yuqian, which had just been captured, Aobai left 5,000 people to garrison each.

The two cities of Changhua and Yuqian are very important, if they are attacked by the Ming army, they will cut off the grain route of the Qing army, so Ao Bai did not dare to be careless, leaving the soldiers to garrison.

Although it is already approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival. But Jiangnan is still very hot. The veteran of the Qing army, Luo Keduo, led the army to walk on the official road between the hills, and there was little rain in autumn. The scorching sun was in the sky, and most of these Qing soldiers from the north complained bitterly. In particular, the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manmeng could not wear the majestic lightning rod helmet and brightly colored cotton armor on weekdays, so they could only take off their armor and wear a sleeveless short horse coat and thin pants underneath, looking like a ranger straggler.

The Eight Banners on horseback were all complaining, not to mention the Green Battalion soldiers on foot. All the Green Battalion soldiers took off their stuffy leather armor and wore only a thin uniform, and some even took off their uniforms and wore shirtless.

"What the hell! It's so hot! Zhang Chaoxuan, the general of the Green Battalion, took off his official hat as a fan and fanned the wind hard.

Suddenly, there was a "bang" of gunfire from the front.

After a while, the scout who was exploring the road in front reported: "There is a bright dog main force blocking the road ahead!" Three miles in front of our army, Minggou built a large camp! ”

Rocodo shouted, "Prepare to attack!" ”

Despite the reluctance of 10,000 in their hearts, those Qing soldiers could only put on their sweltering armor and advance against the hot sun.

The Qing army advanced steadily and stopped advancing a mile before the Ming army camp. Luo Keduo stood on a boulder, observing the Ming army camp in front, only to see that the official road in front was blocked by an earthen wall, sandbags and wooden fences were arranged on the earthen wall, and a trench was dug in front of the earthen wall, it seemed that the Ming army had already prepared.

"Carving insect little skill! The thief wants to block the car with his mantis arm, which is simply killing himself! Luo Keduo sneered, and then ordered to set up Hongyi artillery to bombard the Ming army's position.

The artillery scene of the Qing army was very spectacular, and as soon as it came up, it was 32 Hongyi cannons that bombarded it violently. The cannons erupted in scarlet fireballs, and the ground trembled and white smoke filled the air. The cannonballs smashed on the wooden stakes, splitting the passages, and finally landed on the earthen walls of the Ming army. However, it is very strange that the shells hit the earthen wall of the Ming army, but did not cause a large area to collapse, and these solid shells are like mud cows entering the sea, and there is no movement after drilling into the earthen wall.

In fact, these earthen walls are made of moist river sand, which can absorb the energy of the cannonballs. Behind the earthen walls of the castle made of river sand are the actual earthen platforms made of stone and earth. The Ming army's defense line was set above the earthen platform.

Garrisoned in this large camp was Li Rui, the general of the Qiongzhou Army, who led a newly expanded Qiongzhou Army. Although this army is mainly recruited, the backbone of the army are all veterans, and these recruits have a deep hatred with the Qing court, and after half a year of training and brainwashing education, they are very brave in battle, and they only lack experience.

The Qing army shelled for a while, and found that the effect of the shelling was not good, so they stopped this kind of shelling that was wasted in vain.

"The thieves' earthen city is made of sand, and as long as our people go up, it is easy to rush up! Although the dirt slopes of the sand can block our shelling, it is not conducive to their rolling wood and gravel performance. As long as our men go up, they can destroy their earthen city! Zhang Chaoxuan offered a strategy.

Rocodo nodded: "Good! That's what makes people attack! ”

"Kill!" The green battalion soldiers wearing white and red tasseled hats and thick leather armor and iron armor shouted. A fierce attack was launched on the large camp of the Ming army.

On the position of the Ming army, these long-range soldiers of the Qiongzhou Army wore rattan armor, and the ventilated rattan armor was not hot at all on the body. And it is light in weight, strong and invulnerable, and the defensive effect is actually no worse than that of iron armor. These rattan armors were obtained from Guizhou through trade with Wu Sangui.

Seeing that the Qing army began to charge, the Ming army behind the low wall erected wooden fences and wooden signs, and quickly built simple fortifications.

"Fire!" Li Rui roared.

Six three-pounder bronze cannons erupted one after the other. The shells burrowed into the dense formation of the Qing army. The solid shells continued to bounce, pulling out blood lines in the crowd of Qing troops.

The three-pounder gun, which had taken the fixed charge pack, soon fired a second salvo, which killed the Qing army.

"Put!" A Ming army general waved the flag in his hand.

An overwhelming barrage of arrows flew from behind the low wooden fence. Skimming through the sky and plunging into the crowd of Qing troops. Suddenly, the charging Qing army was in shape, and dense white feathers appeared in front of and under their feet. Although the light arrows fired by the hanging could not break the armor, many arrows hit the limbs of the Qing soldiers who were not protected by armor, and even shot directly at the front door.

Blood splattered and screamed. The charging Qing army fell again.

The great power of the Ming army, the armor-piercing weapon, and the gun were also powerful. Twenty guns let out a dull roar, and the goose-egg-sized projectile directly smashed the Qing soldiers' wooden shields to pieces, and cut through the armor, tearing the muscles and internal organs. The Qing soldiers who were shot were either shot in the head, smashed in their bodies, or had their limbs cut off.

The powerful bullets often had to penetrate several Qing soldiers before they lost their kinetic energy.

Then there were rows of salvos of bird guns and muskets, and many of the bird guns and muskets of the Qiongzhou army were captured from the Qing army, the Burmese army, and the Annamite people. After careful selection, the best weapons were left for the soldiers to use. Because there were so many muskets. Rows of volleys were fired, and the Qing soldiers were killed and wounded.

Cannonballs, bullets, bows and arrows and a variety of long-range weapons will make the flesh and blood of the soldiers fly. That's not all, the ruthless Li Rui also made a batch of small trebuchets that only need seven or eight people to operate, which are specially used to throw large bottles weighing more than ten catties.

A large Guojiao bottle was thrown out by a trebuchet, which was filled with five catties of gunpowder and a large amount of iron beads and tribulus terrestris, plus fragments of broken clay pots, one landing could kill and injure a large number of Qing soldiers. The small trebuchet is light in weight, very easy to operate, and although the accuracy is not high, the formation of the Qing soldiers is dense, and the effect of using the explosive power of the national surname bottle to kill and injure dense enemies is still quite good.

The archers and bird gunners of the Qing army counterattacked the Ming army, but the Ming army hid behind the wooden fence, and there were wooden signs to protect it, and the bows and arrows fired directly were basically ineffective, and the hanging bows and arrows shot at the Ming troops wearing rattan armor did not play much role. And the bullets fired by the Qing army's bird guns, even if they penetrate the wooden card, the remaining kinetic energy is not enough to penetrate the rattan armor.

Except for a few Ming troops who were wounded, most of the Ming troops were unscathed.

The Qing soldiers rushed to the trench of the Ming army, only to find that the trench was very wide, and they could only get up again after jumping down and running over.

"Kill!" In the communication ditch opened in the trench, a group of Ming troops armed with short swords and wearing iron armor poured out.

In the narrow trench, the Qing soldiers with spears were cut for nothing, and the spears could not be rotated flexibly, so they could only watch the Miao knife in the hands of the Ming army cut down on their heads. And those sword players of the Qing soldiers are obviously not the opponents of these elite Ming troops, and the soldiers on both sides looked at each other, and the Qing soldiers were cut to pieces.

Soon the first round of the attack of the Qing army in the green camp was repulsed, leaving more than 500 corpses in front of the battle.

According to the report of the Qing soldiers who came back, the Ming army's bird guns and archers in front were all wearing rattan armor, which could effectively resist the bows and arrows of the Qing soldiers.

"Fuji armor?" Zhangtai immediately opened "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and shouted in surprise, "The vine armor soldiers are the most afraid of fire!" Zhuge Liang broke the vine armor soldiers! We can attack with fire! ”

"Fire attack?" Rocodo almost fell off his chair, "How are we going to fire off?" If you want to attack with fire, you have to go up! ”

Zhang Chaoxuan looked at Zhangtai and secretly sneered in his heart: This guy who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it! I hold a copy of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" all day long, and I think I am familiar with military books! Fire attack? You'd better find a way to get the fire on the other side! Now the wind direction is not right, if you go to the mountains and forests on both sides and set fire to the mountains, I'm afraid you will burn yourself!

Changtai shouted: "We can let the archers come forward and set rockets to burn the barbarians!" ”

Rocodo couldn't bear it anymore and roared loudly, "You sent the archers up!" How do you light a rocket? Could it be that when you charge, you still charge with a brazier? You advance in formation, the opponent's artillery fire is fierce, and there are trebuchets, how many people do your archers have to die to shoot a few rockets? ”

Zhangtai flipped through the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and said: "We can deceive and lead the thieves into our encirclement. ”

Rocodo rolled his eyes angrily: "You think thieves are as easy to be fooled as you?" ”

The news of the obstruction of the attack soon spread to the Chinese army camp in Aobai.

Ao Bai immediately ordered the Qing army on the left and right to advance at the same time, preparing to detour back behind the Ming army, outflank and encircle, and annihilate this powerful Ming army in the valley in one fell swoop.

Yue Le on the left led a large group of Qing troops to make a detour from the valley to the east and advance eastward. But something happened to Yue Le's surprise: in front of his team, there was also a Ming army blocking the way! And the combat effectiveness of this Ming army is very strong! Look at the banner is the Zheng Jiajun Qiu Hui Division, the Ming army blocked the path of the Qing army, built an earthen city on the middle path, built fortifications, and at the same time relied on the hills on both sides, along the hillside to arrange rolling wood and stones.

Yue Le launched three attacks in a row, but they were all beaten back by Qiu Hui.

Similarly, Mulima on the right was also stubbornly sniped by the Ming army, who built fortifications on the opposite side of a creek, and even blocked an earthen dam upstream of the creek to cut off the river. When the Qing army was defeated many times and retreated, Mulima stared at the blood-red eyes and ordered a large number of Qing troops to cross the river to attack at the same time, the Ming army ambushed upstream suddenly opened the earthen dam and released a flood, and washed away many Qing soldiers on the spot.

The three Qing armies marched together, but they were blocked at the same time.

"The thieves want to fight us in this hilly area?" Ao Bai pondered the abnormal behavior of the Ming army.

It stands to reason that the decisive battle of the army that year would not be chosen in the hilly area, because the hilly terrain did not use the army to deploy and attack and defend in formation. After thinking for a moment, Ao Bai suddenly said: "The old man estimates that the barbarians just want to delay us here, so that they can stabilize the defense of the cities in the south of the Yangtze River!" Otherwise, it really doesn't make sense! ”

"Lord Ao, then we should speed up our progress! We can't let the thieves have enough time to build every city in the south of the Yangtze River! Liang Huafeng offered advice.

"No!" Ao Bai shook his head, "The old man always thinks that there is fraud in this!" We are not afraid of thieves building cities to strengthen our defenses! In front of our Hongyi cannon, there is no city that cannot be opened! What's more, the barbarians are not many in number, and it is impossible to control such a large territory, and many of the territories are garrisoned by our surrender to them. As soon as our army arrives, those rat-headed guys will surrender again! (To be continued.) )