Before dark, the Qing army was defeated.

In view of the fact that the Qing army had far more cavalry than its own, the Qiongzhou army did not chase and fight with cavalry, but only cooperated with the cavalry in formation, pursued and killed for a while, then Mingjin collected the troops, and retreated to camp around the small village that had just been occupied, waiting for the decisive battle after dawn tomorrow.

After nightfall, piles of bonfires were lit in the camp of the Ming army, illuminating the camp as if it were day. Various open posts and secret posts were arranged inside and outside the barracks, so that the Qing army had no chance to attack and steal the camp at night.

Seeing the posture of the Ming army's camp, Zhuo Butai really didn't dare to steal the camp, it was simply an earthen city! A sneak attack at night can only be self-inflicted.

The lights in the big tent of the Chinese army were brilliant, and Wang Xinyu was sitting in the center, surrounded by military advisers, generals and staff.

"Tomorrow's decisive battle depends on whether the Tartars will gather troops at one time. In the past few days, the Tartars have been scattered. As long as they concentrate all at once, we can fire a salvo with a swarm of bee fire vans and win a big victory. Wang Xinyu looked around and said. In this battle, he wanted to be annihilated as much as possible, not defeated.

The battle between the Ming army and the Later Jin army in the Liaodong period was because the Ming army had few cavalry, and the victory was a small victory, and the defeat was a big defeat. Therefore, this battle must be based on the destruction of the enemy.

After this great victory, the Ming army occupied Jinhua, and the next target was Quzhou. As long as you capture Quzhou, you can get the road to Fujian: Xianxia Pass.

Xianxia Pass is the only road that enters Fujian from north to south. As we all know, Fujian has a complex topography, with the sea on one side and steep mountains on both sides. The only gentle hilly area is facing Guangdong. Because the Ming army had a strong sea power, the focus of the Qing army's defense was on the sea side. If it is a sneak attack from Xianxia Pass, the Qing army can be caught off guard. The terrain of Xianxia Pass is extremely dangerous, and it can be said that it is impossible to open it for ten thousand people.

Under the cover of night, a team quietly marched silently on the thousand-year-old post road leading to Xianxia Pass.

Stealing the pass is the best way to win the Xianxia Pass. If it is a frontal assault on Xianxia Pass, which is not open for thousands of people, the Qiongzhou army will suffer huge losses.

It was the Qiongzhou Army led by Chen Zhi who was responsible for the surprise attack on Xianxia Pass, with a total of 300 warriors. Accompanying the battle was the Yongxin Battalion, which has now expanded to 15,000 people and can be renamed Yongxin Town.

As early as when the Qiongzhou army advanced to Jinhua, the Yongxin battalion had already quietly dispatched. Jiang Zhiping, the commander of the Yongxin Battalion, sent a team of 2,000 people, disguised as the Qing army, set off from Jinggang Mountain, swaggered through the Ganzhong Plain, and arrived in the Quzhou area to wait for the night to not close.

Jiang Zhiping, who already had 15,000 troops, was still only a thousand commanders, but it was inevitable that he would be promoted to the commander-in-chief after this war. The soldiers under his command, except for the more than 1,000 backbone troops brought from Jiangnan who were elite mountain soldiers, the rest were recruited bandits, reformed Qing army prisoners, and mountain people recruited around.

After the two armies met, they went straight to Xianxia Pass.

Although the officers and soldiers of both armies were wearing the skin of the Qing army, if an army of unknown origin approached Xianxia Pass, the Qing army stationed at Xianxia Pass would definitely be suspicious. Only by quietly launching a sneak attack at night can the defending enemy be annihilated.

Xianxia Pass has a total of four passes, the first pass is the outermost pass, there are 60 meters long, the city wall is three meters wide, there are gates and towers, if the gate is closed, it is really impossible to capture thousands of troops and horses. However, after capturing the first pass, it will not help if you don't win the second pass, and the second pass is the highest point of Xianxia Pass.

The Qing army had the largest number of troops at the first and second passes, and the third and fourth passes were useless.

The two Ming armies marched at night and went into the forest to rest during the day. Because they often eat fish and shrimp, carrots and pork liver, the elite soldiers have very good eyesight at night, and can travel at night with a little light. A few days ago, the two armies were still hurrying with torches. After approaching Xianxia Pass this morning, I entered a nearby forest to rest.

Now it is going straight to Xianxia Pass, Xianxia Pass is five miles away, the distance is so close, the Ming army does not dare to use torches to rush to the night, otherwise it will be discovered by the Qing army on the upper floor.

Compared with Yongxin Camp, the food conditions are better when they are not harvested at night, and their vision at night is also better.

Maybe it's because the Ming army hasn't even occupied Jinhua, the Qing army in Xianxia Pass is not so heavily guarded, and there is no secret post on the periphery of Xianxia Pass, and the Qing army stationed in Xianxia Pass never dreamed that the main force of the Ming army has not even laid Jinhua, and there is a Quzhou in the middle, and it has already stretched out its hand to Xianxia Pass.

Ye Bu closed the general Chen Zhi and the general of the Yongxin Battalion Zhang Xumao with the team and quietly approached Xianxia Pass.

"It's Xianxia Pass ahead!" Chen Zhi stopped and gestured to remind everyone.

A hundred steps away in front is the majestic Xianxia Pass, about two steps wide of the thousand-year-old road through the canyon, slowly upward, in front of the gate was cut off. If it is a strong attack, the defenders on the upper floor of the pass can make the attacker suffer heavy losses as long as they use rolling wood and stones.

It is not safe to sneak attack Xianxia Pass, as long as there is a little noise, the Qing army in the pass will wake up and counterattack on the pass tower, and the Ming army will suffer heavy losses. Fortunately, the night guards who served as blades had undergone the most rigorous training, and the black clothes on their bodies were mixed with the night, and the vigilance of the Qing soldiers on duty on the gate tower at night was not high.

In less than two minutes, Chen Zhi took the first batch of twenty people to the bottom of the gate.

Xianxia Pass lies in the dangerous terrain, in fact, the height of the city wall is not high, only two zhang high. Arriving at the bottom of the castle without collecting at night is already half the battle.

In fact, the so-called light skill of flying eaves and walking on the wall is not to make people lighter like on TV, to be able to jump a few feet, and to fly in the air for half a day, but with the help of the power of various things, as long as a slight borrowing, you can climb to a high place, climb on the roof, etc. For those who practice light skills, Xianxia Pass, which is built with bluestone strips, has many borrowing points that can be used.

"Up!" Chen Zhi gestured.

Twenty people who have been practicing for many years have used their light skills to quickly fly to the castle with their toes and fingers between the gaps in the bluestone bars.

Because the main force of the Ming army is still far away from Xianxia Pass, the vigilance of the Qing army stationed in Xianxia Pass is too poor, and the two green battalion Qing soldiers on duty may be the reason why the Eight Banners special offerings are too much, one of them is sleeping, and the other person is also sitting on the ground smoking the Eight Banners special offerings, and they don't notice that someone has climbed up the gate.

Xianxia Pass is located at the junction of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces, most of the merchants who enter Fujian have to pass through here, and the green battalion Qing soldiers guarding the pass can still get a lot of oil and water from the merchants. With the silver, most of the Qing troops guarding the pass were obsessed with the original high price and unattainable Eight Banners special offerings for them.

The Qing soldier, who was half-asleep and half-awake, took a hard sip of the Eight Banners special offering: This is really a good thing!

At this time, he didn't even notice that a figure had appeared beside him.

Only two voices were heard of the neck being broken, and the two Qing soldiers on duty went to see the king of Hades in a half-asleep and half-awake state.

The rope was thrown from the top of the gate, and the night behind climbed up the gate one after another.

"The Tartars are very loosely guarded, and they are on duty at night, and they are actually smoking this thing." Chen Zhi picked up the cigarette gun on the ground, looked through it a few times in his hand, and said to his subordinates in a low voice.

Another Qing soldier who was solved in his sleep also had a smoking gun hanging on his body, and a bird gun by his side, which was really a double spearman.

The influx of special offerings from the Eight Banners has accelerated the corruption of the Green Battalion. When the Qing army barracks were broken into the barracks at night, all the Qing soldiers were asleep. It may be that the Eight Banners special offerings have been smoked too much, and they sleep very soundly, and they don't even know that someone has broken into the barracks. When the knife pierced them, they screamed in a sharp pain, but their mouths were covered and they could not scream. Most of the Qing soldiers only felt that they had a nightmare, so they went to see Hades. Some Qing soldiers didn't even dream, and they couldn't wake up from a deep sleep.

"Cleanly, all one hundred and fifty Tartars are wiped out!" Chen Zhi was very satisfied with his soldiers.

Winning the first pass of Xianxia Pass does not mean that the road to Fujian has been controlled, the key is to win the second pass. The second pass is the highest point of Xianxia Pass, if you can't take the second pass, when the Qing army counterattacks, set up artillery on the second pass, the first pass can't be held at all. After taking the second pass, even if the Qing army reacted and sent additional troops to the third and fourth passes, it would not be able to withstand the artillery bombardment erected on the second pass.

From the first pass to the second pass, it is an uphill road, and there is a distance of two miles. Although the Qing army's vigilance was not very good, with such a long uphill road, this road was completely under the supervision of the Qing soldiers at the second pass, and Chen Zhi was unwilling to take this risk.

As long as one carelessly alarms the Qing soldiers at the second pass, then the previous efforts will be wasted.

Zhang Xumao pointed to the cliff behind the second pass and said, "The tartar behind is handed over to us!" We can take a detour from behind the tartars! For us mountain soldiers, climbing cliffs is not a problem. ”

Although the elites who don't harvest at night are good at work, it is also a problem for them to climb such unfathomable cliffs. As long as you accidentally fall off the cliff, even if you do a good job, you will fall to pieces. And for those mountain soldiers, climbing the cliff is not a difficult task.

Most of the mountain soldiers are composed of Miao Li and Han Chinese mountain people, who have lived in the mountains since childhood, walking on the ground between the mountains and forests, climbing cliffs to dig eagles' nests, and digging for herbs they need on the cliffs.

Zhang Xumao stepped into the night with a hundred warriors and hurried towards the second pass, two miles away.

The mountain soldiers did not take the path in front of them, but quickly disappeared into the mountain forest on the right. They carved out a path in the mountains and forests with no way out, and it took nearly three hours to make a detour back to the flank of the Qing army.

The side of the second pass is a cliff with no way to go, otherwise Xianxia Pass will not be a one-man pass. If there's a way to get through, what's the point of setting up a checkpoint here? It's because you can't get around it, so you set up the gate in this place.

The cliffs with no way to go did not stump the mountain soldiers, and a hundred warriors threw ropes and climbed up the cliffs that ordinary people could not climb at all.

The twenty mountain soldiers at the front carried a large box on their backs, which was a weapon created for mountain soldiers by skilled craftsmen in Zhuge Village in the mountainous area, called a repeating crossbow. The repeater that can fire ten times in a row is no longer recoverable, but the skilled craftsmen in Zhuge Village still created a repeater that can fire five times in a row.

After all, mountain soldiers are not silent at night, and they can't completely and silently sneak up on a barracks. When the mountain soldiers climbed to the top of the cliff, they still alarmed a Qing soldier on duty at the top of the cliff.

"Who?" The soldier shouted.

"Whoosh" a crossbow arrow accurately pierced the throat of the Qing soldiers.

The other two Qing soldiers stood up and were also accurately shot by crossbow arrows.

"Storm the camp!" Zhang Xumao shouted.

The commotion was so loud that the Qing soldiers who were on guard at the gate of the barracks had already heard the movement, grabbed the bird gun, and fired a shot into the sky. The sound of gunfire broke the quiet night, even if those green battalion soldiers smoked more Eight Banners special offerings, and didn't wake up at this time, then they would really be a group of pigs.

However, it was useless for the Green Battalion soldiers to wake up, because they had encountered these fierce mountain soldiers, and the Green Battalion soldiers were not much stronger than pigs.

The "whoosh" crossbow shot out sharp arrows, and the arrows of the mountain soldiers were not missing, and the arrows smeared with poison accurately hit the Qing soldiers, and the Qing soldiers who were hit by the arrows were quickly killed regardless of whether they were shot or not.

Zhang Xumao rushed to the Qing army barracks and threw a gunpowder canister with his hand.

A violent explosion sounded in the barracks.

When Jiang Zhiping left Jiangnan, his mountain soldiers were not yet equipped with real grenades, but the mountain soldiers who attacked this time all had gunpowder canisters on their bodies, and some of them carried tinder canisters. Ignited the gunpowder jar and threw it into the barracks, the Qing army's barracks exploded, and the Qing soldiers who woke up from their sleep rushed out of the barracks like headless flies, many of them did not even put on their uniforms, and some of them did not even find weapons.

"Kill!" Zhang Xumao roared.

The mountain soldiers drew their steel swords one after another and slaughtered into the camp of the Qing army.

"Die! Fake Tartars! Zhang Xumao raised his hand and cut off the head of a Qing soldier in front of him. The pigtail of his head rolled down at his feet, and he felt extremely relieved.

"Kill the Tartars!" There was a shout of killing in the Qing army camp, and the mountain soldiers were also wearing Qing army clothes, but each of them had a white towel tied to his right arm. In the confusion, the Qing soldiers could not recognize whether they were friends or foes, and could only see people wearing the same clothes as themselves wielding steel knives and slashing off their heads.

The Qing soldiers picked up swords and guns to resist, and many Qing soldiers directly cut off their own heads.

And because the Ming army has a white towel on their arm, they will not injure themselves by mistake, but they will accurately cut and kill the Qing soldiers one by one.

The second pass of Xianxia Pass was breached, and more than half of the more than 300 Qing soldiers stationed here were killed and wounded, and the remaining more than 100 people knelt on the ground and surrendered. (To be continued.) )