In the city of Shaozhou Prefecture, Nanshao Company prepared for the Yamen. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThree people in Qing military uniforms are arguing about Luo Outline.

"Ren Governor, you come to judge!" A general-in-chief military officer dressed in a lion supplement uniform said slowly.

Ren Zhifu, who was dressed in mandarin duck supplements, had a sad look on his face and said: "Liu Zhentai, Lord Xianghe, we are all courtiers of the Qing Dynasty, we should work together from the bottom of our hearts, or discuss it well, how to deal with the attacking long-haired thief army." ”

Lord Xianghe in the mouth of the prefect of Ren's mansion is dressed in a peacock supplement, and it seems that he is the master here, and he is a Taoist from the Nanshao Company of the Third Grade.

Peaceful but full of people, impatient, shouted: "Ren Governor, you are on the side." Liu Kaiyu, you dog minion, even if you are the chief soldier of Nanshaolian Town, you are still my slave of the Qing Dynasty. I am peaceful, as a person with a blue flag, how can I allow you, a dog minion, to reprimand? After speaking, he stared at the military general dressed in a lion uniform, and then said: "Let me ask you, then the **** asked you to send your lieutenant general to take the right battalion to ambush the long-haired thief army, you do everything possible to obstruct it, saying that there are few soldiers who can only hold on!" If you hadn't delayed the military plane, how could you have annihilated the entire right battalion. Now that there are few troops in the city, you have to send troops to meet the thief army! Why? Could it be that he deliberately went against me? ”

"I said peaceful, although you are a person with a blue flag, you are also a Taoist platform of the Qing Dynasty, so you should abide by the rules of the Taoist platform. This use of the brothers of Nanshaolian Town, marching to fight, I still have to have the final say in Liu Kaiyu! "It turned out that this person was Liu Kaiyu, the chief soldier of Nanshaolian Town.

He then said to Ren Governor's Mansion: "Ren Weiqi, don't shirk it, if you lose Shaozhou City, you, as the prefect, have the responsibility of defending the land, and you can't run away." Those waste detectives said that there were tens of thousands of long-haired thieves from Hunan. Joke, the Lingnan Mountains are difficult to travel, tens of thousands of people, and tens of millions of catties of food and weapons alone, how can they rush to Shaozhou so quickly? Besides, what about the 10,000 or 20,000 long-haired thief army, last year, tens of thousands of Yao people in Lianzhou colluded with the congregation of heaven and earth to rebel, and it was not as soon as Ye Zhitai and Benzhentai arrived, they were easily wiped out. ”

As if he deliberately said it to Xianghe, he changed his words again and explained: "Someone suggested that the right battalion ambush the long-haired thief army before, but there was no arrangement, how can the thief army be annihilated by relying on just one battalion?" Now, I have already ordered people to bury hidden piles in the river at Wushui Yizhou, and even buried explosives and tung oil, sulfur and other fire-causing things on the river bank in advance, and as soon as the fleet of the long-haired thief army was blocked in the river, I led my troops to go and ignite the explosives and ignite the burning things, which will inevitably cause heavy losses to the long-haired thief army. Then I will lead the soldiers and horses of the town and the flood soldiers in the city to kill all the soldiers, and I will definitely be able to annihilate the thief army. ”

"Liu Zhentai, I'm afraid it's inappropriate, right?" Ren Weiqi, the prefect of Shaozhou, persuaded, "Ye Zhitai has led reinforcements from Guangzhou, and it is coming soon, why not hold on to the city for two days, isn't it more secure?" Why take the risk and take the initiative? ”

"That's it, it's still the prefect who understands things." The peace on the side echoed.

Liu Kaiyu, the chief soldier of Nanshaolian Town, was about to reprimand the other party again, when suddenly a soldier came to report: "Report to the town, there are two adults, a large number of long-haired thief army uniforms floated on the surface of the Wujiang River, and there are some wood and bamboo. Presumably, the long-haired thief army passed through Yizhou from the waterway, and was blocked by the hidden pile. ”

Liu Kaiyu stood up with a brush, "When is it, why don't you report it early?" ”

Turning his head to Ren Weiqi and Xianghe, he said: "The small hidden pile caused heavy casualties to the long-haired thieves, which shows that the long-haired thieves are all rabble and vulnerable. Now it's time for the town to strike no matter what. If you don't want to come with me, just wait here for news. After speaking, he strode out of the door and ordered the guards outside the yamen to send an order.

Liu Kaiyu led 3,000 Qing soldiers bravely, along the river to the west, through Zhuanshui Bay, and then turned a few miles north is Yizhou.

As soon as I crossed Zhuanshui Bay, I saw several broken boats on the Wujiang River, and there were some wooden straw men on them. Liu Kaiyu laughed: "Have you seen it?" This kind of dummy is the long-haired thief army of Xianghe, who is as fearful as a tiger? The town had long expected that this was a long-haired ruse, and sure enough! The day before yesterday, the detective reported that there were tens of thousands of bandits, and now it seems that most of them are wooden dummies who have deceived those fools. There must not be many long-haired thieves! If this town returns to Shaozhou City like a peaceful child, won't it be regarded as a laughing stock? You will follow me to attack boldly and defeat the bandits in one fell swoop. Everyone agreed, morale was high for a while, and the pace of the march was much quicker.

"After the dirt slope in front, it is Yizhou. Guys are ready! One of Liu Kaiyu's staff officers shouted.

Finally arrived at the Yizhou River section, looked at the middle of the river bay in the distance, and sure enough, the fishing boats and bamboo rafts of many long-haired bandits were blocked, densely packed with a large group, and the stretching river bay could not see the end.

The Qing soldiers did not dare to get too close, so the general sent someone to sneak into the bushes on the bank of the river and ignite the ignition that had been hidden there for a long time, and soon, the sulfur and tung oil on the bank ignited the bushes, and the fire was amazing, detonating the explosives that were lying in ambush there.

There were a few earth-shattering sounds, and the ignited oil and firewood rushed to the river with huge fireballs, and dozens of bamboo rafts and boats were ignited. With so many thieves and ships burned, why didn't they hear the cries and screams? ”

"Not good! I've got it, turn around and go back to the city quickly! Liu Kaiyu said urgently.

Only, it's too late. Before he could finish speaking, a large group of men and horses had rushed out from behind, blocking the retreat back to the city, and countless shotguns had begun to fire at them.

Liu Kaiyu's face turned pale, how could this be?

He has been in the army for more than 20 years, starting from the small Zhengqipin general, all the way up the ranks, to today's Zhengerpin general, he has always led the troops to attack and ambush the rebels and thieves. In his impression, the thieves are all a group of villagers, a rabble armed with wooden sticks, hoes, and iron forks, where do they know what tactics they can use to ambush? Unthinkable, really unimaginable!

But the current situation does not allow him to think crankily anymore, gritted his teeth, and said: "Rush forward, there will be a bridge to cross the river when you reach the front of the plough city, and you can turn back to the city when you reach the other side of the river." ”

He led the soldiers bravely and returned fire with shotguns, while continuing to flee north along the river. There are still three miles away from the plough city, and suddenly there is no way to go in front of me, but there is a bamboo fence about one mile long, but it is bundled with many bamboo rows. It was the Hairy Thieves who wanted to trap them on the bank of this small stretch of river.

Dozens of Qingyong just wanted to split the bamboo fence, a burst of fried bean-like gunshots rang out, behind the bamboo fence was actually an ambush of a large number of bandits, holding shotguns, shooting at the Qing soldiers. Suddenly, there was a scream of crying father and mother, and hundreds of Qing soldiers were killed and wounded.

Liu Kaiyu was already frightened, his heart sank to the bottom, although it was the height of summer, he still felt cold. Looking back, a tsunami-like killing cry came from the mountains and forests behind him and on the side, and it was actually the thief army who had been in ambush chasing him. I couldn't help but regret it, I originally sat in Shaozhou, relying on the city to take advantage, and then summoned the Nanxiong Association, the Sanjiangkou Association and other nearby soldiers, and insisted on two days, and then we could wait for Guangzhou to send reinforcements. However, he was blinded by lard, and wanted to kill the thief and steal the merit, but he was in a desperate situation! It's too late to regret!

Liu Kaiyu was desperate. sighed, "I didn't expect that I would be surrounded and ambushed by thieves, and even annihilated." All thoughts were lost, and he wanted to commit suicide with a knife, but he was stopped by the general next to him and persuaded: "Zhentai, now that you have not reached a desperate situation, how can you do that stupid thing?" Why not order a battalion to break down, and the town leader jumped into the river and swam to the other side to return to the city? Only when you stay in the green mountains can you be ashamed! ”

Liu Kaiyu was persuaded by him and also dispelled his will to die. He hurriedly ordered the deputy general to lead more than 1,000 people from the left battalion to block the thief army, and under the protection of a cadre of personal guards, he jumped into the river and swam to the opposite bank.

When the Qing soldiers saw the chief soldier jumping into the river and fleeing to the other side, they also threw away their weapons and hurriedly jumped into the river.

Liu Kaiyu tried his best to gather all his strength, with the help of his own guards, the first batch climbed onto the west bank of the Wushui River, rested for a while, and saw that hundreds of soldiers also swam to the shore, so he wanted to gather everyone to flee back to the city, but suddenly heard another deafening killing cry.

I can't imagine that there are still ambushes on the west bank of the Wushui River! It's over, this time Liu Kaiyu is completely desperate. An unprecedented powerlessness came up from the bottom of my heart: how many troops did this bandit have, and who had such a ruthless plan.

It's just that he didn't even have the strength to commit suicide and collapsed to the ground.

Because of jumping into the river and swimming, all the Qing soldiers who lost their weapons, except for a small number who jumped into the river again and were shot by shotguns, the rest of the Qing soldiers, whether on the east bank or the west bank of the river, knelt down and surrendered.

More than 3,000 Qing soldiers led by Liu Kaiyu, the chief soldier of Nanshaolian Town, were wiped out.