The vanguard of the Qing army, Dutong Zhuo Butai, rode a tall horse and walked in the middle of the team. Zhuo Butai is one of Aobai's younger brothers. Riding beside him was another confidant of Aobai, Asiha, who served as Zhuo Butai's deputy vanguard officer, and the two led 500 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banner cavalry, 2,000 Han Eight Banner infantry changed from the original Wuzhen Chaoha firearms infantry, as well as 4,000 Green Battalion infantry and 500 Green Battalion horse army, leading the way in front of the main force of the Qing army.

"It's so hot!" Zhuo Butai grumbled.

In the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the south of the Yangtze River in September of the Gregorian calendar is very hot, and these Manmeng Eight Banners from the north really can't stand the hot climate here.

Asiha replied: "Lord Dutong, the slave thinks that Lord Ao should not send troops to Jiangnan at this time, and should wait for the weather to turn cold." ”

"Fart!" Zhuo Butai roared angrily, "When the weather turns cold, the southern barbarians have already built a strong city in the south of the Yangtze River, and they have also obtained a large amount of grain in the south of the Yangtze River, how can we fight at that time?" ”

At the back of the Qing army was the firearms unit of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.

Haiertu, the leading general of the Han Eight Banner Firearms Army, is the son of the great traitor Li Guohan and a third-class marquis. Li Guohan defected to Houjin as early as the old slave period, and he was an out-and-out hardcore traitor. Later, Kong Youde surrendered to Houjin and brought advanced artillery and other weapons, but at first Huang Taiji did not believe in Kong Youde's surrender army, so he sent Li Guohan into Kong Youde's army, in fact, to monitor the newly surrendered Han Chinese.

Because of his perennial dealings with firearms units and commanding firearms units, Li Guohan and his son Haiertu are very proficient in firearms.

The 2,000 Han and Eight Banner Army of the vanguard force was adapted from Kong Youde's Wuzhen Chaoha, and was a light firearms unit, equipped with light tiger squat artillery. The general artillery, all the infantry used bird guns, and was an all-firearms army in the Qing army.

The first to explore and open the way, that is naturally the matter of the Green Battalion Army. The 500 Green Battalion Horse Army was adapted from the original Ming Army cavalry, and the Manmeng Eight Banners looked down on the Green Camp Horse Army, thinking that they were a horse riding to explore the road. When fighting, they can only dismount to fight, and they do not know how to shoot arrows on horses, and they are unqualified cavalrymen.

The strongest in the Green Camp Horse Army is Wu Sangui's Horse Army, which is the remnant of the Green Camp Horse Army expanded by the Guanning Iron Cavalry. In the eyes of the Manchurian cavalry, except for Wu Sangui's horse army, the other Han cavalry were garbage.

The mountain road was too narrow, and the vanguard of 7,000 people formed a team in the valley was more than ten miles long, and the more than 500 green battalion horse soldiers had to take care of such a large area, and it was difficult to make sure that every drop of water leaked. The Eight Banners men will not do path-finding things. So those garbage in the eyes of the cavalry took on the task of scout cavalry.

More than a dozen scout cavalry galloped on the mountain road, and suddenly more than a dozen figures drilled out of the grass in front of them, and one after another armor-piercing arrows with a piercing whistling sound burrowed into the crowd of Qing troops. Only a scream was heard, and the five Qing soldiers fell off their horses.

"Enemy attack!" The chief of the climatic cavalry shouted.

Dozens of Zhejiang soldiers emerged from the grass, stabbed with spears in their hands, and picked off three Qing soldiers.

The four remaining Qing soldiers turned around to run. However, the road behind was also cut off by the Zhejiang army, and the Qing soldiers had to dismount.

"Kill the Tartars!" More than 20 Zhejiang saber players with swords and shields rushed up. A burst of indiscriminate chopping cut all four scout Qing soldiers into pulp.

"Withdraw!" The Zhejiang army waved his big hand.

The successful Zhejiang army quickly retreated into the mountains and forests on both sides. As soon as they left the official road, the Qing cavalry behind them arrived. However, the cavalry of the Qing army did not dare to enter the mountains and forests rashly, so they could only raise their heads on the official road and curse at the top of the mountain.

"Slap" Cai Yurong, the general of the Qing army in the green battalion, slapped the scout general in the face: "How did you explore the way?" Ignore the ambush on both sides? Luckily, a few of your minions died! If we are ambushed by Minggou, Master Zhuobutai, we won't be able to save our heads! ”

Cai Yurong is the leader of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty and the son of the big traitor Cai Shiying. Because the Cai family's old house in Jiangnan was copied by Zhang Huangyan. Hundreds of men in the Cai family's old house were killed, and all the female dependents were captured and enslaved by the Zhejiang army. After waking up, he asked his son Cai Yurong to follow Aobai on the expedition. Be sure to "kill more dogs" to avenge the relatives in your hometown.

In real history, Cai Yurong was loyal to Kang Mazi and made great contributions to the pacification of the three feudatories. After the Qing army invaded Yunnan, Cai Yurong seized Wu Sangui's granddaughter as a concubine. Because the first beauty in Yunnan was seized by a minion, there was no tribute to Kang Mazi in Beijing, and Kang Mazi was later furious. Although Cai Yurong strangled Wu Sangui's granddaughter to show his loyalty, Kang Mazi still sent Cai Yurong to Ningguta.

The Cai family was originally also a Jiangnan scholar, but they were copied by Zhang Huangyan, and the Cai family suffered heavy losses, and the wealth accumulated over several generations was cheapened by Zhang Huangyan and Wang Xinyu.

The cavalry general said with a sad face: "My lord, the thieves are constantly attacking our army with the help of the mountains and jungles, and our cavalry can't enter the mountains and forests!" ”

"Dog minions who don't open their minds! You won't send infantry to find the way? Cai Yurong whipped it.

The Green Battalion Qing army sent infantry into the mountains and jungles on both sides to search for possible Ming troops in ambush.

In September, the mountain flowers in the mountains of the south of the Yangtze River are in full bloom, and in the green jungles and shrubs, there are patches of bright red, pale yellow and pink mountain flowers, which make the mountains and forests of southern Anhui more beautiful. However, in this beautiful mountain forest, the Qing infantry who were exploring the way vaguely felt an inexplicable fear.

The mountains and jungles stretched for hundreds of miles, and three hundred Green Battalion infantry were sent out, scattered all over the place, every few people in each place. In a mountain called Dragon King's Point, three scout infantry carefully searched the mountain forest. Unconsciously, the three scouts and other companions were far away, and they could no longer see the scouts elsewhere.

"This mountain forest is so big, when are we going to search it?" A Qing soldier sat on the ground panting.

"Be careful! Something happened, and several of us couldn't protect our heads! Another Qing soldier said.

There was also a bearded veteran who did not speak, and a pair of eagle-eyed falcons stared warily at the nearby mountain forest. Suddenly, he felt as if something was wrong, because there seemed to be traces of someone walking on the fallen leaves in front of him! The Qing veteran was about to greet his companion when he heard a slight whistling sound and a blow arrow. Pierced into the neck of the Qing soldier. The veteran only felt that the place where he was hit by the arrow was numb, and soon he was dizzy, so weak that he couldn't even shout words, black blood flowed from the corners of his mouth, and his hands danced weakly a few times. Slowly fell to the ground.

The other two Qing soldiers were also killed by the Qiongzhou army hiding in the mountains and forests and the Zhejiang army scouts.

Liu Peng was originally born into a family of fishermen in Zhejiang, and his father took him south to Guangdong more than ten years ago to escape the war. After arriving in Guangdong, his father took him to fish for a living. A few years later, he also married a wife and had a son. Who knew that after the Qing court's ban on the sea, Wu Liuqi spared no effort to implement the ban on the sea. As a result, Liu Peng's father was killed by Qing soldiers for violating the sea ban order, and his head was hung on the city gate. Lost a source of livelihood. His wife and son starved to death. Just when Liu Peng was in despair and was about to commit suicide, it was the Qiongzhou army that saved him.

After coming to Qiongzhou, Liu Peng resolutely asked to join the army, and because of his excellent grades, he became an elite night.

Liu Peng carried a steel knife, a lightning bolt that could shoot continuously, and a blow arrow that sealed his throat when he saw blood.

After killing the Qing scouts. Liu Peng sat in the grass, wiping his beloved electric switch. This is the elite weapon of the Qiongzhou army. This firearm is a miniature version of the Franc machine, which can be fired in bursts and is extremely powerful. Liu Peng has fifty guns on his body, and he can shoot fifty bullets in a row.

The scouts of the Zhejiang army who traveled with them can be said to be very envious of the Qiongzhou army's failure to collect sophisticated weapons at night, but the Qiongzhou army does not collect few people at night, and it still needs Zhejiang's cooperation.

These night guards and scouts at the time of departure on a mission. All left suicide notes, because they were death squads on the most dangerous missions, ready to die at any time. The members of the death squad were all people who had a deep blood feud with the Qing court.

After that, two more scouts came in and were killed by Liu Peng.

"There are Tartar cavalry down the mountain!" A Zhejiang sergeant came to report.

"Good time!" Liu Peng led the brothers to the top of the mountain where the boulders had been placed.

The Qing infantry in Soshan was killed. The Qing cavalry on the avenue did not know that there was an ambush on the hill, and galloped through the valley on horseback. At this time, several boulders suddenly rolled down the mountain, crashed into the formation of the Qing army's scout cavalry, and crushed the two Qing soldiers in front into meat pies.

The Qing soldiers behind did not restrain the horses, and one of the Qing soldiers hit the stones, and the man turned over on his back, and his head was broken and bleeding. Another Qing soldier crashed into his companion's warhorse, and the whole person rose into the air, soaring clouds and fog in the air, and flew several feet away.

"There's a bright dog up there!" The Qing army roared.

Before he could finish speaking, a crossbow arrow whistled and pierced Shichang's throat.

The Qing infantry who were searching around heard the sound and immediately rushed over and chased after the place where the Ming army was ambushed.

On the top of the mountain, boulders rolled down, smashing the Qing scout cavalry in the valley on their backs, and the narrow mountain road was also blocked by a pile of boulders.

"The Tartars are up!" A scout of the Zhejiang army in charge of the lookout shouted.

"Your brothers in the Zhejiang army withdraw first! After our Qiongzhou army is broken! Liu Peng shouted.

"Why did we go first?" Although the Zhejiang soldiers were reluctant to leave first, before they came, the superior officers explained to these Zhejiang soldiers that they must obey the orders of the Qiongzhou army, and Liu Peng's position was also higher than them, so these Zhejiang soldiers were very unwilling to evacuate first.

The three Qiongzhou soldiers did not stop the Qing soldiers who were chasing and killing them at night, and at a long distance, a sharpshooter shot with a rifled gun, almost a gun bite the flesh, and killed a Qing soldier with one shot. When the Qing soldiers chased closer, Liu Peng and his other companion opened fire again and again, causing the Qing soldiers to jump.

"Thieves have a lot of birds!" When the Qing soldiers heard the dense gunfire, they thought there were at least ten birdmen.

"There are many of us, chase them all and kill them all!" A Qing army general yelled.

Groups of Qing soldiers chased into the jungle, but what awaited them were all kinds of traps, chasing seven or eight miles, and the Qing soldiers left behind more than 30 corpses. Seeing that they could not catch up, they also lost troops and generals one after another, and the Qing army had to give up the pursuit.

"Useless minions!" In the Aobai pioneer camp, Cai Yurong knelt in the middle of the big tent and let Zhuo Butai yell.

"Slaves deserve death!" Cai Yurong slapped himself again and again.

"Get up! You deserve to die, how many times have you died! Zhuo Butai said coldly.

About an hour later, Zhuo Butai knelt in front of Aobai.

"Idiot! Useless minions! Not even a few barbarians can deal with it! Ao Bai waved his big hand and slapped his brother in the face.

When Ao Bai had enough, Zhuo Butai asked tremblingly: "Big brother, it's just a few barbarian thieves, we can force it through." ”

The always cautious Ao Bai was furious: "How many barbarians? The march in this mountain, thousands of barbarians in ambush, will kill tens of thousands of our elite warriors! If we are not careful, how can we explain to the emperor and the queen mother? Also, the Suke Saha in the court are also waiting to see our jokes! ”

"Big brother, little brother is guilty! I hope that the eldest brother will be guilty! "Zhuo Butai said.

"Get up!" Aobai's anger disappeared a little, "After you go back, let the Green Camp scouts move forward step by step, and move forward steadily, don't let the scouts be too scattered, and you can't give the barbarians a chance!" Also, pay attention to explore more paths, and find more paths that can be detoured! If you find a barbarian scout, concentrate your men and kill them with all your might! Front and rear outflanking! Don't let those brutes go! ”

"Wow!" Zhuo Butai retreated.

Bamburshan asked: "Enxiang, I knew that this mountain road was so difficult to walk, so we went down the river at that time, first to Jiangning, and then from Jiangning to the south to Hangzhou." ”

Ao Bai sneered: "Walking from the edge of Taihu Lake? We don't have a water division, how can we cross the river after entering the Jiangnan water network? The thieves used the sailor to stop us step by step, and by the time we arrived in Hangzhou, more than half of them were lost! To take this mountain road in southern Anhui is to avoid thieves and sailors! If the thieves want to fight our army in the mountains and hills, then they will give up the advantage of the sailors! Although our army also lost its cavalry superiority in the mountains, we were outnumbered! Than the infantry, we are not afraid of them! ”

Mulima asked: "Big brother, the mountainous terrain here is really complicated, if the thieves block our army in the mountains, they will be able to contain our army in the mountains and cannot advance, and they will be able to take the opportunity to control the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, which will be extremely unfavorable to our army, but our army cannot be supplied on the spot, but the thieves can get supplies from the south of the Yangtze River." ”

Ao Bai sneered: "The mountainous areas around Huizhou are not better than the mountainous areas of Fujian, nor are they better than the mountains in the southwest, most of them are hilly and low mountains, how many roads can be detoured to the past?" If the thieves want to fight a decisive battle in the mountains, our army can outflank them in a roundabout way and surround the thieves in the mountains! Our army has a large number of generals, as long as we can surround a group of thieves, those barbarians will be unable to fly! ”

Bamble said kindly: "Enxiang is really clever! (To be continued.) )