Before dawn, the 2,000 Ming army led by Wang Xinyu and the 2,000 Miao Li rebel army under Wang Jinzhong met at Ganshi Mountain.

"You don't have any long weapons, and we don't have many long weapons in our hands, and they are of different lengths, can we form a formation here to block the Tartars?" Wang Jinzhong felt that it would be very difficult to block the retreat of more than 10,000 people from Gao Jinku with 2,000 Ming troops and 2,000 rebel troops who had not undergone strict training.

"Let's take a look at the terrain!" Wang Xinyu took Wang Jinzhong and the rebel army to check the terrain.

Walking to a Jedi with a hillside on both sides and an official road passing through the middle valley, Wang Xinyu stood at the exit of the valley and said to Wang Jinzhong and his Miao Li rebels: "Dig two trenches here, and dig out a mound of earth and a city of earth." ”

From Yazhou to Wanzhou, it is hilly terrain, and there is no Jedi like Sichuan and Fujian, this kind of terrain can block the enemy, but the width of the valley mouth is too wide, there are more than 20 zhang wide, to build an earthen city, time is too late.

"Time may not be enough! If Gao Jinku knew that Yazhou had been lost, they would come over soon. We don't have time to build an earthen city. Wang Jinzhong looked at the sky and said.

"We don't need to be very tall in the earth city, we set up wolf tooth rackets on the slopes on both sides of the earth city, and when the tartars come, they will smash them in the middle. The earth we dug up could be used to build a small four-foot-tall earthen city with a wooden fence on it. It only takes a thousand people to block the valley mouth! On each side of the hill, 1,500 men were arranged, and the stones were pushed down and beckoned into the valley! No matter how many people come to the Tartars, they can't rush through! Wang Xinyu looked at this wonderful terrain and said with a smile.

Soon two trenches appeared at the exit of the valley, and a small earthen city four feet high blocked the way. A six-foot-high wooden fence was erected on top of the earthen city. The earthen castle is connected to the edge of the hillside. Trenches were also dug on the hillsides on both sides of Tucheng, and the soldiers of the Miao Li Rebellion were panting and pushing the wolf tooth swatter they had just made up the hillside.

After a short rest, the Ming soldiers began to build weapons or help build fortifications.

The 2,000 Ming troops who came here all carried short weapons because of the night march, and did not carry long weapons such as spears and knives. Of the 2,000 men, many were pikemen or swordmen. However, this problem is easy to solve: Liu Laowu and Wu Zhudan led the Ming soldiers to cut down trees, specially cut down some hard, one-and-a-half-inch thick trees, cut off the outer bark, and tied the one-handed seedling knife with the made pole with a strong hemp rope.

Lancet!

This simple long knife that is transformed from a short weapon into a long weapon can form a formation to block the enemy. The blade of the Miao knife was originally 3 feet 8 inches long, and with the handle close to the length of the foot, it was a total of 5 feet 6 inches. Tie a six-foot-long wooden pole to turn it into a long knife that is nearly a foot long! It can be used as a substitute for a spear.

All the Ming troops, who were originally pikemen and long knife soldiers, pierced the Miao knife and turned it into a hemp knife.

After making a hemp knife, the Ming army assisted Miao Liyi's army to cut down trees on both sides of the mountains to build six simple trebuchets.

The simple trebuchet is very simple to make, cut down a big tree as a lever, and then use a few wooden beams to support it, fix the lever with a wedge, tie a bamboo basket to the long end of the lever, and connect dozens of hemp ropes to the short end, so that the simplest trebuchet is completed, and it is not even used for an hour before and after.

Of course, the range of an improvised trebuchet is not too far, but about one hundred and fifty paces. However, throwing stones from the top of the mountain can not only increase the range, but also make it much more powerful.

That Gao Jinku is also a veteran of the battlefield. From Chongzhen's seven years of rebellion with King Chuang, and then followed Gao Jie to surrender to the Ming army, and finally surrendered to the Qing army, first blocking Li Chengdong anyway, and then cooperating with Tan Tai to break Jin Hengsheng, and then came to Hainan Island in his later years to deal with Miao Li's righteous army, Gao Jin Kurong horse career for 25 years, combat experience is very rich. Last night, when he was in the big tent of the Chinese army, he saw a red light in the south sky.

Gao Jinku thought that Yazhou must have been breached, and the governor of Yazhou did not have any experience in defending the city at all, so many days, Haikou must have broken through Yazhou overnight.

The withdrawal of troops will definitely be withdrawn, but the news of the loss of Yazhou must not be announced in the army, otherwise the morale of the Qing troops will be reduced to zero, and the retreat will become a rout at that time. As long as the Ming army is behind the scenes, there will be few Qing troops left who can escape back to Wanzhou.

Most of the Qing soldiers had night blindness, and the only way to retreat at night was to retreat with torches. But as soon as the torches are fought, the Ming army in the Tucheng on the opposite side will find that they are chasing and killing from behind, and if they fight at night, the Qing army will definitely be more than lucky. Therefore, Gao Jinku decided to wait until dawn before withdrawing his troops.

Gao Jinku summoned Yang Ji, Master, Eight Banners Leader and several generals to the big tent and told them: "The sky in the south was hot last night, and Yazhou must have been lost!" It doesn't make sense for us to be here! Prepare for the withdrawal. ”

Everyone believed what Gao Jinku said, Yazhou had been lost, and they all decided to withdraw their troops.

The Qing army began to retreat, and in order to confuse the Ming army on the opposite side, the Qing army began to retreat as soon as it was dawn. In the front battalion, a group of people and auxiliaries were also sent to cut wood in the mountains and forests on both sides, and put on the appearance of preparing to build siege tools to cover the retreat of the soldiers.

The nearly 1,000 people who were sent out to build siege tools were all abandoned and ready to be discarded by Gao Jinku. Anyway, these untrained people are not worth much, and the fierce green battalion soldiers are much more valuable than the people.

Gong Xiaoda, who was stationed in Banling, was really fooled, and thought that the Qing army was going to attack the city. When the Qing army retreated, Gong Xiaoda did not decisively order an attack, but was ready to continue to defend the city.

Walking on the mountain road, the master reminded Gao Jinku and said: "Lord Zhentai, we haven't cleared up the stubborn mountain people here, there are at least 2,000 Miao and Li people, I'm afraid that these Diao people will intercept us on the road." ”

"Don't be afraid of those rebels! We only need 500 men, and we can defeat 2,000 of them! Gao Jinku sneered.

After walking for an hour, suddenly the scout cavalry in front of him reported: "Report to Lord Zhentai!" There is a dirt castle in front of the valley mouth! Blocking our way! ”

"Tucheng again?" Gao Jinku was shocked.

The Qing army on the mountain road had stopped, and Gao Jin Kuzema walked to the front of the group, only to see two five-foot-wide trenches appear at the mouth of the valley in front of them, and a small mound about four or five feet high, which could not be called a dirt city at all, blocked the way. To make matters worse, the small mound is topped with a wooden fence.

"Hahaha! Just such a small dirt slope that still wants to block our way? Give me a drumming attack right away! Gao Jinku, who was riding on a horse, looked up to the sky and laughed.

At this time, Wang Xinyu also saw the Qing soldiers who entered the warehouse, and he was wondering how the Qing army retreated, and Gong Xiaoda, who stayed in Banling, did not take the opportunity to pursue and kill the Qing army from behind.

After thinking for a while, Wang Xinyu understood that this Gao Jinku is a veteran of the battlefield, and he is the general of Gao Jie, the harrier who has turned over the mountain, this person has experienced thousands of small battles, and a little trick can make Gong Xiaoda fooled. At that time, Wang Xinyu told Gong Xiaoda to stick to Banling, but he explained that he could not hold on, and no matter what tricks the Qing army used, he would not take the initiative to attack, so as not to be tricked and be led out by the Qing army to be eliminated in the field battle.

"Send a beacon signal and let Gong Xiaoda attack immediately!" Wang Xinyu ordered a pro-soldier.

On the top of the mountain, a beacon fire was lit to send a signal to Banling for the Qing army to retreat.

Gong Xiaoda saw the beacon signal and immediately made people blow up the earth city and rushed out of the city. The nearly 1,000 people who were chopping wood in the mountains and forests saw the Ming army rushing over like wolves and tigers, and they turned around in fright and fled back to the camp. But when they returned to the camp, they found that the Qing army camp was already empty! These people have become outcasts.

"Kill!" The Ming army shouted and rushed into the camp of the Qing army.

Where did the Minzhuang who had no combat effectiveness dare to stop them, after the Ming army killed a few Minzhuang who tried to escape and resisted, the rest of the Minzhuang knelt on the ground and surrendered.

Nearly 1,000 people were strong, except for more than 200 people who were killed, more than 100 people fled from the mountains and forests in a panic, and the rest all surrendered.

Ganshi Mountain, the Qing army has already begun to attack.

The war drums rumbled, and a group of Qing saber and shield bearers lined up in a neat formation and walked towards the small dirt slope step by step. The Qing archers in the back pressed the formation, ready to cover the attack of the sword and shield men with bows and arrows.

Seeing that the Qing army was about to arrive in Tucheng, a small flag in the hand of a Ming soldier waved.

"Put!"

On the hillsides on both sides of the earth city, more than a dozen wolf fangs rolled down.

The Qing soldiers on both sides of the formation were smashed by the wolf's fangs, and a large area was overturned on the spot, and more than 30 Qing soldiers and shield men flew out screaming.

The Ming army on the hill pulled the rope and took the wolf's teeth back.

On the hills on both sides, the improvised trebuchet also began to exert its power, and baskets of stones the size of watermelons flew out, pulling out arcs in the air and falling in the valley, smashing the bones of the Qing soldiers, and their brains bursting, many Qing soldiers were stoned to death, and a large number of archers who followed behind the sword and shield hands were also stoned to death.

However, neither the wolf's tooth slap nor the trebuchet could stop the Qing soldiers who were eager to flee for their lives.

"Kill!" Soon the Qing saber and shield men rushed to the trench.

As soon as it was blocked by the trench, the formation of the Qing army was suddenly chaotic. A large number of Qing soldiers jumped into the trench that was not deep, and when they were about to climb out, countless smoking bottles of the country were thrown from the top of the mound not far away, and smashed into the trench accurately.

"Boom, boom, boom" explosions were heard again and again, and the Qing soldiers who fell in the trench suffered heavy casualties.

The Qing soldiers, who were not dead, struggled to crawl out of the trench sprinkled with pieces of minced meat, and at this time rows of heavy arrows were shot from the middle of the wooden fence. The archers were aiming at the arrows placed on the edge of the trench, and these Qing soldiers had just climbed out of the trench, and many of them had already blown up their shields in their hands, or when they climbed up, they put their shields on the edge of the trench in order to exert force with both hands, and as a result, they lost their protection, and the arrows that came were pierced on the front door.

When it was easy to climb over the trench and jump into the second trench, the Qing soldiers found that although the slope was not high, it was only four feet high, but with the trench nearly four feet deep, it was eight feet high! This is already a wall! The Qing soldiers who fell in the trench used their hands and feet together, and they couldn't climb up at all.

"Kill!" A roar rang out from above.

In the wooden fence, rows of hemp knives stretched out, stabbing desperately into the trench, stabbing the Qing soldiers who fell inside to death one by one. The sharp Miao knife pierced the armor of the Qing soldiers, cut through the muscles, and took the lives of the Qing soldiers.

The Qing archers covering behind released their arrows one after another, and rows of heavy arrows shot at the wooden fence. However, most of the arrows were blocked by the thigh-thick wooden fence, and only a few heavy arrows penetrated through the gaps in the wooden fence. The Ming army inside was wearing paper armor, although this armor could not withstand spear stabs and knife slashes, but the ability to resist bows and arrows was still very good.

Behind the wooden fence, there were only a few Ming casualties.

Seeing that the heavy arrows were ineffective, the Qing army switched to light arrows and threw them.

Rows of arrows flew over the wooden fence, but the Ming army's water-soaked cloth blocked most of the light arrows. A small number of light arrows hit the Ming soldiers, but they were blocked by paper armor, and did not cause many casualties.

Except for a few Ming soldiers who were wounded, the others continued to stab indiscriminately into the trench with their sabotage knives.

The Qing soldiers who were not dead turned around and fled from the trench, crawled out in embarrassment, and were killed by a large number of random arrows fired from behind by the Ming army.

Gao Jinku saw that his first round of attack was lightly defused by the Ming army, and then looked at the soil slope on the opposite side, which did not look high, but this soil slope, the trench and the mountains on both sides formed a complete set of tight defense system, which seemed to be easy to break, but in fact, it could make the Qing army meet here and break the blood!

However, it was also clear that the defense system was very flawed: as long as the trenches were filled, the small dirt slope that was only four feet high did not pose a threat at all. In addition, the Ming army could build simple trebuchets, and the Qing army could also build simple trebuchets. As long as you hit it with trebuchets for a while, and then a group of shield carts protect it, you can rush to the trench and fill it up.

"Get out of the valley and build a shield car!" Gao Jinku ordered.

Gong Xiaoda, who was behind the Qing army, chased after him with more than 2,500 people. But Gao Jinku is also a veteran of the battlefield, he can't have any protection behind him, let the Ming army follow behind his ass to cover up, he knows that there are not many Ming troops in Tucheng, and he can chase his own up to 3,000 people, so he left 2,000 men and horses to cut off the Ming army and protect the main retreat.

The 2,000 Qing troops left behind by Gao Jinku had already encountered the Ming army.

"Formation!" Gong Xiao roared.

The Ming army's heavy armor sword soldiers were in front, and there were large wooden signs to strengthen the defense, followed by pikemen mixed with long knife soldiers, followed by archers and bird guns, and finally Portuguese and English musketeers, and several heavy musketeers, carrying the kind of heavy musketeers that could penetrate several people with one shot, and set up.

The mountain road is narrow, the formation cannot be dispersed, and there are not many heavy armor shield soldiers in front, only more than 20 people.