The Li warrior was introduced into the big tent of the Chinese army, and when he saw Wang Xinyu, the Li warrior clasped his fists and reported to his home: "Lingshui people, Wang Jinzhong see the general!" ”

Wang Xinyu looked at this person carefully, and saw that he had half a bundle of long hair on his head, tied in a bun, and a blue turban on his head, and his hairstyle was very similar to that of Han men, but the Han people's hairstyle was a full bundle, and the Li people were half a bunch. The clothes on his body are the standard clothes of the Li people, wearing open-chested, buttonless and collarless clothes, with a belt around his waist and a waist knife on his shoulder. The clothes were sleeveless, and it could be seen that the man was very strong, and his muscles were bulging one by one.

"Good! What a good man! Wang Xinyu praised again and again.

Wang Jinzhong said: "General! After Qinggou came to Qiongzhou, Lingshui's dog official Wang She joined forces with our Tusi to persecute our people, and forced us Li people to shave their heads as well! We, the Li people, were really angry, so we raised troops to resist the government. However, the Qing court was so powerful that we could not attack the county seat, so we had to retreat into the mountains. We've been in the mountains for three years, and they're helpless about us! ”

The Qing army also suffered a lot of losses at the hands of the Li people, who were good at fighting in the mountains. These brave warriors are called wolf soldiers, and they are all naturally brave warriors. In the mountains and forests, they used poisonous arrows to seal their throats with blood, traps, and various mechanisms to make the Qing troops who entered the mountains to encircle and suppress them suffer enough.

Wang Xinyu said: "You are also here to kill the dog Tartars, we are all the same!" We have a common enemy! Those dog officials who oppress you Li people, we will definitely not let it go! But I don't know what your toast has to do with your people? If the people are too angry and have a blood debt, they should be asked to repay the blood debt! ”

"Most of the toasts are in cahoots with the government! There are good ones, but not many! They treat us like slaves, and they take all the fruits of our hard work for nothing! My fiancée was snatched away by them! In a fit of rage, I went to the city to find the official of the imperial court and sue us Tusi. But the official accepted the benefits of toast and beat me out! I could only watch my woman being snatched away by the hateful toast! So I rebelled with my clansmen, but the hateful Tusi hid in the county and couldn't come out, and the officers and soldiers of the imperial court were helping him! Wang Jinzhong said angrily.

Wang Xinyu said: "I laid down Qiongzhou, just to divide the land for all of you Li people!" In the future, you won't have to pay taxes on farming! There will be no one to deprive you of the fruits of your labor! ”

"Is this true?" Wang Jinzhong asked incredulously.

"The big husband is full of words!" Wang Xinyu said with a smile.

In Qiongzhou, Wang Xinyu did not hesitate to take the bloodiest agrarian revolution against the Li and Miao people, directly overthrowing those Tusi and distributing the land to the local people, so that he could get the support of the local Li and Miao people.

Because the political environment here is different from other places, in the territory of the Han people, the scholar class has extremely strong power, and controls most of the resources from the land to the intellectuals. But among the Li and Miao people, it is different, those toasts are very powerful in the local area, but in the face of the powerful state apparatus, these toasts are nothing.

Wang Xinyu asked Jiang Zhiping, who came from Borneo, to tell Wang Jinzhong about the situation in Borneo, and when he said that Borneo does not collect agricultural taxes and that the wasteland he has cultivated is his own, Wang Jinzhong asked: "The general can do the same to the Han people and to the Li people?" ”

"Whether it is a Li person or a Han person, as long as I am a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, we will treat them equally! Regardless of whether the Li people or the Miao people, as long as they are on our side, they are all friends! Even the Han people, if they act for the tiger, betray the country for glory, and are willing to be traitors, they are our enemies! Wang Xinyu said loudly.

However, Wang Jinzhong couldn't hand over his elite wolf soldiers just because of Wang Xinyu's empty words. He also had to see Wang Xinyu's actual actions: "General, we can cooperate to deal with the common enemy first!" But what the general said, I still hope to see the general in action! ”

"Please rest assured! What I, Wang Yu, have said, will definitely be done! Wang Xinyu suddenly remembered that since he wanted to cooperate, he had to show a little sincerity first.

"Li Rui!" Wang Xinyu shouted.

"In!"

"Go and prepare some armor and weapons for this warrior!" Wang Xinyu ordered.

"No!"

Soon after, Li Rui had 500 sets of chain mail, 300 steel knives, 200 spears, and 100 pairs of bows and arrows carry.

Seeing the gift given to himself, Wang Jinzhong was very happy.

You know, these weapons are worth a lot of money! Let's just talk about those armors, although their rebels fought bravely, they often suffered losses without armor. Since the other party is so generous as soon as he makes a move, then he should sincerely cooperate with the other party.

Then, Wang Jinzhong asked: "In the Banling area, it is also your people who block the Tartars, right?" ”

"Yes, it's our people." Wang Xinyu nodded and said.

"The Tartars have suffered a big loss in Banling, I'm afraid they will carry cannons from Wanzhou! Your defenders in Banling don't have too big artillery. If the Tartars bring the red-coated cannons, you will suffer a great loss! Wang Jinzhong reminded.

"The redcoat cannons were very heavy, and it took them days to carry them. If the Tartars dare to bring their artillery, can we intercept them halfway? Wang Xinyu asked.

Wang Jinzhong said: "I have two thousand warriors here, we are familiar with the mountain road, and we can take you to outflank the back road of the Tartars!" ”

"If we can go around the back of the enemy, can we take the line of the enemy's retreat and trap these Tartars in the valley?" Wang Xinyu asked.

"It can be done! We can mobilize a group of people to help the generals! ”

Wang Xinyu said: "But then we have to solve the enemy in Yazhou first!" Otherwise, we will not have enough troops to divide our forces. Otherwise, I'll send a thousand people to help you first, and we'll work together to block Gao's retreat. Then we attacked Yazhou at night and took Yazhou down. ”

"It's a good idea, but it has to be well timed." Wang Jinzhong said.

At this time, Gao Jinku was storming Banling Tu City.

Since the defenders had artillery, unless the attacking Qing army had artillery with a longer range, all siege weapons would be smashed to pieces if they were shelled. In this case, Gao Jinku could only give an order to let the Qing army fill it in, and also take down the Tucheng.

Under the one-zhang high earthen city, the Qing army had already filled in the trenches. Below the Tucheng, the corpses of the Qing army were piled up into a hill more than three feet high, and the trench was full of sacks, and many corpses were also thrown in the trench and filled in the ditch with the sacks. Hordes of Qing troops rushed over and climbed up with improvised ladders.

Under the city, the Qing archers threw light arrows, and like feather arrows raining, they crossed the top of the wooden fence and landed on the top of the city, causing certain casualties to the defenders.

On the earth city, the archers of the Ming army have long had sore arms, and it is difficult to pull bows and arrows; The bird's guns were damaged a lot, and some of the bird's guns were overheated and exploded, causing casualties among the soldiers, and there was not much gunpowder; There is not much left of the most powerful large national surname bottle, Gong Xiaoda does not dare to use the national surname bottle anymore, and wants to keep the last few national surname bottles and use them at the most critical moment. The Ming army at the head of the city could only use weapons such as grinding stones pulled by ropes and wolf tooth slaps to smash into the city; poured hot gold juice under the city and killed and wounded a large number of Qing troops; Pour it down with boiling oil, drop the torch again, and burn the ladder.

"The Tartars are coming up! Let's step back! Gong Xiaoda ordered.

The first Qing soldier climbed the earthen city, climbed over the wooden fence, and jumped onto the top of the city. More and more Qing soldiers climbed up and appeared at the head of the city.

The morale of the Qing army was greatly boosted, and they climbed to the top of the city one after another.

But the Qing army that went to the head of the city was dumbfounded: there was a three-foot-high city wall on the head of the Tucheng! There's a wooden fence on it! Inside the wooden fence, spears more than a zhang long stretched out, like poisonous snakes spitting letters, constantly swallowing, stabbing the Qing soldiers who had just climbed to the top of the city one after another.

The walls of the earth city are one and a half feet wide, and the seven feet in front are the head of the city where the defenders were stationed when they were defending the city. Seven feet behind is the earthen city of the city, which is two feet high at the head of the city, and in the middle is a wooden fence one foot thick. As soon as the Qing army climbed the top of the city, the defenders could immediately retreat behind the wooden fence and change to pikemen to assassinate the Qing soldiers who climbed up to the top of the city.

The door of the wooden fence was closed, and the thick wooden latch was locked, and the Qing soldiers could not break the wooden fence at all. And a spear more than a foot long can pierce the wooden fence in front from the wooden fence in the back!

The Qing soldiers standing at the head of the city had no place to hide, because it was a siege, they did not have long weapons in their hands, they were all short knives and shields and other weapons, they were assassinated by spears, and they were only beaten in vain, and they had no power to fight back at all.

Some of the Qing soldiers in heavy armor, although they were not stabbed to death by spears, but the dense spears stabbed them, stabbed their calves without armor, and stabbed these Qing soldiers to the head of the city, and then the spears pierced into the face gate and throat.

The heavy losses made Gao Jinku already plan to give up the attack, but the constant wolf smoke from the direction of Yazhou made him want to stop.

"Cave attack! Dig a tunnel to get through! Gao Jinku thought of a way.

Yang Ji said: "My lord, it will take a long time to attack the cave, I'm afraid that before we take Tucheng, Yazhou will be lost!" ”

A simple construction, a small earthen city, so that Gao Jinku has lost more than a thousand people here. I can't afford such a loss, but if I want to give up, what should I do with my family in Guangzhou?

"The people who transported the baggage and grain from Wanzhou are all organized and let them come to attack the city!" Gao Jinku thought of a way.

On the mountain road, the people who came out of Wanzhou pushed carts of grain and grass and marched in the direction of Banling. In the baggage team, there are also some auxiliaries who are struggling to drive the red-coated cannons pulled by oxen.

This cannon of more than 3,000 catties is very inconvenient to move, and can only be installed on a wooden frame with wheels, which is pulled by oxen or mules, and the movement speed is also very slow. It has been three days and three nights since I came out of Wanzhou, and I have only walked half the way.

In the dense mountains and forests on both sides, groups of rebels dressed in Li and Miao costumes were ambushed.

The bows in the hands of the rebels are all weak bows for hunting, but the Li people, who are good at using poison, feed some unknown poisons on the arrows, and as long as they are shot by arrows, they will see blood and seal their throats. There are also some Miao people who also have firearms in their hands, but there are not many of them.

Gao Jinku didn't expect that there would be a group of Li and Miao people attacking his baggage team in his rear!

When the Qing army entered the ambush circle, the sound of conch suddenly sounded in the mountains and forests.

"Kill!" Crowds of Li and Miao people shouted and slaughtered from the mountains and forests.

Before the people arrived, a row of highly poisonous light arrows arrived first.

These Qing army auxiliaries had no armor, and they were attacked by poisoned arrows.

Qing Bing, who was hit by the arrow, felt like he had been bitten by a mosquito, but soon the injured place began to numb, and soon he fell black on the mountain road.

The Qing army's auxiliaries and Minzhuang were attacked, and they were caught off guard and dozens of people were shot down at once.

In the blink of an eye, the Miao and Li people were killed within fifty paces, and more poisonous arrows were fired at the Qing army.

A scream rang out from the crowd of Qing troops, and a large number of auxiliaries and people fell.

Although these rebel armies did not undergo strict training and relied on individual martial arts to fight, they did not have the upper hand against the Qing army auxiliaries and Minzhuang, who also did not undergo rigorous training.

The rebels wielded Miao knives and scimitars, and cut down the Qing army auxiliaries and Minzhuang one by one. There were also many rebel soldiers killed by the Qing army on mountain roads.