There were dense jungles on both sides of the mountain road ahead, and Shuo Wenkoro keenly sensed that there was danger here.

Shuoweng Koro looked down on the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners in Beijing, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty had only been in the customs for more than ten years, and those guys had already degenerated into a group of sheep.

I recall that before entering the customs, every time before going on the expedition, the houses of the banner owners, Baylor, and Dutong were crowded with people, all begging to let them go on the expedition. Now that there is a war, before the expedition, the homes of the princes, Baylor, and princes are also crowded, but on the contrary, they are all begging not to let themselves go on the expedition.

Thinking of the performance of the Eight Banners disciples before and after entering the customs, Shuo Weng Koro felt that this was simply a shame for the Eight Banners warriors!

Although the Eight Banners stationed in Hainan are not as good as the Eight Banners stationed in Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan and Yunnan, they have to fight and kill the remnants of the puppet Ming Dynasty all day long, but Hainan is not a good place for peace and stability. Moreover, these southern barbarians are very cunning, and they have never confronted the Qing kings head-on, they hide in the mountains, and use poisoned arrows, animal traps, traps and other despicable means to deal with the Qing kings. Over the years, the children of the Eight Banners have suffered a lot of losses in Hainan.

Now the Manchurians have long learned to be smart, to step on traps, to step on animal traps, to top poisonous arrows, naturally there are green battalion soldiers to do it, and the Eight Banners soldiers only need to hide behind as a supervising team.

But even so, the martial arts stationed in Hainan Eight Banners are still not wasted, otherwise how could they be able to suppress the green battalion soldiers and let them honestly go to the front to die?

The two groups of green battalion scout cavalry who went out just now did not come back, and the leader of the Eight Banners ordered to send the Eight Banners scouts to reconnoitre.

Although Gao Jinku is the general soldier of the second rank stationed in Hainan, and the Eight Banners Leader stationed here is only a small five-rank petty official, but in fact, the status of the Eight Banners Leader is still above Gao Jinku.

Entering the mountain road, the valley in front of me turned a corner, and the dense primeval forest blocked the view, so that the road ahead could not be seen at all.

Shuo Weng Koro pulled out his saber and pointed to the sky, and all the scouts drew their sabers.

"Rush through here!" Shuo Wenkoro shouted.

The scouts were riding their horses, their legs clamped between their horses, and the horses gradually accelerated, trying to pass here at a moderate speed.

"Whoosh" The whistling sound of a row of random arrows sounded in the mountains and forests on both sides.

These Qing soldiers were all experienced veterans, and when they heard the sound of random arrows, they immediately protected the door with their arms. They were heavily armoured, and as long as the arrows did not hit their faces and throats, they would not be harmed.

Who knew that the opponent was not shooting people at all, but shooting horses!

After a row of arrows, two horses were full of arrows, and the wounded horses were in pain and overturned their owners on horseback to the side of the road. Two other war horses were also hit by arrows, but the injuries were not very serious, and the severe pain stimulated the war horses to speed up and gallop, and the two Qing scouts rushed to the front at once.

"Rush over!" Shuo Onkoro shouted.

Before the words fell, the second row of random arrows hit, and three more war horses were hit by arrows, and after galloping forward for a while, they threw their masters on horseback out.

Seeing that there were not many enemies, Soonkoro reined in his horse and ordered all the scouts to dismount.

The five Qing soldiers who fell off their horses, because the speed of the war horses was not very fast, and they were protected by thick cotton armor, except for one who fell more heavily, the other four fell on the ground and were not seriously injured, and when they heard the order, they immediately got up, took out their bows and arrows, and counterattacked in the mountains and forests.

The arrows on the mountain kept shooting, and each scout was full of arrows, but except for the armor-piercing heavy arrows shot by Cao Lei and another scout, who killed two Qing soldiers, the remaining nine Qing soldiers all screamed as if they were fine, and rushed towards the mountains and forests.

The arrows fired by the Qing soldiers also killed one scout and injured many others.

There were only more than ten steps left between the two sides, Cao Lei dropped the iron bow, grabbed the spear on the ground, roared, and killed the Qing soldiers. The rest of the scouts also dropped their bows and arrows, armed with spears, hammers, axes, iron rods, palladium, heavy swords and other weapons, and shouted and killed the Qing soldiers.

Fourteen scouts, against nine Qing soldiers, the numerical superiority made these scouts not have the slightest fear. The Scout's green cloth coat also has heavy armor inside, and his equipment is no worse than that of the Qing soldiers.

Cao Lei rushed to a Qing soldier with an arrow, and the spear in his hand stabbed out like lightning, and before the Qing soldier could react, he was stabbed in the throat by the spear.

The soldier looked incredulously at the spear that pierced his throat, blood flowing from his mouth.

As soon as Cao Lei's spear was retracted, a bloody sword erupted from the neck of the Qing soldier. The Qing soldier's hand holding the saber was raised high, and he danced a few times before falling heavily on his back.

Behind him, a scout armed with a hammer smashed a slapped on the helmet of a Qing soldier, just like a hammer smashing a watermelon, smashing the helmet flat, and the head of the Qing soldier burst open like an open watermelon, and brains and blood spurted out.

Another scout armed with a heavy sword slashed a soldier in two, but he himself was slashed in the shoulder by a soldier. Despite the heavy armor on his body, the sword was so powerful that the scout only heard the sound of his own bones shattering, and the heavy sword in his hand fell to the ground.

The soldier stabbed the scout in the throat, but a scout on the side slashed with an axe and split the soldier's helmet and brain in half.

Cao Lei faced a Qing soldier who had already hacked one of his comrades to death and slashed two of them.

That Qing soldier is none other than Shuo Weng Koro. He had just swung a knife and cut off the head of a Ming soldier, and the bloody knife in his hand had cut off the arm of a Ming soldier. At this moment, an ash spear struck like lightning.

Soonkoro turned, parryed the spear stabbed at him, and tried to grab the barrel with his hand. However, the martial arts of the Ming army were very strong, and the barrel of the gun was used as a club, and it was severely whipped on Shuo Weng Keluo's arm. Only a "snap" was heard, and Shuo Wenkoro felt a sharp pain in his arm.

"Damn the dog!" Shuo Weng Coro cursed in his mouth and slashed it with a knife.

Cao Lei parried the knife that the Qing soldiers struggled to cut, he only felt that the Qing soldiers were infinite, his tiger mouth was numb, and the spear in his hand was almost unstable. But Cao Lei's martial arts skills were very high, and he waved his spear and whipped away at the Qing soldiers.

Shuo Weng Keluo stabbed and blocked the barrel of the gun that was whipped, but instead shocked Cao Lei to the point that his mouth was bleeding. Then another knife slashed, only to see the two weapons collide, the fire splashed, Cao Lei's tiger mouth broke, and the spear was shaken to the ground.

"Han dog, go die!" Shuo Weng Koro cursed in his mouth, and he was about to cut it down with a knife.

"Boom" There was a fiery shot, and Shuo Weng Koro felt a pain in his chest.

Cao Lei was holding a short gun in his hand, and white smoke was still emitting from the muzzle of the gun. Although the bullet was blocked by the Qing soldier's cotton armor and failed to penetrate, it also broke one of Shuo Wenkoro's ribs.

The wounded Shuo Weng Koro slowed down for a moment, and a piercing pain came, and the broken ribs made his hand lose strength. At this time, Cao Lei grabbed Shuo Weng Keluo's knife with his left hand, and smashed it with a fist with his right hand, smashing it firmly on Shuo Weng Keluo's face. The hammer-like fist smashed the Qing soldier's face.

Shuo Weng Koro fell to the ground, Cao Lei rode on it, and his punch was as tight as a punch, so that the Qing soldier no longer moved.

The battle was over, and all nine Qing soldiers were killed, and the one who was thrown off his horse and seriously wounded was also shot in the throat by the scout. In addition to the two Qing soldiers killed by heavy arrows, all twelve scout Qing soldiers were annihilated. But Cao Lei's scouts were not comfortable, four were killed, three were seriously wounded, and everyone else was wounded.

"Dog Tartar doesn't look very good!" Said a scout who was cutting off someone's head with a knife.

"I killed a little hard, and I forgot to leave a living mouth." Cao Lei slapped his head in annoyance.

One of the scouts smiled and said, "Wait for the Green Camp to come and leave us alive." ”

Cao Lei said: "Do you think there will be fake Tartars coming?" I guess they won't have anyone pass by here overnight! ”

"Shouldn't we go back?" A large man with a beard asked.

"No way!" Cao Lei said word by word, "We still have to stay here for one night!" When the earth city is finished tomorrow morning, our task will be completed. ”

went out three batches of scout cavalry in a row, but none of them came back, and the last group was still twelve of the most elite Eight Banner cavalry, which made Gao Jinku feel in a dilemma.

"Do we want to go to the rescue of Yazhou?" Gao Jinku asked.

Yang Jidao: "Lord Commander, the number of pirates attacking Yazhou is not much, only four or five thousand, deducting auxiliaries, the maximum number of soldiers is two thousand." And they didn't have cavalry. We have more than 7,000 men and more than 4,000 soldiers, and we are afraid that we will not be able to take them? ”

"Then we'll set up camp and we'll be on our way tomorrow!" Yazhou City is impregnable, and Haikou doesn't have ten days and half a month, so he doesn't want to take Yazhou City! Gao Jinku touched his beard and nodded.

On the afternoon of the seventh day of the 11th lunar month, the Qing army reinforcing Yazhou arrived at Banling.

"Oh my God! In front, the pirates built an earthen city! "The Qing army exploring the way ahead sent back such news.

After receiving the report from the spies, Gao Jinku went to the front to take a look and found that the Ming army had built an earthen city in the middle of the T-shaped intersection of the two roads in Banling. The earthen castle is one foot high, and there is a six-foot-high wooden fence inserted on it. In front of the earthen city was a ditch one zhang wide and four feet deep. Tucheng was built just in front of the hillside, and behind it was a gradually rising mountain range, blocking the two roads that branched off from here to Yazhou.

"This damn earth city is blocking the two roads to Yazhou!" Gao Jinku gasped.

If you go around, there are cliffs on both sides, and you can't get around from here at all. If you want to get around Tucheng, you can only walk a long way. However, this place is full of primeval forests, and as long as the opponent places some traps and traps in the forest, he can make himself unable to defeat the army. Then set up an ambush in the forest, how many of the 7,000 people could make it to Yazhou alive? It is estimated that they were scattered halfway.

Do you want to attack it? Gao Jinku is hesitating.

The wolf smoke signal sent from Yazhou, there are four or five thousand people in Haikou, and they can still divide their troops to block the mountain road, and to besiege the city, they need at least three thousand people, and the maximum number that can be divided is only two thousand.

"Prepare for the siege!" Gao Jinku asked people to prepare to build siege weapons.

The Qing army auxiliaries of the Green Battalion began to craft siege weapons such as ladders, rushing cars, shield cars, skulls, and flying bridges.

It's already afternoon, and the speed of crafting siege weapons is not so fast, so we can only attack the city tomorrow morning. Gao Jinku ordered, the green battalion soldiers to help set up camp, build a camp, spend the night in the valley, and wait for tomorrow morning, after building siege weapons, and then attack Tucheng.

In order to prevent being injured by the artillery in the city, the Qing army set up a large camp about two miles away from Tucheng.

Late at night, gongs and drums suddenly sounded in the camp of the Ming army in front, and black figures were lowered from the city wall.

"The enemy is coming to steal the camp!" Gao Jinku woke up from his sleep.

The dark shadow coming down from the city approached the Qing army camp in the dark.

In the dark, the Qing army did not know how many enemies were attacking, and did not dare to attack rashly, but just released arrows to block it. Rows of arrows were fired, and the black shadows that approached were all shot into hedgehogs.

After tossing for half an hour, the gongs and drums in the camp of the Ming army ceased, and the Ming army retreated, returning to the city with the black shadow that was shot into a hedgehog.

It turned out that this was Wang Xinyu's plan to lure the enemy: he asked a group of soldiers wearing thick armor to carry the straw men tied up, pushed them with small carts, and launched a feint attack on the Qing army camp. When they came down from the city, the soldiers, the straw men, and the chariots came down together, and each soldier pushed a chariot, and on each cart stood three or four straw men, and in front of the chariot there were two or three straw men. With the straw man blocking it, plus the armor on the body, the arrows shot by the Qing army will not hurt the soldiers.

In the dark, the Qing army couldn't see the car clearly, only saw a black shadow, and thought that there were thousands of troops and horses attacking, so they didn't dare to attack at all, but they just ordered to release arrows to block it, and as a result, they tossed for a long time, and they didn't hurt a single Ming soldier.

After an hour, the sound of gongs and drums sounded again in the camp of the Ming army, and rows of straw men were put down.

The Qing army once again attacked with bows and arrows and bird guns, and after a lively fight for half an hour, the Ming army took back the straw man.

After two consecutive "straw men borrowing arrows", Gao Jinku finally saw the name: "These pirates want to harass us and prevent us from sleeping well!" If they come again, we will leave him alone! Just light bonfires all over the camp so they don't have a chance to sneak up! Let's go back to sleep! ”

For the third time in the camp of the Ming army, gongs and drums rang out, and rows of black shadows were released.

This time, the Qing army did not shoot arrows, but only left a few sentry soldiers, optimistic about the camp, so as not to be attacked by others. Bonfires were lit everywhere in the camp to avoid bombing the camp at night, and the rest of the Qing soldiers continued to sleep.

This time, it was a group of archers who put it down.

A hundred steps in front of the Qing army camp, a fire suddenly lit up, and the Ming army archers who were already in place lit torches and sent rows of rockets into the Qing army camp.

After releasing the rocket, the Ming archers immediately turned around, returned to the city, and climbed back along the rope.

By the time the Qing army in the camp had extinguished the fire and sent archers to meet the attack, these Ming archers had already retreated and returned to their camp unscathed.

The Qing army was busy for another hour, and when it was quiet, it was almost dawn.

When the Ming army was harassing, their main force fell asleep in the Tucheng and slept peacefully.