Meng Yong has rattan soldiers, Yue Zhongqi has Miao soldiers, and Nian Qianyao embezzled the treasury and secretly recruited more than 1,000 Miao soldiers, which were charged to the newly built promotion standard, hoping that these Miao soldiers who climbed mountains and mountains like walking on flat ground, made good use of short knives, and had fierce hearts could compete with Li Shi's strong army.

But Yue Zhongqi knew that Li Shi's elite subordinates would never be inferior to the Miao soldiers in hand-to-hand combat, and when he took the Miao soldiers to attack Huanggang Mountain in Shaozhou, he was firmly blocked by the bayonet array, and he couldn't score half a point.

Therefore, he wanted to suggest to Chen Yuanlong to attack Baiyun Mountain, and flank the thief army with the flexibility of the Miao soldiers, rather than fighting hard with the thief army on this narrow mountain range. But the news that Chen Yuanlong told him has been confirmed, and his backer Nian Qianyao was transferred to Sichuan, and he had to suppress his domineering heart, so Chen Yuanlong wanted to launch a ruthless attack, and it was really possible to cut off his head with a knife.

Early in the morning, he drove the Miao soldiers to the top of the slope, and at first he felt smooth, relying on the courage of the Miao soldiers, he almost knocked the thief army down Jinji Ridge, but then the reinforcements of the thief army arrived, and the two sides could not hold each other on the top of the slope. When he sent reinforcements, the second wave of reinforcements from the thief army arrived, but in a few moments, the Miao soldiers he had relied on on the Great Wall collapsed.

Because the thief army that came up was a Yao soldier, beating the waist drum, waving a straight knife similar to the Miao knife, dressed in red, blue, white and black, dressed in colorful green, almost the same as the Miao people's costume, which made the Miao soldiers very uncomfortable. These Yao soldiers, like the Miao soldiers, are all sharp at the foot and fierce in their shots, but their equipment is better than that of the Miao soldiers, their combat skills are more skilled, and they are also very good at fighting in groups, and the Miao soldiers are not opponents at all. There are even the surviving Miao soldiers of the first battle in Shaozhou earlier, seeing these Yao soldiers appearing, they simply turned around and ran, and they didn't know whether they were afraid that they would not be able to fight, or they were afraid of being ridiculed by the Yao soldiers.

This is not the most fatal, when the Miao soldiers familiar with the Xiangnan Miao language sounded in the Yao soldiers' ranks, the Miao soldiers no longer had the will to fight, and there were not only Yao soldiers on the opposite side, but also Miao soldiers! You can even see people of the same clan!

"Xu Nian Qianyao recruits Miao soldiers, so I am not allowed to recruit them!? He still shrunk his hands and feet, didn't dare to make a big move, and he didn't have much silver in his pocket, so we could not only make a big show, but also pay a lot of silver! How much does Nian Qianyao pay? January 22? Phew! Just use the standard of our lowest level of soldiers, and recruit in twos and threes! ”

This is what Li Shi explained to Jia Hao very early, before Pan Shiyu took Lian Yaoying north to Hunan, and he went to do this. The Miao people are divided into raw and ripe, and the Zhai Dong is also numerous, but there are Miao captives in Shaozhou before as guides, and it is often Nian Qianyao's subordinates who recruit some Miao people in some Zhai Dong on the front foot, and Panshi Yu goes to these places on the back foot to recruit those people's relatives.

Yue Zhongqi's Miao soldiers couldn't fight, they ran away, recognized their relatives, and disrupted the Qing soldiers who followed behind, Yue Zhongqi was very decisive, in addition to sending reinforcements again, he also ordered the Miao people to be regarded as enemies and slashed together. Anyway, the Miao soldiers had collapsed, and he wanted to take advantage of the chaos of the Miao soldiers to push this chaos onto the thief army.

His efforts only achieved short-term results, Pan Shiyu used the unskilled Hongmiao dialect, beckoning all the Miao people to gather in one direction and withdraw from the battlefield together, this order quickly pushed the Miao people in the Qing soldiers to turn against the water, Yue Zhongqi saw that the situation was not good, just like the previous battle of Shaozhou, left the troops in front of him, and hurriedly retreated with the remaining half of the soldiers.

Seeing the colorful Miao Yao soldiers coming from the north of Jinjiling and surrounding his Yunnan soldiers, Meng Yong scolded Yue Zhongqi for being wasteful and shameless, not even issuing a retreat order, and quickly retreating with his remaining soldiers, he was afraid that if he issued a retreat order, his subordinates would collapse and rush, and he would also mess up the 1,000 soldiers under his command who were still intact.

The battle began early in the morning, and before noon, the two guest armies from Yunnan and Hunan were defeated and retreated.

"The whole army is assaulting, and the target is Blackstone Ridge! Tell Zhang Hanwan that he is going to slow down, and I will whip him! ”

Jia Hao stepped on the Jinji Ridge with one foot deep and one foot shallow, watched the Qing soldiers retreat towards the west, and gave such an order. Then he raised his binoculars, and through the hazy drizzle, he saw that on the Black Stone Ridge, the Qing soldiers were being driven by the generals, desperately smashing the piles, as if they were going to set up camps, and couldn't help sneering.

"At least there are at least 10,000 people to fight, although you can't attack again, it's more than enough to hold the Black Stone Ridge! The thief army has run out of oil in Jinjiling, and now it is just the end of the crossbow, and they just want to take advantage of the chaos to gain land! Cheer up, victory or defeat in one fell swoop! Defeat the thief army in this Black Rock Ridge, and we will be the final victor! ”

In the big tent of Heishiling, Chen Yuanlong waved his arms and shouted, impassionedly, and the generals in the tent crooked their noses and slanted their mouths one by one, and they all said in their hearts that this scholar could not listen to a word, and he still cheered up? This ass is still hurting.

"Report! The thief army is attacking from Baiyun Mountain! ”

"Report! The thief army has reached the foot of the Black Rock Ridge, only a mile away! ”

The soldiers' anxious words immediately caused an uproar in the tent, and the generals rushed out, looking left and right, and saw the north and the east, and a large number of dark and heavy figures rushed at the same time, although the speed was not fast, but it was like a dark tide that could swallow everything.

The Qing soldiers who smashed the piles were like a flood that broke the embankment, and dispersed in an instant, and the generals were also short of breath one by one, and their eyes were almost white. borrowed the courage of their heavenly king, but they no longer dared to fight hand-to-hand with the thief army. In the past few days, they all felt as if they were flowing back and forth from the river of thorns, and many veterans even remembered the rebellion of the three feudatories, when most of them were still small soldiers, but they didn't think that there was such a tragic battle in the world.

Not only the Guangxi generals, but also Meng Yong and Yue Zhongqi, who had only been fighting for half a day, also felt that the raindrops were falling on their bodies, as cold as an ice pick inserted into their hearts.

"Defend Yang Zhitai!"

"Wuzhou City is in danger!"

The generals of Guangxi were not slow to react, beckoned their own soldiers, and rushed towards Wuzhou City. Chen Yuanlong strode out of the tent, drew his sword sonorously, his beard and eyebrows trembled, and he was about to slash down at the rout deserter.

"Lord Chen, people's hearts are flesh and blood, and it will be difficult for us to fight this battle!"

The generals of the town associations in various places ran away first, and the generals of Fubiao and Wuzhou Associations did not dare to be so presumptuous, but they did not want to be split by Chen Yuanlong's sword, and knelt on the ground one by one and cried.

Chen Yuanlong was in a trance in front of his eyes, only to feel that he was in a dream, a few days ago, these generals were as strong as a rock, Chen Yuanlong saw a strong confidence and unyielding on their faces, and now, one by one, they seemed to have lost half of their souls, and the rest was only enough for them to protect their lives.

The two guest armies of Yunnan and Hunan have their own strengths, but they are still defeated so quickly, is it really as the generals said, the thief army has killed and injured most of the officers and soldiers?

Chen Yuanlong looked around left and right, and on the faces of the soldiers who fled with their heads in their hands, he saw that the souls were more completely scattered than the generals, and they were no longer the soldiers he was familiar with who were determined to defend the country and protect their families.

"How is this possible, they clearly have lost the power of guns......"

Chen Yuanlong also saw the thief army coming from both sides, he still shook his head, how could he not believe it, hand-to-hand combat on a rainy day, several times that of the thief army, and his heart was even more high-spirited, how could he still be like a sunny day, under the guns of the thief army. No, it's more embarrassing than being baptized by the guns of the thieves on a sunny day.

"There are still 10,000 people, why don't you fight! Why not fight! ”

Chen Yuanlong mechanically questioned repeatedly, and the surrounding generals gave his servants a look, and the servants hugged Chen Yuanlong, hugged his legs and waist, lifted him up, and ran wildly towards Wuzhou City.

"There are still 10,000 people, why not fight! Why not fight! ”

Chen Yuanlong almost shouted with blood, and the servants were also so angry that they vomited blood, master, how can there be 10,000 people here, it is simply 10,000 frightened birds, no matter how bold you are, you have fought all over in Jinjiling in the past few days, and now who dares to mention hand-to-hand combat with the thief army again, that person will be regarded as a fool.

In Heishiling, there was almost no decent battle, and in less than a quarter of an hour, it all fell into the hands of the two armies of Yulin and Longxiang, and Jia Hao also reprimanded Zhang Hanwan very mercilessly. Zhang Hanwan was not familiar with the terrain, and he went down the muddy slope again, and came a little late, only holding more than 1,000 Qing soldiers with short legs, and hundreds of slightly injured, sluggish faces, like wounded people who had lost their souls.

"Chase! You chase me to the city of Wuzhou! ”

Jia Hao pointed to the west, Zhang Hanwan gritted his teeth and saluted, saying in his heart that the Long Xiang Army should also fight.

Greeted the right battalion of the front battalion of the Longxiang Army, and then followed by the Baicheng battalion of the Yulin Army, and the three battalions of nearly 5,000 men and horses did not stop, continuing to chase down to the west.

There is no expected blocking, only the scene of the Qing soldiers competing who runs faster and who takes a hundred steps, the more Zhang Hanwan chases, the more bottomless he is, is it ...... Heishiling is only three or four miles away from the east gate of Wuzhou, and the Qing army is crowded at the east gate, Yang Lin was shocked, and even Chen Yuanlong ignored it, and directly ordered the city to be closed. The rout and the defenders quarreled at the city gate, and during the period, there were also grievances between the Guangxi soldiers and the Guangdong soldiers led by Yang Lin.

"Grandpa crawled out of the pile of dead people, this Wuzhou is the territory of our Guangxi people, how can you allow you Cantonese who only know how to run away to call the shots!"

Cao Xinwen, a staff general of the Fubiao Middle Battalion in Guangxi, was wrapped in bandages, and he wanted to enter the city but couldn't, seeing that the city gate was about to be closed, and at the sound of an order, the waist knives of the Guangxi soldiers fell on the heads of those Guangdong soldiers.

When Zhang Hanwan chased him outside the east gate, he saw the Guangxi soldiers cheering up Yu Yong, looking for the souls of the Guangdong soldiers who had been scattered for a few days.

"This ...... Is this a failure? ”

Zhang Hanwan was incredulous.

"Zhang Tong, do you want to chase it?"

Peng Shihan, the commander of the Baicheng Battalion of the Yulin Army, wanted to take advantage of the chaos to pursue, but he felt that this scene was too chaotic and he was very hesitant. Zhang Hanwan also thought the same way, there were at least twenty or thirty thousand soldiers in Wuzhou City, and tens of thousands of ordinary people did not deal with them, so they rushed in, no guns or cannons, and they were really risky.

In the end, they simply clinged to the city wall and intercepted the large group of Qing soldiers who had not been able to escape into the city. There was chaos in the city, and Jia Hao also sent an order to them not to rush to attack the city. In addition to the worries of the two, Jia Hao still wants to let the Qing soldiers gather in the city, and when the weather is clear, he will take advantage of the chaos to seize the city, and the Qing soldiers will flee back to all parts of Guangxi, and then they will be cleared one by one, but it will be troublesome.

What made Jia Hao and Zhang Hanwan dumbfounded was that they forced to the city, those Qing soldiers collapsed without a fight, Yang Lin ran away with the Guangdong soldiers first, since he is now the governor of Liangguang, the whole territory of Guangxi is his territory, and he is ready to withdraw to Guilin. The other Qing soldiers in the city are basically shotspearmen, archers and horsemen, and now that it is raining, they have no power to defend the city, and they are also frightened by the tragic situation of their colleagues and have no heart to fight.

Another incident hastened the collapse of the Qing army's morale, and Chen Yuanlong, the governor of Guangxi, was intercepted. Jia Hao scolded Zhang Hanwan, Zhang Hanwan scolded Pan Shiyu again, Pan Shiyu held his breath, took Miao Yao's soldiers straight into the city gate, and caught Chen Yuanlong, who had not entered the city.

The conclusion that "the thief army is strong and inhuman" spread throughout Guangxi, Yunnan and Hunan provinces to clear the soldiers, for those who witnessed it, this is by no means a lie, the two leaders ran away, the other was arrested, Wuzhou completely lost order, but some sensible gentry and businessmen in Wuzhou City came to find Jia Hao, who surrounded Wuzhou on both sides, begging them to enter the city as soon as possible.

"Let's go first!"

Jia Hao originally thought that he was deceitful and didn't want to pay attention to it, but looking at Wuzhou City, there was indeed no effective control, the Qing soldiers looted in the city, and a large number of Wuzhou citizens fled out of the city, so he had to take a risk. Liu Cheng of the "commando" of the Baicheng Battalion of the Yulin Army asked for battle, and Jia Hao agreed.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the ironclad commandos entered the city, and they were originally ready to fight to the death, but the Qing soldiers they encountered along the way seemed to be finally freed, and they abandoned their weapons and surrendered, as if they were looking forward to this day. Liu Cheng had only two or three hundred men under him, and after going around the city, he actually brought out tens of thousands of soldiers...... On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Li Xi returned to Guangzhou from South Australia, and before he could continue his westward journey, he received a battle report from Jia Hao to take Wuzhou. I want to gather and annihilate the Qing soldiers, not an empty city! ”

Then he saw the numbers on the battle report, in the entire battle of Wuzhou, the Qing soldiers were estimated to have killed 14,000 and captured more than 20,000, counting the four or five thousand Yang Lin troops who fled to Guilin, and the 50,000 Qing soldiers gathered in Wuzhou before were almost wiped out.

Li Xi still can't believe that this Jia Hao has also learned to make false reports?

He originally wanted to go straight to Wuzhou to have a look, but he hurried all the way, and pulled Yan Sanniang out of the top tank, just because he was afraid that Jia Hao would not be able to bear it, and when he arrived in Guangzhou, the matter would be successfully concluded, which made him feel uncomfortable with a punch into the cotton.

But his wish could not be realized, not only because of the big events in Guangzhou, but also because Xiang Shanxuan, who joined the Yulin Army, also came back first. He reported the situation of the battle in detail to Li Shi, and after listening to it, Li Shi's heart finally settled.

"The transformation of the Qing soldiers is too fast, we can't believe it, we waited for several days before trying to enter Wuzhou City, but all the Qing soldiers in the city surrendered."

Xiang Shanxuan's mind was still a little trance, this battle really had the feeling of a tiger's head and a pig's tail.

"It's not surprising that their hearts are all buried on the Pulp Ridge......

Li Xian was full of emotion, Jia Hao has indeed matured, and the Yulin Army, together with the Long Xiang Army, has indeed grown up.

(To be continued)