Six days later, there was no news from the Xiyuan Barbarian Chief Ali, which was also expected by Xia Xue.

Xia Xue beat the drum to gather generals, made himself the commander, commanded the armies, with Feng Ang as the deputy marshal, Yongzhou Governor Song Daren, Qinzhou Zhizhou Feng Daren Branch Bureau, governed the rear, 50,000 troops gathered outside Qinzhou City.

The morning sun is like fire, transmitting blood-red light on everyone's heads, and those mottled lights and shadows, like fire clouds in the sky, are sprinkled all over the land of Qinzhou.

Xia Xue stood on the platform, like a fiery morning sun, her clothes flew up, and the red cloak hunted loudly, becoming more and more fairy and heroic, like a fierce feather and colorful phoenix. With a grim face, she gave a loud order to the three armies: "In this expedition, anyone who violates the seven prohibitions of 'surrendering to the enemy, fleeing the enemy, accepting bribes from the enemy, leaking military aircraft, fleeing from the battle, not obeying orders, and avoiding the enemy in fear of the enemy' will be immediately killed." ”

Seven orders of nirvana, regardless of the generals and soldiers, everyone's hearts are awe-inspiring.

Xia Xue finally raised her breath and shouted: "The soldiers of all armies should fight bravely to kill the enemy, and those who do not violate these seven prohibitions will not be restrained." The king hereby wishes all the soldiers a victory and success! At the time of triumph, the king should set up a feast and set up wine to wash the dust and celebrate the achievements of all the soldiers! ”

Those who do not violate the seven prohibitions will not be restricted!

How could these veterans not hear the queen's words, that is, everything that was robbed by attacking the barbarians belonged to the individual, and there was no need to hand it over, this was a good opportunity to make a fortune. One by one, they didn't dare to come out of the atmosphere that had just been frightened, and at this time they understood, and suddenly everyone turned into a tiger.

Xia Xue knew that the "military spirit" and "morale" of fighting were the most important, and the local soldiers here had a very strong atmosphere of being tired of being soldiers and war-weary, and they had lost battles in front of them, and their morale was very low. The war is imminent, and it is simply too late to train the army in a whole way, and it is necessary to quickly gather the morale of the army and the courage to face the battle.

And the extraordinary method, one is to practice the cool law, and those who retreat without permission will be killed!

Second, "people die for money, and birds die for food", so that all the property obtained by the soldiers in the attack on the Western Plains Barbarians is owned by individuals and does not need to be handed over, which can greatly stimulate the soldiers' combat enthusiasm and morale.

Xia Xue remembered that when the Ottoman Empire attacked Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire), due to the successive setbacks and heavy casualties of the offensive for nearly two months, the Ottomans were so war-weary that Prime Minister Harrier suggested a truce to negotiate first, and then withdraw the troops with dignity.

But the Ottoman emperor Mehmed II, who was fighting the main battle, insisted on fighting to the end, he considered himself tired, and the Byzantines in the city were even more tired, they had already been exhausted, and it was time to fight for the will.

Before the Ottomans launched their largest final offensive, Mehmed II made both new offensive arrangements and effective mobilization. He mobilized his warriors in this way, and he exclaimed, "I will give you the capital of ancient Rome, the richest capital in the world, and you can take as much as you like, and you will become the richest man in the world." ”

The weary and war-weary Ottoman soldiers thundered with joy, so they attacked like a hanger, and finally after the seventh round of fierce attacks, they captured Constantinople, which had not been broken for a thousand years.

Xia Xue still remembered that some famous generals in the later generations of Hua Xia often used this trick, and in a short period of time, they turned a group of lazy and lazy military dui into invincible death squads.

In extraordinary times, use extraordinary methods.

Xia Xue swept her eyes around, and saw that the soldiers in the audience were inspired by their "extraordinary methods" to become screaming man-eating tigers one by one, and her heart was happy, but the surface was still full of majesty, and she ordered: "Go!" ”

Under the guidance of the banner, groups of soldiers began to march separately, leaving the school field and heading to the battlefield.

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The smoke of war was ignited at the same time in the counties of Qinzhou, and Feng An, the governor of Lingnan, responded in the middle, gradually advancing with the attack of various departments. In the face of the superior troops, equipment and powerful offensive of the officers and soldiers of Guidi, Xiyuan Barbarian climbed high and relied on danger, and stubbornly resisted with simple standard crossbow stones.

However, there was a huge disparity in strength between them, and the officers and soldiers of Guidi were abnormal, becoming high-spirited and extremely brave, especially keen on tackling tough challenges, and Xiyuanman finally tasted the strength of the officers and soldiers of Guidi. Under the heavy encirclement and slaughter, the resistance was futile, so they had to abandon the cottages one by one and flee to the more dangerous and difficult to attack in the deep mountains and old forests.

The officers and soldiers of Guidi were like mountain eagles that saw rabbits, chasing and beating fiercely, and they were reluctant to follow. Different from the past, the officers and soldiers of Guidi were not familiar with the secret paths in the mountains, although the army was like snakes, echoing back and forth, they were often led by the Xiyuan barbarians to a fork in the road, a dead end, and could not go out after wandering around the mountains for a long time, and taking advantage of this effort, the Xiyuan barbarians had long been nowhere to be seen, and they caught and sought in the mountains, and even went to their back roads out of nowhere, or appeared in the cottages that had already been broken by them.

However, this time, it was difficult for the officers and soldiers of Guidi to be led to a fork in the road and a dead road by them, and the chances of being ambushed were greatly reduced, and the channels for the barbarians in the Western Plains to get the news had been blocked long ago, and I don't know that the government organized the local people to participate in the encirclement and suppression, and these barbarians who believed in ghosts and gods were suspicious that the queen of the angel country had some superhuman powers. Some of the thieves who joined them had heard of the magical legend of the queen's conquest in the south of the Yangtze River, and the two barbarian envoys from the Western Plains who were stunned by Xia Xue's mobile phone had personally experienced the queen's terrifying "spell", which confirmed the two and made the barbarians even more awe-inspiring. The attack was the most terrifying, and the resistance in many places weakened a lot, and they often abandoned the village and fled to the mountains when they were attacked.

In just six days, the convenient reports were frequently reported everywhere, and the officers and men of Guidi in various counties continued to achieve victories, capturing more than 100 cottages such as Fengguan and Niubei, beheading more than 2,800 people, capturing more than 3,000 people, and capturing more than 900 rice warehouses and a large number of cattle, horses, pigs and sheep.

In the past, the officers and soldiers of the government captured the cottage, because of the heavy casualties during the attack on the mountain, in order to vent their anger, the cottage was often burned down. The simple thatched huts and fences were all wooden structures, which were easy to erect and easy to burn, but this time the officers and men did not set fire to vent their anger, but instead built blockhouses and stone walls at the dangerous places of the occupied cottages, and marched into the camp step by step.

Moreover, wherever the stubborn resistance was captured, soldiers and horses were stationed, officials were arranged, and at the same time the displaced people of various ethnic groups were moved to implement the tuntian, and all the ownerless fields where the families rebelled in the mountains were distributed.

These landless homeless people, tenants who moved in, and those who used to work in the landlord's Haoqiang's house, and who rushed to work when they saw the government's recruitment on a billboard, each family got more than 10 acres of fertile land for nothing, and became an propertied class overnight, and they were all overjoyed, not only did they stay in the local area with all their hearts. It also took the initiative to establish civil defense and people's strength, assisted the officers and soldiers in searching for and arresting traitors, and stabilized the locality.

In this way, under the steady and steady step-by-step, the space for the barbarians to move and fight is getting smaller and smaller, and they can only retreat step by step. Began to concentrate on several fortresses.

At the same time, however, the new magistrates treated the barbarians who were obedient and close to them with great kindness, and their personal property and land were completely protected, and no one was allowed to bully and seize them. The government did not stop those who wanted to escape, but consciously used the mouths of these people to spread the government's policy of preferential treatment to those who came to surrender on their own initiative into the mountains.

One after another, sure enough, there were some people who were timid and afraid of the dead, and those who loved the family were trembling, and they were tempting to sneak out of the mountains and surrender to the government, and the officials of these newly opened villages were really lenient. Fulfilling the promise, although there are not many people who surrender this time, there is an endless stream of surrenderers. Every day there are people who escape from the mountains.

The imperial court appeased those who favored the surrender and severely cracked down on the rebellion. greatly weakened the combat power of the barbarians, and it took more than half a month for only a few of the most dangerous cottages in the places controlled by the barbarians, and the rest of the territory had all fallen into the hands of the imperial army.

Some officials were worried that such a tough court would anger Xiyuanman and kill the captured Rong County magistrate Song Chao, but the queen who had the overall situation would not be interfered with by a small Rong County magistrate to calm the chaos.

The officials also saw that although this queen was gentle and beautiful on the outside, she was actually more manly than a man, and she was rough and domineering, where would she be stumped by a little magistrate. Later, no one mentioned the matter of Song Chao, the magistrate of Rong County.

During this period of time, Feng An's army was also in a major rectification, during this period of time, the meritorious were rewarded, the brave were rewarded, the wounded were cared for, and the dead were compensated, and there were indeed a small number of people in the army who were afraid of war and death, and they cowered in the back bluff every time they fought, and the veteran oil, who was simply timid in the confrontation, was identified by the indignant soldiers, and was immediately beheaded as soon as it was determined.

The rewards and punishments are clear, so that the morale of the army and the morale of the army will not disperse despite the defeat. During this period, the officers and men explored the terrain near Wulongzhai and dealt with the areas that might lead to the spread of fires, some of which were isolated with the help of natural terrain such as swamps and ridges, and some of which were too dense with trees, and a separation zone of tens of zhang was broken in the middle of the continuous construction, and at the same time garrisoned troops to guard them. Everything is ready to go.

Then it was time to start setting fires everywhere.

The fire spread deep into the mountains with billowing smoke.

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"Ahem, fetch water, ahem, gagged, gagged, gagged!" Ah Long, the leader of Wulong Village, coughed loudly and ordered. His own soldiers desperately shouted out the commander's instructions, but the shouts were drowned out by a loud cough.

With each breath he breathed, Aaron felt dizzy. He saw a long stream of saliva coming from the corner of his own soldier's mouth, while the other soldier was holding his throat and panting desperately, his whole body arched into a shrimp shape.

He had to retreat with the support of his own soldiers, the smoke was so thick that it seemed to be poisonous. What kind of poison it is, Aaron doesn't know. But this poisonous smoke has caused many of his soldiers to lose their combat effectiveness, and countless people's bodies have bowed into the shape of shrimps, coughing loudly while drooling continuously.

"It's horse manure smoke, take a wet cloth, plug your mouth and nose, plug your mouth and nose!" A barbarian stumbled towards the mountain spring and plunged into the spring. The icy spring water had soothed his poisoning, but blood was already running down his nostrils. "It's not just because of horse manure, the toxicity of wet horse manure smoke is not so great, broken intestine grass, ambergris, five-step pour, large-leaved artemisia ......" With years of medical experience, Lang Zhong identified at least a dozen common poisonous weed flavors, he looked at Wulong Mountain in despair, and his body fell down softly.

The soldiers of the Western Plains Barbarians in the first camp of Wulong Village jumped over the wooden fence like frightened birds and ran to the depths of the mountain. Then came the second barracks, the third, and the fourth, whether the Lord would scold or reprimand, or kill and establish authority, and whoever refused to stay where he was was and be smoked. They may not be afraid of death, but such a thick smoke is too strong for those who are beaten with iron to bear it.

Ah Long retreated to the depths of Wulong Mountain under the support of the guards, and he did not blame the soldiers under his command for retreating before fighting. He could only blame the enemy commander for being too despicable and shameless to come up with such a smoky plan.

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Not only did the fire destroy all the pit mechanisms in the forest, but before the fire arrived, the smoke drove the bandits out, and they fled from the forest with the panicked beasts, fleeing deeper into the forest. The officers and men pursued slowly and slowly, extinguishing the embers all the way, and advancing for the camp step by step.

When the fire was cut off by swamps and cliffs, the officers and men rekindled the fire. Even if the barbarians who had lost the danger of relying on the battle were held in a place where there was no vegetation to burn, it would be difficult for them to cope with the offensive of the officers and men, not to mention that the thick smoke had already made their eyes red and swollen like peaches, and it was difficult for them to see clearly, so it was difficult to form an effective blockade.

The officers and men used the fire as their soldiers and marched with the fire, and the battle situation between the two sides was still tragic in the smoke of the fire, but the barbarians who had lost the cover of the dense forest and grass were like loaches that had fallen into the ashes, and the officers and men who no longer cared about the hidden weapon traps that would appear at any time up and down, left and right, became more and more courageous the more they fought. Although the war was slow, it was advancing step by step and resolutely in depth.

In order to enhance the power of the officers and soldiers to attack the cottage, Xia Xue decided to make some simple firearms from local materials. In the local guide craftsmen with black medicine, bamboo, etc. to make a lot of very simple rockets, mainly arson, the arrow is wrapped in huo medicine, wrapped in layers of cotton paper, and then greased, when ignited, the strong wind does not extinguish, the water does not extinguish, Xia Xue named them: "Dongfeng rocket". The ingredients of the black huo medicine are very simple, charcoal, sulfur, and fire nitrate (potassium nitrate) are mixed in a certain proportion, although the power is much smaller than the complex T En T fried yao, but it is enough to quell the chaos in Qinzhou. The resources for the manufacture of black medicine and rockets are also abundant in the local area, and the local materials are used, and the "Dongfeng Rocket" is manufactured very quickly. At present, a large number of manufactured "Dongfeng rockets" are being delivered to the Qinzhou military camp in a steady stream.

In order to prevent people from hiding on the cliff, they set fire to the "Dongfeng rockets" and launch them one by one, saving a lot of trouble for the officers and men, and greatly reducing the casualties of the officers and men.

The launching of the "Dongfeng rockets" was like setting off fireworks, and the officers and men were almost addicted to it, and they did not stop breathing even at night, only to see one rocket after another spewing light and flames in the night, and rushing towards the dark and dreary mountain tops where the western plains were entrenched. In a matter of moments, a raging fire broke out on the top of the mountain, and the night sky was red and the sky was blazing. On the top of the mountain, don't say that the Tibetans have even turned stones, even if they dig three feet into the ground, they don't want to find a hiding place, and the screams of the barbarian defenders of the West Plains can be heard from afar.

Feng Gong, the prefect of Qinzhou, commanded the soldiers in the rear to carry the wounded soldiers, take care of the prisoners and surrender the people, and Feng An, the governor of Lingnan in front, had already set fire to the addiction.

Although the barbarians fought bloodily with the intention of death, the Wulong Cottage still gradually fell into the hands of local officers and soldiers. Ah Long, the leader of Wulongzhai, killed himself, and the barbarians who were still alive were escorted down the mountain by the officers and soldiers with their hands raised, and they all became blacks one by one.

Wulong Dazhai fell into a raging fire, and the largest and oldest base of the barbarians has since become a piece of rubble. Feng An, the governor of Lingnan, finally avenged the defeat last time.

Ouyang Qian and Dugu Jun led the Lingnan wolf soldiers, and soon took Yunzhong City with fire attacks and "Dongfeng Rockets", and the leader of Yunzhong City, A Wolf, was also killed by Dugu Jun's Qinglong Sword piercing his neck.

Cloud City and Wulong Village are the two major barriers of Qilin City, and they are also the most dangerous places second only to Qilin City among the villages. The three cities stood on their feet, and the conditions for mutual support and cooperation disappeared, and the officers and soldiers could continue to drive into the mountains and approach the Qilin City.

The battle to counter-insurgency was about to be won, and all the officers and men in the army were excited.