Chapter 149: Hunt and Kill

In the night, under the firelight, the soldiers of the Zhenxiao camp rushed forward like a flood that broke the embankment, overflowing the mountain beam, the soldiers in the front row had reached the halfway slope, and the soldiers in the back row were still appearing on the top of the mountain in a steady stream, seemingly endless.

There were some Qing troops on the mountain beam, who were on guard, saw that a large group of enemies suddenly appeared, and shouted angrily to meet the battle, but thousands of soldiers in the town camp were silent, except for the officer's short shouting, no one shouted loudly, just rushed forward with their heads shut...... The Zhenxiao battalion that grew up in the mountainous areas of Xiangxi, from Chen Youlong down to ordinary soldiers, most of them have a taciturn temper like a mountain, and they will cut when they see the enemy wielding their knives, and they look even more murderous in the silence, and they rush straight to the general flag of Tunqi in the night.

"It's over." Tunqi's face is like ashes.

Just now, he still had a trace of luck in his heart, hoping that this Chu army was just a small force that was killed here by mistake, but after seeing that the strength of the Zhenxiao battalion was at least two or three thousand people, he knew that this was a premeditated thunderous blow from the Chu army, and it was hitting his soft underbelly.

Before the appearance of the Zhenxiao battalion, he was still thinking about how to defeat the Ji'an battalion, and successfully broke through after killing a bloody road...... After the arrival of the Zhenxiao battalion, the Qing army was already bound to be defeated, and if it was followed by other main forces of the Chu army (that was simply certain), the fate of the entire army was inevitable.

"Arhu, up!"

Even if he was defeated, he couldn't stand still, and Tunqi sent the last elite of his men. The five hundred and eight banner soldiers led by Al Hu stepped forward to stop the Zhenxiao battalion, and then shouted to several panicked generals: "Release the trumpet cannon to warn the departments." Ordered the whole army to kill the seriously wounded and the horses. Let's break through to the northeast together, Tan Tai is twenty miles away, whether you want to die or live is tonight, as long as you rush over, you can live, if you can't rush over, let's die here together! ”

If you want to survive in the dead, you must desperately keep the flag of the Chinese army and throw the main force of the Zhenxiao battalion far away, as long as the flag of the Chinese army does not fall, all departments of the Qing army will still have the backbone. Gather people and horses in the night battle, desperately break through, and maybe there is a glimmer of life. Tun Qi immediately made a decision, led the Chinese army to pull out the flag and left, and climbed to the mountain beam on the other side.

After going up to the halfway up the hill, he turned to look at the battlefield, the battlefield was already chaotic at this time, and at the mountain pass in front, thousands of Qing troops were still fighting fiercely with the Ji'an battalion. Unable to get out for a while, the mountain road behind was even more jumping, and the soldiers disturbed each other and ran around like headless flies. Torches scattered up the hillsides on either side, and the largest group of them were chasing after them...... Including Bashan and other departments, the Qing army still had thousands of people lined up in a long snake formation and dragged them on the mountain road behind. After the collapse of the Chinese army in Tunqi, the rear team was also unstable. and then caused a chain reaction of the Qing army further behind, within sight. There was a commotion in the Qing army on the mountain road, and one after another fires rose, billowing smoke.

On the opposite hillside, a fierce battle was raging between Arhu and the Zhenxiao camp.

Chen Youlong took the lead, rushed to the front, and was invincible.

He is short in stature, but he is born with extraordinary strength, and he can't use a chopping knife more than five feet long when he fights on foot, and uses a twenty-two pound iron whip as a weapon, facing a Eight Banners soldier who raised a steel knife and cut it, he swept over with a whip, and the steel knife weighing four pounds was smashed out of his hand, and he knocked people to the ground together, and the pro-soldiers behind him rushed to make up for a knife, and killed the Eight Banners soldiers, and the cooperation was extremely skilled.

Seeing Chen Youlong's ferocity, Al Hu shouted loudly and hurried over to meet the battle.

Still four or five zhang away, he raised the tiger gun in his hand and stabbed forward, and his feet were even more full of force, the next moment the black tip of the spear had reached Chen Youlong's chest, Chen Youlong sideways to avoid, grabbed the barrel of the tiger gun and pulled it violently in his arms, Alhu, who was rushing forward, was unstable, was pulled staggered forward and took a few steps forward, but did not let go of the spear to dodge, but freed up a hand to pull out the saber on his waist, and slashed down hard at Chen Youlong, and a stray arrow flew from the oblique stab, hitting Chen Youlong's right crotch.

If it were someone else, he would definitely have to dodge backwards for the time being, but Chen Youlong did not advance and retreated, and with the strength of Alhu's spear, he smashed forward with his backhand, and the tail of the spear hit Alhu's chest...... There was only one breath before and after, and Alhu's steel knife also slashed Chen Youlong's left shoulder, but he was injured in front of him, and his strength in his hand was greatly reduced, after the hundred steel knife broke through the armor, it was embedded in Chen Youlong's shoulder and could not be cut into it again, but he himself was knocked back a few steps back, spit out a mouthful of blood with a poof, stood unsteadily and fell to the ground, the heart goggles on his chest were shattered into several pieces, and several Chu soldiers rushed to the front, ignoring the Eight Banners soldiers rushing over next to him, slashed and stabbed together, killing Alhu on the spot.

Chen Youlong pulled out the steel knife on his shoulder, cut off the arrow shaft on his right crotch, took out the wound medicine and covered the wound indiscriminately, and then waved the iron whip and rushed forward.

"What a lifeless brute! Alas...... Let's go! "If it were in normal times, Tunqi would definitely not admit defeat, and he would have to fight to the death with Chen Youlong, but after the death of Zierharang, he had no choice but to flee with his subordinates, and the morale of the Eight Banners had plummeted, and the Ji'an battalion could not gain the upper hand.

The bloody battle at this moment is just a trapped beast fighting......

Bashan's headquarters served as a rear guard for the first two days, and he fought viciously with the main forces of the Chu army such as the Chongyang battalion and the Puqi battalion, fighting from morning to night and from night to morning every day, and there was almost no time to rest. It was easy to wait for the order to retreat, Zhang Guozhu was forced to stay, Bashan finally broke away from the battle with the remnants and hurriedly chased towards Tunqi, but there were too many wounded soldiers in his troops, and although he marched day and night, he was still more than ten miles behind the brigade.

After being blocked by the Ji'an camp, Tunqi launched a night attack in a desperate manner, Bashan knew that this was a one-shot plan, there was no return, life and death were all in one move, he immediately took his leave and rushed to the rear, he had not seen the people of the headquarters, but the front had undergone great changes. stopped the two routs and asked the reason, only to know that it was the Chinese army in Tunqi that was attacked.

"It's broken!" Bashan regretted it very much. You shouldn't have gone to Tunqi to participate in the military meeting, and the main general was not in the army at the most critical moment. I don't know what kind of mess will happen.

It was too late to say anything, so he had to rush back to clean up the mess, Bashan crossed the forest and crossed the mountains, ran lightly, trotted all the way with his personal guards, and ran out for a few miles in only two quarters of an hour, and finally saw his troops...... Fortunately, several of his subordinates will be very effective, and the riots will be suppressed in time. More than 1,000 Eight Banners soldiers still basically maintained their formation, marching forward slowly, and after seeing Bashan return, the Eight Banners soldiers all let out a burst of cheers.

"Anda Zhangjing, what's going on up ahead?"

"The scout just sent the news, Zhang Guozhu's house is about to collapse at the touch of a button, and the chasing soldiers of the Chu army have reached ten miles away!"

"On both sides of our army, we also found a small group of soldiers and horses of the southern thieves, and they kept harassing us."

"Hundreds of soldiers from the Blue Banner have come to us, and half of them are wounded. It's all cumbersome......"

The generals were gossiping, reporting the situation and asking for news at the same time, and Bashan hurriedly explained. The herald ordered all units to be completely lightly armed and prepare to break through the mountain.

"Let's go three or five miles further, and we will almost enter the mountain. Be sure to avoid the main force of the Southern Thieves. Remember, we're more than a thousand people together. There is still hope of escaping, if they are broken up by the southern thieves, everyone will die. Throw away everything you can, and if you can't keep up with the team, you can abandon your armor, as long as you keep a desperate knife......"

Following Bashan's orders, the Qing army began to massacre the seriously wounded.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners are all iron-clad men, and they will never surrender as prisoners, nor will they look at their wounded companions as prisoners...... This was originally a solemn and solemn moment, but the Chu army pursuers were about to arrive, and there was no time to make too many arrangements, all the seriously wounded were carried out, directly mended with a knife, and then thrown on the firewood stack for collective cremation, if there was time, their ashes could be brought back to their hometown for burial, so that the ashes burned out by collective cremation would definitely be mixed together, but at very moments, no one would pursue these details.

The wounded soldiers of the Qing army knew that the time limit had come, and they wept loudly and begged Bashan, begging him to immediately lead the army to withdraw, leave them a few weapons, and make sure that they would die and contribute their last strength to the Qing Dynasty.

Bashan ignored them, but dressed up, poured three bowls of wine with his own hands, one bowl for the sky and one for the earth, and then picked up the last bowl and said to the wounded soldiers of the Eight Banners: "You are martyred for the Qing Dynasty, the court will definitely give preferential compensation, a bowl of thin wine, and send all brothers on the road!" ”

If a few Eight Banner soldiers are still struggling to resist, they will be cut off their heads with a knife, these cowards who are afraid of death, of course, are not qualified to leave the whole corpse, but Bashan is kind-hearted and does not plan to report the real cause of death of these wounded soldiers to the top, so that they can still be compensated by the imperial court.

The firewood stacks were poured with oil and sprinkled with a layer of gunpowder, and the wounded soldiers who had been killed were stacked one by one, many of whom were still choking and screaming.

"I'm not dead yet!"

"Please, let me go."

"Come, brother, give me a good time!"

"Ahh Yes! Yes! Help me! ”

The corpses were stacked higher and higher, and the lower layers gradually lost their voice, and if the wounded soldier on it shouted too loudly, the Eight Banners soldiers in their busy schedules would take time to make up for him, and because of the fact that the Bashan Department served as a rearguard, it had accommodated nearly a thousand wounded soldiers these days, including more than 500 seriously wounded, and four tall stacks were piled up.

Bashan gave an order, and several torches were thrown onto the firewood stack, and a raging fire was ignited in an instant......

Seeing that Alhu was killed, Tunqi did not dare to stay for a long time, and led more than 1,000 remnants of the defeated army to climb over the mountain and flee.

There are still Qing troops coming back, but the mountain road is narrow, the speed of collecting troops is too slow, and the most important thing is to get rid of the Zhenxiao camp first.

He also sent a few capable dead soldiers to inform Bashan and other Qing army units, roughly agreeing on a direction and time of convergence, if the remnants can be gathered together in the mountains, even if the Chu army enters the mountains to chase and kill, it can also fight with them.

Run! Come on! Now is not the time when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, as long as you get rid of the town camp, you have a great chance to escape. Bashan led his men all the way wildly, and after bypassing a forest, he could already see the battlefield in front of him, and after receiving the news, Ehenne was rushing to this side to respond, and the pursuers of the Ji'an battalion followed closely behind, and were fighting fiercely with the rearguard of Ehenne, but their troops were too small to rush for a while.

Tun Qi perked up, stepped on a big rock on the side of the road, waved his arm and pointed forward, turned around and opened his mouth to shout, in order to boost the morale of the Qing army, but his eyes suddenly fixed on the hillside behind, with a shocked look.

Under the light of the torches, I could see very clearly, on the hillside behind, a group of town soldiers were pouring over, still so silent, still so murderous, the first member of the short general, covered in blood, expressionless, but the two eyes seemed to flash with a bright red light, holding a thick and unusually large bamboo iron whip in his hand, running like a goat.

Hell yes!

Could it be that Chen Youlong really counted goats and caught up so quickly!

"I practiced too much riding and archery kung fu, it turned out to be a bad thing...... Tun Qi's head suddenly wandered, and an inexplicable thought flashed through him. The Manchurians go back two or three generations, many of them are fishermen and hunters in the Changbai Mountains, walking dozens of miles of mountain roads without blushing, but since the rise of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the new generation of Manchu children have grown up on the plains, and since childhood, they have practiced the art of riding and archery, and they have all practiced the legs of the loop, and it is very clumsy to get off the horse and climb the mountain.

"If Ben Beizi can escape the catastrophe today, he will definitely give a death to his father, the regent, and the Eight Banners will never set foot in Jiangnan again!"

The Eight Banners are unparalleled in cavalry and shooting, and they dominate the northern plains, why should they go to the mountains of the southern water network to die!

"Master Pei, you go quickly, I'll stop him for a while!" Seeing that Tunqi was stunned, Ehena pushed him back, and led his soldiers and horses towards the town camp.

"Let's go!" Tunqi came back to his senses and fled with the remnants of the tribe.

In addition to Eherne, he also has more than 1,000 people under his command, but most of them are out of order, the soldiers can't find generals, they can't find soldiers, and if they fight with a dignified division like the Zhenxiao camp, they are not the enemy at all, since they can't help Eherne, it's better to flee quickly. (To be continued......)