Listening to the sound of gunfire, it is roughly estimated that the rear team that has just passed the top of the mountain has been attacked.

Shuo Zhan was helpless.

Because the mountain road is too narrow, the team of more than 2,000 people pulled out for six or seven miles long, and the two hundred pathfinders plus more than 100 scouts have to take care of such a large area, it is difficult to do not leak, and they are constantly infiltrated by the small forces of the Chu army, although they dare not directly block the road, but they circle the Qing army back and forth like nasty mosquitoes, pounce on and bite it when there is a slight gap, and then turn around and run, biting the Qing army's head.

Send more troops to seize the mountains on both sides, and it will drag down the speed of the march, so Shuo Zhan can only endure harassment, so he just rushed forward, in a trance he had a feeling of time and space disorder, when he was fighting in the northern plains, the Qing army rangers used this harassment tactic against the Ming army's infantry troops, and now when he came to the jungle and mountainous areas in the south, the roles of the two sides were reversed, and he felt that this harassment tactic was simply maddening, although it would not cause Yan zhòng's casualties, But it has a great impact on the morale of the military.

The Chu army sent a small force to constantly harass, the intention was very obvious, that is, to drag the Qing army and wait for the main force to come, Shuo Zhan of course would not fall for the trick, scolded the Qing soldiers, and ordered the troops to continue to advance, Alhu's sharp soldiers have already explored clearly, there is no enemy blocking the road in front of the valley, as long as you cross this narrow valley, the road in front is easier to walk.

Try to go as fast as possible, walk one more mile to be safer, although he was constantly attacked and harassed along the way, but Shuo Zhan felt that he could still bear it, with Bashan blocking Wang Sheng's main force, this kind of small-scale harassment has nothing to do with the overall situation after all, even if he and Zakana were bitten all over the head. can also stumble out of the mountainous area of Ningzhen.

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Mountains across mountains, mountains across mountains. The mountainous areas of Ningzhen are all hilly and low mountains, and the distance between the peaks seems to be farther than they actually are. Below the white clouds, behind another mountain beam, Tun Qi and Zhang Dayou's men and horses were also marching the rugged mountain road, and they were about to reach a mountain pass with dangerous terrain.

In fact, it was Zhang Dayou's Han army banner that marched hard, and the Eight Banners of Tunqi were still relatively relaxed. In the middle of the three retreat routes they took, there were Shuojan and Zakana on the left, and Ho Luo on the right would personally escort the battle, and the road would be safe and sound. Without encountering any attack, the speed of the march was much faster than Shuo Zhan, the Eight Banners could not bear the hot weather, so they simply unloaded their armor and handed it over to the soldiers of the Han Army Banner to carry, and the two troops marched together, and each Eight Banners soldier carried a follower of the Han Army Banner by his side.

The Han military flag is also dignified! If in peacetime, Zhang Dayou would definitely not accept this kind of insulting division of labor, the Han Army Banner is also one of the Eight Banners, and it is not a coated slave of the Eight Banners. Why let the Han military flag act as an auxiliary soldier with armor on his back? But now he is in a formidable way, and he can retreat with the Manmeng Eight Banners to walk in front, instead of serving as a dangerous broken rear force, and his artillery is basically blown up. Those artillerymen of the Han Army Banner were empty-handed, and it seemed natural to carry the armor of the Eight Banners Taijun.

"Alas! It's a pity. Pity! Those cannons were made of refined copper and iron, and all of them were cheap thieves. "I think of the cannons that were blown up. Zhang Dayou was distressed for a while, a thousand-pound red-clothed cannon. The total price of copper and minting costs was more than one hundred and fifty taels of silver, but he blew up dozens of cannons at once, and tens of thousands of taels of silver rang out.

"After losing a battle, it is common to lose some artillery equipment, so why bother talking about it!" Tun Qi grimaced and said unhappily: "No matter how precious your red-clothed cannon is, it is rare to be able to compare to the war horses of the Eight Banners?" As long as we can bring these 20,000 Eight Banners back to Nanjing safely, even if we lose all the swords, guns and horses, we also have the opportunity to make a comeback, victory and defeat is a common thing in soldiers, we are defeated in hard battles, although we are still honored, we must no longer be contemptuous, lest the villain fall into the well......"

Tunqi is an old qualified Beizi, the highest status in the third generation of Shulhaqi's lineage, and he is a capable leader of the Zilharang faction, but he is a two-faced faction who tends to be inflammatory, and he can't help but be tempted to be an anti-bone boy when he sees Dolgon's power leaning towards the government and the opposition, and can't help but be tempted to be an anti-bone boy, half a year ago, he sued Jilharang for a case, causing him not only to lose the position of auxiliary king, but also from the prince to the county king, but Zilharang is an old fox who knows the way of forbearance, and he still "trusts" the traitor of Tunqi, The uncle and nephew were still as affectionate as a family on the surface, and they were also convinced in front of Dolgon, so they were restored to Prince Zheng and sent out to lead the troops to fight.

With the death of Zilharang, Tunqi's mind began to come alive. As Prince Zheng, the owner of the blue flag, and the leader of the Shuerhaqi lineage, Jierharang left an extremely rich political legacy, although Tunqi did not expect to be a prince (Zierhalang himself has a son), but it is still possible to bite off a piece of big fat meat, in case he can master the military power of the blue flag, it is not too simple to mix a county king or something in the future.

(Tunqi's ability to fight is okay, and the most brilliant record is that Li Dingguo defeated Sun Kewang after becoming a famous queen twice, leading a group of remnants of the defeated generals.)

In politics, Tunqi is a wall-headed, whoever gains power will take refuge in whom, but this kind of person is often not reused. In history, Tunqi took refuge in Dolgon, and Dolgon rewarded him with a Baylor title, and Baylor was still more valuable in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, and it was also proud. It didn't take long for Dolgon to hang up, it was Zilharang's turn to take power, he hurriedly fought back, exposing Dolgon's various crimes, when Gilharang was employing people, Tunqi was his own nephew in the end, so he didn't move him, and after Shunzhi was pro-government, he immediately cut off Tunqi's title, and since then he has withdrawn from the political stage, and then read the relationship between his cousins, and gave him an auxiliary duke as a consolation prize, and lived very plainly until the early years of Kangxi. ）

As soon as Zilharang died, the situation in the court was about to undergo heavy changes, and in Tunqi's view, there were also many opportunities hidden in it......

In the distance, patches of trees are dotted with lush grass and shrubs, thick broken branches and fallen leaves, like a green carpet with stains and different shades, completely covering the original mountain.

On the steep halfway up the hill, it suddenly sinks inward, and because of the topography and angle, it can be seen from the top and bottom of the mountain. There is a blind spot here, and I took a closer look. Long rows of branches and weeds rose up more than a person's height, like garbage piled up in the hollows. A corner of the rock protrudes from the middle of the twig, covered with moss.

A Qing army soldier walked over, picked up a branch with a single knife and looked at it, found nothing abnormal, turned around and was about to leave, suddenly felt that there was something abnormal, and squatted down to take a closer look.

No, there are traces of manual excavation here, and what is behind this?!

The face of this Qing army soldier changed. Just as he was about to get up and greet his companion, suddenly his vest was cold, and a shiny blade came out of his chest.

Ji Jiahou struck with a sword, then squatted down and reached out to support the corpse of the Qing army's top soldiers, so as not to roll down the steep hillside and alarm the other Qing army soldiers. The bushes behind moved slightly, revealing several pairs of eyes, all wearing camouflage hats made of twigs on their heads. They are all scouts of the Chu army.

Ji Jiahou was the commander of the Chongyang Battalion scouts, and he and his brothers were sent to harass the Qing army in the middle of Tunqi, slowing their retreat and waiting for the backup blocking force to arrive. After he killed the top soldier of the Chu army, he stretched out his short thick fingers and made a silent gesture on his lips. Tilted his head slightly to the southwest...... To the southwest, the Qing army brigade was walking along the mountain road. The long procession made a few turns around the hillside, like a long snake coiled in the grass. It looks like it is cut off one by one, and there is a group of pathfinders in front of it, like a letter spit out by a long snake.

As a middle- and low-level officer, Ji Jiahou knew some relatively confidential information, and after Wang Sheng's main force was stopped by Bashan, he sent three troops of 500 people to intersperse in a roundabout way, preparing to block the Qing troops on the left, center, and right in the mountains...... After the blocking troops are in place, as long as they can withstand one to two days, the main forces of the Chu army, such as the Chongyang battalion, the Puqi battalion, the Gongyi battalion, and the Zhenxiao battalion, can arrive one after another and wipe out the 20,000 Qing troops.

Compared with Changsun Yu on the left, the task in the middle was more arduous, because the distance was too far, and the blocking troops could only arrive at the predetermined position tomorrow morning, but the Qing army under Tunqi had already walked out for twenty miles, and if they marched day and night at this speed, they would pass through the predetermined position in the second half of the night, leaving the blocking force far behind.

In addition to the mushroom tactics of the cold guns and suspicious soldiers, he also came up with a big move to block the fleeing Qing army, and these semi-natural, semi-artificially treated rocks on the hillside were the big moves prepared by Ji Jiahou, in order to pry these huge rocks weighing several tons, he took a dozen brothers to work for two hours, digging and digging and using the original terrain, and finally rushed in front of the Qing army, and made a good move.

Ji Jiahou turned out to be an honest farmer, short and strong, with a good strength that everyone praised, because of his ingenuity, planting crops is also a good hand, the family's small life is quite solid, and later the Qing army went south, Kong Youde led the army into Huguang, Ji Jiahou had to flee with his family, and then joined the Chu army.

At first, it was to be a soldier and get paid, to support the old mother, wife and children, and then to protect the family and defend the hometown, to drive the Tartars out of Huguang, and then to expel the Tartars and defend the Han family.

As the brigade approached, there were more and more sharp soldiers of the Qing army, Ji Jiahou did not dare to wait any longer, waved his hand at his companions, and everyone rushed out of the bushes together, rushed behind the pile of rocks, pulled the crowbar hidden under the fallen leaves of the branches, and lowered the rocks that had been plucked loose long ago......

A!

Another piece!

"It's time to withdraw, the Tartars are coming!" A Chu soldier shouted anxiously, and not far away, the Qing army's top soldiers rushed towards this side, and the nearest one was twenty paces away.

"A few of you, go up and block it, let's work harder and put this big guy down!" Ji Jiahou tore off the single knife from his waist, shook off the scabbard and threw it on the ground, then spit twice into the palm of his hand, and struggled with his companion to pry the third rock.

This Chu army scout squad counted Ji Jiahou a total of eleven people, three people picked up a single knife, guarded in front of the woods, and rushed over the Qing army soldiers to fight together, Ji Jiahou with the other seven people, pushed the third and largest rock down the hillside, boomed and made a thunderous sound, rolled to the bottom of the mountain just stuck on the road, followed by the rolling down of the gravel crackling on it, a chaotic sound.

"You guys go first, I'll get two more pieces for him!" The density of the stones is very large, and the volume of rocks that can be pryed by human beings is limited, although three large stones have not been put down, the mountain pass has not been blocked.

"Quick! It's time to go, it's my order, I don't blame you! Ji Jiahou shouted loudly and rushed towards the fourth rock, several Chu soldiers hesitated, four of them fled backwards, one drew a single knife and rushed towards the Qing soldiers who were fighting with his companions, and the two most loyal subordinates came up to help Ji Jiahou.

The four fleeing Chu soldiers ran out a few steps, looked back, gritted their teeth and turned back, either going up to fight with the Qing army's top soldiers, or helping Ji Jiahou pry the rocks together.

Ji Jiahou and his companions shouted loudly, and one rock after another rolled down the hillside, behind them, the Qing army had more and more sharp soldiers, and the Chu army scouts retreated step by step, and from time to time let out screams of injury.

"The brothers have all served the country with their bodies, and we have also fought hard." Ji Jiahou panted.

"One more piece!" Several Chu soldiers spoke in unison, struggling to push the next rock.

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Although the distance was very far, seeing huge rocks rolling down the hillside, Tun Qi and Zhang Dayou both changed their faces, and urged the Qing soldiers to speed up their advance.

The road ahead was blocked, and Tun Qi and Zhang Dayou jumped off their horses, squeezed through the Qing soldiers who were evading one after another, and came to the front of the rocky pile in the mountain pass.

This mountain pass is very narrow, the road is blocked by a pile of rocks, and the two pieces on it are still dangling, if you abandon your horse and armor, and use your hands and feet together, you can barely climb over it, but you don't know when it will cause a landslide and smash people into a puddle of meatloaf...... Besides, it's not yet the time to abandon the horse and armor and flee into the wilderness, just disarm thousands of Qing troops for a pile of rocks, and what if they run into the Chu army again?

The only way is to clean up this pile of rocks and make way for it, because manpower cannot be deployed, you can only use gunpowder to blast the large stones first, and then slowly move to the sides and throw them away, this is not a simple matter, it is estimated that it will be delayed for a long time. (To be continued......)