Shitang Village is located on the west side of the Changxi River, on the south side of Wayaogou, and is only separated by a mountain from Wayaogou. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hundreds of meters away on the south side of Shitang Village, on a fertile field of several acres, dozens of villagers from Shitang Village are working in the fields, and on the ridge on the edge of the fertile field, a 40-year-old villager of Shitang Village is sitting there alone, looking sluggish.

"Hey, last night the girl of the old Liu family was also snatched away by those damn thieves!"

Looking at the sluggish villager, one of the villagers working in the fields stopped, holding a hoe in one hand, a sad look on his face, and sighed in a low voice.

"Yes, kill the girl of the Liu family, thirty-one people have been kidnapped in our village, these damn thieves, they come to our village every once in a while to loot, and the women who see a little better posture are also snatched back, so sooner or later it will be our turn"

The other villagers also stopped when they heard this, and one of them cursed loudly.

Since the Thirty-two Villages Alliance defected to the Qing army, Nikan led the army to advance rapidly eastward, and a large number of soldiers and slaves of the Eight Banners arrived, and the people around Jumei County suffered.

Although Nikan issued a military order to rectify military discipline, he still couldn't stop these soldiers and slaves of the Eight Banners who had been looting.

From time to time, some Qing soldiers would go to the surrounding villages in groups to loot, and many women were also robbed by them to the camp for sexual pleasure.

Last night, the daughter of the old Liu family in their mouth was robbed by a slave army from Wayaogou Pass.

"Hmph, it's not all to blame on the damn old men in that town, if they hadn't brought in these thieves, how would we have suffered all this"

Hearing this, another villager couldn't help but take over the conversation, and his tone was full of resentment towards the principals of the Thirty-two Village Alliance who surrendered to the Qing army.

"The main thing is that those Tartars are too powerful, and the previous Onishi was defeated by them"

"yes, yes, there's an army on the other side right now."

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Just as these villagers were discussing one after another, on the surface of the Changxi River 1 mile away from Shiti Village, under the sunlight of early winter, huge warships were slowly sailing, and the black pressure occupied the entire river.

The naval army in front of him was the Qilin Naval Division that was loaded with Sima Yu and others who were preparing to return to Qilin County.

On this return, Sima Yu only brought the guard battalion under Huang Jingtian, and Yu Dayou led 3,000 sailors to escort him.

Originally, Sima Yu was going to bring Liu Yunling and Li Mu back.

However, Liu Yunling asked herself to stay on Zhongba Island and was fully responsible for the development and construction of Zhongba Island, no matter how much Sima Yu persuaded her, it was useless.

As for Li Mu, who had just been found, he was not interested in Sima Yu's wooing at all, but he had a good relationship with Liu Yunling.

Seeing this, Sima Yu had no choice but to continue to let Liu Yunling serve as the county magistrate of Zhongba County, but before leaving, Sima Yu still ignored Li Mu's opposition and threw the work of recruiting 8,000 Zhongba County garrison to him, and led the Zhongba County military.

"Lord, I just received news from Gu Commander Shi, Gu Commander Shi and last night broke a Qing army outside Shiti Village, annihilating a total of 600 Eight Banner Iron Cavalry and capturing more than 7,000 soldiers of the Thirty-two Village Alliance."

On the main ship of the Chinese army, Sima Yu and others were standing on the deck observing the situation on both sides of the strait, and a brocade guard held a letter in his hand and hurriedly walked up to report to him.

When Sima Yu and the others were about to arrive at the edge of Qilin County after a two-day voyage, they received a letter from Guo Yuan and others, giving him a detailed introduction to Qin Liangyu's situation and the arrangements they had made.

After receiving the news, Sima Yu immediately decided to lead the army to return, and went up the river from the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Changxi River through Zhuyang County, all the way to the territory of Jumei County.

On this trip, Sima Yu's goal was to point directly at the back road of the Nikan army, Wayaogou Pass.

This time, the Nikan army marched forward rapidly, penetrating hundreds of miles into the territory of Jumei County, and immediately crossed the Changxi River to attack Qin Liangyu's army without waiting to integrate the forces of the Thirty-two Village Alliance that had just arrived.

This kind of in-depth action of the lonely teacher made Sima Yu see the opportunity.

If Sima Yu can take advantage of the time when Nikan led the army to besiege Qin Liangyu and capture the Wayaogou Pass in one fell swoop, the back road of the Nikan army will be cut off, and the logistics supply will also be greatly affected.

On the east bank of the Changxi River, although there were still four towns and seventeen villages in the 32 village alliance, they were not enough to supply the more than 20,000 troops under Nikan's command.

"Haha, good, the long wind fruit lives up to me"

As a result of the letter, Sima Yu quickly skimmed through it and laughed heartily.

After this period of development, the Jinyiwei under Sima Yu has begun to take shape, and a large number of Jinyiwei peripheral sentinels have spread throughout the Yongzhou area.

As soon as they entered the waters of Yongzhou, they connected with the sailor again, and all kinds of news quickly spread to Sima Yu through Jinyiwei.

After reading the letter, Yu Dayou, Huang Jingtian, Wu Song and others were also overjoyed.

This was the first head-to-head confrontation between Sima Yu's forces and the Qing army, and Gu Changfeng made a good start for them.

In the battle outside Shiti Village, Gu Changfeng can be said to have dealt a head-on blow to the Qing army under Nikan, not only eating more than 8,000 Qing troops including the soldiers of the Thirty-two Village Alliance, but also striking a blow to the arrogance of the Qing army, which helped to improve the morale of his own side.

"Immediately give orders to Yanzhang and Changfeng, and order Yanzhang to immediately lead the army to land from Tongzi, choose an important place to set up camp, attract the main force of the Qing army, and order Changfeng, let him lead the army to clean up the eastern region of the Qing army, and not do frontal entanglement, just harass their supply lines"

After calming down, after discussing with Yu Dayou, Huang Jingtian and others, Sima Yu immediately ordered.

The actions of Li Yanzhang and Gu Changfeng were bound to attract the attention of the Nikan army, and help cover Sima Yu and their troops to seize the Wayaogou Pass.

With the abilities of Li Yanzhang and Gu Changfeng, Sima Yu also believed that they would not be easily defeated by the Qing army.

Therefore, the key to whether Nikan's more than 20,000 troops can be left here is whether Sima Yu can take the Wayaogou Pass.

"Erlang, you lead people to the village to ask if anyone is familiar with the mountain road here, and ask them to come and lead the way for us."

Then Sima Yu instructed Wu Song again.

Although the Wayaogou Pass is not a Xiongguan, it also has a city wall as high as 6 or 7 meters, and there are mountains on both sides, without the help of powerful siege equipment, if it is a strong attack, it will inevitably suffer heavy losses.

Therefore, Sima Yu is ready to start from the mountains on both sides of Wayaogou Pass, and the guards and soldiers under his command are all from the Aoshan tribe, living in the mountains and forests all year round, and they are suitable for this role.

"Yes, my lord!"

Wu Song quickly took the order and left.

After Wu Song and the others left, Yu Dayou also ordered the sailors to quickly dock, and 3,500 soldiers of the Guards Battalion and 3,000 soldiers of the Sailor Division quickly landed and began to set up camp on the shore.