The mountains are completely different from the plains, and the mountain roads of dozens of miles sound not far, but they are worth hundreds of miles deep in the plains, which is enough for two armies to start a big battle between you and me.

In order to save the body, the Qing army of the three routes has been retreating along the narrow mountain road, no matter how narrow the mountain road is, it is also a road, leaving the mountain road and going directly over the mountains and mountains will tire people to death, and it will also break up the establishment of the troops, and when they encounter an organized enemy army, they can only be slaughtered.

The Chu army also knew that the Qing army in the middle of the road was the easiest to run away, and the most blocking troops were sent, and the small group of harassment troops was even more continuous, and the mountain road walked down in two days, although there was no big battle or a bad battle, the Qing army also suffered hundreds of casualties, and two relatives around Tunqi died, and they fell to the end in the three-way Qing army.

Shuozhan and Zakana's left army situation is not much better, they are a pure Eight Banners troops, there is no green battalion servant army to follow, the Eight Banners Baoyi acts as an auxiliary soldier and cannon fodder, and continues to suffer casualties under the resistance of the Chu army, the war horse due to its large size, it will block the road after being injured and killed, and it has also become the key target of the Chu army snipers, and there are fewer and fewer soldiers and war horses, and more Eight Banners soldiers have to carry their own weapons and armor, trek the mountain road, and endure the harassment of the Chu army day and night, and morale is getting lower and lower.

He Luo on the east road will take the wounded battalion and the Chinese army, the situation is even more chaotic, when sleeping on the mountain road at night, the phenomenon of drunken fights has occurred repeatedly, some Eight Banner soldiers even shed tears under the quilt, He Luo will check the sentry and also met two Qing soldiers who had a mental breakdown, naked. Running around, he screamed that he was possessed by a god. He Luo would have them beheaded on the spot, so that a riot could be avoided.

According to the original plan. The Qing army took two days to go around the back of Bazhangdong Mountain at the earliest, and successfully broke through after joining forces with Tan Tai, but two days passed, and they had only walked halfway, barely reaching the highest point at the top of the bow.

If it goes on like this, it will be caught up by the Chu army!

He Luohui and other Qing army commanders desperately urged the troops to speed up, greatly reduce the time for rest and sharpening, throw away all the things that could be thrown away, and only bring three days' worth of dry food, and further travel lightly. I set off again before dawn and began the second half of my escape.

This is a race, the main force of the Chu army is chasing quickly, if the Qing army wins, live, lose, die!

In order to bypass Bazhangdong Mountain, the Qing army took an arc-shaped route in the shape of a bow and back, and initially advanced in a northeast direction. After passing the highest point of the arch, he turned northwest and saw that he was halfway through, and his hopes of breaking through were greatly increased. The morale of the Qing army has rebounded, and they do not need to be urged by the main general to speed up their pace, and they ignore the harassment of the small units of the Chu army. Throw his wounded companion to the side of the road and stride on.

The mountain roads are rugged. It was a difficulty that both armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties had to face, and it had a greater impact on the Chu army that pursued one side. Due to the relationship of blocking each other, after the pursuing troops of the Chu army were stopped by Bashan, Gurmahun and other departments, only a few troops engaged each other, but the main force of the Chu army was blocked behind, so although the Qing army was late, it had not yet been caught up by the Chu army.

However, He Luohui, Tunqi and other Qing army commanders knew that the closer they were to success, the more dangerous it became, so they sent more scouts and sharp soldiers to explore the way, and sent hundreds of Qing troops to patrol back and forth to the flanks to drive away those annoying small units of the Chu army, further speed up the march, and sent people to inform Bashan and Gurmahun that they would gradually retreat while blocking the Chu army, and break through with the large army.

At the beginning of the retreat, He Luohui sent someone to copy the path and contact Tan Tai, asking him to send troops to respond, two days have passed, Tan Tai should have received the news, as long as he sent troops to meet ten miles and eight miles, the certainty of breaking through is a little bigger.

On the morning of the third day, the scouts reported that Wang Sheng's headquarters of the Chu army sent 5,000 men and horses, and penetrated directly into the front of the Qing army from the oblique thorns, waving the banners of the three main forces of the Chu army, including the Chongyang battalion, the Puqi battalion and the Ji'an battalion, respectively, facing the three Qing troops, and the scouts also saw the general banners of Lu Renqing and Gu Zongfu, and the leading general of the Chongyang battalion was a general named Li Yiliang, whose name was unknown.

"It's finally here!" After receiving the report, Tunqi of the Central Route Army actually had a strange sense of relief.

In a large-scale battle like the Battle of Ningzhen, after defeat, it will inevitably be killed by the other party's full strength, the Chu army sent a small force two days ago, and the largest blocking force is only 500 people...... Now the picture is poor, the five thousand Chu army is the last killing move, of which the Ji'an battalion is facing the Qing army in the middle of Tunqi, as long as they are defeated, they can break through the siege, Tunqi is like a student who is anxious before the exam, and the question is not too difficult after sending the paper, and his heart is much more steady.

It's really not too difficult, at least it's not off-topic.

This is a speed of the movement of the war, encounters, the Chu army no longer has the advantage of waiting for work, it will not be able to build strong fortifications, can not use mortar and flintlock guns for defense, in this kind of hilly and mountainous area, the Ming and Qing armies will face difficulties in coordination and command, the troops can not be controlled, the fight is a small force of Su zhì, Tun Qi is very confident, with the personal quality and combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners, will be able to defeat the Ji'an battalion.

He immediately ordered the front army to run forward at full speed and rush towards the blocking position of the Ji'an battalion, striving to defeat them in one fell swoop!

The blocking position chosen by the Ji'an battalion is in a mountain pass, the two peaks are facing each other, and there is a long valley in the middle, and the terrain is gradually raised, forming two mountain slopes, just like two gates next to the mountain pass, which are barriers to each other, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

On the top of the mountain, the top soldiers of the Ming and Qing armies are fighting, and on both sides of the mountaintop, the vanguard of the Ming army and the Qing army are struggling to climb up.

The leader of the Qing army's spearhead was a low-ranking officer in his thirties - Daizi, named Yaertu, he was originally from Orion, used to drilling in the ravine, his skills were very agile, the sword in his hand flew up and down, and a Chu soldier who was also strong in martial arts fought for several rounds, and finally killed the other party, turned his head to look down the mountain.

Scouts generally do not wear armor, most of the top soldiers wear light armor, and the soldiers have to wear real armor, and the action is not so fast, there are also ironclad soldiers wearing heavy armor in this era, but that thing is too bulky, and it is slow like a snail when climbing the mountain, so most of the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties endured the heat and wore cotton armor.

The length of the slopes on both sides is similar, the steepness is about the same, the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties also began to climb the mountain with their front and back feet, just like a specially arranged fair game, most of the conditions are the same, the competition is the most primitive body, Yaertu originally thought that the body of the Eight Banners was better, and he would definitely be able to climb to the top of the mountain first, but at this moment he looked down, but found that the speed of the Chu army was faster.

"How so?!"

Yartu's face changed suddenly, and he couldn't help but be stunned, if it weren't for the protection of his companions, he was almost slashed by the soldiers of the Chu army.

As a veteran of the Eight Banners, Yaertu is known for being fierce and not afraid of death, but if he can live, he definitely doesn't want to die. Yaertu whistled at the moment, gathered his subordinates and fought and retreated, moving closer to the direction of the Qing army, but he was still puzzled in his heart, why did the Nanban climb the mountain so fast, could it be that their physique was better than that of the Eight Banners?

Impossible! The Manchu Qing Dynasty began to rise from the Nurhachi era, and the Eight Banners burned and looted everywhere for more than 20 years, and they had long lived a life of no shortage of wine and meat, but the Han people experienced a long period of famine and war, and the ordinary people were hungry and full even if they did not starve to death......

Yaltu only thinks about physique, but ignores another important factor - adaptability.

People's adaptability is the strongest, just like the ancient people did not have heating, but can survive for a long time in temperatures of more than ten degrees below zero, dozens of degrees, in the eyes of modern people is simply unimaginable, most of the soldiers of the Ji'an battalion are from the mountainous Jiangxi, the vanguard of the charge is selected one out of a hundred, they grew up in the mountains, everyone is a scud, walking on more than ten miles of mountain roads like walking on the ground, the Eight Banners riding horses are far less than them.

The Chu army is one step faster, and he will reach the top of the mountain first!

Yaertu led his Eight Banners to guard on a high point on the top of the mountain, trying to keep a foothold for the follow-up troops of the Qing army, but was instantly submerged by the tide of Chu soldiers, with a rain of arrows and slashing, the Eight Banners wearing light armor were slaughtered, and the martial arts Yaertu was divided into corpses.

The flintlock pistol of the Chu army is a front-loading smoothbore gun, the rate of fire and accuracy can not be compared with the rifles of later generations, it must be arranged in a dense firing formation, and then equipped with the protection of strong fortifications to give full play to the advantage of firepower, but it is easy to suffer in this kind of encounter, so the musketeers sent by the Chu army are only a small half, and more are archers, pikemen, shield soldiers and other hand-to-hand combat troops.

The Ji'an battalion ranked low in the old eighth battalion of the Chu army, and had just begun to change its flintlock pistol, Gu Zongfu was an old-school general, not too trusting the musket, and the training in hand-to-hand combat had been very tight, and it happened to show its might in this kind of encounter on a narrow road, after the soldiers of the Ji'an battalion climbed to the top of the mountain on both sides, they killed a small number of Eight Banner soldiers, and then gathered into several groups and rushed towards the Qing army that was about to climb to the top of the mountain.

The front line of the vanguard of the Qing army was only one step slower, but it lost the most critical opportunity and geographical advantage, and was killed step by step by the Chu army that was condescendingly pressed over, and hundreds of Eight Banner soldiers in the rear team continued to keep up, only to finally stabilize the position, on the top of the mountain, the number of the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties increased, and a vicious battle of forgetting life and death was launched. (To be continued......)