Jieshiwei is one of the 36 guards of the Ming Dynasty, and it was built in the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu. Wei has jurisdiction over three institutes, which are divided into Pinghai Institute, Jiesheng Office, and Jiazimen Office. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the rebellion in eastern Guangdong was serious, and the general soldier Yu Dayou led the troops to guard the Jieshi Guard, and annihilated thousands of Japanese in Dade Port at the junction of Haifeng and Lufeng in the following year, which shocked the world. In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, when Li Zicheng's peasant army invaded Beijing, Zhang Mingzhen, the general of the Ming army guarding Jieshiwei, was captured and killed by Su Chengbu, the peasant army of Hailufeng, and Jieshiwei was occupied by Su Cheng.

Su Cheng, who was born in the peasant army, was very hostile to the Ming Dynasty, but he was unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty as a traitor, so he always led his troops to persist in resisting the Qing Dynasty in Jieshiwei. After the death of Su Cheng in the fourteenth year of Shunzhi, his son Su Li immediately sent someone to ask the prefect of Huizhou to surrender after taking over Jieshiwei, and was appointed by the Qing court as the chief military officer of the Huizhou Naval Division. As a result, only a few months later, Huizhou called Hu Qili from Guangzhou to break through, Hu Qili led Han Chaozong to sneak into Jieshiwei Fort at night, and captured and killed Su Li, who had only been the chief officer of the naval division for a few months, and his subordinates died or surrendered, and the peasant uprising in Hailufeng, which had lasted for 14 years, finally ended in Su Li, the person who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. A few months later, Wu Liuqi suddenly dispatched heavy troops to break through Jieshiwei, and Han Chaozong was defeated and fled back to Lufeng, thus opening the prelude to the Taiping Army's Eastern Crusade.

Jieshiwei is the gateway between Chaozhou and Huizhou, only more than 50 miles away from Lufeng City in Huizhou, less than 100 miles away from Puning City in Chaozhou, and only more than 70 miles away from Huilai City. The official road from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Guangzhou through Fujian was under the control of Jieshi Wei, so the first step for Jidu's army to enter Huizhou was to occupy the Jieshi Acropolis, even if there was no Taiping army stationed in the city, the Qing army still slaughtered the only few hundred old and weak women and children in the city as usual.

The one who stayed behind to guard Jieshi was the right battalion of the town mark under Zhang Chao, the general soldier of Nanyang, and the fast horse sent by Shen Yongxing to ask for help also went straight to this place. Jidu led the army straight to Jieshiwei. Zhou Shixiang also led the main force of the first town, a cavalry brigade, and the pro-army iron man guard to Benjie Shiwei. However, Zhou Shixiang did not attack Jieshiwei, but waited for Jidu's arrival at the Xuanwu Mountain garrison seven miles northeast of Jieshiwei.

There is a stone pagoda built on Xuanwu Mountain, from which it faces east. Everything in the Fort of Jieshi will be in full view. One mile below the stone pagoda is the official road, which passes through the Xuanwu Mountain and winds for several miles.

The blind man Li carried Zhou Shixiang's handsome flag and planted it on a high slope in front of the stone tower, so that the Taiping army under the mountain could see it.

"The flag is in the people, and those who take a step back without the order will be killed!"

Zhou Shixiang issued a military order and ordered the pro-army Iron Man to guard the formation, after the start of the war. Whoever dared to cross the flag and take a step back without an order was to be killed.

At the bottom of the hillside, Ge Yi held a dagger and picked up the flesh between his teeth, and looked at the handsome flag on the hillside from time to time. There is no tension with the imminent big war. Behind him, more than 7,000 soldiers of the First Town, who had just been replenished, sat on the ground and ate dry food. Suna led the remaining more than 300 cavalry under his command to put their horses on the slope of the mountain, and everything was so calm. Until the sentry of the Qing army appeared in front of him, and the forward fast horse.

"Discover the Qing army!"

One by one, the flag bearers on the hillside waved their flags. In an instant, more than 7,000 Taiping troops in the first town stood up from the ground with a "whoosh", as if a long dragon had suddenly rolled down, and the soldiers picked up their weapons in their hands and marched forward under the officer's order, until the mountain pass stopped.

The pro-army Iron Man Wei in the rear also put on iron armor neatly, and looked straight ahead with the sword in his hand.

Suna didn't get on the horse, but just led the war horse and looked at the mountain pass, looking very calm.

Twenty-two. The Qing army's forward Zhili Green Battalion Tongzhou General Soldier Zhang Dan was the first to arrive at the Xuanwu Pass, and found that the official road of the pass had been occupied by the Taiping Army. Zhang dared not act rashly, and sent people to report to the Chinese army quickly. In the evening, Jidu led the Manchu and Han armies to arrive, and after observing the terrain, Jidu only ordered all the troops to set up camp and did not immediately attack. That night, the Taiping army did not attack the camp, and the Qing army did not sneak attack, and there was nothing to do. Before dawn the next day, the sound of war drums resounded through Xuanwu Mountain.

The Taiping army seized Xuanwu Mountain, so that the cavalry of the Qing army could not give full play to the advantage, and Jidu ordered the Zhili Green Battalion to attack. After the battle began, Zhang Dan spared no effort to attack the position of the Taiping army, followed by Yang Zhenwei, the general soldier of Zhending, and more than 3,000 battalions rushed to the Taiping army in the sound of the earth-shattering horn.

"Fire!"

In front of the circular position built on the mountain, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the deafening sound of firecrackers was incessant, and the C Brigade of the First Town fired the firecrackers in its hands under the command of the brigade school.

The fourteen small cannons captured from Wuzhen Hachao continued to bombard the charging Zhili battalion, although the power was not great, but it successfully slowed down the impact speed of the Zhili battalion, and the Zhili battalion soldiers continued to fall to the ground in front of the battle. The white smoke emitted by the fire bolt filled the entire Xuanwu Mountain Pass, turning this place into a white expanse, like a fairy mountain.

"Don't retreat, rush up, rush up!"

The Zhili battalion rushed to the mountain pass regardless of the casualties under the supervision of the Manchu and Mongolian troops in the rear, and the archers fired arrows at the Taiping army a hundred paces away, and the Taiping army began to suffer casualties. Song En, the captain of the A battalion of the C Brigade from the Jingnan Domain, once loudly ordered his subordinates to open fire, and his eyes were fixed on the soldiers of the Zhili battalion who rushed up. The Taiping Army, which occupied a favorable position, made full use of the terrain and made a brigade of firecrackers play the strongest firepower on the fan. The Qing army, which lacked artillery, was unable to disperse the Taiping army's firecrackers in dense formation, and the courage of the Zhili Green Battalion only made the Taiping army's guns chaotic for a while, and then they were cut to the ground by the swords and spearmen who rushed up from both wings.

When they arrived at Xuanwu Mountain, the men of the C Brigade dug a trench more than one person deep at the mountain pass, and the excavated soil was piled up in front of the queue, becoming a mud wall that could be blocked. Rows after rows of musketeers exchanged shots, and the front musketeers quickly put down their muskets under the cover of the mud wall, hurriedly retreated and reloaded their ammunition, and the second platoon continued to bombard. Under the tense battle, they could not hear the officers' orders, but by instinct and the usual strict training, they kept shooting, retreated, and then stepped forward again. Among them, those Han troops under the Jingnan Domain and the Pingnan Domain performed a little better.

Zhou Shixiang had been standing on the hillside to pay close attention to the development of the war, and the handsome flag behind him was fluttering in the wind, which was particularly conspicuous on the green slope. However, Zhou Shixiang was not worried that the banner behind him would attract the attention of the Qing army, if the Qing army could rush to the banner behind him, it would mean that the first town had been defeated and his death time had come. Yu Qi is worried about when he will die, it is better to watch how his subordinates fight bravely to kill the enemy, even if they really can't stop the Jidu army, then they will become benevolent in this Xuanwu Mountain.

The attack of the Zhili battalion did not go well, Jidu frowned and ordered the troops to be withdrawn, and after leaving behind hundreds of corpses and hundreds of companions who were wailing in front of the battle, the Zhili Green Battalion hurriedly retreated. Jidu adjusted the deployment of troops, he ordered the Han army, which also had firearms, to attack head-on, attract the attention of the Taiping army, and ordered the Henan Green Battalion and the Zhili Green Battalion, Wu Liuqi's men and horses to climb up from both sides of the mountain pass, and then condescendingly attacked the Taiping army in the mountain pass. This time, Jidu did not leave any more behind, except for the cavalry, all the soldiers and horses that could fight were sent by him, and the brave blow of more than 10,000 Qing troops could break through the defense line of Taiping Kou no matter what.

The passionate war drums resounded over the battlefield again, the banners of the Han army and the green battalion flew, the swords were unsheathed, the bows were wound, and the Qing army roared and rushed to Xuanwu Mountain. (To be continued.) )