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"We'll beat them." Alugu put down his binoculars and said calmly.

"The rest of the society has arrived." Erlan said, pointing to a mountain road in the distance. Alugu turned his head to look and saw hundreds of hunters carrying rifles walking up the mountain, and Alugu recognized that the leader of the group was the leader of the Female Milk Society, the Coats Buddhist Society, and the Bamboo Boy Society, and couldn't help but be very happy.

The place where Alugu prepared to stop the Japanese army was called Shimen, and it was the only way to enter the holy land of the Peony Society. Knowing that the Japanese army was about to invade from here, other societies sent people to help.

Alugu and his son came forward to greet the leaders and asked about the situation of the other societies. The leaders told the Alugu societies about the deployment of the various societies that the Coats Buddhist Society, the Nu Milk Society, the Gazhilai Society, the Turtle Boy Society, and the Bamboo Society had been divided into Nangang (that is, the coastal port where the golden silk nanmu was transported, which was also the storage place of the golden silk nanmu), Sichongxi, Shuangxikou and other dangerous places according to his request, because Shimen was the most dangerous place, and while each society was defending with all its might, they also divided some warriors and sent the leader to lead the people to Shimen to help the people of the Peony Society defend.

"With so many warriors coming to our aid today, we will be able to win!" Alugu looked at the warriors of the various societies with a rifle on his back and a scimitar on his waist, and said happily.

Because Lin Yizhe adopted the method of "exchanging guns for wood" and imported "snuffbox" rifles and ammunition to the aborigines of Taiwan, the armament of Taiwan's various societies has been greatly strengthened.

Soon, the new recruits were also placed in the defensive line by Alugu.

At the same time that the aborigines of Taiwan were actively deploying defenses, the Japanese army was already under the personal leadership of Saigo Congdao and rushed straight towards Shimen.

Due to the loss of more than 400 people in two successive battles, Saigo was anxious to retaliate against Fanmin, so he rashly led a large group of men and horses to march to the mountains, without thinking about what price he would have to pay for this action.

The loss of more than 400 people was a great setback for the Japanese army. You must know that at this time, the total strength of Japan's army was only 42,000, and the navy was only more than 4,000.

"Yaga! A few of you! Hurry up! A Japanese captain saw several Japanese soldiers staggering along as if they were drunk, and couldn't help but come forward and scold.

The Japanese soldiers staggered to keep up with the team, and Li Xiande, who was riding on the horse, noticed that these people did not look like they had eaten glutinous rice balls and had a bad stomach, and couldn't help but feel a little strange.

The Japanese army team walked forward for a while, Li Xiande smelled that there seemed to be a smell of rotten fruit in the air in the mountains, he looked at the misty cliffs in the distance, and immediately remembered something, and couldn't help but change his face.

Li Xiande took out a towel from his backpack, wet it with water from the kettle, and covered it over his mouth.

"Mr. Li Xiande, who are you? ......" Mizuno Jun suddenly remembered something, and his face changed. He hurriedly beat his horse and came to Saigo Congdao's side, reminding him, "General, look ahead!" ”

Saigo stopped his horse from the road, raised his binoculars, and looked in the direction of Mizuno's finger, and saw that the rocks and trees in the distance were all shrouded in a layer of mist.

"That's miasma!" Mizuno pointed to some of the soldiers in the team and said, "They must have accidentally inhaled the miasma, so they ......."

Without waiting for Mizuno to finish speaking, Saigo understood what was going on, and like Li Xiande, he took out a handkerchief, wet it with water, and covered it on his mouth, then he turned his head and waved his hand to Gu Gancheng, who was in charge of specific command.

Gu Gancheng immediately issued an order for all personnel to guard against miasma, and soon, the Japanese soldiers began to wet their towels and then march with their mouths covered.

After walking for a while, the wind became stronger, and gradually blew away the miasma, and the scenery hidden by the fog gradually revealed, and two huge and steep peaks appeared in front of the Japanese.

"This is the Stone Gate." Li Xiande felt that the miasma had dissipated, took off the towel covering his mouth, took out the map and opened it to look at it, and said to Xixiang Congdao.

Saigo raised his binoculars from the road, and he saw that between the two peaks, there was a narrow stone path winding upward, and his brow gradually tightened.

The trail is narrow enough to accommodate two people side by side, making it very difficult for an army of several thousand to navigate.

Gu Gancheng and other generals gathered on horseback, and everyone's eyes were focused on Saigo Congdao.

Saigo noticed the look of surprise in everyone's eyes, and was annoyed in his heart, and said categorically, "Forward!" Get through here quickly! ”

Gu Gancheng hesitated, but still gave the order to continue the march. This time, the samurai of the Satsuma clan took the lead, and the Japanese soldiers lined up in two columns and walked up the stone path.

The stone path was relatively flat at first, and Saigo noticed that a lot of stones seemed to have been specially leveled, so he rode up the stone steps boldly, and when he saw that Saigo Congdao was going to ride a horse uphill, Gu Gancheng was taken aback and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him.

"Wait a minute, come over!" Gu Gancheng said, "Riding a horse on a mountain road is too dangerous! ”

Saigo nodded from the road, and turned over and dismounted unwillingly, at this time he didn't know that just now, Gu Gancheng was actually equivalent to saving his life.

Saigo Congmichi and Gu Gancheng and others stayed in the woodland at the stone gate and watched the troops pass by.

At this time, on the opposite cliff, rifles were quietly sticking out from the woods and stone crevices.

"There is no one here to defend, they probably know that our large army is coming, and they are already fleeing in fear." Saigo Congdao saw that the troops passed smoothly, and no one stopped him, so he said proudly.

As if he was going to slap him in the face, just as he finished speaking, a series of crisp gunshots suddenly rang out!

Saigo hurriedly raised his binoculars and looked ahead, only to see a large area of white smoke coming out of the opposite cliff, and the bullets rained down, and a large number of Japanese troops immediately fell, accompanied by hoarse screams, many people fell off the cliff.

"Quick! Shoot! Saigo lowered his binoculars from the road and stomped his feet in anger and screamed.

Without waiting for the officers to give the order, the Japanese soldiers had already begun firing at the opposite cliff. The Japanese soldiers who had stayed in the woodland and had not yet walked up the mountain road also raised their guns and shot at the cliff wall.

To Saigo's great surprise, compared to the fierce counterattack of the Japanese army, Shengban's firepower was not weak at all, and at this particular moment, it was even stronger!

In his impression, the Mufu army in the War of the Fall did not have such firepower!

And sure enough, as reported by the officers and soldiers who survived the previous two battles, the marksmanship of the students was very accurate!

In the midst of these rounds of shooting just now, the Japanese army continued to fall from the mountain road to the mountain stream like falling leaves, and only a few people were hit and fell down in the Shengfan position on the opposite side!

Even with the full fire support of the Japanese troops who did not walk on the stone paths in the woodland, the battle situation did not change much. Seeing more and more Japanese soldiers falling into the mountain stream, Saigo was depressed to death for a while.

Now he finally regrets saying something like "you don't need a cannon to deal with Shengfan".

Now even with just one cannon, he can wipe out the people on the cliff!

Just when the platoon guns on both sides were still fiercely fighting, Saigo Congdao suddenly discovered that on the cliff above the head of the Japanese army on the stone path, a large number of people appeared!

There were not many of them, and although they were carrying rifles, they had no intention of shooting at the Japanese army!

Saigo raised the telescope again with some puzzlement, and when he saw a lot of huge rocks under Fanmin's feet, which were erected and bound by wooden rafts and vines, his heart instantly became cold.

As if he saw Saigo Congdao looking at them, a young man who was obviously the leader of Fanmin smiled coldly at Saigo Congdao in the telescope, and suddenly pulled out the scimitar on his waist, aimed at a vine, and slashed it fiercely.

Seeing the leader's movements, the other fans also pulled out their scimitars one after another and slashed down at the vines.

"Boom!" "Boom!" With a loud bang, boulders fell from the sky and smashed straight towards the Japanese troops on the mountain road.

Saigo watched a boulder fall into the ranks of the Japanese soldiers first, and smashed two Japanese soldiers into meatloaf at once, and then the boulder rolled off their bodies and rolled towards the following Japanese soldiers.

"Quick! Fall back! Fall back! A Japanese officer shouted loudly and ran down the hill first, and then the Japanese soldiers turned around and ran down the hill, but the speed of the man was not as fast as the boulder rolling down! More boulders tumbled down, and for a time the mountain roads and streams were filled with the screams of Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese soldiers, who had easily escaped down the mountain road and returned to the woodland, had no fighting spirit at this time, and ran to the rear without their lives, and actually disrupted the Japanese army ranks on the woodland.

"Yaga!" Saigo was furious when he saw this, and he suddenly pulled out the saber given by the emperor, and slashed over a Japanese soldier who had fled in front of him in a daze.

"Don't run away! Give me back! Keep fighting! Saigo shouted loudly with his katana in his hand in anger, but no one listened to him, and more and more Japanese soldiers began to turn around and run backwards.

Saigo was extremely angry, and was just about to swing his knife to continue slashing people, but he didn't know where to "bang!" A shot knocked one of the guards beside him to the ground in an instant.

Saigo was stunned for a moment, his knife-wielding hand stopped, he couldn't help but turn his head, and suddenly saw the figure of the brigade of Fanmin rushing out of the forest!

There were hundreds of these people, all of them holding rifles in their hands, and bullets between their fingers, and they ran and shot at the same time, and pressed the bullets into the chamber with great skill and speed, and suddenly countless bullets came like a torrential rain, and a large number of Japanese soldiers were knocked to the ground before they could shoot!

Suddenly hit by this sudden violent blow, the Japanese army was in a mess for a while, under the command of Gu Gancheng, some Japanese soldiers easily gathered and began to return fire with platoon guns, but the Japanese army's shooting accuracy under the panic was greatly reduced, several rows of guns shot out one after another, only a dozen Fanmin were knocked down, and Fanmin's shooting became more and more ferocious, and soon, the ground was full of dead and wounded Japanese soldiers!

"General! Let's go! ”

Li Xiande took a few Americans to Saigo Congdao's side, Li Xiande raised the Remington horse pistol in his hand, "Bang! "One shot knocked out a fanmin.

Several other Americans, along with Jackman, were also shooting with their Remington rifles, and these Americans were obviously better marksmanship than the Japanese, and the small group quickly showed its effect, and about a dozen of them were knocked to the ground as soon as they rushed not far in front of the Japanese ranks.

But in this way, this group of Americans soon became the target of the concentrated attacks of the fans, Li Xiande saw a fanmin with a scar on his face and the appearance of a leader, raised his gun and aimed at this side, he quickly shot at this person, but he didn't want the gun to suddenly jam! He saw that the other party was aiming at Jackman, and was about to give a warning, but the other party had already opened fire.

Jackman, who was riding on a horse, was shot in the chest and fell off his horse with a scream.

Jackman's shot startled the Americans next to them, and one by one they turned their horses' heads and ran towards the rear, when the fans opened fire again, and after a burst of ping-pong gunfire, five Americans dismounted.

At this time, the Japanese troops who were in a mess in this small woodland had collapsed under the attack of the powerful firepower of the people, and Saigo still refused to leave while waving the knife in his hand, and several guards saw that the situation was critical, and did not care about the majesty of the general, so they took his saber from three times and divided two by two, carried him onto the horse, and fled to the rear with him in their arms.

Li Xiande saw Jackman struggling in a pool of blood, and wanted to rush over to help him, but more and more Japanese troops retreated, squeezing him farther and farther, when Li Xiande pulled the reins of the horse and struggled to squeeze out of the crowd, he found that a tall and strong Shengfan leader had come to Jackman's side, he stepped on Jackman's stomach with one foot, turned his head and squinted at Li Xiande, and pulled out the scimitar in his hand.

Li Xiande knew what he was going to do, and couldn't help but yell "NO!" - "He forcefully pulled out the jammed bullet and threw it away, reloaded the bullet, raised the gun and was about to fire, but the other party raised the rifle with his left hand and fired first.

Although the opponent shot with one hand, he still hit it extremely accurately, and Li Xiande only felt a numbness in his shoulder, and the Remington carbine in his hand fell. It took him a long time to steady himself and not fall off his horse.

The student sneered, lowered his rifle, and slammed the scimitar in his hand and slashed at Jackman's neck!

Li Xiande watched as Jackman's head detached from his body, and with a dull expression, he rolled to the side.

"Bastard!" Li Xiande only had time to curse like this, and then fainted on the horse, and his horse felt that the master had no longer given him any instructions, and instinctively prompted it to carry Li Xiande and run in the direction of the sea with the flow of fleeing Japanese soldiers.

Japan's largest attack on Taiwan was met with a humiliating rout.

"What's going on?"

On the ironclad ship "Higashi", Rear Admiral Ito Yuma faintly heard the dense and messy gunfire and screams coming from the shore, and felt a trace of unease.

"It's like...... It was our people who were defeated......"

Hidematsu Tsunoda, the first mate of the "East" ironclad ship, said with some hesitation.

"What? That's impossible! Ito, who was the captain of the ship, was very angry that his first mate had said such a frustrating thing, and loudly reprimanded Tsunoda, "How can you talk such nonsense? How could Ikuban defeat a well-armed and well-trained Imperial army? ”

"However, I heard it just now, and someone was shouting 'Mom' and 'help' in Japanese...... "Hidematsu Tsunoda said with a pale face.

Hearing Hidematsu Tsunoda's answer, Yuhiro Ito closed his mouth, listened carefully, and sure enough, he heard Hidematsu Tsunoda's cry for help in Japanese.

Ito Youheng's face also turned pale all of a sudden.

"Inform the ships! Get ready for battle now! Ito Yuma said in a deep voice, "Prepare to support the army with naval artillery fire!" ”

Hearing his brother's order, Ito Yuhyung did not dare to slack off, and immediately passed the order, and soon, the deck of the "East" ironclad began to get busy.

According to the order of Rear Admiral Ito Yuma, the ironclad ship "Higashi", which was the flagship of the escort fleet of the Japanese troop transport fleet, issued a flag, and the "Nisshin" and "Mengchun" also began to prepare for battle after receiving the signal.

"Look! Is that...... Our people! Hidematsu Tsunoda said, pointing to the crowd on the shore.

Ito Yuma and Ito Yuhiro both raised their binoculars and looked at the shore, and immediately saw that the Japanese army rout of the brigade was converging towards the coast, and some of them had already run into the water, and when they saw the Japanese warships anchored in the distance, they couldn't stop waving and shouting.

"Do you see that wood?" Ito Yuma put down his binoculars, pointed to a dark woods on the shore, and said to Ito.

"See." Ito nodded.

"Shoot there." Ito Yuma said in a deep voice, "Send a signal to the 'Nisshin' and 'Meng Chun' and order them to fire there as well." ”

"Do you have to wait? Will it hurt your own people? Ito put down his binoculars and asked with some hesitation.

He had already seen clearly just now that all the people who fled from the forest to the beach were Japanese army soldiers!

"If we wait any longer, the lives of these people on the shore will not be saved!" Ito Yuma glared at his younger brother with some annoyance, "Hurry up and shoot!" ”

"Hey!"

Almost 10 minutes later, a thick and large black barrel protruded from the gun window on the side of the bow gun room facing the shore of the ironclad ship "East".