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Kong Fang is not a Manchurian, he is the Han Army of the Eight Banners, and he is subordinate to the Ministry of Kong Youde, the king of Gongshun. Kong Fang is Kong Youde's family member, who has followed Kong Youde to fight in the south and north for more than ten years, and has won Kong Youde's trust, and now he is a staff leader, and he is in charge of the 1,000 Eight Banners Han Army.

This time, Kong Fang was ordered by Azig to lead 1,000 of his men and 3,000 of Xu Ensheng, the chief soldier of the Green Battalion, to enter Zhejiang from Guangxin Mansion and attack Xianxia Pass. According to the plan of Prince Azig of Ying, the Qing army invaded Fujian in three ways, and Kong Fang had the smallest number of people on this road, and was responsible for blocking Xianxia Pass and separating Fujian and Zhejiang. Kong Fang knew that the prince was afraid that Nanjing's Chongming army would enter Zhejiang to rescue Fujian, and the second was to prevent the Longwu court from escaping from Xianxia Pass into Nanjing.

For the current Qing army, the armies of all sides of the Southern Ming Dynasty are not afraid, the only one that can match the Qing army is the Chongming army in Nanjing, over the years, there have been several fierce generals of the Eight Banners who have been lost under the hands of the Chongming army, such as Beylenikan, Meler Ezhen Li Shutai, and Dutong Yechen, are a number of fierce generals in the Eight Banners Army. Therefore, when the Chongming Army was mentioned, Ren Zai's brave Eight Banners General also had to concentrate and calm down, and even the meritorious British Prince Yu Prince Yu's joint troops had no way to take Nanjing's Chongming Army, forcing the British Prince Azig to attack Fujian first, and then Zhejiang, with the idea of outflanking Nanjing from three sides.

The Ming army in Fujian was not to be feared, and even Zheng Zhilong, who controlled the small court in Fujian, showed his intention of surrendering. As early as May, Prince Ying Azig had already sent people to Fujian to recruit Zheng Zhilong, probably because Nanjing was defeated by Ren Siqi, Zheng Zhilong was indecisive about Prince Ying's surrender. However, Kong Fang believes that as long as the Eight Banners army enters Fujian, Zheng Zhilong may have to surrender, after all, over the years, too many Ming Dynasty troops have surrendered in front of the Eight Banners, and Xu Ensheng, the chief soldier of the green battalion next to him, is one of them.

A figure appeared between the hills in the distance, I don't know if it was the untouchables in the south or the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, Kong Fang frowned, and sent more than a dozen knights to drive it away. It didn't take long for the knights to rush back and drop down five or six bloody human heads, all dressed as ordinary people. According to the cavalry officer at the head, several others jumped into the stream and could not catch up.

This is the case in the south, there are many rivers and ditches, if it is between the white mountains and black waters, people like these will not be able to run away no matter what. If you escape, you can escape, Kong Fang doesn't want to pay much attention to it, after all, his task is to capture Xianxia Pass as soon as possible and block Fujian from the north.

Fifty or sixty miles later is the boundary of Zhejiang, which is not too far from Xianxia Pass. At this moment, north of Xianxia Ridge, a large army came from the north and was walking hard among the mountains. The army crossed the Majinling from Huizhou to the boundary of Quzhou, Zhejiang, and in the face of the Chongming army that suddenly went south, only more than 1,000 Ming troops did not dare to resist at all, and now the Chongming army and King Lu are the honeymoon period, and the Ming army in Quzhou is unwilling to resist, and the prefect of Quzhou obediently welcomed Ren Siqi into Quzhou.

After resting in Quzhou for a few days, while sending people to inquire about the movements of the Qing army and the Xianxia Pass Ming army, he learned that the Xianxia Pass Ming Army was Zheng Hongkui's general Shi Fu, and the Ming army was only more than 2,000 people.

Xianxia Pass is the first pass on the border of Fujian and Zhejiang, and it is also the place where Zhejiang must pass through to enter Fujian, so such an important position only sent 2,000 people to garrison, and I don't know what the Longwu Imperial Court thinks.

According to the Quzhou prefect, when Emperor Longwu ascended the throne at the beginning, he sent Zheng Hongkui to lead a large army to garrison Xianxia Pass and tried to attack Huizhou, Zhejiang, but after Zheng Hongkui sent troops to Quzhou, he was defeated by the Qing soldiers one after another, so he retreated to Xianxia Pass. Later, Ren Siqi attacked Nanjing, and the green battalion soldiers of Quzhou and Huizhou were transferred back to Nanjing for reinforcements, and King Lu sent troops to recover Quzhou. And Zheng Hongkui since the defeat, no longer dare to send troops out of the pass, he was very dissatisfied with his cowering, Emperor Longwu was very dissatisfied, repeatedly ordered to reprimand, and even deposed his title of marquis, Zheng Hongkui led the troops back to the coast of Quanzhou in a fit of anger, and Xianxia Pass left only 2,000 people of Shi Fu to garrison.

In fact, if it is just a blockade, two thousand people are enough, because the Xianxialing mountain road is rugged, there is only one narrow mountain road between the mountains, and the length of the mountain road is more than 20 miles, and the narrowest part of it can only accommodate one person and one rider to pass through. A checkpoint was set up in this narrowest place, which is Xianxia Pass. As long as the Ming army belonging to the Longwu Dynasty is willing to defend with all its might, there is no problem at all in holding the checkpoint.

After listening to the truth and reality, Ren Siqi no longer hesitated, and ordered Chen Mingyang to take the vanguard and go towards Xianxialing. However, as soon as the soldiers entered Xianxialing, a detailed work of the enemy's intelligence department came from Jiangxi, bringing the news that a Qing army was also rushing to Xianxialing.

The size of the Qing army is only a few thousand, and they must not know the main force of Azig, it is estimated that they want to occupy Xianxialing and seal the passage between Zhejiang and Fujian. The Qing soldiers came from Raozhou, and they didn't have to go through Quzhou to reach Xianxialing, and Ren Siqi estimated that they should almost arrive with their own front and back feet.

So he ordered Chen Mingyang to march quickly and quickly take Xianxia Pass, and he sent people to survey the terrain, and Ren Siqi decided to fight an ambush here to destroy this Qing army.

After Chen Mingyang got the order, he immediately threw down his baggage and moved forward lightly, and after half a day's effort, he crossed the forty-mile mountain road and walked into the front of Xianxia Pass.

Seeing the arrival of an army, the Ming army on Xianxia Pass was in a panic, and the bows and arrows fired indiscriminately. Chen Mingyang ordered his subordinates to stop, the mountain road here was too rugged, and only one or two people were allowed to go at the narrowest point, so it was impossible to attack.

Chen Mingyang ordered people to shout, saying that the king of Chongming County sent troops to support at the invitation of Emperor Longwu.

Shi Fu, the guard general on the gate, knew that Emperor Longwu had issued a holy decree to Nanjing, and the envoy who issued the decree had just passed through here and returned to Fujing half a month ago. It stands to reason that he should immediately let the Ming army on the opposite side in, but Shi Fu is Zheng Hongkui's subordinate, and for him, Emperor Longwu's holy decree has not yet been ordered by Zheng Zhilong.

For the Zheng brothers, Fujian is their territory, how could they allow Ren Siqi's army in Nanjing to enter, and Emperor Qilongwu's holy decree is to let Ren Siqi send troops to attack Jiangxi, when will he bring troops to Fujian?

So Shi Fu thought about it for a while, categorically refused Chen Mingyang's order to open and close the port, and asked people to bring the cannon up, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the mountain road below.