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In Tai O, at the northwest corner of Lantau Island, it was already dark. This is another strategic point on Lantau Island that is no less than the city of Tung Chung. The small island of Tai O is almost connected to the main island of Lantau Island, and the fishing village of Tai O was built across the sea. The narrow strait between the two islands is a good haven. It was once occupied by the Portuguese and was the first garrison on Lantau Island.

On this night, countless fires were lit in the small fishing village of Tai O, and even in the strait, there were sporadic lights flickering - those should be the lights from the Qing army's warships.

More than a dozen officers of the Jishi Army were on the Shangqiang Mountain in the east of Tai O Village, their eyes wide open, their ears pricked up, and they wanted to see the movements of the Qing army's camp in the vicinity of Tai O Village, and carefully listened to the noise of the Qing army on this night. They seem to be building camp overnight, and they are putting on a steady posture.

I don't know how long it took, most of the fires had been extinguished, but there were still a lot of dim fires, and the noisy camp had quieted down. When they arrived at Zuihou, those Jishijun officers finally confirmed that the Qing army in Tai O had begun to rest. One of the women in a long gray coat whispered to another tall officer who was also wearing a long coat: "Ming Gong, it seems that Qinggou has started to smoke a lot, let his subordinates take their brothers to go in and explore the truth first!" ”

This woman is Su Yuniang, the female general of the Jishi Army, who is already eager to try at this moment and wants to personally lead the team to rob the camp. The man he called "Ming Gong" was naturally Zhu Jishi.

"Don't rush too hard, the main camp of the Qing army is on Tai O Island, even if the part of the Qing army on Lantau Island is wiped out. Lai Lao'er can still hold on. And also. Be sure to stay safe. ”

"My subordinates understand." Su Yuniang arched her hand towards Zhu Jishi. He received the order and began to organize the first wave of sneak attacks. She was born in a reckless manner, and if she doesn't sound good, she is a female robber, and she is not necessarily good at fighting in a dignified formation, but she is not good at sneak attacks at night.

Tonight, following Zhu Jishi and Su Yuniang were four non-commissioned officer companies from the Yaleizhou Military Academy and an infantry company that had fought in the Xindang battle, all of which were Jingrui among the elite. Su Yuniang left the infantry company to guard Zhu Jishi, but she led the non-commissioned officers of the fourth company and marched forward in the dark in five columns. Quietly advance to the Qing army camp. She herself was at the head of the procession, not carrying a musket, but carrying a bow and a pot of carved arrows. Ji Shi is not used to bow and crossbow in the army, but Su Yuniang is good at this. Tonight, she was going to use this bow to snipe the Qing army sentries.

According to the aesthetics of later generations, this woman should be considered to be in a fit shape, with the physique of an athlete, and her strength is not small, and she can use a longbow of one meter and a half. The pulling force is about forty pounds - it is already very powerful, although later novels and historical materials can often see any two-stone bows and three-stone bows. But in the current Qing Dynasty, it seems that no one can pull this kind of hard bow. The martial arts examination of the Qing Dynasty was to open a stone bow, and it was qualified if it could be opened three times. But no archer shot only three arrows at the battlefield. Moreover, when opening a hard bow, the bowstring is pulled with the palm of the hand, not with the fingers. Therefore, such a hard bow is not practical at all, and now the three- and four-bucket step bow used by Su Yuniang can be regarded as a strong bow. The effective firing range is seventy or eighty meters to the sky, and the legendary 100-step Yang is this distance, which is basically similar to an ordinary smoothbore gun.

As for the kind of bow with a range that exceeds the smoothbore gun, of course, there are also there, but Su Yuniang can't use it, and strong men who can use that kind of bow can go to the martial arts exam. The Qing Dynasty produced less than 100 warriors a year on average, and all the jinshi in the family wanted to be officials, and it was impossible to become archers.

Zhong Ziliang, the newly appointed general of the Guangdong Naval Division, was such a martial artist who could use the eight-bucket infantry bow, and the Guangdong Naval Division stationed on the Lantau side of Tai O Village raised the left battalion, the right battalion, and the rear battalion, and now all of them were under his command. According to Lord Rein's orders, more than 2,400 officers and men of the three battalions had been building the camp since the afternoon, and it was not until the second half of the night that it was arranged.

However, General Zhong still did not sleep, but took a dozen relatives to patrol around the camp. His current mood is really not very good. He is not a Cantonese but a Guanzhong man, and the literary style of this era is at the peak of Jiangnan and Hunan, but Wujin Shiduo is a strong man in the northwest. He was originally a subordinate of Xianglin, the governor of Guangdong, who had followed him to Guangdong from Shanxi to be an official, and he had only been in the navy for a few days, and he was extremely dissatisfied with the laxity and fatigue of the Guangdong navy.

Although the decay of the green camp is not a day, it is probably unique to be as corrupt as the Guangdong sailor. Unlike the poor officers and men of the Green Battalion in the north, the officers and men of the Guangdong Navy Division who raised the standard were quite wealthy because of covering opium smuggling. Often an ordinary soldier, there are also good fields and beautiful houses in the family, and servants and concubines. In addition to patrolling and anti-smuggling, in fact, it is more difficult to cover smuggling, and these officers and men of the Navy Division are absolutely unwilling to spend half more effort on training, preferring to smoke in the clouds or visit brothels and gamble. Outside the Humen Sailor Camp are prostitution houses, smoke houses, and casinos, all of which are where the sailors and soldiers go after they go on a business trip.

Life is good, naturally they are afraid of death, this time Lord Ryan sent out the big order, and the surroundings of the Humen Navy Battalion actually cried! On the day of the army, it was as if there was a funeral outside the gate of the camp, and all the family members were crying. The soldiers who came out of the battle were like ashes, and they refused to move forward, and they had to be urged by the superior again and again before they cried and cried on the warship. As for the commander of the Guangdong Provincial Waterway Military Officer, Lai Enjue Lai Junmen, he was also a mournful jiashi. Let your subordinates carry the coffin and go out with the army! Is he trying to stimulate the blood of his subordinates or is he scaring those rotten soldiers?

And at this point, even Zhong Ziliang himself felt a strong sense of despair. Because all the way to the camp, all he saw was the fire from the opium lamp, and all he smelled was the fragrance of the opium paste after it was burned. Under the promotion of the Guangdong Navy Division, the officers and soldiers who smoke big cigarettes are only afraid of seven or eight out of ten! How could such an army defend the Qing Dynasty?

"My lord, I've arrived at the gate of the camp."

The reminder voice of the soldiers sounded in Zhong Ziliang's ears, and he looked up to see that not far away was the gate that had just been erected, and the four sentries who had just passed the smoking addiction were standing there with their spears in their hands.

At that moment, there were a few "boom" sounds in the air, followed by the swishing sound of arrows piercing the air.

"Someone shoots an arrow!" Zhong Ziliang instinctively flashed to the side, but no arrow flew towards him. But three of the four sentries standing guard were shot through the throat by an arrow and fell to the ground screaming. Another person seemed to be stunned by this scene, and he couldn't scream with his mouth open, and then he was killed by an arrow shot in the darkness!

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Preparing for ......"

Zhong Ziliang pulled out his waist knife and roared while waving it in front of him.

"Protect your lordship! Protect your adults! "The surrounding soldiers were all brought by Zhong Ziliang from his hometown, and they were quite loyal, so they all gathered around Zhong Ziliang and protected him with his body to avoid being injured by hidden arrows. Suddenly, a roar sounded, alarming the Qing soldiers who were smoking heavy cigarettes, and the officers pulled the soldiers to assemble in formation, ready to resist. The soldiers who were addicted to cigarettes refused to move, and the scene was quite chaotic.

"Lieutenant Colonel Su, are you going to charge now?"

Su Yuniang brought a battalion of elite soldiers to Zhu Jishi, so he was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel, and his official position was the deputy head of the Fourth Regiment of the Jishi Army (the regiment commander was Colonel Han Si, and the troops under his jurisdiction were 3,600 people on Lantau Island).

"Don't rush! As soon as we rush, the Qing troops here may collapse, and the main force of the Qing army on Tai O Island will not go up to Lantau Island to send them to death. ”

Su Yuniang frowned, and ordered Ren Yijiang, who was temporarily serving as the commander of the non-commissioned officer battalion beside her. "Let the light infantry company go and attack, and engage the enemy in two columns at a distance of 150 yards from the enemy battalion, with the main force of the battalion lining up behind to cover."

She wanted to shoot down the guards and sneak in with a few brothers to grab some tongues and set them on fire, but she didn't expect to be noticed by the Qing army. In this way, they can only use foreign guns to fight them for a while, but fortunately, the Qing soldiers are not afraid of muskets shooting at each other. (To be continued......)