When Chen Mingyang led the army to attack Xianxia Pass, Ren Siqi's vanguard had already met the Qing soldiers. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since learning that thousands of Qing soldiers were also attacking Xianxia Pass, Ren Siqi made up his mind to completely annihilate this group of Qing troops.

If it is on the plain, it is really difficult to annihilate an army of thousands of people, especially the Qing soldiers with strong combat effectiveness, because if you can't beat people, you can always escape, and most of the Eight Banners are equipped with war horses, so it is easy to escape.

But this is a mountainous area with rolling hills, narrow mountain passes, and steep cliffs, and it is not a place where cavalry can cross and crisscross. The mountains are high and the forests are dense, and there are many valleys, if they are properly arranged, it is not very difficult to completely annihilate this Qing army. However, in the Chongming army, there is a guide sent by the prefect of Quzhou who is familiar with the terrain of Xianxialing.

According to the guide's description, Ren Siqi chose a relatively wide mountain col as a place for ambush. There was originally a village in this mountain col, and when they saw the soldiers coming, the villagers fled to the mountain with their families and mouths. The topography of the col is that both ends are narrow mountain roads that only need a few people to pass, but there is more than half a mile wide in the middle, there are streams flowing down from the mountain, passing through the col, the mountain people have opened up more than 100 acres of fields beside the stream, and built more than a dozen bamboo buildings. The col is lined with towering mountains and pine and bamboo trees, and the steep mountains are difficult for even the ancestors to climb.

The col used to run from east to west, and the west end leads straight to the west direction, according to the guide, if you want to enter Xianxia Pass from Jiangxi, this col is the place after all.

After determining the ambush location, Ren Siqi immediately ordered to start arranging the battlefield, and arranged 3,000 elite soldiers on the mountain ridge next to the mountain road on the west side, with the purpose of cutting off the return route of the Qing army, and sent more than 2,000 musketeers to climb the mountains distributed on both sides of the mountain col, hidden among the dense trees, and used to shoot the Qing troops who fled on the mountain. Ren Siqi led his army to ambush on the east side of the mountain pass, laid a pocket, and waited for the arrival of the Qing army.

Kong Fang walked on the narrow mountain road with difficulty with one thousand eight banners and three thousand green battalions, and the ancient and majestic mountains of Liaodong, the mountains in the south twisted and turned, and most of them were narrow paths that were difficult for a person to pass, and many times even the war horse under the crotch became a burden, and he had to dismount and carefully lead the war horse forward. After several days of marching, everyone was exhausted, and the dry food they carried was almost exhausted, but fortunately, there were many streams in the southern mountains, and there was no shortage of drinking water.

No, you have to rest and recuperate, and if you continue like this, now even the strong Eight Banners Han Army can't hold on, not to mention the green battalion soldiers under the chief soldier Xu Ensheng, who have already looked unorthodox with crooked armor and oblique armor.

But there was no place to camp in this narrow mountain pass, let alone rest properly, so Kong Fang had to grit his teeth and continue the difficult trek with his heavy legs. Just then, the guide brought good news, there was a small col ahead, and it was no problem to accommodate thousands of people camping.

When the news spread, both the Eight Banners Han Army and the Green Battalion soldiers were in high spirits, and they marched towards the mountain col a few miles away.

After walking for another half an hour, the mountain road in front of him suddenly became cheerful, and a mountain col with a small area appeared, and there was a clear stream flowing through the middle of the mountain pass, and the water was so clear that you could see the fine sand at the bottom, and thousands of Qing soldiers immediately became excited, cheering and swarming towards the mountain pass.

Kong Fang looked at the bamboo building in front of him suspiciously, no one escaped from the bamboo building with such a big movement, could it be that the people in the col had already discovered the movement of the army? Looking up, the surrounding mountains are towering, the endless trees are lush, and there is no sound except for the excited frolic of the Qing soldiers in the mountain col, this place seems to be an isolated place.

It was too calm, and a trace of bad feeling suddenly appeared in Kong Fang's heart, which had saved his life many times in the past countless years of conquest. After thinking about it carefully, Kong Fang called his personal guard Goshha and asked him to take a dozen people all the way forward, cross the mountain col to the front to check the enemy's situation. Although Kong Fang thought that he had thousands of troops in hand, even if tens of thousands of Ming troops came to be afraid, it was better to be cautious in the end.

More than a dozen Eight Banner soldiers scolded and walked towards the east with weapons in hand, and everyone else was drinking water and washing by the stream, but they had no rest, which was unpleasant to think about. However, before they could reach the mouth of the mountain pass, the "pop" gunfire rang out, and seven or eight Eight Banner soldiers fell to the ground without saying a word, and the others immediately drew their weapons and gathered together, and saw the Ming troops of the brigade rushing out of the mountains and forests on both sides of the pass.

"It's broken, it's in an ambush!" Kong Fang shouted badly, and hurriedly sent the army to turn around and check back, at this moment, there was a loud noise behind him, and he saw countless boulders rolling down from the mountains on both sides, and the mountain road when they came had been sealed by stones in the blink of an eye.

The retreat was broken, but Kong Fang calmed down, and orders were issued continuously, and thousands of Qing soldiers took up their weapons regardless of the fatigue on their bodies and lined up in a neat queue in the mountain col. Now that the back road is broken, let's go forward and fight a way out!

"Let's get started!" Looking at the prey that fell into the encirclement, Ren Siqi commanded calmly. With his order, a ringing arrow was fired into the air, and countless gunpowder bullets were thrown from the mountains and forests on both sides to the bottom of the col, and then a deafening loud noise was heard one after another, and the col was suddenly plunged into a thick fog. To deal with such an enemy who fell into the trap, Ren Siqi naturally would not use the lives of his subordinates to kill them, and it was the best choice to use gunpowder bullets against them.

The continuous explosions finally stopped, and the dense fog cleared slightly, and I saw the bombed people of the Qing army on the opposite side turning their horses on their backs, as if they had been bombarded by hundreds of artillery pieces. In fact, the Chongming army carried hundreds of small cannons with the army, but the mountain road was too rugged to transport them here, so Ren Siqi ordered the artillery to be transported directly to Xianxia Pass.

The smoke cleared slightly, and Ren Siqi immediately ordered the attack to begin, the Qing army's array had been broken, and most of them were still in shock, it was a good time to kill them. The Chongming infantry phalanx lined up in a neat line towards the Qing army, and the musketeers in the formation began to fire freely at the Qing soldiers who were still standing.

There was no suspense in the process of the battle, when Kong Fang personally rushed towards the Ming army with the remaining more than 300 Han Eight Banners and was shot to the ground one by one by the continuous sound of muskets, the green battalion soldiers who had lost their array and command dropped their weapons and surrendered.

"All the soldiers of the Green Battalion are taken into custody, and the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners Han Army are killed in one piece, and there is no such hardcore traitor left!" Looking at the brigade being held captive with their hands tied behind their backs, Ren Siqi ordered.