On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, the heavy snow flies, such as a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms are in full bloom, it is already a piece of snow on the Daqing Mountain of Taiping Mansion, climb to the top and look at it, a world of silver, it is dizzying.

Zhu Yan, the female bandit leader of Daqingshan, has been sending people to secretly monitor the movements in Jiangbei these days, where there is a Shun army guarding the river fort soldiers, the number is not much, hundreds of people, yesterday she just got the news that half of the defenders in the fort have been rotated home for the New Year, and there are less than 300 Shun troops in the fort at this time.

This news made Zhu Yan excited, she has been training in Daqingshan for four or five months, there are nearly 5,000 soldiers in the mountains, and this number is still expanding, this is mainly because after the war in Yangzhou, a large number of Yangzhou people moved to Jiangnan, and the imperial court could not resettle these hundreds of thousands of people one by one in a short period of time, to use a more appropriate term to describe, that is, 'refugees'.

A large number of refugees spread along the Jiangnan area, and many people had to flow into the bandits, which made Zhu Yan's strength increase day by day.

After training for so long, you have to fight him to know how you are doing.

On the thirtieth day of the lunar month, that is, Chinese New Year's Eve, every household is welcoming the arrival of the New Year, although the Daqing Mountains are all bandits, but it is no exception, the Han people, the New Year is the most worthy of celebration, killing chickens and slaughtering pigs, so lively, even the wind and snow on the mountains can not stop their interest.

The operation of Daqingshan is divided into three layers according to the mountain, the mountainside, and the bottom of the mountain, and the upper layer is based on the peak of Daqingshan and Baocalf Ridge, and there are 1,500 female soldiers stationed, most of whom are the families of male bandits in the mountains, but under the leadership of Zhu Yan, they don't love red makeup and love arms.

There are also 3,000 male bandits stationed on the mountainside and on the top of the main peak, and at the bottom of the mountain is where the former bandit leader and his cronies are stationed, and the number is about 500.

Not far from the north of Daqing Mountain is the vast river, the river wind is howling, and the snow is white. Far and near are vast, and the sun is only a few miles.

Zhu Yan decided to sneak attack the Shun army fort in Jiangbei tonight, that is, the Shun army Shanzi battalion stationed there in Yuxi Town, at this time the troops there were the weakest, and the influence of the weather, the Shun army's firearms ability could not be fully utilized. At this point, the sneak attack has a good chance of winning.

This attack, Zhu Yan selected two thousand elites from the mountains, and took a hundred female soldiers as personal guards, and had already touched the riverside before nightfall, Hu Damao was also among the same expeditions this time, Zhu Yan did not dare to put this person alone on the mountain, Hu Damao's people were used as the vanguard of this sneak attack, according to Zhu Yan's military advisor Zhang Liuzi Xiucai's meaning This is to eliminate dissidents by the hands of the enemy.

It was getting dark, and the river breeze was getting a little smaller before nightfall. It's just that in this midwinter season, the north wind is continuous, and it is still very troublesome to think about crossing the river.

Zhu Yan had no navy, only dozens of civilian boats, plus hundreds of rafts built on the mountain, Hu Damao and his ordinary cronies scolded and scolded the first to break the front and go backwards, the wind and snow drilled straight into their necks, and their noses were red and swollen one by one. His hands and feet were numb, and Zhu Yan and her army followed behind him.

Zhu Yan is still wearing a scarf and masking her face. Holding a long sword in her hand, looking at the position of the Jiangbei Shun Army, no one knows what she thinks in her heart, and no one can see the expression on her face, and the people who follow her only know that she is a strange woman, brave and knowledgeable. Dare to think and dare to do, the bandits who once executed more than a dozen miserable women on the mountain with their own hands, and killed decisively, this kind of woman really doesn't know where she came from.

But everyone believes that she is the one who created everything in Daqingshan with her own hands. It was she who gave these people a place to stay, so the words of this female bandit leader were very authoritative in the mountains, but no one had seen his true face (except for Hu Damao's people before) and didn't know who she was, and everyone called her a big boss.

Zhu Yan doesn't know what fear is, she only has revenge in her heart, revenge, and fight back to Beijing, and the Forbidden City in Beijing is her home.

On the opposite side is the Shun army's river defense fort, which was originally used to deal with the Ming army's Yangtze River water division, but a few days ago, due to the Ming army's naval division commander Liu Kongzhao's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, the water division entered the canal repair in Shandong, these riverside forts are also useless, reduced to a post to monitor the south of the Yangtze River, and the Ming army is also unable to go north, so the Shun army's fort defenders have become loose, the year is about to pass, many soldiers are taking turns to go home and reunite with their families, the strength is empty, Zhu Yan found the right time, and planned to give his own soldiers to train their hands.

But Zhu Yan didn't know the soldiers at all, this time the attack was that the newborn calf was not afraid of the tiger, just with a courage, even the military survey was done very carelessly, only knew that the defenders on the opposite side were about 300 people, most of them were firearms, there was a fort fortress, the weather was so cold, the Shun army was huddled in the fort to warm up, there were not many soldiers on the position along the river, and more than ten Shun warships in the river were also covered with a thick layer of snow, and even the military flag was frozen, and there was no one in sight.

I have to say that Zhu Yan is lucky, if a soldier finds that her rabble is walking against the wind like ants in the river, then Zhu Yan's army will be wiped out.

The weather gradually darkened, and the small boats carried by the thousands of bandits on the river were moving left and right in the wind and snow, which was also the only way to travel against the wind, and there was no machine power in those days, and the boat still relied on the wind, twisting from side to side on the river like snakes, and moving very slowly.

Hu Damao was huddled on the boat with a knife and a group of bandits, shivering, wearing a dogskin hat and still freezing his snot down.

"Damn, the bandits don't rob but want to fight, is this human thing, this mother-in-law, Lao Tzu really regretted not killing her" Hu Damao and the people accompanying him were complaining, and in their eyes, they wanted to kill Zhu Yan first and then kill her.

One of the people on the side was also dissatisfied, "It's not what's wrong, if I hadn't killed someone at home back then, how could I end up here, work hard for her, what kind of bird fight, the boss, our brothers are all pointing at you, don't you want us to really go and play with the Shun army, I heard that the Shun army defeated the officers and soldiers, can we come back alive?" ”

Hu Damao angrily slapped the hat on his head, and the snowflakes were full of snowflakes, and shouted, "Can you say something good in your mouth, give it to Lao Tzu, and when the fight starts, our people will all look at my gestures, don't move, that's it." Don't fold here, and see how this mother-in-law does, mother, let Lao Tzu give her life, Lao Tzu will kill her sooner or later"

Again, "That's it." Daqingshan is the one who is in charge, when will it be her turn to speak, the master, or let's withdraw, don't follow her to find death"

Hu Damao raised his hand and hit, "Get out, this girl can follow behind, go back to the mountain, let's talk about it, we have secretly done a lot of business these days without telling that girl." I also saved some property, and after I went back, everyone divided it, and slowly bought her people, and when the time came, we will kill her."

A man on the side wiped the snot that flowed to his lips with his cuffs, and smirked, "It's still the brains of the masters, right." Boss, war and robbery are not the same thing? ”

Hu Damao looked up at the pitch-black sky. Pretending, "Well, I guess it's almost the same, hey, a bird fight, we're here to grab something." Pass it on, don't rush, if you want to rush that girl's people first, let's grab things, don't play with your life"

Everyone was smiling at the sound of their voices.

Later, Zhu Yan followed up. There is only one outline of the opposite fort, and nothing can be heard in the night except the whirring wind, and there is no movement in the Shunjun fort, I don't know whether it is waiting in the dark or not finding them at all, this will be an outlaw, from time to time a few torches flash on the opposite side of the river and disappear, it should be the defenders in the fort from time to time to come out to patrol, however, the sky is so dark and cold, the five fingers on the river surface are not visible.

On the two-mile-wide river, Zhu Yan and his team walked for more than two hours, and finally she saw the scenery on the opposite bank clearly, the silhouette of huge black shadows, and further on, she could vaguely see the warships of the Shun army moored on the riverside, no lights, no people, no sound.

Figures could be vaguely seen shaking in the offshore fort, and on closer inspection, the Shun troops obviously did not notice the people on the river, moving very slowly, and there were flickering fires in the fort, which was probably a bonfire lit by the defenders.

After an arduous trek, on the north bank of the river more than a mile away from the wind outlet of the fort, Hu Damao and other more than 300 bandits first landed on the shore, and not a single Shun army on the shore was seen, and there were not even personal footprints on the snow, it seems that the patrol of the Shun army has not come out for a long time.

The sky is full of stars and moons.

It didn't take long for Zhu Yan to also come to the shore, and as soon as she arrived at the shore, the snow covered the ground, adding a trace of sight, and she could vaguely see the movement dozens of feet away.

Hu Damao tiptoed to Zhu Yan's side and whispered, "Big boss, how to fight?" Hit the water or the shore first? ”

According to the information obtained by Zhu Yan, this fort originally had 1,200 soldiers, divided into fort defenders and sailors, with 12 large warships and 30 clippers.

The reason why there is a Shunjun battery here is mainly because this area is the most suitable for landing, the mudflats are shallow, the current is not fast, and the ship can quickly form a beachhead and advance as soon as it docks.

Zhu Yan thought about it, she didn't have any plans, and she didn't have any experience in fighting, but there was one thing she thought of, once the fight started, how to retreat was the main thing, when her people came, they were all civilian boats and rafts, and they would definitely not be able to outrun the large warships of the Shun army, and if they wanted to fight, they would burn their warships first.

Zhu Yan pointed to the shadow on the warship of the Shun army on the river and said, "You, take your people to burn those ships for me, as soon as you make a move, I will take them to attack the fort."

The beard and hair were just right, it was better to burn the ship than to go to the fort to play for his life, so he nodded in agreement immediately, waved his hand and led his people up, but as soon as he turned around, he didn't want to rush to death.

Zhu Yan also knew that this person was of great use, just because he still had a group of loyal subordinates on the mountain, and he was helpless against him for a while.

"Liuzi, you take a team of people to go around the back, I will fight from the front, it seems that they didn't find us" Zhu Yan turned her head to her military advisor Zhang Liuzi and ordered.

The 2,000 men immediately divided into three teams and marched back and forth.

Since they were walking downwind, the footsteps were muffled by the wind, and there was still no reaction in the fort.

This is Zhu Yan's first time on the battlefield, she, the princess in the deep palace, never thought that there would be such a day, everything is supported by her determination to take revenge.

The target is getting closer and closer, less than a hundred steps away from the fort, you can see that the black hole barrels on the fort are facing Jiangnan, Zhu Yan turned her head to look at Hu Damao's position, but suddenly found that the team of people had disappeared, and then took a closer look,, lying motionless by the river, like a long dead fish.

Zhu Yan secretly scolded shamelessly, greedy for life and afraid of death, she looked back at the people around her, the male soldiers are okay, everyone is panting, some people can see their hands holding knives shaking, but it's not bad, at least you can keep up.

The fort is close at hand, Zhu Yan looked at Zhang Liu's team, and they also arrived at the place, so she gritted her teeth and made up her mind, no matter what kind of heart you Hu Damao played, this battle is decided, don't let me find a chance to kill you.

This fort is divided into three layers, along the river bank and repaired, are all blue bricks and boulders piled up, east and west are about 100 steps long, north and south are 20 steps wide, like a city wall stands in the wind and snow, the tiger looks at the river, the upper layer of the fort is the lookout, the middle layer is the fort, there are about 30 guns, the lower layer is stationed, the parapet wall of the fort is about more than one zhang high.

Thousands of ghosts moved in unison with Zhu Yan's hand, and the cat's waist moved forward, touching it like a bunch of ants eating a cake that fell on the ground, getting closer and closer......

Suddenly, someone next to Zhu Yan screamed.

In this silent night, this miserable sound was particularly clear, but the screams that followed rang out again and again, Zhu Yan pushed a person away, and looked through the snow-colored bend, and among the snow was a sharp iron nail, exposing the ground for about two inches, and it turned out that there were ground thorns buried everywhere around this fort, which was not easy to find during the day, and now it was covered with a thick layer of snow.

Zhu Yan was furious, how did the intelligence work, but he couldn't control it anymore, and with the screams, the Shun army in the fort must have been prepared.

"Kill, kill the thief!" Zhu Yan was furious.

Many of these bandits were not afraid of death, and as soon as they heard the order of the big boss, they immediately rushed forward in this snow full of thorns, and some people kept screaming and falling.

"Grab the money!"

"Grab food!"

"Hand over the money!"

These voices became the battle cry of the bandit soldiers, and it was also the ultimate goal, and they came here to know what militaristic affairs were.

Zhu Yan said secretly: Dogs can't change ****.

The sound of killing was everywhere, and the bandits stepped on the snow, many of them had already rushed to the bottom of the fort and threw ropes at the wall, and some people set up a human wall and stepped on their shoulders to send them up.

But at the same time as the bandits attacked, it was also at this moment and a half that the defenders in the fort were completely awakened, and they could see many soldiers wearing single clothes climbing up the wall, arrows coming down one after another, and more than a hundred spears stabbed the bandits who climbed up, and the snow was red.

Hu Damao lay on the riverside, watching all this like an audience, secretly happy, fighting, just die.

At the same time, the Shun army on the warships on the riverside also rioted, and torches were everywhere. (To be continued.) )