All the Miao soldiers are short-bodied, with cooked cowhide armor covering the vital points on their chests, covering the Qing army uniforms, and the general Qing army cool hats on their heads, but unlike the Qing army, there are many tattoos on the Miao soldiers, with rings on their ears, and their faces are red.

The weapons in their hands are also mixed and impure, there are shuttle darts, crossbows, etc., Miao people like to hunt, make good use of birds, the length of their guns is up to five or six feet, and its sub-road can also be one hundred and twenty-three steps away, with the ups and downs of the mountain, the most accurate. Among the blades used by Miao soldiers, there is a long knife called Miao knife, the knife is two or three feet long, one inch five or six minutes wide, it is equipped with a wooden handle, the mouth is the sharpest, and the blade is connected, also known as a sharp weapon. But all Miao people to 16 years old, all carry knives, and they are good at fighting with the people's customs. Among the Miao soldiers, there were also cannons, which were used by the village guards and bombarded on the ground with wooden forks.

All the Miao soldiers each raised firearms, blades to attack Shapo Ridge, the ridge was guarded by wolf soldiers from Guangxi, although half of them were female soldiers, but there were more firearms in their hands than Miao soldiers, and they were condescending to take advantage of the big guards, and the two mountain soldiers who were good at fighting were killed for a time to be difficult to solve.

The fight at the northwest ridge is the most tragic, the Miao soldiers take the bell card in front, the two-zhang bamboo spear resists the back and backs to attack, and there are shuttle and Miao crossbow in the back, and there are many poisons on the shuttle and Miao crossbow arrows, and the wound of the middle can not be healed, and it is the most vicious. The Taiping army on the ridge returned fire with firearms and rocks, and the two sides hit each other, and the casualties suddenly increased.

After fighting for half an hour, the Miao soldiers who attacked the northwest ridge did not retreat at first, and under the situation of great loss of land, the Miao soldiers could not break through the defense line of the Taiping army no matter how brave they were, and after more than half of the casualties, the leader of the Miao soldiers had to retreat temporarily.

Seeing the temporary retreat of the Miao soldiers, Li Zuoche hurriedly called Yao Yuan to come over: "The mountain is full of Miao people, and they are also barbarians who are used to fighting, we don't have much red medicine and lead, and I don't know if there is a large Qing army coming behind, I am afraid that I can't hold it for a long time, you hurry up and take people down the mountain to inform the West Wangniang, let them avoid first, I and Hu Luxue fought and broke off!" ”

Yao Yuan shouted: "No, there are many brothers and sisters in the army, so I'd better stay and save their lives." ”

Li Zuoche scolded angrily: "Now that you are not out of danger, you can't take care of much, you first take someone to inform the West Wangniang, with the sound of the arrow as the signal, after seeing your sound of the arrow, we will go south!" Li Yiwen's 800 soldiers and horses met at the tea pavilion shop, and we went to the tea pavilion shop to meet! ”

On the side, Sister Hu stroked her somewhat disheveled hair and gritted her teeth and said: "Yao Yuan, you go quickly, you must protect the West Wangniang, if the West Wangniang has any damage, I won't spare you!" Yao Yuan nodded heavily, and then led a few brothers to hide on the back mountain path.

After Yao Yuan left, Li Zuoche wiped the sweat on his forehead, and saw that Sister Hu was slowly sitting on the ground with her waist covered, her face was pale, and her forehead was covered with large beads of sweat. Li Zuoche was taken aback, and hurriedly grabbed to check, only to see that Sister Hu had a strong crossbow inserted in her waist, and the blood had already dried up.

"Aunt Hu, are you injured?!" Li Zuoche's face changed greatly, and he saw that the crossbow arrow was not reaching the end, and he also knew that Miao Bing's crossbow arrow was fed with poison, and he was afraid that the gods would be difficult to save from such an injury.

Sister Hu smiled slightly bitterly, gritted her teeth and tore off the hem of her robe to tie the wound hard, and the moment she tied the strip of cloth, she snorted, and then gasped: "Brother Li, you call everyone to go back first, leave all the wounded soldiers behind, I will break off with them, and it will be a big deal to go to heaven together." ”

Li Zuoche's tears flowed down, looking at Hu Damei's gray hair, the wrinkles on his face were tighter because of the pain, his heart hurt like a knife, Hu Damiang is the mother of Liang Litai, the commander of the Second Army, she is amiable on weekdays, many people in the Taiping Army respect her, seeing that she was injured but could not do anything, Li Zuoche was very sad in his heart.

"No, I'll rush out with you on my back, let's build a small paradise together, Liang Junshuai is also about to arrive in Changsha, Aunt Hu, you hold on! I'll carry you out! Li Zuoche stretched out his hand to pull Sister Hu, but saw the knife flashing, Sister Hu's long knife was horizontal in front of her chest, and she slowly shook her head and said: "Brother Li, Brother Li, I have a lot of pain in my body, I don't want to hurt anymore, you, you let me go to heaven as soon as possible." Litai, you tell him, just let him kill the Qing demon more and avenge me. ”…,