It is said that when Deng Shaoliang boarded the swallow ridge that night, the ridge was already empty, and after searching around, the Qing soldiers found a trail in the dense forest in the northeast corner, and asked the local government to ask, and they did not know where the trail led.

Seeing that this trail was rugged and difficult to pass, only one person was allowed to pass, Deng Shaoliang saw that it was dark and the road was narrow, so he was afraid that the pursuit along the road would be ambushed, so he had to retreat to the bottom of the ridge for the time being.

After descending the Swallow Ridge, Deng Shaoliang ordered people to count the losses, and the Qing army suffered a total of more than 300 casualties on the Swallow Ridge, and there were less than 60 corpses of thieves on the Swallow Ridge, all of whom were women and half-sized demon boys.

After getting the report, Deng Shaoliang jumped like thunder, when even if he wanted to raise troops and horses to continue the pursuit, he hurriedly persuaded left and right, saying that the long-haired thief was very cunning, and the night was dark and the wind was high in pursuit, and it was very easy to be ambushed.

Deng Shaoliang slowly calmed down, the battle of Yong'an Datong at the beginning of spring this year was like this, the long-haired thief who was trapped in Yong'an at night took advantage of the dark rain to break through from Yong'an, and the Qing army of all departments chased after it bravely, captured more than 2,000 bandit dependents, and also captured a thief who claimed to be the king of Tiande, Hong Daquan. The Qing army was exhausted from the overnight pursuit, and the generals asked to suspend the pursuit, but Sai Shang'a, the minister of the Suppression of Bandits, did not agree, saying that the pursuit would capture the King of Tiande, and if he gritted his teeth and pursued for a while, wouldn't he capture the bandits? At the moment, regardless of the words of the generals, the generals were ordered to raise troops to chase after them, and as a result, the Qing army was ambushed by Xiao Chaogui, the king of the west of the Taiping Army, and Shi Dakai, the king of the wings, and killed Shao Heling, the general soldier of Yunyang, and the general soldier of Liangzhou, Dong Xingjia, the general soldier of Hebei, and Changrui, the general soldier of Tianjin, a total of four general soldiers, and thousands of soldiers were lost, which was a shameful defeat for the Qing army.

Now Deng Shaoliang only has hundreds of soldiers and horses, and the overnight pursuit is an extremely dangerous move, under the persuasion of the generals, Deng Shaoliang had to order the whole army to rest for one night and chase again tomorrow morning.

Before dawn, last night he was ordered to chase after the long-haired spy and brought people back, and the general captured three long-haired spies and sent them to Deng Shaoliang's account, and Deng Shaoliang immediately picked up the lamp and interrogated at night.

The three long-haired spies were all members of Tong Qiangsheng's Heaven and Earth Society, and at first they refused to confess, Deng Shaoliang was extremely vicious, and after a torture, the three of them confessed. Knowing that it was the long-haired puppet king of the West who occupied Changsha City, and the person who took over the battle with him last night was the queen of the long-haired puppet king of the west, the sister of the puppet king of heaven and the king of the east, Deng Shaoliang was very surprised. After ordering the three spies to be beheaded and shown to the public, Deng Shaoliang touched his goat's beard, squinted his eyes and calculated in his heart, now Changsha is in the hands of the long-haired pseudo-king of the west, if he Deng Shaoliang can capture the wife of the pseudo-king of the west alive, and threaten or persuade him to surrender before the battle, maybe he can get miraculous results, and this pseudo-king of heaven is an important person, and it is a miracle to be able to really hold it.

Thinking of the smugness, Deng Shaoliang hahadaxiao got up, but the laughter suddenly stopped, and he delayed all night, what if the pseudo-West Wang Niang had already fled into Changsha City with his troops? Thinking of this, Deng Shaoliang couldn't help but feel secretly depressed, it seems that wealth is still like floating clouds. While he was sighing, Goshha came into the account outside the tent to report that a squire had come with several family members to report that he had found a trace of a long-haired thief.

Deng Shaoliang was overjoyed, and immediately met the squire, and after some careful questioning, it turned out that the squire had gone to Jingtang Village to collect rent arrears, and last night there were a large number of long-haired and big-footed barbarian women who wore red scarves to the village, and the squire had already heard that the bandits with red turbans killed rich households, and ran out with a few entourages overnight.

Deng Shaoliang was pleasantly surprised, and after asking Ming that the people who entered the village were all big-footed barbarian women, he expected that these people were the puppet Western Wang Niang who fought with him last night, and praised the squire a few words at the moment, and then asked him to go back. Deng Shaoliang has always been stingy, and he didn't even reward the squire, and followed the herald to the account of Goshha to summon the generals to obey the order. …,

After a while, the generals arrived, and as soon as General Deng Shaoliang heard the news, he passed down the military order, and the whole army immediately pulled out the camp and went north to besiege Jingtang Village, so as to destroy this Taiping army.

Before dawn, the Qing army had already sent a team to Jingtang Village, and by the time the sky was bright, it had already arrived outside Jingtang Village. The name of this Jingtang village is Jingtang, because there are many ponds around the village, so it is named. Deng Shaoliang looked at the topography of the village, couldn't help frowning, there are only two roads into the village, east and west, north and south are large pond depressions, good to defend but not conducive to attack, after thinking for a while, or meritorious service, he immediately ordered the generals to go out to attack Jingtang Village, and ordered the whole army to capture the female general of the thief army, and reward three thousand taels of silver.

Deng Shaoliang's Qing army is a veteran of the long-term suppression of thieves, relying on the thieves to get a salary and reward, on weekdays where the thieves are pinched, where the people are more fierce than the real long-haired thieves, listening to the reward of three thousand taels, compared with last night, a group of soldiers who were originally listless have green eyes shining green, screaming and raising spears and broadswords, and rushing along the road into the village from the west.

Although this Deng Shaoliang is stingy, he knows the essence of leading troops, and he has always done what he says, saying that he will reward you with 3,000 taels and reward you with 3,000 taels.

After rushing to the entrance of the village, dozens of muskets stretched out from the back of the house and the window in several village houses at the entrance of the village.

The Qing army still had lingering fears about the sharp firearms of this group of big-footed barbarians last night, but the power of this morning's muskets seemed to be greatly inferior to last night, and after a row of guns, it was silent. The Qing soldiers were overjoyed, and the leader of the Qianzong shouted: "There is not much medicine for the long-haired thief, everyone rushes in, and the thief and the female general are captured, and the reward is 3,000 taels of silver!" ”

The Qing army then rushed to kill, and soon poured into the entrance of the village, only to hear a bang behind the old locust tree in the village, behind the house in the village, in the house, a large number of big-footed barbarians and demon boys will come out, and there are also people in the window and roof, constantly throwing muskets, bows and arrows, and even flying stones at the Qing army at the entrance of the village.

The Taiping female soldiers and boy scouts who rushed out were all brave, the female soldiers pennant silver shield scimitar, the boy soldier rattan long knife, everyone fought bravely, as if the enemy met. The Qing army was shocked by this sudden momentum, and their sharpness was greatly reduced, and a few timid people behind thought of slipping away.

Seeing this, Deng Shaoliang shouted, drew his sword and immediately stepped forward, shouting loudly: "Don't retreat, violators will be killed!" After saying that, he raised his sword and personally hacked to death a soldier who retreated from his horse, and more than ten Goshha around Deng Shaoliang pulled out their blades one after another, looking at the soldiers who wanted to retreat, ready to kill the retreating defeated soldiers at any time.

Seeing this jiashi, the Qing army soldiers knew that they could only advance and not retreat, so they had to desperately resist the offensive of the Taiping army.

The Qing army did not retreat, after a moment of close combat between the two armies, the female soldiers and the boy soldiers were still lacking in strength after all, the Qing army was all adult and strong, and they had been suppressing thieves for many years, and gradually pressed towards the village.

Seeing that the Taiping female soldiers and boy boy soldiers could not resist the enemy, Hong Xuanjiao's heart slowly sank, she led the team to rush up, barely stabilizing the situation, but the Qing army just did not retreat, and the female soldiers lacked strength and gradually fell behind.

Hong Xuanjiao's double knives are wonderful, the knife skills are wonderful, and the yellow scarf on her head is very eye-catching in a group of red scarf female soldiers, and all the Qing soldiers shouted when they saw it: "The bandit girl with the yellow scarf will be here!" "It's her, my mother, and she looks really peugeot, like a fairy." "Take it later, be happy and happy first, hahaha"

A group of wolf-like Qing troops rushed to Hong Xuanjiao's side, surrounding Hong Xuanjiao and dozens of female guards under her, Hu Damei and others wanted to come to the rescue but were stopped by the Qing army. …,

Seeing that there were more and more Qing troops around her, Hong Xuanjiao began to panic in her heart, she didn't want to be captured by the Qing army, these beasts were not as good as the Qing army's methods were very cruel, rather than suffering humiliation before dying, it was better to give herself a good time before being captured.

Hong Xuanjiao's double knives flew over, hacking to death several Qing soldiers, the more the female guards around her fought, the less she fought, there was a sudden pain in her calf, she was indeed stabbed by a Qing spear, she bit her silver teeth, the long knife in her left hand flew out, and it was slashing on the door of the Qing soldier, and the Qing soldier fell straight to the ground and died.

Seeing that Hong Xuanjiao was injured, the female soldiers on the side hurriedly protected her, Hong Xuanjiao held a knife in one hand, and her blue and bright robes were already full of blood, she raised her eyebrows and said loudly to the female soldiers beside her: "If it doesn't work out later, give me a good time!" Don't let the demons capture me alive! lest you be defiled by the demons! ”

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom believes in Christianity and does not allow believers to commit suicide without authorization, and Hong Xuanjiao himself really can't make a decision by himself, so he ordered the female soldiers around him to do it for him.

Seeing that there were more and more Qing troops, there were only more than ten female soldiers left, Hong Xuanjiao bit her silver teeth, and the horizontal knife was on her snow-white neck, at this critical juncture, a female soldier suddenly shouted: "It seems to be the banner of the King of the West!" ”

In a burst of cheers, Hong Xuanjiao raised her eyes, and sure enough, she saw that the Qing army outside the village was in chaos, and in the rolling dust, the cavalry of the Taiping army rushed over, and a yellow silk and white-edged Xiwang banner came to the wind. Hong Xuanjiao slowly put down the long knife in her hand, let out a sigh of relief, and said, "It's finally saved." Then she shouted: "Sisters, our reinforcements have arrived, everyone will kill the demons!" ”

The Qing army saw a large number of Taiping cavalry outside the village killed, frightened and retreated, and the Taiping female soldiers and boy soldiers in the village took advantage of the situation to rush and kill, and the Taiping cavalry outside the village should be combined with the outside, killing the Qing army scattered and fled. Deng Shaoliang relied on the speed of the horse, broke through the siege first, and escaped more than ten miles in one go, leaving only more than ten people around him, and fled back to Xiangtan like a lost dog.