When night fell, the guns and cannons suddenly intensified on the forward army of the Taiping army halfway up the mountain in Yanziling, and the Qing army in front immediately flew to Deng Shaoliang. After receiving the report, Deng Shaoliang immediately flew to the front to watch, only to see the Taiping Army's front line on the trench, the torches are densely packed without knowing the geometry, during which the pennants and figures are numerous, the shouts of killing, the sound of drums shook the sky, and the muskets and artillery arrows rained down.

Deng Shaoliang gasped and said: "The big-footed barbarian who went up the mountain must want to break through at night, and ordered the whole army to be on guard and strictly guard the road down the mountain." ”

More than 900 Qing troops of Deng Shaoliang's army were all lined up in a drum and waited behind the earthen fortress at the bottom of the mountain, but half an hour passed, but no one rushed to kill, and the shouts and guns gradually stopped.

The Qing army was very puzzled, and after half an hour, the shouting and killing started again, and they also did not see half a figure coming down the mountain, and stopped after half an hour. Deng Shaoliang hahadaxiao said: "It turned out to be a small tired soldier's plan, and ordered all the troops to rest on the spot, and the front line was divided into troops to stay behind, and the slightest wind and grass sounded the gong as a trumpet!" ”

"Huh!" A group of Qing generals bowed to receive orders one after another, and each gave orders, Deng Shaoliang touched the goatee under his chin and frowned and said secretly: "Although this tired soldier's plan is superficial, how can the old man always feel that something is wrong?" On the mountain, there are either big-footed barbarian women or young demon boys, so there should be no wise and profound people. ”

On the top of Yanziling Mountain, a group of Taiping female soldiers and boy scouts have begun to copy the path down the mountain in batches, and the people who follow the guide on the mountain know that there is a secret trail in the northeast of Yanziling that can go down the mountain, but the mountain road is rugged and only allows one person to pass. Fortunately, a group of female soldiers and boy scouts are all people who are accustomed to walking the mountain roads in Guangxi, and they are no more than a thousand people, so they follow the guide down the mountain in the dark.

Hong Xuanjiao asked Hu Jiumei and Xie Manmei to lead the troops to open the way, Hu Damei and Tan Shaoguang were in the center, but she herself returned to the forward army formation and Chen Picheng Palace. Hu Jiumei and others saw that Hong Xuanjiao was so assigned, and they all invited the palace to the palace, but they were stopped by Hong Xuanjiao and said: "Don't fight, everyone, the people who led the way said that after going down the mountain, you will have to cross a few ponds and dams, and I don't know if there will be a Qing demon, it is also very dangerous for you to go first, remember that once you encounter the enemy, you must not retreat, as the so-called narrow road meets the brave wins!" ”

After listening to Hong Xuanjiao's words, Hu Jiumei and the others stopped arguing, and after saluting Hong Xuanjiao with their fists, their respective teams went down the mountain first.

Hong Xuanjiao brought a few female guards to the front line, only to see that there were more than 200 people guarding here, Chen Picheng's face was gray and black, but he was so smoked that he was almost unrecognizable, Hong Xuanjiao came to the front, this kid jumped up and down the cannon, the small copper cannon flashed, and there was a loud bang, and a large piece of gravel burst out.

"Come again! Six taels of red medicine, no more! Chen Picheng roared loudly, the front was full of shouts and guns, shocking, Hong Xuanjiao shouted a few times in a row, Chen Picheng didn't hear it, Hong Xuanjiao had to hurry up, and slapped Chen Picheng heavily, and the kid turned around.

Seeing that it was Hong Xuanjiao, Chen Picheng raised the torch with a fuse in his hand, and hurriedly said loudly: "Xi Wangniang, why are you here?" Hasn't the brigade broken through yet? ”

It was noisy, and Hong Xuanjiao had to answer loudly: "The brigade has already started to descend from the northeast path, and I don't know if there are any demons over there!" I'll stay with you and wait for half an hour to catch up!" ”

Chen Picheng said anxiously when he heard this: "How can this be done? Xi Wang Niang, you should follow the team first, and I will come after the palace! ”

Hong Xuanjiao covered her mouth and smiled, pointed to the female soldiers who were fighting on the side, and said: "My sisters want me to lead them to break through in person, but you can't leave them and go first, do you understand?" ”

Chen Picheng nodded heavily and said: "I understand, what Xi Wang Niang said makes sense, sharing weal and woe with everyone is what a leader should do, I have learned another skill." ”…,

Hong Xuanjiao smiled and bowed slightly, looking at the boy scouts beside him who were shouting and firing guns, and sighed in his heart, the oldest of them was only fifteen or sixteen years old, if it was in the future generations, many of them might still be studying, but in this dark era, they can only pick up swords and guns and fight bloodily, all just for the illusory dream of heaven.

Look at a group of heroic sisters beside her, wearing men's clothes and shouting and fighting, Hong Xuanjiao has been moved by these people these days, I remember that Hu Jiumei said a sentence to the sisters after the evening sermon, which she couldn't forget for a long time: "Sisters, our hands were originally used for laundry and cooking, embroidery and needlework, but now we are also picking up swords to fight like men, why is this?" Just because my sisters and I no longer want to see our children starve to death in their arms, and we don't want to zaijian to come back from being beaten all over the body of my father and brother Langjun, all the injustices in this world are brought to us by the Hu Nu Qing Demon, then we will use our swords to ask the Qing Demon for what we should have! ”

From these women and children, Hong Xuanjiao saw an unprecedented enthusiasm for resistance, but what they wanted was the so-called fairness, for the sake of this nihilistic utopia, they did not hesitate to throw their heads, spill blood, and endure the bloody war that should not belong to them, all just for that dream......

"West Wang Niang! The demon is here! Chen Picheng shouted loudly, interrupting Hong Xuanjiao's divergent thoughts, she leaned out from the earthen barrier and looked, only to see hundreds of Qing soldiers swarming up along the mountain road, why did the Qing army kill again at this time?

Hong Xuanjiao didn't have time to think about it, pulled out the short gun on his waist and shouted: "Shotgunners are three in a team!" One person puts red medicine, one person scoops medicine, and one person shoots to kill the enemy! Fifty steps to prepare! The rest of the people are ready to fight in close quarters! Chen Picheng, your bronze cannon doesn't need to stop, feel free to cast it! Everything seemed to shout out without thinking about it, Hong Xuanjiao sighed slightly, smiled bitterly, and skillfully took out red medicine and lead from his pocket to load his short gun with ammunition.

Hong Xuanjiao's musket technique was taught by another female general of the Heavenly Kingdom, she was the female battalion commander Su Sanniang, this Su Sanniang was originally a member of the Heaven and Earth Society, in the early years, in order to avenge her husband, she gathered the congregation to kill the enemy's family, and then she has been fighting fiercely with the Qing army in Guangxi and other places, until the eve of the Jintian Uprising, she and Luo Dagang, another leader of the Heaven and Earth Society, led more than 2,000 people to join the Taiping Army. She has been wandering on the rivers and lakes, and has been fighting with the Qing army for many years, and the musket has long been familiar, and even the musket combat method has been explored through bloody battles again and again. After Su Sanniang became the commander of the women's battalion, she thought that women's strength was always inferior to that of men, so there were many musket tactics to teach everyone, and Hong Xuanjiao's musket skills were learned from Su Sanniang at that time.

In fact, there are tens of thousands of people in the entire women's battalion of the Taiping Army, but only more than 2,000 women in the Jinxiu Battalion are the first righteous Tianzu women in Guangxi, and most of the female soldiers in the rest of the women's battalion are doing heavy work such as carrying grain, digging trenches, making military uniforms, washing and cooking, and not all female soldiers go into battle to kill the enemy. After the Jinxiu Battalion was in Tianjing, the capital of Dingdu, in addition to participating in the battles of Zhenjiang and Tongcheng, it rarely went into battle to kill the enemy.

After the women's army was established in Tianjing, it grew to an astonishing 40 armies and 100,000 people, but it was only two years later that the conjugal system was restored in the kingdom of heaven, and the women's army was abolished. After King Hong built the Heavenly King's Mansion, he didn't use the eunuchs as his inner servants, but he was afraid that many of his royal mothers would have an affair with the guards, so he transferred the Jinxiu camp into the Heavenly King's Mansion to be the guard of the Heavenly King's Mansion. At the time of the fall of the Kingdom of Heaven, the female soldiers of the Splendid Battalion guarding the Heavenly King's Mansion fought until the moment of Zuihou, and collectively burned themselves to suicide.

When the Qing army rushed into a hundred steps, the target of the musket and the bird gun began to exert its power, and the speed of the musket was greatly increased under the rotation of three people. After more than 60 muskets in the first row spewed fire, the Qing army generals shouted: "They want to change the medicine, take advantage of this moment to rush!" ”…,

The voice fell, the second row of muskets has been released, it turned out that when the Qing army began to rush forward, the three-person musket team had already prepared the ammunition of the three muskets, and the muzzles of the guns were set up together, and after the Qing army rushed in, the gunners in the first row raised their guns and cast them together, after the first shot was released, they quickly picked up the second one and then put it, and the other two began to put red medicine, medicine and fuse for the muskets, and then handed them over to the first person after they were finished, and so on and so forth. The pistol is good at shooting, the red medicine is accurate, and the hands and feet of the medicine and the fuse are all picked up by themselves on weekdays, so that the rate of fire of the most primitive musket has been nearly doubled.

The Qing army did not expect that the firearms of the Taiping army on the mountainside would be so sharp, after falling more than 100 people, they finally rushed into the fifty steps, reflecting the firelight and saw closely, behind the earthen fortress were some big-footed women and teenagers, the courage of the Qing army grew stronger, shouting and rushing forward.

"Brothers, catch those girls and be happy, happy." "Rush up, they're all!" "That's pretty Peugeot, watch me capture her alive!" In the midst of the obscenity, the eight spray guns on the earthen rampart revealed the horn-shaped muzzles, and coldly aimed at the Qing army outside the earthen ramparts.

These sprays have short bodies and large mouths, and their shooting range is very close, but as the name suggests, the killing surface of the spray is extremely wide, and the Qing army only fights in close combat, and the women and teenagers on the opposite side will collapse.

A series of huge roars sounded, and the squirting guns spewed out scorching flames and deadly gravel, lead and other things, and the Qing army in front of the earthen fortress only felt a dazzling fire in front of them, and the whole body was covered by flames, and the flying gravel and lead came all over the world, and suddenly there was chaos.

In the firelight, I saw a pennant flying up on the earthen fortress, and a female general in a blue robe jumped out of the fortress, and the double knives in her hands flew up and down with her wrist, only to hear her shouting in a coquettish voice, "Kill the demon!" "The big-footed barbarians and demon boys behind the earthen fortress actually held sharp blades in their hands, turned over the fortress and rushed down condescendingly.

The female soldiers are all pennants and silver shields and fast knives, and when they see people, they are slashed, and the strength in their hands is not lost to the men at all, and the boy soldiers are also bravely slashing, their eyes are full of strong killing intent, and they can't see the slightest fear. The Qing army attacking the mountain had already exhausted its sharp energy, and was defeated by this rush and retreated down the mountain.

Hong Xuanjiao's double knives flew, hacking to death several Qing soldiers, looking at the bubbling blood, she only felt a little like vomiting, seeing that the Qing army was defeated and retreating, she hurriedly shouted: "Poor Kou Mo chase, let's hold here!" Unexpectedly, when I returned to the earthen base, I tripped over a corpse of the Qing army under my feet, and when I raised my eyes, I saw that the corpse was charred and black, mutilated, and all my internal organs were exposed.

It turns out that this is war, what a terrible war.