With the help of the Miao compatriots, the army and the people worked together to fight for two hours, and all the soil and rocks of the landslide in the Heimu Cliff were cleared, and the post road was unimpeded. According to the previous promise, Gong Changyu gave each Miao man a tael of silver to express his gratitude.

The soldiers of the Jingyi battalion pushed the artillery just after the collapse of the road, turned a bay, a thousand meters away, a team of more than 300 people came over, the commander of the blue wolf army saw that it was the Jingnan army with a blue flag, and killed it directly without declaring a war.

"These thieves are really dead! Hei Dashuai, quickly take these Miao brothers to the back of the artillery array. Protect them! Gong Changyu jumped on his horse and organized the soldiers to line up.

"Order, General." Hei Dashuai quickly moved 300 Miao compatriots to the rear of the artillery array and told them all to squat on the spot.

"General, give us weapons, let's go into battle and kill the enemy." Wuxiong took a few young men from the Miao family and asked.

"Brother Five Bears, we don't need you to go into battle, it's our duty to protect you. Besides, you don't know how to use muskets, you can cause accidental injuries. Gong Changyu decisively rejected Wuxiong's request.

"Okay." The five bears retreated.

The blue wolf army on the opposite side was getting closer and closer, and at a distance of less than three hundred meters, Gong Changyu ordered: "Open the cannon!" ”

The four tiger squat cannons were fired at the same time, and the large and small bullets flew out together, with a roar like thunder, and the dense formation of the blue wolf army was blown away a lot. After a volley, it gives the Blue Wolf Army great lethality, effectively suppressing its frantic offensive.

The commander of the Blue Wolf Army at the back of the team couldn't help but be surprised when he saw that the other party had this sharp weapon, he knew that rushing forward would be a dead end, so he ordered his subordinates to release arrows indiscriminately, and quickly ordered to retreat to a place five hundred meters away.

"Brigade commander, what kind of artillery is that?" A blue wolf army asked as they ran.

"The Tiger Squat Cannon, which has been lost for hundreds of years, has a range of 800 to 1,000 paces. We do not have artillery, it is difficult to break through their positions. The Commander answered.

"Brigade commander, just flee back like this, the division commander won't deal with us, right?" Blue Wolf Soldier B asked.

"What if you don't run away? We came to patrol the mountains, and we happened to meet them, their artillery was so fierce, didn't you see that more than a hundred brothers were killed? The commander looked back, Gong Changyu did not catch up, and his pounding heart calmed down a little.

"Brigade commander, don't you care about those injured brothers?" Soldier B said breathlessly.

"I can't care so much, I can run as far as I can. Follow! "The commander slapped his horse and ran faster. So, the wolf army went to the jungle path for their lives.

Gong Changyu did not order the pursuit to continue, from the chaos in the process of the defeat of the Blue Wolf Army, and the fact that most of the soldiers of the Blue Wolf Army were wearing straw sandals, he immediately understood that it was very likely that they were a group of poor people who had fallen into the grass, and those who had not undergone formal military training were just bewitched by the Blue Wolf Army, and it was completely unnecessary to kill them all.

You have to be open-minded, after all, this "blue wolf army" is also forced. If the prosperous world is peaceful, with food and drink, who wants to rebel? Gong Changyu has always thought so, but the situation of killing the Fan army in Panyu is completely different.

"Brother Changyu, why didn't you order the pursuit?" Ran Jiufeng asked.

"Sister Jiufeng, this blue wolf army is a homeless people, and there is not much oil and water to beat them, a waste of time and bullets. We still have to rush to Jingbei camp to report! Gong Changyu responded.

"Brother Changyu, I don't think there is any need to go to Jingbei camp, we have been walking for four days, only a few hundred miles, and there are almost 2,000 miles to Jingbei, I'm afraid we can't expect to arrive." Ran Jiufeng frowned, looked at Gong Changyu's eyes, and said a lot, "After coming out of Lenghu Mountain, we haven't had a good life for a few days, every day is either to fight the blue wolf army or to suppress bandits, it's better to Tuntian." ”

"Jiufeng, don't you say that I almost forgot, and the brothers over there in Lenghu Mountain don't know what happened, I miss them so much......" Gong Changyu said.

"Otherwise, we will pull the brothers back to Lenghu Mountain, and you will be the king of the mountain." Ran Jiufeng said with a smile.

"It's impossible to go back to Lenghu Mountain for the time being...... Lord Zeng Fan was in too much of a hurry, and he named him, so he had to arrive as scheduled. ”

"I think it's a trap. Whether it is the equipment or the number of people in the Jingbei camp, dozens of times that of our army, they can find an excuse to prevaricate the emperor, why don't we learn from Lord Zeng, just say that in the event of heavy rain, the landslide on the post road was washed away in many places, and it was impossible to pass ......"

"The messengers can reach Jingbei, but we can't get there, and Lord Zeng won't be suspicious?" Gong Changyu said.

"The army invaded the Central Plains, so let those Wei cavalry and the Yan cavalry go. They thought they were the best in the world and looked down on our Jingnan Army, which was equipped with new muskets and artillery. Especially the prince of Sangge, who called himself the first warrior of the Warriors, only knew that the cavalry was charging in formation, and he was still stuck in the thinking of the era of cold weapons. They have not tasted the power of firearms, and those high-ranking officials of the Qing and Imperial Court will not wake up from the dream of the Heavenly Empire. "The black marshal stood in front of a cannon and wiped the barrel of the cannon with his sleeve.

"Hei Dashuai, let's do our part." Gong Changyu said, "Pass my order, before dark, be sure to rush to the Lotus Bridge." ”

"Yes, General." The black handsome answered.

"General, let's go and camp in our Pingzi Village, it's safe there." Five bears came with hoes.

"Brother Five Bears, your kindness has been received by the general. You'd better go back as soon as possible with your people. If bandits come to attack, it's troublesome. Gong Changyu hugged his fists.

"General, bandits generally don't dare to attack villages during the day." Wuxiong said, "The bandit leader Xiao Mingyu recently took his minions to the Golden Purple Mountain, where he fished for oil and water. ”

"Xiao Mingyu?" Gong Changyu was very stunned, "Didn't he pick salt before?" ”

"General, this Xiao Mingyu is from Feitou Village, and he has never picked salt from Qi Jingjiang. This person has more than 20 muskets, and has done a lot of evil, and he has robbed us twice in Pingzi Village this year, robbing 20 cattle and 50 sheep...... "Five bears unscrewed the water bag and drank a large sip of green money willow tea.

"Don't you resist?" Ran Jiufeng asked.

Wuxiong said that Xiao Mingyu's bandits secretly rushed into the village at night, captured the elders in the village, and locked them in the temple of Jinzi Mountain. Only later did I know that those monks in Jinzi Mountain were in a gang with the bandits, and the monks observed the dresses of the pilgrims in the temple during the day and determined the target, so the 100,000 villagers of Qintian did not dare to go to the temple to worship.

"How can this be true, monks are also bandits, bandits are also monks, isn't this the world?" Gong Changyu was filled with righteous indignation.

"The mountain is high and the emperor is far away. These ten miles of flat and Qintian Mountain belong to the two areas, and there are no people in some places for dozens of miles, and the officials of the two counties have suppressed bandits many times, but they have no effect. Five bears said.

"In this case, we will give you 30 muskets, ten boxes of ammunition, and give your village to defend against the bandits." As soon as Gong Changyu waved his hand, the quartermaster asked the soldiers to bring their weapons.

"General, we won't use these things, and it's useless to take them, on the contrary, they may even set themselves on fire...... "Wu Xiong insisted on not accepting it.

"I just said that I was going to go into battle to kill the enemy, so I don't want to touch the gun again?" This musket is currently the latest and can accurately hit the enemy with a little training. I'm going to teach you how to use it now. Gong Changyu grabbed a musket casually, leaned on his left shoulder, and then lay on the ground, closed his left eye, and aimed his right eye at a birch tree in the distance, "Brother Three Bears, look at it, three points and one line, and then pull the trigger......"

"Oh." Five Bears nodded.

"Bang-"

Gong Changyu pulled the trigger and hit the birch tree five hundred meters away. He stood up again, a little different from the position of lying on his stomach: "When standing, pay attention to the front and back feet into lunges, understand?" ”

"General, you give me a demonstration, I can't remember, I have to shoot and try." Wuxiong also grabbed a rifle, according to Gong Changyu's actions, lying on the ground, the two eyes alternately aimed a few times, and finally closed their eyes, and pulled the trigger indiscriminately, just a gray rabbit jumped out from under the tree, the bullet flew over, hit the rabbit's head, the poor little rabbit immediately fell to the ground, limbs kicked around, and soon lost his breath.

"Five bears, you hit the rabbit with your eyes closed, it's outrageous, right?" The black boy was stunned, it was unbelievable.

"Black Eight, I hit?" Five Bears opened their eyes and asked.

"Hmm." Kurohachi nodded.

"Wouldn't it, you can hit it this far?" Five bears stood up with their muskets in their hands, holding their foreheads.

"I'll shoot too." Kurohachi took the musket.

"Don't fight, you go and pick up the rabbits, and when you go back in the evening, our brothers will drink a pot of ......," Wuxiong laughed.

"Of course." Kurohachi ran quickly under the birch tree......

After seeing the five bears and Heiba and other Miao family men leave, Gong Changyu led the troops to the Lotus Bridge. Along the way, in the jungle by the post road, the neighing of apes and the chirping of pheasants can be heard from time to time, making the mountains more secluded. After walking more than twenty miles of mountain roads in a row, there were no people in sight, except for the occasional small squirrel jumping around the trees or the panicked muntjac.

Ran Jiufeng, Xu Yanxia and other soldiers saw the wild flowers blooming brilliantly on the side of the road, and couldn't help but pick them while walking, until they couldn't fit in their arms. Among these girls, they don't seem to know what it means to be tired, and they feel that going to Jingbei camp is to see the scenery.

Gong Changyu rode a war horse, walked in the forefront, always vigilantly observing the situation on both sides of the post road, he was most worried that the retreating blue wolf army would set up an ambush halfway, every 800 meters or so, he had to raise the telescope to look ahead, and told the soldiers to be ready to enter the battle at any time.