"And Liang, you and your rattan battalion are deployed on the front-line battlefield, and if you set up an ambush, I will send more than 100 cavalry to ambush in advance."

Seeing that Su Yan did not take his suggestion, Lin Xingzhu was a little regretful, but he still agreed.

Then, Su Yan said: "Since we are preparing to start a war with the Qing army in the valley road, there is no need to continue to defend the westward ridge pass.

In order to reduce unnecessary losses, let's withdraw the defenders of the westward ridge pass, but before withdrawing, we must also leave a small surprise to the Qing army. ”

"What surprise?" Lin Xingzhu asked.

"While Han Shangliang hasn't come over yet, first send a few barrels of gunpowder to the Xixiang Pass, bury them in the ground, set up traps, and wait for the Qing army to swagger into the Xixiang Pass, light the powder kegs, and send all those Qing dogs to the sky." Su Yan said with a smile.

After listening, the other three people all made up the scene of the Qing army being bombed into the sky, and they couldn't help but smile.

"However, after the Qing army is trapped, it will definitely be annoyed and angry, and after rushing out of the westward ridge pass, it will definitely vent the hatred of the people of Xianjia Village, so we will also retreat the nearby people north as much as possible in these few days."

Su Yan's words made the three of them put away their smiles, and they also realized this and nodded yes.

Subsequently, Su Yan said that he was ready to lead the army south two days later to build field fortifications in the valley road.

Field fortifications here, including but not limited to horse traps, trenches with spikes at the bottom, and so on.

There is another point that Su Yan did not tell them, he was going to summon the two teams of line infantry in the system space the day before the battle, let them ambush in other directions in advance, and then prepare a small surprise for the Qing army.

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Three days after Su Yan convened the military meeting, that is, on the sixth day of the ninth month, Han Shangliang, the headquarters of Quanzhou, finally led a huge army to the junction of Nan'an and Yongchun, and joined the soldiers and horses of the two counties stationed here.

After the convergence, Han Shangliang did not hold the two of them accountable for actually fearing the enemy, but only warned the two and asked them to fight bravely for the Qing Dynasty in the next attack.

In front of the general soldiers, the two garrison commanders impassionedly stated that they would swear to serve the Qing Dynasty to the death, live up to the expectations of the Han general soldiers, and actively wanted to become the vanguard of the army and attack the westward ridge pass.

The reason why they are active now and they all stayed in the camp honestly before is to perform in front of Han Shangliang, so that they can occupy more space in the military newspaper in the future.

For this reason, Nan'an Garrison Qianhu also secretly stuffed Han Shangliang with a sum of money, hoping that Han Shangliang could focus on himself a little more.

As the so-called collecting money to do things, in the face of the initiative of the two thousand generals, Han Zongbing was pleased to order the Nan'an garrison Qianzong, who gave him the most money, to lead the county's soldiers and horses as the vanguard to attack the Xixiangling Pass to clear the first obstacle for the Great Cleanup.

Mr. Nan'an Garrison immediately said that it was just a small pass, and it was easy to capture it, and then he led his headquarters to kill the Xixiang Ridge Pass.

Looking at the wooden village that straddled the middle of the valley road, with a wave of his hand, the green battalion soldiers under his command carried the self-made siege equipment made during this time and poured up, but they rushed under the wooden wall without the slightest attack.

Look at the city wall, in addition to the military flags fluttering in the wind, where is there half a figure?

Seeing this, Nan'an Qianhu instantly understood - the defenders in the pass had already run out!

The green battalion soldiers who were besieging the city also saw this, so they completely let down their guard, climbed the wooden wall along the wooden ladder, jumped into the wooden wall, and immediately protected the shield in front of them, made a posture of preparation, and then looked around, and saw that there was no one in the pass, so they quickly went to open the gate of the wall, and welcomed the robe from the outside.

"Search the entire wooden village to make sure no thieves lurk!"

Seeing that many of his subordinates had safely entered the pass, Mr. Nan Anqian swaggered into the pass under the escort of his own soldiers, and ordered his subordinates, and the Qing soldiers who got the order scattered and searched, and they kicked open the closed barracks doors in the wooden village one by one, wanting to search if there was anything valuable left.

No one noticed that when they kicked open the door, the oil lamp that was still burning behind the door fell to the ground and rolled up, igniting a layer of black powder on the floor, and the fuse placed on the black powder also ignited, like an apricot like a poisonous snake, glittering with a devouring light.

"Mr. Qian, there is no ...... in the pass"

As the fuse burned to the end, a series of violent explosions suddenly erupted inside the Xixiang Ridge Pass, and the Qing soldiers who were still in the building were instantly pushed into the sky by a powerful wave of air, and before they even had time to let out a scream, the whole person was blown apart by the explosion of gunpowder!

The Qing army standing in the open space did not escape, and at this time, the commander of the Qing army, who was standing in front of President Qian to report to him, together with the hundreds of green battalion soldiers in the pass, were affected by the sudden explosion, and the fragments flying around like a heavenly maiden scattering flowers were like a blade, severely damaging these green battalion soldiers who lacked armor.

The explosion in the direction of the westward ridge pass brought a great shock to the Qing army that was marching here outside, Han Shangliang, who was the leader, looked at the slowly rising gunpowder smoke in shock, and the expression on his face was quickly replaced by anger, he suddenly pulled out his saber and slashed several times in mid-air, while chopping, he also roared angrily: "Su Yi! I swear to kill you! ”

Immediately, he wanted to order the whole army to speed up, quickly pass through the westward ridge pass, and kill Yongchun County, and Wu Jian, the commander of the Anxi garrison who was beside him, did not have time to rejoice that he had escaped, and hurriedly persuaded:

"Lord Commander, Su Wei is scheming, let's not rush forward, if Su Wei has a back hand, wouldn't he fall into his trap?"

"You have a point." Han Shangliang also realized this when he heard this, and quickly calmed down his emotions, and then ordered: "President Wu Qian, you lead the headquarters as the vanguard, continue to march forward, be cautious, and don't fall into the trap of Su Wei." ”

"Yes." Wu Jian hugged his fists and promised, and with the tragic end of the friendly army, their forward carefully led the way in front, until they saw the houses in Xianjia Village, they finally breathed a sigh of relief, re-incarnated as tigers, leopards and jackals, and rushed towards the village.

But when they rushed into the village, they found that the village was empty, let alone people, and even the poultry raised by the villagers had disappeared.

For this reason, these Qing troops began to be depressed, in the counterinsurgency they often took the local people to open the knife, fiercely robbed a wave, and just saw the friendly army was sent to the sky by the explosion, originally wanted to vent the fire here, but now they have to give up.