Although the Hanging Island is an island, the longest place is more than ten miles, and the width is several miles, and the forest coverage rate on the island is extremely high, all are vegetation, and many places are cliffs, strange peaks and different stones, so it is difficult for people to hide in it.

As a result, the Qing army only made significant progress in the early stages after landing on the island, but as it went deeper into the island, the search and suppression work began to be difficult.

Although the Qing army under the leadership of General Chen Dong touched Zhang Huangyan's command post as soon as possible, the place was empty, which made Erdu, the leader of the Eight Banners who commanded the raid, very annoyed.

At the same time, I regret that I shouldn't act on my own, and I should wait for the above to mobilize more people to come over before attacking.

In that case, even if this hanging mountain forest is deep and dense, using the dragnet carpet search method, you can also strangle the great rebel Zhang Kou and the rest of the pirates hiding in it.

Only now I have no regrets about taking the medicine.

If you can't find Zhang Yi, you will definitely not be able to spare him if you go back like this.

Thinking of this, Erdu ordered the green battalion to go deep into the mountains and forests to chase and suppress;

On the one hand, he ordered a surprise interrogation of the captured Ming army, and it was necessary to pry open the mouths of these people to obtain a direction for Zhang Wei to escape, and a possible hiding place.

At this time, the sound of guns on the island was not as dense as before, but there were also guns from time to time.

More than a dozen warships of the Qing army on the sea have stopped shelling for fear of accidentally injuring their own people.

In order to eliminate the remnants of the enemy as soon as possible, Erdu ordered Zhou Jinzhong, the general of the Zhenhai battalion, to lead the troops to supervise and suppress, and he led the Eight Banners to the high place to use the clairglass to check everywhere.

Wherever flocks of birds fly out, there will be pirates lurking!

Observing according to this law, Erdu will be able to adjust the deployment in a timely manner.

After thinking about it repeatedly, he still sent someone back by boat to report the news and ask for reinforcements from above, as long as he could ensure that the pirates on the island could not escape on the sea ship before the reinforcements arrived, he would be able to make up for it, and even the dream future could be obtained.

After all, no one dared to say that it was not his Erdu's unauthorized actions that forced the pirates to fail to transfer.

What only makes Erdu strange is that there are many butterflies on this island inexplicably.

It's not a lot in general, it's a lot in particular.

So much so that he only looked at the clairvoyant mirror for a while, and his surroundings were full of flying butterflies.

It's good-looking, but it's annoying.

When he was concentrating on observing the movement of the mountains and forests in the distance, Li Bingtai, the garrison of the Green Battalion, who was in charge of interrogating the prisoners of the Ming army, came to report excitedly, saying that he had learned from a captive named Lin Sheng that Zhang Wei might have fled to a large fishing factory in the south.

The big fishing mill is not very big and is not a building, but a small beach where fishermen had earlier docked on the island.

Because the place is secret, ordinary people don't know where it is.

According to Lin Sheng's confession, the pirates hid boats near the big fishing factory.

This important information made Erdu attach great importance to it, and asked Li Bingtai to bring the captive named Lin Sheng for personal interrogation.

"Lin, are you telling the truth? The way there, yours, do you know? ”

Erdu, who was bent on capturing the great rebel Zhang Kou, tried his best to make his expression amiable, so as not to frighten this Nikan named Lin Sheng.

Although he is not fluent in Chinese, it sounds like a taste of raw rice, similar to that of North Koreans.

"The villain is telling the truth, the villain has walked the way there once, but it is not easy to walk."

Lin Sheng was a young pirate in his twenties, and because he was frightened by the Qing soldiers' abuse and killing of his companions, he confided in the Qing army the traces of Zhang Shangshu and his party.

"Very good, you will lead the way in front immediately, if you can capture the thief surnamed Zhang, you will be my Gu Xuan, and the benefits will be great."

Erdu patted Lin Sheng on the shoulder with satisfaction, asked him to lead the way to the big fishing factory in front, and promised that not only would he not kill him afterwards, but would also give him a lot of benefits.

"Ancient promotion" is the meaning of Manchurian friend.

Under the leadership of Lin Sheng, Erdu personally led more than 200 Eight Banner soldiers under his command and more than 100 green battalion soldiers to the big fishing factory.

But on the way, it was attacked by the Ming army in ambush.

The Ming army numbered a lot, no less than 100 people, and most of the weapons they held were firearms.

More than a dozen green battalion soldiers who walked in front of them were beaten into a sieve by the Ming army's firecrackers on the spot, and their bodies were covered with blood holes.

Due to the terrain, the Qing army not only had a limited line of sight, but also the formation was difficult to spread, so it was difficult to break through for a while.

Erdu, who was worried about escaping the rebellion, was furious, and ordered people to carry a few tiger squat cannons carried by the army to the front, and there was a fierce bombardment of the Ming army hiding in the forest in front of him.

The tiger squat cannon is a small artillery gun equipped by the Ming army in the past, and the cannon should be placed in a fixed position when fired, which is similar to the tiger squatting and sitting, hence the name.

The advantage is that it is light in weight, only more than 30 pounds, and it is easy to carry.

The disadvantage is that the range is not long, but the melee combat is extremely powerful.

Because this cannon is loaded with small lead or small stones, it flies out in a fan shape like a goddess scattering flowers when fired, so it is extremely threatening and lethal to enemies in dense formations.

It was a sharp weapon for the Qi family army to deal with the Japanese invaders.

After the cannon sounded, the green battalion soldiers fired a few rounds of guns intensively, and the tiger squatted here and released the cannon again.

The mountains and forests were suddenly filled with thick smoke, and no one on either side could see anyone, only that their eyes were choking badly, and their noses smelled the choking smell of gunpowder.

After the sea breeze carried away the smoke, the opposite side was quiet, as if the Ming army in ambush had disappeared.

"You guys, go and have a look."

Erdu held the clairvoyant mirror hanging from his neck in his left hand, and waved his right hand at a few green battalion soldiers lying on their stomachs not far ahead.

"Huh!"

The green battalion soldiers had no choice but to step forward to investigate, and found that there were twenty or thirty corpses of the Ming army in the forest in front of them, and the rest of the Ming troops had already withdrawn.

A few Ming soldiers who had fallen but did not lose their breath saw the pigtailed soldiers with long knives approaching, and instinctively wanted to struggle to fight with them, but they were too injured to move, so they could only stare at the pigtailed soldiers with angry eyes and curse from their mouths.

A young Ming soldier was hit in the head at close range by a stone fired from the tiger squat cannon, and half of his head was smashed.

However, miraculously, the Ming soldier did not die, but leaned against a stone, raised the fire gun in his hand with his still able hands and aimed at the braided soldier who was coming.

But his hand shook so badly that he couldn't even aim his gun at the pigtailed soldier who was getting closer and closer.

Under the stunned gaze of the two Green Battalion soldiers who came over, the young Ming soldier stabbed half of his head into the mouth of the gun.

With a "poof", the gun went straight through the soldier's bloody head, and there was a "bang".

The fire gun was just against the young corpse.

Several green battalion soldiers who came to investigate showed unbearability on their faces, and an older battalion soldier stepped forward to lay down the body of the young Ming army, and then silently held a knife and continued to touch forward under the urging of the Eight Banners.

As a result, they were attacked by the Ming army less than half a mile away, probably the gang that had just fled.

It was also a tiger squatting shelling, but this time the Ming army did not withdraw as before, but resisted desperately against the firepower of the Qing army.

All of a sudden, the sound of guns in the forest was loud, and the shouts of the Ming and Qing dynasties also resounded through the mountains and forests.

Erdu became agitated, because he suspected that he was probably very close to the Great Rebel Zhang Kou.

"All of them!"

When he swung his long knife and was about to give the order to charge, there was a loud bang in the sea in the distance, followed by two and three sounds.

It was the loud bang of the explosion.

Looking out to sea through the trees, there was smoke billowing out.

It was the warship of the Qing army that was stuck at sea that exploded.

The sound of explosions on the sea startled the Qing army to stop its attack, and also stunned the soldiers of the Ming army who were desperately resisting.

No one knows what happened.

"Bastard, cunning Nikan!"

After reacting, Erdu slashed at a tree beside him, and his anger made his expression extremely hideous.

The force was too strong, and the long knife could not be pulled out at the first time.

Instead, a butterfly landed lightly on the hilt of the knife and spread its colorful wings towards the owner of the long knife.