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Chapter 320: Great Wall Watch
the next day.

Lock Yang Pass.

In the darkness before dawn, Xu Biao, a sentry officer of the Chengdu Guard of the Ming Dynasty Shu Clan, who had come all the way from Sichuan, carefully poked his head out of the dense forest...

His identity means the Chengdu local armed forces under the rule of Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Xianzhong is now the governor of Sichuan and the governor of the military and political affairs of western Sichuan, and also the governor of Xikang. The geographical concept of Xikang was given by King Yang. The name of this place in the Ming Dynasty should be the chieftains of Tianquan Liufan and other localities of Dogandusi. Of course, now they are just names in the official records of the Ming Dynasty. At most, when there was no chaos in the world, some chieftains paid tribute or traded with the Ming Dynasty under these names. The people in this area originally called themselves Kang District, so King Yang named them Xikang, and then established the Xikang Governor, and gave it to King Zhang Xianzhong of Shu to manage...

Give him something to do!

Or give him a place where he can vent his ambitions.

Look, there is a place to the west that is bigger than Sichuan waiting for you to conquer!
Let's start!
I'm optimistic about you!
Of course, the Baili chieftain, who was currently the largest in Kang region, was called a man of a hundred men and a hundred horses by the chieftains, and he swept across Kang region like a meteor from the sky. When he was attacking the chieftain of modern Chamdo, the latter assembled a powerful armed force of seventy people to fight back. There was no need to let Zhang Xianzhong know about this.

After all, he also has to save face.

If he were asked to conquer a group of hungry wolves, he would feel a sense of accomplishment, but conquering a group of Chihuahuas would be too shameful.

Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong is now also training his army, full of ambition and waiting to become the king of the snowy plateau.

But the number of old bandits under his command was limited after all, and his guards were limited to six. Although he still controlled the official army in western Sichuan, it was obviously not good for him to strengthen the official army. In the end, he chose to cooperate with the gentry to establish local armed forces, that is, local guards. Or it can be said to be militia, taking advantage of the gentry's mentality of not wanting to be ruled by the court, and the latter formed guards in various places to serve as his second-line troops, and the six guards were his direct line. Using this model, he tied himself and the gentry in western Sichuan into a whole. He wanted to be a vassal, and the gentry also wanted to play self-government, so he needed his Shu vassal as the basis for self-government...

The local officials of Shu were not appointed directly by the imperial court, but were recommended to the imperial court by the King of Shu for appointment.

Even if the imperial court directly appoints them in the future, local elders and wise men can still treat local officials like dogs with their support. After all, power relies on military force, and the imperial court's military force in western Sichuan is Zhang Xianzhong's guards and the official army under his control that is in name only.

Cooperation.

Together, they turned the areas in western Sichuan, with Chengdu Prefecture as the core, into vassal states that the imperial court had no control over.

Then live together.

As for the immigrants under Zhang Xianzhong's control, they were like the refugees under Yang Feng's control, living in military-managed camps. At that time, Sichuan had no shortage of wasteland that could be reclaimed. After all, the entire Sichuan province currently had a population of only tens of millions...

Although my Qing Dynasty said that he killed a total of 60 million people here.

So this time, in order to fool Yang Feng, except for the 3,000 guards of Zhang Xianzhong, the rest of the people riding short horses were all guards from various places. Xu Biao and others arrived at Geyubao last night, but they were exhausted and had no ability to attack late at night. Li Dingguo's military command ability was of course much better than Yang Feng's. He immediately realized that the most important point of this encirclement was to control the exit of Suoyang Pass. Jiang Ge and others certainly knew better, but they didn't need to remind Yang Feng. They thought that they had done what Yang Feng asked them to do. If Ajige escaped from Suoyang Pass, it was not their responsibility. Yang Feng asked them to drive Ajige there. What's more, if Suoyang Pass was really sealed, Ajige would have no way to escape. It would be a fight of trapped beasts. The fight of trapped beasts of 20,000 elite Eight Banners. How many men were Jiang Ge and others prepared to die to encircle and annihilate them?
Not to mention being surrounded and annihilated, it is even possible that they will fight their way out of the encirclement at all costs.

So there is no need to care.

But Li Dingguo couldn't just sit there and do nothing, so after a short rest, he immediately mobilized 3,000 of his men who were best at mountain warfare to attack Suoyang Pass at night. Xu Biao was the vanguard. He was from Chengdu and came from a caravan that traded with Xikang. He was good at fighting, and he was also good at mountain warfare...

Can the mountains in this place be compared with those in Kang region?

This is called a mountain?
Isn't it just a big mound of dirt?

Have you ever seen snow-capped mountains towering into the clouds?
"Get ready to take action!"

He looked at the little fire on the Great Wall in the distance and whispered to his men.

That's their workhorse.

In fact, the Great Wall was lying in front of him. Suoyang Pass was originally a pass of the Great Wall. However, if he attacked along the Great Wall, he would easily be discovered by the Qing army that had already occupied Suoyang Pass. Only his commando team could sneak into the mountains and forests and raid the pass. After they climbed up the pass, the main force would rush at full speed along the Great Wall.

After Xu Biao finished speaking, he immediately emerged from the forest. Behind him, 300 soldiers emerged silently, most of them holding crossbows, all of which were poisonous, and others holding ropes. They advanced under the cover of darkness during the patrol of the Qing army on the city wall. These soldiers were hunters and caravan men. They attacked like prey, facing the wind, carefully stepping on the grass on the ground as much as possible, slowly approaching the city wall, and then throwing ropes upwards.

The sound of the flying claws hitting the bricks immediately alarmed the patrol team dozens of meters away.

Then the shouting started.

The patrol immediately turned back.

But the soldiers had already begun to climb, and the crossbowmen below took aim.

The torches thrown by the Qing army illuminated vaguely discernible figures.

Then there were anxious shouts.

But at the same time, poisonous crossbow arrows flew out one after another. The distance was only a few dozen meters, but for these soldiers who were born as hunters, they almost always hit the target. Moreover, they also aimed at the head. After all, the bodies of the Qing soldiers were protected by the women's wall.

Crossbow arrows whistled through the air and kept hitting the heads of the Qing army.

The soldiers climbing the city wall quickly reached the city.

No longer needing to hide, they threw grenades at the Qing troops in front of them, and the sound of explosions echoed throughout the mountains and forests.

Xu Biao then climbed up the city wall.

The Qing troops in the city had been alarmed and rushed out of the hiding caves, but the Sichuan soldiers who had occupied the city wall threw grenades one after another without hesitation. The soldiers who followed Xu Biao to climb the city wall took off a steel pipe from their backs, which was given to them by King Yang. There was no need for a gun carriage. A burly soldier held the steel pipe with both hands, knelt on the ground, sat on the back half of the steel pipe, and let the tail cone at the back pierce the gap between the bricks...

"Get down!"

Xu Biao roared.

The soldier who was fighting with the patrol in front lay down without hesitation.

Even the knowledgeable Qing army surrendered.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Biao pulled the rope behind the steel pipe, the flintlock fell instantly, and flames suddenly spurted out of the muzzle. The recoil pushed the gun carriage soldier back suddenly, but his weight of more than 200 pounds still offset this force well for him.

The shotgun shells fired from the muzzle swept across the city wall in an instant.

All the Qing soldiers on the opposite side who had not yet fallen down fell down.

Although the steel barrel gun has a small amount of gunpowder and a short range, the shotgun shells inside are all one and a half taels in weight. Relying on the large caliber, as many as possible can be loaded in, and the power is still sufficient at least within a distance of several dozen meters.

"One more!"

The gunners howled.

The second steel pipe was immediately handed to him. At this time, the Qing army reinforcements from the city had just rushed up the city wall in the smoke of the grenade explosion. The steel pipe under the gun carriage soldier's buttocks was emitting flames. He aimed very accurately, and the wildly sprayed shotgun shells swept across the Qing army again. The crossbowmen had also climbed up the city wall. They occupied the commanding heights and shot crossbows at the Qing army below. Xu Biao rushed to the small tower, where a small number of Qing soldiers were still shooting arrows at them.

In the distance, the sound of gunfire had already been heard, and it was obvious that the main force was attacking the Qing army's outposts.

There were actually quite a few Qing troops stationed here.

Ajige had fought many battles, so he would not be so careless as to not be vigilant.

Moreover, Suoyangguan City was originally a place where some Qing troops could stay overnight, so at this moment the Qing troops in the city continued to rush out and even climbed up the city walls.

But the ending is no longer in suspense.

Because on the Great Wall, the reinforcements of the Sichuan Army had quickly eliminated the Qing Army’s sentries and came directly on horseback. The width of the Great Wall was certainly enough for the cavalry to gallop. What’s more, the short horses ridden by these Sichuan Army were designed to go on such narrow roads. Merchant caravans like Xu Biao’s even needed to often ride horses in the mountains where there were no roads at all... The trade route was not necessarily smooth!

There was no real way for them to trade with Xikang.

With a population density like that where a hundred men and a hundred horses are fighting against seventy warriors, who would build roads?

"The Jianlu reinforcements are coming!"

Xu Biao suddenly shouted to the reinforcements.

The latter turned his head and looked down the mountain, and saw that the Qing army camped at the foot of the mountain had already rushed out of the camp.

"Quick, hold the parapet!"

he shouted over his shoulder.

Then he turned his horse around, stepped on the corpses on the road, and rushed directly towards the remaining Qing troops under the city. He then knocked over two Qing soldiers who tried to rush upwards and stepped over them. The cavalry behind him also rushed down. Their joining ended the battle in the city. After all, it was such a small city, and a hundred cavalrymen could fill the entire city.

Xu Biao on the city wall ordered the remaining men to deploy defenses on the city wall while dragging over the nearly paralyzed gunner and pressing him onto a steel pipe...

"Aim down!"

Xu Biao shouted.

The gun carriage soldiers had no choice but to continue to use their own bodies to bear the recoil of the artillery.

That's what he was chosen for.

You know, when King Yang was choosing, he said that he would get one hundred taels for each shot, and if he could fire ten shots, he could get one thousand taels, so he had already earned several hundred taels. When he thought about getting one hundred taels of silver for each shot, he gritted his teeth and sat on the gun barrel, wearing thick gloves on his hands, hugging the gun barrel, and then aimed at the outside of the city from the shooting hole on the parapet.

On the mountain road already illuminated by the faint light of dawn, the Jianlu cavalry came galloping...

"put!"

He howled.

The muzzle in front of him suddenly sprayed flames, and the recoil shook his internal organs. Because it was a flat shot, there were only a few dead bodies of Jianlu blocking the way behind him, so the barrel retreated and even took him backwards, and the whistling shotgun shells also hit the Qing army outside. Although the power decreased due to the distance, it still knocked the Qing army to the ground. More importantly, it blocked the mountain road, which was not wide to begin with, and the Qing army behind had to slow down. At this time, the infantry reinforcements on the city wall also arrived. They quickly raised their crossbows behind the parapet and shot crossbow arrows at the Qing army.

Three thousand Sichuan troops completed their deployment on the Great Wall.

But at the same time, the Qing army was also swarming down the mountain...

"Brothers, we are thousands of miles away from home. We have no choice but to fight hard. If we die in battle, we can go together."

Xu Biao shouted.

The soldiers silently looked at the Jianlu who were all over the mountains and plains illuminated by the morning light...

"Uh, why are you guys here?"

A voice suddenly sounded below them.

Xu Biao and others lowered their heads in shock, looking at the closed door below.

Their King Yang was standing there, looking up at them in surprise.

But under King Yang's feet, there was a round silver object.

"Forget it, let me show you. Where is the gun carriage man?"

Yang Feng said.

The gunner immediately stuck his head out.

"My lord, I am here!"

He said.

"Use the steel cannon bullet to hit this jar later. If you hit it, I will reward you with one thousand taels."

Yang Feng said.

After saying that, he kicked the jar hard, causing it to roll forward. It followed the slope of the mountain and continued to roll along the mountain road, rolling towards the Qing cavalry who had raised their bows and arrows. However, the Qing soldiers also saw Yang Feng and were so scared that they stopped immediately, all looking at this devil-like man in horror.

At this time, the jar also rolled among them.

"put!"

Yang Feng said.

The steel cannon in the hands of the gun carrier who was ready suddenly spurted out flames. Stimulated by the 1,000 taels, he tried his best to aim, and with luck, the cannonball actually hit the can. At the moment of impact, the can exploded and turned into a huge fireball. The terrifying power even formed a shock wave visible to the naked eye, sweeping across the surrounding trees, and the broken limbs of the Qing army turned into a dense rain of falling blood...

"Damn, this is a bit dangerous!"

King Yang was holding an umbrella, but the umbrella was actually blown over by the air wave, so it was useless. He spoke in the blood rain.

That's a tank of hydrogen.

The power is indeed quite great, beyond his expectations. No wonder Ermao used this as a bomb.

"Leave me alone and do your job!"

He raised his head and looked at Xu Biao and others who had turned into stone.

Then he reached his hand into the city gate, and the next moment as he pulled it back, a 50-liter gasoline barrel flew out. He unscrewed the lid, picked up the arm of an unknown Eight Banners warrior nearby, dipped the thin end of the arm into the gasoline, and then stuffed the thick end into the mouth of the can, took out a lighter, lit it, and threw it at the Qing army in the forest who were obviously trying to raid the city wall. The gasoline barrel hit a big tree and shattered, and the gasoline that burst out was ignited by the arm that had turned into a torch. The next moment the gasoline barrel exploded and turned into a rain of fire falling all over the sky.

Then came the sea of ​​fire.

After all, they are all flammable pine trees, and underneath them are pine needles that have accumulated for who knows how many years.

The Qing soldiers who were trying to attack the city wall screamed in the sea of ​​fire, and they were all on fire and were desperately hitting each other...

"Keep going, the battle has just begun!"

Yang Feng raised his head and said.

Then he reached into the treasure bowl in the floating city gate again...

(End of this chapter)