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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 41: Night Battle on the Mountainside

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    As night fell, the Taiping Army's forward formation on the mountainside of Yanziling suddenly became denser with gunfire. The Qing troops in the front formation immediately flew to report to Deng Shaoliang.  After receiving the report, Deng Shaoliang flew to the front line to take a look. He saw an unknown number of torches densely packed on the front trenches of the Taiping Army. Among them were numerous banners and figures. The shouts of killing were loud, the sound of drums was loud, and muskets and artillery arrows were fired.  It's raining down.

    Deng Shaoliang took a breath and said to his left and right: "The big-footed barbarians who went up the mountain must want to break out of the encirclement at night. Send an order to the entire army to be on guard and strictly guard the road down the mountain."

    More than 900 Qing troops under Deng Shaoliang's troops all lined up in formation and stood ready behind the earthen fortress at the foot of the mountain. However, half an hour passed, but no one was seen charging over, and the shouts of killing and the sound of gunfire gradually stopped.

    The Qing army was very puzzled. After half an hour, the shouts of killing started again, and no one was seen coming down the mountain. They stopped again after half an hour.  Deng Shaoliang laughed loudly and said: "It turned out to be a small trick to tire out the troops. We ordered all the troops to rest on the spot. We separated the troops in the front line and stayed behind. If there was any slight disturbance, the gongs would be sounded as a signal!"

    "†ø!" All the Qing generals kowtowed and accepted their orders, and went to pass their orders. Deng Shaoliang touched the goat's beard under his chin and frowned and said to himself: "Although this tactic of tiring the troops is simple, how can I always feel that something is wrong?  There are either big-footed barbarians or young demon boys on the mountain, so there shouldn't be anyone with great intelligence."

    On the top of Yanziling Mountain, a group of Taiping female soldiers and boy soldiers had begun to take paths down the mountain in batches. The people who followed the mountain as guides knew that there was a secret trail in the northeast of Yanziling that could be used to go down the mountain, but the mountain road was so rugged that only one person could pass it.  Fortunately, the female soldiers and child soldiers were all accustomed to walking on the mountain roads in Guangxi, and they were no more than a thousand soldiers, so they followed the guide down the mountain in the dark.

    Hong Xuanjiao asked Hu Jiumei and Xie Manmei to lead the troops to clear the way. Hu Damei and Tan Shaoguang were in the middle, but she herself returned to the front line with Chen Picheng at the rear.  Seeing Hong Xuanjiao's arrangement, Hu Jiumei and others asked for the rear of the palace one after another, but Hong Xuanjiao stopped them and said: "Everyone, stop arguing. The people leading the way said that they have to cross several ponds after going down the mountain. I don't know if there will be any clear demons.  It¡¯s very dangerous for you to go first. Remember, if you encounter an enemy, move forward bravely and don¡¯t retreat. As the saying goes, the brave will win when we meet on a narrow road!¡±

    After listening to Hong Xuanjiao¡¯s words, Hu Jiumei and others stopped arguing. They all saluted Hong Xuanjiao with fists in their hands, and then they formed their own teams and went down the mountain first.

    Hong Xuanjiao brought several female soldiers to escort her to the frontline military formation. She saw that there were still more than 200 people guarding the place. Chen Picheng's face was gray and black, but he was almost unrecognizable due to the smoke. When Hong Xuanjiao arrived,  The kid jumped up and down to fire the cannon. The small copper cannon flashed with light, made a loud noise when it hit, and a large piece of gravel burst out.

    "Come again! Six liang of red medicine, no more!" Chen Picheng shouted loudly, and there were shouts of killing and gunfire at the front, which was shocking. Hong Xuanjiao screamed several times in a row, but Chen Picheng didn't hear it, so Hong Xuanjiao had to rush to grab it.  He went up and slapped Chen Picheng hard before the boy turned around.

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

    With the noise all around, Hong Xuanjiao could only reply loudly: "The brigade has already set off down the mountain from the northeastern path. I wonder if there are any clear demons over there! I'll stay behind with you and wait for half an hour to catch up!"

    Chen Picheng heard this and said anxiously: "How can this be done? Queen Xiwang, you should go with the group first, and I will come from behind!"

    Hong Xuanjiao smiled and pointed at the female soldiers fighting on the side: "My sisters want me to personally lead them to break out of the encirclement. I can't leave them alone. Do you understand?"

    Chen Picheng nodded heavily and said: "I understand. What Queen Xi Wang said makes sense. Sharing joys and sorrows with everyone is what a leader should do. I have learned another skill."

    Hong Xuanjiao smiled and nodded slightly. Looking at the group of boy soldiers beside him who were shouting and firing, he was filled with emotion. The oldest among them was only fifteen or sixteen years old. If in later generations, many of them might still be studying, but in this day and age,  In the dark age, they could only pick up swords and guns and fight in blood, all just for the illusory dream of heaven.

    Then he looked at the group of heroic sisters beside him, dressed in men's clothes and shouting to fight. Hong Xuanjiao had been moved by these people these days. She remembered that Hu Jiumei said something to the sisters after the evening sermon, which she could not forget for a long time: "Sisters."  Ladies, our hands were originally used for washing, cooking, and embroidery, but now we pick up swords and fight like men. Why? Just because we sisters no longer want to see our children alive and hungry in our arms.  I want to die, I don¡¯t want to see my father, brother, and husband come back with wounds all over their bodies. All the injustices in this world were brought to us by Hu Nu Qing Yao, so we will use our swords to get back what we deserve from Qing Yao!¡±

    From these women and children, Hong Xuanjiao sawA kind of rebellious enthusiasm that has never been seen before, but what they want is the so-called fairness. For this nihilistic utopia, they are willing to throw their heads and blood, and endure a bloody war that should not belong to them. Everything is just for the sake of justice.  That dream

    "The Queen of the West! The Qing demons are coming!" Chen Picheng shouted loudly, interrupting Hong Xuanjiao's divergent thoughts. She leaned out from the earthen ramparts and looked around, only to see hundreds of Qing troops swarming up the mountain road.  , why are the Qing troops coming to kill them again now?

    Hong Xuanjiao didn't have time to think about it, he pulled out the short gun from his waist and shouted loudly: "The bird gunners are in a team of three! One person shoots the red powder, one person grinds the medicine, and one person shoots the enemy! Be ready to spray the gun fifty steps! The others are ready to close up to catch it.  Battle! Chen Picheng, you don¡¯t have to stop your bronze cannon, just fire it at will!" Hong Xuanjiao seemed to shout out without thinking. Hong Xuanjiao raised his jaw slightly, smiled bitterly, and skillfully took out the red powder and lead from his pocket to load his short gun.  Ammunition coming.

    Hong Xuanjiao's musketry skills were taught by another female general from the Kingdom of Heaven. She was the female battalion commander Su Sanniang. This Su Sanniang was originally a member of the Heaven and Earth Society. In her early years, she gathered a crowd to avenge her husband and killed all her enemies. She has been in Guangxi ever since.  They fought fiercely with the Qing army everywhere, until on the eve of the Jintian Uprising, she and Luo Dagang, another leader of the Tiandihui, led more than 2,000 people to join the Taiping Army.  She has been wandering around the rivers and lakes and fighting with the Qing army for many years. She has long been familiar with muskets, and even the art of musketry was only discovered through bloody battles.  After Su Sanniang became the military commander of the female camp, she thought that women were never as strong as men, so she taught everyone musketry skills. Hong Xuanjiao learned musketry skills from Su Sanniang at that time.

    There are actually tens of thousands of women in the Taiping Army's female battalion, but only the more than 2,000 Tianzu women from Guangxi's Shouyi Camp in Jinxiu Battalion can fight. Most of the other female soldiers in the female battalion are doing things like carrying food, digging trenches, making military uniforms, washing and cooking, etc.  Not all female soldiers go into battle to kill the enemy.  After the Jinxiu Battalion established its capital in Tianjing, except for 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 as its capital, it grew to an astonishing forty armies and 100,000 people. However, two years later, the Kingdom of Heaven restored the conjugal system, and the women's army was abolished.  After King Hong Tian built the Tianwang Palace, he did not use eunuchs as internal servants, but he was afraid that many of his wives would have an affair with the guards, so he transferred the Jinxiu Battalion to the Tianwang Palace to serve as the guards of the Tianwang Palace.  When the Kingdom of Heaven was destroyed, the female soldiers of the Jinxiu Battalion guarding the Heavenly King's Mansion fought until the last moment and collectively burned themselves to death. The female soldiers of the Kingdom of Heaven have never been seen again, but they are the most outstanding female army in ancient Chinese history.  .

    When the Qing army rushed into a hundred steps, the accurate heads of muskets and shotguns began to exert their power. When the muskets were rotated by three people, the speed of musket firing was greatly increased.  After the more than sixty muskets in the first row sprayed out flames, the Qing generals shouted: "They want to change their medicine, take advantage of this moment to rush!"

    As soon as he finished speaking, the muskets of the second row had been released. It turned out that when the Qing army began to charge forward, the musketeer team of three people had already prepared ammunition for three muskets, and placed their muzzles in the sky. When the Qing army rushed forward,  After entering, the gunners in the first row raised their guns and fired them together. After firing the first shot, they quickly picked up the second one and fired it again. The remaining two people began to put red powder, pound the powder, and put the fuse into the musket.  Then hand it over to the first person, and so on.  The gun shooter is good at shooting, the one who puts the red powder is precise in the amount of powder, and the hands and feet of pounding the powder and placing the fuse are all done by him, which makes the most primitive musket nearly double the rate of fire.  .

    The Qing army did not expect that the Taiping Army's firearms on the mountainside would be so sharp. After more than a hundred people fell, they finally rushed within fifty steps. Reflecting the light of the fire, they could see closely that there were women and teenagers with big feet behind the earthen ramparts.  , the Qing army became more courageous and rushed over with shouts.

    "Brothers, it's so nice to catch those girls." "Come up, they're all girls!" "That one is quite pretty, watch me capture her alive!" Amid the obscene words, the eight gates on the earthen ramparts  The gun's trumpet-shaped muzzle was exposed, and it was pointed coldly at the Qing army outside the fortress.

    These guns have a short body and a large mouth, and the range is very close, but as the name suggests, the killing area of ??the spray is extremely wide. A group of Qing soldiers only fight in close quarters, and the women and teenagers on the opposite side will collapse, who knows that Bigfoot  The barbarian women and the guys who are pressing the bottom of the box haven't shown up yet.

    A series of huge roars sounded, and the gun sprayed out hot flames and deadly gravel, lead and other objects. The Qing army in front of the earthen fort felt a dazzling fire coming in front of them, and their whole bodies were covered by flames.  The debris and lead shot were overwhelming, and chaos suddenly broke out.

    In the light of the fire, a banner was seen flying up on the earthen barrier. A female general in green robes jumped out of the earthen barrier. The two swords in her hands were flying up and down with her bare wrists. She could only be heard shouting in a sweet voice, "Kill the clear demon!"  The big-footed barbarians and demon boys behind them actually all held sharp blades, climbed out of the earthen barrier, and rushed down from a high position as if they were desperate for their lives.

    The female soldiers are all equipped with banners, silver shields and sharp knives. They will chop at anyone they see.Although their physical strength was not inferior to that of the men, the boy soldiers also fought bravely, their eyes full of murderous intent, without any trace of fear.  The Qing army that attacked the mountain had already lost all its energy, and was driven down the mountain in defeat by this rush.

    Hong Xuanjiao flew with both swords and hacked several Qing soldiers to death. Looking at the gurgling blood, she felt like vomiting. Seeing the Qing army retreating, she hurriedly stopped and said: "Don't chase the poor invaders, let's hold on here!"  "Unexpectedly, when I returned to the base, I tripped over a corpse of a Qing army. When I looked up, I saw that the corpse was burnt black and mutilated, with all the internal organs exposed. Hong Xuanjiao couldn't bear it anymore and let out a "wow" sound.  Spit it out.

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

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