The Miao soldiers were all short-body strong suits, with mature cowhide armor on their chests, covered with Qing army horn clothes, and also had ordinary Qing army hats on their heads. However, unlike the Qing army, Miao soldiers had tattoos on their bodies, with rings hanging around their ears, and all had red faces.

The weapons in their hands were also impure, including jungle darts, crossbows, etc. The Miao people liked hunting and used bird guns. The length of the gun was as long as five or six feet, and the road was as long as 12 or 3 steps away, and it was the most accurate to win. Among the weapons used by the Miao soldiers, there was a long sword called Miao sword, which was two or three feet long and five or six minutes wide. It was good to use wooden handles, and the mouth was the sharpest. When the weapons were connected, it was also called sharp weapons. Any Miao people who were sixteen years old had knives, so the people were brave and good at fighting. There were also guns among the Miao soldiers, and they used them to guard the village and bombarded them with wooden forks on the ground.

The Miao soldiers raised their firearms and attacked Shapo Ridge. The guards on the ridge were wolf soldiers from Guangxi. Although half of them were female soldiers, they had more firearms than Miao soldiers, and they took advantage of them from a high position. The two mountain war-going soldiers killed them for a while.

The fighting at the northwest ridge was the most tragic. The Miao soldiers used a plaque to hold the front with a two-zhang bamboo spear, and there was a shuttle flag behind them. The Miao crossbow followed by the shuttle flag and Miao crossbow arrows. The wounds could not be healed, which was the most toxic. The Taiping military firearms on the ridge, and the rocks fought back, and the two sides attacked each other, and the casualties suddenly increased.

After half an hour of fighting, the Miao soldiers who were surging the northwest ridge first retreated. In the absence of great territorial conditions, no matter how brave the Miao soldiers were, they could not break through the Taiping Army's defense line. After half of the casualties, the Miao soldiers had to bow their lives to retreat temporarily.

The commanders of the troops on the ridge were Li Zuoche and Hu Damei. Seeing that the Miao soldiers retreated temporarily, Li Zuoche hurriedly called Yao Yuan over: "There are all Miao people at the foot of the mountain, and they are also barbarians who are used to fighting. We have not much red medicine, so we don't know if there is a large group of Qing troops coming later. I'm afraid that we can't stay here for a long time. You can quickly take people down the mountain to inform the Queen of the West and let them avoid them first. Hu Luxue and I will fight and leave and break the rear!"

Yao Yuan shouted loudly: "No, many brothers and sisters in the army were injured, so I'd better stay here to save them."

Li Zuoche cursed angrily: "I haven't escaped from danger now, so I don't care much. You can take someone to inform the Queen of the West, and use the sound arrow as a horn. After seeing your sound arrows, we will go south! Li Yiwen's eight hundred soldiers were picked up at the Tea Pavilion Shop, and we will meet at the Tea Pavilion Shop!"

The eldest sister Hu stroked her somewhat scattered hair and gritted her teeth and said, "Yao Yuan, go quickly and protect the Queen of the West. If Queen of the West suffers any damage, I will not forgive you!" Yao Yuan nodded heavily, and then led several brothers to hide on the small road behind the mountain.

After Yao Yuan left, Li Zuoche wiped sweat from his forehead, and despised that Hu Damei was sitting slowly on the ground with her waist covering her waist. Her face turned pale and her forehead was covered with large beads of sweat. Li Zuoche was shocked and hurriedly rushed to check it out. He saw that Hu Damei had a powerful crossbow inserted into her waist, and the blood had already dried up.

"Aunt Hu, are you injured?!" Li Zuoche's face changed drastically. He saw that the crossbow arrow was not at the end. He also knew that Miao Bing's crossbow arrow was poisoned. He was afraid that the gods would be unable to save such injuries.

Big Sister Hu smiled bitterly, gritted her teeth and tore off her robe and tied her wounds hard. The moment she tied the strips tightly, she groaned and gasped, "Brother Li, please ask everyone to retreat first and leave all the wounded soldiers. I will cut off the back with them. At worst, I will go to heaven together."

Li Zuoche's tears flowed down. Looking at Hu's big sister's gray hair, the wrinkles on her face tightened even more because of the pain. His heart was as painful as a knife. Aunt Hu was the mother of Liang Litai, the commander of the second army of the Second Army. She was kind and kind on weekdays. Many people in the Taiping Army respected her. Seeing that she was injured but she was powerless, Li Zuoche felt very sad.

"No, I will rush out with you on my back. We will build a small paradise together. Liang Junshuai is almost here to Changsha. Aunt Hu, please hold on! I will carry you out!" Li Zuoche reached out to pull Big Sister Hu, but saw a flash of sword light. Big Sister Hu's long sword was crossed in front of her chest, and slowly shook her head and said, "Li, brother Li, my body hurts a lot. I don't want to hurt anymore. You, please let me go to heaven early. Where is Litai, just tell him, just let him kill more Qing Yao to avenge me."

Looking at Hu Damei's painful appearance, Li Zuoche also knew that even if she could save her safely, her injuries would not be cured. At most, it would be a few more days before she died. The doctrine believed in heaven was that people would not be allowed to commit suicide. By then, life would be worse than death, so Hu Damei thought of staying and fighting the Qing army, and she would be freed if she died.

Just as Li Zuoche was crying silently and didn't know what to say, the Miao soldiers at the foot of the mountain set off again. Amid the rumbling cannons, Hu Damei shouted loudly: "Li Zuoche, you retreat first, I will lead people to guard here. If I can't defend, I will ignite the red medicine to burn the mountain to stop the clearing of the demons!"

Here weeds are everywhere, and Li Zuoche naturally understands that igniting gunpowder to burn the mountains. Hu and the wounded soldiers will naturally be burned to death together. Although Hu Damei did not say suicide, she was just like this. After a while, Li Zuoche bowed deeply with tears in his eyes: "Miss Hu, you, you have killed so many demons, you will definitely be able to enter heaven, and your Heavenly Father will forgive you." He was afraid that Hu Damei would have the idea of ​​suicide in her heart and could not enter heaven after death, so he said this to comfort Hu Damei.

Big Sister Hu smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm afraid in my heart. My Heavenly Father and Brother Heaven will know. We will definitely enter heaven..." She smiled relaxed. At this moment, she seemed to be no longer hurt. There was no look of fear in her eyes, but she was full of longing, which made people feel sorry for her when she saw it.

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Half an hour later, Li Zuoche retreated to the back mountain with the remaining men, and there were more than 300 people following him, with more than half of them. More than 150 male soldiers and Aunt Hu, more than 40 female soldiers stayed on the front slope of Shapo Ridge. Most of the people who stayed were killed, and those who were seriously injured like Aunt Hu also stayed voluntarily. They knew that in addition to adding burden to the team, they could not help, and they also had to endure the endless pain and would die in the end. It would be better to stay and be liberated. At the same time, they also assumed the heavy responsibility of severing the rear, and it was their belief to take death as if they were home!

A sound arrow several miles away soared into the sky, and exploded in the sky. The fire on the front slope ignited into the sky, and the blazing flames were red for a long time. Although it was far away, Li Zuoche still felt a burst of heat. He held the hilt tightly, stomped his feet hard, and after three roars, the squishy in his chest slightly retreated, and the long sword waved and shouted: "Let's go!"

A group of male soldiers of the Taiping Army and female soldiers went south silently. From time to time, some people looked back. After looking, the female soldiers were crying in a low voice, while the male soldiers were full of anger and a strong sense of sadness and hatred hovered over it, and it never dispersed for a long time.

After walking for several miles, he did not see the Qing army chasing him. Li Zuoche breathed a little relieved and a small town appeared in front of him. They had passed by this town a few days ago, named Jinlong Town. The Taiping Army did not enter the town because they wanted to rush forward, but just took a detour. However, from a distance, the people in the town seemed to see soldiers passing by outside the town, and every household closed the door tightly.

At this time, Nangui passed Jinlong Town again, Li Zuoche did not plan to enter the town. He was about to order the troops to take a detour when suddenly he saw several Taiping soldiers surveillance rushing back and came to the front and shouted: "Brother Li, a large group of Qing troops are coming on the official road in the southeast! Look at the banner, it is the Miao people who are fighting with us in Shapoling!"

"What?!" Li Zuoche was shocked: "Did they fly ahead of us with wings?" As soon as they finished speaking, Li Zuoche had already understood that when the fierce battles in Guangxi, the Taiping Army often occupied familiar terrain and was used to walking on mountain roads, so they often could be ahead of the Qing army. This time the situation turned around. The Miao soldiers were also good at walking on mountain roads. There must be people familiar with the paths in the Qing army, and some were counted as they were eager to retreat south, so they could be able to intercept them in front of them.

Li Zuoche pulled out his long sword and shouted angrily: "Well, the Qing demons are too bullying people! Let's go into the town to guard and fight with these dogs and Qing demons!" An angry shout of Chongtian sounded from all directions, and more than 300 Taiping troops turned around and entered Jinlong Town, occupying dangerous places in the town, with muskets and bows arranged, ready to fight with the Qing army.

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The sky had dimmed, and smoke filled the sky above Jinlong Town. A Qing army hid the general behind the low wall outside the town. He secretly looked at the scene in the town, and then shouted with a loud voice: "You wait for Changmao to hear it! The difference between strength and weakness! The winner is decided! Surrender can avoid death!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a Guangxi-accented local dialect in the town was cursed. The always sighed and said to a soldier beside him: "Go back to report to Lord Hu, Changmao refused to surrender." The soldier responded and turned around and ran outside the town.

A little outside the town, Hu Linyi looked at Jinlong Town with a heavy face. Several roads into the town were covered with the bodies of the Qing army and the Taiping army. The Qing army from all directions guarded the important roads, built forts or then built low walls of the original houses to build formations and guard them strictly.

In the morning, at Shapo Ridge, Hu Linyi saw Changmao setting fire to the mountain and knew that they were going to flee south, so he asked Peng Yulin to go back and move his troops. He took Miao soldiers and took a detour to chase him and intercepted the Taiping Army near Jinlong Town. The people led the troops in Changmao also knew that it was not a solution to escape, so he simply seized the town to guard it. After Peng Yulin brought 800 reinforcements in the afternoon, the Qing army attacked more than a dozen times, but they were all repelled by the Taiping Army. The last attack of Taiping Army seemed to have exhausted the medicine, but he did not fire a single shot. Hu Linyi respected these Changmao in his heart and ordered people to persuade them to surrender.

After hearing the reward of the former army soldiers, Hu Linyi closed his eyes and sighed: "The people are not afraid of death, how can they be afraid of death? Forget it, let's order the troops to rush in and wipe out them all."

Peng Yulin frowned and said, "Hu Daotai, are they traitors or people from the Qing Dynasty?"

Hu Linyi shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Xueqin, you should call me Brother Xun." He followed him forward a few steps, pointed to the corpses covered with roads on all sides and said, "They can't survive and will take risks. It turns out that they are all good people."

Peng Yulin said silently. At this time, several fast horses rushed to the front, but they were the team of the south sentry provokers. The sergeant always said with horror: "Sir, there are a large number of long-haired thieves coming from the south, and there are always nearly two thousand! It's only three miles away from this place!"

Peng Yulin said anxiously: "Brother Xunsheng, let's kill in first! Otherwise, we will not be able to wipe out this minister's hair!"

Hu Linyi frowned and pondered for a moment: "I ordered all troops to withdraw from the siege and return north!"

Peng Yulin was anxious: "Brother Xunsheng, this..."

Hu Linyi said slowly: "It's almost dark now, and the enemy's situation is unclear, so it's not advisable to take on the battle. If it's dark, the enemy and we don't know each other, and the fight may be calculated by the thieves. Only by protecting themselves can you control the enemy. Today, killing the thieves is known to be a brave and powerful tactic. We need to make long-term plans. If we are defeated in one battle, there will be even more troops behind us!"

Peng Yulin nodded as if he had some understanding. At that moment, Hu Linyi ordered the army to slowly form a formation and retreat. The soldiers behind the palace were also waiting for the battle, with no flaws exposed, and the Qing army slowly retreated north.

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