The sound of desolate horns sounded, and the Qing soldiers at Lengshui Pass felt their weapons. Even the soldiers knew that the Ming army would not give them too much rest time.

Sun Shouting erected a spear and supervised the battle himself. Arrows were raining down the pass, and he would be shot if he was not careful. But he had no other way. Wu Sangui was the head of the Liaodong Army. Even for his family, he did not dare to disobey any of Wu Sangui's orders. The hard battles of nearly a hundred years have different from all other places. This place has its own system and its own rules.

Hou Xuanyan closed his eyes and waited silently. Xia Wanchun stood on the high ground beside him, staring at Lengshuiguan motionlessly.

This place is not a heroic pass, and the simple city walls cannot withstand a few shells at all. However, the Shu Road is rugged and there are steep cliffs on both sides. If the artillery fire breaks the Lengshui Pass, it will become a more difficult barrier to break.

Sun Shouting always felt something was wrong. The attacks of these Ming troops were no longer as fierce as they were at the beginning. He had fought with these people. Although they were not many times, their bravery had left a deep impression on Sun Shouting. And slowly, the attack of the Ming army at the pass gradually slowed down.

Although I guessed it out of my mind and couldn't think of why, at least I was relieved to keep the gate.

Finally, a group of ghostly warriors came down from the cliff wall behind Lengshui Pass one after another. The Qing soldiers in the pass changed their defenses to rest, and their weapons were thrown to the ground, and they were gasping for rest. These strange soldiers from the sky quickly caused panic, and many people were still in horror and their heads were cut off by the hook and sickle.

Peng Zhuze stopped the massacre of his men and ordered loudly: "Don't kill, rush to the bottom of the gate and open the door, which is considered a top priority."

The local soldiers were excited and rushed towards the closing door with howlings. The Qing soldiers finally realized that this was not a group of mountain ghosts, but the Ming army outside the pass.

The Qing soldiers fought back, but they were either disabled or tired, with combat power less than one-tenth of their usual ones. They could not resist the local soldiers who formed a formation and advanced forward.

Beside Sun Shouting, a soldier ran over in a panic and shouted: "General, a large number of Ming troops appear behind us, killing people."

He shouted in a crying voice, which was too loud, and all the soldiers around Sun Shouting heard it. Slowly, panic spread throughout the mountain pass. Sun Shouting didn't care about reprimanding the soldiers, turned around and took the people down, asking as he walked, "How many of them are there?"

The soldier cried, "It's too dark to see, and I can't count those who jumped off the cliff."

Sun Shouting obviously stopped, and everyone around him knew that the situation was over.

Lengshui Pass was dangerous, but there was only one principle of going up to the gate. It was impossible to continue on a large scale in a hurry. Peng Zhuze and his two thousand local soldiers quickly rushed to the mountain gate. The first local soldiers looked happy and drew their swords to slash the door. Their head skills were right in front of them. The Qing soldiers trembling on the ground behind them bent their bows and arrows, and the cold arrow suddenly shot, hitting his shoulder, and the soldier fell to the ground with a wail.

His companions were unmoved and stabbed the Qing soldiers guarding the gate to death. The Ming army, who were fighting bloody outside, suddenly found that the gate was open and was overjoyed.

At dawn, Hou Xuanyan finally crossed the cold water barrier and left nearly 10,000 corpses.

The Qing soldiers guarding the pass were also wiped out. The soldiers in Jingxiang and Liaodong retreated without fighting, and from Xia Wanchun to the soldiers below, they looked down on them a little. But this time, Sun Shouting led the Qing soldiers to fight to the last moment. Even though the door was closed and opened, they had no way to survive, so they still gathered together to fight to the death and not surrender.

Xia Wanchun looked solemnly, looked at the body of Sun Shouting under her feet, and said, "This Qing general has some backbone."

Hou Xuanyan was full of disgust and spat on Sun Shouting's body, cursing: "Have you backbone? How can you be a traitor? This thief is very slave, and has caused so many brothers to die. Write down his name for me. One day, he will fight to Liaodong and kill him all over the family."

Xia Wanchun turned red and asked, "Master General, after passing the village and town in front, it is Ba County."

Ba County was originally a big city covering the hinterland of Chongqing. During the Chenghua period, it demarcated the territory west of Jinyun Mountain and rebuilt Bishan County. However, it still includes Jiangbei, Yubei, Beibei, and part of Bishan. Taking Ba County means taking Chongqing Prefecture.

It can be foreseeable that the Qing soldiers who were alone and deeply in the deep will not dare to stand stalemate with them, and the decisive battle should be in Ba County.

Hou Xuanyan nodded and said, "We will go to Mudong Town in front, take a break, and cultivate our energy. We will head to Ba County tomorrow."

The more he walked forward, the more heavier the Ming army became. These fighting men, who had been through battle formations, couldn't help but have red eyes when they looked at the tragic image of the villages on the roadside.

A few steps along the way there was a shelf with heads hanging on it. The roadside was full of untidy female corpses, and many female corpses, holding babies in their arms, and all the clothes on their lower bodies were torn to pieces, making people know what she had experienced during her lifetime at a glance.

Since ancient times, the people of Sichuan were strong in nature, so whenever there was a change of dynasty, Bashu was often slaughtered. It was because the resistance here was too fierce that it often angered the powerful conquerors. In history, Chen Tiaoyuan, the clerk of the Qing Dynasty's criminal department, told the Qing court that the Qing army generals who entered Sichuan killed innocent people, either massacre the city or kill all the men. His memorial was passed to Beijing, like a rock sinking into the sea, because the order to slaughter men and keep women was from Dorgon and Xiaozhuang.

But strangely, even if nine out of ten families killed in Shu were empty, a group of people moved from other provinces to come. After decades, these people would become authentic Sichuan people.

What's even more strange is that every time a national crisis occurs, the Sichuan soldiers will never unite while killing the enemy. The warlords in Shu fight on their own, and even when fighting with Wu Sangui, they fight with each other endlessly. This time, it is for Chengdu, allowing the Qing soldiers to take advantage of the situation.

It was because Hou Xuanyan was used to seeing the evil deeds of the Qing soldiers, but he still couldn't stand the tragic image along the way. Looking at the viciousness of the city massacre, no time can compare to this time.

The Ming army spontaneously covered up the body, stopped and stopped along the way, and arrived at Mudong Town.

In front of the town gate, a corpse was stuck to the city gate. When he approached, he saw a middle-aged man's body, with a wooden nail as thick as a finger on his palm and calves, nailed it to the city gate. On the top of his head, his hair was hanging down, and a official seal was tied to his half-white hair.

Xia Wanchun gritted his teeth and whispered: "The commander-in-chief is the county magistrate here."

Hou Xuanyan took off the official seal, straightened his hair, and coiled it up to take his headscarf to make it for him.

Only then did Xia Wanchun understand why the commander-in-chief was so disgusted with Lengshui Pass. Thinking that he had admired him a little just now, he couldn't help but regret it.

Some hatreds can only be used for blood; some hatreds can only be used for tooth.
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