There is no such thing as the Kangxi and Qianlong eras

Chapter 137: Going around and stealing the house
Chenlong Pass was indeed difficult to attack, as it was built on a valley, with a total length of tens of meters. It was also extremely narrow and winding, making it almost impossible to cross from the outside, and even using artillery to attack was difficult.

If you control Chenlongguan, you will control the southwest. This is not entirely bragging.

Chenlong Pass is so steep and difficult to attack that during the Three Feudatories period, hundreds of thousands of Qing troops fought for two or three years but still failed to take it. It is certainly not a false reputation.

However, Chenlong Pass also has a fatal weakness. It is easy to defend from the outside and difficult to attack, but if the enemy attacks from the inside, it will be doomed.

Wu's army defended Chenlong Pass to the death, which was not a big problem. However, Wu's army imposed heavy taxes and levies inside the pass, causing the people inside the pass to be resentful. Then a villager named Xiang Mengxiong could not stand it anymore, so he went out of the pass to guide the Qing army.

"Captain Wu, if we make another detour ahead, we'll be able to pass through Chenlong Pass."

Liu Zhihong walked along the rugged mountain road, pointed down the mountain and said.

This Ma'an scholar Liu Zhihong was indeed a ruthless man. He first led the villagers to kill the landlords and rebel, and then defected to the Han army. Not only did he draw maps for the Han army, he also came here in person to act as a guide.

Liu Zhihong, leading the Han army sent by Bai Nan for a surprise attack, had been wandering in the mountains for several days.

The paths along the way are all small, and the narrowest part can only accommodate one person.

No wonder this mountain road has never been discovered by the Qing army. Even if this broken road was discovered, the Qing army probably would not dare to take it. Without a local guide, they would easily get lost and trapped, and would not be able to find their way.

The Han army spent half a day and went around a mountain before finally seeing the official road.

"Oh my god! We've been walking in the mountains for several days and finally we see the main road." The team leader, Mr. Wu, said with a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth.

Liu Zhihong nodded: "Yes, this is the Jieting Post Road behind Chenlong Pass. Going north from here, you can enter Chenlong Pass, and going south will connect to Jieting, which is also the food and fodder logistics storage area of ​​Chenlong Pass."

"Tsk," Wu Bazong felt a little bit of a toothache. He was standing in front of their army of tens of thousands. Seeing that the mountain city pass was so difficult to attack, they just bypassed it in just a few days. "Then quickly charge over and take down Chenlong Pass!"

Now that we're here, of course we'll immediately join forces inside and outside to force our way through.

Liu Zhihong quickly stopped him and said, "Captain Wu, we only have about a hundred of us here. No matter how elite the Han soldiers are, they will be unable to withstand the thousands of Qing troops at Chenlong Pass. In other words, the Qing army at Chenlong Pass is strong, so the boundary pavilion behind it must be empty. If we can surprise attack and capture the boundary pavilion and cut off their food and logistics, the Qing army in Guanzhong will surely collapse without a fight."

"Jie Ting...Oh, I know this. In the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang executed Ma Su with tears!" said Wu Bazong, slapping his forehead.

Liu Zhihong was a little embarrassed: "Captain Wu, this Jieting is not that Jieting. Jieting is in Longyou, which is Shaanxi and Gansu. It is very far away from us."

Captain Wu didn't care and grinned, "Haha, when Commander Bai told me to come out, I told you to listen to what you, a scholar, have to say. You're a local here, and you're leading the people in the village to kill the landlords and rebel. You're a good guy. Wherever you say it's easy to fight, that's where we'll fight."

In this way, Liu Zhihong led more than one hundred Han soldiers, took a small path without being noticed, and arrived at the rear of Chenlong Pass.

There is only a long post road from Jieting to Chenlong Pass, which theoretically should be heavily guarded.

But the reality was that the Qing army was short of manpower, and the commander Yang Fang lacked battlefield experience. He had never fought a city defense battle and was not familiar with the local situation. He thought that Chenlong Pass was dangerous and that they could just defend the pass.

Who would have thought that there is such a long official road behind?
The few Qing army captains and captains that can be thought of have been marginalized by Yang Fang, and they also do not think that the Han army can fly behind them all of a sudden.

After all, they needed local villagers to lead the way. The last people to take such a detour were the Qing army, and it has been almost a hundred years since then. How could there be any records left? If there were any records, they would be about the Qing Dynasty being invincible and forcibly breaking through Chenlong Pass and destroying the pseudo-Zhou rebellious Wu army.

Jieting Posthouse is located on Chenlong Pass, so the two places are very close, only a few miles away.

There were more than a hundred Han soldiers, and they only brought a few days' worth of dry food. As they were almost out of food, they had to travel light and march forward quickly.

In less than half an hour, the Han soldiers arrived at Jieting Posthouse.

There were also Qing soldiers left behind in Jieting Post, but their number was small, only about 200 people, led by a captain.

Two hundred Qing Green Camp troops were more than enough to deal with ordinary local people.

"Master Captain, something bad has happened!"

"Snapped!"

The Qing army captain who was resting slapped him and said, "What's wrong? Isn't your captain fine?"

"No, no, it's not good outside. It's not good outside. There are so many soldiers coming outside." The Qing soldier who reported the news was terrified.

The general stood up and said, "The higher-ups are asking for grain again? What the hell, they come asking for grain every day! If I were a commoner, I would rebel too!"

The Qing soldier shook his head: "It wasn't our superiors, it was a group of soldiers in red clothes. They called themselves the Han Army and told us to surrender immediately."

"Han Army, the Han Army is... what? The Han Army is coming?"

The Qing army commander stationed at Jieting Post finally reacted.

Unfortunately, it was too late. Just as he was about to go out to see what was going on, he suddenly heard bursts of shouting and screaming outside, along with the cries of fleeing soldiers.

"Run!"

"The rebels are coming!" Well, there is no need to confirm it now. The Han soldiers have indeed come, and his brothers have been killed.

Well then, just run, the wind is strong!

The general reacted quickly. He shook off his personal guards, rode his only BMW, and fled without taking any of his belongings.

Without the commander-in-chief, the Qing army was defeated in an instant. More than 200 Qing soldiers were killed by more than 100 Han soldiers.

The Han army captured Jieting Post without any effort. More than 30 Qing soldiers stationed there were killed, while the Han soldiers suffered almost no casualties. One of the vanguards was too hasty in his pursuit and accidentally fell.

The Qing soldiers captured more than one hundred people, and more than twenty other Qing soldiers fled separately. The Han soldiers really couldn't spare any manpower and did not pursue them.

After dealing with the Qing army at Jieting Post, the Han soldiers immediately took over the Jieting warehouse, counted the money and grain reserves inside, and opened the warehouse to release the grain.

"Fellow villagers, we are the Han army outside the Great Wall. We have driven away the Qing dogs. The food and valuables they have looted are now piled up here. If anyone's house has been robbed, please come and claim them. Don't be afraid!"

This was Liu Zhihong's idea. The common people had low combat effectiveness and were of little use, but they could also be won over and asked to assist the Han soldiers in defending the boundary pavilion. They could even tip off the Qing army behind enemy lines when they arrived.

Jieting Post was captured by the Han army, and the Han army released a few prisoners and returned to Chenlong Pass to report the news.

The Qing army at Chenlong Pass had no way to retreat. Once they lost their composure, the tens of thousands of Han troops outside the pass would be able to break through the pass in one fell swoop and catch them in the trap.

When the Han soldiers first shouted, no one dared to come forward to get the food. It was not until the Han soldiers grabbed an old farmer and forced him to give them several pounds of food that the people who were called to watch suddenly realized that what the Han soldiers said was true and rushed forward to grab the food.

Some people received more, some received less, and disputes soon arose, with several families even fighting on the spot.

The Han soldiers did not just stand by and watch. When they saw a fight, they immediately drew their swords and rushed forward to maintain order.

A landlord stood on the outskirts, watching the Han soldiers lead the people to collect food and stop the people from fighting. He couldn't help but lament: "In this world, the soldiers steal the food, the rebels release the food, the soldiers kill people, and the rebels keep people alive... Hahaha!"

No matter whether the landlord was crying or laughing, it didn't matter. After only one day of distributing grain, the number of more than 100 Han soldiers quickly expanded to more than 300. All of them wanted to follow the Han soldiers to join the army to fight against the Qing Dynasty after receiving the grain.

They had no choice but to fight against the Qing Dynasty, otherwise they could not survive.

The Qing army had wreaked havoc on this region, leaving many people living worse than beggars and leaving large tracts of land uncultivated. The food they had brought back was useless; as long as the Qing army remained, they couldn't grow crops and were subjected to heavy taxes and levies every day.

If you can't pay the grain, then you have to work as a laborer.

If they starve to death, they starve to death. Why bother about them being soldiers?

Don't think that local soldiers are necessarily better than foreign troops. They are all birds of a feather.

When the rebels seized Jieting Post, they opened their granaries and distributed grain to appease the people. The news spread quickly, and many landlords from surrounding villages came forward to donate grain, asking for nothing more than to drive the rebels away quickly.

That’s right, they begged the rebels to drive away the officers and soldiers. If the officers and soldiers didn’t leave, they would all be sent away.

"Sir, the Jieting Posthouse is gone!"

"what?"

Yang Fang forced himself to get up and asked hurriedly, "Isn't Jietingyi behind us? I even left you a full complement of troops. How did you lose them? Could it be that the landlords in Jietingyi rebelled?"

The Qing soldier who reported back said, "No, it was Han soldiers... No, it was the rebels. The rebels raided Jieting Post, and the captain escaped. We couldn't stop them."

Yang Fang was stunned: "???"

Not only was he stunned, but the other captains and lieutenants were also stunned.

They thought that the Qing soldiers below were levying heavy taxes and extorting money, forcing the landlords and people of Jieting Station to rebel, but it turned out that it was the Han army that captured Jieting Station.

This is no less than someone telling them that they were still defending the third lane high ground, but a teammate came up behind them and said that the crystal at home was about to be stolen.

No, can this Han army fly or something?
The Yang Qian general from before asked, "Captain Yang, what should we do now? Jieting is behind Chenlong Pass. Without Jieting, even without the Han army, we can't hold on. Moreover, the Han army has now occupied Jieting. If we are not careful, we will be attacked from both sides."

Yang Fang dragged his injured arm, his complexion was very bad. Because the arrow was too deep in the flesh, the doctor at Chenlongguan was not skilled enough to remove the arrowhead, which had already festered.

Yang Fang shook his head and said, "General Yang Qian, you lead 500 elite soldiers to support Jieting."

"Only five hundred?" General Yang Qian was stunned.

Yang Fang said in a deep voice, "Jie Ting Posthouse isn't big, but it's strategically important. I've also seen the Han army's formation outside, and it hasn't changed much. No matter how the Han army bypassed them, their forces won't be too numerous, perhaps only one or two hundred. Five hundred elite soldiers are more than enough. This is a military order!"

“…As you command!”

(End of this chapter)