"Master Marquis, if this continues, it won't be difficult for us to go to Hailongtun to celebrate the New Year, hahahaha!"

With the last light before dark, looking at the corpses of the rebels scattered all over the battlefield, Liu Wei, who had never annihilated so many enemies in the southwest for half his life, couldn't help but sigh.

In the twenty-fourth year of Wanli, on the second day of the twelfth lunar month, on the second day after the Eighth Route Army came out, Jiangjin Road, which was the main attack direction, achieved a great victory in Songkan, annihilating the 50,000 North Route Army sent by Yang Yinglong in one fell swoop.

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And this is only the "regular army" of the Banshu rebels. If those red and black-footed seedlings are also included, the number of enemies annihilated on this day will be at least another 20,000.

"New Year? That was an estimate before! Now, haha, even if Yang Yinglong really has the one hundred thousand troops he claims, we have wiped out half of his troops in this battle. If he can still survive until the New Year, then our Yulin Guards

Isn’t He Jingying too useless?”

Glancing at the rebel corpses on the battlefield again, Wang Bing shook his head disdainfully.

This time the Battle of Pingbo was different from the one commanded by Li Hualong in the original history. While conquering the city, Wang Bing paid more attention to the elimination of the effective forces of the rebels. After all, you are just a dangerous pass. If you don't have

Enough troops are in vain.

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"Zhang Weiming, Wu Changsheng listened to the order and ordered you two to be responsible for attacking Nanmu and Yangliangdong. Remember it for me. If you dare to act recklessly without caring about the lives of the soldiers like you did two days ago, you will come to see me!"

Speaking of which, when the two attacked Yang Mingdong's headquarters before, the total casualties were only about 200, and the fifth army camp accounted for the majority. But Wang Bing, who had always wanted to fight with zero casualties, naturally gave the two a warning.

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"Hey, I will obey your orders!"

After resting for two days in Songkan in order to clean up the battlefield, Wang Bing issued the march order again. He handed over the attack tasks of Nanmu and Goat Cave to Zhang Weiming and Wu Changsheng, leaving Jiantai Cave to the troops he led.

Chinese Army.

"Cheng Ming, arrange for the civilians to send the wounded and dead brothers back to Jiangjin, and then take them back together while waiting for the class teacher!"

Later, after arranging the arrangements for the wounded and dead soldiers, Wang Bing himself immediately led the Chinese army to Jiantai Cave. But where Yang Chaodong had previously set up camp, a new Beijing Temple was built.

, shocking all the southwestern barbarians.

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"Master Marquis, these caves are in dangerous terrain and are easy to defend but difficult to attack. If you want to break through, I'm afraid the casualties will be huge..."

Seeing the three caves of Nanmu, Goat and Jiantai, which are located in the lofty mountains and take advantage of the terrain, Ma Qiancheng couldn't help but shook his head solemnly.

In his opinion, even his white-armed soldiers who are good at mountain warfare will definitely have to pay a lot of casualties if they want to conquer such a natural danger.

"It's just a few caves! Although it seems easy to defend and difficult to attack, as long as you find the right method, it's actually not that difficult!"

Seeing Ma Qiancheng's solemn look, Wang Bing shook his head easily.

"Oh? I wonder what the Marquis has in mind?"

Seeing Wang Bing's confident look, not only Ma Qiancheng, but also Qin Liangyu and Liu Wei, who were thinking about ways to attack the mountain, couldn't help but look over with curiosity.

You know, after the Songkan Battle in the previous two days, several people had a new understanding of Wang Bing's reluctance to bear the casualties of his soldiers.

Therefore, while considering minimizing the casualties of soldiers, they also had a headache about attacking the mountain.

"There's no clever plan, it's just setting fire to smoke!"

Looking up at the Jiantai Cave hidden among the lofty mountains, Wang Bing couldn't help but smile coldly.

"Master Marquis, if you smoke in this season, if you cause a mountain fire, innocent people may be harmed! If the officials and censors in the imperial court..."

As the saying goes, the weather is dry, and the mountains are covered with dead grass in this winter. If you use smoke at this time, it is not smoking, it is setting fire. Once the mountain fire spreads, burning a Jiantai Cave will not solve the problem.

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"Injury to innocent people? Since Bozhou dares to rebel against the imperial court and massacre our Qijiang City, there will be no innocent people! I only need our army to minimize casualties. As for Yanguan Yushi, how they should be impeached is up to them.

thing!"

Wang Bing remained unmoved by Liu Wei and others' reminders.

"Master Marquis, let the white-pole soldiers do this."

Seeing that Wang Bing was unmoved and insisted on using smoke to attack the mountain, after looking at each other with Ma Qiancheng, Qin Liangyu took the initiative to take over the task of setting off smoke.

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"Oh, women are so soft-hearted! Shuerhaqi, Cao Rong, your brothers who are good at picking guns, follow them and be responsible for covering Mrs. Ma and the others!"

Seeing Qin Liangyu leading the white soldiers to approach the entrance of Jiantai Cave, Wang Bing couldn't help but feel helpless.

It turned out that after accepting the task of setting off cigarettes, the couple did not directly set off cigarettes at the foot of the mountain. While Ma Qian ordered most of the white-pole soldiers to feint attack below, Qin Liangyu personally led more than a hundred people to do their best.

I moved towards the entrance of the cave.

The reason for this is naturally to reduce the area of ​​​​the fire, thereby minimizing the possibility of triggering a wildfire. However, in this way, it naturally puts itself in a very dangerous situation.

After all, from a high position, things like rolling logs and rocks can be very lethal. So in desperation, Wang Bing could only select soldiers with good gun skills from the Yulin Guards and follow them, preparing to use fire guns to cover Qin Liangyu and the others.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Not long after, with the sound of firecrackers echoing in the mountains, the Yulin Guards who came to cover Qin Liangyu and the others opened fire and killed the rebels defending the cave who were throwing rocks down.

"ignition!"

Seeing that he had been discovered by the rebels, Qin Liangyu, who had just reached a few dozen feet below the cave entrance, made a decisive decision and stopped approaching the cave entrance. Under the cover of the Yulin Guards' fire cannons, he directly ordered a fire to be lit.

"Huhuhu..."

Soon, dozens of dry grasses ignited by the white pole soldiers were driven by the mountain wind, and instantly burst into flames of several feet, accompanied by thick smoke that swept towards the cave above.

"Cough cough cough cough..."

In just a few breaths, the violent coughs of a group of rebels came from the Jiantai Cave.

"attack!"

Just as the thick smoke rose, Wang Bing at the foot of the mountain immediately issued an order for a full-scale attack.

"Bah, bah, bah..."

"Boom boom boom boom..."

Soon, the crisp sound of firecrackers and the dull roar of grenade explosions could be heard in the high mountains.

"Ahem, cough, cough...surrender, we, cough...surrender!"

Faced with the attack of smoke and firearms, the rebels hiding in Jiantai Cave did not hold on for two quarters of an hour before they fled out of the cave.

"Hmph, call me back!"

However, facing these rebels who could not stand the smoke and escaped, Wang Bing gave a cold snort and had no intention of surrendering.

"Master Hou, or else..."

After all, women can't compare to men in terms of heart. Seeing the rebels who rushed out of the cave and fell under the guns and grenades of the Yulin Guards, Qin Liangyu couldn't help but want to plead with Wang Bing.

"Unless we, the people of Qijiang, can come back from the dead, it will be useless for me, the King of Heaven, to plead for mercy!"

But this time, before she could finish her words, Wang Bing refused directly and coldly, and did not agree to the heroine's plea.

"Ahem, we don't dare to rebel anymore... ahem, we don't dare to rebel anymore. Please, tomorrow's army, ahem... let us surrender!"

Faced with this situation of hiding but not being able to hide, surrendering but not being accepted, the entire Jiantai Cave suddenly burst into mourning.

However, what makes these rebels desperate is that no matter how they plead, the only answers they receive are scorching bullets and roaring grenades.

"When we massacred the people of Qijiang, did you ever have any sympathy? Now it's too late to be afraid!"

Listening to the wailing coming from the cave, Wang Bing, who had already become hard-hearted, remained unmoved at all.

"Come here, get some firewood and burn it in the cave!"

Finally, Wang Bing, who felt that it was a waste of ammunition, simply asked the Yulin Guards to get a large amount of firewood to block the entrance of the cave, and directly burned the Jiantai Cave as a brick kiln.

As for Nanmu and Goat Cave, which were not far from Jiantai Cave, Zhang Weiming and Wu Changsheng, who had received strict orders from Wang Bing before leaving, also adopted the method of setting fire to the mountains in order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers.

And because Qin Liangyu did not get close enough to set fire, the rebels in these two caves did not even have a chance to beg for mercy when the mountain fire was ignited.

At this point, the three caves of Nanmu, Yangyang and Jiantai, which were regarded as "dangerous places" by the Bozhou Army, were defeated by Wang Bing in a bloodless manner. Only Loushan Pass was left in the entire northern perimeter defense line of Bozhou!

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