On May 17th, the 51st year of Kangxi, even the cicadas in Kaihua Prefecture fainted from the heat.
Ever since Yang Mubo had seized the three prefectures, he had been training his troops at the river and had not moved.
But even so, the Qing army in these three prefectures were suppressed by Yang Mubo's men in their respective capitals, unable to send out carrier pigeons or any living creatures.
At this point, everyone knew that Yang Mubo was rebelling, but what could these Qing court officials do? Groups of scouts were sent out, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea, without any vitality.
The guards of the three prefectures in southeast Yunnan had already accepted their fate. Only at night would they strengthen the patrols on the city walls.
Even the nearby Ensi Prefecture, Lin 'an Prefecture, and Ping' an Prefecture had sensed that something was wrong with the three prefectures in southeast Yunnan, so they all stepped up their patrols.
Zhennan Pass was an important checkpoint that prevented Jiaozhi from going north to the Central Plains.
Zhennan Pass was located in the middle of the mountain range. After walking a few dozen miles, they would reach the Rising Dragon Mansion. In his previous life, Fa Jun used this place as a breakthrough point when he went north, but he was defeated by Feng Zicai.
It was still the early 18th century, and the Qing court was at the height of its power. It boasted that it was in the Heavenly Kingdom, and the situation in the Central South was extremely chaotic.
There were only five or six countries, but they had split into more than a dozen forces, especially the dispute between Jiaozhi and Zheng. Although there were many soldiers in Zhennan Pass, most of them were veterans who had been left behind after the San Fan Dynasty was pacified twenty to thirty years ago.
When one was old, their vigilance would be relaxed. It was the same for the Southern Mountain's City's defenders.
Of the three thousand people guarding the Southern Mountain's City, most of them were empty, half of them were old, weak, sick, and disabled, and only a few hundred of them could fight.
The night was hot and unbearable, making people sleepy.
When the moon was high up in the sky, more than ten people in night clothes appeared in the grass not far from the city gate.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, the leader said in a low voice,"This is the second time our Jinyiwei has personally entered the battlefield since we fought against the Japanese and aided Korea. We must do a good job. After we open the city gate, we must guard it!”
"..." There was no sound. The Brocade Guards nodded when they heard the order. The leader saw it and immediately gave the order to move.
Since the Southern Mountain's City was a pass, there must be only two places that needed to be defended. As a border pass, its role was naturally external and not internal. Therefore, there were only a few dozen people on the inner wall.
Dozens of people were guarding the pass that was nearly a hundred meters long, and they were divided into two groups. It could be said that they were extremely weak.
When the Jinyiwei wearing night clothes blew out the torches in the dark, this group of malnourished Qing soldiers with night blindness immediately went blind.
"Goudan! Light the torches!"
Seeing that the torch had been blown out, the city wall guards didn't even take a second look before calling for someone to reignite the torch.
At this time, the Qing army at the city gate had already been taken care of by the Jinyiwei. Because they were wearing cotton clothes and did not even have leather armor, the Jinyiwei this time at least had lock inner armor, so it was easy to take care of them.
"Open the door!" Looking at the four Qing corpses lying on the ground, the leading Embroidered Uniform Guards general flag officer called his brothers at the city gate and lifted the gate bolt.
Squeak...
When the rotten door was opened, the general who was slacking off at the corner tower of the city wall a second ago was now splattered with blood. Beside him stood a Jinyiwei who was wiping his knife.
"You think you can do anything with your vigilance? Green soldiers are worse than farmers!" After spitting at the dead general, the Jinyiwei lifted a fierce oil can in the corner of the turret.
He carried the oil can to the female wall of the city wall and poured the oil down the city wall. He also picked up a torch and threw it at the place where the oil fell.
For a moment, the city wall was lit up with flames. Although it was not big, it was very conspicuous at night, and the Green Army soldiers in the city did not notice it.
"That's enough!"
Three miles away, when Li Dao, who was holding the Clairvoyant, saw the fire below the Southern Mountain's City, he immediately signaled the army behind him to prepare to enter the city.
In an instant, more than 5,000 cavalrymen appeared in the dark forest behind him. These cavalrymen patted their sleeping warhorses, then stepped on the stirrups with one foot. After they mounted their horses, they immediately rushed towards the Southern Mountain's City, which was three li away, under the lead of the 3,000 battalions and thousand-households.
For cavalry, a distance of three miles was only a quarter of an hour. After a quarter of an hour, the Embroidered Uniform Guards guarding the city gate immediately saw the torrent of cavalry galloping over.
"Release the signal!" The chief flag officer called for his brothers to leave the city gate to avoid being trampled by the warhorses of his allies while he ordered his subordinates to set off fireworks.
When the Brocade Guard guarding the open area heard their boss's words, they immediately lit up the fireworks in their hands.
Whoosh…Bang!
With the ear-piercing sound of an arrow, ordinary fireworks immediately appeared in the dark sky.
At the same time, more than 30 Embroidered Uniform Guards guarding the city immediately lit up the fire and turned the Southern Mountain's City of Zhennan into a city of fire!
"Enemy attack!"
Only then did the Qing army at the outer pass realize that the inner pass had failed. They crazily struck the copper gong on the outer pass's wall. The entire Southern Mountain's Zhennan Pass immediately became lively. Some were wearing clothes, and some were holding knives.
The Qing soldiers in the outer pass also retreated from the city walls and rushed towards the inner city. However, they were faced with a flood of five thousand cavalry charging through the flames!
Or…this was a one-sided massacre…
Outside the city, Zhu Bomu rode on a high mountain and looked down at the Southern Mountain's City that was burning with flames. There was no expression of sympathy on his face, even if he heard the cries of women and children for help.
Because this was the first step of his arm wrestling with Kang Yongqian!
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