Fenghou

At this time, Chen Qing's army was in Heshangyuan. This area has a radius of tens of miles, with many canyons and complex terrain. Territories are not covered.

Chen Qing led [-] cavalrymen to hunt and kill the Jurchen cavalry who retreated to Dasan Pass on the Monk Plain. He had already hunted and killed more than a dozen groups of scattered troops, with more than a thousand people before and after. Without resistance, he was almost instantly swallowed by the Song army, which had an absolute advantage in strength.

At this time, Xiao Zong's army arrived, about [-] cavalrymen. Xiao Zong's troops were also scattered in the fire breakout. People retreated to Dasan Pass, he was eager to report the truth to Wanyan Wushu, lest Wanyan Alupu, that bastard, take the first step and trap himself.

The cavalry passed through a rocky area, and the sound of clappers suddenly sounded in the night. The soldiers of the Song Army on both sides fired arrows like rain, and the Jurchen cavalry galloped one after another. The cavalry came up from behind.

Encountering an ambush and being chased by the enemy from behind, the Jurchen cavalry were flustered and ran desperately into the Shenchagou Canyon in front of them. Only a few hundred people rushed in, and hundreds of giant trees rolled down on the cliffs on both sides and fell down, killing them on the spot There were two to 300 Jurchen cavalry, and the Jurchen cavalry behind were so frightened that they reined in their horses. What awaited them was still the dense arrows behind them. Hundreds of Jurchen cavalry fought back, but to no avail. The soldiers died in wailing and despair.

Xiao Zong rushed into the canyon first, and suddenly there was a loud rumbling sound behind him. When he turned his head, he saw countless giant trees falling from the sky, and the cavalrymen behind were smashed to the point of brains bursting, bloody and bloody, and screams rang out.

The cavalrymen behind him shouted in fright, beat their horses desperately to escape, and rushed to the front of Xiao Cong in an instant, but they only ran a few hundred steps. They shot head-on, and the soldiers running ahead screamed and screamed, and the horses neighed.

Xiao Cong was extremely cunning, he guessed that there must be an ambush ahead, but he didn't show his face, and let his soldiers go up to die, when the arrow disappeared, he shouted, "Follow me!"

He led dozens of soldiers to speed up suddenly, trying to break through the crossbow blockade in front. At this time, the front was full of flames, illuminating the valley like daylight, and more than 1000 Song cavalrymen raised their crossbows at Xiao Zong, Xiao Zong and his men. Startled, he reined in his horse.

The leading general is Liu Cui. Liu Cui sneered and said, "So it's you, the enemy's road is narrow! You shot my father with a poisoned arrow in the West Valley. I didn't expect that you would fall into my hands today. I will return you a thousand arrows in double. !"

Liu Cui let out a loud roar, and more than 1000 crossbow arrows shot at Xiao Zong and his men like a torrential rain. Xiao Zong and his men were shot like hedgehogs, and there was silence after dozens of screams.

At this time, a few Mingdi were shot down from the top of the canyon. This was a warning that the main force of the enemy army was coming from the north.

Liu Cui chopped off Xiao Cong's head with a single knife, and led the soldiers to rush out of the valley, opening a gap, the soldiers rushed out of the valley, Chen Qing shouted: "The whole army retreats to the east!"

The cavalry of the Song army rushed towards the darkness to the east, and the horseshoes sounded like thunder, and soon disappeared into the rugged mountain road.

After about a cup of tea time, the sound of horseshoes sounded like thunder. Not long after, Wanyan Wushu led ten thousand cavalry to kill like a gust of wind.

Naturally, Wanyan Wushu realized that something was wrong when he saw the raging fire. He was so anxious that he immediately led the army to the monk's camp.

Wanyan Wushu had vaguely guessed the truth. Chen Qing's real attack was on the first day of February, not the second day of February. His trick was to bury himself instead.

Bitterness and remorse burned Wanyan Wushu's heart, his face was ashen, he didn't say a word, his eyes gleamed with hatred.

The team ran to the valley and stopped. The first thing they saw were corpses all over the ground. They were all Jurchen soldiers, all shot to death by crossbow arrows. A headless general was found with a badge on his body, but he had just been promoted to be a ten thousand husband. Long Xiao Cong.

Wanyan Wushu thought it was Wanyan Alupu. Although Wanyan Alupu was simple-minded and reckless and impulsive, which made him very displeased, Wanyan Alupu was his brother and the royal family. He was deeply loved by the old wolf lord. His love, if he died, it would be difficult for him to explain.

The dead Xiao Cong was not Wanyan Alupu, Wanyan Wushu heaved a sigh of relief.

Soon, the soldiers found thousands of corpses in the nearby rubble, all Jurchen soldiers.

"Reporting to Marshal Du, there are more than [-] dead in battle, and they were all killed one after another!"

Wanyan Wushu gritted his teeth, damn Chen Qing, I must cut him into pieces with my own hands.

At this moment, a Jurchen cavalry of more than [-] men came, and it was the army led by Wanyan Alupu. He heard that the commander was in front, so he was so frightened that he took off his armor and came to Wanyan Wushu with his upper body bare. plead guilty.

After Wanyan Wushu listened to Wanyan Alupu's cry, he let out a long sigh, "I thought I was smart, but in the end I was mistaken by my cleverness, and I ruined a big event, so I will be killed!"

His heart was in agony, his eyes went dark, and he fell off his horse.

"Your Highness! Commander!" The surrounding generals shouted in fright.

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On the top of Dasan Pass, tens of thousands of soldiers looked at the monstrous fire in the direction of the monk, cheering and shouting excitedly. Wu Jie even embraced tightly with the generals. After several months of anticipation, the fire finally ignited. Woke up.

Wu Jie immediately summoned more than a dozen major generals to discuss urgent matters. In the room, everyone still couldn't restrain their inner joy. The commander Ma Xizhong said excitedly: "Dutong, the enemy's logistics camp is burned, and the morale of the army must be shaken. It's better to go out of the city. Defeat the enemy in one go."

Wu Jie waved his hands and smiled, "The burning of the Jinbing camp really boosted the morale of the army and gave us the hope of victory, but it's not the time yet. The Jinbing must still have the last madness. They couldn't hold on any longer, that was our chance to attack, now we have to cheer up and meet the last madness of the enemy army."

Chapter 171 The Wei River

The fire at Heshangyuan burned for three days and three nights before it was extinguished, and the entire camp was burned to nothingness. This fire burned all kinds of food and grass materials that Wanyan Wushu mobilized 30 people and took a year to prepare. Thousands of Jurchen soldiers died in the flames.

Although Wanyan Wushu transported some of the food and grass to Dasanguan, the food and grass can only last half a month at most.

In desperation, Wanyan Wushu ordered the army to attack the city day and night at all costs, and must win Dashan Pass within ten days.

The monk's original camp was burned, and the wolf lord will inevitably be held accountable. Only by winning the Dasan Pass can the serious consequences of the burning of the latter camp be offset.

But if you can't win the big clearance within ten days, the consequences will be serious.

At the same time, Wanyan Wushu ordered Fengxiang to stay at Wanyan Salihe to find ways to raise a batch of food and grass, and to transport all the military resources in stock to Dasan Pass.

That night, Jin Bing began a full-scale siege.

'Boom!Boom!Boom! The sound of war drums shook heaven and earth, and waves of golden soldiers frantically attacked Dasanguan. A series of siege ladders were erected continuously, filling up with enemy troops, but they were constantly overturned, and countless soldiers fell down screaming.

The dense arrows formed a large net in the air, and the black arrow cloud seemed to cover the sky and the earth.

Thousands of Jinbing's siege ladders and heavy siege equipment were burned to ashes in the camp. In desperation, Jinbing had to temporarily cut down trees to make siege weapons. The simple ladders were barely usable. But the shoddy heavy-duty trebuchets are almost useless, and they break after two or three uses. The key is that they have been fired more than [-] times, and almost half of them smashed boulders into their own soldiers.

Buckets of kerosene were continuously poured down from the top of the city, and the torches were thrown down. The fire raged violently, causing the golden soldiers to scream. .

Wu Jie even ordered to set up a thousand bed crossbows and shoot at the dense enemy troops below the city. The crossbows poured down like rain, and the armor of the golden soldiers was hard to resist.

In just eight days of fierce fighting, both sides suffered heavy casualties, but the casualties of the Jin soldiers who attacked the city were eight times that of the Song army. Get exhausted.

Wanyan Wushu is eager to see through, every day looking forward to the arrival of backup supplies.

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On the Weihe River, on a temporary pontoon bridge, thousands of mule carts were driving towards the south bank. Under Wanyan Wushu's compulsion, Fengxiang Mansion did everything possible to raise a batch of grain and grass, about [-] shi of grain and [-] dan of fodder. The so-called doing everything possible to raise money was actually plundering from the people. This batch of food and grass almost wiped out all the people in Fengxiang Mansion.

Grain, grass and various supplies have been transported to the south bank by more than a dozen large ships, but there is still a distance of seventy or eighty miles from the south bank to Dasan Pass, and they must be carried by carts, but the carts of Fengxiang Mansion have already been transported. After being taken away, Wan Yan Sali, the head of the Wanfu who stayed behind, ordered the Jingzhao Qi Army to collect [-] carts and send them to Fengxiang Mansion within three days.

In the old camp on the south bank, food and supplies piled up like a mountain, and was guarded by [-] cavalry led by Wanfu Chief Semuda, while the chief general Wanyan Salihe led [-] cavalry on the north bank to urge the convoy to cross the river immediately.

Hundreds of carts have come over one after another, and nearly [-] carts are congested and moving slowly on the pontoon bridge.

At this moment, the pontoon bridge near the north suddenly boomed! There was a loud noise, thick smoke rose into the air, and shattered a section of the ten-foot-long pontoon bridge. More than a dozen carts overturned and fell into the water. The Jin soldiers on both sides of the strait were stunned.

Before the gold soldiers on the south bank could react, several violent explosions occurred in succession on the pontoon bridge next to the south bank, which also destroyed the pontoon bridge more than [-] feet long. The mules and donkeys panicked and jostled wildly on the narrow pontoon bridge, causing nearly a hundred carts to fall into the water.

Almost at the same time as the explosion sounded, dozens of small boats came quickly from the upper reaches. The fire inside the small boats was raging, thick smoke billowed, and they hit the pontoon bridge with one end, quickly igniting the pontoon bridge.

The soldiers on the south bank were desperately scooping up water to put out the fire. At this moment, a cavalry force of about 3000 men rushed in from the east, shooting random arrows at the Jin soldiers who were fighting the fire. The Jin soldiers were in chaos. , the head of the Wanfu, Se Muda, shouted anxiously: "It's Song Jun, let's fight! Let me fight!"

More than 2000 Jurchen cavalry hurriedly mounted their horses to fight. They faced the [-] cavalry led by Chen Qing. The stick swept towards Chen Qing, followed by his son, Seti, also holding an equally thick mace.

The mace is actually a long-handled copper hammer with sharp long iron nails. It can be hammered or stabbed. It usually weighs thirty to forty catties. It is the favorite weapon used by Jurchen generals.

Se Muda is also a Jurchen warrior. He and his son Lai Qi are both Jurchen enemies. They once led an army to sweep Hebei, massacring counties and counties. They spoil and kill.

It's a pity that the father and son encountered the demon king Chen Qing today. Chen Qing rode his horse to avoid a sweep, and with a flick of his hand, the halberd blade of Fang Tian's painted halberd precisely chopped off the ear of the enemy's horse. Raising it high, with a loud scream, Seki Tatsu was caught off guard and was thrown off his horse.

"Father beware!"

Seki yelled anxiously, but even if he yelled a hundred times it was useless, a cold flash of the knife flashed, Semutatsu's head was chopped off more than a foot away, and blood spurted out from the neck cavity.

Seeing his father's tragic death, Seti's eyes turned red. With a roar, he raised his mace and threw it at Chen Qing with all his strength, trying to smash Chen Qing and his horse to pieces.

But this stick was empty, but he used too much force, his body almost lost his balance, and if the master made a move, once the flaw was revealed, there would be no more chances.

Se Qi suddenly felt a sharp pain, and only then did he realize that the halberd tip had pierced his neck from the side. His eyes went dark, and his head flew up, rolling together with his father's head.

At this time, the sound of drums was loud, and Zheng Ping led [-] soldiers to attack from the west. The hundreds of Jin soldiers who guarded the supplies and food could not resist, and most of them were killed by the soldiers of the Song Army who rushed to kill. The soldiers fled in panic.

"The Jurchen Tartar!"

Zheng Ping let out a roar, and five thousand soldiers held spears and yelled to kill the Jurchen cavalry from behind.

The main and deputy generals of the Jurchen cavalry were killed together, and the morale of the army was confused. They were already defeated by the Song army, but unexpectedly a new force came from behind, and they attacked back and forth. They could no longer resist and were quickly defeated.

Chen Qing led his army to pursue and killed more than a thousand people. Seeing that hundreds of defeated soldiers had fled far away, he stopped chasing them and ordered: "Burn the grain and grass, and transport the supplies away in carts!"

The soldiers poured kerosene on grain and grass and lit the fire. At this time, the pontoon bridge on the Weihe River was almost burned, and all the carts fell into the water and were swept away by the river.

Chen Qing led the army to take the bodies of the wounded and dead soldiers of the Song Army, together with more than 2000 boxes of various supplies and [-] carts, and quickly evacuated to the southeast...

The sneak attack battle by the Wei River came suddenly and went quickly, and ended in less than an hour. More than [-] Jurchen cavalry were killed, [-] carts were damaged or stolen, and [-] shi of grain and Thirty thousand tons of forage were burned, but its impact was huge, and it became the last straw that overwhelmed the golden soldiers of Dasan Pass.

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Chen Qing's camp is in a valley to the east of Heshangyuan, called Hentian Valley, which describes the high and steep mountains on both sides, as if a god split the valley with an axe.

The bottom of the valley is only one mile wide, but more than ten miles long, and the forest is lush. If Wanyan Wushu knows that Chen Qing's army is hiding in this valley, he only needs to block the valley and set fire to it, and Chen Qing's army will All were buried in the valley.

But if nothing happened, Chen Qing would not give Jin Bing this chance. There were hidden sentries on the cliffs on both sides of the valley entrance. If Jin Bing approached, he would be able to spot him more than ten miles away.

In addition to Chen Qing's cavalry army, there is also Zheng Ping's [-] troops, all of which have been converted into the Song army in an organized manner.

The food was also abundant, thanks to Zheng Ping's army. When they retreated, they opened the sheep and horse pens of the Jin soldiers. 10,000+ fat sheep escaped from the sea of ​​fire, but unfortunately became the army rations of the Song army.

In the valley, the Song army opened the [-] large wooden boxes looted, which contained weapons, heavy shields, iron armor, military crossbows, crossbow bolts and other military supplies. Among them, in the [-] large boxes, Chen Qing found They bought [-] bed crossbows, which were captured by the Jin soldiers in the war. They were transported from Taiyuan, and there were [-] jackdaw iron arrows.

There are also twenty small trebuchets, but they are all parts and need to be assembled.

It's a pity that the kerosene and gunpowder that Chen Qing wanted were not included in this batch of materials. Jin Bing's kerosene and gunpowder were all destroyed by fire in the monk's original camp, and Fengxiang County had no stocks.

Chen Qing's own kerosene had been exhausted in Jiwangpo, leaving only more than [-] barrels of gunpowder.

A marching tent was brightly lit, and Chen Qing called everyone to discuss the next move.

"This time the supplies, food and grass were robbed, Wanyan Wushu should not be able to hold on anymore, and will inevitably withdraw. We'd better block it in the Shenchagou Canyon, and finally force them to flee to the scalper's shop, go to the scalper's shop There will be no more cavalry, and when they come out of the mountains, they will be the prey of our cavalry."

Zheng Ping raised his hand and said: "Commander, I heard that three months ago Wanyan Wushu sent tens of thousands of Xie troops to dig the mountain to clear the road at Huangniupu. It is said that a narrow road has been opened for cavalry."

"Don't worry, even if they can leave, they won't be able to escape many troops. The key point is, Wanyan Wushu has deployed heavy troops in front of Shenchagou Canyon. How should we capture Taniguchi?"

Chapter 172

Chagou Valley of Heshangyuan Shenchagou has always been the valley of death for Jin Bing. This ten-mile-long canyon is the only way Heshangyuan leads to Dasan Pass. Jin Bing killed countless soldiers here.

Not long after Xiao Zong died in this canyon, Wanyan Wushu learned from the pain and set up twelve large villages inside and outside the canyon, with 1 troops stationed to protect the safety of this strategic road.

Although Chen Qing could not get the information of the Jin soldiers at Dashan Pass, he could make a judgment on the situation. After the monk's original camp was burned down, the Jin soldiers attacked Dashan Pass frantically for eight days, and the food and grass were almost exhausted. This time, the food and grass in the Weihe River were completely destroyed by a sneak attack, and there was no hope of backup for the Jin soldiers. It would take two days for Wanyan Wushu to withdraw his troops.

As night fell, Chen Qing led the army to the Shenchagou valley, where three military camps were built. The largest military camp was shaped like a crescent moon, with tall camp fences enclosing the valley entrance and both sides of the valley.

In front of the crescent-shaped tent, there are two smaller camp fences, the whole shape looks like a crossbow.

There are jagged rocks on both sides of the barracks, making it difficult for an army to attack. Only the front is a flat passage with a width of about five feet and a length of several miles.

Chen Qing's army appeared just [-] steps away from the passage, and the golden soldiers in the three military villages were extremely nervous, and they all raised their bows and arrows, ready to fight.

In fact, the Jinbing Army Village was established to deal with Chen Qing's army, and Wanyan Wushu was very worried that Chen Qing's army would block the exit of the valley.

"Heavy shield army attack! Divine arm crossbow army cover!"

Chen Qing shouted, and five hundred soldiers in tall clothes, armed with heavy shields and short spears, advanced step by step under the leadership of general Niu Gao.

Behind them, there are 350 god-arm crossbowmen. They played a great role in the battle of guarding the Silent Hope Camp. For a long time, they were used as cavalry. arm crossbow.

"Ready, shoot!"

Commander Wang Duo shouted, and 350 god-arm crossbows were fired at the same time, and the dense crossbow arrows crossed the night sky in a parabola, shooting towards the camp fence [-] steps away.

The crossbowmen are all professionally trained. One of their greatest skills is to judge the distance by looking at the mountain, and then adjust the angle of the shot from the back. If it is a flat shot, the range of the god arm crossbow can reach [-] steps.

Arrows shot into the tall barracks, causing a slight commotion. The night sky was clear and the moon was bright and clear. Under the silvery moonlight, everyone could see clearly. At least thirty Jurchen soldiers were shot and fell down.

A Jurchen centurion was furious, brandishing a knife and shouting: "Shoot!"

Two hundred Jurchen soldiers in the barracks fired crossbow arrows at the same time, but their targets were the soldiers of the heavy shield army who were approaching step by step. The arrows were nailed to the shield, but they couldn't penetrate the special copper shield.

This kind of copper shield is rectangular and up to three feet high. It was made by Han craftsmen in the Liao Kingdom. Cover it with a layer of cooked cowhide, and then use copper to make various animal-shaped patterns on the shield surface. It is extremely strong. Except for the bed crossbow, any other crossbow can resist it, but the giant shield is not very heavy, only a dozen catties .

The Heavy Shield Army was one of the imperial guards of the Liao Kingdom. After being annihilated by the Jurchen cavalry, their shields became trophies. The river was captured by Chen Qing's army, allowing Chen Qing to temporarily form a heavy shield army.

Chen Qing rode on the horse, paying attention to the movement of the enemy barracks. He found that there was a sentry tower on the left and right ends of the barracks, and there were sentries on them to monitor the movements on both sides.

Chen Qing immediately ordered: "Bring me some well-stringed crossbows!"

The soldiers immediately fetched five well-stringed god-arm crossbows, Chen Qing took a crossbow, raised the crossbow and aimed it at the sentinel, 'click! The sound of the crossbow machine sounded, and a crossbow arrow shot at the sentry on the left like lightning. The sentry was headshot by an arrow and fell from the sentry tower.

The sentry was killed, and was immediately discovered by the centurion commanding the army. He ordered: "Go up another sentry!"

Chen Qing took over the second divine arm crossbow, but this time he aimed at the centurion, and shot the arrow out. The Jurchen centurion was caught off guard, screamed and fell on his back, and was shot through the head by an arrow.

Chen Qing then shot the third and fourth arrows, killing the two sentries on the sentry tower.

Of course, there was a reason for Chen Qing to kill the sentries on both sides. Behind the jagged rocks on both sides, there were several soldiers of the Song Army hidden on each side. , almost everyone's attention was focused on the Heavy Shield Army.

In fact, the heavy shield army is just a cover to attract the attention of the enemy, and the real breakthrough weapons of the Song army are deployed on both sides.

The two soldiers in the east approached the enemy's camp step by step, and they were only about twenty steps away from the barracks, which was almost the same distance.

Two soldiers took off the two gunpowder barrels on their backs. Each powder barrel weighed five catties and had a fuse on it. More than enough, especially the thousands of poisonous nails mixed inside have great lethality against dense enemy troops.

The soldier lit the fuse behind a boulder and handed it to another tall soldier with strong arms.