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The soldier held the gunpowder barrel with his big hand, and when the fuse burned to the hole, he jumped out and threw it vigorously. The gunpowder barrel was thrown more than twenty steps away, and fell into the crowd behind the barracks,'Boom ! With a loud explosion, more than a dozen soldiers were blown into the air, a barracks in front of them was blown to pieces, and a puff of smoke rose.

Immediately afterwards, a gunpowder keg was also thrown from the west, and it also fell on the crowd in the west. The flames flashed, there were screams, and thick smoke filled the air.

The Jurchen soldiers were still in ignorance, and the second gunpowder barrels on the east and west sides were thrown out at the same time. There was a second explosion on the east and west sides, blood and flesh flew everywhere, the barracks flew into the sky, thick smoke billowed, wailing and screaming one slice.

Chen Qing immediately waved his sword, "The cavalry attack!"

The cavalry is the main force of the attack.

A thousand cavalry suddenly mobilized, and Chen Qing took the lead, leading the cavalry to charge towards the military stronghold three hundred paces away.

The gunpowder smoke dissipated, and the ten-foot-wide barracks were blown down. Nearly a hundred soldiers lay on the ground and howled, and a large group of soldiers behind them was rushing towards the gate of the barracks.

Although the Jurchens were stationed in the army village, there were no cavalry, only infantry. The Jurchen soldiers raised their crossbows and the cavalry raised their shields to resist, but there were still cavalrymen who were constantly shot by the arrows and rolled on the ground with their horses.

Chen Qing dialed the arrows, rushed into the enemy army first, and waved Fang Tian's painted halberd. In an instant, blood burst out, limbs flew horizontally, and screams and screams suddenly burst out.

Wherever Chen Qing passed, corpses were strewn all over the ground, and he was invincible. He turned his horse's head and charged into the hands of the most densely populated crossbow.

A thousand Song Army cavalry rushed into the first military stronghold, and the main army behind rushed up with shouts.

The Jurchen soldiers in the army village couldn't resist, and rushed to the next army village. Liu Cui led a cavalry to cut off their retreat, Chen Qing shouted: "Let them retreat!"

Liu Cui quickly stopped the cavalry, and hundreds of Jurchen soldiers rushed towards a military stronghold behind like a tide.

Chen Qing waved his halberd and ordered Liu Cui, "Follow them!"

Liu Cui suddenly realized, and shouted: "Brothers, follow me!"

He chased after the Jurchen soldiers with hundreds of cavalry, and these hundreds of Jurchen soldiers became the meat shields of the Song army...

In history, there are many situations where more than a dozen villages were seized overnight. This is actually a domino effect. The first military village is the key. If the first military village is lost, a large number of defenders flee to the second military village. The army followed behind, and while countless defeated soldiers fled into the army stronghold, the enemy army also followed.

The second military stronghold fell like this, and hundreds of Jurchen soldiers fled back to the second military stronghold. In the darkness, Liu Cui led hundreds of cavalrymen and followed them into the military stronghold.

In just over half an hour, Chen Qing's army captured two villages in a row, and reached the valley, where the crescent-shaped third village appeared in front of them.

Chapter 173 Broken Circuit

The main general of the Crescent Moon Camp is Wanyan Wushu's eldest son, Wanyan Bodie, who is the commander of a thousand commanders and leads [-] Jurchen soldiers to guard the mouth of the canyon.

Wanyan Bodie was as ruthless as his father, in the dark he saw countless Jurchen soldiers running, and he ordered without hesitation: "Shoot arrows!"

Thousands of arrows were fired at once, and the powerful arrows shot at the Jurchen soldiers who were fleeing in a hurry, and one by one the Jurchen soldiers were shot down, and after several rounds of arrows, more than half of the Jurchen soldiers were shot down.

The Jurchen soldiers who were fleeing were blocked by arrows in front of them, followed by the fierce Song army chasing after them. They were desperate and fled to the rock piles on both sides, but the fate that greeted them was still the merciless killing of Song army soldiers.

The attack on the third army camp was unsuccessful, so Chen Qing ordered the army to stop the pursuit.

As the chief general, Chen Qing, it is his style to make decisions before making moves. The scouts have already investigated the twelve military strongholds established by Wanyan Wushu very clearly. At least for capturing the first three military strongholds, Chen Qing has prepared several plan.

"Heavy shield army attack!"

The 50 heavy shield troops lined up to attack again. They lined up in ten rows with [-] people in a row. Each soldier held a heavy shield and short spear in his hand, lined up the shields in a row, and advanced step by step.

Arrows came like raindrops, but they couldn't penetrate the heavy shield, nor could they stop the soldiers with the heavy shield from advancing.

The team stopped suddenly when they were a hundred steps away from the army stronghold. Two small catapults appeared in the middle of the team. Wanyan Bodie could see it clearly. machine!"

A thousand crossbow arrows shot at the two catapults at the same time, but the two catapults were already protected by thick heavy shields.

The two trebuchets were assembled in the afternoon, and the Song army didn't have enough time. Only two of the twenty trebuchets were assembled, but two were enough.

This small trebuchet only needs four people to operate, and it can throw objects weighing five to ten catties a hundred steps away.

The soldiers quickly loaded the gunpowder barrel, and one soldier lit the fuse, and when it burned to the end, he shouted, "Withdraw the shield!"

Shields out of the way, powder kegs 'Boom! When it was thrown out, the two gunpowder barrels drew two arcs and fell into the battalion fence. It exploded violently, the flames shot out, and the thick smoke filled the air. The tall camp fence was blown into several sections. Dozens of soldiers Was killed and wounded.

Wanyan Bodie was about twenty steps away from the explosion, so he was not directly impacted, but he was still hit in the face by a poisonous nail, and blood flowed down immediately.

"Commander, this iron nail is poisonous!"

Several generals shouted, "Send the commander away!"

Just kidding, Wanyan Bodie is the eldest son of the fourth prince, if he has three ups and downs, then everyone will die.

Everyone rushed to help Wanyan Bodie onto the horse and ran into the valley. Wanyan Bodie also felt his face start to go numb, knowing that the poison had begun to attack, he was a little frightened. He heard his uncle Wanyan Lu Pu said that this poisonous nail is insidious and vicious, and many Jurchen soldiers died on this poisonous nail.

At this time, the second round of trebuchets shot out, one gunpowder barrel exploded, and the other gunpowder barrel hit the hard rock wall. The wooden barrel shattered, and the gunpowder just ignited, but did not produce an explosion effect.

The gunpowder barrels of the Song army are very strong and strong, and they will not break when they are dropped on ordinary muddy ground, unless they fall on boulders, or hit directly on rock walls as they are doing now.

After five consecutive rounds of shooting, most of the barracks were blown up, but the Jurchen soldiers refused to retreat. Seeing that the archery was ineffective, they simply stopped shooting.

"Put the crossbow on the bed!" Chen Qing ordered coldly.

Five hundred bed crossbows were pushed up by the soldiers, and the heavy shield troops and catapults were withdrawn. Wang Duo shouted, "Shoot!"

The first row of one hundred bed crossbows was fired at the same time, and five hundred jackdaw arrows shot at the Jurchen soldiers like a rainstorm. The Jurchen soldiers raised their shields to meet them, but they didn't know that this was the most powerful bed crossbow in the world. External shooting is invincible, and shields can't resist it at all.

The extremely powerful five hundred jackdaw arrows instantly pierced the shields of the Jurchen soldiers, their bodies, and even the soldiers behind them.

The screams resounded through the army camp, and a large number of soldiers fell down, and then the second row of bed crossbows were pushed up and fired again...

When the Song army fired the fourth round of jackdaw arrows, the Jin soldiers collapsed completely. The thousands and centurions were all shot and killed, and the remaining hundreds of soldiers fled into the valley desperately.

The Song army successfully occupied the mouth of the Shencha Valley.

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Chen Qing and the soldiers knew exactly what they were going to face next. Tens of thousands of golden soldiers would soon retreat to the south, and they might even arrive in a few hours. They had to build up a solid defense as quickly as possible.

Hundreds of carts came up continuously, bringing boulders and logs, and thousands of loads of hay. Not only that, Chen Qing also sent thousands of soldiers to cut down trees nearby, search for boulders, and use all means to block the entrance of the valley.

Dozens of soldiers with high martial arts skills can climb to the top of the mountain on the left. They use long ropes to pull giant logs up one by one, forming a powerful deterrent on the top of the mountain. When dealing with Xiao Cong before, the soldiers pushed Down more than 200 giant trees.

Considering the advantage of the top of the mountain, Chen Qing simply sent the last [-] barrels of gunpowder to the top of the mountain together.

At midnight, hundreds of trees and hundreds of boulders had accumulated at the mouth of the valley, sealing the mouth of the valley firmly.

Chen Qing entrusted Zheng Ping with the task of blocking Taniguchi, and he immediately led the cavalry to the periphery of Heshangyuan...

Wanyan Wushu had to withdraw his troops, not only because of food and grass problems, but also because of morale, which was getting lower and lower every day. During the siege this morning, none of the soldiers on one of the thirty siege ladders could reach the top , I don't want to attack up when I climb halfway.

If only the golden soldiers on one ladder were like this, it would be fine, but the golden soldiers on the thirty ladders all behaved in the same way, as if they had made an appointment in advance.

The camp was burned down, the pass could not be stormed, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties. Now the food and grass are about to be cut off. All kinds of blows made the soldiers completely lose their fighting spirit.

Wanyan Wushu realized the seriousness of the problem, which was a sign of extreme war weariness, and the next step was to flee collectively.

Wanyan Wushu could only accept the reality and ordered to prepare to withdraw the troops.

At two o'clock, Wanyan Wushu's tens of thousands of troops began to retreat to the south, and they had less than two days of food and grass left, and the backup food and grass that Wanyan Wushu had been looking forward to was also cut off by Chen Qing on the south bank of the Weihe River. Disrupt the follow-up plan of Wanyan Wushu.

Wanyan Wushu originally considered retreating to the West Valley, but the food and grass now were not enough to support them returning to Fengxiang Mansion from the West Valley, so they could only retreat to the south.

Fortunately, he deployed twelve military strongholds in Shenchagou just for this moment.

There are still more than 4 Jurchen troops left, and there are about [-] soldiers deployed along the way.

Wanyan Wushu was afraid that the Song army would find out that they were retreating, so he ordered the tent not to be dismantled, and the army retreated quietly.

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On the top of the city, Wu Jie stared intently at the Jinbing camp. They were too familiar with the Jinbing camp. There was a wooden tower in the middle of the Jinbing camp. There was a string of lanterns on the wooden tower, which was used to tell the time at night. One lantern is lit at the hour, and five lanterns will be lit at five o'clock. Every day is on time, and there is no delay in the day, so that the Song army also uses the time-telling lanterns of the Jin soldiers to change the guard at night.

But today is very strange, half an hour has passed since the second watch, and only one lantern is still on.

"Dutong, could it be that the golden soldiers have already withdrawn?" Wang Wu, the commander on duty, boldly guessed.

Wu Jie nodded, he also had this doubt, he pondered for a moment and ordered: "Send two brothers to find out the truth, and give them a big reward!"

Wang Wu immediately found two brave soldiers, each rewarded 50 taels of silver, and ordered them to take the ladder down to the city and go to the Jinbing camp to investigate the truth.

The two climbed the ladder down to the city, ran across the battlefield, and went to the Jinbing camp two miles away.

Wu Jie stared at the two soldiers without blinking until their backs gradually disappeared.

Chapter 174

Soon, two soldiers brought back news that shocked everyone. The Jinbing camp was empty, without a single soldier.

The news made the soldiers of the Song army on the top of the city couldn't help cheering.

Wu Jie immediately sent hundreds of people to investigate in detail, and confirmed that the Jin soldiers had indeed retreated.

Wu Jie had a dignified expression. He was faced with a severe judgment. Did Jin Bing really retreat? , or pretend to retreat, to lure them into battle?

At this time, Wu Ling and Liu Kai also came. The three of them discussed for a while, and quickly reached a consensus that the Jin soldiers had really retreated.

Liu Qi smiled and said: "Actually, there is no need to worry. We will send a striker to walk in front, and the army will follow behind. If there is any change in the golden soldiers, the striker will immediately find out."

Wu Jie adopted this plan, and he immediately made deployments. Wu Ling led 3000 men to guard Dasan Pass, Liu Kai led [-] soldiers as the forward, and Wu Jie personally led [-] soldiers as the main force, carrying a large number of sharp weapons. Chase the retreating golden soldiers from behind.

When leaving the city, Wu Ling said to his elder brother Wu Jie: "I guess Chen Qing should have deployed ahead, most likely at the entrance of the Shenchagou valley, so I suggest that my brother take all the bed crossbows to prevent the golden soldiers from getting out, and then go out again. Come back."

Wu Jie nodded, "You are right. It is indeed very possible. As long as we defend the rear, the Jin soldiers can only retreat to Niu Shoufu, and our chance of victory will come."

The gate of Dasan Pass was finally opened, and [-] troops walked out of the pass, chasing towards the south...

It is about 25 miles from Dashanguan to Shenchagou Valley in Heshangyuan. If the length of Shenchagou Valley itself is added, the distance from Dashanguan to the entrance of Shenchagou Valley is about [-] miles. No wonder the Song Army Use gunpowder barrels to detonate in the south of Shenchagou, and you can't hear the explosion at Dashan Pass.

Jin Bing rushed all the way, and arrived at the north entrance of the Shenchagou Valley at about two o'clock. At this time, Wanyan Wushu got the news that Chen Qing's army was attacking at the valley entrance in the south, using gunpowder weapons. His eldest son Wanyan Bo He was shot in the face by a poisonous nail, and the poison has already developed, and the military doctor is doing his best to treat him.

Quan Wushu was taken aback by this news, and he hurriedly led the army to rush into the valley. His son Wanyan Bodie was receiving military medical treatment in the Ninth Battalion. The Ninth Battalion itself was called the Military Medical Battalion.

When Quan Wushu arrived, the treatment of his son Wanyan Bodie had already ended. The military doctor had found the antidote, and the toxicity had been brought under control, and it would subside completely within two days. Wanyan Wushu heaved a sigh of relief.

At the same time, Wanyan Wushu received the report that worried him the most. Chen Qing's army had pulled out the three military strongholds in front of Taniguchi and captured Taniguchi. This news was extremely serious, and it reminded Wanyanwushu of At Jiandao Pass, tens of thousands of troops could not break through the pass guarded by more than 1000 people.

Is he going to face this cruel challenge again?

Wanyan Wushu was really hesitant, whether he should continue to move forward, or go back to the West Valley, because there is not enough food, if he really can't do it, he will kill the horse.

Wanyan Wushu had already thought of killing a horse, the scene that the Jurchens were most unwilling to face. He was indeed a little afraid to continue going south, and he wanted to turn back.

At this moment, a soldier came to report, "Report to Marshal Du, the main force of the enemy army is found in the rear, about ten miles away from us!"

Wanyan Wushu was stunned, Wu Jie had already dispatched troops, which completely shattered his idea of ​​going to the West Valley just now.

At this time, Wanyan Alupu stepped forward and said: "Marshal Du, we might as well try it out. If it doesn't work, we can consider other ways. Either go back and defeat the Song army in one fell swoop, or go to Niu Shoufu. Anyway, we are in Niu Shou Fu also dug the mountain road, cavalry can do it."

Wanyan Wushu nodded, "I'll give you [-] troops, which will be officially counted as your West Route Army, and you can attack Taniguchi for me within a day, maybe you can do it?"

"You must try your best in the humble position, but if you can't attack, Marshal Du don't blame me!"

Wanyan Alupu has also become cunning, he must leave room for himself, and must not issue a military order.

Wanyan Wushu patted him on the shoulder, "Your opponent is Chen Qing, if you lose, I won't blame you!"

Thinking that the opponent was Chen Qing, Wanyan Alupu immediately clasped his fists and said, "I will definitely risk my life and cut off his dog's head!"

"Go! I look forward to hearing from you."

Wanyan Wushu immediately sent an order to remove the nine military strongholds in the valley, and the army continued to march south.

At the same time, Liu Kai's [-] forward troops had arrived at the northern entrance of the Shenchagou Valley. Instead of continuing south, he began to build fortifications at the northern entrance.

……

After all, Wanyan Alupu is from the royal family, and he is the brother of Wanyan Zongbi. Although Wanyan Zongbi disliked this brother very much, at the critical moment, Wanyan Alupu was reused again and took charge of the West Route Army again. pioneer.

Wanyan Alupu led [-] cavalry to the south at a rapid pace and stopped one mile away from the valley entrance.

Wanyan Alupu looked at the top of his head, three bright gunpowder arrows shot into the sky, and in the sky went 'pop! 'It exploded.

This is obviously to inform the Taniguchi defenders that their army has arrived.

Wanyan Alu gave a heavy snort, turned back and ordered a commander: "Ahuya, you can lead your headquarters to Taniguchi to check the situation, and bring your shield and bow and arrows to prevent the enemy from raiding!"

"Follow the order!"

Ah Huya waved his hand, "Follow me from the first battalion!"

He led a thousand cavalry to rush to the valley entrance one mile away...

The signal on the top of the valley meant that the main force of the enemy army had arrived, and Zheng Ping was trembling all over. This was the first time Chen Qing let him lead the army to stand alone.

He roared, "Set fire!"

Hundreds of torches crossed the big stone wall and threw them into the valley. Hundreds of big trees were piled up in the valley, the branches and leaves were not removed, and they were sprinkled with gunpowder and sulfur, and there were hundreds of loads of hay.

It's a pity they didn't have fuel oil, otherwise it would be easy to catch fire.