Fenghou

Since the [-] troops appeared thirty miles away, their goal must still be Ganquan Fort. Only by pulling out the nail of Ganquan Fort can the Xixia Army go south smoothly.

In the afternoon, [-] Xixia troops appeared outside the east city of Ganquan Fort and began to station a large camp outside the city.

Standing on the top of the city, Chen Qing looked eastward, and saw large tents appearing like mushrooms. The nearest place was about three miles away from the city wall, and large carts were coming from the official road in the east. The cart is full of food and various armor materials.

"Control, our food can only last for 20 days. Do you think the Xixia army outside the city will attack us?" Zheng Ping did not see the opponent's siege weapons, and was really anxious.

"Calm down, don't be impatient, the situation will definitely change."

The camp of the Xixia army was quickly set up, but they still refused to attack Ganquan Fort. The Xixia army seemed to know that there was not much food, so they wanted to trap the Song army in the city.

On the morning of the fourth day, Chen Qing received an urgent eagle letter from Yang Yuanqing from Chengji County.

Chen Qing immediately summoned the deputy commander and the generals above to discuss the matter.

"Everyone, I just received the eagle letter from Vice General Yang, and the puppet Qi army has already launched an offensive against the Song army."

Chen Qing shook the eagle letter in his hand, and said slowly to the crowd: "The 15 puppet Qi troops are divided into two groups, one way is to attack Pingliang Mansion on Jingyuan Road, and the other is to attack Fengxiang Mansion. The army from Longzhou has already attacked Dasan Pass retreat."

"Damn it!"

Zheng Ping slammed his fist on the table. He knew very well what it meant for the Longzhou army to retreat to Dasan Pass. If the Longzhou army gathered at Fengxiang Mansion, Fu Xuan might resist the puppet Qi army, but Longzhou did not want to The evacuation of Dasan Pass meant that Fu Xuan would also give up Fengxiang Mansion.

Fu Xuan wants to preserve his own strength and is unwilling to fight against the puppet Qi army. This is also normal and fits Fu Xuan's character, but the key is that Fengxiang and Longzhou fall, and Qinzhou will face the attack of the puppet Qi army. Chengji County only has two thousand recruits led by Yang Yuanqing, how could they resist?

All eyes were on Chen Qing.

Chen Qing pondered for a moment and said, "I'm considering retreating two thousand troops and all supplies to Fort Ganquan. Do you have a better plan?"

Yang Zaixing said: "Beizhi fully agrees with the retreat of the army from Chengji County, but I feel that instead of retreating to Ganquan Fort, it is better to temporarily retreat to Beixianren Pass."

Chen Qing shook his head, "Going to Beixianrenguan is equivalent to giving up Qinzhou."

Liu Cui couldn't help but said: "But even if we come to Ganquan Fort, what should we do if we don't have enough food? The control, 15 puppet Qi troops killed us. We really can't defend Qinzhou. This is not the responsibility of the control."

Chen Qing still shook his head, "I have made up my mind, I have my own way to solve the food problem!"

Yang Zaixing and Liu Cui glanced at each other, and they suddenly thought of the [-] Xixia Army outside the city. Yang Zaixing quickly asked, "The meaning of control is that the [-] Xixia Army outside the city will soon retreat?"

Chen Qing nodded, "Should retreat soon!"

There was a sudden discussion in the big tent...

After everyone left, Zheng Ping said to Chen Qing: "There is no need to hold this kind of discussion in the future. There are some things that people will not understand. You are the coach, so you can make your own decisions!"

Chen Qing smiled and said: "Actually, I have made a decision a long time ago. Today is just to let everyone know my next move. In the end, everyone will understand."

"Why does the government think that the Xixia people will withdraw their troops?" Zheng Ping also asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"The reason is very simple. The Xixia army was eager to take Ganquan Fort before because there were only a hundred golden soldiers in Ganquan Fort. It was an opportunity, but now this opportunity is gone.

But the Xixia army is still outside the city because we are betting that we will not last long, we will run out of food in a month or two, and we will have to withdraw. The premise of this bet is that the main forces of the puppet Qi army and Song army have no changes. Only the Xixia army can spend with us patiently.

Now the situation in the periphery has changed. The puppet Qi army has sent troops to Fenglong and Pingliang Mansion, which has threatened the strategic interests of the Xixia people. Why do they still smash Ganquan Fort?Wouldn't they retreat to advance and temporarily abandon Ganquan Fort, and when there are not many troops in Ganquan Fort in the future, they will fight back? "

"The system is right, and the humble official fully understands."

Chen Qing smiled again and said, "But if you want to show off, I think the Xixia Army will definitely attack Ganquanbao once before withdrawing."

As soon as Chen Qing finished speaking, the fierce sound of war drums came from outside.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

……

Outside the city, [-] Xixia troops began to gather. They carried a small amount of siege weapons and dozens of siege ladders. At that time, Zhang Jun pursued the responsibility of the Huanqing Army and killed Zhao Zhe, the commander-in-chief. Murong Tao led thousands of troops and fled into Xixia in a panic.

Murong Tao was originally from Xixia, brave and decisive, with high martial arts skills, he was favored by Li Ganshun, the son of Xixia, and he was named the commander of the Zhende army, controlling Zhenrong and Deshun, commanding an army of [-].

Murong Tao was ordered to take down Ganquanbao at the right time, and get through the reason for going south to Qinzhou. Xixia is still negotiating with Jin Guo, hoping to give up Ganquanbao.

But at this moment, Murong Tao heard the news that Zhu Shengfei had taken office. He immediately realized that the changes in the Northwest were coming, and Ganquan Fort had to be settled as soon as possible. The army marched westward, preparing to attack Qinzhou along the way.

It's just that they didn't expect Chen Qing to seize Ganquan Castle at the same time. They were a step too late, and the castle was taken away by the Song army.

How could Murong Tao be reconciled? He bet that the Song Army's food and grass would last for less than a month. As long as the siege lasted for a month, the Song Army would definitely run out of food and abandon the city.

Murong Tao's idea is good, but it's a pity that the plan is not as good as changing. The Qi army marched westward and focused on attacking Pingliang Mansion. Seize Pingliang Mansion, so as to open up the main road to Guanzhong.

There are no soldiers guarding Deshun Prefecture, and the Qi army captured Pingliang Mansion, and then seized Deshun Prefecture along the way. How can I explain to the emperor?

Although Ganquan Fort is important, it is far behind Deshun Prefecture and Pingliang Mansion, and their strategic positions are not at the same level.

Murong Tao had already decided to retreat and go back to defend Deshun Prefecture, but before retreating, he wanted to test the defensive capabilities of Ganquan Fort and prepare for his next attack on Ganquan Fort.

The drums sound like thunder, and the five thousand troops have assembled.

Murong Tao looked at the tall Ganquan Fort, and at the densely populated Song Army soldiers on the castle, he secretly sighed in his heart, it was only one step away!

Murong Tao drew out his saber and shouted sharply: "Beat the drum, attack!"

Chapter 2 Trial Attack

The 2000 Xixia army carried more than 3000 siege ladders and attacked the east city like a tide. The [-] Song army all went into battle, [-] defended on the top of the city, and [-] fired bows and arrows in the city.

All the houses in the city were civilian houses, more than a thousand people had been evacuated, and the soldiers were using the cover of the houses to prepare to shoot arrows.

Neither side has heavy assault weapons and can only rely on strong bows and crossbows.

The Xixia army advanced within a hundred steps, and two thousand crossbowmen shot arrows at the top of the city. The arrows were like rain, and the Song army on the top of the city was firmly suppressed.

At this time, Chen Qing gave an order, and the soldiers in the city began to shoot, and the arrows flew over the city like clouds of clouds, and quickly drifted out of the city.

The black arrows fell instantly, and the soldiers of the Xixia army who were running fell down one after another. Their shields were not big, and they had to be at a certain angle to completely block the arrows. If they were a little distracted, the arrows would take advantage of them.

Murong Tao’s 20 troops are Xixia’s capture army, that is, Xixia’s frontier army. When Song Xia did not break out of war, their task was to go deep into Song territory to capture Han slaves. They are mainly Dangxiang people and Qiang people on the border, with cruel characters, flexible bodies, and good at climbing mountains and ridges.

Although under the rounds of arrows shot by the Song army, they kept falling down, but they still rushed forward to attack the castle. There is a circle of moats outside the castle, which are dry ditches, and there are sharp hidden weapons such as sharp piles buried inside. Once you fall into the ditch, you will undoubtedly die.

The Xixia army had built more than a dozen wooden bridges on the dry ditch with wide planks, and the Xixia soldiers rushed forward carrying the siege ladders like a gust of wind, reached the top of the city with the ladders, and swarmed up.

Chen Qing had experienced many battles in defending the city. The 50 soldiers were divided into [-] groups, [-] of them were used to deal with one siege ladder, and the extra soldiers were used as emergency support, led by Yang Zaixing.

In addition, [-] soldiers with the highest archery skills were selected from the God Arm Crossbow Army and assigned to three horse-faced walls, and they shot coldly from the side, specifically shooting at the enemy generals and strong soldiers. Invaluable experience, very effective.

The Song army demolished hundreds of abandoned houses, obtained boulders and logs to make rolling logs, and threw them at the soldiers on the siege ladder.

Groups of soldiers were hit by rocks and fell to the city screaming. Many fell into the dry ditch and were directly pierced by sharp wooden stakes.

"dash forward!"

A centurion stood on the edge of the siege ladder, shouting, brandishing a spear.

At this moment, three powerful crossbow arrows shot at the centurion at the same time. The arrows were as fast as lightning, and the centurion couldn't dodge. He was hit by three arrows at the same time. fell down.

But the horse-faced wall ambush is not the most powerful tactic of the Song Army, the most powerful tactic is the Song Army's ladder-breaking axe.

Dozens of tall and powerful soldiers wielded long-handled sharp axes and severely chopped off the two rungs at the top of the siege ladder. The attacking Xixia soldiers lacked the last step, just like cavalry without stirrups and nowhere to go. Trapped on the top, unable to go up or down, in the end, he could only be assassinated by the chaos spear in despair.

However, soldiers who knew about it were often assassinated, while the soldiers below held their shields and couldn't see what was happening above. Therefore, soldiers continued to be assassinated and went down the city, and soldiers continued to rush up.

After attacking for half an hour, Murong Tao, who was watching the battle from a distance, finally realized that not a single soldier rushed to the top of the wall.

Murong Tao immediately ordered the soldiers to check the situation, and after a while, the soldiers came back on horseback and said, "General Qi, the top rung of the siege ladder has been cut off, and it is difficult for brothers to climb to the top of the city."

Murong Tao was taken aback, this was the first time he had heard of such a thing, he immediately ordered: "Send the troops to withdraw!"

'when!when!when!when! '

The bell for the withdrawal of the troops rang, and the 1000 troops left more than [-] corpses and retreated in panic.

General Cao Li immediately stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "The humble official wants to attack again, please approve it!"

Murong Tao shook his head, "Oasis Fort with 5000 people, we can't take it!"

He took one last look at the majestic castle and sighed, "Send the order to withdraw the troops back to Deshun Prefecture!"

At noon, the Xixia Army finally gave up Ganquan Fort and retreated.

……

In the wilderness south of Mei County, Fengxiang Prefecture, two armies were fighting fiercely together, the drums were rumbling, the shouts of killing were loud, the sky was full of dust, and the whole sky was filled with a layer of choking red dust.

Controlling Jiao Wentong led [-] troops to resist the thousands of vanguard troops led by Puppet General Zhang Zhongxiong.

Jiao Wentong originally decided to defend Mei County, but in the morning he received an order from the governor Fu Xuan to go out of the city to block the five thousand puppet Qi vanguards from advancing westward, so as to buy time for the main force to deploy.

But after Jiao Wentong fought with the enemy army, he discovered that the opponent had not only [-] troops, but [-] troops, and there were thousands of cavalry among them. The Song army was not the opponent of the puppet Qi army at all. .

"General, if we don't break through, our entire army will be wiped out!" A general rushed forward and shouted.

Jiao Wentong hesitated, Fu Xuan asked him to resist for three hours, and now it is less than two hours, but he also knows in his heart that now is the last chance, if he doesn't break through, he will really be wiped out.

"Breakthrough!"

Jiao Wentong finally issued an order to break out of the siege. He turned his horse's head and led the army to kill to the south. More than 1000 Song soldiers desperately broke through, and finally opened a bloody road and fled to the south.

Zhang Zhongxiong looked at the Song army fleeing far away, and instead of chasing him, he shouted loudly: "Keep going west!"

Zhang Zhongxiong didn't have time to clean up the battlefield, and led more than [-] troops to continue westward...

At this time, where is Fu Xuan deploying defenses? He is retreating and fleeing, but because there are too many money and materials, he needs to transport them across the river from the north bank of the Weihe River, which takes a lot of time. Five thousand troops wait restlessly on the south bank of Weinan. An army, 2000 people from Longzhou have withdrawn to Dasan Pass, and now it's their turn.

Fu Xuan never thought about defending Fengxiang to the death. The first thing he did when guarding Fengxiang Mansion was to catch traitors. He ransacked dozens of mansions of rich and powerful families, killed the masters for treason, and confiscated their property. Fu Xuan's personal pocket.

Fu Xuan was staring at the big ship that was getting closer and closer, at this moment, a piercing horn sounded from the east, "Woo——"

The vanguard of the puppet Qi army came, and Fu Xuan cursed angrily: "I asked him to resist for three hours, why did he come so soon!"

Hatred turned to hate, but he knew in his heart that once he was entangled by the enemy and their main force came, it would be impossible for him to retreat south.

Fu Xuan looked at the big boat that was still on the river, and at the enemy vanguard that was getting closer and closer. No matter how unwilling and helpless he felt, the most important thing was to save his life.

Fu Xuan immediately ordered: "The army retreats south!"

Five thousand troops followed Fu Xuan and turned around towards the direction of Monk Yuan...

On the afternoon of the day when Fu Xuan gave up Fengxiang Mansion and retreated to the south, Marshal Li Cheng of the puppet Qi Zuo led an army of 10,000 troops to Fengxiang County. Fu Xuan's wealth was seized, tens of thousands of coins and [-]+ pieces of cloth.

Li Cheng ordered all the copper coins and cloth to be rewarded to the soldiers. Immediately, the army was invigorated and their morale was high.

Zhang Zhongxiong clasped his fists and said, "I heard that Chen Qing was named the envoy of Qinzhou. He only has a few thousand troops. Qinzhou is very close to Fengxiang Mansion. Why don't the governors take this opportunity to sweep Xihe Road?"

Li Cheng pondered for a while and said: "Marshal Du of the Supervising Army means that after we capture Fengxiang and Longzhou, we will march north, cut off Guan Shigu's retreat, and join forces with Guo Dutong to attack Pingliang Mansion, and then go south after taking Pingliang Mansion. Attack Beixianrenguan, as long as Beixianrenguan is captured, Chen Qing and Lintao military commander Wu Lin will be turtles in the urn, and they will not be able to escape even with their wings."

"Having said that, I'm afraid that Chen Qing won't fight to the death and retreat south when the situation is not good. It's better to lead [-] troops to Xianrenguan. On the one hand, they will monitor Chen Qing, and on the other hand, they will cut off the Song army's retreat."

Li Cheng made sense when he thought about it. He immediately gave Zhang Zhongxiong [-] troops, including his own [-] troops, and led [-] troops to Qinzhou. The Xie Congjun rushed to Fengxiang, and the Xie Congjun took over Fengxiang Mansion.

Li Cheng personally led an army of [-] troops from Longzhou to the north, joined forces with Guo Zhen's army to encircle Pingliang County, Guan Shigu, the commander of Pingyuan soldiers and horses, led [-] troops to break through and failed, and was surrounded by groups in Pingliang County. At this time, the Song army's food was about to run out , the fierce general Dai Cheng led [-] cavalry to break through the encirclement successfully, and rushed to Dashan Pass for help.

Chapter 2 Decision Making

The sudden dispatch of troops by the Puppet Qi Army and the Xixia Army caused chaos in Nanzheng County. At this time, Zhu Shengfei could no longer care about Chen Qing. Make him stomp his feet.

At this time, Lu Fayuan and Sima Wangsi, deputy envoys of the Xuanfu Department of Sichuan and Shaanxi, rushed to Nanzheng County from Chengdu.

Zhu Shengfei hurriedly invited Wu Jie, the governor, and Liu Ziyu, the prefect, and the five sat in the lobby to discuss how to deal with it.

Wu Jie sighed and said, "I'm afraid we were wrong from the beginning."

Zhu Shengfei was startled, "What does Wu Dutong say?"

"The humble official believes that the withdrawal of the Jin soldiers from Shanxi Road and Xihe Road is just a feigned withdrawal. Logically, they should hand over the states to the puppet Qi army before retreating. How can the army retreat directly and hand over the states to us?"

Zhu Shengfei's face was ugly. He ordered the troops to go north halfway, and now it was a trick. Could it be that he made a mistake in decision-making?

Zhu Shengfei raised his face and said, "This is just Wu Dutong's guess!"

"The humble job is not a guess, but also a basis?"

Zhu Shengfei asked coldly: "What basis?"

"I heard that the enemy general who took over Fengxiang Mansion is Han Chang. Han Chang is not a general of the puppet Qi army. He is an out-and-out general of the Jin soldiers. Han Chang's return to Fengxiang Mansion means that the Jin soldiers are back."

Zhu Shengfei was speechless for a while, and Lu Fayuan hurriedly said, "Wu Dutong, this is not the time to pursue responsibility. I should decide what to do now?"

Wu Jie bowed and said: "The humble official said that Jin Bing pretended to retreat not to pursue responsibility, but to consider what Jin Bing's purpose is?"

Zhu Shengfei glared at him dissatisfied, "Tell me! What is Jin Bing's purpose?"

"I couldn't see through the lowly position before, but now the situation is very clear. The Jinbing is to lure the troops to go north, and then use the puppet Qi army to destroy our vital forces. There were [-] troops in Sichuan and Shaanxi before, but now there are only [-] troops in Hanzhong. It is due to the lack of troops, if all the [-] troops outside are wiped out, I am afraid that the Dasan Pass will not be able to hold, once the Jin soldiers invade Hanzhong, Sichuan and Shaanxi will definitely be lost!"

Everyone was silent. After a while, Zhu Shengfei finally put down his tone very softly, and asked, "Does Wu Dutong have any good suggestions?"