Fenghou

"The humble official suggests that the troops should be withdrawn immediately, and all the Fourth Route Army should be withdrawn to Hanzhong."

Zhu Shengfei nodded and said: "As far as I know, Fu Xuan's army has already withdrawn, followed by the [-] troops of Guan Shigu, the governor of Pingyuan, the [-] troops of Chen Qing of Qinzhou, and the [-] troops of Wu Lin, the governor of Lintao. Five thousand troops, I immediately sent someone to urge them to withdraw to Hanzhong."

Zhu Shengfei was not in the mood to continue the discussion, so he rushed back to his study and immediately drafted three orders, dispatching three groups of fast horse cavalry to Pingliang, Qinzhou and Lintao, and ordering the three generals to immediately withdraw their troops back to Hanzhong.

Coming out of the Xuanfu Division's office, Wu Jie and Liu Ziyu rode slowly side by side, Liu Ziyu asked, "How sure do you feel that you can withdraw the army?"

Wu Jie smiled and said: "I hope the Xuanfu envoy will issue an order. The day lily is cold. I sent an eagle letter to Wu Ling the day before yesterday, asking him to go to Beixianren Pass and withdraw the army immediately. Wu Ling is already on the way to withdraw the army. 5000 people should be able to withdraw all the way."

"What about Chen Qing?"

"Chen Qing is a bit troublesome. He is not in Chengji County, but Ganquan Fort is fighting with the Xixia army. I received his eagle letter the day before yesterday. He was surrounded by Murong Tao's [-] Xixia army in Ganquan Fort. I'm afraid he can't move for a while. "

Liu Ziyu thought for a while and smiled: "Actually, Chen Qing's problem is not serious, he won't trap himself to death, right?"

"That's right! He's good at peripheral warfare, and I'm not worried about him. What I'm worried about is Guan Shigu. There's no news at all. I'm afraid his [-] troops will be lost this time!"

Liu Ziyu nodded silently, and he also felt the same way.

"When will Wu Dutong go north?"

Wu Jie sighed softly and said, "I'm going to leave today, I really don't feel at ease to get out of the customs!"

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Zhang Zhongxiong led the [-] Puppet Qi Army to advance westward like a storm. Although Li Cheng was Marshal Zuo, he had just returned to Bianliang from the defeat in the south of the Yangtze River and was sent to Shaanxi. The importance of Qing was not fully understood, so Li Cheng decided to join forces to attack Guan Shigu in Pingliang Mansion first, and then consider dealing with Chen Qing.

But Zhang Zhongxiong was very aware of the importance of Chen Qing. The Emperor of the Kingdom of Jin offered a reward in person. Those who captured Chen Qing or captured his head would seal ten thousand households and reward them with one hundred thousand guan.

This is the sealing of ten thousand households, not the chief ten thousand. So far, only one Han, Guo Yaoshi, has sealed ten thousand households, and there is no second one. Li Cheng obviously doesn't know about the reward.

How could Zhang Zhongxiong let go of this opportunity? Li Cheng asked him to lead an army to block the Immortal Pass, but he didn't take it seriously at all. Chen Qing was a hundred times more important than the Immortal Pass.

This morning, Zhang Zhongxiong led an army to Chengji County, which was Chen Qing's hometown, but to his surprise, the officials of Chengji County surrendered.

"Who are you?" Zhang Zhongxiong pointed at the leading official with a whip and asked.

"The next Wang Huai, the official Qinzhou general judge, was appointed by the fourth prince Wanyan."

Among the group of officials who followed Wang Huai, there was no recorder Zhang Xiao who joined the army, and he had already retreated northward with Yang Yuanqing.

Zhang Zhongxiong didn't care who the other party was, he widened his eyes and asked, "Where did Chen Qing go?"

"Reporting to General, the Xixia Army attacked Xining County, and Chen Tongzhi led the army northward to Xining County."

Zhang Zhongxiong seemed to have stepped on the ground, he rushed to Chengji County, but he was in vain, his expectation turned into disappointment, and the Wanhu who saw his hand turned into a moon in the water.

Zhang Zhongxiong was furious, stretched out his hand and grabbed Li Huai's neck, and said viciously: "If you lie to me again, I will slaughter your Chengji County!"

Wang Huai said for a long time: "The humble officer has served as the general judge of Qinzhou for almost three years, and Chen Qing has only been in Qinzhou for more than a month. Why should the general embarrass the humble officer?"

Zhang Zhongxiong's lieutenant Li Ying also persuaded: "General, if Chen Qing is so easy to catch, will it be our turn to offer a reward?"

Zhang Zhongxiong was right when he thought about it, Chen Qing was still able to break out from the siege of tens of thousands of golden soldiers, and almost killed Wan Yanchang, if he was caught so easily by himself, he would not be called Chen Qing.

Zhang Zhongxiong let go of Wang Huai, and asked angrily, "Where is Xining County?"

Xining County was renamed only three years after Jianyan, so Zhang Zhongxiong didn't know it was normal.

"Reporting to General, Xining County is the original Ganquan Fort."

"what!"

Zhang Zhongxiong was stunned for a moment, but it was in the territory of the Xixia people!

Even though he was in the territory of the Xixia people, Zhang Zhongxiong decided to seek wealth and wealth, but Chengji County couldn't squeeze out any food, so Zhang Zhongxiong had to wait for two days. On the third day, his logistics and grain convoy also arrived in Chengji County. Zhang Zhongxiong escorted the logistics supplies, and rushed to Ganquanbao in a mighty manner.

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Xinhui Prefecture was originally a border state in the Northern Song Dynasty. After the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, Xinhui Prefecture, like other border states, was swallowed by the Xixia people. Although the northwest of Qinzhou is close to Xinhui Prefecture, the large desert Gobi in the south of Xinhui Prefecture It has become a natural barrier in Qinzhou.

Xinhui Prefecture is sparsely populated, and the south and central parts are deserted. Only Baochuan County in the north is the only county seat in Xinhui Prefecture, and almost the entire population of the prefecture is concentrated here.

Baochuan County is a large county with a population of more than [-] people. There is a salt marsh in the southwest of it, which is an important salt-producing area. Baochuan County also mainly produces salt.

The residents in the city have a typical dual structure, with high-status Dangxiang people and Qiang people, and low-status Han people. Almost all shops are opened by Dangxiang people. Living a poor and meager life.

Another feature of Baochuan County is that it is close to the Yellow River. It is an important transit point on the Yellow River. The grain transported from the Hehuang Valley and the cattle and sheep fur transported from the Hexi Corridor are all transited here, and then transported to Xingxia, the capital of Xixia, through the Yellow River. Qingfu.

So the Han people had another important job, which was to work hard on the Yellow River wharf and carry various materials.

Early this morning, a dozen or so young Han Chinese in shabby clothes came to the Yellow River Wharf as usual. Today they got a new errand, going to the wharf to carry grain to the military granary.

Chapter 2 and Four of Baochuan

There are several huge leather rafts moored on the wharf of the Yellow River. These are grain ships from Xingqing Prefecture, and then transported from Baochuan County to Deshun Prefecture by camel caravan. It only takes five days, but if they are transported by land from Xingqing Prefecture to In Deshun Prefecture, it will take at least ten days, not to mention the long time, and the road is difficult and dangerous, and the carrying capacity is not large, so the advantage of going by water is obviously much greater.

"Commander, look, that's not a boat!" A young man cried out in astonishment when he saw the huge raft for the first time.

All his companions glared at him, and the young man bowed his head in fright when he realized he had slipped.

These dozen or so strong men at the dock were dressed up as scouts of the Song army, and the leader was Hu Yanlei, the deputy commander of the scout battalion.

There are three teams under the scout battalion of the Qinzhou Army. The first team is called the scout department, also known as the wild detective.

The second team is called the City Detective Department, which is responsible for entering the city to investigate information, including regular spies in the city, such as the Wucheng Town Inn, which belongs to the city detective, and Hu Yanlei is in charge of the city detective.

The third team is called the Ministry of Mountains and Seas. There are currently two teams, one is the flying monkey team that climbs the city, and the other is the water ghost team that moves in the water. The two teams are composed of [-] soldiers each, and more types will be added in the future according to the situation.

Today, the team led by Hu Yanlei belongs to the city scouts, and came to check the food and defense situation in Baochuan County under the order of Chen Qing.

Hu Yanlei glanced at his companions, didn't say much, and said to everyone: "It is best to keep silent when entering the warehouse area, follow me, and don't get separated."

Hu Yanlei brought everyone to the pier. The dock supervisor knew him and immediately shouted: "The food has arrived, hurry up and carry the food."

Hu Yanlei waved to everyone, and more than a dozen people joined the food delivery team.

"Let me push the cart!"

Hu Yanlei hung the leather bag of the wheelbarrow on his shoulder, pushed five or six bags of grain on the wheelbarrow, and followed the convoy towards the granary.

This is the first time he has entered the granary. He entered the material warehouse two days ago to get a general understanding of the situation of the material warehouse. Today they started to contact the most important granary for the first time.

From the outside, the granary looks huge. There are four in total, including three granaries and one forage silo.

When Hu Yanlei entered the granary, he was really shocked. Bags of grain were piled up like a mountain, and more than a dozen people were busy on the top of the pile of grain like ants. This is a [-]-stone granary, and it is already half full.

Hu Yanlei unloaded the grain, pushed the cart out of the granary, and ran a few more times. He had been to all three granaries. He couldn't bear the excitement in his heart anymore and wanted to report to the commander immediately.

Finding an excuse, Hu Yanlei slipped back to his residence. He quickly wrote an eagle letter, put it in the letter tube, took out the letter eagle from the cage, carefully tied the letter tube to his leg, went to the window and shook the eagle, the letter The eagle flew out of the window, went straight to the sky, circled twice in the air, and slowly flew towards Ganquan Fort.

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Yang Yuanqing led two thousand recruits to escort nearly a thousand carts to Ganquan Fort.

With the addition of 7000 fresh troops, Chen Qing's Qinzhou Army has reached [-] troops. Whether it is the Puppet Qi Army or the Xixia Army, as long as it is not tens of thousands of troops, he can compete with it.

"How are the recruits training?" Chen Qing asked with a smile.

Yang Yuanqing smiled bitterly and said, "There is no problem with the bow and arrow, and the physical strength is not bad. The fighting training has just started, and there is still a lack of actual combat experience."

Chen Qing nodded, "Hurry up and train, I guess the actual combat will come soon."

"Controlling, most of the materials shipped by the humble job this time are camp tents and supplies. There is not much food, and the humble job is very worried about food."

"Food should be able to solve the problem, do you know Baochuan County?"

"Baochuan County in Xinhui Prefecture?"

Chen Qing nodded, "It is the Yellow River Wharf closest to the Hexi Corridor. The Hexi Corridor has been occupied by Xixia, and all kinds of materials transported from the Hexi Corridor must be transferred to Baochuan County. In addition, it is only two hundred miles away from Deshun Prefecture. , much closer than Xingqing Mansion, I believe there will be food in Baochuan County."

"That's why the Xixia Army tried everything possible to take Ganquan Fort, because Ganquan Fort blocked their main traffic route."

Chen Qing said with a smile: "It's not blocking, it's just that they have to send a large army of guards every time, otherwise it will only be cheap for us, and sending a large army of guards is too expensive. This is the helplessness of the Xixia Army."

Just as he was talking, a soldier rushed over, bowed and said, "Reporting to the Commander, the Eagle letter from Deputy Commander Huyan has arrived."

Chen Qing was overjoyed and urged his horse to run to the barracks.An eagle letter box has been quietly lying on the table of the Chinese army tent.

Chen Qing took out the eagle letter and looked at it carefully. There was only one sentence on it, "3000 shi for grain, [-] troops for the army, you can contact the Laoyuan Inn in the city." '

Chen Qing nodded, as expected, the food problem can be solved.

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From Ganquanbao along the Kushuihe River, all the way is the vast Loess Gobi, which still belongs to the Loess Plateau area, but the precipitation is scarce, and the green is basically invisible. Without water, there is no population, and it is deserted for dozens of miles.

The reason why Ganquan Fort is precious is that there are more than a dozen deep-water wells in the city, the water quality is sweet, which solves the drinking water problem for humans and animals, and the population gathers in Ganquan Fort and the Baishui River in the east.

It is not far from Ganquanbao to Baochuan County, about 150 miles away. The road is very flat. Chen Qing led [-] cavalry and [-] carts to march for a day and a half. On the afternoon of the third day, the team arrived at Baochuan County [-] miles away. Bitter Elm Town.

The town is very small, with only a dozen families. Although the houses are in the Han style, they have been taken over by the party members. Their main means of livelihood is to sell water and dry food to passing travelers and caravans.

The team settled down in the small town, and Chen Qing sent people to Baochuan County to find Hu Yanlei.

In the evening, Hu Yanlei came in a hurry, and Chen Qing asked a little strangely: "I still expect you to cooperate with the outside to seize the county seat at night. Now that you are running here, can you still enter the city at night?"

Hu Yanlei hurriedly said: "Qi reported that there is basically no army in the city now, and only 200 people guard the warehouse. This morning, something happened in Yantian. It is said that the slaves of the Han people were unwilling to be humiliated and were preparing to revolt. Three thousand Xixia troops rushed there. The suppression has gone, just not in the city.”

Chen Qing's spirit lifted, it was really a good opportunity.

He immediately said to Zheng Ping: "You lead a thousand brothers to follow Huyanlei into the city and seize the city and warehouses, and I will lead the army to clean up the Xixia army!"

Although Zheng Ping was a bit unwilling, but the military order could not be disobeyed, he had no choice but to agree, and led [-] soldiers and [-] carts to Baochuan County, while Chen Qing led [-] elite cavalry to leave Kuyu Town and head towards Yanze in the west. .

Four thousand cavalry rushed for more than twenty miles. Under the afterglow of the setting sun, they saw an army several miles ahead, including cavalry and infantry, about 3000 people, escorting more than a thousand slaves. The slaves had their hands tied behind their backs. A team of people stumbled and walked under the escort of the army.

At this time, the opponent's army also found them, and immediately blew the horn, "Woo--" the sound of the horn was hurried and panicked.

Chen Qing waved Fang Tian's painted halberd and shouted sharply, "Kill—"

"Kill ah-"

Four thousand Song Army cavalry launched, waving spears and swords, like a raging black tide, rushing and roaring to kill the enemy.

The yellow dust stirred up by the horseshoes filled the sky, just like a sandstorm swept in, and the sky turned black.

The [-] Western Xia Army is also a capture army. The leader is called Li Muyuan. He has heard the sound of horseshoes, but he never thought it was the Song Army. The Song Army has almost no cavalry, and they will not come here. The Song Army is all in the south. Woolen cloth!

He thought it was the Xixia army or the Jin soldiers, but when he suddenly saw the opponent's flag clearly, he was taken aback and hurriedly ordered the army to gather in formation.

More than a thousand bound Han slaves ran wildly to the west, away from the battlefield, and the Xixia army ignored them. The Song army cavalry was terrifying and was about to kill them.

The soldiers of the Xixia Army quickly lined up, but it was a little too late. Before the formation was completed, the cavalry of the Song Army came overwhelmingly.

Chen Qing led five hundred elite cavalry to the front. With a roar, Fang Tian's painted halberd slashed up and down, sending more than a dozen heads flying, and the blood splashed. In the formation.

Immediately afterwards, a tide of [-] cavalry swooped up and drowned the Xixia army.

Chapter 2 and Five Harvest

Chen Qing rushed into the enemy army, as if entering an uninhabited land, stabbing back and forth, slashing left and right, thirty elite soldiers followed him, killing the enemy's crap and crying.

Corpses piled up wherever he passed, stumps and broken arms were thrown all the way, blood pooled into a stream, and the soldiers who had finally assembled were smashed to pieces by him.

Chen Qing's subordinates were also extremely brave. Although Yang Zaixing was not as brutal as Chen Qing in killing, the number of enemy troops he killed was no less than Chen Qing's. The white horse and silver spear, the marksmanship flying like pear blossoms, looked pleasing to the eye, but the point of the spear , extremely fast, equally ruthless, the enemy was killed by a single shot.

General Niu Gao was just the opposite, his body was like a giant black evil spirit, and his two maces, each weighing [-] jin, flew up and down, smashing the bones and cracking the brains of the enemy soldiers wherever they passed.

Niu Gao is known as the number one warrior in the Qinzhou Army. He can carry a load of five hundred catties up and down the mountain, and walk for dozens of miles without any effort. Even Chen Qing is ashamed of himself. Change it to two iron maces.

In addition to strong generals like Yang Zaixing and Niu Gao, Chen Qing also has a pair of black and white dual evils under his command, brothers Liu Cui and Liu Qiong, one is fair-skinned and the other is dark-skinned. They are all brave generals of the three armies.

Under the leadership of the demon Chen Qing, the four fierce generals killed a bloody storm in the Xixia army.

Although the Xixia Army is known for its tenacity in combat, it is not easy to say defeat, especially the Baochuan Army Garrison is an elite army. A few years ago, it jointly attacked Liao with the Jin Bing, and it has never failed in more than ten battles.

But today they fell into a big somersault. In front of the Song army with obvious advantages, the casualties were extremely heavy, with more than [-]% of the casualties.

At this time, twilight fell, and the enemy and the enemy could still be distinguished in the semi-darkness.

Li Muyuan, the leader of the Xixia Army, saw that his army was doomed. He was really unwilling to reconcile, and he wanted to find the leader of the Song Army, and tried to kill the leader of the Song Army to make a comeback.

His gaze finally fell on Chen Qing, the most murderous man. He killed no less than 300 Xixia soldiers, and all of them died horribly. This man is simply a demon in the world. He saw that Chen Qing was followed by thirty fierce cavalrymen , one of them held up a big flag, with the word 'Chen' written on the flag, it is estimated that this is their chief general.

Li Muyuan drew out an arrow, stretched his bow and set the arrow, aimed at Chen Qing's side neck and shot it. The arrow hit the side without a sound, and a soldier shouted, "General, watch out!"

Chen Qing also felt that there was a piercing look behind him, he turned his head suddenly, and the arrow brushed past his neck, just missing his life by a hair's breadth.

Seeing that the opponent dodged the arrow unexpectedly, Li Muyuan turned his horse and fled.

Chen Qing was furious, turned his head and stared at the enemy general, put Fang Tian's painted halberd on the saddle, took off the Dingyuan bow, galloped the horse, drew an arrow from behind, and shot it at the back of the enemy's neck , the speed of this arrow was much faster than that of the opponent, but Chen Qing judged that the enemy would hide, so he moved slightly to the right.

When Li Muyuan heard the wind in the back of his head, he instinctively flicked to the right, 'Puff! The arrow hit the back of the neck, and the tip of the arrow shot out from the throat, Li Muyuan's body swayed, and he fell off the horse with a plop.