Fenghou

Chen Qing raised the short spear in his hand and said with a smile, "I will use this this time!"

"Too cruel!"

Yang Zaixing muttered something in a low voice, his eyes scanned the lake very sharply, and suddenly he stretched his bow and shot an arrow, and a stream of blood gushed up from the water.

If Yang Zaixing's arrow technique is exquisite, then the killing by the chief general Chen Qing is much simpler and more brutal, like stabbing a fish, and four corpses floated up next to them, all of which were pierced by a spear, or pierced through the neck, or Pierce the heart.

Chen Qing held a short spear in his hand and stared sharply at the water. Behind him stood four soldiers, each holding a dozen short spears.

Chen Qing not only looked at the bamboo tube, but also watched the color change of the water surface. At this moment, a black shadow floated silently under the water. Feeling cold, he floated up and down after struggling a few times.

This is why Chen Qing uses a short spear, which can penetrate deeper. In just a short time, 21 corpses of water ghosts floated around the big boat. The first corpse that was shot through the neck and floated was the General Sun Dinghai.

On the other side, Yang Zaixing also shot and killed fifteen water ghosts.

Maybe it was because his arms were a little sore, but Chen Qing lost interest. With a wave of his hand, dozens of soldiers rushed forward one after another, shooting and killing the underwater water ghosts with crossbow arrows. Not long after, all fifty water ghosts were shot and killed, and none of them slipped through the net. .

At this time, Yang Yao led dozens of small boats and several vehicles and boats to flee to Junshan's lair, and just a dozen miles away, dozens of Song Army ships appeared, full of [-] Song Army soldiers, and rushed to Junshan.

Chen Qing's big ship also ended the surface battle, gathered together with dozens of ships, and sailed to Junshan Island together...

"Dang! Dang! Dang!"

Alarm bells rang out on Junshan Island, and Yang Yao, who had just landed, also found the fleet ten miles away behind him, and his scalp exploded in shock. Song Jun killed them so quickly?

He immediately shouted loudly: "The whole army is assembled, ready to fight!"

Although more than half of his troops have been transferred to Changde Mansion, Junshan is his lair after all. There are still a lot of supplies, food and grass, wealth he has accumulated, and even some family members of soldiers who are too late to evacuate. How could he Are you willing to run away like this?

Yang Yao's main village was built on the hillside, close to the mountain. There are hundreds of buildings, most of them are warehouses, and there is also a large-scale commercial tile. The soldiers live in the big tent, the nearest The water bay is about two miles long, and the walls of the village are all made of stones.

At present, there are more than [-] soldiers in Yang Yao's village. The walls of the village are densely packed with soldiers holding bows and crossbows. Everyone's face is full of nervousness. After all, this is the first time that officers and soldiers have attacked Junshan Island.

The timing of Chen Qing's attack on Junshan was very coincidental, it happened to be halfway through the relocation of Yang Yao's army. Since Chen Qing killed [-] bandit soldiers in Huarong County, Yang Yao and his men's sense of crisis has deepened. When it came to the importance of strategic depth, all of them gathered on Junshan Island, and they could easily be taken away by the Song army. Thinking of Chen Qing's murderous killings, there was nowhere to escape on Junshan Island.

Most of the generals strongly demanded to move to Changde Mansion, and Yang Yao complied with the request of the soldiers and began to move ten days ago. Most of the nearly [-] troops moved away, leaving only the last [-] troops left behind.

Yang Yao moved to Changde Mansion with his wife and children. Yang Yao went back to Junshan today to transport money, but unexpectedly met Chen Qing who led an army to attack Junshan.

Of course, for Chen Qing, this is no coincidence.

Fifty large ships sailed into the bay, and a hundred small boats began to send the Song army ashore. The Song army quickly assembled on the shore, and the bandits dared not come out to attack, lest they would be killed by the Song army and enter the cottage.

Chen Qing and his war horse also went ashore. He got on his horse and looked around. A guide pointed to a short mountain two miles away and said, "General, Yang Yao's main stronghold is that cottage!"

The guide's surname is Wang, and he was also a member of the bandit army on the island more than ten days ago. When Chen Qing killed them all and built the capital with more than 1 human heads, many soldiers were frightened and swam into the water when they were unprepared. Let's go, I became deserters, at least two or 3000 people became deserters.

This guide surnamed Wang was one of the deserters. He was one of the first batch of peasants who followed Zhong Xiang and Yang Yao to rebel. Ya introduced him to Chen Qing as a guide.

The sun was glaring, Chen Qing set up a hand curtain and looked towards the cottage. The mountain is indeed not high, at most hundreds of feet, the hillside is gentle, halfway up the mountain is full of houses, and a white wall is built around the mountain like a belt.

Chen Qing laughed. Compared to the fortress in Qinzhou, this cottage is really childish. The hillside is gentle. Except for the cottage, the entire short hill is covered with all kinds of big trees and shrubs.

Having experienced too many cruel offensive and defensive battles in the Northwest, almost all of Chen Qing's subordinates were able to take charge of their own.

Zheng Ping yelled as soon as he got off the boat, "Damn it! Do they know how to fight? They think we are foolish soldiers who will attack up the mountain road? I will set the **** on fire."

Several generals felt the same way, Yang Yao was too inexperienced to guard against enemy fire at all.

Chen Qing said with a smile: "Maybe they never thought that we would attack Junshan."

"Dutong, order to burn the mountain!" The generals shouted eagerly.

"Don't worry! I have to give the Xuan Fushi an explanation. This is the condition I reached with him. Send an order and project a letter of persuasion!"

Chapter 288 The First Battle

Several gunpowder barrels exploded on the top of the cottage, and what came out were not poisonous nails, but thousands of letters of persuasion, and thousands of pieces of paper fell into the cottage like snowflakes.

"Da Songyue, Ezhen Fushi and Yuezhou Governor, all in charge Chen Qing told all the soldiers in Dongting Junshan Bandit Village: You must surrender before dark, I will guarantee their safety, and hand them over to Xuan Fushi for disposal, and they will not surrender when it is too late Those who are killed without mercy! '

Yang Yao was furious, and immediately sent three teams to confiscate the letter of persuasion to surrender. Those who dared to hide it privately would be executed immediately, but nearly half of the letter of persuasion to surrender was not recovered.

Chen Qing immediately deployed troops in three places, blocking the three roads down the mountain, and the soldiers of the Song Army waited patiently for dark.

Yang Yao also sent people to watch the soldiers, not allowing anyone to go out and surrender.

As the sun gradually set to the west, Yang Yao's guards also relaxed. Finally, some soldiers seized the opportunity and escaped from the stronghold to surrender. More and more soldiers surrendered.

At this time, Song Jun had already smeared a lot of kerosene in the mountain forest. With Chen Qing's order, thousands of rockets were fired at the forest at the same time, and the forest at the foot of the mountain began to burn.

The fire was raging, the flames were raging, the smoke was billowing, the flames spit out and spread to the mountain, the soldiers in the cottage finally reacted, and they were terrified. Many people fled down the mountain road, shouting for mercy.

This time, Chen Qing restrained his murderous intent to the greatest extent and did not order the massacre of the surrenders. After all, he had promised Li Gang that he did not want to offend Li Gang in this matter, causing the relationship between the two to deteriorate.

He ordered to accept all those who surrendered, no matter when they surrendered, as long as they put down their weapons, they could not be killed.

At one watch, when the fire was at its peak, the entire mountain was engulfed by the fire, and the smoke shot straight into the sky. The flames rolled up tens of feet high, and were clearly visible on the city wall of Baling County.

At this time, Li Gang was on the head of Baling County. He arrived at noon and asked Chen Qing for important matters. Unexpectedly, Chen Qing led the army to kill Junshan. This surprised and delighted Li Gang. Killing Junshan once, Chen Qing realized it only 20 days after he came to Yuezhou.

Yan Yun sighed and said to Li Gang: "As expected of the Western Army, they fought bravely. They attacked Junshan in the first battle. This should be burning Yang Yao's Junshan stronghold."

Li Gang smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know if he didn't fulfill his promise to me, or he still killed all the prisoners of war?"

Li Gang seemed to be talking to himself, but in fact he was asking Yang Yuanqing, who was in charge of guarding Baling County, Yang Yuanqing said with a smile: "If Chen Dutong agrees to the Xuanfu envoy, he will keep his promise, and his humble position can guarantee that he will not kill him." captured."

"If that's the case, I'm relieved!"

……

At noon the next day, a heavy rain came unexpectedly and extinguished the still burning forest fire.

Chen Qing sent a scout team up the mountain to check. Half an hour later, the scout team led more than 2000 panic-stricken bandits down the mountain and surrendered. Half of the cottage was already burned. They escaped the fire by hiding in the northeast corner. But their courage has been frightened, and they have completely lost the will to resist.

When they found the Song army scouts who came to check the situation, they immediately came out and surrendered.

"Reporting to Dutong, there is no one in the cottage. The humble official got the news that Yang Yao might have escaped."

Chen Qing said angrily: "I blocked all the exits, how could he escape?"

"Dutong, some surrendered soldiers said that there is a secret passage in the cottage."

"Who said it, find it for me!"

Not long after, the scouts brought up a surrendered soldier, and the soldier knelt down and said, "There is indeed a secret passage, the villain has carried supplies in before, and the entrance is behind Yang Yao's Juyi Hall!"

"Lead the way immediately!"

Under the leadership of the soldiers who surrendered, Chen Qing personally led 3000 people up the mountain. The gate of the cottage had been burned down. When entering the cottage, you can see the bodies of bandit soldiers who were burned to death and smoked to death everywhere. There are at least 3000 to [-] people.

Chen Qing suddenly remembered something, and asked the soldiers who led the way: "Where are the people, women and family members of the bandits who were captured in the village?"

"Reporting to the general, they were transferred to Changde Mansion a few days ago."

"No, the family members have not been transferred there!"

The soldier was a little surprised, how did the other party know?He had no choice but to honestly say: "The family members have been transferred to Changde Mansion at the beginning of the year, and the low-ranking people are also involved in the transfer. This matter is very secretive. The local people don't even know that the new neighbors are Yang Yao's family members. This is Yang Yao's consistent behavior. The technique, the Three Caves of the Rabbit, has already arranged the escape route for the families of the generals."

"You're talking about the general's family, but what about the soldier's family?"

"Only a very small number of soldiers have family members. They farm and grow vegetables on the outskirts. When the cottage caught fire, they probably all scared away."

Chen Qing nodded, "I want to know the warehouse, where is the warehouse?"

The soldier pointed to more than a dozen rows of masonry houses in the distance, the exterior of which was blackened by thick smoke, "That is the warehouse. It used to be surrounded by barracks and was heavily guarded. Now the barracks have been burned down, and the supplies in the house are unknown. how?"

Chen Qing ordered Yang Zaixing and Liu Cui to lead [-] troops each to clean up the unburned money, food and materials. He personally led [-] soldiers into the main building.

Walking into the Juyi Hall, the chairs on both sides are still there. It is said that Yang Yao imitated Liang Shanbo. Each chair is a bandit army leader, which happens to be 36 chairs, and two redwood chairs with wide backs are placed directly above them.

"The one on the left is the former leader Zhong Xiang's chair, which was later inherited by his son Zhong Ziyi. Zhong Ziyi died a few months ago, so the chair is empty. On the right is Yang Yao's chair."

Behind the two top chairs is an altar, on which there is a huge signboard with four big golden characters written on it, 'Walk the Way for Heaven'.

The soldier pushed open the altar, and a six-foot-high and five-foot-wide wooden door suddenly appeared below, "General, this is the entrance!"

"Lugui!"

Chen Qing yelled, and a general came over with a single-handled copper hammer. This is Lu Gui, who served in the army in Linyou County. Next to Niu Gao, he held a long-handled copper hammer weighing forty jin.

"I am humble!"

Chen Qing glanced at the wooden door and said, "Use your copper hammer to break it open!"

"Follow the order!"

Lu Gui took two steps back, swung the copper hammer and slammed it hard at the wooden door, 'Crack! 'With a loud shattering sound, the two-inch thick wooden door was smashed to pieces, revealing a large black hole.

"Giant shield go ahead, go in and take a look!"

A commander led [-] giant shield soldiers holding their shields high and walked into the black hole with short spears in their hands. Someone in front raised a torch, which quickly lit up. After a while, someone shouted: "Dutong, there is no one in there!" Already!"

Only then did Chen Qing walk into the cave. The cave was actually a long corridor. People didn't have to bow their heads. After walking for dozens of steps, it dawned on them that there was a hall inside, which was actually a large natural cave, inside which piled A lot of boxes, and a lot of food.

"Dutong, these few things!"

The soldiers clicked their tongues while pointing at some pieces of furniture, "It's actually made of gold!"

In fact, the most important thing is a bed and a chair, both of which are made of gold, inlaid with precious stones and beautiful jade, the bed weighs two hundred catties, the chair weighs sixty catties, and there are several chairs beside it made of ivory. made.

It was indeed too extravagant, and I probably wanted to carry it away, but I didn't have time to take it away in a hurry, so I hid them in the hole. The box was probably also personal property such as silver and gold, so I couldn't carry it away.

Soon, Chen Qing knew the reason why he couldn't carry it away. A soldier came forward and reported, "The exit is on the west side. The hole is very small, so we can only climb out. There is an inlet below. There may be ships moored. They escaped by boat." gone."

"Then don't worry about it, move everything out!"

When Chen Qing left the cave and walked out of the Juyi Hall, Yang Zaixing and Liu Cui had cleared out all the money, food and materials. There were as many as 13 copper coins, 8 taels of silver, 5000 taels of gold, and hundreds of thousands of pieces of cloth. , As for grain, grass and other materials, they have not been cleared. The grain is at least more than [-] shi, as well as precious wood, spices, medicinal materials, silk and satin, etc.

These are all property looted from the Yangtze River waterway. Yang Yao came back yesterday to remove them, but he happened to be attacked by the Song army, and naturally Chen Qing got them all.

At this time, a soldier ran over and said, "Report to Dutong, the envoy Xuan Fu is in Baling, please return to Baling County immediately, and let me know if there is something urgent."

Chen Qing nodded, and said to Zheng Ping and Yang Zaixing: "I will go back first, and then you will transport all the money, food and materials back to Baling County, the houses in Junshan will be destroyed, and all the cottages will be set on fire. The bandits are not allowed to return to Junshan !"

"I obey the order!" The two bowed and agreed together.

Chapter 289 Mutiny

Chen Qing rushed back to Baling County in a small boat.

In the prefectural office, Chen Qing met Li Gang who had been waiting for him for a long time. The two sat down. Li Gang smiled and asked, "I'm curious. You attacked Junshan in the first battle. What's your trick?"

Chen Qing smiled slightly and said, "Don't hide it from the envoy, the secret of the humble position is just two words, 'Information!', this is also the key to the low position's ability to predict the enemy first in the Northwest."

"Be specific!"

"One of the main purposes of Beizhi's establishment in Huarong County is to hope that some soldiers of the bandit army will flee back to their hometowns. It is indeed effective. Beizhi learned some important information from them. For example, half of the time this year, Yang Yao was in Changde Mansion. For example, a large amount of supplies and soldiers went to Changde Mansion, so he judged that Yang Yao was transferring the ruling center from Junshan to Changde Mansion, and immediately sent scouts to Changde Mansion to monitor, and found that Yang Yao had built a castle in Dingkoudang. The huge water village, behind Wuling County, has become Yang Yao's new and old lair."

"and then?"

"Then Beizhi learned from a thief soldier who escaped back that there were only more than ten thousand soldiers left on Junshan Island. Yang Yao was not on the island, and Beizhi was waiting for Yang Yao to return to Junshan Island. There was news from Changde, When Yang Yao's fleet returned to Junshan, I knew it was time to attack."

Li Gang nodded in praise and said: "As expected of a victorious general who has experienced many battles, he is really different. This experience is worth promoting. In addition, we have reached an exchange agreement."

Chen Qing laughed, "I didn't massacre the surrendering soldiers. In fact, I didn't fight the enemy at all. I set fire to the forest around Dazhai. 8000 of the [-] defenders went down the mountain to ask for surrender. I will hand them over later. Give it to the envoy."

"There are no prisoners of war in water battles?"

"One thing, there are only a hundred or so people, and the water is not easy to catch. Moreover, this army is Yang Yao's guard army. We can only shoot them all!"

Li Gang also just asked casually, he also knew that it would be very difficult for Chen Qing not to kill the prisoners of war, and it was impossible to expect him to be merciful in the fierce battle.

"Okay! I'm here this time because I have important news to tell you that the puppet state of Qi launched a large-scale attack on Xiangyang. Unfortunately, the Song army was defeated in both battles. The Guanghua army guard Wang Jin was killed. The entire army was wiped out. We broke through, and Junzhou fell, and now thirty thousand puppet Qi troops are attacking Xiangyang, the situation is critical, and the imperial court cannot draw reinforcements, so I can only concentrate our forces with Wang Yan to support Xiangyang."

Chen Qing hurriedly asked: "Do you need to send troops to support from humble positions?"

Li Gang shook his head, "We still have [-] troops, more than enough to deal with [-] puppet Qi troops. As long as Xiangyang is not lost, the situation will not deteriorate. You should continue to attack Yang Yao, don't give up halfway!"

After a pause, Li Gang said apologetically, "I have another bad news to tell you. The government issued a gold medal order and urgently dispatched the Yangtze River Navy back to Runzhou."

"why?"

"It seems that the Jin soldiers appeared on the north bank of the Yangtze River. The court was frightened and ordered the navy to return to Runzhou immediately."

Chen Qing was speechless, as long as Jin Bing appeared on the north bank of the Yangtze River, he would be frightened like this.

"But when the water army returns, Yang Yao will be unable to attack."

"I know, you keep these fifty warships and five thousand sailors, and there are dozens of warships and thousands of sailors on the other side of Poyang Lake. They will fill in the vacancies. I will write to the court to explain the situation clearly. .”

"Thank you Xuanfu envoy!"

"There are also trophies. I also want to tell you something. I have heard that all the trophies you got in the northwest were distributed to soldiers. It is said that you were impeached by Zhu Shengfei, right?"