Fenghou

Chen Qingliu Huyantong led [-] troops to defend the city, and he personally led [-] troops to chase after the enemy's main force.

To prepare for this battle, Chen Qing stationed [-] troops in Chengji County, including [-] cavalry and [-] infantry.

Before Liu Qiong led [-] infantry to Weishui City, and left another [-] infantry to defend the city, but last night, Yang Zaixing led [-] cavalry to go one step ahead.

At present, Chen Qing's [-] army is composed of [-] cavalry and [-] infantry, and he is bound to win this battle.

After chasing for twenty miles, the scouts in front reported, "The puppet Qi army has formed a formation at ten miles, ready to fight us to the death!"

Of course, Chen Qing would not hand over the initiative to the other party. He smiled slightly and said, "Pass on my order, the whole army stay put and rest!"

If Li Cheng wanted to set up a decisive battle, he asked him to do so, and wait until dark for the decisive battle.

Chen Qing's real killer move to defeat the opponent was night battle.

Chapter 545 The Final Battle

Time passed little by little, and every quarter of an hour was a huge torment for Li Cheng. Nearly two hours had passed, but Song Jun hadn't arrived yet. At this time, Guan Shigu stepped forward and said, "The latest news I just got , Chen Qing still hasn’t set off ten miles away, I guess he is waiting for us to run out of food, and now the morale of the brothers is exhausted, tired and hungry, and they are all in order, waiting like this is not an option, it is better to cross the Weihe River and go up!”

"No!"

Yao Bing immediately objected: "It is no small matter for an army of [-] to cross the river, and they will definitely be attacked by him halfway across the river. At this time, we must not act rashly and expose our fighters to the opponent."

Li Cheng nodded. He also thought that crossing the river was not a good way. He pondered for a while and said, "Let the army eat first. If we don't come after dinner, we will continue to march. We still have one day of food, so we can't be delayed any longer." .”

"What if the Song army attacks us at night?" Guan Shigu worried.

Li Cheng had already figured it out, they actually had no choice now.

"If he comes, we will fight him, and if he does not come, we will leave. In short, we cannot be led by his nose. We must take the initiative."

Yao Bing nodded, "There is no other way."

"Actually there is another way."

Guan Shigu pondered for a while and said: "Leave 3 people behind and hold back the enemy army, and the remaining [-] main forces will quickly withdraw to the east."

Li Cheng sighed softly. This method is actually good, but it's a pity that it's a step too late. It would be great if it was done at noon. It's almost dark now, how long can 3 people support, and the opponent has [-] cavalry!It is very likely that they will be defeated by the opponent one by one.

But Guan Shigu's suggestion makes sense, sacrifice the few to make the majority come true.

Just when Li Cheng was in a dilemma, suddenly a cavalry came to report, "Report to Dutong, the Song army has already arrived, and they are only five miles away from us!"

Li Cheng was taken aback, and hurriedly ordered: "Order the whole army to prepare for battle!"

"Woo—" The puppet Qi army's horn sounded.

At this time, the ground shook slightly, and the galloping of [-] cavalry could be felt several miles away. In the distance, the loess covered the sky and covered the sun, rolling towards us like a high wall.

This momentum made the puppet Qi soldiers nervous, their legs trembled, and the hand holding the spear trembled slightly.

But soon, the speed of the Song Army cavalry slowed down, getting slower and slower, and finally stopped a mile away from the puppet Qi Army formation.

At this time, the sun had already set and the dusk was dim. The soldiers of the Song Army rested for two hours, had enough food and drink, and were ready to fight at night with the Puppet Qi Army.

This is also the characteristic of Chen Qing's army. They are good at night battles. All soldiers have undergone strict training for night battles. Forty thousand troops lined up in the wilderness.

However, the Song army remained silent and did not take the initiative to attack the puppet Qi army. The two sides confronted each other. Time passed quickly, and the last bright color on the horizon was about to disappear.

Li Chengyi gritted his teeth and shouted: "The archers retreat, the first army, the second army, and the third army are ready to attack!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The war drums sounded like thunder.

The puppet Qi army's [-] crossbowmen retreated, and the [-] spear army rushed up.

Just when the [-] troops were about to attack, there was a panic shout from behind the puppet Qi army, and the [-] cavalry led by Yang Zaixing came from behind.

The puppet Qi army panicked, and the ranks were in chaos. Li Cheng shouted anxiously: "Order General Guan to lead the left wing to go up, hold it for me!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The drums of the Song Army sounded, and Chen Qing was waiting for this moment. He held up Fang Tian's painted halberd and shouted: "This is the battle to break the enemy, kill!"

"Kill!"

Thirty thousand cavalry suddenly mobilized and rushed towards the middle army of the puppet Qi army.

Li Cheng shouted: "The archers are ready!"

At this time, the puppet Qi army was flanked by the Song army, and the morale of the army was in turmoil. A general shouted: "Qi Dutong, the archers have retreated just now, and it may be too late to re-arrange!"

Li Cheng's head was as big as a fight, so he had to order: "The spear army will fight with me!"

He personally led an army of [-] spears to fight, and Chen Qing ordered in a deep voice: "Avoid its sharp edge, attack its two wings!"

'Woo!Woo!Woo! The horn sounded continuously, and the [-] cavalry suddenly separated to the two sides, hitting directly on both sides of the [-] army, while the [-] Song infantry came up with shields and short spears, and violently collided with the enemy.

The puppet Qi army was tired and hungry, their morale was low, and they encountered extremely unaccustomed night battles. They couldn't withstand the impact of the Song army's cavalry at all. .

The Song army cavalry took the opportunity to shout, "Qi army has escaped! Qi army has escaped!"

The morale of the puppet Qi army was shaken. I don't know how many people fled in the dark, which caused panic among the soldiers. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, thousands of thousands... It was like an avalanche, and the number of fleeing soldiers became more and more Many, all of them were terrified, scrambling to escape for their lives, and the one hundred thousand army collapsed.

In the wilderness, the soldiers of the puppet Qi army ran wildly, took off their heavy armor, threw away their weapons, and threw away everything that hindered their escape. They just wished they could grow two more legs.

But no matter how the soldiers fled, they couldn't escape the Song Army cavalry. The Song Army cavalry chased them up and shouted: "If the Han people don't kill the Han people, those who surrender will not die!"

In desperation, countless soldiers knelt down and raised their hands to surrender. Li Cheng, under the desperate protection of hundreds of his own soldiers, made a bloody road and fled eastward desperately. .

Li Cheng ran for more than forty miles in one breath, and more than a dozen horses vomited blood and fell to the ground. Everyone had to stop their horses to rest. They were exhausted and sat down in front of a pine forest.

Li Cheng suddenly looked up to the sky and cried loudly, a hundred thousand troops!How could he explain to the emperor when the whole army was destroyed like this?

He suddenly pulled out his sword and wanted to kill himself. The soldiers had been on guard for a long time, and they rushed up and grabbed his sword. The commander of the soldiers, Zou Huang, knelt down and cried, "It's not that all failures in this battle are incompetent. It's because the opponent is strong. Even the Xixia army has been defeated by him several times, even if Wan Yanchang came to command, they will definitely be defeated."

Everyone persuaded him one after another, and Li Changchang sighed, "Chen Qing's wings have been formed, and he will become a major disaster on Shaanxi Road in the future. What can I do?"

At this time, another group of cavalry came rushing from a distance. There were more than a thousand people, guarding a group of scribes. The leader was Yao Bing, his aide. Yao Bing did not participate in the battle. , Standing outside the formation, thus escaped a catastrophe.

Li Chengying stepped forward and asked, "Did you see General Guan?"

Yao Bing shook his head, "I can't see anything in the dark night, no news at all?"

Li Cheng had no choice but to say: "Sir, rest first!"

Li Cheng gathered more than a thousand cavalry, and ordered the soldiers to cut up the meat and boil soup of a dozen exhausted horses to satisfy their hunger.

Yao Bing stepped forward and said, "Think about it on the way to humble position. If I were Chen Qing, I would definitely send troops to capture Weishui City and cut off our retreat."

Li Cheng nodded, "This is indeed in line with Chen Qing's work. He has never leaked water. Since he sent people to sneak into the barracks and burn our food and grass, he is planning to fight us. Even their bravery at night shows that they have been specially trained. It shows that he has far-sightedness, and I am indeed inferior to him, and I am convinced that I have lost this battle."

After a pause, he continued: "I also agree with Mr.'s judgment. The Weishui River is probably lost. We really need to make preparations to retreat from Deshun Prefecture."

At noon, Li Cheng gathered another four or five thousand defeated troops. At the same time, he got the exact news that the Weishui Army City had been occupied by the Song Army, and they immediately built a pontoon bridge to evacuate to the northeast. Only six thousand soldiers escaped.

……

As the sky gradually dawned, teams of soldiers were escorted by Song Army cavalry to Chengji County. In this battle, the Puppet Qi Army suffered nearly 5000 casualties, and thousands of people escaped. In addition to other sporadic deaths, the last [-] soldiers became Song Army prisoners of war.

A group of 500 prisoners of war were escorted to the city gate of Chengji County. At this time, a soldier was left alone, and the Song army was about to wave his whip, and the soldier quickly clasped his fists and said: "General, calm down, I have important information to report! "

"What information?" Song Jundu's whip stopped in the air.

The soldier pointed at the team and said, "The third row, the one with the yellow hat is our deputy capital commander!"

Song Jun was overjoyed, and hurriedly reported to Liu Cui who was next to him. Liu Cui was taken aback, and hurriedly led hundreds of cavalry to rush up, and stopped the 500-man surrender team.

Liu Cui looked at it for a while, then pointed to one of them, "You, come out!"

The man took off his yellow hat, sighed, and said, "Nephew, your father was never so rude to me. No matter how bad I was, I taught you how to shoot arrows for three months. Isn't it worth asking?"

This person is Guan Shigu, the deputy general of the Puppet Qi Army.

5Chapter 16 Take Care

Guan Shigu was taken to the commander's tent of the barracks, Chen Qing waved his hand and said with a smile: "Guan Dutong, we haven't seen each other for a long time, please sit down!"

Guan Shigu sat down silently, feeling quite emotional in his heart, when he saw Chen Qing back then, Chen Qing was just a commander, and the Qin State made an envoy, and in just a few years, Chen Qing became a vassal.

Chen Qing was also quite polite to Guan Shigu, after all, more than half of the mid-level generals in his army were once Guan Shigu's former troops.

"Guan Dutong also saw it. Although I am nicknamed Human Devil, it is actually only for the Jurchen and Xixia people. I tried not to kill in this battle. Only a few thousand puppet Qi soldiers were killed in battle, and more than 8 people were captured. Everyone We are all Han people, so we should unite together to expel the Tartars and restore our Han family, this is the bounden duty of our soldiers."

Guan Dutong sneered in his heart, he knew very well how Chen Qing's nickname came from, wasn't it because he killed all of them in Guanzhong, leaving no prisoners of war in the Qi army?Jingguan outside Jingzhao City does not have the head of a Jurchen soldier, and now they need prisoners of war, so they say such beautiful words.

But he didn't expose Chen Qing's words, he just said indifferently: "Isn't it the Great Song Dynasty to restore the Han family's country?"

Chen Qing smiled, "The Song Dynasty is just a passer-by in the land of China. Could it last forever? If the Song Dynasty is destroyed by the Jin people, we will give up resistance?"

Guan Shigu shook his head with a smile: "I understand Chen Dutong's current situation. Chen Dutong came to me because he didn't want to talk about these things!"

Chen Qing nodded, "Guan Dutong should know what I want to say, I will give Guan Dutong a chance."

Guan Shigu pondered for a moment, then sighed and said: "I am over half a hundred years old. I have been in the Western Army for 30 years. I have been a soldier for half my life. I am really tired. My biggest dream is to teach a few students and plant a few acres of land in my spare time. Raising a pond of fish, with my grandson around my lap, can Chen Dutong understand?"

Chen Qing smiled and said: "I can understand, Guan Dutong, please rest assured, I will send someone to bring your family back!"

……

Chen Qing ordered someone to take Guan Shigu down to rest. At this time, Liu Cui walked in and clasped his fists, "Dutong, can you allow me to intercede for Guan Shigu!"

Chen Qing looked at him in surprise: "Why do you ask for love? Do you think I'm going to kill him?"

Liu Cui was startled, and said happily, "Is he willing to surrender?"

Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "No one is willing to do things for Puppet Qi. He has no future and is useless. It's just that his family members are all in Bianliang, so he can't express his opinion, so our top priority is to rescue his family members."

"Then simply declare that he has died in battle, and the puppet Qi court will not pay attention to his family."

Chen Qing nodded, "That's what I think."

Liu Cui hurriedly said: "Let's leave this matter to the humble staff!"

"It seems that you care about him very much!"

Liu Cui smiled wryly and said, "When my father was appointed as the envoy of Xihe Road, Mr. Guan was the deputy envoy. Our two families are family friends. If I can't handle this matter well, I can't explain it to my father."

Chen Qing said lightly: "I see, you go to reorganize the soldiers, and I will take care of Guan Shigu's affairs, so just leave it alone."

"Humble post obeys orders!"

Chen Qing then walked out of the barracks and went up to the inner city wall. The [-] surrendered soldiers sat and rested in the outer city. Groups of soldiers of the Song Army carried large baskets full of steamed buns and distributed steamed buns and hot soup to the prisoners.

Some prisoners of war who had finished their lunch had already started queuing up to register, including their name, age, place of origin, family situation, etc., and then went outside the city for reorganization.

Zhang Xiao said from the side: "Just now, I walked around and found a lot of old and weak soldiers. There are still a lot of them. I'm worried that we won't be able to reach our goal in the end."

Chen Qing smiled and said: "Don't worry, we are not all for recruiting soldiers, giving them land, giving them tax exemption, giving them a chance to stay away from war and live and work in peace, and they will naturally take their families to Xihe Road, Taohe Valley The land and Hehuang Valley can be developed, and our army rations will be guaranteed.”

A trace of shame appeared on Zhang Xiao's face, and he said, "Tutong still has a long-term vision, and a humble job only considers the army, so his vision is narrow."

At this time, the soldiers stepped forward and said, "Dutong, Yang Zhizhou is here."

When Chen Qing turned his head, he saw Yang Yuanqing standing far away. He had lost a lot of weight.

Chen Qing nodded, gave Zhang Xiao a few more instructions, and then walked towards Yang Yuanqing with a smile.

Yang Yuanqing is now aware of Qinzhou affairs, but he is really embarrassed as the governor. Not to mention that the power in his hand was taken away by the Jinglue Mansion, and the officials of the prefectural government are still obsequious to him. Can't mix inside.

Now Yang Yuanqing began to regret it. He was originally from Wu Jie, and Wu Jie was transferred back to the court to sit on the bench. He also received a letter from Wu Jie, in which he felt Wu Jie's frustration.

In particular, Liu Zan and Cao De successively came to seek refuge with Chen Qing, Yang Zaixing and Zheng Ping were promoted to commanders, Gao Ding, Liu Cui, Liu Qiong, Niu Gao and others were promoted to commanders, but his knowledge of Qinzhou was delayed by the court. Only when he recognized it did he finally wake up and realize his stupidity.

Chen Qing stepped up and asked concerned: "Why did Lao Yang lose a lot of weight! Is he not in good health?"

The sound of 'Old Yang' made Yang Yuanqing's nose sore, and he said quickly: "The humble worker is in good health, thank you for your concern."

Chen Qing nodded, waved his hand and said, "Let's go!"

The two walked slowly along the city wall. Chen Qing said with a smile: "When I led the army to Jingzhao to kill Yan Loushi, there were only 500 people. Now our army has more than [-]. It's only been a few years. It's like a dream."

"The next step of Dutong should be to seize Shaanxi Road!"

"It will be a matter of time before we seize the Shaanxi Road, but we still need to train our troops and use time to digest the [-] soldiers. We still have to wait for the opportunity."

After walking for a while, Yang Yuanqing sighed and said: "As for the matter of supervising the army, the humble official did not handle it well. The supervising army should not be allowed to enter Chengji County. The humble official trusts the court too much."

Chen Qing smiled and said: "The matter is over, don't mention it!"

Yang Yuanqing was a little excited and said: "How can you not say it! If the humble official does not let Wang Xian enter Qinzhou, he will not be killed, and Dutong will not break with the court because of this. This is all caused by the humble official's momentary confusion."

"Do you think I have broken with the court?"

"I was ignorant and ignorant before, but now I understand some things. The Xihe army has reached [-]. How can the court tolerate Dutong? The death of the supervisor is just an excuse. The emperor summoned Dutong to Lin'an to report on his duties. It must be In order to win Dutong, if Dutong refuses to go back, it means a break."