Fenghou

Time gradually approached the middle of the night, the sky was covered with dark clouds, there was no starlight or moonlight, and the night was extremely dark. Gao Ding led [-] troops to gradually approach the south gate. At the same time, he sent another [-] soldiers to the east city as a backup plan.

The top of the city was very quiet. Two groups of soldiers were patrolling the top of the city. Neither of them realized that the war had come. In their consciousness, the war was still happening far away.

Including the general Jin Bing also had the same awareness. This was the consequence of the information lagging behind. The information they just got was already ten days ago. Within ten days, Song Jun had killed them before their eyes.

At this time, a patrol team of 200 people came out of the alley next to the inn and ran to the city head. Yang Rui waved his hand, and they immediately divided into two groups. 100 people were in charge of controlling the city gate, while Yang Rui led a team Hundreds of soldiers rushed to the city along the corridor.

"Password!"

A soldier on the watchtower saw the patrol coming towards him.Immediately shouted.

"Asshole! You don't even know me anymore, what password do you need?"

"I don't know you, come..."

The soldier didn't shout out, someone from behind covered his mouth and stabbed him hard in the back of the heart.

There was only this soldier on duty in front of the tower, and the others were sleeping in the tower. With a wave of Yang Rui's hand, he kicked open the gate and entered with a knife.

As expected of being a killer, Yang Rui was exceptionally decisive and never dragged his feet. The thirty or so soldiers on the top of the city were all killed by him and his men.

The drawbridge creaked and lowered, and the city gates opened. Three soldiers lit torches and waved them into the distant darkness.

Gao Ding led [-] soldiers just one mile away. When he saw three torches, he immediately ordered: "Go into the city!"

Nine thousand soldiers, led by Gao Ding, rushed towards the south gate...

But things are often so coincidental. The third watch happened to be the time for the changing of the guard. More than 1000 soldiers came out of the barracks and were about to go to different places to change the guard. Come, shout: "There are enemies at the South Gate!"

Uzabu was taken aback, and shouted: "The whole army follows me to the south gate!"

He led a thousand soldiers along the street towards the south gate one mile away. On the top of the city, Yang Rui saw a thousand enemy troops running towards the gate from a distance. The enemy army obviously arrived at the south gate faster than the Song army. Close the gates, and they will fall short.

At this time, it is unrealistic to go to Dongcheng again, Yang Rui made a decisive decision and shouted, "Brothers, come with me to stop the enemy!"

He only left 180 soldiers to protect the city, and the remaining [-] quickly assembled under the city.

More than 1000 puppet Qi troops killed like a tide. The Song army fired arrows together, and the dense arrows shot at the enemy. The enemy running in front fell down one after another. Not heavy, only dozens of people were hit by arrows.

Uzabu roared, "Kill it!"

A thousand soldiers rushed forward, Yang Rui waved his spear and shouted sharply: "Brothers, kill!"

180 scouts of the Song army shouted and killed them. The scouts were all elites of the Song army, well-trained, and highly skilled in martial arts.

Seeing another [-] enemy troops coming from behind, at this moment, the sound of horseshoes sounded hurriedly, and Gao Ding rushed into the city first, followed by hundreds of cavalry.

Gao Ding saw General Jurchen at a glance, and shouted: "The Jurchen enemy will be handed over to me, General Yang get out of the way!"

Yang Rui and Uzabu fought for more than a dozen rounds, and it was quite strenuous. His sword and arrow skills were sharp, but his spear was not so good. When Yang Rui was about to lose his weapon, he suddenly heard Gao Ding's shout, saying that he had an opening , rolled on the spot, rushed into the enemy group, and gave up his position.

Uzabu also saw Gao Ding rushing towards him, roared, and swung a long-handled copper hammer to smash it head-on.

With a high-definition spear, Wu Zabu smashed it with a hammer, and his body swayed on the horse's back. Just as he was about to stabilize his figure, he felt a pain in his throat, and the sharp point of the spear pierced his chest. neck.

Gao Ding shook off the corpse and waved his spear, "Brothers, kill!"

The [-] cavalry who rushed into the city killed the enemy. The puppet Qi army turned around and fled in fright. Seeing that they could not escape, they knelt down and surrendered.

Although there were some twists and turns, as long as the cavalry of the Song army entered the city, the rest would be a battle to seize the city without any suspense. Five thousand soldiers were killed, hundreds of people were killed, and the rest all surrendered and became prisoners of the Song army.

Chapter 555 Golden Lock

At noon the next day, Chen Qing led the army to arrive at Zhongbu County. He immediately ordered the army to set up camp outside Zhongbu County, and ordered Liu Cui to lead [-] troops north to Fuzhou, where they joined Yang Zaixing's North Route Army in Luojiao County.

Although Fuzhou is also an extremely important strategic location, there is no garrison of one soldier. Central County.

The main force of the Song army rested in the central county. Once the luggage arrived, the army immediately went south to attack Guanzhong.

There are two roads from northern Shaanxi to Guanzhong, one is Jingyuan Road, and the other is Luoshui Road. At present, the Xihe Song Army is taking Luoshui Road, and finally enters Guanzhong from Tongzhou.

In the commander's tent, Chen Qing paced back and forth with his hands behind his hands. There are many roads to attack Guanzhong. It doesn't matter which road to attack Guanzhong from. The important thing is to annihilate the enemy.

Chen Qing walked to Shapan County and looked at Jinsuo Pass, the last pass into Tongzhou.

Tang Qian, the commander of the scouts next to him, introduced to Chen Qing: "Jinsuo Pass is very steep, with hundreds of feet of cliffs on both sides. This pass is located in the narrowest cliff. It is very tall and strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but according to my observation, it also has weaknesses."

"Where is the weakness?" Chen Qing asked.

Tang Qian pointed to Beiluo Waterway: "The weak point is Luoshui. The pass actually straddles Luoshui. It built a crescent-shaped water gate at the bottom. The river flows into the city through the water gate, but the water gate cannot be seen on the river. You have to dive underwater to see it."

"Is that possible to sneak into the city from the bottom of the river?"

"The humble staff thinks it's unrealistic, and the opponent is also prepared. Two rows of barbs are installed at the bottom. It is estimated that there are nets on the river inside the pass. The enemy has [-] troops stationed in the pass, and the defense is tight."

Chen Qing frowned, "Then the only way to attack Jinsuo Pass is the narrow road by the river bed?"

"Exactly! That's why Jinsuoguan is called one man guarding the gate, and ten thousand men are not allowed to open it."

Chen Qing pondered for a moment and then asked: "Where is the golden soldier?"

"Reporting to Dutong, 5 Jin soldiers were concentrated in Fengxiang Mansion, and all the dangerous passes were the puppet Qi army. In fact, it was not the puppet Qi army, but the state soldiers from the states on Shaanxi Road and Hedong Road. After training together, they deployed Around Guanzhong, there are about [-] people.”

"It means that there are no Jurchen troops in Jinsuo Pass and Jingzhao City?"

"Indeed!"

Chen Qing said again: "Tell me about the distribution of their troops."

"Baby's preliminary knowledge shows that there are about [-] garrisons in Jingzhao. Then there are [-] troops stationed in the north of Shanxi Road, [-] troops in Zhongbu County alone, [-] troops in Yanzhou, and finally [-] to [-] troops in Ningzhou and Yuanzhou, that's all I know."

"Is this information accurate?"

Chen Qing turned around and asked Zhang Miao, the order of the Intelligence Agency, Zhang Miao nodded, "According to the summary information we collected, it is basically accurate."

"Insert the number of troops on the sand table."

The entourage hurriedly made small flags, and inserted each small flag with the number of troops on the sand table.

Niu Gao said from the side: "Before I defended Pingliang Mansion, I restrained a large part of the enemy army. I believed that the enemy army thought we were going to enter Guanzhong from Jingyuan Road, so the army stationed on Jingyuan Road. But if the enemy army finds us If we enter Guanzhong via the Luoshui Road, I am afraid they will retreat south to Jingzhao City, which will bring great obstacles to our attack on Jingzhao City."

"What do you think?" Chen Qing asked with a smile.

"According to my humble opinion, sending an army to pretend to attack Jingzhou can basically contain [-] enemy troops in Jingyuan Road."

Chen Qing pondered for a moment and said: "The method is good, but it's not enough with fewer troops."

Niu Gao clasped his fists and said: "If all the troops are given 3000 cavalry, then I will rush back to Pingliang County immediately, leave 5000 people to defend Pingliang City, and lead [-] people to pretend to attack Jingzhou, then I will definitely be able to contain the enemy troops on Jingyuan Road. "

Chen Qing readily agreed: "Just according to your plan, I will give you [-] cavalry, and you will rush to Pingliang County immediately!"

An hour later, Niu Gao led [-] cavalry to leave the camp in Zhongbu County and quickly returned to Pingliang Mansion.

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Three days later, the Song army's heavy contingent arrived, and at the same time, Liu Cui and Yang Zaixing's troops also returned to Zhongbu County.

Yang Zaixing stationed [-] troops in Yanzhou, and firmly controlled the oil-producing areas. As for other states, the urgency was not so urgent, and there would be time to garrison troops in the future.

The time to go south was ripe, the army raised up again, and marched south along the North Luoshui River Valley.

Beiluoshui twists and turns in the mountains, and there are steep mountains on both sides. The Song army's troops walked very slowly and with difficulty.

"How does Dutong plan to win the Golden Suo Pass?" Yang Zaixing asked with a smile.

Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "I have an idea, but I don't know if it will be successful, you can try it, if it doesn't work, then we will continue to use our old method, burn the top of the city with kerosene, and fire the soldiers to the city. "

Chen Qing didn't say what he was thinking about, which really confused Yang Zaixing.

Three days later, the army finally arrived at Jinsuo Pass, and they saw the pass in the valley from a distance. The pass city stood between two mountains, tall and strong, with banners flying above it. There were hundreds of soldiers guarding the city, each holding a spear. , murderous.

The Song army rested and camped in a spacious area about five miles away from Guancheng. The [-] troops and tens of thousands of horses stretched for more than ten miles in the valley, but they did not set up a large tent. In the tragic scene of the camp, Chen Qing himself is a master of playing with fire, how could he fall on top of the raging fire by himself.

Hundreds of craftsmen are busy assembling heavy-duty trebuchets. This time they set out to carry ten heavy-duty trebuchets, but they don’t need so many to deal with Jinsuoguan, and there is no place to put them. On the narrow official road, at most three can be placed side by side. A heavy siege ladder.

At the same time, Chen Qing also ordered [-] soldiers to build a dam about three miles away from Jinsuoguan to intercept the river.

The chief general of Jinsuo Pass is Li Bosheng, who was originally the commander of the Western Army. He surrendered the Jin soldiers in the Battle of Taiyuan, and now he has been promoted to command. He was transferred from Taiyuan and is not familiar with the Xihe Army.

But Li Bosheng was rich in experience after all, and he felt the sense of crisis of the overwhelming army, which really made him frightened.

One of his generals asked: "Li Tongzhi, didn't you say that the main force of the Song army would come from Jingyuan Road? Why did it transfer to our Luoshui Road?"

Li Bosheng shook his head and said: "Our spies can't get out, and we don't know how many enemy troops there are? It looks like there are at least tens of thousands of people, but it's hard to say whether these tens of thousands of people are the main force of the enemy army."

"I don't know if Jinsuoguan can stop the enemy."

Li Bosheng didn't know what to do. In fact, the [-] defenders had no idea. They were all state soldiers transferred from Hedong Road. They had never fought against Chen Qing's army. They only knew that the opponent was very powerful, but they had no idea what tactics the opponent was good at. known.

At this time, a cavalry came rushing, shot an arrow letter at the top of the city, turned around and ran away.

A soldier picked up the arrow letter and handed it to Li Bosheng. Li Bosheng took the letter and saw on the letter that it was written: Chen Qing, the envoy of Gong Xihe Road of Jingguo in the Great Song Dynasty, sent to all the soldiers of Jinsuoguan.

Li Bosheng opened the letter, and it turned out to be a letter of persuasion, requesting all the soldiers not to sacrifice their lives for the foreign race, and to abandon the dark side and turn to the bright side in time. At the end of the letter, it was written, "before the soldiers, if you refuse to surrender, the general who guards the pass will be held accountable on the day of breaking the pass." '

Li Bosheng shook his head. He never thought of surrendering to the Song Dynasty again. After so many years, it was impossible for him to turn back. He tore the letter into pieces and threw it out of the city.

"Order the three armies to move all the fire oil to the top of the city. When the enemy attacks the pass, burn it with fire oil."

He couldn't believe it. How could the Song army be able to attack such a dangerous and tall Guancheng, where one man guards the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it, not to mention they still have three thousand barrels of fire oil.

But Li Bosheng also understood at least one thing, Chen Qing was in the team, and this army was the main force of the Xihe Army.

He is looking forward to annihilating Chen Qing's main force under the city, that is when his fame will shake the world.

Chapter 556 Golden Lock

The three heavy-duty trebuchets were assembled in just half a day, and at this time, it was already dusk.

Chen Qing rode a horse to inspect the place where the river was blocked and dammed. Thousands of Song soldiers had built a [-]-foot-high dam with [-] sandbags, but there was still a gap of [-]-foot-wide. It gushes out from the gap and flows downstream to Jinsuo Pass.

Hu Yanyun, who was in charge of building the fortifications, said to Chen Qing: "The momentum of the river is very strong, and I need to lay dozens of wooden piles in front of the sandbag wall, otherwise the sandbag wall will be easily overturned by water."

"If it is sealed, will the river overflow and affect the soldiers upstream?" Chen Qing asked again.

"Reporting to the capital will definitely affect it, so the time can't be too long."

"How long can the flow be cut off at most?"

Hu Yanyun thought for a while and said: "One hour at most, it will probably not work any longer."

"One hour is enough, listen to my order to stop the flow."

"Humble job understands!"

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After inspecting the river dam, Chen Qing returned to the campsite. Three heavy-duty trebuchets were ready, and the scout leader Tang Qian led a hundred scouts to perform special tasks.

Yang Zaixing led [-] cavalry and [-] infantry as the first attacking Song army.

Time gradually arrived at one o'clock, and the Song army began to move. Three heavy-duty trebuchets began to march towards Guancheng under the pull of Jian Niu. In front of them was a two-foot-high baffle, and five baffles were placed side by side On the road, the arrows of the enemy troops at the top of the city were blocked.

The three heavy-duty catapults moved very slowly, and did not reach their respective positions until the second watch, and the craftsmen began to quickly adjust their positions.

At this time, there was a bang on the top of the city, and five hundred soldiers on the top of the city shot crossbow arrows at the three catapults together, but it didn't work. The dense crossbow arrows were blocked by tall wooden boards.

Li Bosheng also hurried to the top of the city. He stared at the three giants three hundred paces away for a moment, then turned his head and shouted: "The Song army is likely to attack at night, and the whole army is ordered to be on alert!"

Suddenly, there were three consecutive 'Boom!Boom!Boom! There was a loud noise, and the Song Army's trebuchet had already been launched, and three black objects appeared in the air with flames on them. No one knew what they were.

When three large clay pots filled with kerosene hit the top of the city, they shattered with a bang, and eighty catties of kerosene spilled out, and were immediately ignited, forming a sea of ​​flames.

The soldiers on the top of the city screamed. Many soldiers were ignited by the fire, jumping and jumping, crying and rushing down the city.

Li Bosheng's face turned pale, and he suddenly remembered a terrible thing, there are thousands of barrels of kerosene on the top of the city, what if they are all set on fire?

"Move the kerosene down and down! Move the kerosene down and down!"

Li Bosheng stomped his feet anxiously. He had already seen dozens of kerosene barrels burning in the raging fire, and it was estimated that they would leak soon.

At this time, the second round of trebuchets was thrown, and three large clay pots hit the city again. This time, the three kerosene barrels were overturned, and the kerosene flowed out, burning a large area, and half of the city was ablaze .

Li Bosheng had already been pulled down from the top of the wall by the soldiers, and the [-] soldiers only moved down [-] barrels of kerosene. There were still more than [-] barrels of kerosene left on the top of the wall, but they could no longer get up.

When the third round of fire oil tanks hit the top of the city, the top of the city was already a sea of ​​flames, thick smoke billowed, and the flames rose into the air. It was impossible for any soldiers to be on the top of the city.

At this time, Tang Qian started. They took a small boat of three hundred stones, and a dozen soldiers stood in the waist-deep river and walked towards the city wall. There were two large boxes on the small boat, and each box contained a thousand catties of gunpowder. , the box is made of very strong double-layer beech wood, and the board alone is an inch thick.

Two thousand catties of black powder is one ton of gunpowder, and the explosion is so powerful that it can blow down the city wall.

The Song army had long discovered the power of the big bang. When Li Gang was guarding Bianliang, he used the thunder that exploded violently. The thunder may not be an iron shell, but it may also be a thick-walled porcelain bottle. The key is the amount of gunpowder. A hundred catties of gunpowder can produce a powerful explosive effect.

Although they knew the power of the big bang, the Song Army on Xihe Road didn't use it much. The key was the cost issue. Gunpowder is half a year's production, it can be used once in a while, but there is no condition to use it in large quantities.