Fenghou

Wanyan Nianhan asked Zhou Jin again, "You are General Zhou, you are the guard, tell me what's going on?"

Zhou Jin quickly said: "Report to Marshal Du, this is the consistent tradition of Chen Qing's army, if the enemy invades the city, give up the city and retreat!"

"There is such a rule?" Wanyan Nianhan really didn't understand.

"Reporting to Marshal Du, this is to preserve the strength of the army, and at the same time to avoid street fighting and protect the people in the city from being ruined. The Song army has always ordered military orders like a mountain. Once the order is given to evacuate, all soldiers will quickly drop what they are doing and retreat. This is all soldiers. They trained repeatedly when they were recruits, so it is not surprising that the Song army has all withdrawn."

Wanyan Nianhan was still a little dubious, he asked his confidant General Ba Lisu, "Do you believe it?"

Ba Lisu pondered for a moment and said: "I don't believe in other Song soldiers, but Chen Qing may be true. He can have today's foundation, he must have something extraordinary, even a humble army can do it."

Wanyan Nianhan glanced at Zhou Jin again, if Song Jun was cheating, then Zhou Jin and Jiang Ying both had problems, obviously impossible, since Ba Lisu also agreed, Wanyan Nianhan would not pursue the matter any further , he asked Yeluma Wudao again: "Has the city been searched?"

"Reporting to Marshal Du, we have searched everything and checked every household. There is no problem."

Wanyan Nianhan nodded, and added to Chief Wan Yi: "Soldiers are precious, and my army will go south tomorrow morning. I will leave [-] Xie troops to defend the city for you. You don't need to worry about the Song army at the coal field." , They have no siege weapons, so they can only retreat westward, pay attention to receiving the food behind."

"Humble post obeys orders!"

Yelu Ma Wu was a little worried: "My lord is going all the way south, how will we deal with the food?"

"I only need to bring dry rations for ten days. There are a lot of counties along the way. We will support our wars, and we will not be short of food. The key is to be fast. Before Chen Qing gathers his troops, I have to fight the battle within three days. Guanzhong, after entering Guanzhong, our cavalry will rule the world."

Chapter 752

Wanyan Nianhan made a careful plan before setting out to fight. They captured Fushi County at night, and the Song army could not send eagle letters or pigeon letters at night. Even if the defeated soldiers sent letters in neighboring states, it would be two days before Chen Qing received the news. , Chen Qing ordered the Tongzhou army to go north to intercept it, and it would take another two days. This is still the case when the news is the fastest. If the other party reported the news on horseback, the time would be a little slower.

Maybe he won't be able to reach Jingzhao City in time, but he is sure that he will be able to enter Guanzhong before Chen Qing's army goes north. The key to the success of this tactic is one word, fast!

The [-] infantry were not brought, all cavalry were used, and [-] of them joined the army, of which [-] were deployed in Fushi County to protect the logistics foundation for themselves, and [-] troops were deployed in Qingquan County to guard the entrance of Luoshui Road, and [-] Jurchen cavalry followed him Go south quickly and enter Yaozhou within two days.

Wanyan Nianhan was so anxious that he couldn't even wait for the next day's dawn. At one o'clock that night, the [-] Jurchen army who had enough rest rushed south like a gust of wind.

On the morning of the third day, Wu Yesuye, the head of the Wanfu, led [-] Xie Congjun troops and [-] carts to the south. Their goal was Qingquan County, which is the entrance of Luoshui Road, and they would be stationed in Qingquan County.

In the southwestern corner of Yanzhou, there is a county called Fuzheng County. This is a very quiet small agricultural county. The county is so small that it is almost forgotten by people. There are [-] troops stationed here, and what he least expects is that Chen Qing is also here.

Just when Zhou Jin was willing to make meritorious deeds and atone for his sins, Chen Qing began to mobilize the army, but the mobilization was extremely secretive. He transferred the army from Jingyuan Road to the north. They even used the method of changing their names to ambush a thousand elite soldiers in Fushi County.

This is a big game of chess. Since Wanyan Nianhan entered Hedong, the layout has begun. Wanyan Nianhan is unwilling to retire. If he wants to fight to the death, it is doomed to his fate. In order not to let Wanyan Nianhan change his attack Chen Qing did not hesitate to give Fushi County to him.

In the early morning of the next day after Wanyan Nianhan's main force entered Yanzhou, a letter eagle flew from the west bank of the Yellow River towards Fuzheng County.

Chen Qing received the eagle letter at dusk. In the commander's tent outside the county seat, Chen Qing and several generals stood in front of the sand table. Chen Qing pointed at the county seat with a wooden pole and said, "Based on the time, the enemy should have After taking Fushi County, if Wanyan Nianhan marched with all his strength, he should have arrived in Fushi County today. I guess he will fight for time and rush into Guanzhong before our deployment is completed, so tonight he will send troops overnight , Arrive in Qingquan County around noon tomorrow and enter Luoshui Road."

Liu Cui was puzzled and said, "It's more than 130 miles from Fushi County to Qingquan. Is it enough in one night and half a day?"

Chen Qing smiled slightly and said, "You haven't understood where Wanyan Nianhan's elite tactics are this time? It's fast, long-distance raids are the Jurchen army's advantage, and it is also the magic weapon for Wanyan Nianhan to sweep the Song army back then. Nianhan was still in Bianliang the day before, but he led a large army to appear in Yangzhou early the next morning. Fifty thousand Song troops were defeated in the first battle, and the black armored cavalry were killed from the Yangtze River to Huzhou within two days. It is astonishing, this time Wanyan Nianhan will definitely make full use of the advantages of long-distance raids to reach Guanzhong within two days, so the requirements for us are also very high, and we must keep up with his rhythm."

"Does the king think Wanyan Nianhan will leave an army to guard Qingquan County?" Guan Shigu asked.

Chen Qing pondered for a while and said: "He will definitely guard Qingquan County. If he leaves overnight tonight, then the army guarding Qingquan County will definitely be behind. They have to wait for the food and grass to arrive. Or the time difference of two days, that is to say, we have to divide our troops into two miles, go all the way to block Qingquan County, all the way to wipe out the troops supporting Qingquan County, we can't get out of the wind, and then we will seize Fushi County at night, it's still the same sentence , can’t reveal the news.”

Guan Shigu smiled slightly, "The king is worried that the Taiyuan army will come to rescue Wanyan Nianhan?"

"Although it is unlikely, I am still a little worried. We must plan ahead and be prepared. It is the best way not to reveal the news."

"Then what are we waiting for now?" Liu Cui asked again.

Chen Qing said lightly: "Wait for news from Lepan Town!"

……

At four o'clock, Chen Qing was woken up by his own soldiers, and said in a low voice, "Jun Wang, there is news from Lepan Town."

Chen Qing sat up and asked, "But the Jurchen cavalry passed through the town?"

"Exactly! Fifty thousand cavalrymen galloped past Lepan Town, running for a full quarter of an hour, with great momentum."

"Is there no torch?"

"I lit the torch, and it was said that I couldn't see the end at a glance."

Chen Qing pondered for a moment and said, "Go and find me both Liu Cui and Gao Ding."

Not long after, Liu Cui and Gao Ding rushed over, and Chen Qing said to them: "Everything happened as I predicted, Liu Dutong can lead an army of [-] from his headquarters to Qingquan County, and first send scouts to confirm that the enemy has entered the Luoshui Road , Cut off the way back for me, and destroy its passage with powder kegs."

"Humble post obeys orders!"

Liu Cui hesitated and asked again: "When will Jin Bing find out that he has been tricked?"

Chen Qing smiled faintly, "I guess Wanyan Nianhan will wake up when he arrives in Luojiao County."

"I understand!" Liu Cui took the arrow and hurried away.

Chen Qing said to Gao Ding again: "You also led an army of [-] to ambush in the Black Wind Valley south of Lepan Town, and wiped out the enemy army for me. I guess there will be carts of grain and grass following them. Order them to intercept them and send a few more troops. Intercept, no soldiers are allowed to flee back to Fushi County."

"Humble post obeys orders!"

Gao Ding also took the arrow and left.

At dawn, Chen Qing led an army of [-] to fight towards Fushi County...

The [-] Jurchen army galloped southward, and just after noon, the army reached Qingquan County. Qingquan County is a small county.

The Jurchen army slowed down, Wanyan Nianhan rode forward, pointed at the whip, "Are you an official from Qingquan County?"

"The next official is right!"

Wanyan Nianhan said coldly: "I'll give you a choice, either drive out all the chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep in the city, take out all the food, and we will not enter the city, but if I still hear a rooster crow , then we will go to the city to get it by ourselves, and I will give you half an hour, hurry up!"

The officials were so frightened that they ran into the city. In just a moment, cages of chickens and ducks, groups of pigs and sheep were all driven out of the city. After a while, dozens of grain carts came out to deliver grain.

The common people were also frightened. They entered the city for many golden soldiers, and even killed and sent out their watchdogs. In just half an hour, all kinds of food piled up like a hill. It looked like a lot, but it was only Enough for [-] troops to eat two meals.

A Jin soldier entered the city and circled around, and when he left the city, he reported: "There are no chickens or dogs in the city."

Wanyan Nianhan nodded in satisfaction, pointed at the ten carts with a whip, and said to the magistrate: "I will leave the carts to you, and [-] troops will come to station in the future. They have food and will not disturb the people. In addition, give me Get three guides."

Zhang Tao, the county magistrate, was full of bitterness, so he had to send someone to find three hunters to be Jin Bing's guides.

The [-] Jurchen army had a full meal, and then entered the Luoshui Road with the rest of the food, and continued to speed up to the south...

Chapter 753

Just two hours after the Jurchen cavalry went south to Luoshui Road, Liu Cui led an army of [-] to Qingquan County. Zhang Tao, the county magistrate, came out to welcome him. When he saw Liu Cui, he sighed again and again: "It's really a shame to kneel in front of the Jurchen Tartars." Shame!"

Liu Cui quickly comforted him and said: "The county king also said that the county monarch is bearing the burden of humiliation, which is even more admirable. Don't blame yourself."

"Of course I don't blame myself. Although my knees are kneeling, my heart is not kneeling. I report back to the general, and I handed over the three 'hunters' to them."

The three hunters who acted as guides were naturally Song and Jin scouts pretending to be. Chen Qing's layout was intertwined, and he even thought of the details of the guide. No matter whether Wanyan Nianhan wanted a guide in Fushi County or Qingquan County, he The guides obtained will all be Song Jun scouts pretending to be.

Liu Cui nodded, and said to the county magistrate: "The war is about to break out, so hurry up and take the people to Fuzheng County! There is a big camp over there to accommodate you. If you need food, we can also provide it!"

Hearing that war was about to break out, more than 1 people in the county began to evacuate towards Fuzheng County. Liu Cui gave each person a bucket of noodles as dry food for the road. Fuzheng County inside and outside was evacuated, and the Song Army set up three supply points halfway to provide steamed buns and gruel to the people.

After resettling the people of Qingquan County, the [-] Song army began to go all out to build fortifications, completely cutting off the return route of the Jurchen army.

……

As time gradually approached at night, the Ten Thousand Union Congjun Army arrived at Lepan Town under the leadership of Wan Fuchang Wu Yesu. At this time, Lepan Town was empty, and all the people were scared away. There was no food or food in the town. Property, the soldiers cursed angrily, set fire to Lepan Town, and continued to march forward.

About thirty miles to the south of the town, there is a hilly hill of tens of miles across, blocking the way. This hill is called Heifeng Ridge, and there is a three-mile-long canyon in it, called Heifeng Valley.

At this time, it was almost Haishi, and the soldiers were still hungry, so Wu Yesu ordered the whole army to rest in the valley for the night, and get up and set off again tomorrow morning.

This time, Wuye dispatched [-] troops to station in Qingquan County. In addition to [-] infantry, [-] carts followed far behind. The carts were full of grain and grass. , lagging behind the ranks for a few miles, a thousand soldiers were dedicated to escort the cart.

Just when the soldiers started to eat dry food, there was a faint shout from outside the valley in the north. Wu Yesu was taken aback, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to find out what happened. Long, there are Song troops, thousands of Song troops intercepted the convoy."

"Not good!" Wu Ye stood up quickly. The Song army from the coal field must have come back. They are now in the valley, which is very dangerous. He shouted: "Order the whole army to rush out of the valley, there is an ambush in the valley!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a crisp sound of clappers, "Bang!Bang!Bang! '

Immediately afterwards, thousands of arrows were fired from the woods on both sides of the valley, and the powerful arrows shot at the soldiers of the Confederate Army in the valley like raindrops. The point of the ambush was that as soon as he got on his horse, he and his horse were shot through his body by hundreds of crossbow arrows, and he fell down dead like a porcupine.

The [-] Song Army continued to shoot arrows from the woods, and the Congjun Army suffered countless casualties. The soldiers scrambled to run out of the valley, but what was waiting for them outside the valley was [-] Song Army cavalry. The tip shone coldly in the moonlight.

When Xie Congjun rushed out of the valley, Gao Ding shouted, "Kill—"

"Kill!" The cavalry roared in unison, tens of thousands of horses galloped, brandishing swords and short spears, and killed the terrified soldiers of the Union Army.

……

Under the moonlight, Fushi County looked very deserted, and a night snack was implemented in the city, making the streets deserted.

But tonight, Zhou Jin took the initiative to be on duty at night for three consecutive days, in order to appease the people in the city. He was appointed as the commander by Wanyan Nianhan, and now he has a total of five commanders, each of whom controls 4000 people, that is to say , the other four Jurchen commanders each gave him a thousand soldiers, which made the other commanders very reluctant, so that when Zhou Jin offered to go on patrol at night, everyone guessed his intention. Come night to ask for the army.

Wanfu Wanyan Yilubu also saw Zhou Jin's intentions, but he didn't dislike it. On the contrary, he also thought that this method was good. He used the night watch method to get his own army, and Wanyan Yilubu was the main general. Of course, he must carry out the orders of Marshal Du Wanyan Nianhan to the letter.

Since Marshal Du named Zhou Jin the ruler, he must allocate part of the army to Zhou Jin. He agreed to Zhou Jin's application for night duty, and ordered them to give Zhou Jin 1000 troops each to use at night regardless of whether the other rulers were willing or not. On duty patrol.

At dusk, Zhou Jin finally got 350 troops, and he immediately deployed them, letting each [-]-man team take charge of a city wall, while he himself led [-] personal guards to patrol the city.

The 350 soldiers followed him to surrender to the Jin soldiers, and in fact all of them were internal guard soldiers.

In addition to 350 soldiers, there were also [-] soldiers of the Song Army, all of whom were from northern Shaanxi. They changed their names and surnames, and were assigned to various households in the city, led by the commander Tang Qian.

At two o'clock, a thousand soldiers began to rush to assemble in the Earth Temple. The reason why they arranged to assemble in the Earth Temple was that the Bingjia Warehouse was next door.

At this time, Zhou Jin also rushed to the Earth Temple, and bowed to Tang Qian with his hands clasped, "See General Tang!"

"When will we do it?" Tang Qian asked anxiously.

"Attack the west city at four o'clock!"

There were still two hours left, and Tang Qian breathed a sigh of relief, and he asked again: "We need weapons and armor for the next step."

"The warehouse has been controlled by our people. If General Tang has all his men, they can act at any time."

"Where is Bingjia?" Tang Qian asked.

"General, please follow me!"

Zhou Jin led the crowd to a wall, and suddenly a big hole was dug in the wall, and the inner guard soldiers on the other side brought bundles of armor, boxes of war knives and spears, as well as bows and arrows, and sent them over continuously. .

A thousand soldiers began to put on their armor, took up their swords and spears, and after a short while, a thousand-man assisted army appeared in the Earth Temple.

"Tonight's password is safe and secure, everyone come with me!"

Zhou Jin left 50 people to continue guarding the warehouse, and he walked towards the west city with [-] soldiers.

The guard general of the Xicheng Association is a commander named Liu Fang. He is in his forties and is from Fenzhou.

Liu Fang was sitting on the top of the wall and dozing off, when he suddenly heard that Tong Zhi was coming, he was so frightened that he stood up quickly.

Zhou Jin walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder with a smile, "Take your brothers back to the barracks to sleep! There are other tasks for you tomorrow, so you won't be on duty in your barracks tonight."

"Follow your orders!"

Zhou Jin lowered his voice again and said: "There is no one in our barracks. The brothers' personal property is unguarded. If things are taken away by others, it will be hard to say. There must be an army in the barracks. Understand me mean?"

"Understandable!"

"Go! Take the brothers back to sleep, and I will reschedule the patrols in the west city."

Liu Fang yelled a few times and took a thousand soldiers back to the barracks to sleep.

As soon as the thousand soldiers left, Tang Qian led a thousand soldiers to the west city from the other side, and began to patrol the top of the city in a decent manner.

When the time gradually reached the fourth watch, Zhou Jin lit a few torches and threw them down.

At this moment, Jiang Ying, who was the internal military discipline inspector, rushed to Xicheng with a dozen of his men.

Jiang Ying actually has another secret mission, which is to monitor Zhou Jin.

Although Wanyan Nianhan granted Zhou Jin the command, the Song army was able to evacuate Fushi County without harming a single soldier, which still made Wanyan Nianhan suspicious.

He also kept Jiang Ying in Fushi County, supervising military discipline in name, but actually let him spy on Zhou Jin secretly.

Just now, Jiang Ying discovered something strange. One thousand of Zhou Jin's men went back to the camp to sleep, and there seemed to be no fewer defenders at the top of the city. In other words, Zhou Jin's men somehow had 1000 more men.

How is this going?

Zhou Jin was really a little nervous, so he greeted him with a smile.

"It's so late, why didn't brother Jiang go to bed?"

Chapter 754 Trapped Beast

"General Zhou, how many troops do you have?" Jiang Ying stepped forward and asked sharply.