Fenghou

They rebelled with the army in such a mighty way, gorging on the free meals provided by the army, complaining about the lack of oil and water, and looking forward to the prosperity after entering the city.

But Zhang Jian was a little anxious because he didn't march for a long time, and immediately rushed to the marshal's tent. As soon as he entered the tent, he saw Wang Dongyuan was arguing with Li Jinxiao, his face was red.

Zhang Jian heard it clearly. It turned out that Wang Dongyuan also thought that he stayed here for too long and missed the opportunity.

"You just expect the other party to take the initiative to attack. Let me tell you, if you want to attack, the other party has already attacked. Zheng Ping is not a fool. He only has 2 horses in his hand. He ran out to fight with our 20 troops. Isn't he courting death? Of course he wants to fight." Defending the city, we are here to delay the opportunity of the battle, what if Chen Qing's reinforcements come to kill us?"

Li Jinxiao retorted angrily: "Even if we go to attack and attack the city as you said, what do we use to attack the city? Only more than 20 siege ladders have been built now. We didn't prepare in advance, and now we find that everything is missing. "

At this time, Wu Miao, the governor of Hezhou, said beside him: "Marshal, I have a way. In fact, it doesn't have to be too fine. I think those craftsmen have to peel the bark and measure the size. It's not necessary. Just make it rougher. As long as it can be used, I estimate that hundreds of them can be built overnight, and they can start tomorrow.”

"That's a good idea!"

Zhang Jian stepped forward and said, "Marshal, we can't wait any longer. These soldiers joined the army with enthusiasm. If time drags on for too long, their enthusiasm will fade, which will cause trouble."

Li Jinxiao saw that several important people wanted to send troops, so he nodded and said, "Just follow what Zhizhou Wu said, simply build a siege ladder and set off early tomorrow morning."

At this moment, a soldier rushed to the front of the tent to report, "Successful Commander, our supply fleet has been intercepted!"

Chapter 832 Nocturnal Movement

Li Jinxiao jumped up and shouted: "Nonsense, where is the army to intercept? Bring me the messenger!"

Not long after, two messenger soldiers were brought in. They were in a state of embarrassment. They were barefoot, their legs were cut by stones, bloody, they were limping when they walked, their leather armor was gone, their clothes were torn, and their heads were covered with bruises. Wearing helmets, no one would believe they were soldiers if they hadn't kept their badges.

Li Jinxiao frowned, and shouted angrily, "What's the matter with you?"

The two soldiers knelt down and said, "We are the soldiers guarding the ship. At noon today, many cavalrymen were suddenly killed, all of them were from the Song army. The brothers couldn't resist, and there were heavy casualties. We only managed to escape by diving."

"Where is the Song Army? How many people are there?" Li Jinxiao asked.

"I don't know where the Song Army came from. There are about four or five thousand cavalry. They finally sent the fleet into Yang'an County."

Tang Qian still looked up to these soldiers. They put up the flag with the word "Wei" in an attempt to mislead the other side, but the other side's soldiers didn't know the flag at all, and they wouldn't look at it.

Li Jinxiao was furious, and ordered: "Send the order to order troops, and chase the boat back immediately!"

Zhizhou Wu Miao quickly persuaded: "Commander, it's already dark outside, walking at night is easy to be attacked by surprise, it's better to go after dawn."

Zhang Jian also persuaded: "Anyway, the fleet is in Yang'an County, tomorrow the army will simply go to Yang'an County first, and use Yang'an County to practice attacking the city."

This suggestion was not bad, so Li Jinxiao stopped sending troops, and ordered: "Build siege ladders immediately, make them simpler, and build a hundred tonight."

……

Chen Qing's army had been waiting thirty miles to the south for a long time, but the enemy had not yet come south. A dozen soldiers who ran back to report had already entered the camp for almost an hour, but the army had not yet been dispatched. Misfortune happened.

Chen Qing pondered for a moment and asked: "Ask the logistics, how many drums did we bring?"

They carried a baggage of [-] camels, which included the Zhentian drum, which was the war drum during the attack, and the drum sounded like thunder.

After a while, the soldiers came back to report, "I brought three hundred drums!"

Three hundred noodles is enough, Chen Qing immediately ordered: "The army goes north!"

[-] cavalry assembled and marched to the north in a mighty manner. Not long after, the news reached the enemy's main camp. Li Jinxiao was shocked and ordered the whole army to gather for the battle.

The general he invited, Wang Jianxiong, rushed to find Li Jinxiao and said: "Marshal, our army has not been trained for night battles, and a battle will cause serious chaos. Don't fight, just stick to the camp."

His second son Li Yong also agreed with Wang Jianxiong's suggestion that he could not fight and had to stick to the camp.

Li Jinxiao nodded, "Pass on my order, don't fight, and stick to the camp."

In the dark night, tens of thousands of soldiers stood in front of the barracks with bows and arrows in their hands, looking at the cavalry of the Song Army two miles away in horror. The endless cavalry, holding torches in their hands, looked like a sea of ​​fire.

The [-] cavalry began to move, arrayed in three directions, southeast, north, and only the west had no troops.

Liu Qiong stared at the barracks for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, there is a problem with the other party's camping. The distance between the tents is too close, and they are in the air. I believe that they are not leather tents, but hemp tents. I suggest using fire to attack."

Chen Qing shook his head and said: "There are only [-] to [-] people who should be killed. The rest are ignorant farmers. They create food and taxes. It's a pity to kill them. Just scare them home."

Chen Qing immediately ordered: "Drum formation!"

The three hundred shaking drums were also arranged in three directions. At this time, Chen Qing gave the order to beat the soul-shaking drums.

The soul-shocking drum is a kind of psychological tactics, and it will be encountered in general battles, but the effect is different. For example, the Jin soldiers suppressed the soul drum on the north bank of the Yellow River overnight, and the [-] Song troops on the other side ran clean.

For a few days, Song Jun was facing nearly 20 mobs, so Chen Qing decided to use the Soul Shocking Drum to wake up these things first.

"Boom—boom—boom—boom—"

The soul-shocking drum is like thunder in the sky. The sound of the drum is low, slow, but shocking. Every beat of the drum seems to hit the heart, which is unbearable for ordinary people, as if thousands of troops are about to kill.

The bandit soldiers were panicked and anxious.

But even this was not enough. At the second watch, the Song army ignited a mad dog iron fire thunder in the northeast corner of the enemy's camp.

"Boom!" The sound of the explosion was earth-shattering, the ground shook, and thick smoke shot straight into the sky.

This explosion woke up all the soldiers. It can be said that the explosion became the last straw that broke the camel's back. Thousands of cavalry, all the soldiers were terrified.

The escape started from the northwest corner, where the fence was pushed down by the soldiers, and the entire battalion of soldiers fled from the camp, fleeing in panic.

……

When Li Jinxiao got the news, he was furious and ran to the northwest corner himself.

The seriousness of the soldiers fleeing was beyond Li Jinxiao's expectation. The entire northwest corner was empty, that is, more than 4 people fled in just over an hour.

Li Jinxiao was furious, and yelled at a group of generals, "You are all a bunch of worthless trash, spending so much money to support you, it is better to raise pigs, from now on, anyone who dares to run away will be killed without mercy!"

The generals were frightened, and they all swore that they would never let a soldier escape again.

The soul-suppressing drum of the Song Army was still beating loudly, hitting everyone's hearts. At the fourth watch, some soldiers reported to Chen Qing that the number of fleeing bandits suddenly decreased.

Chen Qing knew that this must be the opponent's general taking measures to threaten the soldiers with death, and the soldiers were too frightened to run away.

A dozen generals behind him all looked at Chen Qing, waiting for his instructions.

Chen Qing looked at the night sky with his hands behind his back and said coldly: "It seems that only the cruelest war killings will wake up these fools, Liu Dutong!"

"The humble job is here!" Liu Qiong responded.

"You led [-] cavalry to enter through the main east gate, and went deep into the barracks for three miles to kill. If only ten people were killed or injured, I will remember your great achievements. If more than a hundred people were killed in battle, I will punish you for a felony!"

"Follow the order!" Liu Qiong led the order and went down.

A quarter of an hour later, the Song army suddenly launched a feint attack in the east, and the enemy was caught off guard. Many defensive soldiers were lying on the ground and fell asleep.

The cavalry of the Song Army rushed forward in the blink of an eye, throwing ropes one after another and pulled down the fence. The soldiers got up, but it was too late. The cavalry group passed over their heads, and the spears stabbed countless soldiers to the ground. In the big camp, stabbing with spears and slashing with swords, the heads of the bandits and soldiers were rolling, crying for their fathers and mothers, and fleeing desperately.

After two rounds of killing, more than 8000 enemy soldiers were killed, and [-] cavalrymen were killed from the south. No one was killed or injured. It was simply a contest between wolves and sheep.

There was a pungent smell of blood in the air. The bloody killing and the danger of death caused the bandit soldiers to completely collapse. The entire western fence was overthrown. Fleeing, no one is a fool. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the main force of the Song army is coming, and these tens of thousands of cavalry are enough to kill them without leaving any leather armor.

If you don't run away at this time, you won't have a chance until dawn.

Even Wang Dongyuan and Zhang Jian realized that something was wrong, especially Wang Dongyuan felt it the most. Several of his nephews led [-] troops to defend the east. These [-] troops were well-trained soldiers equipped with armor Real soldiers are not those random mobs who come here to make do.

As a result, more than [-] of his [-] troops were beheaded by the Song Army cavalry. The other [-] people survived because they ran fast. What shocked him even more was that they did not see a single Song Army cavalry killed in battle.

Wang Dongyuan quietly told Zhang Jian the news, and the two of them turned pale with fright, and immediately decided that they would send all their nephews away and flee Bashu with their families. As for Li Jinxiao, both of them knew that some responsibilities must be borne by him .

Chapter 833 Crash

Li Jinxiao didn't notice the small actions of Wang Dongyuan and Zhang Jian at all. He kept stopping the soldiers from escaping. The west side was blocked, and the soldiers started to flee from the south again, and the Song army in the south also evacuated.

By the time of the fifth watch, the escape of the soldiers was completely out of control. Countless escapes, even the soldiers who were stopped by law enforcement were shaken and began to disappear continuously.

Li Jinxiao couldn't help it either, he was really exhausted and sat in the big tent sulking.

Son-in-law Wu Miao persuaded: "Father-in-law, don't take this kind of thing to heart. It is not necessarily a bad thing for these soldiers to escape. If they collapse on the battlefield, it will be a big trouble."

Li Jinxiao sighed and said, "Your son-in-law is right. I am too vain. I always think that 20 people are very stylish. I didn't expect that it was all a bag of water. I don't know what to do tomorrow? Tens of thousands of cavalry ! How could I be against it?"

Although Wu Miao is the governor of Hezhou, he is also Li Jinxiao's military adviser. He thought for a while and said, "If it's not possible, we should retreat south. If we go over the mountains, the cavalry will not be able to catch up with us."

Li Jinxiao said worriedly: "But what if they send people to kill Hezhou first? There are hundreds of people in Lijiabao!"

Wu Miao was also a little flustered, his wife and children also lived in Lijiabao, he quickly said: "Then send people to Lijiabao first, tell them to retreat first, withdraw from Sichuan, evacuate to Lin'an!"

At this moment, Li Jinxiao's second son Li Yong flew in and said, "Father, something is wrong, our army has less than [-] people!"

"what?"

The news was like thunder, and Li Jinxiao was completely stunned. He thought that 10,000+ people had run away, and there were at least 3 elite soldiers left.

"Yonger, you are right!" Li Jinxiao's voice changed in anxiety.

"There is absolutely no mistake. The boy gathered his troops, and only gathered 100 people, and then the entire camp was empty."

"What about Wang Dongyuan and Zhang Jian?" Li Jinxiao suddenly remembered these two people and asked anxiously.

"Neither of them can be found, including the children of their two families, none of them are gone."

"Two bastards!"

Li Jinxiao understood immediately, and the two also fled.

At this time, Wu Miao said anxiously: "Father-in-law, let's go too! Before dawn, we will be completely finished once it dawns."

Li Yongdao: "Father, I led the army to break out to the west, and you took your brother-in-law and elder brother to pretend to be ordinary soldiers and fled south. I will buy you time."

"Have you reached this point?" Li Jinxiao asked with a trembling voice.

"Father, the enemy has [-] cavalry! If they find that there are no soldiers in the camp, they won't wait for dawn any longer, so hurry up and leave! It will be too late if they don't leave."

"Go! Go now."

Li Jinxiao finally made up his mind, and he sent someone to find the eldest son Li Mi who was in charge of logistics. At this time, he could no longer trust anyone, so he had to ask his second son Li Yong to cover them.

Father and son, son-in-law Wu Miao and five or six confidantes all put on coarse clothes and fled southward with hoes and forks.

Not long after they left, the second son Li Yong led 8000 people to leave the camp silently and fled westward.

But as soon as Li Yong led his army out of the barracks, he was discovered by the Song army scouts who were watching outside, and immediately some scouts rushed to report to the county king Chen Qing.

This news was somewhat beyond Chen Qing's expectation. He pondered for a moment, and then said to Liu Qiong: "Lead the army to make another stabbing, and see what's going on in the barracks?"

"Follow the order!"

The three thousand cavalry hadn't been disbanded yet, and under the leadership of Liu Qiong, they charged into the enemy's camp. This time, there was no obstacle, and the army directly entered the camp.

Looking at it from a distance, Chen Qing faintly felt that something was wrong. Not only was there no one in the camp, there were not even soldiers running away in panic.

Is it true that it has become an empty camp as I thought?

After a while, a cavalryman rushed back to report, "Jun Wang, the camp is empty, without a single soldier!"

"It's not what I expected!"

Chen Qing immediately said to the commanding Lu Gui: "General Lu led [-] cavalry to chase the [-] soldiers who fled. Send more scouts, beware of enemy ambushes!"

"Humble post obeys orders!"

Lu Gui took the command arrow and rushed to lead the troops.

Chen Qing also sent commanders Li Yan and Wen Shunyi each to lead [-] cavalry to Guozhou and Chongqing to arrest the families of Wang Dongyuan and Zhang Jian.

At the same time, an order was sent to Tang Qian, ordering him to send a hundred scout teams to arrest suspicious people who escaped from the gang along the way.

……

Li Jinxiao took his son and son-in-law and fled all the way. They didn't dare to ride horses, so they could only walk on their legs. After walking for more than ten miles, Li Jinxiao couldn't walk anymore. His son-in-law Wu Miao had to go to a nearby village and rent a fishing boat at a high price. They were able to flee south on a fishing boat.

At this time, the sky was bright, and the cavalry of the Song Army ran back and forth on the official road by the river from time to time, making the situation very tense.

"dinner's ready!"

Perhaps because of the high prices, the boatman and his son were very attentive and brought them a hot breakfast, which was actually very simple, a large bucket of old rice porridge, two bowls of pickled radishes and a dozen boiled eggs, and the rest was there is none left.

When had Li Jinxiao eaten such poor food? The porridge had a musty smell that made him vomit. How could he eat it? The pickled radish was mainly unclean, and there were pickled flies on it.

Li Jinxiao had to eat two boiled eggs. He couldn't help asking, "Do you have any other fresh food on board?"

"Fresh?"

The old boatman scratched his head and said, "Or there are only fish."

Li Jinxiao likes to eat fish, he quickly said: "Fish is fine, is there any on board?"

"Not on the boat, but there are some in the small town ahead. I'll ask my son to buy some. It might be a bit expensive. It's okay, sir!"

Li Jinxiao knew that he wanted to earn the difference, so he nodded, "The price doesn't matter, let your son buy some fresh fruits and vegetables."