Fenghou

At present, Li Qiong is stationed in Bozhou with [-] troops, and Pan Gui is stationed in Shouzhou with [-] troops. Pan Gui is the deputy general and is controlled by Li Qiong.

The lights of the handsome tent were turned on, and it was not yet three o'clock, and the two of them came rushing all the way.

The two knelt down on one knee to salute, "See Your Highness for humble positions!"

"The two generals have invited you, and you have worked hard all the way."

Both of them were notified early this morning. They ran all the way and changed a few horses before arriving at the Bianliang barracks in the middle of the night.

Chen Qing asked the two to sit down, and then served tea to the soldiers. Chen Qing asked, "How is the situation in the army?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, the brothers are all gearing up and waiting for the order to attack."

Chen Qing nodded, "This time you are not asked to go out to fight the enemy, but to seize the territory. I estimate that the imperial army will be defeated in a few days, and will be defeated all the way to the south of the Huaihe River. Li Cheng's army will not cross the Huaihe River." In this way, there will be no troops stationed in Suzhou, Sizhou and Lianshui Army temporarily. You must seize this opportunity to occupy the two states and one army, and control the north bank of the Huaihe River. If the Song Army sends people to negotiate , you say it is my order, let them come to me!"

"Understandable!"

Chen Qing pondered for a while and said: "But you can't be careless. It is not ruled out that Li Cheng will leave a small amount of troops to garrison, so you need information first. I have sent the commander Yu Shouzhong to lead [-] scouts to infiltrate Fuli County and Xuyi County. You must hurry up." Get in touch with them."

The two looked at each other and nodded in agreement.

Chen Qing asked the two of them a few more words, and they remembered them one by one. Then they left, and left the Bianliang camp overnight, and returned to Bozhou and Shouzhou. The two troops will gather in Shouzhou, waiting for the opportunity to send troops.

After the two generals left, Chen Qing couldn't sleep anymore. He simply stood in front of the sand table and meditated, carefully deduced his combat strategy, and found out all the omissions one by one.

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Donghai Island is also called Yuzhou, which is today's Lianyungang. It was an independent island in the Song Dynasty and was not connected to the mainland. In fact, it includes some areas such as Yancheng, Taizhou, and Nantong in Jiangsu today. In the Song Dynasty, it was also a vast ocean. Not yet land.

At present, Donghai Island is separated from the land by a three-mile wide strait. The island is quite large, ten miles long from north to south, eight miles wide from east to west, and has an area of ​​about [-] mu. It can definitely be built into an important shipping strategic transit point.

This morning, a huge fleet of [-] Wanshi ships arrived at Donghai Island. The [-] ships not only brought [-] soldiers, but also brought a large amount of food, supplies and tents.

The [-] troops will still be under the command of Liu Qiong. The leader is Tang Huai. He bowed to Liu Qiong and handed a letter to Liu Qiong, "This is a letter written by His Highness. Your Highness asked me to hand it over to Liu Dutong."

Liu Qiong took the letter and read it hastily, nodded, and handed the letter to Tang Qian, the lieutenant general. He smiled and asked Tang Huai, "Have you been intercepted by the court navy when passing Zhenjiang Mansion?"

Tang Huai shook his head with a smile, "We didn't even see the shadow of the court navy, let alone intercept it."

At this time, Tang Qian read the letter and handed it to Liu Qiong. Liu Qiong raised the letter and asked, "Has General Tang not read this letter?"

Tang Huai shook his head, Liu Qiong said flatly: "Your Highness, let us pay attention to Qushan County. Once the Song army is defeated, it will be our chance to seize Qushan County."

The first thousand and 190 chapter three fighters

"Kill!"

The Song Army rushed towards Qushan County like a tide, and thousands of arrows were fired from the top of the city, shooting down the city overwhelmingly. The arrows were like a storm, and groups of Song Army soldiers fell in the rain of arrows.

However, the soldiers of the Song Army continued to rush forward bravely carrying the siege ladder.

Just as the siege ladders were on the top of the city, thousands of barrels of kerosene were suddenly poured on the top of the city. Dozens of torches were thrown down, and the kerosene was ignited. In the sea of ​​flames, countless soldiers ran out screaming.

On the top of the wall, Li Cheng shouted sharply, "Shoot!"

Thousands of arrows were fired from the top of the city again, and the arrows shot at the soldiers of the Song Army like a storm.

Many soldiers had just escaped the fire, but because they had no shields to resist, they gave their backs to the enemy in the city, and the dense arrow rain shot through their backs and legs.

Many soldiers were shot down to the ground, and just climbed two steps, but were nailed to the ground by dense arrows.

Liu Kai sighed, "Retreat!"

"Dang! Dang! Dang!"

The bell for the withdrawal of troops rang, and the surviving soldiers ran away desperately. A tragic battle ended in less than an hour.

2000 soldiers attacked the city, and there were less than [-] survivors in the end.

It has been almost a month since the Song army besieged Qushan County, and launched more than a dozen siege battles, all of which ended in failure.

The key is the continuous depletion of troops, the accumulation of small numbers, plus today's disastrous defeat, the Song army has killed and injured more than [-] people. It is only the luck of the soldiers to survive the injuries, but it is the same thing for the army. Losing a soldier who can fight .

Both Yang Yizhong and Wang Jian couldn't bear it anymore and found the main general Liu Kai.

Walking into the big tent, I saw Liu Qi propping his forehead with one hand, sitting exhausted and haggard in front of the table. Yang Yizhong and Wang Jian looked at each other, and Yang Yizhong couldn't help but said: "Liu Dutong, is it okay to fight like this?" If there is no way, our entire army will be wiped out!"

Liu Kai sighed, and tapped a copy of the Emperor's Handbook on the table with his fingers, Yang Yizhong was startled, and asked, "Did it just arrive?"

Liu Qi nodded, "Look at it!"

Yang Yizhong picked up the handwriting and recognized at a glance that it was the emperor's handwriting, and it was actually written by him himself.

'If you abandon Haizhou and go north, you will be cut off by Haizhou Jinbing's logistics and retreat. Therefore, Haizhou must not be abandoned, and Haizhou must be captured at all costs. '

It is added below, "The winner of the husband has morale, and morale can not be weakened. Instead of winning the city in ten battles, it is better to win the city in one battle to boost morale." '

"What does this mean, Your Majesty?" Wang Jian was at a loss.

Yang Yizhong smiled wryly and said, "Your Majesty just told us that he has decided to give up the second plan, that we are not allowed to retreat, and that we must concentrate our forces to capture Qushan County at all costs."

Wang Jian was stunned, "But... we went up a lot and burned a lot to death. Who can bear this kind of loss?"

Liu Kai sighed and said: "This should be a suggestion from a certain gentleman, a typical paper talk, as if we can take the city at all costs, what I am afraid of now is not not being able to take the city, but whether we can escape the entire army The fate of destruction."

"The general is also aware of this crisis?"

"How could I not realize it? 1 people were killed, and within an hour, only 400 people came back alive, and all the others were burned to ashes. All the soldiers watched this tragic scene. What do you think, and your morale is high? Do you think Li Cheng can't see this?"

Yang Yizhong pondered for a while and asked: "The key is how many troops are there in the city? Is it only 2 people?"

Liu Kai sighed, "Our initial information showed that Haizhou had 5000 troops, and later it was said that 5000 people were taken away from Donghai Island, and 2 people were taken away from Yizhou, so there should be only [-] people in the city. , Now I am worried that these two pieces of information are wrong, if the information is wrong, the problem will be serious."

Wang Jian frowned, "If you look into it, I'm afraid there is something wrong!"

Liu Kai and Yang Yizhong looked at him together, "What do you say?"

"Let's say there are 5000 people on Donghai Island. Han Shizhong told us, but he didn't go to the island, and he didn't attack the city. How did he know that there were 5000 people? He must have listened to the fishermen on the island, but which fisherman would say How many troops are there? This is obviously arranged by someone. Secondly, the Western Army captured Donghai County. It is said that they captured the city overnight. There are really 5000 people. Is it so easy to capture?

More importantly, Han Shizhong said that the navy of the Western Army only had 1 people, and 1 people captured a city of 5000 people in one night, and occupied the county without any effort. Obviously the number is wrong, and it is estimated that there are at most 3000 people , Han Shizhong fell into the trick himself. "

Yang Yizhong nodded, "If the information on Donghai Island is false, then the information on Yizhou may not be true either."

Liu Qi's face suddenly became very pale, and Yang Yizhong and Wang Jian also felt heavy. All three of them realized that the problem was serious.

If this is a trap, they have already fallen into the trap, and I am afraid it will be difficult to get out.

"We must withdraw our troops as soon as possible!"

Yang Yizhong said in a deep voice: "If there is a responsibility, the three of us will bear it together!"

"I agree to withdraw the troops!" Wang Jian immediately expressed his opinion.

Liu Kai pondered for a moment, although they violated the holy will, they had no choice but to withdraw their troops. There was still a chance of survival. If they continued to fight, the entire army might be wiped out.

Liu Kai nodded, "Then withdraw the troops!"

The three discussed for a while, and decided to set up a suspicious formation, and then the whole army retreated in the middle of the night.

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The number of casualties of the signing army in the city was far lower than that of the Song army, with less than 5000 casualties. This was also due to the signing army's sufficient reserves of kerosene and bows and arrows, with more than [-] barrels of kerosene and more than a million arrows.

Of course, there is also a formidable general. Li Cheng can be called the No.1 general of the puppet Qi army, and now he is hailed as the number one general of the Han Dynasty by Wanyan Wushu. He is very experienced in combat and has rich experience. In order to take advantage of the tallness and solidity of Qushan County, he killed and wounded the Song Army in large numbers, destroyed the morale and fighting spirit of the Song Army, and then waited for an opportunity to counterattack.

For this reason, he continued to concoct false information and false news, successfully making the Song army think that there were only [-] troops in his city. In fact, he had [-] troops in his city. army.

Li Cheng has been holding back, waiting for an opportunity, but today, more than [-] soldiers of the Song Army died under his arrow rain and fire oil, Li Cheng also realized that the time to counterattack was ripe.

As night fell, more than a dozen spies dropped ropes from the top of the city, and under the cover of night, they ran towards the three Song army camps...

Li Cheng watched the outside of the city. He noticed the abnormality of the Song army. After each siege, the Song army would send people to pick up the bodies of the fallen soldiers. They would wait for half a day at most, but they didn't come today. Now night has fallen , Still did not see Song Jun sending someone to clean up the corpse.

This is very abnormal. Could it be that the Song army has already retreated?

Thinking of the word 'retreat', Li Cheng's heart tightened. He also thought that the Song Army would withdraw soon. Any army would lose its morale when the casualties were close to half. He had been waiting for this moment. If the Song Army could escape , is what makes him regret it.

He looked carefully at the Song Army camp again. The Song Army camp three miles away was brightly lit, as usual. Since it was the same as usual, why didn't they leave the corpses under the city?

The more Li Cheng thought about it, the more something went wrong. At this moment, he made up his mind.

Li Cheng immediately ordered: "Order the whole army to assemble!"

Li Cheng had already decided that no matter whether the Song army retreated or not, he was going to attack.

[-] elite troops assembled quickly, and Li Cheng left [-] militia regiments to guard the city, and he wanted to chase and kill the Song army all the way.

At this time, the spies sent him a news that surprised him. Just half an hour ago, the Song army in the three barracks had all withdrawn to the south.

Almost falling short, Li Cheng ordered: "Open the city gate, and the whole army pursues!"

190 Chapter Four Orioles

At one o'clock in the middle of the night, the [-] Song troops who were retreating were overtaken by the main force of the signing army who came after their tails. The morale of the Song army had collapsed, and they had no intention of fighting at all. Fifty thousand Song soldiers were killed and countless surrendered. Li Cheng showed no mercy this time, and chased him for nearly two hundred miles, and stopped when he reached the Huaihe River.

In the end, only a few thousand people were able to escape across the Huai River, and the rest of the [-] army was wiped out.

Li Cheng was also worried about Haizhou's loss, so he left a small number of soldiers to guard Suzhou and Sizhou. He led the main force and escorted more than [-] captured Song troops back to Haizhou.

As soon as Li Cheng's army broke out of the city, they were discovered by the scouts of the Western Army deployed outside the city. The scouts rushed back to the island to report.

At this time, the [-] Western troops on Donghai Island were ready to fight. Since the Song army launched the largest attack this morning and suffered the heaviest losses, the generals of the Western army all agreed that things must go against each other, and the Song army must withdraw.

From the afternoon onwards, the [-] Song troops had dinner early, readying their troops and waiting for the opportunity to attack.

Liu Qiong and Tang Qian stood on the pier, staring at the dark shore of the bay. Behind him, teams of western troops began to board. Tang Qian would lead three thousand soldiers to attack the western city. After Tang Qian succeeded, Liu Qiong Then lead the [-] main force into the county.

At this time, a small boat came from the darkness, and after a while, the boat docked, and the scouts jumped ashore. Liu Qiong went up to meet him and asked, "How is the situation?"

The scout saluted and said: "Report to Dutong, the Song army has retreated, and the main force in the city is chasing and killing them!"

Liu Qiong was overjoyed and asked anxiously, "Are there any defenders in the city?"

"There are also defenders, but not like the whole army, like militia soldiers, all wearing hats, corsets and cloth armor, and holding ash-tasseled guns."

Hats, corsets, and ash-tasseled spears are typical militia soldiers' equipment.

Tang Qian said in a deep voice: "The humble officer led the army to attack!"

Liu Qiong nodded, "After I lead the army to gather on the shore, I will launch a rocket."

Tang Qian saluted and left in a hurry. Not long after, ten large ships full of soldiers left the pier and sailed to the opposite bank.

Liu Qiong also issued an order, and the [-] troops immediately assembled at the dock and boarded the ship.

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Qushan County is about five miles away from the sea, separated by a small hill. From the sea to the county town, you can go around the hill. The distance is relatively long, and you have to walk more than ten miles, but you can also go directly across the hill, which is only three miles. .

Tang Qian led three thousand soldiers in a straight line, directly across the hills.

At this time, a scout rushed to report, "General Qi, many militia soldiers came out of the city to pick up the corpses, and they are in Nancheng."

This news really surprised Tang Qian, and he asked anxiously, "Can the city gate be opened?"

"The gates of the city are wide open, and the suspension bridge has been lowered, but there are also many soldiers on the top of the city, more than a thousand people."

Tang Qian realized that this was an excellent opportunity. Although according to the agreement he would not launch an attack until all Liu Qiong had crossed the sea, it was a pity that he did not use this opportunity.

He pondered for a while and asked, "How many people came out to clean up the corpses?"

"About 2000 people."

"Are there any defenders in Beicheng?" Tang Qian asked again.

The scout shook his head, "It's pitch black in the northern city, so there probably aren't any patrolling soldiers, and so is the eastern city!"

Tang Qian nodded, and he quickly made a compromise, which was to wait until the opponent was about to end before launching an offensive, thus buying time for Liu Qiong's army to cross the bay.

Tang Qian sent the defenders back to the island and asked Liu Qiong to send troops to support immediately.

The militia soldiers had been busy all night. They had just moved the entire Song army camp into the city, and then they had to clean up the bodies of the Song army soldiers who died in battle. This hard work finally fell to the militia soldiers. But there was no choice but to bear the nausea, shoveled the charred corpse into a mat with a shovel, rolled it up, threw it into a cart, and sent it to a distant place for burial.

The 2000 people started at the second watch, worked until the third watch, and then went back to rest and sleep.

Everyone was busy cleaning up under the city wall. It was the last hundreds of charred corpses, and it was about to end. The soldiers on the top of the city stopped watching and sat down, yawning, and prepared to squat for a while.

No one noticed that an army of dozens of people had approached the gate of the city without a sound. This army naturally came in line, walked on the suspension bridge, and entered the city.

Finally, more than a dozen militia soldiers saw them, and someone scolded loudly: "I haven't finished my work, I'm in a hurry to go back and seek death!"

"Who are you?" Someone noticed that their armor was different.

The soldiers of the Western Army ignored them and went straight into the city gate.