Fenghou

Wanyan Chang and Wanyan Wushu have deep personal grievances, which are mainly manifested in the court's struggle for power. After Wanyan Quan ascended the throne, in order to seize Yan Zonghan's power, he appointed Wanyan Chang as prime minister. Wanyan Zonghan was captured by Chen Qing. He was redeemed by the court of the Kingdom of Jin with Zhao Huan and his son.

Wan Yanquan immediately reformed the official system, abolished the Bojilie system, and changed it to the three provinces. Wanyanchang was kicked out of the court again and became the Marshal of the Right Army Capital, who was based in Hebei.

Wanyan Zongqian passed away last year, and Wanyanchang was expected to enter the court to succeed the post of Tai Tuo and take charge of the three provinces, but he was stabbed in the back by Wanyan Wushu. Jin Bing regarded it as his own private army and refused to rescue the Central Plains, which led to the fall of Henan Road.

The emperor of the Kingdom of Jin immediately gave up the idea of ​​promoting Wanyan Chang, and instead promoted Wanyan Zonghan, who had made great contributions to attacking the grassland, as the Taifu.

Wan Yanchang thus lost the chance to join the cabinet, how could he not hate Wanyan Wushu deeply?

Now that Wanyan Wushu asked him for help without any compensation, of course Wanyanchang could not send troops, but he had to think of a good excuse so that Wanyan Wushu would not sue the emperor again and criticize himself for not seeing the big picture.

General Han Chang suggested to him: "A few days ago, Ba Lisu sent someone from Yanshan Mansion to deliver a letter, so that we can ensure that the pontoon bridge can be built. It is estimated that in three days, Ba Lisu's reinforcements will arrive. Marshal Du can let Ba Lisu Hurry up and rescue Shandong Road."

The [-] troops led by Ba Lisu were reinforcements sent by the imperial court. Because many soldiers in the army fell ill, Ba Lisu led the army to rest in Yanshan Mansion for ten days, but could not withstand Wanyan Wushu's repeated urging , Ba Lisu had no choice but to lead the army to rush south to Jinan Prefecture for rescue.

Of course Wan Yanchang, the [-]-strong army of Ba Lisu, also wanted it. Besides, Wanyan Yinshuke died of illness last year, and Balisu was Yinshuke's brother.

How could such a precious [-] elite soldiers give Wanyan Wushu?

Han Chang's suggestion just reminded Wanyanchang that if Wanyanba couldn't cross the Yellow River quickly, wouldn't the [-] elite soldiers have to stay in Hebei?

Wan Yanchang suddenly thought of a clever plan.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wan Yanchang posted notices all over Daming City, requisitioning [-] civilians to build two pontoon bridges in Zhujia Town and Hongliu Bay, recruiting civilians at a price of [-] Wen per day.

Generally, the construction of pontoon bridges is carried out quietly by the army, and they are only built before crossing the river to avoid being discovered by the enemy.

Wan Yanchang recruited civilians with such great fanfare, and he also clearly wrote down the location of the pontoon bridge. This was because he was afraid that the Western Army would not know. pontoon.

Sure enough, two hours later, Li Qingong, the governor of the Yellow River Navy, received a pigeon letter from the Daming Mansion Intelligence Station in Puyang, stating that the Jin soldiers were about to cross the river.

Of course, Li Qingong wouldn't fully believe it, maybe it was Jin Bing's smack in the west, making a big splash in the Daming Mansion area, but actually preparing to attack Bianliang.

Li Qingong immediately divided his troops into three groups, one went to Bianliang, the other stayed where he was, and he personally led the other to Daming Mansion.

More than 100 vehicles and boats are sailing on the Yellow River, and the waterwheels on both sides are rolling, driving the ships forward. Most of the warships of the Western Army are vehicles and boats, so that they have power and can sail freely on the water, making them more flexible. maneuver.

Twenty miles away from the two bridge repair sites in Daming Mansion, a sentry boat came, and the soldiers on the sentry boat reported to Li Qingong: "General Qi, Zhujia Town and Hongliu Bay are indeed building pontoon bridges, and the scale of construction is very large. Big, countless migrant workers are busy."

"Is it finished?"

"No! It's only half finished, and their progress in repairing the bridge is relatively slow, and they still need to drive piles."

Li Qingong immediately ordered: "Go at full speed and destroy the enemy's pontoon bridge!"

A hundred warships speeded up and headed east. After half an hour, a pontoon bridge appeared in front of their eyes, and another pontoon bridge was several miles away, faintly visible on the river.

A thousand-stone warship equipped with a pig iron bumper rushed up and slammed into the bridgehead, "Boom!" The bridgehead was smashed to pieces, dozens of craftsmen turned around and fled in fright, and dozens of warships came forward , The soldiers sprayed kerosene with leather bags, threw torches, and the fire suddenly ignited.

More than a dozen warships continued to move forward, and not long after, warships several miles away also burned.

Wan Yanchang stood at the top of the city, looking at the thick smoke billowing more than a dozen miles away, with a smug smile on his face, he immediately ordered: "Don't suspend work, and continue to build a new pontoon bridge!"

Just burning two pontoon bridges is not enough to explain to the emperor, but it takes more than a dozen pontoon bridges to explain to the emperor.

Not only that, but Wan Yanchang sent a thousand of his confidants to put on the armor of the soldiers of the Western Army and rush to various places where the ships were hidden overnight, pretending to be the Western Army and burning all the more than 300 small boats. Support the hope of Shandong Road.

In the morning of the next day, Wanyan Balisu led [-] cavalry to Daming Mansion. Although Balisu had a good relationship with Wanyanchang, he was not Wanyanchang's man. He was loyal to the emperor, so he really wanted to go. To support Wanyan Wushu, if the soldiers were not sick, he would not have wasted ten days.

"Marshal Du, what's going on, there isn't even a pontoon bridge?" Ba Lisu asked in amazement.

Wan Yanchang pointed to the three billowing smoke in the distance and said helplessly: "There are three pontoon bridges under construction over there. They were discovered by the Western Army warships today and burned down. Five pontoon bridges have been burned down two days ago, including the ones I collected. More than 300 ships of the Western Army were also found by the scouts of the Western Army, and they were burned down, and the Western Army Navy completely blocked the old road of the Yellow River."

Ba Lisu frowned, "Then what should I do?"

Wan Yanchang pondered for a moment and said: "General Ba Lisu can lead his army to go east for more than [-] li and use rafts to build a pontoon overnight. This is the only way. If not, then we can only go to Bianliang. Try your luck."

Ba Lisu nodded, "Thank you Marshal Du for reminding me, I'll give it a try!"

Ba Lisu didn't notice that when Wan Yanchang turned his head away, a fierce light appeared in his narrowed eyes.

The first thousand 210 chapter four exposed

There is a pharmacy in the south of Daming City, called An Jian Tang, which is a branch of an intelligence point of the Western Army in Daming City. There are several carrier pigeons in the backyard of this pharmacy, and pigeon letters from the Daming City Intelligence Station are sent from here.

In the afternoon, a strong Jurchen general led a few of his men into the pharmacy. The shopkeeper didn't dare to neglect, so he hurried up to meet him, "May I ask what medicine you want to buy, General?"

"Are you the shopkeeper Zhou of the pharmacy?"

"The villain is right!"

The general said coldly: "Are you raising the carrier pigeons?"

The shopkeeper was startled, and quickly said: "The small shop has filed a record in the county government according to the regulations. The small shop needs to prepare medicines, and carrier pigeons must be used."

The general sneered and said, "But your pigeons are all flying in the direction of Bianliang. Could it be that you are buying medicine from Bianliang?"

"This..." The shopkeeper's back broke out in cold sweat, and he realized that he had been exposed.

The general continued: "Don't take us for fools, the Marshal will let you off this time, and disappear tomorrow."

After speaking, he handed him a note, "According to the content of the note, otherwise you will not live."

The Jurchen general turned around and left with two of his men. The shopkeeper Zhou Hua was in a state of confusion. He didn't understand why the other party let him go since he had already discovered them? "

Zhou Hua opened the note and glanced at it. He was startled by the content inside. After thinking for a while, he slipped out through the back door to make sure that no one was following him, and then he boarded an ox cart and headed north.

Entered a restaurant near the North City Gate, left from the back door of the restaurant, boarded another ox cart, and turned around several times. It was impossible for anyone to follow him, so Zhou Hua came to the east of the city in an ox cart. Yuanhe Restaurant, this is the intelligence headquarters of the Western Army on Hebei Road.

The treasurer, Liu Zhen, was the head of intelligence. After listening to Zhou Hua's report, his face became very serious. Zhou Hua had been exposed long ago, but the other party never did anything. Maybe he used them to send false information.

Liu Zhen finally looked at the note, and there was only one sentence on it, "[-] gold reinforcements will go to the east to cross the river two hundred miles away."

What does it mean?Actually told himself such an important military secret, is this false information?Impossible, there is no reason to send false information like this, if it is true or false, just send someone to follow it.

Liu Zhen thought for a while and asked, "What else did the other party say?"

"He first said that I must disappear tomorrow, Wan Yanchang let us off this time, and then asked me to do what was written on the note, otherwise we would not survive."

Zhou Hua was also very surprised, and asked: "The other party told us this important military secret, isn't he afraid that we will intercept reinforcements going south?"

"Perhaps that's what he meant. He didn't want the reinforcements to support Wanyan Wushu, and wanted to keep the reinforcements for himself."

Liu Zhen vaguely guessed Wan Yanchang's intention, he wanted to send someone to report to him, and use the Western Army warships to intercept the reinforcements going south.

But now he is also in a state of confusion, Zhou Hua has been discovered long ago, so has he been exposed?

Probably not yet, otherwise they would come to him directly instead of going through Zhou Hua. Fortunately, Liu had a one-way connection with Zhou Hua through a female subordinate who dressed up as a sick woman and went to the pharmacy to buy medicine and handed over the information to him. Send it to Zhou Hua.

Zhou Hua and his buddies are in danger, and so are the female subordinates, they must be dismissed immediately.

Liu Zhen immediately made a decision. He ordered Zhou Hua to evacuate immediately after returning. He also led his men to close the restaurant and evacuated outside the Daming City. He just burned the important information, and he didn't even have time to clean up his belongings. Gold and silver, everyone quickly evacuated.

Half an hour later, more than [-] Western Army intelligence spies, including Zhou Hua, all evacuated Daming City.

This time, Wan Yanchang paid a very high price. He had already found out that Anjian Pharmacy was an intelligence point of the Western Army by monitoring the carrier pigeons, but he had never tried to scare the snake away.

Originally, the Western Army's intelligence point in Daming City could be uprooted and all the Western Army's spies could be wiped out, but in order to prevent Ba Lisu from supporting Wanyan Wushu, Wan Yanchang gave up the opportunity to clean up the Western Army's intelligence spies.

But since this favor was done, he didn't want to waste it, so he wrote a letter to Chen Qing, telling him that he would send the Western Army spies out of the country as a gift, and hoped that Chen Qing could do this.

Of course, Wan Yanchang also stationed new spies in Jingzhao. This time, instead of investigating the secrets of Tie Huolei, he instead monitored all kinds of movements of the Western Army. Yan Chang also hoped that Chen Qingneng would send them out of the country.

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In the afternoon, a scout of the Western Army with excellent water skills jumped into the old course of the Yellow River with a sheepskin bag in his arms, and swam to a Western Army sentry ship in the Yellow River.

Li Qingong's warship has been cruising near Daming City, and he has been a little confused these two days. He clearly knows that they are nearby and is desperately trying to build the pontoon bridge, as if he is afraid that they will not come and destroy it.

What made him even more confused was that the small boats hidden in the depths of the bay were set on fire one after another. The villagers all said that it was burned by the Western Army. Li Qingong was confused. He never sent anyone to do it. Who could it be?Could it be Liu Zhen and the others, but even if it was done by intelligence spies from the Daming Mansion, they would not wear the armor of the Western Army!

Li Qingong was sitting in the cabin writing the military report. At this time, a soldier outside reported, "Liu Zhen sent someone to ask for an urgent visit!"

"Let him in!"

After a while, the soldiers brought in a wet scout, and knelt down on one knee to report, "See Dudu Li!"

"Don't be too polite, do you have any urgent information?"

The soldier took out a bamboo tube and handed it to Li Qingong. It was a waterproof bamboo tube with a tight wooden stopper. Li Qingong pulled out the stopper and took out a letter. He read it quickly and couldn't help being stunned.

Wan Yanchang actually leaked military secrets, and [-] Jurchen reinforcements will build a pontoon bridge two hundred miles east of Daming Mansion to cross the Yellow River.

He continued to read, Liu Zhen analyzed that Wanyan Chang and Wanyan Wushu had deep personal grievances, and he did not want reinforcements to go to Shandong Road, but hoped that reinforcements would stay on Hebei Road. This is a typical competition for military resources.

Li Qingong suddenly understood a little bit. Isn't the abnormal phenomenon that happened in the past two days a manifestation of Wan Yanchang's unwillingness to support Shandong Road?

But could this be Wan Yanchang's plan?Trick yourself into going east.

Li Qingong thought about it, probably not, he could have divided his troops into two groups, half of them stayed here and the other went east, the effect would be the same.

Anyway, he's going to give it a try.

Li Qingong made a decisive decision. He left [-] warships behind, while he himself led [-] warships and sailed eastward, and sent several scouts to monitor and track the [-] reinforcements on the north bank to determine where the enemy troops crossed the river.

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Two days later, fifty warships tracked down the pontoon bridge being built, and Ba Lisu tried to use the simplest method to build the pontoon bridge, that is, string the rafts together on the shore first, and then put the one-mile-long leather rafts into the string. In the water, with the impact of the water flow, the raft automatically reaches the other end, and then the wide plank is simply laid, and the pontoon bridge is completed.

In order to shorten the time for building the pontoon bridge, Jin Bing also felled a large number of trees in advance to make planks. In fact, it only took more than an hour to build the pontoon bridge.

When the warships of the Western Army discovered the pontoon bridge, the skin rafts had already been laid, and hundreds of soldiers were laying bundled planks on the skin rafts.

"dash forward!"

The boat rushed up directly, firing arrows, and the sheepskin rafts were shot through one after another. The golden soldiers on the pontoon bridge were already scrambling in fright, running for their lives, and many fell into the water, struggling in the water.

Wanyan Ba ​​Lisu, who was resting in the woods, turned pale with fright, and rode to the river, only to see the flames on the river, and it was about to build a pontoon bridge, which was set on fire by the Western Army again.

The soldiers on the shore were furious, yelling, and shooting arrows at the warships of the Western Army, but it was meaningless.

Ba Lisu was so angry that his eyes were about to burst into flames, and his heart became even more angry. Could it be that Wan Yanchang really hit the mark, that the Western Army's warships blocked the Yellow River, so they couldn't cross the river?If there is no such thing, he just doesn't believe in this evil when he pulls out the speed!

The first thousand 210 chapters make way

Night shrouded the Western Army camp in Licheng County. In the dark night, hundreds of Jurchen cavalry tried to approach the camp, but they were still three miles away before they were discovered by the Western Army patrols outside.

"There is an enemy situation!" The Western Army patrol shouted.

The chief Jurchen commander roared, "Rush over!"

Hundreds of cavalry galloped wildly, and gunpowder arrows flew into the sky to warn. In the barracks, a cavalry of 3000 people rushed out quickly and rushed towards the warning.

The 3000 cavalry belonged to the quick-response army. There were four cavalry on duty every night. Each cavalry consisted of [-] people, and they were deployed next to the four camp gates. Once there was an alarm, the [-] cavalry would be dispatched immediately.

Hundreds of sentinel cavalry had fought fiercely with the invading enemy, preventing them from continuing to break through. At this time, [-] cavalry arrived and surrounded the invading enemy army.

The defense of the big camp is extremely tight, especially to prevent the opponent from using fire to attack the camp. Thousands of people have to be deployed for patrols, and they have been deployed three miles away. This is also to prevent the opponent from using large fire kites to attack the camp.

The Western Army uses leather tents. Although the fireproof performance is much better than that of cloth and wool tents, they will also burn if they are specially used for fire attacks. Therefore, defending against enemy fire attacks has always been the top priority of camp defense.

In just a moment, the five hundred invading cavalry were all wiped out, and none of them survived.

This was not the first time that the Jin soldiers had sneaked up on the Song army. Almost every night, Jurchen cavalry came to attack, trying to set fire to the camp, but they were all wiped out by the Western army without exception.

The lights in the handsome tent were brightly lit, and Chen Qing was still meditating in front of the sand table, completely unmoved by the harassment outside.

He had just received a bulletin from Li Qingong that a Jurchen cavalry force of 5 men was trying to go south to rescue Jinan Prefecture.

It was Chen Qing's order to block the Yellow River. Before that, he was worried that Wanyan Chang and Wanyan Wushu would join forces, so they had to be separated.

However, as the situation changed at any time, Chen Qing gradually discovered that Wanyan Chang had no sign of joining forces with Wanyan Wushu, and there was not even food and material support, and the Western Army now had the upper hand, so he was not worried about Wanyanchang He even hoped that Wan Yanchang would send reinforcements to give him a chance to besiege the city and fight for reinforcements.

"Your Highness, I also agree to let them cross the Yellow River, use the terrain advantage to set up an ambush, and wipe out the opponent's reinforcements." Yang Zaixing said in a deep voice.

Siege and aid has always been a classic tactic. Once it can be implemented smoothly, use the opponent's eagerness to rescue, and then use the advantage of the terrain to ambush, and usually successfully annihilate the reinforcements.

Chen Qing's eyes turned to the sand table again. There are many hills between Jinan Mansion and Daming Mansion, and there are many places suitable for ambushes. If the opponent is allowed to come from the direction of Ande County, the enemy army must pass through Eagle Valley, where the enemy army is ambushed The best part, they originally planned to ambush the defeated soldiers of Wanyan Wushu there.

Thinking of this, Chen Qing immediately ordered: "Immediately inform Li Qingong to let the enemy troops cross the Yellow River near Jiangling County."

After crossing the Yellow River from Jiangling County, one must follow the official road in the north of Ande County to Jinan Prefecture, and this official road must pass through the Eagle Valley.

After giving the order, Chen Qing said to Yang Zaixing again: "I will give you [-] troops and set up an ambush in the Eagle Valley. We must completely wipe out the enemy's reinforcements."

Yang Zaixing clasped his fists and said, "Please rest assured, Your Highness, the humble officer will definitely wipe out the enemy army!"

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Wanyan Bali quickly dispatched three troops to build three pontoon bridges tens of miles apart, but the opponent's navy was really strong, he almost built a pontoon bridge, and the warship destroyed one, which made him a little discouraged.

In the middle of the night, Wanyan Bali was pushed awake by his own soldiers, "General, there is good news!"

"What good news?" Ba Lisu sat up and asked.