Fenghou

In just two rounds of arrows, half of the cavalry were shot down. The morale of the Jin soldiers began to collapse, and they did not want to run anymore. Wanyan Tahan swung his knife and shouted: "Shock! Shock!"

But it was useless, the soldiers gradually stopped their horses, ready to turn around and follow the main force, but the hesitation of the Jurchen cavalry gave the Western Army's crossbow troops a third chance, and the [-] crossbow troops raised their crossbows to shoot again.

Another dense crossbow arrow swept the fallen leaves like an autumn wind, and once again fell a large number of enemy cavalry.

At this time, Wanyan Nianhan's army had already arrived, and the rest of the assaulting enemy army rushed to the gap with the main force.

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Chen Qing's [-] troops also rushed out of the camp, overwhelming the Jurchen cavalry. At this moment, Chen Qing had been waiting for a long time.

Two fierce generals, Yue Yun and Zhang Xian, took the lead, each leading [-] elite cavalry galloping across the wilderness, brandishing their spears, their swords flickering coldly, tens of thousands of soldiers roared loudly, "Kill the Tartars!"

At the same time, Yang Zaixing's army was also dispatched and deployed to the north of the camp. They had dug their traps and waited for the enemy to rush in.

The passage to the west is about five miles wide and three miles long. It is full of gravel and sand, which is not suitable for horses to run. The horses can easily stumble while running. But at this time, tens of thousands of cavalry can no longer care about the terrain. With superb riding skills, he galloped on the gravel ground. After running for two miles, he soon discovered that something was wrong. The ground was covered with viscous liquid and the smell was pungent.

"It's kerosene!"

The soldiers were so frightened that they beat their horses and galloped desperately.

Dozens of western army cavalry with torches rushed forward from the north, and threw the torches out. With a bang, the kerosene on the ground was ignited, and at the same time, the kerosene also burned from the east.

The kerosene burned extremely rapidly. In just a moment, tens of thousands of cavalry fell into a sea of ​​flames. Catapults continued to throw kerosene into the sea of ​​flames. The fire became more violent and thick smoke billowed. up.

The more than 2 Jurchen cavalry in the back reined in their horses one after another, looking at the sea of ​​flames in front of them in horror, and then countless cavalry from the Western Army came to kill them.

Wanyan Nianhan drew his sword and shouted, "Brothers, fight them!"

"Woo! Woo!"

When the horn sounded, more than [-] Jurchen cavalrymen turned their horses around and charged towards the Western Army cavalry. At this time, Yang Zaixing's [-] cavalrymen also rushed out from the camp, and charged at the Jurchen cavalry from behind.

In the wilderness of ten miles in length and width, a bloody and cruel extermination battle broke out...

The battle lasted until the morning of the next day before it finally came to an end. All [-] Jurchen cavalrymen were killed. There were horses and human corpses everywhere in the wilderness.

Thousands of soldiers searched on the battlefield, constantly carrying out the bodies of the dead soldiers of the Western Army. Soon, Wanyan Nianhan's body was also found. He was pierced through the chest by a spear from behind and lay face down. In the pool of blood, the soldiers of the Western Army also moved out his body, and collected items such as battle swords and seals.

This annihilation battle lasted for ten days, and finally wiped out most of the southern forces of the Jin Kingdom, including the army of Dadingfu, with a total of nearly 13 people, of which about 4 Korean soldiers were captured.

The 20 troops of the Western Army continued to march north and occupied the Liaodong area including Jinzhou, Xianpingfu, Guangpingfu and Shenzhou, and the [-]th army immediately surrounded Liaoyangfu.

The Liaoyang Mansion is the last army of the southern forces of the Kingdom of Jin. It is composed of [-] Jurchen soldiers and [-] Korean soldiers. The commander of Wan Yanchi is the commander. The Western Army did not come, but the Twenty Western Army from the Liaoxi Corridor came to kill.

In the big tent of the Chinese army outside the city, Pang Guangji, the leader of the intelligence station of Liaoyang Prefecture, reported an extremely important news to King Yong Chen Qing that a plague broke out in Shangjing.

This news was really beyond Chen Qing's expectation. He thought that there would be a big battle against Shangjing, but he didn't expect the plague to break out in Shangjing first.

Chen Qing asked: "What are the signs? I mean, what are the clues and reasons for the outbreak of the plague? Does Steward Pang know?"

Pang Guangji bowed and said, "I have learned about this plague specially. There are still traces of this plague outbreak. It first broke out in the Jueyuan Temple in Xinzhou last fall. Pilgrim, after the pilgrim brought it back, the plague spread in more than a dozen surrounding villages, and many people died. Later, when winter came, the road was blocked by heavy snow, and the news of the plague gradually disappeared.”

"Is it really gone, or is it fake?" Chen Qing asked again with a smile.

"There should be more. At that time, the officials of Xinzhou asked for help from the court of the Kingdom of Jin, saying that a plague also appeared near Xinzhou City, and dozens of people died. Take it to heart."

"and after?"

"Later, His Highness also knew that there was a coup d'état, Wanyan Wushu killed Wanyanchang, and at the same time wiped out Wanyanchang's henchmen in the imperial court, and replaced new officials. As a result, the newly appointed officials didn't know about the plague at all. Then Wanyan Wushu issued a gathering order, ordering all the food, supplies, and population from all over the country to be gathered in Shangjing. Shangjing can only accommodate 10,000+ people. As a result, 50 people flooded in, and they were all concentrated in the outer city. It is said that the outer city exceeded Ten times the capacity, there must be patients from Xinzhou, so the first batch of plague patients discovered were dozens of Xinzhou people."

Chen Qing walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, and then asked, "Has the Jin Kingdom's army been infected with the epidemic?"

"Yes! It's just that the quantity is unknown."

Pang Guangji said: "As far as I know, soldiers in the army are also infected, because the Shangjing army urgently transported medicinal materials from Liaoyang Prefecture a few days ago, and there was a batch of honeysuckle in the medicinal material warehouse of Liaoyang Prefecture, which was transported northward by them."

"Has the army in Liaoyang Mansion been infected?"

"When Beizhi escaped from the city yesterday, he didn't hear that there was an epidemic in Liaoyang Mansion. There shouldn't be any. During this period of time, no one came back from Shangjing."

The first thousand and 490 chapters of epidemic prevention

In the afternoon, Chen Qing convened the generals and relevant officials to discuss the impact of the plague.

"The news of the outbreak of the plague in Shangjing, the capital city of the Kingdom of Jin, must be known to everyone. In order to reduce the pressure, Wanyan Wushu sent millions of people back to their hometowns. This actually brought the plague to other places. Our strategy must be adjusted in time. I suggest to take Shenzhou as the boundary. We will not attack the north of Shenzhou for the time being, and wait and see the development of the plague. Second, we must take down the Liaodong area as soon as possible, and then take various epidemic prevention measures to ensure that the plague will not affect the army. How specifically? Let’s do it, everyone express their opinions!”

Chen Qing glanced at Zhang Xiao again, "Let's talk about Zhang's participation in politics beforehand!"

Zhang Xiao said slowly: "Actually, one of the plagues is prevention and the other is treatment. We have experience. We did a good job of epidemic prevention in Caizhou and Chenzhou. His Highness suggested that we wear multi-layer masks. We have to prepare a lot. Then sterilize with lime, the third is to isolate in time, and then it is medical treatment. According to the plague treatment prescription left by Zhang Zhongjing of the Han Dynasty, boil a big pot of soup. First of all, the army is guaranteed. In the army, not a single soldier was infected."

Yang Zaixing raised his hand and said, "I also have a suggestion. We need to take down the Liaoyang Mansion as soon as possible and wipe out the enemy troops. Then the garrison in Liaodong will not need so many troops. I suggest that the garrison be reduced to 10 to protect the soldiers from infection to the greatest extent. .”

Gao Ding also said: "A large number of people can be transferred to Yanshan Road together, and then Yuguan is blocked, and no one is allowed to enter Yanshan Road."

Liu Cui also added: "As well as the Dading Mansion and Linhuang Mansion, we must also be careful, and no one from the Kingdom of Jin is allowed to approach. The humble official suspects that Wanyan Wushu may sneak into these two places with merchants infected with the disease, and give the Western Army Hit hard."

"Doctor Zhou also talked about it!"

Medical officer Zhou is called Zhou Mian, the chief military doctor of the Western Army. He nodded, "Actually, my opinion is similar to that of Zhang Shenzheng. Masks, medicines, and lime must be urgently transported to Liaodong in large quantities. Then I emphasize one point, that is, isolation. Separating sick people from normal people is the key to treating the plague in all dynasties. The army needs to set up isolation camps and observation camps, and then use several counties for isolation and observation. Healthy people must be separated, and there are toilets , This is the key to spreading the plague, toilets must be far away from military camps, disinfected with a lot of lime, and we must develop the habit of washing hands before meals and after defecation.”

Everyone said something to me, and the plan gradually matured. Chen Qing immediately made a decision: "First of all, set up a Liaodong epidemic prevention dispatching headquarters. I will be the supreme commander. Zhang Canzhengshi and Yang Dutong will be my deputy. Next, we will set up Sixteen members of the military, involving various links, each link must have a member of the military responsible, and then this member of the military must have dozens of subordinates, all of them must absolutely obey the command and arrangement of the epidemic prevention dispatch headquarters, and those who do not obey Those who disobey the order will be beheaded!"

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While setting up the Liaodong Epidemic Prevention and Dispatch Headquarters, Chen Qing also decided to use the fastest way to capture Liaoyang City, and Liaoyang must be captured before dawn tomorrow.

Liaoyang City is a large city with a population of nearly 20, mainly Jurchen, Khitan and Han. The Jurchens in the southern part of the Kingdom of Jin are different from those in the northern part of the Kingdom of Jin. There is no difference from the Han people. In the northern Jurchen, there are mature Jurchen and raw Jurchen. The raw Jurchen still maintains the fishing and hunting tribal system.

Chen Qing decided to capture Liaoyang City. He could only use a large iron fire thunder to blow open the city gate. The city walls of Liaoyang City were very strong and were made of large blue stones. The iron fire thunder could not blow open the city wall.

Now the Western Army has a lot of experience in blasting open city gates. The more troublesome thing is the suspension bridge. However, the Firearms Bureau has designed a kind of iron fire mine specially designed to blow up the suspension bridge. Thunder, throw it up, and the chain mine will wrap around the iron chain of the suspension bridge, and can blow the iron chain pulling the suspension bridge into two pieces.

This kind of chain mine has a wide range of uses, such as blowing up siege ladders, blowing up ship masts, and so on.

At nightfall, fierce battle drums sounded in the camp of the Western Army, "Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The 20 troops began to spread out in front of the north and south gates, and the gates were full of soldiers from the Kingdom of Jin, most of whom were soldiers from Korea, armed with swords and spears, ready to fight.

According to Pang Guangji's description, the [-] Koryo soldiers in Liaoyang City are different from those in other places. The Koryo soldiers here are soldiers from the north. They are pro-Jin people. They are all soldiers who have served in the army for many years. Donghu soldiers.

But Chen Qing has made up his mind. In order to switch to epidemic prevention as soon as possible, he decided to fight a fierce battle with the Liaoyang defenders. After breaking through the city gate, he immediately switched to street fighting.

Forty heavy-duty trebuchets pushed towards the city gate from the north and south at the same time. Arrows rained down from the top of the city, basically too far apart to reach the western army.

At 250 steps, the soldiers of the Western Army fixed the catapults, and the large baffles were also placed in place. The defenders on the top of the city also realized the intention of the Western Army, and began to shoot violently at the catapults with bed crossbows. There were also catapults on the top of the city, but They are all medium-sized trebuchets, and the projection distance is only within 150 steps. The range is not enough to cause damage to the heavy trebuchets of the Western Army.

With an order, twenty heavy trebuchets in the north creaked and pulled up. The soldiers of the Western Army put an [-]-jin kerosene tank into the iron bucket. There was also a layer of kerosene on the outside, which was ignited by the soldiers with torches. The fire oil tank was ablaze.

"emission!"

Twenty trebuchets were launched at the same time, and twenty large burning and smoking kerosene tanks were thrown densely at the top and sides of the city gate.

The clay pot burst, and eighty catties of kerosene splashed out, which was immediately ignited by the burning pottery fragments. The flames on the top of the city instantly blazed. The Korean soldiers, who had no experience in fire prevention, were caught off guard and fled to both sides in terror. Dozens of soldiers were set on fire. Frightened and yelled and ran away.

After three rounds of shooting, the entire city, including the tower, was engulfed in flames.

Although two fire oil tanks were not strong enough, they only hit the city wall, and a fire was ignited beside the city gate, but this did not affect the attack of the firearms soldiers.

Two hundred soldiers held large shields and long planks to cover ten soldiers running. The soldiers carried a 250-jin iron fire mine, and some soldiers held a chain mine.

The moat was covered with long wooden boards, and the soldiers rushed over. Several soldiers spread the wet bedding on the ground, and the fire was extinguished immediately. They placed the iron fire mine nervously, and inserted an iron pallet into the soil. Lei was placed on the iron plate, next to the city gate.

Some soldiers lit the matchlock, and at the same time, several soldiers also lit the chain mine, and threw the chain mine onto the chain, instantly entangled the chain of the suspension bridge.

More than a dozen soldiers quickly retreated, and ran about seventy or eighty steps, lying on the ground with their heads tightly covering their ears.

All the soldiers covered their ears, only to hear an earth-shattering explosion, "Boom!"

The large iron fire mine exploded, the earth trembled, thick smoke rose into the sky, and dust filled the air.

At this time, there were several small explosions again. This was the explosion of the chain mine, the iron chain was blown off, and the suspension bridge crashed down. For a moment, broken wood, bricks and stones fell from the sky.

After a while, the thick smoke cleared away, most of the city gate had disappeared, and a large black hole appeared, from which the inside of the city could be clearly seen.

Chen Qing shouted, "Shoot into the city!"

"Kill!"

With a loud roar, Yue Yun brandished his double hammers and led ten thousand cavalry to kill the city first.

At this time, there was also an earth-shattering explosion from the direction of the south city, and the gate of the south city was also blown up.

Yang Zaixing and his deputy Li Fuxing led an army of [-] to enter the city from the south, while Liu Cui, Gao Ding, Yue Yun, Zhang Xian and other generals led [-] troops from the west to attack the city.

The first thousand and 490 chapters and three migrations

Street fighting broke out, and the defense of the cities in the Kingdom of Jin was slightly different from that of the cities in the Central Plains. The Jurchen army built another fortress in the city. The fortresses were all made of large stones and were very strong. Each fortress could accommodate hundreds of soldiers. The inside is full of food and clean water, even if the outside city is breached, dozens of small castles inside will continue to be attacked.

Liaoyang City was like this, and so was Shangjing City. The defenders in the city quickly withdrew to the castles and continued to fight against the Western Army with bows and arrows.

These Goryeo soldiers are all North Goryeo soldiers, tough, fierce, and stubborn, while the Goryeo soldiers in the Liaoxi Corridor are South Goryeo soldiers with low morale and extremely weak combat effectiveness. Although they are all Goryeo soldiers, their fighting will is completely different.

Although these Goryeo soldiers who fought fiercely with the Western Army in the streets and alleys were very stubborn, they were all infantry, and they were no opponents at all against the Western Army's cavalry. Yu Gaoli's soldiers were all killed by the cavalry of the Western Army.

The next step is to gnaw down the hard bones one by one, one after another. The effect of using small iron fire mines is not great, and it is not cost-effective to use large iron fire mines, and the cost is too high.

The Western Army soon discovered that using kerosene was the best way to deal with the fortress. Not only the fire, but even the smoke would be unbearable to the people inside.

But the arrows in the fortress are very powerful. Soldiers with kerosene bags will be shot down if they get close to it. Although the fierce oil fire cabinet can be approached, the amount of kerosene sprayed is not enough.

Chen Qing immediately ordered to dismantle the north and south city gates and let heavy trebuchets enter the city. The city gates were dismantled and widened, and large trebuchets were dragged into the city by strong bulls.

At this time, Chen Qing was standing in the center of the city, watching the largest military castle. The military castle covered an area of ​​[-] acres, was about four stories high, covered with small windows, and surrounded by a wall outside. Surround the castle.

Hundreds of Jurchen soldiers hid behind the window and shot at the Western Army with crossbow arrows. The main general Wanyan Chi was also in this military fort.

At this time, two heavy-duty trebuchets were slowly approaching, one from the south and the other from the north. More than a dozen craftsmen nervously positioned them. A huge baffle was also placed in front of them, and the bed crossbow in the defensive fortress was fired.

"His Royal Highness, the trebuchet is ready!"

Chen Qing nodded, "It's ready to launch!"

"emission!"

A commander shouted, and the trebuchet in the north was the first to start, 'Boom! With a loud noise, a flaming fuel tank rose into the air, roaring and smashing towards the military fort, 'Bang! 'The fire oil tank hit the military fort accurately, the clay pot shattered, and the northern part of the military fort suddenly burst into flames.

The fire oil tank in the south also projected over and hit the wall, turning the wall into a raging fire.

After three rounds of projection, flames and thick smoke filled the air, and black smoke billowed, engulfing the entire military fort.

Hundreds of soldiers of the Western Army rushed forward and sprayed the kerosene in the kerosene bag into the windows, which was more accurate than throwing the kerosene pots from the trebuchet, and the interior of the military castle was also ablaze.

At this time, in the distance 'Boom! With an earth-shattering bang, Chen Qing looked back and saw another military fort a mile away collapsed. It turned out that soldiers of the Western Army, under the protection of heavy shields, threw a large iron fire mine weighing two hundred catties to the ground. Throwing into the military fort, the military fort exploded and collapsed.

The largest military fort in front of him was completely engulfed in flames and thick smoke, and the kerosene attack had stopped. The soldiers of the Western Army lowered the drawbridge, and hundreds of soldiers with large shields and crossbows ran across the river and approached the military fort.

The leader waved his hand, and the soldiers took off the kerosene bags on their backs, sprayed hundreds of bags through the windows, and the entire military castle was once again engulfed in flames.

Now, even if the soldiers inside were not burned to death by the fire, they would be suffocated to death by the thick smoke, almost suffocating to death.

Chen Qing immediately ordered: "Blow it up with a large iron fire mine!"

Several soldiers ran over with a large [-]-jin iron fire mine. They threw the iron fire mine into the fort with all their strength, and then ran away and got down on the ground.

"Boom!" There was a violent explosion, and the large military fort collapsed inward.This is the weakness of the military fort. It looks solid on the outside, but it is very fragile on the inside. As long as it explodes inside, it will easily collapse from the inside.

After discovering this, the Western Army used iron fire mines to destroy several large military forts in succession, and the remaining small military fortresses directly burned the people inside to death with fuel-spraying fire bags.

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By the noon of the next day, all 53 military forts in the city were finally destroyed. This time, Chen Qing ignored the miners and ordered the Jin soldiers to be wiped out. survived.

The city was filled with the smell of burnt corpses, and every house was closed, and none of the 10,000+ people dared to go out.

Without too much delay, Chen Qing transported all the enemy soldiers outside the city, burned them and buried them deeply, and then began to disinfect them with quicklime on a large scale. The Liaodong area itself is rich in lime. Chen Qing used [-] Korean prisoners of war to mine lime, and treated them with lime and lime water. Liaoyang City carried out all disinfection, and began to order soldiers to relocate the people in Liaodong area to Yanshan Road in the name of avoiding the plague.

This is actually a long-established plan to move the people of the Kingdom of Jin to scattered places in the Central Plains. After more than ten years, they will gradually become Sinicized. The strategy adopted was to establish the Andong Protectorate, migrate Goguryeo people to the Central Plains on a large scale, and then move the people from the Central Plains to Liaodong. However, the Sui and Tang Dynasties mainly targeted the Goguryeo people, while ignoring the Mohe people, Khitan people and Xi people. When the Tang Dynasty declined Afterwards, the Khitan grew stronger and took control of Liaodong.

This time, the Yong Kingdom learned the lessons of the Sui and Tang Dynasties and migrated all the people of all ethnic groups living in Liaodong without leaving any hidden dangers. They also immigrated from the Central Plains and Hebei to Liaodong in large numbers, and gave land and tax incentives to allow the immigrants to live and work in peace and contentment. Decades later, the border troubles in Liaodong will be completely eliminated.

Although the plague is a disaster, it is also an opportunity. The fear of the plague has made people of all ethnic groups in Liaodong willing to leave their homes and go to the south to avoid disasters. As for whether they can come back in the future, that is another matter. Yuguan and Liaoxi Corridor One letter, they will not be able to go back.

Yang Zaixing is in charge of leading a [-] army to evacuate millions of people in Liaodong, and the [-] army will also withdraw to Pingzhou simultaneously.

Only [-] troops were left to continue to confront the army of the Kingdom of Jin.

At the same time, Chen Qing also sent someone to inform Niu Gao, ordering him to send all the people of Dading Mansion to Yanshan Road, and Linhuang Mansion must be strictly guarded, and no one from the Kingdom of Jin is allowed to enter the city.

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Jingzhao, Yongwang Palace, an urgent memorial was sent to Princess Luxiu, and the seal on it was urgent and high-level, which is more important and urgent than Grade A memorials, usually because of wars and major disasters , or major political events, such as the death of the emperor.

The concubine Lu Xiu was taken aback, and hurriedly called Zhao Qiaoyun and Zhao Yingluo, and the reviewing of the memorial was almost always discussed by the three of them.