Fenghou

A few months after Chen Qing withdrew, Jin Bing completely destroyed Jiandao Pass.

Chen Qing didn't stop at Jiandao Pass, so he left Jiandao Pass and headed north until he reached Siyang County. He hadn't come out of his sadness yet. Before entering Jiandao Pass, they sacrificed more than 1000 people who died in battle in the pine forest. Soldiers.

The tombs in the pine forest have no signs or tombstones, and the tombs are covered with weeds, and no one even came to pay homage to them. These soldiers who fought and sacrificed their lives for the country just disappeared into the long river of history in obscurity.

"Commander, are you going to enter Siyang County?" Yang Yuanqing asked.

Chen Qing shook his head, "Go straight north!"

The team rushed to a high ground, and Chen Qing finally turned his head to look at Jiandao Pass, muttering to himself: "Rest in peace! One day, I will build a monument for you."

He rode his horse and rushed towards the high ground, with the snow-covered field in front of him.

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Pingliang Mansion is the base camp of Xihe Road of the Jin Kingdom. Last year, Wanyan Wulu served as the left marshal and the governor of the capital. This year, it was replaced by Wanyan Alupu. However, the main force of the West Route Army with [-] troops killed Dasan Pass. In Xigu, Pingliang Mansion has only five thousand gold soldiers stationed there.

The five thousand gold soldiers were all concentrated in Pingliang County, led by Wan Yanxin, the head of the Wanfu. The weather suddenly became cold and there was heavy snowfall in Pingliang Mansion. The [-] servants were also detained by Fengxiang Jinbing and used as labor labor.

Where in Pingliang Mansion are there still carts and servants transporting grain and grass.

However, the military order is like a mountain, and the food and grass will not be available within half a month. Wan Yanxin will lose his position if it is light, or be executed if it is serious.

Wan Yanxin had no choice but to order the army to conscript carts and arrest the strong men.

In the name of forcibly confiscating carts, groups of Jin soldiers extorted money, robbed people's wealth, and abused women in various places in Pingliang Prefecture, which made the people in Pingliang Prefecture boil with resentment.

This morning, Chen Qing's army arrived in Huating County. The team rested beside the official road about five miles away from Huating County. There was a large pine forest, which was covered with pine needles, and it was very dry. Next, take out the water bottle and dry food and munch.

The army has no shortage of dry food, but what they lack is fodder.

Chen Qing found Hu Yanlei, Hu Yanlei was the former Hu Yanding, the current deputy commander of the scout battalion, Zhao Xiaoyi was recuperating in Xianrenguan, Hu Yanlei took the post of commander temporarily.

"Take two brothers and dress up as ordinary people, and go into the county town to see if you can buy horse fodder, forage and beans!"

"Humble job, let's go!"

As soon as the words fell, there was a burst of crying and shouting in the distance. The soldiers got up one after another, picked up their weapons, and looked out of the woods vigilantly.

Chen Qing walked out of the woods and looked to the south. He saw two groups of people coming up the official road in the distance. The group in front looked like peasant soldiers. There were about [-] people, driving more than [-] carts, and more than a dozen people were still in custody. young man.

Behind is a group of old people, crying and chasing and shouting.

Zheng Ping was furious, "Let's arrest them."

Chen Qing was still hesitating, as soon as they showed up, they would be exposed.

At this moment, the country soldiers on the official road spotted the army in the woods, and they were so frightened that they dropped their carts and fled.

Chen Qing immediately said: "Surround them!"

The cavalry mounted their horses one after another, rushed out of the woods, and rushed towards the rural soldiers on the official road like a flood.

The township soldiers and common people on the official road were frightened and stupid, standing there motionless. In an instant, more than 2000 cavalry surrounded dozens of township soldiers, and countless spears, bows and arrows were pointed at them.

Zheng Ping yelled sharply: "Put down the weapon immediately, or we will shoot arrows!"

The villagers were so frightened that they put down their weapons and took off their armor.

The leader of the township soldiers did not move their heads. He asked back: "Where are you from? If it is from the Qi army, I advise you not to be arrogant. This is not your territory."

Zheng Ping said coldly: "We are the Song Army, not some shit!"

Hearing that it was Song Jun, his face turned pale when he was headed for the capital. The other soldiers were even more ashen-faced and knelt down to beg for mercy.

At this time, a soldier rushed over and said: "The commander has an order to bring the leader of the village soldiers!"

Not long after, all the townspeople were brought up. When he saw Chen Qing, he was taken aback and knelt down on one knee to salute, "So it's General Chen. The villain has no eyes, so he offended the general!"

Chen Qing narrowed his eyes, "You know me?"

The town soldiers all nodded, "The villain's name is Zhang Jian. He was originally a general of Li Hua, who was in command of the Huanqing Army. He met General Chen in Chunhua County, and later heard that General Chen defeated the Jin soldiers at Jiandao Pass. The villain has already been heard like thunder!"

Chen Qing was rescued by Li Hua in Chunhua County. There were many generals at that time. Chen Qing really couldn't remember this person. Perhaps Yang Yuanqing knew him.

But now is not the time to get close, Chen Qing said coldly: "You actually surrendered the golden soldiers!"

"The villain is just a local soldier, not a golden soldier."

"Hmph! You are the lackeys of Jin Bing, grabbing carts and arresting strong men. Am I wrong?"

Zhang Jian showed shame on his face, and sighed for a while: "At least we don't kill people, don't bully women, and don't rob people's wealth. If the golden soldiers come, it will be a disaster."

"It's still plausible!"

"The villain is telling the truth. The county lord is also afraid of the golden soldiers coming, so he ordered us to collect carts everywhere and recruit young men. The general doesn't believe it, and the villain has nothing to do."

Chen Qing saw that he was mighty and handsome, and he didn't look like a treacherous person, so he ordered the soldiers: "Go and find Vice General Yang!"

After a while, Yang Yuanqing came in a hurry. When he saw the head of the village soldiers, his eyes widened immediately, and he lost his voice and said, "Zhang Jian, why is it you?"

Zhang Jian knelt on the ground and burst into tears. Yang Yuanqing quickly asked, "Where is Li Hua? Where are the other brothers?"

"All dead!"

Zhang Jian cried and said: "We were surrounded by two thousand golden soldiers on Jingyuan Road. Li Hua was beheaded by the commander of the golden soldiers with a knife. The other generals were killed. Only I escaped with more than 100 brothers."

When Yang Yuanqing heard that Li Hua had been killed, his nose turned sour, and he quickly said, "Don't cry, what happened next?"

Zhang Jian wiped away his tears and said: "Later, I took the brothers who broke through the encirclement and defected to Liu Qidu Tong, but I only persisted for half a year. The food was gone, so the army had to be disbanded. The humble officer returned to Huating County with a dozen fellow villagers. When recruiting soldiers from the township, I also know the county lord in a humble position, so the county lord made me the head of the township soldiers."

Yang Yuanqing stepped forward and said to Chen Qing: "Zhang Jian used to be my subordinate. He has followed me for many years. He has a good character. I am willing to vouch for him. I implore the commander to spare his life!"

Chen Qing nodded, "Li Hua is kind to me, since he is your general, I will spare him this time!"

Feeling ashamed, Zhang Jian knelt down on one knee and cupped her fists and said, "Thank you, General Chen, for your tolerance, and I implore General Chen to let the lowly position take the blame and meritorious deeds!"

Chen Qing did have a lot of things to ask him, so he pointed to the big stone beside him and said, "Sit down and talk!"

The two sat down, and Chen Qing asked: "I want to know, how many golden soldiers are there in Pingliang Mansion?"

Zhang Jian pondered for a while and said: "There are about 5000 people, all Jurchens, all stationed in Pingliang County!"

"How many Han puppet troops are there?"

"Currently there are no Han puppet troops!"

"There is no puppet army?" Chen Qing was a little puzzled.

Zhang Jian quickly explained: "General Qi, the Han puppet army originally had 2 people, and they were all transferred to Fengxiang Mansion to support the battle at Dasanguan. The technique requires that a batch of food and grass be delivered within half a month, and the general of Jin Bing is in a hurry, so he collects carts everywhere and catches the strong men!"

Chen Qing and Yang Yuanqing looked at each other, and they realized at the same time that this was an opportunity.

Chen Qing walked a few steps with his hands behind his back. He originally wanted to go to Yuanzhou, but now he changed his mind. With the help of a local snake like Zhang Jian, could he just take Pingliang County directly?

"You just said that Pingliang County is recruiting strong men?"

Chapter 142 Pingliang

The county magistrate of Huating County is called Xie Jinping. He was originally a Huating county captain, a native of Huating County. Jin Bing killed him.

Xie Jinping sat nervously in the hall of honor, and opposite him was Chen Qing, the commander of the Song army.

Chen Qing took a sip of tea and said calmly: "I heard Zhang Dutou talk about the matter of Xie County Magistrate. You are from the same township. In order to protect the people, you have to accept the appointment of Marshal Jin Bing as the county magistrate."

Xie Jinping hurriedly leaned forward and said, "I'm ashamed of my humble position. At first, my humble position was just to save my family's life. Wanyan Zongfu threatened my father, so I had no choice but to stand up."

Chen Qing waved his hand, "I'll just say it straight. I heard that Jin Bing is recruiting strong men. I plan to arrange some brothers to go in. I will hand over these brothers to the county magistrate, and the county magistrate will hand over them to Jin Bing as the task of Huating County. How about it?"

Chen Qing's suggestion made Xie Jinping both happy and worried. The joy was that his two-day restless task was unexpectedly solved. Each of their counties was forced to complete the task. How many strong men and how many carts were completed within two days.

Big carts are easy to handle, refurbish some abandoned old carts, and then find some mules and donkeys to put on, and then you can do business. Thinking that Chen Qing actually came to the door on his own initiative, of course he breathed a sigh of relief.

But Xie Jinping also knew that Chen Qing's subordinates must be carrying missions, would they implicate him?

Chen Qing understood his worry, and smiled slightly: "If I have any tasks that I won't carry out in Pingliang, they must be in Fengxiang. At that time, it has nothing to do with the county lord."

"In Fengxiang?"

Xie Jinping understood that the target of the other party was the Golden Army Camp. He pondered for a moment and said, "Okay! Let me recommend it. How many of you want to join?"

"300 people, is that all right?"

Xie Jinping gasped, and nodded, "Then tomorrow morning, I will arrange for Zhang Dutou to send your men there."

Chen Qing looked at him for a long while, then said calmly: "Then I'll say something ugly, if you betray my subordinates, none of your three sons will survive."

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Of course, Chen Qing would not directly send his subordinates to Pingliang County to apply for the job. Anyone would doubt the sudden appearance of hundreds of people, but as a task in Huating County, it doesn't matter at all.

Chen Qing finally decided that Zheng Ping would take three hundred brothers to pretend to be strong men and go to Fengxiang Jinbing camp.

Before dawn, Zhang Jian set off with hundreds of carts. On the way, Zheng Ping led his men to join the team, while Yang Yuanqing led 30 people to pretend to be Zhang Jian's men, and the team marched to Pingliang County.

Pingliang County is the prefecture of Pingliang Prefecture. It was originally a large county with a large population and developed commerce. However, since the Jin soldiers occupied Pingliang County, the number of young men in the county has decreased sharply. Now there are almost no young and strong men left. There are countless old and weak women and children, and the men are basically above middle age.

Pingliang County is indeed recruiting a large number of young and strong men, but they are not recruiting servants, but escorts. They want to send a batch of food and supplies to Dasan Pass. In addition to escorting soldiers, they also need a thousand or two thousand men.

Originally, these things were done by the Han servant army, but the [-] Han servant army in Pingliang Prefecture were detained by Wanyan Wushu, and without the army in their hands, the Jin soldiers in Pingliang County had to make a list to recruit, and even arrested the strong men everywhere.

Today is the last day for recruiting strong men. Jin Bing of Pingliang County got [-] strong men from Huating County all at once. Wan Yanxin, the head of the Wanfu, was really overjoyed. He immediately ordered the strong men to load food and grass immediately, and set off overnight. They were already late After a day, if you don't leave, you will exceed the stipulated time.

At night, the front of the large warehouse in the county seat was brightly lit, and thousands of carts collected were parked in the open space in front of the warehouse. More than 2000 strong men carried bags of grain and fodder from the warehouse and put them on the carts.

Hundreds of Jurchen cavalry stood around, holding knives and spears to urge the strong men to work, and more than fifty Jurchen cavalry patrolled the warehouse to prevent the strong men from stealing food and being lazy.

It was busy until the fourth watch, when all the carts were full, and the strong men were exhausted, and received dry biscuits and hot soup to fill their stomachs in a hurry.

Taking advantage of this vacancy, Zheng Ping found a few captains, and told them: "The troops will be allocated later, brothers, please follow closely and don't disperse!"

At this time, someone patted Zheng Ping on the shoulder, "I'm looking for you over there!"

Zheng Ping stood up, and a golden soldier rode forward and glanced at him, "Our general is looking for you, follow me!"

Zheng Ping didn't know what happened, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow Jin Bing. They stood up nervously, wondering what happened?

Not long after, Zheng Ping came in front of a general of the Jinbing army. This general of the Jinbing army was Wan Yanxin, the chief of the Wanfu.

This fat man had an aura, he shouted at others with a fierce tone, which satisfied Wanyan Xin quite a bit, and he had a lot of strength.

"What's your name?"

"My name is Zheng Hui!"

Zheng Hui was Zheng Ping's real name, and he changed his name to Zheng Ping and joined the Bazi Army.

"Your accent is not from here, where are you from?"

"A native of Hejian County, Hejian Prefecture!"

"Then why did you end up in Pingliang Mansion?"

"The world is in chaos. Isn't it normal to flee wherever you can survive?"

Wanyan Xin nodded, and asked again: "You used to be General Song?"

"It used to be!" Zheng Ping didn't hide it.

"What official position?"

"I used to be a capital head for several years."

Wan Yanxin laughed, and patted Zheng Ping on the shoulder, "From now on, you are the Han leader of this grain detaining team!"

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After resting for less than half an hour, two thousand strong men were assembled, put on simple leather armor, held a spear, Zheng Ping wore a mountain armor, and shouted and cursed to order the strong men to assemble.

He was really annoyed that he was not promoted in the Song army, but became a commander in the Jin army. If word got out, Zheng Ping's reputation would be ruined.

No, now his name is Zheng Hui, and he has nothing to do with Zheng Ping.

Before dawn, a team of thousands of carts set off overnight, followed by two thousand Jurchen cavalry.

An escort was sitting on each cart, and the Jurchen cavalry followed the convoy, and the team drove to the south in a mighty manner.

Zheng Ping was lying on the front cart transporting forage. His whole body got into the forage, which was extremely warm and comfortable. He yawned a long time, and fell into a drowsy sleep after squinting his eyes.

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Yang Yuanqing followed Zhang Jian into the city with thirty men, but they did not leave, but were placed in an inn by Zhang Jian.

Jin Bing didn't care much about them either. The town soldiers from these small counties would eat, drink and have fun for two or three days after arriving in Pingliang County before leaving.

The main reason is that they don't have weapons in their hands, so they can't make trouble.