Fenghou

"Then how do they contact Wanyan Wushu?"

Tao Shuang thought for a while and said, "They are all sent by cavalry, and they don't usually contact them very much. They only send people over when they are urging food. They only came a few days ago. The food was sent away overnight the night before. It is estimated that they will not come again for a long time." connect."

Chen Qing said again: "Just now my subordinates said that there are tens of thousands of shi of grain in the warehouse, and I will take some of it away, and the rest will be handed over to you, and you will distribute it to the people of Pingliang County. If you dare to steal it, I will definitely Will kill your whole family."

Tao Shuang's face was full of bitterness. If he divided the army rations, it would be strange if the Jin soldiers didn't kill him when they came back. After a while, he said, "How about this! I'm responsible for spreading the news, there must be countless people coming to share the rations, and the general will directly distribute the rations." Let them! Otherwise all our officials will die."

"Alright, I'll stay here for ten days at most, you guys have to hurry up."

"The subordinate understands!"

Chen Qing smiled again and asked: "I remember you told me at Jiandao Pass that you were an official in Qinzhou?"

"Exactly! The officer stayed in Chengji County of Qinzhou for ten years, from a county lieutenant to a county magistrate, and was later transferred to Pingliang Mansion as Sima."

"Okay! You go back and prepare first, and I will ask you later."

Tao Shuang bowed and saluted, and left in a hurry.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing stepped forward and said with a smile: "The humble officer discovered a Jurchen's secret money bank!"

Chen Qing cheered up, "Let's go! Take a look."

……

The Jurchen's treasury was full of copper coins, which amounted to tens of thousands of coins. In another warehouse, there were more than [-] bolts of silk and cloth, as well as a large amount of mutton, wine, medicinal materials and other materials.

Chen Qing requested that the copper coins be divided into two parts, one part was used as a pension for the soldiers who died in battle, the other part was given to his subordinates, and all the [-] bolts of silk were also given to his subordinates.

When the soldiers of the Song Army were counting the copper coins, they accidentally discovered a small door hidden behind the copper coins, which was usually covered by the copper coins.

When Chen Qing rushed to the money bank, he saw that the soldiers had completely cleared out the copper coins, revealing a small copper door, about four feet square, with a copper lock hanging on it.

"Break the brass lock!"

A soldier stepped forward, smashed the copper lock with a hammer, and pushed open the copper door.

"Commander Qi, it's full of boxes!" The soldier went in and took a look.

"Get all the boxes out!"

The soldiers worked together to move out all the boxes inside, a total of one hundred boxes.

Chen Qing opened the lid of a box. Under the firelight, the box was full of white silver ingots, which dazzled everyone's eyes and made everyone exclaim.

"This is something from the Pingliang Silver Mine!"

Yang Yuanqing picked up a piece of silver ingot and said with a smile: "There are characters here, which were supervised by Pingliang. It is estimated that they were intercepted by Jin soldiers before they could be transported away."

Chen Qing also picked up a piece, looked at the words, weighed it again, it was 50 taels, "Calculate, how many are there?"

"A box of forty ingots is 2000 taels, and a hundred boxes is 20 taels of silver, which is equivalent to 100 million coins. Commander, what should I do?"

Everyone looked at him expectantly, these silver coins are not for rewards, he will have great use in the future.

Chen Qing smiled and said to the crowd: "This money will be needed when we conquer Qinzhou in the future, take it all away, and give all the copper coins and silk to the soldiers."

"I have a suggestion. It's better to send all the captured materials and war horses to Xianrenguan. There are exactly [-] pieces of cloth in it. Our soldiers divided the silk and simply gave the cloth to Liu Zan. The horses, mutton, and wine Same."

This is a good suggestion. They will stay in Pingliang for ten more days, and they will use horses to transport money, food and materials away.

Chen Qing said happily: "This task is entrusted to you and Wang Duo. You take a thousand brothers and take away all supplies other than grain and grass, and the 20 taels of silver."

Wang Duo was a little worried: "Will Liu Zan take this opportunity to swallow these belongings?"

Chen Qing smiled slightly: "Don't worry! I saved his father's life, and he still owes me a favor. It should be safe to put it with him."

"I'm afraid that if the news leaks out, there will be trouble with the court in the future."

Chen Qing snorted coldly, "It's not the first time I've done this kind of thing, I'll take all the responsibilities, don't think too much, just follow the order."

Yang Yuanqing and Wang Duo hurriedly clasped their fists together and said, "Follow the order!"

Chapter 145

Chen Qing has been in Pingliang for eight days, and every day, people come from all over the country to collect food, and the originally full granary gradually becomes empty.

That afternoon, when Chen Qing was patrolling the city, Tao Shuang hurried over, bowed and said, "General, the proposal to distribute food is over!"

"Is the granary empty?"

"It's one thing that the granary is almost empty, and more importantly, since yesterday, almost all of them have received grain repeatedly."

"What do you mean?"

"Even since yesterday, most of the people who came to collect the food had already received it before. They came to collect the food for the second time, and it is the same today."

"How many are left now?"

"There are more than seven hundred stones left."

Chen Qing thought for a while and said, "Then distribute the remaining food to officials and civil servants at all levels!"

Tao Shuang was overjoyed, "Thank you General for your kindness!"

Chen Qing smiled again and said to Tao Shuang: "It seems that there is still some cloth, you should share it too!"

"Is the general leaving?"

"We will tidy up in these two days, and we may be leaving soon. I hope Tao Changshi can handle the follow-up matters well."

Tao Shuang smiled wryly, the follow-up matter was out of his control, once Jin Bing came back, what kind of fate would they encounter?

At this moment, there was a commotion from below the city, and it seemed that thousands of people were shouting.

Chen Qing glanced at Tao Shuang, Tao Shuang quickly shook his head, "I don't know what's going on, my servant?"

A soldier pointed to the front and said, "Commander, the voice seems to be coming from the street."

"Look at it!"

Chen Qing got off the city wall and walked towards Central Axis Street without riding a horse...

Thousands of people gathered at the gate of the city. Many old people were agitated and asked to see the general of the Song army. Some soldiers had already rushed to report to Chen Qing.

Chen Qing walked quickly to the street. Yang Zaixing, who was maintaining order, stepped forward and said with a wry smile, "The people in the city were very excited when they heard that we were leaving. They hoped that Song Jun would stay."

This is indeed a headache, but it has to be faced.

Chen Qing sighed in his heart, came to the people, waved his hands and said loudly: "Fathers and folks, I am the chief general of the Song Army. If you have any appeals, please tell me directly!"

When I finally saw the general, hundreds of old people knelt down, followed by thousands of people in the dark. All the old people cried out, "The general gave us hope just now, why did you have the heart to abandon us?"

This big hat is too heavy, and he can't afford it. Chen Qing had no choice but to explain loudly: "Fathers and folks, I understand everyone's feelings, but we have a task ahead, and the fierce battle of the Great Sanguan is still going on. The fate of the Great Song Dynasty depends entirely on this war, and we have a heavy responsibility, please understand."

Chen Qing had no choice, he could only use the overall situation to suppress everyone, as if the fate of the Song Dynasty was tied to him, if he didn't leave, the Song Dynasty would be over.

All the old people looked at each other in blank dismay, the words have already reached this point, how can they persist?

A leading old man said loudly: "Commander Chen is right. We should also focus on the overall situation. As long as the Song army defeats the Jin soldiers, they will drive out the Jin soldiers sooner or later. Let's not embarrass Commander Chen."

At this time, two old men stepped forward and said: "General, there are some young and strong people in our city. Instead of hiding in Tibet all day long, it is better to let them join the Song army, drive out the Tartars, and restore the Song Dynasty. Anti-gold determination."

Chen Qing was in a bit of a dilemma, his army had high requirements, at least he had to be able to ride a horse, otherwise it would drag them down instead.

But it's hard to say this kind of thing, it will hurt everyone's patriotism, so he had to put it another way, "Masters, the casualties in the battle with the golden soldiers are very high, and it is common to die on the battlefield. I am afraid that only a very small number of people will end up come back alive."

"General Chen, as long as they are fighting against the Jin soldiers, it is their honor to die on the battlefield."

Chen Qing had no choice but to turn around and say to Yang Zaixing: "You choose it! As long as you can ride a horse, you can accept it."

"Follow your orders!"

……

The recruitment of recruits was indeed an unexpected event. A total of more than 800 young and strong people signed up, and finally 540 recruits were selected. Fortunately, there were more horses and armor, and the recruits were quickly armed.

In the evening, Yang Yuanqing led the army back to Pingliang Mansion.

A soldier rushed to report, "Commander Qi, Vice General Yang and the others are back, at the south gate!"

Chen Qing was overjoyed and hurried to the south gate on horseback.

At the south gate of the city, a thousand cavalry returning from Xianrenguan entered the city mightily. The snow was still falling, and the sparse snowflakes fell to the ground, and were trampled into mud by the war horses.

Chen Qing greeted him with a smile, "Everyone has worked hard all the way!"

All the generals hurried forward to salute, "See Commander!"

This time we went to Immortal Pass together, besides Yang Yuanqing and Wang Duo, Liu Cui also followed. After all, he is Liu Zan's brother, and the Liu family wants to give this face.

Chen Qing asked everyone to rest, and he and Yang Yuanqing rode side by side on horseback.

"Did something happen?" Chen Qing asked in a deep voice, he felt that everyone's expressions were a little strange.

Yang Yuanqing smiled wryly, "Liu Zan is okay to talk, mainly Liu Dutong, he criticized the commander for not considering the overall situation."

"What do you mean?"

"That is to say, if there are benefits, you can't just think about yourself, you have to share it with everyone, saying that we can't forget Wu Dutong!"

Chen Qing laughed, "He still remembers Wu Dutong! Then?"

"Then they took all the cloth and horses, and the horses were given to Wu Dutong, and the cloth was also distributed by the whole army, and the rest were left to us."

Fortunately, I still have some war horses left, otherwise I will lose a lot this time.

"Where's that batch of silver?" This was what Chen Qing was most concerned about.

"Leaving the silver to us, Liu Dutong still understands the righteousness. He knows that the command and strategy of Qinzhou needs money."

Chen Qing let go, and asked with a smile, "Isn't Liu Zan very disappointed?"

"He is very disappointed, but there is nothing he can do. His father is the governor, and he must obey."

In fact, Chen Qing also knew that the Song army usually only had basic food and grass, and there were very few opportunities to obtain wealth like this.

Moreover, Wu Jie, Liu Ziyu, and Wang Yan were all very cautious, lest they be impeached by the court.

Generally, the loot has to be handed in, and there is almost no possibility of the loot being returned. Like this time, when you encounter a good thing by chance, everyone will think of their soldiers, which is completely understandable.

Yang Yuanqing took out another letter and handed it to Chen Qing, "This is from Liu Dutong to the general."

Chen Qing took the letter, opened it and read it again. The spoils were just as Yang Yuanqing said, the horse and cloth were taken away, and 20 taels of silver was left for him to manage Qinzhou.

Chen Qing didn't care too much, he continued to read the following content.

In the letter, he hoped that he would participate in the battle of Dashan Pass as a peripheral of the Western Army. This was also Wu Jie's opinion. As for the connection between him and Dashan Pass, it could be transferred through Xianren Pass.

Chen Qing pondered for a moment and asked, "Did you tell Liu Dutong about Zheng Ping?"

Yang Yuanqing hesitated for a moment and said: "Xiaozhi said it, but I just want to tell him that the commander has not left the battlefield."

"Commander, is it wrong to say this?" Yang Yuanqing asked again.

Chen Qing shook his head and said, "Both Liu Dutong and Wu Dutong are fine. In fact, I'm a little worried about Fu Xuan. To be precise, I'm a little worried about Fu Moshan. Fu Moshan has grudges against me and Fatty Zheng. I'm worried that he will kill someone with a knife."

Yang Yuanqing was horrified, "He wouldn't do such a thing!"

"That man's head was kicked by a donkey, he doesn't know the importance of things, he doesn't care about the consequences, hey! I hope I'm worrying too much."

It was as if a big stone had been placed in Yang Yuanqing's heart, and it became heavy.

……

Before dawn the next day, Chen Qing organized his army and prepared to set off.

They killed more than 500 people, and the [-] wounded soldiers were sent to Dasan Pass, but he added [-] recruits from Pingliang Mansion, bringing the total force back to [-].

In the foggy morning, [-] cavalry led by Chen Qing rushed out of the south gate and headed south. ...

The south bank of the Weihe River was already covered with a thick layer of ice. Thousands of Congregation soldiers chanted chant and pulled a big boat to move slowly on the snow, followed by more than a dozen big boats walking on the snow.

After Wanyan Wushu occupied Heshangyuan, he thought that the supply camp was too far away and it was inconvenient to supply, so he decided to move the Weibei camp to the south for [-] li.

Weibei Daying occupies a huge area, and supplies are piled up like a mountain. It is not easy to move the Daying.

Fan Gong, the counselor, thought of a way to use the big boat on the Weishui River as a transportation tool, and let the soldiers pull the big boat forward on the snow.

This huge transportation project naturally fell on the Han servant army, Wanyan Wushu invested [-] Han servants, and used fifteen large ships of [-] shi to participate in the transportation.

Zheng Pinghe's [-] young and strong subordinates have been forcibly converted into servants and reorganized into the sixth battalion of the Fourth Army of the servants, and Zheng Ping is still in command.

His commander is not the same as the commander of the Song Army, it is just a temporary title and has nothing to do with official positions.

"It's his grandma, you idiots haven't had enough to eat, give me a hard pull!"