For several days, Chen Qing spent his time in boredom.
The place where he stayed every day was either an inn or a restaurant. He had three meals a day in the restaurant, often sitting there for an hour or two.
Compared with the quietness in the inn, he preferred the bustle of the restaurant. Businessmen from all over the world. During the conversations between the businessmen, Chen Qing learned a lot about the situation in various places.
That afternoon, he met a businessman from Guanzhong.
The businessman's name is Sun Bo'an, who came from Jingzhao City and specializes in fur business.
Sun Boan was very talkative, so Chen Qing bought him a pot of good wine, and the conversation between the two started.
"Now the officials of Shaanxi Road are all officials of Qi State, not Jin State. Qi State took over Jingzhao City this spring. Liu Yu's brother Liu Yifeng was the King of Qin and took charge of Jingzhao. They also came from the northern states of Shaanxi Road.
A large number of farmers have been recruited to farm in Guanzhong. You can go and see that Guanzhong is not as desolate as before."
"Qi Guo takes over Shaanxi Road, doesn't Wanyan Wushu object?"
Chen Qing knew that many Jurchen nobles opposed Qi's invasion of Shaanxi, and Wanyan Lou's family was the staunchest opponent back then. As a result, 50,000 Qi soldiers had been unable to pass through Tongzhou, and Jingzhao City was empty, so he succeeded in a sneak attack.
Wanyan Wushu was also a staunch opponent. He always hoped that the Jin Kingdom would directly control the Shaanxi Road.
Sun Bo'an smiled slightly and said: "There are many theories about this matter. I have a relative who is an official in the Qi State. He told me a more reliable statement. Wan Yanchang, Wanyan Zongfu and Wanyan Nianhan supported the Qi State.
After entering Shaanxi, the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty finally reached a compromise, and the government and civil affairs and local security of Shaanxi Road were under the responsibility of Qi State, but Wanyan Wushu was still fully responsible for the Song army's operations."
"Does Mr. Sun know the situation in Qinzhou?" Chen Qing asked again casually.
Sun Bo'an smiled bitterly and said: "I went there last year. The folk customs there are very fierce. I passed by a castle and was stopped by the man who asked for tolls. The demand was too harsh and I refused to give it. In the end, I gave up a thousand sheepskins.
They were snatched away. If the guide hadn't been familiar with them, my life would have been almost lost there."
"What is Zhuang Castle?"
"Zhuangbao is actually a cottage. They are called forts. When the Jin soldiers came to kill them, they all hid in the cottage. The cottage has its own militia that can fight against the government. There are hundreds of them in the entire Qinzhou, and they are governed by the Presbyterian Council.
No food or taxes.
In fact, not only Qinzhou, but Lintao Prefecture and Gongzhou are also the same. The Jin soldiers only occupied Chengji, Qin'an, Qingshui and other county towns. They could not defeat the major castles, so the two sides could only live in peace."
Chen Qing thought to himself, 'I wonder what will happen if I, the Qinzhou Zhizhi envoy, go to Qinzhou?'
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Saying goodbye to Sun Bo'an, Chen Qing paid the bill and returned to the inn. He took the key and opened the door. Just as he was about to push the door open, he suddenly felt something was wrong. When he left, he hung a hair on the door, but it broke.
Chen Qing immediately pulled out his sword and kicked the door open. "Crash!" He heard the sound of a bowstring and an arrow shot into the room and was nailed to the door frame.
Chen Qing rolled forward into the room and saw a black shadow on the roof opposite flash and disappear.
Chen Qing looked around the corner anxiously. His bow and arrows and Fang Tian's painted halberd were all there. He breathed a sigh of relief. He immediately rushed to the window. There was a bustling crowd outside, but he didn't see any shadow of the man in black.
Chen Qing then turned back and looked at the arrow on the door frame, only to see a piece of paper stuck in the arrow.
Chen Qing stepped forward to remove the arrow and pulled out a note. There was only one sentence on the note, 'Five hundred elite Qi troops have arrived in Wuhu. General, be careful at night!'
Chen Qing was stunned. Are the five hundred Qi troops here to deal with him? If so, how did the Qi troops know that they were in Wuhu? Could it be that something happened to the Huyan brothers?
And...who is this man in black? How does he know himself?
A series of questions made Chen Qing feel like he was in a mess.
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Considering that it would be more eye-catching to intercept Chen Qing with golden soldiers, Wan Yanchang ordered Qi State to send elites to assist in the capture of Chen Qing. Liu Yu did not dare to neglect and immediately sent the imperial commander Wu Anchun with a thousand clouds of troops to rush to the north bank of the Yangtze River.
On the second night after Chen Qing arrived in Wuhu, Wu Anchun led five hundred Qi troops, disguised as Song troops, crossed the Yangtze River and sneaked into Wuhu.
Jin Guo spent hundreds of dollars to bribe local ruffians at his intelligence point in Wuhu, and it took him three days to find Chen Qing's place of residence, the Changle Inn.
At night, hundreds of black figures surrounded Changle Inn from all directions.
Wu Anchun was about thirty years old, tall and with cold eyes. He was originally a subordinate of Guan Sheng, the great sword. He won Liu Yu's trust by assassinating Guan Sheng. After Liu Yu ascended the throne, he appointed him as the deputy commander-in-chief of the imperial court.
This time Wu Anchun was ordered to arrest Chen Qing. The order he received was to arrest Chen Qing as much as possible. If it was difficult to arrest him, he would be killed and his head taken back.
After all, they were the Qi army, and they did not dare to be too ostentatious in the Song Dynasty. They did not dare to act during the day, so they put their operations at night.
Five hundred soldiers had surrounded the inn, and Wu Anchun personally led thirty of his men into the inn.
The shopkeeper pointed to the second floor tremblingly and said: "He is in the westmost guest room on the second floor!"
Wu Anchun quickly found the guest room with his men. He glanced at the waiter, and he nodded. This was the guest room.
Wu Anchun winked at one of his men, who was tall and burly. He took two steps back and kicked the door hard. With a loud bang, the door was kicked open.
Dozens of soldiers holding torches swarmed in, and a dozen crossbow arrows were aimed at the bed, but the bed was empty and there was no one.
There was no sign of anyone in the room. The soldiers looked at each other in confusion. Wu Anchun was extremely angry. He grabbed the clerk by the collar and said fiercely: "How dare you lie to me?"
"The villain dare not deceive! I saw him at dusk, maybe he just left."
"Nonsense! My men started monitoring the front and back doors of the inn at noon. Would I know if he ran away?"
The waiter blinked and said, "Maybe he left from the restaurant. We have an inner door that leads directly to the restaurant."
Unexpectedly, there was a secret door between the inn and the restaurant. Wu Anchun was really depressed, and he immediately shouted: "Where is the secret door?"
As soon as he finished speaking, an arrow shot out of the window with a "whoosh!". The arrow was extremely fast. The soldier who just kicked the door screamed and fell on his back. He was shot through the throat by an arrow.
Wu Anchun was shocked and hurriedly fell down. The other soldiers were also frightened and fell down one after another.
For a moment, there was no movement, and Wu Anchun rushed to the window. Opposite him was a dark building dozens of steps away. The man who had just shot the arrow should be on the roof of the opposite building.
"Where is it on the opposite side?" Wu Anchun turned around and asked the waiter.
"There's a warehouse opposite!"
"Send my order and immediately surround the warehouse opposite!"
The soldiers surrounding the inn rushed towards the warehouse. At this moment, screams came from behind the inn...
Wu Anchun had no choice but to lead a large number of soldiers to the back of the inn and ran out of the back door. He saw that the open space outside the back door of the inn was filled with corpses. Twenty or thirty brothers were killed, some were assassinated, and some had their heads chopped off.
Blood flowed all over the ground, and he was very frightened.
A surviving soldier knelt on the ground and cried: "He is a general on horseback. Their weapons can stab and chop, and they are extremely ferocious. The brothers were killed like pigs and sheep."
"ah!"
Wu Anchun suddenly realized that this person should be Chen Qing. According to the information he received, Chen Qing used a Fangtian painted halberd.
At this time, a shrill scream also came from the warehouse.
"Not good! I was sent away from the mountain."
Wu Anchun was filled with hatred and anger, and shouted: "You are not allowed to be alone, all brothers are coming with me!"
He urged his horse and led hundreds of people to kill towards the warehouse!
They were also brutally killed in front of the warehouse. At least thirty soldiers were killed, and the murderer was nowhere to be seen.
"General, there is a letter at the gate!"
A soldier found a letter stuck with an arrow on the door. The soldier took the letter and ran over and presented it to Wu Anchun. Wu Anchun opened the letter, and a torch came forward to illuminate it. He saw one sentence written on the letter: '
You will die from this letter!'
Wu Anchun suddenly reacted, but it was too late. A wolf-fang arrow shot powerfully from the darkness, "Pfft!" It hit Wu Anchun between the eyebrows, and the arrow penetrated his brain. Wu Anchun screamed and died immediately.
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In the darkness, Chen Qing put away his bow and urged his horse to run towards the dock.
Chen Qing used two ambushes to distract the enemy general's vigilance, and then followed Sun Bin's strategy of killing Pang Juan and shot the enemy general. He expected that the enemy army would inevitably cross the river and retreat north, so he lurked in the darkness, waiting for the enemy.
The army arrives.
The enemy was exposed and we were hidden. Chen Qing took advantage of the opportunity when the enemy troops were left alone and killed two groups of Qi troops in a row. However, the cold arrow fired at the inn was not his fault. He also saw the dark shadow on the warehouse.
The black shadow jumped out of the warehouse and ran towards the dock. Chen Qing failed to catch up and the other party disappeared into the darkness.
This dark figure should have come to help him. At this time, Chen Qing no longer cared about looking for this dark figure. He hid in an alley, waiting for Qi Jun to come.
The general was shot dead, and the Qi army was in the Song Dynasty again. The morale of the soldiers was in chaos. They just wanted to leave the south of the Yangtze River and return to the north before dawn. More than 400 soldiers, led by several captains, rushed into the dock.
Their ships were anchored in the east, and a large group of soldiers scrambled to get ahead in the darkness.
Suddenly, screams came from behind the team. They were ambushed again, but they didn't know how long it took for the enemy to ambush them?
Without the general, the soldiers were demoralized and no one thought about turning around and going back to resist. In panic, the soldiers threw down their helmets and armor and ran as fast as they could.
Chen Qing single-handedly chased hundreds of people from behind. He went on a killing spree, like a tiger rushing into a flock of sheep, venting his anger on these Qi soldiers.
The Qi soldiers were killed until they were covered with corpses and blood flowed everywhere. Chen Qing pursued them for nearly two miles. When he saw many soldiers getting on the boat, he stopped his horses and stopped pursuing them.
Chen Qing himself did not know how many soldiers he had killed. It was not until the next day that the Wuhu government counted the bodies of the killed soldiers and found a total of 374 corpses. This major case shocked the court, but no one compared it with Chen Qing.
The imperial court sent Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment and the Privy Council to jointly investigate for several months without any results, and it eventually became an unsolved case.