The Jin Bing's camp is located in the northwest of the county. It was originally a large piece of barren grassland where many people grew vegetables. After the Jin Bing occupied Pingliang County, they leveled this nearly 100 acres of land and turned it into their camp.
More than 300 large tents were pitched.
At this time, it was two o'clock in the morning, and the camp was quiet. Only the lights in the commander's tent were still on, and people could vaguely be seen moving around in the commander's tent.
The Jin Bing's war horses were kept on the side, consisting of more than a dozen long stables. It was snowing, and all the war horses were placed in the stables.
Chen Qing led the army and slowly approached the camp. The time was ripe. He got on his horse, and the soldiers behind him followed suit. Chen Qing waved his halberd and shouted: "Charge in and kill without mercy!"
Two thousand two hundred cavalry suddenly launched into action, the sound of horse hooves sounded loudly, and they charged towards the Jurchen camp.
‘Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!”
The alarm sounded loudly on the sentry tower and was silenced for an instant. The sentry was shot in the throat by Yang Zaixing's arrow.
The Song Army cavalry rushed into the military camp like a torrent. General Wanyan Xin heard the alarm bell and rushed out of the tent with a mace. He saw countless cavalry rushing into the camp. He was shocked and shouted: "
Get up and fight! Get up and fight!"
Chen Qing instantly locked onto Wanyan Xin and urged his war horse to charge towards him. Wanyan Xin also saw Chen Qing. He roared, stepped forward to meet him, raised his mace and swept away.
The stick was fierce and powerful. Chen Qing dodged his horse and stabbed him with a backhand halberd, as fast as lightning.
Wanyanxin hit the target empty-handed with one strike. Before he could put away the stick, the sharp tip of the halberd was already in front of his eyes. At this time, it was too late to hide.
‘Poof!’ The cold halberd tip pierced his neck. Wanyanxin’s vision went dark and he died immediately.
Chen Qing threw the body away and ordered: "Behead the person!"
A soldier jumped off his horse and chopped off Wanyanxin's head with a single blow.
At this time, the camp was already in chaos. The Jurchen soldiers were barefoot and without armor, holding weapons and fighting fiercely with the Song army. As the general was killed, the Jurchen soldiers' military morale quickly collapsed. The soldiers fled in all directions and were killed by the Song army.
The soldiers were chasing him, and many soldiers wanted to rush to lead the horses, but the road to the stable was cut off by the Song army, making it impossible to ride on horseback.
Half an hour later, the battle in the camp gradually came to an end. All three thousand Jurchen soldiers were killed, and no one survived. However, the Song army also paid the price of more than three hundred casualties, but this was already a brilliant victory.
There were shouts of killing in the city, and the people in Pingliang County were so frightened that they closed their doors and hid in cellars with the elderly and children.
At the fifth watch, snow began to fall from the sky.
The military camp has been cleaned up. Thousands of corpses have been transported outside the city to be burned and buried deeply. The Jin army camp has become the Song army camp. Chen Qing arranged for hundreds of people to patrol the whole city. The rest of the soldiers have gone to their tents to rest. What's going on?
Let’s talk tomorrow.
Chen Qing checked into the commander's tent. He was not sleepy and was reading various military documents left by Wanyan Xin.
At this time, a civil official was brought to the big account by Yang Yuanqing, "Commander, Pingliang Prefecture Chief Shi has brought him."
"Bring it in!"
The official was brought into the tent. Chen Qing was startled. He knew this official. He was the official named Tao who came to persuade him to surrender at Jianxiao Pass.
The official was Tao Shuang, who persuaded Chen Qing to surrender. He was appointed as the governor of Pingliang Prefecture and was in charge of people's livelihood and government affairs.
Tao Shuang also recognized Chen Qing. He was stunned for a moment and quickly clasped his fists and said, "I'm here to see you, General Chen Qing, Tao Shuang!"
"It turns out to be Tao Changshi, or an old friend."
Chen Qing said calmly: "It seems that even if I want to kill you, it will be difficult for me to do so."
Tao Shuang was startled and hurriedly explained: "I am a civil servant and I never do anything harmful to nature. I am just greedy for life and afraid of death, so I have to work for the Jin people."
"You are honest!"
Chen Qing asked Zhang Jian before. Tao Changshi had a good reputation before considering cooperating with him.
Tao Shuang smiled bitterly and said, "I am very ashamed."
"Let me ask you, besides Pingliang County, are there other Jurchens in Pingliang Prefecture?"
"Reporting to the general, only Pingliang County has it, and no other counties have it."
"Then how do they contact Wanyan Wushu?"
Tao Shuang thought for a while and said: "They are all sent by cavalry, and they usually don't keep in touch with each other. They only send people here when they urge for food. They just 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 added: "Just now, my men said that there are tens of thousands of stones of grain in the warehouse. I will take away part of it and give the rest to you. You can distribute it to the people of Pingliang County. If you dare to embezzle it, I will definitely
I 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 did not kill him when they came back. He said after a while: "How about this! I am responsible for spreading the news, and countless people will definitely come to share the food. The general will directly distribute it to
Let them! Otherwise all our officials will not survive."
"It's okay. I'll stay here for ten days at most. You have to hurry up."
"I understand!"
Chen Qing smiled and asked again: "I remember you told me at Jianjun Pass that you were an official in Qinzhou?"
"Exactly! I stayed in Chengji County, Qinzhou for ten years, rising from county lieutenant to county magistrate. Later I was transferred to Pingliang Prefecture as Sima."
"Okay! You go back and prepare first, and I will ask you for advice later."
Tao Shuang bowed and hurried away.
At this time, Yang Yuanqing stepped forward and said with a smile: "I discovered a secret treasury of a Jurchen!"
Chen Qing perked up and said, "Let's go and have a look."
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The Jurchens' treasury was filled with tens of thousands of copper coins. Another warehouse also contained more than 100,000 pieces of silk and cloth, as well as a large amount of mutton, wine, medicinal materials and other supplies.
Chen Qing asked that these copper coins be divided into two parts, one part as a pension for the fallen soldiers, and the other part all given to his subordinates. All 30,000 pieces of silk were also given to his subordinates.
When the soldiers of the Song Army were counting the copper coins, they accidentally discovered that there was a small door hidden behind the coins, which was usually covered by the coins.
Chen Qing rushed to the treasury and saw that the soldiers had completely cleaned out the copper coins, revealing a small copper door, about four feet square, with a copper lock hanging on it.
"Smash the copper lock!"
A soldier stepped forward, smashed the copper lock with a hammer, and pushed open the copper door.
"Commander Qi, there are all boxes inside!" The soldier got in and took a look.
"Move 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 and made everyone exclaim.
"This is something from Pingliang Silver Mine!"
Yang Yuanqing picked up a piece of silver ingot and said with a smile: "There is a word here, Pingliang supervised the production. It may have been intercepted by the Jin soldiers before it could be transported away."
Chen Qing also picked up a piece, looked at the words, and weighed it again. It weighed fifty taels. "How many do you have in total?"
"A box of forty ingots is equivalent to two thousand taels. A hundred boxes are equivalent to two hundred thousand taels of silver, which is equivalent to one million taels of silver. Commander, what should we do?"
Everyone looked at him expectantly. The money was not used for rewards. He would have great use in the future.
Chen Qing smiled and said to everyone: "This money will be used when we visit Qinzhou in the future. Take it all away and give all the copper coins and silk to the soldiers."
"I have a suggestion. It is better to send all the captured materials and war horses to Xianren Pass. There happened to be 80,000 pieces of cloth. Our soldiers divided the silk, so they simply gave the cloth, horses, mutton, and wine to Liu Zan.
Same thing."
This suggestion is good. They will stay in Pingliang for ten days, just in time to use horses to transport money, food and supplies.
Chen Qing said happily: "This task is left to you and Wang Duo. You take a thousand brothers and take away all the materials except food and grass, as well as these two hundred thousand taels of silver."
Wang Duo was a little worried: "Will Liu Zan take the opportunity to swallow these belongings?"
Chen Qing smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry! I saved his father's life, and he still owes me a favor. It should be safe if I leave 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, "This is not the first time I have done this kind of thing. I will bear all the responsibilities. Don't think too much about it. Just execute the order."
Yang Yuanqing and Wang Duo quickly clasped their fists and said, "Follow the order!"
