The four gates of Jingzhao City were closed tightly, and soldiers were standing on top of the west city. An uneasy feeling filled the hearts of every soldier.
Outside the West City, more than two thousand Song Army cavalry were leisurely building a frightening building, a building of flesh and blood made of five thousand human heads, Jingguan.
Each head still wears a helmet, looks ferocious, and is stacked on top of each other, giving a huge impact to people's hearts and morale.
"His Royal Highness King Qin is here!"
Someone shouted at the top of the city, and the soldiers moved out of the way, and King Qin Liu Yi walked over quickly.
Liu Yi held on to the battlements and looked down. He saw a dark cavalry group in the distance with flags fluttering. He could not see the number of people clearly. There were hundreds of people in front of them, who were building something unknown, a huge black object.
"What is that?" Liu Yi asked, pointing to the black object.
A general was in a dilemma, but he had to say it, so he could only hesitate and said: "Your Majesty, that is... that is Jingguan!"
"Excuse me, Tang Dutong, what is Jingguan?" Liu Yi turned around and asked Tang Shaoqing, the Dutong.
Tang Shaoqing explained vaguely: "Reporting to the prince, Jingguan existed as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It was a means of showing off military exploits and attacking enemy soldiers."
"Tell me clearly, what exactly is it?" Liu Yi sounded very dissatisfied.
Tang Shaoqing gritted his teeth and said bravely: "Your Majesty, Jingguan is...it is Rentou Mountain."
Liu Yi's eyes suddenly widened and his voice trembled, "Human head...mountain?"
Tang Shaoqing really didn't want to answer this question, so he winked at Zhao Wen, the deputy commander next to him. Zhao Wen stepped forward and explained: "Your Majesty, he is the five thousand soldiers we sent before. This Chen Qing is extremely cruel. He does not accept surrender and kills
Killing all the brothers and cutting off their heads to build the Jingguan is actually a demonstration against us."
Liu Yi was notoriously timid. He heard that the black building actually contained five thousand heads. At this moment, his mouth felt dry, his heart was beating violently, and a huge sense of fear came over him, and his vision went dark.
, actually fainted.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"
The surrounding soldiers panicked and hurriedly rescued Liu Yi. After a while, Liu Yi slowly regained consciousness and said in a trembling voice: "This Chen Qing is... just like Devil Chen!"
This sentence spoke to the hearts of the surrounding soldiers. I have heard for a long time that Chen Qing was extremely fierce and defeated the Jurchens several times. Now it seems that this man was so ruthless that he refused to accept surrender and killed all the soldiers. It was indeed an out-and-out act.
The devil.
Tang Shaoqing had seen bloody scenes that were ten times more brutal than this one. The prince was a farmer not long ago, and he probably had never seen a battlefield. He sighed and quickly ordered the people around him: "Bring the prince down to the city quickly!"
Everyone carried Liu Yi away with all their hands and feet.
Zhao Wen stepped forward and asked in a low voice: "Are we going to let Chen Qing show off his evil outside the city? We have 15,000 soldiers, including 3,000 cavalry, but we are still no match for Chen Qing's more than 2,000 people. If word spreads out, he will be killed."
Everyone in the world laughs at him."
"What can I do? You also saw that prince, who was frightened and fainted. Will he agree to fight?"
Both of them were at their wits' end. Liu Yi clung to the military power. Although they were in charge of the army, they did not have the decision-making power to send troops to fight, which made the two of them feel depressed and helpless.
.........
Chen Qing was riding on his horse, looking at Jingzhao City from a distance. He saw that the city gate was tightly closed, and the troops in the city never dared to fight. Chen Qing was at his wits' end. He did not expect that the Qi army was so weak. Facing his own army being built into the Jingzhao City,
He was so humiliated and still able to remain silent.
"Bring Zhang Xiao up!"
Zhang Xiao was an aide to Sun Jiachang, the magistrate of Xianyang County. He was originally from Xiangyang, also studied at Bianliang Taixue, and was a classmate of Sun Jiachang.
When Sun Jiachang became an official, he promoted this classmate and asked him to be his staff. However, Zhang Xiao never expected that Sun Jiachang would be the Taosha official. As an orthodox scholar, Zhang Xiao's contempt can be imagined.
This time, Sun Jiachang secretly reported to Jingzhao that he had been executed by the Song army. Chen Qing saw that Zhang Xiao had a clear mind and was quite resourceful, so he asked him to temporarily follow him.
Zhang Xiao rode up to Chen Qing and saluted: "Commander, are you looking for me?"
Chen Qing pointed at the city with his riding crop and asked with a smile: "You are more familiar with the situation. Why are we building Jingguan and the enemy still refuses to fight?"
Zhang Xiao smiled and said: "I have told the commander before that this King of Qin Liu Yi is notoriously timid and does not even dare to ride a horse. It should be that he does not agree to go to war. No matter how angry the general below is, there is nothing he can do."
"Then Jingzhao City can only let it go like this?"
Zhang Xiao thought for a while and said: "Commander, you might as well try using the method of stimulating generals!"
"What's the way to provoke generals?"
"Give the capital commander Tang Shaoqing a set of women's clothes. Even if he can bear it, his men may not be able to. Maybe there will be a good show tonight."
Chen Qing laughed and gave Sima Yi a set of women's clothes. Didn't Zhuge Liang also give Sima Yi a set of women's clothes?
.........
Several cavalrymen rode up to the city gate with their shields raised high. They threw a package onto the city gate with all their strength, turned around and ran away.
There was a note written on the package, 'A gift from Chen Qing, the commander of Qinzhou's envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, to Shaoqing of the Tang Dynasty, the commander of the puppet Qi capital.'
The soldiers rushed to give the package to Tang Shaoqing, the commander of the capital. When the generals heard that it was a gift from Chen Qing, they all stepped forward to check. Tang Shaoqing opened the package and found a bright red dress inside, with several large characters on it,
The dress of Tang Shaoqing, the wife of the general.
The generals were suddenly in an uproar, drawing their swords and shouting, "You bastard, kill that bastard!"
Tang Shaoqing was so angry that his vision went black and he almost lost his balance. Two soldiers quickly supported him. Tang Shaoqing waved his hands, stared at the city and gritted his teeth and said: "Chen, you are going too far!"
"Capital, open the city gate and fight out! The opponent has only more than 2,000 people, not just three heads and six arms!" The generals were extremely angry and asked for a fight.
Tang Shaoqing nodded, "I'll go tell my prince and ask him to allow us to go to war."
Tang Shaoqing has not lost his mind. The King of Qin is the supreme commander. Without the consent of the King of Qin, they cannot open the city gate to fight without permission.
He turned around and hurried down to the city.
Tang Shaoqing came to Prince Qin's Mansion and asked the guards to go in and report. Soon, the guards came out and said: "Tang Dutong, the prince said that he was depressed and didn't want to see anyone!"
"Tell the prince that the soldiers are extremely angry. If they don't go to war, they will rebel."
The guard ran in again. After a while, the guard came back with a sad face, bowed and said: "Reporting to the capital, the prince said that the enemy is strong and we are weak. Anyone who dares to come out of the city to fight again will be killed immediately!"
'The enemy is strong and we are weak?'
Tang Shaoqing felt an evil fire rushing straight into his chest, and his chest was about to explode with anger. He looked up to the sky in anger and shouted: "Coward! Coward! You are so cowardly!"
...........
As night fell, Tang Shaoqing was sitting in the big tent, drinking glass after glass of wine. At this time, a soldier ran into the tent in horror and reported, "Inform the capital, Han Qiao and Song Ling have led their troops out of the city!"
"What!"
Tang Shaoqing suddenly stood up and asked in shock and anger: "When did it happen?"
"Just now!"
Tang Shaoqing drew his sword and strode out. The soldiers brought the war horse. He got on his horse and ran towards the west gate. Needless to say, he could guess that the two bastards Han Qiao and Song Ling must be heading towards the capital.
The west city gate was wide open. Generals Han Qiao and Song Ling were mad at the women's clothes given away by Chen Qing during the day. They couldn't bear it anymore, so they took advantage of the cover of night and each led a thousand soldiers to fight out of the city.
Of course, they were not going to provoke the Song cavalry, but were going to take back the heads of Jingguan.
In the darkness, Chen Qing led two thousand cavalry who had been waiting for a long time. As expected, Zhang Xiao told him that the Qi army in the city could not bear it anymore and took advantage of the cover of night to come out to snatch the heads of Jingguan.
"Commander Qi, there are only two thousand enemy troops, and there is no Qi army behind to support them."
After listening to the scout's report, Chen Qing nodded and said to Yang Yuanqing: "You lead Wang Duo and a thousand brothers to encircle from the south and cut off their retreat. I will lead the army to attack from the north!"
Yang Yuanqing took the order and left. After waiting for a while, Chen Qing ordered: "Attack!"
The four hooves of the war horses were wrapped in thick cloth, and there was no fierce sound of hoofbeats when running. A thousand cavalrymen, led by Chen Qing, silently killed the two thousand Qi troops next to Jingguan...