Chen Qing almost always walked at night, just to avoid the Jin soldiers' sentry cavalry, but no matter how careful he was, what was supposed to come would still come.
Chen Qing calmly looked at the Ranger Cavalry approaching from a distance, and immediately ordered: "General Liu Cui will lead his headquarters to surround them, and try to capture them alive, but no one can be let go!"
"Follow the order!"
Liu Cui saluted, turned around and led the troops.
Under the moonlight, Chen Qing could vaguely see clearly that this group of sentry cavalry seemed not to be Jurchens, but to be members of the Han People's Association, but no matter who they were, they were a huge threat to him.
Wanyan Wushu was extremely strict with the defense of the camp. He designated the fifty miles within the camp as the core defense area and required the sentry cavalry to patrol day and night, and to patrol every blind corner.
The ranger cavalry that Chen Qing encountered was the Jin Bing Xie Congjun who was responsible for patrolling the Wei River. They had discovered some movement in the abandoned camp and were rushing to check.
The CCP cavalry had just approached the abandoned camp when suddenly a cavalry force shot out from both sides of the hillside at extremely fast speeds. Dozens of arrows were fired at them. Several cavalry sentries running in front screamed and fell off their horses after being hit by arrows.
He was so frightened that he turned around and ran away.
But it was too late. They were surrounded from front to back and from left to right. The leading general shouted loudly, "If we don't surrender, no one will survive!"
The remaining two dozen cavalrymen dismounted, threw away their weapons and knelt down to surrender.
Not long after, the heads of the soldiers who served for the first association were pulled in front of Chen Qing. They knelt down and begged for mercy, "General, spare our lives! We are all just trying to make ends meet, and we are definitely not really working for the Jurchens."
"Whose subordinates are you?"
"We are the subordinates of Commander Li Nong."
Chen Qing felt something was wrong and asked again: "Isn't Li Nong a commander? How did he become a commander?"
"Reporting to the general, Wanyan Wushu suspected that our general had a connection with the Song Dynasty, but there was no evidence, so he demoted him to the commander. He was originally the second army, but now it has been changed to the thirteenth army. He has become the last army and is responsible for peripheral patrols.
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Chen Qing wondered, was it because he dyed his helmet blue and pretended to be Li Nong's second army that he was suspected of being a traitor to the Song Dynasty?
Chen Qing looked at Dutou in front of him again and saw that his helmet was not blue, so he asked: "Shouldn't the helmets of Li Nong's army be blue?"
Dutou gave a wry smile and said, "It was originally blue. After he was demoted, he took off all the blue in a rage. Now there is no blue helmet."
Chen Qing nodded, "Let me ask you again, what are the rules for the patrols of the Rangers?"
"Reporting to the general, we must patrol at all times during the day and three times at night, first watch, third watch and fifth watch. Come and take a look at the fixed patrol points. In my humble position, I am responsible for the old camp. There are two patrol teams along the river in front.
As long as the general passes through Dongjiawan before the fifth watch, he will not encounter any patrols."
"How far is Dongjiawan?"
After thinking for a while, he said, "There are still about twenty-five or six miles."
Chen Qing roughly understood the enemy's patrol patterns and immediately said: "The whole army sets off and speeds up!"
The confession of this Dutou was indeed useful. Chen Qing took advantage of the gap between the third watch and the fifth watch and quickly walked through the 25-mile patrol section without encountering the Ranger Cavalry again.
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At dawn, Zheng Ping hurried to Li Nong's tent. He got the news that one of Li Nong's patrols disappeared last night. Zheng Ping immediately realized that the commander must have arrived, and he had to stop Li Nong from reporting to him.
This matter must be concealed, otherwise Wanyan Wushu will find out and the commander will be in danger.
Li Nong was the only general who was punished during the winter campaign to suppress Chen Qing. Others including Wanyan Huonv, Wanyan Alupu, Xiao Cong, etc. were fine. Only Li Nong was sued by Wanyan Alupu.
, saying that he had an affair with Chen Qing.
Although no evidence of collaborating with the enemy was found, Wanyan Wushu demoted him to commander for leaking secrets. Half of his five thousand troops were taken away, leaving only three thousand troops, which were organized into the Thirteenth Army.
Li Nong encountered an unexpected disaster and felt really depressed. He hid in his tent and drank wine all day long.
"Did you get drunk again last night?"
Zheng Ping walked into his tent and smelled a strong smell of alcohol.
Zheng Ping and Li Nong had a very good personal relationship, and it was Zheng Ping who vouched for Wanyan Wushu on behalf of Li Nong, so that Li Nong was not dismissed and retained the position of commander.
Li Nong washed his face with cold water and sighed: "I would rather stay drunk for a long time, but something happened to my man last night. I have to write a report to Zhao Bin to prevent that bastard from coming to trouble me."
"If you write it, you are asking for trouble!"
Li Nong was startled, "What do you mean?"
Zheng Ping looked both sides and said that this was not the place to talk. Li Nong took Zheng Ping into the tent and sat down, and asked his soldiers to watch at the door. Then he said: "Say what you say! I am all ears."
"I advise you not to make trouble for yourself anymore. Now that Wanyan Wushu is in trouble, as soon as you say someone is missing, he will immediately think that it was Chen Qing who did it, and then send you to find Chen Qing. Fortunately, he can't find you.
How to explain? Do you still think you have not been punished enough? So I advise you to stop being troublesome."
Li Nong felt that what Zheng Ping said made sense, and asked again: "But what should I do if Zhao Bin asks me?"
"Zhao Bin is at Dasanguan! Why did he ask you? Besides, even if he came to ask you, wouldn't you change your explanation? Just say that the soldiers have become deserters. There are many deserters during this period. Your
It's normal for dozens of his subordinates to run away, and then you say that they usually show signs of running away, and Zhao Bin will definitely not dig into it. He has enough troubles, and he won't make trouble for himself anymore."
Li Nong asked his soldiers to get some snacks to go with the wine. He took out a bottle of wine and said with a smile: "If you want me to obey you, you must have a drink with me."
"Just have a drink, and I will be dragged into the water by you."
Li Nong filled a glass of wine for Zheng Ping, picked up the glass and said: "Actually, I know in my heart that you leaked the news to Chen Qing, otherwise Chen Qing would not pretend to be my army. When I see you are willing to guarantee for me, I will
I know it must have been your kid who leaked it!"
Zheng Ping put the wine glass heavily on the table, "You're drunk before you even drink. What nonsense are you talking about!"
"Drunk? I'm not drunk. I've always been sober. I leaked the dragnet to you on purpose. You guys can't think of it, right? I told you the secret of the secret whistle in the granary. As expected, you killed Wang Jian with the help of the secret whistle. Why did you persuade me today?
I don’t want to report? Brother Zheng Ping, I feel the same as Ming Jing.”
Zheng Ping stared at him, and several times he had the urge to draw his sword and chop him down, but in the end he was discouraged. The other party had been prepared for a long time, and he only realized it now. It was useless!
After a long while, Zheng Ping asked: "When did you find out?"
"When Wang Jian secretly investigated you, I discovered the clues. I knew that you came from Pingliang Mansion, not long after the incident in Pingliang Mansion.
The mistake Wang Jian made was that he bribed your henchmen. He didn't expect that your henchmen must also be Song Jun. How could you tell him the truth? So in Wang Jian's report, you became an indigenous resident of Pingliang Mansion.
He let go of the most critical loophole, because you obviously don’t have an accent from Pingliang Mansion!"
Zheng Ping raised his stubby eyebrows and said: "People of the Ming Dynasty do not speak secretly. I am Zheng Ping. If you want to be the commander of the capital, kidnap me to see Wanyan Wushu."
Li Nong smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I have known for a long time that you are Zheng Ping. I want to be the governor of the capital. The best opportunity is when Zhang Zhongfu goes down. I told you that you are not the descendant of the founding general Li Jixun.
Do you hear something fishy?"
"What's weird?"
"Will I call my ancestors by their first names?"
"Ah! Aren't you?"
"Of course I am! It's just that the Li family doesn't admit it."
Li Nong let out a long sigh, "My mother is a maid, do you understand? I am a posthumous son, and my father is the bastard of the Li family. He was killed in the second battle of Pingxia City. My mother gave birth to me in the same year.
But the Li family refused to admit it and kicked my mother out of the Li family.
My mother never remarried and worked hard to raise me. When I was twenty years old, my mother died of illness due to overwork, so I ran to the northwest and joined the Zhong family army.
In the battle to defend Taiyuan, Commander Zhong was killed, and I was captured and surrendered to the Jin Kingdom."
Speaking of this, Li Nong's mood became very low, and his voice was full of sadness.
"My original intention of surrendering to Jin Bing was to humiliate the Li family, but the more I thought about it in the past few years, the more I felt sorry for my mother. What does the Li family have to do with me? But my mother worked hard to raise me, not to make me a traitor.
I couldn't sleep at night, and I thought about my mother doing other people's laundry at night to earn money. She wanted her son to succeed, but look what I have become?"
Speaking of this, Li Nong covered his face and burst into tears.
