The soldiers brought the leader of the camel team to Chen Qing's tent.
"Control, people have brought it!"
Chen Qing put down his pen and said with a smile: "Invite him in!"
After a while, the soldiers brought in a middle-aged man from outside the tent. Chen Qing took a quick look at the man and saw that he was about fifty years old, wearing short cloth clothes, with bronze skin, a strong physique, and his face and eyebrows were covered with pimples.
After years of vicissitudes, there is especially a long scar on the left cheek, which is very conspicuous.
The man stepped forward and knelt down to salute, "Young man Liu Scarzi meets the general!"
"Get up and talk!"
"Thank you General!"
Chen Qing looked at the waybill in his hand. It was issued by Zhou Kuan. It transported a thousand stones of grain from Zitong County to Chengji County one and a half months ago. It only took half a month to transport it from Zitong County to Chengji County.
They stayed in Qinzhou for a month, of course because of the impact of the war.
"Team Liu Zhang has worked hard this month. I will ask Manager Zhou to pay you double the freight!"
"Thank you for your understanding, General!"
This month, he had to pay for food, drink, and sleep for his men. He was under too much pressure and wanted to unload the goods directly, but he couldn't get Chen Tongzhi's signature, and the other party refused to pay for the freight. He might have to pay for the food.
He had no choice but to hold on, and finally heard that the war in Ganquan Fort was over, so he hurried over.
Chen Qing thought for a while and asked his soldiers to get twenty taels of silver and give it to Liu Scarzi. It would be better for him to compensate him directly! Don't break Zhou Kuan's rules.
Liu Scarzi thanked him profusely for taking the money and signing the order.
Chen Qing asked curiously: "You have a thousand stones of grain and camels, so you don't have the army of Jin soldiers or Puppet Qi to make plans?"
"Reporting to the general, the Jin soldiers did not come, but the puppet Qi army came, but they were just passing through Qinzhou. When the villain heard the news, he took the camel team and food and moved to Qingshui County. It was safe there and there was no army.
come over."
"You've never been to Qingshui County?"
"No! Even the soldiers guarding the city gate are Qingshui County's own archers. As far as I know, the puppet Qi army only stays in Chengji County, and there are no other counties in Qinzhou."
Liu Scarzi's words made Chen Qing feel a little strange. The scouts in Pingliang Mansion sent news that there were only 5,000 puppet Qi troops in Pingliang Mansion, 3,000 puppet Qi troops in Deshun Prefecture, so there were hundreds of thousands of puppet Qi troops.
Where have they all gone?
The fight between myself and Xixia's cranes and clams is over, and I am ready to pick up cheap gold soldiers. Where is the fake Qi fisherman?
"How many puppet Qi troops are there in Chengji County?" Chen Qing asked again.
"I heard there are one or two thousand people! I don't know the specific number of people."
Chen Qing nodded, suddenly remembered something, and asked quickly: "Master Zhou didn't arrange any soldiers to go north with you?"
"There are soldiers, Hong Dutou and thirty brothers. They came to Chengji County with us."
Chen Qing frowned, "What about them?"
"Reporting to the general, they did not go to Qingshui County with us. The villain only knows that they are dealing with Wang Tongpan."
Chen Qing knew for sure that Wang Huai probably hid them.
He comforted Liu Scarzi a few more words and asked the soldiers to send them to rest.
Chen Qing immediately sent someone to find Yang Yuanqing and Zheng Ping.
Not long after, Yang Yuanqing and Zheng Ping hurried to Chen Qing's tent, and they saluted, "See the control!"
"I just met the team sent by Zhou Kuan to deliver food to us. They came from Zitong via the Shu Road and passed through Xianren Pass. After staying in Qingshui County for a month, I discovered a strange situation."
Chen Qing told the two of them about his exchange with Liu Scarzi, and finally said: "I thought that after the Xixia army retreated, we would be attacked by the puppet Qi army again, but the situation was exactly the opposite. The puppet Qi army disappeared.
, Jin Bing is also missing, to be honest, it’s a bit beyond my expectation.”
"Maybe they went to attack Dashan Pass!"
Zheng Ping said: "Wan Yanchang suddenly figured out that we are not important and attacking Hanzhong is the right way."
Yang Yuanqing pondered for a while and said: "There are many reasons. I don't know what the control thinks?"
Chen Qing glanced at Zheng Ping and said with a smile: "I think Lao Zheng is right about one thing. Attacking Hanzhong is the right way for the Jin army, and you shouldn't focus on me."
"Since the commander-in-chief thinks so, you can send someone to Xianren Pass to find out about Liu Zan. We may not have enough information, but Liu Zan must know."
"That makes sense. I'll send someone to inquire later. In fact, I asked you two to come here to discuss what our next move should be."
Yang Yuanqing and Zheng Ping looked at each other. They both knew Chen Qing well. Since the commander said so, he wanted to make a move.
"What do you think of Control?" Zheng Ping said with a smile.
Chen Qing picked up his sword and said with a smile: "Let's go! Let's go to the Baishui River to have a look."
...........
The three of them came to the Baishui River with more than a hundred cavalry. On the west bank of the Baishui River was the Xixia Army camp that was burned to ashes. They destroyed three thousand acres of wheat fields when they were stationed there, but tens of thousands of acres of wheat fields on the east bank are still there. Perhaps the Xixia Army
The army has regarded these nearly mature wheat fields as its own supplies and has not destroyed them for the time being, thus allowing them to escape disaster.
The original owners of the wheat fields were the aborigines of Ganquan Fort, but that is no longer the case. All the wheat fields have been bought by the Song army as military fields. There are nearly a thousand soldiers taking care of the wheat fields.
The wheat has turned from green to yellow. A gust of wind blows, and the large fields of wheat undulate like waves in the sun. As far as the eye can see, there are endless waves of light yellow wheat.
"How long will it take for the wheat to mature?" Chen Qing asked a soldier at the edge of the field with a smile.
The soldier knew the commander, and quickly bowed and said respectfully: "Report to the commander, the harvest will be ready in about half a month!"
Chen Qing smiled and asked the two of them, "Do you know what I'm thinking?"
Zheng Ping rolled his eyes and understood immediately, "Do you want to return to Qinzhou?"
Chen Qing laughed and said: "We are already in Qinzhou now! I just want to return to Chengji County."
Yang Yuanqing hesitated and said: "What if the Xixia people..."
Chen Qing shook his head, "Li Liangfu has led his army back to Xingqing Mansion. The garrison in Baochuan County is only 3,000 people. We have spies there, don't worry, and Xixia faces the entire Shaanxi Road and Xihe Road, not just Ganquan
Fort, I think it is unlikely that they will launch another operation against Ganquan Fort in the near future. We can just leave 3,000 troops here at Ganquan Fort. We are not afraid if we encounter an unexpected enemy. Don’t we still have 6,000 civilian regiments?
?”
"The control has been well thought out!"
Chen Qing smiled slightly and said, "The wheat is almost ripe, and it's time for us to go back."
"What does the commander-in-chief plan to do after departure?" Yang Yuanqing asked again.
"Let's set off early tomorrow morning!" Chen Qing had already made his decision.
Early the next morning, Chen Qing left Niu Gao as the general of Ganquan Fort and continued to guard Ganquan Fort. He led 12,000 troops to leave Ganquan Fort and go south, heading towards Chengji County in a mighty manner.
.........
The fierce battle at Raofengguan has lasted for six days, and the Song army repelled the Jin soldiers' attacks time and time again.
In the afternoon, amidst the fierce sound of war drums, more than 800 Jurchen Tiefutu soldiers, holding large shields and short spears, launched an attack along the mountain road towards the pass on the mountain. Behind them, thousands of golden soldiers also carried dozens of short-type rifles.
Siege ladder.
The Iron Buddha is a golden heavily armored cavalry modeled after the Iron Kites of Xixia. It has a small number of people. This time, only 800 people followed Wanyan Salihe and went south.
Eight hundred Tiefutu soldiers attacked the mountain as infantry. Ordinary bows and arrows and military crossbows could no longer penetrate their armor. They could only rely on divine arm crossbows and bed crossbows.
On the mountain road in front of the pass, two hundred and fifty powerful jackdaw iron arrows were shot down like raindrops. The shields of hundreds of Tiefutu soldiers who got up and ran were pierced by the jackdaw iron arrows. The penetrating power of the crossbow arrows
Still powerful, it continued to shoot through armor and bodies. Dozens of Iron Buddha soldiers running in front who were hit by arrows rolled down the mountain.
The Tiefutu soldiers quickly lay down and did not dare to move forward.
Above their heads were dense swarms of divine arm crossbows and long arrows flying past.
The long arrows of the divine arm crossbow are aimed at the thousands of Jurchen soldiers behind, while the bed crossbow is a weapon specially designed to deal with the Iron Buddha soldiers.
But whether they are the elite Tiefutu soldiers or the ordinary Jurchen soldiers behind them, they are all moving forward under the rain of arrows. Every step they take is extremely difficult. They have only moved more than a hundred steps from early morning until now, and the number of dead soldiers has reached
One thousand two hundred people.
The soldiers of the Song Army on the top of the city seemed to have no need to wind their strings, and arrows were fired in batches, suppressing them so much that the Jurchen soldiers could hardly breathe.
Three hundred people and one hundred and fifty crossbows were deployed on the top of the city of Raofengguan. Using the three-stage shooting method, they could shoot two hundred and fifty jackdaw arrows each time.
In the Guancheng of Raofeng Pass, 800 divine arm crossbow soldiers were deployed at the same time, and 2,400 soldiers were deployed to string them up at the same time, so that the crossbow arrows were constantly fired.
Wanyan Salihe stood at the foot of the hill, looking at Raofeng Pass above. His army was still a hundred steps away from the pass, but they still could not attack it.
Seeing that it was getting late, Wanyan Salihe had no choice but to order: "Retract the troops!"
"Dang! Dang! Dang!"
The bell to withdraw troops rang at the foot of the mountain. Thousands of Jurchen soldiers were relieved and began to retreat slowly.
