Chapter two hundred and forty sixth virtual attack
Chen Qing finally put his base temporarily in Ganquan Fort. The reason is also very simple. Chengji County's defense is not strong enough. If it is a crazy attack like the Xixia Army, it can be captured in one day.
The most important thing is that the walls of Ganquan Fort are tall, wide, extremely strong, and the people's hearts are united.
Chen Qing led his army and convoy through Pingliang Prefecture and Deshun Prefecture, and directly arrived at Ganquan Fort.
Next, Chen Qing sent dozens of scouts to various places to inquire about the puppet Qi army. Chen Qing knew full well that his lair was taken away, his money and food were robbed, and his lord was arrested. No matter how cowardly the army was, it would still struggle and roar a few times.
Not to mention that the puppet Qi army still has an army of 100,000, so Li Cheng is not a coward.
If he just swallows his anger and lets it go, will Liu Yu let him go?
As Chen Qing expected, on the fifth day after they returned to Ganquan Fort, a puppet Qi army of 20,000 people came towards Qinzhou via Jingyuan Road.
If they take Fengxiang Prefecture, their target will most likely be Chengji County, but if they take Jingyuan Road, their target will definitely be Ganquan Fort.
Chen Qing did not dare to be careless, so he sent Zhao Xiaoyi to personally lead the scouts to inquire about the detailed military situation, and at the same time ordered all the people and troops in Ganquan Fort to prepare for war.
Deshun Prefecture is also a boundless loess plateau with crisscrossed ravines and sparse green. The huge ravines are often hundreds of meters deep.
But wherever there is green, there are residents. There are also large forests near many counties, mainly pine, elm and jujube trees. Jujube trees, in particular, are widely distributed on the Loess Plateau. The abundant red jujubes are even the food of the people.
Replenish.
On a large loess mountain, Zhao Xiaoyi led a dozen Song army scouts and hid behind a huge stone, watching the mighty army walking on the official road at the foot of the mountain.
The army is seven or eight miles long and has about 20,000 people. About 30% are cavalry and the rest are infantry. They carry spears on their shoulders, swords on their waists, and bows and arrows or shields on their backs. The team is not neat and even a little bit dying.
The soldiers were all listless.
Zhao Xiaoyi was concerned about the opponent's military rations, and it was also the coach Chen Qing who repeatedly told him, where did the opponent get the food from when they attacked Ganquan Fort? Chen Qing hoped that they would go back to robbing the people of Jingzhao of food, otherwise their people's moral support would be completely ruined.
Each soldier carried a bag of dry food, followed by a food transport convoy consisting of more than 300 large vehicles.
Now this is interesting, how much grain can there be for more than 300 carts? This is 20,000 people, and it will consume 20,000 kilograms of grain every day.
"General, will there be a supply team behind to replenish it?" a soldier whispered.
It is also possible that Zhao Xiaoyi wrote an eagle letter and sent it to Ganquan Fort immediately after the army passed by.
The Song Army scouts discovered that the enemy's main force was only a hundred miles away from Ganquan. Two hours later, Chen Qing received Ying's letter.
Sure enough, the opponent only brought 300 carts of food, which confused Chen Qing, especially since the opponent did not bring siege weapons. What were they doing?
Counselor Zhang Xiao smiled and said: "It is very likely that the other party is just here to show off and is not really here to attack Ganquan Fort."
Zheng Ping asked in confusion: "Who are you showing off to?"
"Of course it's for Liu Yu to see!"
Chen Qing nodded, "That makes sense!"
"This is actually very obvious. A hundred thousand troops of the puppet Qi army besieged Dashan Pass. Is it possible that they don't have siege weapons? They should also have food. Thousands of carts have just returned. He also has no shortage of heavy carriages. He has carts.
They have food and siege weapons, but they don't carry them, which means they don't want to attack Ganquan Fort at all. They just came for a walk, then turned around and went back to write a report on attacking Ganquan Fort to Liu Yu, which is considered a submission."
At this time, all the generals were gearing up and looked at Chen Qing. Can this army fight?
Chen Qing pondered for a moment and said: "If they don't enter Qinzhou, they don't have to fight, but as long as they dare to enter Qinzhou, don't blame us for being rude."
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Zhang Xiao's guess was correct. This puppet Qi army was indeed here to attack Ganquan Fort, but the order was wrong. Liu Yu's order to Li Cheng was to preserve his strength and not to act rashly. Liu Yu knew that there were 100,000 Xixia troops.
After being defeated at Ganquan Fort, he did not want his army to make the same mistake again.
The person who gave the order was Wanyan Wushu. Wanyan Wushu's army had not arrived at Shaanxi Road yet, but his military order was delivered first, asking the Qi army to attack Ganquan Fort with all their strength and pull out Chen Qing's nail in the shortest possible time.
He did not fight himself, but asked the puppet Qi army to fight.
Li Cheng did not dare to disobey Wanyan Wushu's order, but he did not want to waste any more troops, so he used a false attack as a countermeasure. He had already sent people to attack, but he did not capture Ganquan Fort.
This 20,000-strong army was led by Xu Jinwen, the commander of the capital. It set out from Jingzhao and marched through Jingyuan Road, Pingliang Prefecture, and entered Deshun Prefecture. The morale was good at first, but the army did not carry tents and encountered an enemy on the Jingyuan Road.
Two night rains had a heavy impact on the soldiers. They could not rest well and did not eat enough. The 20,000 soldiers complained and their morale gradually declined.
More importantly, everyone can see that they don't even carry siege weapons. Isn't it a joke to attack Ganquan Fort?
Since there is no sincerity in attacking Ganquan Fort, there is no need to blame the soldiers for their low morale.
The soldiers marched listlessly and at an extremely slow pace. The general Xu Jinwen repeatedly urged to speed up the march to no avail. At noon that day, the team entered Qinzhou, still thirty miles away from Ganquan Fort. Xu Jinwen ordered to rest for an hour before leaving.
The deputy capital commander, Wang Heng, was really worried. He stepped forward and said to Xu Jinwen: "Since we are not here to attack Ganquan Fort, we shouldn't get too close to it. Chen Qing is a ferocious demon. If he guesses our intentions, he will definitely not
Let us go!"
The plan of the puppet Qi army was not to get close to Ganquan Fort and then return the same way, so that they would not be able to explain Wanyan Wushu.
They passed Ganquan Fort and then turned south and entered the hinterland of Qinzhou. Before Chen Qing could react, they raided Chengji County and withdrew, killing thousands of people and pretending to be Song troops.
Crossing the border can also give off bad vibes that Jingzhao City has been captured.
Xu Jinwen said coldly: "Don't be so hopeless, okay? Now that we are here, we don't even dare to approach Ganquan Castle. Wouldn't it make the world laugh at us? If he wants to fight, we will fight. If he doesn't fight, we will go south.
I, Xu Jinwen, have been in the army for more than 20 years, but I have never been as useless as I am today."
"But with the current morale of the soldiers, can they win against Chen Qing's army?"
"It's easy. Let's announce it to the soldiers now. We will go south to capture Chengji County, burn, kill and loot. We can play with women if we want. The whole army will have a three-day holiday. I wonder if morale will be lifted?"
Xu Jinwen has experience. He was the commander of the Song Army. After surrendering to the Jin soldiers, he led two thousand soldiers to sack three counties in Bozhou. The originally moribund morale became unprecedentedly high.
Xu Jinwen immediately sent someone to announce their plan to the entire army. Sure enough, when the soldiers heard that they would plunder Chengji County for three days, it was like taking a shot of chicken blood. Their morale suddenly rose, and everyone was filled with expectations. The atmosphere before
The dying body was washed away and empty.
Xu Jinwen immediately ordered the army to continue advancing...
When night fell, the army finally arrived at Ganquan Fort. Even if they wanted to go south, Ganquan Fort was the only way to go.
Even though Xu Jinwen looked down upon Chen Qing and the Qinzhou Army, he was not as strong in his heart as he appeared. How could he not know that Chen Qing was a Song general who could even fight against Wanyan Wushu, which he could not challenge.
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Xu Jinwen did not dare to stop in front of Ganquan Fort and immediately turned south. Fortunately, the Song army in Ganquan Fort did not chase him out, which made him feel a little relieved.
But just as they reached the foot of a hill a few miles away, the ground began to faintly shake. Xu Jinwen realized something was wrong. When he turned around, he saw that the moonlight in the distance had turned dark red, and overwhelming cavalry were charging toward them.
"Archers form a formation! Form a formation!" Xu Jinwen shouted in shock.
Fortunately, he had made arrangements in advance, and three thousand crossbowmen walked behind the team. The horns sounded continuously, and the three thousand crossbowmen lined up nervously. They formed six teams, each with 500 people, and raised their military weapons together.
The crossbow was tilted upward, waiting for the Song army to enter the killing range.
The five thousand cavalrymen were already 300 paces away, and the yellow dust was billowing like wild waves.
"Prepare to shoot!" Just as General Wang Heng gave the order to prepare, a shocking and unexpected thing happened.