Chen Qing pondered for a moment and asked, "Where is Mr. Jiang from?"
"I am from Caizhou, and I still have my wife, children and mother at home."
"Let's do this! When you go back, sir, first move your wife, children, and mother, and then come to me in the army. I can arrange a staff position for you in the army."
"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief, for giving me a chance. I will return to my hometown overnight and move my family to the Song Dynasty."
Jiang Yan stood up first and bowed. He took out a letter and handed it to Chen Qing, "This is a humble plan to defeat Li Chi and seize Xiangyang. It can be used as a reference for the capital!"
Chen Qing was overjoyed and said, "Thank you very much, sir!"
He immediately took a pass and ordered his soldiers to give Jiang Yanxian 500 taels of silver for moving expenses. Jiang Yanxian ran away in a hurry and didn't take any luggage with him. He really needed to travel. He was grateful and took more than a dozen soldiers with him.
He rushed to his hometown of Caizhou overnight.
Yang Zaixing hurried over and said to Chen Qing: "Do you want to use Jiang Yanxian?"
Chen Qing nodded, "This person's conscience is still intact. He is unwilling to help the Jurchens attack Bashu and has become a sinner for the ages. This has led to internal strife, so I decided to use him."
"What if he pretends to surrender on Wan Yanchang's order, and he will be in big trouble in the future?"
Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "This man is a very smart man. He knew that it was not easy to win my trust, so he took the risk to go back and burn kerosene. This completely ruined Wanyanchang's plan to seize Bashu via the Three Gorges Road. Wanyan
How could Chang allow him to be spared? The puppet Qi State would not spare him, so I asked him to go back quickly and move his family members. If he went back too late, his family's lives would be in danger. This was actually a tacit understanding, and he gave me a very
If he sincerely submits his name, I will ask him to return to his hometown as soon as possible to relocate his family, which shows that I know that he has committed suicide in Wanyanchang."
Yang Zaixing was suddenly enlightened and sighed: "So that's the case. It's easy to think about the problem in a humble position."
"He is a rare talent. I actually don't want to hand him over to Li Gang. Li Gang will definitely not trust him, let alone use him. It would be such a waste."
When Chen Qing said this, he opened the letter Jiang Yanxian left for him and read Jiang Yanxian's strategy for defeating the enemy. He suddenly laughed.
Chen Qing said to Yang Zaixing: "Send the order for the whole army to retreat!"
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Although Li Chi took away Jiang Yanxian's military power, he did not get Jiang Yanxian's combat ideas. He had no idea about Jiang Yanxian's plan to build a high platform to defeat Zigui City.
Jiang Yanxian originally wanted to build an anti-arrow barrier first, and then hoist the trebuchet up. Li Chi didn't know about this plan, and he completely missed the step of building an anti-arrow barrier.
The high platform is one hundred and fifty steps away from Zigui County. They can use trebuchets to attack Zigui County, but they forgot that Zigui County can also attack the high platform.
General Zhang Ziliang launched a sudden attack on the high platform with two thousand crossbowmen. The crossbow bolts came like a torrential rain. More than a thousand puppet Qi troops and craftsmen on the high platform had no way to hide, and they were all killed by the dense crossbow arrows.
Li Chi was stunned when he heard the news, and then he realized that he had made a big mistake.
At this time, the commander Zhang Hua persuaded Li Chidao: "It is better for the army to return to Xiazhou first, ask the capital supervisor for instructions, and then make a decision!"
Li Chi sighed, "I feel unwilling to give up on Zigui like this!"
"Actually, we have not given up on Zigui. We are worried about Jiang Yanxian. He and Wang Bin still have troops. If he surrenders to the Song army, we will not be able to capture Zigui. Wouldn't it be a dilemma?"
One sentence reminded Li Chi, and he slapped his forehead. The consequences were indeed too terrible.
He immediately issued an order: "Call the entire army to retreat back to Xiazhou immediately!"
Li Chi was very anxious and said to Zhang Hua: "I will lead the main force to retreat overnight. You and three thousand brothers will pack up the baggage and then withdraw. In addition, I will find a way to take down the trebuchet on the high platform. You can use it in the rest of the night, but you can't throw it away anyway."
, I will attack the city again after I get the kerosene again."
Li Chi couldn't wait any longer. An hour later, he led 12,000 main troops to leave Zigui and march toward Xiazhou. No matter what, he wanted to recapture Yiling before Jiang Yanxian surrendered to the Song army.
Commander Zhang Hua then packed up the baggage, grain and fodder, as well as Li Chi's lifeblood, the twelve trebuchets. At the fourth watch, he spent a lot of effort to hang the twelve trebuchets from the high platform with ropes.
It took until the afternoon of the second day to finish packing up and began to slowly retreat towards Yiling.
The Three Gorges Road has both a very narrow cliff plank road and an open area that is more than ten miles wide, so there are county towns, small towns, villages and other residential buildings along the way.
Xintan is an open area. The Yangtze River flows here, and there are about three miles of shoals. The people here have built three long trestles on the shoals. Large ships can park beside the trestles, and people and livestock on board can use the trestles to go ashore.
As a result, a prosperous commercial town, Xintan Town, was formed.
The next morning, just an hour after Li Chi passed through Xintan Town, dozens of large ships appeared on the river in Xintan Town, and a steady stream of Song troops began to come ashore along the trestle.
This was Jiang Yanxian's strategy to defeat Li Chi. Li Chi was a hot-tempered man. When he realized that he would sacrifice Yiling to surrender to the Song army, he would rush back to Xiazhou, leaving the baggage and food behind, and wait for his main army to pass by.
In Xintan Town, the Song Army came ashore from Xintan, cut Li Chi's main force and logistics into two sections, and annihilated the logistics army. Li Chi's main force was blocked halfway, and their food and grass would be cut off in a few days, and they would not even be able to kill their horses.
, will inevitably surrender without a fight.
This strategy is called the Jedi Strategy. It is very vicious and very effective. It makes full use of the asymmetry of intelligence and the advantage of the navy to put the main force of the puppet Qi army into a desperate situation.
Yang Zaixing led 6,000 troops to disembark from the boats and land. They immediately set up an ambush more than ten miles away from Xintan Town...
As night fell, a mighty baggage team appeared. Each bullock cart was loaded with grain, grass and baggage, marching mightily on the official road. Some of the three thousand soldiers followed the bullock carts on both sides, and most of them followed the baggage team.
later.
To the south of the official road are cliffs, with the mighty Yangtze River below, and to the north are endless mountains. Although it is early winter, the trees are still lush, but the mountainous areas are filled with fog and are very wet and cold, which makes the soldiers from the Central Plains very uncomfortable.
Not used to it.
Behind a big tree, Yang Zaixing's eyes were fixed on the opponent's general. The only general riding on a war horse should be a commander.
He took off his bow, pulled out a wolf tooth arrow, opened the bow and nocked the arrow, and shot the arrow with almost no need to aim. Yang Zaixing's archery skills were only not as powerful as Chen Qing's, but his mental arrow skills were equally outstanding. He could shoot an arrow within a hundred steps.
False hair.
Zhang Hua never dreamed that a deadly cold arrow would be shot from the roadside. When he felt something bad, it was already too late. "Pfft!" The arrow hit his neck. Zhang Hua groaned, then turned over and fell off his horse.
Yang Zaixing's order to shoot arrows was an order. The sound of clappers sounded in the woods above, and arrows rained out. The two thousand soldiers behind him were unable to dodge, and they all fell to the ground after being hit by arrows. The screams resounded through the official road.
Yang Zaixing waved his spear and said, "Kill!"
Six thousand soldiers of the Song army rushed out of the woods, shouting and killed the puppet Qi army on the official road at the foot of the mountain.
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Li Chi led 12,000 people to rush all the way. At the fifth watch, they arrived ten miles away from Xialaoguan. The terrain here is dangerous, the road is less than two feet wide, with a cliff of ten thousand feet on one side and a surging river below.
On the other side is a steep mountain. The mountain is filled with clouds and mist, and occasionally white cranes fly over, making it look like the residence of an immortal.
After walking through this ten-mile dangerous road, you will reach Xialaoguan Pass. After passing Xialaoguan Pass, you will soon be out of the Three Gorges. Thirty miles further you will reach Yiling County.
The soldiers were so tired that they could hardly walk, but the anxious Li Chi did not allow the army to stop and forcibly ordered the army to continue marching. He must enter Yiling County to feel relieved.
At this moment, the soldiers in front suddenly made a noise, as if something had happened. Li Chi hurriedly urged his horse forward, and a general came back to report, "Du Tong, there is a huge tree blocking the road ahead!"
Li Chi frowned and urged his horse forward. He also saw that there were dozens of giant trees lying across the official road ahead, blocking the official road.
"Jiang Yan must have done it first, go and lift the wood down the river!"
Li Chi gave the order, and hundreds of soldiers ran up one after another. At this moment, there was a bang in front, and fire broke out. Flames rose into the sky on the official road. The dozens of soldiers running at the front were suddenly engulfed by the fire, and dozens of sticks were engulfed in flames.
Giant trees were also engulfed in flames.
The soldiers screamed and retreated in fright. Li Chi was also stunned.