At noon the next day, Chen Qing led the army to the central county. He immediately ordered the army to camp outside the central county. He also ordered Liu Cui to lead an army of 10,000 to go north to Yanzhou and join Yang Zaixing's North Route Army in Luojiao County.
Although Yanzhou is also an extremely important strategic location, it does not have a single garrison. This is also a concrete manifestation of the insufficient strength of the Jin army. It is impossible to have both sides between Yanzhou and Fangzhou, so the army can only be concentrated in Fangzhou.
Central County.
The main force of the Song army was resting and reorganizing in the central counties. Once the heavy baggage arrived, the army immediately went south to attack Guanzhong.
There are two roads from northern Shaanxi to Guanzhong, one is Jingyuan Road and the other is Luoshui Road. At present, the Xihe Song Army is taking the Luoshui Road, and finally enters Guanzhong from Tongzhou.
In the commander's tent, Chen Qing paced back and forth with his hands behind his hands. There were many roads to attack Guanzhong. It didn't matter which road he took to attack Guanzhong. What was important was to annihilate the enemy.
Chen Qing walked to Shapan County and looked at the last pass into Tongzhou, Jinsuo Pass.
Tang Qian, the scout commander nearby, introduced to Chen Qing: "Jinsuo Pass is very steep, with cliffs up to a hundred feet high on both sides. This pass is located among the narrowest cliffs. The city wall of Guancheng is a hundred feet long and three feet high."
The ruler is very tall and strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but according to humble observation, it also has weaknesses."
"Where is the weakness?" Chen Qing asked.
Tang Qian pointed to the North Luo Waterway: "The weak point is the Luo Water. The pass actually spans the Luo Water. It has a crescent-shaped water gate built at the bottom. The river flows into the city from the water gate, but the water gate cannot be seen on the river.
You have to dive underwater to see it.
"Is it possible to sneak into the city from the bottom of the river?"
"I thought it was unrealistic. The enemy was also on guard. They installed two rows of barbs on the bottom. I guess there was a net on the river inside the pass. The enemy had 5,000 troops stationed in the pass and the defense was tight."
Chen Qing frowned, "In that case, the only way to attack Jinsuoguan is through the narrow road beside the riverbed?"
"Exactly! That's why the Golden Lock Pass is called "one man can guard the pass, and no one can open it."
Chen Qing thought for a moment and then asked: "Where is Jin Bing?"
"Reporting to the capital, 30,000 gold soldiers are concentrated in Fengxiang Mansion. All the dangerous passes are occupied by the puppet Qi army. In fact, it is not the puppet Qi army, but the state soldiers from the Shaanxi Road and Hedong Road states. They were gathered together for training and deployed.
There are about 50,000 people in various places in Guanzhong."
"You mean there are no Jurchen armies in Jinsuoguan and Jingzhao City?"
"Indeed!"
Chen Qing added: "Tell me about the distribution of their troops."
"Baizhi's initial grasp of the situation is that there are about 10,000 garrison troops in Jingzhao. The focus is on Jingyuan Road. There are 20,000 garrison troops deployed in the entire Jingyuan Road. Then there are 5,000 garrison troops at Jinsuoguan Pass, then 5,000 garrison troops at Hanzhong, and then
Then there are various 10,000 troops stationed on the north side of Shaanxi Road, 5,000 troops in the central county alone, 2,000 troops in Yanzhou, and finally two or three thousand troops in Ningzhou and Yuanzhou. That's all I know from my humble position."
"Is this information accurate?"
Chen Qing turned around and asked Zhang Miao, the intelligence agency commander. Zhang Miao nodded, "According to the summary information we collected, it is basically accurate."
"Put the number of troops on the sand table."
The entourage quickly made small flags and placed them on the sand table one after another with the number of troops written on them.
Niu Gao said on the side: "Beizhi previously defended Pingliang Mansion and contained a large part of the enemy army. Beizhi believed that the enemy thought we were going to enter Guanzhong from Jingyuan Road, so the army was stationed on Jingyuan Road. But if the enemy found us
If we enter Guanzhong via Luoshui Road, I'm afraid they will withdraw from Jingzhao City to the south, which will bring great obstacles to our attack on Jingzhao City."
"What do you think?" Chen Qingxiao asked.
"Based on my humble opinion, if I send an army to pretend to attack Jingzhou, I can basically contain 20,000 enemy troops in Jingyuan Road."
Chen Qing pondered for a moment and said: "The method is good, but it won't work if we don't have enough troops."
Niu Gao clasped his fists and said: "If we all give 10,000 cavalry to Beizhi, Beizhi will rush back to Pingliang County immediately, leaving 3,000 people to guard Pingliang City, and 25,000 people will pretend to attack Jingzhou, we will definitely be able to contain the enemies on Jingyuan Road."
military."
Chen Qing readily agreed: "According to your plan, I will give you 10,000 cavalry, and you will rush to Pingliang County immediately!"
An hour later, Niu Gao led 10,000 cavalry to leave the central county camp and quickly returned to Pingliang Prefecture.
Three days later, the Song army's baggage team arrived in great force. At the same time, Liu Cui and Yang Zaixing's troops also returned to the central county.
Yang Zaixing left 10,000 troops stationed in Yanzhou to firmly control the oil-producing land. As for other states, it was not so urgent and there would be time to station troops later.
The time was ripe to move south, and the army rose up again and marched southward along the North Luoshui River Valley.
Beiluoshui meanders in the mountains, with steep mountains on both sides. The Song army's march was slow and difficult.
"How do you plan to capture Jinsuoguan?" Yang Zaixing asked with a smile.
Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "I have an idea, but I don't know if it will work. You can give it a try. If it doesn't work, then we can still use our old method of burning the city head with kerosene and sending fire soldiers to the city.
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Chen Qing didn't say clearly what he had in mind, which really left Yang Zaixing confused.
Three days later, the army finally arrived at Jinsuoguan. From a distance, they saw the pass in the valley. The city stood between two mountains, tall and solid, with flags fluttering above. There were hundreds of soldiers guarding the city, each holding a spear.
, murderous.
The Song army rested and camped in a spacious place about five miles away from Guancheng. Eighty thousand troops and tens of thousands of horses stretched for more than ten miles in the valley, but no big tents were set up. This was to prevent the enemy from attacking with fire and causing a series of fires.
The tragic scene of the camp, Chen Qing himself is a master of playing with fire, how could he fall into the fire himself?
Hundreds of craftsmen are busy assembling heavy trebuchets. This time they went out to carry ten heavy trebuchets, but they did not need so many to deal with Jinsuoguan, and there was no place to place them. On the narrow official road, they could only place three of them side by side at most.
Build a heavy siege ladder.
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At the same time, Chen Qing ordered 10,000 soldiers to build a dam about three miles away from Jinsuoguan to prepare to intercept the river water.
The chief general of Jinsuoguan is called Li Boxheng. He was originally the commander of the Western Army. He surrendered the Jin soldiers in the Battle of Taiyuan. Now he has been promoted to commander. He was transferred from Taiyuan and was not familiar with the Xihe Army.
But after all, Li Boxheng was rich in experience. He felt the sense of danger of the army pressing down on the situation, which really frightened him.
One of his generals asked: "Li Tongzhi, didn't he say that the main force of the Song army would come from Jingyuan Road? Why did it come to our Luoshui Road?"
Li Boxheng shook his head and said: "Our spies can't get out, and we don't know how many enemy troops there are. It seems that there are at least tens of thousands of people, but it's hard to say whether these tens of thousands of people are the main force of the enemy army."
"I wonder if Jinsuoguan can defend against the enemy."
Li Boxheng had no idea. In fact, even the five thousand defenders had no idea. They were all state soldiers transferred from Hedong Road. They had never fought against Chen Qing's army. They only knew that the opponent was very powerful, but they had no idea what tactics the opponent was good at.
Known.
At this time, a cavalryman rushed over, shot an arrow at the top of the city, turned around and ran away.
A soldier picked up the arrow letter and handed it to Li Boxheng. Li Boxheng took the letter and saw on the envelope it was written: Chen Qing, the military envoy of Xihe Road, Duke of Jing Kingdom of the Great Song Dynasty, sent to all the soldiers at Jinsuoguan.
Li Boxheng opened the letter, and it turned out to be a letter of persuasion to surrender. He asked all the soldiers to stop working for the foreigners and to abandon the secrets and surrender to the bright side. At the end of the letter, he wrote, "Courtesy first, then troops. If you refuse to surrender, the general guarding the border will be held accountable on the day the pass is broken."
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Li Boxheng shook his head. He had never thought about surrendering to the Song Dynasty again. After so many years, he could not look back. He tore the letter into pieces and threw it out of the city.
"Instruct the three armies to bring all the kerosene to the top of the city. When the enemy attacks the pass, use it to burn it."
He couldn't believe it. How could the Song army conquer such a dangerous and tall Guancheng, with only one man holding it and ten thousand men unable to attack it? What's more, they had three thousand barrels of fire oil.
But Li Boxheng at least understood that Chen Qing was in the team, and this army was the main force of the Xihe Army.
He very much looked forward to annihilating Chen Qing's main army under the city. That would be the time when he would become famous all over the world.
