The Song army in Shaanxi County paid attention to every move in Hangu Pass and Mianchi County. Liu Qiong sent two scouts to monitor. When the remnant army in Hangu Pass was looting Lingbao County, they were immediately discovered by the Song army scouts and rushed back to Shaanxian County.
Notified Liu Qiong.
Tang Qian whispered to Liu Qiong: "Commander, Zhe Keqiu's army is still in Mianchi. It will only take a day at the fastest to use cavalry. We can ambush and intercept near Shaanxian County. It won't be a big problem."
Liu Qiong looked to the east. There was no movement in the east. They placed ten guard posts along the way to Mianchi County. Once more than a thousand cavalrymen left the city for ten miles, the guard posts would fire gunpowder arrows into the sky. This was considered a kind of
Artificial beacons are very useful in short distances and short periods of time.
Liu Qiong nodded and said: "Since the opponent only has more than a thousand people, let's do it three against one. General Tang will lead two thousand people to ambush the opponent at the mouth of the valley, and I will lead a thousand people to intercept them from the front."
"I humbly obey orders!"
Tang Qian went down to the city. Not long after, he led two thousand soldiers out of the south city gate and ran towards the official road.
Liu Qiong then led a thousand troops out of the city.
In the afternoon, Kong Yanzhou led more than 900 defeated troops to flee in panic. They said they were in panic, but they also led thousands of mules and donkeys, all loaded with property, and even more than 100 young women were tied up.
Their hands were lined up in a long line, and they followed behind them crying. Dozens of soldiers escorted them, touching and pinching them along the way, taking advantage of them. All the soldiers were looking forward to nightfall.
Kong Yanzhou rode in the front, looking at the outline of the city in the distance with a complicated expression. That was Shaanxi County, which had been captured by the Song army.
He knew well that once the Song Army occupied Shaanxian County, Shaanzhou and Guozhou would be basically finished and would be difficult to recapture. Li Yanxian defended it alone for two years, and the Jin soldiers did not capture the city of Shaanxian County. What's more, the Song Army is now
We also have Sichuan and Shaanxi as our backing.
Kong Yanzhou turned around and shouted: "Everyone, be careful, don't make any noise, don't be discovered by the Song army guarding the city, we will go directly!"
At this moment, suddenly there was a banging sound above his head, and a volley of arrows was fired from the slope next to him. A dense number of arrows were shot out. Hundreds of soldiers walking in front were hit by arrows one after another. Kong Yanzhou was caught off guard and was hit by dozens of arrows and turned over.
Fall off the horse.
Tang Qian roared loudly and led two thousand soldiers to fight out from the nearby ravines and slopes. The remaining hundreds of Puppet Qi soldiers were frightened and panicked. Some knelt down and surrendered, and some abandoned their mules and horses and ran away. But
Before they could run far, they were surrounded by Liu Qiong's troops. The puppet Qi troops had no way to escape, so they all knelt down and surrendered.
The battle ended so quickly that Liu Qiong was unexpected. The army seemed to have completely lost its fighting spirit.
At this time, Tang Qian carried Kong Yanzhou's bloody head and said: "The whole family is not over yet. One hundred and twenty people were shot and killed, two hundred and fifty were injured, and the rest have surrendered."
"Are those women injured?" Liu Qiong asked, looking at a group of women squatting in the distance.
Tang Qian shook his head, "The brothers' arrows deliberately avoided them and did not hit them. They were only slightly frightened and not injured."
Liu Qiong added: "These prisoners of war committed a heinous crime in robbing Lingbao County. Together with the injured, we kidnapped them and took them back to Lingbao County and handed them over to the people of Lingbao County for disposal. I will return these properties to the county king."
"I understand the humble position!"
Tang Qian found more than a hundred donkeys and gave them to the women, letting them ride the donkeys home. He also gave each of them some money. Tang Qian then led a thousand soldiers and escorted the prisoners of war back to Lingbao County.
At dusk, Tang Qian led the prisoners of war to Lingbao County. He saw a sea of people outside the city gate. Ten to twenty thousand people from Lingbao County had gathered. They had received news about the woman who had returned first. The extremely angry people were holding wooden sticks and hoes.
, the kitchen knife is already waiting outside the county.
When they saw the prisoners of war being escorted back, their hatred finally burst out, and they shouted, "Kill them! Cut them into pieces with a thousand knives!" Tens of thousands of people suddenly rushed in like a tide. Tang Qian saw that the situation was not good.
Immediately lead the soldiers to retreat and throw the prisoners of war to them.
The prisoners of war were bundled into large bunches like grasshoppers, unable to escape. They cried, begged, and collapsed on the ground in fear. The crowd swallowed them up like a tide...
The anger was finally vented, and the people began to return to the city one after another to sacrifice their murdered relatives with severed heads.
Tang Qian then led his army up. The prisoners of war were no longer human, with no heads left. The ground was covered with limbs and internal organs. The stench was overwhelming, and the blood dyed the land red.
Tang Qian ordered the soldiers to collect the corpses, burn them on fire, and then dig a hole and bury them deeply.
At this time, a group of cavalry rushed over, and someone shouted: "Is this General Tang?"
Tang Qian recognized the person and it was his subordinate Zhang Hua. Tang Qian stepped forward and said with a smile: "It turns out to be General Zhang. Are all the troops here?"
"The army is clearing Hangu Pass, and the prince is also there. General Tang, come with me!"
Tang Qian nodded and ordered the commander Yang Quan to lead a thousand troops to Lingbao County to maintain order. He followed Zhang Hua to Hangu Pass with several of his subordinates.
The thick smoke and poisonous gas in Hangu Pass had dissipated, and the Song army unexpectedly captured more than 4,000 soldiers. Some of the troops opened the city gate and surrendered directly after Kong Yanzhou retreated. There were about 1,000 soldiers.
The other part of the army consisted of 3,000 people. They were the troops guarding the inner city and were led by the commander Li Ming. When the Song army launched an offensive from above, Li Ming made a prompt decision and led 3,000 people to retreat to the widest part of the central Hangu Pass.
The widest part of the border was a mile long, and the poisonous smoke and black smoke were much thinner. They did not follow Kong Yanzhou to escape. After the Song army entered the valley, Li Ming led his army to surrender.
However, those who actually followed Kong Yanzhou to escape were his inner circle troops. Most of them suffocated to death in the valley. Although the remaining less than a thousand people managed to escape Hangu Pass with Kong Yanzhou, none of them survived in the end.
Tang Qian reported their battle situation in the past few days to Chen Qing. Chen Qing was greatly relieved that Liu Qiong had indeed lived up to his trust and seized Shaanxi County before Zhe Keqiu. This step was crucial.
Chen Qing smiled and praised: "Well done, I actually killed Kong Yanzhou. I was saying before that I let this devil escape. I will remember you for your great contribution."
Tang Qian was overjoyed. He was worried just now that the county king would blame them for handing the prisoners of war to the common people. Now it seemed that the county king didn't even mention this matter, which made him secretly relieved.
He quickly bowed and said: "The order in Shaanxi County has been stabilized. Please ask the prince to move to Shaanxi County!"
Chen Qing nodded and immediately ordered Yang Zaixing to lead 20,000 troops to continue clearing Hangu Pass, while he led 50,000 troops to Shaanxi County.
Shaanxi County is not far from Hangu Pass. At the first watch, the team arrived in Shaanxi County, and Liu Qiong went out of the city to welcome the lord's arrival.
It was already very late, so Chen Qing asked Liu Qiong to arrange for the army to rest and wait until tomorrow to discuss everything.
Early the next morning, Chen Qing paid homage to the famous general Li Yanxian and his soldiers who died in the Anti-Jin War by the Yellow River, and asked Liu Qiong to hand over the property captured by Kong Yanzhou to the magistrate Yang Chu, and asked Yang Chu to collect the remains of the fallen soldiers and bury them again.
Tombs and monuments were built for them, and a separate tomb of clothes and crowns was built for Li Yanxian to commemorate them.
Chen Qing then walked to the top of the city and looked to the east. Liu Qiong pointed to a hill in the distance and said: "I have deployed three scouts on that hill. Once a reliable army appears twenty miles away,
They will immediately fire gunpowder arrows to notify the city."
Chen Qing nodded and said, "I heard that you deployed ten warning points along the way to monitor the movements of the Mianchi County defenders?"
"The situation is true. I was worried that the other party would come to support Kong Yanzhou's army. Now it seems that they don't know that Hangu Pass has been lost."
"How much food is there in the city?" Chen Qing asked.
"There were originally 80,000 shi of grain in the city, 10,000 shi of which have been used to provide relief to the people. In addition, there were also a large amount of military supplies. One hundred thousand spears alone were seized."
"Are there any siege weapons?"
"There are more than a hundred siege ladders and nothing else."
Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "If you work harder, you and I will go to Mianchi County and take over Mianchi County."