A flying eagle slowly landed on the Eagle Tower at the head of Jingzhao East City. An eagle slave took the red mailbox from his leg and immediately flew away.
A quarter of an hour later, Chao Qing placed a copied copy of the Eagle Letter on Chen Qing's desk with a red label on it.
Chen Qing picked up the copy and asked, "Where did it come from?"
"Yanzhou!"
"Copy a copy and forward it to the inner guard!"
"Report to the prince, I have already given it."
"Go and invite Jiang Changshi and General Guan!"
Chao Qing agreed and hurried away.
Not long after, Jiang Yanxian and Guan Shigu hurried over. They saluted and said, "Join the army and become the king!"
Chen Qing handed the letter to the two of them and said with a smile: "Look at this eagle letter."
The two of them picked up the eagle letter and looked at it, and both laughed, "Sure enough, the prince guessed it right."
Chen Qing nodded, "We got the news before that Wan Yanchang came to Taiyuan, and then we got the news that Wan Yanchang went to Pingyang Mansion, and he must have gone to meet with Wan Yan Nianhan. Although we don't know what they talked about, Wan Yanchang
As soon as Yan Chang left, Nianhan sent people to Yanzhou to inquire about the situation of our army and city defense. It seems that Nianhan has no choice but to make a desperate move and attack the Shaanxi Road."
Guan Shigu said quickly: "Since Wanyan Nianhan has no choice, there is no need for us to give Fushi County to him anymore!"
Chen Qing shook his head and said: "Since we want him to go to Luoshui Road, we must give him Fushi County. Only when he has a foundation can he go south with peace of mind."
Jiang Yanxian also said: "I'm afraid that he will learn the lessons of Wanyan Yinshu, and many of our arrangements will be discovered by him."
Chen Qing said with a smile: "It is indeed possible, but how likely is it? I think the possibility is at most 20%, or even only 10%. The two of them are hostile factions, and Yin Shu will not teach him a lesson.
Tell Wanyan Nianhan, at most Wanyan Nianhan's men heard some stories after dinner in Taiyuan restaurants, we cannot seek absolute certainty in the war, as long as 60 to 70% certainty is enough."
Guan Shigu said with a smile: "The prince is right, Wanyan Nianhan is very arrogant. He was the first contributor to the destruction of the Liao Kingdom and the Song Dynasty. Especially in the attack on the Song Dynasty, he swept dozens of soldiers with an army of 10,000 to 20,000.
With an army of ten thousand, Wanyan Wushu often suffered disastrous defeats, but Wanyan Nianhan never failed. He despised the Song army from the bottom of his heart, and actually wanted to destroy us with an army of fifty thousand. His pride is evident. Maybe he will be very
He is cautious, but this is just his habit of using troops, but once he achieves his goal, he will not hesitate again."
Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "General Guan knows them very well!"
Guan Shigu felt ashamed and said: "When I had nothing to do in Bianliang, I talked about them with the puppet Prime Minister Zhang Xiaochun. I didn't study them deeply. Zhang Xiaochun studied them more deeply. I mostly quoted his words."
Chen Qing smiled lightly and said: "This time we face Wanyan Nianhan, General Guan will be my staff!"
Guan Shigu chuckled, "It's an honor for me to be an aide to the prince!"
Chen Qing immediately sent an order to Liu Qiong, asking him to pay attention to the movements of the Jin soldiers on the Yellow River.
The Yanzhou plan is very challenging. It must be just right for the Jin soldiers to occupy Fushi County, and it must be just right for withdrawal, so that it cannot cause heavy losses to the Song army, but it must not make Wanyan Nianhan suspicious.
In order to convince Wanyan Nianhan that it was reasonable to have only three thousand troops in the city, Liu Qiong simply arranged for five thousand troops not to mine coal in Wan'an Village and build docks. This open-pit coal field was discovered the year before last, but there was no manpower in northern Shaanxi.
It has never been mined.
Since several dangerous shoals formed by sediment accumulation in Luoshui were collapsed by gunpowder explosions, Luoshui has become valuable for shipping again. Coal is transported to the Wei River by flat-bottomed boats, and then transported from the Wei River to Jingzhao. Transportation is more convenient.
Therefore, it is imperative to develop this coalfield, but it just happened to meet Chen Qing's Yanzhou plan.
Five thousand soldiers were digging soil on a flat highland in Wan'an Village. The thick soil was dug out, exposing the black coal seam underneath. The soldiers began to use gunpowder to blast the coal seam into pieces. After the coal seam was shattered, it was easy to use iron drills.
It was pried off.
A few hundred steps away is Luoshui. More than a thousand soldiers are building docks with big rocks and opening up yards and roads. Five thousand soldiers are busy.
In a forest two miles away, a man observed for two hours, then jumped off the tree, got on his horse and ran towards Fushi County.
This man was one of Jiang Ying's four subordinates. Jiang Ying was very cautious. He had to confirm that the Song Army was mining coal before reporting to Wanyan Nianhan.
On the tenth day of April, that is, the tenth day after Wanyanchang left Pingyang Mansion, the first batch of grain was transported from Taiyuan Mansion in 10,000 carts, totaling 100,000 shi, and Wanyan Nianhan also got a son.
According to the news, he had abandoned Daming Prefecture, handed over the army and Hebei power to Wan Yanchang, and led three thousand troops to protect his family and move to Hedong.
The time was ripe. That night, a pontoon bridge appeared on the Yellow River. Twenty thousand soldiers, led by Ma Wu, a leader of ten thousand men, ran across the pontoon bridge and entered the boundary of Yanzhou on the west bank of the Yellow River.
Dozens of miles away behind the 20,000 Xie Cong troops, Wanyan Nianhan personally led an army of 60,000 men and 10,000 carts. Wanyan Nianhan did not want to put the precious Jurchen army on siege. The Jurchen army was not good at it.
When attacking cities, the Jurchen army is better at making surprise attacks from thousands of miles away and advancing into Guanzhong.
The 20,000 Xie Congjun were Han Chang's men, but they had been handed over to Wanyan Nianhan by Wan Yanchang. The Xie Congjun was originally relatively independent, but in the hands of Wanyan Nianhan, it became an out-and-out slave army.
Wanyan Nianhan despised the Han people from the bottom of his heart and did not trust the Han people. All the generals above the command were replaced by Jurchens, and the main general Ma Wu was a Khitan. His full name was Yelu Ma Wu, but he was actually a Han from Liaodong.
He has a Han Chinese face and is completely Eastern Hu.
Yelu Mawu has been Wanyan Nianhan's confidant for many years and has always been a vanguard general. Back then, he led his army to chase Zhao Gou all the way to the Yangtze River, chasing Zhao Gou and his entourage like crazy.
This time, Yelu Mawu, without exception, took on the task of the vanguard and captured Fushi County.
Just when the Jin soldiers began to cross the Yellow River in large numbers, on the west bank of the Yellow River, more than a dozen Song army scouts immediately released the faith eagle. The faith eagle soared into the sky, circled a few times, and then flew towards Fushi County.
The Song army's scouts immediately left the west bank of the Yellow River and evacuated to the more secluded woods more than ten miles away. Their task was to record the enemy's total strength, the proportion of cavalry and infantry, etc., and to observe whether the general Wanyan Nianhan passed the test.
Yellow River.
It was already dark, and more than a dozen Song Army scouts were standing by the woods on the hill. Below the hill was the official road. They could clearly see the details of the Jin soldiers.
In Fushi County, an army of a hundred people patrolled back and forth in front of the city. Jurchen spy Jiang Ying was one of the patrol soldiers. He had ten people under his command, including two of his subordinates.
Jiang Ying had long discovered a pattern. There was no shift change in the army at night. Before the second watch, the soldiers were patrolling in high spirits. After the second watch, the spirits became sluggish. After the third watch, the soldiers all went to find a place to sleep.
Then it is best to set the siege time after the third watch. Moreover, Jiang Ying also found that there were very few night patrol soldiers on the East City, but more on the West City. Of course, he also understood that the coal fields were in the west, and the soldiers who went to mine would return to the city at night.
, so it is necessary to open the West City Gate conveniently.
This virtually created the conditions for the Jin soldiers to attack Dongcheng at night.
After the third watch, the patrol soldiers could no longer stand the sleepiness, and the duty officer asked: "Which team is willing to be on duty tonight?"
Jiang Ying raised her hands and said: "Let's do it!"
"This is what newcomers should do. Only by performing better will they have a bright future!"
They all yawned loudly and went down to the city. The soldiers also went to sleep on both sides of the city wall. It is said that sleeping on both sides is not easy to be found.
Jiang Ying smiled at his subordinates and said, "You all should go to bed too! I'll just leave two brothers on top of the city."
His men also went down to the city. Only Jiang Ying and two of his men were left above the city gate. But what was difficult was that the mechanism for opening the city gate and the iron chain of the moat suspension bridge had large iron locks, so they could not open the city gate.
The golden soldiers can only be allowed to climb the wall and enter the city.
Seeing that everyone had gone to bed, Jiang Ying gave two of his men a wink and threw a bundle of ladder ropes that had been hidden in the tower into the city.
Jiang Ying reached out to the outside of the city, waved her hand, and lit a fire.