Just two hours after the Jurchen cavalry went south to Luoshui Road, Liu Cui led an army of 30,000 to Qingquan County. The county magistrate Zhang Tao greeted him. When he saw Liu Cui, he sighed repeatedly: "Kneel down in front of the Jurchen Tatars. It's really terrible."
Shame!"
Liu Cui quickly comforted him and said: "The county king also said that the county king endured humiliation and shouldered the heavy burden, which is even more worthy of admiration. Don't blame yourself."
"Of course I won't blame myself. Although my knees are on my knees, my heart is not. I report back to the general and handed over the three 'hunters' to them."
The three hunters who acted as guides were naturally disguised as Song and Jin scouts. Chen Qing's layout was so intertwined that he even thought of the details of the guide. No matter Wanyan Nianhan wanted a guide in Fushi County or Qingquan County, he would
The guides you get will all be disguised as Song Army scouts.
Liu Cui nodded and said to the county magistrate: "The war is about to break out. Take the people to Fuzheng County quickly! There is a camp there to accommodate you. If you need food, we can also provide it!"
Hearing that a war was about to break out, more than 10,000 people in the county began to evacuate towards Fuzheng County. Liu Cui gave each person a bucket of noodles as dry food on the way.
Fuzheng County inside and outside was evacuated, and the Song army set up three supply points in the middle to provide steamed buns and gruel to the people.
After settling the people in Qingquan County, the 30,000 Song army began to go all out to build fortifications, completely cutting off the Jurchen army's return route.
Time gradually came to night, and the 10,000 Xie soldiers arrived at Lepan Town under the leadership of Wu Yesu, the commander of 10,000 men. At this time, the sky over Lepan Town was empty. All the people were scared away. No food and food could be found in the town.
property, the soldiers cursed angrily, set fire to Lepan Town, and continued to march forward.
About thirty miles to the south of the town, there is a hilly hill of dozens of miles across, blocking the way. This hill is called Heifeng Ridge, and there is a three-mile long canyon inside it, called Heifeng Valley.
At this time, it was almost Hai hour, and the soldiers were still hungry. Wu Yesu, the commander of ten thousand men, immediately ordered the whole army to rest in the valley for the night and get up again early tomorrow morning.
This time Wu Ye led 10,000 troops to station in Qingquan County. In addition to the 10,000 infantry, there were 3,000 carts following far behind. The carts were full of grain and grass. The carts were all mule carts and moved relatively slowly.
, a few miles behind the team, a thousand soldiers were dedicated to escort the cart.
Just when the soldiers began to eat dry food, suddenly there was a faint shout from outside the valley in the north. Wu Yesu was startled and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to find out what happened. After a while, the soldiers rolled and crawled over and reported, "Ten thousand people
Commander, there are Song troops, thousands of Song troops intercepted the convoy."
"No!" Wu Ye stood up quickly. The Song army from the coal field must have returned. They are now in the valley and are very dangerous. He shouted loudly: "Send the whole army to run out of the valley. There is an ambush in the valley!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a crisp bang, 'Bang! Bang! Bang!'
Immediately afterwards, thousands of arrows were fired from the woods on both sides of the valley. The powerful arrows shot like raindrops at the soldiers of the Confederate Army in the valley. The soldiers were caught off guard and fell to the ground one after another. There was a wailing sound.
The key point of the ambush was that as soon as he got on his horse, he and his horse were shot through by hundreds of crossbow bolts. He was shot like a porcupine and fell to the ground dead.
The 10,000 Song troops kept firing arrows from the woods, causing countless casualties among the Confederate Army. The soldiers rushed to run out of the valley, but waiting for them outside the valley were 10,000 Song cavalry, with their horses snorting heavily and sharp spears.
The tip shone coldly in the moonlight.
Waiting for the Xie Congjun to rush out from the valley, Gao Ding shouted, "Kill——"
"Kill!" the cavalry roared in unison, and thousands of horses galloped, waving swords and short spears, to kill the terrified Confederate soldiers.
Under the moonlight, Fushi County looked particularly deserted. Late-night snacks were implemented in the city, making the streets deserted.
But tonight it was Zhou Jin who took the initiative to stay on guard duty for three consecutive days to appease the people in the city. He was named the commander by Wanyan Nianhan. Currently, including him, there are a total of five commanders. Each commander has 4,000 people, that is,
He said that each of the other four Jurchen rulers gave him a thousand soldiers, which made the other rulers very reluctant. So when Zhou Jin took the initiative to offer to watch the sentry at night, everyone guessed his intention. He clearly wanted to use the sentry.
Came on duty at night to ask for troops.
Captain Wanyan Yilabu also saw Zhou Jin's intention, but he was not disgusted with it. On the contrary, he also thought this method was good. He used the night watch method to get his own army, with Wanyan Yilabu as the main general.
, of course he must carry out the orders of Marshal Wanyan Nianhan to the letter.
Since the marshal of the capital appointed Zhou Jin as commander, he had to allocate part of the army to Zhou Jin. He agreed to Zhou Jin's application for night watch. Regardless of whether the other commanders were willing or not, he ordered each of them to give one thousand men to Zhou Jin for use.
Patrolling at night.
At dusk, Zhou Jin finally obtained 4,000 troops. He immediately deployed them, letting each team of 1,000 troops be responsible for one city wall, while he himself led 350 personal guards to patrol the city.
Three hundred and fifty soldiers followed him and surrendered to the Jin soldiers. In fact, all of them were internal guards.
In addition to the 350 soldiers, there were also a thousand Song soldiers, all soldiers from northern Shaanxi. They changed their names and were assigned to various households in the city, led by the commander Tang Qian.
At the second watch, a thousand soldiers began to rush to the Tutu Temple to assemble. The reason why they arranged to assemble in the Tutu Temple was because the Bingjia Warehouse was next door.
At this time, Zhou Jin also rushed to the Tutu Temple, cupped his fists and saluted Tang Qian, "See General Tang!"
"When will we do it?" Tang Qian asked anxiously.
"Attack on the West City at the fourth watch!"
There were still two hours left, so Tang Qian felt a little relieved and asked again: "Next step we need weapons and armor."
"The warehouse is already controlled by our people. If General Tang's men are here, they can take action at any time."
"Where is the armor?" Tang Qian asked.
"Please General, follow me!"
Zhou Jin led everyone to a wall. Suddenly a big hole was dug through the wall. The inner guard soldiers on the other side brought bundles of armor, boxes of swords and spears, as well as bows and arrows.
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A thousand soldiers began to put on armor, pick up swords and spears, and not long after, a thousand-man auxiliary army appeared in the Tutu Temple.
"Tonight's command is safe and sound, everyone, come with me!"
Zhou Jin left fifty men to continue guarding the warehouse, and he led 1,300 soldiers towards the west city.
The general guarding the Xicheng Xicong Army was a commander named Liu Fang, who was in his forties and from Fenzhou. He was relatively honest in his duties, but actually stupid, so Zhou Jin specially placed him in Xicheng.
Liu Fang was sitting on the top of the city taking a nap when he suddenly heard that the commander was coming. He was so frightened that he stood up quickly.
Zhou Jin walked up to him and patted his shoulder with a smile: "Take the brothers back to the barracks to sleep! There are other tasks for you tomorrow, so you won't have to be on duty tonight."
"I humbly obey my orders!"
Zhou Jin lowered his voice and said: "There is no one in our military camp, and the brothers' personal belongings are unguarded. If someone takes the opportunity to take away the things, it will be difficult to say. There must be an army left in the military camp. Understand me."
What do you mean?"
"I understand the humble position!"
"Go! Take the brothers back to sleep. I'll rearrange the patrol here in West City."
Liu Fang shouted a few times and took a thousand soldiers back to the military camp to sleep.
As soon as the thousand soldiers left, Tang Qian led a thousand soldiers to the west city from the other side and began to patrol the top of the city in a decent manner.
As the time gradually approached the fourth watch, Zhou Jin lit a few torches and threw them down.
At this moment, Jiang Ying, who was appointed as the internal military discipline inspector, suddenly rushed to Xicheng with more than a dozen of his subordinates.
Jiang Ying actually has another secret mission, which is to monitor Zhou Jin.
Although Wanyan Nianhan made Zhou Jin the commander, the fact that the Song army was able to evacuate Fushi County without losing a single soldier still made Wanyan Nianhan still suspicious.
He then kept Jiang Ying in Fushi County, nominally supervising military discipline, but in fact he asked him to secretly monitor Zhou Jin.
Just now, Jiang Ying discovered something strange. One thousand of Zhou Jin's men had gone back to camp to sleep, but the garrison at the top of the city didn't seem to be less. In other words, Zhou Jin had an extra thousand men inexplicably.
How is this going?
Zhou Jin was actually a little nervous, so he greeted him with a smile.
