Fenghou

"Tomorrow is the second day of the first lunar month. Everyone already knows that the commander will act between the second watch and the fifth watch tomorrow night, but what should we do and what emergencies will we encounter? To be honest, I have no confidence at all right now. For tomorrow Success, I'm thinking of rehearsing tonight. Everyone is clear about their mission. In order not to be exposed, let's assume that the outside of the camp is attacked by an unknown army, and then everyone performs their duties. Who is responsible for raising the fire, who is responsible for covering, and who is in charge Assault, of course, is not a real thing, and it cannot involve soldiers, otherwise it will be discovered by Jin Bing."

Li Nong said with a smile: "General Zheng's idea is very good. It really needs to be practiced once, so as not to be in a hurry tomorrow. I discussed with General Zheng. In fact, the core of our mission is to burn the warehouse camp of Jinbing. I was in charge of the warehouse camp before. I know there is a big loophole in the warehouse battalion..."

Before Li Nong finished speaking, the conductor Wu Miao blurted out: "Underground!"

Everyone laughed knowingly, and Li Nong applauded and laughed loudly: "It seems that everyone has a good understanding. Yes, the biggest loophole of the Jinbing Warehouse Camp is underground. No matter how tightly guarded it is on the ground, it can't prevent it underground."

Everyone looked at Zheng Ping strangely, and Zheng Ping smiled lightly: "Tonight's rehearsal does not involve the warehouse camp, but only involves everyone's tasks. In order to avoid misunderstanding, we will not talk about the warehouse camp from now on. Our rehearsal is only about assembly So far, and then clarify everyone's tasks."

Li Nong said in a deep voice: "General Zheng, I suggest that everyone's appointment be clarified now!"

Zheng Ping glanced at everyone and said, "To be honest with General Li, in fact, everyone's mission was decided shortly after entering the camp last year, but there was no chance to implement it. I'm going to use last year's plan now and make some fine-tuning. , tonight is Wu Miao who is in charge of digging the hole. It was said earlier that Wang Hao will be in charge. This time Wang Hao changed to lighting the fire. The two commanders Zhang Taiping and Zhao Jian are responsible for the cover. They each led [-] troops to patrol at night. It is strictly forbidden for anyone to approach the digging tent.

The timing of the uprising depends on the commander's attack on the periphery. Once the commander launched an offensive, General Li and I led the army to rebel at the same time. The reason is also very simple. If the Jin soldiers want to kill us all, we must resist.

Tonight's drill will start at the second watch. I hope that all the soldiers will sleep without taking off their armor. I will tell the soldiers that we may be transferred to Dasan Pass in the middle of the night. Then at the second watch, everyone will be in my camp on time and report to each other. After the mission, the walkthrough is over, understand? "

"Understood!"

Everyone dispersed, Li Nong stepped forward and said: "I still need to confirm two things, where is the big tent? Why didn't the general tell me?"

Zheng Ping said with a smile: "I haven't considered it yet. I have chosen two locations. One is the delivery door. There are few gold soldiers there, so it is not easy to be found, but the disadvantage is that the distance is a little longer, and there is another The place is next to the water tower, which is very close to my camp, but there are too many patrolling soldiers, so General Li would like to advise.”

"The key is how long the tunnel should be dug? If the tunnel is too long, I'm afraid there won't be enough time."

"I know that time is too late, so I don't need to think about how long it will take. It's enough to go from our big camp to the warehouse camp, about fifty steps."

"Then I suggest it is at the water tower. Although there are many patrols now, once the commander attacks outside, the patrols will definitely be less. It happens to dig the tunnel. I suggest starting tonight. Anyway, it only takes one day, and the golden soldiers will not notice it."

"I'll go back and discuss with Wu Miao and listen to his opinion. Apart from authenticity, what else does General Li need to confirm?"

"There is still an ignition plan. Where should I start it first? How should I start it? Do I need gunpowder assistance, etc. These are very important. General Zheng hasn't considered it yet!"

Zheng Ping sighed, "I probably have a preliminary plan. After the rehearsal is over tonight, the two of us plus Wang Hao will discuss it together to see what materials are still missing."

Li Nong said happily: "This is the best, what supplies are needed, I will figure out a way, and then... the soldiers really sleep together tonight?"

Zheng Ping said indifferently: "This is not a requirement. In fact, my army has never taken off its armor to sleep every night since the start of the war. I just explained it specifically for the drill. General Li can do it himself tonight, but he must not take off his armor tomorrow night! "

Li Nong pondered for a while and said: "My soldiers go to bed with their armor off every night. If they are not allowed to take off their armor suddenly, I am afraid that it will arouse the suspicion of Jin Bing. I will make arrangements tomorrow and find an excuse to not take off their armor tomorrow night." gone."

After a pause, Zheng Ping said to Li Nong again: "I still say what I said before. The general can only explain this matter to his confidantes at the first watch tomorrow. Before that, it must be kept absolutely secret. Only the general knows it. It's not that I don't believe in the general. I’m afraid that if too many people know about it, there will be accidents.”

"Don't worry! I won't tell anyone."

Li Nongxing saluted and left, Zheng Ping looked at his back and scolded in a low voice: "You son of a bitch, you almost fooled me!"

……

Time gradually approached the second watch, Li Nong paced back and forth in the room restlessly, a strong uneasiness lingered in his heart, Zheng Ping's rehearsal was beyond his expectation, everything was as it was, what if it turned out to be fake? manage?Could it be that Zheng Ping has found himself?

Li Nong recalled everything that happened recently, and there was no flaw in his performance, but he felt that Zheng Ping seemed to have arranged everything. Everyone knew that there was no problem, except for himself.

No, if the fakes come true, and the fourth prince blames him, he won't be able to eat and walk around.

He immediately found his confidant general Wang Guanghua, handed him the soldier talisman and command arrow, and told him: "If anything unusual happens tonight, you will control the military power, and everything will be under the command of General Xiao Zong!"

"Humble post obeys orders!"

Wang Guanghua took the command arrow and the soldier talisman and left. Li Nong immediately wrote another letter and handed it to the soldiers, "If I haven't come back after half an hour, you should give this letter to General Xiao Zong immediately!"

After arranging the funeral, it was almost time for the second watch, so Li Nong put on his sword and went to Zheng Ping's tent to gather.

Chapter 169 The Fire

Li Nong hurried to Zheng Ping's barracks. He obviously felt that there was something unusual in the barracks. Almost all the soldiers were awake. Most of the camps were lit with lights. Groups of soldiers could be seen gathering together everywhere, and patrolling soldiers were heavily guarded.

Li Nong felt more and more uneasy, this doesn't look like a drill!As if something was really going to happen tonight.

When we arrived at Zheng Ping's tent, it was pitch black inside, several soldiers came forward and said: "The situation has changed, the location has been changed to General Wu Miao's tent, what plan does General Zheng want everyone to discuss together?"

Li Nong immediately understood that he must be discussing the plan for digging the tunnel. Zheng Ping should have realized that he had thought the problem too simply. It was originally that there were two thousand Jurchen soldiers guarding the warehouse camp. What's the use of digging a tunnel to go there? Jurchen soldiers.

Wu Miao's big tent is located at the northernmost part of the barracks, outside the barracks, separated from the warehouse camp by a five-foot-wide road.

There were guard soldiers standing outside the big tent. When he got here, it was impossible for Li Nong to retreat, so he had to bite the bullet and walk into the big tent.

The big tent was brightly lit, and the generals surrounded the city, only to see a big hole five feet wide dug in the middle of the big tent, with a cover on it and pillars on both sides.

Li Nong's face changed drastically, it was clear that this was a tunnel dug long ago, and Zheng Ping had deceived himself.

He turned around to run, but three soldiers behind him threw him down, grabbed his long sword, and tied him up behind his back.

Li Nong struggled and raised his head, staring at Zheng Ping angrily, "Zheng Ping, is this your sincerity?"

Zheng Ping stepped forward and slapped him hard, "I showed you the letter, and you turned around and ran to see Wanyan Wushu, do you have the fucking face to tell me you're honest?"

Li Nong was speechless for a moment.

Zheng Ping stared into his eyes and said: "Do you know why Wanyan Wushu is afraid of my commander? Because he has a little courage? Then you are wrong, my leader is here!"

Zheng Ping pointed to his head, "His wisdom, he has already seen through you, but I almost believed your nonsense."

Li Nong roared angrily: "I didn't lie to you, I am a descendant of the famous founding general Li Jixun, and I would not make fun of my mother."

"I bother!"

Zheng Ping spat heavily on him, pointed at him and cursed, "You traitor, you have the nerve to say that you are a descendant of a famous founder of the country. Are you not afraid that your ancestors will rush out of the grave with a sword and kill you, an unworthy descendant?"

Li Nong raised his head, "You can scold me as much as you want, I have a clear conscience, it is enough for me to be worthy of myself!"

Zheng Ping stared at him and sneered repeatedly: "Do you know how the commander commented on you in the letter? You hated your family and surrendered to the Kingdom of Jin, but you were ashamed of your mother and wanted to return. You only have private thoughts in your heart, but you have no national integrity, like you Such a person will never give up the high-ranking officials and rich salary of the Kingdom of Jin, and become a small commander without official rank again."

Li Nong's face became very pale, and he said with a wry smile: "What a Chen Qing, he is really powerful, he actually wrote two letters, and the ones he showed me were fake letters, you are clearly going to act tonight, not tomorrow night! "

Zheng Ping smiled triumphantly, "Otherwise, how could we have fooled Wanyan Wushu? He actually left with an army of [-]. We also want to thank you for the whistleblower."

Looking at the dark burrow, Li Nong sighed dejectedly: "You have already prepared."

"That's right, the burrow has been dug a long time ago. It took us a whole winter. There are [-] branches underground, which lead directly to [-] forage and grain depots, and we will never encounter warehouse defenders at all."

Li Nong laughed suddenly, "Do you think you will succeed? I have already sensed that something is wrong, so I sent someone to notify Xiao Cong, and he will bring troops here immediately!"

Furious, Zheng Ping drew out his dagger and stabbed it into Li Nong's chest, "Go and see your founding ancestor!"

Li Nong looked at the dagger on his chest in disbelief, a strong fear suddenly surged in his heart, what face would he have to meet his ancestors under Jiuquan?He screamed in remorse and died.

Zheng Ping said decisively: "Don't wait for the commander, let's do it now!"

Wang Hao took ninety soldiers into the cave. They were divided into thirty groups and each went to a warehouse to set fire.

……

Chen Qing led [-] cavalry to approach the Jinbing camp. The attack on the second day of February was just a cover-up. In his second secret letter to Zheng Ping, he set the time for the real attack on the first day of February.

Chen Qing's army approached the Jurchens' camp, and they were discovered by secret sentries when they were three miles away from the camp.

'call out! 'Nine consecutive rockets flew into the sky, flashing dazzling firelight in the night sky.

"kill--"

Chen Qing shouted loudly, and the three thousand cavalry suddenly launched an attack, the horses galloped, and the dust they stirred up covered the sky and covered the ground.

'when!when!when!when! '

The police in the Jinbing camp were loud, and the soldiers woke up from their dreams, picked up their spears and ran out of the big tent. During this time, the Jurchen soldiers also slept together in armor to deal with emergencies.

The main general, Wanyan Alupu, was shocked. He grabbed a mace and rushed out of the big tent, shouting, "Where is the horse?"

A soldier brought him a horse, Wanyan Alupu got on the horse, and the rest of the gold soldiers also got on the horse.

In the past, Jin soldiers were separated from horses, people lived in big tents, and horses were in sheep and horse camps. After suffering a few sneak attacks, Wanyan Wushu's combat thinking also changed accordingly.

After establishing the monk's original camp here, he also learned from the Song army, distinguishing between wartime and non-wartime, and non-wartime, it is still the same as before. Outside the big tent, and soldiers are not allowed to take off their armor to sleep.

This kind of wartime thinking was brought into full play tonight. Although the soldiers panicked, there was no chaos.

Wanyan Alupu saw that Wan Yantuo, the head of the Wanfu, was ready, and he shouted: "Wanyantuo, you lead the army to stop the enemy first, and I will lead the army to kill them later!"

"Follow the order!"

Wan Yantuo shouted, "Follow me out of the camp!"

He led hundreds of cavalry out of the camp...

The Jurchen cavalry were still gathering. At this moment, Xiao Cong rode over and shouted, "General Alupu must not be fooled. This is Chen Qing's plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain. The real danger lies inside. This is the fourth prince's order!"

Wanyan Alupu saw countless rockets shot into the southeast, and the big tent started to catch fire, he immediately reprimanded Xiao Cong, "It's nonsense, do you want me to stay in the big camp and be burned alive?"

He ignored Xiao Cong, urged his horse and shouted: "Brothers who are ready, kill me!"

He led more than 2000 cavalry to fight out. Xiao Cong was so angry that he punched the saddle hard. Wanyan Wushu did say hello to him and told him to keep an eye on Zheng Hui's army, but he was not allowed to do anything. It's about tomorrow night, everything is messed up now, and he doesn't know what to do?

The key is that Wanyan Wushu didn't explain the details to him, which made him at a loss as to what to do. Should he enter Zheng Hui's camp?But what if this is also in the calculation of the fourth prince?

At this moment, a soldier shouted: "The warehouse camp is on fire!"

When Xiao Cong turned his head, he saw flames from the warehouse camp rising into the air, forming a sea of ​​flames, he was so frightened that he was frightened out of his wits, and hissed loudly: "Order the whole army to fight the fire!"

At this time, a soldier came to report, "General Xiao, did Li Nong send someone to deliver the letter?"

"Where is the letter?"

Li Nong's soldiers came forward and handed Xiao Zong a letter. Xiao Zong tore open the letter and read it again. Li Nong said in the letter that he suspected that the time of the Song army's uprising had been changed to tonight, and Xiao Zong was so angry that he almost fainted. , slammed the whip at Li Nong's soldiers, and yelled: "Bastard, why didn't you send the letter earlier!"

"I can't find General Xiao anywhere in my humble position!"

The soldiers explained aggrievedly, in fact, Li Nong had told him to deliver the letter half an hour later, and it was not yet time, and if the warehouse camp hadn’t caught fire, the soldiers would not have come here earlier.

Xiao Zong looked at the warehouse camp that was in flames, and he gritted his teeth and ordered: "Pass my order, massacre the allied troops, kill them all!"

He couldn't command Wanyan Alupu's army, he could only command his own army, but his army had less than 3000 people. In the afternoon, he sent 500 people to escort food and grass to Dasan Pass.

At this moment, Xiao Zong had no time to choose to make judgments, and he couldn't tell who was loyal to the Kingdom of Jin and who was a traitor, so now he could only kill all the Xie Congjun.

Wanyan Alupu had just led his troops out of the camp when a cavalryman stepped forward and cried, "General Wanyantuo is dead!"

Wanyan Alupu's eyes widened, and he asked angrily, "What's going on?"

"As soon as we left the gate of the camp, we encountered Song Army cavalry. In the darkness, Wan Yantuo was shot in the face by an arrow. The arrow was so fast that the general had no time to dodge it. It was too miserable!"

Several soldiers carried Wanyantuo's body up, only to see an arrow shot between his eyebrows, the arrow pierced through the head, and the tip of the arrow came out from behind, Wanyantuo's eyes were wide open, and he died with regret.

Wanyan Alupu's heart ached, and he jumped into a rage and shouted: "Kill me! Kill all the Song soldiers!"

Chen Qing led the main force of the Song army to retreat, but Wanyan Alupu was dazzled by hatred, and led thousands of cavalry to chase eastward frantically.

Although the main force of the Song Army retreated, more than 100 scout cavalry did not retreat. They fired gunpowder arrows into the Jin Bing camp continuously, setting the Jin Bing tents on fire from all directions.

Chapter 1 Seventy Chaos

Thousands of Jurchen cavalry rushed into Li Nong's camp first, massacring the unprepared allied troops frantically. Thousands of allied soldiers were killed crying and screaming, and their corpses lay all over the place. The soldiers only hated their parents for losing two feet. Running for their lives in all directions...

The irony of the matter is that Li Nong was loyal to Jin, but Jin Bing didn't take his army seriously at all. His camp was closer to Jin Bing's camp, and was the first to be cleaned and massacred by Jurchen cavalry.

A mile to the west, Zheng Ping's army had assembled. He was standing on a boulder, telling thousands of soldiers about the cruelty of the Jurchens.

"Let's think about what it was like during the reign of Xuanhe, how much it cost to buy a vegetable, go to the restaurant every now and then, damn it, now the iron money can't be used, let alone a family who ran away to death, how many lives The ancestral house was also burned by the gang of Jurchens, who killed our parents and raped our wives and daughters. Brothers, blood and sweat! Do I still want to work for them?"

Zheng Ping was in high spirits, and the soldiers were also furious. At this moment, a soldier came galloping on horseback and shouted, "General, the Jurchens are here, and the Thirteenth Battalion was killed terribly!"

Real education came so soon, Zheng Ping immediately ordered: "Brothers, it is not too late for a man to take revenge in ten years, pass on my order, light the big tent, and retreat the whole army!"

The soldiers lit the big tent and used the fire to block the Jurchen cavalry's assault. Zheng Ping led five thousand soldiers to quickly retreat to the northwest direction of the sheep and horse circle.

Xiao Cong found that they were surrounded by raging fire, and if they didn't leave, their entire army would be wiped out.

"retreat!"

Xiao Cong turned his horse's head and led the Jurchen cavalry to the north towards Monk Yuan...

Thousands of Jurchen cavalry chased for seven or eight miles in one breath, but they didn't see any trace of the Song army. Wanyan Alupu shouted, "Stop!"

The cavalry reined in their horses one after another, and the cavalry behind them suddenly exclaimed.

When Wanyan Alupu turned his head, he was so frightened that his heart would burst. The camp behind him was completely engulfed in flames. The raging flames engulfed the sky, and the clouds in the sky turned a terrifying crimson, as if hell appeared in the sky. a rift.

Wanyan Alupu was frightened and frightened, he didn't know what to do for a while, a commander advised: "General, the situation is chaotic now, and the whereabouts of the Song army are strange, why don't we withdraw to Dashanguan first and join the main force .”

Wanyan Alu looked at his army again, there were only two to three thousand people, where did the rest of the soldiers go?He has five thousand cavalry!

But he forgot, he still has [-] soldiers on duty in the warehouse camp?It is estimated that they all died in the fire.

As the commander said, the current situation is chaotic, the whereabouts of the Song army are strange, and there is no choice but to lead the army to retreat in the direction of Dasan Pass.