Fenghou

"350 people, you know, what's wrong?" Zhou Jin asked pretending to be puzzled.

"You let a thousand soldiers go back to rest, so where did these soldiers come from?"

"Of course it was transferred from the other three city walls, plus my 350 people."

"Bullshit!"

Jiang Ying put her hand on the hilt of her sword and glared at Zhou Jin viciously, "I came from Beicheng. There are only 1000 people there, and there is not one soldier missing. Tell me! What's going on..."

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Ying felt a sharp pain in his chest. When he lowered his head, a bloody sword appeared on his chest. He turned his head slowly, and saw a tall and burly man standing behind him, vaguely familiar.

"Don't you know each other? We met last night. I am Sun Daming, who mines kerosene."

Jiang Ying suddenly understood, he roared, plasma shot out from his chest, Tang Qian drew out his sword, Jiang Ying's body limply fell to the ground, and died.

The rest of the dozen or so subordinates were all killed, and none of them escaped.

Tang Qian said coldly: "This is the time, what nonsense is there?"

Tang Qian strode to the edge of the city wall, only to see countless soldiers appearing outside, and he couldn't see the edge in the dark.

He turned around and shouted: "Open the city gate!"

The suspension bridge has long been lowered, the city gate creaked open, and tens of thousands of soldiers from the Song Army rushed into the city outside the city. A fire was set in the barracks. The large tents were too dense, and they were burned all at once. The raging fire swept through the entire barracks in just a moment, and they fell into a deep sleep The soldiers in the middle school were awakened. They didn't have time to put on their shoes. They were barefoot and wearing underwear, crying and running away.

On the street outside the barracks, [-] Song troops had surrounded the barracks. The escaped soldiers either died or surrendered on their knees. Suddenly, someone shouted. Killed out of the camp gate.

"Fire the arrow!" Liu Qiong shouted.

Thousands of crossbow arrows shot at the Jurchen cavalry, Wanyan Yilubu and dozens of cavalry were shot like hedgehogs, and they fell to the ground and died.

"Don't shoot arrows, we surrender! We surrender!"

Countless soldiers behind shouted, and Liu Qiong shouted loudly: "Put down your weapons, raise your hands and surrender!"

Groups of soldiers raised their hands and ran out of the gate of the camp. The Jurchen Lord was about to be killed, and no one could restrain them. These Allied soldiers surrendered one after another.

At this time, the other three city gates were also blocked, and the three thousand soldiers on the top of the city were disarmed by Zhou Jin and chose to surrender.

Ten thousand cavalry were also deployed outside the city to block the escape routes and prevent the soldiers from escaping back to Hedong.

Chen Qing led [-] cavalrymen to wait outside the city. Groups of captured soldiers came out of the city with their hands raised. These soldiers were basically barefoot and wearing underwear. They were sitting in a wilderness surrounded by Song soldiers. cavalry.

At five o'clock, the fire in the barracks was extinguished, and the last group of about 3000 people were escorted out. They hid in the southwest corner, where it was relatively open, so that they escaped unharmed.

Liu Qiong got the final confirmation result, and rode out of the city to report to Chen Qing, "Report to the king of the county, all the cleanup in the city has been completed, more than 5000 enemy troops have been captured, nearly [-] people have been burned to death, and the rest have been killed. No one escaped, and the Jurchens shot and killed them all, none of them survived, and our brothers suffered less than a hundred casualties."

"Where are the people in the city?" Chen Qing asked.

"The people in the city have not been affected."

Chen Qing nodded, "I will leave 5000 people for you, continue to clean up Fushi County, and strengthen monitoring and blockade on both sides of the Yellow River, so no one can escape back to Hedong, even businessmen!"

Liu Qiong bowed and said, "I obey the order!"

After the sky was bright, Chen Qing led [-] troops to Qingquan County south. At the same time, a Song army was also escorting more than [-] captive Xie Congjun troops from Heifeng Valley to Fushi County. Liu Cui's army was doing the same Rush to Qingquan County.

……

From Qingquan County in Yanzhou to Zhongbu County in Fangzhou, this section of road is about [-] miles long. It basically runs along the Luoshui River Valley. There are no forests, let alone human habitation, all are boundless loess.

About 130 miles away, there is a Luojiao County, and there is an official road next to Luojiao County, leading to Luochuan County and Danzhou.

As early as half a month ago, Chen Qing made careful arrangements to completely destroy the official road leading to Luochuan and Danzhou, as well as several surrounding small roads, making the road between Qingquan County and the central part of the country completely destroyed. Turned into a bottle, or a cloth bag, as long as the two ends are tied together, Wanyan Nianhan's [-] troops will be trapped to death on this Luoshui Road.

This trapped beast plan was originally used to deal with Wanyan Yinshuke, but it fell short in the end, allowing Wanyan Yinshuke's army to escape from the path. Unexpectedly, Wanyan Nianhan made the same mistake again, giving Chen Qing another chance to implement his trapped beast Strategy, this time Chen Qing has learned his lesson and will not give Wanyan Nianhan any more chances.

The [-] Jurchen army marched rapidly on the vast and boundless loess plateau, and they were all monotonous and boring khaki. Even Luoshui was also muddy and yellow. After a long time, everyone couldn't bear it.

At this time, Wanyan Nianhan found a large forest that had been felled by the roadside, so he sent someone to find the guide Orion.

He pointed at the felled woods with a whip and asked, "What's going on with these woods?"

The slightly older Orion said: "My lord, there are very few trees on the Luoshui Road, and the government does not allow them to be cut down, but last year another golden soldier passed through the border, and basically cut down all the trees, so the government didn't care about it. Since last year, people from surrounding counties have flocked to cut down trees, and these trees should be cut down by people from all counties, and the wood in Yanzhou and Yanzhou is very expensive, and a trunk can be sold for several dollars."

Orion's words are true and false. Wanyan Yinshuke's army did cut down a lot of trees, but not all of them were cut down. It was the Song army's hard work to clear all the trees.

Wanyan Nianhan secretly cursed Wanyan Yinshuke, then pointed to the river and asked, "Why is the river so shallow?"

The leader Orion smiled wryly and said: "Ten years ago, the river was deep and clean. In recent years, the river has become smaller and smaller. Silt, but there is no movement every year."

Wanyan Nianhan just asked casually, and didn't take it seriously, he asked again: "How far is Luojiao County?"

"It's just twenty miles ahead, but don't your lord count on that county town?"

Wanyan Nianhan frowned, "What do you mean?"

"The county seat has been abandoned. It was slaughtered by the golden soldiers last year. Almost all the young and strong were killed. The remaining old, weak, women and children moved away one after another. The useful materials in the county seat were taken away by the people of several nearby counties."

"what?"

Wanyan Nianhan suddenly realized that he was not prepared enough, or that he knew nothing about the actual situation. He only relied on the map to make plans. He also planned to go to Luojiao County to rest for one night and replenish some military rations. Jiao County was actually abolished.

He gritted his teeth and shouted: "Speed ​​up and go to Luojiao County!"

Wanyan Nianhan still had a glimmer of hope in his heart, maybe the situation is not as bad as he imagined.

……

In the evening, Jin Bing arrived in Luojiao County, and Wanyan Nianhan was really disappointed. There was no one in the city, and all the houses were only ruined walls. They were all rammed loess walls, and all the useful things were taken away. , Not even a stick was left.

At this moment, General Ba Lisu hurriedly found Wanyan Nianhan, "Marshal Du, the situation is not right!"

Wanyan Nianhan frowned, "What's wrong?"

"If it was ruined because the city was massacred last year, then there should be no wheat in the surrounding farmland, but Beizhi found traces of wheat being planted."

There are wheat fields along both sides of the river around the county seat. When Wanyan Nianhan came to the wheat field, he saw that the wheat in the wheat field had been cut off, and there were still green stubbles of wheat stalks, which were indeed planted and temporarily cut off. of.

Reminiscent of the trees that had been cut down all the way, a word immediately popped up in Wanyan Nianhan's mind, "Strengthen the wall and clear the wilderness!"

He yelled angrily, and ordered: "Bring me the Orion guide!"

Not long after, a soldier came to report: "Marshal Du, the three guides are missing!"

"what!"

Wanyan Nianhan was dizzy for a while, and he finally realized that he had been tricked.

Chapter 755 Trapped Beast

At night, [-] Jurchen soldiers were resting in the wilderness outside the city. The horses were still nibbling on the leftover stubble. The generals and the Heijia army were resting in the city, but the city was too small to accommodate too many people and horses.

Wanyan Nianhan didn't dare to go any further, so he sent a team of spies to Zhongbu County to find out the news.

Wanyan Nianhan came to the city alone, his heart was very heavy, when he realized that he had been tricked, he felt like a big stone was pressed in his heart, of course he knew what the consequences would be, Chen Qing must have blocked himself in Luoyang back and forth. on the waterway.

If this is the case, it means that Chen Qing knew that he was going to enter Shaanxi Road, so he specially used Fushi County as a bait to let himself swallow the bait and take the Luoshui Road. He had already arranged everything, but he didn't know anything , ignorantly slipped into his trap.

No wonder the Fourth Prince and Tarlan were repeatedly defeated by him, no wonder Wanyan Yinshu was almost killed and fled back in embarrassment, no wonder he was able to seize the opportunity to destroy Xixia.

This person was too scary, but I didn't take him seriously, thinking that he was the same as other Song generals.

Only after suffering a big loss did Wanyan Nianhan let go of his arrogance and began to seriously examine his opponent, but it was often too late by this time.

Wanyan Nianhan was filled with remorse, anxiety and uneasiness weighed on his heart like two huge rocks, preventing him from falling asleep.

It was almost midnight, Wanyan Nianhan suddenly heard a strange noise, like the sound of thunder in the distance, but the night sky was cloudless, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, how could there be the sound of thunder?

Wanyan Nianhan stood on the top of the city and looked towards the north. Suddenly, he saw a silver line appearing on the river in the distance. The silver line was flying towards this side very quickly. Behind the silver line... turned out to be the roaring river.

"not good!"

Wanyan Nianhan yelled, turned around and ordered: "Run the alarm bell and let the soldiers go back to the city! Go!"

Luoshui has spring floods every year, and the low-lying places in the valley are often flooded. Luojiao County itself is located in the high valley and will not be flooded, but [-] troops are stationed on both sides of the low-lying riverbed, stretching for several miles. .

The Song army repeated the same trick, building a dam upstream and waiting for the water to be released in the middle of the night.

In fact, Wanyan Nianhan had already discovered that the water level was too shallow, but he was fooled by the fake Orion, so he didn't take it to heart.

"Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!" The alarm sounded from the top of the city, but it was a bit late.

The roaring roar of the rushing river rushed in, and the Jurchen soldiers were all awakened. They panicked and panicked. swallowed up.

Wanyan Nianhan watched the soldiers screaming and being swallowed by the flood, he closed his eyes in pain...

Although there are spring floods every year, such a violent flood will not occur. This is because the water is deliberately stored in the upper reaches and released all at once, forming a torrential flood.

This is also the tactic that is most likely to be adopted by the enemy in the valley area. One fire attack and one water attack. Wanyan Nianhan specially inspected the city and prevented the fire attack, but not the water attack.

In a flood, nearly 7000 Jurchen soldiers were drowned, and more than [-] war horses were drowned. This was the heaviest casualty since Wanyan Nianhan took over the army, but the opponent did not even see a shadow.

……

It was finally dawn, and the banks of the valley were in a mess. Thick sand covered the original wheat fields on both banks, and there were scattered armor, shoes and weapons everywhere. The soldiers kept digging out corpses from the sand, human corpses and The corpses of the war horses were piled up separately, like a dozen hills.

It was the first ten days of May at this time, and it would be the middle ten days of June when converted to the Gregorian calendar. Although it would still be a little cool at night, the daytime would be very sweltering. The corpse must be disposed of as soon as possible, otherwise it would stink in two days.

There was no wood in the valley, so Jin Bing could only pour kerosene on the corpse and set it on fire. Suddenly, thick smoke billowed and flames billowed into the sky.

Wanyan Nianhan couldn't bear to look any further, so he let out a long sigh and went back to the city.

At noon, the spies finally sent the news, and the result was not surprising at all. The Song army gathered tens of thousands of heavy troops a hundred miles to the south, cutting off the official road going south, and even destroyed a section of the official road.

"Hegu should be able to go!" Wanyan Nianhan asked again.

The centurion of the spy shook his head, "Reporting to Marshal Du, the terrain to go south is different from here. If you go south for about 100 miles, you will not be able to walk in the valley. There are cliffs on both sides. You have to take the official road halfway up the mountain. After more than [-] miles, when we reached Zhongbu County, the terrain on both sides opened up."

"You just said that the official path was destroyed?"

"Reporting to Marshal Du, a bridge was actually destroyed. The cliff was about five or six feet wide, and it was more than a dozen miles away from Zhongbu County. We couldn't make it through, so we had to turn around, but we could see the Song Army in front of us."

Wanyan Nianhan never understood why the Song army cut down all the trees and took away all the beams in the county. Now he understands that it was to prevent them from building bridges.

Ba Ye said quickly, "Since we can't go south, let's go back to Fushi County and think of another way?"

Wanyan Nianhan sighed and said: "Does the general think we can go back? If I guessed correctly, the [-] army has been wiped out, and Fushi County must be lost."

In the big tent, all the generals were silent, and Wanyan Nianhan said again: "Now we need to do three things, first, count how many days our dry food can last; second, send people to find the trail; People go to look for trees; those who find paths and trees will be promoted to three ranks and rewarded with [-] guan!"

Although Wanyan Nianhan offered a huge reward, no one could receive the reward, no trees were seen, and the official road leading to Luochuan had been completely destroyed, and it would take at least a month to repair it, but even After the restoration is completed, they may not be able to go out. The key is that they have no time.

The dry rations they carried could last for five days. Where there was time to toss them slowly, many people began to regret that the horses that drowned last night should not be burned, but should be kept as military rations.

But some sensible people pointed out that horse meat cannot be preserved in such a hot day, and it will stink after two days, so it is better to burn it.

When the time came to dusk, all the generals above the commander-in-chief gathered in the big tent, Wanyan Nianhan said loudly to the crowd: "The way to survive is to fight, worrying is useless, we must risk our lives to fight, rather die in battle I can’t starve to death, so I think the troops are divided into two groups. I led [-] troops to attack the north road, and Yelu Mawu and Wolu led [-] troops to break out from the south using rafts. Our Jurchen army spread across the world. How can we be trapped in the loess gully, everyone, we will definitely be able to get out!"

Everyone raised their arms and shouted, "Get out!"

……

The [-] troops set off overnight in two groups. Yelu Mawu, the chief of the Wanfu, and Wolu, the chief of the Wanfu, led [-] soldiers to the southern line. They had to abandon their horses and take three More than a thousand rafts headed south.

All the horses were handed over to Wanyan Nianhan, and Wanyan Nianhan led 8000 people to march northward, preparing to fight back to Qingquan County.

This time they were light soldiers, and they didn't carry many supplies. The most useful thing was kerosene. They carried [-] bags of kerosene, and they might be able to use the kerosene to break out of the encirclement.

In fact, ever since Wanyan Nianhan found out that he had fallen into Chen Qing's trap, his confidence dropped sharply after a series of water attacks. He no longer had the confidence to defeat Chen Qing and break out of the siege.

Chapter 756 Trapped Beast

Ninety thousand Song troops gathered in Qingquan County, the people of Qingquan County have been sent away, and the county has become a military city.

Standing on the high head of Nancheng, Chen Qing could vaguely see a section of official road on Luoshui Road more than [-] miles away. Luoshui Road was constantly repaired on the basis of Qin Zhidao. It is as wide as three feet wide, with mountains on the right and cliffs on the left. In the canyon tens of feet deep is Luoshui, and the water flow is very fast.

The [-] Song Army built a copper wall and an iron wall at the north entrance of Luoshui Road. Five mudbag walls were built, which can accommodate [-] crossbowmen and [-] small trebuchets. Thousand god arm crossbowman.

Not only that, but a one-mile-long narrow path was opened on the top of the mountain on their right, which can accommodate two thousand archers, and can also throw kerosene balls, gunpowder barrels, etc. downward.

But these are not the most powerful methods. Their most powerful method is to blow up a section of the four-foot-wide official road. The official road has been blown up, and if necessary, they can blow up more official roads.

At this time, the general Liu Cui hurried forward and said: "Qijun Wang, there is a message from the eagle in the Luoshui Road."

The Song army also arranged a secret scout team on the Luoshui Road, about ten people, carrying five letter eagles, to observe the movement of the enemy, and will send the news back to Qingquan County at a critical time, and the three missing hunters also joined This scout team, it was the news they passed on that enabled the Song army to release water accurately last night.

"What news?" Chen Qing turned around and asked.

"The Jurchen army was divided into two, one part went south, and the other main force went north."

"Going south?"

Chen Qing asked puzzledly: "How to go to the south, have they solved the way to build a bridge?"