Fenghou

Chen Qing took a few steps with his hands behind his back. Jin Bing's water army must be destroyed first, otherwise it would seriously threaten his logistics transportation and the safety of the pontoon across the river.

However, if you send sailors over, it is easy to be discovered by the opponent, and then the opponent's sailors will flee, and it will be difficult to find them.

It is necessary to pass silently and wipe out the opponent's navy in one fell swoop.

At this time, Yang Zaixing on the side understood what the lord was thinking, and suggested with a smile: "The humble officer has a special army of about 1000 people, called the Jiaolong Army. give them."

Chen Qing was immediately interested, it turned out to be an amphibious battle, no wonder it was called the Flood Dragon Army, the Flood Dragon was a crocodile!

He nodded and asked, "Who is the leader?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, the leader is Ruan De. He is a commander of the new army. His martial arts skills are superb, his strength is boundless, and his water skills are also extremely high. His hometown is Liangshanbo."

His surname is Ruan, and his hometown is Liangshanbo. Chen Qing thought of something and nodded, "Please bring this General Ruan to me."

Not long after, Ruan De was led into the big tent by a soldier. After nearly half a year of training, Ruan De was already a mature general of the Western Army. He knelt down on one knee and saluted, "Humble post, Ruan De, see His Royal Highness King Yong!"

Chen Qing saw that this man was very tall and majestic, estimated to be about 1.9 meters tall, with strong arms.

Chen Qingxiao asked, "Where is your home?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, the villain currently lives in Yuchi County."

Chen Qing was taken aback, "Just now Yang Dutong said that you are from Liangshanbo?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, the villain's ancestral home is Liangshanbo, and his father and uncle moved to Chuqiu County, Guide Prefecture. Because last year the Jin soldiers were going to harvest grain and grass, the government asked all the people who lived by the Yellow River to evacuate to Kaifeng Prefecture. The people moved to Yuchi County, and were favored by the Yu County Captain, who was appointed as the leader of the recruits in Yuchi County, and was appreciated by Yang Dutong, who was appointed as the commander of the new Jiaolong Army."

"I see. What is your father's name? What do you do for a living?"

Ruan De didn't dare to lie, so he could only bite the bullet and said: "My father's name is Ruan Xiaoqi. He used to be a fisherman in Liangshanbo. Dezhuang, Chuqiu County, Defu is a farmer."

Sure enough, they are the descendants of the three heroes of the Ruan family. Chen Qing nodded and said: "I came to you because I have an important task to entrust to your dragon army."

Chen Qing pointed to Liangshan Po with a wooden pole and said: "The Jinbing navy is hiding in Liangshan Po. I want to destroy this navy, mainly to destroy all their warships, but I send the navy to be easy to be found, and they will run away." , You must sneak into the water village from the land without anyone noticing, there are about 4000 people on the other side, do you understand your mission?"

"The humble job must successfully complete the task!"

Chen Qing introduced Huang Dong to him again, "This is Huang Dong, the deputy commander of the scouts. He is the one who discovered the water village and the navy. He will bring a scout as your deputy. This task will be completed by the two of you together. Set off tonight, if the mission is successful, I will give you a big reward!"

The two saluted together, "Follow the order!"

Yang Zaixing took the two of them down and explained the tasks in detail.

Chen Qing looked at the soldiers standing at the tent door again and said, "What's the matter?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, Xu Xiangguo, who came from Lin'an, has arrived at Guide Mansion."

Chen Qing nodded, "Please come over with the support ship tomorrow!"

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Ruan De and Huang Dong led 300 people to set off on foot overnight, and ran towards Liang Shanbo in the north without sound.

At noon the next day, Xu Xiantu and his party arrived at Daying in Fengxian County following the grain and grass convoy.

Chen Qing personally went to the gate of the camp to welcome Xu Xiantu's arrival.

Chen Qing and Xu Xiantu had a very good personal relationship. When Chen Qing married Lu Xiu in Lin'an, Xu Xiantu was the witness of the marriage. Moreover, when Lu Yihao died of illness, the court officials didn't dare to mourn. It was Xu Xiantu who took the lead in mourning, so that all officials put down their worries and went to Lu's mansion. Hanging filial piety, this favor Chen Qing has always kept in mind.

The same is true for Xu Xiantu. He took the lead in filial piety to Lu Yihao in order to gain a favor from Chen Qing. In addition, in order to save himself and his family a way out, Xu Xiantu specially changed the name of his youngest son Xu Shou to Yu Shou and went to Jingzhao. He participated in the imperial examination and was assigned by Chen Qing to his hometown Yuchi County as a county captain.

It was because of the tacit understanding between them that they met very enthusiastically. Chen Qing invited Xu Xiantu and his party into the tent of the Chinese army.

Chen Qing said with a smile: "This time going north, does Mr. Xu plan to visit his hometown?"

Xu Xiantu shook his head, "There's no time! The officials are still eagerly waiting for news from me, and I have to go back immediately after talking with His Highness."

Chen Qing asked again: "How much can the [-] Song troops recover in the end?"

Xu Xiantu sighed and said, "If you count the 1 troops of His Highness, and the more than 1000 wounded soldiers who were sent back for treatment, a total of about [-] people can be recovered."

"That's 4000 people!"

"Actually, we have more than [-] Song prisoners of war in our hands."

Xu Xiantu nodded, "Then let's make a long story short, return the 3000 to [-] people to us, what conditions does Your Highness have?"

"What does the Son of Heaven mean?"

"The Son of Heaven said that the north of the Huaihe River should be handed over to the Western Army..."

Chen Qing shook his head, "We captured the north of the Huaihe River from Jinbing, and captured [-] Jinbing in Fuli County and Xuyi County each. The Son of Heaven's suggestion is not sincere."

"So I'll let you speak for yourself!"

Chen Qing pondered for a moment and said: "If I want land again, I think the emperor will be very sensitive and won't agree to it. Let's do it! I have two requests. First, allow my fleet to take the Huainan Canal, that is, the Huaihe River to the Huainan Canal." This section of the Yangtze River is not allowed to be intercepted and interrogated, it must be unimpeded; second, give me all the large-scale siege weapons in the Yangzhou warehouse."

Xu Xiantu nodded and said: "The first request should not be a big problem, I can agree to it now, and the second request I will send a pigeon letter tomorrow to ask the emperor for instructions, and I will reply to His Highness the day after tomorrow at the latest!"

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A thousand soldiers of the Western Army marched day and night. Two days later, the team arrived at the west side of Mount Liang. Ruan De led the soldiers to rest in the forest ten miles away, while Huang Dong led several scouts to investigate the enemy's situation.

In the afternoon, Huang Dong and his men came back.

In a temporary marching tent, Ruan De, another deputy commander, Zhang Xi, and Huang Dong discussed the battle plan at the table.

"The enemy's water village is still the same as last time, basically unchanged. When I went there, they were training formations on the water, and they could see it more clearly. There are 63 thousand-stone warships, and the rest are hundred-stone sentry ships. 240 From the perspective of their training, they should be practicing to intercept the logistics fleet."

Ruan De thought for a while and asked, "The water village has two sides. Should we sneak in from the east or from the west?"

"It's better to go from the west. The westernmost side is full of rocks. Ships can't see clearly at night and are prone to run aground. I don't think their patrol boats will come to the west."

"What about the sentry tower?"

Ruan De asked again: "There is a watchtower to the west. As long as we kill the sentry, the watchtower next to the gate will not be able to see us. The distance is too far."

All important information has been understood, and a complete strategy has been formed in Ruan De's mind.

"General Huang, what is the material of the other camp's camp?" Zhang Xi, the deputy commander next to him, asked.

"It's cloth tents, afraid of fire!"

Ruan De nodded and said: "Our main task is to burn the warships, and annihilating the enemy troops is secondary. If conditions permit, we can also set fire to the enemy's tent at the end."

Huang Dong said with a smile: "I think it's easy to burn the enemy's big tent. Their camp is close to Liangshan Mountain. They can detour up the mountain and launch rockets to the camp below the mountain. A few soldiers are enough!"

Ruan De pondered for a moment and said: "We have enough troops to divide into three groups. General Huang and I took a hundred people to burn the boat, and then sent a small team up the mountain to release rockets. General Zhang led more than 1000 soldiers to shoot with crossbows outside the enemy camp. Escape the enemy soldiers."

Zhang Xi bowed and said, "I obey the order!"

Huang Dong secretly admired Ruan De for his clarity of mind. Logically, he was the chief general and should lead the main army, but he let the deputy general lead the main force and went to burn the ship by himself, which showed that he had a clear mind, and burning the ship was the most important task.

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As night fell, the naval warships that had been training for a day returned to the water village. The soldiers returned to the land camp to eat and rest. On the platform, two sentinels watched the movement outside the water village.

Then there are one sentry tower and four sentry towers on the easternmost and westernmost sides, and the sentry's field of vision covers the water camp fence that is one mile long.

After two hours of hustle and bustle, the camp gradually quieted down, and the soldiers all fell asleep.

At one o'clock, a team of ten people, led by a captain, arrived at the halfway up Liangshan Mountain, just above the top of Daying Camp. They patiently waited for the movement on the water. They can only act after the fire is on, otherwise they will startle the snake.

Ruan De and Huang Dong led more than a hundred water ghosts to appear hundreds of steps outside the water fence. This is the westernmost side of the water fence. The tower is about 150 steps.

They first need to kill the soldiers on the west watchtower, the watchtower at the gate will not be able to see the situation here, especially at night.

Huang Dong thought of this plan last time, as long as they kill the westernmost sentry tower, they can sneak into the water village calmly.

Two scouts from the Western Army were climbing on the sentry tower with crossbows on their backs. They were climbing on the west side, and they could not be seen from the far east sentry tower. After a while, they jumped in and the sentinel fell down. Soon he stood up again, holding a spear and continuing to watch.

The westernmost sentinel was killed, and Huang Dong led a dozen scouts to sneak over again. Not long after, they used a saw to cut a large hole at the bottom of the barracks with a width of one foot.

When Ruan De got the news, he was overjoyed. With a wave of his hand, more than 100 sailors dived over one by one. There were only sheepskin bags on the water surface, which were filled with kerosene and wrapped in a layer of air bags, weighing [-] jin. It can also float on water.

After entering the water village, the soldiers of the Western Army dived along the west cliff. This area is full of rocks. Several patrol boats in the water village are easy to run aground. The patrol boats are all cruising in the central and eastern areas, making the westernmost become a defense hole.

Jin Bing thinks that the possibility of the Western Army knowing that they have a water army is very small. Even if they know, it is very difficult to find the hiding place of the water village. .

But it was this kind of fluke mentality that finally made Jin Bing pay a heavy price.

Ruan De led the water army into the water stronghold. They divided into [-] teams and went to burn the ships separately. The first is the Qianshi warship, which poses the greatest threat to the logistics fleet.

Ruan De led two men to the middle of the two large ships. They did not board the ship and sprayed fire oil directly on the ship.

At this moment, someone suddenly heard shouting: "There is an enemy situation, someone burns the boat!"

There were soldiers on duty on the boat, they were discovered, Ruan De said decisively: "Light it up!"

His subordinates lit two torches and threw them onto the boat. The big boat was ablaze. At the same time, dozens of big boats were set ablaze, and the water bay was covered with flames.

At this time, the soldiers on the mountainside finally got the signal, they lit their rockets one after another, and shot towards the camp at the foot of the mountain...

The big tents at the foot of the mountain are all cloth tents, this is also because the soldiers of the navy are signed troops, and they are not qualified to live in warm and non-flammable leather tents. More than a dozen cloth tents in the far east were lit, and the night wind on the water was strong , The wind on the side of the mountain is stronger, and the fire spreads rapidly with the help of the wind.

The soldiers in the big tent woke up one after another. They didn’t even have time to put on their shoes, and ran out of the big tent with bare feet. The raging fire in the big camp had already become one piece, not only the big camp, but also a sea of ​​flames on the water. I don’t know how many ships were burned. .

Although the alarm bell rang fiercely in the water bay, which was a signal for help, the soldiers on the shore were too busy to take care of themselves. They rushed to the outside of the camp. Thin underwear.

"Run away! The fire is coming."

The soldiers shouted in fear, and rushed out of the camp desperately, but only heard the sound of clappers, and then arrows were fired, and arrows rained down on the golden soldiers who had escaped from the camp. Howling and screaming, pieces of soldiers fell down.

There were heavy casualties in front of the Xiying Gate, and the soldiers were scared out of their wits. In panic, someone shouted, "You can go to the north!"

The soldiers fled to the small gate in the north again in a panic, but what awaited them were hundreds of cold crossbow bolts.

All the more than 300 warships in the water bay were set ablaze, and even the barracks were set alight when the soldiers of the Western Army retreated. Only three golden sentinel ships escaped from the water village and fled to the depths of Liang Shanbo shrouded in night.

At noon the next day, when 3000 Jin soldiers arrived at Liangshan Shuizhai, there were only corpses all over the camp outside the camp. The camp was burned to a mess, and there were countless charred corpses inside. Nearly [-] people were killed.

But what shocked Jin Bing even more was the bay, where warships were burned to charcoal, leaving only a wreck of warships in the entire bay.

The navy that Wanyan Wushu worked so hard to build was only three sentinel ships left in the end.

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In Lin'an, it has been two days since Zhao Gou received the pigeon letter from Xu Xiantu, but he has yet to make a decision.

I'm afraid Xu Xiantu didn't expect that Qin Hui and Zhu Shengfei would resolutely oppose the two conditions that he thought were not serious problems.

Chen Qing put forward two conditions. The first condition was to allow the Western Army fleet to pass through the border, and the second condition was to take over all the siege weapons in the Yangzhou warehouse.

In fact, these two conditions are not high, and Zhao Gou wanted to agree, but Qin Hui and Zhu Shengfei firmly opposed it.

Qin Hui and Zhu Shengfei also had good reasons for their opposition. They agreed that the disastrous defeat of the Song Army in Haizhou was a trap set by the Jin Bing and the Western Army. It must have been an agreement they had made in advance.

Harming the Song army, and finally using the Song army prisoners of war to bargain, this kind of bad behavior is intolerable, Qin Hui strongly suggested that the emperor would rather not have prisoners of war than compromise with Chen Qing, and must not let the court suffer such a shame.

Are Qin Hui and Zhu Shengfei really trying to protect the dignity of the emperor and the court?

In fact, Qin Hui and Zhu Shengfei both went for Xu Xiantu. They thought that Xu Xiantu would definitely be fired this time, but they didn't expect that Xu Xiantu actually went to the Central Plains to negotiate with Chen Qing on behalf of the Son of Heaven.

Once the negotiations are successful, Xu Xiantu has made a great contribution in bringing back more than 2 prisoners of war.

After finally waiting for the good opportunity to dismiss Xu Xiantu, how could Qin Hui and Zhu Shengfei make him come back?

Therefore, the conspiracy theory of collusion between the Western Army and the Jin Bing was born. It happened that the Jin Bing handed over the prisoners of war to the Western Army. Qin Hui immediately seized this point to make a fuss. Give it to the Western Army?

Zhao Gou's biggest problem is that his ears are soft and his stand is not firm. Qin Hui and Zhu Shengfei's joint opposition has good reasons, which made him hesitate, and he did not make a decision for two days.

This morning, Zhao Gouzheng was pacing back and forth in the imperial study room in dismay. Today was the third day, and he had to make a decision today, whether to agree to Chen Qing's conditions, or to call Xu Xiantu back?But he really couldn't make up his mind.

At this moment, the servant reported at the door: "Your Majesty, the Grand Scholar Tao Linte is here to give an order!"

Zhao Gou was immediately reminded that he could also discuss with Tao Lin, and he quickly said, "Acclaim him an audience!"

Not long after, the scholar Tao Lin hurried into the imperial study. He was ordered to inspect Fujian Road. He just came back the day before yesterday. He has been writing inspection reports in the mansion for the past two days.

"Wei Chen sees His Majesty!"

Seeing that he had lost a lot of weight, Zhao Gou nodded, "Tao Aiqing has worked hard on inspections this month!"

"Wei Chen deserves to work harder!"

He presented a memorial to Zhao Gou, "This is the inspector's report, please read it, Your Majesty!"

Zhao Gou took the memorial, put it aside first, and said with a wry smile: "I happen to be undecided about one thing, and I want to hear Aiqing's opinion!"

"My minister is willing to share the worries for His Majesty!"

Zhao Gou simply told Tao Lin that Xu Xiantu went to negotiate with the Western Army and that Qin Hui and Zhu Shengfei objected.

Tao Lin frowned and said, "Your Majesty, I don't think these two conditions are too much! First of all, the first condition is not a condition, it's just an excuse. The second condition is only siege weapons. Idle things, these two conditions do not involve land and property, it should be said that the Western Army is still very sincere, why did His Highness not agree so long?"