Fenghou

Chapter 122 Enemy Camp
Although the Jinbing spies are elite, the Song army is also very brave and powerful, and the number of them is nearly three times that of the opponent, so they have the upper hand in a fight.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the thirteen spies from the Jin soldiers killed five of them, and three from the Song army were also killed. Seeing that the situation was not going well, Jurchen Shichang shouted, "Retreat!"

The spies of the Jin soldiers broke through a tight encirclement with all their might, but were shot by the Song army and overturned three horses. The three Jurchen soldiers fell from their horses. Zhao Xiaoyi shouted: "The first team captures them alive, and the other brothers follow me!"

He led twenty cavalry in hot pursuit of five enemy troops.

After running for less than two miles, several stumbling ropes suddenly appeared among the dead leaves on the ground. The Jurchen cavalry who were running could not dodge in time, and they were tripped by the ropes one after another. The leader, Shichang, immediately besieged and killed three other people, and finally tied up a wounded spy who was pinned down by a horse.
Not long after, Zhao Xiaoyi led the army to chase after them. Unexpectedly, the last five spies had been wiped out. Zhao Xiaoyi was overjoyed. They only killed three of them against the fierce and fierce Jurchen spies. It was a miracle.

In the evening, Zhao Xiaoyi put a detailed statement on Chen Qing's desk. Chen Qing looked at it and said with a smile, "It's actually a Khitan?"

Zhao Xiaoyi smiled wryly and said, "I always thought it was the Jurchens, but I didn't expect to find out that this spies were actually Khitans. No wonder they are not as fierce as the Jurchens cavalry."

Yang Yuanqing looked at the interrogation report and said: "It said that Jin Guo built a large camp at Xigukou, with [-] troops, mainly Jurchens and Khitans. Should we send someone to investigate the specific situation?"

Chen Qing pondered for a moment and said: "Someone was grazing in the West Valley before. I suspect that it was not a herdsman, but a spy of Jinbing. What are you looking for now?"

Yang Yuanqing blurted out: "It must be to investigate our specific situation, such as the number of our troops, equipment, and even our combat capabilities."

"Then do you think the fire last night was unintentional or intentional?"

Zhao Xiaoyi suddenly understood, "What does the commander mean to say that they deliberately set off the flames to lure us to arrest them? But the soldiers said that they accidentally ignited the fire."

"Ordinary soldiers won't know the truth, it's a pity that Shi Chang didn't catch it."

Yang Yuanqing was puzzled and asked: "If it was deliberately seduced, what was the intention?"

"The intention is to capture our soldiers. It's good to be able to capture one or two scouts. If you can't catch them, they will tell us some information to lure our scouts to their camp to investigate the situation. How many troops they have means to us? Not a lot, but how many troops we have means a lot to them."

Zhao Xiaoyi was deeply admired by the commander's reasoning. He bowed and said, "I understand, I will never let a scout be caught by the enemy!"

The West Valley is about a hundred miles long. Wanyan Wushu learned the lessons of last year and started to deploy the Western Army early. A large camp was built at the westernmost end a few months ago.

The big camp is composed of a barracks and a sheep and horse camp. The sheep and horse camp is an important place for food, grass and materials for the Jinbing, and hundreds of thousands of sheep and tens of thousands of war horses are stocked.

For several months, Jin Bing has been increasing troops to the West Camp, and the current strength has reached [-], including [-] Jurchen troops, [-] Khitan troops and [-] Xie Congjun troops.

The Cong Cong Army is the Han Chinese army that surrendered, and there are not many in Xidaying.

These Han armies are also divided into two types. One has stronger combat effectiveness and can assist the Jin soldiers in fighting.

The other kind can only do rough work such as logistics and transportation. They belong to the lowest-level army, called servants, with extremely poor conditions and very bad treatment. In fact, Jinbing did not count them as an army.

The number of servants is huge. This time Wanyan Wushu launched the Southern Expedition, and he recruited [-] servants for the transportation of food and various materials.

The atmosphere in the West Camp was tense, and the coach Wanyan Wushu personally inspected the West Camp. Yan Wulu was demoted to the Northwest Division, where he fought against the grassland herdsmen.

Wanyan Wushu stood on a high place on horseback, looked at the valley entrance in the distance and asked, "How much do you know about the situation in West Valley?"

Wanyan Alubu quickly bowed and said: "Reporting to Your Highness, I have sent spies many times to understand the situation in Xigu. I have a thorough grasp of the terrain of Xigu, but the Song army stationed in the two routes of Xigu still lacks some information."

Wanyan Wushu was taken aback, "What do you mean you owe a little information?"

"It's just that they don't know the important information about their strength and equipment. Their defense is tight, so it's hard to catch prisoners of war?"

"Who is the leader of the two Song armies?"

"The chief general of the Song Army in Xiying is Liu Ziyu, the former general manager of the Song Army's Xining Road. Dongying is a newcomer named Chen Qing."

"What's your name?" Wanyan Wushu's eyes widened.

"It's called Chen Qing, and he is the newly promoted commander of the Song Army."

Wanyan Alubu has just been transferred from Zhongjing to Shaanxi Road, so he doesn't know much about what happened last year.

Wanyan Wushu said coldly for a while: "You still need to know more about the situation, otherwise you will suffer a lot. This Chen Qing is not a newcomer. Wanyan Loushi's head was chopped off by him. Your predecessor Wanyan Wu Lu was also demoted because of him. The wolf lord offered a reward of [-] guan to buy his head. The living girl was defeated by his arrow in Lin'an. Last year I suffered from him and let the Eight Character Army escape. Do you still think he is Newcomer?"

Wanyan Alu opened his mouth wide, and he said in panic: "I made a mistake in my humble position, I didn't understand the enemy's situation in detail!"

Wanyan Wushu turned around and asked, "Where is General Han Chang?"

General Han Chang stepped forward and bowed to salute, "Humble post is here!"

"From now on, I will appoint you as the deputy commander of the West Camp, assist General Alubu to capture the West Valley, and cut off the retreat of Monk Yuan's Song army!"

"Humble post obeys orders!"

Han Chang participated in the battle against Jiandao Pass and knew a lot about Chen Qing. Wanyan Wushu appointed him as the deputy capital commander to make up for the lack of Wanyan Alu.

Wanyan Wushu said slowly to everyone: "West Valley is one of the important fulcrums of this Southern Expedition. Its success or failure is related to the success or failure of the entire battle. The Battle of West Valley must go first. This time I came to Xigu to inspect, just to urge you Start the war, the curtain of the Battle of the West Valley will begin from now on!"

In the afternoon, Wanyan Wushu returned to the main camp under the escort of [-] cavalry. Once the Xi Daying camp launched an offensive against the Song army, the main camp's [-] troops would soon launch a fierce attack on He Shangyuan.

Wanyan Alubu invited Han Chang to come to the big tent and asked: "The war is about to start, but we have no way of knowing the situation of the enemy army. What can the general do?"

Han Chang smiled slightly and said: "The strength and equipment of the two armies are secrets to us, but I believe it is by no means a secret at Dashanguan. Find news in Sanguan."

"But the Song army has already entered the state of wartime, and we can't enter Dasan Pass."

Han Chang thought for a while and said, "You can go to the Immortal Pass. If there are thousands of old and weak refugees in the pass, it is impossible for the Song Army not to let them enter. We only need to mix in two people to have a chance."

Wanyan Alu frowned, "It takes at least ten days to go from Immortal Pass to Dasan Pass, and it takes more than walking. Even if we get the information, how will we send it out? The war will start in three days, and we are too late."

Han Chang waved his hands and said calmly: "Old and weak women and children will definitely bring livestock and poultry, and homing pigeons can be mixed in. Yuguan is a few dozen miles away from Immortal Pass. There are mules and horses for rent at Yuguan. Two horses, they went to Dasan Pass not only to get information, but also to spread rumors and bribe some Song troops who wanted to surrender.

As for the strength of the Song army, I am actually more concerned about Chen Qing's army. I can roughly guess the number of Liu Ziyu's army. "

"How did you guess that?"

"At the beginning of the year, Liu Ziyu withdrew about [-] troops to Dashan Pass. His second son Liu Zan led [-] troops to guard Xianren Pass and Yu Pass. Even if Wu Jie added some troops to Liu Ziyu, the total number of his troops should be around [-]. Between one thousand and eight thousand, which corresponds to the size of his current camp, we can concentrate our forces to attack Liu Ziyu first, and at the same time closely monitor Chen Qing's army, as long as he sends troops to help, we will immediately set up a net for him!"

Wanyan Alu took a few steps behind his back, turned his head and said to Han Chang thoughtfully, "If we attack Liu Ziyu's camp, will we succeed?"

　Some interpersonal relationships of the Xijun were basically explained, paving the way for Chen Qing's future development.

　　Next is the second battle of Sanguan.

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