Fenghou

Chapter 143 Pingliang (Part [-])
The county magistrate of Huating County is called Xie Jinping. He was originally a Huating county captain, a native of Huating County. Jin Bing killed him.

Xie Jinping sat nervously in the hall of honor, and opposite him was Chen Qing, the commander of the Song army.

Chen Qing took a sip of tea and said calmly: "I heard Zhang Dutou talk about the matter of Xie County Magistrate. You are from the same township. In order to protect the people, you have to accept the appointment of Marshal Jin Bing as the county magistrate."

Xie Jinping hurriedly leaned forward and said, "I'm ashamed of my humble position. At first, my humble position was just to save my family's life. Wanyan Zongfu threatened my father, so I had no choice but to stand up."

Chen Qing waved his hand, "I'll just say it straight. I heard that Jin Bing is recruiting strong men. I plan to arrange some brothers to go in. I will hand over these brothers to the county magistrate, and the county magistrate will hand over them to Jin Bing as the task of Huating County. How about it?"

Chen Qing's suggestion made Xie Jinping both happy and worried. The joy was that his two-day restless task was unexpectedly solved. Each of their counties was forced to complete the task. How many strong men and how many carts were completed within two days.

Big carts are easy to handle, refurbish some abandoned old carts, and then find some mules and donkeys to put on, and then you can do business. Thinking that Chen Qing actually came to the door on his own initiative, of course he breathed a sigh of relief.

But Xie Jinping also knew that Chen Qing's subordinates must be carrying missions, would they implicate him?

Chen Qing understood his worry, and smiled slightly: "If I have any tasks that I won't carry out in Pingliang, they must be in Fengxiang. At that time, it has nothing to do with the county lord."

"In Fengxiang?"

Xie Jinping understood that the target of the other party was the Golden Army Camp. He pondered for a moment and said, "Okay! Let me recommend it. How many of you want to join?"

"Three hundred people, is that all right?"

Xie Jinping gasped, and nodded, "Then tomorrow morning, I will arrange for Zhang Dutou to send your men there."

Chen Qing looked at him for a long while, then said calmly: "Then I'll say something ugly, if you betray my subordinates, none of your three sons will survive."

Of course, Chen Qing would not directly send his subordinates to Pingliang County to apply for the job. Anyone would doubt the sudden appearance of hundreds of people, but as a task in Huating County, it doesn't matter at all.

Chen Qing finally decided that Zheng Ping would take three hundred brothers to pretend to be strong men and go to Fengxiang Jinbing camp.

Before dawn, Zhang Jian set off with hundreds of carts. On the way, Zheng Ping led his men to join the team, while Yang Yuanqing led [-] people to pretend to be Zhang Jian's men, and the team marched to Pingliang County.

Pingliang County is the prefecture of Pingliang Prefecture. It was originally a large county with a large population and developed commerce. However, since the Jin soldiers occupied Pingliang County, the number of young men in the county has decreased sharply. Now there are almost no young and strong men left. There are countless old and weak women and children, and the men are basically above middle age.

Pingliang County is indeed recruiting a large number of young and strong men, but they are not recruiting servants, but escorts. They want to send a batch of food and supplies to Dasan Pass. In addition to escorting soldiers, they also need a thousand or two thousand men.

Originally, these things were done by the Han servant army, but the [-] Han servant army in Pingliang Prefecture were detained by Wanyan Wushu, and without the army in their hands, the Jin soldiers in Pingliang County had to make a list to recruit, and even arrested the strong men everywhere.

Today is the last day for recruiting strong men. Jin Bing of Pingliang County got [-] strong men from Huating County all at once. Wan Yanxin, the head of the Wanfu, was really overjoyed. He immediately ordered the strong men to load food and grass immediately, and set off overnight. They were already late After a day, if you don't leave, you will exceed the stipulated time.

At night, the front of the large warehouse in the county seat was brightly lit, and thousands of carts collected were parked in the open space in front of the warehouse. More than [-] strong men carried bags of grain and forage out of the warehouse and put them on the carts.

Hundreds of Jurchen cavalry stood around, holding knives and spears to urge the strong men to work, and more than fifty Jurchen cavalry patrolled the warehouse to prevent the strong men from stealing food and being lazy.

It was busy until the fourth watch, when all the carts were full, and the strong men were exhausted, and received dry biscuits and hot soup to fill their stomachs in a hurry.

Taking advantage of this vacancy, Zheng Ping found a few captains, and told them: "The troops will be allocated later, brothers, please follow closely and don't disperse!"

At this time, someone patted Zheng Ping on the shoulder, "I'm looking for you over there!"

Zheng Ping stood up, and a golden soldier rode forward and glanced at him, "Our general is looking for you, follow me!"

Zheng Ping didn't know what happened, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow Jin Bing. They stood up nervously, wondering what happened?

Not long after, Zheng Ping came in front of a general of the Jinbing army. This general of the Jinbing army was Wan Yanxin, the chief of the Wanfu.

This fat man had an aura, he shouted at others with a fierce tone, which satisfied Wanyan Xin quite a bit, and he had a lot of strength.

"What's your name?"

"My name is Zheng Hui!"

Zheng Hui was Zheng Ping's real name, and he changed his name to Zheng Ping and joined the Bazi Army.

"Your accent is not from here, where are you from?"

"A native of Hejian County, Hejian Prefecture!"

"Then why did you end up in Pingliang Mansion?"

"The world is in chaos. Isn't it normal to flee wherever you can survive?"

Wanyan Xin nodded, and asked again: "You used to be General Song?"

"It used to be!" Zheng Ping didn't hide it.

"What official position?"

"I used to be a capital head for several years."

Wan Yanxin laughed, and patted Zheng Ping on the shoulder, "From now on, you are the Han leader of this grain detaining team!"

After resting for less than half an hour, two thousand strong men were assembled, put on simple leather armor, held a spear, Zheng Ping wore a mountain armor, and shouted and cursed to order the strong men to assemble.

He was really annoyed that he was not promoted in the Song army, but became a commander in the Jin army. If word got out, Zheng Ping's reputation would be ruined.

No, now his name is Zheng Hui, and he has nothing to do with Zheng Ping.

Before dawn, a team of thousands of carts set off overnight, followed by two thousand Jurchen cavalry.

An escort was sitting on each cart, and the Jurchen cavalry followed the convoy, and the team drove to the south in a mighty manner.

Zheng Ping was lying on the front cart transporting forage. His whole body got into the forage, which was extremely warm and comfortable. He yawned a long time, and fell into a drowsy sleep after squinting his eyes.

Yang Yuanqing followed Zhang Jian into the city with thirty men, but they did not leave, but were placed in an inn by Zhang Jian.

Jin Bing didn't care much about them either. The town soldiers from these small counties would eat, drink and have fun for two or three days after arriving in Pingliang County before leaving.

The main reason is that they don't have weapons in their hands, so they can't make trouble.

All their weapons were handed in when they entered the city, and they could only be collected when they left the city. As a result, Yang Yuanqing and thirty of his subordinates were unarmed, not even a dagger.

Now there are only three thousand golden soldiers left in Pingliang County. How could Chen Qing let go of such a good opportunity.

As soon as it was dark the next day, Zhang Jian brought Yang Yuanqing to a compound.

"There is a big businessman living here. He has a lot of weapons in his hands and made a lot of money by selling all kinds of weapons. I bought a batch of bows and arrows from him when I formed the village soldiers."

Zhang Jian patted the door knocker. Not long after, an old man opened the door and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Does the old man still know me? I came here last month, and you still helped me carry the goods."

The old man nodded, "I remembered, you are Zhang Sanlang, and you are shopping again?"

Zhang Jian said with a smile: "When I got a sum of money, I came to your landlord."

"The proprietor is here, come in first!"

(End of this chapter)