Fenghou

Chapter 154 Li Wei

Chapter 154 Li Wei
The enemy general is called Zhang Zhongxiong, he is Zhang Shuye's second son, poor Zhang Shuye was loyal and unyielding, and committed suicide in the Jingkang disaster, but his son Zhang Zhongxiong finally surrendered to the puppet Qi and tarnished his father's reputation.

Zhang Zhongxiong was about forty years old. He wielded a golden backed broadsword weighing forty catties.

But his eldest son, Zhang Mingzhong, studied literature and is currently serving as an official in the puppet Qi court. This Zhang Mingzhong had a marriage contract with Lu Yihao's granddaughter Lu Xiu since he was a child.

But the war changed the fate of the two, and Zhang Mingzhong became Qi's court judge, Wailang. In any case, it was impossible to marry the granddaughter of the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, and their marriage contract ended in fact.

Zhang Zhongxiong didn't know that Lu Yihao had promised his future daughter-in-law to Chen Qing.

It's just that Lu Yihao didn't know that Zhang Zhongxiong had surrendered to the puppet Qi State and became a high-ranking official in the army.

Of course, Chen Qing didn't even know the relationship between Zhang Zhongxiong and the Lu family, and he didn't even know the name of the army commander in front of him.

At this time, Chen Qing was concerned about the opponent's equipment, training, and morale. Historically, the combat effectiveness of the Qi army was not low, and they were almost all the Imperial Army who surrendered.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, they were unbearable to the Liao and Jin troops, but after they surrendered, their combat effectiveness increased and they became very good at fighting, defeating the Song army repeatedly.

There are many reasons for this. One important reason is that Liu Yu was born in a reckless family, and he attached great importance to the army. He did not have the Song Dynasty's deep-rooted emphasis on literature over military affairs.

But for the Song Dynasty and the Song Army, there is no difference between the Puppet Qi Army and the Jin Bing, and the Puppet Qi Army is the dog leg of the Jin Bing.

The [-] infantry soldiers of the Qi army quickly ran across the bitterly cold Weihe River. Fortunately, the Weihe River was not wide.

Zhang Zhongxiong galloped up to the high ground and looked at the woods a hundred paces ahead. He became suspicious. If five hundred cavalry were in ambush in the woods, wouldn't they just ambush himself?
Zhang Zhongxiong is not Fu Moshan. He followed his father to fight north and south, and has rich combat experience. The Song Jiang army in Liangshanpo was defeated by him. Although the number of five hundred cavalry is not many, if the strategy is right, it will also hit him hard.

He pointed with a sharp knife, "Wang Ling, take fifty brothers to investigate in the woods ahead, especially near the official road."

"Follow the order!"

The general at the front agreed and waved his hand, "Follow me!"

He urged his horse and led fifty soldiers to run towards the woods beside the official road, but just as he approached the woods, a burst of arrows shot out from the woods.

Zhang Zhongxiong turned pale with shock, and shouted anxiously: "There is an ambush, form an formation!"

When Chen Qing saw that the opponent had discovered the ambush, he immediately changed his strategy, from ambushing the enemy to attacking halfway, holding up his halberd and shouting sharply: "Attack!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

There was loud drumming in the woods, and countless cavalry rushed out from the woods, shouting and killing loudly, charging towards the Qi army like a tide.

Zhang Zhongxiong seemed to have fallen into a cold cave, this is not five hundred cavalry, this is clearly a cavalry force of thousands of people, they have been tricked.

"Hold it! Hold it!"

The distance between the two armies was too close, less than a hundred paces. Unless they were prepared in advance, the crossbowmen were useless at all. The opponent was cavalry, and they could kill them in the blink of an eye.

But in fact, Zhang Zhongxiong didn't even have time to set up the spear array. He still had more than [-] troops who hadn't landed, and the soldiers on the shore could only fight indiscriminately.

Two thousand and five hundred cavalry rushed into the Qi army like a raging wave. The cavalry was not chaotic at all. They formed a team of a hundred people, led by a captain, and launched a fierce attack on the Qi army in condescension. The Qi army in chaos Unable to resist at all, they were killed and retreated steadily. There was no open space on the bank, and the soldiers behind could not get on the bank. Many soldiers began to retreat to the other side of the Wei River.

Chen Qing could see clearly that the opponent's soldiers on the ice could no longer stand the cold, and as long as they retreated, they basically had no will to resist.

He immediately ordered: "Liu Cui's and Yang Zaixing's troops attack the enemy's rear!"

Liu Cui and Yang Zaixing each led [-] cavalry like two sharp spears, circled the ice surface of the Wei River from left and right, and charged at the [-] Qi troops on the ice.

The [-] Qi troops could not stand the cold anymore, and they had already begun to retreat to the other side of the Wei River. When the cavalry of the Song Army came, their retreat quickly turned into a rout, and they rushed to the south bank.

The cavalry was extremely fast, catching up with the enemy in just a moment, and began to slaughter the fleeing soldiers without mercy. The spear pierced the back of the neck, and the sword chopped off the head. The sound echoed on the ice.

There were corpses strewn all over the ice, and blood flowed like a river, but it soon froze.

The disintegration of the army in the rear seriously affected the battle situation on the shore. Although the Qi army resisted desperately, the morale and morale of the army were affected, and they would soon be unable to support it.

Chen Qing finally found the enemy general and locked him. He drew out an arrow with a name engraved on it, drew his bow and set the arrow, galloped on his horse, and shot it with one arrow while galloping.

The arrow was as fast as lightning and hit the opponent's neck. It was also Zhang Zhongxiong's luck that he raised his arms and shouted at this moment, "Don't flee, evacuate in an orderly manner!"

The right arm just blocked the neck at the critical moment, 'Puff! The arrow hit Zhang Zhongxiong's raised right arm, and the powerful arrow pierced through his arm.

Zhang Zhongxiong yelled, the big knife almost fell to the ground, and was pressed on the saddle with his left hand in time, the arrow also made him break out in a cold sweat, of course he knew that he escaped the fatal arrow by luck.

Zhang Zhongxiong didn't dare to stay any longer, turned his horse's head and fled. The horse rushed down the high slope, onto the ice, and ran towards the southeast. The Song army blocked the retreat, and they could only flee eastward along the ice.

The general's escape became the last straw that broke the camel's camel's back. The Qi army on the shore was defeated. The soldiers threw away their armor and weapons, rushed to the ice and ran eastward.

"Kill me! Surrender is not accepted."

Chen Qing issued the killing order, and all the cavalry rushed to the ice, chasing and killing the Qi army behind them. Army cavalry killed.

When Chen Qing entered Guanzhong, he wanted to establish his prestige in the Qi army with brutal killings, so that the Qi army could have a good taste of his strength.

This battle was extremely tragic, only more than [-] of the [-] Qi troops escaped with Zhang Zhongxiong, and the remaining [-] people were all killed, and all their heads were cut off by the Song army.

The Song Army suffered less than [-] casualties in this battle, of which only more than [-] were killed, creating the smallest casualty ratio since the establishment of the Qinzhou Army.

Zhang Zhongxiong led more than a hundred remnants of the army and ran all the way, and fled to Jingzhao City in just an hour.

Tang Shaoqing led an army of [-] people just out of the city, and was about to meet the [-] former army. Unexpectedly, he saw Zhang Zhongxiong with disheveled hair and arrow wounds on the official road ahead. He fled back in embarrassment. .

Tang Shaoqing was taken aback, and hurried up to meet him and asked, "What's going on?"

Zhang Zhongxiong said angrily: "Tang Dutong, we have been fooled. The opponent has not only [-] cavalry, but at least [-] cavalry, and they are not usually strong and brave."

Tang Shaoqing was stunned for a while, then stammered and asked after a while: "Other... where are the other brothers?"

"We were attacked halfway by the Song army, and the entire army was defeated. The entire army was wiped out. Only more than a hundred people escaped with me, and the other brothers were completely wiped out."

When his eyes went dark, Tang Shaoqing seemed to have encountered a thunderbolt from the blue sky, and his entire army was wiped out. How could he explain to King Qin?
It took him a while to recover, and he asked in horror: "Where is the Song army? It can't be Qu Duan's army. They don't have so many cavalry."

"It's not Qu Duan's army. You can tell by the arrow on my arm. It seems to be an engraved arrow."

Zhang Zhongxiong ran for his life all the way, and he didn't have time to care about his arrow wound, so he was relieved at this moment.

Tang Shaoqing hurried forward to take a closer look. There were two characters on the shaft of the arrow, and the name on the back of the commander was in the flesh, so he couldn't see it.

He hastily ordered the soldiers to carefully cut off the arrow, and pulled out the front end of the arrow, only to see the word bloody on the front end of the arrow.

Zhang Zhongxiong didn't care about stopping the bleeding, so he and Tang Shaoqing stepped forward to take a closer look. They finally saw the bloody name engraved on the shaft of the arrow: 'Chen Qing'.

The two raised their heads and looked at each other, taking a breath at the same time.

(End of this chapter)

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