Fenghou

Chapter 156 Zheng County
Tang Shaoqing stood on the top of the city, looking nervously at the soldiers of the Qi army who were dismantling the Jingguan a mile away, anxious in his heart, and said silently: "Hurry up! Come to an end!"

"Dutong, it's the Song Army, the Song Army cavalry is here!" A soldier pointed to the north and shouted.

Tang Shaoqing's heart seemed to sink into the abyss. He saw that in the darkness, a cavalry was silently killing the Qi army. The distance was less than two hundred steps, but the Qi army didn't seem to notice.

"Ring the alarm bell!" Tang Shaoqing ordered urgently.

'when!When! When!'
The alarm bell rang on the top of the city, which was particularly piercing in the dark night, and the sound also traveled very far.

Jingguan was only half demolished, and suddenly there was a rapid alarm bell sounding from the top of the city. General Han Qiao also suddenly saw the cavalry coming from the north, and their sight was just blocked by several houses.

"retreat!"

Han Qiao yelled, and the soldiers panicked and turned around and ran away. Another general, Song Ling, also calmed down. The other general wiped out five thousand people, and they only had one or two thousand people. Aren't they looking for death when they come out?
Song Ling also shouted: "Retreat quickly!"

Two thousand soldiers of the Qi army scrambled towards the city gate one mile away, but less than half a mile away from the city gate, a cavalry suddenly charged from the south with such a speed that they cut off their retreat.

The cavalry was extremely fierce, and they stabbed the soldiers of the Qi army fiercely with their spears. Chen Qing's cavalry also caught up behind them.

Han Qiao felt extremely regretful, and shouted, "Break out! Break out!"

"It's useless to break through, just die!"

A cold and stern voice came from behind him. When he turned his head, a general quickly passed by him, and at the same time, there was a crescent-shaped lightning, and the lightning instantly arrived in front of him.

"puff!"

Han Qiao's head was chopped off in half by Chen Qing's crescent halberd, and his white brains flew out.

Chen Qing didn't care about the enemy generals, he directly rushed into the crowd of enemy soldiers, and started killing. Fang Tian painted a halberd and stabbed right and left, with the sound of bones cracking, flesh breaking, screams, and wailing, Chen Qing seemed to be killing everyone. The god was reborn, and the places he passed were full of corpses, and there were many dead corpses.

On the top of the city, all the soldiers were terrified and shuddered, they had never seen such a ferocious monster, no wonder Wanyan Loushi also died in his hands.

Tang Shaoqing originally wanted to send the army out to respond, but at this moment, he also lost his courage, and immediately shouted: "Close the city gate and pull up the suspension bridge!"

The gates of the city were closed, the suspension bridge was pulled up, and the two thousand Qi troops were completely abandoned. Another general, Song Ling, met Yang Zaixing and was shot and killed by Yang Zaixing.

The two thousand people had no way to escape and could not surrender. In desperation, they were killed by the cavalry of the Song Army one by one. None of the two thousand people escaped, and they all died under the iron hoof of the Song Army.

As the sky gradually dawned, the battlefield outside the city finally calmed down. Corpses were strewn across the field, blood flowed into rivers, and the pungent smell of blood permeated the sky. There were flocks of crows coming to look for food, circling in the sky, squawking.

Chen Qing led the cavalry to the east, but they were nowhere to be seen. There were only frightened soldiers on the top of the city. It was not until noon that it was confirmed that the Song army had left. Tang Shaoqing ordered the gate to be opened and sent soldiers to collect the corpses. .

"Tang Dutong, where did Chen Qing's army go?" Zhang Zhongxiong walked up to the top of the wall and asked.

"I do not know either!"

Tang Shaoqing shook his head and said, "I don't understand what medicine he sells in the gourd at all?"

"It is said that he led the army to the east. Could it be that he went to Huazhou and Tongzhou?"

"Who knows?"

Tang Shaoqing was very depressed. In just two days, Chen Qing killed [-] of them with an army of [-], while the other party had only more than [-].

Tang Shaoqing suddenly had a kind of hero's old age and the idea of ​​returning to his hometown.

The Qi army deployed [-] troops in Guanzhong, of which [-] troops were scattered in various counties, the other [-] troops were stationed in Jingzhao City, and the remaining [-] troops were distributed in Zheng County, Fengyi County, There are three cities and four passes in Shangluo County, Tongguan, Pujin Pass, Wuguan and Lantian Pass.

Zheng County is the state capital of Huazhou, and it is also an important garrison point for the Qi army, with [-] garrisons.

The day after leaving Jingzhao Mansion, Chen Qing led [-] cavalry to Zheng County.

Zheng County is also a large county with a city circumference of [-] miles. During the Xuanhe period, the population of Zheng County had reached hundreds of thousands. Hundreds of thousands of people in Zheng County died or fled. After the Battle of Fuping, the entire Guanzhong area was starved and devastated.

Now the population of Zheng County is only tens of thousands. Unlike the economic recovery of Jingzhao Mansion, Zheng County does not have a large imported population, and it still looks dilapidated. It was deserted, many houses collapsed, mountains, fields, rivers, and villages were all covered with white snow, and there was no life in sight.

Zhang Xiao, who was wearing a literati robe, introduced to Chen Qing: "The villages in the south of Zheng County are still a little bit alive, especially near Huashan. The Jin soldiers have not passed, and the villages there are populated, but the north is not good. It is deserted everywhere. It’s barely okay inside.”

When it comes to the villages around Mount Hua, Chen Qing has something on his mind. His predecessor was from this place, a young man named Chen Shangyuan. Of course, Chen Shangyuan was killed in the Battle of Fuping, but what about his family?

After pondering for a long time, Chen Qing found a quite capable confidant soldier and told him a few words. The soldier changed his clothes and went south on a mule.

In the morning, the team rested in a pine forest about ten miles away from Zhengxian County.

At the same time, Hu Yanlei led several scouts posing as businessmen to Zheng County to check the situation.

Hu Yanlei came to Zheng County with a dozen mules and a few men, but saw that the gate of Zheng County was closed tightly. He opened his hand curtain and shouted under the city: "I am a merchant from Taiyuan. I need to buy some dry food. Please, Mr. Jun." Open the city gate!"

After a while, a soldier poked his head out and asked, "Where did you come from?"

"Come here from Jingzhao!"

"Haven't you encountered the cavalry of the Song Army?"

Hu Yanlei immediately understood that Zheng County had already received news, and there should be pigeon letters between them.

"We haven't seen it. I heard that the cavalry of the Song Army has gone to Shangluo. Please open the door!"

The soldier waved his hand, "Go around! There is an order from above, and the city gate is strictly forbidden to be opened. We have no choice."

Hu Yanlei had no choice but to lead his men around to the east gate, and the east gate was the same. The gate was closed, and the soldiers above looked like they were facing an enemy. Helpless, Hu Yanlei had to lead his men to find a path back to the black pine forest.

After Chen Qing and the generals listened to the report, Yang Yuanqing said: "Since an honest attack cannot be carried out, maybe a sneak attack at night can be successful?"

Chen Qing frowned slightly, "It's not like a sneak attack on Pingliang County, we still have internal support, and we have nothing in Zheng County."

"Humble job means storming the city gate at night."

Chen Qing shook his head, "That's unnecessary."

After a pause, Chen Qing explained again: "The enemy must be heavily guarded at night these days. Our night-time attack will inevitably cause heavy casualties. Even if we capture the city gate, we will fight in the streets of the city. It will be a disaster for the people. This is not our responsibility." Original intention."

Yang Yuanqing said apologetically, "It's a humble job that didn't think carefully."

Everyone was helpless for a moment.

At this moment, Zhang Xiao, who had been silent all this time, said, "Actually, I have an idea."

Everyone looked at him together, Zhang Xiao scratched his head and said, "I have an intuition that Zheng County's army will be transferred to Jingzhao."

"Why?" Chen Qing asked.

Zhang Xiaowei smiled and said: "Because of Liu Yi, the garrison in each county originally had [-] troops, but he couldn't accept that the number of troops stationed in Jingzhao City was less than [-], so he forcibly reduced the number of troops in each county to [-].

Jingzhao's army now has only [-] people, which is definitely unacceptable given his cowardly personality, and he will definitely send troops from various places to enrich Jingzhao. The reason why he has not moved now is because we are still in Guanzhong. "

Everyone understood, Yang Yuanqing smiled and said: "Mr. Zhang means that if we pretend to withdraw from Guanzhong, Liu Yi will redeploy troops."

Zhang Xiao smiled and nodded, "It's just my guess, it may not be accurate, maybe he will ask Liu Yu to send more troops to Guanzhong."

Chen Qing pondered for a while and said, "If Liu Yi transfers troops from various places, where will he transfer troops?"

"The first is the army of Zheng County. Zheng County is very close to Jingzhao. Jingzhao has an army. It doesn't matter whether Zheng County has an army. The second is the army of Fengyi County. Shangluo's army will definitely not be transferred. Shangluo must guard against the Song army. From Xiangyang to attack Shangzhou, I deduce that [-] troops from Zhengxian and Fengyi counties will be transferred."

Chen Qing glanced at everyone, and everyone laughed and said, "Mr. Zhang's suggestion is good, you can give it a try!"

Seeing that there was no objection from the crowd, Chen Qing said decisively: "Then pretend to retreat from Jingyuan Road!"

(End of this chapter)