Fenghou

Chapter 172
The fire at Heshangyuan burned for three full days and three nights before it was extinguished, and the entire camp was burned to nothingness. This fire burned all kinds of food and grass materials that Wanyan Wushu mobilized [-] people and took a year to prepare. Thousands of Jurchen soldiers died in the flames.

Although Wanyan Wushu transported some of the food and grass to Dasanguan, the food and grass can only last half a month at most.

In desperation, Wanyan Wushu ordered the army to attack the city day and night at all costs, and must win Dashan Pass within ten days.

The monk's original camp was burned, and the wolf lord will inevitably be held accountable. Only by winning the Dasan Pass can the serious consequences of the burning of the latter camp be offset.

But if you can't win the big clearance within ten days, the consequences will be serious.

At the same time, Wanyan Wushu ordered Fengxiang to stay at Wanyan Salihe to find ways to raise a batch of food and grass, and to transport all the military resources in stock to Dasan Pass.

That night, Jin Bing began a full-scale siege.

'Boom!Boom!Boom!' The sound of war drums was earth-shattering. Waves of golden soldiers frantically attacked Dasan Pass. A series of siege ladders continued to be erected and filled with enemy troops, but they were constantly overturned. Countless soldiers screamed and fell to the ground. Down.

The dense arrows formed a large net in the air, and the black arrow cloud seemed to cover the sky and the earth.

Thousands of Jinbing's siege ladders and heavy siege equipment were burned to ashes in the camp. In desperation, Jinbing had to temporarily cut down trees to make siege weapons. The simple ladders were barely usable. But the shoddy heavy-duty trebuchets are almost useless, and they break after two or three uses. The key is that they have been fired more than [-] times, and almost half of them smashed boulders into their own soldiers.

Buckets of kerosene were continuously poured down from the top of the city, and the torches were thrown down. The flames blazed up, causing the golden soldiers to scream. stand up.

Wu Jie even ordered to set up a thousand bed crossbows and shoot at the dense enemy troops below the city. The crossbows poured down like rain, and the armor of the golden soldiers was hard to resist.

In just eight days of fierce fighting, both sides suffered heavy casualties, but the casualties of the Jin soldiers who attacked the city were eight times that of the Song army. Beat exhausted.

Wanyan Wushu is eager to see through, every day looking forward to the arrival of backup supplies.

On the Weihe River, on a temporary pontoon bridge, thousands of mule carts were driving towards the south bank. Under Wanyan Wushu's compulsion, Fengxiang Mansion did everything possible to raise a batch of grain and grass, about [-] shi of grain and [-] dan of fodder. The so-called doing everything possible to raise money was actually plundering from the people. This batch of food and grass almost wiped out all the people in Fengxiang Mansion.

Grain, grass and various supplies have been transported to the south bank by more than a dozen large ships, but there is still a distance of seventy or eighty miles from the south bank to Dasan Pass, and they must be carried by carts, but the carts of Fengxiang Mansion have already been transported. After being taken away, Wan Yan Sali, the head of the Wanfu who stayed behind, ordered the Jingzhao Qi Army to collect [-] carts and send them to Fengxiang Mansion within three days.

In the old camp on the south bank, food and supplies piled up like a mountain, and was guarded by [-] cavalry led by Wanfu Chief Semuda, while the chief general Wanyan Salihe led [-] cavalry on the north bank to urge the convoy to cross the river immediately.

Hundreds of carts have come over one after another, and nearly [-] carts are congested and moving slowly on the pontoon bridge.

At this moment, the pontoon bridge near the north suddenly boomed! There was a loud noise, thick smoke rose into the air, and shattered a ten-foot-long pontoon bridge. More than a dozen carts overturned and fell into the water. The Jin soldiers on both sides of the strait were stunned.

Before the gold soldiers on the south bank could react, several violent explosions occurred in succession on the pontoon bridge next to the south bank, which also destroyed the pontoon bridge more than [-] feet long. The mules and donkeys panicked and jostled wildly on the narrow pontoon bridge, causing nearly a hundred carts to fall into the water.

Almost at the same time as the explosion sounded, dozens of small boats came quickly from the upper reaches. The fire inside the small boats was raging, thick smoke billowed, and they hit the pontoon bridge with one end, quickly igniting the pontoon bridge.

The soldiers on the south bank were desperately scooping up water to put out the fire. At this moment, a cavalry force of about [-] soldiers rushed in from the east, firing random arrows at the Jin soldiers who were fighting the fire. There was a great chaos, and the head of the Wanfu, Semuda, shouted anxiously: "It's the Song Army, fight! Let me fight!"

More than [-] Jurchen cavalry hurriedly mounted their horses to fight. They were facing the [-] cavalry led by Chen Qing. The tooth stick swept towards Chen Qing, followed by his son Seti, also holding an equally thick mace.

The mace is actually a long-handled copper hammer with sharp long iron nails. It can be hammered or stabbed. It usually weighs thirty to forty catties. It is the favorite weapon used by Jurchen generals.

Se Muda is also a Jurchen warrior. He and his son Lai Qi are both Jurchen enemies. They once led an army to sweep Hebei, massacring counties and counties. They spoil and kill.

It's a pity that the father and son encountered the demon king Chen Qing today. Chen Qing rode his horse to avoid a sweep, and with a flick of his hand, the halberd blade of Fang Tian's painted halberd precisely chopped off the ear of the enemy's horse. Raising it high, with a loud scream, Seki Tatsu was caught off guard and was thrown off his horse.

"Father beware!"

Seki yelled anxiously, but even if he yelled a hundred times it was useless, a cold flash of the knife flashed, Semutatsu's head was chopped off more than a foot away, and blood spurted out from the neck cavity.

Seeing his father's tragic death, Seti's eyes turned red. With a roar, he raised his mace and threw it at Chen Qing with all his strength, trying to smash Chen Qing and his horse to pieces.

But this stick was empty, but he used too much force, his body almost lost his balance, and if the master made a move, once the flaw was revealed, there would be no more chances.

Se Qi suddenly felt a sharp pain, and only then did he realize that the halberd tip had pierced his neck from the side. His eyes went dark, and his head flew up, rolling together with his father's head.

At this time, the sound of drums was loud, and Zheng Ping led [-] soldiers to attack from the west. The hundreds of Jin soldiers who guarded the supplies and food could not resist, and most of them were killed by the soldiers of the Song Army who rushed to kill. The soldiers fled in panic.

"The Jurchen Tartar!"

Zheng Ping let out a roar, and five thousand soldiers held spears and yelled to kill the Jurchen cavalry from behind.

The main and deputy generals of the Jurchen cavalry were killed together, and the morale of the army was confused. They were already defeated by the Song army, but unexpectedly a new force came from behind, and they attacked back and forth. They could no longer resist and were quickly defeated.

Chen Qing led his army to pursue and killed more than a thousand people. Seeing that hundreds of defeated soldiers had fled far away, he stopped chasing them and ordered: "Burn the grain and grass, and transport the supplies away in carts!"

The soldiers poured kerosene on grain and grass and lit the fire. At this time, the pontoon bridge on the Weihe River was almost burned, and all the carts fell into the water and were swept away by the river.

Chen Qing led the army to take the bodies of the wounded and dead soldiers of the Song Army, together with more than [-] boxes of various supplies and [-] carts, and quickly evacuated to the southeast.
The sneak attack battle by the Wei River came suddenly and went quickly, and ended in less than an hour. More than [-] Jurchen cavalry were killed, [-] carts were damaged or stolen, and [-] shi of grain and Thirty thousand tons of forage were burned, but its impact was huge, and it became the last straw that overwhelmed the golden soldiers of Dasan Pass.

Chen Qing's camp is in a valley to the east of Heshangyuan, called Hentian Valley, which describes the high and steep mountains on both sides, as if a god split the valley with an axe.

The bottom of the valley is only one mile wide, but more than ten miles long, and the forest is lush. If Wanyan Wushu knows that Chen Qing's army is hiding in this valley, he only needs to block the valley and set fire to it, and Chen Qing's army will All were buried in the valley.

But if nothing happened, Chen Qing would not give Jin Bing this chance. There were hidden sentries on the cliffs on both sides of the valley entrance. If Jin Bing approached, he would be able to spot him more than ten miles away.

In addition to Chen Qing's cavalry army, there is also Zheng Ping's [-] troops, all of which have been converted into the Song army in an organized manner.

The food was also plentiful, thanks to Zheng Ping's army. When they retreated, they opened the sheep and horse pens of the Jin soldiers. Hundreds of thousands of fat sheep escaped from the sea of ​​fire, but unfortunately became the rations of the Song army.

In the valley, the Song army opened the [-] large wooden boxes looted, which contained weapons, heavy shields, iron armor, military crossbows, crossbow bolts and other military supplies. Among them, in the [-] large boxes, Chen Qing found They bought [-] bed crossbows, which were captured by the Jin soldiers in the war. They were transported from Taiyuan, and there were [-] jackdaw iron arrows.

There are also twenty small trebuchets, but they are all parts and need to be assembled.

It's a pity that the kerosene and gunpowder that Chen Qing wanted were not included in this batch of materials. Jin Bing's kerosene and gunpowder were all destroyed by fire in the monk's original camp, and Fengxiang County had no stocks.

Chen Qing's own kerosene had been exhausted in Jiwangpo, leaving only more than [-] barrels of gunpowder.

A marching tent was brightly lit, and Chen Qing called everyone to discuss the next move.

"This time the supplies, food and grass were robbed, Wanyan Wushu should not be able to hold on anymore, and will inevitably withdraw. We'd better block it in the Shenchagou Canyon, and finally force them to flee to the scalper's shop, go to the scalper's shop There will be no more cavalry, and when they come out of the mountains, they will be the prey of our cavalry."

Zheng Ping raised his hand and said: "Commander, I heard that three months ago Wanyan Wushu sent tens of thousands of Xie troops to dig the mountain to clear the road at Huangniupu. It is said that a narrow road has been opened for cavalry."

"Don't worry, even if they can leave, they won't be able to escape many troops. The key point is, Wanyan Wushu has deployed heavy troops in front of Shenchagou Canyon. How should we capture Taniguchi?"

(End of this chapter)