Fenghou

Chapter 229 Returning to the Army
The soldiers brought the leader of the camel team to Chen Qing's tent.

"Regulation, man brought it!"

Chen Qing put down his pen and said with a smile, "Please come in!"

After a while, the guards brought in a middle-aged man from outside the tent. Chen Qing quickly took a look at him, and saw that he was about fifty years old, wearing short clothes, bronze-colored skin, and strong. With the vicissitudes of the years, especially there is a long scar on the left face, which is very conspicuous.

The man stepped forward and knelt down to salute, "The villain, Scarlet Liu, sees the general!"

"Get up and talk!"

"Thank you, General!"

Chen Qing looked at the waybill in his hand, it was issued by Zhou Kuan, and the one thousand shi grain was transported from Zitong County to Chengji County one and a half months ago, and it took only half a month to transport it from Zitong County to Chengji County, but They stayed in Qinzhou for a month, of course because of the impact of the war.

"Liu Zhang has worked hard this month, I will ask Manager Zhou to pay you double the shipping fee!"

"Thank you General for understanding!"

This month, he paid for all his subordinates to eat, drink and sleep. The pressure was too great, and they wanted to unload the goods and go back, but they couldn't get Chen Tongzhi's signature, and the other party refused to pay for the freight, and he might have to pay for the food. He had no choice but to hold on, and finally heard that the battle in Fort Ganquan was over, so he hurried over.

Chen Qing thought about it, and asked his soldiers to take twenty taels of silver for Liu Scar, let him directly compensate him!Don't break Zhou Kuan's rules.

Scarlet Liu was very grateful for taking the money and signing the bill.

Chen Qing asked curiously again: "With a thousand shi of grain and camels, don't you have an army of Jin soldiers or puppet Qi?"

"Reporting to the general, the Jin soldiers did not come, but the army of the puppet Qi, but they just passed through Qinzhou. When the villain heard the news, he took the camel team and food to Qingshui County. It is safe there and there is no army. come over."

"Have you never been to Qingshui County?"

"No! Even the soldiers guarding the city gate are Qingshui County's own archers. As far as the villain knows, the puppet Qi army only stays in Chengji County, and there are no other counties in Qinzhou."

What Liu Scarzi said made Chen Qing feel a little strange. The scout sent a message from Pingliang Mansion that the Puppet Qi Army in Pingliang Mansion only had [-] people, and the Puppet Qi Army in Deshun Prefecture had [-] people. Where did it all go?

The battle between myself and Xixia's cranes and clams is over, where are you going to pick up cheap gold soldiers and fake Qi fishermen?

"How many puppet Qi troops are there in Chengji County?" Chen Qing asked again.

"I heard that there are one or two thousand people! I don't know the specific villain."

Chen Qing nodded, suddenly remembered something again, and quickly asked, "Did Manager Zhou arrange for soldiers to go north with you?"

"There are soldiers, Hong Dutou and thirty brothers, they came to Chengji County with us."

Chen Qing frowned, "What about them?"

"Reporting to the general, they didn't go to Qingshui County with us. The villain only knows that they deal with Wang Tongsan."

Chen Qing knew it well, probably Wang Huai hid them.

He comforted Liu Scar again, and asked the soldiers to send them to rest.

Chen Qing immediately sent someone to find Yang Yuanqing and Zheng Ping.

Not long after, Yang Yuanqing and Zheng Ping came to Chen Qing's big tent in a hurry, and they saluted, "See control!"

"Just now I saw the team leader sent by Zhou Kuan to deliver food to us. They came from Zitong via the Shu Road and passed through Xianrenguan. After staying in Qingshui County for a month, I found a strange situation."

Chen Qing told the two about his exchange with Liu Scarzi, and finally said: "I thought that after the Xixia army retreated, we would be attacked by the puppet Qi army again, but the situation is just the opposite, the puppet Qi army disappeared. , Jin Bing is also missing, to be honest, it is a bit beyond my expectation."

"Maybe they are going to attack Dasan Pass!"

Zheng Ping interjected: "Wan Yanchang suddenly figured it out, we are not important, attacking Hanzhong is the right way."

Yang Yuanqing pondered for a while and said: "There are various reasons, how do you think about the control?"

Chen Qing glanced at Zheng Ping and said with a smile: "I think Old Zheng is right in one point. Attacking Hanzhong is the right way for Jin Bing. You shouldn't focus on me."

"Since the control thinks so, you can send someone to Xianrenguan to find Liu Zan to inquire about it. We have more information, but Liu Zan must know."

"It makes sense. I'll send someone to inquire later. In fact, I asked the two of you to come and discuss it. What should we do next?"

Yang Yuanqing and Zheng Ping looked at each other, they knew Chen Qing very well, since the leader said so, he wanted to make a move.

"What do you think about the control?" Zheng Ping asked with a smile.

Chen Qing picked up his saber and said with a smile, "Let's go! Let's go to the Baishui River to have a look."

The three of them led more than a hundred cavalrymen to the Baishui River. On the west bank of the Baishui River was the barracks of the Xixia Army that was burned to the ground. They destroyed [-] acres of wheat fields when they were stationed, but the tens of thousands of acres of wheat fields on the east bank are still there. The army has regarded these soon-to-mature wheat fields as their own supplies, and has not destroyed them for the time being, so that they escaped disaster.

The original owner of the wheat fields was the aborigines of Fort Ganquan, but they are no longer there. All the wheat fields have been bought by the Song army as military fields, and there are nearly a thousand soldiers working on the wheat fields.

The wheat has turned from green to yellow, and when a gust of wind blows, large pieces of wheat undulate like waves in the sun, and as far as the eye can see, there are endless light yellow wheat waves.

"How long does it take for the wheat to mature?" Chen Qing asked a soldier by the ridge with a smile.

Knowing the commander, the soldier hurriedly bowed respectfully and said, "Report to the control, and it will be harvested in about half a month!"

Chen Qing smiled and asked the two, "Do you know what I'm thinking?"

Zheng Ping rolled his eyes, and immediately understood, "Does Zhizhi want to return to Qinzhou?"

Chen Qing laughed and said, "We are already in Qinzhou now! I just want to return to Chengji County."

Yang Yuanqing hesitated for a moment and said, "Just in case the Xixia people."

Chen Qing shook his head, "Li Liangfu has already led his army back to Xingqing Mansion, and the garrison in Baochuan County is only [-] people. We have spies there, don't worry, and Xixia is facing the entire Shaanxi Road and Xihe Road, not just Ganquan Fort, I think it is unlikely that they will launch another battle against Ganquan Fort in the near future. It is enough for us to leave [-] troops at Ganquan Fort. If we encounter unexpected enemies, we will not be afraid. Isn’t there still [-] militia troops? ?”

"Government is thoughtful!"

Chen Qing smiled slightly: "The wheat is almost ripe, and it's time for us to go back."

"What is the control going to do?" Yang Yuanqing asked again.

"Depart early tomorrow morning!" Chen Qing had already made a decision.

In the early morning of the next day, Chen Qing left Niu Gao as the general of Ganquan Castle, and continued to stay at Ganquan Castle. He led [-] troops to leave Ganquan Castle and go southward, marching towards Chengji County.

The fierce battle at Raofengguan has lasted for six days, and the Song army repulsed the Jin soldiers' attacks again and again.

In the afternoon, amidst the sound of fierce war drums, more than [-] Jurchen Tiefutu soldiers held large shields and short spears and launched an attack along the mountain road to the pass on the mountain. Thousands of golden soldiers behind them also carried dozens of short Siege ladder.

Tiefutu is a Jinbing heavy armored cavalry, modeled after Xixia's iron kite, the number is not large.This time only [-] people followed Wanyan Sali to go south.

Eight hundred Tiefutu soldiers attacked the mountain as infantry. General bows and arrows and crossbows could no longer penetrate their armor. They could only rely on the arm crossbow and bed crossbow

On the mountain road in front of the pass, two hundred and fifty powerful jackdaw iron arrows shot down like raindrops, and the large shields of hundreds of Iron Buddha soldiers who stood up and ran were pierced by the jackdaw iron arrows. Still strong, he continued to shoot through his armor and body, and the dozens of Iron Buddha soldiers who were shot in front rolled down the mountain.

The Tiefutu soldiers quickly got down on the ground, not daring to move forward.

Above their heads are dense god arm crossbows and long arrows flying past.

The goal of the long arrows of the divine arm crossbow is to shoot at the thousands of Jurchen soldiers behind, and the bed crossbow is the sharp weapon for dealing with the soldiers of the Iron Buddha.

But no matter whether it is the elite Iron Buddha soldiers or the ordinary Jurchen soldiers behind them, they all marched forward against the rain of arrows. Every step was extremely difficult. One thousand two hundred people.

The soldiers of the Song Army on the top of the city didn't seem to need to wind up their strings, and they shot arrows one after another, suppressing them so much that the Jurchen soldiers couldn't breathe.

Three hundred people and one hundred and fifty bed crossbows were deployed on the city head of Raofengguan. With three-stage shooting, two hundred and fifty jackdaw arrows could be shot each time.

In the pass city of Raofengguan, [-] soldiers of the god-armed crossbow were deployed at the same time, and [-] soldiers were strung up for them at the same time, so that the arrows of the crossbow never stopped.

Wanyan Salihe stood at the foot of the hill, looking at the Raofeng Pass above, his army was still a hundred steps away from the pass, but they were still unable to attack.

Seeing that it was getting late, Wanyan Sa Li had no choice but to order: "Retreat!"

"Dang! Dang! Dang!"

The bell for the withdrawal of troops at the foot of the mountain rang, and thousands of Jurchen soldiers felt relieved and began to retreat slowly.

(End of this chapter)