Fenghou

Chapter 289 The First Battle

Several gunpowder barrels exploded on the top of the cottage, and what came out were not poisonous nails, but thousands of letters of persuasion, and thousands of pieces of paper fell into the cottage like snowflakes.

"Da Songyue, Ezhen Fushi and Yuezhou Governor, all in charge Chen Qing told all the soldiers in Dongting Junshan Bandit Village: You must surrender before dark, I will guarantee their safety, and hand them over to Xuan Fushi for disposal, and they will not surrender when it is too late Those who are killed without mercy! '

Yang Yao was furious, and immediately sent three teams to confiscate the letter of persuasion to surrender. Those who dared to hide it privately would be executed immediately, but nearly half of the letter of persuasion to surrender was not recovered.

Chen Qing immediately deployed troops in three places, blocking the three roads down the mountain, and the soldiers of the Song Army waited patiently for dark.

Yang Yao also sent people to watch the soldiers, not allowing anyone to go out and surrender.

As the sun gradually set to the west, Yang Yao's guards relaxed. Finally, some soldiers seized the opportunity and escaped from the stronghold to surrender. More and more soldiers surrendered.
At this time, Song Jun had already smeared a lot of kerosene in the mountain forest. With Chen Qing's order, thousands of rockets were fired at the forest at the same time, and the forest at the foot of the mountain began to burn.

The flames were raging, the flames were raging, the smoke was billowing, the flames spewed out, and spread to the mountain. The soldiers in the cottage finally reacted and were terrified. Many people fled down the mountain road, shouting for mercy,

This time, Chen Qing restrained his murderous intent to the greatest extent and did not order the massacre of the surrenders. After all, he had promised Li Gang that he did not want to offend Li Gang in this matter, causing the relationship between the two to deteriorate.

He ordered to accept all those who surrendered, no matter when they surrendered, as long as they put down their weapons, they could not be killed.

At one watch, when the fire was at its peak, the entire mountain was engulfed by the fire, and the smoke shot straight into the sky. The flames rolled up tens of feet high, and were clearly visible on the city wall of Baling County.

At this time, Li Gang was on the head of Baling County. He arrived at noon and asked Chen Qing for important matters. Unexpectedly, Chen Qing led the army to kill Junshan. To kill Junshan once, Chen Qing accomplished it only [-] days after he came to Yuezhou.

Yan Yun sighed and said to Li Gang: "As expected of the Western Army, they fought bravely. They attacked Junshan in the first battle. This should be burning Yang Yao's Junshan stronghold."

Li Gang smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know if he didn't fulfill his promise to me, or he still killed all the prisoners of war?"

Li Gang seemed to be talking to himself, but in fact he was asking Yang Yuanqing, who was in charge of guarding Baling County, Yang Yuanqing said with a smile: "If Chen Dutong agrees to the Xuanfu envoy, he will keep his promise, and his humble position can guarantee that he will not kill him." captured."

"If that's the case, I'm relieved!"

At noon the next day, a heavy rain came unexpectedly and extinguished the still burning forest fire.

Chen Qing sent a scout team up the mountain to check. Half an hour later, the scout team led more than [-] panic-stricken bandits down the mountain and surrendered. Half of the cottage was already burned. They escaped the fire by hiding in the northeast corner. , but their courage has been frightened, and they have completely lost the will to resist.

When they found the Song army scouts who came to check the situation, they immediately came out and surrendered.

"Reporting to Dutong, there is no one in the cottage. The humble official got the news that Yang Yao might have escaped."

Chen Qing said angrily: "I blocked all the exits, how could he escape?"

"Dutong, some surrendered soldiers said that there is a secret passage in the cottage."

"Who said it, find it for me!"

Not long after, the scouts brought up a surrendered soldier, and the soldier knelt down and said, "There is indeed a secret passage, the villain has carried supplies in before, and the entrance is behind Yang Yao's Juyi Hall!"

"Lead the way immediately!"

Under the leadership of the soldiers who surrendered, Chen Qing personally led [-] people up the mountain. The gate of the cottage has been burned down. When you enter the cottage, you can see the bodies of bandit soldiers who were burned to death and smoked to death everywhere. There are at least two to three thousand people. .

Chen Qing suddenly remembered something, and asked the soldiers who led the way: "Where are the people, women and family members of the bandits who were captured in the village?"

"Reporting to the general, they were transferred to Changde Mansion a few days ago."

"No, the family members have not been transferred there!"

The soldier was a little surprised, how did the other party know?He had no choice but to honestly say: "The family members have been transferred to Changde Mansion at the beginning of the year, and the low-ranking people are also involved in the transfer. This matter is very secretive. The local people don't even know that the new neighbors are Yang Yao's family members. This is Yang Yao's consistent behavior. The technique, the Three Caves of the Rabbit, has already arranged the escape route for the families of the generals."

"You're talking about the general's family, but what about the soldier's family?"

"Only a very small number of soldiers have family members. They farm and grow vegetables on the outskirts. When the cottage caught fire, they probably all scared away."

Chen Qing nodded, "I want to know the warehouse, where is the warehouse?"

The soldier pointed to more than a dozen rows of masonry houses in the distance, the exterior of which was blackened by thick smoke, "That is the warehouse. It used to be surrounded by barracks and was heavily guarded. Now the barracks have been burned down, and the supplies in the house are unknown. how?"

Chen Qing ordered Yang Zaixing and Liu Cui to lead [-] troops each to clean up the unburned money, food and materials. He personally led [-] soldiers into the main building.

Walking into the Juyi Hall, the chairs on both sides are still there. It is said that Yang Yao imitated Liang Shanbo.

"The one on the left is the former leader Zhong Xiang's chair, which was later inherited by his son Zhong Ziyi. Zhong Ziyi died a few months ago, so the chair is empty. On the right is Yang Yao's chair."

Behind the two top chairs is an altar, on which there is a huge signboard with four big golden characters written on it, 'Walk the Way for Heaven'.

The soldier pushed open the altar, and a six-foot-high and five-foot-wide wooden door suddenly appeared below, "General, this is the entrance!"

"Lugui!"

Chen Qing yelled, and a general came over with a single-handled copper hammer. This is Lu Gui, who served in the army in Linyou County. Next to Niu Gao, he held a long-handled copper hammer weighing forty jin.

"I am humble!"

Chen Qing glanced at the wooden door and said, "Use your copper hammer to break it open!"

"Follow the order!"

Lu Gui took two steps back, swung the copper hammer and slammed it hard at the wooden door, 'Crack! 'With a loud shattering sound, the two-inch thick wooden door was smashed to pieces, revealing a large black hole.

"Giant shield go ahead, go in and take a look!"

A commander led [-] giant shield soldiers holding their shields high and walked into the black hole with short spears in their hands. Someone in front raised a torch, which quickly lit up. After a while, someone shouted: "Dutong, there is no one in there!" Already!"

Only then did Chen Qing walk into the cave. The cave was actually a long corridor. People didn't have to bow their heads. After walking for dozens of steps, it dawned on them that there was a hall inside, which was actually a large natural cave, inside which piled A lot of boxes, and a lot of food.

"Dutong, these few things!"

The soldiers clicked their tongues while pointing at some pieces of furniture, "It's actually made of gold!"

In fact, the most important thing is a bed and a chair, both of which are made of gold, inlaid with precious stones and beautiful jade, the bed weighs two hundred catties, the chair weighs sixty catties, and there are several chairs beside it made of ivory. made.

It was indeed too extravagant, and I probably wanted to carry it away, but I didn't have time to take it away in a hurry, so I hid them in the hole. The box was probably also personal property such as silver and gold, so I couldn't carry it away.

Soon, Chen Qing knew the reason why he couldn't carry it away. A soldier came forward and reported, "The exit is on the west side. The hole is very small, so we can only climb out. There is an inlet below. There may be ships moored. They escaped by boat." up.

"Then don't worry about it, move everything out!"

When Chen Qing left the cave and walked out of the Juyi Hall, Yang Zaixing and Liu Cui had cleared out all the money, grain and supplies. There were as many as [-] guan in copper coins, [-] taels of silver, [-] taels of gold, and a few more cloths. [-] horses. As for grain, grass, and other materials, they have not been cleaned up. The grain is at least [-] shi, as well as valuable wood, spices, medicinal materials, silk and satin, etc.

These are all property looted from the Yangtze River waterway. Yang Yao came back yesterday to remove them, but he happened to be attacked by the Song army, and naturally Chen Qing got them all.

At this time, a soldier ran over and said, "Report to Dutong, the envoy Xuan Fu is in Baling, please return to Baling County immediately, and let me know if there is something urgent."

Chen Qing nodded, and said to Zheng Ping and Yang Zaixing: "I will go back first, and then you will transport all the money, food and materials back to Baling County, the houses in Junshan will be destroyed, and all the cottages will be set on fire. The bandits are not allowed to return to Junshan !"

"I obey the order!" The two bowed and agreed together.

(End of this chapter)