Fenghou

Chapter 292
In the end, under Li Shun's vicious coercion, Li Yaoming and his son were forced to hand over the three restaurants to Li Shun. Li Shun immediately fired all the bartenders and shopkeepers, and used all of his [-] subordinates to complete the business. It was not important to him not to do it, but the restaurant became his cover. In just three days, Li collected a lot of information by the way, and sent someone to send the information to Changde Mansion.

That afternoon, Zheng Ping brought Wang Hao, the commander of the internal affairs battalion, to Chen Qing's tent. After listening to Wang Hao's report, Chen Qing walked two steps behind his back: "Are you sure their target is the fleet in the Baling River?"

"Reporting to Dutong, they went to the Baling River three times. Li Shun went there last night, and then this morning, he sent people out of the city on horseback. In fact, they didn't do it right, and they were full of loopholes. Find."

Chen Qing said indifferently: "They are not regular soldiers. It's normal for spies to be crude. I don't care about that. What I care about is what Yang Yao wants to do? How should we deal with it to maximize our profits."

Speaking of this, Chen Qing looked at Zhang Xiao, the counselor next to him. Zhang Xiao pondered for a moment and said, "Dutong, I have an idea, maybe I can make the most profit!"

That night, Chen Qing ordered Yang Zaixing to be the chief general, Liu Qiong to be the deputy general, and Zhang Xiao, the counselor, to follow. They led [-] cavalry to leave from the north gate, go south around the city, and run towards Changde Mansion in the southwest.
At the same time, Chen Qing ordered hundreds of craftsmen to build a batch of large ship models in the barracks, but Song Jun still did not disturb Li Shun and his men in the three restaurants.

Yang Yao finally received the express letter sent by Li Shun, the content of the letter made him ecstatic, and he hurriedly sent someone to invite the military adviser Huang Cheng.

"Sure enough, the military division guessed it right!"

Yang Yao couldn't bear the excitement in his heart and said: "I just got the news from Li Shun that the Jin soldiers were indeed active in Jiangbei. The Song Dynasty court urgently transferred all the water troops back to Runzhou. Chen Qing still has some warships. The batch of ships that were just transferred from Poyang Lake!"

Yang Yao and the others knew that the warships in Poyang were relatively old, had many problems, and had poor combat capabilities. They had always looked down on these ships.

"Can Your Majesty be sure?"

"Li Shun said that he used a lot of money to buy off an officer of the county government, who was a family friend of their family. It was this officer who leaked that Chen Qing's current army numbered less than [-], and he had [-] people from the west. The army brought nearly [-] Yuezhou troops, which means that all the navy troops have been transferred back to Runzhou."

Huang Cheng pondered for a moment and said: "Before the king said that he would lead an army to Baling to show off his might, but if the king wants to attack the ships on the water in Baling, he must not make it public. He must go there silently and then launch an attack suddenly at night. By surprise."

"I know! Since Chen Qing's arrogance is going to be severely hit, it really needs to be taken by surprise."

"When does Your Majesty plan to send troops?"

"Let's go tonight, I will personally lead the army to attack Balingshui!"

Yang Yao made up his mind. He ordered his brother Yang Qin and military advisor Huang Cheng to guard the water village together. He personally led [-] warships and [-] troops to set off at night. drive away.

Early the next morning, General Liu Heng left the water village and went to Wuling County. He was from Wuling himself, and his wife, children, and parents were all in Wuling County.

Yang Yao moved his old nest to Changde Mansion. It stands to reason that Liu Heng is the leader of Changde Mansion and should be reused. But in fact, he is very unpopular in Yang Yao's army. The other bandit capitals were named generals. And he was just a small commander, thousands of his subordinates were taken away several times, and now there are only more than a thousand people left.

The reason is that Liu Heng didn't take the initiative to seek refuge with Yang Yao, but was defeated by Yang Yao and annexed his power. Water pirates value the strong as king, and Liu Heng is a prisoner of war, so it's normal to have a low status. If it wasn't for him, he was obedient and worked hard , was slaughtered by Yang Yao a long time ago.

But even so, Liu Heng still suffered a lot of shame and humiliation. His concubine, who was born as a famous prostitute, was very beautiful and was taken away by Zhong Ziyi. After Zhong Ziyi died, the concubine was taken over by Yang Qin again. endured.

Seeing that he was honest and obedient, Yang Yao didn't take him seriously, but Yang Yao didn't know that the most frightening thing was often this kind of person who had suffered great humiliation and seemed honest.

Yang Yao forgot that Liu Heng was also the leader of water thieves in Changde Mansion before, and also a gangster, how could he be honest?

Liu Heng secretly surrendered to Chen Qing shortly after the Battle of Junshan.

Wuling County is very close to the water village, only [-] miles away. Liu Heng did not enter the county seat, but came to eat in a restaurant outside the county seat. Several soldiers ate on the first floor, and Liu Heng went directly to the second floor.

This restaurant is called Dongting West Building. It has been open for several years, but it has just changed to a new owner. The new owner is Hu Yanlei. It is the consistent strategy of Chen Qing's army to obtain information about enemy cities. Hu Yanlei bought a restaurant at a high price. , if it is no longer needed in the future, then sell it, or turn it into a military product and ask someone to operate it regularly.

In a private room on the second floor, Liu Heng met Yang Zaixing and counselor Zhang Xiao.

Hu Yanlei introduced them, everyone sat down and Liu Heng said: "Yang Yao led [-] troops and [-] warships to leave the water village last night, but I don't know what he is going to do?"

Zhang Xiao said with a smile: "We know exactly what he is going to do. Now I am more concerned about whether the two hundred warships will change the content of General Liu's map."

Zhang Xiao took out a copy of the map, spread it out on the table, Liu Heng looked at it for a moment, pointed to the exit and said: "There are no warships here, and other contents have not changed, by the way, the army has lost [-] people. "

Zhang Xiao blotted out the disappearing fleet with an ink pen, and he smiled again: "Chen Dutong asked me to ask General Liu, what do you want?"

Liu Heng was silent for a moment and said: "I only have three small requests. First, don't pursue my previous crimes. After the war, I want to leave Wuling County with my father, wife and children and settle down elsewhere; The concubine returned it to me, although she was taken over by other men, it was not her fault; third, give Yang Qin to my disposal."

Zhang Xiao took out a gold medal and said calmly, "This is Chen Dutong's gold medal. On behalf of Chen Dutong, I can agree to your three requests."

Liu Heng stared at the gold medal for a moment, picked up the wine in the bowl and gulped it down. He slammed the wine bowl on the table, "Tell me! How can I help you?"

Yang Zaixing, who had been silent all this time, stared at Liu Heng and said slowly: "We want to know, when will General Liu be in charge of patrolling the water surface?"

At night, more than [-] warships sailed into the Yangtze River against the west side of the lake mouth, then turned around and sailed eastward along the Yangtze River.

The mouth of the Baling River is very close to the mouth of the lake, only [-] miles away, and the scale is much smaller than the mouth of Dongting Lake, only about [-] miles wide. Cars and boats are waiting for news on the Yangtze River.

Yang Yao was the leader, of course he would not take the risk himself, but his cousin Yang Jing led [-] warships and [-] troops into Balingshui.

The fleet moved south very slowly. The fleet of the Song army was about [-] miles away from the river mouth. According to intelligence, there were [-] soldiers guarding it. This battle is crucial to boosting the morale of the entire army.

After entering Balingshui for about ten miles, Yang Yao's fleet docked, and ten thousand troops went ashore one after another.

Yang Jing left [-] soldiers to guard the warship, and he led [-] soldiers to rush to the Song Army fleet ten miles away.
(End of this chapter)