Fenghou

Chapter 329
Chen Qing pondered for a moment and asked, "Where is Mr. Jiang from?"

"People from Xiacaizhou have wives, children, and mothers at home."

"How about it! When you go back, sir, transfer your wife, children, and mother first, and then come to the army to find me. I can arrange a post for him as an aide in the army."

"Thank you Dutong for giving me a chance. I will go back to my hometown overnight and move my family to the Song Dynasty."

Jiang Yan stood up and saluted first, then he took out a letter and handed it to Chen Qing, "This is a plan for the humble official to destroy Li Chi and seize Xiangyang, and it can be used as a reference for Du Tong!"

Chen Qing was overjoyed, "Thank you sir!"

He immediately took a pass card, and ordered his soldiers to give Jiang Yanxian five hundred taels of silver as moving expenses. Jiang Yanxian fled in a hurry without any luggage. He rushed to his hometown Caizhou overnight.

Yang Zaixing hurried over to Chen Qing and said, "The governor wants to use Jiang Yanxian?"

Chen Qing nodded, "This person's conscience is not lost. He didn't want to help the Jurchens attack Bashu and become a sinner through the ages, which led to internal strife. That's why I decided to use him."

"What if he pretends to surrender to the capital under Wan Yanchang's order, will he be in big trouble in the future?"

Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "This person is a very smart person. He knew that it was not easy to win my trust, so he took the risk to go back and burn fire oil. This is tantamount to completely destroying Wanyanchang's plan to take the Three Gorges Road to seize Bashu. Wanyan How could Chang forgive him? The puppet state of Qi would not spare him, so I told him to go back and transfer his family members quickly. If there is sincerity in the petition, I will tell him to go back to his hometown and transfer his family, to show that he knows that he has committed suicide in Wanyanchang."

Yang Zaixing was stunned, and sighed: "So that's the case, it's because the humble job is easy to consider."

"He is a rare talent. Actually, I don't want to hand him over to Li Gang. Li Gang will definitely not trust him, let alone use him. It would be too wasteful."

When Chen Qing said this, he opened the letter that Jiang Yanxian had left for him, and looked at Jiang Yanxian's strategy to defeat the enemy, and he suddenly laughed.

Chen Qing said to Yang Zaixing: "Order the whole army to retreat!"

Although Li Chi took away Jiang Yanxian's military power, he didn't get Jiang Yanxian's combat thinking. He didn't know Jiang Yanxian's plan to build a tower to destroy Zigui City.

Jiang Yanxian originally wanted to build an arrow-proof barrier first, and then hoist the trebuchet up. Li Chi didn't know this plan, and he completely missed the step of building the arrow-proof barrier.

The high platform was [-] steps away from Zigui County, and Zigui County could be attacked with trebuchets, but they forgot that Zigui County could also attack the high platform.

The chief general Zhang Ziliang launched a surprise attack on the high platform with two thousand crossbowmen, and the crossbow arrows came like a torrential rain. More than a thousand puppet Qi soldiers and craftsmen on the high platform had no way to hide, and they were all shot to death by the dense crossbow arrows.

Hearing this news, Li Chi was dumbfounded, and he realized that he had made a big mistake.

At this time, Zhang Hua, the commander, persuaded Li Chidao: "It is better for the army to return to Xiazhou first, ask the capital to supervise the army, and then make a decision!"

Li Chi sighed, "I just give up Zigui like this, I'm not willing!"

"Actually, we have not given up on Zigui. We are worried about Jiang Yanxian. He and Wang Bin still have an army. If he surrenders to the Song army, we will not be able to attack Zigui. Isn't it a dilemma?"

One sentence reminded Li Chi that when he slapped his forehead, the consequences were indeed terrible.

He immediately ordered: "Order the whole army to retreat back to Xiazhou immediately!"

Li Chi was very anxious, and said to Zhang Huai: "I led the main force to retreat overnight, and you brought three thousand brothers to pack up the luggage and then retreat. In addition, I also found a way to take down the trebuchet on the high platform. I can use it in the middle of the night. In short, it can't be thrown away. , I will attack the city again after I regain the fire oil."

Li Chi couldn't wait any longer. An hour later, he led [-] main troops to leave Zigui and head towards Xiazhou. In any case, he wanted to take back Yiling before Jiang Yanxian surrendered to the Song army.

Zhang Hua, the commander, packed up the food and grass, as well as Li Chi's lifeblood, the twelve catapults. He only spent a lot of effort at the fourth watch to hang the twelve catapults from the high platform again with ropes. It was not until the afternoon of the second day that the packing was finished, and they began to retreat slowly towards Yiling.

The Three Gorges Road has not only a very narrow cliff plank road, but also an open area with a width of more than ten miles, so there are county towns, small towns, villages and other dwellings along the way.

Xintan is an open land. The Yangtze River flows through here, and there are about three miles of shoals. The people here have built three long trestle bridges on the shoals. Large ships can berthed by the trestle bridges, and people and livestock on board can walk ashore on the trestle bridges. As a result, a prosperous commercial town, Xintan Town, was formed.

In the morning of the next day, just an hour after Li Chi passed through Xintan Town, dozens of large ships appeared on the river in Xintan Town, and Song troops began to come ashore along the trestle bridge in a steady stream.

This is Jiang Yanxian's strategy to defeat Li Chi. Li Chi is very hot-tempered. When he realizes that he will sacrifice Yiling to surrender to the Song army, he will rush back to Xiazhou in a hurry, leaving his supplies and food behind, and wait for his main force to pass. In Xintan Town, the Song army disembarked from Xintan, cut Li Chi's main force and logistics into two sections, and wiped out the logistics army. Li Chi's main force was blocked halfway, and the food and grass would be cut off in a few days, and even the horses could not be killed. , will inevitably surrender without a fight.

This tactic is called the Jedi tactic. It is very vicious and effective. It makes full use of the intelligence asymmetry and the advantages of the navy to put the main force of the puppet Qi army in a jeopardy.

Yang Zaixing led [-] troops off the ship and landed, and they immediately set up an ambush more than ten miles in front of Xintan Town.
As night fell, a mighty train of luggage appeared. Bullock carts loaded with food, grass and luggage marched mightily on the official road. Some of the [-] soldiers followed on both sides of the cart, and most of them followed the train of luggage. Behind.

To the south of the official road are cliffs, below is the mighty Yangtze River, and to the north are endless mountains. Although it is early winter, the forests are still lush, but the mountains are filled with fog, which is very humid and cold, which makes the soldiers who came from the Central Plains very uncomfortable. Not used to it.

Behind a big tree, Yang Zaixing locked his eyes on the opponent's general, and the only general riding on a horse should be a commander.

He took off his bow, drew out a wolf-toothed arrow, set the bow and set the arrow, and shot the arrow almost without aiming. Yang Zaixing's arrow technique was not as powerful as Chen Qing's, but his heart-and-arrow technique was also outstanding, and the arrow within a hundred steps was unmatched. false hair.

Zhang Hua never dreamed that he would shoot a deadly cold arrow from the side of the road. When he felt bad, it was too late, 'Pfft! An arrow hit his neck, Zhang Hua let out a muffled snort, then turned over and fell off his horse.

Yang Zaixing's archery was an order, and the sound of clappers sounded in the woods above, and arrows were shot like rain. The two thousand soldiers behind couldn't dodge, and they fell to the ground with arrows, and the screams resounded through the official road.

Yang Zaixing swung his spear, "Kill!"

Six thousand soldiers of the Song Army rushed out of the woods, screaming and killed the puppet Qi army on the official road down the mountain.

Li Chi led [-] people and rushed all the way. At five o'clock, they arrived ten miles away from Xialao Pass. This is a dangerous place. The road is less than two feet wide. On the other side is a steep mountain, the mountain is filled with clouds and mist, and occasionally white cranes fly by, just like the dwelling place of immortals.

Walking through this ten-mile dangerous road, you will be at Xialongguan in front of you. Passing Xialongguan means that you will soon walk out of the Three Gorges, and another [-] miles will be Yiling County.

The soldiers were too tired to walk, but the anxious Li Chi refused to allow the army to stop and ordered the army to continue marching. He must enter Yiling County to be relieved.

At this moment, the soldiers in front suddenly made noise, as if something had happened, Li Chi hurried forward, and a general came back to report, "Dutong, there is a giant tree blocking the way!"

Li Chi frowned, and hurried forward, he also saw that there were dozens of giant trees lying across the official road ahead, blocking the official road.

"Jiang Yan must have done it first, go and throw the wood down the river!"

Li Chi gave the order, and hundreds of soldiers rushed up one after another. At this moment, there was a loud bang in front, and the flames blazed up from the official road. The giant tree was also engulfed in flames.

The soldiers cried out in shock and backed away in fright, and Li Chi was also stunned.

(End of this chapter)