Fenghou

Chapter 430 Changes
Liu Qiong led [-] cavalry and had already approached Tongxi County. When they were three miles away from the county seat, the team stopped running and walked slowly. The fierce sound of horseshoes would alarm the Xixia soldiers in the city.

When approaching the county seat, a person ran towards him, who was Tang Qian's subordinate.

He stepped forward to salute with fists in his hands, and said to Liu Qiong: "General Liu, Tang Du has an idea!"

Of course Liu Qiong knew that the so-called idea is a good way, he asked with a smile: "What good way do you all have?"

The scout whispered a few words, Liu Qiong thought about it and then smiled: "It's really a bad move, yes, I agree!"

The scout ran back again, while Liu Qiong led the soldiers to lurk under the left city wall, waiting for the enemy to rush out in panic. He really overcomplicated a very simple matter, and the other party only escorted a thousand soldiers, so there was no need to delay it. It's been a long time, it was time to kill them yesterday.

The scout found Tang Qian, the governor, and told him that the general had agreed to his plan.

Tang Qian and a subordinate with strong martial arts each carried a bag of ten catties of kerosene and climbed down the city wall by rope. .

They sprinted forward along the roof with cat waists. Each of them carried at least fifty catties of weight, which was quite strenuous.

They quickly found their target. Two clusters of siege ladders were piled high. Tang Qian tied fifteen siege ladders with long iron chains and locked them with big locks.

He removed the kerosene bag on his back, and carefully poured all the kerosene on the ladder, lest he disturb the coachman in the yard.

At this time, his subordinates also locked the chain lock on the siege ladder and poured oil on fire.

Almost at the same time, the two ignited the torch and lit the siege ladder.

The fire ignited and was immediately seen by the sentry soldiers, who all shouted. Tang Qian and his men ran wildly along the roof, towards the city wall. Arrows kept shooting at them. His men let out a muffled groan, and he was hit by an arrow in the leg. , almost fell off the roof.

The two stumbled to the side of the alley, jumped at the same time, grabbed two ropes, and were pulled up by the soldiers at the top of the city.

Xixia soldiers rushed out of the house one after another, yelling, someone was trying to fetch water with a basin, and came back after turning around, so forget it!The small river is more than ten miles away.

The soldiers tried to put down the burning ladder, only to find that the ladder was as heavy as Mount Tai and could not be moved at all.

The chief general shouted: "Leave the ladder alone, take the food away, and leave the county quickly!"

The ladder is already on fire. Even if the fire is extinguished, it probably won't be used anymore. We must leave quickly. There are Song troops in the city, and it will be troublesome if they set the whole city on fire.

The fire burned bigger and bigger, and the soldiers became more frightened. The driver drove the ox cart more slowly, and the soldiers were anxious, rushing out of the city ahead.

Liu Qiong had been waiting for them for a long time, and when the soldiers ran out, he shouted, "Kill!"

The five hundred cavalry attacked at the same time, the dust was flying, and the murderous aura was soaring to the sky. The momentum of the five hundred cavalry was like a thousand horses and horses, and they killed the Xixia soldiers not far away.
The Xixia soldiers were already flustered, but when they left the city, they saw a large group of cavalry killing them. Everyone thought they were ambushed by the Song army, and they were scared out of their wits, and ran wildly on the official road.

Five hundred cavalrymen chased and killed nearly half of the enemy troops for more than a dozen miles. They stopped chasing and turned around to look for the cart. They found it soon. There were lit torches everywhere in the city, and there were many black shadows in the firelight. It turned out that the residents in the city ran out to grab the rice and became a mess.

Liu Qiong asked the soldiers to stop the soldiers from grabbing rice, and said loudly to them: "There are two thousand shi of these grains in total. We only take a small part and leave the rest to everyone. Everyone should hide the rice well and don't leak the news, or you will be punished by Xixia." Revenge!"

More than a thousand people knelt on the ground and kowtowed to thank.

Liu Qiong asked the soldiers to unload [-] shi of grain and let the common people take it home. They only took [-] shi of grain, completely burned the siege ladder, and drove the cart to leave Tongxi County and return to Tongxi Fort. .

Cao Baozong's support army was still a step late. His logistics team was attacked by Song cavalry, causing heavy casualties. The siege ladder was burned and food was robbed. The worst thing happened.

The attacked logistics team was actually just a tentative logistics team. Cao Zongbao specially arranged for this team to take a trip in order to test whether it was safe along the way.

The [-] shi of grain that was looted meant little to them. On average, each soldier only had a bucket of rice. The [-] siege ladders were even more meaningless to them in attacking Longxi County, and the [-] siege ladders were about the same.

After the news of the robbery of the material team came, Cao Zongbao ordered the news to be blocked. He didn't want this kind of news to affect morale.

At this moment, the men who went to Jingzhao to contact Qi Jun came back.

Li Taiyue rushed to the big tent of the Chinese army. Seeing that Cao Baozong was in a bad mood, he felt a little bad, so he quickly asked, "How is it, is the Qi army willing to send troops to us?"

Cao Baozong shook his head, "They rejected it straight away!"

Mrs. Li was stunned, "Why?"

Cao Baozong sighed, "Our news is too confounded. The Song army is counterattacking the Central Plains. Jingzhao's Qi army has been transferred to the Central Plains to fight. The Jingzhao Qi army has less than [-] people. Fengxiang's Jin soldiers are even more powerful." There are only about [-] people, and they can't afford to protect themselves at this time, how could they join forces with us to deal with Chen Qing again, the timing was not chosen well!"

"However, when the general came out of Xingqing Mansion, the military department didn't tell the general about this situation!"

"The gang of bureaucrats who are rich and rich, only think about how to do business to make a fortune all day long, so they don't care about this kind of thing, and the emperor was also deceived."

The more Cao Baozong talked, the more disappointed he became, and the more he said, the more annoyed he became. He said: "There is another news. The supply team sent by Dingxi County was attacked by the Song army. It is said that there are one or two thousand cavalry."

"Didn't the humble post ask the general to send troops to support him?"

"The army was dispatched, but it was a step too late. We only received the remnants and defeated generals who were hunted down. One thousand guards, half of the casualties."

Li Taiyue was speechless for a long time. It seems that they were very unlucky. They were unlucky when they first dispatched troops. The Qi army was restrained by the Central Plains battle. They didn't know it. Only half a day late,

After a while, Li Taiyue asked: "What is the general going to do?"

"What else can I do now?"

Cao Zongbao sighed and said: "We don't have siege weapons, and we are not opponents in combat. It is impossible to enter or stay. Then we have to withdraw our troops!"

Mrs. Li nodded, "I support the general's withdrawal, the sooner the better!"

In the middle of the night, Chen Qing got the news from the patrolling soldiers that there was a change in the enemy camp. Chen Qing got up quickly, put on his clothes, and followed the soldiers to the city.

Li Muqing was on duty tonight, seeing Du Tong coming with a large group of soldiers, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "See Du Tong!"

"What happened?"

"The patrolling soldiers noticed that there was a change in the opponent's camp. A large group of soldiers came in and out. The humble officer also observed for a while, and felt that the opponent should be retreating!"

"retreat?"

Chen Qing frowned slightly, and the army will be withdrawn after only a few days?
He came to the front of the battlements and looked towards the other side's camp. The moonlight was bright, and under the moonlight, there was indeed a large army mobilizing. Although they couldn't see clearly, the movement was obvious.

"Dutong, do you want to send troops out to test it out?" Li Muqing asked in a low voice.

Chen Qing shook his head, "You can send scouts to investigate, but don't send troops. If the other party really retreats, we will have many opportunities. Don't rush this moment!"

"Follow your orders!"

Li Muqing immediately sent a scout team to investigate the enemy's movements.

(End of this chapter)