Fenghou

Chapter 620 The Secret Path
However, Chen Qing accidentally discovered that the enemy's [-] garrison troops hadn't been encountered, so he hurriedly called the peripheral scouts to inquire. Only then did he learn that the enemy garrison troops withdrew shortly after Wanyan Huo Nu was injured and disappeared. .

Chen Qing knew in his heart that it should be Wanyan Yin who could judge that the Jurchen army would be defeated, but if he couldn't notify the army to withdraw immediately, they would be covered up and killed, and he would be affected, so he retreated first.

Only then did Chen Qing order to clean up the battlefield. In this battle, the Song army killed more than [-] Jin soldiers, and the Song army suffered nearly [-] casualties, of which about [-] were killed. , the one with the largest casualties.

At this time, the main force of the Song army still had [-] people, while the main force of the Jin army was only [-] at most, and the force began to reverse.

The Song army did not keep any prisoners of war, so Chen Qing ordered all the injured Jurchen soldiers to be executed. These Jurchen soldiers had participated in the invasion of the Song Dynasty, and each of them had a bloody debt in their hands, and death was not enough to atone for their crimes.

The armor of the Jurchens is pretty good. Many soldiers actually wear the mountain-patterned armor of the Song Army. These mountain-patterned armors cannot be seen on ordinary Song Army soldiers. Only the generals and the imperial guards around the emperor are eligible to wear them.

In addition to armor and weapons, the Song army also seized more than [-] war horses, and countless battle flags, gongs and drums. In addition, a large amount of property was seized from the dead soldiers, mainly gold, silver, copper coins and various jewelry. Chen Qing rewarded all the property to the three armies, and there was thunderous cheers for a while.

All the corpses of the Jurchen soldiers were burned and buried deep. The corpses of the Song soldiers who died in battle were also burned separately, and the bones were put into bags, labeled with names, and returned to their relatives.

It took Song Jun just one day to clean up the battlefield, and he rested for another night. At noon the next day, the army was assembled and ready to go. At this time, Chen Qing received the news from Yang Zaixing on the Eastern Front. Encountering [-] Jurchen defeated soldiers inside and outside, the [-] Jurchen troops had their morale collapsed, and they had no fighting spirit, so they all surrendered to the Song army.

This news made Chen Qing stunned. How could there be only [-] people, and Wanyan Yin could do it?
Wanyan Yinkeshu dispatched more than a dozen Han Chinese from the Liao Kingdom to dress up as Song soldiers, looking for passages other than official roads. These dozen soldiers met a family of hunters and pretended to be looking for a small road to Luoshui Road to ambush the golden soldiers. The old hunter believed it. He pointed them to a path, and Jin Bing finally found a secret way to escape from the official road in the northwest.

Wanyan Yinke was very cunning. In order to confuse the Song army, he only collected a part of the defeated soldiers, and his own [-] garrison troops, about [-] people, left the official road and hurried along the trail.

The remaining Khitan people, Xi people and some of the Jurchens did not know that the main force had withdrawn, but they continued to retreat eastward. They were about forty miles away from Luojiao. More than a hundred defeated soldiers had their hearts broken and their fighting spirit was exhausted. They had no intention of fighting again, so they put down their weapons and surrendered to the Song army.

Yang Zaixing immediately sent someone to report to Chen Qing, and when Chen Qing found out that the situation was abnormal, it was already noon the next day, a total delay of twelve hours.

Liu Cui clasped his fists and said, "Dutong, it is impossible for the golden soldiers to fly with wings. They must be hiding in a mountain depression. I am willing to lead my troops to find them!"

Chen Qing shook his head, "They won't be able to survive for a few days with food, and it's impossible to hide in the col. I'm worried they've found a path."

Liu Qiong suddenly said in a hurry: "All the way, there are at least dozens of forks in various roads. If you look for them one by one, don't you find the year of the monkey?"

Everyone was silent, this matter is indeed very difficult.

At this moment, Tang Qian hurried over, bowed to Chen Qing and said, "I am reporting to Dutong, there is a young hunter who is in a hurry to see him, and he said he knows the whereabouts of the golden soldiers."

Chen Qing hurriedly said: "Bring him in!"

Not long after, a man of about twenty-four or five years old was brought over. He was very strong, and his eyes were full of anger.

Several personal soldiers stopped him vigilantly, not letting him approach, the man suddenly knelt on the ground and burst into tears.

"Don't cry yet, tell us what you know."

The man suppressed his grief and said: "The villain is called Nie Jianhui, a local hunter. I just came home today and saw my mother lying in a pool of blood, dying, but my father disappeared. Before she died, my mother told me, Yesterday more than a dozen Song soldiers came, saying they were looking for a trail to stop the Jin soldiers, so my father took them to a trail, but they came back alone and stabbed my mother seriously."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, they had vaguely guessed the ending, Chen Qing asked calmly, "And then?"

"Then I chased along the river, and found my father's body in the ravine beside the trail to the north, and they had already killed him."

Overwhelmed with grief, the young hunter wept again.

Tang Qian persuaded him for a while, and the young hunter finally calmed down. Chen Qing asked again: "Is there any trace of the army passing by on the trail you mentioned?"

"Yes! There are horseshoe prints all over the ground. There are at least tens of thousands of people. In the ravine where my father died, there are still many abandoned and broken weapons."

Chen Qing winked at the soldiers, and immediately the soldiers took the pen, Chen Qing said: "Draw that path!"

Holding the pen, the man roughly drew a small road, and said while drawing: "This small river is about fifteen miles ahead, not the small river five miles ahead, and it will go ten miles further, although they finally converge. But it’s still different. I found this small river and walked northward along the small river. After walking about fifty or sixty miles to a mountain, I walked northwest along a narrow path at the foot of the mountain. After walking about a hundred miles, I arrived in Luoyang. waterway."

"Wait a minute!"

Chen Qing interrupted him and asked, "The exit of Luoshui Road you mentioned is in the north or south of Luojiao County?"

"To the north, about thirty miles from Luojiao County!"

Chen Qing's heart sank, the thing he was most worried about really happened, Jin Bing was about to escape from the north of Luojiao Road.

"Is there any special sign near this exit?"

"The exit is next to Guandi Temple!"

Chen Qing immediately wrote the words Guandi Temple at the exit, handed it to the soldiers together with a golden arrow and said: "Rush now and hand it over to Yang Tongzhi, and ask him to send troops to Guandi Temple immediately to block it." Export!"

On a small path in the northwest, an army of [-] people is marching at a mighty speed. Although the road is very narrow, it is not an obstacle to the Jurchen who grew up on horseback. They are skillful in controlling the horses, and they can do Until the two ride side by side.

It had been a day and a night since the march, and the Jin soldiers didn't care about rest, and hurried forward. This was their only chance to escape, and whether they succeeded or not depended on it.

Wanyan Yinkeshu couldn't ride a horse. He was lying on a large sliding pole with a thick blanket covering his body. Four strong soldiers carried him to walk. The same was true for Wanyan's live girl behind him. He lost his right hand and was in a very emotional state. low.

Wanyan Yinkeshu was in a good mood. Seeing Wanyan Huonu's frowning face, he smiled and said, "Don't worry, the Song army is going to clean up the battlefield. When they find out that something is wrong, we will already be on Luoshui Road."

Wanyan Huonu looked at the tightly wrapped right arm and felt like crying. His father and brother were killed by Chen Qing, and now he himself was seriously injured in Chen Qing's hands and became a useless person. This Great revenge, he will never want to avenge it.

At this time, there was a commotion in front, Wanyan Yinkeshu frowned, what happened?

A soldier ran over excitedly and shouted: "Marshal Du, the front has entered Luoshui Road."

"Ah! Is there an ambush by the Song Army?"

"No! Thousands of our former army have entered Luoshui Road. There is an earthen temple next to it, and there is no sign of the Song army around."

It wasn't until this moment that Wanyan Yinkeshu's heart hanging in the air finally fell.

(End of this chapter)