Fenghou

Chapter 751 Planning
A flying eagle slowly landed on the Eagle Tower at the head of Jingzhaodong City, and a slave eagle took the red letter post from his lap and flew away immediately.

A quarter of an hour later, Chao Qing put a copied Eagle letter on Chen Qing's desk, with a red label on it.

Chen Qing picked up the copy and asked, "Where did it come from?"

"Yanzhou!"

"Copy a copy and pass it to the inner guard!"

"Report to the county king, it has already been given."

"Go and invite Jiang Changshi and General Guan!"

Chao Qing agreed and left in a hurry.

Not long after, Jiang Yanxian and Guan Shigu hurried over, and they saluted and said: "Jianjun Junjun!"

Chen Qing handed the letter to the two of them, and said with a smile, "Look at this eagle letter."

The two picked up the eagle letter and looked at it, both laughed, "Sure enough, the county king guessed it right."

Chen Qing nodded, "Before we got the news that Wan Yanchang came to Taiyuan, and then we got the news that Wan Yanchang went to Pingyang Mansion, he must have met Wanyan Nianhan, although we don't know what they talked about, but Wan Yanchang As soon as Yan Chang left, Nianhan sent people to Yanzhou to investigate the situation of our army and the defense of the city. It seems that Nianhan has nowhere to go, so he can only put all his eggs in one basket and attack Shaanxi Road."

Guan Shigu hurriedly said: "Since Wanyan Nianhan has no choice, then we don't need to give up Fushi County to him!"

Chen Qing shook his head and said: "Since we want him to go to the Luoshui Road, we must give him Fushi County. He has a foundation, so he can go south with peace of mind."

Jiang Yanxian also said: "I'm afraid that he will learn the lessons of Wanyan Yinshu, and many of our arrangements will be seen through by him."

Chen Qing said with a smile: "It is indeed possible, but how likely is this possibility? I think the possibility is at most [-]%, or even only [-]%. The two of them are hostile factions, and Yinshu will not teach him a lesson. Tell Wanyan Nianhan that most of Wanyan Nianhan's subordinates heard some after-dinner stories in Taiyuan restaurant, we can't seek absolute certainty in war, as long as we have [-]% to [-]% certainty is enough."

Guan Shigu smiled and said: "The king of the county is right. Wanyan Nianhan is very conceited. He is the number one hero in destroying the Liao Kingdom and the Great Song Dynasty. Especially when he attacked the Great Song Dynasty, he swept dozens of Wan Dajun, Wanyan Wushu often suffered disastrous defeats, but Wanyan Nianhan never failed. He looked down on Song Jun from the bottom of his heart, and actually wanted to use [-] troops to destroy us. His pride can be seen, maybe he will be very happy Be cautious, but this is just his habit of using troops, but once he achieves his goal, he will not hesitate."

Chen Qing smiled slightly and said, "General Guan knows them well!"

Guan Shigu said shamelessly: "I have nothing to do in Bianliang, so I talked about them with Zhang Xiaochun, the puppet prime minister of Qi. I didn't study them deeply. Zhang Xiaochun studied them deeply. I mostly quoted his words."

Chen Qing smiled faintly: "This time against Wanyan Nianhan, General Guan will be my staff!"

Guan Shigu chuckled, "It's my honor to be the county king's aide!"

Chen Qing then sent an order to Liu Qiong, asking him to pay attention to the movements of the golden soldiers on the Yellow River.

The Yanzhou plan is very challenging. It must allow the Jin soldiers to occupy Fushi County just right, and withdraw the troops just right. It can neither cause heavy losses to the Song army, but it must not make Wanyan Nianhan suspicious.

In order to make Wanyan Nianhan believe that only [-] troops in the city are reasonable, Liu Qiong simply arranged for [-] troops not to mine coal mines and build docks in Wan'an Village. This open-pit coal field was discovered the year before last, but there is no manpower in northern Shaanxi. It has never been mined.

Since several dangerous shoals formed by accumulation of sediment in Luoshui were collapsed by gunpowder, Luoshui has become valuable for shipping again. It is more convenient to transport coal to the Weihe River by flat-bottomed boats, and then from the Weihe River to Jingzhao.

Therefore, it is imperative to develop this coal field, but it just happened to meet Chen Qing's Yanzhou plan.

Five thousand soldiers excavated the soil on a flat highland in Wan'an Village. The thick soil was dug away, exposing the black coal seam below. The soldiers began to blast the internal shock with gunpowder. Pry it off.

Luoshui was a few hundred steps away. More than a thousand soldiers used big stones to build the wharf, and at the same time opened up storage yards and roads. Five thousand soldiers were very busy.

In a forest two miles away, a man observed for two hours, then jumped off the big tree, got on his horse and ran towards Fushi County.
This man was one of Jiang Ying's four subordinates. Jiang Ying was very cautious. He had to confirm that Song Jun was mining coal before reporting to Wanyan Nianhan.

On the tenth day of April, that is, the tenth day after Wan Yanchang left Pingyang Mansion, the first batch of grain was transported from Taiyuan Mansion by [-] carts, a total of [-] shi, and Wanyan Nianhan also got his son. According to the news, he had given up the Daming Mansion, handed over the army and the Hebei regime to Wan Yanchang, and led [-] troops to protect his family and move to Hedong.

The time has come. That night, a pontoon bridge appeared on the Yellow River. The [-] Congregation Army, led by Ma Wu, the ten thousand husband, ran across the pontoon bridge and entered the boundary of Yanzhou on the west bank of the Yellow River.

Tens of miles behind the [-] Xie Congjun army, Wanyan Nianhan personally led an army of [-] and [-] carts. Wanyan Nianhan did not want to put the precious Jurchen army on the siege, and the Jurchen army was not good at it. For siege, the Jurchen army is better at raiding thousands of miles and entering Guanzhong.

The [-] Xie Congjun was Han Chang's subordinate, but they had already been handed over to Wanyan Nianhan by Wan Yanchang. The Xie Congjun was relatively independent, but in Wanyan Nianhan's hands, it became an out-and-out slave army.

Wanyan Nianhan looked down on the Han people from the bottom of his heart, and did not trust the Han people. All the generals above the command were replaced by Jurchens, and the chief general Ma Wu was from Khitan. His full name was Yelu Ma Wu. It has a face of a Han Chinese, which is completely Donghu.

Yelu Mawu is a confidant who has followed Wanyan Nianhan for many years, and has always been a vanguard general. Back then, he led the army to chase Zhao Gou all the way to the Yangtze River, and chased Zhao Gou and his party like crazy.

This time, Yelv Mawu took up the mission of the vanguard without exception and took Fushi County.

Just as Jin Bing started to cross the Yellow River in a large scale, on the west bank of the Yellow River, more than a dozen Song Army scouts immediately released Xinying.

The scouts of the Song Army immediately left the west bank of the Yellow River and retreated to the more hidden woods more than ten miles away. Their task was to record the total strength of the enemy army, the ratio of cavalry to infantry, etc., and to observe whether the main general Wanyan Nianhan cross the Yellow River.

It was already dark, and more than a dozen Song Army scouts stood by the woods on the hill. Below the hill was the official road. They could clearly see the details of Jin Bing.

In Fushi County, a [-]-man army was patrolling the city. Jiang Ying, a Jurchen spy, was one of the patrolling soldiers. There were ten men under him, including two of his men.

Jiang Ying had long discovered a pattern. The army did not change shifts at night. Before the second watch, the soldiers patrolled vigorously. After the second watch, their spirits became listless.

Then the best time to siege the city is after the third watch. Moreover, Jiang Ying also found that there are few night watch soldiers on the east city, but more on the west city. Of course, he also understands that the coal fields are in the west, and the soldiers who go to mine will return to the city at night. , so it is convenient to open the west gate.

This virtually created the conditions for Jin Bing to attack the East City at night.

After the third watch, the patrolling soldiers couldn't bear the sleepiness anymore, and the head of duty asked, "Which team is willing to be on duty tonight?"

Jiang Ying raised her hand and said, "Let's come!"

"This is how newcomers should behave. Only by performing better will they have a future!"

Everyone yawned big and went down to the city. The soldiers also went to sleep on both sides of the city wall. It is said that sleeping on both sides is not easy to be found.

Jiang Ying said with a smile to his subordinates: "You all go to bed too! I just need to keep two brothers on the top of the wall."

His men also went down to the city, leaving only Jiang Ying and two men above the city gate, but what was difficult was that there was a big iron lock on the mechanism that opened the city gate and the iron chain of the moat suspension bridge, and they couldn't open the city gate. We can only let the golden soldiers climb the wall and enter the city.

Seeing that everyone had gone to sleep, Jiang Ying gave two of his men a wink, and threw a bundle of ladder ropes hidden in the tower into the city.

Jiang Ying stretched out her hand outside the city, waved her hand, and lit a torch.

(End of this chapter)