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Chapter 412 Qin Ming and Dong Ping both made contributions (two-in-one, 400 monthly tickets this mon

At this time, Zhao Zhen had received an order from the imperial court, ordering Zhao Zhen to command a group of soldiers and horses, pass through Xianyuan and Sishui, attack Pingyi, and then go north to attack Mengyin, Xinwen and Xintai counties, and meet up with Huyanzhuo in Laiwu.

When Zhao Zhen received the order, he was taking stock of the situation in each county.

After seeing off the angel, Zhao Zhen summoned Wu Yong, Zhu Wu, and Liu Huiniang to discuss countermeasures. This expedition does not take the annihilation of Song Jiang as its primary task. It only needs to force him back to Qingzhou and give an explanation to the court.

Finally, the personnel for the expedition were decided. Lu Zhishen, Guang Hui, and Wu Song, who were stationed in Zhongdu County, led the Jianrui Battalion of 2,000 people.

The Shenji Battalion, Scout Battalion, and Heavy Front are all in full force.

The artillery battalion only carries light artillery and flying divine thunder.

Yizhou is mountainous, so the cavalry army only chose the pro-military camp, the forward camp, the Zuo Xiao cavalry camp and the female cavalry led by Hu Sanniang to accompany the army. After hearing this, Chen Liqing ignored Zhao Zhen's intention to avoid Zhao Zhen before the marriage. She asked Hu Sanniang to speak on her behalf and also went out with the army.

A total of 8,000 horse and infantry sergeants, with uniforms and armor and weapons, were assembled in Zhongdu County.

Zhao Zhen took Qin Ming and Dong Ping as the main and deputy vanguards, commanding the Qianfeng Battalion and Zuo Xiaoqi Battalion to advance first. Zhao Zhen led the central army himself, with military counselors Wu Yong and Liu Huiniang, and mage Qiao Daoqing accompanying the army.

After passing through Xianyuan and Sishui, Zhao Zhen ordered two thousand civilians to be recruited to replace the civilians in Liangshan County.

In Xianyuan County, [Tianmu General] Peng Qi led more than a thousand soldiers to stay behind to recuperate. Zhao Zhen recruited civilians, but Peng Qi did not stop him. He also told Zhao Zhen the news that although the treasuries of Sishui and Xianyuan counties had been emptied, the autumn taxes had not been collected this year.

When Zhao Zhen heard about it, he immediately sent a letter to Zhongdu County, asking Xu He to lead troops to collect taxes. Some of them would be sent to the front of the army, and some of them would be sent back to Liangshan.

Because of this benefit, Zhao Zhen recruited half of the doctors in the prefecture, bringing many wound medicines, and under the leadership of An Daoquan, came to treat the sick and wounded soldiers in Xianyuan.

But it was said that Zhao Zhen only stayed in Xianyuan for three days before setting off to camp. Qin Ming and Dong Ping led the troops first, and 1,000 horse troops went straight to Pingyi along the official road.

Yizhou is mountainous, and access to Yanzhou depends entirely on this official road, while everywhere else is a misty mountain road.

Pingyi is located on an important transportation road, with Fei County to the south, Xinwen and Xintai to the north, and Laiwu Prison to the north via Xintai.

For Pingyi, Song Jiang also left two leaders stationed there, one named [Qianzhangkeng] Xu Pingsheng and the other named [Bingshan] Han Tongyin.

Xu Pingsheng and Han Tongyin, who were from unknown origins, gathered a group of scoundrels and occupied Yuanyang Valley. They exploited all business travelers who passed by and often harassed the villages.

This made heaven angry and people resentful. Just as the emperor was ordering all the state capitals to clear out the bandits due to the four major bandits, the two of them combined were few in number and could not resist the enemy.

Hearing that Song Jiang was powerful in Qingzhou, he simply abandoned Yuanyang Valley and brought people to join him. These two men were both bodyguards, with good martial arts skills and some experience in traveling north and south. Therefore, they were left by Song Jiang to station in Pingyi. They commanded 3,000 people and took charge of the four cities of Pingyi, Xinwen, Xintai and Mengyin.

In addition, there are 500 troops everywhere to protect the city and maintain the place. In each place, several subordinate staff from well-known wealthy families were appointed and given names, and forced to take office to maintain order and collect autumn taxes.

On that day, Han Tongyin was drinking and having fun at the county government office. When he heard that the officers and soldiers outside the city were fighting, he couldn't help but became furious and ordered him to put on armor and mount his horse with a sword in his hand.

Han Tongyin defeated many officers and soldiers. He was so arrogant that he didn't take the officers and soldiers seriously. Hearing that the government troops were coming to suppress the attack but did not defend the city, they ordered the people to put down the drawbridge and personally lead thousands of people out of the city to form an array.

The two armies formed their formations, and Han Tongyin was the first to mount his horse and shout: "Where are you, the bird man, who dares to tease grandpa? You also need to know that this is the territory of [Timely Rain] Song Gongming. If you don't get off your horse, you will anger grandpa and kill them all." You are such a thief."

Qin Ming was impatient and did not answer. He waved his mace and rushed over.

The two horses intersect, and the sword and stick are raised together.

With only three combinations, Qin Ming exploited his flaw and let Han Tongyin slash with his sword, but it was all in vain. Qin Ming took advantage of the situation, raised and lowered his stick, and smashed half of Han Tongyin's Tianling Cap into pieces.

When Dong Ping saw it, he struck out with both spears and his thousands of horses galloped towards the opposite side.

I was already frightened when I saw the leader being killed on the other side, but when I saw the other side rushing over, there was no way I could stop him. The formation was immediately in chaos, with people and horses trampling on each other. Those who could not move forward were killed, and most of them were killed. Taking advantage of the situation, he grabbed the suspension bridge and occupied the west gate.

When the thieves and bandits in the city heard about it, they abandoned their helmets and armor and fled through the north gate under the leadership of several leaders.

Qin Ming and Dong Ping discussed and left Qin Ming, Huang Xin, and Luan Tingfang to lead 300 horse troops to occupy the city and support the large group of troops.

Dong Ping led his lieutenants Ou Peng and Ma Lin to lead the remaining horse troops to drive away the defeated troops.

At the moment, the two of them acted separately. Qin Ming gathered the prisoners and guarded the city, while sending people to report the victory.

Dong Ping led his men in pursuit, and when they saw small groups of soldiers and horses along the way, they all knelt down on the roadside to beg for work, but Dong Ping ignored them. Leave a group behind and gather up along the way.

Besides, Zhao Zhen received the victory report from Qin and Ming Dynasty and urged his troops to move quickly. After entering the city, he set up a list to calm the people. After hearing that Dong Ping was chasing the defeated troops, Zhao Zhen immediately asked Lin Chong to lead the pro-military camp to respond.

Even if Song Jiang is as good as Zhao Zhen, there is no one available, and the county is in chaos. Fortunately, Qingzhou's affairs were handled by Song Jiang himself, which was fairly orderly.

Here in Yizhou, the manager, Han Tongyin, and Xu Pingsheng were both former bodyguards and warriors, and they were not very clean. Therefore, people in the city resisted from time to time, relying on the soldiers and horses in their hands, but there was no big trouble.

Xu Pingsheng went to Xintai to suppress a village that resisted taxation. Everything was fine here, but unfortunately a leader in the city went to the countryside to supervise the autumn tax collection, and the village head was not suitable to entertain the leader at home. When the leader went to the toilet, he saw the daughter of the family and was tempted. On the second day, he took advantage of the opportunity when the village head went to collect taxes from each household and raped the daughter of the village head.

The daughter was also a strong-willed person and jumped into the well and died.

The village head only had this one daughter and treated her as a treasure. The leader left three strings of money as compensation. The village head did not get angry on the spot. At night, he used poisonous mushroom juice to boil a pot of chicken soup and tricked these people into drinking it. Together with the leader and 25 soldiers, they were all poisoned to death.

Then the village head didn't stop, chopped off the heads of these people, picked up weapons and armor, and led the villagers to openly resist taxes. 25 soldiers died at once. The leader guarding Xintai didn't know what happened, so he had to send a messenger to Pingyi for help.

But Xu Pingsheng heard the news and led a thousand people to wipe out the rebellion. In just one day, he slaughtered all the old and young in the village, which shocked the surrounding villages. Xu Pingsheng was also very proud of himself and sent someone to ask for credit from Song Jiang in Laiwu.

Xu Pingsheng took the looted property and escorted a batch of food and grass, and led his troops back happily. On the way, he met the defeated soldiers and heard that Pingyi was lost and Han Tongyin was killed. He was scared to death.

He wanted to go back to Xintai, but was afraid of Song Jiang's punishment. He went to Pingyi with only more than a thousand men, and he didn't know who the enemy was.

After careful questioning, a literate henchman said that the flag was the Liangshan flag, and the two leaders, one with a mace and the other with a double gun, recognized that one of the generals on the flag was Qin and the other was Dong.

Xu Pingsheng heard this and immediately thought of the two people Song Jiang had mentioned, Qin Ming, the Thunderbolt, and Dong Ping, the Double Spear General. While he was hesitating, he saw a cloud of dust rising in front of him, and the fleeing soldiers shouted that the government troops were coming.

For a moment, the sparse marching team was actually dispersed by the fleeing soldiers. Xu Pingsheng was furious and led more than a hundred confidants to draw their swords and shout in formation. He killed more than ten soldiers who were running around, but he couldn't stop them.

It happened in a flash. Before Xu Pingsheng could restrain his minions, Dong Ping had already rushed into the formation. With two spears, one wave could kill a small minion.

Xu Pingsheng was a bit courageous after all, and he rushed straight to Dong Ping with the long spear in his hand.

Dong Ping had already seen it, but pretended not to know. When Xu Pingsheng approached, he shouted: "Come on."

The two horses crossed each other, and Xu Pingsheng threw away the gun in his hand, covered his neck, and fell off the horse.

More than 600 cavalrymen rushed into the battle formation, trampling on each other, and more than a thousand followers fled in all directions.

Dong Ping dismounted, cut off Xu Pingsheng's head, held it with a spear, and shouted: "Liangshan general Dong Ping is here, kneel down and surrender if you don't want to die."

Ou Peng and Ma Lin heard it and asked the soldiers to shout together.

When Lin Chong arrived, the three were cleaning up the battlefield.

After cleaning up the battlefield, escorting the prisoners, picking up the weapons and armor left on the road, everyone rushed back to Pingyi County together.

Zhao Zhen saw Xu Pingsheng's head and laughed: "Two commanders, the first battle was a victory, and the achievements were recorded in the book. After returning to the army, we will reward them according to their merits."

In the first battle, less than 30 people were killed or injured, and Pingyi County was captured and two leaders were killed.

Wu Yong immediately wrote a letter of request for merit, and after using the seal, he asked Shi Qian to take the two heads and join Le He and Yang Lin of Jingyang Town to go to Tokyo. First, to report the victory and ask the court for reward. Second, to ask Yang Lin and Le He to go to Tokyo to buy fireworks, medicine and other items, and to inquire about the news of Bianjing.

Shi Qian obeyed the order, put the two heads pickled in lime in two wooden boxes, said goodbye to Zhao Zhen and left.

After sending Shi Qian away, Wu Yong hurriedly stepped forward and said to Zhao Zhen: "Sir, I have interrogated clearly. Among Pingyi, Mengyin, Xinwen and Xintai, only Pingyi has a large army stationed. The other three places have no more than 500 to 700 minions each, and there is no capable person to lead them. If we attack when Song Jiang has not reacted, we should be able to take it down in one go."

Zhao Zhen looked up at the sky. It was already time for Shenpai. He said: "If we send troops at this time, the cavalry will have to run all night. The people and horses are tired, and it is inconvenient to attack the city. It will add a lot of trouble. Variable. Tomorrow, Guanghui will lead 1,000 soldiers to garrison here. We will cook at four o'clock and set off at five o'clock. We will rush with three battalions of cavalry, only carrying two days of dry food. The rest of the soldiers will also take two days of dry food, abandon the baggage and go first, and the artillery battalion and the civilians will transport the baggage and follow. How about it? "

Wu Yong also looked at the sky and said helplessly: "It can only be done this way."

No one spoke that night. After Zhao Zhen and others rested for a night, they gathered the soldiers according to the plan and went north along the official road.

As for Pingyi, perhaps Song Jiang wanted to station troops and Laiwu was at the front line, and the money and grain of the four counties were concentrated in Pingyi for storage.

Zhao Zhen wrote a letter yesterday and asked several soldiers to carry the letter to Zhongdu County, asking Shi Xiu to mobilize carts to transport half of the money and grain back to Liangshan.

After a hundred miles of march, the cavalry rushed for a day. At nightfall, they arrived at a three-way intersection. The captives who led the way said that to the northwest was Xinwen, where the Chaiwen River flowed westward into the Wen River. To the northeast was Xintai, and more than 20 miles north of Xintai was Laiwu Prison.

Lin Chong, Qin Ming, and Dong Ping discussed and let the soldiers rest for half an hour. Lin Chong led the personal army camp to attack Xinwen, while Qin Ming and Dong Ping led the vanguard camp and the left cavalry camp to attack the Xintai camp.

After resting, the three divided their troops.

In Laiwu Prison, the three stationed here were [Iron Arhat] Fatong, [Flying Centipede] Wu Qian, and [Panhai Dragon] Qin Hui. Some of the minions who fled back to Xintai overnight reported the fall of Pingyi City to the leader [Qianzhangkeng] Xu Pingsheng and [Iceberg] Han Tongyin who were killed. The leader immediately sent a messenger to pass the news to Laiwu Prison.

After hearing this, the three guards from Laiwu sent a messenger to deliver the news to Laiwu while they were gathering their troops.

When Song Jiang received the news, he sent [Death-killing Ghost] Wang Feibao with 3,000 troops and [Flying Centipede] Wu Qian with 2,000 troops to rescue Xintai.

5,000 men and horses galloped all the way, arriving at the north and south gates of Xintai almost at the same time as Dong Ping and Qin Yong's cavalry troops.

Qin Ming and Dong Pingping arrived at the south gate and saw that the city gate was closed and many people and horses were lined up on the wall. Both of them were horsemen. Qin Ming stepped forward to fight, but only fired arrows from the top of the city.

The two had no choice but to set up camp when they came to report that reinforcements from the north gate had arrived. The two knew that the opportunity to attack the city had been lost, and they were trapped and out of horses, so they had to retreat ten miles and set up camp at the three-way intersection where they came from.

On the way back, I met a messenger sent by Lin Chong, saying that Xinwen had surrendered. It turned out that early this morning, some soldiers who had broken up fled to Xinwen. Several soldiers shouted, and the news spread in Xinwen.

The leaders stationed in Xinwen were timid and the reinforcements did not arrive. The officers and soldiers arrived first. There was a rumble in the city. Seeing that his 500 men were old and weak, the leader did not have the guts to defend the city. He was also afraid that someone in the city would liaise with the government and soldiers and open the city gate secretly. As soon as Lin Chong's troops arrived, he ordered the city gate to be opened and surrendered.

After hearing this, the two of them rode directly to Xinwen.

The next day, Zhao Zhen arrived with his troops, and Lin Chong and the others told the news that the Xintai reinforcements had arrived. Zhao Zhen heard this and said to Wu Yong: "Xuetuo, it seems that it is too late after all."

Wu Yong said: "Although it is a step late, it is not all without benefits."

After hearing this, Zhao Zhen asked: "What do you mean by studying?"

Wu Yong gently shook his feather fan and said: "The officials have now captured Pingyi and Xinwen. Mengyin is in the valley on the east side and there are no reinforcements. It is easy to capture these three places. In this way, we can capture these three places. The place is just right, it won't make us useless, and it won't shake the foundation of Songjiang. It's best to have a stalemate with the Qingzhou thieves in Xintai."

"Privile Tong has told us that we don't have to fight with Song Jianglang and lose our soldiers. The province's cunning rabbits will die and the lackeys will be cooked. It's better to raise the bandits and respect ourselves."

Zhao Zhen listened and nodded silently. Zhao Zhen sent a messenger again to report the victory.

At Wu Yong's suggestion, Zhao Zhen's army was not stationed in Xinwen, but was still stationed at the Sancha intersection.

After resting for a day, Zhao Zhen ordered Wu Song to lead a thousand infantry and ten mountain-splitting cannons to capture Mengyin.

Then he sent people to Shijie Lake, and ordered Ruan Xiaowu to lead the Hailo Camp up the Wen River to Xinwen for instructions.

After Zhao Zhen's army and horses rested in the camp for a day, Wu Song sent someone to deliver good news. The leader stationed in Mengyin was killed by the people of Mengyin County.

After another day, Zhao Zhen sent a messenger to Tokyo to report the victory.

Along with the victory report, there was also a stalemate with Qingzhou thieves in Xintai. They also asked the court to allocate ordnance and craftsmen to accompany the army, and appointed officials from the three counties of Xinfu.

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