Poor Family Chapter 918

Chapter 918 Introducing gold into the urn

Wan Yanchang received the pigeon letter at noon the next day, and he was both annoyed and surprised by the contents of the letter, "There are tens of thousands of bandits in Shangdang County. The 200,000 shi of food can solve the emergency in the army, so I beg to send a large army to support it. '

"What does General Xiao think?" Wan Yanchang handed the letter to Xiao Bosong.

Xiao Bosong is the new Chief of the Yanshan Han Army. He was originally a nobleman from the Xi people. When the Jin soldiers broke through the Liao Kingdom and went to Beijing, he led 30,000 troops to surrender. He was named Meng'an by Wanyan Agu. In the Song Dynasty, when Wanyan Xie also beheaded Yelumu, the commander of the Yanshan Han army in anger, he was appointed as the new commander of the Wanfu, and he followed Wanyanchang to station on the East Road.

Xiao Bosong is cautious and decisive, and Wan Yanchang trusts him very much.

Xiao Bosong looked at the pigeon letter, then pondered for a moment and said: "The morale of the Han army on the Hedong Road is low, and the morale of the army is not stable. I guess this is Zhao Wenhui's fear. He is afraid of failing again and being severely punished by the deputy commander, so he dare not attack the city. Ask the lieutenant for help."

"Hmph!" Wan Yanchang snorted heavily, extremely dissatisfied: "Even a group of rebellious peasants can't win, what else can they do?"

"Deputy commander, please calm down. I heard that this rebel army had looted the military warehouse in Linfen County. It is estimated that they are well equipped and have a large number of people. There are at least tens of thousands of people. It is really difficult for General Zhao's army to deal with them."

This sentence reminded Wan Yanchang, he immediately remembered this incident, indeed a large amount of food and supplies were taken away by the rebels in Longde Mansion, and he was in a hurry to attack Taiyuan at that time, so he had no time to take care of this matter.

"It seems that there are 200,000 shi of grain in Shangdang County, which is true."

"It should be true. I heard that the Linfen warehouse has a lot of grain and grass."

Wan Yanchang paced back and forth with his hands behind his back. Recently, he has been devastated by the forced requisition of grain. Peasants rebelled everywhere, officials abandoned their seals and fled. Up to now, they have not collected even 10,000 shi. If he could find ready-made grain, why would he do so? It took a lot of trouble.

"Let's send troops to Shangdang County!" Wan Yanchang finally made up his mind.

Wan Yanchang immediately led 20,000 cavalry to Shangdang County, while Xiao Bosong led 10,000 Yanshan Han troops to garrison Linfen County.

The reason why the cavalry was sent out was because Wan Yanchang was worried that Zhao Wenhui's army would not last long, and the cavalry could reach Shangdang County within three days.

The 20,000 cavalry are composed of 10,000 Jurchen soldiers and 10,000 Bohai soldiers. They are very skilled in riding, and they run like lightning on the official road. Linfen County is located in a basin, surrounded by mountains, and walking eastward. About a hundred miles into the Taiyue Mountains.

The army had to walk for at least one day in the Taiyue Mountains. After leaving the Taiyue Mountains, they entered the territory of Longde Mansion. Longde Mansion was also a basin, with Taiyue Mountains to the west and Taihang Mountains to the east. Sandwiched between these two big mountains.

That night, 20,000 cavalry camped in a pine forest at the foot of Panxiu Mountain. The soldiers were exhausted after a day of running. After feeding the horses, they wrapped their blankets around their bodies and fell asleep.

Wan Yanchang couldn't sleep, he got up and led a dozen of his own soldiers to patrol around, and there were constant patrolling soldiers bowing to him.

"Is there anything unusual?" Wan Yanchang asked.

"Reporting to the deputy commander, the surrounding area is very quiet, and nothing unexpected happened."

Wan Yanchang was a little uneasy. Logically, something should have happened, at least there should have been a beast passing by quietly. How could there be no situation at all?

Wan Yanchang looked around again. There were dark mountains on both sides, and only huge black silhouettes remained in the dark night. They had actually been walking through the Taiyue Grand Canyon since the afternoon, and they had to walk for more than 30 miles To get out of Taiyue Grand Canyon.

The place where they are currently located is the widest part of the canyon, which is more than ten miles wide. The canyon is densely covered with forests, a shallow stream passes through the valley, and there are steep mountains on both sides. The mountain on the left is called Panxiu Mountain, with a radius of 100 In the east, the scenery at the east foot is extremely beautiful, while at the south foot there are rocky cliffs.

Wan Yanchang was really worried, and sent another 100 patrols to patrol the periphery, and then he returned to the pine forest to rest.

At one o'clock, a dark army appeared about twenty miles west of the Jinbing camp. The leader and general was none other than Li Yanqing. Li Yanqing ordered Liu Qi to continue to guard Taiyuan, and he himself led an army of 30,000 troops. Secretly left Taiyuan, all the way south into Jinzhou.

When he left Liu Da's army, he actually wanted to use it as a bait. The Jin soldiers brutally encircled and suppressed the rebels in Hebei, and almost strangled tens of thousands of rebels. They did not encounter any strong resistance. Jin Bing despised the people from the bottom of his heart resistance.

Li Yanqing could take advantage of this contempt to get Liu Da's rebel army to lure the Jin soldiers into the urn, especially in the Shangdang area where Liu Da's army is located, there are many mountains, and the Grand Canyon can be seen everywhere, which is a favorable terrain for dealing with the Jin cavalry.

Li Yanqing's army lay in ambush in the Taiyue Mountains the day before yesterday. He let go of the East Road Han army who rushed to Shangdang County to suppress Liu Dayi's army. He has no interest in this kind of mob army. He is waiting patiently for the arrival of the main force of the enemy army. .

Li Yanqing's original plan was to catch two good fish, the Han Army of Hedong Road and the Han Army of Yanshan Mansion, but he did not expect to catch a big fish. Wan Yanchang personally led 20,000 cavalry to attack Shangdang County. Yan Qing was full of anticipation.

At the same moment when the 20,000 cavalry left Linfen County and marched eastward, Li Yanqing received the information, and he quickly deployed. There are three places in the Taiyue Grand Canyon that are more suitable for cavalry to camp, and Li Yanqing sent troops to these three places. Unexpectedly, Jin Bing chose the second target, Panxiu Valley, to camp.

Song Jun also set up a marching tent in the woods. At this time, the lights in the big tent were dimly lit. Li Yanqing stood at the table and watched the map. This was a map of the Grand Canyon that the scouts had drawn before. The valley is the key area, and it was drawn in great detail. Li Yanqing stared at it for a moment, then suddenly frowned slightly, and raised his head to ask the scout standing beside him, "How wide and deep is the stream on the other side of Panxiu Valley?"

"Qiyu Dutong, about one zhang wide, only ankle deep."

Looking similar to this side, he immediately ordered: "Let General Niugao come to see me!"

After a while, Niu Gao walked quickly into the big tent, knelt down on one knee and cupped his fists and said, "See Du Tong for humble posts!"

"General Niu, please stand up!"

"Thank you Dutong!"

Niu Gao stood up and came to the small table. Li Yanqing pointed to the west side of the map and said, "You can lead 3,000 people to the Gooseneck Valley quickly, and cut off the stream for me. This must be done before the third watch."

"Humble post obeys orders!"

Seeing that Li Yanqing had no other orders, Niu Gao took his leave immediately and left.

Goose Neck Valley is located ten miles to the west. It is a canyon that passes through the north. Li Yanqing led the army to go south along this gorge. Goose Neck Valley is very narrow, the narrowest point is only ten feet. Flowing through the Gooseneck Valley, if the stream is cut off in the Gooseneck Valley, then the creek on the other side of the Panxiu Valley will have no water.

At this time, at the east and west ends of Panxiu Valley, there are hundreds of soldiers of the Song Army applying fire oil in the woods. Although Panxiu Valley is more than ten miles wide, it is full of forests. Once a fire breaks out, there is nowhere to escape. Or break out to the west, to the east there are 10,000 troops led by Wang Gui waiting outside the valley entrance, and to the west there is Li Yanqing's army waiting 20 miles away. In fact, 20,000 Jin cavalry have been surrounded by the Song army. It's in Xiugu.

Time gradually passed two watches, the camp tents had been dismantled, Li Yanqing rode on his horse and watched the west, at this moment, a soldier rushed to report, "Report to Dutong, the stream has stopped flowing!"

"It's really fast!"

Li Yanqing secretly praised, and then ordered: "You can light the fire!"

Three rockets soared into the sky, which was the signal for ignition. The Song army ambushing about five miles away from the enemy immediately began to ignite. They ran with torches and lit hundreds of fire points.

At this time, the patrolling gold soldiers in the pine forest also noticed something abnormal. The stream stopped flowing. The patrolling soldiers panicked and rushed to report to Wan Yanchang.

"What! The stream stopped flowing?"

Wan Yanchang was stunned for a while, what is the reason? He was a little awake, and suddenly realized that something was wrong, and immediately stood up and shouted: "Send my order, all soldiers mount their horses immediately!"

At this time, a sentry rushed back and shouted: "Fire, a fire is burning in the east!"

Due to the strong wind in the valley and the easterly wind, the thick smoke from the east was blown into the Jinbing camp, and the forest was filled with thick smoke. Twenty thousand cavalry were choked awake in their sleep, and the soldiers turned over in panic. When I got on the horse, I didn't even care about the blankets that wrapped my body. The war horses also felt the danger, and they raised their hooves and neighed one after another.

"Deputy Marshal, what should we do now?" a commander-in-chief shouted.

"Leave the pine forest first, and go to the south!"

Wan Yanchang took the lead in urging his horses to run to the south, and 20,000 cavalry turned their horses to follow. The army was running from the forest, the sky turned red, and there was a terrible crackling sound from the forest in the distance, which was the fire of a burning tree. The sound is frightening.

Panxiu Valley is more than ten miles wide. Jin Bing originally camped in the northernmost pine forest, and they fled to the southernmost side to find a way out.

Wan Yanchang had beads of sweat rolling down his forehead. He had already realized that he had made a big mistake and should have broken out of the siege when the fire had just started. It was a little late now, but they had nowhere to go except to break out of the siege.

Wan Yanchang gritted his teeth and said to Wan Yantili, the head of the Wanfu: "We break out separately. You lead 10,000 cavalry to break through to the east, and I lead another 10,000 cavalry to break through to the west. If the breakout is successful, we will go to Luoyang and plunder along the way. supply!"

"Follow the order!"

Wanyan Teli shouted, "The Second Army follows me to the east to break through!"

He took the lead, and the 10,000 Bohai cavalry of the Second Army urged their horses to follow him.

The 20,000 cavalry of the Jin Bing were divided into two groups, one heading east and the other heading west. When Wanyan Trili was far away, Wan Yanchang raised his arms and shouted, leading 10,000 cavalry to rush towards the way they came.

Whether or not they can break through successfully depends on this.

(end of this chapter)

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