Fenghou

Chapter 145 Harvest
Jin Bing's camp is located in the northwest of the county seat. It was originally a large piece of barren grassland, and many people grew vegetables in it. After Jin Bing occupied Pingliang County, he leveled this piece of land of nearly [-] mu and turned it into their camp. More than [-] large tents were set up.

At this time, at two o'clock, the camp was quiet, only the lights were still on in the handsome tent, and people could be vaguely seen walking around in the handsome tent.

Jin Bing's war horses were kept on the side, which consisted of more than a dozen long stables. When it snowed, all the war horses were placed in the stables.

Chen Qing led the army and slowly approached the camp. The time was ripe. He got on his horse, and the soldiers behind followed him. Chen Qing waved his long halberd and shouted: "Rush in, kill without mercy!"

Two thousand and two hundred cavalrymen suddenly mobilized, and with the sound of horseshoes, they charged into the Jurchen camp.

'when!When! When! When!"

The siren on the sentry tower was loud, and fell silent for a moment, and the sentry was shot in the throat by an arrow from Yang Zaixing.

Song army cavalry rushed into the barracks like a torrent. The chief general Wan Yanxin heard the alarm bell and rushed out of the big tent with a mace. He saw countless cavalry rushing into the camp. He shouted in shock: " Rise and fight! Rise and fight!"

Chen Qing locked onto Wanyan Xin in an instant, urged his horse to kill him, Wanyan Xin also saw Chen Qing, he roared, stepped forward, raised his mace and swept away.

This stick came violently and powerfully. Chen Qing rode his horse and stabbed with a backhand, as fast as lightning.

Wan Yanxin hit the ground with one stick, before he could stop the stick, the sharp tip of the halberd was already in front of him, it was too late to hide.

'puff! ’ The cold halberd tip pierced his neck, Wanyan Xin’s eyes darkened, and he died instantly.

Chen Qing shook the corpse, and ordered: "Cut off the head!"

A soldier jumped off his horse and chopped off Wanyan Xin's head.

At this time, the camp was in chaos. The Jurchen soldiers were barefoot and without armor, fighting fiercely with the Song army with weapons. As the main general was killed, the Jurchen soldiers' morale quickly collapsed, and the soldiers fled in all directions. Many soldiers wanted to rush to lead the horses, but the road to the stables was cut off by the Song army, and it was impossible to ride horses.

Half an hour later, the battle in the camp gradually came to an end. All three thousand Jurchen soldiers were killed, and none survived. However, the Song army also paid the price of more than three hundred casualties, but this was already a brilliant victory.

There was a lot of shouting and killing in the city, and the people in Pingliang County were terrified. Every family closed their doors and hid in the cellar with the elderly and children.

At five o'clock, the sky began to snow.

The barracks have been cleaned up. Thousands of corpses have been transported outside the city to be burned and buried deep. The camp of Jin soldiers has become a camp of Song troops. Chen Qing has arranged for hundreds of people to patrol the entire city. Let's talk tomorrow.

Chen Qing moved into the commander's tent, he didn't feel sleepy, he was looking through various military papers left by Wan Yan Xin.

At this time, a civil servant was brought to the big tent by Yang Yuanqing, "Commander, the governor of Pingliang Mansion brought it here."

"Bring it in!"

The official was brought into the big tent, Chen Qing was startled, he knew this official, it was the official surnamed Tao who came to persuade him to surrender at Jiandao Pass.

The official was the Tao Shuang who persuaded Chen Qing to surrender. He was appointed as the governor of Pingliang Prefecture, in charge of people's livelihood and government affairs.

Tao Shuang also recognized Chen Qing, was stunned for a moment, and quickly clasped his fists and said, "My subordinate Tao Shuang, see General Chen!"

"So it's Tao Changshi, an old friend."

Chen Qing said lightly: "It seems that if I want to kill you, it will be difficult for me to do so."

Tao Shuang was taken aback, and quickly explained: "The lower officials are civil servants, and they never do anything harmful to nature. They are just greedy for life and afraid of death, so they have to work for the Jinren."

"You are honest!"

Chen Qing asked Zhang Jian before that Tao Changshi had a good reputation, so he considered working with him.

Tao Shuang smiled wryly and said, "I am ashamed to be an official."

"Let me ask you, besides Pingliang County, are there any Jurchens in Pingliang Mansion?"

"Reporting to the general, only Pingliang County has it, and no other counties have it."

"Then how do they contact Wanyan Wushu?"

Tao Shuang thought for a while and said, "They are all sent by cavalry, and they don't usually contact them very much. They only send people over when they are urging food. They only came a few days ago. The food was sent away overnight the night before. It is estimated that they will not come again for a long time." connect."

Chen Qing said again: "Just now my subordinates said that there are tens of thousands of shi of grain in the warehouse, and I will take some of it away, and the rest will be handed over to you, and you will distribute it to the people of Pingliang County. If you dare to steal it, I will definitely Will kill your whole family."

Tao Shuang's face was full of bitterness. If he divided the army rations, it would be strange if the Jin soldiers didn't kill him when they came back. After a while, he said, "How about this! I'm responsible for spreading the news, there must be countless people coming to share the rations, and the general will directly distribute the rations." Let them! Otherwise all our officials will die."

"Alright, I'll stay here for ten days at most, you guys have to hurry up."

"The subordinate understands!"

Chen Qing smiled again and asked: "I remember you told me at Jiandao Pass that you were an official in Qinzhou?"

"Exactly! The officer stayed in Chengji County of Qinzhou for ten years, from a county lieutenant to a county magistrate, and was later transferred to Pingliang Mansion as Sima."

"Okay! You go back and prepare first, and I will ask you later."

Tao Shuang bowed and saluted, and left in a hurry.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing stepped forward and said with a smile: "The humble officer discovered a Jurchen's secret money bank!"

Chen Qing cheered up, "Let's go! Take a look."

The Jurchen's treasury was full of copper coins, which amounted to tens of thousands of coins. In another warehouse, there were more than [-] bolts of silk and cloth, as well as a large amount of mutton, wine, medicinal materials and other materials.

Chen Qing requested that the copper coins be divided into two parts, one part was used as a pension for the soldiers who died in battle, the other part was given to his subordinates, and all the [-] bolts of silk were also given to his subordinates.

When the soldiers of the Song Army were counting the copper coins, they accidentally discovered a small door hidden behind the copper coins, which was usually covered by the copper coins.

When Chen Qing rushed to the money bank, he saw that the soldiers had completely cleared out the copper coins, revealing a small copper door, about four feet square, with a copper lock hanging on it.

"Break the brass lock!"

A soldier stepped forward, smashed the copper lock with a hammer, and pushed open the copper door.

"Commander Qi, it's full of boxes!" The soldier went in and took a look.

"Get all the boxes out!"

The soldiers worked together to move out all the boxes inside, a total of one hundred boxes.

Chen Qing opened the lid of a box. Under the firelight, the box was full of white silver ingots, which dazzled everyone's eyes and made everyone exclaim.

"This is something from the Pingliang Silver Mine!"

Yang Yuanqing picked up a piece of silver ingot and said with a smile: "There are characters here, which were supervised by Pingliang. It is estimated that they were intercepted by Jin soldiers before they could be transported away."

Chen Qing also picked up one piece, looked at the words, weighed it again, and it weighed fifty taels, "Do the math, how many are there?"

"A box of forty ingots is two thousand taels, and a hundred boxes is two hundred thousand taels of silver, which is equivalent to one million coins. Commander, what should I do?"

Everyone looked at him expectantly, these silver coins are not for rewards, he will have great use in the future.

Chen Qing smiled and said to the crowd: "This money will be needed when we conquer Qinzhou in the future, take it all away, and give all the copper coins and silk to the soldiers."

"I have a suggestion. It's better to send all the captured materials and war horses to Xianrenguan. There are exactly [-] pieces of cloth in it. Our soldiers divided the silk and simply gave the cloth to Liu Zan. The horses, mutton, and wine Same."

This is a good suggestion. They will stay in Pingliang for ten more days, and they will use horses to transport money, food and materials away.

Chen Qing said happily: "This task is entrusted to you and Wang Duo. You take a thousand brothers and take away all supplies other than grain and grass, and there are two hundred thousand taels of silver."

Wang Duo was a little worried: "Will Liu Zan take this opportunity to swallow these belongings?"

Chen Qing smiled slightly: "Don't worry! I saved his father's life, and he still owes me a favor. It should be safe to put it with him."

"I'm afraid that if the news leaks out, there will be trouble with the court in the future."

Chen Qing snorted coldly, "It's not the first time I've done this kind of thing, I'll take all the responsibilities, don't think too much, just follow the order."

Yang Yuanqing and Wang Duo hurriedly clasped their fists together and said, "Follow the order!"

(End of this chapter)