Fenghou

Chapter 205
There are several huge leather rafts moored on the wharf of the Yellow River. These are grain ships from Xingqing Prefecture, and then transported from Baochuan County to Deshun Prefecture by camel caravan. It only takes five days, but if they are transported by land from Xingqing Prefecture to In Deshun Prefecture, it will take at least ten days, not to mention the long time, and the road is difficult and dangerous, and the carrying capacity is not large, so the advantage of going by water is obviously much greater.

"Commander, look, that's not a boat!" A young man cried out in astonishment when he saw the huge raft for the first time.

All his companions glared at him, and the young man bowed his head in fright when he realized he had slipped.

These dozen or so strong men at the dock were dressed up as scouts of the Song army, and the leader was Hu Yanlei, the deputy commander of the scout battalion.

There are three teams under the scout battalion of the Qinzhou Army. The first team is called the scout department, also known as the wild detective.

The second team is called the City Detective Department, which is responsible for entering the city to investigate information, including regular spies in the city, such as the Wucheng Town Inn, which belongs to the city detective, and Hu Yanlei is in charge of the city detective.

The third team is called the Ministry of Mountains and Seas. There are currently two teams, one is the flying monkey team that climbs the city, and the other is the water ghost team that moves in the water. The two teams are composed of [-] soldiers each, and more types will be added in the future according to the situation.

Today, the team led by Hu Yanlei belongs to the city scouts, and came to check the food and defense situation in Baochuan County under the order of Chen Qing.

Hu Yanlei glanced at his companions, didn't say much, and said to everyone: "It is best to keep silent when entering the warehouse area, follow me, and don't get separated."

Hu Yanlei brought everyone to the pier. The dock supervisor knew him and immediately shouted: "The food has arrived, hurry up and carry the food."

Hu Yanlei waved to everyone, and more than a dozen people joined the food delivery team.

"Let me push the cart!"

Hu Yanlei hung the leather bag of the wheelbarrow on his shoulder, pushed five or six bags of grain on the wheelbarrow, and followed the convoy towards the granary.

This is the first time he has entered the granary. He entered the material warehouse two days ago to get a general understanding of the situation of the material warehouse. Today they started to contact the most important granary for the first time.

From the outside, the granary looks huge. There are four in total, including three granaries and one forage silo.

When Hu Yanlei entered the granary, he was really shocked. Bags of grain were piled up like a mountain, and more than a dozen people were busy on the top of the pile of grain like ants. This is a [-]-stone granary, and it is already half full.

Hu Yanlei unloaded the grain, pushed the cart out of the granary, and ran a few more times. He had been to all three granaries. He couldn't bear the excitement in his heart anymore and wanted to report to the commander immediately.

Finding an excuse, Hu Yanlei slipped back to his residence. He quickly wrote an eagle letter, put it in the letter tube, took out the letter eagle from the cage, carefully tied the letter tube to his leg, went to the window and shook the eagle, the letter The eagle flew out of the window, went straight to the sky, circled twice in the air, and slowly flew towards Ganquan Fort.

Yang Yuanqing led two thousand recruits to escort nearly a thousand carts to Ganquan Fort.

With the addition of [-] fresh troops, Chen Qing's Qinzhou Army has reached [-] troops. Whether it is the Puppet Qi Army or the Xixia Army, as long as it is not tens of thousands of troops, he can compete with it.

"How are the recruits training?" Chen Qing asked with a smile.

Yang Yuanqing smiled bitterly and said, "There is no problem with the bow and arrow, and the physical strength is not bad. The fighting training has just started, and there is still a lack of actual combat experience."

Chen Qing nodded, "Hurry up and train, I guess the actual combat will come soon."

"Controlling, most of the materials shipped by the humble job this time are camp tents and supplies. There is not much food, and the humble job is very worried about food."

"Food should be able to solve the problem, do you know Baochuan County?"

"Baochuan County in Xinhui Prefecture?"

Chen Qing nodded, "It is the Yellow River Wharf closest to the Hexi Corridor. The Hexi Corridor has been occupied by Xixia, and all kinds of materials transported from the Hexi Corridor must be transferred to Baochuan County. In addition, it is only two hundred miles away from Deshun Prefecture. , much closer than Xingqing Mansion, I believe there will be food in Baochuan County."

"That's why the Xixia Army tried everything possible to take Ganquan Fort, because Ganquan Fort blocked their main traffic route."

Chen Qing said with a smile: "It's not blocking, it's just that they have to send a large army of guards every time, otherwise it will only be cheap for us, and sending a large army of guards is too expensive. This is the helplessness of the Xixia Army."

Just as he was talking, a soldier rushed over, bowed and said, "Reporting to the Commander, the Eagle letter from Deputy Commander Huyan has arrived."

Chen Qing was overjoyed and urged his horse to run to the barracks.An eagle letter box has been quietly lying on the table of the Chinese army tent,
Chen Qing took out the eagle letter and looked at it carefully. There was only one sentence on it, "[-] shi for grain and [-] troops for the army. You can contact the Laoyuan Inn in the city." '

Chen Qing nodded, as expected, the food problem can be solved.

From Ganquanbao along the Kushuihe River, all the way is the vast Loess Gobi, which still belongs to the Loess Plateau area, but the precipitation is scarce, and the green is basically invisible. Without water, there is no population, and it is deserted for dozens of miles.

The reason why Ganquan Fort is precious is that there are more than a dozen deep-water wells in the city, the water quality is sweet, which solves the drinking water problem for humans and animals, and the population gathers in Ganquan Fort and the Baishui River in the east.

It is not far from Ganquanbao to Baochuan County, about [-] miles. The road is very flat. Chen Qing led [-] cavalry and [-] carts to march for a day and a half. On the afternoon of the third day, the team arrived at No. [-] Baochuan County. Bitter Elm Town, ten miles away.

The town is very small, with only a dozen families. Although the houses are in the Han style, they have been taken over by the party members. Their main means of livelihood is to sell water and dry food to passing travelers and caravans.

The team settled down in the small town, and Chen Qing sent people to Baochuan County to find Hu Yanlei.

In the evening, Hu Yanlei came in a hurry, and Chen Qing asked a little strangely: "I still expect you to cooperate with the outside to seize the county seat at night. Now that you are running here, can you still enter the city at night?"

Hu Yanlei hurriedly said: "Qi reported that there is basically no army in the city now, only [-] people guard the warehouse. This morning, something happened in Yantian. It is said that the slaves of the Han people were unwilling to be humiliated and were preparing to revolt. Three thousand Xixia troops rushed there. The suppression has gone, just not in the city.”

Chen Qing's spirit lifted, it was really a good opportunity.

He immediately said to Zheng Ping: "You lead a thousand brothers to follow Huyanlei into the city and seize the city and warehouses, and I will lead the army to clean up the Xixia army!"

Although Zheng Ping was a bit unwilling, but the military order could not be disobeyed, he had no choice but to agree, and led [-] soldiers and [-] carts to Baochuan County, while Chen Qing led [-] elite cavalry to leave Kuyu Town and head towards Yanze in the west. .

Four thousand cavalry rushed for more than twenty miles. Under the afterglow of the setting sun, they saw an army a few miles ahead. There were cavalry and infantry. There were about [-] people, escorting more than a thousand slaves. The slaves had their hands tied behind their backs. A team of ten people stumbled and walked under the escort of the army.

At this time, the opponent's army also found them, and immediately blew the horn, "Woo--" the sound of the horn was hurried and panicked.

Chen Qing waved Fang Tian's painted halberd and shouted sharply, "Kill—"

"Kill ah-"

Four thousand Song Army cavalry launched, waving spears and swords, like a raging black tide, rushing and roaring to kill the enemy.

The yellow dust stirred up by the horseshoes filled the sky, just like a sandstorm swept in, and the sky turned black.

The [-] Western Xia Army is also a capture army. The leader is called Li Muyuan. He has heard the sound of horseshoes, but he never thought it was the Song Army. The Song Army has almost no cavalry, and they will not come here. The Song Army is all in the south. Woolen cloth!

He thought it was the Xixia army or the Jin soldiers, but when he suddenly saw the opponent's flag clearly, he was taken aback and hurriedly ordered the army to gather in formation.

More than a thousand bound Han slaves ran wildly to the west, away from the battlefield, and the Xixia army ignored them. The Song army cavalry was terrifying and was about to kill them.

The soldiers of the Xixia Army quickly lined up, but it was a little too late. Before the formation was completed, the cavalry of the Song Army came overwhelmingly.

Chen Qing led five hundred elite cavalry to the front. With a roar, Fang Tian's painted halberd slashed up and down, sending more than a dozen heads flying, and the blood splashed. In the formation.

Immediately afterwards, a tide of [-] cavalry swooped up and drowned the Xixia army.

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