Fenghou

Chapter 236
Wu Jie led an army of [-] to Raofeng Pass that night, and the gate guard gave him a letter. Wu Jie was dumbfounded after reading the letter.

"Wu Dutong, what happened?" Li Yuan walked over and asked.

Wu Jie raised the letter in his hand and said with a wry smile: "I thought Chen Qing went after Jin Bing, but he returned this task to me, allowing me to continue chasing and cut off the enemy's rear!"

"What about him? Where did he go?" Li Yuan asked at a loss.

Wu Jie pointed to the north, "A hundred miles away from here is Ziwu Valley, and he led his army to kill Jingzhao!"

"what!"

Li Yuan was stunned, his mind was a little messy, Jingzhao was the heart of Shaanxi Road, what would be the consequences of Chen Qing killing him like this?
"I'm a little confused. Since Meridian Valley can go, why don't the golden soldiers go south along the Meridian Road?"

"Ziwu Road is difficult and tortuous, and it is very difficult to walk. We have destroyed many easy-to-walk plank roads, and there is also Ziwu Pass inside. Three hundred Song troops are stationed. The terrain is very dangerous. Jin soldiers can't carry their luggage. Bring dry food and go south, if you can take the Ziwu Pass, it’s okay, but if you can’t, they will have to kill their horses if they want to go back.”

"I see, but why did Chen Qing go to Jingzhao?"

Wu Jie sighed and said: "Chen Qing has always been very courageous and did not take the usual path. He thought that the Jin army would attack Hanzhong, and the puppet Qi army would garrison and disperse the pass. Jingzhao would be empty. Guohe and Puppet Qi are disgraced, even if Wan Yanchang doesn't want to give up Hanzhong, Dasanguan has to withdraw his troops."

Li Yuan understood, he smiled and said, "Isn't this just besieging Wei and saving Zhao?"

"It is indeed to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao. I guess he had this idea from the beginning, but we were in a hurry, so he rushed to the rescue first. After retaking Raofeng Pass and the crisis in Hanzhong was resolved, he continued to attack Guanzhong."

Speaking of this, Wu Jie said with great emotion: "I, Wu Jie, have been in the army for more than [-] years. I have experienced hundreds of battles. I think I am also a famous general of the Western Army, but I really don't have his courage. Mr. Li, he is our Western Army. hope!"

Li Yuan nodded silently, this time he remembered Chen Qing firmly.

After walking [-] miles north from Raofeng Pass, you will enter the entrance of Ziwu Valley. Chen Qing once walked this road, but Ziwu Valley was relatively easy to walk at that time. Wanyan Wushu attacked Meridian Valley last year and almost opened up the road. Wu Jie didn't dare to be careless, so he ordered the plank roads and bridges to be burned down. And the luggage can't pass.

Four thousand five hundred cavalrymen entered Meridian Valley and walked about [-] miles. The road ahead was blocked by a hill tens of feet high. A corridor was dug in the middle of the hill. Pass, here is Meridian Pass.

Ziwu Pass is the same as Jiange, guarding a dangerous location, easy to defend and difficult to attack. To attack, the army must walk through a long corridor. The corridor is very narrow. There is no way for the enemy to hide in the corridor. The blockade can be said to be one man guarding the gate, and ten thousand men are not allowed to open it.

In the past, the carts had to be unloaded when they came here. The carts were dismantled, the livestock and the carts passed through the customs separately, and then reassembled. It was very inconvenient, and now the carts cannot pass.

Yang Fangxu was very familiar with the guards above, he took Chen Qing's command arrow up to communicate, and after a while, more than a dozen soldiers came down, the leading general was Zhou Wu, the town general of Ziwu Pass, he was a general of Wu Ling, and he had heard about it for a long time Chen Qing's name.

"I have heard of Chen Tongzhi's reputation for a long time in a lowly position, and I am lucky to see you today!"

Chen Qing clasped his fists back and said with a smile: "General Zhou has won the award. I want to go north to Guanzhong from Ziwu Valley. I wonder if it is feasible?"

Zhou Wu nodded, "It should be possible if you don't bring a heavy truck, but it's more difficult to walk, and it will take at least five or six days, but Yang Sihu knows how to get there, so the governor can just follow him.

In addition, the puppet Qi army built a pass city at the entrance of the valley in the north. It has just been built. Be careful when passing by. "

This news really surprised Chen Qing, he quickly asked: "How dangerous is the pass city in the north, and how does it compare with Ziwu Pass?"

"Of course it is not as dangerous as the Meridian Valley. It was not built on a high place, but at the mouth of the valley, cutting off the valley road. I have studied how to capture it. I can only wait for the night when the moon is dark and the wind is high, and then the valley will be completely dark. , if there is moonlight, the soldiers on the top of the city can see the situation in the valley, and the humble official said that there are so many controls, I am afraid I can’t understand it, just go and see.”

"Thank you!"

Under Zhou Wu's arrangement, Chen Qing led the army through Ziwu Pass and walked to the depths of Ziwu Valley.

There have been no caravans in Meridian Valley since last year. The valley is full of weeds. Many long ravines used to hide thieves. Now the thieves can’t survive. The [-]-mile-long Meridian Valley has become wild animals. world.

The Meridian Valley is [-] miles long. It is not always a narrow valley, nor is it full of cliffs on both sides. In fact, the central part of the Meridian Valley is the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains. Many areas are tens of miles wide and densely forested. There are several large and small lakes, many mountain streams and small rivers. There used to be many villages in the valley, but now they are all abandoned, and only hunters and herbal gatherers come and go occasionally.

Chen Qing's subordinates are cavalry, and they are relatively fast. They can walk through the Meridian Valley in about six days. They have enough food for ten days, which is basically enough.

At noon on the third day, they came to Jinxian Dam, the widest place in Meridian Valley. This is a basin with a radius of a hundred miles. To the west is a large forest. A small river flows out of the forest and flows into Jinxian Lake in front of Chen Qing.

The grassland on both sides of the river is lush, at least several thousand acres, and it is also a good place for grazing.

Seeing that it was already afternoon, Chen Qing ordered to camp in Xiaohe, rest overnight, and set off tomorrow night.

"There are deer over there!" Liu Qiong shouted excitedly pointing to the distance,

Sure enough, there was a group of sika deer drinking water by the river a few miles away. There were more than a hundred of them. Everyone was overjoyed, and they could have a delicious meal tonight.

Chen Qing smiled and said to Liu Qiong: "If you can hunt two more bears, I will give you a turn!"

Immediately, Liu Qiong was impatient, and immediately galloped away with hundreds of cavalry, chasing the deer into the forest, half an hour later, the cavalry came out happily, they wiped out the deer, and hunted two There are more than a hundred sheep, more than [-] cows, and more than a dozen wild boars.

The cattle and sheep were taken away by the residents of the valley too late to become wild cattle and sheep. The prey was so abundant that Chen Qing had to send another [-] brothers to help.

Liu Qiong walked over with a rare clouded leopard on his shoulders, "Guan Zhi, I couldn't hunt a bear, but I caught a clouded leopard. I don't know if that counts?"

Seeing that the arrow shot through the eyes, Chen Qing basically kept the leopard skin intact, which happened to be a birthday gift for Lu Yihao, so he happily smiled and said: "It can be counted!"

Liu Qiong was overjoyed, and offered the leopard to Chen Qing, and then rushed to kill the cow.

That night, the Song army lit dozens of bonfires by the Jinxian Lake and had a delicious meal of barbecued game. They also brought captured sheep wine. The soldiers drank and ate meat and fell asleep to their heart's content.

Early the next morning, the army set off again, and the road ahead was really difficult. The original straight road was gone, and there were long detours, but some road sections could not be detoured, so we had to find a way to solve it.

It is mainly a section of road through Xiaowutai Mountain in Ziwu Valley, which is about a hundred miles long. Many plank roads on the mountain road have been burned. People can climb over the rocky cliffs little by little, but war horses cannot.

Chen Qing had no choice but to send people to cut wood and build bridges, and repaired more than a dozen sections of dangerous roads in a row. Although the road was cleared, it took a full three days.

On the ninth day, the army's dry food was running out, and they could only last for another day and a half at most. At this time, they finally came to the vicinity of Beitankou.

Only then did Chen Qing understand the reason why the Jin soldiers did not go south from the Ziwu Valley. If there was no logistics support, they would cut off the food when they reached the Ziwu Pass to the south. Only by killing horses for food can they return to Guanzhong. This is a result that Jin Bing cannot accept anyway.

But the Song Army can attack Ziwu Valley in the north, and they can build a logistics camp in Jinxian Lake, so they don't have to worry about the future.

Of course, Chen Qing didn't think of this, and it was too late to set up a logistics camp.

Now they are also facing the same consequences as Jin Bing. If they can't attack the pass of Taniguchi in the north, they will have to kill horses for food.

(End of this chapter)