lady, please calm down

October 15th, the end of the Xu period.

Navy military camp in Lulong County, Zhongjing, Jin Kingdom.

Under the bright moonlight, groups of hard-lined soldiers boarded the ship in silence and orderly.

Chen Chu stood on the shore, with Shi Xiaowu and Xin Qiji standing on the left and right.

At this time, in addition to the eleven ships that Xiao Xin had handed over from Jinzhou, there were also nine offshore merchant ships and barges that were less resistant to waves, thus forming a fleet of twenty ships. Transport four thousand elites and horses selected from Xiao Xin's sixth brigade.

At 11:30 pm, as the soldiers were about to board the ship, Chen Chu once again warned, "Tanfu, if you encounter a small group of Jin soldiers after landing, do not fight them. Move north quickly. Once you enter the plains of the Jin Kingdom, you can do whatever you want."

"Brother Chen, don't worry. Brother Yu knows it well. Brother Chen has chosen to land in Pingnan, and he will definitely be able to catch Jin Lu off guard."

The expedition was about to begin, but Xiao Xin did not feel any nervousness, but instead was eager to try.

Pingnan County is on the east side of the Liaodong Peninsula, facing the sea.

Even if the Jin Kingdom is prepared, the focus of defense will be on the west side of the Liaodong Peninsula, facing the Bohai Bay.

After Xiao Xin finished speaking, he glanced at Chen Chu and said with a smile: "Brother Chen, after landing, we will be fighting in an enemy country. Food and grass supplies must be supplied locally. What should we do if the Jin people don't cooperate?"

Nonsense, stealing other people's food and grass, it's weird if others can cooperate.

However, since the establishment of the Huaibei Army, military discipline has always been strict, and "robbery" is a crime that must be punished. Xiao Xin is asking Brother Chen for the right to "act expeditiously."

Chen Chu was naturally not a pedantic person, and said directly: "After landing, except for the crime of 'sexual humiliation', the rest will be decided by Tanfu himself."

"Yes!"

With Chen Chu's endorsement, Xiao Xin felt confident that fighting a war was not just a house game, especially such a job as going deep behind enemy lines, living in the local area, and even killing people to cover the march route were all options when necessary.

Unexpectedly, Chen Chu said again: "Except for what your department needs, all the grain, grass, cattle and sheep obtained along the way will be burned. If you encounter a dam, use the explosives you brought to blow it up. If the Jin Kingdom is young and strong, you can also kill them."

Xiao Xin couldn't help but shuddered and took another look. Chen Chu didn't have the ferocious expression he imagined, but had a calm face.

Chen Chu seemed to notice Xiao Xin's gaze, and couldn't help but said: "I asked you to destroy the place, not for revenge. Now that the Jin Kingdom's surprise troops have traveled thousands of miles and invaded the territory from the northwest, the interior must be extremely empty. Destroying productivity is... Even if you try to destroy their ability to continue fighting, I want to see if Wan Yanliang can stay in Dalinghe if war breaks out all over the country."

They fight theirs, we fight ours.
It is nothing more than fighting for strategic initiative.

If Chen Chu was worried about the Jinxia West Route Army besieging Tokyo and then led his army back to help, Wan Yanliang would definitely take the opportunity to cross the river and pursue him.

Even if Chen Chu successfully reaches the city of Tokyo, he will still face the dangerous situation of Wanyan seeking success in the past and Wanyan Liang in the future. By then, not only Chen Chu's troops, but also the entire Qi nation's elite who are currently concentrated outside Tokyo will be completely passive.

In this case, let's open up a new battlefield!

You attack my Tokyo, I will attack your Huanglong Mansion, kill your cattle and sheep, and dig up your ancestral graves!
The Qi State could at least cobble together a large army under the walls of Tokyo, but on the Jin side, Taixu had stayed in Huanglong Mansion for many years, so he naturally had a good idea of ​​how many troops there were outside the pass.

Chen Chu was sure that except for the Jin Army who was pinned down on the Daling River and the Jin Army heading west, there were not even two thousand elites outside the pass. The key was to guard each city.

The sky is wide and the earth is vast, let Xiao Xin do whatever he wants!
In the middle of the unitary hour, Shi Xiaowu, his third brother, and his younger brother were preparing to board the ship. Before leaving, Chen Chu told him: "After sending Xiao Xin ashore, Wu Lang will patrol along the north side of the Bohai Bay and the east and west sides of the Liaodong Peninsula as planned. Be sure to Let no piece of Jin Kingdom go into the sea, no matter whether it is military or civilian ships!”

"Order!"

Shi Xiaowu clasped his fists, and Chen Chu continued: "In all the cities along the coast, if they are close to the sea, Wulang will let them listen to the noise, and don't worry about the ammunition."

Among the ships now assigned to Shi Xiaowu's command, three large ships have more than ten thunder cannons installed on the sides of the ships.

Very suitable for blocking the coast and bombarding cities.

It is expected that in a few days, outside the Jinguo Pass, not only will there be wars all over the interior, but there will also be no peace along the coast. At that time, it will be seen whether Yan Liang will continue to hold out at the Daling River or lead his troops to return for reinforcements.
Chen Chu had received news of the invasion of the Jinxia coalition more than ten days ago. The reason why he waited until today to take action was to wait for these gunboats to take shape.

At the end of Youshi, the fleet weighed anchor and headed northeast, slowly disappearing into the dark sea.

Chen Chu returned to the military camp and saw Tong Qi, the military counselor in the tent.

In just a few days, Tong Qi has lost her appearance, her cheekbones are high on both sides, her lips are chapped and oozing with blood. She has just passed the age of frailty, and her silver hair is already visible in her black hair.
Indeed, compared to Zhe Yaner, Tong Qi felt even more sad inside.

Although the former's father and second brother were killed in battle, his eldest brother, mother and sisters are still there anyway.

But Tong Qi’s whole family died in Baoan Prefecture
"Weihuang."

Chen Chu called Tong Qi's name softly. Tong Qi, who was distracted, looked up when he heard the voice. When he saw the person, his lips trembled uncontrollably, "Brother, when will we go south to Tokyo and kill those thieves Wanyan Mouyan and Ren Dejing!"

Tong Qi raised her head, her eyes red.

Chen Chu patted his shoulder, pulled him to sit down, and then said gently: "Weihuang, since you and I are sworn brothers, your revenge is my revenge, and this revenge must be avenged! But you have been here for days. If you don’t eat or drink, and don’t take a good rest, your body will collapse first. How can you kill the enemy with your own hands if this continues?”

Tong Qi was silent for a moment, then suddenly stood up and walked to three feet in front of Chen Chu. He knelt down and cried on the ground: "Brother, now I am alone in the world. If brother helps me avenge this, brother From now on, I will go through fire and water for my brother, even if I die!"

Two soldiers of the Tong family, Tong Kefeng and Wang Mancang, who were from Baoan Prefecture, also knelt down with Tong Qi.

The three of them were crying like two-year-old children, which was very sad to hear.

It's night, midnight.

Chen Chu couldn't sleep for a long time, so he simply put on his clothes and got up to patrol the camp.

The eldest son who lived next door heard the noise and got up.

The two of them walked casually in the camp. The eldest son saw that Brother Chu was not in a high mood and thought that the latter was infected because of Tong Qi's crying in the evening.

The eldest son knew that he was clumsy and could not comfort others, so he used his own method to silently stay by his brother's side.

Unexpectedly, Chen Chu suddenly asked inexplicably, "Eldest son, have I changed now?"

"No, Brother Chu is still the same sincere and good man as he was when he went up the mountain."

The eldest son scratched his head and replied seriously that the eldest son did not know how to flatter, and he indeed felt that Brother Chu had always been very good.

Chen Chu knew that he couldn't get anything out of his eldest son, so he couldn't help but smile bitterly and looked at the full moon above his head.

The reason why he asked this was because Cai Hua made a big fuss in Lulong County Magistrate's Courtyard, which was just an introduction.
Afterwards, Chen Chu reflected not only on life style issues, but also on major military and political matters, such as borrowing the help of the Jin Emperor to hunt south. Was it too impatient to advance to the Jin Kingdom in advance?

Although the Jin Kingdom was actually divided, due to Taixu's return to the south, Huaibei's most important intelligence line within the Jin Kingdom was cut off.

As a result, no warning was received about the Jin Army's westward advance.

At the same time, Chen Chu has been unable to establish a military branch in Xixia for many years. The objective reason is that he regarded the defense of Xixia as a matter for the Western Army, but subjectively he ignored and underestimated Xixia.

This is why Qi was caught off guard after the Jin Kingdom's trapped beast fight.

Thinking of this, Chen Chu subconsciously glanced at the night sky in the south. Ever since he led his army north, he had been paying attention to news about the Zhou Kingdom, but recently the Zhou Kingdom had been extremely quiet.

A little too quiet.

The next day, Chen Chu led the 1st Guards Regiment and two battalions of Qin Shengwu's 16th Regiment to continue southward from Lulong County.

However, what they printed was the designation of Xiaoxin's 6th Brigade, and the flag used the 8th Regiment Tiger Flag.
In Yongle City on the west bank of the Daling River, a hundred miles away to the north, the royal flag representing the residence of the King of Chu is still flying at the top of the city.

October twenty-three.

The city of Tokyo has been besieged for many days.

And on the outer edge of the Jinxia Military Camp, which has continuous fortifications, are the Qinwang soldiers one after another.

Over the past few days, King Qin's team has been arriving one after another. It is roughly estimated that there are nearly 300,000 people.

However, people from all walks of life do not belong to each other, and it is a mess and cannot form a joint force at all.

On October 13th, the magistrate of Teng County on the Jingdong Road led a Xiang army with 800 heroes. As soon as they arrived fifty miles east of Tokyo, they were discovered by a Jin army. In one round, the volunteers of Teng County were killed and defeated.

Only Su Yuying, the magistrate of the county, escaped with more than ten county captains and government officials.

On the 14th, the volunteers on Jingxi Road were also dispersed.

On the 16th, Zhang Chunxiao, Minister of War, contacted Qinfeng Road Manager Liu Shuping, Weisheng Army Commander Jing Chao, Xin'an Army Commander Kuang Daogu and Zhe Yanwen. The four armies were united and camped in Yanjin County on the north bank of the Yellow River. Only then did a unified command organization emerge.

But this station can also give a glimpse of the Qi army's fear of the Jinxia army. Tokyo is to the south of the Yellow River, Yanjin is to the north of the Yellow River, and the distance between the two places is more than a hundred miles.

On the 17th, volunteer leaders from all walks of life gathered in Yanjin.

Subsequently, at the recommendation of the generals of the Western Army and Zhang Chunxiao, Qin Fenglu's general Liu Shuping became the coach.

At this time, the Fourth Army of the Western Army still had 70,000 to 80,000 people, and they were all veterans of the regular army. Whether it was Zhang Chunxiao's appeasement or in terms of strength, Liu Shuping was indeed the right candidate.

When Liu Shuping took office as a new official, he formulated a raid plan on the same day. The Jinxia Army under the city of Tokyo relied heavily on supplies from the East and West warehouses of Luoyang that had fallen. Liu Shuping was determined to attack the Jinxia Army's food road and rob the latter of their food and grass.

The plan was fine, but problems arose during execution.

Feng Shuangyuan, the commander-in-chief of the Western Jing Dynasty, lost Luoyang and had only a few thousand remnants left. He had no voice among the various people, so he was appointed by Liu Shuping to take on this task.

According to the plan, Feng Shuangyuan and Zhao Mengguang of the Wu'an Army on Hedong Road were responsible for the raid.

Liu Shuping led the main force of the army to ambush five miles away. Needless to say, if Feng and Zhao's raid went smoothly, if not, Liu Shuping would lead the army to support them.

Almost all the food and grass for the Jinxia Army came from Luoyang. Naturally, Wanyan Mouyan attached great importance to this food road. Not only did he send fierce generals to escort the food and grass, but Wan Yanlan, the deputy commander of the Jin Army, personally led a light horse to patrol the food road.

On the afternoon of the 18th, elite troops from Feng and Zhao ambushed the rebel general Qu Yixian who was escorting grain and grass outside Wansheng Town in western Beijing. Unexpectedly, the Xixia fierce generals in the grain transport team did not panic. After resisting for two quarters of an hour with inferior troops, they waited for reinforcements from Wanyan, who came after hearing the news.

The Jin Xia army fought through half of the Qi army from the northwest and arrived at the gates of Tokyo. It had a huge psychological advantage against the Qi army.

Three thousand men fought hard against Feng and Zhao's seven thousand men. At the end of the battle, the Qi army was the first to show signs of instability.

Coincidentally, another Jin army patrolling outside Tokyo arrived again. Feng and Zhao were overwhelmed and retreated north.

Liu Shuping, who was supposed to meet the two men five miles away, saw that Jin Xia's pursuers were in a tidy formation and had no chance to take advantage of him, so he slowly withdrew from the battlefield without firing a single soldier.
In this battle, Feng Shuangyuan's few remaining troops were lost by nearly half.

After Feng Shuangyuan fled back to the Yanjin camp in embarrassment at night, he was so angry that he broke into Liu Shuping's Chinese army's tent at night and scolded the latter for not saving him and deliberately using the Western Beijing Army as cannon fodder.

Although Feng Shuangyuan was a local commander, he lost Luoyang and was like a lost dog. He originally had more than 20,000 soldiers, but now he only has more than 5,000 soldiers.

Already a toothless tiger, Liu Shuping immediately ordered Feng Shuangyuan to be detained at the Qinfeng Road Camp, and at the same time transferred the 5,000 Western Beijing Army to his headquarters.
It doesn't matter if they lose a battle. After all, all the reinforcements know that the Jin Xia Army is not easy to deal with.

But Liu Shuping took the opportunity to swallow up Feng Shuangyuan's department, and the impact was extremely bad.
That night, many small groups of people in the Yanjin camp quietly left the camp.

On the 20th, the remnants of the Zhe family army led by Zhe Yanwen and Wang Bing, the commander of Taiyuan, also left the camp on the pretext of looking for opportunities to annihilate the enemy.

Subsequently, Zhao Mengguang of the Wu'an Army on Hedong Road and Jia Zun, the prefect of Zezhou, also led their headquarters to leave the Yanjin camp.

On the 21st, Peng Er of the Huaibei Army also broke camp and turned to the southeast. Zhang Chunxiao heard this and hurried to dissuade him.

With great difficulty, the military heads from all over the country were brought together, among which the Western Army and the Huaibei Army were the most powerful. If the Huaibei Army left again, the alliance between the various Qinwang armies would exist in name only.

Peng Er said, "Commander Yang, Commander-in-Chief of Huaibei, will arrive in the near future. Our troops will go to the south of Beijing to welcome them."

"After the two generals meet up, please come to the Yanjin camp as soon as possible." Zhang Chunxiao pulled Peng Er's horse rein and refused to let go, even with a hint of pleading in his tone.

Peng Eryi sighed and said: "Mr. Zhang, when Tokyo is besieged, it is the time when reinforcements from all walks of life need to work together. But now that foreign enemies are in front of us, Liu Jinglue ignores his appearance and devours Feng Jieshuai's subordinates. Not only do everyone have to fight with the Jin Xia Army In battle, you still need to guard against your own people. If Mr. Zhang wants to twist these dozens of reinforcements into a rope, he must recommend a selfless and convincing person to coordinate the hundreds of thousands of troops. Otherwise, he will only let Our loyal and brave men from Daqi lost their lives in vain.”

After Peng Erbu left, Zhang Chunxiao stood there in silence for a long time, unable to tell what he was feeling.

Nowadays, there are more than 50 reinforcements and 300,000 people outside Tokyo. How can we choose a person who can truly "submit the crowd"? To elect Liu Shuping as the leader is also to select a general among the cripples.

Firstly, the opponent was from the Western Army and had a high position; secondly, Liu Shuping's Qin Feng Army was the one with the most complete organizational structure among the various reinforcements.

But he didn't expect that Liu Shuping was so selfish.

However, it is easy to invite gods but difficult to send them away. Zhang Chunxiao does not have any soldiers in his hands. If he forcibly removes Liu Shuping at this time, trouble will definitely arise.

Zhang Chunxiao suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness. Is the Qi State, which has just appeared to be rejuvenated, really going to perish?

On the 21st, the Qinwang Alliance Army, which had just been established for a few days, fell apart.

After various people left the Yanjin camp, they dispersed around Tokyo with a radius of more than 100 miles, fighting on their own.

The next day, Peng's second troops approached Cai and Yang Dalang's troops in the south of Beijing and returned to the army.

With a total of more than 20,000 troops, it became the largest force after the Western Army.

After understanding the current situation, Dalang let the soldiers rest for a night, turned eastward, bypassed the main force of Jinxia's siege, and quietly approached Tokyo City from the east.

Although Dalang was quite confident in the combat power of the Huaibei Army, he would not lead more than 20,000 people to forcefully attack the encirclement of more than 200,000 people.

His target was Tongjin Town, thirty miles east of Beijing. The 30,000 people who had been kidnapped from Luoyang a few days ago were all here and were building ladders, goose carts and other siege equipment for the Jin Xia army.

The walls of Tokyo are high and the trenches are deep. Without perfect equipment, the Jinxia army would be unable to attack the city.

Unexpectedly, a group of people thought of the same thing as him.
At noon on the 23rd, the Huaibei Army forward approached Tongjin, but encountered few outlying sentries along the way.

It wasn't until he was three miles away from Tongjin that Dalang realized what was going on.

Outside Tongjin Pass, a group of thousands of King Qin's troops were attacking the equipment-building camp of the Jinxia Army.

The outposts and patrol teams from nearby Jinxia have all rushed to support.

"Second brother, which team is this?"

Dalang was stationed on a hillock and looked at the battlefield from a distance, feeling doubly surprised.

Brother Peng, who had come a few days earlier, had interacted with many leaders of King Qin's army. He saw that at the front of the charge was a general's flag with the words "Dingyuan General Zhao" written on it.

Peng Er couldn't help but laugh and said: "It should be General Zhao Mengguang Zhao, the commander of Wu'an Army on Hedong Road!"

"This guy is pretty good! He reminds us of something."

There was clear appreciation in Dalang's words, and it was true that if Jinxia's equipment was destroyed, the opponent would be unable to attack the city in a short time.

But it's one thing to be able to think of it, and another thing to dare to take the risk to do it.

Peng Er's eyes fell on the two people at the front of the Wu'an Army. One of them was wearing a dirty green official robe. The official hat had long since disappeared during the charge. His silver hair was dancing wildly in the autumn wind. He looked very young. .

The other man was a foot soldier, bare-chested and holding a long sword with both hands. He dared to fight on foot directly against the opponent's Qingqi. Taking advantage of the momentum of running, he ducked to avoid the enemy's stabs. He twisted his waist and swung the sword out of the strong horse's neck. Two breaks.

"Hey! What a warrior! Let's compete with the eldest son!"

Dalang's eyes fell on the killing god at some point, and he couldn't help but drink.

It was enough to show his appreciation for the shirtless foot soldier that he could compare this man to his eldest son.

While he was talking, there were already three or four cavalry teams running towards the equipment camp in the west. They seemed to be the Jinxia cavalry army coming for reinforcements. Tie Dan looked anxiously and said hurriedly: "Brother Zhen, let us go!"

Dalang was waiting for an order when he saw a cloud of smoke on the ground to the north, quickly approaching the battlefield.

From the north?

Dalang couldn't help but be startled, and put off Tie Dan's order to attack the Wu'an Army. He naturally wanted to rescue, but he had to figure out the situation first. It was not clear whether the incoming army from the north was an enemy or a friend, so Tie Dan could not be put in danger.

With such a delay, the Xixia horse army from the west rushed into the Wu'an army's formation.

Although the shirtless man and the old officer in green robes were brave enough, the Wu'an Army's military formation was quickly shaken by the impact of the horse army and might collapse at any time.

After the incoming army from the north approached quickly, Dalang and Peng Er finally saw the opponent's military flag clearly. There were no words on the apricot-yellow flag, only a tiger descending from the mountain was embroidered.

"Tiger Group? Xiao Xin is back from Zhongjing, the capital of the Jin Kingdom?"

Peng Er couldn't help but be surprised, but after the two armies approached, the soldiers of the Tiger Regiment all pulled up their horses, took off their long-handled sabers from the victory hook, and ran towards the enemy.
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I have to say, this scene is a little bit funny.

There is only one reason that can make knights abandon their horses and fight on foot, and that is. These people are infantry, or mounted infantry, and are not good at horse fighting.

But Xiao Xin's troops can be called the elite of the Huaibei Horse Army, second only to Tiedan's Second Guards Regiment.

In the midst of doubts, the sharp-eyed Tie Dan shouted, even a little surprised, "Look, the tall guy running in front is the eldest son!"

Dalang and Peng Er quickly looked at each other, hey, who else could it be if he wasn't the eldest son?

The two looked at each other quickly, and Brother Peng subconsciously said: "The eldest son is here, then Brother Chu"

Since the founding of the army in Huaibei, no matter where Chen Chu was, his eldest son would be there.

Dalang also realized this problem and hurriedly looked for Brother Chu's figure on the messy battlefield, but it was impossible to find him in the smoky cave.

Tie Dan could not wait any longer and saw her pick up a steel pear gun and kill her down the hill like a whirlwind.

As soon as she moved, the cavalry troops of the Second Guards Regiment naturally followed her.

"Hey, dear girl, wait, wait for me!"

More than ten feet away, Commander Shen's personal soldier Shen Zaixing, old man, was not equipped with a war horse. He subconsciously chased a few steps forward, then stopped where he was and stamped his feet anxiously!
Old Shen was already in his forties. Little Shen was worried about his father's old age, so he specially asked Old Shen to be an orderly who did not have to fight on the battlefield.

The second brother Peng next to him kindly advised: "Uncle Shen, leave the job of fighting on the battlefield to us juniors. You can rest, so as not to worry Tie Dan."

"fart!"

Lao Shen, who had no place to get angry, walked straight to Liu Maodan, the leader of the Seventeenth Regiment. Maodan was riding on a horse and asked doubtfully: "Uncle, what's wrong with you?"

"Come down you!"

Shen Zaixing pulled Mao Dan off the horse, then turned over with an agile and beautiful kite, and got on Mao Dan's horse, "Drive! My dear, wait for Daddy, be careful."

The sudden appearance of two Qi reinforcements, one in the south and one in the north, immediately threw the Xixia army outside the equipment factory into chaos.

Noon on the 23rd.

The Hedong Road Wu'an Army raided the enemy's equipment factory outside Tongjin Pass, thirty miles east of Jingdong. With the cooperation of the Huaibei Army's "Tiger Regiment" and the Second Guards Regiment, they killed more than 2,200 Xixia horse infantry troops and burned all siege equipment. Calculate.

Although the scale of this battle was not large, it was the Qi army's first victory since the start of the Tokyo Defense War.

The precarious situation in Tokyo has eased slightly. (End of chapter)