Hengchengling Qinjingyi is more than 20 miles west of Qinshui County. There are steep cliffs on both sides of the post road, rugged rocks, and sparse trees growing among the grass. Although the mountains at the eastern foot of Taiyue Mountain are majestic and majestic, this road
The post road that leads east from Jiangzhou to Qinshui and then along the Qinshui Valley to the southeast into Zezhou was first built during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty when the Qin State conquered Han and Zhao Dynasties. It has been repaired many times over the years and has become the best link between east and west in the southeast of Henan Province.
A core transportation thoroughfare.
Qinjing Post was built at the east valley entrance of Hengcheng Ridge. The post's area of several acres is backed by a dangerous cliff. In front of the courtyard is an ancient well that is said to have been dug by the Qin army when they marched eastward, hence the name.
At this time, no business travel was allowed, and the posthouse was isolated and deserted along the lonely road, making it even more desolate and lonely.
Qinshui Station is located in an important location, shielding the west flank of Qinshui River. Xiao cadre led Liu Jinzhong into the Qinshui Valley to besiege Qinshui County. He first sent troops to attack Qinshui Station, which contained dozens of postmen and hundreds of villagers. There were still more than a hundred people left behind.
The men and horses are on guard here.
At this time, the peach blossoms were in full bloom and the vegetation was luxuriant in the mountains. However, the ravine beach in front of the post house was littered with putrid corpses, which made the scenery very unsightly.
The mountain wind blew, and the faint stench gave the over a hundred guards in the post hospital a headache.
"That bitch Zheng Gou'er caught a few black-faced village girls. He was like a starving ghost after seeing meat. He was afraid that he would be delayed for a while and could only drink other people's shabu-shabu water - he told this grandson to throw the bodies away.
Far away, but threw it directly into the ditch in front of me. It has only been a few days and it stinks like this! Go and call that bitch!" A general stood in front of the post yard, smelling waves of stench.
The scolding messenger brought in the team leader who was responsible for dumping the body and reprimanded him.
"Ta-ta..."
At this time, a dozen armored knights galloped from the valley to the west. They stopped their horses until they were in front of the roadblock. The soldiers guarding behind the roadblock were about to step forward to question them, but they were severely whipped several times by those knights with their riding whips.
Listening to the chirping and cursing of the knights, the general stood in front of the post yard without making a sound, and just watched his soldiers remove the roadblock.
People under the eaves have to bow their heads.
They were surrendered troops and generals who followed Xiao Qian and Li Chulin. When they saw the Chihu tribesmen passing in front of them, even if they were more domineering, how could they have any ambition to fight?
When these dozen armored knights approached on horseback, the general saw the faces of the people clearly. He suddenly looked like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. He pressed the saber on his waist and shouted sharply: "Who are you?"
The people who came were wearing armor, swords, and bows similar to those of the Red Guards Cavalry. They also had beards all over their faces. They were rough and majestic. From a distance, you couldn't see any flaws. But when you got closer, you could see that the people who came were the Red Guardsmen had flat faces and soft nose bridges.
What does it look like? It’s clearly a Han Chinese.
Seeing these people coming on horseback, they had already taken off the long bows behind them. The quick ones had already put their hands on the quiver beside the saddle. The general also reacted quickly. Seeing that there was no cover on the left and right, he grabbed a thin soldier beside him.
He suddenly pulled him in front of him to use as a shield.
At this time, I heard the sound of arrows piercing the air. Ignoring the screams and struggles of the little soldier in his hand, the general used his brute force to grab the back of his neck and belt, and used him to block the intensive shooting.
The feather arrows that came quickly retreated towards the post courtyard.
When the guards of the post heard the general's loud warning, several people ran out to see what was going on. Unexpectedly, the arrows were shot accurately and hard. Three or four people were shot immediately. They screamed sternly and followed the general back into the courtyard.
General Fan suddenly threw out the pawn who was still alive with dozens of arrows in his body, drew his sword and roared: "The enemy is attacking, close the door, close the door! Where did these guys get out of here! Wow!
, it will hurt his uncle to death!"
It was only then that General Ban noticed that his right arm was hit by an arrow for no apparent reason. Although no bones were injured, the arrow cluster penetrated the muscles and bones of his right arm. He had just dodged and retreated with all his strength, but he had not noticed when he was hit by the arrow. This
After a while, the door was closed and secured with wooden bolts. I breathed a sigh of relief before feeling the burning pain.
The Qinshui-Jiangzhou Post Road is an important transportation hub in the southeast of the river. Although there is no patrol station, it is usually responsible for preventing theft. In addition to the small teams of Xiang soldiers stationed along the road, the several posts along the road are also built extremely solidly, like
Wubao.
General Fan led his soldiers up the wall to prevent the enemy from climbing up the wall and storming in. He noticed that there were still people and horses coming out of the mountains to the west. He urged his men to light smoke as a warning and ordered more heavy objects to be moved behind the gate to prevent the enemy from attacking.
Force the door open.
"This general is so smart!" Zhou Quan saw that he actually asked the general to flee into the post courtyard, smacking his lips and exclaiming in regret.
Wang Zhang was still calm, and did not think of a dozen cavalrymen rushing directly to the gate. Instead, he pulled back and shot all the dozen or so soldiers behind the roadblock.
Zhou Jing led more than a hundred ambush troops to arrive. A straight column of smoke had already risen in the post yard, warning the main enemy force in the Qinshui River Valley.
"The enemy general reacted very quickly and failed to rush into the inn immediately!" Wang Zhang smacked his lips and shouted to Zhou Jing.
"No problem!"
Zhou Jing has much more combat experience than Wang Zhang, and he is able to do it. Whether he can rush into the post house immediately and defeat the defenders is actually a matter of twos and ones. They can't even put more hope in it.
The enemy was completely unprepared.
Their core mission is to prevent the enemy from establishing defenses in the narrow valley entrance and intercept the main force from entering.
The failure to defeat the defenders immediately cannot be considered a mistake. Now, as long as they are sealed in the post courtyard, it will not hinder their next combat arrangements.
Zhou Jingxia ordered horses to hold shields against the arrows shot from the courtyard, dragged all the roadblocks on the official road to the front of the post courtyard to block the gate, and first blocked more than a hundred guards inside; at the same time, horses were used to cut down the mountains in the distance.
Some fallen trees were dragged over to further strengthen the blockade of the post house, and troops and horses were sent east to monitor the movements of the enemy's main force in the Qinshui River Valley.
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The 800 elite wing cavalry battalions were to clear passages and cover the flanks for the front camp, middle camp, and rear camp to prevent attacks from small groups of enemy cavalry during the night march. They had previously been scattered throughout the march.
At three o'clock in the morning, Xu Huai ordered the Yiqi camp troops to march directly to Taiyue Mountain and gallop to Qinjingyi. In the afternoon, they met Zhou Jing and Wang Zhang's sentry troops.
Xu Huai, wearing strong armor, walked to the posthouse surrounded by Xu Wuqi, Xu Xin'an, Wang Xian, Wu Chi, Shi Hu, Niu and others.
Zhou Jing would send people to report to Xu Huai every once in a while about the general situation here.
Xu Huai saw that it had only been more than an hour since he raided the post house. In addition to blocking the entrance to the post house with ready-made roadblocks such as Juma and some miscellaneous trees, he also used miscellaneous wood to be tied and nailed together to create several long rows.
The fence is placed near the post courtyard, and bowmen and crossbowmen are deployed behind it to suppress the enemy soldiers in the post courtyard and not dare to take the lead.
After the main force of the Yiqi Battalion arrived, they at least passed through the post road in front of the post courtyard without any obstacles and entered the low ridge to the east to garrison.
"We found two pairs of carriage frames from nearby villages. The Zhou Army has sent people to cut down large trees in the nearby mountains. When the time comes, we will drag them over and bundle them on the carriage frames, so that we can make two simple rams. We are also making ladders.
, at dusk, we should be able to complete preparations for storming the post house..." Wang Zhang introduced their latest preparations for storming.
"Wang Xian, you will take over the follow-up preparations,"
Xu Huai asked Wang Xian to lead a team of men to take over the preparations for the siege of the post house and the subsequent storming. His current focus is not here. The post house can even wait for Ling Jian and Yu Gong to arrive with the troops of the former battalion and hand over the troops.
Attack them.
Xu Huai looked towards the mountains to the east and asked Zhou Jing:
"How long will the enemy reinforcements be from here?"
"We attacked Qinjingyi, but we couldn't kill them immediately and capture them by surprise. We couldn't stop them from lighting up smoke in the post as a warning, so we let them go and a messenger rushed to Qinshui for rescue. Half an hour ago,
About 800 cavalrymen set out from the main camp in the west of Qinshui City. I arranged small groups of soldiers and horses to harass them along the way, and also placed some roadblocks. There is no problem in delaying them for another hour..."
Zhou Jing said with a frown.
Since it could not be completely silent, some enemy soldiers were deliberately allowed to break out of the encirclement and rush to the Qinshui Valley to call the police, misleading the enemy into thinking that only a hundred or ten people were attacking Qinjingyi.
In this way, as long as the enemy forces in the Qinshui Valley are careless and send a small number of troops and horses to reinforce them, it will give them extra food.
To put it bluntly, it doesn't matter that Qinjingyi cannot be captured immediately, but it can be used as bait.
Of course, the enemy army in the Bishui River Valley sent 800 cavalry to come for reinforcements. Although it was slightly more than expected, it can be seen that the enemy general Liu Jinzhong is still quite cautious. However, Xiao Qian and Li Chulin led the surrender in Datong.
Even if the Hu's cavalry were equal in number, Zhou Jing did not feel that they could pose much of a threat to them.
He was a little worried about other things at this time and said to Xu Huai,
"The question now is, if these 800 cavalry are wiped out, I'm worried that the big fish Liu Jinzhong will be scared away. After the front camp army and the middle camp army arrive at Qinjingyi, can they go to Qin County overnight and kill without rest without rest?
go?"
Qinshui County was built on the west bank of Qinshui River near the water. Xiao cadre general Liu Jinzhong led 5,000 horsemen and soldiers to surround Qinshui County. The camp was mainly built in the valley on the west bank of Qinshui River.
The Qinshui River in the Taiyue Mountains mainly flows from north to south.
As long as the main force of the mausoleum defenders can rush to the edge of the valley on the west bank of Qinshui River overnight, the enemy will have no way to abandon their camp and retreat to the valley on the east bank of Qinshui River.
Of course, the troops guarding the mausoleum have been marching day and night for several days, and today's attack on Qinshui is another forced march. During the process, they have to rush to the valley on the west bank of Qinshui to meet the enemy without taking a rest, which is a more severe test.
"It doesn't matter, let's eat these 800 riders first. Even if the soldiers guarding the mausoleum can't keep up, we will suffer a little hardship and drag this big fish to the west bank of Qinshui River!" Xu Huai said...