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Chen Qing understood Yang Zaixing's meaning, he asked Yang Zaixing to wait, and continued to ask: "Have you observed the route to the second defensive wall?"

"Beizhi only saw a mountain road, and there was a heavy gate on the mountain road. I couldn't tell whether it was a wooden gate or an iron gate."

This information was what Chen Qing wanted to know. After rushing up to the first defensive wall, he was basically exposed. He was more concerned about the preparations he needed to make before going to the second defensive wall. Obviously, they needed to prepare a bumper.

Chen Qing ordered Zhao Xiaoyi to prepare to hit the wood, and then he smiled at Yang Zaixing: "Call Liu Cui, we will kill the three guard posts!"

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Two large stone tablets were erected on the mountain road about sixty steps away from the first defensive wall. One smaller stone tablet was engraved with the three characters of "Zhoujiabao", while the other slightly larger stone tablet was engraved with the words Jin Zhou. The ten rules of Jiabao.

Chen Qing took Yang Zaixing and Liu Cui each with a god-armed crossbow and quickly went up the mountain and hid behind the big stone tablet, Chen Qing hid behind the smaller stone tablet, Yang Zaixing and Liu Cui hid behind the other slightly larger stone tablet.

Chen Qing observed for a while, just as the scout dutou described, a heavy wooden door was built in the middle of the mountain road, with high walls made of stones on both sides, and a sentry box above the wooden door, with one under each of the four cornices The torch illuminated the surroundings of the sentry box very clearly. Three sentries stood inside the pavilion, with bows and arrows on their backs and spears in their hands, looking around vigilantly.

There is an alarm bell above their heads. It doesn't matter how to open the wooden door. After killing the three guards, everything will be solved.

Chen Qing made a gesture to Yang Zaixing and Liu Cui, and the three of them shot one person according to their positions. Chen Qing was on the far right, he shot the person on the far right, Yang Zaixing shot the sentry in the middle, and Liu Cui was in charge of the sentry on the left. To make them speak out, they must be killed with one arrow.

All three of them were carrying light divine arm crossbows. Although they couldn't compare with the heavy divine arm crossbows, they were equally powerful, surpassing ordinary military crossbows, and could shoot through the head with one arrow.

The three of them raised their crossbows and aimed at the sentry. Chen Qing coughed lightly, and the three crossbow arrows were shot out at the same time, which was incomparably fast. The three sentries were shot through their heads almost simultaneously by the crossbow arrows, and fell down softly without a sound.

Chen Qing waved back, and twenty scout soldiers flew up, all of them were skilled in lightness, and climbed up to the sentry box lightly. Not long after, the heavy wooden door was opened.

In the darkness, densely packed soldiers of the Song Army rushed up from the foot of the mountain. According to the agreement in advance, they were divided into two groups. Chen Qing led a thousand soldiers to attack the second defensive wall, and Yang Zaixing and Liu Cui each led five hundred soldiers from the camp to capture it. The first defensive wall.

As the soldiers of the Song army rushed up the first defensive wall, they were immediately spotted by the guard Bao Ding, who shouted suddenly, and Yang Zaixing ordered loudly: "Anyone who does not surrender will be killed!"

Behind the defensive wall are cave dwellings. Inside the cave dwellings are basically soldiers’ barracks and warehouses for storing food and supplies. Soldiers kicked open the doors one by one and killed them in…

Chen Qing led a thousand soldiers to rush up along the mountain road on the left. Their goal was the second defensive wall. The second defensive wall was exactly the same as the first defensive wall. The two sides were built with huge stones, and the middle of the high wall was also A heavy wooden door also has a sentry box above it, but there are only two sentries.

The two sentinels had already seen the Song army rushing up from the mountain, and hurriedly sounded the alarm bell, 'Dang!when!when! 'Sharp alarm bells rang through the night sky.

The second wooden door can also be climbed, but Chen Qing chose a simple and rude method.

"Bump the door!" Chen Qing turned around and ordered.

Dozens of soldiers rushed up holding a thick ramming log.

"Boom!" There was a dull and loud sound, and the wooden door shook violently, almost dying.

"Come again!"

The soldiers retreated dozens of steps, and rushed up again. The gate couldn't bear the force, and the bolt was broken, and the gate opened.

Chen Qing waved Fang Tian's painted halberd, and charged forward first, but there was a dense rain of arrows coming towards him. Chen Qing waved the long halberd, and pushed aside dozens of arrows that were shot at him, but behind him But the soldiers were shot down one after another, screaming.

"Change the heavy shield army!"

Chen Qing turned his head and shouted sharply, ran for more than ten steps, jumped up, and swept the halberd towards the crossbowmen on the left. The four crossbowmen squatting on the wall had nowhere to dodge, and were swept down the high wall by the halberd Then, with a flick of his halberd, Chen Qing charged into the crowd of crossbowmen like a tiger.

Three hundred soldiers with heavy shields also rushed up the steps and rushed into the hands of the crossbowmen on the right...

Chapter 185

The cave dwellings in the three-layer defensive wall of Zhoujiabao are basically all Baoding, and the first and second defensive walls are ordinary Baoding.

The third defensive wall is the residence and defense area of ​​the [-] elite Zhou family disciples. The Zhou family disciples are all skilled in archery, and they are led by Zhou Jian's son Zhou Qing.

In addition, there are two hundred elite disciples who are in charge of defending the inner castle of the Houshan Mountain. More than 1 common people and Zhou Xin live on both sides of a huge depression in the Houshan Mountain. It is the place where the Zhou family lived.

Tonight, none of the Zhou family's children were on duty and were sleeping soundly in the cave dwelling. The news that Chen Qing led the army to the north really made them paralyzed.

The rapid sound of the siren woke up the sleeping Zhou family children from their dreams. They didn't care about putting on their armor, they grabbed their bows and arrows and rushed out of the cave dwellings.

Even so, they were too late to deploy to the best position, and they didn't even bother to shoot the Song soldiers in the second and first defensive walls below.

The enemy army had already arrived, and they were less than a hundred steps away. Chen Qing led [-] soldiers with heavy shields to break through the third gate and rushed up the third defensive wall.

"Fire the arrows!" the leader Zhou Qing shouted anxiously.

The disciples of the Zhou family in the chaos drew their bows and set up arrows to shoot at the Song army who was killing them a hundred steps away. Chen Qing was already prepared to deal with them. The soldiers who attacked the third defensive wall were [-] soldiers with heavy shields, each armed with a Even Chen Qing himself didn't dare to be careless about the heavy shield and short spear. He held a heavy shield in his left hand and Fang Tian's painted halberd in his right.

Holding their shields high, they ran and killed the Zhou's disciples along the one-foot-wide passage.

In front of the heavy shield, no matter how good the arrow technique is, it is useless. He shot three rounds in a row, but did not shoot down a Song soldier. The Song army had already killed thirty steps away. Zhou Qing's eyes were red, and he shouted: "Stop!" Shoot, change spears!"

Three hundred Zhou's disciples had to give up the bows and arrows that shocked the world, and replaced them with spears, which they were not good at.

Today, Chen Qing was determined to wash Zhou's castle with blood. No matter how powerful the bow and arrow group of the Zhou family's children was, they would not be loyal to him. On the contrary, keeping them would only be their own disaster.

"kill!"

Chen Qing threw away the heavy shield in his hand, waved Fang Tian's painted halberd and slashed out, 'Puff! 'Three human heads flew up, and warm plasma sprayed out from the neck cavity.

The bloody scene made the dozens of Zhou's children behind them exclaim in shock. They were all crossbowmen who only shot and killed the enemy from a long distance, but they had never seen such a bloody scene.

Zhou Qing was a fierce man, and the bloody scene in front of him aroused his ferocity. He jumped up from the boulder, stepped on the shoulders of several Zhou family children, and swung a big knife to slash at Chen Qing, " go to hell!"

Chen Qing dodged, Fang Tian's painted halberd in his hand stabbed like lightning, Zhou Qing slashed through the air, lost his balance, and was about to fall, a sharp halberd tip supported his body in an instant, the eight-inch long halberd The sharp point pierced Zhou Qing's neck and lifted his body in the air.

Chen Qing handed his Fang Tian painted halberd together with the corpse to the soldiers behind him. He snatched Zhou Qing's broadsword, roared, and rushed into the crowd. Shining, I saw limbs flying, heads rolling around, a bloody wind, dozens of people were killed in a short time, internal organs leaked out all over the ground, the air was full of pungent stench, leaving only terror screams and wailing.

The blade of the broadsword was cut, and Chen Qing threw away the broadsword, took over Fang Tian's painted halberd, and ordered: "Cut it all to me!"

Three hundred soldiers with heavy shields rushed up, and the Zhou family's children, who were stunned by the bloody scene like a region, reacted, crying and scrambling for their lives, but it was too late.

Liu Cui led 300 soldiers to kill them from behind, cutting off their way back to the back mountain. More than [-] Zhou's children faced a lifeless massacre. Even if they climbed up the wall and jumped down, they would still be thrown to death.

In fact, although many people here have the surname Zhou, they actually have no blood relationship with the Zhou family, they are just the same surname in the same village.

But Chen Qing would not pay attention to these inexplicable relationships, killing them all is the best solution, since they all took the money from the Zhou family, death is their fate.

In less than a quarter of an hour, all the [-] Zhou's children were slaughtered, and no one survived. Dozens of people jumped to their deaths, and several people broke their legs, so they could not escape death.

At this time, the battle between the two defensive walls in front was also over. Nearly [-] Baoding were killed and more than [-] people were killed.

These prisoners of war were taken down the mountain by Zhao Xiaoyi's army to take care of them, and Chen Qing led [-] soldiers to the back mountain to kill them...

The terrain of Zhoujiabao is very strange. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and in the middle is a basin in the mountains. There is a small spring lake in the basin. This is the water source of Zhoujiabao. A camp fence has been built to protect it, and there are special personnel in charge of fetching water. , The people who fetched water waited in line outside.

Except for the spring water at the bottom, the surrounding open space is used to grow vegetables, and [-] households are densely distributed on the north and south sides of the hills. They are all cave dwellings, and a cave dwelling is a family, just like a beehive. .

On the westernmost side of the bottom of the basin, a house covering an area of ​​five mu was built, surrounded by high walls. This house was the inner fort of the Zhou family.

The family members of Zhou Xin and Zhou Jian brothers, about [-] people, live in this house. There is a three-story wooden building in the house. A huge warehouse.

The Zhou Family Fort was originally called Chigu Fort. It took ten years to build it in Chengji County. It was built by the county for the people to avoid wars. Zhou Xin was entrusted by the county government to manage Chigu Fort and reported the situation to the county every month. .

However, after the Jingkang Incident, the entire Song Dynasty was in turmoil, and Chengji County was no exception. Bing's people are also reduced to his private property, pay him taxes, and pay his allegiance to him.

At this time, the inside of Zhou's house was brightly lit, and Zhou Xin had already learned what happened outside, which made him both annoyed and frightened.

The annoyance was that he was deceived by Chen Qing, thinking that Chen Qing had accepted his sincerity, that Chen Qing had led his army to Xining County, and now he knew that Chen Qing had no intention of negotiating with him at all, he was building plank roads, secretly hiding Chen Cang, Attacked Zhoujiabao.

And the fear is that he knows his end is coming.

Of course, Zhou Xin knew very well that Chen Qing wanted to scare the monkeys, cleaned up the Zhou family fort, and forced other surrounding forts to surrender. Although he was extremely cunning, he was helpless now, sitting in the building in a daze, lying on the ground not far away. Jia Quan's body was stabbed to death by his sword.

In the open space in front of the house, there were two hundred crossbowmen standing densely. In the middle was Zhou Jian, the elder of the Zhou family. Although Fa is not as good as his elder brother Zhou Tong, he is equally capable of every shot and never misses.

Zhou Jian's goal was to shoot and kill Chen Qing, and if Chen Qing was killed, perhaps the Song army would retreat. This was the only fluke that Zhou Jian and even Zhou believed in.

After Zhou's fitness, there was still a big knife standing upright. This was his weapon, and he was going to use this big knife to chop off Chen Qing's head.

Standing on a big rock, Chen Qing looked at the two hundred archers and Zhou Jian lined up several miles away. He smiled lightly. Why were the Zhou family so confident? They thought they could defeat the regular army?

"Heavy shield soldiers line up!"

Chen Qing shouted an order, and three hundred soldiers with heavy shields trained in formation.

Yang Zaixing stepped forward and said, "Controlling, let the humble job take over this time!"

Chen Qing shook his head, "I want to kill Zhou Jian with my own hands, and you and Liu Cui will bring your brothers to kill him in time."

At this time, the sky was already twilight, and the mountains on the north and south sides were full of people watching the battle. When they saw the huge Song Army battle flag, they were relieved.

But no one ran down to help the Zhou family. Although the Zhou family sheltered them, the hurt and exploitation of them by the Zhou family was as painful as the exploitation. Everyone watched the Zhou family go to destruction with complicated emotions.

Three hundred heavy shield soldiers lined up and walked towards the two hundred Zhou's children step by step.

They lined up 50 people in six rows, holding giant shields and short spears, and gradually approached the courtyard.

"Fire arrows!"

Zhou Jian roared, and 200 people drew their bows and shot arrows at the same time. The arrows shot at the heavy shield army densely. The heavy shield soldiers raised their shields to meet them and ran to meet the arrows.

At this time, a round object was thrown in front of Zhou Jian, it turned out to be a human head, Zhou Jian suddenly recognized, this... This was actually the head of his third son Zhou Qing.

Zhou Jian's canthus suddenly cracked. He held up the head and trembled all over. Suddenly, he stood up and shouted, "Who killed me!"

"I killed it!"

Chen Qing stood up, gave Zhou Jian a cold look, and waved his hand, "Kill!"

The soldiers with heavy shields shouted and rushed towards the two hundred Zhou's children, deliberately avoiding Zhou Jian.

"I am going to kill you!"

Zhou Jian, the heavy shield infantry running on both sides, turned a blind eye. He only saw Chen Qing, the enemy who killed his son. He roared, swung his big knife, and rushed towards Chen Qing recklessly.

Chapter 186

Zhou Jian raised his sword high and remained motionless like a sculpture. His head was gone, and the plasma on his neck was still bubbling outwards. It looked particularly terrifying. His head rolled two feet away, staring at the sky with remorse.

The bows and arrows of Zhou's children lost their effect, and they drew their knives and fought with the soldiers with heavy shields. At this time, the troops of Yang Zaixing and Liu Cui rushed up like a flood and surrounded more than 100 Zhou's children. All the children of the family were killed, leaving no one alive.

The bloody killings frightened the people on the mountains on the north and south sides, and ran back to their homes one after another, closing the doors tightly.

The soldiers rushed into the gate of the courtyard and began to search for the Zhou family members in the room. Chen Qing stood in the courtyard, watching groups of men and women being escorted out. At this moment, Liu Cui stepped forward quickly and said in a low voice: " We found Zhou Xin, but he has hanged himself, what should we do?"

"Cut off his head, be careful not to break the face!"

"Understandable!"

"Not long after, all the family members of Zhou Xin and Zhou Jian were escorted out, kneeling all over the yard, basically women tend to be more, Zhou Xin and Zhou Jian each have two sons, Zhou Xin's eldest son is in Bianliang, not here, Zhou Jian's eldest son, Zhou Qing, was killed, there were five adult men, four underage men, and the other twenty were wives and concubines."

"All adult men will be executed, and all others will be pardoned!"

After Chen Qing gave the order, he turned around and went to the warehouse. The courtyard was soon filled with begging and crying.

Zhoujiabao’s warehouses are divided into public warehouses and private warehouses. In fact, they are all property of the Zhou family, but the materials stored are different. There are six thousand shi of grain, but many of them are old rice and wheat for many years.

When Yang Zaixing handed over a property list to Chen Qing, Chen Qing was taken aback. There were 9 taels of silver, 5000 taels of gold, 15 copper coins, 20 bolts of silk, [-] bolts of cloth, and a large amount of jewelry and jade.

A cashier tremblingly said: "These properties include the savings of the Zhou family for decades, as well as valuable items looted from [-] households."

"How to distinguish?"

"I can't tell the difference, but the property collected from the people's homes is mainly copper coins, cloth and jewelry. Among them, the silver jewelry and copper jewelry are basically looted, but there is no record."

Of course, it is impossible to return the jewelry, but it can be rewarded to the soldiers, and some money, food and cloth can be distributed to the people so that they can settle down.

Chen Qing nodded, and ordered Yang Zaixing and Liu Cui to lead the soldiers to go door-to-door and gather all the people to the foot of the mountain to collect money, food and supplies.

The people who were originally closed and refused to come out changed their minds one after another when they heard that there was money, food and cloth, and went down the mountain with their families, fearing that they would miss the opportunity.

Half an hour later, the open space at the foot of the mountain was full of people from Zhoujiabao, about 540 households and more than 3000 people.

Dense crowds of people stood in the open space. At this time, it was already dawn, and the gorgeous morning glow filled the sky.

Chen Qing stood on a big rock, surrounded by five hundred soldiers each. He saw tens of thousands of people in ragged clothes and haggard faces. Almost all the children were pale. All the prisoners of war returned to their homes. Can cry secretly.

"All the parents and folks listen to me!"

Chen Qing raised his hands high, and more than 1 people fell silent in an instant.

"Zhou Xin and Zhou Jian fought against the imperial court and tried to rebel and stand on their own. They have already been killed, and the Zhou Family Fort will be closed. All the people must return to their homes in Chengji County!"

As soon as this requirement was announced, tens of thousands of people were buzzing and discussing like a frying pan.

Of course, Chen Qing knew that the people were not homeless. Qinzhou was located in Longdong, and most of the rural people here lived in cave dwellings. Most of the cave dwellings were abandoned, but they would not easily collapse.

After waiting for a cup of tea, the people's emotions were almost vented, Chen Qing winked, and Liu Cui shouted, "Bring it up!"

The soldiers brought sacks of grain and cloth and copper coins, which was more effective than anything else, and everyone fell silent, with countless eyes on the money, grain and cloth.

Chen Qing continued: "While it is still possible to grow corn, everyone will quickly plant the abandoned land after returning home. The wheat fields at the foot of the mountain will also continue to be cultivated, and the grain will eventually belong to themselves. Considering that the harvest is still a few months away, I will I will give you some money, food and cloth.”

More than 1 people were silent, and almost everyone held their breath, not daring to cough, for fear that they might miss some news.

Chen Qing pointed to the cloth and money and grain and said, "Distribute according to households. Each household will be given two stones of grain, ten guan of money, and five pieces of cloth!"