At this time, the sunset will not set, thousands of golden lights, shining all over the sky, the cloud and the bright moon they walked on the official road, this area is a flat wilderness, only a few low hills, and there are no high mountains and rivers, she found a hill, and camped at the northern foot of the hill.

Smoke wafted from the camp, the smell of meat wafted from the camp, and beside a fire, several female soldiers grilled a few stripped wild boars on a tree branch.

A majestic eagle stood beside Yin Mingyue, it walked around, showing its greedy appearance very humanely, as if waiting for the barbecue.

Pei Qinghua was wrapped in a coat and looked at Yin Mingyue with an indifferent face, after many days of getting along, she found that this female general was as cold as a stone, and said curiously: "General Yin, I don't know how many female generals like you are in Dasui." ”

"Not much."

"......" Pei Qinghua was speechless, how could he continue to talk about this.

"General Yin, your carving is so big." A maid looked at the eagle eagle walking around Yin Mingyue and said cutely.

A group of busy female soldiers were all stunned when they heard this, and after being stunned for a while, their faces were all distorted with smiles, and they were about to die of laughter.

They have been with a group of old ** for a long time, and they also know some meat jokes, so they can hope for literature and righteousness.

Even Yin Mingyue's ice-like face was twitching.

"It's not mine, it's holy!" Yin Mingyue hurriedly denied it.

"The carving of the saint is really big and majestic." The cute maid said unknowingly.

When the female soldiers heard this, they only laughed so much that their intestines twisted.

"Xiaolu, shut up!" Pei Qinghua didn't know what the female soldier was laughing at, he only felt that his face was hot, and his whole body became hot.

"It's already big."

Pei Qinghua was furious: "Take you to feed the wolves, believe it or not." ”

Xiao Lu looked at the dozen wolf corpses on the ground and was stunned. But in my heart, I felt that this eagle owl was even more powerful, and these wolves were captured by it.

However, she seemed to be a chatter, and after a moment of silence, she asked, "General Yin, can you eat wolf meat?" ”

"Yes!"

"How does it taste?"

"Okay."

"Can I taste it, then?" Xiao Lu's words made Pei Qinghua also moved, she has grown so big, she really hasn't eaten wolf meat yet.

Yin Mingyue didn't bother to speak, but a female soldier said kindly: "I advise you not to eat the Central Plains wolf." ”

Pei Qinghua was curious: "Is there a difference?" ”

The female soldier said: "The wolves on the grassland grew up eating sheep, and the wolves in the Central Plains grew up eating people. We only eat steppe wolves. ”

Pei Qinghua stopped talking, this Central Plains wolf really can't be eaten.

"Why are male soldiers eating wolf meat?" Xiao Lu saw that the male soldier on the side began to eat, and asked puzzled.

"They don't understand! Hey hey ......"

Pei Qinghua: "......"

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Orient!

A group of about 3,000 cavalry galloped west along the south bank of the Yellow River, and they set out from Yanggu in Jibei County, aiming at the Sui garrison.

The leader was a burly and sturdy middle-aged man, this person had dark skin, a square face of a country, a rugged face with a pair of small eyes, and a cunning light flashed from time to time.

This person is Dou Jiande's confidant Liu Heimin, he is a few years younger than Dou Jiande, the two grew up together, and practiced martial arts together, and they have a deep relationship. In the seventh year of the Great Cause, the drought in Hebei turned into a flood, and countless people starved to death, and the two rebelled in this year.

But there is a scripture that is difficult to read, Qingzhou is no exception, Xia King Dou Jiande is nominally the lord of Qingzhou, but in fact Qingzhou is divided into two worlds, he Dou Jiande occupies Beihai, Donglai, Gaomi, Langxie four counties, Liu Heimin controls the two counties of Qilu.

The two sworn brothers, who were close friends, now have some mutual distrust, and the reason is still the issue of military power.

Due to Li Mi's diversion to the south, Dou Jiande's Xia Kingdom got a chance to breathe, and the soldiers and horses recovered to 80,000 people, although they could not be compared with the peak moment, but they also recovered a little bit of vitality.

Among the 80,000 Xia troops, Dou Jiande himself directly controlled 50,000 people, and Liu Heimin controlled 30,000 people stationed in Qilu Second County.

This is also Dou Jiande's helpless move, when he was in Hebei, his army was a hodgepodge composed of dozens of bandits, although the momentum was huge, but when it came to the big war, everyone only cared about their own interests, and refused to work hard, so that Yang Tong was defeated in a battle, and his army was basically lost.

Dou Jiande wanted to learn the lessons of the past and control the army in his own hands, but Liu Heimin had already tasted the taste of authority at this time, how could he be willing to unload the military power that was the foundation of his life, although it did not reach the point of turning against each other, but after many unsuccessful discussions, the two had a tendency to drift apart.

When Dou Jiande was loyal to Li Mi, in order to split the two, Li Mi named Dou Jiande as the king of Xia, and named Liu Heimin as the king of Qi.

Li Mi saw that the situation of dividing Dou Jiande and Liu Heimin had been achieved, so he simply changed his tactics, no longer obsessed with Qingzhou, and turned his strategy to the south. And Dou Jiande lost Li Mi, a strong rival, so he accelerated the pace of integrating the army, and some small leaders were forcibly purged, which also made Liu Heimin more and more vigilant, and disobeyed Dou Jiande's orders, which was completely a posture of listening to propaganda and not listening to tunes, not only that, but he also 'back' Dou Jiande and Li Mi corresponded.

Li Mile saw that Liu Heimin was in a big battle, not only did he help with the grain money, but also gave Liu Heimin 5,000 horses for nothing that he bought from the Great Sui at a high price.

Liu Heimin selected the elite from the army and the people, and formed three thousand of the most elite cavalry, commanded by his younger brother Liu Shishan by his side, known as the Guards, this army generally does not go out to fight, and conducts high-intensity training with good food and drink every day, which is Liu Heimin's idea after seeing the lethality of the Xiaoguo Army, he wants to make these three thousand elite cavalry into his own sharp blade, and put it into the battlefield at a critical moment, and can put the enemy to death.

Two days ago, Liu Heimin received a secret letter from Li Mi, saying that a thousand Sui elite cavalry escorted Princess Yan through Juancheng, Dongping County, and slept in the wilderness, as long as he Liu Heimin could capture or kill him, Li Mi would give him 300,000 stone of grain as a reward, even if he was unsuccessful, he would also give him 150,000 stone, and at the same time let the defenders of Jibei County not defend him.

Liu Heimin knew that Li Mi was using him to provoke the Sui Xia War, but he couldn't stand the temptation of 200,000 stone of grain.

Because of the drought this year, the two counties of Qilu almost lost their harvest, and Dou Jiande provided him with food with 30,000 people, which caused the dream of expanding the army to be broken, so he knew Li Mi's sinister intentions, but in order to have enough food for an army of 30,000 or 40,000 a year, he decided to fight.

He didn't take Da Sui's revenge to heart at all, anyway, he is now under the banner of Xia Guo, and when the time comes, he will have Dou Jiande to carry it, and it will be a big deal for him to change the flag and surrender to Li Mi.

In order to complete this mission, Liu Heimin personally led the most elite 3,000 guards cavalry to come.

"Big brother! It has already arrived in the territory of Fan County, and after fifty miles is the border of Juancheng County, Dongping County. At this time, Liu Shishan, who was running sweaty, accelerated his progress and caught up with his eldest brother.

Liu Heimin looked back at the three thousand elite riders who were closely following, and said with a satisfied smile: "Shi Shan, you have lived up to my high expectations, and you have trained the three thousand elite riders for me, and it is not in vain that I will pull out thirty percent of the materials to you." ”

"Big brother is overrated." Liu Shishan said modestly.

"Pass the order, speed up, and rest in an hour." Liu Heimin gave an order to the commander of the guards beside him.

"Whoa!"

The order was given, and the three thousand elite horsemen made another effort.

"Big brother!" Liu Shishan said with some hesitation: "This operation is very important... Once we do that, we're almost the Xia King broke up, and there's no going back..."

"How do I not know? It's just that King Xia was bewitched by traitors and pressed my brother step by step! Liu Heimin's face became a little hideous: "Fan Yuan, Dong Kangmai, Zhang Junli, Wang Xiaohu, and Cao Zhan still never gave up at the most difficult moment of King Xia, and they all followed from Jizhou to Qingzhou, but after King Xia settled down, how did he treat them?" All of them have been appointed as scribes, and if they had this level, I wouldn't have said anything, but you see that these people not only did not govern the place well, but were governed by them more and more chaotic, what does this mean? It shows that everyone is not that material, but King Xia is still appointed, what does this mean? It shows that King Xia doesn't want these old ministers to be in charge of the army. If it weren't for the 30,000 troops in our brothers' hands, I'm afraid we would have been like them, huddled in a place where birds don't, drunk and dreamed of death. King Xia treats my meritorious general, how thin, why should we be loyal to him? ”

Liu Shishan said: "It's just ......"

"Don't just ......" Liu Heimin interrupted his younger brother's words, looked up at the three eagles passing overhead, and said leisurely: "Our brother did not betray King Xia, everything he did was just self-preservation. ”

"But I heard that it was the Xiaoguo Army who guarded Princess Yan." Liu Shishan smiled bitterly: "In the battle of Wude Mountain, we all saw the power of this army, this army is invincible, although our army is three times the enemy, but I am worried that it may not be their opponent!" ”

At that time, Yu Wenhua and the Xiaoguo Army with a weak army and a hungry stomach still killed dozens of times the Wagang Army, and even Zhai Rang died in the chaos, and the Xiaoguo Army of the Sui Dynasty and the Xiaoguo Army of Yu Wenhua and the Xiaoguo Army are essentially different, they are invincible in the world, although it is not a world of difference, but the gap is definitely very big.

After hard training, their 3,000 guards do have extraordinary combat power, but Liu Shishan really has no bottom in his heart.

"Don't worry! I'm not stupid. If we can't do it, we'll just withdraw our troops. "And what about the grain? Will Li Mi give it? ”

Liu Heimin pointed to the fluttering banner and sneered: "For Li Mi, it doesn't matter if we win or not, and it doesn't matter if we can kill Princess Yan!" Li Mi only hopes that we will carry this banner to attack Princess Yan's escort team, as long as the Sui Dynasty knows that it is enough to be angry with King Xia... Nothing else matters... This is also Li Mi's true intention! ”