The water system in northern Hebei is much richer than that in northern Shanxi.

Cross the Juma River, and there is Laishui in front of you.

When Li Po led his army to cross Laishui again, in fact, Laishui divided the battlefield into two parts.

It is impossible for the army to ignore Shanggu County and go straight to Zhuo County.

Therefore, before crossing Laishui, Li Po ordered Lieutenant Chi Gong to lead his troops to stay on the west bank of Laishui, while waiting for the arrival of the follow-up 5,000 cavalry, while guarding the rear road of the army.

Hebei was so badly damaged that there was not a single farmland in sight of two such large water veins.

And a large county like Kamiya County has now fallen into the hands of thieves.

At that time, the powerful King Lishanfei rebelled against the army, and after Lishanfei died in battle, it was divided into several branches.

Now entrenched in Shanggu is one of them, led by Song Jingang, how many troops Li Po is not very clear, these are Chen Yuan and Luo Shixin, as well as the Wei Chi brothers, plus some later reports, he will have a little understanding of the situation in Hebei.

In fact, from the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, the rebel army in Hebei began to become fewer, and the large-scale famine caused the rebel army, which was once known as 100,000 and hundreds of thousands, to disappear on the Hebei Plain.

The remaining two or three kittens, either Gao Shida and Dou Jiande, or curled up in one place, trying to grow some food to fill their stomachs before everyone starved to death.

Unfortunately, most of them did not have the talent and experience to govern the locality, and the farming stream was really not suitable for them, and now that the war has been fought, the subordinates of the rebellious army no longer want to be farmers.

As a result, the tragedy of people eating each other was staged one after another, Hebei. Shandong's cannibal army is no better than Zhu Cang, the great demon king of Lianghuai West Road.

It's just that Hebei and Shandong are broken. This kind of thing has become universal, and it seems that it is not as crazy as Zhu Cang.

It's a difference between active and passive. Needless to say.

Now the two rebel armies closest to Youzhou are Song Jingang's department, and the other is Wei Dao'er's department in front of Youzhou.

If Song Jingang still has a place to settle down and has that self-sufficiency plan, then Wei Dao'er belongs to Liukou.

They wandered back and forth in the southern part of Youzhou, all the way to Hejian County, and rushed wherever they heard a crowd gathering.

These wandering outlaws have caused great damage to central Hebei.

But for Youzhou. These two chaotic armies are natural shields, and if Dou Jiande wants to attack Youzhou, he must attack these two chaotic armies first.

Of course, Li Po doesn't have time to ponder the situation in Hebei now.

After leading the army to cross Laishui, the army had only one way to go, entering Weizhuo County.

This is the only way to get from the west to the county seat of Zhuojun.

With such a large cavalry army, it is impossible to hide their tracks.

But Li Po never thought of forcibly conducting a siege battle.

After passing the water, at the foot of Fangshan Mountain. The army stopped, and at this time, it was already a critical moment in the battle of Youzhou.

The scouts of the army spread out like tentacles, and at the same time opened the curtain of the battle of Youzhou.

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Zhuoxian County Commander and County Lieutenant are all surnamed Lu. The Lu clan of Zhuoxian County is also a well-known Hebei clan in Hebei, and their ancestor is Lu Zhi, a famous minister in the late Han Dynasty.

Zhuo County is close to the left, and there are countless people with the surname Lu. It is the most difficult to shake the land-sitting household in Zhuo County, no matter who is in charge of Zhuo County. and all three points of salute to them.

Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo three times, and the blow to this ethnic group was relatively large.

Their servants were all drawn to carry the grain. Their clansmen were also transferred to the Liao army.

The three heavy losses in the Liao conquest made the Lu family heartbroken.

This is not only a matter of the casualties of the clansmen, but also their fields and properties have been barren, and the Lu family can only live on their previous savings.

And the Hebei rebellion rose one after another, and the Lu family could only firmly occupy Zhuo County and defend itself.

Unlike people in other counties, the Lu family of Zhuo County is full of gratitude to Luo Yi, the governor of Youzhou, because Luo Yi led the army to repel the bandits several times when the rebel army besieged the city.

Originally, Lu Xianling still wanted to marry Luo Yi, but unfortunately the clan elders were more stubborn, and they couldn't look down on Luo Yi's background and behavior, and felt that the Lu family, which was a family heirloom of etiquette and righteousness, should not have too much to do with such people.

Don't look at the suspicion of being a little ungrateful, but what you can say is still reasonable.

In their opinion, Luo Yi is not a broad-minded and benevolent person, and, most importantly, Luo Yi is a Kansai person.

The Hebei clan has never been very close to the Kansai lords, especially after the three conquests of Goguryeo, and they are extremely dissatisfied with the domineering and arrogant of the Kansai lords.

They sent all the talents of Hebei to the front of the battle, so that the people of Hebei were killed and wounded, so if you want to say which place the people in the world hate Emperor Yang Guang the most to the Sui Emperor.

There is no doubt that they are Hebei people and Shandong people.

This kind of hatred was extended, and the Kwanxi people in Hebei would be naturally hostile, and the local estrangement caused by historical reasons also came to the peak after the three expeditions to Goguryeo.

The hatred between the Qin and the Zhao people and the Yan people has almost continued to this day in the past, and it has never been eliminated.

And Luo Yi's family background also makes Hebei people naturally separated from him.

"Report ...... Report to the county ...... Big things are not good......"

When Lu Xian heard the news of the enemy's attack, he immediately ordered someone to close the city gate, and let people send a message to the county lieutenant, that is, his cousin, ordering him to lead troops to the city to defend the city.

At the same time, he also sent people to ask for help from the county seat.

Even if Lu Xianling is considered a literati, after going through this set of procedures countless times, he can memorize it.

Zhuo County is a large county in Hebei, and when the population was at its peak in the early years of Daye, there were nearly 300,000 mouths, which was almost the same as the population of Mayi County.

But today, the population of Zhuo County has plummeted to less than 100,000.

In more than ten years, 200,000 people have disappeared, and Hebei is broken, which shows that in general, this is still Youzhou, and it has not experienced too large-scale wars.

The main culprit of the drastic decline in the population of Youzhou was undoubtedly the three expeditions to Goguryeo, especially the last time, the local guards were unwilling to follow the emperor north to Liaodong, and the army of Liaodong was insufficient, so they could only force the people to follow the army in Zhuo County, causing very serious damage to several counties in northern Hebei.

If it is left in the early years of the Great Cause, or even before the three expeditions to Goguryeo, it would be a joke to say that there was a thief army in a place like Zhuoxian.

And now, the people who guard the ancient city of Hebei with a high city and a deep pool are in a war as soon as they hear the name of the thief army.

The prefectural commander and the prefectural lieutenants and subordinates soon came to the city walls.

At this time, the smoke and dust in the northwest direction were already clearly visible.

"Is it Wei Dao'er or Song Jingang?"

Someone is asking, this is also the thing that people in Zhuoxian County want to know the most, Song Jingang and Wei Dao'er are the two largest groups of rebels in northern Hebei.

They are all from the remnants of the Mantian King Lishan Fei, who have repeatedly invaded Youzhou, and are the two guys that the officials and people of Youzhou fear and hate the most.

"How many people are there in the thief army, have you asked clearly?"

"Hui Yu County Zun...... I can't tell, but I just saw a lot of cavalry......"

The muscles on Lu Xianling's face twitched, and so many sentinels were arranged along Laishui, so he didn't even see how many people the thief army came, so he came back to report the news.

Cavalry? Where did Song Jingang get so many cavalry? Obviously, he also thought that this was the sentry scouts who immediately fled back as soon as they saw that the other party was cavalry, for fear that they would flee slower and be caught up by the cavalry.

At this time, he was similar to the officials of Zhuo County around him, all praying that Luo Yi could send troops to rescue him as soon as possible, Zhuo County has become the southwest gateway of Zhuo County in the past few years, and the defenders have lost more and more troops, and Luo Yi, the governor of Youzhou, has always refused to increase troops to Zhuo County on the pretext of insufficient troops.

This is obviously not like boosting the arrogance of the local clans and making the local area more dependent on the county.

It was indeed cavalry, and the sound of dense horse hooves came from afar, which frightened the defenders of Zhuo County.

Some people are already thinking, it can't be the Turks, right? How did they get by?

"Yes...... It's my Great Sui...... The cavalry of the Great Sui, I saw it...... It's the sun, moon and stars, and the flag ......"

There was no need to shout, everyone could see it clearly, the familiar sun, moon and star flags were floating high in the air, and knights dressed in Sui army-style half-length armor loomed in the smoke and dust, surging over like a tide.

The banner was shaking, and the cavalry, which still maintained a relatively tight formation in the gallop, reined in the reins of their horses, and amid the neighing of the horses, the black-pressed cavalry slowly stopped under the city.

The people of the city finally realized that the cavalry under the city was not as large as expected, and it should be about two thousand.

They rode quietly on their horses, covered in smoke and dust, apparently having made a long journey to get here.

They arrived with smoke and dust, and immediately made the warm summer breeze cold and severe.

Quietly, except for the sound of the neighing of the war horses and the shaking of the flags flying fiercely in the air, everything seemed to be quiet, and the murderous aura quietly began to flow slowly in the air, and gradually condensed.

Such a hundred battles elite, the people of Zhuoxian have never seen it, even if the Youzhou army dominates Hebei and is known as the elite, but compared with the cavalry army under the city, it seems to be a lot less.

The people in the city were shocked by the momentum, and they all looked at the city in shock, forgetting their words.

For a while, the city was silent and looked a little weird.

In the queue, a horse galloped out, came to the city of Zhuoxian, and shouted loudly: "I am ordered to come to Hebei to quell the rebellion, which official in the city is out, come out to speak." ”

This was too unexpected, this cavalry army seemed to fly down from the sky, and appeared under the city of Zhuoxian, making the officials of Zhuoxian County look at each other.

Although I was a little overwhelmed, many people breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and most people were thinking, it's good not to be a thief army, it's good not to be a thief army.

(Commuter Pass) (To be continued.) )