After Dou Jiande and the Red Lady set up a banner of rebellion in the land of Yanzhao with great fanfare, many poor people in the land of Yanzhao who were forced by the government to survive joined the ranks of the Dou family's army, and the number of the Qi rebels soon grew to more than 1,000 people.

The government saw that Diao Min dared to rebel blatantly, especially Guo Xuan, the Tongshou of Zhuozhou, heard that his precious only son Guo Yang was killed by Dou Jiande and the Red Lady, and was filled with grief and anger, and wanted to break Dou Jiande and the Red Lady into pieces, so he sent a large number of troops to suppress it. Dou Jiande and the Red Lady adopted guerrilla tactics of avoiding the real and attacking the false, plus Dou Jiande was brave and fierce in battle, often taking the lead, often taking out the property on his body to help his subordinates and poor people, and the property and spoils obtained after defeating the enemy army were also distributed to the generals together, and the same hardships and hard work as the soldiers, so it could inspire the soldiers of the Qi Righteous Army to work hard for him, and the Qi Righteous Army had strong combat effectiveness, and repeatedly defeated the Sui army that came to suppress it. However, due to the weak number and equipment, it is difficult to break through the high walls of Zhuozhou City, and Guo Xuan, the general guard of Zhuozhou, has been shrinking in Zhuozhou City and does not dare to come out to fight, and there is no way to take him for a while.

In order to lure out Guo Xuan, the general guard of Zhuozhou, the red lady who has read a lot of books gave some ideas to Dou Jiande, who was a bit of a big boss, and asked him to pretend to join the rebel army led by Gao Shida in Fuxian County to occupy Gaojibo. Then he pretended to have a conflict with Gao Shida and betrayed him. Gao Shida also preached that Dou Jiande had defected, and also pulled out a woman from the official palace who was a captive who looked and figured a little similar to the Red Lady, and falsely claimed that she was Dou Jiande's fiancée, the Red Lady, and killed her in front of the left-behind rebels. Gao Shida pretended to send someone to send a letter to Guo Xuan asking for surrender, and sent a person pretending to be a red lady, willing to be the vanguard and arrest Dou Jiande.

Seeing the internal strife within the rebel army, and seeing the head of the Red Lady who killed the son and the enemy sent by Gao Shida, Guo Xuan, the general guard of Zhuozhou, was overjoyed, and accepted Gao Shida's letter of surrender very happily. Gao Shida sent a letter to Guo Xuan, agreeing with him to meet at the border of the Changhe River, formally asking him to surrender in person, and preparing to make an alliance to jointly try to kill Dou Jiande.

With Gao Shida's help, he will be able to quickly eliminate his other son-killing enemy, Dou Jiande, Guo Xuan's heart is overjoyed, so he led the Sui army out of Zhuozhou City, and proudly came to the border of the Changhe River to wait for Gao Shida.

When Guo Xuan's army was lax and defenseless, Dou Jiande led the Dou family army to suddenly kill, which caught Guo Xuan off guard, and the Sui army was in chaos for a while. What Guo Xuan didn't expect was that Gao Shida, who came to surrender, actually turned against the water, and led his Gao Jibo thousands of righteous troops to join the array of slaughtering the Sui army. When Guo Xuan saw a cavalry rushing from a distance, led by a woman dressed in red, with a beautiful face and a graceful posture, his head was like a lightning strike, isn't this woman a brave and warlike red lady? Hasn't she already had her head cut off by Gao Shida? …… He finally understood everything, he fell for the trick, and fell into the insidious trap set for him by Gao Shida, Dou Jiande, and the Red Lady.

Guo Xuan's eyes were dark, and he almost fell off his horse, and he didn't care about his officers and soldiers, and led a few of his own soldiers to rush towards Zhuozhou City with their lives. But it was too late, the fire-eyed Dou Jiande and the Red Lady rushed towards him almost at the same time, and after a few rounds, his own soldiers were all reimbursed, and before Guo Xuan could plead, he was inserted by the swords of Dou Jiande and the Red Lady at the same time. Into the front and back, a life whine.

The main general was dead, the Sui army had no fighting spirit, scattered and fled, Dou Jiande, Red Lady, Gao Shida led the righteous army, killed and captured thousands of people, got more than 1,000 war horses, and won a complete victory.

Sun Anzu, the leader of the rebel army that Dou Jiande once rescued, was killed by the bandit Zhang Jincheng, and his thousands of soldiers all defected to Dou Jiande, and the strength of the Dou family army increased greatly.

Seeing that the anti-thieves and bandits in the land of Yan Zhao were everywhere, and the chaos became a pot of porridge, Emperor Yang of Sui had to pay attention to it. So he sent the famous general Yang Yichen to lead more than 10,000 people to the land of Yanzhao to suppress the bandits and quell the chaos.

After arriving in the land of Yanzhao, he quickly exterminated many anti-thief and bandit forces, especially Zhang Jin, a native of Yanxian County who exterminated the activities in the dangerous waters of the Yellow River, Zhang Jin said that there were thousands of people under his command, all of whom were outlaws, and he had killed Dou Jiande's friend Sun Anzu, and his combat effectiveness was very strong. He didn't want to be defeated by Yang Yichen in Qinghe, and captured Zhang Jincheng and many of his subordinates, Yang Yichen has always been ruthless and ruthless to the thieves, and suppressed them with iron and blood, and the captured prisoners, including Zhang Jincheng, were all beheaded.

The remnants of Zhang Jincheng, who had escaped, gathered together and defected to Gao Shida. Yang Yichen took advantage of the victory and marched to Pingyuan County, preparing to enter Gaojipoli to eliminate Gao Shida. The red lady whispered to Dou Jiande for a while, and Dou Jiande then found Gao Shida and said to him earnestly: "Yang Yichen is a famous general of the Sui army, and he should not be underestimated. Having just defeated Zhang Jin, their morale is in full swing, and their spirit is currently irresistible and cannot be fought hard. Let me lead my brethren away from them, so that they may not be able to fight them if they want to, and drag him for months in vain, until his soldiers are tired and tired of it, and take the opportunity to take him by surprise and win a great victory. If we compete with him now, I'm afraid we won't be able to resist it. ”

Not long ago, Gao Shida and Dou Jiande defeated the Sui Dynasty army led by Guo Xuan, the Tongshou of Zhuozhou, at the border of the Changhe River, and disdained the combat effectiveness of the Sui army. He didn't listen to Dou Jiande's opinion, and felt that Dou Jiande must have been afraid and timid to dare not face the Sui army head-on, so he personally led thousands of elite soldiers of the righteous army in Gaojibo to meet Yang Yichen.

The army of the Sui Dynasty led by Yang Yichen came from afar, was a little tired, and was not familiar with the terrain of Gaojibo, so he won a small victory in the first battle of Gaoshida.

After Gao Shida's victory, he was arrogant and looked down on the Sui army even more. let his subordinates indulge in drinking and feasting, and the idea of despising the enemy was born. After five days, after resting, Yang Yichen led the Sui army to attack Gaoshida again, this time he figured out the terrain of Gaojibo and Gaoshida's troop deployment, and defeated the righteous army led by Gaoshida after a day of fierce fighting, and killed Gaoshida on the battlefield.

When the bad news came, Dou Jiande had no choice but to lead the Dou family army to use guerrilla warfare to evade and fight Yang Yichen head-on, determined to use the "procrastination trick" to drag the elite Sui army led by Yang Yichen to death.

After Yang Yichen eliminated Gao Shida, he decided to take advantage of the victory to pursue and eliminate Dou Jiande in one go. But he found that Dou Jiande was like a cunning fox, fluctuating from east to west, fluctuating, and he had never been able to find a chance to fight head-on. In this way, he was dragged by Dou Jiande for a few months, there was no big result, when Yang Yichen was upset, there was a large-scale rebellion in the Central Plains, Yang Yichen was transferred to the Central Plains by a holy decree of Emperor Yang of Sui, Yang Yichen sighed regretfully when he left the land of Yan Zhao: "If Dou Jiande is not removed, it will become a big disaster in the future!" ”

After Yang Yichen left, Yan Zhao counted Dou Jiande's righteous army as the largest and most powerful, and many remnants of the righteous army defeated by the Sui army also defected to Dou Jiande's banner.

Dou Jiande returned to Pingyuan County, cleaned up the bodies of the dead who followed Gao Shida, buried them all, and held a grand funeral for Gao Shida, and the whole army wore white mourning clothes. Gao Jibo's original thousands of rebels under Gao Shida were deeply moved, and they all switched to the Dou family's army, and the strength of the Dou family's army further increased.

After the soldiers were strong and strong, Dou Jiande and the Red Lady began to attack the Sui army entrenched in the county seat. He successively broke through the county seat of Zhangnan County, the county seat of Qinghe County and other cities, killed Zheng Shuang, the county commander of Zhangnan County, Xu Gui, the assassin of Qinghe County, and other corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and avenged his parents and relatives.

At the beginning, because most of the rebels were oppressed and infested by corrupt officials, local tyrants and inferior gentry, and Sui Dynasty officers and soldiers, once the city was breached, all the officials and local gentry of the Sui Dynasty would be killed. Since killing Guo Xuan, the Tongshou of Zhuozhou, Zheng Shuang, the county commander of Zhangnan County, and Xu Gui, the assassin of Qinghe County, the great revenge has been avenged, and the red lady feels that she should not continue to kill on a large scale, and should think about the long term. Starting from the overall situation, we should strive for the support of those officers and soldiers and gentry of the Sui Dynasty in the future, so that we can make the righteous army bigger and stronger, and achieve great causes. Of course, the red lady who has read the book is not willing to be a thief for the rest of her life, she feels that the emperor is mediocre and the world is in chaos, and it is the time for heroes to emerge and compete for hegemony.

Therefore, the Red Lady suggested that after Dou Jiande broke through the city in the future, he would catch the officials and local gentry of the Sui Dynasty, stop killing them again, and treat each other with courtesy. At first, Dou Jiande couldn't figure it out, but the Red Lady patiently gave him an analysis of the general trend of the world, and he suddenly realized that his love for the Red Lady was doubled.

Later, after breaking through the county seat of Raoyang County, he captured the county commander Song Zhengben, and Dou Jiande no longer killed him as before, but regarded the county commander Song Zhengben as a distinguished guest and discussed the plan with him. After the news came out, many Sui Dynasty county magistrates in the land of Yan and Zhao gradually surrendered to Dou Jiande, and the momentum of the Dou family army became more prosperous, the territory under control continued to expand, and the elite soldiers increased to more than 100,000 people, which has become the largest Qi rebel army in the land of Yan and Zhao.

Seeing that Dou Jiande continued to sit in the land of Yan and Zhao, Emperor Yang of Sui began to be a little worried, so he sent Xue Shixiong, the general of Youyiwei, to lead 30,000 horses to crusade against Dou Jiande, to the south of Hejian City, and set up camp in Qilijing. The red lady suggested that Dou Jiande try to outwit as much as possible and not fight hard, so as to reduce his own casualties.

Dou Jiande adopted the suggestion of the Red Lady and selected thousands of elite soldiers to ambush in the swamp on the southern border of Hejian County, and the defenders of the righteous army in various towns saw that the Sui Dynasty army led by Xue Shixiong was encamped, and all of them pulled out the camp and fled in disguise, saying that they wanted to hide in Douzi Lake to avoid being captured and killed by Xue Shixiong.

Xue Shixiong thought that Dou Jiande was afraid of himself and did not build military facilities. After Dou Jiande found out these circumstances, he personally led a thousand righteous troops who dared to fight to the death, including Liu Heimin, Fan Yuan, Dong Kangmai, Cao Zhan, Gao Yaxian, and Wang Xiaohu, and attacked Xue Shixiong's Sui army camp in the early morning while the fog was blowing.

There was a dense fog all over the place, the two armies could not distinguish clearly, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the Sui army thought that it was surrounded by the righteous army, and ran around, trampled on each other, and made a mess.

At this time, the Red Lady led the elite of the 5,000 righteous army to rush in and kill in the chaos, the Sui army was defeated, more than 10,000 people died, Xue Shixiong fled with hundreds of people, and the remaining Sui army troops were all defeated, either killed or captured or fled, the Dou family army won a complete victory, this battle also played the prestige of the Dou family army, and for a time the imperial court did not dare to send a large army to come to conquest, many counties and counties surrendered to the city, Dou Jiande's power increased greatly, and he became the overlord of the land of Yan Zhao.

In the first month of the thirteenth year of the Great Cause (617 AD), at the junction of Hejian and Leshou counties, Dou Jiande set up an altar to hold a ceremony, and called himself the king of Changle. The red lady also officially married Dou Jiande a few days later and became the queen of Changle.

After becoming king, Dou Jiande was full of spirit and ambition, and began to actively expand his territory. His next target is Upper Valley County, located in the northern part of River. Wang Suba, the commander of the thief army in Shanggu County, proclaimed himself the king of Mantian, gathered tens of thousands of horses, invaded Youzhou, and was killed by an arrow. The deputy general Wei Dao'er took over the command of this army, claiming to be Lishanfei, entrenched in Shenze County, Shanggu County, with 100,000 horses. According to the plan planned by his subordinates, Dou Jiande first signed a peace agreement with Wei Dao'er to paralyze the other party. After the two sides signed the contract, Wei Dao'er really relaxed his guard against Dou Jiande. On a dark and windy night, Dou Jiande led a large army to attack suddenly, defeated Wei Dao'er, annexed all his territory, and incorporated many surrendered troops, further expanding his power.

On the day of the winter solstice in 618 AD, Dou Jiande gathered civil and military officials in Jincheng Palace, and five big birds landed in Leshou City, and tens of thousands of birds flew with them, and flew away after a whole day, so they changed the year name to Wufeng. There is a Zongcheng person who offered a Xuanwang Gui (black jade), Jingcheng Cheng Kong Deshao said: "In ancient times, Xia Yu personally received the talisman and God gave it to Xuanwang Gui. Now auspicious signs, like Xia Yu, should be called Xia Kingdom. Dou Jiande heeded this suggestion, renamed the territory under his control the Xia Kingdom, and continued to actively expand his territory.

After changing the name to Xia State, Dou Jiande aimed at Xiangzhou in the south of the Yanzhao land, and personally led the army to attack, but the ambassador of the Yanzhao land, Huai'an Wang Li Shentong, could not resist and retreated to Liyang. Xiangzhou was breached, and Xiangzhou assassinated Shi Lvmin. Dou Jiande took advantage of the victory to advance, and then attacked Weizhou, and captured Liyang, where Li Tao, the general of Tang Guozuo Wuwei, and Tang Gaozu's imperial sister were captured along with Princess An Chang and Li Shentong. Dou Jiande arranged for Princess Tong'an and Li Shentong to live in the inn and treated them with the etiquette of guests. Tang Gaozu Li Yuan sent an envoy to conclude a reconciliation with Dou Jiande, hoping to release the imperial sister Princess Tong'an, Dou Jiande was magnanimous and immediately let Princess Tong'an go back with the envoy.

When Dou Jiande attacked Huazhou, Huazhou assassin Shi Wang Liang was killed by a slave, and the slave took his head to Dou Jiande, Dou Jiande angrily said: "The slave killing the master is a great rebellious crime, how can I take you in." "Ordered the immediate execution of the slaves, and sent the head of Wang Liang back to Huazhou. The officials and people of Huazhou were moved and surrendered on the same day. The rebel commanders of Qizhou, Jeju, and Yanzhou, Xu Yuanlang, all surrendered when they heard the news, and the territory and power of the Xia Kingdom further expanded.

However, it is a pity that after the red lady married Dou Jiande, she still often charged into battle, and accidentally fell from her horse in a melee, resulting in a miscarriage of her who was pregnant.

Some of Dou Jiande's ministers and subordinates suggested that Dou Jiande marry a few more beautiful women as concubines, so that they could give birth to a prince for Dou Jiande as soon as possible. But Dou Jiande loved the Red Lady deeply, and was afraid of breaking the Red Lady's heart, so he politely rejected the proposal of the minister and his subordinates. After breaking Liaocheng, Dou Jiande got thousands of beauties and palace maids, all of whom were as beautiful as flowers, beautiful and charming, but Dou Jiande was unmoved, and immediately dismissed all of them, leaving no one. After the red lady heard about it, she was very moved, she decided not to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy anymore, take care of her body in the rear, and give birth to a prince for her husband Dou Jiande as soon as possible.

After becoming the queen of Xia, Dou Jiande followed the advice of the ministers and subordinates, for the sake of national security, he should take care of the dragon's body, and later he was not too big to charge at the front line, and his diet was no longer as frugal as in the past, and he often feasted and drank with the ministers. After a long time, my body has become a little fat, my muscles are a little loose, and the flesh on my face has increased, and it is no longer as angular as it used to be. In particular, he has more villains and courtiers who are good at meeting and patting horses, and he praises Dou Jiande all day long, which makes his judgment and discernment ability also decline. The Red Lady advised Dou Jiande several times, asking Dou Jiande to be prepared for danger in times of peace, to distinguish between loyalty and treachery, to be modest and cautious, to accept advice with an open mind, and to stay away from villains, but Dou Jiande only accepted it on the surface, and actually did not put the Red Lady's advice in his heart. He now feels that he has become the king of Xia from a farmer, and has laid down a large number of rivers and mountains. He must be a divine dragon descending to earth, extraordinary, his wisdom must surpass ordinary people, and he will never make mistakes.

Dou Jiande has a confession Song Zhengben, is an upright loyal minister, upright personality, likes to speak out, and Dou Jiande, who is already a little self-aggrandizing and self-serving, listened to the villain's courtiers slandered and framed Song Zhengben and killed him. After that, his subordinates and ministers took this as a lesson, and no one gave advice anymore, and from then on, the punishment and reward education became even more weak.

Dou Jiande's general Gao Shixing has a general named Wang Fubao, who is brave and strategic, and is among his peers. The merit is in the first place, and the generals are jealous of him. Someone spread that he was going to rebel, and Dou Jiande was going to kill him if he listened to the slander, Wang Fubao said: "I am innocent, how can Your Majesty listen to those slanderous words and cut off his left and right hands by himself?" Dou Jiande ignored the advice of the Red Lady, Ma Fei, Liu Heimin and others, and still killed Wang Fubao. Ma Fei was so angry that he was nostalgic for his hometown, the red lady and Liu Heimin tried their best to keep it, Ma Fei sighed at the red lady and Liu Heimin, shook his head and said, "Alas, he has changed!" I don't want to stay any longer! Then he departed, and no one knew where he went. After Wang Fubao's death, Gao Shixing often lost battles in later battles.

In the end, Dou Jiande was defeated by Li Shimin in the Battle of Tiger Pass, and was beheaded in Chang'an after being captured, and a generation of heroes fell in disgrace.

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A thunderclap woke the grief-stricken red lady from her memories, and she burst into tears and clenched her silver teeth. Although his husband Dou Jiande made some serious mistakes in the later period due to arrogance and lack of foresight, and buried the entire Xia Kingdom, the entire land of Yan Zhao, and his own life, Dou Jiande loved the Red Lady deeply from beginning to end, and the Red Lady could always feel it. Even if Dou Jiande made a big mistake, but in the heart of the red lady, he will always love him deeply, just because Dou Jiande only married the red lady as a wife after becoming the king and refused to accept the concubine's beloved feelings, so that the red lady was willing to go to the soup for him and break his bones.

The red lady also hated the Tang Emperor Li Yuan for being ungrateful! Li Yuan's Tang. When the army and Dou Jiande's Xia army fought in Weizhou and Liyang in the land of Yan and Zhao, Dou Jiande defeated Tang. Army, Tang Dynasty Zuo Wuwei general Li Tao, Tang Gaozu Imperial Sister Tongan Chang Princess An and Huai'an King Li Shentong were captured by Dou Jiande. Dou Jiande not only did not kill, but also treated him well, and later magnanimously released Princess Tong'an, Li Shentong and others to return to Tang, which can be said to be extremely benevolent and righteous, and after Dou Jiande was captured by Li Shimin, he was escorted to Chang'an, Li Yuan saw Dou Jiande's dignified appearance and extraordinary momentum, and he was afraid of leaving behind troubles, so he ruthlessly killed Dou Jiande in Chang'an.

"Husband, I must avenge you, I must recapture the land of Yan Zhao, regain the territory of Xia State, and teach the ungrateful Tang Emperor Li Yuan a lesson! Even if I am broken and I can't recover, I must fight against Tang to the end! ”

The red lady burst into tears in front of Dou Jiande's tomb, and her lower lip was tightly bitten by her to bleed.

She whipped up a puff of dust and smoke, and galloped westward, she had to find an important person first.

After two days of galloping, the big red horse finally came to a remote and quiet mountain village.

The green mountains are reckless, and the bamboo sea is turbulent.

The warm sunlight shines on every inch of land, enveloping and moistening all things in the world. The curling smoke drifts westward in the spring breeze, and you can faintly hear the joyful laughter of children playing in the water in the mountain stream.

If it weren't for the smoke and laughter, I'm afraid no one would believe that there would be villages and people's footprints in the deep mountains far away from the red dust and purple mo.

Birds flutter their wings in the air, the wind blows the green bamboo leaves, and the village is located deep in the bamboo sea.

The red lady walked into this remote and quiet mountain village with excitement and apprehension, and walked a short distance, she raised her eyes to see a stream, in a fence woven with wicker, and a three-room earthen wall hut. The hut is lined with vegetable gardens with verdant vegetables. There are a few weeping willows planted in front of and behind the house, and the thousands of willow threads fluttering in the wind reflect the hut into a piece of green, making this already dilapidated hut add a sense of extraordinary tranquility.

After many days of running, the red lady was already tired, but when she saw a burly, bearded black-faced man who was busy watering in the vegetable garden, she couldn't help but lift her spirits, and the corners of her mouth showed a long-lost smile. And when the black-faced man in the vegetable garden saw the dusty, somewhat haggard but still beautiful red lady, his eyes also radiated a light of surprise and joy, and he hurried up with joy and excitement......