Chapter 563: Behind the Scenes

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The defeat of the one-night sneak attack battle, the loss of tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and the cloud of defeat hung over the camp.

Dou Jiande hurriedly held a gathering in the early morning to inquire about the process and results of last night's fierce battle.

General Zhang Qingte hugged his fists and said: "General Qiyu Dou, this defeat, the fault is not our waiting, we follow the agreed time and deployment in advance, secretly board the boat on the river bank, and wait for the signal of the Sui army camp on the north bank. In addition, the beacon smoke signal in the camp was burned, and we pressed the whole army, who knew that the accident would suddenly occur, and the Sui army would attack our soldiers crossing the river as if they had been ambushed a long time ago, and they could not prevent it, and they used fuel such as fire oil to cause heavy casualties to our army......"

Dou Jiande, the army commander Shi Song Zhengben, Sima Lingjing, the right leader Gao Yaxian, the general Wang Fubao, the righteous son Dou Xinglie, the daughter Dou Hongxian, and the generals and generals, after listening to Zhang Qingte's report, they all had doubts and had their own ideas.

Song Zhengben shook his head and sighed: "This Su Dingfang, who is young and frivolous, must have sent a signal without succeeding and was used by the Sui army. ”

Dou Xinglie was also dissatisfied with Su Dingfang, because as soon as he came, he had a close relationship with his sister, and the young man was ambitious, which took away a lot of his aura, and even he felt that Dou Jiande paid more and more attention to Su Dingfang, and he seemed to be more concerned about him recently, a little unhappy, and also slandered: "Yes, it must be that he is too young and has no experience in leading the army, so when he attacked the camp, he did not control the situation, but was resisted by the Sui army, and mistakenly launched the beacon signal, which led to a greater defeat of our army." ”

Ling Jing was heartbroken, and shouted angrily: "I don't know if the 20,000 sneak attack army is alive or dead, 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers crossed the river and perished, and in the battle last night, we lost 60,000 or 70,000 people, but they are all elite main forces!" ”

Many generals echoed one after another, after all, Su Dingfang was young and promoted too quickly, and it was not them, the old men who were the first to revolt, and they were not qualified enough, but they overwhelmed their limelight, and they were dissatisfied in their hearts, and they also burst out at this time, all of them were smearing Su Dingfang.

Dou Hongxian had affection for Su Dingfang, his face flushed with natural anger, and he snorted coldly: "Now General Su doesn't know his life and death, and he has taken the risk of running hundreds of miles, without merit and hard work, when the situation is unknown, why are you so wronged?" ”

Gao Yaxian recommended Su Dingfang's father and son at that time, so he had a deep friendship, and stood up and said: "It's too early to hold anyone accountable now, at least wait for General Su Dingfang to return, and he will state it in person, the cause and effect are clear, and then it's not too late to hold accountable, at present, our top priority is how to save the morale of the army and continue to fight against the Sui army." ”

Dou Jiande listened to the opinions of both sides, which were different, and in the end he still needed him as the leader to make the decision, although he failed to make a sneak attack on Su Dingfang, but instead misled Zhang Qing's special army to press, causing a great defeat, and he was dissatisfied and a little disappointed in Su Dingfang.

But he looked at his daughter's face, it was not good for the time being, he sighed a long time, and said: "This failure, this general will be held accountable to the end, but at present, we don't know what happened on the other side of the riverbank, it's not good to speculate, let the soldiers on the front line risk life and death to chill, we have to give trust, temporarily ignore the issue of accountability for this matter, according to Mr. Gao's intentions, first discuss how to save morale, this half a month of fighting, our army from 180,000, will be more than 100,000, compared to the Sui army on the other side, there is not much more, The elite suffered great losses, there were more remaining recruits and surrendered troops, and the combat effectiveness was sharply reduced, and it was difficult to overcome the Daqing River defense line in the short term. ”

Song Zhengben said: "I don't know what the situation is on Gao's side, the other party has broken off contact, and there has been no news for more than ten days, which is unreasonable." ”

Dou Jiande sighed lightly: "I always have a bad premonition, the Gao clan may not be able to stop the conquest of Luo Cheng, the general. ”

Everyone was silent, and they were also worried that if the Northern Qi army was defeated, Luo Cheng would lead the army south, and join the Sui army on the defense line here, and their strength would increase, and their chances of conquering the other party would be even smaller.

Ling Jing said to himself on the side: "Could it be, it was Luo Cheng who had already arrived secretly, which made General Su Dingfang suffer a big loss and calculated us, otherwise, with the minds of Xue Shixiong and Luo Yi, he would never have thought of this kind of deployment, ring by ring, without any mistakes, and swallowed us sixty or seventy thousand horses overnight, except for Luo Cheng, I really can't figure out how the Sui army can do it." ”

"It's not that there is no such possibility, if this is the case, then the situation of our army will also be worrying." General Wang Fubao followed and deduced.

"Luo Cheng, could it be him who appeared?" Dou Hongxianyu's hand grabbed the corner of his clothes, and he was even more worried about Su Dingfang's safety, if it was really that young marshal who appeared and calculated them, would Su Dingfang still be able to come back alive?

Dou Jiande opened his mouth and said: "Pass the order, the whole army should be vigilant, and beware that the Sui army may counterattack the big camp on our south bank." ”

He had already realized that the opponent's unpredictability was stronger than Dou Jiande's previous imaginary enemy, even if he had 100,000 troops, he felt uneasy, and he was not sure of victory.

The shadow of the tree, the name of the person, Luo Chengwei's name has been spread for ten years, and everyone in the Great Sui knows it, and this kind of loud reputation has caused a great shadow to the psychology of the opponent and pressed it to a huge pressure.

"If it is possible, General Ben really doesn't want to take the lead in fighting Luo Cheng's team!" Dou Jiande said from the bottom of his heart.

Song Zhengben said: "Yes, the four northern counties were originally very chaotic and poor, but after the management of Luo Cheng's father and son, within half a year, they raised an army of 70,000 or 80,000, organized an effective defense, and had sufficient food, grass and weapons, which should not be underestimated!" ”

"This is like a lion, entrenched on the border, if it can be subdued, it will be a major elbow to calm the group and dominate the world in the future, just like Han Xin of the three heroes of Xinghan!" Ling Jing sighed.

Dou Jiande shook his head and said: "We don't have the strength to surrender it for the time being, and we don't have enough interests to impress him to submit, although our Hebei army still has 100,000 people, but don't forget that Li Yuan occupies Jinyang in the west, Yang Yichen is eyeing us in the east, the whole army wants to pounce on our rear, and there is Zhang Xutuo and Li Mi in the south to confront each other. ”