Hebei.

Dou Jiande waved his troops from Henan and returned to Hebei quickly.

At this time, Hebei Zhulu soldiers and horses, but unexpected things happened.

The soldiers and horses led by Song Jingang and Zhen Zhai'er were originally ordered by Guo Xuan to divide their troops to Xiangguo County and Wei County to collect grain and grass for food, but Wei Dao'er and Wang Xuba, who were under the command of the two, and tens of thousands of thieves and soldiers rebelled, and as soon as they left Guo Xuan's sight, they drifted away like a kite with a broken string.

They relapse and burn everywhere.

When Guo Xuan heard this, he hurriedly sent someone to reprimand Song Jingang and Zhen Zhai'er, and ordered them to clean up the soldiers and horses.

But at this time, the two soldiers and horses were all scattered, and they solved the grain and grass by themselves, and the thieves had no military discipline at all, and this one was completely messed up.

Those big and small thieves will not only attack the city and countryside under the banner of the imperial court, but also wantonly coerce the young and strong as soldiers, and greatly expand their soldiers and horses.

Anyway, in the thief army, there has always been the boss who has more soldiers, but now that it is out, who does not take the opportunity to expand its strength.

In a short period of time, 70,000 or 80,000 thieves have become more than 100,000.

Guo Xuan asked Song Zhen and the others to disturb their subordinates, but they couldn't do it.

Luo Siye also heard the information here at this time, and sent someone over to ask Guo Xuan to simply dismiss most of the thief army, but the news came out.

Over there, Zhen Zhai'er and Wei Dao'er quit.

The two of them have now become the leaders of the thieves alliance in a county, robbed a lot of land, money and food, and expanded a lot of subordinates, and they are getting away with it, so they want to disband their soldiers and horses, and let them go back to apologize?

The thieves were indignant.

So he simply broke away from Guo Xuan's moderation.

Song Jingang led the Shanggu thieves to possess Zhao County, and called himself the governor of Zhao County. And Zhen Zhai'er simply called himself a marshal in Xiangguo County.

The two of them each commanded fifty or sixty thousand horses, and they no longer paid attention to Guo Xuan's envoy.

At this time, Dou Jiande's forward general Wang Fubao led the Xia army to kill back, and Guo Xuan hurriedly met the battle, but he was unable to fight.

When Guo Xuan led Fan Yang's soldiers to defeat by the Zhangshui River, the Beiping soldiers went to watch the fire on the east bank of the Zhangshui River and refused to cross the river to rescue. At this critical time, Guo Xuan's flank was opened, and Wang Fubao's cavalry attacked in a roundabout way, and then the Chinese army broke through and the whole army was defeated.

Guo Xuan died directly in battle.

His subordinate Fan Yang's soldiers were also defeated and defeated, with countless losses and losses, and countless prisoners were captured by the Xia army.

Liu Hongji led thousands of Dingxiang cavalry at this time was sent by Guo Xuan to conquer Song Jingang and Zhen Zhai'er on the way, heard that Guo Xuan was defeated, simply did not go to Xiangguo Zhao County, and directly withdrew into Hengshan Zhending City.

After Wang Fubao broke Guo Xuan, he took advantage of the victory to catch up, and simply entered the two counties of Boling and Hengshan, intending to take the opportunity to seize these two counties.

Feng Xiaoci, Luo Siye, and Ashina Simo had to urgently dispatch elite light cavalry to rush to reinforcements.

An encounter broke out between the two sides on the banks of the Hutuo River.

The third general Feng Luo and the fourth general Liu Hongji had a total of 20,000 elite soldiers, while the Xia army vanguard led by Wang Fubao and Liu Heimin was more than 10,000, but the two armies were all encounters, and the two sides fought for a day.

Wang Fubao and Liu Heimin retreated without being defeated, Liu Hongji and Ashina Simo led thousands of light cavalry in pursuit, but a day later, on the north bank of the Zhangshui River, Dou Jiande personally led the main force to arrive.

Liu Hongji and Simo were outnumbered and defeated.

Liu Hongji was shot dead because of his war horse, which led to the direct capture of Dou Jiande's army, and Simo only led more than 1,000 horsemen to flee back to Zhending.

Dou Jiande waved his troops north to Zhending.

At this time, Wang Junkuo and Qu Tutong had also captured Linyu Pass, and were arriving with more than 10,000 men and horses, escorting a large amount of grain and grass.

The two sides fought fiercely, and Dou Jiande took advantage of it, but failed to defeat the Liao army.

Luo Siye and others retreated north into Zhending.

Dou Jiande marched to the city of Zhending, and the army besieged the city.

But the attack lasted for several days, and after a few days, the Xia army itself could not hold on first, because their army rations were about to run out.

As a result, Dou Jiande could only helplessly relieve the siege from Zhending City, withdraw to Hejian and Wudu, and return to the Jincheng Palace.

Later.

Boling, Shanggu, Hengshan, Fanyang, Beiping all over the Liao army reinforcements, also rushed one after another, Luo Siye also transferred a group of soldiers and horses from Yunnei County west of Taihang Mountain, out of the Flying Fox Trail, over the Taihang Mountain into the upper valley, and then south to Boling, Hengshan two counties reinforcements.

For a while, the situation was stalemate again.

The two armies of Xia and Liao both gathered their own armies at this time, but they were both short of food, and it was difficult to concentrate on the big war.

"Your Highness, Your Highness has an urgent letter."

Luo Cheng, who rushed back to Liaodong, was also transferring troops to attack the Goguryeo rebels in Xuansu County, and when he heard that the situation in Hebei had changed dramatically, he couldn't help but start writing to Luo Siye.

But now something has gone terribly wrong.

Luo Siye and the others didn't seize the opportunity to capture Hejian before, and they can't be blamed, it is not easy to take the Beiping counties in the upper valley of Hengshan, and the supply of grain and grass can't keep up, which is something that can't be helped.

But the rebellion of Song Jingang and Zhen Zhai'er should not have happened, after the capture of the two counties of Hengshan Shanggu, for those thieves, they should have been recruited in an appropriate amount, and then the rest should be dismissed, but Guo Xuan was all under his command.

At a critical time, it will all be sprinkled out, and it will naturally get out of control.

At this time, Dou Jiande had already been killed, but he was still alone in Wudu, so he shouldn't have been.

But Luo Cheng didn't want to blame Guo Xuan and Siye too much, but fortunately, the situation was still stable.

Generally speaking, several soldiers and horses gained a lot, and they did not defeat Dou Jiande, but they took the two towns of Beiping and Fanyang.

"Under the festival, His Royal Highness urgently ordered that the three counties of Hengshan, Boling and Shanggu should be placed in the Hengshan Jiedu Embassy, and General Feng Xiaoci was awarded the Hengshan Jiedu Envoy, and the military number was given to be brave, and Feng Xiaoci was awarded the Duke of Hengshan County, and the auxiliary general was awarded."

"Fanyang, Beiping, and Yuyang counties formed the Fanyang Jiedu Embassy, and Wang Junkuo served as the Fanyang Jiedu Envoy, and the original Anle County was merged into Yuyang County, and Wang Junkuo was named the Duke of Fanyang County, and the auxiliary general was awarded, and the army was given the name of the Divine Army."

Luo Siye held Luo Cheng's urgent military order and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

"This time, we didn't do it well, we messed up, we didn't grasp the good situation, Dou Jiande was already over this time."

The envoy said with a smile, "King Qin had already guessed that Jiexia would say this, so he told Jiexia that he was already very satisfied with the current situation, and that our dispatch of troops this time would have a far better effect than planned." Don't think that you can calm the world at one time, how can it be so smooth, after all, we are only a few town border troops, and the foundation is still too thin to support such a big strategic plan, so we will accept it when we see it. ”

"So what now?"

Luo Siye asked.

"His Royal Highness the King of Qin let Jiexia lead the Xuanwu army back to Dingxiang, Li Yuan has now entered Guanzhong, returned to Xijing, he has sent soldiers and horses into Hedong, intending to re-sweep Hedong, the next step, must be with Xiao Yu, Yang Yichen soldiers out of Yanmen, crusade against Liu Wuzhou of Mayi. His Royal Highness asked His Majesty to help Liu Wuzhou stabilize his position, as long as he stabilized his position, then we can reorganize and conquer together with the territory of more than ten counties we have won this time, and we can reorganize and conquer together in the coming year. ”