At the beginning of November, five big birds landed in the royal capital of Dou Jiande, the king of Changle, and tens of thousands of birds followed the five big birds before leaving after a day.

Dou Jiande thought that this was his auspicious omen, so he changed the era name to Wufeng.

After that, someone in Zongcheng got Hyungui and dedicated it to Dou Jiande. Xuangui is a kind of black jade, "Shangshu Yu Gong" records: "Yu gave Xuangui, and succeeded in suing for convulsions." "Therefore, it means that the merit is added to the four seas.

Kong Deshao, the auditor of Jingcheng Chenghui, said: "Xuangui was given to Dayu by God, and now it is in the hands of the king, so it can be seen that this is the destiny of heaven, please change the name of the country to Xia." ”

Dou Jiande obeyed Kong Deshao's request, and then established the Xia Kingdom, proclaimed himself the King of Xia, served as an official, divided the counties, and shot the left servant with Qi Shanxing, with Kong Deshao as the internal history squire, Liu Bin as the Zhongshu Sheren, and Ling Jing as the Guozi Priest Wine.

When Dou Jiande surrendered to Li Mi in name, because Li Mi himself was not called the emperor, he could not continue to be the king, so he reduced the title of King Changle to the Duke of Changle, but at this time, he called himself the King of Xia, and he would no longer serve Li Mi as the master.

Since Dou Jiande defeated Xue Shixiong last year, he made the Sui Dynasty's eyes focus on Li Mi by serving Li Mi as the master, and he himself took the opportunity to conquer the city and occupy a lot of territory.

Up to now, the biggest threat to Dou Jiande is no longer the Sui Dynasty's troops, but the Wei Dao'er forces, which are also "righteous troops".

Wei Dao'er led an army of more than 100,000 to occupy Shenze, at this time he claimed to be the Emperor of Wei, his troops did not produce, and often plundered between Ji and Ding, which caused serious intrusion and threat to Dou Jiande's territory, and became Dou Jiande's trouble.

In order to get rid of Wei Dao'er, Dou Jiande pretended to unite with Wei Dao'er, and revealed to Wei Dao'er that he was willing to serve him as the master, Wei Dao'er was very happy about this, and gradually relaxed his guard against Dou Jiande.

A general under Wei Dao'er, named Song Jingang, was originally the leader of the rebel army active in Yizhou, and only brought more than 10,000 people to take refuge in Wei Dao'er a few months ago.

Song Jingang has a reputation for being good at fighting in the Hebei Righteous Army, and is quite strategic and insightful, he felt that Dou Jiande should pretend to unite with Wei Dao'er, so he persuaded Wei Dao'er to take more precautions against Dou Jiande.

Wei Dao'er didn't care about Song Jingang's words, and smiled at Song Jingang: "King Xia has always been famous in Hebei for his benevolence and righteousness, and now that he has joined forces with me, how can he make a betrayal of the alliance?" ”

Song Jingang said: "Since ancient times, the king has been defeated, who is benevolent and who is not benevolent and righteous is the final word of the fist, how can Your Majesty believe the lies of the outside world?" ”

Song Jingang's words did have some truth, but at this time, Wei Dao'er seemed to have been completely immersed in the infinite scenery after Dou Jiande was subordinate to him, and he didn't listen to Song Jingang's words at all.

After Song Jingang reluctantly left, he said to his cronies: "Your Majesty is asking for his own death, we can't bury him with him, everyone cheers up and is ready to withdraw at any time!" ”

Song Jingang's premonition was not wrong, November 14 was originally the day when Dou Jiande led the officials of the jurisdiction to surrender to Wei Dao'er, but Dou Jiande ambushed his men and horses early in the agreed place, suddenly attacked and defeated Wei Dao'er's army, and finally surrounded Wei Dao'er's lair Shenze.

After besieging Shenze for several days, Wei Dao'er's subordinates tied him up and surrendered to Dou Jiande, who beheaded Wei Dao'er in front of the army and merged most of Wei Dao'er's team, except that Song Jingang fled to the northwest with his men and horses before the incident.

Song Jingang galloped to the northwest with six or seven thousand men and horses, followed the route taken by Zhen Zhai'er, the deputy general of Wei Dao'er, and finally arrived at Mayi County, where he took refuge in Liu Wuzhou, who occupied this place.

Liu Wuzhou had heard of Song Jingang's reputation and knew that he was very good at using soldiers, and he was very happy after getting the refuge, that is, he named him the king of Song, handed over all the military power to Song Jingang, and even half of his property was given to Song Jingang.

Song Jingang was very grateful to Liu Wuzhou for trusting him so much, in order to reassure Liu Wuzhou, he divorced his original wife, married Liu Wuzhou's sister, and took the opportunity to put forward to Liu Wuzhou the military strategy of "plotting Jinyang City as the foundation, seizing Hedong, and fighting for the world in the south".

For more than a year after Liu Wuzhou raised his army, he was quite content with the status quo, otherwise he would not have taken no action when the Li clan marched into Guanzhong, but at this time, after listening to Song Jingang's reasoned and well-founded analysis of the situation in the world and putting forward the corresponding strategy, he felt quite embarrassed, and his ambition was completely hooked.

So, Liu Wuzhou immediately fought hard, secretly planned, accumulated strength, and prepared to fight for the world in the south after the coming year!

After Dou Jiande annexed Wei Dao'er's forces, his strength increased greatly, and Yi, Ding and other states surrendered to Dou Jiande, but only Jizhou Thorn Shi Liling did not surrender, so Dou Jiande sent a large army to drive Jizhou City.

Koji Ling's son-in-law, Choi Cheng, is Choi Siam's grandson, and claims to have a wonderful spell that can make the attacker fail on his own, and Koji Ling has always trusted his son-in-law, so he also believes in him.

When Dou Jiande's army began to attack the city, Cui fulfilled the order that the people defending the city should sit down, not to fight at will, and said to everyone: "The thief has climbed the city wall, you don't have to be afraid, I can let the thief tie himself up and let you cut it down." ”

After Cui fulfilled the words, he then set up an earthen altar, and at night, set a talisman to pray, and then he wore mourning clothes, and climbed the north building with bamboo poles to weep; He also asked the women to climb up into the house and shake their skirts on all sides.

Dou Jiande attacked the city very fiercely, and Koji Ling saw that the situation was not good, so he wanted to face it, but Cui Cheng resolutely stopped him.

Soon after, the city fell, and Cui Cheng was still crying. Dou Jiande thought that Cui Cheng was crying for the loss of the city wall of the Sui Chamber, so he said to him: "You are really a loyal minister!" After that, I respected Cui very much and took him as the internal history order.

After Dou Jiande conquered Jizhou, his prestige became stronger, at this time, his territory, north to Yishui and Youzhou Luo Yi rejected, south to the mainland Ze (now northeast of Ren County, Hebei), west from Taihang Mountain, east to the sea, has occupied most of Hebei.

Then, Dou Jiande led an army of 100,000 to the north to invade Youzhou Luoyi.

Luo Yi occupies the land of Youzhou, has strong soldiers and horses, and has always been the object of friendship and recruitment by various forces.

At the beginning, after Yu Wenhua and Li Mi fought unfavorably, he sent an envoy to recruit Luo Yi to surrender after the war with Li Mi, but Luo Yi said: "I am a Sui minister, not a traitor." Then he killed the envoys of Yu Wenhua, and mourned for Emperor Yang, crying for three days.

Dou Jiande and Gao Kaidao also sent envoys to recruit Luo Yi respectively, and Luo Yi said to the generals around him: "Jiande and Kaidao are just big thieves!" I heard that Tang Gong has pacified Guanzhong, the people's popularity is related, and the king will succeed, this is really my Ming Jun, I plan to belong to him, if you dare to stop it, behead! ”