The situation in Hedong gradually stabilized after Li Yin led the army to Baibi to hold on to Song Jingang, and the soldiers and civilians of the Tang Dynasty finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this.

But at this time, Datang's territory in Hebei was captured by Dou Jiande one after another.

Datang's territory in Hebei, not counting Luo Yi's territory, has a total of six states, all of which are close to Taihang Mountain, from north to south are Hengzhou (the original Hengshan County), Zhaozhou (Zhao County), Xingzhou (Xiangguo County), Weizhou (Wu'an County), Xiangzhou (Wei County), Weizhou (Ji County).

Among them, Su Yong, the father of Su Dingfang of Hengzhou's assassin history, and Hengzhou's soldiers and horses were ruled by Li Xiuning, the princess of Pingyang, who was stationed at Jingcheng Pass.

The four states of Zhaozhou, Xingzhou, Zhaozhou, and Xiangzhou are now all managed by Li Shentong, the king of Huainan, the original pacification envoy of Shandong, and the rest of Weizhou is guarded by Li Shiji.

Dou Jiande's goal is to unify the whole territory of Hebei, because Luo Yi in the north is difficult to destroy, Gao Kaidao surrendered to him in name (Gao Kaidao surrendered to Luo Yi at the same time, he also declared himself to the Tang Dynasty last year, which is regarded as a wall grass), so after the destruction of Yu Wenhua, Dou Jiande's goal is the land of Liuzhou on the side of Taihang Mountain.

As early as the Great Cause years, Hengzhou began to be governed by Li Yin's recruitment of displaced people, and at this time it was already extremely rich, and Dou Jiande was very coveted by it.

But first, Hengzhou has built a complete fortification, and the military and civilians are very determined to defend their homeland, and secondly, because Li Xiuning, the princess of Pingyang in the Jingcheng Pass, is a good fighter, Dou Jiande has confronted it several times, but failed to win, so after thinking about it, Dou Jiande had to decide to put Hengzhou down first and attack other places.

Dou Jiande first let his friend, Liu Heimin, the prince and general of Handong County, launch a surprise attack, and took the lead in capturing the criminal state between Zhaozhou and Zhaozhou, separating Zhaozhou from Zhaozhou.

It was Li Shentong who guarded Zhaozhou, and Zhang Daoyuan ordered him to comfort him. On July 25, Dou Jiande captured Zhaozhou and captured Zhang Zhiang and Zhang Daoyuan, the governors of Tang

Dou Jiande planned to kill them because Chen Junbin, the assassin of Xingzhou, and Zhang Daoyuan, the consolation envoy, did not surrender as soon as possible, but Dou Jiande's Guozi Priest Jiu Ling Jing admonished: "The people and ministers each serve their masters, and they stick to the city and do not surrender, and they are loyal ministers." Now that the king has killed them, what will he use to encourage his men? ”

Dou Jiande said angrily: "When I arrived at the city, they still didn't surrender, and they were captured with all their might, how could I let them go?" ”

Ling Jing said: "Now the king has sent the general Gao Shixing to resist Luo Yi's attack in Yishui, if Luo Yicai arrives, Gao Shixing will surrender, what does the king think?" ”

So Dou Jiande came to his senses and immediately ordered the release of Chen Junbin, Zhang Daoyuan and others.

Subsequently, Dou Jiande personally led more than 100,000 troops to go to Zhaozhou, and Li Shentong saw that he had lost the land of the two states in an instant, and felt quite stressed.

Li Shentong felt that his status was noble and he was unwilling to face the danger, so after knowing that Dou Jiande led an army of 100,000 to Zhaozhou, he led all kinds of soldiers and horses to retreat to Xiangzhou, handed over Zhaozhou to the governor Yuan Zigan, and before leaving, he told Yuan Zigan that no matter what, he would defend Zhaozhou for the Tang Dynasty, Yuan Zigan patted his chest and agreed.

On the third day of August, Dou Jiande's army arrived at the city of Zhaozhou, and on the fourth day of the first month, Dou Jiande began to attack Zhaozhou, but before the army was launched, Yuan Zigan, the governor of Zhaozhou, opened the city gate and surrendered to Dou Jiande.

Chen Junbin, the previous assassin of Xingzhou, and Zhang Daoyuan, the comforting envoy, surrendered themselves when they were exhausted, Dou Jiande felt angry, but at this time, seeing that Yuan Zigan actually took the initiative to open the city and surrender, Dou Jiande felt a little strange again, and asked Yuan Zigan about the reason for surrender.

Yuan Zigan said: "In the troubled times, if the king abandons the minister, the minister can also abandon the king, Li Shentong is greedy for life and afraid of death, and the enemy fled to Xiangzhou as soon as he came, but he wanted me to work hard here, how can there be such a reason?" ”

Dou Jiande heard that what Yuan Zigan said made some sense, so he didn't continue to embarrass him.

On the eighth day of the first month of August, Dou Jiande continued to lead the troops and horses to Xiangzhou, Li Shentong heard the news, and once again handed over Xiangzhou to the assassin Shi Lu Min to hold on, and he led all the soldiers and horses to continue to retreat south, to Liyang, Weizhou to take refuge with Li Shiji.

Half a month later, Dou Jiande captured Xiangzhou and killed Shi Lumin, the assassin of Xiangzhou who refused to surrender.

In this way, in less than two months, the Tang Dynasty was captured by Dou Jiande from Li Shentong's hands one after another in the four states of Hebei.

Subsequently, Dou Jiande took advantage of the victory to pursue and led his troops to Weizhou, which was the last goal of his expedition, and there was Liyang Cang in Weizhou, which was the place where Dou Jiande was bound to win.

Every time Dou Jiande marched, he often divided the troops into three routes, with the baggage and family members in the center, and the infantry and cavalry on both sides, about three miles apart.

Dou Jiande led a thousand cavalry to walk in front, and after thirty miles of Liyang, Li Shiji sent cavalry general Qiu Xiaogang to lead three hundred cavalry to reconnoiter Dou Jiande's military situation.

Qiu Xiaogang is brave and good at fighting, good at riding horses and making spears, and after encountering Dou Jiande, he attacked Dou Jiande without saying a word, Dou Jiande was caught off guard and retreated in a hurry, but Qiu Xiaogang was also a little carried away because of this, and continued to pursue, some went deep into the enemy camp, and Dou Jiande's side cavalry on the left and right sides rescued, and surrounded Qiu Xiaogang to death.

Qiu Xiaogang saw that the situation was not good, and led the men and horses to rush left and right, but he was never able to break out of the encirclement, no matter how brave he was, he gradually became weak, and finally was hacked to death by the rebel army.

Dou Jiande originally wanted to attack Liyang with his troops after the fall of other places in Weizhou, but after this incident, he felt very angry, so he immediately returned to the army to attack Liyang Cangcheng.

Li Shiji learned the news of Qiu Xiaogang's death, very remorseful, Qiu Xiaogang was just warlike, after learning that Dou Jiande was coming, he took the initiative to ask to lead troops out of the city to investigate, before leaving, Li Shiji was still afraid that he would love war, so he told him for a long time, Qiu Xiaogang also agreed, but he didn't expect to die on the battlefield in the end.

Although he was sad in his heart, Li Shiji still cheered up and actively prepared for war, he had guarded Liyang for many years, all kinds of fortifications were built very well, and he had broken the hundreds of thousands of troops of Yu Wenhua here, so he was not very worried about Dou Jiande's attack.

However, Li Shiji didn't know that in his city, there was a group of pig teammates, and because of the existence of this group of people, his unbreakable Liyang Cangcheng would become precarious.

That's right, what the pig teammates said was the group headed by Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an.

Li Shentong lost the city and lost the land in a row, and at this time he was already a frightened bird, and when Dou Jiande was close to him again, he immediately panicked.

"Cousin, why don't we go out of the city and take a boat back to Guanzhong!" A slightly older woman said in a coquettish voice to Li Shentong at this time.