Sanshan belongs to the Liaodong Peninsula, but the people of Sanshan are accustomed to calling Liaodong County, Changli County and other places Liaodong; In other words, the letter that Su You is holding in his hand now was sent by the ship transporting coal.

As early as 20 days ago, Zhang Long led Wei Ting, Wang Qi and more than 10,000 troops to take the isolated city of Changli, and the mining of Fuxin open-pit coal mine began; So far, the coal transportation route from Sanshan to Fuxin has been fully opened.

Relying on the coal ship from Sanshan to Liaodong Bay, Su You received several letters from Liaodong, most of which were used by Zhang Long to report on the military situation, and the remaining few came from Youzhou.

Imagining Luo Yi's messenger from Zhuo County to Beiping County, and then through Liaoxi, only then did he deliver the letter to his fleet, Su You inevitably had a pain in the egg.

The letters that traveled thousands of miles were all outdated news, such as the letter Su You received at the moment.

Su You's letter was twenty days ago, and the messenger from Youzhou had arrived at the mouth of the Liaohe River more than ten days ago, but unfortunately the cargo ship carrying coal had just left; In addition to the mistakes, it was delayed for seven or eight days

The letter in Su You's hand brought Su You a good news and a bad news.

The good news is that Li Jing led a thousand defenders and Yanyun's eighteen cavalry to Zhuojun after leaving Yanmen; The bad news is that Dou Jiande and Wei Dao'er, who had just formed an alliance, had gathered nearly 100,000 troops to kill Youzhou; In order to thank Yanyun for his eighteen horsemen, Li Jing temporarily helped Luo Yi defend in Youzhou

If it was just Youzhou being besieged by the combined forces of Dou Jiande and Wei Dao'er, this must be good news for Su You, after all, Su You's thoughts on Luo Yi have always been trying to recruit; If he can develop well, it will be difficult to recruit him.

Luo Yi calls himself the governor of Youzhou, not a king or a tyrant, from which it is not difficult to see that he has no determination to dominate the world; All he wanted was to become a warlord and finally join the most promising rebel army!

Luo Yi was in trouble, Su You went to the rescue and recruited him by the way, which was the best result.

But now that Li Jing is in Luo Yi's army, if Dou Jiande and Wei Dao'er lead more than 100,000 troops to attack without discipline, will Li Jing be in danger?

According to normal history, Luo Yi also withstood several attacks by Dou Jiande in Youzhou, and Luo Yi was forced to form a wartime alliance with Gao Kaidao, who occupied Beiping County, Yuyang, and repelled Dou Jiande.

The problem is that the forces that Luo Yi can unite have been destroyed by Su You long ago, and Dou Jiande is not fighting alone now; If Su You doesn't save him when he sees death, the territory that Luo Yi has just expanded with his help is likely to be divided between Dou Jiande and Wei Dao'er.

After pondering for a while, Su You finally made a decision,—— "Go to Youzhou to meet Li Jing!" ”

Of course, Su You couldn't go to Youzhou alone, and welcoming Li Jing was only one of the purposes, but the other purpose was to repel the coalition forces of Dou Jiande and Wei Dao'er and capture Luo Yi.

As early as a month ago, Dou Jiande's purpose was to attack Zhuo County, which is now renamed Youzhou by Luo Yi.

There are a large number of weapons and armor in the Linshuo Palace of Zhuo County, as well as a large amount of grain and grass, and this place has always been the frontier position of Yang Guang's attack on Goryeo; In addition, there are more than 10,000 soldiers led by Luo Yi stationed here, some of these people were originally the elite led by Luo Yi, and some of them have recently surrendered.

Because the ambush of Xue Shixiong and Xue Shixiong's son were in Luo Yi's army, Dou Jiande couldn't think of the possibility of recruiting Luo Yi, and all he could do was to nip them in the bud.

Especially after Luo Yi and Su You formed an alliance to take Yuyang, Beiping and Liaoxi, Dou Jiande was greatly stimulated.

Because Su You Shenlong insisted on not seeing the end, although Dou Jiande suspected that Luo Yi and Su You were colluding, he was still not 100% sure; But he was finally able to find that while Luo Yi's territory had expanded several times, the number of his team had not grown much.

In other words, it is obviously not a simple matter for Luo Yi to hold such a large territory with his current military strength, and now it is the right time to eliminate him while he is weak!

However, if you want to capture Youzhou, you can't avoid Wei Dao'er, who is entrenched in Shanggu County and Gaoyang County, and now Wei Dao'er is stationed in Shenze, and it is impossible for Dou Jiande to enter Youzhou without alarming him.

What's more, it is not a simple matter to completely defeat Luo Yi and occupy Youzhou with Dou Jiande's unilateral strength. Even if Dou Jiande barely injured the enemy by 1,000 and defeated Luo Yi with 800 self-losses, it would probably be cheaper than Wei Dao'er at that time.

If Dou Jiande wants to eat Luo Yi steadily, he must first solve Wei Dao'er, and this solution can choose to be friends with him, or he can choose to kill him first.

At the beginning, Wei Dao'er's boss, Mantian Wang Xuba, was killed by a stray arrow when attacking Youzhou City, and Dou Jiande ambushed Xue Shixiong, which was also the first basis for their cooperation.

The most important reason, of course, is the attack on Youzhou.

For the joint dispatch of troops and the equal division of Youzhou, Wei Dao'er and Dou Jiande hit it off and soon signed an alliance, of course, this alliance has no actual binding force.

Compared with dividing Youzhou equally, Wei Dao'er preferred to monopolize it, and he also knew that Dou Jiande probably thought the same thing at this time.

The alliance was an agreement of interest between the two sides, and after the hypocrisy, Wei Dao'er then sent an envoy to the northern Turks.

Wei Dao'er had led his troops to wander around the border area for a long time, secretly acting as a horse thief, and on the surface, he was engaged in smuggling business; He had always been in contact with the Turks, had been brothers to several of the larger tribal lords, and had met Shibi Khan.

Since relations with the Turks are good, there is no reason not to take advantage of them.

After all, Liu Wuzhou, Liang Shidu and others were all named the Son of Heaven by the Turks, and Wei Dao'er had jurisdiction over 100,000 people, known as Emperor Wei, how could he fall behind?

Wei Dao'er already has Hu blood, so he doesn't feel that attracting the Turks to the Central Plains is an act of betraying his master.

As long as the Turks fund war horses and troops to help them defeat Dou Jiande and dominate Youzhou, why not send a little more wealth to the Turks? With the help of the Turks, he could not only dominate Youzhou, but also go south to sweep away Dou Jiande's territory and unify the entire Hebei.

The reason why Wei Dao'er brazenly claimed the emperor was to put himself on the opposite side of the Sui Dynasty; It is also not without reasons to reveal his heart to the Turks.

The enemy of the enemy is the friend, and Wei Dao'er believes that Shibi Khan will eventually choose between Yang Guang and himself, because he has long been an enemy of life and death with Yang Guang.

Wei Dao'er has his own ideas, why isn't Dou Jiande like this? While Dou Jiande was able to form an alliance with Wei Dao'er, he also sent envoys to the Turks, with the same purpose as the latter.

In other words, the biggest beneficiary of the alliance between Dou Jiande and Wei Dao'er turned out to be the Turkic Shibi Khan, who had done nothing thousands of miles away,—— of course, Shibi Khan was about to die at that time, but this did not delay the Turks to give Dou Jiande and Wei Dao'er a guarantee.

Cheap goddaughter, cheap lackey, who wouldn't take it?

Then Dou Jiande and Wei Dao'er began to assemble a large army and arrived in Youzhou with a siege and reinforcements.

In mid-March, the combined forces of Dou Jiande and Wei Dao'er crossed the Juma River and reached the city of Gu'an.

When the advance of the coalition army was still a day's distance from Gu'an City, Luo Yi retreated without a fight and surrendered Gu'an City to them.

After the ecstatic coalition army entered Gu'an, it was faced with an empty city, and all the materials in the city were taken away by the Youzhou army, and those that could not be taken away were burned clean by a fire.

As for the civilians in Gu'an City, they had already achieved a great migration when the coalition forces began to assemble, anyway, Luo Yi's territory was wide enough now, and he had the courage to turn the border area into a battlefield without people.

As for the crops outside the city, they were also set on fire by the Youzhou army before the arrival of the coalition forces.

Obviously, this is a last resort, Jianbi Qingye has done this, and Luo Yi only has a share of flesh pain at present.

Now that it is the spring ploughing season, the people not only can not go to the land to cultivate, but also have to move in a big way, how should they spend the next days?

Without spring ploughing, there will be no autumn harvest, even if there is a strong relief from the government, the people who will die because of it can probably be predicted? The point is, now that there is smoke everywhere, how can the government have the ability to help these burdens that cannot become combat effectiveness?

The people who were forcibly driven away from their homes by Luo Yi moved all the way to the north, and they burst into tears.

On March 18, the combined forces of Dou Jiande and Wei Dao'er arrived in the city of Cage Fire; Luo Yi's main force had already returned to Youzhou, leaving only a small number of troops here.

After only a little resistance, the Youzhou army chose to leave, and the coalition forces occupied Caged Fire City.

On March 25, the coalition forces used Cage Fire City as a logistics base, leaving thousands of soldiers to guard and prepare food.

Dou Jiande personally led 100,000 allied troops to cross the Sanggan River, and set up camp on the north bank of the Sanggan River more than ten miles away from Youzhou City, forming a confrontation with the Youzhou army.

On the western front, Li Jing scattered 8,000 people in the two cities of Zeshui and Zhixian; He brought 3,000 men and horses to garrison the front line of Zeshui to mediate with Wei Dao'er, and left another 5,000 men and horses to garrison Zhixian County as backup.

Wei Dao'er launched attacks on Zeshui many times, and all kinds of tactics were cracked by Li Jing-for-tat, Wei Dao'er lost thousands of men and horses, but he could only look at the river and sigh.

In desperation, Wei Dao'er had to wait and see, and waited until Dou Jiande's subordinate Wang Fubao led a large number of people and infantry to help in the battle, and then launched a strong attack regardless of casualties.

Li Jing hurriedly evacuated Shuicheng at night and returned to the camp on the east bank of Zeshui.

Wei Dao'er did not have a sailor, and the civilian boats had already been swept away by Li Jing, so there was nothing to be done in the face of Li Jing on the other side of the river; When Dou Jiande's main force arrived in Youzhou City, Wei Dao'er was still pinned down by Li Jing on the west bank of Zeshui and could not come to meet him.