On the first day of the twelfth lunar month of the twelfth year of the Great Cause, Xue Shixiong's 20,000-strong army had just crossed Tuoshui and arrived at Qilijing in Hejian County.

At this time, it was the coldest time of the year, and although the surface of Tuoshui and the canal were not frozen, Xue Shixiong chose to take the land route directly for this time; Among them, there was a worry that the river would freeze, and more importantly, Zhuojun did not have enough warships to transport 20,000 troops.

The march was extremely hard in winter, and Xue Shixiong calculated the time, thinking that he could reach the battlefield at a better time, so he prepared to set up camp early.

Before Xue Shixiong's order could be opened, he heard a shout from the side of the road, and then thousands of bows and arrows shot from the side of the road.

"Enemy attack!" The soldiers who opened the way in front of them first screamed, and then reflexively raised the shields in their hands and shrank back.

"Gao Shida?" When Xue Shixiong thought of the name, the next word that came to mind was "bluff." ”

Xue Shixiong has never fought with Gao Shida, and he has never seen Gao Shida, but there are still a lot of rumors about Gao Shida, and more is the news that Gao Shida was suppressed by Yang Yichen before.

Xue Shixiong's official position or status in Yang Guang's mind may be lower than that of Yang Yichen, but as a general who participated in the Battle of Tuyuhun and the Battle of Goryeo three times and won almost every battle, he naturally has his own arrogance.

Xue Shixiong never took Gao Shida in his eyes, and because of this, he did not send scout troops on the march in the past two days, which was also the real reason why he was ambushed by Gao Shida.

Gao Shida has a clear understanding of Xue Shixiong, after all, Xue Shixiong has been a general guarding the north for more than ten years; The reason why he desperately sought a battle with Xue Shixiong was nothing more than to get back the face of being defeated by Yang Yichen from him.

To put it mildly, the original intention of Gao Shida's battle was a battle of will!

It was also because he knew Xue Shixiong, and because he saw that half of Xue Shixiong's troops had entered the encirclement, Gao Shida immediately gave the order to attack.

If Gao Shida had been more patient and waited until Xue Shixiong's 20,000 troops were all within range of the bow and arrow before attacking, the effect of the sneak attack would have been better.

But now Gao Shida's sneak attack does not seem to affect Xue Shixiong's real main force, in fact, the 20,000 troops led by Xue Shixiong this time are all elites, and the 1,000 cavalry among them are the elite of these elites.

The more elite place is the Yanyun Eighteen Horsemen.

"The team in front of us quickly formed! Cavalry strikes! Although Xue Shixiong despised Gao Shida psychologically, he still quickly made his own response at this moment.

All of a sudden, people turned on their backs, and the golden drums sounded in unison.

The troops attacked in front of Xue Shixiong quickly retracted, and Yan Yun's eighteen cavalry took the lead in outflanking the enemy's rear road, followed by a thousand cavalry.

The soldiers of Gao Shida had been in ambush here for more than an hour, and it was not a good experience to stay in the field for so long in the weather of the moon, and even if they did not need to be accurate when firing their arrows, they were not half as strong as usual.

After seeing that several rounds of bows and arrows had no effect, Gao Shida decisively gave the order to charge.

This battle was very unfavorable to the Gao Shida army in the sky, they had already been numb after freezing in the field for more than an hour, and Xue Shixiong's army walked for most of the day, although the strength was consumed, but there was no need to warm up at all.

From a geographical point of view, the Gao Shida army was ambushed on the slopes on both sides of the official road, after all, the battlefield was his choice, and if there was no such advantage, it would be impossible to say.

As for the people, although Gao Shida's rebel army claimed to have 80,000 people, Gao Shida did not have the ability to command 80,000 people, and the weapons and equipment of these 80,000 people were so poor that less than half of them could hold iron weapons, and less than 3,000 horses could charge

Under Xue Shixiong's order, the soldiers in front slowly shrank back with their shields, and Gao Shida's chaotic army came with swords, guns and clubs to cover up, which can be described as huge.

After the actual battle, the drums in Xue Shixiong's army changed, and then they began to counterattack.

After the official confrontation, on the official road in the middle of the narrow hillside, Gao Shida's chosen ambush location had turned his advantage into a disadvantage, although his men were numerous, it was not easy to rush forward to fight Xue Shixiong's army.

And the eighteen cavalry of Yanyun, led by the five tigers of Zhuojun, with Xue Shixiong's elite troops, had already detoured the hillside on the road, and went diagonally to the banner of Gao Shida.

When Yanyun's eighteen cavalry dealt with the Khitan cavalry, he killed and killed more than 1,000 people with eighteen people, which made him famous; Like the Thirteen Taibao of the Yuwen family, who became famous in the siege of Yanmen, they often made the Turks talk about it.

The fame of the Thirteen Taibao is due to the fact that they twice rushed to kill the tens of thousands of Turkic armies, and it was their courage that made them famous, and they died in order to understand the siege of Yanmen.

Yanyun's eighteen horsemen are still alive and well in this world, and they are rushing to kill in front of the battle.

The soldiers commanded by Gao Shida were not much different in terms of combat effectiveness from the enemies that Yan Yun Eighteen Cavalry had dealt with before, or they were no different from other enemies who died under their swords and spears in the eyes of Yan Yun Eighteen Cavalry.

Wherever Yan Yun's eighteen horsemen passed, no one could stop their edge, so they drilled into a diamond drill bit into a material that was not even hard enough for tofu, and the thousand heavy horses behind them naturally expanded the results of the battle.

Gao Shida realized that the enemy was attacking his side, and he didn't even have time to adjust his tactics, and soon engaged Xue Wanche's iron spear, and only a few rounds later, he was shot in the lower abdomen.

Su Lie, who was beside Gao Shida, looked at the ferocity of the enemy, and tried his best to block the shot that Xue Wanjun made up later, and shouted anxiously, "Brother Gao, be careful!" ”

The big boss Wang Fubao had also seen the ferocity of Yan Yun's eighteen horsemen, he hurried over, and immediately picked up Gao Shida, who was lying on horseback and was dying, and then retreated.

After all, the army of the rebels and the army of the imperial court are different, most of the army of the imperial court is after the death of the senior commander, the subordinates will quickly rise to the top, and the battle continues, but Gao Shida's troops can't do this.

Wang Fubao and Su Lie not only did not have the consciousness to continue to lead the troops to fight, but even chose to run away as soon as possible in order to save Gao Shida.

The defeat was like a mountain, and after the leader ran away, the soldiers in front did not know who to fight for and why.

The rout was only a matter of moments, but the imperial army had absolutely no sense of accepting prisoners against these rebellious rebels, so they spent more than two hours chasing down these defeated enemy troops.

After this battle, the casualties of Xue Shixiong's army who were attacked were about 2,000; The side that took the initiative suffered more than 8,000 casualties, a tenth of the number before the start of the war, and the remaining nine-tenths were all scattered and disappeared.

After cleaning up the battlefield, it was nearly two watches, and Xue Shixiong ordered the already exhausted army to camp on the spot.

At this time, Dou Jiande, who stayed in the camp, was pacing around in the tent, and his daughter Dou Hongxian was also wearing a military uniform at the moment, accompanying him.

Dou Hongxian looked at her father and was restless for nearly an hour, but she didn't know how to persuade her, and when she was thinking, she heard panicked footsteps outside.

"Who?" Dou Jiande immediately stood still, grabbed the saber on the case, and shouted.

"It's me, Wang Tiezhu!" Wang Tiezhu, who came in a hurry, quickly called his name and reported tonight's password in a row.

Dou Jiande remembered that Wang Tiezhu was Gao Shida's personal guard, and immediately opened the curtain, and didn't care about Wang Tiezhu's blood, but asked straight to the point, "How is the battle?" ”

"The big boss, the big boss he lost." Wang Tiezhu's eyes were red, and he replied weakly.

"Defeated?" When Dou Jiande heard the news, there was a "buzz" in his head, and this news was actually not too surprising, because Gao Shida had lost countless battles before, and he was not optimistic about this battle at all.

"And what about him now?" After settling down, Dou Jiande quickly realized his identity as the second master.

After learning that Gao Shida would be coming back soon, Dou Jiande first ordered someone to help Wang Tiezhu bandage his wounds, and he quickly walked out with Dou Hongxian and a few other guards.

When I first arrived at the Zhaimen, I saw more than ten horsemen walking over quickly, and it was Su Lie who was the first to hold the torch; Wang Fubao behind him held Gao Shida in his arms, and the rest of Gao Shida's guards had mournful faces.

"Big brother is alright?" Dou Jiande eagerly rushed forward and took over the unconscious Gao Shida from Wang Fubao's hands, and at the same time realized that his problem was really redundant.

Gao Shida was shot in Xue Wanche's lower abdomen, and the clothes under him were already wet with blood flowing from the gun's hole.

"Hey" Wang Fubao didn't know what to say at this time, more than ten people turned over and dismounted, and followed Dou Jiande to send Gao Shida back to his camp.

After Gao Shida was injured, he did a simple treatment of the wound, but the bumps along the way caused the wound to repeat, bleeding a lot of blood, he also fell into a coma from time to time, and when he woke up and saw his brother in a circle, he also knew that his time was short.

"I didn't expect to encounter such a big defeat, and I regretted that day" Gao Shida's voice was weak, obviously repenting for not listening to Dou Jiande's advice a few days ago.

It's really a man's death, and his words are good!

Dou Jiande was a little embarrassed, this was not the time to repent and shirk responsibility, so before Gao Shida's words were finished, he opened his mouth and said, "Didn't we lose once or twice, didn't that time be able to pull up tens of thousands of brothers again in a few days?" Big brother, you're fine, I've told my brother to invite the most brilliant Langzhong."

"I'm afraid it won't work this time, Jiande, I can only hope that you will lead the rest of my brothers to avenge me."

Gao Shida spoke, his voice slowly weakened, and Dou Jiande had to nod heavily.

Gao Shida's last words were not only to ask Dou Jiande to avenge him, but more importantly, to hand over his position to him, which everyone can understand.

Dou Jiande was not the first to follow Gao Shida, he was honest and honest, and he did things with the usual posture of a squire, unhurried, and never seemed to have anything to be anxious about.

It is for this reason that even though Gao Shida has passed the chair to Dou Jiande, Wang Fubao and the others are still a little unconvinced, although they will not say anything.

Dou Jiande straightened up, glanced at the more than ten people in the room, and said categorically, "Let's gather troops later and go to avenge the big boss!" ”

"What?!"

If it weren't for watching and listening to Dou Jiande say this, no one in the room would believe that he said it.