"Is the information reliable? Do you want to call the messenger again and ask him carefully? "Qin Qiong has always been steady, and the news reported in this letter is too amazing. And there is one more doubt, if it is true. Then why did the Xia army attack the city and break the county all the way in Qinghe and Wuyang counties, it has been four or five days, why Yu Qinming's letter has only arrived now, and is there any hidden meaning in this. Or is this just a trick by Li Mi or Wang Xuanying and others, intending to divert the tiger from the mountain to get a chance to breathe?

"It should be true." Li Jing said in a deep voice, his face was also very serious. "Marshal Yu is not a man of false promises, combined with the information brought back by the eldest grandson from Taiyuan, Hedong, we have reason to believe that Hebei is indeed in turmoil again. Since Song Jingang and Zhen Zhai'er, the two marshals of Yan State, fled to Liu Wuzhou in Hedong, it should be true that Dou Jiande killed Wei Dao'er and established himself as Emperor Xia. Moreover, this letter was written for the marshal's exclusive high-level secret words, even if Li Mi and the others wanted to forge it, it was impossible. I'm just a little strange, there is such a big thing in Hebei, why Marshal Yu's letter has only arrived now? ”

"This is the ninth military emergency report sent by Yu Qinming!" Chen Kefu sat on the top and said in a cold tone, and everyone was terrified.

Zhang Jin, director of the Secret Service Division, explained to everyone with a guilty face that on the night of the turmoil in Yecheng, the secret agents of the Secret Service Department had already sent this information to the Secret Service Division. It's just that Dou Jiande seems to have been on guard against the Hebei Special Service Division, and in the Hejian Army, Dou Hongxian personally formed a hunting team, which is a special force specializing in counter-espionage. The hunting team is completely organized by the imitation of the secret service, and a large number of good men have been caught in it. Not only did they look for Hebei spies everywhere, but they were even wary of the ways they used to communicate with the secret service agents.

Pigeons, goshawks, and even Haidongqing, as long as they see these birds in the four counties, the Hejian Army will shoot them immediately. The hunting team is even more searching, once it is found that someone has flying pigeons, goshawks, Haidongqing and other birds suspected of delivering letters, the other party will take the birds and people together.

In addition to these precautions, the members of the hunting team also set up checkpoints on water and land routes in various counties to strictly check pedestrians. Under this strict precaution. Although the Secret Service Department has found information, it is difficult to send it out in time. In addition, after the successful mutiny of Dou Jiande, young and strong men were forcibly recruited everywhere, and many secret agents of the secret service department were also arrested.

After the Xia army sent troops, the Xia army's crowd tactics quickly flooded the Qinghe and Wuyang counties. Yu Qinming, as a general who exterminated the soldiers and horses in the southwest of Hebei, had very limited troops. Most of Hebei's troops were transferred to Henan, and the rest were to stay in the capital. It is also necessary to defend important passes such as Jingcheng Pass, Feigu Pass, Jundu Pass, and Linyu Pass. Of the limited soldiers and horses in southern Hebei, more than half were handed over to Xue's uncle and nephew to stay in Liyang. Yu Qinming, the commander of the bandits, has only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and in the face of Dou Jiande's ferocious momentum of pulling all the men in the four counties onto the battlefield, and fighting and retreating without being drowned, it can be regarded as a good command.

Yu Qinming continued to send letters to Chen Kefu, but Dou Jiande had already sent countless light cavalry forwards, on the one hand to inquire about the military situation for the Xia army, on the other hand, to loot supplies, grain and grass, and at the same time to intercept the messengers sent by the Hebei army.

The previous eight letters failed to cross the Yellow River, until Yu Qinming finally sent his own personal guards, carrying his own blood letter. Fight all the way. In the end, he broke out of the encirclement and crossed the Yellow River. After crossing the Yellow River. The hunting party of the Xia army also pursued them all the way in disguise, until the last messenger was rescued by the cavalry of the Jindi Pass patrol. Luo Cheng, who saw the letter, immediately sent a large group of cavalry to deliver the letter all the way to Luoyang, and Chen Kefu received this ninth urgent military information.

"Dou Jiande has a lot of momentum!" The generals were a little surprised when they heard Zhang Jin's statement. Since ancient times, wars have always been fought with excellent soldiers rather than many. The more troops and horses that are dispatched, the less flexible they are in practice, and the greater the logistical supply that the army needs. For example, Yang Guang fought Liaodong back then. More than one million soldiers and horses were dispatched at one time, and in order to supply this more than one million troops, Yang Guang had to requisition more than 2 million people to transport grain and grass materials. A conquest of Liao. Millions of people were mobilized, and the middle-aged men in Hebei, Henan, Shandong and other places were basically evacuated, and the peasant uprising began. …,

Now Dou Jiande is even more ruthless, he not only mobilized all the soldiers and horses to go to the battle, but also requisitioned all the strong men in the land. This kind of behavior is definitely a crazy behavior. With the number of two million, Dou Jiande's strength simply cannot support such an expedition of many people. In the face of such an army, the enemy did not even have to fight them, but only had to clear the walls and clear the wilderness, and avoid them for a few months, and they themselves would have to starve to death.

But if Dou Jiande is really stupid to this point, no one will believe it. After all, Dou Jiande's Hejian Army is the only army that the Hebei Army has repeatedly defeated, but it is getting stronger and stronger. Dou Jiande, who had just become the emperor, could not be so stupid as that, so there may be only one explanation left. That is, after Dou Jiande knew that Chen Kefu defeated Li Mi in Henan, he was ready to give up the base of the four counties of Yecheng in Hebei.

Dou Jiande was ready to wander and prepare to wander to Henan, Shandong, and other places where the Hebei Army was weakly controlled, in order to avoid the encirclement of the Hebei Army and reopen a new base. Compared with the Hebei Army, Dou Jiande's army was a peasant army from beginning to end. And the strongest ability of the peasant army is their ability to wander like locusts.

He took all the adult men, presumably only the first step. Bringing all the soldiers and horses to the expedition, firstly, to open the passage to the south, and secondly, to be prepared to break through to the south in the unfavorable situation and never look back. And those young men who accompanied the army could replenish their troops. Second, even if they go to Henan and Shandong, they are in great need of strong men to supplement their troops and develop production. And if the southward journey goes well, maybe Dou Jiande will send someone to pick up the women and children who were left behind.

Li Jing made a bold guess and told everyone his guess.

Chen Kefu was silent, in fact, as Li Jing said, the four counties in the southwest of Hebei where Dou Jiande and others were entrenched. Although there are the Yellow River, Zhangshui and other geographical advantages, there are Handan, Yecheng, Xiangguo and other strong fortress-level cities. But in any case, at present, when the Hebei Army won the Battle of Henan, they were completely surrounded by the Hebei Army. To the north are Hejian, Hengshan and other counties, and to the east are Pingyuan, Bohai and other counties. To the west is the territory occupied by the Hebei army such as Hedong Taiyuan and Shangdang. And in the south, the same is true now, in addition to Ji County, Jindi, Hujiao, Xingyang and other cities were all captured by the Hebei army.

The Xia State, which had just changed Yan to Xia, had actually been surrounded by the Hebei Army from all sides. With the end of the war of the Hebei Army in Henan. This net will only tighten more and more, and in the end, Dou Jiande and his Hejian army will be trapped to death, and there will be no way to fight back.

At this time, Dou Jiande broke the kettle and sank the boat, which seemed to be a dangerous move, but in fact it was a way to avoid reality and regain the basis.

After Chen Kefu listened, he nodded thoughtfully. said to Zhang Jin, "Zhang Jin, what do you think!" ”

Zhang Jin said respectfully, "What Li Shuai said is very reasonable, based on the information we have now, it is speculated that Dou Jiande's current crazy move is indeed very similar to the peasant army's best wandering battle. It is estimated that as Li Shuai said, Dou Jiande's current move is not an offensive move, but a panic escape. He attempted to escape across the Yellow River from the encirclement of Hebei before our army could withdraw from Henan. Flee to Shandong or Henan, a region that is still relatively empty. The minister thought that no matter whether Dou Jiande was preparing to fight to the death. Whether we are ready to flee in panic, we need to be cautious for now. It is best to order the armies to clear the walls and retreat into the major cities to hold on. We will not be able to fight them until we have gathered enough information to determine their intentions, and we have drawn enough troops. Then, a draw annihilated them. ”

Chen Kefu's eyes showed appreciation, and he asked: "If Dou Jiande wants to take advantage of the fact that the main force of our army is in Henan." What if you take advantage of the fire to rob and capture my Hebei county? And if it is found that Dou Jiande does have the intention of escaping. So what? ”…,

"Be prepared, and be ready for the last! Dou Jiande is mostly excellent, but it is also his fatal flaw. We only need to avoid its edge for the time being, and then confront it for two or three months, at which time Dou Jiande will inevitably run out of food and grass, and the army's morale will be unstable. And with two or three months to prepare, we can completely mobilize its excellent soldiers and horses to launch a thunderous blow against it. Zhang Jinlang said.

The eldest grandson Shunde spoke up, "What General Zhang said is indeed a strategy to win in a stable manner, but now we are afraid that we don't have so much time to waste with Dou Jiande." The situation in Hedong has reached a critical juncture, Liu Wuzhou and others now occupy the seven counties of Hedong, and the five counties in the southeast of Hedong are now in the hands of Wang Xuanying. But most of Wang Xuanying's soldiers and horses are in the Yan Division, and now the southeast of the river is empty, if our soldiers and horses can't enter the east of the river immediately, then it won't take long for Liu Wuzhou and others to swallow up the five counties in the southeast of the river that were originally occupied by the Wang family. At that time, the entire Hedong General tribe was in the hands of Liu Wuzhou and others, and the situation in Hedong was completely reversed. If we wait until then to send troops to Hedong, I am afraid that we will have to spend a huge price. Chen felt that there were two strategies at the moment, either to temporarily let Wang Xuanying return to Hedong and let him fight against Liu Wuzhou. In this way, we can have time to calmly clean up Dou Jiande, and then send troops to Hedong. ”

"Wang Xuan shouldn't be able to let go, this time it was not easy to catch him, once he is released, it will not be easy to catch him like this time. We have now torn our faces with Wang Xuanying, and if we don't solve him at once at this time, but let him go back, we will have endless troubles. Chen Kefu shook his head resolutely, he cheekily made a series of tricks against Wang Xuanying, so that the Jianghuai army could be consumed like this. At this time, it is naturally impossible to put it back. Fighting a snake does not die, this is not happy for yourself.

The eldest grandson Shunde paused and said: "Then the second plan, kill Wang Xuanying first, and then we will cross the Yellow River north from the side of Jin Yong City in Beibi Mountain, and attack Heyang County before Liu Wuzhou and others go south, and then seize the five counties in Hedong occupied by the Wang family." Then it was connected with Taiyuan, Shangdang, and Yanmen counties, and fought a tough battle with Liu Wuzhou in Hedong to recover Hedong. Then he turned around and eradicated Dou Jiande. ”

Hearing the eldest grandson Shunde bluntly say that he wanted to kill Wang Xuanying, Chen Kefu hesitated slightly, Wang Xuanying really wanted to get rid of him. But Wang Xuan should have been attached to him as soon as possible, and he has always been very disciplined, so that he wants to get rid of him, but he has never found an opportunity and an excuse. And if there is no legitimate reason to kill the son Wang Xuanying, then in this way, many other civil and military generals who were attached to him earlier in the court will inevitably have bad thoughts. And such as Jiangdu Chen Ling, Qu Tutong brothers, Zhang Gongjin, Shi Danai, Song Laosheng, Yang Shanhui, Hedong Yanmen Chen Xiaoyi, Yao Junsu, and even the Li family, plus such as Huang Junhan, Luo Yi, Xue Dingguo, etc., all belong to the same status of generals. If one is not good, it will stir up a thousand waves with one stone.

"There is not enough evidence to kill a high-ranking general in the DPRK, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to convince the people of the world by acting like this." Qin Qiong reminded loudly.

"Such wolf ambitions, kill them, what's wrong?" Luo Shixin was blunt and retorted loudly.

Looking at the argument between the two, Chen Kefu couldn't make up his mind in his heart, and finally had to say, "Let King Ben think about this matter for the time being." ”