In the recklessness, every heroic generation, there are even more capable people hiding in it. Those who kill pigs and dogs can also make contributions in troubled times, and be crowned princes. It's the worst of times, and it's the best of times.

Dou Jiande's troops did not move forward, but his subordinates and generals were worried. In the face of such a strategic city as Gonggao, he just moved up in one fell swoop, and before Zhang Jin's army arrived, the battle was drawn. Take the bow high, and take the bridgehead of the plain county to attack the river county.

According to the combat style of the rebels in the river over the years, as long as they took the bow high, they could immediately wave their troops across the canal. Taking advantage of the fact that Zhang Jin's soldiers and horses were not assembled, he took the initiative to attack. All the generals and colonels know that General Dou is a soldier and has always liked to take the initiative to attack. Every time you take the initiative to attack, surprise it, attack it unprepared, and break it individually.

Now they have transferred seventy percent of the soldiers and horses of the Hejian Rebel Army, but there are only 70,000 people. However, Zhang Jin said that there were two or three hundred thousand horses, and Lin wanted to defeat Zhang Jin and said that he could only do so, if he missed this opportunity. Waiting for Zhang Jincheng to lead the army to attack, and then the decisive battle will be head-on, they are not very sure.

In Dou Jiande's military tent, Dou Jiande's generals Gao Yaxian, Fan Yuan, Dong Kangmai, Liu Ya, and his wife and brothers Cao Bao and Cao Zhan sat on both sides.

"General, the location of Gonggao City is important, and it is the gateway to the south plain between the North Gate River. Now we rushed here when Zhang Jin said that the dog thief did not react, it was a once-in-a-lifetime time, and we should fight bravely for the three armies, take the bow high in one go, and quickly cross the canal to attack Zhang Jin Chengfang. But why did the general order a halt to the march? Gao Yaxian asked puzzled.

The other generals also agreed with Gao Yaxian's meaning, and they all said that this was a good time to take the bow high city in one fell swoop and quickly move his troops south.

Dou Jiande was silent with a smile, all the generals in the tent were his henchmen, and they had followed him for several years, and they were all fierce generals in the army. However, he still sighed slightly in his heart, these people are fierce, but unfortunately they are scheming. Originally, Gao Yaxian's adopted son Su Lie liked him the most, and he was collected in the account as a member of the pro-soldier team. Unexpectedly, he was sent to Zhuojun this time. actually went and never returned, and was left in Zhuo County by Chen Pojun.

There are many rumors in the army that Su Lie was an official soldier back then, and now he must have rejoined the imperial court. Dou Jiande also knew that there was no wind and no waves, and after carefully asking the people in Zhuo County at the same time, he learned that although Chen Pojun wanted to learn the Su family gun, he temporarily left Su Lie behind. But according to the man, he had heard in Zhuojun that Chen Pojun once hoped that Su Lie would enter the imperial court, and promised to crown the imperial court as the fourth rank of the tiger general.

It is precisely because of this incident that it is rumored in the army that Su Lie refused to return to Hejian because he voted for the court again. Hear this. Dou Jiande is also very complicated in his heart, although Su Lie is young, he is the most optimistic. As long as he sharpens it, he will be able to become the most powerful general under his command, and even become his right-hand man. But Su Lie stayed in Zhuojun, although he didn't dare to confirm Su Lie's true thoughts in his heart, but he couldn't help but be very disappointed in Su Lie.

Glancing around at the generals in the tent, Dou Jiande sighed in his heart. If Su Lie was here, he would definitely know what was going on in his heart.

He said to the people: "Gonggao City is a strategic stronghold, and it is well defended; If the offensive fails, it will inevitably undermine the prestige of our army. ”

"Then do you just sit back and wait for Zhang Jincheng to lead the army north? When the two armies are in battle, we are afraid that it will be difficult to defeat them. "Cao Zhan is the second brother of Cao Shi, the wife of Dou Jiande who remarried after joining the rebel army, and is now only in his early thirties, but he is not only brave. And there is a little strategy. It's a subordinate he values.

Dou Jiande smiled, "In the past, we fought with the officers and soldiers, and we paid attention to taking the initiative to attack, looking for fighters to break through. That's because we are familiar with the terrain, and there are not many officers and soldiers. But water is impermanent, and soldiers are impermanent. How can you use soldiers to fight a war all the time? You see, now Zhang Jin said that he sent his brother-in-law Wang Heisi to lead 30,000 troops to seize Gonggaocheng first, but he didn't go north immediately, do you know the reason? ”

"What else could be the reason for this. Zhang Jin said that he was not reorganizing Liu Badao and Sun Anzu's soldiers and horses? Although he swallowed the men and horses of the Sun and Liu families, he was always afraid that it would not be good to be reorganized for a while. Cao Zhan's third brother Cao Bao said loudly.

"That's right, now Zhang Jin said that the dog thief has annexed the two families and is in the process of reorganization. We must first capture the city of Gonggao. But we hurried south, and there were not many siege equipment, although the bow was high, and the city was not high. However, it will take a long time to attack such a county town, and many soldiers and horses will be lost. This is not the last resort, not waiting for us to take the city of Gonggao and cross the canal. I'm afraid that the dog thief has already arrived with his troops. At that time, even if we take Gonggao City, we will be tired. And how do you fight that dog thief? ”…,

"What did my brother-in-law say?" Cao Bao frowned and said impatiently, although Cao Bao and Cao Zhan are North brothers, Cao Zhan is brave and strategic, but Cao Bao is full of coarseness. If it weren't for Dou Jiande's brother-in-law, he wouldn't have been able to sit in his current position at all.

Dou Jiande frowned, and glanced at Cao Bao with some dissatisfaction.

"In addition to each breakdown, in fact, in the face of the current situation, we also have a good strategy, which is to surround but not fight."

Dou Jiande said in a deep voice, "As long as we surround and don't fight, that Jin said that as soon as he knew that we had surrounded Gonggaocheng, he would definitely send troops to help immediately." When the time comes, we will set up an ambush on the north bank of the canal, and we will wait for work and attack it halfway, so why not win? ”

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other in unison, this plan was too good. The canal is not a small stream, this is a big canal. Zhang Jin said that it was not a simple matter to come to the rescue in such a hurry, and to cross the canal. When they were halfway crossed, they suddenly killed, Zhang Jin said that no matter how many people and horses there were, how could those rabble who were still crossing the river have any formation. It wasn't a bunch of local chickens and dogs, let them drive down the canal to feed the fish.

"It's still the general who is smart, this plan is good." Everyone praised in unison.

Dou Jiande is also a little proud in his heart, in the face of a reckless man like Zhang Jincheng, even if it is a reckless man with 300,000 people, he has the confidence to win. He was deeply aware of the Achilles heel of the peasant army, and he would not be allowed to defeat if he was victorious.

Once defeated, especially if the soldiers and horses led by Zhang Jin are defeated, then it will definitely be a rout. At that time, of the two or three hundred thousand people he had just swallowed up by fire, a few of them could fight. As long as the soldiers and horses are defeated, he knows in his heart that Zhang Jincheng will definitely take his old brothers to run faster than anyone else.

As long as Zhang Jin escapes, the two or three hundred thousand people will not all be his own. Even the plains and the Bohai Sea will become ownerless. Thinking that Zhang Jin was killed, both sides of the Yellow River might fall into his hands, and his breathing couldn't help but be a little shorter.

After agreeing on the strategy, Dou Jiande asked his general Gao Yaxian to rush to surround Gonggaocheng with 20,000 old and weak. Let him bluff and fly more banners, and don't let the city of Gonggao see his true strength, and surround these 30,000 people in the city and prevent them from coming out.

And Dou Jiande took the most elite 50,000 horses, immediately went south, rushed all the way to the north bank of the canal, hid and set up an ambush, and waited for Zhang Jin's reinforcements to arrive.

Gao Yaxian suddenly led his troops outside Gonggao City in the dark night, surrounded Gonggao City on all sides with countless torches, and sent many soldiers and horses to beat the war drums and feint to attack Gonggao City. However, after attacking in the middle of the night, it was only thunder and rain.

As soon as Liu Heisi, the defender of Gonggao City, discovered Gao Yaxian's soldiers and horses, he immediately sent people and horses out of the city to deliver a message to Pingyuan County. Gao Yaxian pretended to pursue these Xinxin faction for a while, and let them go.

Sure enough, Zhang Jin, who was in Ande City, Pingyuan County, said that as soon as he heard that the soldiers and horses of Hejian had surrounded Gonggaocheng, he immediately ordered and sent his eldest son Zhang Gui in Husu City to mobilize 100,000 horses to immediately cross the canal to relieve the siege of Gonggaocheng.

Zhang Gui is only in his twenties, and on the surface he is the commander of the army, but in fact it is just a practice that his son Zhang Jin called to master military power. Zhang Gui, with the help of his three uncles, quickly mobilized 100,000 soldiers and horses, and rushed to the south bank of the canal without stopping. However, although it claims to be 100,000 soldiers and horses, in fact, it is really a rabble. Among the 100,000 people, less than 10,000 were old subordinates who had returned from Shandong, and the rest were Sun Anzu and Liu Badao's men. It's just that the generals among the generals either killed or transferred, and then disorganized all the horses and horses.

Although there were many people and horses, most of them were wearing tattered clothes, and they didn't even have armor. Even the weapons in their hands are varied, there are swords, guns, swords, sticks, everything, and even most of the people are carrying wooden guns and dung forks. Lined up together, not even a queue is good, and the chaos is just a group of hungry people who are trying to eat for a living.

Zhang Gui commanded the most elite 5,000 old Shandong subordinates, known as the pro-army, and all had war horses. The three old subordinates who were sent by Zhang Jincheng to help his son commanded an internal army of 15,000 people. The selection of the inner army is all strong men, not only eat well every day, but also equipped with uniform horizontal swords and spears, and even from the head of the group, they are also equipped with armor. Although most of these horses are also from peasants, they are full of food every day, and they have fairly neat weapons and armor, and they are also very powerful when they go there in a row.

rushed to the south bank of the canal, but it was difficult for 100,000 horses to cross the river for a while. In the end, Zhang Gui had to send his chaotic subordinates to move the houses of the people nearby, and transport the timber to build a pontoon bridge, hoping to cross the canal as soon as possible.

In order to cross the canal as soon as possible, Zhang Gui built three pontoon bridges at a time at the suggestion of three generals. Although they only had 100,000 men, his father had more soldiers and horses behind him, and it would not take him a few days to come north. (To be continued.) )