Pingyuan County is one of the foundations that Gao Shida has occupied for nearly five years, because Gao Shida has learned the lesson of Zhang Jincheng, and actively promoted the military tun in Pingyuan County and Bohai County, which has solved the food source of the army, and the people's burden is not large, so the people's hearts and security in Pingyuan County and Bohai County are quite stable, and there is no tragic phenomenon of fleeing from the county like Qinghe County, another important reason is that Gao Shida is self-aware and never dares to peep into Qingzhou.

Even if he joined forces with Dou Jiande to attack Qingzhou last year, Gao Shida only put on a posture and only shouted and couldn't move, unlike Dou Jiande who really sent troops to Jibei County.

It is precisely for these two reasons that Zhang Xuan did not take action against Pingyuan County for a long time, so that Pingyuan County and Bohai County maintained a certain degree of stability.

But this does not mean that Zhang Xuan will always let Gao Shida go, he is just waiting for the opportunity, with Li Yuan raising troops in Taiyuan, Zhang Xuan's time has finally come, he and Dou Jiande reached a consensus to join forces to deal with Gao Shida.

On this morning, on the bank of the Yellow River in Pingyuan County, there was an overwhelming number of warships on the river outside the Antler Fort, with sails like clouds and masts like forests, and small boats full of soldiers were heading towards the Antler Fort, and dozens of thousand-stone warships had approached the Antler Fort, and arrows were shooting towards the castle like a torrential rain.

Antler Fort is the only wharf on the bank of the Yellow River in Pingyuan County that can dock the thousand-stone warship, from the Antler Fort to the east is an endless swampy area, extending to the sea of Bohai County, and the Antler Fort to the west is a gentle hill, although the ship can dock, but can not go ashore, only the shore of the Antler Fort has a flat land two miles wide, which is convenient for the personnel and materials on the ship to go ashore.

As a result, Fort Antlers has always been the most important commercial port in Plains County, and the town of Fort Antlers has prospered as a result.

Gao Shida did not pay much attention to the defense of the north bank of the Yellow River, mainly because he could not prevent it, even if he could prevent the warships, he could not prevent the Sui army from killing from the land of Qinghe County, so Lujiao Fort only had a thousand garrisons, led by a partial general.

When countless warships of the Sui army appeared on the river. The 1,000 defenders of Antlers were frightened, and after two rounds of arrows against the Sui warships, the soldiers began to flee, and the defenders, seeing that the tide was turning, erected a white flag on the head of the city, expressing their willingness to surrender.

The Sui army occupied the Fort of Antlers almost bloodlessly. 20,000 Sui soldiers began to land on a large scale, countless grain and grass materials were unloaded from the big ship, at this time Zhang Xuan also got down from a warship, and a sergeant led the surrendered guard general to Zhang Xuan, and the guard general knelt down and saluted, "Meet the general of Qi Guogong!" ”

Zhang Xuan motioned for his soldiers to help him up, and asked with a smile, "What's your name and where are you from?" ”

"The villain's name is Zhao Di, and he is from Pingyuan County."

Jang Hyun saw that he was about thirty years old. He looked quite fierce, so he knew that he was a habitual bandit in Douzigang, so he no longer asked about his background, and asked: "I want to know about the garrisons in Pingyuan County and Ande County." ”

There are two major county towns in the south of Pingyuan County, one is Pingyuan County and the other is Ande County, Pingyuan County is close to Qinghe County and is the most populous county in Pingyuan County. And Ande County is a county magistrate, and these two county towns were captured. Plains County is basically gone.

Of course, Zhang Xuan had already mastered sufficient information before sending troops, Ande County was the military cantonment of Gaoshida, with tens of thousands of hectares of military land reclaimed, and there were 30,000 garrisons in Tuntian, while the vicinity of Pingyuan County was mainly civilian land, and there was no garrison. But Jaang wanted to know if there would be any emergency moves from Gao Shida.

"Returning to the general, Gao Shida led the army to confront Dou Jiande's army in the northernmost area of Pingyuan County, Gonggao County, there were only 30,000 people in the south of Pingyuan County, stationed in Ande County, and Pingyuan County was the same as Antler Fort. Only a thousand people were stationed and were responsible for maintaining order. ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, consistent with the information he had received before, he immediately waved his hand and asked the sergeant to take the guard down, and ordered: "Go and tell General Luo to leave 3,000 troops to guard Antler Fort, and the rest of the army will go north to Pingyuan County after the whole team." ”

At this moment, a messenger cavalry galloped from afar, rushed to Zhang Xuan in a moment, turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and reported, "Marshal Qiqi, General Wei Chi has led the army to capture Pingyuan County. ”

Wei Chigong led 10,000 new troops from Gaotang County, Qinghe County to Pingyuan County, Zhang Xuan didn't expect Wei Chigong's march to be so fast, he was overjoyed, and asked, "Is there any news from Gao Shida?" ”

"Not yet, but the scouts are already heading north."

At this time, Luo Shixin came to report: "Marshal, the army has been assembled!" ”

"Are the left-behind troops stationed?"

"Already stationed!"

Zhang Xuan nodded and ordered: "The army will immediately go north and go to Pingyuan County to join General Wei Chi." ”

Gao Shida did not know that Dou Jiande had joined forces with Zhang Xuan, although Gao Hui repeatedly asked his brother to transfer the information to Gao Shida, but Gao Li, who was bent on promoting the two arms of Gao and Dou, was worried that Gao Shida would reconcile with Dou Jiande after learning the news of Zhang Xuan's army, so he did not accept Gao Hui's suggestion and concealed this important information.

At present, Gao Shida is personally leading an army of 100,000 to confront Dou Jiande's army in Gonggao County, and the reason why Gao Shida and Dou Jiande can coexist for a long time is that the two are bounded by Yongji Canal, west of Yongji Canal is Dou Jiande's territory, and east of Yongji Canal is Gao Shida's territory.

And the four counties they control are basically demarcated along the Yongji Canal, so the two have been in peace for a long time, but there is also a special place in the demarcation, that is, Gonggao County, Gonggao County belongs to Pingyuan County, but it is located in the west of Yongji River, Dou Jiande believes that Yongji Hexi is his territory, and Gonggao County should belong to him, but Gao Shida insists that Pingyuan County belongs to his sphere of influence, and Gonggao County belongs to Pingyuan County, of course, it should be governed by him.

The two quarreled over the ownership of this county, and finally the Bohai Association came forward to mediate, Gonggao County was temporarily uncertain, and neither side could garrison in Gonggao County, but since Gao Shida robbed Dou Jiande's 1,000 war horses in Hejian County, the tacit understanding between the two of them was broken.

Dou Jiande took the lead in sending troops to occupy Gonggao County, and Gao Shida was also unambiguous, and then sent troops to recapture Gonggao County, and the two armies broke out in fierce battles in Gonggao County, and finally ended in a crushing defeat for Dou Jiande.

At this time, Gonggao County has become the main battlefield of the struggle between Dou Jiande and Gao Shida, the two sides invested 230,000 troops outside the county, Gao Shida refused to defend Gonggao County, Dou Jiande built a strong city, during the confrontation, Gao Shida's several provocations Dou Jiande refused to fight, it is obvious that Dou Jiande is waiting for news from Zhang Xuan's south.

But Dou Jiande didn't know that when almost his entire army was pressing on Gonggao County, the 30,000 troops of the Bohai Society were silently killing Dou Jiande's old nest in Leshou County.

On the wall of Gonggao County, Gao Shida is looking at Dou Jiande's camp three miles away, Gao Shida is about forty years old, he looks like a tiger's back, tall and tall, he was born in a partial branch of the Bohai Gao family, and Lu Mingyue is the same, after he rebelled, the Bohai Gao family solemnly declared that he had nothing to do with the Bohai Gao family.

Gao Shida also just got the news of the Bohai Society, Gao Lie and Mu Tunnel Xin personally led an army of 30,000 to raid Dou Jiande's lair, which made Gao Shida look forward to it, although he didn't know why the Bohai Society would turn against Dou Jiande, but this result made him very happy, he had been worried that Bohai would send troops against him.

At this time, Sun Lianhuan, the deputy general beside him, said with a smile: "King, the Bohai Society army should have arrived in Leshou County, and I estimate that there will be troops coming today and tomorrow." ”

Gao Shida nodded, "Although Dou Jiande is a straight man, his subordinate strategist Ling Jing is resourceful, and we must also be careful that Dou Jiande's army will plan and feign defeat and lure us deeper." ”

At this moment, a soldier rushed over and presented an intelligence report: "Wang, Nanpi County is urgent!" ”

Gao Shida was stunned, how could Nanpi have urgent information, could it be that Dou Jiande had attacked his lair?

Gao Shida took the information and looked at it again, his eyes widened, he screamed, his body shook twice, he almost fainted, and the information in his hand also fell to the ground, and the deputy general Sun Lianhuan hurriedly supported him, "Wang, what's wrong?" ”

"Heaven is going to kill me!"

Gao Shida sighed, "Zhang Xuan's army has captured the southern part of Pingyuan County, Wu Shouzhong actually surrendered without a fight, and Ande County has fallen. ”

More than a dozen generals around looked at each other, and everyone showed fear in their eyes, Zhang Xuan actually sent troops to Pingyuan County, what should I do?

Over the past few years, Zhang Xuan fought in the north and south, invincible, sweeping both sides of the Yellow River, so that everyone had a deep sense of fear of him in their hearts, Wu Shouzhong's surrender is not strange at all, if Wu Shouzhong refuses to defend the battle to the death, it is a strange thing.

Gao Shida slowly calmed down, gritted his teeth and said: "I believe that Dou Jiande has no will to fight, I am willing to apologize to him, cede Gonggao County to him, and I will immediately withdraw back to Nanpi!" ”

(To be continued.) )