The head of the city put down a hanging basket with a long fishing rod, the Sui soldiers put the box into the basket, turned around and ran away, the defenders fished the basket back to the city, the basket was a one-foot square wooden box, which was written 'Gao Chongdao General personally received', and the payment was 'Sui General Luo Shixin Gift'.

The soldier did not dare to slack off, and rushed down to the city with the box in his hand, Gao Chongdao lived not far from the city gate, which was a rich merchant's mansion, and he was in a bad mood these days, and drank all day to relieve his boredom.

Early in the morning, Gao Chongdao and the two henchmen sat down to drink, and when he was too drunk, he said to the two generals worriedly: "King Yan is really stupid, he actually led the Goryeo people to the rescue, isn't this leading the wolf into the house?" In my opinion, it is better to find the Khitan people or the Yan people than to find the Goryeo people, the Goryeo people are too ambitious, and once they enter Liaoxi, there will be no place for us. ”

"Then why didn't the general persuade King Yan?"

"Humph! Can I persuade him? He has always been arbitrary, last time he persuaded him not to break off relations with Luo Yi, and he was whipped twice, whatever he does, I don't care. ”

While the three of them were talking, a soldier rushed over, "General Gao, the Sui general under the city has sent a gift, saying that it is for the general." ”

Gao Chongdao was stunned, Luo Shixin actually gave a gift to himself, and he immediately ordered: "Where is it?" Show me. ”

The soldier walked into the house, put the wooden box on the table, and the two generals hurriedly advised: "The things of the enemy generals should not be opened easily, for fear of trickery." ”

Gao Chongdao is full of wine, where to put it in his heart, and waved his hand, "It's nothing more than a human head to scare me, and the human head is coming, just give me wine." ”

Of course, it is impossible for a human head, the box is only three inches thick, and it is also very light, and the two generals looked at Gao Chongdao with apprehension in their hearts to open the box. When the box opened, everyone was stunned, including the soldier who delivered the box.

I saw that the box contained a set of women's dresses, and silk embroidery. There were also boxes of women's fat powder next to them, and there was a note with a sentence written on them: 'Does Grandma Gao like it?' ’

In the Sui Dynasty, it was absolutely a shame to give a man a woman's things, and Luo Shixin was ridiculing Gao Chongdao for being a woman's guts, and Gao Chongdao staring at the dress. A terrifying light gradually shot out of his eyes, his fists clenched and gurgled, it was unbearable, and the humiliation accumulated over the past few days exploded in his heart, and he kicked the table violently and roared, "Order! ”

The two generals were so frightened that they tried to hold him, but he threw them away. strode out, and just walked to the street, only to hear the Sui army outside the city shouting: "Grandma Gao likes it?" ”

Then burst into laughter. The extreme insult made Gao Chongdao so angry that he lost his mind, turned on his horse, and shouted with his sword: "Open the city, kill it, and provoke the enemy army without leaving a single one!" ”

The drawbridge was slowly lowered, the city gate was opened, and Gao Chongdao led six thousand cavalry to kill from the city, and Gao Chongdao roared like thunder, "Luo thief." Take your life! ”

He brandished a big knife and slashed at Luo Shixin, as early as the gift box was sent into the city not long after, the Sui army had already mounted the whole team, Luo Shixin saw that Gao Chongdao finally opened the city to kill, he was overjoyed. The big iron gun waved and shouted: "Luo Shixin is here, there is a kind of come up to fight!" ”

Gao Chongdao rushed forward, and slashed at him head-on, the force was fierce, and the wind of the knife was suffocating, but Luo Shixin was not in a hurry, the big iron spear shook, and seven spear heads were divided, and the distraction was a shot that stabbed away, fast as lightning.

Luo Shixin's gun speed was too fast, Gao Chongdao was forced to be helpless, and as soon as the knife was retracted, he blocked Luo Shixin's fatal shot, and the two horses were staggered, Luo Shixin sneered in a low voice: "Gao Ma likes dresses?" ”

"Fuck your shit!"

Gao Chongdao scolded, and slashed at the back of Luo Shixin's head with a backhand, the knife was fierce, Luo Shixin bowed his head and let go of the knife, and the big gun also stabbed Gao Chongdao's throat at the same time, and the two guns exchanged knives, and the battle lasted seven or eight rounds.

At this time, the cavalry formation of the Sui army has changed, cutting off the enemy's retreat, tens of thousands of Sui troops in the distance are coming, the momentum is huge, Gao Chongdao saw the main force of the Sui army killing, he was taken aback, shook a knife, and fled to the city.

Luo Shixin was willing to let him escape, chasing after him, his war horse was extremely fast, and he caught up with Gao Chongdao in an instant, at this time, Gao Kaidao had already run onto the suspension bridge, shouting: "Quickly pull up the suspension bridge!" ”

Luo Shixin flew on the suspension bridge on his horse, and stabbed Gao Chongdao in the back of the heart with a shot in the air, Gao Chongdao couldn't dodge, this shot was strong, and a shot smashed his back mirror, piercing Gao Chongdao's heart through the cold, and picking it under the horse.

Luo Shixin saw the drawbridge pull up, he roared, rushed to the city, and killed dozens of people in a row by the city gate, he single-handedly rushed back and forth in the group of hundreds of soldiers, without fear, the more he fought, the more courageous he became, and the army of Gao Chongdao was killed, plus Gao Chongdao was dead, the soldiers had no intention of fighting, and saw Luo Shixin rushing to kill like a god, they all shouted, and fled in all directions.

At this time, the Sui army had already built a moat with wooden planks, bypassed the drawbridge and rushed into the city, more and more Sui troops rushed into the city, the drawbridge was finally put down, and thousands of Sui cavalry rushed across the moat and killed into the city, the Yan army either surrendered or fled, and the city fell......

Licheng County, Qi County, the largest city in Qingzhou temporarily became the capital of Dou Jiande, in Hebei, Dou Jiande has always called himself the king of Changle, until the later period, he accepted Li Mi's canonization, called the king of Xia, and the army was defeated to Qingzhou, he officially ascended the throne as the king of Xia, all the guards of honor, all from the king.

Nearly two months have passed, Qingzhou's soldiers and horses have gradually been reorganized, with 30,000 remnants, plus Xu Yuanlang's surrendered army, and the newly recruited army, his strength has reached 80,000, and he has gradually recovered a little bit of vitality.

Among his 80,000 troops, Dou Jiande himself directly controlled 50,000 troops, Liu Heimin controlled 30,000 troops stationed in Langya County, and Song Jingang commanded 10,000 troops stationed in Donglai County.

This is also Dou Jiande's helpless move, in the Hebei period, his army is a hodgepodge, composed of dozens of bandits, although the army is huge, but when it comes to the real war, but only care about their own interests, unwilling to serve their lives, so that the battle will be defeated, his army is basically lost, only Liu Heimin's 20,000 troops and Song Jingang's 10,000 troops remain.

Although Dou Jiande also wanted to learn from the past and take the army under his control, he needed the support of Liu Heimin and Song Jingang, and had to compromise, Dou Jiande asked Li Mi and Liu Heimin to be the king of Langya County, and Song Jingang was named the king of Donglai County.

The Xia King of Licheng County was transformed from the former Qi County Ya, a little simpler, but Dou Jiande was simple by nature, and he was not particular about food, clothing and housing, he distributed all the money to his soldiers, and shared the joys and sorrows with the soldiers every day.

Dou Jiande was very strong, and he personally trained the sergeants every day, and what he never forgot was to restore his homeland and fight back to Hebei.

On this afternoon, Dou Jiande's niece Dou Xianniang rode a horse and galloped to the camp, Dou Xianniang was named the county lord of Licheng, but the Qingzhou soldiers liked her, called her a princess, she was jealous and hateful, strict and righteous, and was named a military judge by Dou Jiande, inspecting the counties and enforcing military discipline.

Today she returned from the inspection of Beihai County, returned to the camp to give orders to Dou Jiande, she was wearing thin armor, wearing an eagle helmet, wearing long leather boots, looking heroic, in front of the camp, she flew off the horse, took out the military card and shook it to the defenders, and then led the horse into the barracks.

She went to King Xia's Mansion first, but the palace guards told her that King Xia was training soldiers in the barracks, and she had a diversion to come to the barracks. ”

Dou Jiande had just finished training the soldiers, and was drinking tea and resting in the tent, when he heard that the in-line girl was back, he laughed happily and hurried out, "The in-line girl, when will you come back?" ”

Dou Jiande's children died, so he regarded Dou Xianniang as out and loved her in every way, and Dou Xianniang also regarded him as his father, and stepped forward to salute, "Father, my daughter is polite." ”

"Alas! It's hard all the way, so don't be burdensome with so many courtesies, come in and sit. ”

Dou Jiande took the informant back to the big tent and sat down, poured her a cup of hot tea, and said with a smile: "It's really a coincidence, Erlang talked to me about you in the morning, saying that you should come back, but I didn't expect you to really arrive, it's really heart-to-heart." ”

Originally, Dou Xianniang was in a good mood, but when she heard her father say this, her face immediately sank, "Father, don't mention this person in front of me in the future." ”

The Erlang mentioned by Dou Jiande is Liu Heimin's son Liu Zhi, Liu Heimin has three sons, but the eldest son and the third son have died one after another, leaving only the second son Liu Zhi, who is regarded as his life by Liu Heimin.

Liu Zhi is more than 20 years old this year, he has not yet married, and when the man is married, Liu Heimin has always wanted to find a noble woman for his son to marry, preferably the Northern Qi royal family, but Liu Zhi likes Dou Xianniang, and said to his father that he will not marry if he is not a lineman.

Liu Heimin and Dou Jiande grew up together, if they can get married again, of course, it is the best, Liu Heimin proposed this family business to Dou Jiande, Liu Zhi is Dou Jiande's general, Dou Jiande knows him very well, although he is brave and good at fighting, but his personality is too violent, Dou Jiande is not very willing, and more importantly, Dou Xianniang resolutely refuses to agree, Dou Jiande has always been very vague about this marriage.

But now it's different, Dou Jiande is eager to win over Liu Heimin, if this marriage can be successful, it will be of great benefit to him to completely grasp Liu Heimin's military power, and if he wins over Liu Heimin, it will be easy to leave one Song Jingang.

Now Dou Jiande is anxious to promote this marriage, seeing that the line mother is still resolute and refuses to agree, the anger in his heart also burned, and he said unhappily: "Line Niang, don't be willful anymore, I have already discussed this marriage with your second uncle Liu, he is on the way here, and Erlang is in the barracks, and you will get married in three days." ”

"I will never say yes!"

Dou Xianniang was extremely strong, she stood up and walked out of the tent, Dou Jiande was angered by her willfulness, "It's up to you, you have to agree if you don't agree!" ”

He shouted, "Arrest her!" ”