After all, marrying a concubine is not marrying a wife, even if Zhang Xuan gives face to the Pei family, but he can't really mess up the etiquette and be criticized by the world, so although Pei Zhizhi entered Yidu County with a beautiful scenery, he was relatively low-key when he entered Zhang Xuan's mansion.

After the night of the next day, Pei Hong and his wife sent Pei Zhizhi to Zhang Xuan's house, and a small ceremony was held within the family, only some relatives and friends were invited to pay tribute, and Lu Qing accepted Pei Zhizhi's tea as Zhang Xuan's wife.

That night, a couple of newcomers blended like fish and water, and Pei Zhizhi finally ended her girlhood and became a little woman who tasted the joy of fish and water for the first time.

But Pei Zhizhi's early entry was for separation, Hebei's fighter planes had already appeared, and Zhang Xuan had to leave his wife and concubine for the time being, and rushed to the battlefield the day after Pei Zhizhi entered the door.

In fact, from the confirmation of Zhang Pei's marriage to Pei Zhizhi's entry into the door, it took a total of 20 days, during which the situation in Hebei was changing, the situation was ups and downs, and the Qingzhou Army was also actively preparing for war.

The sudden change in the situation was an unexpected fire between Dou Jiande and Gao Shida.

The war was triggered by the death of Lu Mingyue, after Lu Mingyue was beheaded by Zhang Xuan, Song Jingang inherited his career, but Song Jingang turned out to be Wei Dao'er's person, and he did not follow Lu Mingyue for a long time, and some veterans who had followed Lu Mingyue for many years were very unconvinced.

The general of Lu Mingyue's army stationed in Shanggu County is called Wu Chonggen, who followed him when Lu Mingyue was still a ranger, he was the first to disobey Song Jingang, when Song Jingang announced the news of inheriting Lu Mingyue, he took a thousand war horses and two thousand men to defect to Dou Jiande, but Gao Shida got the news, intercepted Wu Chonggen in the north of Hejian County, killed Wu Chonggen, and took away a thousand war horses.

This incident made Dou Jiande extremely angry. Sent people to ask for war horses, but Gao Shida flatly denied it, several consecutive failures, Dou Jiande, who lost patience, decided to send 3,000 troops to attack Gonggao County, Gao Shida also sent 3,000 troops to meet the battle, Dou Gao and the two broke out a small-scale fierce battle in the area of Gonggao County. ended with Dou Jiande's fiasco.

The time has come to the end of April of the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, and Li Yuan, who raised troops in Taiyuan, has already captured five counties, including Taiyuan County, Loufan County, Lishi County, Shangdang County, and Changping County.

And the atmosphere of war in Hebei is also strong, Dou Jiande and Gao Shida are tense, and the war is about to break out.

Leshou County, Hejian County is the location of Dou Jiande's lair, and Dou Jiande's 150,000 troops are stationed here.

On the official road forty miles south of Leshou County, a group of more than a dozen cavalry was escorting a civilian official to the north, and soon entered the warning range of Dou Jiande's army.

A cavalry patrol stopped them, and shouted for the captain, "Who are you?" What are you doing here? ”

The civil official said unhurriedly: "Here is a messenger sent by Zhang Dashuai, the Duke of Qi, who has come to see the king of your family." ”

Hearing that it was a messenger sent by Zhang Xuan, the captain did not dare to slack off, and bowed his hand and said: "Please follow us to the county seat, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings and put you in danger." ”

The civil official smiled slightly, "Then I'll trouble you!" ”

Dou Jiande's patrol cavalry led the Sui army and his party to the camp outside Leshou County.

This young civil official is called Fang Yanshou, and he is Fang Xuanling's younger brother. The current soldier Cao joined the army and is shrewd and capable. is good at rhetoric, and was sent by Zhang Xuan to contact Dou Jiande to explore the possibility of the two sides jointly dealing with Gao Shida.

Since Dou Jiande's army suffered a crushing defeat to Gao Shida's army in Gonggao County ten days ago, the great shame made Dou Jiande resolutely reject Gao Shida's proposal to reconcile, unless Gao Shida returned a thousand war horses to himself. and apologize, so that they may have the possibility of reconciliation.

But how could Gao Shida, who had won the battle, admit his apology to Dou Jiande instead, and Gao Shida, who was annoyed and angry, immediately increased his troops by 30,000 in Gonggao County, and put on a posture of preparing to teach Dou Jiande a toast and not eat and drink.

The contradictions between the two sides are becoming more and more acute, and war is on the verge of breaking out.

Inside the big tent. Dou Jiande was discussing the details of sending troops to Gonggao County with the strategist Ling Jing, because the fiasco of the previous battle had made Dou Jiande feel a little shadow, he was worried that he would be defeated by Gao Shida again, and it would be impossible to seek peace, and Gao Shida would completely annex him.

Ling Jing is about 30 years old, just a weak scholar, a native of Xindu County, two years ago was recommended to Dou Jiande, Dou Jiande used him as the main book, responsible for sorting out the records, last year he strongly opposed Dou Jiande crossing the Yellow River to Jibei County, but Dou Jiande refused to listen to his advice, resulting in the annihilation of 20,000 soldiers.

But Dou Jiande was a person who knew his mistakes and changed them, and after he returned, he promoted Ling Jing to join the army as his secretary and became one of his important advisers.

Ling Jing understood Dou Jiande's thoughts, and said with a slight smile: "The relationship between Dou Gong and Gao Shida is quite complicated, just like a mountain with two tigers, if there is a common enemy under the mountain, the two tigers can be unanimous with the outside world, but the problem now is that the unanimous external party cannot suppress the enemy under the mountain, and one mountain cannot accommodate the two tigers, sooner or later there will be a battle between Dou Gong and Gao Shida, but the timing of this battle Dou Gong needs to be accurate." ”

"Sir is right, the current situation is indeed a mountain with no room for two tigers, but I don't understand the timing that Mr. said, isn't it the right time now?"

"The timing of the humble position is actually the right time, the right place and the right people, and the time of the day refers to whether the current situation between the Great Sui and Hebei allows this battle, and I can analyze it in detail."

"No!" Dou Jiande interrupted him a little impatiently, "Don't say so much, I don't understand, just be frank." ”

Ling Jing was helpless, so he had to smile bitterly and said: "The meaning of the humble position is very simple, that is, whether the marshal has the strength to win this battle, and whether he can properly handle the aftermath after winning." ”

"In terms of strength, I am actually similar to Gao Shida."

Dou Jiande said that he has no confidence, his strength is actually not as good as Gao Shida, Gao Shida started earlier than him, and the accumulation is stronger than him, and Gao Shida once intercepted a Sui army armor transport ship in the ninth year of the Great Cause, won tens of thousands of sets of armor, and the soldiers are better equipped than him, he only has a slight advantage in military rations because of the support of the Bohai Society.

In fact, his crushing defeat in Gonggao County was also a manifestation of their strength.

Ling Jing knew that Dou Jiande was insincere, so he pondered for a while and asked, "Has Duke Dou considered joining forces with the Bohai Society?" ”

Dou Jiande took a letter from the table next to him and handed it to Ling Jing, "This is Gao Lie's reply to me, you will know it when you read it." “

Ling Jing took the letter and read it, Gao Lie fully supported Dou Jiande and Gao Shida in the decisive battle, and expressed his willingness to support Dou Jiande's 50,000 stone military rations, but the letter did not mention the fact that Bohai would send troops.

"Do you understand what Gao Lie means?"

Dou Jiande said coldly: "He is the fisherman, he will definitely send troops, and when we are both defeated, his army will appear." ”

Speaking of this, Dou Jiande sighed, "To be honest, I really don't want to fight the war with Gao Shida, but I can't fight it if I don't fight, the population I control can no longer support my army, Gao Shida should be the same, neither of our armies dares to provoke Zhang Xuan, so we have to kill each other." ”

Ling Jing is very clear about Dou Jiande's hardships, at present, Dou Jiande's 150,000 troops control Hejian County and Xindu County, while Gao Shida has 1670,000 troops and controls Bohai County and Pingyuan County.

Due to the huge attraction of Qingzhou to the surrounding people, the population of the four counties continued to flee to Qingzhou, with Pingyuan County and Xindu County being the most serious.

It can be said that the incident of a thousand war horses is just a façade, just a fuse, and the large flow of population to Qingzhou is the root cause of the two armies of Dou Gao having to fight to the death, when the resources are not enough to support the two armies, there is no other way out except to kill each other to seize the little resources that are left.

Thinking of this, Ling Jing said in a low voice: "Then did Duke Dou think about joining forces with Zhang Xuan?" ”

Dou Jiande was stunned, where did he start?

At this moment, a soldier outside the tent reported: "Zhang Xuan's envoy has come to ask to see Dou Gong!" (To be continued.) )