Chapter 578 Troubled Heroine

Daluze is located in Xiangguo County in the south of Hebei. During the Warring States period, because it belonged to the giant deer, it was also known as the giant deer.

The Yellow River, the Zhanghe River, the Hutuo River, the Fuyang River alluvial imbalance caused by the mainland Ze a depression, it starts from the Tao in the north, passes through the mainland, to the south and, the total length is about more than 100 miles, so it has the "vast continent", "the vast ocean, the hope is actually a lake".

Like Gaojibo and Douzihang in the southeast of Hebei, this broader continent has also become a den of bandits and robbers in the troubled times of the late Sui Dynasty.

After Dou Jiande was defeated by Chen Pojun's army in the river, he fled all the way south, and finally fled to Xiangguo County and entered this continent.

With 5,000 cavalry following, with 50,000 broken gold to call 300,000 righteous troops. With a simple peasant army, he annihilated the battle line of 10,000 cavalry of Guo Xun, the official army of Hebei, and relied on his unparalleled record of annihilating the army of Xue Shixiong, the famous commander of Hebei, and beheading Xue Shixiong. Although Dou Jiande lost his armor and fled south from Hejian, losing all the belongings of the Hejian Rebels over the years, but with those three wars, as soon as Dou Jiande entered Xiangguo, he was warmly welcomed by the leaders of the peasant army entrenched in the mainland.

In the eleventh year of the great cause, the Hebei clan has raised troops to create Chen Kefu's rebellion, and overnight, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the clan have emerged in Hebei, and all counties and counties are anti-Chen Po's soldiers and horses. Dou Jiande, who had been paying attention to the situation in Hebei, was so excited that he immediately thought that his chance to turn over had arrived.

He lobbied the leaders of the peasant army several times, and finally persuaded them, obtained 30,000 soldiers and horses, and asked him to take this opportunity to capture Xindu and Qinghe County, which had been recovered by the imperial court.

After getting the money and food for the soldiers and horses, Dou Jiande immediately ordered the soldiers and horses to go out of the mainland of Xiangguo.

Along the way, he recruited troops and horses, and with his Dou Jiande's signboard, he had already connected several cities in a short period of time, captured the two cities of Jingcheng and Zongcheng in Qinghe County, and expanded his power to the west bank of the canal in Qinghe County.

Just when he sent troops to Qinghe County, preparing to do a big job and make a comeback.

The situation has changed dramatically again, and this time the change has made him even more unexpected.

A few days after the clans from all over Hebei raised their troops, there was extremely bad news. The 200,000 Shi clan coalition army of the Lu clan in the north was defeated by the Hebei court in the first battle, and Lu Che, the king of Yan who established himself as the king, was defeated and killed by himself, and the rest surrendered.

This news not only made the heroes of the entire Hebei clan tremble, but also the peasant army who were the opponents of the clan to life and death. This is a whole 200,000 coalition troops, that is, 200,000 pigs, put on the plain, let the imperial court catch it, this can not be caught in three or five days.

But now, in just a few days, the 200,000 coalition troops have been defeated and surrendered.

Dou Jiande will not forget that he had just defeated Xue Shixiong, but in a blink of an eye, he was defeated by Chen Kefu, and 300,000 people collapsed instantly, and finally relied on those loyal brothers in life and death to escape from the mere 5,000 cavalry.

Dou Jiande's worries were quickly confirmed, as if Chen Pojun had long expected the rebellion of the powerful people of the clan in Hebei and other places. The soldiers and horses of the powerful people of the world are often just assembled, and the army of the imperial court has already appeared, and after a fierce attack like a tide, no one of the powerful soldiers and horses of the world can stop the offensive of the imperial court. Either die in battle or surrender.

The people of the world, who were like sparks burning the plains, were suppressed by the imperial court with a more ferocious and rapid tide. It's like a flash in the pan, blooming in such an instant, and before you can appreciate it, it has already withered and withered.

In Qinghe County, Dou Jiande sent 5,000 soldiers and horses to surround Qinghe County, but before they could retreat, they were surrounded by 10,000 officers and soldiers of Xue Dingguo's uncle and nephew. When the enemy meets, his eyes are red.

The sudden appearance of the imperial army rushed in like a flash flood and tsunami, and engaged in a fierce battle with the 5,000 vanguard troops sent by Dou Jiande. Half an hour passed, and all the vanguard horses were chopped to pieces. …,

Outside the city, another 5,000 soldiers and horses were killed by the cavalry of Xue's uncle and nephew, and the remnants abandoned the city in a panic and fled, and were chased by Xue Wanche with 2,000 cavalry for more than 300 miles, leaving many corpses along the way. The Xue family's army is as strong as this, not only enough to attack the city, but also enough to send reinforcements. The 3,000 Fan Yuan troops who came to reinforce the city were killed by the forest forty miles away from the city, and the entire 3,000 people had to wait for Fan Yuan and the thirteen horsemen to escape.

And in Zongcheng, which was less than 100 miles away from Jingcheng, under the noses of Dou Jiande's 50,000 people, Xue Wanjun, wearing the standard black Mingguang armor of the Liaodong Army, 3,000 light cavalry, wiped out all the soldiers and horses of the entire 3,000 people stationed outside the city, and then calmly walked away. The fierce cavalry charge, and the screams and wails of the newly recruited soldiers and horses outside the city, could be faintly heard even in the innermost part of Zongcheng. Dou Jiande, who had a full 50,000 horses, did not dare to go out of the city to rescue from beginning to end, he was afraid that he would fall into the ambush circle of the imperial army.

His worries were right, that time, in the woods ten miles outside the city, Xue Dingguo's uncle and nephew were ambushed in the forest with seven thousand light horses, just waiting for Dou Jiande in the city to leave the city, they would give him a thunderous blow. However, Dou Jiande was really able to endure it, standing at the head of the city, watching the soldiers and horses he had just recruited were brutally killed by Xue Wanjun, and the last one did not flow, and he also used the severed head to set up a head mountain outside the city, leaving a banner with four blood characters written on the blood debt and blood payment.

Dou Jiande relied on his 5,000 cavalry, plus the 30,000 soldiers and horses he borrowed later, and recruited troops and horses all the way out of the mainland, and finally recruited 30,000 people, and gathered nearly 70,000 horses, but he was hit by the Xue brothers several times, and lost more than 10,000 people in an instant.

From Zhao County, to Xindu, Qinghe, to Wuyang, the four counties that had always been within the sphere of influence of the peasant army, under the fierce attack of the imperial soldiers and horses along the way, one after another the county towns and counties were lost, and finally the four counties all fell into the hands of the imperial court.

Originally, the peasant army held the eight counties in the south, but half of them were lost in an instant, and then minus the Ji counties, only the three counties of Xiangguo, Wu'an, and Wei were left, and Ji Ji was in danger all of a sudden. Although the peasant army then launched a fierce counterattack, they only recaptured Wuyang County and a small part of the three counties of Zhao County, Xindu County, and Qinghe County.

In the face of the fierce counterattack of the peasant army, the Hebei court seemed to be a little unable to resist, and they gradually took the initiative to abandon some towns around the counties occupied by the peasant army such as Xiangguo and other peasant armies, and took the initiative to retreat.

But the more this happened, the more frightened the peasant army became, and without consulting with each other, the peasant armies everywhere took the initiative to stop continuing to counterattack. Some leaders of the peasant army even took the initiative to retreat a little, leaving some buffer towns between the peasant army's sphere of influence and the area controlled by the imperial court.

Sure enough, there were rumors that Chen Pojun had transferred troops to Liaodong, and I heard that all the generals transferred this time were cavalry from Liaodong, and cavalry from the Khitan and Ya tribes. Listening to the rumors that this day was like a day, the peasant army was also worried. No one wanted to face Chen Po's Liaodong Army, but the southern counties of Hebei were their foundation, and they had no way to retreat.

Even in the end, Dou Jiande, an army of only 50,000 people left, actually began to keep having newly recruited soldiers flee in the middle of the night at night.

After Dou Hongxian received this report, he was furious. He personally led the 300 cavalry of the old battalion to pursue in the middle of the night, and before dawn, he chased dozens of miles, and finally captured all the deserters left.

"You useless things, dignified men, have not yet started a war, and have been frightened by rumors and become shameless deserters, are you still a man?"

The deserters who were captured were hung under the trees one by one, and on the first day they joined the rebel army, they had already been told that those who dared to be deserters would have their limbs cut off and die as long as they were caught. …,

Facing the insults of General Dou's daughter, everyone felt shameless and ashamed. A sturdy young man whispered, "But the official army is too powerful, I heard that there were millions of soldiers and horses of the rebellious clan, but they were all wiped out in a few days. I heard that the officials and soldiers of the imperial court are very fierce, and if they are caught, they will cut off their heads, gouge out their tongues and eyes, and they will not be reincarnated even if they die."

"Ahh Dou Hongxian was dressed in the fiery red armor and cloak, his hands were crossed on his waist, he looked up at the young man with great contempt, and said loudly to the deserters around him, "Think at the beginning, Guo Xun was the general of Hebei, and he was called the general of Hebei, was he strong?" His 10,000 light horsemen, all of whom rode horses, wore sturdy armor, held the finest weapons, and all of them carried strong bows and crossbows, were they strong? ”

The young man swallowed his saliva and spit out a word with difficulty, "Strong!" ”

"That's right, Guo Xun is very strong, and his 10,000 Hebei elite horses are also very strong, but what happened in the end? At the beginning, my father and the brothers only had tens of thousands of rebel brothers with wooden guns and forks in their hands, but in the end? Guo Xun's 10,000 elite cavalry did not have the whole army, and even Guo Xun was killed on the spot, it was our righteous army that won that battle. ”

When the brothers in the old camp around heard the eldest lady talk about the original battle, all of them showed proud expressions on their faces, and they will never forget such an experience.

After seeing that many deserters heard this, Dou Hongxian lowered his head a little ashamedly, couldn't help but raise his voice a little, and continued to say loudly, "I think that at the beginning, Xue Shixiong was known as the famous marshal of Hebei, and as the general of the imperial court left imperial guard, his power was unparalleled for a while. That time, he commanded 30,000 elite soldiers and horses from Hebei to attack, but did you see my father and uncles and brothers who were timid and retreated? ”

One by one, the brothers in the old camp who were standing nearby shouted, "No! ”

Dou Hongxian nodded, "That's right, in the face of Xue Shixiong and 30,000 Hebei elite soldiers, our righteous army did not flinch or be timid. We went head-on, annihilated the 30,000 troops at Niukou, and beheaded Xue Shixiong. You say, General Dou and the brothers of the righteous army, are they good? ”

"General Dou is good, brothers are good!" A roar of blood boiled out, and even those deserters couldn't help but swell their necks and roar loudly.