Wang Junkuo was welcomed into the big tent by Xu Shiji, Wang Junkuo also knew Xu Shiji, Xu Shiji was the third leader of the Wagang Army, and he Wang Junkuo was just a new general who had just joined the Wagang Army, although he was a little famous, but he had no chance to stand out in the Wagang Army with many factions.

And Xu Shiji also knew that Wang Junkuo, this person had excellent swordsmanship, and as soon as he entered Wagang, he lost thirteen generals in a row, causing a sensation, but it was a pity that he offended the second person, Shan Xiongxin, and Li Mi never dared to use him, which is also a pity.

Everyone sat down, and Xu Shiji said with a smile: "General Wang can abandon the darkness and turn to the light, he is worthy of being a hero in Hedong, and his talent as a general will definitely be reused by the head of my family." ”

"Jun Kuo has been confused for a long time, and I have heard for a long time that Mr. Yang does not look at his background, he is the only move, and now he is back in the Northern Sui, and I have to ......taste the ambition of my life."

When it came to meritocracy, Wang Junkuo couldn't help but glance at Cheng Yanjin, but Cheng Yanjin smiled: "I'm also a talent, otherwise, how can I convince you to surrender?" ”

Wang Junkuo smiled bitterly, this is also true, and he said: "I am willing to help General Xu to pacify Hanoi County as soon as possible." ”

Xu Shiji was overjoyed, and hurriedly arched his hand and said: "I am willing to listen to the words of the public!" ”

Wang Junkuo thought for a while and said: "Song Jingang's biggest weakness is that his army is unstable, most of his soldiers are from the three counties of Mayi, Yanmen and Loufu, and their families are all in the north, and the soldiers just want to follow Song Jingang to grab something, and then go home, no one wants to follow him for a long time, General Xu might as well start from this point, you can defeat Song Jingang, in addition, Song Jingang's other deputy general, Lu Chongmao, is from Hedong County, and he is not willing to surrender to Dou Jiande, I can write a letter to persuade him." ”

"Wait!"

Xu Shiji asked in surprise: "What does this have to do with Dou Jiande?" ”

Wang Junkuo was stunned for a moment, "Don't you know that Song Jingang has surrendered to Dou Jiande and was named the king of Hanoi by Dou Jiande, don't you know?" ”

Xu Shiji's face became extremely solemn, he suddenly realized that he had made a mistake in intelligence, he didn't even know that Song Jingang had surrendered to Dou Jiande, so the problem was a bit serious.

He asked in a deep voice: "Then will Dou Jiande send troops to Hanoi County?" ”

"Definitely!"

Wang Junkuo said without hesitation: "Dou Jiande and Li Mi have won over Song Jingang many times, among which Li Mi is because I strongly oppose it, Song Jingang gave up returning to Wagang, and Dou Jiande even did not hesitate to send him 10,000 pairs of armor in order to win over Song Jingang, and he was also ready to marry his niece to him, which shows that Dou Jiande attaches great importance to Hanoi County, and if he gets Hanoi County, Dou Jiande can directly face Luoyang." ”

Xu Shiji was silent, he had realized that Hanoi County was no longer as simple as dealing with Song Jingang, it was very likely that they would have the first confrontation with Dou Jiande, the stakes were very high, and he had to report to Yang Yuanqing immediately.

Thinking of this, Xu Shiji shook his head and said, "I don't think you need to go to Taiyuan." ”

"Why?" Wang Junkuo and Cheng Yanjin asked in unison.

"The reason is very simple, I guess the governor will come to Hanoi in person."

Song Jingang's army got the news about eighty miles away from Jiyuan County, Wang Junkuo led the army to surrender to the Sui army, which made Song Jingang extremely angry, but also very frightened, not only the loss of 10,000 troops is as simple as that, but Jiyuan County is his grain and grass land, which stores his tens of thousands of stone military rations, and the grain and grass he carries with the army can only last for four days.

At this time, Song Jingang had no time to be angry, he turned around and went east, he wanted to take Hanoi County, but the reinforcements of Hanoi County had arrived, the garrison was 6,000 people, the city was tall and strong, it was difficult to capture, Song Jingang had no choice but to continue to go south along Qinshui, the target was directly aimed at Anchang County, but when there were still thirty miles away from Anchang County, Song Jingang got the information, another Sui army of about 10,000 people, divided the troops into two ways to occupy Anchang County and Wen County, cut off his way to retreat east, and at this time, Xu Shiji led 8,000 troops across Jishui, He followed Song Jingang's army about twenty miles away.

The place where Song Jingang urgently garrisoned is called Gushan Gang, it is a mound more than ten zhang high, it is named after several towering ancient cedars, it is about 20 miles away from Anchang County here.

The reason why the camp was urgently stationed was because the army's food could only support one and a half days, and then to the east, it was a sparsely populated mountainous area, and his army would not be able to support it, so Song Jingang ordered to be stationed in the camp, and then sent twenty grain teams to the surrounding villages to loot the grain.

In the evening, Song Jingang received information that about 20,000 Sui troops were surrounded from three directions: west, northeast and east, and were less than ten miles away from his camp.

Song Jingang walked all the way to the camp gate, where his army had built a lookout tower, Song Jingang climbed the lookout tower and asked a little nervously, "Where?" ”

He had just received a report that a Sui army had been spotted in the west, only five miles away from them, and this news made Song Jingang very nervous, and he personally climbed the lookout tower to check the situation.

The sky was already very dark, the sunset had faded, and the clouds in the sky had turned dark purple, but the situation could still be vaguely seen several miles away, and a cavalry brigade of about 8,000 Sui troops stood in the distance in a wilderness, but they did not continue to advance, but camped on the spot.

"King of the county, while the Sui army has not yet converged, let's defeat this Sui army first!" A general whispered from the side.

Song Jingang shook his head, his 20,000 poorly equipped troops wanted to defeat 8,000 elite cavalry, which was undoubtedly wishful thinking.

Lu Chongmao also hurriedly said: "King Jun, what should we do now?" Staying here will definitely be a dead end in the end. ”

"Wait!"

Song Jingang sighed. Gas... Wait for the food team to come back and see how much food they have gotten? Then consider the way out. ”

He turned around and returned to the camp with a heavy heart, Lu Chongmao looked at Song Jingang's back, and he had a sense of foreboding in his heart.

As the night gradually fell, the grain team came back one after another, twenty food teams came back fifteen, the other five had no news, because this area was densely populated, there were many villages, and at this time it was the harvest season, the grain team harvested a lot, got nearly two thousand stone grain and a large number of pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, in this way, the military food can last for a few more days, Song Jingang ordered to kill pigs and sheep, so that the soldiers had a full meal.

Lü Chongmao's tent was to the west of the camp, and Song Jingang was to the east of the camp, and the two were each in charge of half of the camp.

Especially Wang Junkuo's surrender, it made him even more uneasy, he also wanted to surrender, the only thing that made him unable to make up his mind was Song Jingang's kindness to him, he couldn't bear to abandon him when Song Jingang was in the most difficult time.

At this time, a report came from the door: "General, someone has sent a letter." ”

"Come in!"

A soldier walked in quickly and knelt down on one knee and saluted, "See General Lu." ”

Lu Chongmao glanced at him suspiciously, "Who are you?" ”

"Back to General Lu, I am a sergeant of the third team of food fighting, and someone asked me to hand over a letter to General Lu."

The soldier presented a letter to Lu Chongmao, who took it and looked at it, and was taken aback that it was actually a letter written by Wang Junkuo to him.

Lü Chongmao took out the letter and read it, in which he persuaded him to keep the army and surrender to the Sui army to ensure that he would gain a high position in the army, and the letter also said that Yang Yuanqing would soon arrive in Hanoi in person, so that he could seize this opportunity.

"General Lu, what should I do now?"

"Shut up!"

Lu Chongmao yelled: "Shut up!" ”

All the generals quieted down, Lu Chongmao glanced at everyone, gritted his teeth and said: "He Song Jingang is unkind first, don't blame us for being unjust, open the camp gate and surrender to the Sui army!" ”