Time passed, in a blink of an eye, it was the middle of November, the weather became colder and colder, Dugu Yongye's army and Wang Yong's troops had been stationed outside Jiaozhou for four or five days, during which Dugu Yongye repeatedly looked for opportunities to have a decisive battle with Wang Yong, but unfortunately Wang Yong always refused to take out all his troops to fight against him.

Especially since the cavalry of the two sides fought a small but extremely tragic battle the day before yesterday, Wang Yong saw the huge difference between the cavalry under his command and the cavalry of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and even more tightly guarded the city and camp, and stuck to the troops waiting for all sides to come to support.

Now if Wang Yong and the Qi army engage in a large-scale frontal war, even if he can repel the attack of the Qi army, the price he will pay is too great, and now the third round of large-scale conscription is underway in the hinterland of Sanqi, and every day of confrontation will be greater.

Compared with Wang Yong, who was calm, Dugu Yongye in the Qi army camp couldn't calm down, and the reinforcements that should have arrived in the next two days have not yet had any news. In addition, because he did not expect this year's winter to be much colder than in previous years, Dugu Yongye did not carry enough winter clothes when he set out on the expedition, which froze many Qi soldiers.

Dugu Yongye felt fortunate that most of the soldiers under his command were soldiers of the town army who stayed in northern Xinjiang all the year round, and these soldiers experienced the severe cold of northern Xinjiang for one or two decades, and then faced the relatively cold winter of Sanqi this year, and they expressed their very adaptation one by one.

Only those soldiers from North Xuzhou, because the location of North Xuzhou is further south, and there are mountains blocking the cold air, they have never experienced such a cold winter, so even if the sun has come out in the past two days, they are still shivering from the cold, and they can't wait to find a warm quilt to hibernate immediately.

A few gray finches flew by from the sky and lowered down on the hills around the Qi army camp, but they couldn't find their past nests, not even the branches that wanted to find a place to stay.

Because during this period, whether the Qi army was building a large number of siege equipment or for winter heating, they cut down a large number of woods in nearby valleys and hills, so that the originally lush and beautiful valley outside Jiaozhou City became a bare and barren land in just a few days.

However, although they were also from the town army, the infantry from the Han people still had a much lower status than the cavalry dominated by the Xianbei people, as long as the Xianbei cavalry was not fighting, they often hunted around in the name of probing the enemy, while the Han infantry had to take on the logistics and transportation of the large battalion, duty and other tasks.

Because of the unequal status between the Xianbei and the Han people, the contradictions between the two sides can be said to be very acute, and the war in peacetime is not felt because of the separation of cavalry and infantry, but in the few days of this short truce, there were more than a dozen clashes between Han soldiers and Xianbei soldiers.

In order to maintain the stability of the army, Dugu Yongye had to work hard to adjust the contradictions between the two sides after every time there was a contradiction, for fear that the Qi army would fight by itself, but today when the soldiers of both sides fought, Dugu Yongye, who had seen from a distance in the big tent of the Chinese army, was too lazy to come over to adjust the contradictions between the two sides, but just let his own soldiers come over and each of the two sides of the conflict was punished with ten sticks.

When the lively soldiers were dispersed by the general's own soldiers, they saw several scouts galloping over, and the cavalry had to dismount when they arrived at the gate of the camp, otherwise they would be beheaded, but the horses with urgent reports could ride all the way to the school field in the camp.

"Report ······" When these scouts came to the camp and dismounted, a Xianbei cavalry galloped to the gate of the Chinese army's big tent, and saw that Dugu Yongye and Meng Lingtong were both in the big tent, so they immediately knelt down on one knee and bowed their heads and said, "General Qiyu, General Dugu Sheng has led an army of 20,000 to come, and now it is less than ten miles away from the camp!" ”

"Hey, Ah Sheng is really here today!" Dugu Yongye heard Tanma's announcement, and immediately got up and said to Meng Lingtong with a surprised smile, it seems that Dugu Yongye is waiting for Dugu Sheng today.

Meng Lingtong, who had always had a faint haze on his face, also smiled and said: "It's really good news, I finally saw the general smile after so many days, and when General Dugusheng's army arrived, Wang Yong in front of him was just a clown jumping off the beam, and he could be flat immediately!" How can others be jealous of the general's exploits! ”

Dugu Yongye also smiled and agreed: "What Mr. said is extremely true, before I was just worried that after fighting a war of attrition with Wang Yong, our army's losses would be too great and the subsequent attack would be frustrated, this time after Ah Sheng arrived, we have more than 60,000 troops, even if Hu Lawyers Association is afraid that I will make a great contribution to overshadow him and deliberately not send reinforcements, I can capture Wang Yong now, hmph, after we capture Wang Yong and pacify Sanqi, then return to Jinyang and report him to His Majesty!" ”

Saying that, Dugu Yongye grabbed a pair of fur furs around his body, got up and walked out, and greeted Meng Lingtong as he walked: "Mr. Meng, you and I will go to meet General Dugu Sheng!" I think he should be in front of the camp with the vanguard! ”

Since Dugu Yongye led the army to conquer Guan Shuai Pass, on the way to Jiaozhou City, he sent several messengers to the camp of the Hu Lawyers Association on the Jeju front line to report that he had opened the door to the hinterland of Sanqi, and asked the Hu Lawyers Association to launch a large army to attack the summer army camps in Jeju and Jibei County to cooperate with his actions, and also asked the Hu Lawyers Association to continue to send tens of thousands of troops to his command to strengthen his offensive against the hinterland of Sanqi.

But what Dugu Yongye didn't expect was that after seeing the letter he wrote, Hu Lawyers Association was immediately furious, not only did not act according to his request, but also detained all the messengers sent by Dugu Yongye.

In fact, it can't be blamed for not taking care of the overall situation, Dugu Yongye also has a lot of responsibility for this, because Dugu Yongye is a little arrogant, even if he was transferred to the Jeju front line Hu Lawyers Association to attack Wang Yong, he never regarded himself as an existence lower than the Hu Lawyers Association.

Therefore, Dugu Yongye only cared about arranging things in the letter to the Hu Lawyers Association, but did not take into account the feelings of the Hu Lawyers Association and carefully considered the words and sentences.

In the eyes of the Hu Lawyers Association, he is a Xianbei nobleman whose status far surpasses Dugu Yongye, and Dugu Yongye is just a widow who remarried to the Han family in the Xianbei family.

Once a person offends another person, then that person will immediately only remember all the bad things in the past, and forget all the good side.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the nobles of the scholars always had to raise a group of domestic plays, because during this period, everyone liked to feast with each other and invite colleagues and friends to their homes to feast and drink.

After a long time of competition, there were two housekeepers in Dugu Yongye's family who were most praised because of their appearance, singing and dancing, and the Hu Lawyers Association, who was still young at the time, happened to take a fancy to these two housekeepers at the banquet, so he wanted to ask Dugu Yongye for it with a cheeky face.

But who doesn't love beauties, especially beauties who combine beauty and talent, of course Dugu Yongye was reluctant to refuse immediately, of course, some people said that Dugu Yongye refused to be a minister, but in any case, this is an offense to the Hu Lawyers Association.

Now that the Hu Lawyers Association is angry, these bad things have come to mind before, especially when the Hu Lawyers Association saw that he wanted to cooperate with Dugu Yongye's actions in the letter, and attacked Jeju and Jibei County in order to allow Dugu Yongye to take the opportunity to outflank the hinterland of Sanqi, the Hu Lawyers Association couldn't hold back the anger in his heart.

Speaking of Hu Lawyers' Association, the level of leading the army to fight is indeed very high, but his temper is very short-tempered, so he couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, and roared in the big tent: "Dugu is ungrateful, am I the one he arbitrarily assigned to the erector?" ”

Immediately, the Hu Lawyers Association not only did not prepare to send reinforcements to Dugu Yongye, but even detained several messengers sent by Dugu Yongye to prevent them from returning, so that Dugu Yongye's first and second class always couldn't wait for the reinforcements sent by the Hu Lawyers Association, so he had to transfer Dugu Sheng in a hurry.

Before, when Dugu Yongye went down the Fang River and quickly seized North Xuzhou, he went south along the Yishui flowing through North Xuzhou City to the existence of more than 100,000 Nanchen Northern Expedition troops who were besieging Picheng, and it was Hou Andu and Cheng Lingxi who led the Nanchen army.

Although Nan Chen's army was blocked by Murong Yan and his army stationed in Xiapi City, the serious threat of this army of more than 100,000 made Dugu Yongye have to pay attention to the safety of his own back road. So Dugu Yongye sent his brother Dugu Sheng to lead 20,000 people to garrison the counties and counties of Northern Xuzhou to defend.

In addition, because the entire North Xuzhou and South Qingzhou are because of the mountains and little land, the grain output is extremely low, and there is a lack of food itself, if you expect to rely on the grain of North Xuzhou and South Qingzhou to feed Dugu Yongye's army can starve these soldiers to death, so the grain and grass of Dugu Yongye's army are all transported from Yanzhou, Pengcheng and other rear.

On this road, because there are many bandits in the mountains and forests, in order to ensure the safety of their grain routes, Dugu Yongye also had to place tens of thousands of soldiers on the two roads from Qufu to North Xuzhou and Pengcheng to North Xuzhou to guard the grain road. Yunnan

Now Chen Baxian finally died after half a year of illness, so the chief general under Chen Baxian, Hou Andu, led his troops back to Jiankang City, and Cheng Lingxi was alone and unable to march north, so he had to retreat to Haizhou to guard against the possible attack of the Qi army.

Now even Murong Yan, who was originally stationed in Xiapi City, has transferred troops to seize Dongtaishan County and Lanling County, two prefectures and counties that were originally in a state of separation, and Northern Xuzhou, which is further behind, does not have to worry about the threat of Nan Chen, so Dugu Yongye can withdraw these troops to strengthen his offensive against Wang Yong.

When Dugu Yongye and Meng Lingtong came to the entrance of the camp with a group of guards, they could already faintly see a large number of black spots on the hillside in the distance along the mountain road in the river valley.

It was not long before everyone felt the vibration of the horses' hooves when they trampled on the ground, followed by the 'rumbling' sound of the large group of horses trotting, probably seeing the large battalion in the distance, these cavalry began to speed up and run fast, and soon began to slow down when they were less than a mile away from the large battalion.

"General!" Dugu Sheng is the brother of Dugu Yongye, although Dugu Yongye is not the biological son of the Dugu family, but Dugu Sheng's relationship with him is very good, and Dugu Yongye also appreciates the talent of this nominal brother.

Because Dugu Yongye was strict in governing the army and strictly forbade a large group of cavalry to storm the camp gate, Dugu Sheng jumped off his horse and ran over when he was still 100 meters away from Dugu Yongye.

"General Dugu, I remember that you only had a thousand cavalry there before, why are there so many more cavalry now?" Although Dugu Yongye was very happy to see Dugu Sheng, it was a little strange to see the thousands of cavalry brought by Dugu Sheng.

Dugu Sheng laughed and said, "General, this time I didn't just bring 20,000 people!" There was a smug look between his eyebrows and eyes, which was clearly visible.

"Didn't General Dugu incorporate some of the Xiangma in the Northern Xuzhou and Huaisi regions?" Dugu Yongye hadn't guessed it yet, but Meng Lingtong next to him saw some eyebrows. "Mr. Meng is really amazing!" Dugu Sheng was taken aback, and then stretched out his thumb and praised!

Ringing horses, as the name suggests, are actually robbers on horseback, but these robbers belong to the very arrogant kind, before the robbery will release a kind of ringing arrows in advance, informing the target of the robbery, this is because these ringing horses are very confident in their own strength.

After the Qin Dynasty unified the Six Kingdoms, a large area of land centered on the mountainous area of central and southern Lu in the later years was full of various robbers, and during the chaotic war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the ethnic minorities who occupied the north had a large number of horses, which led to the prosperity of Xiangma in this land.

At that time, the most famous Xiangma was the Taishan Thief and the Taihang Thief, and the Xiangma active in the Huaisi area in later generations belonged to a branch of the Taishan Thief, of course, some people called Shandong Xiangma!

These horses are extremely skilled, and although they have not experienced the combat of regular cavalry, they are still very qualified to use as scouts or chasers.

"Ah Sheng! How did you recruit these ringing horses? "Dugu Yongye is still a little strange, originally most of these ringing horses like to live an unrestrained life, drinking in a big bowl, eating meat in a big piece, and sharing money in a big scale, how can they be willing to vote for Dugu Sheng as an ordinary cavalry!

"General, you don't know, these people are all black-hearted people, and they killed a lot of local big families when they plundered Haizhou in the past, so Nan Chen had to kill them all after occupying Haizhou, so they had to go to Pengcheng, but they were almost wiped out by General Murong Yan in Pengcheng! In the end, they have been hiding in Junan, south of North Xuzhou! ”

Dugu Sheng said a little proudly: "Later, when a group of Xiangma was hiding in Lanling County, they were chased by General Murong and ran from Lanling County to Northern Xuzhou, so they took the initiative to defect to my men, but soon after they defected, several waves of Xiangma came one after another, and I reorganized these people and now there are nearly 4,000 cavalry!" ”

Dugu Yongye thought about it carefully and felt that there was nothing suspicious, so he waved his hand and said to Dugu Sheng: "Since these people are already your subordinates, then they will be under your full command, and we will carry out tomorrow!" So saying, he turned and walked towards the camp.

Dugu Sheng promised to keep up with Dugu Yongye's footsteps, and at the same time asked Meng Lingtong a little strangely: "Mr. Meng, I have already put on our armor on the front of these ringing horses, and the war horses have also been branded, why can you tell at a glance that these people are from Xiangma?" ”

Glancing at Dugu Sheng, Meng Lingtong smiled slightly: "I can see that there are only three reasons, one is that the general only left a thousand cavalry for the general before, and the Hu Lawyers Association has not sent a single soldier to the general so far, how can it send a part of the cavalry to the general?" ”

Saying that, Meng Lingtong glanced back at the cavalry brought by Dugu Sheng, and then said: "Second, because the cavalry of Daqi is all trained in military formations, even the cavalry in the state and county will be discharged at any time, and these cavalry brought by the general are obviously much more scattered!" ”

"And what about the third point?" Seeing that Meng Lingtong was about to leave directly after saying the second point, Dugu Sheng hurriedly followed his footsteps and chased after him.

Seeing Dugu Sheng chasing after him, Meng Lingtong glanced at his eyes before saying: "The third point is that my cavalry in Daqi is basically dominated by Xianbei people, although there are also some Gaoche people and Han people in border towns, but the customs and habits of these people are already the same as those of Xianbei people, but none of these people in front of me have a hairstyle of Xianbei people, and no one wears Xianbei people's horse ornaments!" ”

Looking at Meng Lingtong's figure getting farther and farther away, Dugu Sheng touched his hairstyle, no, since Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang and restructured, many Xianbei people no longer have the bald hairstyle they used to have, but have long hair like the Han people, in this case, how can Meng Lingtong see that these people are not Xianbei people?

However, Dugu Sheng didn't have time to chase after Meng Lingtong and ask, because the follow-up infantry troops he brought by himself had already arrived, and he had to arrange all the food and accommodation for these soldiers!

When Dugu Yongye was waiting for the arrival of Dugusheng reinforcements in Northern Xuzhou, Wang Yong stepped up the training of a group of newly mobilized recruits on the one hand, and on the other hand, evacuated the ordinary people in Jiaozhou City and the surrounding counties and countryside to the east of Donglai and Changguang as much as possible.

In ancient times, no matter who won or lost, the rebels who lost the war often used civilians without any fighting power to vent their anger, and robbed the people's property at the lightest, and most of the time they used to kill the people to show that they were not cowardly.

In just a few days, Wang Yong evacuated almost all the civilians in Jiaozhou City, and he was ready to rely on the strong city of Jiaozhou City and the surrounding steep terrain to fight the Qi army, and even if it was possible, Wang Yong wanted to wipe out the Qi army here.

In the days of waiting for reinforcements, Dugu Yongye was not idle, he stepped up to send scouts to explore the trails in the surrounding mountains, on the other hand, he stepped up the construction of large-scale siege equipment, the last time because the siege equipment built was too small, so it was impossible to quickly capture Jiaozhou City, this time Dugu Yongye only created dozens of large goose cars, and other large-scale equipment is even more numerous.

Early the next morning, looking at the newly renovated Jiaozhou City in the distance and the camp of Wang Yongjun, a few miles away from the city, Dugu Yongye couldn't help but sneer, I'm ready, Wang Yong, you will die!

And Wang Yong, who was prepared, happened to be standing at the head of the city at this time to check the movements of the Qi army camp outside the city, and Wang Yong, who had a telescope, saw much more clearly than Dugu Yongye. But the more you know, the greater the pressure on Wang Yong, the original Qi army of more than 40,000 people came to fight him, he was already very aggrieved, but now there are more than 20,000 reinforcements, isn't this bullying!

Wang Yong clutched the binoculars in his hand, and he couldn't help but glance back at the arsenal not far away, where there was the new weapon he had prepared for the Qi army.

With the sound of a low trombone, the Qi army is ready to leave the camp!