陉, is the place where the mountain range is interrupted, Taihang has eight runs, is Shanxi out of Henan and Hebei eight passages.

Since ancient times, Jingcheng has been an important place for soldiers, and it is the first main road for Taiyuan County to communicate with Hengshan County in Hebei Province, and Hengshan County is the area of Shijiazhuang.

Qiao Zhongkui chose to come out of here, and it was also arranged by Yujuluo, and at present, Yujuluo was guarding in Zanhuang County, and there was no problem for the time being, so he arranged for Qiao Zhongkui and Shi Huaiyi, one south and one north, to quickly insert into Zhao County, forming a joint encirclement of the thief army in Mayi County.

Among them, Shi Huaiyi allocated 2,000 people and marched straight to Xindu County, wanting to cut off Gao Yingnian's retreat.

The three rebel forces are led by Gao Yingnian, and if they can eat each other quickly, the remaining two bands of thieves will be in chaos.

In Mayi County, Gao Yingnian, who is 37 years old in Chinese New Year's Eve, is discussing the military situation with his staff.

The reason why they waited in Mayi and did not go west to attack Yujura was because they did not have siege equipment and were worried that the losses would be too large, and secondly, Yujura did not open again, indicating that they were probably waiting for reinforcements.

"It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, if the government army on the canal is drawn out and suppresses us from east to west, then the enemy will be on the back of the enemy, and the situation will be very unfavorable to me."

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The person who said this was Wang Shan, whose real name was Cui Xiumin, and he pointed to the map on the ground and said: "We have lost the opportunity, Yujuluo is too cunning, blindly avoiding the war, and now we have been in Gaoyi for seven days, and if we don't retreat, we may be in danger of being besieged." ”

Gao Yingnian sighed: "It's a pity to withdraw at this time, I almost caught him at that time." ”

Cui Xiumin said: "The letter said that Yujuluo has mobilized the people in the city and began to build the city, our army has no equipment, once the losses are too heavy during the siege, there is a risk of being counterattacked, although the general has ordered Hu Lu Shanye to attack the canal station, attract the Sui army, and buy us time, but now the time has passed, our army should immediately withdraw from Zhao County and retreat to Xindu." ”

Another named Guo Huai said: "Hebei is afraid of people, but there is only one person, if you can kill this person, Zhao Jun can get it at your fingertips." ”

"I'm afraid the reinforcements are coming," Fan Tong said.

"On the way from Beijing, I heard that Shi Wansui's eldest son Shi Huaiyi has gone to the party, the king of Qin made this arrangement, I am afraid it is aimed at Hebei, I also inquired when I was in Beijing, although the name of this son is not obvious, he is actually a talent, and there is also a Qiao Zhongkui, seven days to exterminate Gao Kai, have to guard, these two are Qin Wang's subordinates, and Shanxi's deployment is also arranged by Qin Wang, if we take Zhao County, it will directly threaten Shanxi, the current situation, it is not appropriate to provoke Qin Wang."

This Fan Tong is one of Gao Yue's entourage, born in the fourth room of the northern ancestor of the Fan Yang Lu family, his father died in the hands of Yang Su, and his grandfather was the assassin of the old Qi Juzhou, who died in the hands of Yuwen Yong.

"Yang Ming has a straight ear, the King of Pinghan has Yang Su, and the Earth Destroying Valley has Gao Gong, the work of these two people is also, now that the two of them are gone, how terrible can he be?" Guo Huai scoffed.

"You can't say that," Gao Yingnian said in a deep voice: "There is no vain under the fame, Yang Ming has a very high prestige in the army, but it is not in vain, and now Yujuluo has taken the initiative to avoid the war, I am afraid it is just to contain us, so as to wait for the reinforcements to arrive, and then the decisive battle." ”

After Gao Yingnian pondered for a while, he said: "Our army is alone in Zhao County, it is already an adventure, and now we can't fight quickly, we need to retreat quickly, Xindu is a strong city, it is advisable to temporarily retreat into it, speed up the collection of the people of the canal, and wait for me to be strong, before I can plan for the future." ”

"Isn't there any news from King Pingyang?" Fan Tong asked.

Gao Yingnian said with a smile: "Don't expect those people, the condition for Gao Yuan to send troops is that the defenders of Zhuojun will go south, if Yuan Hongji does not move, Goguryeo will not send troops, but their supplies will be sent through the Bohai Sea and the river, so for now, we must take these two places as soon as possible, and Yujuluo will not worry about him for the time being." ”

After that, Gao Yingnian got up and said: "Pass my general order, and the army will return north immediately and reply to the capital." ”

.......

In Hejian County, Yang Wanshi ran to the top of the canal, and after discussing with the hussar general Wei Fengnian, he temporarily allocated 2,000 people to attack Hejian County, but ran into a thief army in the area of Changlu County.

This battle was quite tragic, because the place where the two armies collided was a mountain valley area, because of the terrain, whoever retreated first was unlucky.

Yang Wanshi learned from his father Yang Su, personally supervising the army in the rear, and beheading anyone who retreated.

He Ruomi kills in front, and he kills in the back.

It's not good to suppress thieves, it's a good hand to kill your own people, but that's it, but with inferior forces, he directly defeated He Ruomi.

Under the command of He Ruomi, it was originally composed of a group of chaotic people, and when they encountered the regular army, once the rout was formed, the river burst and went out of control.

originally thought that the defeat was decided, and I was afraid that my life would be explained here, but He Ruomi found that the rear of the Sui army was in chaos, and countless rebellious people escaped from the direction of the canal.

So he was in great spirits, took advantage of the chaos to lead three hundred horsemen, and retreated to Hejian County.

This time, Yang Wanshi originally took the risk of transferring troops from the canal, first of all, he did not have this power, because the current soldiers of the canal were all under the control of King Qi and Yan Bi, and he did not have the right to transfer troops.

The last time the people of Hejian County were in turmoil, Yuan Hongji was very reluctant to send troops, and he looked unhappy.

So Yan Bi made a move to Yang Wanshi, if there is any more civil unrest, it will be transferred from the canal, but not too much, you can only transfer the guards of your Hejian Mansion, that is, Wei Fengnian's department.

Because everyone knows that Yang Wanshi has a hard background, when he is questioned in the future, someone in the court will speak for him, and as long as he can successfully suppress the rebellion, then no one will care too much about the crime of privately transferring troops.

Seeing that He Ruomi was about to be taken by himself, there was turmoil on the canal again, so Yang Wanshi began to lead the army to suppress it, and the blood of the killing was like a river.

The fugitive people, the hardest guy in his hand, that is, the shovel and pickaxe, and no one to lead, how can he beat the regular army, after a few contacts, although he still escaped a lot, but the riots were also temporarily suppressed.

Yang Wanshi ordered the bodies to be counted and buried on the spot.

In this battle, about 4,000 people died under the sword of the Sui army.

Yang Wan sat on a stone, looked at the direction He Ruomi fled, and sighed bitterly:

"What's this called....... What is this called......."

Wei Fengnian stood aside and said in a deep voice, "What should I do next?" My people don't dare to transfer anymore, but they can't take Hejian County back, they can't kill He Ruomi, and Taishou still can't explain to the imperial court. ”

Yang Wanshi smiled bitterly: "The crime is not in me, but in the future, my crime will definitely be not small, Zhuojun will not send troops, the canal cannot be adjusted, I will use my head to hit the city gate between the rivers?" ”

"In the current situation, Taishou can only go south to Bohai, find Gao Shengdao, and see if Bohai can recruit some soldiers," Wei Fengnian said.

Yang Wanshi shook his head: "No, let's not say that there are no soldiers in Bohai, Bohai will inevitably cross the canal when sending troops, once those people see it, they will definitely be able to guess that something is wrong in the west, I am afraid that they will run west again and help the thieves to rise, that He Ruomi is the best at demagoguery, and I am afraid that the people will be used by thieves." ”

Wei Fengnian said: "Then what else can Taishou do? ”

"I'll stay in Changlu County, anyway, He Ruomi won't dare to come here in the short term," Yang Wanshi got up and said: "Do more wrong, do less wrong, counterinsurgency can't count on me, and I didn't provoke the chaos." ”

.......

He Ruomi's task was originally to seduce Zhuojun's army to the south, but unfortunately the other party did not take the bait.

And Hu Lu's good karma is to cover Gao Yingnian in order to attract the main force of the Sui army and provide Gao Yingnian with an opportunity to exterminate Yujuluo.

Now that the plan failed, Gao Yingnian had to retreat, as soon as he retreated, Yu Juluo immediately followed up, and sent troops to inform Qiao Zhongkui and Shi Huaiyi to change their strategy, and the three-way soldiers and horses began to assemble in the direction of Xindu County.

And Gao Yingnian had already detected the danger, and directly abandoned Xindu County, and after joining forces with Hu Lu Shanye, he went straight to Bohai County.

The support given to him by Goguryeo was all from the sea, and He Ruomi suffered heavy losses and was no longer able to march in the coastal direction, so Gao Yingnian had to take Bohai County.

The county guards Gao Shengdao, and now is the biggest headache, because Bohai has already been in chaos.

There are problems in various counties, who made this Gao's hometown, don't look at his surname Gao, but he is not an egg.

The county order of Rao'an County was killed by the county lieutenant, he has lost control of Rao'an, even the capital Yangxin County, the city is on fire every day.

So now, Gao Shengdao has connected the whole family to the yamen of the county government, and he doesn't dare to go out.

"As soon as Rao An is lost, our way to the canal will be cut off, for today's plan, I'm afraid we can only go to Zhang Xutuo of Qi County for help," Jun Cheng Gao said.

In this place of Bohai, there are too many high surnames, such as the nobles and the people.

Gao Shengdao frowned and said: "I'm afraid that Zhang Xutuo will not send troops, he looked at the four counties of Wuyang, Qinghe, Pingyuan, and Bohai alone, and saved this one, but he couldn't save the other." ”

"Then send a few more people, as long as the canal can send troops, Rao Yang can get it back soon," Gao Pestle said.

Gao Shengdao sighed: "The current canal, from south to north, is already in danger, just like a fire dragon being pressed by the military government, how long it can be pressed, it is still unknown, if the government soldiers are transferred, this fire will run around, where it can burn, what it burns, it is unpredictable, so we can't ask for help from the canal, we can only seek a way to protect ourselves, and see how the court will arrange it next." ”

"Don't count on the imperial court at this time," Gao Pestle raised his voice:

"The current situation is single-handedly promoted by the imperial court, the letter you wrote to the king of Qin, there is no news, it can be known that the two kings of Qin and Qi have regarded the canal as a decisive battle, one is in charge of people's lives, the other is pretending to be deaf and dumb, and the people are like dogs, and the people are like mustard, neither of them can count on it."

Gao Shengdao frowned and said, "What is the difference between what you say and rebellion?" Say no more and be careful to be heard. ”

Gao Pestle suddenly got up, and said righteously: "Dugu Gong has merit to the people, and Taishou is also a person who is sympathetic to the people. ”

With that, Gao Pestle clapped his palms, and a group of officials instantly poured into the lobby.

Seeing this, Gao Shengdao's face was like ashes, and he muttered:

"Why bother?"