The Turks invaded the south, and the Northern Zhou Dynasty hastily responded to the battle, and the commander of the army in addition to the Duke of Qi Wenxian, there was also a rather unexpected, that is, Yang Jian, the Duke of Sui.

Both of them were jealous of Yuwen Hu and persecuted and imprisoned, until Yuwen Yong designed to get rid of Yuwen Hu, and then the two were justifiably released.

Yu Wenxian is Yu Wenyong's most important brother, and he has a lot of military exploits, the number of commanders of this road has already been determined, and the candidate for the commander of the second army has to be fought for by Yang Jian himself.

In fact, Yu Wenyong was also caught off guard by the sudden southward movement of the Turks, not only because of military mobilization, but also when he was still considering the choice of the commander until three or four days later.

If Yang Jian wants to quickly become a top minister, military merit is indispensable, and Yang Jian also knows that his power before he is imprisoned may have fallen into the eyes of Yuwen Yong, with Yuwen Yong's city government, it is impossible not to suspect him.

Therefore, if Yang Jian takes the initiative to ask for help, there is a high probability that Yu Wenyong will not agree, but if he doesn't fight for it, where will the military power come from?

Yang Jian was shrewd and immediately had an idea, first of all, he took the initiative to show his loyalty, expressing his willingness to lead the army to fight to the death against the Turks, almost wishful thinking to ask Yuwen Yong to agree. Secretly, he united with the various families led by the Yang family, implying that they all had to question themselves publicly.

This makes the family incomprehensible, and now you are alone, and when you need support, you instead ask everyone to openly oppose it?

What do you think?

However, as a courtier of Emperor Xianbei, all families have a sense of unity, and although they are confused, they still do it.

So after "hearing" that Yang Jian took the initiative to ask Ying to take command, everyone publicly choked, saying that although Yang Jian's father Yang Zhong had great military achievements, Yang Jian himself did not have much experience in leading troops to fight, so let him go, just for fear of delaying state affairs.

The crowd was turbulent, and there was a feeling that Yang Jian's mud couldn't support the wall, but I didn't expect that in the end, the emperor still made a decision and appointed Yang Jian as a general.

In fact, this is Yang Jian's cleverness, Yu Wenyong is suspicious of him secretly forming a party, Yang Jian just showed signs of wanting to make meritorious contributions, so many people stood up and refused to allow it, reflecting Yang Jian's unpopularity. There are not many people available around Yuwen Yong, since Yang Jian wants to go, then let him go, the Hanchens still have to scruple about it, show their Mingjun demeanor, out of this psychology, Yu Wenyong did not object, and agreed to push the boat down the river.

The retainers that Yang Jian inherited from his father Yang Zhong were all soldiers who had survived a hundred battles, and he temporarily recruited several clansmen, and Yang Jian temporarily appointed all of them to low-level positions such as team leader, team deputy, secretary, and army member.

Then, Yang Jian talked badly among the various pillar clans, persuaded some people who were interested in seeking fame, and asked them to temporarily serve as his staff.

In this way, a rudimentary team can be regarded as set up. But Yang Jian's work will definitely not be easy.

When the Western Wei Dynasty was established, the Xianbei people were almost all spelled out, and since then it has been implemented the government soldier system, and the government soldiers are mainly from good families, and traders, criminals, lowly people, beggars, etc. are usually not accepted in the army, even if someone goes through the relationship, it does not work.

In recent years, the Northern Zhou Dynasty was unlucky, defeated one after another, and lost many soldiers, and the imperial court began to fight the idea of expanding the army again.

Yuwen Hu's personal order, no matter whether he is from a high or low background, no matter his background, as long as he joins the government army, those who commit crimes can be written off.

As soon as this order was given, hooligans, scoundrels, and fugitives from all over the country poured over.

The combined army of the two roads is only 30,000 people, and this is it, it is still pieced together.

The army led by Yu Wenxian was naturally elite, but all the dross was still given to Yang Jian.

To tell the truth, Yang Jian doesn't want these people at all, these people have no military law, they can only fight and fight, and they will do nothing but make trouble. If there was a choice, he wouldn't have led this garbage army.

Fortunately, despite their loose discipline, their physique was much better than that of the soldiers in the regular army. Practice a few more times, get more military merit rewards, and barely pull out to fight. In the next few days, Yang Jian was busy. The barracks were mixed with fish and snakes, the soldiers were disobedient, and the generals did not necessarily take him seriously.

It is also thanks to Yang Jian that he has a city government, and he does not have an attack immediately. On the one hand, he placed his own people in key positions, and on the other hand, he showed goodwill to the generals in the army, and he also turned a blind eye to some unclean things in the army. Seeing this, everyone in the army ridiculed Yang Jian one after another, and they didn't take him seriously anymore.

Yang Jian first tolerated everywhere, and the army finally went to Yinzhou, and suffered a crushing defeat under the city, at this time Yang Jian suddenly attacked, and took down all the generals in one fell swoop, and beheaded the responsible for the crime on the grounds of "contempt for the boss and disobedience to military orders, resulting in a fiasco", and the rest were demoted to soldiers.

Some people were resentful and secretly made noise, and they were discovered in advance by the shadows planted by Yang Jian in various battalions, and just before they got into trouble, they suddenly had a sudden attack and killed a river of blood. The generals and officers changed color one after another, obviously they didn't expect this person who was quiet on weekdays to be so ruthless, and they were afraid from then on.

After some deterrence, Yang Jian began to rectify the order in the army, coerced the residual power of killing, kicked out of the barracks those who did not agree with him, and supplemented their positions with the "talents" of various families.

Half a month later, Yang Jian's command finally had the appearance of a military camp. On April 27, Yu Wenxian united the armies to meet the Turks, and the army crossed the river, because Yu Wenyong let go of his authority and allowed the generals to let go of their hands and feet. At the beginning of May, Yu Wenxian crossed the river with 2,000 horsemen and attacked by surprise, breaking the enemy's army of 30,000, and then pursued and suppressed the Turks, defeating them in one fell swoop.

When the Turkic army was at its peak, it even went all the way down to Jingzhou, and even Yu Wenxian and Yang Jian's combined army had to temporarily avoid the edge and give up Yinxia. However, Yuwen Yong finally remembered Da Xi Changru in a panic, Da Xi Changru only led 3,000 cavalry, and then defeated the Turkic front army.

The Turks plundered all the way, captured hundreds of thousands of people, and made a lot of money, and the reason why they had to go south was to see if there was anything cheap to take advantage of, and they were beaten like this, so they naturally had the heart to retreat. By mid-May, only the nail in Xiazhou had not been removed.

Yu Wenxian united several armies to storm Xiazhou, but unexpectedly suffered a setback, making tens of thousands of troops in vain.

"Yu Wenxian is really dizzy, the withdrawal of the Turkic army is a foregone conclusion, why bother to knock you to the death under the city?"

Yang Jian, who was also one of the handsome ministers, was anxious on his face, but he was a little unimpressed with Yu Wenxian's approach in his heart. The city of Xiazhou is towering and steep, and it is wishful thinking to expect tens of thousands of people to surround it and fight for a while to break the city, and now it seems that the Turks are not stupid people who don't know anything, they also have people who know how to defend the city.

The general trend is still in the hands of the Turks, not to mention that there are only a few tens of thousands of people now, even if there are 100,000 more people, it will not help.

The reason why Xiazhou could not be captured was not only a serious shortage of troops, but also because the army of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was now full of Xinding.

The elite experienced veterans were all on the Hedong frontier, or confronted Gao Changgong on the front line of Fengzhou, and most of them were buried in several defeats. These recruits have only been in the army for half a year, and they haven't seen blood a few times, so why should they take this fortified city?

The Great Zhou Dynasty is rapidly weakening, if the previous defeat can be excused from the incompetence of Yuwen Hu and the pedantic mistakes of the officials in the DPRK and China, then this time is the true portrayal of the national strength of the Northern Zhou Dynasty at this time. Hu Luguang and Dugu Yongye are watching like tigers, once they tear open the Hedong defense line, the Great Zhou Dynasty will no longer have any chance, only to wait for death!

Whenever he thinks of this, Yang Jian always has mixed feelings in his heart. The Northern Zhou Dynasty in the past was not what it is today. At that time, Yuwentai blocked the onslaught of Gao Huan's army of more than 200,000 with an army of only 30,000 or 20,000, and defeated the arrogant generals of Xianbei in the six towns, but 50,000 people completely swept away Bashu, and even Jiangling was under the command of his soldiers. But now, the tiger has lost its teeth and claws.

Beizhou is old, but he is not old!

Yang Jian's gaze turned into the distance, staring at Yu Wenxian, who was the first to cross the river, and was supervising the battle in front at this time, Yu Wenxian was wearing heavy armor, riding a black war horse, and the handsome flag was raised high, which looked very eye-catching. Even across the Liao River, Yang Jian could clearly distinguish him from the crowd.

"I hope we can break through this city within three days, otherwise we won't be able to chase back those people who have been taken captive!" Yu Wenxian smiled bitterly.

Xiazhou City is like a stone in a latrine, charred and black, emitting all kinds of stench.

Repeated tug-of-wars, dozens of battles, and long-term battles have made the walls of this lonely city stained with human blood and "golden soup".

The weather was already hot in mid-May, and flies clinged to the bricks of the city walls in search of food. Very disgusting!

But Yu Wenxian must face it. Just because, he is the commander of the army and the son of Yuwentai!

The battle situation entered a white heat, the Turks from the beginning of the hurry, gradually figured out the law of defending the city, and slowly became organized, they used stones and soil themselves to block all the gates of Xiazhou City! also made full use of his numerical advantage to attack the Zhou army, which made Yu Wenxian a headache.

Originally, the Turks in the city were evenly matched with the Zhou army, but the Turks were unwilling to go out of the city to fight, so that Yu Wenxian's army had strong combat power, but they had to be forced to fight this extremely unfair battle with the Turks.

The Zhou army besieging the city either endured the blows of the feather arrows on the city, or retreated, and there was no chance to climb the city head and fight the Turks in close combat!

Yu Wenxian became more and more radical under his anger, "The first merit, upgrade to three levels, and seal thousands of households!" ”