Hebei, Leshou.

"General, it has been discovered that Luo Yi attacked Hejian County City. He first fought with Donghai Gong thirty miles outside the city. After defeating for 40 miles, he was exempted from the battle card and hung high for several days. He refused to fight in the deep ditch barriers. As a result, Donghai Gong withdrew his troops back to the city and drank the city to Daqing. However, Luo Yi had sent hundreds of jiān to sneak into Hejian County City. At night, he suddenly grabbed the city gate and welcomed the army into the city. Donghai Gong had more than 50,000 troops. Before the battle, the entire army was completely destroyed. Liu Badao was captured, Gao Kaidao led dozens of cavalry to escape, and Donghai Gong was beheaded!"

Quiet! The tranquility is extremely quiet in the Leshoucheng County yamen.

Dou Jiande had already reorganized 120,000 people, but he was still wearing a gray robe. From a distance, he looked like an old farmer. However, at this time, Dou Jiande's hair was simply tied up, and his eyes were shining with sharp light. His face was even more yin, gray and black.

Under his seat, Fan Yuan and other subordinates all bowed their heads and frowned, and remained silent.

When writing that letter, Dou Jiande and the others understood that most Gao Shida would not go south, and he would most likely die at the hands of the court. But they never expected that Gao Shida had 50,000 troops, Liu Badao, and two tiger generals of Gao Kaidao, and Luo Yi did not have any damage at all. In just a few days, Gao Shida, who had a strong city to defend, had beheaded.

Too fast, so fast that they were shocked.

As soon as Gao Shida died, they now have 20,000 soldiers from Luo Yi to the north, Chen Pojun led 70,000 troops from the south, and Li Jing’s 50,000 soldiers from all sides, surrounded on three sides. Originally, they thought Gao Shida could hold Luo Yi for three or five months, but they expected that they would be taken over by the city in three or five days.

Dou Jiande coughed, "What information is there?"

The person in charge of the intelligence was Ling Jing, a scholar whom Dou Jiande gathered up when he defeated Zhang Jincheng.

Ling Jing, who was over fifty years old and from Hebei, was originally a family heir of Hebei Gengju, but his family had no choice but to die at the hands of local county soldiers. Even he was imprisoned. Later, Yi met Zhang Jin and said that he had broken through the county town. Seeing that he was a literati, he accepted him into a battle on the plains. Ling Jing advised Zhang Jin to not attack Hejian without authorization before reorganizing the troops, but Zhang Jin said that he didn't care at all.

After Dou Jiande was captured and transformed, he immediately met him in person after hearing this. After the two talked overnight, Dou Jiande took Ling Jing as his adviser and trusted him deeply. Now he handled all matters such as military intelligence and scouts in Dou Jiande's army.

Ling Jing said solemnly, "The information I just received is that Chen Pojun's army is still in Jingcheng, but he has sent Xue Shixiong to lead 30,000 Hebei troops to make it happen, and Xue Dingguo quickly arrives at Leshou."

"It was Xue Shixiong who led his troops?"

Several screams of surprise sounded in the hall, and everyone was shocked.

They are all from Hebei, so they are naturally aware of the generals in Hebei. Xue Shixiong was born in a family of military generals in Hebei and was in charge of a long time. He was not only the general of the left imperial guards, but also the prefect of Zhuo County. He guarded Zhuo County, Hebei, defended the frontiers, but the grassland people dared not attack the border. For seven years of Daye, Hebei's rebel army has been constantly, with soldiers and horses passing through the border and peasant uprisings everywhere. However, although there were powerful people in Zhuo County, no one could fall into Zhuo County in the end, and was beaten by Xue Shixiong to panic south.

Lu Mingyue, the supreme king who once crossed Hebei, Henan and Shandong, initially raised an army in Zhuo County, but was quickly beaten to the south. Later, Lu Mingyue was once strong and powerful, and she claimed to be without a king. At the maximum, the number of soldiers reached 400,000, but Lu Mingyue did not dare to take a step towards Zhuo County again.

In the northeast of Hebei, the court has always sent two generals, Xue Shixiong, the Left Imperial Guard General, and Li Jing, the Right Wugu General, to guard it. It can be seen that the importance of this place is. Moreover, the Hebei army has always been strong, Xue Dingguo, Luo Yi, and Guo Xun, all of whom are powerful generals in Hebei and are famous all over the world.

Now that Li Jing is dead, Chen Pojun general Xue Shixiong, a famous general of the Sui Dynasty, sent them to make the anti-generals who came from muddy sons feel heavy in their hearts. Especially Dou Jiande and others, who were once subordinates of Xue Shixiong when they conquered Liao. At that time, Dou Jiande was the captain who recruited 200 soldiers, and Xue Shixiong was their most immediate superior. In a flash, several years passed, and these little ones were the first to be the first.

The psychological pressure of the soldiers is now facing the general who has been looking up to him as he used to be.

"Guo Xun's 10,000 troops were defeated by 60,000 troops. In the end, we lost 30,000 troops before barely annihilated them. Now the more powerful Xue Shixiong has also brought the unparalleled general Xue Dingguo, one commander and one general, and also the 30,000 elite soldiers under his command. How bad is this battle? General." Fan Yuan said with a blank face.

Dou Jiande bit the chun and said nothing. He had just reorganized 120,000 troops, and most of them were newly-organized soldiers. These soldiers had no combat power at all. If they were against ordinary imperial town soldiers, the county soldiers were OK, but against powerful soldiers like the Hebei Army, even more so that they would be led by generals like Xue Shixiong and Xue Dingguo. He was panicked and could not raise the slightest desire to confront them.

And everyone understood that Xue Shixiong, who was invincible in their hearts, had to surrender against Chen Pojun. So what could they do if they defeated Xue Shixiong? Xue Shixiong was defeated by 30,000 soldiers, Chen Pojun's 40,000 soldiers, Luo Yi in the north, and Li Jing in the east.

With this in mind, he felt that he had fought against Zhang Jin in the Plain before, and Leshou surrounded and annihilated Guo Xun, and it seemed like he had become useless. Even if he won one or two games, what could he do? It was a pity that the power was too weak after all. It would be great if he could develop a few years earlier. Everything is too late now, but if he wants to let him go, he felt extremely unwilling to accept it.

He fought with Zhang Jin in blood and said that 50,000 to 250,000. He Leshou ambushed Guo Xun and encircled and annihilated 10,000 elite cavalry in a mob. Such a record and such experience brought him the consent of victory after victory, and he had long since expressed the deepest desire in his heart.

A man is a real man, and he doesn't live for five cauldrons and eats five cauldrons.

Everyone was timid in their hearts. They just waited for Dou Jiande to speak, and planned to surrender to the official army.

But when they waited, everyone found that Dou Jiande was biting his mouth tightly, his eyes full of reluctance, his hands were pinched into fists, and the blue veins on the back of his hands were straight.

Although Ling Jing was trusted by Dou Jiande, he had been sitting at the back because he had been in the army for a short time.

When he was in Pingyuan County, he had a long chat with Dou Jiande overnight, and of course he understood what Dou Jiande wanted. Although he felt that the army was approaching, he was not afraid. Seeing Dou Jiande struggling there, he sighed in his heart.

"General, in ancient times, whenever the saints had the intention of not deciding, they would ask the heaven for auspiciousness. Now that the general encounters this undecided thing, why not divine a hexagram?"

When Fan Yuan and others heard this, they all felt that Mr. Ling was really a bit awkward. How could such a major matter be made with the confused god to decide? However, seeing Dou Jiande's eyes lit up, everyone could not refute it, so they had to continue to remain silent.

"Father, there is a witch in Leshou City. My daughter heard that her divination was very effective. Why don't my father ask her?" Dou Hongxian suggested.

"Okay!" Dou Jiande nodded in agreement and immediately grew up.

In a messy refugee camp in Leshou City, Dou Jiande and his generals met the legendary magical witch. The witch had a haggard face and a silver frost on her head. She wore a black robe full of various huā patterns for a year, and she had a scent of a single body. She lived in an extremely dark huā huā, and she knelt on the cushion like a mummy. But when she heard Dou Jiande and others coming, she opened her eyes, and her eyes were extremely sharp and bright. Dou Jiande looked at her and even felt a tingling feeling of her eyes.

When the witch saw them coming in, her eyes opened for a moment, glanced at Dou Jiande and closed it immediately.

"Are you here to ask about war and surrender?" The witch didn't speak, but a dry and cold sound that caused goosebumps sounded from the room.

Fan Yuan and others were shocked, and they did not expect that this witch could calculate the purpose of their trip. Xue Shixiong led his troops to attack. This was a secret in the army, and no one other than them knew. Why could this witch tell their purpose as soon as they saw them? For a moment, Fan Yuan and others, who had not believed in ghosts and gods, could not help but believe and doubt.

Dou Jiande also felt a storm in his heart, but he suppressed the surprise in his heart, and asked calmly, "Please divine it for me, but ask for good and bad future."

The witch nodded, without asking anything, still closing her eyes. She stretched out her withered hands and pinched her gestures for a while. Then she opened her eyes and stared at Dou Jiande for a while, shook her head, sighed, but suddenly stood up.

The witch turned around and walked to the side. Only then did everyone realize that there was a row of wooden cages in the dim room, with birds, snakes, rats, toads and other animals locked in it. The witch reached out and grabbed a crow from one cage, walked to the side, picked up a knife and cut it down with a fierce knife, and cut off the crow's head. The witch held the crow in her hand, muttered her words, and put the crow's blood into an empty bowl.

"Escape is a sign of great danger!" The witch Gan Leng voice rang.

"What about surrender?" Fan Yuan asked hurriedly when he heard the escape.

The witch sat there, closing her eyes and muttering something. After a while, she shook her head.

"Surrender is also a sign of great danger!"

As soon as these words were said, Fan Yuan, Dong Kangmai and others were all ashamed. In this way, if you cannot escape or surrender, you can only fight. But can you fight? Thinking of this, Fan Yuan suddenly secretly looked at Dou Jiande, Ling Jing, Dou Hongsi and the Witch.

Before, everyone in the county government office was willing to surrender, but the general was unwilling to surrender. Later, Ling Jing asked for good fortune, and the girl immediately said that the witch had strong magic power. Now the witch said that surrender and escape were both signs of great danger. Is there anything wrong with this? Is it all because the general was unwilling to give up and the situation set by Ling Jing? Thinking of this possibility, Fan Yuan suddenly had a cold war in his heart. He suddenly remembered Gao Shida. The general was obviously in his heart, but he had to be extremely loyal on the surface. But now, Gao Shida was already in a different position, and the general had become the leader of the Hejian Rebel Army.

He no longer dared to think about it anymore. He couldn't believe in his heart that the general who was born to death, was not greedy for money, was not good at being kind and loyal, would be such a scheming person.

Over the years, there have been bloody storms and arrows. As they walked along the way, the general's love for his subordinates was completely ignored. He did not believe that the general would completely ignore the lives and deaths of so many brothers who followed him for his ambitions.

"Can't escape, can't surrender? Do you want to fight?" Dou Jiande asked with a trembling voice. At this time, his heart was full of entanglement and hesitation. As the leader of the rebel army, he clearly understood their current situation. He was surrounded by Chen Pojun on three sides, and his troops were all elite troops. The battle between the rebel army and the Liaodong army was like an egg hitting a stone, but on the other hand, he was extremely unwilling to accept it. He was unwilling to fail. He wanted to compete with the world and compete for the Central Plains.

Now that he heard the witch's words, he seemed to have found support for his ambitions. But on the other hand, he told himself that choosing this path would have allowed more than 100,000 brothers to die with him. So many brothers trust him so much. If he really wants to fight, it would be like treating those brothers as his pawns. He was hesitant and anxious and painful. On the one hand, he was the brothers who had been born and died, but on the other hand, his ideals and ambitions, so what should he do? He was hesitant.

The witch opened her eyes and looked at Dou Jiande again, and her tone exuded a sense of decay. "Escape and surrender are both very bad, and it is good to attack before sunrise. Just take care of yourself!" After saying this, the witch stopped talking, closed her eyes and calmed down, as if she was sleeping.

Dou Jiande knew that the witch had nothing to say, so he asked Dou Hongxian to send three sacrifices, leaving ten taels of gold before he left with everyone.

Everyone returned to the county government, but at this time everyone was even more silent than before.

Ling Jing took the lead in breaking the silence. "According to the Horse Discovery, Xue Shixiong's troops are now 170 miles away from us, and it is already afternoon. If we follow the wizard's words, then we must come to fight Xue Shixiong before tomorrow's sunrise."

"I'll fight!"

Dou Jiande's firm voice fell like a jade bead. He stood up and glanced at his subordinates. "What do you think of brothers? If you fight, then you will die for a lifetime. I don't want me to make the decision alone. Everyone sitting there can say what they think and finally make the final decision according to the majority."

"Father, it's not that we want to fight, it's that Chen Pojun forced us to fight.

If he wants to fight, we will fight. Dad, even if you are unwilling to fight with you, your daughter will definitely fight with you until the end." Dou Hongxianteng stood up and said loudly in a loud voice.

Everyone hesitated for a moment, and Cao Dan stood up and said, "Brother-in-law, I will fight with you until the end."

"He wants to fight, so we will fight!"

Fan Yuan and others were also influenced by Dou Hongxin and others' emotions, and they stood up in a swaying manner, clenched their fists and said loudly.

Dou Jiande was overjoyed and stepped forward to punch Fan Yuan and others hard, "Okay, they are all good men from Hebei, and they are also good brothers of my Dou Jiande. If he wants to fight, we will fight. Even if we die in the end, we will be good brothers together. Fight!"
Chapter completed!