Chapter 746: The Great Warrior of Sui and Tang Dynasties, Chapter 746: The Death Land, Cao Bao narrowed his eyes and pondered in his heart.

He believed the words of the Luo family envoy, and he still had three doubts. But even if it was only seven points credible, it was a great opportunity.

Before, the Yellow River was like a boundary line, and the Xia army had never thought of crossing Henan and heading south.

"The general wants to go south to take Dongjun?"

Several generals were a little surprised.

"But Your Majesty had already made strict orders before, and he could not say that we would pass the next step in the Yellow River south without authorization."

Cao Bao kept a relaxed expression, "Of course I remember that Your Majesty once had this ban, but for a while, and for a while. Besides, Your Majesty prohibited our army from going south because our territory was only in the plain Bohai area, and to the south was Qi County. It was Luo Cheng's hometown, and Zhang Xutuo was guarded."

Luo Cheng is Dou Jiande's old boss. Although this old boss has only been for a while, Cao Bao is also very clear about his brother-in-law's respect and fear of Luo Cheng.

But isn't the situation different now?

Now my brother-in-law has established a country and proclaimed himself emperor, and there are also nine counties. Especially in Hebei, there are only a few opponents left, and they are not so easy to deal with. Now, the four counties in Henan are delivered to the Luo family. If he doesn't take them, they will be taken away by Li Mi or Li Yuan.

"The opportunity must not be missed, and the time will not come again."

"It is not just Dongjun, but the four counties of Dongjun, Jiyin, Liangjun and Qiaojun. These four counties are all east of the Tongji Canal of the Canal, which can be said to be the most delicious place. If our army takes these four counties, it will be able to establish a foothold in Henan. At that time, Your Majesty leads the army south, and as long as you defeat Li Mi in one fell swoop, the Central Plains will be all owned by our Daxia and the world will be determined."

Cao Bao talked endlessly to them about the importance of the four counties, and even so important that he couldn't wait for a reply from Hejian.

Now you have to go south, otherwise once the Luo family retreats, the four counties will fall into Li Mi's hands.

Li Mi is now recognized by the Xia Kingdom as the biggest enemy in the Central Plains.

The twelfth lunar month.

The Central Plains is snowing, and the earth is covered with silver.

The cold weather made the Yellow River ice early as before.

Cao Bao led his army of 5,000 from Jijun to the south. When he arrived at the bank of the Yellow River, he found that the river ice was frozen strongly and his men could cross the river directly.

This greatly facilitated him.

"This is really God helping me!" Cao Bao said with a smile. If it was summer and autumn, it would be more troublesome to cross the river, but now, the Yellow River is just a smooth road.

"Hurry to Leshou to report the victory, saying that I have already crossed the Yellow River and went to collect the four counties."

Cao Bao was still very cautious when he crossed the Yellow River.

He sent several cavalry to reconnaise, while his five armies slowly moved forward.

Good news continues.

In the White Horse City of Dongjun, there is indeed no Shandong army.

There was only a small team of Shandong troops who were left behind, but they were waiting for them to hand over.

However, there is some bad news, that is, although the Luo family army in Baima City has withdrew, they have taken away the people, and now there is only an empty city left.

"Empty city? Empty city is also a city. As long as it occupies the city territory, people will always have it." Cao Bao frowned after hearing this, and then said.

Next, Cao Bao quickly occupied the White Horse City in Dongjun County.

Continue to send cavalry and bring back almost the same good news. The troops of Weinan, Lingchang, Weicheng, Licheng, Kuangcheng, Puyang, Juancheng and Shandong have all evacuated.

While they withdrew, they basically took away the people's population.

"How did they take all of them at once and how did they do it?"

"It should not be temporarily evacuated, but people have been relocating for the past six months."

"Where have you moved? Have you all gone to Qilu Donglai?"

"Some of them went there, but many were sent directly to Liaodong."

However, this news made Cao Bao feel more and more at ease. After all, he spent so much energy to move everyone away. In his opinion, the more the Luo family wants to give up Shandong, at least it is a ironclad evidence that the four counties in the east of the canal.

"Go to Ji County to pass on our military orders and transfer all the troops and horses. We must speed up the time to seize the city of the four counties."

Hejian.

Leshou, Jincheng Palace.

After hearing Cao Bao's messenger's report, Emperor Dou Jiande breathed a little uneasy.

And Na Yan Song Zhengben simply said angrily, "Nothing is just nonsense!"

Kong Shaode, the Minister of the Inner History, couldn't help it, "How could General Cao easily go to this muddy water? Don't you know that the four counties have now become a dangerous place, and the competition between several families, and it is quite dangerous to easily intervene."

Song Zhengben and Kong Shaode were both prime ministers of Dou Jiande.

Song Zheng was originally the magistrate of Raoyang County. He was knowledgeable and talented. After the city was captured by Dou Jiande, Dou was extremely polite and kind to him and the people in the city. Finally, Song was moved by him and submitted his support to him and proposed to him to plan for Hebei. He was deeply trusted by Dou. After the founding of the country, he was given a heavy position of accepting words.

Kong Shaode was originally a Sui official, but later joined the dou.

It can be said that although Dou was also a tyrant, he had been a civil servant, a military officer, and participated in the Liao Dynasty, so he had extraordinary experience. When he first started his business, he did not rob him everywhere, but instead did a salt business based on Douzigang, and at the same time he also cooperated with the government to help suppress the bandits and fight against the evil.

When his strength continued to grow, he also began to attack the county towns. However, after he captured the county, he never liked to kill scholars and behead officials and rob the people like other anti-military bandits in Hebei. Instead, he treated the captured officials and civilians with a very gentle attitude, and therefore quickly gained support from many people.

When he became emperor, his military generals were of course mainly older brothers, but there were also many Sui generals who surrendered, and his civil officials were basically former Sui officials or local gentry tyrants.

"Does Song Nayan and Minister Kong both oppose sending troops to the south?" Dou Jiande asked.

"Of course, that is, muddy water, dead land, whoever gets involved will be unlucky."

"But this is also an opportunity." Dou Jiande said.

"Your Majesty, I think it's not an opportunity, but a trap. Even if I want to go south, I have to wait for Li Mi, Wang Shichong, Li Yuan, and Luo Gui to kill one first, and then we will take action. It's too early to take action now."

The Imperial Priest Ling Jing also stood up and said that he was Dou Jiandeyi’s confidant military advisor and was resourceful.

"Chief Zhang, what do you think?"

Dou Jiande asked Zhang Xuansu, the censor and the Huangmen Assistant, who was originally the magistrate of Jingcheng County and was captured after the city was destroyed. At that time, the people of Jingcheng pleaded for Zhang one after another, and then Dou treated him generously.

At the beginning, Zhang Xuansu refused to accept Dou's title of official position and refused to offer any advice to him. It was not until the news of Yang Guang being killed in Jiangdu was returned that Zhang Xuansu accepted Dou Jiande's title again, so he became the prime minister of the Xia Kingdom as the Censor of the Secretary and the Censor of the Huangmen.

Zhang Xuansu, Song Zhengben, Kong Shaode and Ling Jing have the same views. The four counties in Shandong are not only not pie at this time, but are still a trap.

Liu Jing, the Minister of War, also advised the emperor that Luo Gui gave up the four counties so easily, so he saw that all parties gathered here and that this place had become a bad place, so he took the initiative to evacuate first.

"But Cao Bao has already crossed the river, what should he do?" Dou Jiande originally thought that going south to take the four counties was an opportunity, and he won the lead and did not give Li Mi the opportunity.

But now after hearing these prime ministers say this, Dou Jiande is also a little panicked.
Chapter completed!