Hebei.

Dou Jiande sent troops to return from Henan to Hebei quickly.

At this time, unexpected things happened in various troops in Hebei.

The troops led by Song Jingang and Zhen Zhai'er were originally ordered by Guo Xuan to divide their troops to Xiangguo County and Wei County to collect food and food, but Wei Daoer and Wang Xudai's old subordinates, and tens of thousands of bandits and soldiers were in chaos. As soon as they left Guo Xuan's sight, they floated away like a kite with broken strings.

Their old habits recurred and they were burned and killed everywhere.

Guo Xuanwen heard this and urgently sent someone to scold Song Jingang and Zhen Zhai'er, and ordered them to sanction the troops.

But at this time, all the two soldiers and horses were scattered and they had to deal with the food and grass by themselves. The bandits had no military discipline at all, so they were completely in chaos after being scattered.

The thieves and generals of all sizes not only attacked Chengchi and Xiangji under the banner of the imperial court, but also posed a large number of strong soldiers and expanded their troops.

Anyway, in the thief army, who has always had more soldiers and the boss is the one who has come out now, who will not take the opportunity to expand its strength?

In just a short time, 70,000 to 80,000 thieves became more than 100,000.

Guo Xuan asked Song and Zhen to trouble his subordinates, but they couldn't do it.

Luo Siye also heard the information here and sent someone to ask Guo Xuan to simply lay off most of the thief army. As a result, the news came out.

Zhen Zhai'er and Wei Dao'er stopped working there.

The two of them now have become the leaders of the thieves in the same county, robbed a lot of territory, money and food, and their subordinates have expanded a lot. They are so happy that they will disband their troops and let them go back to apologize?

The thieves were angry and dissatisfied.

So he simply broke away from Guo Xuan's restraint.

Song Jingang led the Shanggu thieves to occupy Zhao County and called himself the governor of Zhao County. Zhen Zhai'er simply took Xiangguo County and called himself the marshal.

The two of them each commanded 50,000 or 60,000 troops, and ignored Guo Xuan, the governor.

But at this time, Dou Jiande's vanguard general Wang Fubao led the Xia army back, and Guo Xuan hurriedly fought, but he could not fight.

When Guo Xuan led Fan Yang's troops to lose by the Zhangshui River, the Beiping troops went to watch the fire across the east bank of the Zhangshui River, but refused to cross the river to rescue. At this critical moment, Guo Xuan's army's flanks opened and was attacked by Wang Fubao's cavalry, and then the central army was broken and the entire army was defeated.

Guo Xuan died in the battle directly in the formation.

His subordinate Fan Yang's troops were also defeated and defeated, with countless soldiers and generals damaged, and countless others were captured by the Xia army.

At this time, the thousands of Dingxiang cavalry led by Liu Hongji were sent by Guo Xuan to fight against Song Jingang and Zhen Zhai'er. When he heard that Guo Xuan was defeated, he simply refused to go to Zhaojun, Xiangguo and retreated directly into Zhending City, Hengshan.

After Wang Fubao defeated Guo Xuan, he took advantage of the victory to catch up and simply entered the two counties of Boling and Hengshan, intending to take the opportunity to seize these two counties.

Feng Xiaoci, Luo Siye, and Asunasmo had to rush to transfer elite light cavalry to reinforcements.

An encounter broke out between the two sides on the banks of the Hutuo River.

The three generals Feng Luo and the four generals Liu Hongji had a total of 20,000 elite troops, while the Xia army vanguard led by Wang Fubao and Liu Heita was more than 10,000. However, both armies were in a battle, and the two sides fought for a day.

Wang Fubao and Liu Heita were defeated and retreated. Liu Hongji and Ashinasmo led thousands of light cavalry to pursue him. As a result, a day later, Dou Jiande personally led the main force to arrive on the north bank of the Zhangshui River.

Liu Hongji and Smo were outnumbered and defeated.

Liu Hongji was even shot and killed by the war horse, which was directly captured by Dou Jiande's army. Simo only led more than a thousand cavalry to escape back to Zhending.

Dou Jiande led his troops north to Zhending.

At this time, Wang Junkuo and Qu Tutong had also captured Linyu Pass and arrived with more than 10,000 troops and a large number of food and grass.

The two sides fought fiercely, and Dou Jiande took some advantage, but failed to defeat the Liao army.

Luo Siye and others retreated northward to enter Zhending.

Dou Jiande marched under Zhending City and the army besieged the city.

But after several days of attack, the Xia army could not hold on because their military rations were about to be exhausted.

So Dou Jiande had no choice but to rescue the siege from Zhending City, withdraw from Hejian and Wudu, and then he went to Leshou Jincheng Palace.

Later.

The Liao army reinforcements from Boling, Shanggu, Hengshan, Fanyang, and Peking also arrived one after another. Luo Siye also transferred a group of troops from Yunnei County west of Taihang Mountain, went out of the Flying Fox Path, crossed the Taihang Mountain and entered the Shanggu, and then went south to Boling and Hengshan County to reinforce.

For a moment, the situation continued to stalemate.

The Xia and Liao armies gathered large armies at this time, but they were short of food and could not concentrate on the battle.

"After the festival, your highness is urgently convinced."

Luo Cheng, who was rushing back to Liaodong, was still mobilizing troops to attack the Goguryeo rebels in Xuantu County. When he heard the situation in Hebei was changing dramatically, he couldn't help but start writing to Luo Siye and the others. Originally, Luo Cheng was unwilling to point fingers in the rear. After all, the situation on the front line has changed a lot, and the news is lagging behind, so it is easy to cause problems.

But now there are big problems.

Before, Luo Siye and others did not seize the opportunity to conquer Hejian, so they cannot blame them. It is already very difficult to capture the Beiping counties on Hengshan Shanggu, and the supply of grain and grass cannot keep up. This is impossible.

However, the rebellion between Song Jingang and Zhen Zhai'er should not have happened. After capturing the two counties of Shanggu, Hengshan, the bandits should have been incorporated in an appropriate amount, and the rest should be dismissed, but Guo Xuan was all included in the army.

At the critical moment, I scattered them all and naturally got out of control.

At this time, Dou Jiande had already returned, but he was still alone in Wudu, which was even more unsatisfied.

But Luo Cheng didn't want to accuse Guo Xuan and Siye too much, but fortunately the situation remained stable.

Overall, the troops gained a lot, but did not conquer Dou Jiande, but they took over the towns of Peiping and Fanyang.

"After the ceremony, Your Highness urgently ordered the Hengshan Jiedushi to establish the Hengshan Jiedushi's three counties, including Hengshan, Boling and Shanggu, and appointed General Feng Xiaoci as Hengshan Jiedushi, and granted the military title Shenguo, and granted Feng Xiaoci the Duke of Hengshan County, and granted the title of General of the Assistant State."

"The Fanyang Jiedushi was formed by Fanyang, Beiping and Yuyang counties. Wang Jungu was appointed as the Fanyang Jiedushi. The former Anle County was merged into Yuyang County. He was granted the title of King Jungu, Fanyang County Duke, and was awarded the title of General of the Assistant State, and was given the title of Shenji Army."

Luo Siye held Luo Cheng's expedited military order and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

"We didn't do the matter well this time, we messed up, the good situation was not sure. Dou Jiande was finished this time."

The King of Qin smiled and said, "The King of Qin had long guessed that this would be said during the festival, so he told me that the current situation was very satisfied. We sent troops this time and the plan was far more effective. Don't think that we could pacify the world in one go. How could it be so smooth? After all, we are only a few border troops in a few towns, and our foundation is still too thin and we can't support such a big strategic plan, so we stop when we get better."

"What should I do now?"

Luo Siye asked.
Chapter completed!