Chapter 288: The Big Wife of Heaven and Earth

"I want to cry without tears?"

"The heart is like a knife?"

"Heartless?"

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In fact, these words are not enough to describe Dou Jiande's mood. When he received the report of the Battle of Mingzhou, Dou Jiande had just been hit by Li Jiancheng's plan to fight the world.

Just when Li Jiancheng counterattacked Jinzhou (now Linfen, not Jinzhou, Hebei), Dou Jiande found that Li Jiancheng was just bluffing under the city of Jinzhou and did not care too much. However, the general manager of Zezhou and the history housekeeper of Xia, Xu Ling, went straight to the scattered cavalry attendant, urgently reported to Dou Jiande that a large number of Tang troops appeared in Zezhou. These Tang troops were nervously building siege equipment, with very obvious intentions and prepared to attack Zezhou City. This Zezhou is located in the southeast of Shanxi Province, at the junction of Shanxi and Henan provinces. It has been a place that must be fought for by military strategists since ancient times. It is known as "Pinghan Hedong, the throat of the Central Plains, and the gateway of the Three Jins".

The key is that Dou Jiande is now being led by Li Jiancheng to counterattack in Jinzhou, and he has to take a defensive position. Luzhou in the east has been lost. If Zezhou is lost again, it means that Dou Jiande's retreat will be cut off. Dou Jiande is very cautious about this issue. Seeing that Li Jiancheng had no intention of attacking, he ordered his general, Cheng Mingzhen, the general manager of Weizhou, to lead 20,000 infantry and cavalry to support Zecheng.

As a result, Cheng Mingzhen had just left Jinzhou City and encountered an ambush from Xue Wanche. Cheng Mingzhen was defeated by Xue Wanche and retreated to Jinzhou City in a mess. At this time, Dou Jiandemeng was determined to retreat. Under Ling Jing's persuasion, he decided to retreat to Zezhou and join Cao Zhan's troops in Xuzhou.

However, as Dou Jiande withdrew from Jinzhou City, Li Jiancheng led his troops to pursue and fight hard behind him. Dou Jiande retreated from Jinzhou to Zezhou in just over 200 miles, and half of the troops lost in three days. At this time, Dou Jiande discovered that outside Zezhou City was just a group of vulgar soldiers shaking flags and shouting, bluffing, with only three thousand soldiers and four or five thousand civilians, forcing Xu Ling to rescue.

Dou Jiande, who had just suffered a great defeat and was depressed, received the battle in Mingzhou. Liu Heita was killed in battle, Dong Kangmai was killed in battle, Gao Yaxian and Liu Shishan's remaining troops ran away and disappeared.

The battle was so tragic, especially the war that started to seize Liu Heita and Chen Ying, which became Dou Jiande's most terrifying nightmare since the rise of the army. Hebei Jianer did not disappoint him. He was all rushing forward with blood and rushing forward one after another, completely putting life and death. The small area turned into a Shura slaughterhouse with flesh and blood. However, it was useless. The Xia army soldiers who participated in this battle lost more than 30,000 people and more than 30% of the casualties during the attack. The troops with high morale were still rare in the world. However, this battle did not fight Chen Ying in the end. Now the losses in Hebei are too heavy and have been broken!

In this battle, the Tang army suffered tens of thousands of casualties, but most of them were minor and serious injuries, and the casualties were less than one-tenth of the Xia army. In this battle, Hebei not only lost tens of thousands of young and strong people, but also lost supplies and morale. Dou Jiande really didn't have the courage to count them. Despite paying such a great price, Daxia was defeated in this battle and Mingzhou was lost. If Mingzhou was just an ordinary city, it would be lost. Although the Xia Kingdom was not as good as Tang Kingdom, there were thirty-nine states and 180 to 90 cities, the key was that Mingzhou was the capital.

The capital of a country was conquered by the enemy, which was a very fatal problem. Dou Jiande looked at the series of shocking numbers, and the more he looked, the more he shook his hands. The nightmare he had been trying hard to avoid was still staged, causing the soldiers of the Xia Dynasty to suffer an unprecedented defeat. What made Dou Jiande unable to accept his love was that Chen Ying did not use tricks in this battle, but the most direct, simplest and most rough hard-hitting.

Dou Jiande was shocked and angry, and finally lost his mind. He tore the piece of paper in his hand into pieces and threw it away hard, making a scream!

The wounded beast-like howling!

When Chen Ying led the Prince of the Eastern Palace of the Tang Dynasty, the left and right guards led the left and right guards, the left and right guards led the cavalry, and the Modao Army headed north along the Yongji Canal and was preparing to attack Huanglong, Mingzhou, Hebei became the focus of the world's forces, and everyone was extremely concerned about this war.

In fact, it was not just Cui Yifang and Wu Yunzhao of the Cui clan of Qinghe, but also the generals of Hebei provinces, the governors, and generals who were not in charge of the king, they all sent their confidants to investigate the battle in Mingzhou.

When Liu Heita was defeated and Dong Kangmai was killed in battle, and the news that the Xia army had tens of thousands of troops were wiped out was spread to Beizhou. Chen Jun, the governor of Beizhou of Xia army, did not wait for Chen Ying's army to arrive, and directly changed the account and asked Chen Ying to surrender.

On the morning of June 12, the third year of Wude, the exhausted Chen Ying was awakened by Guo Luo.

Chen Ying asked sleepyly, "What's going on? Can't you wait for dawn before talking?"

Chen Ying was really exhausted, his eyes were not open, but listening to the movements around him, there was silence, and it was absolutely impossible for the enemy to attack.

Guo Luo smiled bitterly and said, "Chen Jun, the governor of Beizhou, sent someone to surrender!"

Chen Ying's heart was cheered up. He opened his eyes and his voice suddenly raised octaves: "What, Beizhou please surrender?"

Beizhou is located in the eastern part of Mingzhou, adjacent to Mingzhou. This is not the most critical. The most critical thing is that this is Dou Jiande’s hometown. In history, Dou Jiande soared all the way because of the support of Beizhou people.

But now, even the people of Beizhou have abandoned Dou Jiande. Doesn’t this mean that Dou Jiande is surrounded by enemies?

At this moment, Chen Ying's big tent was lifted from outside, and a cool breeze blew, and Li Shentong rushed into the tent like a gust of wind: "General Chen, what do you do when you see this?"

Chen Ying said directly without thinking: "Is it true that Zhang Shigui leads three Zhechong Mansions under the command of the Knights' Army to enter Beizhou!"

"Into Beizhou?" Li Shentong: "Why do you want to enter Beizhou?"

Chen Ying looked at the letter handed over by Li Shentong and saw it: "The King of Huai'an was personally opened, and the governor of Xingzhou Chen Zhiyuan was worshipped!"

Seeing this, Chen Ying realized that Li Shentong had received a surrender letter sent by Chen Zhiyuan, the governor of Xingzhou.

Of course, Xingzhou is also not far from Mingzhou. Xingzhou is located north of Mingzhou and is adjacent to Mingzhou. I am afraid that the news of Liu Heita's defeat has also spread to Xingzhou.

"All of them are smart people!" Chen Ying sighed: "It's really a wall that falls and everyone pushes it. He ordered Luo Shixin's troops to draw a Zhechong Mansion into Xingzhou!"

Chen Ying realized that it was a mistake to let Zhang Shigui enter Beizhou. At this time, the people of Hebei were already shaken, and then a new round of flag-changing trends would come.

Surrender, like a plague, spread rapidly in Hebei prefectures.

Just three hours later, Zhang Shigui arrived in Beizhou and received an order from Hengzhou.

Immediately afterwards, "Please surrender to Zhaozhou."

"Shenzhou please surrender."

"Please surrender to Texas!"

"Please surrender in Dingzhou!"

"Please surrender to Mozhou!"

"Please surrender to Weizhou!"

In just one day, Chen Ying received a surrender bill from Jiuzhou to surrender. At this time, Chen Ying also felt strange. If it were Beizhou and Xingzhou, even Hengzhou to surrender, he would not be surprised. He could arrive in one day with a distance of more than 300 miles. However, with the transportation conditions of this era, it was impossible for Mozhou and Dezhou to arrive in one day. They would submit surrender bills in one day at the same time. It would be interesting to note.

Seeing such a battle in Jiuzhou, Feng Deyi felt so sad inside. He was not only envious of Chen Ying, but also jealous.

Chen Ying's luck is really good.

The whole of Hebei has been decided, and I am afraid that Li Yuan will definitely give him a good treatment in the future.

With Chen Ying's contribution alone, as long as he does not rebel in the future, wealth and honor will be indispensable for three generations.

Of course, this is mainly because the titles of the Tang Dynasty were also somewhat rampant. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Duke of the Kingdom had enfeoffed a lot. However, the titles of the Tang Dynasty were reduced, and the next generation they would be reduced to the Duke of the County, and then to the Duke of the Kingdom.

Below the Duke, there are founding marquises. Basically all fourth-rank generals are founding marquises, so the marquises are really worthless in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shentong originally thought that Chen Yinghui sent people to various states and waited for the situation in Hebei to settle before asking for an order to rebel against Beijing.

However, on June 12, the third year of Wude, Chen Yingjiao handed over the Yin to Li Shiji, who was nervous, and took his personal guards to return to Chang'an on a steamer.

Li Shentong and Li Shiji are also brothers and brothers. They once became Dou Jiande's prisoners together. Li Shentong was really a little worried about Li Shiji, but no matter how he persuaded him, Chen Ying still insisted on going back to Chang'an.
Chapter completed!