The weather was surprisingly good, the clear sky was as blue as it was, without a trace of clouds, and the rising sun spread the golden light on the ground without hesitation, making it shine and painful.

Under the sunset, the main force of the Dou army, who was harassed by the tactics of the Sui army, left only more than 10,000 auxiliary troops to guard the camp. More than 80,000 armed teams were dispatched in full swing. Under the leadership of Dou Jiande, he rushed towards the east gate of Hulao Guandong.

The huge army reached the Yellow River in the north, the Sishui in the west, and the Queshan in the south. The queues that advanced according to the order were five miles from east to west and more than ten miles long from north to south. The flags covered the sky and the snare drums shook the earth, and the momentum was amazing.

After receiving the scouts, before Chen Sangliang's order was made, the generals of the Sui army could not wait to assemble the participating teams to prepare for the battle. However, after carefully observing the climate, the head coach of the Sui army, Chen Sangliang, loudly ordered, "Send the order to join the battle."

All the soldiers returned to the barracks to rest, each of them prepared a gourd light salt water. The army and school of each army were not ordered and were not allowed to gather without authorization! Li Keshi and Yin Kaishan's army continued to strictly guard the city and beware of the thieves taking the opportunity to attack the city!"

The Sui generals who were ready to fight a big battle today looked at each other and asked Chen Sangliang together: "Your Highness, why? Have you changed your mind and don't want to fight Dou Zhe today?"

"Of course not." Chen Sangliang smiled and said, "Today's decisive battle will definitely be fought. But when I saw the weather today, I suddenly remembered something from the past, so I decided to delay the decisive battle time.

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After saying that, before the generals asked Chen Sangliang what he remembered, Chen Sangliang had turned to Guo Feng and other four generals of the National Army, and asked with a smile: "Guo Feng, Zhao Yu, seeing the weather today, don't you?

What past events are you thinking about?”

"What past events have you remembered?"

Guo Feng, Zhao Yu and others reported to the generals of **** were confused. While they were trying hard to recall, Chen Ci first woke up and blurted out: "Our first battle! Your Highness, you took us to report to the first battle.

Battle! The weather was the same at that time, the sun was so strong, and then suddenly a heavy rain came!”

After Chen Ci reminded him, Guo Feng, Zhao Yu and Yu Le also remembered and echoed: "Yes! That time, the weather was the same as now! The last general still remembers, Your Highness, you begged Mr. Fan Liushou.

Delay the attack time, let us hide in the shade and rest, let Yang Xuangan's thieves' army be sunbathed outside the city for a long time, and then you took us out of the city and the Yang thieves' army to fight to the decisive battle."

Hearing the introduction of the four generals of the National Army, the Sui Army woke up. Chen Sangliang also smiled and said, "Since the weather is so beneficial to us, why should we rush to go out of the city to fight? Let the Dou Zhe army be outside the city.

After a few hours of drying, they were so tired and sweating that we could send troops to fight them. Wouldn’t we get a big advantage?”

The Sui army generals laughed and said it was right. There was no need to rush to go out of the city to fight the decisive battle. Only Wang Fubao, who was serious, said in confusion: "But your Highness, we have made an agreement with Dou Jiande to fight today? Dou Jiande has sent troops as promised, but we still do not move. How can this be done?

Didn’t you break your trust in the world?”

Hearing Wang Fubao's question, Chen Sangliang laughed again, laughing extremely treacherously......

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At the same time Chen Sangliang was smirking, the Dou Jun van, who was slowly advancing with the sound of drums, also found a strange thing on a rock on the banks of the Sishui River - a large group of ants emerged from there.

It actually crawled on the rock and formed four big characters - beans into the mouth of the cow!

Many people have never even heard of the strange thing about ants forming fonts, so this strange scene certainly attracted the attention of countless soldiers of Dou Army generals and soldiers. The brave general Yin Qiu could barely recognize a few words and read these four words to his colleagues to know.

Later, the Dou Army general present was confused for a while and did not understand what the sign was. However, Fan Yuan, the general of Dou Army who was responsible for commanding the front army, came to the scene. When he saw these four words, he suddenly remembered that Dou Jiande was in the first place.

The unlucky words when crossing the river at Niuzhukou. In shock, Fan Yuan did not dare to neglect and quickly sent someone to report the matter to Dou Jiande.

As a poor nouveau riche from the country buns for generations, Dou Jiande is of course more superstitious than superstitious. After hearing the news, he was shocked and quickly walked down the imperial chariot and came to the scene to check the situation. When he saw the four people with his own eyes

When the big characters composed of ants were made of ants, Dou Jiande's face turned pale, and an ominous premonition suddenly arose in his heart. He couldn't help but ask left and right: "What's the sign? Have you heard of ants crawling into words before.

Said it?"

The generals of Dou Jun, who were mostly illiterate, shook their heads one after another, but Liu Bin, a strategist who Dou Jiande trusted, said: "I have heard that Chen Yingliang's traitor and Yang Xuangan were fighting in Hongnong before the war. The ants crawled into

"Yang Xuangan died in Hongnong," said a few words, and then..., Yang Xuangan..., just..."

Speaking of this hesitantly, Liu Bin did not dare to continue talking anyway, but the generals of Dou Jun still changed their faces and were very scared. Dou Jiande's dark face was full of shock and suspicion.

, it was extremely nervous. After a long time, Dou Jiande smiled and said, "It's okay, this place is no longer called Niukou. I have changed the name of this ferry to "Tukou". Besides, I just have a surname

Dou and Dou are just homophones of Dou, and their meanings are completely different. So it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter.”

After saying that, Dou Jiande laughed loudly, but every Dou Jun civil and military official present could hear that Dou Jiande had no laughter in his laughter, and he was completely forced to laugh. Then, although Dou Jiande

Ordered the fire to burn these damn ants, and strictly prohibited the spread and discussion of this matter. However, the four unlucky words "beans enter the mouth of the cow" were passed down by the mouth of Dou Jun soldiers, and gradually passed on to Dou Jun.

It was widely spread within and directly affected the morale of the Dou army's main force.

There is not only the problem of ant grouping in front of Dou Jiande, but another problem is that the Sui army, which took the initiative to date, has not made any noise. Dou Jun has already arranged a formation on the east bank of the Sishui River, and time has already been

It was the beginning of Si, but the east gate of Hulao Pass was still motionless, and no Sui army soldier came out. Dou Jiande was surprised and simply sent an envoy to play the white flag at the city of Hulao Pass to call, questioning Chen Sangliang why he said

But Wuxin has not yet left the city to fight the Dou army in a decisive battle?

The person who came forward to answer the Dou Jun envoy was Chen Sangliang's cousin Li Keshi, and said loudly: "Go back and tell Dou Jiande, what are he in a hurry? We agreed with him to fight to the decisive battle at the Weishi today, and now it is the first time.

, It's still early to the decisive battle, our army is still preparing and cannot leave the city!"

"Is it an agreement to fight to the final battle in the near future?"

The envoy of Dou's army was inexplicably surprised and rushed back to Dou Jiande's imperial chariot to report the situation. Dou Jiande was also confused when he heard this, so he quickly sent someone to return to the camp to get Chen Sangliang's letter of state. As a result, he took a closer look.

When the letter was in the content, Dou Jiande was even more confused and found that Chen Sangliang had just made an appointment for a decisive battle today in the letter of the country, and did not agree on the specific time. After carefully recalling Chen Sangliang's envoy Zhang Yongtong, he did not mention the specific time of the battle. Dou Jiande quickly

He also sent an envoy to the city to negotiate with the Sui army and questioned the specific reasons.

Zhang Yongtong was pushed out as a scapegoat. On the city wall, Zhang Yongtong admitted frankly that he forgot to explain the specific time of today's decisive battle with Dou Jiande, apologized to the envoy of Dou Jun. Li Keshi also executed the military order for Chen Sangliang and tied Zhang Yongtong to

Whipping in public on the top of the city - Of course, Zhang Yongtong's clothes must be covered with a layer of leather mat. The envoy of Dou Jun had no choice but to run back to Dou Jiande and report the specific situation to Dou Jiande.

After receiving such a reply, Dou Jiande and Dou Jun and the civil and military officials were of course angry and swearing, and some civil and military officials of Dou Jun also took the opportunity to persuade Dou Jiande to withdraw the troops. However, Dou Jiande refused to obey and shouted: "It's not the time of the time."

At that time, there is not much time anyway! The whole army is ordered to be ordered to be ordered by the Marquis on the spot. When the thief sends troops, we will fight to the death with him!"

After the order was conveyed, the Dou army soldiers, who were gradually being unbearable by the sun, were of course complaining, but they did not dare to resist the order, so they could only continue to stand in the scorching sun and suffer from the pain of exposure. Dou Jiande sat high under the imperial cover.

Close your eyes and wait patiently for the final battle time. Because he had not been asleep all night before, Dou Jiande soon fell asleep, and did not notice that his soldiers were in the sun and their strength was gradually decreasing.

It was also slowly falling. Several of the Dou Jun officials next to him planned to remind Dou Jiande of this, but seeing that Dou Jiande was already asleep, no one dared to wake up Dou Jiande, who had a growing temper after he became emperor.

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Time was difficult for the Dou army soldiers under the scorching sun, but it passed very quickly for the Sui army soldiers hiding in the shade of the barracks. It was already noon after a turn. Chen Sangliang, who was keeping his promise, ordered all the orders.

The soldiers received lunch, let the soldiers eat and drink, and prepared for the war and assembly before noon. At the same time, Chen Sangliang also arranged the order of leaving the city early and ordered Wang Fubao to lead the infantry to open the way, protecting the artillery team led by Qian Xiangmin from leaving the city.

He also served as a vanguard, and was unexpectedly arranged in the second team by Chen Sangliang. The third team was Qin Qiong's three thousand cavalry, Yuchi Jingde, Luo Shixin, Shi Wanbao and He Yanyu, etc., led the main force to finally leave the city.

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At the second hour of noon, the main forces of the Sui army, which had about 25,000, had been assembled, and Chen Sangliang ordered the convening of the generals in front of the army to make the final pre-war mobilization. The Sui army generals arrived quickly, and then Chen

But Sang Liang did not rush to speak out, but suddenly shouted to the Servant Army: "In the ninth year of Daye, all the soldiers who participated in the Hongnong War were out of the list!"

"promise!"

The answers were sparse, and it was only after all the soldiers who were ordered to leave the list that the Sui army generals were surprised to find that more than 800 newspapers who participated in the Hongnong War eight years ago were not allowed to leave the list.

*The old man, including the four lieutenants including Guo Feng and Chen Ci, was left with only twenty-three people!

"Twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three..." Chen Sangliang counted the number of people loudly, and when he counted to twenty-three, tears couldn't help but burst into tears in Chen Sangliang's eyes and said with a choking voice.

: "Twenty-three, more than eight hundred brothers, and only you twenty-three brothers are left."

Speaking of this, Chen Sangliang suddenly bowed to the twenty-three soldiers who reported to **** and knelt down, and said loudly: "Brothers, I'm sorry for you! Eight years ago, I told you in Hongnong City to fight

After Yang Xuangan, you can go home and reunite with your family, but almost eight years have passed, and you still have to follow me to fight in the east and west, fight in the south and north, suffer from the military, and get together with your wife and children! Yes

I have broken my trust, I am sorry for you! Don’t blame me!"

As he spoke loudly, tears had flowed out of Chen Sangliang's eyes. The twenty-three old men who reported to **** had already bowed to Chen Sangliang. After hearing Chen Sangliang's sincere words, Guo Feng, Chen Ci and others also

He couldn't help but cry and kowtowed to Chen Sangliang desperately, and said crying: "Your Highness, I dare not wait, I dare not."

Chen Sangliang stood up, and with tears in his eyes, he helped the twenty-three old men up one by one, and then walked to the other team of the reporting soldiers. While patrolling the ranks of the serving army, he choked and said:

"Brothers, you may have heard of the brothers of the National Army that I have formed with my own hands, and you may not have heard of it. Eight years ago, when I took the National Army to fight with Yang Xuangan, I once read a poem.

After I finished the military campaign, I had to return home at 80. After reading this poem, I once told the soldiers of the **** that after fighting that battle, they could go home and reunite with their families, but I have always been

Didn't do it."

"It's not that I don't want to fulfill my promise, it's not that I want to let down my old brothers back then, it's because of this troubled time! After beating Yang Xuangan beat Goguryeo, Goguryeo beat Turks, Zhai Rang Li Mi, Li Yuan, Xue Ju, Taiyuan, beat

Wang Shichong, now we are fighting Dou Jiande again! After the battle, there is no time to rest. I never dare to let you soldiers whom I trust and rely on the most leave me, so your time to go home

It's always a long way to go, and there's never an end!"

"But!" Chen Sangliang stopped and stood among the crowd of soldiers serving the country and said loudly: "I can tell you today that the time for you to go home to reunite with your parents, wife and children is just around the corner! Today's battle, we only need to do so.

Defeat the main force of Dou thieves in one fell swoop and capture Dou Jiande’s leader, and you can go home!"

"Because among the thieves in the world, Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande are the two thieves. Now Wang Shichong is surrounded by us and is completely destroyed only in a short time! Dou Jiande is seeking death and personally brings his army to this tiger prison with his vast army.

If we seek death outside the pass, we can free up our hands to eliminate Wang Shichong with all our might! If we kill these two thieves, it is only a matter of time before we end this chaotic world. You can no longer tie your head to your belt.

If you charge in the battle, you can go home and enjoy family happiness with your parents and family!"

"But, if we cannot eliminate the main force of Dou thief in one fell swoop today, and we cannot kill Dou Jiande's head in one fell swoop! Let the thief escape back to the nest..." Chen Sangliang raised his voice again and shouted: "Then, we won't

I know how many more wars I have to fight, and I don’t know how much time it takes to eradicate this thief and end this troubled world! Our future destiny is now in our hands. Only by breaking the thief army and capturing and killing Dou thieves will we

There is hope to go home early and hope to end this troubled times early!”

"Crack the thief army! Capture and kill Dou thieves!"

Guo Feng, who was familiar with Chen Sangliang's methods, and the four captains of the National Army, such as Chen Ci, yelled in unison, leading more than a thousand soldiers from the **** yelled loudly, "Crack the thief army! Capture the Dou thief! Crack the thief

Army! Capture and kill Dou thieves!"
To be continued...