Leshou County, the head of the city!

Dou Jiande and his brothers-in-law Wang Fubao and Liu Heimin were on patrol. The three of them are all tall and burly, compared with the second and third brothers, Dou Jiande is a little less energetic and more calm.

He claimed to be a descendant of Dou Chong, the father of the Empress Dowager of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, and had nothing to do with the Dou family in the Guanlong aristocracy.

In the seventh year of the Great Cause, when Yang Guang recruited troops to Goguryeo, he served as the commander of 200 people, witnessed the hardship of the soldiers and the people, and was indignant, so he resisted the Eastern Crusade. led Sun Anzu into Gaojibo, raised troops to rebel, the whole family was killed, and led the troops to submit to Gao Shida! After Gao Shida's death, he became his own boss, he was righteous, often used his share of the harvest to help others, and was as hard-working as a soldier, so he was deeply loved and respected by his subordinates.

In the past, the rebel armies from all walks of life mixed very well in Hebei Province, and often beat the Sui army that came to the ground, but since Yang Yichen came, Zhang Jincheng, Gao Shida, Ge Qian and other forces were annihilated by Yang Yichen successively, and Zhao Wanhai and his ilk were defeated before they pulled up the army. And Yang Yichen is different from other generals, after he defeated the main force, he often only investigated the responsibility of the chief general of the righteous army, and all the servants were scattered to the counties for resettlement, those ordinary soldiers were forced to make a living, and they naturally did not want to lick the blood from the knife edge when they had a livelihood! Yang Yichen's combination of grace and power has successively disintegrated nearly 100 rebel armies.

Now the policy of Hebei Province is better, and the displaced people and disaster victims only need to pay a certain amount of labor in exchange for money and food, and without the source of soldiers, this will certainly not be able to be built. Moreover, with these returning rural people leading the way and reporting, some of the rebels hiding in the forests and swamps have been annihilated one after another.

Anyway, from the day Yang Yichen arrived, everyone's life has become more and more difficult day by day! In order to reverse the decline, Dou Jiande issued an order, inviting heroes from all walks of life to discuss the plan, trying to work together to deal with Yang Yichen. However, before the method was discussed, the imperial court came to Yang Tong, the Hebei Provincial Xingtai Shangshu Order, and brought 60,000 troops at once, and after crossing the Yellow River, he went straight to Leshou!

After Yang Yichen in the north pacified Hengshan, Boling, Shanggu, and Zhuojun, he was assembling in Gu'an County, and it would not be long before he would go south to Hejian, and if he could not defeat the army, the coalition army would fall into a desperate situation of attacking from the north, west and south!

Compared with Yang Yichen, Dou Jiande felt that Yang Tong was easier to deal with, although he defeated Wagangzhai ten times his own with fewer victories. But he always thought that Yang Tong was just a pampered emperor's grandson, even if he defeated Wagang, it was just because Wagang killed Zhang Xutuo, a fierce general, and underestimated the enemy, not how strong he was.

However, he has encountered something troublesome today!

Ge Qian's old general Gao Kaidao teased his daughter Dou Xianniang, and was beaten by his righteous brother Wang Fubao, and the two armies quickly fought, each with casualties! Of course, I put the overall situation first and pressed the matter down, but the contradiction has already arisen, how can I suppress it?

What's more, after years of indoctrination, their own army has developed good habits, and they have not committed any crimes against the people, but the other allied forces are difficult to change, and they have harmed the entire Leshou County over and over again. Every fight kills a lot of people. If this continues, there is no need for the Sui army to fight, and everyone will be killed because of infighting.

He was the initiator of the alliance, and everyone came at his call, and the 200,000 troops ate every day, which made him miserable. Song Zhengben, who was in charge of military quarters, told him that food was tight, and if the consumption of 200,000 people on the first day was calculated, it would only last for half a month at most.

There is a strong enemy outside, internal strife, morale plummets, and food is urgent!

These four major problems made Dou Jiande worried.

"Big brother, after Yang Tong arrived yesterday, he directly attacked with defense, camped thirty miles away, and did not seem to take the initiative to attack the city, this is to see that we can't afford to defend it, and plan to wait for us to run out of food, let us collapse without a fight without using any sword soldiers, and finally use cavalry to pursue the victory, what a cunning character." Wang Fubao's face was a little gloomy.

Dou Jiande was silent for a long time, and said: "This is the 'good fighter, invincible, not defeated' in the Art of War". He is waiting for us to run out of food, and he is waiting for Yang Yichen. ”

"Big brother! What now? It's not a matter of waiting for those bastards like an uncle every day. The bearded third Liu Heimin asked.

Dou Jiande's eyes froze, and he asked with a smile: "Third child, do you have any ideas?" ”

Liu Heimin is an admirer of Dou Jiande, he used to admire Dou Jiande's heroic righteousness very much, he is much younger than Dou Jiande, he beat his parents and died early, he lived with his brother and sister-in-law, but there was no lack of discipline, he was addicted to alcohol and gambling, and he was lazy to eat, and he became cunning and arrogant, which made his brother and sister-in-law disgusted, and often had a meal without a meal.

Every time he ran out of food, Liu Heimin ran to Dou Jiande, and every time Dou Jiande would always sponsor him. Later, Liu Heimin simply recognized Dou Jiande as his eldest brother. During the days when Da Dou Jiande fled, Liu Heimin was loyal to his side, and his brothers fled everywhere.

Although Liu Heimin is a scoundrel. But such people are particularly bold. In the heyday, it is generally difficult for such people to achieve great things. But in troubled times, this kind of person can often rise like a fish in water and take advantage of the situation.

Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, was a scoundrel when he was young. Closer to life, General Mai Tiecane used to be such a scoundrel before!

"The reality in front of us is that we have to fight, and if we don't, we have to fight! It's better to go to battle before it's too late! Once we caught Yang Tong, the king of Qin, not only boosted morale, but also forced Yang Yichen to withdraw from the army, and even exchanged for grain from a Liyang warehouse. ”

"Yang Tong built fortifications and stationed them on the spot, obviously not intending to confront us head-on. We can only win if we take the initiative to attack. Once the enemy fortifications are completed, we have little hope of winning. So ......," Liu suggested.

"So we can only attack tonight, while their fortifications are not completed and Yang Yichen is not yet there, launch a night attack! This is our only chance! ”

"Big brother, Yang Tong made a name for himself by sneaking up on Wagangzhai, if he is prepared, then our army will not be calculated?" Wang Fubao said.

The corners of Dou Jiande's mouth lifted and said, "So I'm also gambling."

"Bet on what?" Wang Fubao asked curiously.

"Bet Yang Tong doesn't know how good we are, bet Yang Tong doesn't know our habits, bet Yang Tong doesn't have a lot of combat experience!" Dou Jiande smiled coldly.

"The eldest brother is right, he only won a fluke battle against Xinding, so how can he know anything. Besides, we have enough troops, and we are afraid of him. Liu Heimin agreed.

……

At this time, the Sui army camp, the Chinese army's big tent hung a huge map.

Yang Tong and Yang Yichen and others were urgently discussing, in order to annihilate all the enemies who came to attack.

Since Dou Jiande was not idle, they couldn't let him escape again, but the location of the camp was not a dangerous terrain, and it was very difficult to gather more than 200,000 people and annihilate them. Everyone thought of everything, but neither the fire attack nor the arson could achieve this goal.

Yang Tong's eyes wandered on the map, within thirty miles of the distance between the two armies, it was completely Dou Jiande's sphere of influence, not a place to set up an ambush at all, the people of this year hated the court to death, if a certain common mountain people found out and told Dou Jiande, it would definitely fall short.

After thinking silently for a while, Yang Tong saw a place called Wude Mountain eight miles away from the rear of the camp, so he said: "I think I can send the camp to Dou Jiande, and then fight an ambush battle in Wude Mountain." ”

The place of ambush should generally not be too dangerous. Because the more dangerous it is, the more it can make people suspicious, thus exposing the problem. But if you don't have a dangerous place, there is no natural danger to rely on, and it is not easy to completely annihilate the enemy army. Therefore, it is really troublesome to set up an ambush that cannot be suspected by the other party and has an important place on which the natural danger depends.

And this Wude Mountain, which is a small gorge ten miles long sandwiched between two mountains, with a gentle slope, is definitely a more ideal ambush location, if it is an ambush there, the other party will definitely not suspect it.

"Good way! Great place! Yang Yichen and the others' eyes lit up.

"Since everyone said yes, here it is." Yang Tong smiled and asked the calm veteran Pei Renji to lead 10,000 soldiers to set up an ambush, waiting only for the surprise attack at night.

Regarding Dou Jiande's night attack at night, Yang Tong was 100% sure. This time, he has seen through the practical problem that Dou Jiande can't afford to consume, so he set up this plan, Dou Jiande now has only two choices, one is to risk a night attack; The second is to wait for the food to run out and retreat, and be crushed by tens of thousands of cavalry.

So don't worry that Dou Jiande won't come.