Chapter 288 The big wife of heaven and earth is the biggest

"Want to cry without tears?"

"The heart is like a knife?"

"Liver and intestines are broken?"

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In fact, none of these words are enough to describe Dou Jiande's state of mind. When he received the battle report of the Battle of Zhaozhou, Dou Jiande had just fallen for Li Jiancheng's plan to attack the west.

When Li Jiancheng counterattacked the city of 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, Xu Ling, the governor of Zezhou, the Shi Sheren of Xia, and the regular servant of the Zhitong Scattered Cavalry, reported to Dou Jiande that a large number of Tang troops had appeared in Zezhou, and these Tang troops were nervously building siege equipment, and their intentions were very obvious, preparing to storm Zezhou City. This Zezhou is located in the southeast of Shanxi Province, at the junction of Shanxi and Henan provinces, and has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times, and is known as "Pinghan in Hedong, the throat of the Central Plains, and the gateway of the Three Jins".

The key is that now Dou Jiande is counterattacking by the army led by Li Jiancheng in Jinju, and he has to take a defensive position. Luzhou in the east has been lost, and if Zezhou is lost again, it will mean that Dou Jiande's back road will be cut off. Dou Jiande was very cautious about this issue, and seeing that Li Jiancheng had no intention of attacking, he ordered his general, Cheng Mingzhen, the governor of Weizhou, to lead 20,000 cavalry to aid Zecheng.

As a result, Cheng Mingzhen had just left Jinzhou City, and he encountered an ambush by Xue Wanche, and Cheng Mingzhen was defeated by Xue Wanche and retreated to Jinzhou City in embarrassment. At this time, Dou Jiandemeng had the intention of retreating. Under Ling Jing's persuasion, it was decided to retreat to Zezhou and join Cao Zhan's troops in Huzhou.

However, with Dou Jiande withdrawing from Jinzhou City, Li Jiancheng led the troops, chasing and fighting fiercely behind, Dou Jiande retreated from Jinzhou to Zezhou, a short distance of more than 200 miles, and the troops lost half of them in three days.

Dou Jiande, who had just been defeated and demoralized, received the Battle of Zhaozhou in this situation, Liu Heimin was killed in battle, Dong Kangmai was killed in battle, and the rest of Gao Yaxian and Liu Shishan fled with thousands of people and disappeared.

This battle was too tragic, especially the war around the snatching of Liu Heimin and Chen Ying, and it became Dou Jiande's most terrible nightmare since he started the army. However, there is no use for eggs. The soldiers of the Xia army who participated in this battle lost more than 30,000 men and horses, more than 30% of the casualties, and the troops with high morale were also rare strong troops in the world. However, in the end, Chen Ying was not fought in this battle, and now Hebei's losses are too heavy, and the bones have been broken!

In this battle, the Tang army suffered tens of thousands of casualties, but more than most of them were lightly and seriously wounded, and the casualties were less than one-tenth of the Xia army. Despite such a great price, the battle was still lost in Great Xia, and the state was lost. If Zhaozhou is just an ordinary city, if it is lost, it will be lost, although Xia is not as big as Tang Guoda, but there are also thirty-nine states, one hundred and eighty or ninety cities, but the key is that Zhaozhou is the capital.

The capital of a country is conquered by the enemy, and this is a very fatal problem. Dou Jiande looked at the series of shocking numbers, and the more he looked at it, the more his hands trembled. The nightmare he had been trying to avoid was still staged, so that the Great Xia soldiers suffered an unprecedented fiasco, and the most important thing that made Dou Jiande unable to accept love was that Chen Ying did not use tricks in this battle, but the most direct, simple, and brutal hard fighting.

Dou Jiande was so angry that he finally lost his mind, tore the piece of paper in his hand into pieces and threw it far away, letting out a howl!

The howl of a wounded beast!

When Chen Ying led the Tang Donggong prince left and right guards, left and right Si Yu rates, as well as the Xiao cavalry army and the Modao army to the north along the Yongji Canal, preparing to attack Huanglong, Hebei Zhaozhou became the focus of the world's forces, and everyone was extremely concerned about this war.

In fact, not only Cui Yifang and Wu Yunzhao of the Cui clan in Qinghe, but even the governors of Hebei prefectures, the assassins, and the generals regardless of King Qin or without King Qin, they all sent henchmen to investigate the battle of Zhaozhou.

When Liu Heimin was defeated, Dong Kangmai was killed in battle, and the news of the annihilation of the Xia army's 100,000 troops reached Beizhou. Chen Junshi, the assassin of Beizhou, did not wait for Chen Ying's army to arrive, and directly changed his account and asked Chen Ying to surrender.

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

Chen Ying asked sleepily, "What's the matter, can't you wait for dawn?" ”

Chen Ying was really tired, his eyes didn't open, but listening to the movement around him, there was silence, it was absolutely impossible for the enemy to attack.

Guo Luo smiled bitterly: "Beizhou Thorn Shi Chen Junshi sent someone to surrender!" ”

Chen Ying's heart shook, he opened his eyes, and his voice suddenly raised an octave: "What, Bei Zhou, please surrender?" ”

Beizhou is located in the east of Zhaozhou, adjacent to Zhaozhou. This is not the most critical, the most critical thing is that this is Dou Jiande's hometown, in history, Dou Jiande is precisely because of the support of the people of Beizhou, which has risen all the way.

But now, even the people of Beizhou have abandoned Dou Jiande, doesn't this mean that Dou Jiande is embattled?

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

Chen Ying almost didn't think about it and said directly: "Order, Zhang Shigui led the three Zhichong Mansion of the Xiao Cavalry Army and stationed in Beizhou!" ”

"Stationed in Bayzhou?" Li Shendao: "Why do you want to enter Beizhou?" ”

Chen Ying looked at the letterhead handed over by Li Shentong, and saw that it read: "Prince Huai'an, Xingzhou Assassin Chen Zhiyuan worships!" ”

Seeing this, Chen Ying realized that Li Shentong received a letter of surrender from Chen Zhiyuan, the assassin of Xingzhou.

Of course, Xingzhou is also not far from Zhaozhou, Xingzhou is in the north of Zhaozhou, adjacent to Zhaozhou, I am afraid that the news of Liu Heimin's defeat also spread to Xingzhou.

"They're all smart people!" Chen Ying sighed: "It's really the wall that everyone pushed down, and ordered Luo Shixin's department to transfer a Zhechong Mansion to Xingzhou!" ”

Chen Ying realized that it was a mistake to let Zhang Shigui enter Beizhou, I am afraid that at this time, the hearts of the people in Hebei states have been shaken, and then I am afraid that a new round of flag change will come.

Surrender, this kind of thing is like a plague, which quickly spreads in the states of Hebei.

Just three hours later, Zhang Shigui arrived in Beizhou and received a request from Hengzhou.

Immediately afterwards, "Zhao Zhou, please surrender." ”

"The Deep State, please."

"Texas, please surrender!"

"Dingzhou, please surrender!"

"Mozhou, please surrender!"

"Weizhou, please surrender!"

In just one day, Chen Ying successively received the surrender table attached to Kyushu's request for surrender. At this time, Chen Ying also felt strange, if it was said that Beizhou and Xingzhou, even if it was Hengzhou, he was not surprised, the distance of more than 300 miles, the fast horse could be reached in one day, but to say that Mozhou and Dezhou, with the traffic conditions of this era, it was impossible to arrive in one day, and they all handed in the surrender table within one day, which must be intriguing.

Seeing such Kyushu going down without a fight, Feng Deyi felt sour in his heart, not only envy for Chen Ying, but also jealousy.

Chen Ying's luck is really good.

The whole 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 merits, as long as he does not rebel in the future, three generations of wealth are indispensable.

Of course, this is mainly due to the fact that the titles of the Tang Dynasty are also a bit overflowing. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Guogong sealed a lot. However, the title of the Tang Dynasty was decreasing, and the next generation from the Guogong would be demoted to the county duke, and the next generation would be demoted to the county duke.

Below the duke, it is the founding marquis. Basically, all the four-rank generals were the founding marquis, so the marquis was really worthless in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shentong originally thought that Chen Ying would send people to the prefectures and wait for the situation in Hebei to settle before asking for an anti-Beijing order.

However, on June 12, the third year of Wude, Chen Yingjiao handed over the seal to Li Shiji, who came nervously, and returned to Chang'an by wheel with his personal guards.

Li Shentong and Li Shiji are also difficult brothers, they once became Dou Jiande's captives together, Li Shentong is really a little worried about Li Shiji, but no matter how he persuades him, Chen Ying still insists on returning to Chang'an.

In Chen Ying's words: "The sky and the earth are big, and my wife is the biggest." Because Chen Ying's wedding is only four days away, he doesn't have much time.