At noon the next day, Yang Yuanqing led 3,000 troops to Feihu County, in fact, Qin Qiong's worry was just a lack of confidence in himself, his guess was not correct, Yang Yuanqing personally came to supervise the battle not because he did not trust him, on the contrary, he trusted Qin Qiong to let him be in charge of Yanmen County, which was when the Northern Sui was about to launch the Hebei Campaign-

It's just that this battle is too important, so he personally came to ask, whether he can successfully take Shanggu County is related to whether his entire Hebei campaign can be carried out smoothly. ，

The reason why Qin Qiong was allowed to fight Yi County was because Yi County was more difficult to fight, Yi County was the county seat of Shanggu County, the city was tall and wide, Wei Dao'er stationed heavy troops in Yi County, Cheng Yanjin couldn't beat it, only by relying on Qin Qiong's commanding ability, he might be able to fight.

Of course, Yang Yuanqing will never put his eggs in one basket, he considers three plans, the Flying Fox plan is only one of them, followed by the Jingcheng plan, there are 40,000 troops led by Luo Shixin, deployed in the Jingcheng Pass, if Qin Qiong can't take Shanggu County, then the Jingcheng plan will be activated, Luo Shixin will lead the army to attack Hengshan County, and use Hengshan County as a springboard for the Sui army to attack Hebei, but Hengshan County is more difficult to fight and will pay a large number of casualties.

Another plan is the Hanoi plan, Xu Shiji also led 30,000 troops to deploy in Hanoi, once the first two plans failed, then the Hanoi plan will be activated, and Xu Shiji will lead the army to attack Anyang County, echoing the lone army of the Southern Sui who are defending Ye County, but this plan is directly facing Dou Jiande, Yang Yuanqing does not want to use.

Therefore, among the three schemes, the Flying Fox scheme is the best scheme, and Yang Yuanqing is very much looking forward to the success of this scheme.

Yang Yuanqing's army slowly came to the front of Feihu County, Cheng Yanjin greeted him, he knelt down on one knee and saluted: "The last general, Cheng Yanjin, lived up to the trust of the general manager and successfully took Feihu County." ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded approvingly, "Well done, I will remember your first credit." ”

He looked inside the city again, but when he didn't see Qin Qiong, he asked, "Where is General Qin?" ”

"Back to the governor, General Qin led the army to attack Yi County early yesterday morning, and he asked the last general to tell the governor. He will definitely take Yi County and will not disappoint the governor. ”

Yang Yuanqing's brows furrowed slightly, he originally wanted to negotiate the military situation with Qin Qiong, but he left in a hurry, although Yang Yuanqing could understand Qin Qiong's earnestness for meritorious service, but Qin Qiong's eagerness to make meritorious service would make it difficult for him to calm down, and if he wanted to hurry, he would not be able to reach it, and Qin Qiong's troops were not enough.

Yang Yuanqing took out a letter. Turning back to the Eagle Yang Lang General Deng Chinian, he said, "You send two thousand soldiers to support General Qin." And give him the letter. ”

"The last general obeys!"

Deng Chinian received the letter and rushed to Yi County with 2,000 soldiers, and Yang Yuanqing immediately ordered his own guards. "You can put the letter eagle back in Taiyuan."

A goshawk flapped its wings and soared into the air, circled the sky a few times, and flew southwest with its wings outstretched

Yi County is much more difficult to fight than Feihu County. Yi County is the county of Shanggu County, there are tens of thousands of households, the circumference of the city is 20 miles, the city wall is high and wide, the garrison is 20,000 people, although Shanggu County is the starting place of Wei Dao'er, but his capital is in Zhengding County, Hengshan County, gathered 80,000 troops near Zhengding County, he ordered his henchman Zhai Que'er to lead 20,000 troops to garrison Shanggu County. Almost all the troops were concentrated in Yi County.

The difficulty of Yi County is not only that the city itself is difficult to fight, but also that Yi County is located in the depth of Shanggu County, and the entry of the Sui army is easy to be discovered, unlike Feihu County, which does not know the arrival of the Sui army, and can be used to calculate, while Yi County is almost impossible to use a calculation.

Under the leadership of Qin Qiong, 10,000 Sui troops marched rapidly along the Yishui River Valley in the direction of Yi County, and it was a harsh winter. The river is frozen, like a white jade belt, stretching endlessly into the distance, and the branches on both sides of the glacier are dotted with crystal clear ice strips, which is a beautiful sight. But it does not take advantage of the war.

At this time, there was a slight commotion at the front of the line. Qin Qiong urged his horse forward, only to see more than a hundred scouts escorting several Wei army spies coming, the spies were tied up by ropes, dressed in leather armor, and their clothes were tattered, and they were pressed to their knees in front of Qin Qiong's horse.

"General, this is a few spies we caught in front of us."

Qin Qiong turned over and dismounted, walked up to a spy and asked, "How many of you are there?" ”

The spy bowed his head and was silent, Qin Qiong saw that he had already opened his mouth, looked at the few people next to him, and waved his hand, "Everyone else is down." ”

Several other spies were taken away, and only one person remained, and Qin Qiong said to him again: "As long as you are willing to tell the truth, I will let you go and never break your word." ”

The spy whispered: "There are twenty of us in total, and we all found the Sui army, but the five of us escaped slowly and were caught." ”

"The other people who fled saw the Sui army?"

"We hid in that big tree and could see it clearly."

Qin Qiong looked up, only to see a huge canopy of a tree with a huge physique exposed at the highest place, this big tree was more than ten zhang high, covered with snow, at least more than a thousand years, standing in mid-air.

Indeed, if he hid in this big tree, he could see the situation more than ten miles away, and Qin Qiong asked him again: "How many garrisons are there in Yi County?" Who will the Lord be? ”

"General Hui, there are 20,000 garrisons in Yi County, and the main general will be Zhai Qi'er."

Qin Qiong asked him more than a dozen questions, including equipment, food, people's hearts, etc., the spies can answer them one by one, basically true, at this time Qin Qiong already has a general understanding of the situation in Yi County, there are actually 20,000 garrisons, and he only has 10,000 people, and he does not bring siege weapons, the siege will be very disadvantageous, but the equipment and morale of the Sui army are far better than the other party, it can be seen from the leather armor worn by the other party, and only scouts and personal soldiers can wear leather armor, and the other soldiers are dressed in rags, and they usually can't eat enough, and their morale is very low.

After all, Qin Qiong is an experienced general, he quickly analyzed his advantages and disadvantages, and he also realized that there was no need for him to rush into the army like this, the other party already knew about his arrival, and the rush to promote the army would only consume the soldier's physical strength greatly, but let him be passive.

As for attacking the city, Qin Qiong had nothing to do for a while, but fortunately, tall and straight trees could be seen everywhere around, which was very suitable for making siege weapons.

Thinking of this, Qin Qiong immediately ordered: "Pass my order, and the team will rest on the spot!" ”

The Sui soldiers had been marching for a day, everyone was exhausted, everyone was looking for a place to sit and rest, drink water and eat dry food, the spy said timidly: "General, I have explained everything, can you let me go home?" ”

Qin Qiong smiled: "Let you go now, I'm afraid that you will leak my military aircraft, and I will release you after the war, and I will give you money and food as a reward." ”

"Thank you, General!"

Qin Qiong found a big stone and sat down, took a piece of dough cake handed by the soldier, and slowly gnawed on it while thinking about how to break the city

The reason why Yang Yuanqing chose to use Wei Dao'er as a breakthrough to attack Hebei is that Wei Dao'er is the weakest one in the entire Hebei force, although he claims to be a 100,000-strong army, but in fact he only controls Shanggu County and Hengshan County, and the people are seriously insufficient, almost all the people are soldiers, up to sixty-year-old men, down to twelve or thirteen-year-old boys, all of them are forced to join the army, which is barely enough to gather 100,000 troops.

He has almost continued the pattern of rebellion of the previous years, in which all the people are soldiers, fishing with all their might, and seriously destroying the productive forces, and this model has now been abandoned by several major forces.

But Wei Dao'er also had his luck, he grabbed a few Zhuo County granaries and carried hundreds of thousands of stone grains back to Hengshan County, which barely maintained his minimum military rations, plus Dou Jiande encouraged Wei Dao'er to fight against Luo Yi in Youzhou, and also gave him some leather armor and weapons, and gave him a little support in terms of food, which enabled Wei Dao'er's 100,000 army to be maintained, and Luo Yi was quite jealous of Dou Jiande, and he did not do anything to Wei Dao'er.

Wei Dao'er is like a gecko surviving in the cracks, relying on Dou Jiande, struggling to defend a piece of his territory, a few months ago, he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the Sui army to confront Li Shimin's army in the south of Hedong Province, and sent troops to plunder Taiyuan County, but in the end he did not have the guts.

What he feared the most was the Sui army's eastward expedition to Hebei, but the Sui army would not give up the eastward expedition because he was afraid, and after reaching a reconciliation agreement with the Tang army, the Sui army's eastward expedition began.

Wei Dao'er ascended the throne as Emperor Wei at the beginning of the year, he imitated Dou Jiande's Jincheng Palace to build a palace for himself, married twenty-four concubines, but he did not have enough talents to serve as ministers, making his court an empty shelf, and giving various ministerial titles to the generals, becoming a laughing stock in the world.

In the past few days, Wei Dao'er has been extremely worried in his heart, he also heard that the Sui and Tang Dynasties reached a reconciliation agreement, and the south formed an alliance with Wang Shichong, so the next step of the Sui army must be to conquer Hebei, and he Wei Dao'er is the first to be stabbed, which makes Wei Dao'er annoyed and confused, and he doesn't know what to do.

In front of a large bronze mirror, Wei Dao'er was dressed in a dragon robe, wearing a sky-high crown, squinting at himself in the big bronze mirror, his squinted eyes were full of nostalgia, how long could he wear this dragon robe?

He gently stroked the long scar on his face, this shocking scar was a memento of his youth, and it had accompanied him for thirty years, was this scar about to disappear from the world?

Wei Dao'er sighed in his heart, he was really unwilling, but what should he do? Can his army beat the elite Sui army? Wei Dao'er knew in his heart that his army was a rabble, and even Liu Wuzhou's army couldn't defeat it, so how could it be against Yang Yuanqing's army.

At this moment, there was a guard at the gate of the palace to report: "Report to the king, there is a messenger in the Northern Sui who asks to see you!" ”

Wei Dao'er perked up and hurriedly said, "Invite him in!" ”

There was a glimmer of hope in his heart, what would happen to the envoy of the Northern Sui to find him?

After a while, the guards brought in a man in his thirties and bowed to Wei Dao'er, "In the Lower Sui Dynasty, Liu Chongyun, the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, has come to talk to General Wei about the conditions to avoid the two sides from fighting each other. ”

To be continued