A county town called Douzigang in the south of Bohai County is just a small county town, but now it is shrouded in war.
Douzigang is the place where Shandong hero Ge Qian made his fortune. It has been occupied by the rebels since a few years ago. After Ge Qian died in Wangmashan last year, Ge Qian's various ministries almost fell apart. Douzigang also once They were liberated by the officers and soldiers, but Gao Kaidao, who was once the number one general under Ge Qian, immediately used an iron fist to forcefully gather the 50,000 to 60,000 troops who were about to disperse again, took Ge Qian's place, and re-captured Douzigang. , once again became the real ruler of Douzigang.
And Gao Kaidao is obviously not the kind of ordinary character who is content with the status quo. After replacing Ge Qian's position, Gao Kaidao recruited troops and began crazy expansion, intending to restore the power of Ge Qian's period. His crazy expansion, naturally, It would also affect the rebels in other territories, so Gao Kaidao soon confronted Sun Xuanya, another Hebei hero who also started his career in Douzigang. However, although Sun Xuanya took longer to become famous than Gao Kaidao, There was a huge difference in strength, and he was quickly beaten by Gao Kaidao.
However, just when Sun Xuanya was about to be wiped out by Gao Kaidao, the backers behind Sun Xuanya could not sit still. Duke Gao Shida of the East China Sea sent his general Dou Jiande with one hundred thousand troops to assist Sun Xuanya. Kaidao fought bravely, but the two armies attacked him from the front and back, and immediately contained Gao Kaidao's offensive, and the situation soon reversed. Gao Kaidao lost consecutive battles, and was finally forced to defend this small bean hill. , Douzigang is now surrounded by soldiers and horses of Dou Jiande and Sun Xuanya, a total of 150,000 troops, surrounding Douzigang, and even a fly in the city cannot fly out.
On the top of the city of Douzigang, a man with broken armor stared at the outside of the city with a gloomy look. It had been more than half a month since Douzigang was besieged. Although the enemies outside the city had not launched an attack, there was no sign of any attack. They want to retreat. Obviously Dou Jiande and Sun Xuanya outside the city want to take advantage of this moment to trap Gao Kaidao to death. There is not much food in the city now. The grain officer under his command just now also came to report. In two or three days, God, the soldiers are going to be hungry. Thinking of this, Gao Kaidao bit his teeth and lips, made a fist with one hand and punched the city wall with all his strength, and actually made a hole with force. Gao Kaidao had a ferocious look on his face, and a flash of light flashed in his eyes. With a ruthless look, he gritted his teeth and cursed: "Dou Jiande, since you want to force me to death, I will not let you get what you want. My life is made of stone. If you want to chew on my flesh, you must first prepare to have your teeth broken." Get ready, someone is coming,"
"Here," there was always a group of soldiers beside Gao Kaidao. Hearing Gao Kaidao's shout, they all stepped forward and shouted to Gao Kaidao: "General, my subordinates are here,"
"Pass my military order, and the entire army will gather at the South City Gate and prepare to break out." Gao Kaidao's eyes were filled with madness. With a wave of his hand, he turned around and raised the Ghost Head Sword in his hand, raising it high above his head.
Breaking out of the encirclement and abandoning Douzigang, the generals from Geqian's old army nearby showed hesitation after hearing Gao Kaidao's words. After all, they were all the old men who followed Geqian in raising troops in Douzigang, and they were all concerned about Douzigang. With feelings, regardless of whether they can successfully break through, if they really break out, Douzigang will fall into the hands of Gao Shida. It will be difficult for them to fight back in the future. In comparison, However, the team of Gao Kaidao's cronies did not hesitate at all. They shouted in unison and turned around to carry out Gao Kaidao's order.
The rest of Geqian's old men looked at me and I looked at you. No one took a step. After a while, one of the fat generals mustered up the courage and stepped forward to Gaokaidao. In front of him, he cupped his fists and saluted Gao Kaidao, and said: "General Gao, this Douzigang has a city wall to support it and can continue to withstand the enemy's offensive. Why should we abandon Douzigang and choose to break out?" As soon as the fat general finished speaking, He immediately won the approval of other generals. Most of them reluctantly agreed to follow Gao Kaidao due to the situation. Now Gao Kaidao has always acted in his own way and did not listen to their opinions at all, which made them very unconvinced.
After hearing these people's words, Gao Kaidao turned his head sharply and glared at everyone with his bloodshot eyes. Being stared at by such a pair of eyes, those generals could not speak. They could only hear Gao Kaidao's words. Kaidao grinned at the fat general who was the first to speak, showing two rows of white teeth, and hummed: "It seems that you have a lot of opinions on my decision,"
"Uh," the fat general was also startled, hurriedly waved his hands and shook his head and said, "No, no, that, I don't have any objections, break out, break out, break out, yes, break out, I will obey the general's order, let's break out."
"Hmph," Gao Kaidao resisted the urge to cut the fat pig in two with a knife, snorted coldly, and shouted: "Why don't you quickly bring your soldiers and horses to gather at the gate of Nancheng, what are you waiting for? "
After being shouted at by Gao Kaidao, all the generals were so frightened that they crawled and ran into the city. Gao Kaidao looked at these people with contempt, his eyes full of murderous intent, but Gao Kaidao knew that he could not kill. They, because they also control a large number of soldiers and horses, if they kill them, then their soldiers and horses will lose control, and it will be more difficult for Gao Kaidao to break through, but even so, Gao Kaidao He didn't intend to let them go easily. In his heart, he was already prepared to use these people as shields for him to break through. When the time came, Gao Kaidao would count on them to block his arrows and help him break out successfully.
Gao Kaidao's command was quite good. At least his soldiers were well-trained. Even though they had been besieged for so many days, those soldiers were still able to quickly obey orders and assemble in the south of the city.
Before, Ge Qian had more than 100,000 troops under his command, but Ge Qian's death caused chaos among his troops. Although Gao Kaidao rectified it in time, there were still a lot of troops missing. After Gao Kaidao completely replaced Ge Qian's position, , there are only less than 60,000 men left, and after successive battles, the number of troops and horses has been greatly reduced. Now, there are only less than 10,000 people gathered at the gate of the city.
Looking at the soldiers lined up at the city gate, Gao Kaidao rode a tall horse and held a ghost-headed sword in his hand. He slowly marched at the front of the team. He glanced at the faces of these soldiers and shouted: "Brothers, we gathered back then. The purpose of fighting against the tyrant beside Ge Gong is not only to have a mouthful of food and to survive. Although Ge Gong is dead, I, Gao Kaidao, also want to make everyone live a better life. But now , The group of people outside the city clearly don’t want us to live. They want to chop off your heads, rob your family of all the food they have finally saved, and sleep with your mother-in-law. Tell me, you can tolerate it. ,"
"No, no," those who dared to follow Ge Qian, Gao Kaidao and the others to rebel were cowards. Being provoked by Gao Kaidao, those soldiers all had angry looks on their faces, holding up the weapons in their hands and pulling at them. The voice shouted.
Gao Kaidao patted the neck of the seated war horse with his hand, comforted the war horse that had just been shocked by the roar of the crowd, and then continued to roar: "It's just a pity that we don't have as many people as them now, even if we fight hard, We have only one way to die. When the time comes, they will still rob our family of food and sleep with our wives and daughters. Then tell me what we should do,"
There was silence. Maybe what Gao Kaidao said was a bit demoralizing. After listening to it, all the soldiers were silent. There was even a feeling of despair spreading among them. Seeing this situation, Gao Kaidao was not anxious. Instead, he waited for a short while and then shouted: "Damn it, you are all a bunch of worthless men. I'm telling you, the sky hasn't fallen yet. There's no need to be like your dead father. There's still a way out." If you leave, you will break out with me. As long as we break out, we will still be able to take revenge on the bastards outside. As long as we are not dead, they will not dare to attack our family because they are afraid of that coward Gao Shida. We will retaliate, but he doesn’t have the guts. Okay, I’ve told you this method, now you tell me if you want to break out,”
There was a pause, and then I saw the soldiers' eyes turned red, and they roared in unison: "Breakout, breakout,"
"Okay, you are a damn good man, and you are still qualified to be my soldier," Gao Kaidao saw him and grinned, then he pulled the reins, turned his mount around, and faced the tight man. The city gate was closed, and he pointed the ghost-headed sword in his hand at the city gate and shouted: "Come here, open the city gate for me, we can break out."
The city gate's door shafts made a creaking sound. Pushed by five or six soldiers, the two city gates finally slowly opened. The scenery outside the city was gradually revealed to Gao Kaidao and the less than 10,000 soldiers. In front of them, outside the city, Dou Jiande's soldiers and horses were slowly gathering. Apparently, the movement on the high road just now was too great and had attracted the attention of the enemies outside the city.
However, Gao Kaidao didn't care at all about this. He curled his lips and instinctively pulled his shoulders back. Suddenly, his spine made a crackling sound. Gao Kaidao's eyes also shot out two cold lights in an instant. Then, Gao Kaidao To open the way, he shouted loudly: "Brothers, rush,"
Before he finished speaking, Gao Kaidao clamped his legs hard, urging the sitting war horse to fly out of the city gate like an arrow from the string. The moment Gao Kaidao rushed out, behind him The soldiers also let out a roar that shook the sky, picked up the weapons in their hands, followed Gao Kaidao, and poured out of the city gate like a tide.
PS: Sorry, there was a power outage yesterday, it will be replenished today~