Wang Junkuo was welcomed into the tent by Xu Shiji. Wang Junkuo also knew Xu Shiji. Xu Shiji was the third leader of the Wagang Army, and Wang Junkuo was just a new general who had just joined the Wagang Army. Although he was a little famous, he was in Wagang, which had many factions.
There is no chance for him to stand out in the army.
Xu Shiji also knew that Wang Junkuo was extremely skilled in swordsmanship. He lost thirteen generals in a row as soon as he entered Wagang, causing a sensation. Unfortunately, he offended the second-ranked character Shan Xiongxin. Li Mi never dared to use him. This is also a pity.
Something.
Everyone took a seat with the guest and the host. Xu Shiji smiled and said, "General Wang can abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and is worthy of being a hero in Hedong. With his general's talent, he will definitely be valued by my general's general."
"Jun Kuo has been confused for a long time. I have heard that General Manager Yang does not know his origin. He is only talented. Now he returns to Northern Sui Dynasty and has a taste of my life's ambition."
When talking about the talent-only promotion, Wang Junguo couldn't help but look at Cheng Yaojin, but Cheng Yaojin smiled: "I am also a talented person, otherwise, how could I convince you to surrender?"
Wang Junguo smiled bitterly, and this was true. He said again: "I am willing to help General Xu with his strength to calm Hanoi County as soon as possible."
Xu Shiji was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed: "I would like to listen to what the public said!"
Wang Junguo thought for a while and said, "Song King Kong's biggest weakness is his unstable army. Most of his soldiers are from Mayi, Yanmen and Loufan. His family is in the north, and the soldiers only want to follow Song King Kong to grab it.
Then go home. No one is willing to follow him for a long time. General Xu might as well start from this point and defeat Song Jingang. In addition, Song Jingang's other deputy general, Lu Chongmao, is from Hedong County, and he is not willing to surrender to Dou Jiande. I
You can write a letter to persuade him.”
"etc!"
Xu Shiji asked in surprise: "What does this have to do with Dou Jiande?"
Wang Junguo was stunned, "You don't know that Song Jingang had surrendered to Dou Jiande and was named Prince of Hanoi by Dou Jiande. Don't you know about these?"
Xu Shiji's face became extremely serious. He suddenly realized that he had made a mistake in intelligence. He didn't even know that Song Jingang had surrendered to Dou Jiande, and the problem was a bit serious.
He asked in a deep voice: "So will Dou Jiande send troops to Hanoi County?"
"Definitely!"
Wang Junguo said without hesitation: "Dou Jiande and Li Mi have both wooed Song Jingang many times, among which Li Mi is because I strongly opposed it. Song Jingang gave up surrendering to Wagang, and Dou Jiande even gave him ten thousand deputy soldiers in order to win over Song Jingang.
He is also planning to betroth his niece to him, which shows how much Dou Jiande values Hanoi County. After taking Hanoi County, Dou Jiande can face Luoyang directly."
Xu Shiji remained silent. He realized that Hanoi County was no longer as simple as dealing with Song Jingang. It was very likely that it was their first confrontation with Dou Jiande. It was of great importance. He had to report to Yang Yuanqing immediately.
Thinking of this, Xu Shiji shook his head and said, "I don't think you have to go to Taiyuan."
"Why?" Wang Junguo and Cheng Yaojin asked in unison.
"The reason is very simple. I guess the general manager will come to Hanoi County in person."
Song Jingang's army received news about 80 miles away from Jiyuan County. Wang Junguo led his army to surrender to the Sui army. This made Song Jingang extremely angry. At the same time, it was also very frightened. It was not only as simple as losing 10,000 troops. But Jiyuan
The county is his important food and grass area, which stores tens of thousands of stones of military rations. The food and grass he carried with the army can only last for four days.
At this time, Song Jingang had no time to be angry. He turned around and went east. He wanted to take down Hanoi County, but the reinforcements from Hanoi County had arrived, with 6,000 troops stationed. The city was tall and strong and difficult to capture. Song Jingang had no choice but to continue along the way.
Heading south to Qinshui, the target was directed to Anchang County. However, when there were still 30 miles away from Anchang County, Song Jingang received information. Another Sui army had about 10,000 troops and divided the troops to occupy Anchang County and Wen County, and cut off the
He retreated eastward, and at this time, Xu Shiji led an army of 8,000 across the Jishui River and followed Song Jingang's army about twenty miles away.
The place where Song Jingang urgently garrison was called Gushangang, which is a mound more than ten feet tall. It is named after several towering ancient pine trees. It is about twenty miles away from Anchang County.
The reason for emergency camping was that the army's food could only support one and a half days. When we walked east, it would be a sparsely populated mountainous area, and his army would not be able to support it. Song Jingang ordered the camping camp and immediately sent twenty troops to fight.
The grain team rushed to the surrounding villages to plunder the grain.
In the evening, Song Jingang received information that about 20,000 Sui troops surrounded him from the west, northeast and east, and were less than ten miles away from his camp.
Song Jingang walked all the way and walked to the front of the camp gate. His army built a lookout tower here. Song Jingang climbed the lookout tower and asked a little nervously: "Where is it?"
He had just received a report that a Sui army was found on the west side, only five miles away from them. This news made Song Jingang very nervous. He climbed up the observation tower himself to check the situation.
The sky was already very dark, the sunset faded, and the clouds in the sky turned into dark purple, but you could still vaguely see the situation several miles away, and only saw a cavalry of about 8,000 people standing in a wilderness in the distance.
But instead of continuing to move forward, they camped on the spot.
"Prince, before the Sui army has joined forces, we will defeat this Sui army first!" A general whispered to the side.
Song Jingang shook his head. It was undoubtedly a delusion to defeat the 8,000 cavalrymen with 20,000 incomplete equipment.
Lu Chongmao also said anxiously: "Prince, what should we do now? Staying here will definitely lead to a dead end."
"Wait!"
Song Jingang sighed, "When the grain harvest team comes back, see how much food has been obtained? Then consider the way out."
He turned back to the camp with a heavy mood. Lu Chongmao looked at Song Jingang's back, and he felt an ominous feeling in his heart.
As night gradually came, the grain harvest teams returned one after another. Twenty grain harvest teams returned fifteen, and the other five were gone. Due to the dense population and numerous villages, it was the harvest season.
The grain harvest team gained a lot, and obtained nearly 2,000 stones of food and a large amount of pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks. In this way, the military rations could last for a few more days. Song Jingang ordered the slaughter of pigs and sheep, and gave the soldiers a full meal.
Lu Chongmao's camp was on the west side of the camp, while Song King Kong was on the east side of the camp, and each of them was responsible for half of the camp. In the tent, Lu Chongmao paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, as was the same as all the generals. The severe situation made him
I have to consider my own destiny.
Especially Wang Junkuo's surrender made him feel even more uncomfortable. He also wanted to surrender. The only thing that made him unable to make up his mind was Song Jingang's kindness to him. He couldn't bear to abandon Song Jingang when he was in the most difficult time.
At this time, personal soldiers came from the door: "General. Someone is sending a letter."
"Come in!"
A soldier walked in quickly, knelt down on one knee and bowed, "See General Lu."
Lu Chongmao glanced at him in confusion, "Who are you?"
"Report to General Lu, Bei Zhi is a soldier in the third team of grain harvesting. Someone asked me to transfer a letter to General Lu."
The soldier presented a letter to Lu Chongmao. Lu Chongmao took it and took a look, and was immediately surprised. This was actually a letter written by Wang Junkuo to him.
Lu Chongmao took out the letter and read it. The letter advised him to keep his army and surrender to the Sui army, so that he could win a high position in the army. The letter also said that Yang Yuanqing would arrive in Hanoi County in person soon, so that he could seize this opportunity.
This letter undoubtedly aggravated Lu Chongmao's thoughts. He read the letter over and over again, carefully pondering the meaning of every word in the letter. Finally, he sighed and put the letter in his arms.
"Reward him ten yuan!"
"Thank you General Lu!" The soldier bowed and retreated.
This soldier was a little weird and actually came to deliver a letter to Wang Junkuo. Maybe he was the Sui army himself, but at this time, Lu Chongmao had no intention of pursuing the origin of the soldier. He walked out of the camp with his hands behind his back, and the fresh night breeze blew over his face, with a hint of light.
The coolness of late autumn, the coolness that penetrates into the bone marrow.
Lu Chongmao pulled his collar and walked slowly towards the East Camp. He wanted to talk to Song Jingang for a good talk, why he could not surrender to the Sui army? In fact, Song Jingang did not betray anything. He was originally a du Li army.
Lu Chongmao was from Hedong County. He hoped that Song Jingang would surrender to Yang Yuanqing instead of Dou Jiande.
Lu Chongmao walked past one tent after another. Most of the soldiers in the tent were asleep, but there were also some tents with whispers. At this time, his steps stopped and he heard a group of people coming from a large tent.
The soldiers talked and vaguely mentioned Yang Yuanqing's name. Lu Chongmao walked closer to the camp and listened with his ears.
"Did you hear that Mayi County is redistributed land. Ding is granted 50 acres of land, Ding is granted 10 acres of Masang each, and the military households are given 20 acres of military land, and tax exemption is given."
"Song Erlang, is your statement credible?" asked a hoarse voice.
"What the soldiers who have returned to the grain harvest have spread now. I think it is credible. There have been so many people who have died in recent years, so there must be surplus in the land. It is time to grant land and restore planting. The government also has taxes and military rations."
"What should we do?" Several anxious soldiers shouted loudly.
"Let's not think about it. If you want Tian to find Song Jingang, Yang Yuanqing will not give it to you. I guess your parents and wives won't get it. Who said we are the enemy!"
"I'm going home! I'm quitting!" someone shouted.
"Sit down and whisper, don't let people hear it."
The sound in the camp was even lower, and everyone was discussing how to escape. Lu Chongmao smiled bitterly and shook his head. The Sui army had grasped the biggest weakness of their army. The morale of the army was unstable, and there was a lot of publicity and incitement, so there was no need to attack.
In a short while, the morale of the army will collapse.
Just after walking dozens of steps, a soldier guarding the camp rushed to report to him: "General Lu, many soldiers have fled from the military camp, we can't stop it!"
"If you can't stop it, don't stop it."
Lu Chongmao was upset and quickened his pace toward Dongying. As soon as he reached Dongying, he saw chaos in the distance and dust was flying. He was shocked and ran up quickly.
"What's wrong?"
An officer saw Lu Chongmao and immediately said anxiously: "General Lu, the prince took his three thousand jingling cavalry and left the barracks and walked south. Most of the food was taken away by him."
"ah!"
Lu Chongmao was stunned by the shock, and Song Jingang actually abandoned them.
Dozens of generals surrounded him and shouted anxiously, "General Lu, what should we do?"
"General Lu, what should I do now?"
"Shut up!"
Lu Chongmao yelled: "Shut up!"
All the generals were quiet. Lu Chongmao glanced at everyone and gritted his teeth and said, "He Song Jingang was unkind for the first time, so don't blame us for being unrighteous. Open the camp gate and surrender to the Sui army!"