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Among them, in addition to the fact that Li Mi and Wang Shichong have become turtles in the urn and cannot make any waves, it is also because Yuwen Chenglong also has a trump card in his hand, which is Liaodong's Yu Chigong, Shi Wansui, and their more than 100,000 troops!
Another reason is that at this time, Dou Jiande has already prepared his troops and is ready to go south to have a showdown with Yuwen Chenglong!
Dou Jiande was originally from Zhangnan, Beizhou, where he was originally from Qi.
In the early years, there was a flood in Shandong, and Dou Jiande's fellow countryman Sun Anzu's wife and children starved to death at home. The local county magistrate also forced Sun Anzu to serve in the army and accompany Yang Guang in his expedition to Liaodong. Sun Anzu excused himself from poverty and was unwilling to go, so he was beaten up by the county magistrate.
In great rage, Sun Anzu drew his sword angrily, killed the county magistrate, and then went to join Dou Jiande, who was serving as a militia captain in Liaodong at the time.
Dou Jiande was a good man. Seeing how miserable Sun Anzu was, he didn't report him.
On the contrary, Dou Jiande also gave Sun Anzu advice and said, "Last year Yang Guang sent millions of troops to conquer Goryeo, but they were defeated. In my opinion, this time this year, it will probably be enough. If so, the world will be in chaos. We men can never be like this
Like a fugitive, he hides every day! I think Gaojibo is a good place, with hundreds of miles in radius and criss-crossing roads. It is a good place to hide soldiers! As long as enough supplies are plundered, no matter how many people and horses are gathered, they can hide there.
No problem! When the world is in chaos, you may not be able to make a name for yourself when you return to the world, and you may even be able to leave your name in history!"
Bewitched by Dou Jiande, Sun Anzu went to Gaojibo and became a bandit, calling himself a general and nicknamed "Moyang Gong".
Due to Yang Xuangan's sudden rebellion, Yang Guang's second expedition to Korea ended in failure, and Dou Jiande's militiamen were temporarily sent back to their hometowns.
That year, there was great chaos in Shandong and bandits were rampant. Among them, a guy named Gao Shida rebelled in Qinghe and led more than a thousand people to and from Zhangnan to plunder.
For some reason, Gao Shida went around killing people, setting fires, burning, killing and looting, but he left Dou Jiande's village alone untouched.
The county magistrate at that time suspected that Dou Jiande was having an affair with Gao Shida, so he arrested Dou Jiande's entire family and killed them!
In a rage, Dou Jiande summoned two hundred of his fellow villagers who were soldiers, raised kitchen knives and axes and chopped the county magistrate into pieces. Then Dou Jiande defected to Gao Shida Luocao as a bandit.
Gao Shida saw that Dou Jiande was both wise and brave, so he appointed him as marching commander and chief military officer.
Later, Sun Anzu was killed by another bandit, Zhang Jincheng. Thousands of his men came to join Dou Jiande in accordance with Sun Anzu's orders. As a result, Dou Jiande finally had a large number of direct henchmen.
At that time, Guo Xuan, the governor of Zhuojun, led ten thousand troops to encircle and suppress Gao Shida. Seeing that the situation was not good, Gao Shida gave all military power to Dou Jiande and ordered him to lead the troops to fight.
Dou Jiande lived up to expectations and used a method of false surrender and surprise attack to kill Guo Xuan's troops. He killed thousands of enemies, captured more than a thousand war horses, and countless baggage. In addition, even the leading Sui general Guo Xuan was also killed by Dou Jiande.
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From then on, Gao Shida's troops became famous and began to grow rapidly, and soon exceeded the 10,000-person mark.
Soon afterwards, the imperial servant Yang Yichen was ordered to come to Shandong to suppress bandits.
Seeing that Dou Jiande won the battle so easily, Gao Shida realized the point consciously, so he ignored Dou Jiande's words and personally led his troops to resist the enemy.
As a result, Gao Shida unfortunately fell into Yang Yichen's strategy of showing weakness to the enemy and luring the enemy in, and was finally killed by Yang Yichen. Even Gao Shida himself was outlawed by Yang Yichen.
Seeing that the bandit leader Gao Shida was dead, Yang Yichen stopped paying attention to the escaping little miscellaneous fish, so Dou Jiande survived.
Subsequently, Yang Yichen launched attacks one after another and wiped out the bandits from all over Shandong. Dou Jiande, on the other hand, followed Yang Yichen in a low-key manner to gather up the defeated bandits. This included killing the bandits who had been defeated at the beginning.
Another bandit group led by Dou Jiande's fellow countryman Sun Anzu, Zhang Jincheng's troops!
Within a few months, Yang Yichen was relieved of military power by Yang Guang, and his troops were disbanded on the spot because he was accused by Yu Shiji.
But Dou Jiande took the opportunity to recruit troops and win people's hearts. Even many of the Sui troops originally under Yang Yichen were captured by Dou Jiande.
After his troops and horses were strong, Dou Jiande attacked in all directions, captured cities and territories, and occupied prefectures and counties.
Different from other bandits' one-size-fits-all rebellion model of killing officials, Dou Jiande paid great attention to recruiting grassroots officials, and often entrusted them with important tasks based on their talents and virtues, allowing them to help him govern counties and counties.
Therefore, when Dou Jiande's men and horses passed by, many counties and counties watched the wind and surrendered.
With the support of these grassroots officials of the Sui Dynasty, Dou Jiande's troops grew rapidly and soon exceeded the one hundred thousand mark.
Years ago, Li Mi, a bandit from Wagangzhai in Henan, besieged Luoyang, and the situation was very urgent.
Yang Guang then summoned elite troops from various states and counties to Luoyang for reinforcements, and appointed Xue Shixiong, the general manager of Youzhou, as the general manager of all armies.
When Xue Shixiong sent troops from Youzhou to Luoyang, he naturally had to pass through Hebei.
Therefore, Xue Shixiong wanted to kill Dou Jiande who was entrenched in Hebei.
Xue Shixiong currently has 30,000 elite troops under his command, and although Dou Jiande's command has a nominal force of 100,000 troops, most of these are peasant armies, real peasant armies!
These people usually go home to farm, and only when they encounter war, they take their kitchen knives and axes to fight at Dou Jiande's call.
It was the autumn harvest at the moment, and the farming was busy. All the farmers under Dou Jiande had gone home to harvest the autumn fields. For a while, they couldn't gather them! And around Dou Jiande, there were only hundreds of soldiers!
In times of crisis, Dou Jiande was quite quick-witted.
On the one hand, Dou Jiande spread the word that he had no one under his command and could not fight Xue Shixiong head-on, so he had to flee back to Shandong Douzihang to seek refuge!
On the other hand, Dou Jiande urgently summoned his men, and then divided his forces into two groups to launch a hundred-mile attack on Xue Shixiong.
It was Dou Jiande's good luck. When Dou Jiande, who was in charge, personally led 280 pro-troops to Xue Shixiong's camp more than a hundred miles away, it was already dawn.
Normally, this time is not a good time for a sneak attack, but it happened to be a heavy fog that day, and no one could be seen beyond ten feet.
As a result, Dou Jiande led the more than 200 people to attack decisively and killed all 30,000 troops under Xue Shixiong's command. They trampled each other to death and even beat each other to death, resulting in countless deaths.
By the time Dou Jiande's follow-up troops arrived, the Sui army had completely become a rebel army.
After a chaotic battle, Xue Shixiong, the chief general of the Sui army, finally fled back to Youzhou with only a few dozen people.
After returning home, Xue Shixiong finally learned the truth of the matter. When he learned that his 30,000-strong army had been defeated by less than 300 bandits, Xue Shixiong was so ashamed and angry that he fell ill and died within a few days.
From then on, the land of Youzhou was leaderless, and the military power was completely controlled by a few powerful generals under Xue Shixiong. After several battles, Luo Yi finally won and proclaimed himself the general manager of Youzhou, becoming a major prince who ruled Youzhou.
As for Dou Jiande, his reputation was so great after this battle that he used it to conquer cities and territories in Hebei and became invincible. His troops also expanded repeatedly, and finally became one of the few major bandits in the Central Plains.
However, although Dou Jiande's troops were powerful, they still could not compare with Li Mi of Wagangzhai in Henan.
As for Li Mi, although he had achieved the reputation of being the largest bandit in the Central Plains, he was not satisfied and wanted to devour all the surrounding bandits without bloodshed.
The other small groups of rebels didn't care about taking refuge with Li Mi. They had a big tree at their back so they could enjoy the shade!
But someone like Dou Jiande, who already has an army of hundreds of thousands, is like a local emperor, and naturally he is not willing to succumb to others.
But Dou Jiande did not want to offend Li Mi, a powerful neighbor who was close at hand, so he used the excuse of rejecting Luo Yi from Youzhou in the north and repeatedly rejected Li Mi's solicitation.
Frightened by Li Mi's majestic power, Dou Jiande shrank most of his forces in Hebei and only retained a small number of troops in his hometown of Zhangnan in Shandong. He also sent troops northward several times in a decent manner, and Luo Yi, the pseudo-general manager of Youzhou,
There were several fights.
It is a pity that this time, the balance of fate did not tilt to Dou Jiande's side.
After several fights, Dou Jiande was beaten black and blue by Luo Yi, and his troops were lost. At this point, Dou Jiande's pace of expansion finally slowed down.
Dou Jiande's opponent, Luo Yi, was located in Youzhou. He was surrounded by enemies: the Turks in the north, Dou Jiande in the south, the rebel Liu Wuzhou, a close friend of the Turkic Khan Qilifa and a disciple of Liang Shidu, in the west, and the Tujue in the east.
Wei Chigong, Shi Huaiyi and other powerful generals who were close to Yuwen Chenglong and guarded Liaodong.
Therefore, Luo Yi had no way to concentrate all his efforts on attacking Dou Jiande, unless Luo Yi had the courage to disregard the safety of his hometown Youzhou.
Under the rule of looking forward and looking back, Luo Yi defeated Dou Jiande several times, but they were only small victories and failed to achieve a decisive victory.
The situation in the Northland has reached a stalemate.
Until Zhang Xutuo, Yuwen Chengxiang, Shen Guang and others led most of the Sui army into Shandong, they wiped out several groups of large and small bandits entrenched in Shandong, such as Xu Yuanlang, Zhu Can, Meng Jiong and others, and occupied Dou Jiande's
In his hometown of Zhangnan, Dou Jiande finally couldn't sit still anymore, so he hurriedly ordered his troops to go south, planning to fight Yuwen Chenglong.