At noon the next day, Yang Yuanqing led 3,000 troops to Feihu County. In fact, Qin Qiong's concern was just a disconfidence in himself. His guess was not correct. Yang Yuanqing came to supervise the battle himself, which was not because he did not trust him. On the contrary, it was because of his trust in Qin Qiong that he asked him to take charge of Yanmen County. That was the upcoming Battle of Hebei by the Northern Sui Dynasty.

It was just that this battle was too important that he came to ask himself whether the successful capture of Shanggu County was related to whether the entire Hebei battle could be carried out smoothly.

The reason why Qin Qiong attacked Yi County was because Yi County was even more difficult to fight. Yi County was the county seat of Shanggu County. The city was tall and wide. Wei Daoer stationed heavy troops in Yi County. Cheng Yaojin could not defeat him. Only by relying on Qin Qiong's command ability, he might be able to defeat him.

Of course, Yang Yuanqing would never put eggs in a basket. He considered three plans. Feihuxing's plan was only one of them, followed by Jingxing's plan. Luo Shixin led 40,000 troops to be deployed in Jingxing Pass. If Qin Qiong could not take Shanggu County, then Jingxing's plan would be launched. Luo Shixin will lead his army to attack Hengshan County and use Hengshan County as a springboard for the Sui army to attack Hebei. However, Hengshan County is more difficult to fight and will suffer a large casualties.

Another plan is the Hanoi plan, and Xu Shiji also led 30,000 troops to deploy in Hanoi. Once the first two plans fail, the Hanoi plan will be launched, and Xu Shiji led his army to attack Anyang County, echoing the isolated army of the Southern Sui army who was defending Ye County. However, this plan is directly facing Dou Jiande, and Yang Yuanqing did not want to adopt it.

Therefore, among the three plans, Feihuxing is the best plan, and Yang Yuanqing is very much looking forward to the success of this plan.

Yang Yuanqing's army slowly arrived in front of Feihu County. Cheng Yaojin came out and knelt down on one knee and saluted: "The last general Cheng Yaojin will live up to the heavy trust of the general manager and successfully seize Feihu County."

Yang Yuanqing nodded in praise, "I did a good job, I will remember your first contribution."

He looked at the city again, but did not see Qin Qiong, and asked, "Where is General Qin?"

"Report to the general manager, General Qin led his army to attack Yi County early yesterday morning. He asked the last general to tell the general manager that he would definitely take Yi County and would not disappoint the general manager."

Yang Yuanqing frowned slightly. He originally wanted to negotiate military information with Qin Qiong, but he left in a hurry. Although Yang Yuanqing could understand Qin Qiong's eagerness to make contributions, Qin Qiong's mentality of eagerness to make contributions would make it difficult for him to calm down. Haste can't achieve it, and Qin Qiong's military strength is not enough.

Yang Yuanqing took out a letter and turned around to Yingyanglang General Deng Chinian and said, "You can lead two thousand soldiers to support General Qin. And hand the letter to him."

"I will obey the order!"

Deng Chinian took the letter and led two thousand soldiers to Yi County. Yang Yuanqing immediately ordered his personal guards. "You can put the letter eagle back to Taiyuan."

A goshawk flew into the air with his wings, hovered in the sky for a few times, spreading his wings and flew southwest.

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Yi County is much harder to fight than Feihu County. Yi County is the capital of Shanggu County, with a population of tens of thousands of households. The city is twenty miles in length, with a tall and wide wall, and 20,000 troops stationed. Although Shanggu County was the place where Wei Daoer started, his capital was in Zhengding County, Hengshan County, and gathered 80,000 troops near Zhengding County. He ordered his confidant general Zhai Queer to lead 20,000 troops to station Shanggu County. Almost all the troops were concentrated in Yi County.

The difficulty in attacking Yi County is not only because the city itself is difficult to fight, but also because Yi County is located in the depths of Shanggu County. It is easy to find the entry of the Sui army. Unlike Feihu County, it is impossible to use tricks to obtain the Sui army, but it is almost impossible for Yi County to use tricks to obtain the plan.

Under the leadership of Qin Qiong, the 10,000 Sui army marched rapidly towards Yixian along the Yishui River Valley. It was winter. The river water was frozen like a white jade belt, extending endlessly into the distance. The branches on both sides of the glacier were covered with crystal clear ice strips. This was a magnificent scenery. But it was not used for combat.

At this time, a little commotion occurred in front of the team. Qin Qiong urged his horse to come forward, and more than a hundred scouts came over with several Wei soldiers. The spies were tied up with ropes, dressed in leather armor, and dressed in rags. They were pressed to kneel in front of Qin Qiong's horse.

"General, these are the spies we caught in front of us."

Qin Qiong turned over and dismounted, walked to a spy and asked, "How many people do you have in total?"

The spy lowered his head and said nothing. Seeing that he was already speaking, Qin Qiong looked at the people next to him and waved his hand, "Everyone else is going to take it down."

Several other spies were taken away, leaving only one person. 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 promise."

The spy whispered for a while: "We have twenty people in total. We all discovered the Sui army, but the five of us escaped slowly and were caught."

"Did other escapees see the Sui army?"

"We were hiding in that big tree and saw it very clearly."

Qin Qiong looked up and saw a huge canopy on the height of his face. This big tree is more than ten feet tall, covered with snow, at least a thousand years old, standing in mid-air.

Indeed, if you were hiding on this big tree, you could see clearly the situation more than ten miles away, and Qin Qiong asked him again: "How many garrisons are there in Yi County? Who is the chief general?"

"Report to the general, there are 20,000 troops in Yi County, and the head general is Zhai Quier."

Qin Qiong asked him more than a dozen questions, including equipment, food, people's hearts, etc., and the spies could answer them one by one. It was basically true. At this time, Qin Qiong had roughly understood the situation in Yi County. There were 20,000 troops, and he had only 10,000 people and did not bring siege weapons. Siege would be very unfavorable. However, the equipment and morale of the Sui army were far better than that of the other party. It can be seen from the leather armor the other party wore, and only scouts and personal soldiers could wear leather armor. Other soldiers were dressed in rags and could not eat enough in normal times, and their morale was very sluggish.

Qin Qiong was an experienced general after all. He quickly analyzed his advantages and disadvantages. He also realized that he did not need to use Cang Promotion Army like this. The other party already knew his arrival. Cang Promotion Army would only consume a lot of physical strength of the soldiers, but instead made him passive.

As for attacking the city, Qin Qiong had no choice but to do anything at the moment. Fortunately, towering and straight trees could be seen everywhere around, which was very suitable for making siege weapons.

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

The Sui soldiers had been marching urgently for a day, and everyone was exhausted. Everyone found a place to sit down and rest, drink water and eat dry food. The spy said timidly: "General, I have told you all, can you let me go home?"

Qin Qiong smiled and said, "Let you go now, I'm afraid you will leak my military aircraft. I will let you go after the war is over, and I will give you money and food as a reward."

"Thank you, General!"

Qin Qiong sat down with a big stone, took a piece of bread handed to the soldier, and slowly bitten it while thinking about a plan to break the city.

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The reason why Yang Yuanqing chose to use Wei Daoer as a breakthrough to attack Hebei was that Wei Daoer was the weakest among the entire Hebei forces. Although he was known as a 100,000 army, he actually only controlled Shanggu County and Hengshan County. His people were seriously insufficient, and almost all the people were soldiers. From the age of 60 to the age of 12 or 13, all of them were forced to join the army, and then he barely gathered a 100,000 army.

He almost continued the rebellion model of the past few years. The whole people were soldiers, fishing out of the waters, seriously destroying productivity. This model has been abandoned by several major forces.

But Wei Daoer also had his luck. He grabbed several grain warehouses in Zhuo County and transported hundreds of thousands of stones of grain back to Hengshan County. The grain barely maintained his minimum military ration. In addition, Dou Jiande encouraged Wei Daoer to fight against Luo Yi in Youzhou, and also gave him some leather armor and weapons, and gave him some support in terms of food. This allowed Wei Daoer's 100,000 army to be maintained. Moreover, because Luo Yi was quite afraid of Dou Jiande, he did not attack Wei Daoer for a long time.

Wei Daoer is like a gecko that survives in the cracks. Relying on Dou Jiande, he struggled to guard his own territory. A few months ago, he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the Sui army confronting Li Shimin's army in the southern part of Hedong Road to send troops to rob Taiyuan County, but in the end he did not have the courage.

The thing he feared the most was that the Sui army went east to Hebei, but the Sui army would not give up the Eastern Expedition because of his fear. After reaching a settlement agreement with the Tang army, the Sui army's Eastern Expedition kicked off.

Wei Daoer ascended the throne at the beginning of the year. He imitated Dou Jiande's Jincheng Palace and built a palace for himself and married twenty-four concubines. However, he did not have enough talents to serve as ministers, which made his court empty and granted the titles of ministers to his generals, which became a laughing stock in the world.

In the past few days, Wei Daoer was extremely worried. He also heard that the Sui and Tang dynasties reached a settlement agreement and that the South formed an alliance with Wang Shichong. Then the next step for the Sui army would be to fight Hebei in the east. Wei Daoer was the first person to be stabbed, which made Wei Daoer feel both upset and confused. He didn't know what to do.

In front of a large bronze mirror, Wei Daoer was wearing a dragon robe and a sky-swelling crown. He squinted his eyes and looked at himself in the large bronze mirror. His squinted eyes were full of nostalgia. When can he wear this dragon robe?

He gently stroked a long scar on his face. This shocking scar was a commemoration left by his youth and accompanied him for a full thirty years. Will this scar disappear in the world?

Wei Daoer sighed in his heart. He was really unwilling to accept it, but what should he do? Can his army beat the elite Sui army? Wei Daoer knew that his army was just a group of mobs, and even Liu Wuzhou's army could not defeat Liu Wuzhou's army. How could he fight against Yang Yuanqing's army?

At this moment, a guard at the gate of the palace reported: "Report to the king, an envoy from the Northern Sui Dynasty asked for a visit!"

Wei Daoer was excited and hurriedly said, "Please invite him in!"

A glimmer of hope arose in his heart. What would happen if the Northern Sui envoys were looking for him?

After a moment, the guards brought in a man over thirty years old and bowed to Wei Daoer, "When Liu Chongyun, the young minister of the Honglu Temple of the Sui Dynasty, came to talk to General Wei on the order of His Highness of the King of Chu to avoid the conditions for meeting between the two sides."

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Chapter completed!