At the end of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 577
In the early morning, when the sun rose, the mist cleared, and the fierce drums beating, Su Dingfang launched an attack on Hejian County again, and Cheng Yaojin had to lead the crooked melons under his command to the front of the battle to undertake the first battle. A wave of attack missions, and the target of the attack is still the city gate. This location is the most dangerous and has the highest death rate.

Cui Zijian stood next to Cheng Yaojin's bay red horse with a sword and shield in his hand, and said in a deep voice, "General Cheng, what should we do now? Su Dingfang doesn't trust us. This is clearly making us die as cannon fodder."

Cheng Yaojin looked at the city gate in the distance, and said calmly: "We are newcomers, if we don't show anything, how can Su Dingfang trust us? Now we are stretching out our heads, and shrinking our heads, what else can we do? Bar."

Cui Zijian glanced back at the supervising team behind him. It was obvious that if people like himself dared to retreat, they would immediately face arrows and knives, and now they could only bite the bullet.

"Attack!" With a wave of Cheng Yaojin's battle axe, Cui Zijian and others formed a shield formation and rushed towards the city gate. It seems quite grandiose.

Hejian County originally had a moat, but it has been filled up now, so Cheng Yaojin and others rushed through the moat quickly. The scattered bandits killed or injured dozens of people on the spot, and the rest turned around and fled in fright, but were killed by the supervisor team behind them with knives, and turned back to attack the city in fright.

At this time, Cheng Yaojin, Cui Zijian and others finally braved the arrow rain to attack the city gate, and the rolling logs, stones, and hot oil on the top of their heads fell down one after another, and many people were burned and injured immediately. unspeakable.

"Attack!" Cheng Yaojin swung his huge ax and struck at the city gate, causing sawdust to fly.

Su Dingfang had been observing from behind, and couldn't help but blurt out praise when he saw this: "Cheng Yaojin is truly worthy of being a fierce general. He passed on my orders and launched a fierce attack from the two wings to disperse the defenders' strength."

The sound of war drums was loud again, and the two armies of Dou slammed into the city wall from the two wings, and the siege vehicles, arrow towers, and ladders were also pushed forward, and the soldiers climbed to the top of the city one after another.

After fighting fiercely for nearly an hour, Cheng Yaojin and others were finally allowed to retreat and rest. The casualties were a bit heavy. Nearly 20 minions killed and injured more than [-] people. Seven people were killed and more than [-] were injured.

Cui Zijian's left leg was scalded by the hot oil. Although it was not disabled, it still affected his movement. Cheng Yaojin's head was also smashed by a stone. Fortunately, the injury was not serious, only bleeding. Like an Asan.

Cui Zijian was quite depressed at the moment, and felt that Cheng Yaojin's strategy was a bad idea. One-third of the people were injured in just one battle today.It was nothing but cannon fodder for Su Fangfang.

Cheng Yaojin was also very anxious at this time, and obviously knew that if he continued like this, before Pei Xingyan arrived, he and his people would probably be wiped out.

In the afternoon, the battle started again. A brigade commander of the supervising team came to Cheng Yaojin and said coldly: "General Cheng, the attack has begun. General Su ordered you to fight."

Cheng Yaojin said angrily: "My people suffered heavy casualties, we can't fight any more, let's find other people!"

"Could it be that you want to disobey orders!" The brigade commander's expression darkened immediately, and he pressed his hand on the handle of the knife showing murderous intent.

Cheng Yaojinhuo stood up, taller than the brigade commander by a full head, looking down from a high position, his big belly almost pressed against the opponent's body, full of pressure, and said with a ferocious expression: "There is a kind of You just use the knife and try, I, Cheng Yaojin, was not frightened, and even if I die, I will pull ten or eight of you back. Into your grandma, I am here to seek refuge, not to be cannon fodder to die!"

Intimidated by Cheng Yaojin's aura, the brigade commander subconsciously took a few steps back, and then became angry from embarrassment, and sternly shouted: "Cheng Yaojin doesn't listen to orders, so shoot him to death."

"I'll kill you bastard first!" Cheng Yaojin slashed out with an axe, and the brigade commander hurriedly raised his knife to parry, with a bang, the waist knife was smashed by the giant axe, scaring him pale, and staggering back, He fell down and sat down.

Cheng Yaojin grinned, stepped forward and struck down with an axe, at this moment there was a loud shout: "Stop!"

Cheng Yaojin's big ax was frozen in the air, he looked up, and saw Su Dingfang coming on horseback surrounded by his own soldiers, he took the ax and took a step back.

Su Dingfang's soldiers rushed forward and surrounded Cheng Yaojin and others. Su Dingfang approached and asked with a sullen face: "Cheng Yaojin, I, Su Dingfang, took you in kindly, how dare you commit a crime here!"

Cheng Yaojin pointed to his head, which was bandaged like Ah San, and sneered, "Good intentions? I appreciate General Su's kindness, hehe, I came here because I heard about General Dou's benevolence and righteousness. Never thought that I was a person with a vain reputation, I, Cheng Yaojin, came here for my future, not to die in vain, no matter, this time I will treat my old Cheng as blind, and I will quit, just leave it!"

Su Dingfang frowned and said, "Why did General Cheng say that?"

Cheng Yaojin sneered and said: "General Su, why bother to ask the question knowingly, we fought desperately to attack the city gate all morning, with heavy casualties, even my own life was almost surrendered, and now I haven't recovered yet, let us continue Come on, isn't this letting us die in vain? If I had known that you, Su Dingfang, were so intolerant, I wouldn't have come."

Su Dingfang couldn't help but blushed, and hurriedly said: "General Cheng misunderstood, I didn't order you to fight again."

Cheng Yaojin picked out his ears with an exaggerated expression, pointed at the clan commander and said, "Could it be that my old Cheng is getting old and has problems with his ears?"

Su Dingfang gave the clan commander a hard look, and shouted, "What's the matter? Didn't I ask you to inform General Cheng to recuperate?"

The brigade commander said with a sly expression: "The drums were loud just now, maybe my subordinates misheard and thought that General Su ordered General Cheng to fight. General Cheng, I'm sorry!"

Su Dingfang sternly said: "Come here, drag this errant guy down and beat him back with thirty army sticks."

The clan commander was dragged down immediately, Su Dingfang cupped his hands to Cheng Yaojin and said with a smile: "It turned out to be a misunderstanding, please forgive me, General Cheng."

Su Dingfang originally planned to try Cheng Yaojin again, but he didn't expect the latter's rebound to be so strong. If he forced Cheng Yaojin to fight again, I'm afraid this reckless guy would really force his way out of the camp. Losing a strong general will also damage his reputation. Maybe no one will dare to come to seek refuge in the future. Therefore, after weighing the gains and losses, Su Dingfang decided to appease Cheng Yaojin, while the brigade commander who sent the order took the blame.

Cheng Yaojin looked pale, put away his giant ax and remained silent, apparently still resentful.

"General Cheng and all the brothers take good care of their wounds. Tonight, the general will personally host a banquet to accompany you." Su Dingfang apologized.

Only then did Cheng Yaojin "reluctantly" squeeze out a smile and said: "That's unnecessary. We came to seek refuge with General Dou just to be optimistic about General Dou, and to fight for the success of a dragon who can make a wife and a cute child. As long as General Su Do us justice and don't give us people little shoes."

Su Dingfang smiled and said: "General Dou and this general have always distinguished rewards and punishments. What happened today is just a misunderstanding. Don't worry, brothers, as long as you do your best with loyalty, General Dou and this general will not treat you badly."

Next, Su Dingfang comforted everyone for a while and then left, Cheng Yaojin couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, grandma's, finally got away with it.Cui Zijian was also so nervous that his palms were sweating just now, and now he couldn't help giving Lao Cheng a thumbs up. This guy is quite quick-witted at critical times, but he is too risky.

That night, Su Dingfang really hosted a banquet for Cheng Yaojin and the others to appease them, which meant that they were truly accepted. Soon, Cheng Yaojin found that all kinds of security against their camp had also been withdrawn.

Two days later, Pei Xingyan finally arrived with the Youzhou Army. Su Dingfang had to stop attacking Hejian County, and moved to Qilijing to confront Pei Xingyan.

Qilijing is located in the northwest of Hejian County. The terrain is open and suitable for large-scale field battles between the two armies. It is obvious that Su Dingfang intends to defeat Pei Xingyan with an upright army.

The two armies opened up several miles apart, and the first battle between the Youzhou Army and the Dou Army was imminent. At this time, Gao Yaxian, another general under Dou Jiande's command, also arrived with 10,000 people. Le Shou.

Gao Yaxian is Su Dingfang's adoptive father, and he is also highly regarded by Dou Jiande.As the saying goes, brothers fighting tigers, father and son soldiers in battle, Dou Jiande successively sent Su Dingfang and Gao Yaxian to lead [-] troops north to Hejian. Deceived the situation and captured Hejian County, and then waited for an opportunity to attack Gao Bufan's base camp - Zhuo County!
It can be seen from this that old Dou Qizhi is really not small, and his wishful thinking is also crackling.

(End of this chapter)