About ten miles north of Leshou County, there is a gentle hill, which runs east-west and is about seven miles long, so it is called Qilipo, which lies between Leshou County and Hejian City. On the vast Hebei Plain, such hills are extremely rare. On the sudden Great Plain, it forms a natural barrier in the north of Leshou County, and it is also a commanding height, and its strategic location is very important.

The hills are seven miles long, one mile wide, about ten feet high, and the top of the hills is flat. Legend has it that this is the tomb of King Xian of the Han Dynasty. For hundreds of years, tomb robbers have come here to dig, making the hills full of thieves, and many thieves are filled with springs from underground.

As the war broke out, the originally dense trees on the hills had been cut down, making the hill a bare mound. The cut trees turned into camps. Dou Jiande's Xia army stationed 20,000 elite troops on this hill, led by general Wang Fubao. A few miles south of the hill were Dou Jiande's army's dozens of miles of camp.

There are clear springs, food, a large number of bows, arrows, and reinforcements in the rear, making this hill a barrier for the Sui army.

That morning, the 100,000 Sui army slowly arrived several miles north of Qilipo. The army set up camps on the spot, built camp bars, buried deer antlers, built twelve four-meter-high viewing towers, distributed to all sides of the camp.

On a lookout tower, Yang Yuanqing stared at Qilipo in the distance, and behind him were more than a dozen important generals. There were vaguely dense camps on the slope. He had to take down this hill, otherwise the enemy would rush down from a high place, which would make him very passive.

Without Yang Yuanqing speaking, Luo Shixin stepped forward behind him and bowed and said, "I will volunteer to take down Qilipo."

The reason why Luo Shixin volunteered was because he heard that the enemy general on the hillside was Wang Fubao. He had long wanted to fight with Wang Fubao again, and to be ashamed of using Xue as a young enemy.

At this time, Pei Xingyan also stepped forward and said, "The last general is willing to lead the troops to fight. Please allow the general manager!"

As early as the second year of Daye, Pei Xingyan competed with Luo Shixin in Licheng County, Qi County. At that time, Luo Shixin was just a fourteen-year-old boy. At that time, Pei Xingyan had a little advantage and was destroyed by Yang Wei. The competition did not come out. Later, Luo Shixin showed his power in the Turkic Mengwu tribe and killed the most brave general of the Mengwu tribe. Since then, Pei Xingyan wanted to compete with Luo Shi again, but he had no chance.

However, Yang Yuanqing strictly prohibited the two of them from competing, so the competition to lead troops to fight was actually a disguised battle.

Yang Yuanqing glanced at the two of them and smiled slightly, "General Luo will lead 10,000 troops to attack Qilipo first. If General Luo cannot capture it, then General Pei will come!"

Luo Shixin glanced at Pei Xingyan from the corner of his eyes and sneered in his heart. Wu Wuer was the second one. Pei Xingyan could not imagine any chance!

"I will obey the order!"

The rumbling drums in the Sui army camp sounded, and the camp gate opened. An army of two thousand cavalry and eight thousand infantry, led by Luo Shixin, rushed to Qilipo several miles away.

Although Qilipo stretches for seven miles, it is not a complete slope. Due to wind and rain erosion and rivers, it also forms several sinking zones. The Xia army camp is located on the largest slope in the middle, about four miles long and is almost occupied by the entire camp.

At this time, there were dense soldiers standing above the camp. They held bows and arrows in their hands and watched nervously as the Sui army slowly arrived. The chief general Wang Fubao stood among the soldiers. His burly figure made him significantly taller than the soldiers, as if he stood out in a flock of chickens.

Wang Fubao is about forty years old. He has a square face and a thick eyebrows that looks like a brush. He has a pair of leopard eyes that are bright and full of men's perseverance.

Wang Fubao was originally a general of Gao Shida. After Dou Jiande was in the seventh year of Daye, he defected to Dou Jiande and followed him to fight south and north, making numerous military achievements. Dou Jiande regarded him as his right-hand man. However, in the Youzhou War last month, he was late to rescue Dou Jiande, resulting in the annihilation of a 100,000 army. All the generals took his anger on him, saying that he wanted to die and relied on his own.

Of course, Wang Fubao knew that this was his usual high merits aroused the jealousy of the generals, but he really had no choice. His mission was to attack Shanggu County, because Luo Shixin blocked the road and changed to Zhuo County north. However, Dou Jiande was captured by the Sui army overnight, and he could not fly even if he had wings.

Although Dou Jiande kept saying that he would not blame him, he ordered him to guard Qilipo. Wang Fubao understood that Dou Jiande was still dissatisfied with him, or had suspicion about him, otherwise he would not have let him, the number one general, guard Qilipo.

Wang Fubao was filled with grief and anger. He could only prove his innocence by fighting to the death.

"You useless things are actually shaking?" A young woman's scolding came not far away.

Wang Fubao had a headache. He didn't expect that the straight lady would actually sneak into his team as a soldier. If she had any mistakes, how could she explain to the lord?

A young female general appeared in the team, about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing thin silver armor, an eagle-edged helmet, holding a phoenix-tail knife in his hand, and a treasure-carved bow on his back.

Her skin is slightly dark, her nose is high and straight, her lips are angular, her eyebrows are like thin swords, and her almond eyes are extremely bright. Although she does not look as charming and beautiful as ordinary wealthy women, she is full of heroism and has a bit of a heroic spirit.

Her name is Dou Xianniang, and she is Dou Jiande's niece. Her father Dou Jianhong is Dou Jiande's younger brother. In the seventh year of Daye, she was arrested and killed by the government because of Dou Jiande's rebellion. Dou Jiande adopted her, regarded her as her own son, and loved her very much.

Dou Xianniang grew up among the bandits. She has a very resolute personality and has practiced martial arts, especially her archery skills. She has made every move within a hundred steps. In this battle with the Sui army, Dou Jiande sent her and his wife Cao to her hometown in Zhangnan County, but Dou Xianniang sneaked back. She did not dare to go back to the camp, so she sneaked into the Qilipo military camp. She was discovered by Wang Fubao. She simply changed her clothes and became a female general.

When Dou Xianniang saw that several soldiers were extremely scared and trembled all over. She was dissatisfied and pulled them off the camp platform.

"Since you are a soldier, don't be afraid of death. If you are afraid of death, get out of here!"

Several soldiers rolled and crawled away. Dou Xianniang jumped from her horse and jumped onto the two-foot-wide platform. She watched the Sui army approach, and she paid special attention to the other party's chief general.

She saw that a mile away, under a Red Eagle banner, there was a tall Sui general, who seemed quite young.

"Uncle Wang Er, what is the name of the commander of the Sui army?" She asked Wang Fubao loudly.

Wang Fubao looked at it for a moment and said, "There is a word 'Luo' on the other party's banner, which should be Luo Shixin."

"Is it the one Luo Shixin, the new five tiger generals of the Sui army, who claims to be unparalleled in shooting skills?"

Wang Fubao nodded, "It's this person!"

The reputation of the new five tiger generals of the Sui army has spread all over the world. Luo Shixin, Pei Xingyan, Qin Qiong, Su Dingfang, and Wang Junkuo is the ranking of the Sui army, and it also makes martial artists all over the world talk about it. In addition, there are four treasure generals in the Sui army, Xie Yingdeng's arrow, Yang Sien's knife, Yang Wei's hammer and Cheng Yaojin's axe, but their reputation is not as great as the Five Tiger Generals.

Dou Shinniang clenched her teeth and hummed gently, "What is the first five tigers? Under the arrow of my aunt, I want him to become a sick cat."

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The Sui army had already formed a formation under the hills, with 10,000 troops arranged into three square formations, with one thousand cavalry on each side to prevent the enemy from rushing down from a high place. In front were three thousand crossbowmen, used to suppress the opponent's bows and arrows, and in the middle were five thousand swords and shield soldiers. They were the main force of the charge.

Luo Shixin looked at the hills a mile away coldly. The slope of the hills was not steep and soldiers could rush up, but even if they attacked the hills, once the camp was opened and the enemy was condescending, the Sui army would be extremely unfavorable. However, the war relied on courage. If he could not win, it was Pei Xingyan who came to attack, and this situation would never be allowed to happen.

"Beat the drum, crossbow army presses on!"

With Luo Shixin's order, the drums in front of the Sui army made a loud sound, "Dong!Dong!Dong!" The drums were tight, and three thousand crossbowmen were arranged in three groups, holding giant shields in their hands and walking forward quickly. The giant shields of crossbowmen were different from ordinary soldiers. They were four feet high and five feet wide, and were made of fine wooden boards, covered with a layer of iron sheet, slightly heavy, but very strong. Its biggest feature was that there were two one foot long wedges under the shield, which could be inserted into the soil.

The crossbow soldiers walked closer to the mound step by step, stopped a hundred steps away, inserted their shield into the soil, and three thousand people squatted down together and hid behind the shield.

At this time, Wang Fubao in the camp gave an order, "The crossbow soldiers fired arrows!"

The Xia army also had three thousand crossbow soldiers. The military crossbows were seized from the Sui soldiers. There were arm-opening crossbows, waist-opening crossbows, and sagging crossbows. The styles were different and the range was different, but they all exceeded a hundred steps. Arrows were fired on the top of the mountain, and a rain of arrows was formed, which was thrown towards the Sui army at the foot of the mountain.

The dense rain of arrows jingled and shot on the shield, but there were still Sui soldiers hit by the dense rain of arrows and fell down behind the shield screaming.

‘Woo——’ A low trumpet sound in the Sui army camp sounded.

The Sui army crossbowmen also fought back. They all used slashing crossbows with a range of 150 steps and a killing distance of 100 steps. The Sui army soldiers placed the crossbows on the shield, and there were special crossbow ditches on the shield to facilitate the establishment of crossbows. The Sui army aimed at the top of the mountain to launch a thousand crossbow arrows in the first row roared towards the enemy's camp. A scream sounded from the camp. More than a hundred people were shot and rolled down from the camp platform.

Then the second row was shot out, then the third row was shot out. At this time, the first row had been turned on and the crossbow was placed on the shield crossbow groove.

A fierce crossbow and arrow battle broke out between the two sides. Arrows came and went, and dense rain of arrows intertwined into a dark cloud in the air, as if obscuring the sky. The casualties and injuries of both sides continued to increase. The Sui army crossbowmen were killed and injured by more than 400 people, but the other side suffered more casualties. Gradually, the well-trained Sui army gained the upper hand and began to suppress the enemy.

Seeing that the crossbow soldiers had successfully suppressed the enemy, Luo Shixin resolutely ordered: "Beat the drum, and the infantry attack the camp!"

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