Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 179: Chapter 188: Prepare
Li Hao raised his head with his hands behind his back, and said leisurely: "Use him as bait, put a long line, and catch big fish!"

"You mean Cao Tian?"

"Correct answer." Li Hao said slowly, "Cao Tian is such a precious son as Cao Qingyun, he will definitely not be ignored."

Lu Yun nodded when he heard the words: "It's a good trick to wait for the rabbit."

Li Hao was silent for a long time, and muttered to himself: "Whether Gao Chang will attack or not, first catch Cao Tian, ​​the treasonous traitor."

At this time, all the special forces returned one after another and reported the search situation. The bayonet team found something hidden in Cao's study, and Li Hao hurried to check it himself.

When I came to Cao's study, I saw a hidden compartment on the wall, and the bookcase that originally blocked the hidden compartment was moved aside.

Li Hao stepped forward to open the secret compartment, and found a rare pearl bigger than a bull's eye, several calligraphy and paintings inside, and a stack of letters. All the people present were his own people. Li Hao put the pearl in his arms, and took out the calligraphy and paintings. Handed it to Feiying, and then took out the stack of letters to check. After reading for a while, Li Hao found that these were all correspondence between Zhang Yun and Cao Tian in Jiaohe City. Holding the stack of letters, Li Hao said coldly: "Just rely on These letters can completely confirm Cao Tian's crime of treason, let's go back to the Governor's Mansion!"

Li Hao returned to the governor's mansion with all the people in a mighty manner, wrote two memorials and sent people to the post house, and ordered them to send eight hundred miles to Chang'an urgently.Then he wrote another official document, handed it to Wang Yuantai, and said: "This is an official document to recruit the reserve team of government soldiers. You take it back and post it in Zhechong Weifu, and recruit two thousand reserve soldiers of the government according to the official document."

When Wang Yuantai heard the words, he took the official document and looked at it with a confused face, then he was shocked and said, "What an ugly word!"

Li Hao picked up the inkstone casually and pointed at Wang Yuantai: "Say it again!"

Wang Yuantai hurriedly covered his mouth and began to read the content of the official document. After reading it, he still didn't know much about the military reserve team, so he asked, "My lord, what is the military reserve team?"

Li Hao dropped the inkstone, frowned and said, "Are you illiterate? It's written so clearly."

Wang Yuantai scratched his head in embarrassment: "Humble job... I don't read much, so I don't understand much."

"Read more books if you have nothing to do in the future." Li Hao rolled his eyes and explained, "The duty of the government soldier reserve team is to participate in training, but they don't get paid. Filling up the advances and rushing to the Weifu, participating in the battle to defend against the enemy, at that time is no different from ordinary soldiers."

"Oh——" Wang Yuantai suddenly realized, and suddenly frowned again, "But there is no military salary, which fool is willing to come to the military reserve team?"

Li Haodao: "Under normal circumstances, no one is willing to do so, but if the enemy country is eyeing it, it may attack at any time. My official document has already stated that Gaochang is ready to attack and can attack at any time. As a man of the Tang Dynasty, when Take it as your responsibility to protect your home and country.”

Wang Yuantai was startled when he heard the words, and hurriedly asked: "Your Excellency is serious? Gaochang is planning to offend my Tingzhou?"

Li Haodao: "Cao Tian secretly communicated with Gao Chang. Now that he has been expelled, Gao Chang has lost control of Tingzhou. If they are not reconciled, they are very likely to commit crimes. It is better to believe what they have than to believe nothing. We must act as soon as possible. Make plans, plan ahead.”

Wang Yuantai nodded his head: "I understand, I will go back to recruit the prefectural army reserve team and step up training." After he finished speaking, he hurriedly left the Governor's Mansion.

After sending Wang Yuantai away, Li Hao said to Lu Yun, "The artisan must step up, and the [-] arrows must be completed as soon as possible."

Lu Yun nodded: "Yes, I understand."

Li Hao got up and paced in the yamen hall, seeing that he seemed a little anxious, Li Yuanzhong asked doubtfully, "My lord seems to have something else on his mind?"

Li Hao nodded and said: "I'm struggling. If Gao Chang comes to commit an attack, I'm afraid it will be too late for me to ask the court for help. But now that the military has not started and I can't ask for help, it's really difficult."

Li Yuanzhong heard the words and said: "My lord, send eight hundred miles from Tingzhou to send the documents to Chang'an urgently, and they will arrive in January."

"So what." Li Hao shook his head and sighed, "It will take at least half a year to bring troops here from Chang'an."

"If you bring few soldiers, it won't take that long." Li Yuanzhong said, "If there are less than 1 people who come to help defend the city, your majesty can send a marching chief to lead the guards on the road, passing through Liangzhou Shazhou and other places. Borrowing troops along the way, it only takes more than two months to reach Tingzhou."

Li Hao was slightly delighted when he heard the words: "That is to say, if Gaochang invades, as long as we hold on to the city for more than three months, we can wait for reinforcements?"

Li Yuanzhong nodded: "That's right."

"That's okay." Li Hao clapped his hands happily, thought for a while, and said to himself, "The city wall here is too much fun, it must be repaired and raised."

After he finished speaking, he returned to the case, picked up a pen and wrote another official document, handed it to Lu Yun, and said, "Take this official document to the state warehouse to withdraw money, recruit workers to repair the city walls, and raise the height of all the city walls by seven feet."

"Yes." Lu Yun received the official document and prepared to leave.

"Wait a minute!" Li Hao stopped him again, and added: "The more people, the better, and the sooner the better, don't be reluctant to spend money, there are hundreds of thousands in the state treasury."

Lu Yun nodded: "Don't worry, young master, I understand." After speaking, he quickly left the hall.

From the next day, the whole Tingzhou began to get busy. When Lu Yun recruited workers, he offered a price of [-] Wen per person per day. After hearing the news, thousands of people enthusiastically participated in the repair of the city wall. The people of the Tang Dynasty were real. No one wants to be lazy, and they work very hard, for fear of being gossiped by others. The progress of the city wall fortification is very fast. After all, the city wall here is an earthen wall, so of course it is fast.

Before Li Hao had to store corn, Li Hao stopped the business of the distillery. Several merchants came to Li Hao for questioning. Now that Li Hao had five thousand stones of grain, he didn't need the corn in the warehouse, so he promised them to resume the operation of the distillery. , All the merchants returned with satisfaction.

Tingzhou has temporarily settled down, and Shi Najie is also preparing to return to Persia. Their caravan has been here for so long and has brought a lot of benefits to Tingzhou City. After all, more than 300 people need to spend money on food, clothing and housing. As long as they spend money, the people of Tingzhou will make money, that's the reason.

Shi Najie helped Li Hao a lot. Li Hao personally sent him out of the city, which moved Shi Najie into a mess. In fact, Li Hao originally planned to send special forces to infiltrate Persia and bring all Shi Najie's family members to Datang. , to realize Shi Najie's plan to emigrate to Datang, but now he is too busy to take care of himself and has no time to help Shi Najie, so he can only let it go.

After seeing off Shi Najie, Li Hao went to Wei Mansion to check the training situation of the soldiers and reserve team.

Although the prefectural soldier reserve team does not have military pay, they can take care of food. All of them quickly recruited 1000 people, all of whom are children from poor families. The youngest is only 15 years old, but this is still far from the goal of [-] reserve teams set by Li Hao. Far away, Wang Yuantai was also very helpless, after all, there were not many young people in Tingzhou, and some people were not very enlightened, and when they heard that there was no military salary to receive, they were unwilling to come to suffer.

Li Hao expressed his understanding and did not blame Wang Yuantai. He personally made a training plan for them. Li Yuanzhong trained a reserve team of [-] soldiers, and the soldiers were trained by Cheetah and Wang Yuantai. Li Hao didn't trust Wang Yuantai very much in terms of training. At present, Wang Yuantai's loyalty is acceptable, but his ability is insufficient. To put it mildly, there is a lot of room for improvement.

Cheetah is a special soldier who has been trained in the region. Let him come to train. It is conceivable that this group of government soldiers will not have a good life. However, Li Hao did not forget to tell Cheetah not to be too eager for success, but to take it slowly, so as not to overwhelm the seedlings. It is counterproductive, and at the same time it is easy to cause dissatisfaction among the soldiers.

Although the cheetah had no official position, Wang Yuantai admired him very much, because the cheetah was very murderous, and he didn't dare to talk to him when he stopped there. There is no pressure, and the training quota is continuously increased for the soldiers every day, and no one dares to say anything.

On April 27, in the middle of the night, there was a commotion in the city. The commotion was so loud that it woke up Li Hao. As soon as Li Hao put on his clothes and walked out of the room, a guard came to report: "My lord, something is wrong, the warehouse is flooded." Already!"

Li Hao's face suddenly changed when he heard the words, and hurriedly said: "Go to put out the fire! No, go to save the food!" After speaking, a gust of wind seemed to run out, and the right Xiaowei had already prepared a horse for him, and went straight to the state warehouse.

Zhoucang was not far from the Governor's Mansion. As soon as Li Hao stepped out of the gate, he saw the raging fire in the west, burning straight into the sky. Seeing such a big fire, his heart went cold.

Before he got close to it, he saw people on the street swarming, shouting loudly and in a state of chaos. Seeing this, Li Hao frowned for a while, then suddenly thought of something, and waved his hand: "All soldiers obey orders, except fire fighters. , everyone stay where they are, don’t move rashly, don’t make noise!”

Then he turned to Peng Hai and said, "Peng Hai, take You Xiaowei to rescue the food quickly. Remember, the food is important, and the lives of the soldiers are even more important. Just try your best, don't force it."

"Yes!" Peng Hai took the order and left.

Li Hao turned his head and looked at the 28 special forces and more than 50 government soldiers left around him, and couldn't help asking, "Where is Wang Yuantai?"

A mansion soldier replied: "My lord, Captain Wang has already led people to put out the fire."

Li Hao nodded when he heard the words, and said loudly: "Lu Yun, quickly take 50 people to the corn field to protect the corn. Li Yuanzhong, you go back and guard the governor's mansion in case there are monsters. Follow me!" After speaking, turn around Horse head, ran towards the south, followed by 28 special forces and Jin Li on horseback, Li Yuanzhong rushed back, Lu Yun led fifty soldiers towards the west city.

The granary in Tingzhou was on fire, and instead of directing the rescue of grain, Li Hao headed south. Jin Li and the others were still very confused. They turned a few turns to the south, and suddenly heard the sound of shouting and killing in front of them, and there were only torches in the dark. Shaking with figures, more than 20 government soldiers and more than 30 men in black were fighting fiercely at the gate of the state prison, which was extremely tragic.

Seeing this, Li Hao's pupils shrank sharply, as expected, Cao Tian sent people to rob the prison, and the fire in the state warehouse was just to distract the attention of the soldiers in the city, but he still had a doubt in his heart, he The government soldiers and You Xiaowei had long been sent to guard the gates of the city, and strictly interrogated how these people got into the city.

(End of this chapter)