Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 180 Chapter 189: The rain is coming

However, he didn't have time to think about it at the moment, and shouted: "Go!"

Jin Li and the others and the 28 Special Forces immediately rushed forward and joined the battle group. Their combat power was terrifying. The man in black who had just gained the upper hand was attacked by them, like harvesting wheat, and fell down instantly. Seeing this, the rest exclaimed: "Run away! The situation has changed!"

It was impossible to escape under the pursuit of the special forces. Flying Eagle took the lead and chased after him. He picked up his spear repeatedly and overturned three people in a short while. None of the men in black could escape and were killed by them on the spot.

Li Hao had come to the prison door at this moment, and asked loudly, "Has the prisoner been taken away?"

A mansion chief of fire replied: "My lord, ten men in black have forced their way in, but they haven't come out yet!"

Li Hao frowned, and waved his hand: "Bayonet, you lead people in, and kill all the robbers and the prisoners of the Cao family!"

"Yes!" The bayonet took the lead and rushed in with the bayonet team, and then heard the sound of killing inside, and it didn't take long for the sound to gradually stop.

As soon as everyone outside cleaned up and inspected the corpses all over the ground, the bayonet came out with the bayonet team to report: "Master, all the prison guards inside have encountered accidents, and the subordinates have killed all the prison robbers and Cao's prisoners!"

"Yes." Li Hao nodded and asked, "Is Cao Tian among them?"

"Go back to my lord, I'm not here."

Li Hao frowned when he heard that, Cao Tian was really not there, he was too naive, how could an old fox like Cao Tian come to take risks in person.

Now that the situation was urgent, he didn't think too much about it. He ordered the government soldiers to stay here and clean up the corpses while he led the others to the granary.

When we arrived at the granary, we saw that the fire in the warehouse had risen more than ten meters high, and no one dared to approach it within 30 meters around. Thousands of soldiers stood outside and stared blankly at the soaring flames, their faces full of helplessness and grief.

When everyone saw Li Hao coming, they gave way one after another. When Li Hao came to the innermost place, he felt the heat wave burning his face immediately. Hundreds of sacks of grain were piled up on the ground in front of him.

Seeing these hundreds of bags of grain, Li Hao's face sank like water. Although he had already guessed the result, he still asked unwillingly: "Wang Yuantai, how much grain was rescued?"

Wang Yuantai walked over with a bitter face, cupped his hands and said in a deep voice: "My lord, I have a humble job and incompetence, and I only grabbed three hundred stones of grain."

"It's only three hundred stones." Li Hao looked up to the sky and sighed sadly. He was right. Wang Yuantai's ability was indeed insufficient. He brought more than 100 people, but failed to guard the granary, and was successfully set on fire. It is estimated that it is not known that the fire was not an accident, but man-made.

After Li Hao sighed, he said coldly: "Wang Yuantai, this fire was caused by people sent by Cao Tian, ​​you know that."

"What!" Wang Yuantai trembled all over when he heard the words, and then suddenly fell to his knees, knocked his head on the ground forcefully, and burst into tears, "The lowly job is incompetent! The lowly job should be damned!"

Li Hao was silent for a moment, then slowly said: "You have neglected your duties and committed serious crimes. I will temporarily suspend your position as Captain Youguoyi. Are you convinced?"

Wang Yuantai raised his head and said in a loud voice: "The crime of a lowly position deserves it, thank you for your lenient sentence!"

"Get up."

Wang Yuantai wiped his tears and got up.

Li Haodao: "This is the time of life and death. Food is very important. You are negligent on duty, and the five thousand stones of food are destroyed. I just took your position temporarily. It is true that you are lightly spared, but don't be discouraged. Fill in the Flying Eagle Guard next to the official, here, you can learn many things that you can't usually learn."

"Thank you for your cultivation, my lord!" Wang Yuantai had been in contact with Feiying for more than a month, so he naturally knew how elite the Feiying Guards were, so he immediately thanked Feiying excitedly.

Li Hao continued: "Peng Hai will take up the position of Captain You Guoyi for the time being, and the matter of military training must not be delayed!"

"Yes!" Peng Hai shouted his orders.

At this time, there was a rush of horseshoes from the west, and then a horse galloped towards him, and Lu Yun shouted loudly from a distance: "Master, it's not good, the corn field has been destroyed!"

"What!" Hearing that, Li Hao felt as if thunder was thundering. The corn in the corn field would mature in more than a month. Since Cao Tian was driven away, he was relaxed, so he only sent a dozen or so soldiers to guard him. Something went wrong.

"Damn it!" Li Hao suddenly snatched a right guard's spear, snapped it into two pieces, and yelled loudly, "Cao Tian! If I don't kill you with my own hands, I swear I won't be human!"

At this time, Lu Yun had come to the front, got off his horse and asked, "Master, what should we do now?"

Li Hao rubbed his temples with both hands, tried his best to calm himself down, and after thinking for a long time, he said in a deep voice: "This time, the granary caught fire, and the whole city knows about it. It is impossible to hide it from the people. Please do your best to appease the people." Don’t let the people panic!”

"Yes!" Everyone at the scene took orders in unison, the sound of heavy drinking shook the air, and even the fire stopped shaking.

Li Hao went on to say: "Immediately replant the corn, and the sowing must be completed before sunset tomorrow. Cheetahs, bayonets, you all bring your own teams, plus a hundred government soldiers, and take turns to guard day and night. Don't make any mistakes. Otherwise, come and see me!"

"Yes!" Bayonet and Cheetah led in unison.

Li Hao thought for a while, and then said: "From now on, in the Governor's Mansion, Zhechong Mansion, and You Xiaowei, all meals will be reduced by [-]% to reduce food consumption. Let's tide over the difficulties together."

"Yes!" Although it was an order to reduce food, all the soldiers still answered sonorously, because they already had a sense of crisis. They are men from the Tang Dynasty, and at such a time, the blood in their bodies will boil.

After cleaning up the mess, Li Hao ordered people to move the remaining [-] shi of grain into the Zhechong Mansion, and guard it closely. After finishing all this, it was already dawn, and Li Hao knew that the most difficult moment was coming.

Although he hadn't slept all night, Li Hao didn't feel sleepy at all. He ordered everyone to thoroughly investigate the whole city, to find out how the enemy got into the city.

The final result was shocking. In the afternoon, a commoner took the initiative to report that when he woke up at night, he saw someone coming out of an abandoned well in the wasteland west of the city. Li Hao took people to investigate the abandoned well, and he was shocked. , There is actually a secret passage under the abandoned well. He led a group of people down the abandoned well, and found a secret passage. After walking along the secret passage for a long time, they came directly to a ruined house five miles outside the city. Among them, because the ruins of this house used to be a sheep pen, the inside was extremely smelly, no one usually approached it, and it was covered by a collapsed roof, so it was difficult to find the entrance of the secret passage. A secret escape route was dug from the city to the outside of the city. It really was the old fox, and it was this secret route that caused Li Hao a great loss.

After returning to the city, Li Hao ordered the secret passages to be blocked, and sent people to search all the abandoned wells in the city to see if there were other secret passages.

After working all day, his subordinates reported that no other secret passages were found, so Li Hao was relieved.

While Li Hao was busy, His Majesty Tian Khan was already galloping across the Yinshan prairie, dealing with Xue Yantuo's 20 iron cavalry, and the two sides clashed seven times. It is difficult for all the ethnic groups to compete with them. They have fought seven times and lost seven times. Now Zhenzhu Khan Yinan has retreated in defeat and fled northward for two hundred miles with his army.

And Chen Bin, the Zhonglang General of Zuo Wuwei who was in charge of escorting [-] armaments to Tingzhou, had just entered Longyou Road and entered Liangzhou's territory.

Five days later, Gaochang's [-] troops set off from Jiaohe City and headed for Tingzhou in a mighty manner, and another [-] soldiers and horses set off from Jiaohe City to the east of Tingzhou. The roads in Tingzhou turned Tingzhou into a lonely city, and even letters could not be sent out.

Since the day when the food was burned, Li Hao sent more than 20 scouts out to investigate the movement of hundreds of miles around to prevent Gaochang from attacking. Twelve days later, a scout came to report that tens of thousands of troops were found in Gaochang, a hundred miles south of Tingzhou. Coming towards Tingzhou, 3000 troops from Gaochang were found in the east, seeming to cut off the passing passage between Tingzhou and Datang.

The two spies sent the news almost at the same time. Li Hao was shocked when he heard the news. He went up to the tower and looked towards the south and east with the binoculars. Sure enough, he saw a large number of people in these two directions, especially the people in the south. The torrent of water, where it passed, raised dust all over the sky, and the war was finally coming.

Li Hao immediately ordered that the whole city be put into a state of combat readiness. All the prefectural soldiers went to the Hankuo to collect the armaments and guard the city. Then he returned to the Governor's Mansion, wrote a memorial, and personally sent it to the Tingzhou post station and handed it over to the post chief. , Solemnly remind, Gaochang's army is coming, and it is extremely urgent. Send [-] miles of horses to send this memorial to Chang'an, and you must send it out before Gaochang blocks the route.

How dare the postmaster be negligent, and immediately sent two of the best messengers at the post station, riding the fastest horses and rushing out of the city. Li Hao stood on the tower and watched the two post envoys leave with binoculars, and saw them blocking the route in Gaochang He was relieved to pass through the main road before, and the next step is the tough battle of defending the city.

Early the next morning, Li Hao climbed to the top of the city and checked the movement of Gaochang's army with binoculars again. The three thousand Gaochang troops acting as obstacles had already arrived at their destination and blocked all the main roads leading to Tingzhou. The [-] army is still [-] miles away from Tingzhou, and they are rushing here.

Li Hao immediately sent someone to summon Li Yuanzhong and Peng Hai to discuss matters in the Yamen Hall of the Governor's Mansion to discuss how to fight this battle.

Although only two of them were summoned, Lu Yun, Feiying, and Wang Yuantai were also there, and they also participated in the military council. Li Hao asked everyone to express their opinions and see how this battle should be fought.

Although Li Yuanzhong is a Jinwu guard, he has always been in charge of guarding the Taiji Palace and has never participated in a war, so he dared not speak up. The same is true for Lu Yun. After all, he is only a member of the rivers and lakes and does not understand wars. Peng Hai said that to be on the safe side, They should stick to the city. After all, although they have more than 3000 troops now, the [-] reserves have not yet been trained, and they have never been on the battlefield. Thousands of troops can only stick to the city.

Peng Hai's suggestion is indeed the safest way, but Li Hao frowned upon hearing this. If the city has enough food and grass, defending the city is naturally the best policy. However, the city is now short of food. According to preliminary estimates, it can last for a month at most. If the enemy The army was unable to attack for a long time, and turned to besiege the city. What will happen after a month.

After Peng Hai proposed to defend the city, no one spoke anymore. Li Hao stood up and paced slowly in the hall. Anxiety and uneasiness suppressed everyone's hearts. Li Hao, as the city's defender, was even more stressed.

He paced around for a long time, then slowly reached into his bosom, and took out a purple brocade pouch with a blue "two" embroidered on its surface. These were the three brocade pouches given to him by the real Zhiyuan when he went down the mountain. The second one, his senior brother Pei Miao once said: The second kit is opened when the army is in battle.

Now that the rain is about to come and the war is about to start, he feels that it is time to open this kit.

(End of this chapter)