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

Jin Li and the others and the twenty-eight special combat soldiers immediately rushed forward and joined the battle group, the combat power of their group can be called terrifying, the black-clothed people who had just occupied the advantage were attacked by them, like harvesting wheat, and more than 20 fell in an instant, and the rest of the people exclaimed when they saw this: "Escape!" Things have changed! ”

If you want to escape under the pursuit of the special forces, it is impossible, the flying eagle took the lead, pursued the past, the spear was picked up, and in a moment the three people were overturned, none of the men in black could escape, and they were killed on the spot.

Li Hao had already come to the door of the cell at this moment, and asked loudly: "Have the prisoners been robbed?" ”

A government soldier replied: "Lord Hui, there are ten black-clothed people who have broken in and haven't come out yet!" ”

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

"Yes!" The bayonet shouted and rushed in with the bayonet team, and then a shout of killing was heard inside, and it was not long before the sound gradually stopped.

As soon as the people outside had finished cleaning up and inspecting the corpses all over the ground, the bayonets came out with the bayonet team to report: "Master, all the prison guards inside have encountered an accident, and their subordinates have killed all the prison robbers and the prisoners of the Cao family!" ”

"Hmm." Li Hao nodded and asked, "Cao Tian can be among them?" ”

"Hui sir, not here."

Li Hao frowned when he heard this, Cao Tian was really not there, he was too naïve, how could an old fox like Cao Tian come to take the risk in person.

Now that the situation was urgent, he didn't have time to think so much, so he ordered the soldiers to stay here and clean up the corpses by the way, while he took the others to the granary.

When I arrived at the granary, I saw that the fire in the warehouse was more than ten meters high, and no one dared to approach within 30 meters around, and thousands of soldiers stood outside and stared blankly at the sky-high flames, their faces full of helplessness and grief.

When everyone saw Li Hao coming, they all got out of the way, Li Hao came to the innermost, and immediately felt the heat wave scorching, and there were hundreds of sacks of grain 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 has been rescued?" ”

Wang Yuantai walked over with a bitter face, and said in a deep voice: "My lord, I am incompetent, and I only grabbed three hundred stone grain. ”

"It's only three hundred stones." Li Hao raised his head to the sky and sighed sadly, he was not mistaken, Wang Yuantai's ability was indeed insufficient, he brought more than 100 people, but he did not guard the granary, and was successfully set on fire, but Wang Yuantai probably didn't know that the fire was not an accident, but man-made.

After Li Hao sighed, he said coldly: "Wang Yuantai, this fire was caused by Cao Tian's faction, do you know." ”

"What!" Wang Yuantai trembled when he heard this, and then suddenly knelt on the ground, slammed his head on the ground, and burst into tears, "Humble and incompetent!" Damn it! ”

Li Hao was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "You are derelict in your duties and have committed a great crime, this official will temporarily suspend your position as the lieutenant of Youguo Yi, can you be convinced?" ”

Wang Yuantai raised his head and said loudly: "You deserve the crime of despicability, thank you for being lenient!" ”

"Get up."

Wang Yuantai wiped his tears and got up.

Li Hao said: "This is the time of survival, food is very important, you are negligent on duty, five thousand stone of grain is ruined, this official just temporarily took away your position, it is indeed a light sparing of you, but don't be discouraged, first fill in the flying eagle escort team around this official, here, you can learn a lot of things that you can't usually learn." ”

"Thank you, sir!" Wang Yuantai has been in contact with the Flying Eagle for more than a month, so he naturally knows how elite the Flying Eagle Escort Team is, and immediately thanked him excitedly.

Li Hao continued: "The position of Lieutenant of Right Guoyi is temporarily held by Peng Hai, and the matter of military training must not be delayed!" ”

"Yes!" Peng Hai shouted his order.

At this time, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the west, and then I saw a horse galloping over, and I heard Lu Yun shouting loudly from a distance: "Young master, it's not good, the cornfield has been destroyed!" ”

"What!" When Li Hao heard this, he only felt that the five thunders were on the top, and the corn in the corn field would be ripe in more than ten days, because he drove away Cao Tian, he was relaxed, so he only sent more than 30 government soldiers to guard, but he didn't expect something to happen.

"Damn!" Li Hao suddenly snatched the spear of a right guard, snapped it into two pieces with a click, and shouted, "Cao Tian!" If I don't kill you with my own hands! Swear not to be a man! ”

Lu Yun had already approached at this time, dismounted and asked, "Young Master, what should I do now?" ”

Li Hao rubbed his temples with both hands, tried his best to calm down, and after thinking for a long time, he said in a deep voice: "This granary fire is known all over the city, and it is impossible to hide it from the people, you are ready to appease the people, don't let the people panic!" ”

"Yes!" Everyone present shouted in unison, and the sound of heavy drinking shook the air, and even the fire shook endlessly.

Li Hao then said: "Replant the corn immediately, before sunset tomorrow, the sowing must be completed, cheetahs, bayonets, you take your respective teams, plus a hundred government soldiers, take turns to guard day and night, don't make any mistakes, otherwise you will come to see you!" ”

"Yes!" Bayonets and cheetahs lead in unison.

Li Hao thought for a while, and said: "From now on, the Assassin Mansion, the Zhichong Mansion, and the Right Xiaowei, all the food will be reduced by three percent, reduce food consumption, and everyone will 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 were Tang Dynasty men, and at this time, the blood in their bodies would boil.

After cleaning up the mess, Li Hao ordered people to move the only remaining 300 stone grain into Zhechong Mansion, and guarded it closely, after all this, it was already dawn, and Li Hao knew that the most difficult moment was coming.

Although he didn't sleep all night, Li Hao did not feel sleepy at all, and ordered everyone to thoroughly investigate the whole city, to find out how the enemy had infiltrated the city.

The final result was shocking, in the afternoon, a common man took the initiative to report, saying that when he got up at night, he saw someone drill out of a waste well in the wasteland in the west of the city, Li Hao took people to check the waste well, and was shocked, there was a secret road under the waste well, he took a group of people down the waste well, and sure enough, he found a secret road, and walked forward along the secret road for a long time, they actually came directly to the ruins of a house five miles outside the city, because the ruins of this house were a sheepfold, the smell was incomparable, and no one usually approached, There is a collapsed roof to cover it, so it is difficult to find the entrance of the secret passage, Li Hao had to marvel at Cao Tian's means, he had already dug an escape secret passage from the city to the outside of the city, and it was indeed the old fox, and it was this secret passage that made Li Hao suffer a big loss.

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

After being busy all day, everyone under his command reported that no other secret passages were found, so Li Hao was relieved.

Just when Li Hao was busy, His Majesty our great Heavenly Khan had been galloping across the Yinshan Prairie, and Xue Yantuo's 200,000 iron cavalry, the two sides clashed seven times, the Tang Dynasty iron cavalry was really invincible in the world, Xue Yantuo, a nation on horseback, was difficult to compete with, seven times, seven defeats, and now Zhenzhu Khan Yinan has been defeated and retreated, and fled north with a large army for two hundred miles.

And Chen Bin, the general of Zuo Wuwei Zhonglang, who was responsible for escorting 3,000 armaments to Tingzhou, has only entered Longyou Road not long ago and entered the boundary of Liangzhou.

Five days later, Gaochang's 15,000 troops set out from Jiaohe City and marched to Tingzhou, and another 3,000 soldiers and horses set out from Jiaohe City to the east of Tingzhou, where they wanted to cut off all roads to Tingzhou and make Tingzhou a lonely city, unable to even send letters.

Li Hao since the day the grain was burned, he sent more than 20 horses out to explore the movement of a hundred miles in a radius, in case Gaochang attacked, 12 days later, there was a report from the horses, a hundred miles south of Tingzhou, found that Gaochang tens of thousands of troops, is coming to Tingzhou, the east found Gaochang 3,000 people and horses, it seems to cut off the past passage between Tingzhou and the Tang Dynasty.

The two probe horses sent the news almost at the same time, Li Hao was shocked when he heard this, climbed the city tower and used a telescope to observe the south and east, and sure enough, he saw a large number of people and horses in these two directions, especially the people and horses in the south, which were mighty and mighty, like a torrent of black pressure, where he passed, there was a lot of sand and dust in the sky, and the war was finally coming.

Li Hao immediately ordered, the whole city into a state of combat readiness, all the government soldiers reserve to go to the arsenal to receive armaments, garrison the city, and then he returned to the Assassin's Mansion, wrote down a piece of paper, personally sent to the Tingzhou Post Station, handed over to the post chief, solemnly advised, Gaochang army is coming, 100,000 urgent, quickly send 800 miles of fast horses to send this seal to Chang'an, must be sent out before Gaochang blockade line.

How dare the post chief slack off, immediately sent the best two messengers of the post station, rode the fastest fast horse out of the city, Li Hao stood on the city tower and watched the two post envoys leave with a telescope, and saw that they passed the main road before the Gaochang blockade line, he breathed a sigh of relief, and next, it was the hard battle to defend the city.

Early the next morning, Li Hao climbed to the top of the city, and once again used the telescope to check the movement of the Gaochang army, the 3,000 Gaochang army that acted as a roadblock had already arrived at the destination, blocking all the main roads to Tingzhou, and the 15,000 army from the south was still seventy miles away from Tingzhou and was rushing to this side.

Li Hao immediately sent someone to summon Li Yuanzhong and Peng Hai to the Yatang of the Assassin's Mansion to discuss how this battle should be fought.

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

Although Li Yuanzhong is Jin Wuwei, he has always been responsible for guarding the Taiji Palace, and has never participated in the war, so he didn't dare to speak, and the same is true for Lu Yun, after all, he is only a person in the rivers and lakes, and he doesn't understand war, Peng Hai said that for the sake of safety, they should stick to the city, after all, although they now have more than 3,000 troops, but the 1,000 reserve has not yet been trained, and they have never been on the battlefield, and their combat power is insufficient, so the real new force in Tingzhou is only less than 3,000, and in the face of 15,000 troops, they can only hold the city.

Peng Hai's suggestion is indeed the safest way, but Li Hao frowned when he heard it, if there is enough food and grass in the city, defending the city is naturally the best policy, but now that there is a shortage of food in the city, it is initially estimated that it can support for a month at most, if the enemy army can't attack for a long time and turns to besiege the city, what will happen after a month.

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

He paced for a long time, slowly reached into his arms, and took out a purple bag, the surface of the bag was embroidered with a blue "two" word, this is the second of the three bags that Zhiyuan Zhenren gave him when he went down the mountain, and his senior brother Pei Miao once said: The second bag is opened when the army is in battle.

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