Seeing that the enemy commander was injured and retreated, the Tang army at the head of the city were all cheering excitedly, some people even cried with joy, this battle was too tragic, although they killed a lot of enemies, but they also suffered heavy losses, three thousand new recruits of young men have been on the city wall, but there are only 8,000 people left on the city wall, that is to say, in this battle, they lost 5,000 people, and among the remaining people, nearly half of them were wounded, if the enemy army organizes another siege in the near future, they really don't know if they can hold it.

After counting the battle damage and starting to clean the city, Li Hao listened to the generals' battle damage report all the way, while walking down the city wall, after listening to the report, Li Hao turned to face the group of generals, and said: "Pass my military order, order Sun Bowang to recruit another 5,000 young people, first practice bows and arrows, and then practice knives and guns, within ten days, must be able to go to the battlefield, and, in the north of the city to demolish more houses, prepare stone rolling wood, the people in the north of the city are all transferred to the west of the city, set up shelter tents for unified placement, the north side of the area is too dangerous, not suitable for people, after the war, This king will ask the court to compensate them......"

After Li Hao issued a series of orders, all the generals went to get busy, Li Hao took Situ Feng back to the Governor's Mansion, and just entered the front yard when he met Ye Mengqiu walking out, Li Hao hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "You want to go out?" ”

Ye Mengqiu nodded and said: "The army is besieging the city, as a person who practices martial arts, how can I stay in the city every day and do nothing, wasting all the food......

"The enemy forces have withdrawn." Li Hao said indifferently and said, "It's not that you don't want to do anything, but to wait until you recover from your injuries." ”

"I'm healed!" Ye Mengqiu stretched his arms and jumped a few times, proving to Li Hao that he had recovered.

Li Hao nodded and said, "It's been a month, it's almost over, I just have a task assigned to you and Situ Feng." ”

"You say!" As soon as Ye Mengqiu heard that there was a task, he immediately became excited.

Li Hao said: "It has been more than a month since my urgent military report was sent, even if the reinforcements have not arrived, there should be a message from the imperial court, but there is no news so far, I guess that my military report will not go wrong, I plan to let you take my waist card and letter, go to Luoyang to find a person, let him bring someone to relieve the siege, this person, named Jinli." ”

Ye Mengqiu hurriedly asked, "How can I find him in Luoyang?" ”

Li Hao said: "There is a restaurant in Luoyang called Taibai Building, which was opened by my dispatcher, after you enter Taibai Building, you just need to tell the shopkeeper: Shopkeeper, I want to sell some rice to you, how much do you pay a catty?" The shopkeeper will answer you: Ten pounds for a penny, do you like to sell or not? You ask again, what about corn, how much is a pound? The shopkeeper will ask, are you here to eat, or to sell rice, you answer, I am here to eat, I want a private room, and then the shopkeeper will take you to the secret private room, talk to you, you ask him where Jin Li is, just say that I sent you, if he doesn't believe it, just show my waist card. ”

Ye Mengqiu was quite surprised when he heard this, he didn't expect Li Hao to open a restaurant and make such a complicated joint code, no matter how he looked at it, it didn't look like a serious deal, although he was curious, but he was already working hard for Li Hao, and now was not the time to ask this, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I remember." ”

At this time, Situ Feng asked, "Master, what about me, didn't you say that there was a task for me?" ”

Li Hao said: "Your task is to take my military newspaper to Chang'an, send the military newspaper again, if you can, by the way, help me check, why the imperial court has not sent a letter so far, whether my military newspaper has not been sent to Chang'an, you take the military newspaper directly to Lu Guogong or the British duke, and ask them to submit the military report." ”

"Yes, Master!" As soon as Situ Feng heard that he could go on a mission, he immediately nodded excitedly.

"You come with me to the study, and I will immediately go to write letters and military newspapers." Li Hao said and ran straight towards the study.

Li Hao wrote a letter of help and a military report in the study, Situ Feng took the military newspaper first, and left in a hurry, and then, Li Hao handed his waist card and letter to Situ Feng, and said: "You ride my lion to go, this is not close to Luoyang, you must arrive as soon as possible, if Jinli is no longer in Luoyang, you can find a person called Feiying, these two are my cronies, one must be in Luoyang." ”

In order to transport tens of thousands of his private troops to Liuqiu, Li Hao asked Jin Li and Feiying to break up the private army, disguised as a paste ranger to go to Luoyang, Lu Yun will send a boat to pick them up, this is a way to break it into pieces, you can avoid the eyes and ears of the government, however, it is impossible for Liuqiu to send too many ships over, it is too attention-grabbing, and it must go back and forth many times to transport tens of thousands of troops away, roughly estimated, it will take at least a year, so Li Hao is sure that one of Feiying and Jinli must still be in Luoyang.

In fact, it is a bit risky to let his private army come to help, but Li Hao has no choice now, he can't count on the imperial court, can he still sit and wait for death.

After a careful explanation, Li Hao sent Ye Mengqiu to leave, Ye Mengqiu carried Li Hao's letter and waist card, went to the courtyard to lead the lion's skull, hurriedly went out, and went out of the city from the south gate of Youzhou, because of Li Hao's waist card, no one dared to stop it, as soon as he got out of the city gate, Ye Mengqiu rode his horse and galloped, how can a thousand miles of good horses be comparable to ordinary horses, and the dust on the official road suddenly rose all the way.

After sending Ye Mengqiu away, Li Hao wrote another letter asking for help, sent someone to Yizhou, and ordered the Yizhou Assassin Shi to gather soldiers and horses to come to Youzhou to help as the deposed envoy of Hebei Province. After all, Luoyang is too far away, Li Hao doesn't know if he can wait for Jin Li and them to arrive, so he must prepare with both hands and ask Yizhou for help, in fact, he has already asked Yizhou for help before, but Yizhou Assassin Shi did not dare to make his own decisions, saying that he would ask the imperial court, and at the same time send scouts to Youzhou to find out whether the situation is true, and then Gai Suwen came.

Li Hao believes that after the Yizhou assassin gets the true news, he should send troops to help, but he doesn't have much hope, even if Yizhou sends troops to help, the number of troops will not be too much, but no matter how many troops, this is very important to Youzhou, and now Youzhou can be called an authentic soldier, there are only more than 2,000 people.

In the evening, another messenger left Youzhou City to ask for help from Yizhou.

Situ Feng rode his horse all the way in the direction of Chang'an, and after three days of continuous driving, he finally arrived in Xingzhou, and Ye Mengqiu, who set off behind him, was already almost in Luoyang, after all, Ye Mengqiu was riding a good horse for thousands of miles, and the speed was naturally fast.

Situ Feng rested in Xingzhou for a night, and the next morning, as soon as the city gate opened, he went out of the city to continue his journey, and it was another four days, and he arrived in Huazhou, which was only two hundred miles away from Chang'an.

When passing by Fenghua Valley, it was getting late, and it was a wilderness, and there was no place to rest, but Situ Feng didn't care, along the way, he was used to eating and sleeping in the open, and he happened to see a pavilion on the hill next to Wuyanggang, so he went up the mountain road and went to the pavilion to rest.

It is now late April, the weather is slightly cold at night, but it is not biting, Situ Feng is young and strong, and he is a person who practices martial arts, so he is naturally not afraid, he just lies on the long stone bench in the pavilion and sleeps, and the horse is bolted to the pillar of the pavilion.

In the middle of the night, Situ Feng suddenly felt that something was wrong, sat up in shock, and after sitting up, he was shocked, instinctively pulled out the Tang knife, and scolded sharply: "Who are you?" ”

I saw a black-clothed hat man sitting in front of the table at this moment, with the help of the faint moonlight, it seemed to be a woman, with a big hat, wearing a black gauze skirt, what shocked Situ Feng was that this woman could quietly walk into the pavilion, and sat down less than five feet beside him, you know, with his current martial arts, even if he is asleep, not many people can easily approach, but he did not notice this woman at all.

"Put away your knives or you'll regret it." The woman in black said lightly, her voice was very good, and there was no emotion in her tone.

Situ Feng couldn't feel the hostility on her, slowly put away the knife, and asked, "In the middle of the night, why did you come here?" ”

"Wait for someone." The woman in black spoke very succinctly.

Situ Feng was a little apprehensive in his heart, he felt that there was a very dangerous aura on this woman's body, and the people who could make him feel this way were all super-first-class masters without exception, he had a heavy responsibility on his body, and he didn't dare to cause trouble, so he held his knife, sat aside, and didn't think about sleeping, just stay up like this, count him unlucky.

The two of them sat in the pavilion like this, no one spoke, and they didn't even move, like two sculptures, gradually, the eastern sky was shining, and the sky was about to dawn, Situ Feng turned his head to look at the woman in black, she was still the same action, with the help of a little light in the sky, he finally saw the delicate face under the woman's hat, only to see that her skin was as white as snow, her eyes were as bright as the moon, and she was extremely beautiful, like a fairy Chang'e, but in her eyes, there was a faint sense of endless sadness.

Situ Feng was about to set off, there were still two hundred miles left, he decided to rush to Chang'an today, after he got up, out of politeness, he greeted the woman in front of him, and said, "I'm leaving, the person you are waiting for doesn't seem to have come." ”

The woman said lightly: "I know he won't come." As she spoke, the sadness in her eyes intensified.

Situ Feng frowned when he heard this, and asked, "Since you know that he won't come, why wait?" ”

"Today...... April 23. The woman in black said a wordless speech, and then there was no more.

Situ Feng scratched his head, feeling that this woman was a little nervous, but he didn't have time to pay attention to it so much, so he was about to lead the horse, and suddenly, there was a sound of rattling horses' hooves from the bottom of the mountain.

Then I saw a group of people dressed in black riding horses from the bottom of the mountain, and when they arrived at Wuyanggang, all of them stopped their horses, Situ Feng suddenly stopped his movements when he saw this, frowning and secretly wondering: "This group of people is in such a hurry in the middle of the night, and they are all dressed in black, and their movements are suspicious, what is the way to go?" ”

At this moment, a man in black said in a loud voice: "Big brother, why stop, the head of the family has explained, the situation in Youzhou is extremely complicated, whether to go outside or inside first, the head of the family can't choose, and must report to the eldest grandson to decide." ”

Situ Feng's ears were very strong, and when he heard the word Youzhou, his heart suddenly became excited, and he hurriedly withdrew his hand that was about to lead the horse, and walked quietly down the trail down the mountain, trying to get close to them and listen to the words clearly.

"What's the hurry?" The leader of the black-clothed man with a goatee said coldly, "The head of the family robbed the military reports of Youzhou and Yizhou, and stayed for more than a month before we sent them to Chang'an to ask Lord Changsun, and it was delayed for a month, and I still care about these days." ”