Lu Yun has been stagnant in the realm of super-first-class masters for several years, and now it is really gratifying to break through, Li Hao specially opened a bottle of champagne and celebrated with Lu Yun.

At noon the next day, the old eagle and the wild wolf came, and brought a thousand Qinghai Wei elite cavalry over to protect Li Hao's safety.

Lao Diao also brought Fan Lihua's war report letter this time, it can be seen from the letter that Fan Lihua is still very worried about Li Hao, whether this worry is out of public or private, this Li Hao can't guess, maybe there is half of each, anyway, Li Hao saw the warmth in his heart, the second half of the letter made Li Hao really happy, according to their original plan, Li Hao's three special forces have infiltrated the city of Luo to investigate the enemy.

Li Hao handed over the letter that had been prepared to the old eagle and the wild wolf to take back to Fan Lihua, and then sent a group of Qinghai guards to bury the sixty-five sacrificed soldiers on the spot, and they could no longer let their corpses continue to be violent in the wilderness.

The army of the western expedition to Tibet is currently very calm, but the city of Chang'an has caused an uproar because of a letter from Xu Jingzong, which is the battle report that Xu Jingzong handed back to Chang'an.

After Xu Jingzong escaped from the clutches of Basuyan, he rushed to the Tang military camp, he went to find Fan Lihua, and asked Fan Lihua why the army has been stagnant here, doing nothing, Fan Lihua said that the Tubo army is too much, gathering troops in some cities, and it is not possible to attack the city at the moment, Xu Jingzong asked her when to attack the city, Fan Lihua's answer was very vague, saying that when the time comes, the city will be attacked naturally, Xu Jingzong asked how the time is ripe, Fan Lihua has no birds, and feels that he has too much, A purely civilian official who didn't know anything about military affairs came to point fingers at her in military affairs, and she really didn't bother to bird him.

Xu Jingzong said in the recital that after Li Hao arrived in Tubo, he said that he was sick and stagnant, and let Fan Lihua lead the army to continue to move forward, Fan Lihua killed more than 80,000 enemy troops along the way, but when he arrived more than 100 miles outside the city, he suddenly garrisoned and did not fight with the enemy, and practiced here every day, wasting grain and grass in vain.

Xu Jingzong's eloquence is very good, obviously Fan Lihua annihilated 80,000 enemies, a great achievement, but after he said it, it seems that Fan Lihua deliberately delayed the fighter, and it seems to have bad intentions.

After receiving Xu Jingzong's note, the eldest grandson Wuji immediately launched his own friends and impeached Li Hao Fan Lihua, saying that they transferred military power without authorization and supported the army to respect themselves, and Li Hao has only passed two war reports back so far, both of which are about his illness, and naturally he did not explain that he transferred the military power to Fan Lihua.

Li Shimin's health has been very bad recently, winter is coming, the palace is heated with carbon basins and carbon stoves, carbon stoves will produce carbon monoxide when burned, which is not very good for the body, if the body is strong, it may have no effect, but Li Shimin has a heart disease, and his condition is naturally aggravated.

When he went to the court, he obviously felt powerless, and the impeachment of Li Hao by the ministers made Li Shimin furious, and Li Shimin reprimanded them, and the result was that Li Shimin fell ill and could no longer go to the court.

Li Shimin did not participate in two consecutive court meetings, and the ministers guessed that the emperor might not be able to do it, and the entire court was suddenly shrouded in a tense cloud, and the eldest grandson Wuji began to jump up and down and move.

The eldest grandson Wuji would go to Tai Hospital every day to ask Feng Jingliang, the director of Tai Hospital, about Li Shimin's condition, and often visited Li Shimin to express his condolences, seemingly caring about Li Shimin, but in fact, he was confirming whether Li Shimin was really powerless to return to heaven this time.

After several days of questioning and visiting, the eldest grandson Wuji could be sure that Li Shimin would definitely not survive this winter this time, so he began to gather friends and conspire to discuss, and no one knew the content of the discussion.

Li Shimin was lying on the sickbed, feeling that his body was getting worse day by day, but he didn't feel scared at all, because he knew that this day was finally coming, and everyone would have such a day, but he still had a wish to come true, that is, to wait for the good news of Li Hao's attack on Tubo.

According to the imperial doctor, Li Shimin's body has long been out of order, and he may die at any time, but Li Shimin is holding on day by day, and he has to summon Xu Lian to the bed every day and ask: "Xu Lian, is there any good news from Li Hao?" ”

However, Xu Lian's answer every time made him very disappointed: "Back to Your Majesty, there is no good news from Li Hao yet." At this time, Li Shimin would always sigh helplessly.

Later, Xu Lian couldn't bear to answer, and every time Li Shimin asked, he shook his head.

Chang'an is surging at the moment, and the capital of Tibet, Luo, is not calm in the city, why, because their food and grass are running out, two nights ago, there were still people assassinated Zuo Rushuai Solang Gazan, but the assassin did not succeed in the assassination, but only injured one of Solang Gazan's personal guards, the guard was stabbed twice in the face, and the injury was not too serious.

The Assassin was very agile and fled as soon as he missed a blow, and Solangazan immediately pursued the whole city, and finally lost, so he sent troops to search the city, but to no avail, but caused panic in the city.

Garqinling knew that it would be futile to continue to search like this, and it would only make the people in the city more panicked, so he asked Solang Gazan to stop the search, and at the same time summoned Zuo Rushuai and Zhong Rushuai to discuss countermeasures with them, after all, there is not much food in the city, and if it goes on like this, he can only wait for death, and he wants to take the initiative to attack.

Taking the initiative to attack is naturally the next policy, but now it seems that this is the only way, and the only controversy is how many troops to send to attack, whether to send the whole army or part of the troops to attack, this is a difficult problem.

After all, the Tang army now has only a little more than 70,000 troops, but the risk is also great, once defeated, then Tubo will be completely finished, and there will be no turnaround.

And if only part of the troops are sent to sneak attack, the chance of victory may be a little smaller, but the risk is also small, if the timing is good, it is still possible to win.

For the sake of safety, Solang Gazan proposed to send 80,000 troops to attack the Tang army, which was snowing heavily, and in his experience, this snow should not be small, and after the snow stopped, it would be raided at night.

Although the snow is not suitable for marching and sneak attack, but the opposite may be surprisingly successful, after all, after the snow stops, the temperature will drop suddenly, it is expected that the Tang army scouts can only walk, after all, such a cold day, even if people can stand it, the horses can not stand it for a long time in the snow, if the Tang army scouts have no horses, they will not be able to convey the message in time, and the success rate of the raid will be much greater.

For Solang Gazan's proposal, Garqinling and Zhongrushuai unanimously agreed, so it was finally finalized to prepare 80,000 elite cavalry, and after the snow stopped, they would go out of the city to attack the Tang army.

Solang Gazan immediately began to prepare his army after returning home, and that night, a dark shadow on Solang Gazan's house came out of the wall and disappeared into the night in the vast snow.

Soon, this black shadow appeared next to a wheat straw stack in a slum area, and by the light of the snow, it could be seen that the man's face was covered with bandages, and I saw that he walked to the haystack and patted the haystack three times rhythmically, and a head slowly came out of the haystack, which was actually a flying eagle.

When Feiying saw someone coming, he immediately asked happily, "Is there any movement?" ”

"Hmm." The man untied the bandages on his face and said with a solemn face, "Solang Gazan has begun to mobilize an army of 40,000 to prepare for a surprise attack on our army, and we must spread the news as soon as possible." ”

This person with bandages on his face, is very famous in the special forces, codenamed Buddha with a thousand faces, what he is best at is disguise, he has a unique ability, he can perfectly imitate a person's movements, demeanor and voice, and in order to be able to imitate others perfectly, he has learned a lot of ethnic languages, Tubo is naturally among them, this time in order to find out the enemy's military situation, the Buddha of a thousand faces has spent a lot of thought, first of all, he secretly observed the guards beside Solang Gazan, and then selected a guard with a similar figure to himself, The purpose of the assassination of Solang Gazan was actually to injure the guard, scratch his face, and then find an opportunity to secretly kill the guard, so that the Buddha of the Thousand Faces could wrap a bandage around his face and pretend to be the guard, and when he could not see his face, he could only identify a person by his words and deeds, and the Buddha of the Thousand Faces had already observed the words and deeds of the guard, including the habitual movements, and imitated them vividly, so he lurked beside Solang Gazan for several days, and finally spied on important military information.

"Solang Gazan received 40,000 troops, there may be more than so many troops, if there is one more Rushuai to participate, it will be 80,000, if there are two more Rushuai to participate, it is likely to be 120,000." The eagle had already come out of the haystack as he spoke, turned around and whispered into the haystack, "Crow, hand things out." ”

It turned out that there was a special soldier in the haystack, and I saw a hand constantly handing out some things, oxygen sacs, flippers, plumb sinkers, waterproof clothing, etc., flippers and waterproof clothing are diving equipment, in fact, the flying eagles are preparing to go out of the city by water this time.

After the Flying Eagle and the Buddha of a Thousand Faces took the things, they wrapped them in cloth and carried them on their backs, and the Flying Eagle said to the haystack: "Black Crow, continue to stay in the city to find out the news, and once there is a food shortage, immediately sound the arrow as a trumpet, you know!" ”

"Yes! Captain! "The voice of a crow came from inside.

The Flying Eagle and the Buddha of a Thousand Faces disappeared into the night with a large package on their backs, all the way west, because the waterway was in the west.

There is a river to the west of the city, which is connected to the moat outside the city, but now the weather is cold, and the river is already frozen. As he spoke, he stepped forward and took out a delicate dagger, stabbed it at the ice, and when he pulled it out, he saw that the tip of the dagger was wet, and he immediately said happily: "It's okay, it's only two inches thick." ”

After saying that, he jumped onto the ice, plunged the dagger into the ice, and dragged it hard, and the solid ice surface was like dirt in front of this dagger, and it was easily cut, which showed how sharp this dagger was.

Soon, the eagle cut a circle on the surface of the ice, kicked it with its foot, and the ice sank for a while, and there was a "bang" sound, and the river appeared in front of them.