When all the guards heard the sound, they all went to Cao Tian's war horse, Cao Tian kicked the horse's belly violently, the war horse was in pain, neighed wildly, and ran away, directly knocking several guards in front of him into the air, and ran towards the gate.

Li Yuanzhong's eyes were sharp, he saw Cao Tian, and shouted: "Where is the thief fleeing!" As he spoke, he had already ridden his horse and rushed towards Cao Tian, holding an iron shovel and sweeping towards Cao Tian's abdomen.

Cao Tian had no weapon in his hand, how to resist the iron shovel, he was directly knocked off the horse, and after falling to the ground, he vomited blood, and he couldn't get up, so the two soldiers immediately stepped forward to hold Cao Tian and tied him from head to foot with a rope.

A thousand cavalry rushed left and right in the barracks, killing people everywhere and setting fires, turning the enemy camp upside down, even the commander Zhang Lan was killed by Peng Hai with a shot, cutting off his head and picking it at the tip of the gun, Gaochang soldiers will learn that the commander is dead, even more panicked, just fleeing for their lives, forgetting to resist at all, Li Yuanzhong and Peng Hai chased hard, ambushed the corpse for fifty miles, and the blood flowed all over the field.

However, there were too many Gaochang troops, scattered and fled, the Tang army was too few, and the doppelgangers lacked skills, and finally killed more than 8,000 enemy troops, and the others were nowhere to be found, and there was only one prisoner, that is, Cao Tian, Li Hao had confessed to them, only killing people, not taking prisoners, because they had no food to feed the prisoners.

Returning to the empty Gaochang camp, they found that it was almost ruins, Peng Hai and Li Yuanzhong led everyone to clean the battlefield in the camp, and found more than 500 stones of surviving food, and the rest were burned by the fire, Peng Hai was extremely annoyed by this, and blamed himself repeatedly, saying that he should not set fire, but he also knew that how could there be a robbery camp without arson, only arson can create panic and expand the chaos, and it is difficult to have an effect by relying on a thousand people to rush and kill. It was useless to blame himself, Li Yuanzhong comforted him for a long time, continued to clean up the battlefield, harvested a lot of ordnance, and rushed back with a large amount of ordnance and food.

Since Peng Hai and Li Yuanzhong left the city, Li Hao has been observing with a telescope on the city tower, seeing all the processes in his eyes, when he saw that they successfully returned from the camp, Li Hao's face showed a smile, turned his head to face Wang Yuantai, and said, "Prepare to welcome the return of the heroes." ”

Wang Yuantai was overjoyed when he heard this, and asked excitedly: "...... them It worked? ”

Li Hao smiled and nodded.

Wang Yuantai suddenly trembled with excitement, and ran on the city wall and shouted: "It's successful!" The camp robbery was successful! The camp was successfully hijacked......"

When the soldiers on the city wall heard the sound they all shouted excitedly, and the shouts woke up the people of the city, and the people went out of their houses one after another, and after a while, the whole city knew that the battle had been won, and all of them cheered, and it was more lively than the New Year.

After more than an hour, a thousand cavalry came to the gate of Tingzhou with countless ordnance, grain and grass, Peng Hai and Li Yuanzhong turned over and dismounted, saluted Li Hao on the city tower, and said excitedly: "The last general Peng Hai, Li Yuanzhong fortunately did not disgrace his life, broke the enemy army, and brought back the treasonous criminal-Cao Tian!" ”

"Two generals work hard!" Li Hao held back his excitement and shouted, "Pass on this official order!" Open the gates! ”

The gate of Tingzhou slowly opened, a thousand soldiers and horses slowly entered the city, Li Hao was already waiting on the street below, Li Yuanzhong and Peng Hai saw Li Hao, and they were ready to salute again, but were stopped by Li Hao.

Li Hao looked at the two of them happily, and said with a high spirit: "The two generals did a good job, one thousand against fifteen thousand, and they won a complete victory, which is simply Li Guang's reincarnation." ”

Peng Hai hurriedly said modestly: "My lord praised it falsely, this big victory is the credit of my lord, my lord has the courage to put forward the plan to rob the camp, if it were us, I wouldn't dare to think of it!" ”

"What General Peng said is extremely true." Li Yuanzhong also said, "My lord's surprise attack is really the best strategy." ”

"Don't praise me anymore, I'll be proud." Li Hao smiled and enjoyed a compliment, it was rare to be modest, and he even forgot to serve the official frame when he was happy, and then asked, "How about the battle damage this time?" ”

Peng Hai said excitedly: "What kind of battle damage can there be, when we robbed the camp, the Gaochang monkeys were sleeping, and when they ran out, they didn't even wear clothes, so they knew that they were running away." ”

Li Hao saw that Peng Hai, who had always been calm, actually said such a terrible thing, which showed that he was really happy, so he also nodded with relief: "It's good that there are no casualties." ”

Li Yuanzhong said: "The government soldiers encountered the enemy marshal's personal guards, and five of them were wounded, but none of them were serious. ”

"It's okay to get hurt." Li Hao waved his hand and said, "Go back and let the military doctor treat, we have prepared a lot of medicinal materials, which are enough!" ”

Peng Hai came to Li Hao at this time and said in a low voice: "My lord, how to deal with Cao Tian." ”

"Cao Tian!" As soon as Li Hao heard Cao Tian's name, the smile on his face disappeared instantly, his two eyebrows were raised, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Bring this thief up!" ”

The two right guards escorted Cao Tian to step forward, Cao Tian and Li Hao looked at each other again, but this time they looked at each other, the situation was very different from last time, and even their eyes were no longer the same, both of them lost their hypocrisy and disguised, and looked angrily.

"Dog officer!" Cao Tian glared at Li Hao, gritted his teeth and cursed.

"Humph! You vicious dog! Li Hao scolded sharply, "A traitorous dog, what qualifications do you have to stand in front of me!" On your knees! ”

Hearing this, the two right guards picked up the scabbard and struck hard at Cao Tian's joints, Cao Tian screamed in pain, knelt on his knees, gritted his teeth and continued to scold: "Dog officer! You're going to kill me! ”

"Kill you? Hehe......" Li Hao sneered, "How can I solve the hatred in my heart if I kill you, how can I relieve the hatred in the hearts of the 20,000 people in Tingzhou, don't worry, you will definitely not die so easily." ”

Li Hao's face was covered with coldness, and Cao Tian shivered for no reason, although he was ready to die when he was captured, he still couldn't help but tremble a little at this moment.

"Someone!" Li Hao said in a loud voice, "Get the prisoner car out!" ”

At the sound of the order, two government soldiers immediately took the order away, and after a long time, I saw the two government soldiers pushing a prisoner cart towards this side.

Li Hao pointed to the prisoner car, facing Cao Tian, and said: "From the day you sent someone to burn the grain, the official has thought about how to deal with you, this prisoner car, the official has been preparing for you for a long time, don't you like to burn food, very good, this is a good habit, then the official will let you be a starving ghost." After he finished speaking, he waved his hand and motioned for the two right guards next to him to put him in the prisoner car.

Two right guards carried Cao Tian into the prisoner car, locked the wooden flail, Cao Tian struggled and shouted: "Dog officer! Kill me! You're going to kill me! ”

Li Hao plucked out his ears and said coldly: "The dog barking is a little harsh, Peng Hai, you go and solve it." ”

"Yes!" Peng Hai strode forward, boarded the prisoner car, waved his fist like an iron pimple, and punched Cao Tian's mouth, when he raised his fist, he saw that Cao Tian's mouth was full of blood, his lips were broken into several petals, and he could see that a few teeth had also fallen out, Cao Tian suddenly whined and screamed, but he couldn't scream anymore.

Li Hao walked to the prisoner car with his hand in his hand, and said coldly: "Put him on the street for the people of the whole city to scold, Peng Hai, you take people to guard day and night, no one is allowed to approach, he likes to burn food, the official will deprive him of the right to eat, only feed water, not feed, the official will starve him to death!" ”

"Yes!" As soon as Peng Hai heard that Cao Tian was going to starve to death, he was immediately excited to receive his order, such a wicked person should use such a cruel method to torture him.

After punishing Cao Tian, Li Hao ordered people to put the captured ordnance and 500 stone grain into the warehouse, and then returned to the Assassin's Mansion, and began to discuss the next plan with Li Yuanzhong and Lu Yun.

According to Li Hao's speculation, they defeated Gao Chang this time, Gao Chang will definitely not give up, and will definitely send another army to attack, after all, Gao Chang has already torn his face, and there is no need to pretend to be a good child anymore. In fact, if Gaochang sent a large army again, Li Hao was not too worried, he knew Gaochang's troops, and he had seen their combat effectiveness, and he could still fight if he held the city, and the only thing that made it difficult was the food problem.

In addition to the food problem, Li Hao also had a worry in his heart, that is, the Western Turks, if Gaochang could not help Tingzhou and asked the Western Turks for help, then Tingzhou would really be finished.

When Li Hao expressed the worry in his heart, everyone was silent, indeed, the Western Turks are too powerful, at least for Tingzhou, the Western Turks are extremely powerful, if the Western Turks come in and mix with each other, Tingzhou will die.

The atmosphere in the yatang was very depressing, and after a long time, Lu Yun suddenly said, "Young master, abandon the city." ”

Li Hao was shocked when he heard this, and the other people's eyes also lit up, thinking that Lu Yun's proposal was good, and in this situation, he could only abandon the city.

Without waiting for others to speak, Li Hao raised his hand to intercept them and said coldly: "Impossible, there are so many people in Tingzhou, how can they go." ”

Li Yuanzhong was moved for a while when he heard this, at this time, Li Hao was still thinking about the people of Tingzhou, and he admired Li Hao more and more in his heart.

Seeing that Li Hao rejected the proposal to abandon the city, everyone was silent, Li Hao frowned and groaned for a moment, and suddenly said leisurely: "I have a big killing weapon, if it is used well, it can turn the tide of the battle, but it takes three materials to make this big killing weapon." ”

The crowd hurriedly asked, "What are the three materials?" ”

Li Hao said: "Saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal. ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, charcoal is more common, there is no doubt, saltpeter has also heard of it, as for sulfur, they have not heard of it, Lu Yun asked suspiciously: "What is sulfur, where can I find it?" ”

Li Hao thought for a while and said, "Sulfur is more difficult to get, so you can replace it with realgar." ”

As soon as it came to realgar, everyone understood, and Li Yuanzhong hurriedly asked: "How many of these things do you need?" ”

Li Hao said: "The more the merrier." ”

Li Yuanzhong nodded: "Okay, I'll take someone to find it after dawn." ”

Li Hao waved his hand and said: "You haven't slept all night, and you have led the army to fight, it is not advisable to overwork, let Wang Yuantai go to this matter." ”

Li Yuanzhong shook his head and insisted: "The subordinates are not tired, or the subordinates and Wang Yuantai are looking for them separately, anyway, there are three materials, the subordinates are looking for one, and Wang Yuantai is looking for two." ”

Seeing his resolute attitude, Li Hao couldn't bear to refuse, nodded and said: "Yes, when the time comes, you can bring more people, more people are powerful, remember, the more the better." ”

"Yes!"

After another half an hour, the sky began to darken, and Li Yuanzhong and Wang Yuantai each led more than 200 people to look for materials.

After Li Hao sent them away, he blamed himself very much in his heart, he should have prepared early, and now he hurriedly sent someone to find these materials, how could it be so easy, although he didn't want to bring gunpowder to this world in advance, but the current situation forced him to do so.