Li Hao and Murazan looked at each other for a long time, and suddenly rushed to each other with a loud roar, "dang" a crisp sound, the two weapons collided, the confrontation of strength, although Murazan was burly, but he was shocked to take three steps back, and lost to Li Hao, who seemed to be thin in strength, and was shocked in his heart, Li Hao was extremely fast, and he had rushed with a knife again, this time he held a knife in one hand, obviously not going to shake it hard.

Murazan hurriedly met the battle, attacked first, Li Hao dodged Murazan's scimitar sideways, the Tang knife drooped and slashed at Murazan's left leg, Murazan hurriedly retreated, Li Hao's knife momentum rose, stabbing Murazan in the chest, this is already a bit like swordsmanship.

Murazan raised his knife to push away Li Hao's Tang knife, counterattacked, and slashed at Li Hao's face, but his movements were too slow in Li Hao's eyes, although Li Hao had only learned the knife technique for more than ten days, but he had fought bloodily in Tingzhou, and he still had actual combat experience, and the most important thing was that Li Hao was fast enough, not the kind of fast three-second man, but his movements were fast, his reaction speed was fast, and his strength was very large, authentic strength was like a giant bear, agile like a leopard, the perfect combination of speed and strength, he was born to practice martial arts, but it's a pity...... It's just too lazy.

It was with the perfect combination of strength and speed that Li Hao quickly gained the upper hand, wielding his sword like rain, pressing Murazan to retreat, and within thirty rendezvous, Murazan's arms and calves had been cut open in five wounds, although the injuries were not serious, but it obviously affected the action, so that Murazan's disadvantage was even more obvious.

"Broken!" Li Hao shouted suddenly, and slashed down with a knife, which was like opening the sky.

Murazan's pupils shrank sharply, there was no way to avoid it, he could only push the knife with both hands to resist, "dang" There was a loud noise, Murazin's scimitar was split into two sections, and Murazan himself was shocked to his knees by the huge force, his hands were also cracked, and the blood flowed.

"Surrender? Or die? Li Hao pointed at Murazan with a Tang knife and asked coldly.

Murazan said in stiff Chinese: "It is appropriate to be defeated in this battle, Ni is a hero, and he surrenders." ”

Li Hao understood, he said that he was defeated for the first time in his life, saying that Li Hao was a hero and was willing to surrender, Li Hao said indifferently: "There are hundreds of generals in our Tang Dynasty who are more powerful than me, and I am only the weakest." "He's bullying Murazan for not knowing it.

Jin Li brought someone over, turned over and dismounted, and saluted happily: "Congratulations to Master Hou for his great progress in martial arts!" ”

"Don't be a sycophant." Li Hao returned the knife into the sheath and said, "Tie him up, hum, rob the grain and grass of Tubo, this time I will see what other ways Hou Junji has to deal with me!" ”

Jin Li hurriedly stepped forward to tie up Murazan, and then followed Li Hao back to the army, the battle here has ended, Zhu Ruihuan is leading people to clean up the battlefield, Li Hao stepped forward to stop Zhu Ruihuan and asked, "Ruihuan, how is the result?" ”

Zhu Ruihuan said excitedly when he heard this: "Back to the general manager, the results are abundant, haha, 1,300 people were captured, and all the others died, and none of them escaped." ”

"Hmm." Li Hao nodded, looked at the carts of grain and grass, and said, "Set up camp on the spot and return to Songzhou tomorrow." ”

"No!" Zhu Ruihuan just wanted to receive his order, but Pei Miao, who was wearing a Taoist robe, suddenly ran in a hurry, and waved his hand from afar and shouted, "Don't go back!" ”

Li Hao turned his head and saw that it was Pei Miao, and asked suspiciously: "Why can't you go back to Songzhou?" ”

"It's not going anywhere." Pei Miao said, "In the past few days, I have carefully observed the sky and found that there will be heavy snow in two days, and it may be difficult to walk. ”

"Oh?" Li Hao was shocked when he heard this, he knew that his master Zhiyuan Zhenren was good at observing the weather, in ancient times, this was a branch of astronomy, listening to Pei Miao's words, it seemed that Zhiyuan Zhenren passed on this ability to him, so Li Hao frowned and asked, "Mr. Pei, how sure are you?" He didn't want to expose his relationship with Pei Miao, and it happened that Pei Miao was also wearing Taoist clothes, so Li Hao called him Mr. Pei, and declared that Pei Miao was a Qi refiner who practiced in the deep mountains.

Pei Miao thought about it carefully and said, "I'm eighty percent sure." ”

Li Hao's eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had thought of some good idea, and then said loudly: "Pass my general order, first transport the grain and grass to the pine forest on the slope, camp there, and wait for two days." ”

So the armies began to get busy, carrying grain and grass.

Before sunset, after the camp, Li Hao ordered to light many bonfires in the camp, let the soldiers roast the fire, there are not many others in the pine forest, there are many pine branches, there is no need to consider whether the firewood is enough, the next day, Li Hao found some soldiers who can needlework, let them start sewing gloves, just sew some thick cloth gloves, or animal skin gloves, they have been here for so many days, hunted a lot of prey, and the skins are kept.

When night fell, Li Hao and the sergeants returned to the tent after dinner and looked at the military map, his eyebrows frowned, and gradually, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, revealing a mysterious smile, whenever he laughed like this, someone was going to be unlucky.

Li Hao returned to the military case and sat down, and shouted: "Someone!" ”

Jin Li and Chen Laosan, who were guarding outside the account, opened the curtain and entered the tent, and saluted together: "What does the Hou Ye command?" ”

Li Hao said: "Jin Li, you go and escort Mu Lazan here, the chief manager has something to ask him, and Chen Laosan will summon the interpreter." ”

"Yes!" The two of them were ordered to retreat together.

Because it is a conquest of foreign tribes, so each army will bring two or three interpreters, that is, the translators of later generations, although Jin Li also knows a little Tubo, but only a little understanding, and the distance from the translation is still far away, so Li Hao wants to interrogate Murazan, there must be an interpreter.

After a while, the interpreter came, and Murazan was also taken to the tooth tent, and Li Hao asked in a loud voice: "Murazan, let me ask you, who is in command of your Tubo army when it invades my Tang Songzhou this time?" ”

The interpreter translated Li Hao's words, and Murazan hesitated for a moment, feeling that this question was not a secret, so he replied: "This time it is Marshal Zhongru, Godardman, who is on the expedition. Of course, he spoke in Tibetan, and the interpreter translated his words into Chinese for Li Hao.

Li Hao asked again: "Is this Godardman powerful?" ”

Hearing this, Murazan's face suddenly turned solemn, and he said: "Our Siru Marshal in Tubo is the most powerful figure in Tubo!" ”

"Oh." Li Hao nodded, and asked seemingly nonchalantly, "How long ago did you receive his order to transfer food?" ”

"Hey......" Murazan said a few words, suddenly realized something, and hurriedly stopped.

The interpreter had already told Li Hao: "Lord Steward, he said two months." ”

Finally got the information he wanted, Li Hao grinned evilly at Murazan, Murazan was very angry, glared at him fiercely, and muttered.

Li Hao turned his head and asked the interpreter: "What did he say?" ”

The interpreter was embarrassed for a while: "Back to the chief manager, he said that we Tang people are too cunning. ”

Li Hao smiled proudly, got up and said, "You tell him, this is not cunning, this is a routine." ”

The interpreter translated as he requested, but Murazan still glared at Li Hao, and Li Hao waved his hand: "Jin Li, take him down, take care of it, don't make any mistakes." ”

"Yes." Jin Li was ordered to escort Murazan out of the tent.

Li Hao sent the others away again, turned his head and glanced at the military map behind him, and said to himself with a light smile: "Two months, well, two months, almost." ”

After another two days, as Pei Miao said, it snowed heavily, fortunately, Li Hao had already prepared, and asked the sergeants of each battalion to light a fire in the account to keep warm, and there was no need for a sentry. Moreover, in this kind of heavy snowy weather, even marching has become a problem, and there is no need to worry about a sneak attack by the enemy.

Li Hao put on a plush fur coat, walked out of the tent, looked at the heavy snow, and was extremely happy, such a big snow, even the Tubo army that grew up on the snowy plateau must not be comfortable, and now he has robbed their grain and grass, and it will not be long before the Tubo army will be hungry and cold, there are only two ways to go, the first is to capture Songzhou, to feed the war; The second is to withdraw from the army.

After careful deduction, Li Hao felt that the first thing that Tubo thought of should be to capture Songzhou, but they were doomed to fail, after all, there are nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses in Songzhou City now, and Tubo only has 50,000 troops, Songzhou City has high walls, easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if the Tang army is not strong because of the cold weather, it will not let the Tubo army capture the city, unless Hou Junji has in his head.

And as long as the Tubo can't capture the city, then their only choice is to retreat, Gansongling is the closest route for the Tubo army to return to China, Li Hao will wait for them here, let them know the price of invading the Tang Dynasty.

Li Hao's speculation is still very accurate, the heavy snow fell for two days in a row, and finally stopped, the snow in Songzhou City reached more than two feet thick, many old houses were collapsed, and there were thousands of people who lost their houses in the refugee camps in the city, and on the second day when the heavy snow stopped, the Tubo army went out again to attack Songzhou City.

Because the weather was too cold, the moat had already formed a thick layer of ice, no different from the flat ground, and lost the effect of blocking the enemy.

Because of the lesson learned last time, Hou Junji has been paying attention to keeping the soldiers warm these days to prevent frostbite, even so, now the low temperature of nearly minus 20 degrees outside still makes the Tang army unbearable, many Tang Jun's hands will stick to the weapon as soon as they touch the weapon, as long as they exert force, they will tear a large piece of hand skin, and the pain is unbearable.

Such a cold weather made the Tang army's combat strength greatly reduced, this time the Tubo army did not attack the city frantically, but attacked every two or three hours, a bit like an attack, the Tang army was overwhelmed, tired and cold, miserable, and the army's heart gradually began to slacken.

Seeing that the situation was not good, he had a whim, so he asked the soldiers to splash water on the city wall, and the water splashed on the city wall, and immediately became frozen, and in less than two hours, the four walls of Songzhou were full of shiny ice, shining and reflecting in the sun, gorgeous and dazzling.

This method of clinging to the power of thought is really wonderful, the city wall wrapped in ice becomes extremely smooth, and it is very difficult for those Tubo soldiers to climb the city, the ladder frame is good, as long as it shakes slightly, the ladder will slip along the city wall, even if the ladder does not slip, those Tubo troops can not climb the smooth city wall when they climb to the end of the ladder, and there are many Tubo soldiers who died because they slipped from the city wall, not in battle.

Just poured a little water on the city wall, and received such a miraculous effect, Hou Junji couldn't help but praise the stubborn thinking, at this time, even if he has an opinion on the stubborn thinking, he can only temporarily abandon the previous suspicions, after all, he is the general manager of the march, and the victory of the war is the first priority.

The Tubo army attacked for two days in a row, hindered by the ice on the wall, their commander was very depressed, they were able to make the Tang army so embarrassed, it was with the help of this cold weather, but now they can't take Songzhou, it is also thanks to this cold weather, this cold weather is like a double-edged sword, so that the Tubo army loves and hates, the commander of the Tubo army realizes that they can't capture Songzhou City, and the grain and grass team has not arrived for a long time, there is not much grain and grass in the army, he has no choice but to withdraw the troops, integrate the army to the north, You can't stay here any longer, or you're going to die.