Chapter 265: The Battle of the Prairie (I)

The shrill whistle sounded over and over again in the camp, piercing the silence of the night sky, and countless soldiers rushed out of their tents one after another, dressed and busy.

Li Hao quickly returned to the tent and got dressed, packed his bags, and then came to Princess Honghua's tent, only to see a group of palace maids in the princess's tent busy going in and out, Li Hao came to the tent and asked: "Your Royal Highness Princess, there is a sudden enemy attack, we are ready to pull out at any time, I don't know if the princess is ready?" ”

Princess Honghua's voice came from inside: "Ready, there is General Lao." ”

Li Hao immediately called the Flying Eagle and advised: "You take all the Flying Eagle members of the Flying Eagle Team to protect the princess's car, there are many enemies this time, you must protect the princess thoroughly." ”

"Yes." The Flying Eagle Jaw Leader commands.

Li Hao frowned and looked at the southwest, that was the direction where the enemy was coming, from what I heard just now, I knew that there were really a lot of enemies this time, 20,000? Thirty thousand? Or forty thousand? He wasn't sure for sure, but he could be sure that this group of enemies had arrived more than twenty miles away and were rapidly approaching this side, and it was precisely because the enemy came quickly and there were many people that Li Hao could hear the sound of the ground shaking from so far away.

After about twenty minutes of busyness, all the soldiers were fully equipped, Li Hao ordered all the braziers to be extinguished, and the whole army marched north.

Under the moonlight, on the grassland, a black shadow was moving rapidly, like a torrent, this is a huge Tibetan army, full of 30,000 people.

Li Hao and they just left the camp for more than 20 minutes, this Tubo army rushed to the camp, at this moment the camp has long been pulled out, only a mess remains, the first general wearing golden armor turned over and dismounted, walked around the ruins of the camp, saw a brazier falling not far away, went up to look, found that the brazier was still smoking, these braziers were left by the Tuyuhun envoy group, the Tang army would not make such a low-level mistake, even if it was a hot brazier, they would take it away when they pulled out the camp, leaving nothing behind.

The gold-armored general beckoned, and two thin and tall silver-armored generals immediately came up from behind, saluting in unison: "What do you command?" ”

General Jin Jia said in Tubo: "The enemy is very vigilant and has fled in advance, but judging from this brazier, it should not have fled far, judging from the traces of the chariots and horses, they did not flee in the direction of Tuyuhun, but went north, Nicoli, you take 5,000 cavalry, outflank the past from the west, intercept their way, Dalar, you take 5,000 cavalry, outflank from the east, Ben Shuai leads 20,000 soldiers and horses to chase directly, and must rob the princess of the Tang people to Zampu!" ”

"Yes!" The two generals received orders in Tibetan and just wanted to leave.

General Jin Jia suddenly said: "Also, this time the Tang people's marriage envoy is called Li Hao, which is the young general who defeated us Godarman last time, the prime minister said that this Li Hao is not simple, let us capture him alive, so, as a last resort, don't kill Li Hao, hehe, you can beat Goddalman to an embarrassment, and Ben Shuai is also very curious about this Li Hao." ”

"Yes!" The two generals received the order again, and then left, leaving the army with two cavalry teams, one left and one right, and marched side by side, and the golden armor general also turned around and got on his horse, and issued a shouting order, 20,000 troops, go north.

Li Hao led the army to the north for more than an hour, restless in his heart, this team was too slow, mainly because the princess was dragged back, the princess's car was not fast at all on the grassland, and the princess also brought more than a dozen cars of dowry, which made Li Hao distressed, if in normal times, the speed was slow, it didn't matter, but now he suspected that there was an enemy chasing after him, he was up and down in his heart, and he could only send scouts to continuously investigate the situation within a radius of ten miles.

"Report--" A scout galloped from the west, shouting from afar, "Report to the general!" Fifteen miles to the west, five thousand cavalry were found, and they were rushing north! ”

"Report--" Another scout came from the east, shouting from afar, "Report to the general!" Fifteen miles to the east, about 5,000 cavalry, heading north! ”

Li Hao frowned when he heard this, and suddenly ordered loudly: "Throw away all the carriages, everyone bring enough water and food, quickly!" ”

After he gave the order, he rode his horse to the princess's car, turned over and dismounted, and said: "Princess, the enemy is coming, and the car will slow down. ”

There was silence in the carriage for a moment, and Princess Honghua's voice came from inside: "But this palace doesn't know how to ride horses. ”

Li Hao frowned and thought for a while when he heard this, and said, "Then the princess is a little safe, and I will take someone to arrange it." ”

After he finished speaking, he turned his head to find the Flying Eagle, and said in a deep voice: "Flying Eagle, you take the Flying Eagle team and five hundred light horsemen, escort the princess's car to the east, don't let the enemy find out your whereabouts, after three days, go back to the place where Jishi Mountain is camped and meet me, the most dangerous place is the safest place." ”

Flying Eagle looked at Li Hao in surprise when he heard this: "What about you, Master Hou?" ”

Li Hao looked up at the vast night and said slowly, "Now that the enemy is surrounded, there are so many of us, the target is too big, it is estimated that it is difficult to retreat with all our bodies, and when we have to do it, there is only one battle." ”

The flying eagle hurriedly said: "That flying eagle wants to protect the Hou Ye!" ”

Li Hao shook his head: "It's enough for me to have Jinli's blade team here, if you protect the princess, you will protect me, and the princess can't have an accident, understand?" ”

Feiying nodded vigorously: "Understood!" ”

According to Li Hao's instructions, the flying eagle quickly selected five hundred light horsemen, protected the princess's car and drove eastward, although there were enemies over there, but the enemies over there all went to the north, and it was a cavalry that acted like the wind, Li Hao had already guessed the enemy's intentions when he heard the scout's report just now, this was to show the momentum of the horns, and wipe them out, as for who the enemy was, he almost didn't have to think about it, it must be Tibet.

That's why he asked Flying Eagle to let Flying Eagle escape with the princess's car before the enemy encirclement was formed, so he could let go of the battle, as for the outcome of the battle, he himself was not very sure, maybe ...... He was going to stay on the prairie forever.

After seeing the light cavalry of the flying eagle leave, Li Hao called the messenger of Tuyuhun and asked him to send a fast horse to Tuyuhun for help, after all, this is already the land of Tuyuhun, but he still didn't have much hope, after all, Tuyuhun is too weak, it is estimated that the king of Tuyuhun heard the four words of the Tubo army, he must be too frightened to move, although it is important to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty, but he cherishes his country and life more, he was beaten by Tubo last year, and now he dares to squeak.

After sending fast horses, Li Hao ordered the army to march westward, where the capital of Tuyuhun is located, although Tuyuhun is weak, but if the enemy army hits his capital, Tuyuhun will definitely not care, as for whether they can escape to Tuyuhun's capital, it can only depend on luck.

Ten minutes later, the 20,000 Tibetan army arrived at the place where Li Hao and them had stopped before, and found that many carriages had been discarded here, many of which were loaded with jewelry, cloth and bronze utensils, and they looked like they came from the Tang Dynasty.

"The Tang people actually abandoned the carriage." Seeing this, General Jin Jia frowned, and said in a deep voice, "Ben Shuai underestimated this Li Hao, it's very interesting, but ...... It doesn't seem to be the princess's car. ”

A few soldiers carefully surveyed below for a moment, and then came back and reported: "Marshal, the enemy has fled west!" ”

"Oh, went to Tuyuhun? Turned around? It seems that they have already discovered Dalal and Nikoli. General Jinjia thought about it, personally turned over and dismounted to look around, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said in a deep voice, "Gesang Phuntsok, come here!" ”

A general in silver armor walked quickly to his side, saluted and asked, "What does the righteous father command?" "This Kelsang Phuntsok is actually the righteous son of General Jinjia.

General Jin Jia pointed to the east, smiled smugly, and said, "You take a thousand elite light cavalry and pursue it eastward, the princess should have fled in this direction." ”

Hearing this, Kelsang Phuntsok asked in amazement: "Father-in-law, how do you know?" ”

General Jin Jia said proudly: "The grass facing the east has traces of being trampled, but because the number of people is too small, and it is night at the moment, it is difficult to detect, and you see, the grass is facing east, and there is a shallow rut trace, if there is still a carriage in the Tang people that refuses to abandon it, it must be the princess's car." ”

"Rushuai is really a god!" Hearing this, Gesang Phuntsok was so excited that he patted his ass, and then asked, "Father-in-law, is a thousand light horses enough, do you want to bring more people and horses?" ”

"Not necessarily!" General Jin Jia raised his hand to stop him, and said, "In order to abscond, they brought very few people, it is estimated that there are no more than five hundred, there are not many cavalry in the army at the moment, and the commander still has to keep to pursue the Tang army, a thousand elite cavalry is enough for you, you quickly pursue it to the east, if you can catch the princess, it will be a great achievement!" ”

"Thank you, father!" Gesang Phuntsok received his order in ecstasy and galloped east with a thousand light horsemen.

General Jin Jia returned to the front of the formation, pulled out two order flags, handed them to the two heralds, and said: "Pass on the commander's military order, the Tang army has gone east, and ordered Nikoli Dalal to divert to the west, from the north to intercept the Tang army!" ”

"Yes!" The two heralds were ordered to gallop northward, and disappeared into the vast night in a blink of an eye, and then the 20,000 Tibetan army set out again and pursued westward.

Li Hao led 12,000 people to the west, but those palace maids and kitchen who married with the princess were too dragging their feet, not to mention the slow speed, and shouted tired at every turn, and Tuyuhun's messenger team was too, although Tuyuhun's envoy team was Tuyuhun's soldiers, but Tuyuhun's soldiers' physical fitness was really bad, and they couldn't run after running for a while, Li Hao really wanted to cut these guys one by one at the moment.

And just when Li Hao was extremely depressed, the rear hooves thundered, and the enemy caught up.

Li Hao was shocked, he couldn't care about these oil bottles anymore, and fled to the northwest with the army, and the Tubo army left 5,000 people to deal with Tuyuhun's envoy team, and by the way, captured those miscellaneous servants from the palace, and the remaining 15,000 people continued to chase Li Hao.

Fortunately, those oil bottles helped contain the Tubo army, Li Hao miraculously escaped, ran all the way for a hundred miles, and killed more than 300 soldiers, which was alive and tired, but they also completely escaped from the sight range of the Tubo army, after all, the Tubo army infantry is the majority, and the cavalry team has not yet arrived, so it is impossible to catch up with Li Hao for the time being.

Looking at the remaining more than 7,000 people, Li Hao was in a very bad mood, he had fought so many battles, this time was the most aggrieved, he didn't expect that there were so many enemies, on this prairie, it was the home of the Tubo army, he could only retreat all the way, and he didn't dare to fight.

At this time, it was early in the morning, Li Hao looked at the east, his heart was indignant, his cheek muscles were constantly moving, after a long time, Li Hao's eyes burst out of the cold light, only to hear him slowly say to himself: "Soldier, treacherous!" You think I'm just going to run away, but this time, I'm going to surprise you! ”