Garqinling fled more than 30 miles with the remnants of the defeated generals, and saw that the Tang army finally stopped chasing, so he stopped, Garqinling looked at the depressed faces of the soldiers, and felt very uncomfortable, although he only lost more than 30,000 horses in this battle, but the morale of the whole army was all lost by the Tang army, if it was reluctantly fought, it could only be self-defeating.

But he is not reconciled, the development speed of Datang is too rapid, and now it is so powerful, in another five or ten years, it will be easy to destroy Tibet.

And this time the army is not his country's business, the Abbasid also sent troops, although Garqinling does not care about any allies, but he knows the truth of the cold lips and teeth, so he must contain the Qinghai Wei, do not let the Qinghai Wei to support the Anxi Protectorate, otherwise the Abbasid army will be defeated, and when the time comes, it will be difficult for them to turn over.

After a night of careful consideration, early the next morning, the Garqin Mausoleum re-boosted the morale on the school grounds, and then ordered the army to turn back and stop fifteen miles away from the Qinghai Acropolis.

In the Qinghai Acropolis, there was a celebration, after the big victory, the army was excited, Li Hao didn't expect this battle to be so easy, and Li Hao calmed down and thought about it, and immediately relieved, in fact, this is the same as playing a game, the king player has an advantage over the diamond player, and the king's equipment and level are crushing the other party, even if the other party comes with three people, the king can also kill the other party.

However, early in the morning, the scouts came to report that the Tibetan army had returned, camped fifteen miles outside the city, and there was no other action at present.

Fan Lihua was chatting with Li Hao about this war, and after hearing the report, Fan Lihua frowned and said, "They are still not dead." ”

Li Hao said: "Garqinling is afraid that Qinghai Wei will go to support the Anxi Protectorate, which means that the situation in the Anxi Protectorate is not optimistic, and without further ado, I have to go to support." So he got up and walked out.

Fan Lihua suddenly shouted: "You ......"

Li Hao suddenly turned his head to look at her with a smile and asked, "What do you want to say?" ”

Fan Lihua was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "You take care, the sword and gun have no eyes." ”

Li Zhi smiled slightly: "Got it." Then he turned around and left.

Li Hao took the army of 40,000 Tiance Mansion out of the city and went directly to the east, he went to the railway station, and if he wanted to quickly support the Anxi Protectorate, he naturally had to take the train.

The Garqin Mausoleum soon received a report that 40,000 troops from the city had come out and headed east.

Garqinling hurriedly sent 50,000 troops to pursue, until the railway station, was ambushed by Li Hao and them, killed and wounded thousands of people, hurriedly retreated, Li Hao took the army on the train, roaring away.

Garqinling was very annoyed, so he ordered the Qinghai Acropolis to be completely surrounded, and the Tang army must no longer be allowed to support the Anxi Protectorate, the iron rail car of the Tang Dynasty made him depressed, the speed of that thing is too fast, and the transportation of soldiers and horses is fast and many, they can't stop it at all, he knows, this is the power of science and technology, although he has also sent people to the Tang Dynasty to learn science and technology, but so far, the people he sent are still studying factorization in Tubo, those strange characters, no matter how you look at it, it feels like it has nothing to do with creating these things.

Sanmi Mountain Tingzhou, here was the royal court of the Western Turks, the houses and palaces here are already the classical architectural style of the West, Su Dingfang doesn't know much about those Gothic styles and Baroque styles, anyway, he doesn't care, what he cares about is the Abbasid army outside the city, the Abbasid army has besieged the city for six days, during which the city was sieged five times, each time it was repulsed, the losses on both sides are not small, the 30,000 troops in the city are still 20,000, and the 200,000 Abbasid army has also lost 20,000.

On the seventh day, Li Hao arrived with an army of 40,000 Tiance Mansion, and the commander of the army sent by the Abbasids this time was Yang Fan, Yang Fan saw that the reinforcements of the Tang army were killed, and hurriedly retreated more than ten miles.

Li Hao saw that the enemy army had retreated, so he gave up his intention to pursue and led his army into the city.

Seeing Li Hao personally bring the army to help, Su Dingfang finally breathed a sigh of relief, although there were only 40,000 reinforcements, there was no problem in defending the city.

Su Dingfang welcomed Li Hao to the mansion, and also gave up the main seat to Li Hao, he sat in the deputy seat, and the other generals sat in two rows.

Li Hao asked: "General Su, what is the origin of the other party's boss?" ”

Su Dingfang said: "The commander of the Abbasid army is named Yang Fan, who was once a general of the Western Turks. ”

"Oh, it's Yang Fan." Li Hao raised his eyebrows when he heard this, Yang Fan naturally knew that the big villain in the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was still a villain, he thought about it for a while, and asked again, "How is this Yang Fan's ability to fight?" ”

"Very powerful." Su Dingfang said with a solemn face, "This person's style of marching and fighting is somewhat similar to that of you, King Qiongnan. ”

"Oh?" Li Hao raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and asked curiously, "It's a little similar to me, how can you say this?" ”

Su Dingfang said: "This person marches and fights, and he also likes to make moves that don't follow common sense. ”

Li Hao frowned when he heard this, and said unhappily: "How can this be true, what kind of thing is he, and he dares to play cards out of common sense, this is my exclusive, I am the protagonist!" ”

The generals looked at each other when they heard this, Su Dingfang looked embarrassed, he knew Li Hao better, and knew that Li Hao had made another mistake.

Next, Li Hao and the generals began to discuss the strategy of breaking the enemy, Li Hao proposed, send people to go around the rear of the enemy, burn its grain and grass, Su Dingfang did not agree, this plan is too risky, with Yang Fan's cautious personality, the grain and grass must be very tightly protected, how can it be burned so much.

But Li Hao is very confident, his special forces have been silent for a long time, and the sword will rust if it is hidden in the scabbard for too long, and it is time for them to play a role, and only by performing such a difficult special task can they prove the value of special forces.

Li Hao insisted on this strategy, and Su Dingfang had no choice but to comply, and then specially selected more than 500 elite cavalry to come out, ready to let them burn grain and grass, but Li Hao said no, just send his own fifty special forces.

As soon as he heard that only fifty people were sent to attack the grain and grass, he felt that this was too child's play, and fifty people could be of great use, but he thought about it again, Li Hao has never made moves according to common sense, since he wants to do this, let him go, even if he loses fifty people, it is not a big deal.

There are 100 special forces who came with Li Hao this time, two squads, and the captains are Feiying and Li Fox.

Li Hao handed over the task of this sneak attack on grain and grass to Li Fox's team, and Li Hao immediately led people to prepare for the work after receiving the order, and set off after dark.

The reason why special forces are called special forces is because they always carry out special tasks behind enemy lines, and their qualities are far superior to those of ordinary troops.

Li Hao's special forces have not only undergone hellish training, but also performed countless seemingly impossible tasks, and now Li Hao has equipped each of them with night vision devices, and night is their world.

Li Fox and they rode around in a big circle and galloped for fifty miles, and Li Fox suddenly shouted: "Stop!" There's an enemy scout ahead! ”

Everyone wore night vision devices, and did not find the enemy scouts, and after a careful look, they found that on the grass, a person was lying in the grass, seven or eight miles away from them, if it were not for his eyesight, it would be really difficult to find.

Li Fox took out the crossbow, dismounted and ran forward, and after a while, Li Fox came back, turned over and said, "The scout has been solved, keep going!" ”

They encountered more than a dozen scouts along the way, and in the dark night, the sight range of these scouts was extremely limited, and Li Fox and they had night vision devices, which was simply invincible, and they easily got rid of all the scouts, and quietly came to the logistics barracks of the Abbasid army.

Li Fox changed into the military uniforms of the scouts outside the camp, and then let the people who had changed into the camp first, and solved some sentry posts, while the others entered one after another.

Finally, they came to the side of the granary, where countless pointed granaries were erected, Li Fox made a gesture, and everyone quietly went out to solve all the sentry posts secretly, and then quickly poured oil around each granary, and at the same time lit fires.

The granary was already prone to fire, not to mention the oil, the fire soon jumped to more than one person's height, the camp became brighter, the sentinels in the distance found out, and they rang the gong and shouted to put out the fire, many people brought the sand and water to put out the fire, Li Fox They hid in the shadows, and kept shooting the soldiers who came to fight the fire with a quick crossbow, trying to delay the time, so that the fire burned a little bigger, if they really let them extinguish the fire, then they would be busy in vain.

The enemy soon discovered them, and the large group of men and horses killed them where they were hiding, and all the special forces took out their newly made grenades, pulled the lead and threw them out, and there was an explosion in the crowd, releasing a dazzling light in the dark night, only to see countless figures being blown away, and there was a loud bang, shaking the heavens and the earth, and scaring the Abbasid army stupid.

The progress of Datang science and technology naturally has to be applied to the military, and the grenade is the latest military weapon, which will explode as soon as the lead is pulled, which is much more convenient to use, and it is no longer like before, and it needs to be ignited to explode.

Each of them carried only six grenades, and when each threw three, the whole camp was in chaos, and the sound of explosions drew everyone in this direction.

Seeing that the fire was already big enough, Li Fox shouted: "Withdraw!" ”

Then everyone took out their grenades and threw them into the granary, the granary was being burned by the fire, and the grenade was blown up, and the sky suddenly seemed to be raining fire, countless thatch was blown into the sky, carrying the flames and falling, and even the surrounding camp tents were also ignited, and the fire began to spread, and it was this rain of fire that fell from the sky that frightened the enemy to retreat again and again, so that Li Fox had enough opportunity to climb over the high barracks fence and escape into the darkness.

Early the next morning, Yang Fan received the bad news as soon as he got up, the grain and grass in the rear were burned by the Tang army, and Yang Fan was stunned when he heard the news.

He has already sent more than 8,000 people to guard the grain and grass camp, and there are scouts along the way to probe the movements within a radius of dozens of miles, it can be said that the defense is extremely tight, but he didn't expect it to be burned by the Tang army, he doesn't know what to say.

Yang Fan ordered an investigation into how much food was left in the army, and reported to him after the count, and soon the quartermaster came to report that the food in the army was only enough for ten days.

Yang Fan gritted his teeth and was secretly angry when he heard this, he didn't expect the Tang army to be so cunning, he actually burned his grain and grass, and now he has to send the arrow, if he goes back now, he will inevitably fall short, the Tang army has 60,000 troops in the city, and he has 180,000, if he attacks the city with all his might, there should be hope to take the city, but the losses may be relatively heavy.

Yang Fan thought about it again and again, and felt that he could only forcibly attack the city, and the cost would be great, so let's take it down first, otherwise he would really have to go home.

Yang Fan immediately ordered the whole army to attack the city, besiege three and one, and at the same time send people to the four towns of Anxi to collect grain and grass.

This time Yang Fan decided to break the cauldron and sink the boat, mobilized all the troops and siege equipment, attacked very fiercely, Li Hao and Su Dingfang personally went to the city head to command and supervise the battle, Li Hao appeared on the city wall, the Tang army was suddenly excited, especially the 40,000 Tiance Mansion, as if it had beaten chicken blood, the courage was terrifying, this battle was fought from morning to evening, it took more than four hours, under the city wall, the corpse was stacked with a thick layer, the water of the moat was stained red with blood, and the Abbasid army attacked the city wall again and again, He was killed again.

Finally, Yang Fan ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, he gave up, why, because there was no hope, this battle was so tragic that it was beyond his imagination, the 180,000 army is now only 80,000, and the 100,000 army was buried under the city wall, and the Tang army still has more than 30,000 people left, how to fight this battle, and if it continues, he will become the commander of the light pole.

Li Hao stood at the head of the city and saw Yang Fan withdrawing his troops, and snorted coldly with a gloomy face: "Want to withdraw? Do you think this is a place where you can come and walk whenever you want! Pass on my military order, the cavalry of Tiance Mansion went out of the city to pursue, sons, your swords haven't drunk enough of the blood of the barbarians! ”

"Roar!" The remaining 30,000 Tiance Mansion troops roared excitedly, rushing down the city with great speed and forming a formation, and their actions were extremely fast.

The city gate opened, the drawbridge fell, and the army of Tiance Mansion entered a group of tigers out of the cage and rushed towards the Abbasid army.

Yang Fan was walking back with the army at this moment, more than ten miles away from Tingzhou City, when he suddenly heard the thunderous sound of hooves in the rear, and was taken aback, and someone in the rear immediately came up to report: "Dashuai!" The Tang army went out of the city to chase and kill! ”

Yang Fan frowned suddenly when he heard this, and asked, "How many people?" ”

"30,000 heavily armored cavalry!"

"Thirty thousand heavily armored cavalry?" Yang Fan suddenly frowned and groaned, should he withdraw his troops and flee or fight back?

The Tang army came quickly, and there was not much time left for him to think about, on the battlefield, the information was changing, and this was what he said, time was very important.

And Yang Fan is also considered to be experienced in a hundred battles, the best at decisiveness, he quickly made a decision, withdraw, since the Tang army dares to chase out of the city, there must be something to rely on, and the Tang army is now in high spirits, although there is hope to defeat the Tang army in the return attack, but once defeated, then even his own life is not guaranteed, it is too risky.

In fact, if it comes to military strategy, Yang Fan and Garqinling are between the best, but Yang Fan is more selfish, his first thought is to save his life, so at this time, he made the right decision, because once he turns back, it is estimated that it will be really over.

Yang Fan retreated with a large army, but the Tang army was in hot pursuit in the rear, and soon caught up, Yang Fan decisively left 30,000 infantry behind, and all 30,000 infantry were killed, Li Hao then ordered to clean up the battlefield and camp on the spot. Tomorrow, when the grain and grass arrive, he will prepare to go west and take back the four towns of Anxi.

Yang Fan led his troops to flee westward, and the army was only 50,000 left, garrisoning Wanzhou (formerly Dawan), and then sent a war report to the Ottomans, reporting the news of the defeat and asking the Ottomans to send troops to support.

The grain and grass were prepared for three days, Li Hao took 30,000 troops to the west, he wanted to subdue the four towns of Anxi, and the current four towns of Anxi are no longer the four towns of Anxi in history, but are Wanzhou, Anzhou, Xunzhou (Huoxun) and Yuezhou (formerly Yueshi).

The three towns of Anzhou, Xunzhou and Yuezhou form an arc to firmly protect the territory of the Anxi Protectorate, and Wanzhou, as the military and political center of the Anxi Protectorate, controls and supports these three prefectures in the rear, which is very firm, so the four towns of Anxi must be taken back, otherwise the Western Regions will not be able to be peaceful.

Li Hao led his troops all the way to Wanzhou, ordered the siege of the city, countless bed crossbows and catapults were fired together, it seemed to rain in Wanzhou, many people did not dare to approach the city wall, all hid in the center of the city, in case they were accidentally injured, the Abbasid army could only shrink under the battlements, did not dare to fight back.

Li Hao cherished the lives of the soldiers, and was not in a hurry to send people to climb the city, so he used bed crossbows and catapults to suppress firepower, no way, the crossbows were not used up, he was rich and capricious.

For seven consecutive days, Li Hao had to use a bed crossbow and a catapult to launch two hours into the city every day, but he just didn't send troops to attack the city, if you use the words of the future world, this is called, first artillery fire to open the way, and then the army attacked, this is a very money-burning way to fight, but whether it is Li Hao or Datang, they are very rich.

Yang Fan felt a little broken, in seven days, Li Hao did not send a single soldier, just suppressed by firepower, although the loss was great, but it was not useless, at least the current city wall has been smashed to pieces, many battlements have collapsed, and in the past few days, more than 5,000 enemy troops have been hit by arrows and flying stones, and people who have been hit by bed crossbows and catapults, even if they are only touched, they are useless.

Yang Fan couldn't stand it, led the army to abandon the city and fled, and ran to Anzhou, Li Hao led the army to chase to Anzhou, as always, the artillery suppression, there were trucks in the rear to transport the crossbow stones over, besides, whether it was a stone or an arrow, after being released, it could be picked up and continued to be used, as long as the city could be taken, the crossbow stone was still his own, what were you afraid of.

Li Hao was flying again in Anzhou, Yang Fan was beaten and fled again, this time he fled to Xunzhou, and now he feels like a mouse, and he was driven by Li Hao to flee everywhere, aggrieved, but he was really unwilling to withdraw like this, capturing the four towns of Anxi is his greatest contribution in this battle, is it going to be wiped out like this, why hasn't the Ottomans sent reinforcements.

Osman was actually so angry that he couldn't do it a long time ago, how could he still send him reinforcements, 200,000 troops, just like that, Yang Fan was ruined to only a little bit, that was nearly half of their national troops, the loss of these 200,000 troops would be a huge blow to the Abbasids, if the Tang Dynasty took the opportunity to retaliate now, what would he do, what would he do to resist.

Li Hao came to Xunzhou, looked at the enemy army at the head of Xunzhou City, smacked his lips helplessly, and muttered: "What's wrong with this Yang Fan, I refuse to return to China when I flee around, I am still ready to fight quickly, and then go back and ask the emperor to directly send troops to destroy Tubo or Abbasid, isn't this delaying my time, really." ”

Now Li Hao is really not interested in fighting, there is no way, it is like the God of Gambling is unwilling to play cards with rookies, it is too boring.

Yang Fan just ran away, like a rat crossing the street, embarrassed, and Li Hao, who was extremely bored, suddenly became playful, just wanted to see how long he could last, and also played hide and seek with him.

I have to say that Yang Fan is still a bit of a brain, and he is very familiar with the terrain around the four towns of Anxi, and he can successfully escape every time, but every time he escapes, he will leave the lives of thousands of soldiers.

For two and a half months, Yang Fan lasted for two and a half months, and his vitality was comparable to that of an immortal Xiaoqiang, but his army was now only 10,000 people, and in the end he also knew that it was impossible for reinforcements to come, and if he continued to flee like this, he would be caught sooner or later, so he finally dispelled the unwillingness in his heart and withdrew to the Abbasids.

Li Hao immediately sent a battle to return to Chang'an, and asked Su Dingfang to immediately recruit new soldiers to come to guard the four towns of Anxi.

Due to Li Hao's crossbow stone bombardment, the city wall of the four towns of Anxi was seriously damaged, Li Hao led the army here to help repair the city wall, and countless trucks transported cement, steel bars and stones to come over, and used these to cast the city wall, which was not only strong, but also fast.

After waiting for another half a month, Chang'an's holy decree came, recruiting Li Hao back to Chang'an.

Li Hao took the army from Tingzhou to Chang'an by train, passing through Qinghai, he got off the car to visit Fan Lihua in Qinghai Wei, and asked about the battle, Fan Lihua told him that she had led her troops out of the city to repel the Tubo army more than two months ago, and if it were not for the imperial order, she would definitely pursue to Tubo proper.

Li Hao stayed here for a day, and then returned to Chang'an, and Fan Lihua personally sent him to the train station.

As soon as Li Hao returned to Chang'an City, Xu You, the chief of the chamberlain, came to announce the oracle and let him enter the palace for an audience.

Li Hao didn't dare to slack off, he first went to hand over the military power, and then went to Taiji Palace.

On the Ganlu Palace, Li Zhi frowned and looked at the row of recitals on the case, Li Hao came in and saluted in the heart of the hall: "Minister Li Hao pays a visit to the emperor." ”

"Poet, you're back!" Li Zhi looked up at Li Hao in surprise, and said eagerly, "It's great that you're back, the Japanese Kingdom has invaded my Tang Dynasty!" ”

"Wa Kingdom?" Li Hao twisted his eyebrows when he heard this, it seems that the plan of the western expedition is about to be delayed, and the Japanese country actually dares to invade, so naturally he will make this disgusting island country first.

Li Zhi walked up to Li Hao with a few letters in his hand, personally handed the notes to Li Hao, and said with a solemn face: "Look at it, this is a note sent from Jiangnan and Silla." ”

Li Hao took it with both hands, and immediately flipped through it, not knowing if he didn't see it, and he was startled when he saw it.

The Japanese state of this action is very big, sent 50,000 troops to suddenly storm the Silla Jincheng, Yu Chi Baolin was taken by surprise, has fled to the north, more than 50 large ships all fell into the hands of the Japanese, not only that, the Japanese are a two-front war, they also sent 80,000 troops to raid Jiangnan, Jiangnan Province's Chang, Su, Hu, Hangzhou, Vietnam, Taiwan six prefectures and counties were all captured by the Japanese, and the Japanese occupied the city after burning, killing and looting, all evil.

Li Zhi said depressedly at this time: "It is said that my Tang Dynasty soldiers are invincible, why did a small Japanese country take six states and counties of my Tang Dynasty in seven days, poetry madness, you say...... Is it true that I am not a good emperor? ”

"It is indeed His Majesty's fault." Li Hao said calmly, "In fact, the minister has already said that if you want to build more navies, you should add a navy in Taizhou or Hangzhou, but the eldest grandson and the ministers have always opposed it, so our Datang defense in the coastal area is weak, if the enemy attacks from the sea, it will definitely beat us off guard." ”

"I know I'm wrong, I should have listened to you." Li Zhi said, "For now, let's drive out the thieves first, and then talk about the addition of the navy." ”

Li Hao nodded, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister proposes to summon General Fan Lihua to return to Chang'an immediately and fight against the Japanese with the minister, this time it is not just as simple as expelling the Japanese country, we must also fight to the Japanese country, when the Japanese country is in turmoil, they humiliated us and came to scold us, and now that their country is stable, they want to come and take advantage of the fire to rob when they see the Abbasids and Tubo attacking us!" The minister has long said that the Japanese people are a despicable race and should be destroyed! ”

"Yes!" Li Zhi nodded vigorously, "The poet is right, such a country cannot be left and must be destroyed!" ”