After two consecutive days of court discussions, the matter of rushing to aid Tingzhou was finally decided, and Hou Junji, the secretary of the ministry, set off from Chang'an with 100 personal guards, drove to Liangzhou, and transferred 20,000 troops from Liangzhou Mansion to help Tingzhou.

The night before leaving, Hou Junji's son-in-law Helan Chushi came to visit him, nominally to practice for him, but in fact brought Hou Junji's words from the prince: "Tingzhou is fine." ”

Hou Junji has been in the officialdom for many years, and after hearing this, he immediately understood what Li Chengqian meant, and then it depends on what he meant, whether he wants to help Li Hao or stand on the side of the prince.

Judging from the current situation, this is simply a question of sending points, Li Hao is considered the oldest, although he is talented, he is also appreciated by the emperor, so what, Li Chengqian is the prince, the future master of the Tang Dynasty, Hou Junji didn't think much about it, so he chose to stand on Li Chengqian's side, walking slowly all the way, dragging it if it can be delayed, called Chi Aid, but in fact, it is delayed, according to his speed, it will take at least half a year to arrive in Tingzhou, it is estimated that when he arrives in Tingzhou, Li Hao's bones will not be found.

Li Hao here in Tingzhou has just harvested nearly 1,000 stone corn, and more than 1,000 stone corn will mature in more than 20 days, and in a little more than two months, there will be nearly 200 acres of corn, which is thousands of stone of corn.

After harvesting the corn, Li Hao immediately sent people to plough the land and sow seeds, and continue to plant corn, which was not enough, he demolished some houses in the city, and gathered those who demolished the houses to live in the tent area, and the cleared place was used to plant corn, and he wanted to prepare the winter food in advance, and now for Li Hao, nothing is more important than food.

Gaochang has besieged the city for a month, but the people of Tingzhou have eaten corn tortillas, Li Hao found that corn is really suitable for planting in Tingzhou, because the sunshine here is strong, the corn grown is higher in sugar, not too bitter, and because the growth cycle is extended by a month, the flour ground out is also more delicate, not rough throat, and it tastes very good. This mutated corn of his really saved his life, and also saved the lives of the people of Quanting Prefecture.

Zhang Meng didn't know the situation in the city of Tingzhou, according to his calculations, Tingzhou should have been out of food for a long time, but every day he still saw many Tang troops defending the city at the head of the city, which made him very puzzled, so he sent three thousand soldiers to carry out a tentative siege of the city, and was beaten back mercilessly, it turned out that the Tang army was still very fierce, there was no way, continue to wait.

After waiting for another ten days, Zhang Meng found that the defenders on the head of the city had actually increased, he did not believe in evil, and tried again, losing the lives of hundreds of soldiers.

Tang Jun was in good spirits, but Zhang Meng was nervous, he felt that he had been deceived by Cao Tian, what about the lack of food in Tingzhou, what about the lack of food in Tingzhou, how long has it been now, not to mention a month, but he felt that the Tang Army was getting more and more fierce, of course it was fierce, now that the Tang Army is training every day, can it not become more and more fierce.

After more than ten days, Zhang Meng felt that he couldn't stay up, Lu Wentai gave him a deadline of two months, and if he couldn't get Tingzhou for more than two months, the consequences would be serious, but he made a military order in the middle of the compromise, even if Lu Wentai didn't execute him in his past achievements, at least it would be a punishment for cutting off the knight and seizing the title, in short, the end would not be very good.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Meng was anxious, and he struggled for three more days, and there were only two days left before the deadline, and he decided that the siege of the city, whether it could be attacked or not, must always try, and he could not sit still.

Early the next morning, Lu Wentai ordered troops at the school, divided the army into three roads, divided into three roads, southeast and west to attack the city, because the last time the city car was blown up by Li Hao, this time the deputy marshal He Lanfeng came to bring a city car, but this is a small city car, it is enough to deal with the city gate of Tingzhou.

The Tang army at the head of the city soon discovered the enemy's movements, and immediately blew the horn for the letter, and the army in the city poured onto the city wall one after another, and began to prepare for battle, Li Hao was wearing battle armor, carrying a scarlet cloak, holding a big flag and walking up to the city tower, observing the enemy's military situation, and then ordered loudly: "The enemy has a car rushing to the city, immediately dig the soil for a bag, and block the city gate!" ”

"Yes!" All the troops received orders in unison, and nearly 1,000 people rushed down to the city to dig up soil and bag it, blocking the city gate and road.

When the Gaochang army arrived, the entire road had been tightly filled with dirt, so that no matter how powerful the city car was, it would be impossible to open the city gate.

"All-arms war!"

"All-arms war!"

"All-arms war!"

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Li Hao turned back to the front of the city tower, unfolded the big flag in his hand, only to see the flag scarlet, fluttering in the wind, embroidered with a huge "Tang" character with golden thread, the two armies faced each other, morale is the most important, he got this big flag, in order to boost morale.

Li Hao thrust the Tang flag in front of the city tower, and asked loudly: "Whose land is this!" ”

"The land of the Tang Dynasty!" All the Tang troops roared in unison, and the sound shook the clouds.

"Whose city is this?"

"The city of the Tang Dynasty!"

"Who are we?"

"Tang people!"

"What kind of soul do the Tang people have?"

"Tang Soul!"

"What a Tang soul!" Li Hao raised his voice and shouted, "Soldiers, today I Li Shi is crazy and poetic, and I improvised a poem to give to the rank of son!" ”

He pondered for a moment, and roared to the sky: "The horn of the dragon is stormy, and the bloody children are in the lonely city." Ten swings and ten decisive Qiang horses, spears will always guard the soul of the Tang Dynasty! ”

A quatrain suddenly ignited all the blood of the soldiers, and the soldiers at the head of the city shouted in unison: "The spear will always guard the soul of the Tang Dynasty!" ”

"Knock knock knock......" The war drums in the Gaochang army were beating, and the enemy army began to attack the city.

Li Hao ordered: "Beat the drum!" Against! ”

"Knock knock......" The rapid sound of war drums seemed to hit the hearts of all the Tang troops, all the sergeants pulled their bows one after another, arrows flew like locusts, fell into the enemy formation, several rounds of volleys, leaving a corpse, the enemy army has also rushed to the city, began to set up a ladder to climb the city, stones and rolling logs fell one after another, smashed the Gaochang army screamed more than once, and the enemy in the rear went forward and continued to move forward.

Li Hao has been holding the Tang Banner in his hand, looking silently, the enemy archers have entered the firing range and started shooting, Li Hao ordered, fight back at the opposite archers, although the Tang Army archers are not as many as the other party, but after all, they are condescending, and there is a female wall to cover them, occupying the geographical advantage, and the Tang Army is good at bows and horses, even if there are only 800 archers, it is not weak at all 8,000 archers.

Lu Yun and the Flying Eagle team have been guarding Li Hao's side, once they find that the chaotic arrows are coming, they will immediately shoot them away to ensure Li Hao's safety, and now Li Hao is the spiritual leader of the military and civilians in the city, he can't do anything, otherwise Tingzhou will die.

Although the Tang army is brave, but in the end the number is too small, the battle lasted for half an hour, there have been a lot of Gaochang troops on the city wall, the cheetah team and the bayonet team have been on the east and west city walls to help, the situation of the two city walls is acceptable, the south wall has the most enemy troops, there have been nearly 100 Gaochang soldiers on the city wall, Li Hao said in a deep voice: "Flying eagle, go help!" ”

"The host ......"

"Go!" Li Hao drank the order.

"Yes!" The Flying Eagle gave up his hand and shouted, "Brothers! Come with me! After that, everyone drew out their Tang knives and rushed towards the Gaochang army at the head of the city, like a tiger entering a flock.

Special forces are special forces, they kill people cleanly, one by one, without dragging mud and blood, absolutely according to the other party's vital points, spend the least effort to kill the most people, they kill people not to pursue ferocity, only the pursuit of efficiency.

In just ten minutes, the addition of nine members of the Flying Eagles completely reversed the situation on the southern city wall, slaughtering all the Gaochang troops who had ascended to the top of the city, but there were still countless enemy troops climbing up.

In the enemy formation, the heralds kept reporting the battle situation back and forth, Zhang Meng looked at Tingzhou silently, his face was full of worry, he was worried about the true trick of the sword and thunder, if there was another magic sword and thunder true trick, he could only go back to his house and wait for sanctions, but fortunately, the true trick of the sword and thunder had not appeared.

"Marshal, the Tang army is very tenacious, and our army seems to have lost nearly 4,000 people so far." Deputy Marshal He Lanfeng frowned and said.

"Ben Shuai knows that Tang Jun is not having a good time." Zhang Meng replied coldly.

He Lanfeng understood what he meant, and immediately chose to shut up.

The fighting continued, and the Tang army continued to fall at the head of the city, either dead or wounded, and the people braved the rain of arrows to rush up to the city to carry the wounded or dead Tang soldiers down, and the wounded were sent to the morgue for treatment, and the dead were moved to the morgue and covered with white cloth.

Arrows rained down, many people were shot down by stray arrows when they went up the city wall to carry the corpse, but there were still many people rushed up to carry the corpse, at this moment, what is there to talk about being afraid of death and not afraid of death, the city was broken, and everyone had to die.

The battle has entered a white-hot stage, the casualties on the Tang side have been nearly a thousand, and the Gaochang army has also lost nearly 7,000 people, Zhang Meng still has no intention of retreating, seeing the decrease in the number of Tang troops in the city, he seems to see hope, maybe the immortal who knows the true trick of the sword and thunder has left Tingzhou, and there will be no more magic sword and thunder true trick.

He guessed correctly, Li Hao has no bombs, there will indeed be no more divine sword and thunder magic skills, and even the oil and alcohol have been used up, and now Li Hao only has real swords and real guns and the flesh and blood of the soldiers in the city.

The battle was fought from morning to noon, from noon to afternoon, the city wall was full of corpses, the Tang army suffered heavy losses, the number was less than a thousand, the Gaochang army finally climbed the city wall, and the two sides began to fight the most tragic battles.

Li Hao looked at everything in front of him, he knew that Tingzhou was finished, the people of Tingzhou were finished, and he was finished.

Although he knew that it was over, he was not convinced, he was not dead, the soldiers were not dead, even if he fought to the last soldier, he would not give an inch, Li Hao did not want to be a totem anymore, he finally left the military flag, drew his Tang knife, and rushed towards the enemy, the Tang knife was chopped, blood was splashed, and a bronze armor general of Gaochang was split in half by him!

"The spear will always guard the soul of the Tang Dynasty!" Li Hao roared and continued to rush towards another enemy, cutting off the enemy's head with another sword, his silver armor already stained red with blood.

All the soldiers of the Tang Army were inspired by him and shouted: "The spear will always guard the soul of the Tang Dynasty!" "The morale reached its peak in an instant, and they all killed Gao Changbing.

In the enemy formation, Zhang Meng saw the changes in the city, and said to the herald: "Pass my commander's order, who can cut off the head of the silver-armored and red-robed general, reward a thousand taels of gold, and promote the official to three levels!" ”

The herald immediately rode away, waving the order flag along the way, and shouting: "Pass on the order of the handsome handsome!" The one who beheads the head of the city and the head of the silver-armored red-robed general! Reward 1,000 taels of gold! Promoted to three levels! ”

When the Gaochang army at the head of the city heard the sound, they rushed towards Li Hao like mosquitoes that had seen blood.

Seeing that the enemy actually wanted to besiege Li Hao, the soldiers of the Tang army came to help, and everyone fought and retreated, and soon went to the bottom of the city tower, and there were only 500 people left.

At this moment, the head of the city has been occupied by the troops of Gaochang, and they have rushed to this side, intending to cut off Li Hao's head and make great military achievements, as for entering the city, they have been temporarily forgotten.

The Tang army swore to protect Li Hao, Li Hao also personally participated in the battle, Lu Yun has always been by his side, although Lu Yun is strong in martial arts, but in the chaos of the army, he is helpless, he and Li Hao have been injured, fortunately the injuries are not serious.

The Gaochang army fought frantically for the temptation of gold and official promotion, which was more terrifying than eating stimulants, and thousands of people surrounded the only few hundred Tang troops left, and they could not storm onslaught, but the Tang army fought desperately to protect the last belief in their hearts, that is, not to let the Gaochang army not be able to attack.

"The spear will always guard the soul of the Tang Dynasty!" The Tang army shouted slogans, one by one desperately guarding Li Hao and the Tang Banner behind them, the originally bright red banner was dyed even redder by blood, and even the golden "Tang" character was dyed red.

Li Hao has already changed two knives, and this third knife has also rolled up, he doesn't know how many people he has killed, there are more and more wounds on his body, and he suddenly feels so tired after bleeding too much, but he doesn't dare to stop, and he can't stop, he only knows that he keeps killing, keeps killing, and must not stop......

"Woo-" The sound of horns suddenly sounded from the enemy army outside the city, and thousands of Gaochang sergeants were stunned, and then they heard the herald shouting eagerly under the city, "There are enemy troops robbing the camp, quickly return to the camp to protect the commander!" ”