When it comes to Wang Yi, the stakes are not the focus, but the emphasis is on safety.
First of all, Hezhou was originally within the Wang family's sphere of influence, and was at a safe distance from Qizhou, Jizhou, and Bizhou on the front lines.
No matter what the battle situation is on the front line, with Wang Kun watching over them, they will have enough time to react.
Finally, after a series of promises and responses, Wang Yi was relieved.
With the promise here, Li Hao soon went to Cui Ming to ask for the task of leaving the capital to supervise the distribution of military rations.
At the same time, in order to ensure Li Hao's safety, Cui Ming, in addition to the 200 East Palace guards that Li Hao took away, also transferred 800 people from the Forbidden Army to Li Hao, enough to make up two battalions of people to serve as Li Hao's bodyguards. .
And before leaving, Cui Ming specially called Wang Kun in.
In front of him, he warned Li Hao: "After you leave the capital, you must obey your uncle's instructions on all matters and do not act willfully. Otherwise, I will call you back to the capital immediately. Do you understand?"
"Father, don't worry. My son must listen to you. This time, the main thing is to learn from you and never go too far."
Li Hao has always done things in a measured manner over the years. It was precisely because Cui Ming knew this that he was willing to let Li Hao leave the capital.
But what is clear is that as a father, the worry in his heart cannot be reduced, so he cannot avoid having to explain it again and again.
After a few words with Wang Kun, he told him to take good care of Li Hao before letting the two of them leave.
Before departure, Zhang Han sent someone to the East Palace to deliver an amulet. Chen Xi took it and handed it to Li Hao, saying, "It is said that Miss Zhang personally went to Qianyun Temple in the south of the city to obtain the amulet for His Highness. I heard that it was efficacious." Very good."
Li Hao looked at the amulet and said with a smile: "She is very thoughtful. I remember that there is a pair of concentric rings of mutton-fat white jade in the warehouse. Take one out and give it to her."
As for the other piece, keep it with Gu first, and then give it to her personally when Gu comes back. I think Liuli will be almost gone by then. "
Chen Xi agreed and went down to arrange the matter.
In August, Guimaoshuo, Daji, Wang Kun and Li Hao set out with the reinforcements to Qizhou until they reached She County, where the reinforcements continued to set off.
Li Hao and Wang Kun led the guards to turn left and headed for Hezhou City.
After leaving Beijing, Li Hao immediately felt like a trapped bird out of the cage, feeling comfortable all over. Even though he lived in the East Palace with a radius of hundreds of acres, he enjoyed fine clothes and fine food.
But staying in the capital still made Li Hao feel a little trapped.
But it was obvious that Li Hao's feelings were unknown to others. Wang Kun even came to care about Li Hao, for fear that Li Hao would be tired from the march.
This made Li Hao couldn't help but laugh and said: "Uncle, you are looking down on Gu. Gu is not a weak scholar with no strength. When it comes to fighting ability, you may not be able to compare with Gu."
Although Li Hao told the truth, Wang Kun couldn't take it seriously. After all, he didn't know about Li Hao's travels through several worlds.
A person who has never even been in the army, even if there are veteran generals who have taught him the knowledge of marching and fighting, how can he take what he talks about on paper seriously.
Therefore, not only did he not agree, but he misunderstood, thinking that Li Hao was testing him, and said nervously: "You promised me before that you would not act impulsively, so I spoke for you. Don't do anything nonsense."
Seeing this, Li Hao smiled and said, "Don't worry, Gu Yiyan Jiuding, as long as there are no special circumstances, I will definitely stay in Hezhou honestly."
After hearing this, Wang Kun was finally satisfied and said, "That's good. Also, since you've arrived in Hezhou, would you like to take a look at the free school you held before?
Anyway, the war hasn't started yet, so we can go to Huanze County and stay for a day. "
Li Hao really felt the need to visit this place that he had established as a volunteer school but had never personally set foot in. He said, "If you can, then go."
Because there are many people in Yi Xue, and the things taught there are different from the traditional Four Books and Five Classics and the Six Arts of the Gentleman.
In order not to attract other people's attention, it was not located in the county seat, but in an independent village.
The teachers inside, from guards to teachers, were all arranged by Li Hao. Even Wang Kun only sent people to allocate supplies after receiving the request, and had never set foot in it himself. Therefore, Wang Kun wisely did not follow him this time. Come.
Li Hao took Chen Xi and the people who came to greet him with Yi Xue, and left the camp at night.
After entering the free school, Li Hao saw at a glance the many slogans he had given, such as living in sorrow and dying in happiness; studying for the unification of the world; living for the benefit of the country, and dying because of misfortunes and blessings, etc.
In addition, gathering on the playground at this time, standing tall and looking eagerly at the young men, there is really such a high morale.
Li Hao then walked to the podium and delivered a speech to inspire fighting spirit and strongly criticized Anguo's aggression.
However, as someone who had been deeply disturbed by the school leaders’ stinking and long lectures in the form of foot wraps, Li Hao didn’t wait too long to let them disband.
Then, under the guidance of the master, everyone walked to the office, and Li Hao asked about the current number of personnel.
Now the number of volunteers here has remained at 1,500. Basically, after a group of people left, they recruited people from outside.
The Firearms Camp, on the other hand, has the advantage of having no one in charge, and has recently recruited a lot of people.
Anyway, with the food coming from the continuous operation of the caravan, they are making great progress there.
After listening to the introduction, Li Hao said: "Now you guys make preparations. I want to find an opportunity for these voluntary students to join the army.
After all, the scale of the current war between the two countries seems to be huge, and the neighboring states and counties should start recruiting troops by then.
You have taught these students very well. After fighting a few battles, there will inevitably be vacancies for lower-level officers, which is an opportunity for them to stand out. "
These people have long been educated to disregard life and death in order to serve the country and the great cause of reunification.
After leaving the volunteer school, the team quickly set off and rushed to Hezhou City, where Wang Kun began to get busy.
After all, there are nearly 100,000 troops and civilians fighting on the front line. It is necessary to allocate food, military supplies, and maintain overall operations. The workload is not small.
Therefore, Li Hao just rested for two days and walked around Hezhou City before going to help Wang Kun.
Then Wang Kun was surprised to find that he seemed to have nothing to do while he was being helped, because all the work was taken over by Li Hao.
Even so, Li Hao's working status is still very relaxed, which is very different from Wang Kun's before.
Wang Kun didn't believe it at first, but after repeated checks, the answers told him that Li Hao was right.
After all, where is this? Compared with Li Hao in Zhifu World, he presided over the attacks on Liao and Xixia, often involving hundreds of thousands of people.
This small number of people is really not enough to make a big scene.
But this also gave Wang Kun a big shock, and he had to sigh that his nephew could really bring surprises everywhere.
While the Hezhou side was calmly dispatching, the Ansu and Ansu countries also began to formally confront each other on the frontal battlefield.
This time Su State still adopted a defensive approach. The army was divided into two parts. Anding Marquis Chufan led 40,000 troops to defend Qizhou City, while Yongchang Marquis Zheng Zhuo led 30,000 troops to defend Luping County. The two sides formed a horns and supported each other. .
On the Anguo side, an army of 100,000 was assembled. Emperor Li Xuan of An led a main force of 80,000 to besiege Qizhou City. Cui Guogong Shentu Qiong led a partial army of 20,000 to contain them outside Luping County.
There was no problem in this originally. After all, Qizhou's city defenses were strong and the food and grass reserves were enough to last for several months.
Even facing twice the number of enemy troops, Chu Fan was still as stable as a mountain.
In fact, if this development continues, Anguo will definitely withdraw its troops and return to the north due to food and grass problems in the end.
But who would have thought that there was no problem with Chu Fan, but Zheng Zhuo was deceived.
Cui Guogong is the father of Queen Anguo and the father-in-law of Andy Yang Xingyuan. He is now past his sixties.
When he led the troops this time, the marquis had news that he was leading the troops while sick.
therefore
When the confrontation outside Luping County lasted for more than a month, the Anguo soldiers and horses, who had been making moves to lure Zheng Zhuo out of the city for a decisive battle, suddenly stopped moving and showed signs of breaking out of camp and moving towards Qizhou City.
Although Zheng Zhuo initially thought that it might be Cui Guogong's illness that led to this situation.
But for the sake of careful consideration, he did not take any action until the marquis sent him news, confirming that Cui Guogong's camp was already making white flags and other items.
Moreover, Emperor An no longer attacked Qizhou City, but began to withdraw his troops, showing signs of retreat.
Based on this information, Zheng Zhuo judged that Cui Guogong was really dead. Emperor An Li Xuan was afraid of shaking the morale of the army, so he planned to withdraw his troops and return home.
In fact, if this is the case, Zheng Zhuo can be regarded as completing his set goal, and he can receive the reward after the end, but the first achievement must be Chu Fan who held on to Qizhou City.
Not satisfied with this, but also wanting to fight for his daughter, he insisted on leading his troops out of the city, regardless of the dissuasion of his generals and without even saying hello to Chu Fan.
He wanted to take advantage of the turmoil in An's army's morale to wipe out these 20,000 An's troops in one fell swoop.
As a result, the An army in front cooperated. When the battle started, An army was defeated all the way, and he led his army to pursue them all the way.
Until early on the third day, when he wanted to pursue again, he was notified by the scouts that a well-equipped cavalry of more than 10,000 people appeared in front of him. The soldiers and horses sent by Emperor An to harvest the results of the battle had arrived.
He was dumbfounded at that time, because he was in a large plain at this time, and there was no strong camp or city to defend. What could he do to meet the enemy?
The only option was to survive with a broken arm, and ordered the deputy general to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to hold on here, and then quickly retreat with the rest of the soldiers and horses.
However, he also knew that Luping County would definitely not be able to return, and he headed towards the nearest Lianyang Mountain, hoping to get there and defend against the mountain before Duanhou's troops were defeated.
At the same time, he decisively sent out messengers to warn Qizhou, Hezhou, Anzhou and many other nearby cities for help.
The lieutenant general who stayed behind was originally a member of the Zheng family, and he was extremely determined to divorce the head of his family.
Because of his desperate fight, Zheng Zhuo's 20,000 troops and more than 10,000 eventually fled into Lianyang Mountain, but he was immediately blocked in the mountains by more than 10,000 troops from Anguo.
Since then, the originally stable battlefield situation suddenly collapsed.
Emperor An immediately led his troops to surround Qizhou City again, but this time his purpose was no longer to attack by force, but to prevent Chu Fan from coming out.
In this way, he could free his hands and use heavy troops to pull out the cities in the surrounding states one by one and loot gold and silver treasures from them.
Because he knew very well that although he now had the initiative, the main force of the Su Kingdom had not suffered much loss.
If you want to annex a few more cities, you must find opportunities to annihilate a few more main forces of the host country.
So he put his idea on Li Hao's head, and wanted to encircle the enemy for reinforcements. He wanted to use Li Hao as the prince to attract reinforcements from the Su Kingdom and annihilate them one by one.
It also happened to allow him to vent his anger, after all, who made Li Hao jump out before.
On the Hezhou side, Li Hao was also angered and speechless after learning about Zheng Zhuo's battle report.
Wang Kun said directly: "Zheng Zhuo deserves to die, a good fight, because of his greed for power and rash advancement, which led to such a situation, he retreated to Lianyang Mountain at this time.
So when An Jun arrives in Hezhou, there are only a few small towns in between, and the garrison is no more than a thousand troops. They will definitely not be able to stop An Jun. Hezhou is no longer safe.
Prince, I have everything here. You immediately rush to Luozhou with your attendants and satellites at night. You have sent a message to the flying pigeon in the capital. The capital will send reinforcements soon. You are waiting for the reinforcements there. "
After hearing this, Li Hao said: "Uncle, if I leave at this time, there will be no morale left in the city.
There are not many soldiers and horses in the city originally. If you lose morale, you can hold on for a few days. By then, the northern states will be raided by the An army and completely destroyed.
The northern states had just regained their strength after the deposed crown prince more than ten years ago, and Su State couldn't bear it anymore. "
Wang Kun replied: "But you may not be able to change the situation, and you are the prince and the country's foundation, so you can't change the situation either."
Something can happen.
Before leaving the capital, I promised your majesty and your mother that you would be safe. "
Li Hao smiled and said, "Times have changed, and no one expected this situation at the beginning. Moreover, if I really leave like this, I'm afraid the prince will not be able to sit still."
Seeing that Wang Kun still had other ideas, Li Hao continued: "Okay, just listen to me, and we may not be able to defend it. If the city is about to be destroyed, I will still find a way to escape in time. Now It’s about preparing to defend the city.”
After finally pressing Wang Kun's button, Li Hao quickly asked Chen Xi to pass an order to Yi Xue, telling them to leave immediately.
It may be too late to come to Hezhou City, but fortunately, they have good survival skills in the wild, and they won't starve if they hide in the nearby mountains.
And if you stay outside, you might be able to become a force that can defeat the enemy someday.
At the same time, the people near Hezhou City must also be gathered back with all their strength. There is still sufficient food and grass for the frontline troops in the left and right cities.
By the way, the houses and big trees close to Hezhou City were disposed of to make the walls strong and clear.
Not long after all this was done, Emperor An Li Xuan also rushed to the outside of the city with his army. Judging from the speed, he probably rushed over without paying any attention to the surrounding small towns.
Obviously this purpose is very pure, and it is completely for Li Hao.
