The subsequent war was indeed quite smooth, and Peng Kun also relaxed his vigilance after getting the news from Li Hao's side.

Ling Budo and Cui Hou seized the opportunity, directly recovered Xia Cai County, and beheaded a general under Peng Kun.

But what followed was the idea that Ling Budo planned to go straight to Shouchun, and Li Hao was really helpless when he heard it, but fortunately he was stopped by Cui You.

However, Cui You also emphasized in his letter that he hoped that the follow-up would speed up the march and encircle Shouchun as soon as possible.

There is no way, I can only think that now I can sort out the relationship between the personnel in the battalion, and I can speed up.

It's just that before leaving, Li Hao has to settle the previously injured people in advance, otherwise it will be a burden to stay.

It just so happens that the army is now in Runan County, which is where Li Hao served as the county governor at the beginning, so Li Hao is still quite familiar with the local situation.

He found a way to recruit some of the troops of the local wealthy clans, plus a small number of soldiers and horses that were separated, and escorted these people back to recuperate from their injuries.

Then the army officially marched towards Shouchun, but before it left Runan, news came from Tongniu County, saying that Lou Niu had been found in the county.

It seems that this guy still has to fight for his future, otherwise he wouldn't have traveled thousands of miles from the capital.

Since he jumped by himself, Li Hao naturally had to prepare some contingency measures to ensure that he could catch him, and by the way, he also had to ensure that Cheng Shi would not have an accident.

Therefore, Li Hao planned to go to the prince to discuss the matter of the garrison of the army, anyway, this time the prince personally led the troops, and it was impossible to directly lead the troops to Shouchun City, and the reason that the gentleman did not erect a dangerous wall was still useful.

Since you want to find a city around Shouchun, Tongniu County is a good choice, because there is a copper mine, so the successive county commanders will strengthen the city wall, and its defense capability is by no means inferior to that of ordinary county towns.

And it is not far from Shouchun, only less than fifty miles apart, and it can rush to the battlefield in one day under the hurry, and it can also be very good to rely on the front-line soldiers and horses.

At that time, the station must be down, and Li Hao will be able to lead a team of soldiers and horses, go there first, and take care of everything in advance, and when he is out of everyone's sight, it will be much more convenient to do things again.

On the prince's side, he and Lai Shi had no objection to Li Haode's suggestion, after all, the copper bull itself was also one of the garrison points they had planned in advance, and now that Li Haode strongly recommended it, there was no need for them to refute Li Hao's face.

But for Li Hao to lead the team to set off, the prince was a little reluctant, because now all the chores in the army are basically handled by Li Hao, and the prince only needs to seal and agree.

Li Hao left, and then the matter would all be piled up on his own head, as for letting him do it, the prince didn't have such courage.

After all, it is right that the name is a courtier, but when it comes to relatives, Lai's mother is Emperor Wen's grandmother, which is also said to be Emperor Wen's cousin.

It's just that Lai She's sister married Emperor Wen's brother Liu Jia, so Lai She's self-descended seniority, just commensurate with brothers, but in any case, they are the prince's elders, so where does the prince dare to call him.

So after coming to She, he deliberately left Li Hao and asked, "Can't you arrange for others to go over to Tongniu County, you can't do without you here."

Li Hao replied: "Now that it is approaching Shouchun, although the report says that everything is fine in Tongniu County, it is better to send a competent person to investigate it in person to rest assured.

After all, the crown prince is the most important person in the world, and no one dares to guarantee that Peng Kun will die to make a last fight.

So this time I can only go in person, otherwise I can't let Laihou run, if it is intentional, then it is better for you to say it yourself."

"That's not necessary, let's let Laihou sit in the camp." Obviously, the prince didn't want to make trouble for himself, but he still advised, "You go early and come back early, I can't drag anyone here."

Li Hao promised, "Your Highness, don't worry, I will rush back as soon as possible after the survey is completed."

After getting the permission of the prince, Li Haodang ordered 2,000 soldiers and horses, and then found some bandits who had been recruited before to join the team, and went to Tongniu

The county galloped away.

On the way, Li Hao received a second message from Tongniu, saying that the city was already preparing the refined copper ingots, and was ready to get off the carriage, and it seemed that he had plans to transport the copper ingots out of the city.

Knowing this news, Li Haodang slowed down, because this meant that Lou Niu and Peng Kun's deputy general Ma Rong should have decided on the time to start.

At this time, they must also be the most cautious and cautious, at this time, the vicinity of Tongniu is only afraid that there are dark sentinels, especially the direction where the army is coming, and the location where Ling Budo is located, it is the focus of their attention.

Maybe they might have already set their sights on Li Hao, so in order to let them do it with peace of mind, Li Hao deviated slightly from one direction and went to Dangtu.

It's just that this is all a move on the surface, and on the night of the same day, Li Hao asked Yuan Wo to take the group of mountain bandits who came to Chengcheng, plus the Yuan family's troops, and secretly left at night.

Needless to say, the mountain bandits are at war with the officers and soldiers, and they run into the mountains and forests when everything is wrong, so that the officials and soldiers can't chase them, so it is naturally very easy to walk in the mountains and forests.

And the Yuan family tribe has also undergone special training in this regard, so Li Hao asked them to take advantage of the mountainous and forest terrain to quickly rush to the surroundings of Tongniu County.

Then with the support of intelligence, he pretended to be a mountain bandit and rescued Cheng Shi and Yan Zhong, anyway, most of the people here are from this background, and they haven't had time to wash their habits in the rivers and lakes, so they happen to be good at doing this.

And Li Hao promised that after they saved people, they could grab some refined copper by the way, although these refined copper could not be given to them directly, after all, those were official things.

But Li Hao promised that he would allocate money to exchange the corresponding refined copper for them, and exchange it according to the value of the refined copper they robbed.

For this reason, the enthusiasm of these mountain bandits to do bad things was immediately raised, and they happily followed.

As soon as the morning dawned, Li Hao pulled out the camp early in the morning and made a lot of noise, anyway, he didn't let outsiders see that there were no people in the camp.

However, it was Li Hao's move that also relieved Lou Niu and Ma Rong in Tongniu County, who were really worried that Li Hao was going straight here.

After all, although Ma Rong also has nearly 2,000 soldiers and horses, it is no less than the people led by Li Hao, but he knows his own affairs.

Shouchun has been too peaceful for a long time, and the soldiers and horses in the city have not been in battle for a long time, where is the opponent sent by the capital, especially Li Hao, who has to lead the troops.

Whether it was the Battle of Longyou, the Battle of Shuzhong or the Battle of Feng Yijun, Li Hao had outstanding achievements, although in the eyes of the outside world, it was not as good as being flaunted by Emperor Wen, but it was not a good look.

Even if they have a mental calculation or not, these two people are not sure that they can completely annihilate the people brought by Li Hao, let alone even if they can be completely annihilated, it is meaningless.

What Ma Rong and Lou Niu want is to rely on the power of persuasion to stand above the court in one fell swoop; The other is to get out of Peng's camp smoothly and abandon the darkness and surrender to the light, so that the treatment can be much better than the surrender of the beaten.

But if this battle is really fought, it will undoubtedly be a tear with the prince, maybe it's nothing for Lou Niu, after all, she didn't want Ma Rong to live to the end.

But Ma Rong obviously doesn't think so, he feels that he has offended so many people, and even if he transitions to Emperor Wen at that time, he is afraid that he will be continuously targeted in the future, and the end may not be better.

Now that it is certain that Li Hao will not come, the two of them have decided to implement the plan as soon as possible, and finish the process while the others have not yet reacted.

Lou Niudang went to Yan Zhong and urged him to transport the refined copper out quickly, while Ma Rong went to the place where the soldiers and horses were stationed and made preparations for sending troops in advance.

However, Yan Zhong is good at persuasion, he originally regarded Lou Niu as a confidant, and naturally he was convinced of his words, but at this time, there was still Cheng Shi in the city to supervise the copper affairs, and if he wanted to transport the refined copper away smoothly, Cheng Shi had to pass this pass.

Fortunately, Cheng Shi's brain is not very clever, and he has a natural trust in the children of the Lou Niu family, so he didn't doubt what he said, so he agreed to go out of the city together to protect the fine copper.

At this point, the preliminary plan has been reached, and on the agreed day, Yan Zhong took his family roll and Cheng Shi together to transport the refined copper out of the city.

And as the refined copper had to be shipped out, Yuan Wo, who had already obtained the news from the fine work in the city, also quickly knew, so he immediately rushed to the ambush point where they had planned to grab the refined copper along the mountains and forests.

That is the place that Yuan Wo chose after coming here and personally inspecting the terrain, and there are mountains and forests on both sides of the road, which is convenient for hiding traces and escaping afterwards.

And more importantly, not far in front of this place, there are traces of the deployment of a large group of people, and the traces are still very new.

At this time, who else could the soldiers and horses of the brigade that would be operating near Tongniu County, obviously this is where Ma Rong and the others stepped on in advance.

Then the people sent out by Yuan Wo to monitor that place also reported back that there were quite a few people there the night before, and it was roughly estimated that there were four or five hundred people.

From this, Yuan Wo was relieved, and when it was decided to let Ma Rong's people rush first, and then they would pretend to be bearded mountain bandits to kill them from behind.

After all, if you want to pretend, you have to do it well, otherwise if you go directly to the ambush person, it will be too easy for people to see through.

Yuan Wo's arrangement here, Ma Rong was naturally not clear, he was waiting for Cheng Shi and Yan Zhong to come over.

Then there was a surprise attack from the middle, first several waves of arrows disrupted Cheng Shi's formation, and then a wave of pressure came up, to completely resolve the battle.

But Cheng Shi is still quite powerful, holding a nine-ring thick crest long knife weighing more than 80 catties, and the one who dances is called Feng Shengshui.

The people who came up for a while really couldn't take him, but on the contrary, Cheng Shi inspired a wave of fighting spirit among his subordinates, and he resisted the impact in a short time.

Seeing this, Ma Rong knew that he couldn't let Cheng Shi be so rampant anymore, so he also came up with a long knife with a ring handle, directly interrupting Cheng Shi's momentum.

Originally, Cheng Shi's side was suddenly attacked and people's hearts fluctuated, that is, Cheng Shi took people to stabilize the situation, but now when the others saw that Cheng Shi was about to lose, their morale suddenly became unstable.

In addition, he was also at a disadvantage in numbers, and suddenly there was a rout, Cheng Shi looked anxious, but he was also entangled by Ma Rong and had no choice.

At this time, Cheng Shi also had a retreat in his heart, after all, he stayed in the green mountains, and he didn't have to worry about the reason for no firewood, Cheng Shi still understood.

However, in order to get out smoothly, Cheng Shi first had to get rid of Ma Rong's entanglement, so Cheng Shi once again started a desperate attack.

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attack, but on the one hand, it is a new force, and on the other hand, it is a man and horse who have been attacked by the enemy under the long-term battle, and this battle situation is naturally very unfavorable to Ma Rong.

On the other hand, Cheng Shi, who was surrounded in the innermost, also roughly understood the situation at this time, although he didn't know which side of the person had just come, but at least he could see that he was not in the same group as besieging them, which was enough.

At least for a short time, they would be safe, so in order to recover their combat strength as soon as possible, he hurriedly beckoned the people on his side to shrink inside, get out of the battle, and let them fight to the death.

But even if there is less pressure on one side, Ma Rong still can't beat here, just when Ma Rong was anxious about this, suddenly Lou Niu sent someone to spread the news from behind, asking Ma Rong to lead his troops to retreat first.

Although Ma Rong was a little reluctant in his heart, he saw that this was indeed unbeatable, so he had to lead people to retreat.

In this regard, Yuan Wo did not have any intention of pursuing, but filled the vacancy of those people, and continued to surround Cheng Shi and them, and by the way, he sent people to check the two thousand refined copper.

Seeing this scene, Cheng Shi's heart tightened, and he couldn't help but curse secretly: "What the hell is going on, how come everyone knows that refined copper is going to be shipped out, it's really hell."