The internal disputes in the Su country have nothing to do with Li Hao for the time being, and the main thing to deal with at present is the Anguo army outside the city.

For this reason, Li Hao actively prepared arrows, rolling stones, sassal wood, hot oil, gold juice and many other things, and blocked the city gate with a knife car and rolling stones.

Anyway, there were few soldiers and horses in the city, and there were no cavalry available, so Li Hao had no plans to go out of the city to fight.

The initiative in defending the city was in the hands of the besieging party, and the Anjun army prepared the rushing carts, catapults, and ladders in three days, and officially launched a siege on Hezhou.

The combat method is also very classic, first use catapults to launch a burst of bombardment on the city wall, and take the lead.

Then the chariot and the ladder approached the city wall, trying to break the gate while allowing the soldiers to enter the city through the ladder ant.

Li Hao naturally dealt with this method easily, and when he saw the catapult earlier, he had already let the soldiers at the head of the city retreat.

Only a few people were left to monitor above, and when they saw the ladder and the rushing car approaching, they rushed up to defend.

It's just that the city gate has been blocked, so don't worry about it.

In the first few days, there were plenty of hot oil, gold juice, sasswood and other supplies, and the Anjun army suffered heavy losses and failed to climb the city wall.

But when these things are almost consumed, it is time for the soldiers of both sides to fight head-on.

Among the 4,000 men and horses in Hezhou City, Li Hao's 200 East Palace guards and 800 forbidden troops were the most elite, and the remaining 3,000 people were basically local defenders and baggage soldiers, and their combat strength was better than that of the people.

However, it is not difficult to defend the city, and it is familiar to fight for two days.

Therefore, Li Hao divided his 1,000 people and used them as the backbone to lead the rest.

As for Li Hao himself, he stuck to the east gate that was attacked, and from time to time in the back, he had to personally draw his sword and step forward to solve the master who rushed to the city wall.

But even so, by the eighth day, the 4,000 men had lost nearly 600 men.

Fortunately, Wang Kun did a good job, and brought more than 2,000 people from the local clans and people, even if he had no training, he was finally able to make up for the lack of numbers.

Of course, compared to the losses in the city, the losses of the An army will only be greater, according to Li Hao's estimates, at least nearly 4,000 people have been lost under the city.

It's just that relative to the number of the Anjun army, these losses have not shaken their resolve.

However, Li Hao is more confident that even if it is light consumption, he can drag the An army here in Hezhou City, and wait for the arrival of Suguo reinforcements.

It's just that just being beaten in the city and waiting for the An army to retreat in the face of difficulties is not Li Hao's style, so it is still necessary to find a way to teach them a profound lesson.

And Li Hao still has a strange army outside, and it should be the time for them to show their faces.

For this reason, Li Hao began to make arrangements, and after training the novices, he consciously replaced the East Palace guards to give them time to recuperate.

It's just that in this way, the combat effectiveness on the city wall inevitably decreases, and Li Hao took out the little hot oil and gold juice that was left before he repelled the enemy army.

For this reason, Wang Kun also came to Li Hao on purpose, wanting Li Hao to send people again.

Li Hao explained softly: "No, I left them behind because I had other plans, and we also need a reserve team that can withstand them in a critical moment.

There was no arrangement before, because there were too few veterans under his command, and they needed to be the backbone of the team, but now that the people in front have been trained, it is natural to gather them."

Wang Kun asked, "What are your plans?"

Li Hao said with a smile: "It's not sure yet, I still need to look at the situation again, anyway, my uncle put his heart in his stomach, and I can't attack the security army with me."

Now, Wang Kun found that he seemed to really have to believe Li Hao, after all, in terms of performance, Li Hao was indeed better at commanding soldiers and horses than him.

Just as he was about to leave, Chen Xi suddenly walked in with a letterbox containing information.

I just wanted to say something, but when I saw Wang Kun there, I held back.

Seeing this, Li Hao said, "What's there

That said, my uncle is not an outsider."

Chen Xi then said, "Just now, a marquis in the city came over, saying that General Wuwei sent a secret message to His Highness through the flying pigeons of the marquis inside and outside.

The slave maid has just verified the authenticity, and it is indeed the person of the inner and outer marquis."

As he spoke, he destroyed the wax seal of the letterbox, took out the superstitious letter inside and handed it to Li Hao.

Li Hao was really curious about what Gongyegu could write for himself, so he took it and looked at it.

The above told Li Hao about some of the latest arrangements of the imperial court and a plan for Li Hao to escape alone.

It turned out that there was a tunnel leading to the outside of the city in Hezhou, which was the second emperor of Suguo, that is, the generation of Li Hao's grandfather.

Based on the situation that the city was forcibly occupied by Anguo, the Hou Guan secretly dug tunnels in the border cities in case he needed to fight back in the future, and Hezhou City was the last one on the outside.

Only a very small number of people know about this matter, and Gongyegu also asked Yan Xu to know about it.

Gongyegu asked Li Hao to notify the Hou Guan in advance when he left, and then he would take someone to sneak into the exit of the secret passage and pick up Li Hao to leave.

It's just that Li Hao really didn't have the idea of leaving, so after reading it, he handed the secret letter to Wang Kun.

When Wang Kun saw that it would take at least a month for the imperial court's reinforcements to arrive, he was still quite depressed.

But when he saw the back, the whole person's eyes lit up, and he was silent for a moment, and said: "I didn't expect that there is such a way out in the city, you will send someone to secretly go to the tunnel to see the situation, and I will guard the city in an emergency, and you leave from the tunnel."

Otherwise, if something really happens to you, your mother won't have to hate me to death, but after this incident, the Wang family is afraid that it will not be the grand occasion it is today, and you will have to be careful yourself in the future."

When Li Hao saw him like this, he immediately joked, "Don't, uncle, you can't have a little confidence in me!" I promise neither of us will have to run.

But you still have to send someone to see the tunnel, and with it, a lot of things will be easy to do."

Immediately said to Chen Xi: "You can do this matter yourself, and find another way to contact the people of Xia Yixue, so that they can get as close to Hezhou City as possible, they need to be used, but remember not to be discovered by the security army."

Chen Xi agreed, and then went to do what Li Hao explained.

Of course, there must be a reasonable explanation for the emergence of Yixue's gang, and Li Hao planned to use the reason of recruiting local soldiers to arrange them in.

It's the same now, and then he said to Wang Kun: "Uncle, there is one more thing you need to do, didn't you draft a notice for the people of Hezhou to organize group training and defend their hometowns and protect themselves.

Now please write one more copy, and I will have people pass it on to the surrounding counties, after all, my identity is not suitable, so I can only trouble you."

Such a trivial matter, Wang Kun naturally had no reason to refuse, so he wrote it on the spot, handed it to Li Hao with a seal, and then left first.

Chen Xi explored the tunnel and soon returned, and introduced the relevant situation to Li Hao.

This tunnel has a backyard in the south of the city, no more than nine feet high and no more than a foot wide, so that two people can walk side by side at the same time, and the exit is in a dense forest in the south of the city.

He had just checked all around the tunnel, and there was no sign of the movement of the soldiers and horses.

After confirming this, Li Hao had an idea in his heart, but the specific implementation still has to wait for the people of Yixue to arrive.

Therefore, after handing over the notice to him, Li Hao let him go down and get busy.

Unlike the situation of unity of opinion in the city, the large battalion of the Anjun army outside the city was discussing whether to continue to attack Hezhou or to withdraw from the siege and return to uproot the surrounding small cities.

After all, when they went out of the customs, they just wanted to take advantage of Suguo, but in the end, except for Luping County, which was occupied because of Zheng Zhuo, they had no other gains, but they killed and injured so many people.

Anguo itself is a tribal system and the Central Plains system in parallel, except for some soldiers and horses who hold the imperial court's salaries, the private soldiers of each tribe live on the spoils of war.

However, what these two parties said has some truth, and it is not only possible to take Hezhou City when it is broken

Living with Li Hao's golden key, it also means that in the Northland Prefectures, they can let go of it.

But the possible reinforcements from the Su State, and the soldiers and horses of the Chu State who often made trouble in the past, are also a problem on their heads.

If Hezhou City has not been breached before they appear, they will have to be forced to retreat, and they will not have much to gain at that time.

One is the idealized maximum benefit, and the other is the immediate benefit, and neither side can convince anyone.

Emperor Li Falcon sat on the dragon throne and watched the people below arguing so quietly, but he didn't say a word.

It wasn't until they were tired of arguing that they asked Chu Guogong, who had not participated in the battle, "Chu Guogong, I don't know if you think we should stay and continue to attack Hezhou City."

Chu Guogong is a good hand at fighting, but he is not weak in figuring out the emperor's mind.

Emperor Li Falcon's words are obviously already very tendentious, and there are no principled issues left and right.

He did not object, but did not directly support it, but began to explain and analyze the situation: "Throughout the two days of battle, the Su army made more and more mistakes in defense, and the number of hot oil and gold juice appeared greatly decreased.

Obviously, the elite soldiers in the city are consumed a lot, and there is also a problem with the materials for defending the city.

As for the reinforcements from the Su Kingdom, there is no news yet, and even if they are about to arrive, they can use a small force of cavalry to delay their march.

Only Chu Guo is more troublesome along the way, and Su Guo will definitely ask them for help, if they come here, it is nothing, I am afraid that they will attack in the direction of Yizhou."

After listening to this, Emperor An clapped his hands and said, "What Chu Guogong said is reasonable, now that Hezhou has broken the city, wouldn't it be a waste of all achievements to retreat at this time.

Not only can't it be stopped, but we must continue to increase the intensity, I said that the city will be broken within half a month, and you can't let me lose my words."

The generals in the tent replied in unison, "The ministers will do their best."

Immediately, Emperor An said: "As for the Yizhou side, I have already sent the Marquis of Qing'an to lead the troops, with his ability, without seeking a big victory, it is still no problem to defend the city, you can rest assured."

The courtiers complimented in time: "Your Majesty is still thoughtful, and the ministers admire it."

The An army unified its ideas, and then threw itself into the attack on Hezhou City, and also increased the intensity.

For a while, there was a lot of danger on the city wall, and Li Hao had no choice but to be a firefighting team and take people everywhere to help rescue the emergency.

Although he was a little tired, he finally held the city wall firmly in his hand and maintained the balance of power.

This made Emperor Li Falcon and his generals very angry, and it was clear that they were about to capture it every time, but the result was so bad.

And in order to win back this breath, the Anjun army can only continue to strengthen its efforts.

At this time, the Suguo reinforcements had completed their preparations and began to march towards Hezhou City.

Even with Cui Ming watching from above, the support army still set off five days later than expected.

Fortunately, Li Hao did not put all his hopes on them, but was ready to save himself.

When the An army got the news, although they sent light cavalry to harass them, the sense of urgency in their hearts was heavier, so they once again intensified their attacks, basically fighting from dawn to dark.

In this kind of intensity of fighting, not only Li Hao and the others were extremely tired to deal with, but even the An army was also bitter.

But even so, Li Hao did not send the East Palace guards again, but quietly waited for an opportunity.

Until Li Hao observed the celestial phenomena, a strong wind was coming.

At this time, the people of Yixue had also moved to the col near Hezhou, and Li Hao was ready to start his Jedi counterattack.

So Li Hao called Wang Kun and talked about his plan.

Li Hao prepared to take the rested East Palace guards out of the city from the tunnel, go around to the east gate, and launch a night attack on the camp of the An army.

After all, the night of the moon is dark, the wind is high, and the night of windy weather is the most suitable for night attacks.

Wang Kun disagreed with this, although the Anjun battalion did not have their claim

's 100,000 troops, but even if you subtract the men and horses lost these days, there are still 40,000 or 50,000 people.

Using more than 100 people to attack a battalion of 40,000 or 50,000 people has really little chance of success, and he doesn't want Li Hao to take risks.

However, Li Hao said: "The night attack is a move to win more with less, if the strength is equal, then I will directly confront him, why bother.

And I made this decision, it was not a temporary idea, after these days I asked Chen Xi to explore, the An army regarded itself as besieging the city on all sides and had strong troops, and did not pay special attention to the camp.

In addition, when they set up camp, they camped in the central sand, eastern sand, and other small tribes, and the gap between the joints was very large, and it was not difficult to sneak in.

I have seen the heavens, and there will be a strong wind tonight, and I am ready for all the things that cause fire.

As long as a fire is lit in their camp and the wind fuels the fire, the Anjun army will inevitably be in chaos.

At that time, not only will the danger in Hezhou be solved, but there may also be a heavy blow to the Anjun army."

Wang Kun shook his head again and again and retorted, "You are just in an ideal state, what if something goes wrong, you will not be a sheep in the mouth of a tiger at that time."

Li Hao persuaded him: "Uncle, if you are alive, you can't take any risks at all, even if you keep guarding in the city, isn't it also dangerous.

And you know me, if it's really a dead end, I definitely won't rush up.

Since I chose to do this, I am naturally sure that I will leave with all my body, so you can rest assured."