Seeing that they could not defeat the Su army in front of them, the coalition army began to change their minds and wanted to turn their heads to attack the Su army that came to help.

After all, when marching, there is not so much time to build a camp, and it is obviously easier to attack.

It's just that in terms of the specific number of troops, the three parties have never been able to discuss going together. Because according to Li Shouji's idea, in the face of the 90,000 army led by Li Haoqin, they must at least retain a superior force.

But if this happens, they will have a total of 130,000 horses, and no one will divide the army. They also understand that if they keep being at such a stalemate, the outcome will be certain.

So after some compromise, they chose to switch from attack to defense, and began to retreat at night. The soldiers and horses of Anwu and Wu retreated to Hexian, Jingcheng, and Caicheng, and used the three cities as horns to block Li Hao's march.

Among them, Anguo had fewer soldiers and horses, and he came to ask Wuguo for help, so he could only passively choose Hexian County, which became the most advanced line of defense.

Yang Xingjian was left to personally lead heavy troops to garrison Jingcheng, while Xiao Pu and Ning Yuanzhou led the local army and part of the forbidden army to garrison Caicheng.

Of course, there are not no smart people among them who do not see the disadvantages of doing so. However, Anwu and Wu were already full of contradictions, and once again added the matter of luring the people of Beipan into the customs, if it weren't for Li Hao, a big enemy, I was afraid that they would have to fight first.

In this case, it is better to fight each of them than to let the two armies mix together and thus affect the combat power.

As for the army of Beipan, it used the advantage of cavalry to meet the battle, and the other army that was rushing towards Tianmen Pass realized the idea of breaking Li Hao's arm.

It's just that their plans are a little too underestimating Li Hao. From the moment he learned the news of their withdrawal, Li Hao had already sensed that something was wrong, and decisively ordered Jinyiwei to hurry up the message, and secretly ordered Chu Fan to slow down and prepare to meet the Beipan army.

Now that the number of cavalry is limited and the machine gun has not been built, Li Hao does not have a good solution for large-scale cavalry, but this does not mean that Li Hao is really afraid of them.

The combat power of the Shenji Battalion and the 3,000 Battalion is there, as long as they are prepared in advance, no matter who they encounter, it is unlikely that they will suffer a big loss.

Li Hao's request for Chu Fan is this, drag the Beipan army there for a few days, and when Li Hao captures Hexian and Jingcheng, he can completely block the return of the Beipan people.

In the mountains and rivers of the Central Plains, even if the Beipan people are cavalry, they are also the restricted side, which is much easier than Li Hao going to the grassland to eliminate them.

Among Hexian, Jingcheng, and Caicheng, the first to stop Li Hao was Hexian, which is the place where the Beipan people have been blocked in the play.

But if the people of Beipan can't beat it, it doesn't mean that they can be embarrassed by Li Hao, and as for their so-called horn potential, Li Hao doesn't care about it.

After all, the soldiers and horses led by Li Hao surpassed the defenders in the three cities in terms of quantity and quality. So Li Hao also chose to divide his troops, and at the same time began to attack Hexian and Jingcheng, and deliberately left Caicheng behind.

As for Li Hao himself, he stayed in the team attacking Jingcheng, and deliberately weakened the soldiers and horses in Hexian.

Li Hao just wanted to put out the yang conspiracy to see if the defenders of Caicheng dared to come out to threaten the flank of the Su army and delay the offensive of the Su army.

It depends on what choice they will make, whether it is to support their own people to come to Jingcheng to hit the nail, or to pay attention to the overall situation and go to Hexian.

Li Hao's conspiracy did take effect, and at this time in Cai Cheng, Xiao Pu and Ning Yuanzhou were arguing over this matter.

After learning about Li Hao's arrangement, Ning Yuanzhou ordered Liudaotang to investigate again and again, confirmed the situation, and wanted to discuss with Xiao Pu about sending troops.

Xiao Pu had also fought on the battlefield, and he knew his purpose in stationing in Caicheng, and he had no opinion on sending troops.

It's just that in the direction of sending troops, there was a contradiction between the two, Ning Yuanzhou wanted to send troops to Hexian, thinking that it would be the weak point of the Su army.

But Xiao Pu insisted on sending troops to Jingcheng, thinking that the people stationed there were all Wuguo's own people, and anyway, they were all planning to drag the Su army back, so they must choose their own people.

In particular, Xiao Pu also emphasized: "With the wisdom of Emperor Su, it is impossible not to see the problem of our division of troops in this way, so the situation of the Su army in Hexian and Jingcheng is very likely to be the old cloth maze." Ning Yuanzhou emphasized: "I have already asked Liudaotang to investigate, and the arrangement of Suguo outside Hexian and Jingcheng is indeed like this, and there is no problem." As a result, Xiao Pu said: "Regarding the information about Su Guo, Liudaotang has been wrong all these years, otherwise how could we be so passive, so you can guarantee that this time is right." Ning Yuanzhou was a little speechless because of these words, he naturally believed in the Six Dao cousins in his heart, but what Xiao Pu said was also the truth.

Since Li Hao ascended the throne, Liudaotang has been thoroughly cleaned up by the Jinyi Guard, and the intelligence system has been greatly damaged, so that mistakes are indeed frequent.

Unable to convince Xiao Pu, Ning Yuanzhou could only be forced to agree to his idea. Who made Xiao Pu a member of Empress Xiao's family, and he has always served in the army, whether it is the emperor's trust or the prestige in the army, he is higher than himself.

But in order to be more cautious, Ning Yuanzhou began to recommend himself, and took the initiative to ask Xiao Pu to personally lead the troops and let Xiao Pu stay in the city to preside over the overall situation.

However, Xiao Pu was a little distrustful of Ning Yuanzhou, after all, there were still certain requirements for command when going out of the city to fight in the field, although Ning Yuanzhou was very famous, he had never set foot in the army.

So he said: "No need, you have never brought troops, in case of a situation, I am afraid that it will be difficult to respond, it is better to stay and defend the city, this is simple." As long as I wait for me to leave the city, I will guard and close the city gate, and the specific defense will be with Vice Admiral Geng. I will be out of the city for two days at most, and then you will be sure that it is not me who is coming, and you will not open the gates. Then no matter how Ning Yuanzhou persuaded him, Xiao Pu didn't listen anymore, and went directly down and began to pick up soldiers and horses.

Xiao Pu is indeed not a wine bag and rice bag, he knows that his purpose for going out of the city is to harass and respond, just don't let the Su army attack the city with all his might, and there is no need to fight head-on.

Therefore, the soldiers and horses that Xiao Pu brought out of the city only used some cavalry. After the soldiers and horses were arranged, when he wanted to lead the troops to leave, Xiao Pu was uneasy and explained to Ning Yuanzhou again that he must not open the city gate at will.

waited until Ning Yuanzhou nodded in agreement, and Xiao Pu left with confidence. There was no news for a whole day, and it was late at night the next day that Xiao Pu led the soldiers and horses back to the city, shouting to open the door.

Hearing Xiao Pu's voice, the city soldiers did not hesitate, and were ready to open the city gate. Only Ning Yuanzhou felt a trace of uneasiness in his heart, and after stopping the soldiers, he came to the city and looked down.

In the flickering firelight, not only Xiao Pu's figure was extremely blurred, but the soldiers who followed behind Xiao Pu also looked a little strange.

Ning Yuanzhou was not at ease, and deliberately asked: "General Xiao, why did you come back so quickly, and I look at the appearance of the soldiers, didn't you meet the Su army?" Listening to the voice of the city, Xiao Pu replied: "It's a bump, it's just that the defense of the Su army camp is too tight, and as soon as we approached, the cavalry with muskets in their army rushed out." And I look at the number of people, there are more than 1,000 people, it seems that Emperor Su really brought people with him. Fortunately, they should have been ordered, and they didn't dare to chase too far out of the camp, so we didn't suffer any losses. However, I don't think this can take advantage, so I can only choose to return first. Ning Yuanzhou replied after hearing this: "So that's the case, it seems that we have made a mistake in judgment, and we should still go to support Hexian." Faced with this question, Xiao Pu did not answer, because this was a fake, and Li Hao pretended to be it.

Li Hao knew from the beginning that the role of the garrison here in Caicheng was expected to be that they would definitely go out of the city, so from the very beginning, he arranged for people to squat outside the city.

After knowing the soldiers and horses who went out of the city and the people who led the troops, Li Hao decisively organized this fake Wu army, anyway, the armor of the Wu army, Li Hao didn't know how much he had captured before, and this time it happened to be wasted.

As for Xiao Pu's words, Li Hao used disguise techniques, so Li Hao also found a way to catch a few of Xiao Pu's personal soldiers, and asked them to correct Li Hao's mistakes respectively, so as not to be cheated.

But on this great night, by the light of this torch, if there is some mistake, it is impossible to see it from such a distance from the city.

It's just that the appearance can be fooled, but Xiao Pu said those words, and he couldn't completely figure it out. Therefore, Li Hao's strategy is to answer less: "Okay, let's go into the city and talk about it later, we are tired after a day's journey." Ning Yuanzhou always felt that something was wrong in his heart, but he couldn't say it, but his intuition told him that he couldn't open this door.

As a person who is always hovering on the front line of life and death, Ning Yuanzhou believes in intuition incomparably. So he tried again: "But the general said that this gate cannot be easily opened when it is closed, so I asked people to block the city gate with a boulder, and now it will take some time to move the boulder, and I ask the general to wait." Li Hao felt that it was wrong when he heard this, if the city gate was really blocked, the soldiers should not have mentioned it when he shouted just now.

So it is guessed that most of this Ning Yuanzhou is a temptation, and it is impossible to block the city gate according to common sense. After all, Xiao Pu led his troops out of the city to harass himself, and he had to come back in the end.

If this gate had been blocked, if there had been a chasing soldier from the Suzhou country behind, would they have been killed long ago if they were waiting for the soldiers to slowly move away from the stones.

Therefore, he deliberately put the torch close to himself, and then shouted angrily: "Whoever asked you to block the city gate, could it be that you are trying to rebel, so you must deliberately block the return route of the general, who instructed you." Ning Yuanzhou saw that the people under the city were directly attacking, and he felt a lot more relieved, in his opinion, if he was really an enemy, he should not have such confidence.

Seeing that the city head didn't speak, Li Hao knew that he had guessed correctly, and continued to attack and let the city generals take Ning Yuanzhou and open the city gate immediately.

At this time, the deputy general who was patrolling the city heard that Xiao Pu was back, so he rushed over to greet him. As a result, when I walked to the gate of the city, I heard this last sentence, and I immediately didn't understand it, and when I asked.

After listening to the answer of the soldiers defending the city, the deputy general didn't care about Ning Yuanzhou's request, and directly let people open the city gate.

He has no affiliation with Ning Yuanzhou, so he naturally chooses to listen to Xiao Pu. Ning Yuanzhou also noticed the movements of the city, but he didn't stop it anymore, because he found that after listening to Li Hao's words, the soldiers at the head of the city were already a little ready to move.

If at this time, he forcibly did not let Li Hao in, I am afraid that he could really be controlled, and he really didn't find anything wrong.

Looking at the slowly opening city gate, Li Hao also showed a smile on his face, and began to march forward with his soldiers and horses.

At this time, Ning Yuanzhou had already walked down, wanting to explain what he had just done as soon as Xiao Pu came in.

Just looking at Li Hao's appearance getting closer and closer, the uneasiness in Ning Yuanzhou's heart became more and more intense without knowing why.

It wasn't until his gaze moved to the horse that Li Hao was riding, that he suddenly realized that something was wrong. shouted: "Close the city gate quickly, this person is not General Xiao." Hearing this, the other people present looked confused, and they didn't understand what stupidity Ning Yuanzhou had committed, how could this person be fake.

However, the people of the Liudaotang were extremely confident in Ning Yuanzhou, and they ran towards the city gate at this time.

But the problem is that Li Hao is already a stone's throw away from this city gate, how can he give them this opportunity. Directly from the horse's coat, he took out two grenades, pulled the fuse, and threw them into the hole in the city gate.

In an instant, he cleared a piece of the Wu army in the doorway, and then led the people behind him to accelerate and charge towards the city.

The situation was so fast that the people in the city didn't react at all, and they were overwhelmed in an instant.

Especially Ning Yuanzhou, who was thinking of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, rushed towards Li Hao, but at this time he was already on the ground and couldn't move.

After all, whoever let him only hold a sword, he dared to charge Li Hao, who was holding a horse lance and galloping quickly. Li Hao's martial arts were originally higher than him, and with the blessing of speed, if it weren't for Li Hao's mercy, he didn't stab with the head of the lance, but instead swept with the shaft.

Ning Yuanzhou was not seriously injured, but was directly pierced by Li Hao. The defenders in the city didn't expect that there would be a Su army here, so they didn't have enough plans, and soon the city gate was occupied by Li Hao.

Immediately followed by a loud noise, it was the follow-up people arranged by Li Hao, this time Li Hao sang an empty city plan under Jingcheng.

However, Li Hao didn't transfer everyone over, after all, there were too many people and it was too eye-catching, so he only transferred them on a small scale and arranged people near Jingcheng in advance.

Anyway, outside the city is Li Hao's territory, and the outpost sent by Wuguo is useless. In this way, he besieged Jingcheng in Mingli, and the actual target was Caicheng, because with the current situation, Li Hao was not afraid that the people of Wuguo would go out of the city to cut off the grain road.

After all, Wuguo can only rely on defending the city to survive, if they really dare to go out of the city, it will be a happy event for Li Hao.

On the contrary, Li Hao can use this to cut off the grain route of Wuguo, although these two cities have also hoarded a lot of grain, but there is always a time limit for not being able to eat.

Especially Li Hao also planned to add a burden to them, and the first thing Li Hao did when he entered the city was to arrange for someone to escort the Wuguo people in the city and go to Jingcheng to find Yang Xingyuan.

Even when the people in the city are finished, Li Hao can still go outside the city to find them, depending on how many people Yang Xingjian dares to accept.