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Chapter 265: Battle of the Prairie Part 1

The sharp whistle roared over and over in the camp, cutting through the tranquility of the night sky. Countless soldiers rushed out of their respective camp tents when they heard the sound, dressed and opened, and were busy.

Li Hao quickly returned to the tent and put on his clothes, packed his luggage, and then came to Princess Honghua's tent. A group of palace maids in the princess tent were busy coming and going. Li Hao came to the curtain and asked loudly, "Your Highness, suddenly the enemy attacked. We are ready to pull it out at any time. I wonder if the princess is ready?"

Princess Honghua's voice came from inside: "It's ready, I'm here to go."

Li Hao immediately called Feiying and reminded: "You will take all the Feiying members of the Feiying Team to protect the princess's car. There are many enemies this time, so you must protect the princess in full swing."

"Yes." Feiying nodded his head and ordered him.

Li Hao looked southwest with frowns, and the enemy was rushing toward the other side. From the ground just now, we can tell that there were really many enemies this time, 20,000, 30,000, or 40,000. He was not sure, but he was sure that these enemies had reached more than 20 miles away and were approaching this side quickly. It was precisely because the enemies came very quickly and there were many people that Li Hao could hear the sound of vibration on the ground so far away.

After about twenty minutes of busyness, all the soldiers were ready to be equipped. Li Hao ordered all the braziers to be wiped out and the entire army rushed north.

Under the moonlight, on the grassland, a black shadow was moving rapidly, like a torrent. This was a huge Tubo army, with a total of 30,000 people.

Just over twenty minutes after Li Hao and his friends left the camp, the Tubo army rushed to the camp. At this moment, the camp had been pulled away, leaving only a mess. The general in golden armor turned over and dismounted and walked around the ruins of the camp. He saw a brazier falling from a distance. He went up and looked up and found that the brazier was still smoking. These braziers were left by the Tuyuhun emissary group. The Tang army would not make such a low-level mistake. Even if the brazier was burned to death, they would take them away when they pulled out the camp without leaving anything.

The golden-armored general waved, and two thin and tall silver-armored generals immediately came up from behind and saluted together: "What order does Rushou have?"

The Golden Armor General said in Tubo: "The enemy is very alert and has already escaped in advance. However, from the brazier, he should not have escaped far. Judging from the traces of chariots and horses, they did not escape to Tuyuhun, but went north. Nikoli, you bring five thousand cavalry, and you surround them from the west and intercept them. Dalar, you bring five thousand cavalry, and you surround them from the east. The general led 20,000 soldiers to chase them. You must snatch the princess of the Tang people to Zanpu!"

"Yes!" The two generals took the order in Tubo language and were about to leave.

The Golden Armor General suddenly said: "Also, the Tang Dynasty's marriage envoy is Li Hao, the young general who defeated our Godalman last time. The prime minister said that Li Hao is not simple, so we will capture him alive. Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, don't kill Li Hao. Hehe, if you can beat Godalman to a mess, I am also very curious about Li Hao."

"Yes!" The two generals took the order again and left, leaving the army with two cavalry teams, one on the left and one on the right, and the golden general also turned around and turned his horse, and issued an order. The 20,000 troops headed north.

Li Hao led the army north for more than an hour, and was restless. The team was moving too slowly, mainly because the princess was dragged by the prairie. The princess's car was not fast at all, and the princess also brought more than a dozen cars of dowry, which made Li Hao distressed. If it were normal, it would be slower, it wouldn't matter. But now he suspected that the enemy was chasing him, and he could only send scouts to continuously investigate the situation within a radius of ten miles.

"Report--" A scout rushed from the west and shouted loudly from afar, "Report to General! Five thousand cavalrymen were found fifteen miles west, and they were rushing north quickly!"

"Report--" Another scout came from the east and shouted from afar, "Report to General! The enemy was found fifteen miles east, and there were about 5,000 cavalrymen, heading north!"

Li Hao frowned when he heard the sound, and suddenly ordered loudly: "Give up all the carriages and bring enough water and food for everyone, hurry up!"

After he issued the order, he rode his horse to the princess's carriage, turned over and got off the horse and said, "Princess, when the enemy is attacking, the carriage will slow down. For safety reasons, he can only aggrieved the princess and abandon the carriage and move forward on horseback."

After a moment of silence in the carriage, Princess Honghua's voice came from it: "But I can't ride a horse."

Li Hao frowned and thought for a while after hearing this, and said, "Princess, please feel at ease, so I will take someone to arrange it."

After saying that, he turned to find Feiying and in a deep voice, "Flying Eagle, take Feiying Team and Five Hundred Light Cavalry to escort the princess' car to escape east. Don't let the enemy discover whereabouts. Three days later, go back to the place where Jishishan camped and meet me. The most dangerous place is the safest place."

Feiying looked at Li Hao in surprise when she heard this: "Where are you, Marquis?"

Li Hao looked up at the vast night and said slowly, "Now the enemy is surrounded. There are so many of us, the target is too big, and it is probably difficult to escape without any hesitation. When he had no choice, he had no choice but to fight."

Feiying hurriedly said, "The Feiying must be protected by the Marquis' side!"

Li Hao shook his head: "It's enough to have Gionee's Blade Team here. If you protect the princess, you will protect me. The princess can't have any trouble, do you understand?"

Feiying nodded vigorously: "I understand!"

According to Li Hao's instructions, Feiying quickly selected five hundred light cavalry and protected the princess' carriage to go east. Although there were enemies there, the enemies on the other side went north, and they were cavalrymen who acted like wind. When Li Hao heard the scout report just now, he had guessed the enemy's intention. He wanted to take a horn and capture them all in one go. As for who the enemy was, he almost didn't have to think about it. It must be Tubo.

That's why he asked Feiying to escape with the princess' car before the enemy encirclement was formed, so he could let go of the battle. As for the outcome, he was not sure. Perhaps... he would stay on this prairie forever.

After watching the flying eagle leave, Li Hao called Tuyuhun's envoy and asked him to send a fast horse to Tuyuhun for help. After all, this place is already the territory of Tuyuhun, but he still didn't have much hope. After all, Tuyuhun is too weak. It is estimated that the Tuyuhun King would be so scared that he dared not move when he heard the words "Tubo army". Although marrying the Tang princess is important, he cherishes his country and life even more. He was beaten by Tubo last year and was frightened by the news. How dare he speak up now?

After sending out the fast horses, Li Hao ordered the army to march westward, where the capital of Tuyuhun was located. Although Tuyuhun was weak, if the enemy attacked his capital, Tuyuhun would definitely not ignore it. As for whether they could escape to Tuyuhun's capital, it could only depend on luck.

More than ten minutes later, the 20,000 Tubo army arrived at the place where Li Hao and the others had stalled before, and found that many carriages were discarded here, and many carriages were loaded with jewelry, cloth and bronze ware, which were obvious from the Tang Dynasty.

"The Tang people actually abandoned the carriage." General Jinjia frowned when he saw this and said in a deep voice, "I underestimated this Li Hao. It's very interesting, but... it seems that there is no princess's carriage."

Several soldiers carefully surveyed the bottom for a moment and came back to report: "Marson, the enemy fled west!"

"Oh, go to Tuyuhun? Turn the direction? It seems that they have discovered Dalar and Nikoli." General Jinjia thought for a while, turned over and dismounted and looked around. Suddenly his eyes lit up and said in a deep voice, "Gesangpingcuo, come here!"

A general wearing silver armor quickly came to him and asked, "What are the adoptive father's instructions?" Gesang Pingcuo was actually the adopted son of the general's golden armor.

The Golden Armor General pointed to the east, smiled proudly, and said, "You bring a thousand elite light cavalry and chase eastward. The princess should have escaped in this direction."

Gesangpingcuo asked in surprise when he heard this, "How did you know about it with foster father?"

The general of Jinjia said with a proud look: "The grass facing east has signs of being trampled, but because there are too few people and it is night now, it is difficult to detect it. And you see, the grass facing eastward has a shallow trace of ruts. If the Tang people still have a carriage that refuses to abandon, it must be the princess's carriage."

"Ru Shuai is really a god!" Gesang Pingcuo was so excited that he flattered him, and then asked, "Entertainment Father, is a thousand light riders enough? Do you want to bring more people?"

"No need!" The general of Golden Armor raised his hand to stop him and said, "In order to escape, they brought very few people, probably no more than five hundred. There are not many cavalry in the army at present, and I still have to keep chasing the Tang army. One thousand elite cavalry is enough for you. You should chase east quickly. If you can catch the princess, it would be a great achievement!"

"Thank you for your adoptive father!" Gesangpingcuo took the order ecstatically and ran eastward with a thousand light cavalry.

The golden general returned to the front of the formation, pulled out two order flags, and handed them over to the two order soldiers, saying: "I passed on the orders of my commander, the Tang army has gone east, and ordered Nikolidalar to change the way west, and go around from the north to intercept the Tang army!"

"Yes!" Two messengers led the order to speed northward, and disappeared in the vast night. Then, 20,000 Tubo troops started again and chased westward.

Li Hao led 12,000 people to head west, but the palace maids, the Royal Chef, who married with the princess, were too dragged on the hindrance. If you don’t say it’s slow, you will still complain about being tired at any time. There are also Tuyuhun’s messengers. Although Tuyuhun’s messengers are all Tuyuhun’s soldiers, Tuyuhun’s soldiers are really not very physical. After running for a while, they can’t run. Li Hao really wants to cut all these guys at this moment.

Just when Li Hao was extremely depressed, the hooves in the rear were thundering, and the enemy caught up.

Li Hao was shocked and could no longer care about these hiccups. He led his army to flee northwest. The Tubo army left behind 5,000 people to deal with Tuyuhun's envoys, and captured the errands from the palace. The remaining 15,000 people continued to chase Li Hao.

Fortunately, those who were helping to restrain the Tubo army, Li Hao miraculously escaped, running a hundred miles all the way, exhausting more than 300 soldiers. He was exhausted, but they also completely escaped from the Tubo army's vision range. After all, most of the Tubo army's infantry are, and the cavalry team has not arrived yet, so they can't catch up with Li Hao for the time being.

Looking at the remaining more than 7,000 people, Li Hao was in a bad mood. After fighting so many battles, this time was the most afflicted. Unexpectedly, there were so many enemies. On this prairie, it was the home court of the Tubo army. He could only retreat all the way and dared not confront him.

It was early morning. Li Hao looked at Dongfang, feeling angry, and his cheek muscles continued to move. After a long time, a cold light burst out from Li Hao's eyes. He heard him slowly say to himself: "Soldiers are tricks! You think I can only escape, but I will surprise you this time!"
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