When the dynasty was scattered, it was almost evening when Ma Zhou returned to the Secretariat Province and immediately ordered the Secretariat to draft the first draft of the imperial edict. After he finished the inspection, he submitted it to Li Zhi. After Li Zhi reviewed it correctly, he stamped it with a seal and sent it to the Secretariat Province.

After sending the imperial edict to the province of Menxia, ​​Li Zhi summoned Li Yuanzhong, the general of the Yulin Army of Jinwu Guard, and said, "Li Yuanzhong, you will take someone to pick up Li Hao back this time, and take good care of him along the way. Li Hao is sick and cannot bear the fatigue. If he is tired, you must not hurry to rush..."

He was worried about Li Hao, so he gave a lot of instructions. Li Yuanzhong listened silently. When Li Zhi finished speaking, he nodded and bowed: "I should obey the sage order!"

"Also!" Li Zhi suddenly said, "Don't tell him the news of his father's death for the time being. Li Hao has no intention of rebelling, but I am worried that Qinghai Guards are famous in the army. This time, the Qinghai Guards will definitely be very dissatisfied. If they let them know that their father's death, they are afraid that something will really happen. It is the storm at the moment. If a mutiny occurs, even if I want to protect him, I will not be able to protect him."

"Yes." Li Yuanzhong nodded.

"Well, go to the Ministry of War to wait for the imperial edict."

Li Yuanzhong immediately withdrew from Ganlu Hall and went to the Ministry of War and other imperial edicts. The process of imperial edicts in the Tang Dynasty was drafted by the Secretariat, the emperor inspected and stamped, and then handed over to the Menxia Provincial Department for approval, and finally implemented by the Secretariat. Because this imperial edict involved military power, it was finally sent to the Ministry of War. Li Yuanzhong wanted to take the 500 Yulin Army to set off, and also needed the Ministry of War to approve it.

Li Yuanzhong received the imperial edict and approval from the Ministry of War, and went to the ban camp to take away the five hundred Yulin Army. He set off immediately. It was already dark and the city gate was closed. But it didn't matter. Li Yuanzhong had the imperial edict and the Ministry of War's urgent official documents. After the city guard asked for instructions, he immediately opened the city gate for him.

On the snowy plateau, the weather is clear, the sky is blue and cloudless. Although the sun is shining, the temperature here is still cold, and the snow on the ground seems to have never melted.

It has been more than thirty days since the last time that the Tubo army was defeated. Li Hao also explained in his letter to Fan Lihua that he would pay attention to the city every day and wait for the black crow's arrows to make a letter, one arrow, food shortage, two arrows, food shortage, and three arrows to attack the city.

Just one day after receiving Li Hao's letter, an arrow appeared in the city. Fan Lihua was extremely excited. There was already a grain shortage in Luss City. From grain shortage to food shortage, it would never exceed seven days. From grain shortage to the last siege, the best time to siege in the city would never exceed ten days.

During this period, Garqinling repeatedly condemned the Tang army to negotiate peace with the Tang army, but they were rejected by Fan Lihua. Garqinling was helpless and was already preparing for escape. He planned the escape route for three days. Although Tubo is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if it is captured, escaping is a big problem, because the surrounding area is full of mountains, which surrounded Tubo into a huge cage, which led to the situation where there is no way to escape once the army is defeated.

Garqinling thought about it for a long time and finally set up the escape site in the northwest of Tubo. There are two countries in the Onion Lead, namely Xiaobolu and Bohe. Both countries survived by relying on Tubo. The combined military strength of the two countries was less than 50,000. If he led the army, the kings of these two countries would not dare not refuse to accept it. If they got there and the Tang army pursued him, he could flee west to the Western Regions, as long as they did not enter the four Anxi towns of the Tang Dynasty.

After seeing the arrows in the city, Fan Lihua immediately sent a quick horse to send a letter to Li Hao and told Li Hao about the matter. The quick horse ran all the way and delivered the letter to Li Hao in two days.

After reading the letter in the RV, Li Hao was so happy that he didn't know what to say. Unexpectedly, everything went so smoothly, and finally waited until the food was short of Tubo. After being happy, Li Hao began to write to Fan Lihua, telling her to be careful, because he had already calculated that Garqinling had only two choices next, one was to attack the whole army, and the other was to lead the army to escape. If he escaped, he could only go west.

Li Hao had already thought about all the actions of Garqinling in advance. Although he could not go to lead the army in person, he was really planning and winning thousands of miles.

The letter had just been written, and before he could hand it over to the messenger, Lu Yun suddenly came to report: "Prince, hundreds of cavalry are running towards this side in the northeast direction, very fast! I don't know whether it is an enemy or a friend!"

"Oh? From the direction of the Tang Dynasty?" Li Hao frowned and stuffed the letter he wrote into his arms. He picked up the telescope and opened the car door and got out of the car. Sure enough, he saw hundreds of people riding horses in the distance to the northeast. The Qinghai guards began to set up defenses one after another, as if they were facing a great enemy.

Li Hao looked at it with a telescope, immediately smiled, and said, "Don't be nervous, your own people are Li Yuanzhong and Yu Linjun, huh, it's not right..."

Li Hao suddenly frowned and said in confusion: "Why did Li Yuanzhong bring the Yulin Army here?" He had a vague premonition, and this premonition became stronger and stronger.

Not long after, Li Yuanzhong led a brigade of Yulin Army to Li Hao's RV. Li Yuanzhong got off the horse and walked to Li Hao, bowing and saluting: "King Nan Qiong."

"General Li, it's been a long time." Li Hao handed the telescope to Lu Yun, bowed his hand casually, and asked with a smile on his face, "Why didn't General Li travel thousands of miles to Tubo? This cold weather... is not the time to go outings."

"King Nan Qiong can really joke." Li Yuanzhong smiled bitterly and said with a heavy face, "King Nan Qiong, I am here to summon you back by the emperor's order."

"Summon me to go back?" Li Hao frowned when he heard this, and the smile on his face disappeared instantly. He asked, "What happened?"

"Oh..." Li Yuanzhong sighed and said, "I can't explain it clearly in one or two words. Let's listen to the imperial edict first!"

"There is an imperial edict?" Li Hao's face became even more gloomy when he heard this. As he had expected, Li Yuanzhong's sudden arrival would definitely not be a good thing. Although he was his friend, he did not bring good news this time. He quickly turned to face Lu Yun and Xiong Daxionger and said, "Create the incense case quickly and welcome the imperial edict!"

Lu Yun and Xiong Daxiong Er quickly began to prepare the incense table.

Li Yuanzhong waved to the rear, and a Yulin Army presented a volume of imperial edicts. After Li Hao prepared the incense case, Li Yuanzhong launched the imperial edict and said loudly: "Li Hao, the chief general of the marching army, received the imperial edict!"

"My minister Li Hao received the order!" Li Hao bowed to receive the order.

Li Yuanzhong began to recite: "The imperial edict said: Li Hao, the chief general of the army, was outside the army, and had no emperor's order, and he had privately transferred his military power. He was responsible for heavy responsibilities but did not know his path... Now he took the post of chief general of the army, and Li Yuanzhong took him back to Chang'an, imprisoned the Dali Temple prison, and waited for the sage!"

After the imperial edict was finished, Li Hao was stunned and said nothing for a long time. He was in a complicated mood, depressed and angry now. In short, it was very bad. He wanted to scold people, but he didn't know who to scold Li Shimin? He didn't believe that this was Li Shimin's idea. After all, Li Shimin was determined to attack Tubo at the time. The excessive aggrievance and anger made Li Hao's eyes turn red, and tears swayed in his eyes, as if he was about to fall down at any time.

Seeing Li Hao like this, Li Yuanzhong felt a sourness in his heart. He had fought a war and knew how difficult it was to fight outside. Now the Tang army has gained an advantage, but it forced him to withdraw his troops due to the party struggles in the court. What a frustrating thing. But now the imperial edict has been issued and it is difficult to collect the waters. Everything is a foregone conclusion. Li Yuanzhong could only observe a moment of silence and sighed helplessly: "King Nan Qiong, please accept the edict."

Li Hao silently stepped forward to receive the imperial edict, trying to keep himself calm, and said slowly: "This is not what His Majesty meant."

Li Yuanzhong nodded and said, "Your Majesty is also forced."

Li Hao turned around and looked around, and suddenly said coldly: "Everyone has pulled away twenty feet!"

Lu Yun and Xiong Daxiong Er immediately pulled away twenty feet away. Li Yuanzhong knew that Li Hao had something to say, so he asked the Yulin troops to retreat twenty feet away.

When they all retreated, Li Hao said, "Tell me, whose idea is this? Is it Changsun Wuji?"

Li Yuanzhong smiled helplessly and nodded: "The prince is smart and he can guess it. Changsun Wuji and other ministers said that you intend to rebel and want to take you back for interrogation. Although Your Majesty tried his best to protect you, he was powerless."

"I understand." Li Hao nodded and said slowly, "The power struggle is a disaster. I didn't expect that I would enjoy the experience of Yue Fei in my lifetime. Changsun Wuji was determined to be Qin Hui."

Li Yuanzhong asked in confusion: "Who is Yue Fei? Who is Qin Hui?"

Li Hao naturally couldn't answer who was Yue Fei and Qin Hui. He turned to point to the direction of Luosie City and said, "Fan Lihua is leading the army under Luosie City. You must go to her and go quickly, I won't keep you."

Li Yuanzhong said: "Where is the responsibility, I must take you with me."

Li Hao smiled miserably and said, "If you want my life, take me with you."

Li Yuanzhong was stunned when he heard this and asked, "What do you say about this prince?"

Li Hao said: "I said before that Tubo is in a plateau area. When we Central Plains come here, it is difficult for us to adapt to the plateau climate and will have a plateau reaction. General Li, do you have no plateau reaction?"

"Of course, I feel very uncomfortable." Li Yuanzhong said, "I feel weak, my chest is like a huge rock, and I feel blocked."

"This is altitude sickness." Li Hao said slowly, "Some people have serious altitude sickness, and I am the kind of person with very intense altitude sickness. Look at me, my lips are purple, my face is pale, and I have been walking very hard. There is a higher mountain pass ahead, which is more than 400 feet higher than here. The altitude sickness will reach its maximum. If I get there, I am afraid I will faint. If I am not lucky, I may die."

Li Yuanzhong looked at Li Hao in amazement when he heard this, and could not believe it was true. However, when he saw that Li Hao was pale and his lips were purple, it was indeed a symptom of a strong altitude sickness. Because there were a few people in the Yulin Army who had this symptoms a few days ago, and were so weak that they could not ride a horse. Li Yuanzhong specially sent someone to send him back to Qinghai Wei Castle.

"Go and find Fan Lihua." Li Hao said slowly, "I'm waiting for you here and bring me a letter to her. She has a strong temper, and this time she personally led the army to defeat the enemy. It's difficult to persuade her, and I have to write a letter in person."

Li Yuanzhong hesitated for a moment and nodded vigorously: "Okay!"

Li Hao smiled slightly and said, "Wait a minute, I'll go write a letter." After that, he turned around and walked back into the RV.

Li Hao returned to the RV in less than a minute and came out with a letter in his hand. He handed the envelope to Li Yuanzhong and said, "Thank you."

Li Yuanzhong nodded, stuffed the letter into his arms, turned around and left, came to the Yulin Army, got on the horse and shouted: "Continue to go!" Then he bypassed Li Hao and his team and headed towards Luosie City.

Watching Li Yuanzhong leave, Li Hao turned around and looked in Chang'an, narrowing his eyes slightly, and a cold light burst into his eyes. He wanted to clench his fist, but he had no strength to clench it.

To be honest, he himself doesn't like to stay on the plateau because he feels like a useless man. The plateau is his forbidden zone. He wants to go back, but not now, he just wants to break through Tubo early and then return home. After all, he spent so much manpower and material resources, and sacrificed many soldiers. Seeing that Lushe City had a shortage of food, he could take Lushe City for another month, but Changsun Wuji stabbed him in the back. This stab really hurts.
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