Garqinling fled for more than 30 miles with the defeated generals. Seeing that the Tang army finally stopped chasing, he stopped. Garqinling looked at the depressed faces of the soldiers and felt very uncomfortable. Although he lost only more than 30,000 troops in this battle, the morale of the entire army was completely destroyed by the Tang army. If he could continue to fight, he would have to destroy himself.

But he was unwilling to accept that the Tang Dynasty had developed too rapidly and was already so powerful now. In another five or ten years, it would be easy to destroy Tubo.

Moreover, this time the dispatch of troops was not his country's business, and Abbas also sent troops. Although Garqinling didn't care about any of his allies, he knew the reason why he was cold in his lips, so he had to restrain Qinghai Guards and prevent Qinghai Guards from supporting the Anxi Protectorate, otherwise Abbas's army would undoubtedly be defeated, and at that time, it would be difficult for them to turn over.

After thinking carefully all night, early the next morning, Garqinling rekindled his morale on the school ground, and then ordered the army to turn back and stop fifteen miles away from Qinghai Acropolis. All he had to do now was to station here and watch the Qinghai Guards in case the Qinghai Guards go to support the Anxi Protectorate.

There was a lot of celebration in Qinghai Acropolis. After the victory, the troops were excited. Li Hao did not expect that the battle would be so easy. Li Hao calmed down and thought about it, and immediately felt relieved. In fact, this was just like playing a game. The king's players had the advantage over the diamond players, and the king's equipment and level crushed the opponent. Even if the opponent had three people, the king could fight back.

However, early in the morning, the scouts came to report that the Tubo army was back and camped fifteen miles outside the city. There was no other action at present.

Fan Lihua was talking about this war with Li Hao. After hearing the report, Fan Lihua frowned and said, "They are not giving up."

Li Hao said: "Garqinling is afraid that Qinghai Guard will support Anxi Protectorate, which means that the situation in Anxi Protectorate is not optimistic. Without further ado, I have to support it." After that, he got up and walked out.

Fan Lihua suddenly screamed: "You..."

Li Hao suddenly turned his head and looked at her and asked, "What do you want to say?"

Fan Lihua was silent for a moment and said slowly: "Take care, you have no eyes on the sword and gun."

Li Zhi smiled slightly: "I understand." After that, he turned around and left.

Li Hao led the army of 40,000 Tiance Prefecture out of the city and went straight east. He was going to the train station. If he wanted to quickly support Anxi Protectorate, he naturally had to take the train.

Garqinling soon received a report that a 40,000 army in the city had come out and headed east.

Garqinling hurriedly sent an army of 50,000 to pursue him, and chased him to the train station. He was ambushed by Li Hao and others, killing and injured thousands of people. He hurriedly fled. Li Hao took the army onto the train and roared away.

Garqinling was very annoyed, so he ordered the Qinghai Acropolis to be completely surrounded and the Tang army could never be allowed to support the Anxi Protectorate. The iron track car in the Tang Dynasty made him depressed. The thing was too fast and carried many troops and horses, so they could not stop it. He knew that this was the power of technology. Although he had sent people to study technology in the Tang Dynasty, so far, the people he sent were still studying factorization in Tubo. Those strange characters seemed to be completely inseparable from creating these things.

Sanmishan Tingzhou, where it was once the royal court of the Western Turks, the houses and palace styles here were already classical Western architectural styles. Su Dingfang didn't know much about Gothic styles and Baroque styles. He didn't care anyway. What he cared about was the Abbasid army surrounded outside the city. The Abbasid army had been besieging the city for six days, and during this period, they were attacked five times, and each time they were defeated. Both sides suffered great losses. There are currently 20,000 troops left in the city, and Abbasid's 200,000 troops also lost 20,000.

On the seventh day, Li Hao and the army of 40,000 Tiance Prefecture arrived. The commander-in-chief sent by Abbas this time was Yang Fan. When Yang Fan saw the Tang reinforcements coming, he hurriedly retreated for more than ten miles, first to find out the other party's weaknesses and facts. He has always been cautious in using troops.

Seeing that the enemy had retreated, Li Hao gave up his plan to pursue and led his army into the city.

Seeing Li Hao personally bringing his army to aid, Su Dingfang finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although there were only 40,000 reinforcements, there was no problem in defending the city.

Su Dingfang welcomed Li Hao to the mansion and gave up the main position to Li Hao. He sat in the deputy position, and the other generals sat in two rows.

Li Hao asked: "General Su, what is the opponent's head coach coming from?"

Su Dingfang said: "The head commander of the Abbas Army is named Yang Fan, who was once a general of the Western Turks."

"Oh, it's Yang Fan." Li Hao raised his eyebrows when he heard this. Yang Fan naturally knew that the big villain in the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was still a villain now. He thought about it and asked again, "How is this Yang Fan's ability to fight?"

"Very awesome." Su Dingfang said solemnly, "This man's marching and fighting style is somewhat similar to that of King Qiongnan."

"Oh?" Li Hao raised his eyebrows and asked curiously, "It's a bit similar to me, how do you say this?"

Su Dingfang said: "This person marches and fights, and he also likes to act without reason."

Li Hao frowned when he heard this and said unhappy: "It's outrageous. He is nothing, and he dares to play cards without reason. This is my exclusive, and I'm the protagonist!"

When the generals looked at each other when they heard this, Su Dingfang looked embarrassed. He knew Li Hao well and knew that Li Hao had committed another mistake.

Next, Li Hao and the generals began to discuss strategies to defeat the enemy. Li Hao proposed to send people to the rear of the enemy and burn their food and grass. Su Dingfang did not agree. This plan was too risky. With Yang Fan's cautious personality, the food and grass must be protected extremely strictly, so how could it be burned?

But Li Hao was very confident. His special forces had been silent for a long time. The sword would rust even if it was hidden in the scabbard for too long. It was time for them to play a role. Only by performing such a difficult special task can the value of special forces be proved.

When Li Hao insisted on this strategy, Su Dingfang had no choice but to follow it. Then he specially selected more than 500 elite cavalrymen to come out and prepared to let them burn food and grass. However, Li Hao said no, he could just send his own fifty special forces.

When he heard that only fifty people were sent to attack food and grass, he felt that this was too much of a joke. What could 50 people do? But he thought again that Li Hao had never acted according to common sense. Since he wanted to do this, let him go. Even if he lost fifty people, it would not be a big deal.

This time, there were 100 special forces soldiers who came with Li Hao, two teams, the captains were Feiying and Li Fox.

Li Hao handed over the task of sneak attacking food and grass to Li Fox's team. After receiving the order, Li Hao immediately led people to prepare and set off after dark.

The reason why special forces are called special forces is that they always perform special tasks behind enemy lines, and their qualities are far superior to ordinary troops.

Li Hao's special forces not only have undergone hellish training, but also performed countless seemingly impossible tasks. Moreover, Li Hao has now equipped each of them with a night vision device, and the night is their world.

Li Fox and the others rode their horses in a big circle and ran for fifty miles. Li Fox suddenly shouted: "Stop! There are enemy scouts in front of you!"

Everyone was wearing night vision devices and did not find the enemy scouts. After looking carefully for a while, they found that a person was lying in the grass on the grass, seven or eight miles away from them. If it weren't for their extraordinary eyesight, it would be really hard to find it.

Li Fox took out the fast crossbow, got off his horse and ran forward quickly. After a while, Li Fox came back and turned over and said, "The scout has been resolved, keep moving forward!"

They met more than a dozen scouts along the way. In the dark night, the sight of these scouts was extremely limited. Li Huli and his friends had night vision devices, which were simply invincible. They easily dealt with all scouts and quietly came outside the logistics camp of the Abbas army.

Li Huli and his friends changed into scouts' uniforms outside the camp, and then asked those who had changed their clothes to climb into the camp first, deal with some posts, and others were entering one after another.

Finally, they came to the edge of the granary, where countless pointed granaries were standing upright. Li Fox made a gesture, and everyone quietly set out to solve all the guard posts secretly, and then quickly poured oil around each granary and ignited the fire.

The granary was prone to fire, not to mention that there was oil. The fire quickly jumped to more than one person high. The camp became brighter. The guard posters in the distance discovered it and shouted to put out the fire. Many people brought the sand and water to put out the fire. Li Fox and the others hid in the dark and kept shooting the soldiers who came to put out the fire with quick crossbows, trying to delay the time and make the fire burn a little bigger. If they really let them put out the fire, they would be in vain.

The enemy soon discovered them, and a large group of people rushed towards their hiding places. All the special forces took out new grenades, pulled the leads and threw them out. An explosion in the crowd, emitting dazzling light in the darkness. Countless figures were blown away, with a loud bang, shaking the sky and earth, scaring the Abbas army silly.

The advancement of Datang technology naturally needs to be applied to the military. Grenades are the latest military weapons developed. Once the lead is pulled, they will explode. It is much more convenient to use. It is no longer the same as before, and it will need to ignite the fire to explode.

Each of them brought only six grenades. After each of them threw out three, the entire camp was in chaos, and the explosion attracted everyone here.

Seeing that the fire was already big enough, Li Huli shouted: "Retreat!"

Then everyone took out grenades and threw them into the grenade. The grenade was burning by the fire. When the grenades exploded, the sky suddenly felt like it was raining fire. Countless thatched grass was blown into the sky, carrying flames, and the surrounding camp tents were ignited. The fire began to spread. It was the rain of fire that fell all over the sky that scared the enemy backwards, giving Li Huli and the others enough opportunity to climb over the high barracks fences and escape into the darkness.

Early the next morning, Yang Fan received bad news as soon as he got up. The food and grass in the rear were burned by the Tang army. Yang Fan was shocked when he heard the news.

He had sent more than 8,000 people to guard the food camp, and there were scouts along the way to investigate the movements within a radius of dozens of miles. It can be said that the defense was extremely tight, but unexpectedly it was burned down by the Tang army. He didn't know what to say.

Yang Fan ordered an investigation into how much left in the army was, and reported to him after the inventory was completed. Soon, the quarantine officer came to report that the food in the army was only enough for ten days.

Yang Fan gritted his teeth and was angry when he heard this. He didn't expect that the Tang army would burn his food and grass so cunningly. Now the arrow was on the string and had to be fired. If he went back now, he would definitely fail. There were 60,000 troops in the Tang army's city, and he had 180,000. If he had to attack the city with all his strength, he should have hope of winning the city, but the losses might be heavy.

Yang Fan thought about it over and over again, and felt that he could only force the city to attack. The price was high. If it was too expensive, he would have to attack first, otherwise he would have to go home.

Yang Fan immediately ordered the entire army to attack the city and siege three and one. At the same time, he sent people to the four towns of Anxi to plunder food and grass. He sent as much as he could, which was better than nothing.

This time, Yang Fan decided to burn his boats and mobilized all his troops and siege equipment, and the attack was very fierce. Li Hao and Su Dingfang personally went to the city to command and supervise the battle. As soon as Li Hao appeared on the city wall, the Tang army was extremely excited, especially the 40,000 Tiance Mansion, which seemed to be injected with chicken blood, was terrifyingly brave. This battle lasted from morning to evening, and it took more than four hours. Under the city wall, the body was stacked with a thick layer, and the water of the moat was stained with blood. The Abbasid army attacked the city wall again and again, and was killed and retreated.

Finally, Yang Fan ordered the Mingjin to withdraw his troops, and he gave up. Why, because there was no hope, this battle was so fierce that it was beyond his imagination. Now there was only 80,000 left in the 180,000 army, and the 100,000 army was buried under the city wall. There were more than 30,000 left in the Tang army. How could I fight this battle? If I continue to fight, he will become the commander of the bare hands.

Li Hao stood at the top of the city and saw Yang Fan withdrawing his troops, and snorted coldly: "Want to withdraw? Do you think this is where you want to come and go? You can pass our military orders and the cavalry of Tiance Palace went out of the city to pursue him. My sons, your swords have not drunk enough blood from the barbarians!"

"Roar!" The remaining 30,000 troops of Tiance Mansion roared excitedly, rushed down the city and boarded the horse to form a formation, and the action was extremely fast.

The city gate opened and the suspension bridge fell. The army of Tiance Mansion entered a group of tigers out of the cage and rushed towards the Abbas army.

Yang Fan was walking back with his army at this moment, more than ten miles away from Tingzhou City. Suddenly, he heard the sound of thunderous hooves behind him and was shocked. Someone from the rear immediately came up to report: "Master General! The Tang army is coming out of the city to chase him!"

Yang Fan frowned suddenly when he heard this and asked, "How many people?"

"Thirty thousand heavy armored cavalry!"

"Thirty thousand heavy armored cavalry?" Yang Fan immediately frowned and pondered. Should he withdraw his troops or flee or fight back?

Tang Jun came very quickly, and he didn't have much time to consider. On the battlefield, the information changed so much. This is what he said, time is very important.

Yang Fan was well-versed in battles and was the best at making decisions. He quickly made a decision to withdraw. Since the Tang army dared to chase out of the city, he would definitely have some support. Moreover, the Tang army is now in full swing. Although there is hope of defeating the Tang army, once it is defeated, even he himself will lose his life, which is too risky.

In fact, when it comes to military strategy, Yang Fan and Garqinling are between him, but Yang Fan is a more selfish person. The first thing he thought of was to save his life, so at this time, he made the right decision, because once he turned around, it would be really over.

Yang Fan led the army to flee, but the Tang army chased him in the rear and soon caught up. Yang Fan decisively left 30,000 infantry to cut off the rear, and all 30,000 infantry were killed. Only then did Li Hao order the battlefield to be cleaned up and camped on the spot. When the food and grass arrive tomorrow, he will prepare to advance westward and take back the four towns of Anxi.

Yang Fan led his troops to flee west, with only 50,000 troops left. He stationed in Wanzhou (formerly Dayuan), and then sent a war report to the Ottoman, reported on the defeat, and requested the Ottoman to send troops to support him.

After three days of preparation for the food and grass, Li Hao led a 30,000 army to travel west. He wanted to conquer the four towns of Anxi. The current four towns of Anxi are no longer the four towns of Anxi in history, but are Wanzhou, Anzhou, Xunzhou (Huoxun) and Yuezhou (formerly Yuezhi Kingdom).

The three towns of Anzhou, Xunzhou and Yuezhou formed a arc, firmly protecting the territory of Anxi Protectorate. Wanzhou, as the military and political center of Anxi Protectorate, controls and supports these three states in the rear, is very strong, so the four towns of Anxi must be brought back, otherwise there will be no peace in the Western Regions.

Li Hao led his troops to Wanzhou and ordered the siege. Countless crossbows and catapults were launched together. It seemed raining in Wanzhou. Many people did not dare to approach the city walls and hid in the center of the city to prevent accidental injury. The Abbasian army could only shrink under the battlements and did not dare to fight back.

Li Hao cherished the lives of his soldiers and was not in a hurry to send people to climb the city. He used crossbows and catapults to suppress them with fire. There was no way, he could not use up the crossbow arrows, and he was rich and willful.

For seven consecutive days, Li Hao had to use a crossbow and a stone catapult to fire at the city for two hours every day, but he did not send troops to attack the city. If we use the term "The Future World", it is called "first artillery fire to open the way, and then the army attacked. This is a very expensive way of fighting, but both Li Hao and the Tang Dynasty were very rich.

Yang Fan felt a little collapsed. In seven days, Li Hao had not sent a soldier and a soldier to suppress the fire. Although the loss was extremely large, it was not useless. At least the city walls have been smashed to pieces, and many battlements have collapsed. In the past few days, more than 5,000 enemy troops have been hit by arrows and flying stones. Even if they were hit by bed crossbows and stone catapults, they would be useless even if they were touched just once.

Yang Fan couldn't stand it anymore, so he led his army to abandon the city and fled to Anzhou. Li Hao led his army to Anzhou again, and as usual, he suppressed artillery fire. Trucks behind him kept transporting crossbow stones. Moreover, whether it was a stone or an arrow, he could pick it up and continue to use it after release. As long as he could take down the city, the crossbow stones were still his own, what were you afraid of?

Li Hao flew with a crossbow in Anzhou again. Yang Fan was beaten and fled again. This time he fled to Xunzhou again. Now he felt that he was just a mouse, and was driven away by Li Hao, which was frustrating, but he was really unwilling to retreat like this. The capture of the four towns of Anxi was his greatest contribution to this battle. Will he be wiped out like this? Why haven't the Ottoman sent reinforcements yet?

Ottoman was actually so angry that he could send reinforcements to him. The 200,000 army was ruined by Yang Fan and only a little left. That was nearly half of their national troops. Losing these 200,000 troops would be a huge blow to Abbas. If the Tang Dynasty took the opportunity to retaliate now, what should he do? What to use to resist?

Li Hao came to Xunzhou, looked at the enemy troops at the top of Xunzhou City, and smacked his lips helplessly, muttering: "What's wrong with Yang Fan? He just fled around and refused to return to his country. I'm also planning to fight quickly and then go back and ask the emperor to send troops to destroy Tubo or Abbas directly. Isn't this delaying my time? It's true."

Now Li Hao is really not interested in fighting, and there is no way. It’s like the god of gambling is unwilling to play cards with rookies. It’s so boring.

Yang Fan just ran around like a rat crossing the street, in a mess and bored Li Hao suddenly became playful and wanted to see how long he could last, and also played hide-and-seek with him.

I have to say that Yang Fan is still a little smart, and he is very familiar with the terrain around the four towns of Anxi. He can escape successfully every time, but every time he escapes, he will leave thousands of soldiers' lives.

In two and a half months, Yang Fan had lasted for two and a half months, and his vitality was comparable to that of the Immortal Little Qiang, but his army was only 10,000 people. In the end, he knew that reinforcements could not come. If he fled like this, he would be caught sooner or later. Finally, he dispelled the trace of unwillingness in his heart and retreated to Abbas.

Li Hao immediately sent a war report back to Chang'an, and asked Su Dingfang to recruit new soldiers immediately to guard the four towns of Anxi.

Due to the bombardment of Li Hao's crossbow stones, the city walls of the four towns of Anxi were seriously damaged. Li Hao brought the army here to help repair the city walls. Countless trucks transported cement steel bars and stones to the city walls. They used these to cast the city walls, which were not only strong, but also fast.

After waiting for another half a month, the imperial edict from Chang'an came and recruited Li Hao to return to Chang'an.

Li Hao took the army back to Chang'an from Tingzhou by train. When he passed by Qinghai, he got out of the car and went to Qinghai Guard to visit Fan Lihua and inquire about the situation of the war. Fan Lihua told him that she had led her troops out of the city to repel the Tubo army more than two months ago. If it weren't for the orders of the court, she would have chased her to the Tubo local area.

Li Hao stayed here for a day and then returned to Chang'an. Fan Lihua personally took him to the train station.
To be continued...