At dusk, a desolate horn sounded from the camp, as Li Hong ordered the army to march and begin to cross the Zhanjiang River. However, when Li Duoqi's forwards and Xiao cavalry guards, Zhao Zhongyong's Tubo elite cavalry, Chen Gong's guards and' ghost cavalry all gathered in front of Li Hong, there was still no shadow of Delehei's army preparing to march.

Originally, the and the army of Deleblack were in the same camp, but because they did not get the money, the left the camp and informed his subordinates of the news, and the ghost rider was angry at Delehe's greed and selfishness, so he moved out of Delehe's camp.

That's why now the ghost riders of the have been assembled, and the 20,000 army of Delehei is not yet visible.

"What's the situation with Delehe, why hasn't it arrived yet?" Li Hong asked, feeling uneasy in his heart, and he seemed to smell a smell of blood in the smell of dusk earth. Li Duoqi immediately replied, "Your Highness, I have already sent someone to urge him, and he will be here soon." ”

With that, the scout fell off his horse in a fit of rage.

"What? Lu Dongzan caught up with us so quickly? Chen Gong was taken aback and said, "He also sent people to stop and kill our scouts." ”

"The scout wasn't killed by Lu Dongzan." Li Hong said lightly.

"Who killed that?" Zhao Zhongyong asked.

Li Hong said lightly, "Yes, Delehei." ”

"Delehee?" The generals were amazed. It's just that before they could ask why Delehei killed the scouts on their side, they saw a horse appear in front of them again, this cavalryman was also covered in blood, and he was very panicked when he rode on horseback, he rode in front of Li Hong, and before he could speak, the man fell off the horse.

"Your Highness, Delehei has reversed, he killed the people sent by General Li to urge him to assemble, and is leading a large army to kill His Highness here." With that, the knight also lost his breath.

"Delehey betrayed?" The also couldn't believe that Delehei had received so many benefits and dared to betray His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

"This thief, I have long seen him unpleasant, and I knew that I should have killed him in the first place." Li Duoqi said fiercely. Now it takes time to force the Zhanjiang River, and Delehei rebelled at this time, the purpose is to delay his own pace, and wait for the arrival of Lu Dongzan's army to annihilate himself in one fell swoop. Li Duoqi regretted it very much when he thought of this, because he sent someone to spy on Delehei today, but he still let Lu Dongzan take advantage of the loophole.

"Your Highness, what should we do now?" Chen Gong asked.

"Please rest assured, Your Highness, Zhao Zhongyong will give up his life to escort His Highness across Zhanjiang." Zhao Zhongyong immediately spoke.

"Delehei rebelled against His Highness, that is, he betrayed the king, this scumbag, he is hateful." The also scolded, "Please rest assured, as long as the and the ghost are riding, it will not let Dele's black hurt His Highness in the slightest." ”

The also made his attitude clear when he said this.

It's just that Li Hong didn't speak, because at this time, Delehei's army had already appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and Delehei's front of the 20,000 army was full of spirit, just like a proud king.

"Your Highness, you didn't expect that, did you?" Delehei led the army to rush to a distance of six hundred steps from Li Hong, and asked with a smile.

Li Hong also smiled faintly and said, "I expected it a long time ago, but I didn't expect it to face you so soon." ”

"Oh?" Delehee was surprised, "How did Your Highness come up with that?" ”

"You are so greedy, as long as Lu Dongzan gives you a big enough benefit, sooner or later you will betray Gu, what's so hard to guess?" Li Hong smiled, "It's just that Gu didn't expect you to be greedy to this point, and you would betray Gu at this time." It's just that Lone doesn't know that you are very greedy, you have obtained so many things, and you don't have the ability to digest them. ”

"Your Highness doesn't need to ask more about this, sooner or later Your Highness will know, won't you?" Dele said triumphantly. In the afternoon, the messenger of the Great Prime Minister Lu Dongzan came to his big tent and promised him enough benefits, a large area of meadow, a noble title, and a large amount of money, all of which had to make him make the present decision.

Delehei was indeed greedy, so greedy that the interests approved by Lu Dong made him betray Li Hong, and he also betrayed Mangsong Mangzan.

Seeing that Li Hong's expression was calm and there was no trace of anger, Delehei's smug expression decreased a lot, and he opened his mouth to ask, "Doesn't Your Highness want to ask the Prime Minister what benefits he promised me?" ”。

Li Hong smiled, "Lone doesn't need to know, it's not that he doesn't want to know, but he doesn't have to know, because you can't get these things, and it's not far from death." ”

"Li Hong, I respect you as the prince of the Tang Dynasty, and I am polite to you, you don't want to toast and eat and drink." When Delehee heard Li Hong's words, he shouted loudly. Li Hong smiled, "Don't you think? You are so greedy, you can betray your own king because of interests, can't you betray Lu Dongzan because of interests? Therefore, Lu Dongzan is just using you now, and when you have no use value, will he dare to keep you? ”。

"What's your value? You probably know very well that you are holding back the pace of Gu Du, and when Lu Dongzan's army arrives in Zhanjiang, you will have no use value, that is to say, as long as Lu Dongzan catches Gu, your death will come. Don't you understand this, a smart person? ”。 Li Hong said very calmly.

"Li Hong, don't bewitch me, I won't believe your instigation." Delehee said angrily.

Li Hong said with a serious expression, "Do you think I'm instigating?" You know better than me who Lu Dongzan is, and before you agree to his conditions, you should think about how Lu Dongzan dealt with his enemies and how he betrayed him. ”

Delehei was silent, and after Li Hong said this, he really thought of Lu Dongzan's tragic methods to deal with the enemy and the people who betrayed him.

"Let's go, let's cross the river!" At this moment, Li Hong gave the order. Li Duoqi, Chen Gong, Zhao Zhongyong, and the took the order, and the 7,000 army followed Li Hong and ran ten miles upstream of the Zhanjiang River.

"General, they're gone, do we chase or not?" Seeing that Delehei was still stunned, one of the generals beside him asked.

Delehei came back to his senses, looked at Li Hongyuan's figure, and then glanced at the direction of Lu Dongzan's army, hesitated, and still issued a military order to pursue.

"Your Highness, they're catching up." Seeing Delehei's army chasing after him, Chen Gong reminded Li Hong.

"Don't worry, wait until we get to the ferry." Li Hong said that as long as Lu Dongzan's army did not catch up with him, but was just the elite cavalry of Delehei, Li Hong was not afraid, because Delehei was very contradictory now, as long as there were contradictions in his heart, there would be flaws, as long as there were flaws, Li Hong would be enough to drag Delehei and let the army cross the river.

However, as soon as Li Hong's words fell, he found that a black line appeared in the sky behind him, and this black line represented Li Hong very clearly, it was Lu Dongzan's army. The distance of ten miles is not far, and Lu Dongzan's army arrived at Li Hong so quickly.

"Your Highness, you go first, let the last general stay behind!" At this time, Zhao Zhongyong suddenly spoke. Li Duoqi also said, "There are too many enemies, and you may not be able to cross the river when you reach the river, so let the last general also stay and break off with Zhao Zhongyong." ”

"You-" Li Hong was very moved when he heard Zhao Zhongyong and Li Duoqi say this, he could spare his life to buy time for himself, Li Duoqi and Zhao Zhongyong deserved to be loyal and brave generals. It's just that now Li Hong doesn't want to sacrifice two people, the two of them are so loyal and brave, they are rare guard generals, so it's a pity to sacrifice like this. Besides, as long as you hurry to the ferry, you may not be able to cross the river, Li Hong is unwilling to give up Li Duoqi and Zhao Zhongyong's more than 3,000 horses so early.

"Don't talk nonsense, get to the ferry first." Li Hong roared.

Zhao Zhongyong and Li Duoqi had no choice but to bow down and receive their orders.

Li Hong's army of war horses is very good, and it has been maintained since it opened a distance from Delehei's elite cavalry, and Delehei's elite cavalry has not caught up with him no matter how much they chase him.

At the time of half a pillar of incense, Li Hong's army came to the upper reaches of the Zhanjiang River, the place where Li Duoqi had already reconnoitred to cross the river.

However, just when everyone was overjoyed and was about to cross the river. A cavalry suddenly appeared at the ferry, with a small number, only 8,000 people, but seeing the Tubo attire on their bodies, Li Hong knew that Lu Dongzan had already seen through his plan and laid an ambush here.

"Your Highness, you're late, the ferry has been occupied by me, you can't go, let's catch it obediently!" The leader of the army, Sambas, spoke, and he smiled brightly. Li Hongmeng reined in the war horse, he really didn't expect Lu Dongzan to set up an ambush here. If you want to cross the Zhanjiang River, this is the only ferry crossing, and the river is wide and the current is very fast. Now the eight thousand elite horsemen of Sambas are blocked in front of Li Hong, and if Li Hong wants to cross the river, he can only kill him, but unfortunately he has no time, because the army of Delehei behind him has caught up.

"Your Highness, I said you couldn't escape, so don't resist anymore." Delehei also rode forward and said, Lu Dongzan's army behind him was rushing over, and he didn't dare to be careless now, and he didn't dare to be bewitched by Li Hong anymore.

Li Hong's face was a little gloomy, he didn't expect that he had calculated and worked hard, but when he reached the last step, he fell short.