7,000 men defeated 40,000 people, and scared Lu Dongzan into running away like a dog, what is this concept? In Chinese history, there are many such battles, and Li Hong is not the only one. Therefore, if you don't believe in this battle, you can doubt it. There are many such battles in history, so I don't need to explain too much.

In this battle, Li Hong paid the price of more than 4,000 casualties, the ghost cavalry was left with less than 1,000, and Li Duoqi's iron cavalry also lost 2,000, but the results were brilliant, and 13,000 Tubo soldiers were captured.

And the took the lead, and he also captured Delehei for Li Hongsheng.

When Delehei was caught in front of Li Hong, he was already trembling with fear, he couldn't straighten his waist at all, and he didn't dare to face Li Hong. Just now, Li Hong persuaded him, but he didn't listen, or rejected Li Hong with strong words, and now Li Hong has a big victory over Lu Dongzan, he was captured alive, he has no use value, he knows what his fate is, but he really doesn't want to die.

"Your Highness, it was the slave who was blind and offended you just now, so please bypass me once!" Delehei knelt down in front of Li Hong and cried. At this moment, he couldn't see the fierce shadow of the Tubo people on his body at all, and he was more like a sissy man who was strong and capable in later generations, with a body of muscles and a strand of long hair.

Li Hong didn't answer him, but said to the, ", you and the ghost rider have performed well, Lone is very satisfied, this time you have suffered heavy losses, Lone will not treat you badly, you captured Delehei alive, and the silver that Lone gave him yesterday will belong to you." ”

"Thank you, Your Highness!" The was delighted, he knew very well how much silver had been given to Deleblack yesterday.

", are you content with such a little silver?" Li Hong asked suddenly.

The was stunned, not knowing what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty wanted to say, so he could only be silent.

"Have you ever heard that Loulan is full of gold? Have you ever heard that the Fuso people can't go out with gold? Li Hong said, "Have you ever heard that in the places west of the Western Regions, there are many powerful countries, and their palaces and statues in the temples are all made of gold and silver, and the utensils they use are all made of silver?" ”

The was dumbfounded, because he was saying such a thing to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, how much silver would it take?

"Your Highness, this—" The was stunned, he couldn't imagine what a fortune it was. Li Hong smiled faintly, he said that the effect of these words had been achieved, and he continued, "But there are not many people in these countries, and their armies are not as strong as ours, so Gu really wants to snatch their silver, but unfortunately there is a lack of brave people around him. , you are only a small commander in Tibet at best, what can you gain by working hard all your life? If you want, you and your ghost rider will be lonely. Lone said that there are still many countries west of the Western Regions, they are very rich, if you are willing to follow Lone, in the future, Lone will send troops to Western countries, and they will take you, and when the time comes, you will have everything you want, knighthood, fiefdom, and money. ”

"Your Highness, this-" The was shocked, Li Hong's **naked temptation and solicitation made him a little uncomfortable, shouldn't the prince of the Tang Dynasty be his subordinates who should make himself obedient with benevolence? How do you start using money and titles today?

In fact, Li Hong did this for a purpose.

The generals around him, except for Zhao Zhongyong, are not bloodthirsty generals. It's okay for such a person to lead the army against the surrounding countries, but if it is put into fighting between countries, just like the battle between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions, the war between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo will not work. Because history proves that the Sui army was too soft on Goryeo, Goryeo would rebel, resulting in Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty defeating Goryeo three times, and the war of the Tang Dynasty against Goryeo, if the previous generals could be bloodthirsty, he felt that the war would not have dragged on until now. Therefore, he needs some commanders who are not bloodthirsty, but he needs a group of bloodthirsty, devil-like generals even more.

Moreover, in the future, Li Hong conquered Europe, he did not want to defeat some European empires, he wanted to destroy these countries and insert the dragon horses of the Tang Dynasty all over the world, which required some bloodthirsty generals to suppress and attack the city with inhumane means in order to reflect the force and strength of the Tang Dynasty, it was obvious that the Tang generals under him could not do this, and only Zhao Zhongyong and remained.

So he wanted to keep up with his true nature, greedy, bloodthirsty, and brave. Only such a will be a weapon as killing when he conquers the world in the future.

At the same time, he also wanted the and Zhao Zhongyong to train a group of such soldiers, it depended on the personality of the commander, he felt that only bloodthirsty, greedy and brave generals could train soldiers with the same personality.

"Why, you don't want to?" Seeing that the was stunned, Li Hong asked.

When Delehei on the side heard this, he was simply envious. After today's battle, he can clearly realize that Lu Dongzan is already in the waning mountains, and there are only a few days to jump. As the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty and His Majesty the future emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Hong has a very bright future. Now that he is under Li Hong's command, his future glory and wealth are guaranteed, what else do you need to hesitate about? But Delehei can't have this opportunity, who let him be blinded by lard and look away?

"No, no, Your Highness, no, I'm afraid that my ability is not enough, and I will disappoint you, Your Highness." The hurriedly spoke.

Li Hong said with a smile, "Your ability Gu has already seen it, you performed very well in today's battle, not inferior to any cavalry around Gu, you are obedient to Gu, Gu will also retain the tradition of your ghost cavalry, and the ghost cavalry will also become one of Gu's personal guard cavalry." ”

Speaking of the ghost cavalry, it is strange that Li Hong does not stay by his side.

Now, Li Hong has four elite cavalry around him, Chen Gong's guards, although the number is only 800, they can defeat Sambas's 8,000 Tubo elite cavalry, which shows how strong their combat effectiveness is. Li Duoqi's 4,000 iron cavalry, the night attack defeated Harvey's 20,000 elite cavalry, their combat effectiveness is also very strong, Zhao Zhongyong's Tubo elite cavalry not to mention, this is a cavalry that makes all the cavalry frightened after encountering it. The remaining ghost riders of, Li Hong has seen their strong combat effectiveness in today's battle, and he is definitely qualified to be his personal guard cavalry.

"Thank you, Your Highness! are willing to follow His Highness for the rest of their lives. The said excitedly.

Li Hong pondered slightly and said, "Your cavalry is called Ghost Cavalry, so the three cavalry around Lone should also have their own titles, your cavalry is called Ghost Cavalry, Li Duoqi Your cavalry should no longer be called Striker and Xiao Cavalry, just call it Leopard Cavalry, Zhao Zhongyong, your cavalry is called Wolf Cavalry, and Chen Gong Your guards are called Storm Cavalry." ”

"No!" Li Hong's words, Li Duoqi, Chen Gong, Zhao Zhongyong and are very happy, this title seems to be of little practical use, from the title can be seen from the title of His Royal Highness the Prince's attention to these four cavalry, which will definitely be called the prince's capital to dominate the world in the future.

"The ghost rider and the wolf rider can't all use the Tubo people as soldiers, and there are not so many Tubo people around you, after returning to Chang'an this time, you will also select more soldiers from the Tang Dynasty to join them." Li Hong said, "The number of people in the early stage is set at 6,000, and the ghost rider and wolf rider have each developed to 6,000 people. ”

"No!" Zhao Zhongyong and the were very happy, and they couldn't get excited.

Before, how could Zhao Zhongyong get Li Hong's appreciation, but there were only six hundred elite horsemen around him, which was not enough for him to speak arrogantly in front of everyone, and now his army has expanded to six thousand, what is the concept of six thousand, many people may think that it is nothing, only six thousand, but for Zhao Zhongyong, as long as he is given time, enough time, and sophisticated equipment, he has the ability to train six thousand wolf horses into an elite iron horse, which can be one against ten elite iron horses.

For the, he thought that he would submit to Li Hong and only lead the remaining ghost horsemen to be a general like a guard, but he didn't expect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty to trust him very much, and even let him train the new army, and also determined the number of the new army at six thousand. He knew how powerful the six ghost riders would be if he trained six thousand ghost riders.

"Of course, this time we have captured a lot of Tibetan soldiers, you each go to select, expand your men and horses to four thousand, and we will have a vicious battle to fight in two days." Li Hong said.

It's not a shame to let such a strong captive go. That's why Li Hong said that.

"Your Highness!" Zhao Zhongyong and the said excitedly.

After dealing with the things around him, Li Hongcai turned his attention to Delehei, who was kneeling in front of him, and his knees were already numb.

"Delehey, did you think that you would end up like today?" Li Hong asked with a smile, he smiled very happily, smiled brightly, just like his smile when he recruited Delehei before the war, and the smile made Delehei very uncomfortable.

Delehei said flatteringly, "Just now the slave was blind, did not understand His Highness's kindness, and asked His Highness to give the slave a chance, although the slave is not as strong as the, but also understands Tubo, as long as His Highness destroys Lu Dongzan and wants to invade Tubo, the slave must be willing to lead the way for His Highness." ”

Seeing that Li Hong was unimpressed, Delehei continued, "Your Highness, the minions still know where our king's treasure is hidden, as long as His Highness wants this batch of treasures, the minions will immediately present the map, just now His Highness said that if you want to expand the army, there is a lack of strong Tubo people around you, if Your Highness lets go of the minions, these minions can do it for Your Highness." ”

In order to save his life, Delehei completely abandoned the discipline, and even he had no lower limit to speak.

"Remember what Lone told you just now?" Li Hong asked.

"Your Highness said, let the slave be a dog for you." Delehei said very interestingly, now he thinks that there is nothing wrong with making a dog for Li Hong, and even wants to make a dog for Li Hong. But when Li Hong heard Delehei's words, he suddenly pulled out the saber on his waist, he put the long knife on Delehei's shoulder, and sneered, "It's a pity that I don't need you to be a dog for me now." ”

"Your Highness, don't—" Delehey realized something, and was about to beg for mercy, but in the middle of his words, his head rolled off his body.

No matter how much Li Hong is tempted by Delehei, he doesn't need a traitor. At the same time, he did this for Zhao Zhongyong and the, as long as anyone who dared to betray him would not end well.

The four generals on the scene had already taken care of the bloody scene, and they were unimpressed by Li Hong's killing of Delehei.

Delehe's head rolled to the ground, and the corpse spewed out a stream of blood before it collapsed next to the skull.

In this battle with Lu Dongzan, in addition to Delehei's head, Chen Gong also beheaded Sambas, plus Harvey's head beheaded by Li Duoqi. The Tang Dynasty has already killed the Sanming Tubo general in this battle, if you add the two people killed under the city of Hezhou. Li Hong and the generals around him had already killed five generals of Lu Dongzan.

Such a strong fighting force is indeed rare.

"Your Highness, do we continue to pursue Lu Dongzan?" Chen Gong asked.

"Don't worry, Lu Dongzan must have gone to find Mani, with his current embarrassment, he doesn't dare to go back to Tubo, since he went to Liangzhou, Liangzhou has Pei Xingjian here, let's go back to Hezhou City to rest for two days first." Li Hong said, "If you don't go back, it is estimated that Su Xiang and them will be anxious." ”

"By the way, you sent someone to deliver a message to Hezhou City, saying that we defeated the army of Lu Dongzan, and the army will rest for a night tonight, and we will return to Hezhou City tomorrow." Li Hong ordered.

"No!" Chen Gong and Li Duoqi and Zhao Zhongyong led the order.

In the evening, Li Hong's army camped on the bank of the Zhanjiang River to rest, and the opposite side of the river was the only way to enter the Dafei River, but Li Hong was not ready to cross the river. He just stared across the river in the night, and was silent for a long time.

Li Hong knew that as long as he crossed the river, with the strong force of the army he was now in his hands, it would not be impossible to pursue Lu Dongzan, not to mention that there were Pei Xingjian in Liangzhou and Wang Fangyi in Dafeichuan, plus Xue Na, Li Jingxuan and Qin Zhan, it would not be difficult to destroy Lu Dongzan.

But Li Hong is not a boss who grabs merit, now that Lu Dongzan has dropped the order, it is a good opportunity for Xue Na, Li Jingxuan and Qin Zhan to make meritorious contributions, if they can really capture Lu Dongzan alive, Li Hong has nothing to say, so he will continue to organize a large army to besiege Mani, if they can't capture Lu Dongzan alive, they will give great credit to Pei Xingjian or Wang Fangyi.

Now that I have eaten meat, I have to give my subordinates a little soup to drink, otherwise what will my subordinates do with him? I robbed my subordinates of the credit, what did my subordinates rely on to get promoted?

As for whether Pei Xingjian, Wang Fangyi, or Li Jingxuan, Xue Na or Qin Zhan were able to capture Lu Dongzan alive, he didn't know. He just knew that he needed to go back to Hezhou City to rest, and in a few days he would go north to Liangzhou and enter Dafeichuan, and he would know the result. No matter who of these people captured Lu Dongzan alive, Li Hong was very happy, because several people were his henchmen, and whoever made military achievements and was promoted to an official would be good for Li Hong.

Now Li Hong, his goal is no longer in the Western Regions, but in the Northeast.

This time, he defeated the army of Tubo Lu Dongzan, and the next time his battlefield will probably be in the northeast to face Goryeo, Silla, and Baekje!

Since Li Ji is unkind, he is also unjust.

In history, Li Ji became a famous general of the Tang Dynasty because he destroyed Goryeo for the Tang Dynasty, and he made outstanding military achievements. Now that Li Ji is against himself, Li Hong is not ready to give Li Ji such a chance again, he is ready to go out and go to the northeast to destroy the three tumors of Goryeo, Silla and Baekje, and completely merge these three kingdoms into the Tang Dynasty and completely become the land of the Tang Dynasty.

If you want to completely merge these three kingdoms into the Tang Dynasty and completely let the people of the three kingdoms become the people of the Tang Dynasty, this is difficult for any prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, because it will take hundreds of years, but twenty years is enough for Li Hong.

Because in later generations, it took the Jurchens nearly twenty years to stabilize the Daming rivers and mountains they occupied, and with only hundreds of thousands of people, they ruled tens of millions of Han people's thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, which gave Li Hong a template to learn from.

Li Hong felt that first of all, you had to rule them culturally in order to completely conquer them, such as the Jurchens who made the Han people wear their clothes, keep their hair like them, and call them names, and Li Hong also wanted to adopt this policy after the capture of Goryeo, Silla, and Baekje.

Let the Silla people wear the clothes worn by the people of the Tang Dynasty, celebrate the festivals of the people of the Tang Dynasty, learn the words and language of the Tang Dynasty, and call them by the name of the Tang people. He first wanted to conquer these three countries from his heart, and then suppress the people of these three countries by force, so that the three hundred would be completely integrated into the arms of the Tang Dynasty.

In doing so, Li Hong feels that it is not necessary to use 100 years, but 20 years is enough.

Twenty years of time, Li Hong still has it.

Of course, this method of Li Hong is not the first time that it has been put on Goryeo, Silla, and Baekje, he has asked Wang Fangyi to implement it in the Western Regions before, although he has not received Wang Fangyi's instructions on this aspect until now, but he knows very well that as long as Wang Fangyi rules for three years in the Western Regions, the Western Regions after three years should be the Western Regions he wants.

Because of this, Li Hong needs bloodthirsty generals like and Zhao Zhongyong.

In the future, if you attack Goryeo, generals like and Zhao Zhongyong will be able to suppress the backbones in the back of their heads and not teach the disobedient Goryeo people a lesson. As long as Zhao Zhongyong and the are bloodthirsty and cruel, they can make the Goryeo army dare not have the idea and idea of rebelling against the Tang Dynasty.

"Your Highness." At this moment, Chen Gong appeared behind Li Hong, like a ghost.

"What's the matter?" Li Hong asked.

"There is news from Qin Zhan's side, saying that he has set his sights on Lu Dongzan." Chen Gong said.

"You tell him that he will be happier if he can capture Lu Dongzangu alive." Li Hong said.

"No." Chen Gong received the order.

"Is there any news from Luoyang?" Li Hong asked suddenly. Chen Gong was stunned for a moment, and immediately replied, "There is no news yet." ”

"You go down and tell Wei Chi Xunyan that from now on, let him set his sights on Luoyang City." Li Hong is still not worried about Empress Wu, because he knows Empress Wu's ability, as long as he takes it lightly, he will definitely pay a heavy price, especially after his victory in the Western Regions, the threat to Empress Wu is even greater, so Li Hong does not dare to slack off on Empress Wu at all.

"Chen Gong understands!" Chen Gong received the order, strode around and left.