Smack! Smack! Smack!

Just as Li Hong's army was resting, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance. In the torment of this waiting, the sound of horses' hooves resounded on the grassland, as if it was striking the heart of everyone, making everyone's eyes move to them.

Ten rangers came galloping, half of the rangers released by Li Hong, and the remaining half did not return, indicating that they had died in battle.

"Get on your horse and get ready for battle!" Suddenly, Chen Gong immediately shouted.

When the guards heard his order, they immediately got up, turned over on their horses, and quickly and uniformly arranged the subjects, protecting Li Hong in the middle of them. When Li Duoqi and Zhao Zhongyong's army saw the hurried appearance of the scouts, they knew that their side was about to encounter trouble, so they immediately ordered their soldiers to mount their horses and prepare to meet them.

"Back to Your Highness, the enemy is slowly approaching us, less than eight miles away from us." A scout said. Another scout said, "We fought their scouts while we were scouting, and ten of our companions died. However, their scouts are not strong, and we have killed sixty people, but the other party sent two hundred scouts, and we will..."

"Let's go down and continue to investigate!" Li Hong said lightly, he didn't want to listen to any explanation, the other party sent 200 people is good, but the group of scouts in front of him was specially found by Li Duoqi, and they were 10 pawns, and today 20 against 200 should have been a draw, but now the other party sacrificed 60 people, and killed his own 10 scouts, and his side still suffered a loss, or lost.

There are reasons for failure, but there are no excuses.

Therefore, Li Hong can ask them the reason for their failure, but he doesn't want to listen to his subordinates say the excuse for failure.

"Your Highness, what should we do?" Li Duoqi opened his mouth and asked, the enemy has 20,000 horses, and he is approaching his side, and his side has to come up with a proper way, otherwise 4,000 against 20,000, even if the soldiers on his side are all elite, it is impossible to defeat the enemy, because the enemy is 20,000 pigs, and it takes time and energy for his side to cut the other side, not to mention that the other party is not 20,000 pigs, but 20,000 cavalry.

"There are too many enemies, we are not opponents, or there are subordinates who will break through to the north for His Highness, right?" Zhao Zhongyong said. There are only less than 400 soldiers around him, and now he dares to stay behind the broken queen, in fact, he doesn't think about regenerating, he is willing to sacrifice and sacrifice his life for Li Hong, which is enough to move Li Hong.

At the critical moment, you have to rely on such a general.

"It's useless to run, behind us is Lu Dongzan's pursuers, where can we run? If you run again, you will only be surrounded by them, and the consequences will be even more unbearable. The only thing that can be done now is to keep going, break through them, break through. Li Hong said in a stern tone. He has been calculating Lu Dongzan's army, calculating how many elite cavalry Lu Dongzan has ambushed on the way he escaped, and how to deal with these ambushes. But now the 20,000 Tubo Essence Riders that suddenly appeared were beyond his expectations, making him chaotic.

Because according to his judgment, these 20,000 people were not Lu Dongzan's subordinates at all.

Suddenly, there were 20,000 more elite horsemen, and this accident had to make Li Hong make some changes in his plan. For this is an extra 20,000 cavalry, not 2,000.

In a big war, it is possible that 20,000 elite horsemen will join, and the balance of war will be tilted in favor of Lu Dongzan.

"Deus Ex?" Chen Gong asked in surprise, with 4,000 against 20,000, it seemed very difficult to pass through the defense line of 20,000 elite cavalry, but when he thought about the battle in which his group rushed out of Lu Dongzan at the gate of Hezhou before, he felt that there was nothing wrong with such a battle.

"This time, let's still let my subordinates be pioneers for His Highness!" Zhao Zhongyong volunteered to ask for his life. Compared with staying by Li Hong's side to protect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he prefers to protect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince by attacking. In his eyes, whether it is a march or a fight in the gladiatorial arena, offense is the best defense.

"Yes." Li Hong nodded slightly, and looked at Li Duoqi and said, "Your men and horses are still divided into two parts, serving as our two wings. ”

"The Admiral knows." Li Duoqi commanded.

"Let's go!" As soon as Li Hong gave the order, he rode out first, Chen Gong followed him closely, eight hundred guards followed, Zhao Zhongyong's less than 400 Tubo elite cavalry charged at the front, Li Duoqi's iron cavalry escorted Li Hong's two wings, and the 4,000 army met the 20,000 Tubo elite cavalry that was forcing them.

Smack! Smack!

As the army marched forward, the iron hooves made a sonorous and powerful stampede, and the hot breath exhaled by the war horses filled the air, rendering the atmosphere very strange.

There were more than 4,000 iron horsemen, they knew what they were going to face, and they had already made the decision to fight to the death in their hearts, so their faces looked very solemn.

After crossing the river, there was an endless plain, and Li Hong's army did not run forward for long before he saw a black line appear at the end of the sky in front of him. The black line was moving towards them at a speed visible to the naked eye, and gradually, the black line turned into a black dot, and after a few breaths, the black dot became a dense cavalry.

The speed of the Tibetan elite cavalry was not fast, but when they slowly approached Li Hong's army, Li Hong could clearly feel the faint murderous aura coming from ahead. This kind of murderous aura is different from Lu Dongzan's army, not so bloodthirsty, but it is sharper than Lu Dongzan's army.

Li Hong could feel this murderous aura attacking him, and the feeling of a feather arrow shooting at him floated in his mind.

Yes, this cavalry is like a feathered arrow, a feathered arrow shot by a big bow, sharp, and very strange.

When the distance between the two sides was from one mile to eight hundred paces, with Li Hong's gaze, he could see the faces of the enemy on the war horse. It's just that when he saw the thousands of iron horsemen concentrated in the center of this elite horse, Li Hong himself was stunned for a moment. Because of the area and the entire army, the thousands of elite cavalry charging in the center of the army all wore a kind of mask, which was even more strange compared to the other cavalry, and Li Hong could clearly feel that the murderous aura emanating from them was stronger than that emanating from other ordinary cavalry.

Seeing this scene, Li Hong's body was shocked, and he slammed his horse and stopped the charge. Because he knew who the cavalry in front of him belonged to.

In the current Tubo, although the king Mangsong Mangzan has lost power, it does not mean that he has no power, because at least there is an elite cavalry that can be dispatched by Mangsong Mangzan, which is the personal guard iron cavalry that specializes in guarding the king of Tubo - ghost cavalry. Just as Lu Dongzan had his own iron cavalry, the king of Tubo also had his own iron cavalry. It was only because Lu Dongzan was in power that the number of Mangsong Mangzan's ghost riders gradually decreased, and Lu Dongzan gradually increased his eagle horses, so that Mangsong Mangzan was subject to Lu Dongzan everywhere.

As for the thousands of masked elite horsemen in front of him, if Li Hong guessed correctly, they were the ghost horsemen of the current Tubo king Mangsong Mangzan.

Mangsong Mangzan and him are now in a cooperative relationship, since Mangsong Mangzan's ghost cavalry appears here, it means that this Tubo elite cavalry is not Lu Dongzan's army, since it is not Lu Dongzan's army, what can he Li Hong be afraid of? Because the current Mangsong Mangzan has a request for himself, he will definitely not do anything to himself at this time. Maybe he sent this iron horse to support himself.

Li Hong stopped the charge of the army, and when he stood quietly in place, the 20,000 Tibetan elite cavalry did not stop, and continued to charge, and when they were only 600 steps away from Li Hong's army, they reined in their horses and stopped in place.

"Ahead is His Royal Highness the Tang Prince?" A military general wearing a ghost mask rode out, walked forward two hundred steps, and asked Li Hong. Li Hong didn't move, just glanced at the other party lightly, and replied, "Yes, it's Lonely, who are you?" ”

"Your Majesty Tubo Mangsong Mangzan's personal guard general Delehei has met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty." Immediately, the ghost-faced military general clenched his right hand into a fist, put it on his chest, and saluted Li Hongshi.

Li Hong confirmed the guess in his heart, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and asked, "Are you Mangsong Mangzan?" What are you doing here? Is it to assist Lu Dongzan in the next life to capture orphans? ”。

"No, we are ordered by the king to protect your safety." Delehei spoke, his tone still cold. Li Hong sneered, "Mangsong Mangzan is afraid that Lu Dongzan is afraid to die, would he make such a stupid move?" ”。

"The king didn't mean this, but the princess tried her best to persuade her to make this decision." Delehe's voice said expressionlessly.

"Princess?" Li Hong wondered.

"It's Princess Gesang in Chang'an." Delehei explained Li Hong's confusion and said, "This is our king's letter to His Highness, and I ask His Highness to read it, and when His Highness reads the above content, he should believe what I said." ”

With that, he took out a parchment letter, which was not beautifully decorated. Before Li Hong finished speaking, Chen Gong beside him rode forward and walked up to Delehei to take the letter and handed it back to Li Hong. Li Hong hurriedly read the above content and believed Delehei's words. This letter was written in a special way of writing and ink by the Tibetan king, and Lu Dongzan could not imitate it. The reason why Li Hong knew was because when Tubo was a vassal to the Tang Dynasty before, the Tubo kings of all dynasties would personally write letters of state for the Tang Emperor.

"How many men do you have?" Li Hong asked after confirming the veracity of what Deleblack said.

"3,000 ghost rides, 20,000 Tibetan spirit rides." Deleblack said.

"Do you listen to the dispatch of the lonely?". Li Hong asked again.

"Yes." Delehei said in a resolute tone.

Li Hong smiled, he always felt that Princess Gesang and Mangsong Mangzan brothers and sisters were more courageous, and dared to cooperate with him to eliminate Lu Dongzan, but he didn't expect the two of them to be so courageous, and they dared to hand over 20,000 Tubo spirit horses and 3,000 ghost horses to himself in this situation. These two people are really bold enough, they are gambling, betting that they will definitely kill Lu Dongzan this time.

However, Princess Gesang and Mangsong Mangzan did this, and Li Hong liked it. Because of these 23,000 people, Li Hong really has the confidence to kill Lu Dongzan.