At noon the next day, Li Hongcai, accompanied by his grandson Chuyue, Dai Zhide, Wang Mao, and Cui Jie, left the apartment and led his personal guard army straight to Hezhou City.

Originally, Chuxian was three hundred miles away from Hezhou, and it took a day for the cavalry to arrive. But this refers to the general marching speed, if you march in a hurry, a long run, it will take more than half a day to reach. The reason why Li Hong set off at noon was that he wanted to march in a hurry to see if his guards could reach Hezhou City before dark. Because he had to use this long-distance run to determine the riding skills of the guards around him, and then determine the next tactics against Lu Dongzan.

As for what the standard of his judgment is, the answer is very simple, there are 600 Tubo elite cavalry in his personal guard, and these 600 people are the elite of the Tibetan elite cavalry, if the cavalry of the guards and the forwards and the cavalry of the two guards are not compared with the Tibetan elite cavalry, he will probably be able to judge the gap between the combat effectiveness of his personal guards and the Tibetan elite cavalry.

When Li Hong gave his order to let everyone rush to Hezhou City before dark, Zhao Zhongyong was very calm, six hundred Tubo elite cavalry were very calm, Chen Gong was very calm, eight hundred guards were very calm, Li Duoqi was very calm, and four thousand Xiao cavalry and forward Wei Tieqi were very calm.

Li Hong was very relieved to see this scene, no matter what the result was, at least on a spiritual level, the three and four elite horses around him had achieved the level he expected.

"It's just Your Highness, I'm afraid you'll be very tired after such a long run?" Chen Gong hesitated for a long time, but still spoke.

Li Hong smiled faintly and said, "Do you think Lone can't withstand such a long journey of arduous travel?" ”

Chen Gong is not a person who likes to lie, and when he saw that the prince said what he thought in his heart, he nodded slightly and admitted Li Hong's guess.

Li Hong was very satisfied with Chen Gong's attitude, he was not good at welcoming him directly, what he wanted was such a personal guard general, so he smiled and said, "Chen Gong, Lone is no longer the frail and sickly Li Hong who was before and polite, with the teacher's treatment, plus the rest of the martial arts taught by the teacher, the body still seems to be very thin, but the endurance and physical strength may not be lost to you, you don't have to worry about Lone's body." ”

Chen Gong didn't know the strength of His Royal Highness the Prince, but he knew the amount of training and the progress of his martial arts in the past few months, and when he saw Li Hong say this, he didn't say anything more.

In this way, the army went straight to the direction of Hezhou City under Li Hong's order, and disappeared at the end of Chu County in an instant.

Sun Chuyue, Dai Zhide, Wang Mao, and Cui Jie, who came to see Li Hong off, watched Li Hong's figure go away, and after a long time, Sun Chuyue returned to Shendao, "In the past half a year, the prince has changed really much!" ”

"The crown prince is the bloodline of Taizong, as long as the stubborn disease is cured, he does have the demeanor of a generation of heroes." As a subordinate official of Li Hongdong's Palace, Dai Zhide sang praises for Li Hong without hesitation.

Sun Chuyue nodded slightly, obviously acquiescing to Dai Zhide's words, through this period of time with Li Hong, in addition to recognizing Li Hong's superiority in his heart, he has decided in his heart that he wants to belong to Li Hong, and he also understands why Le Yanwei will not hesitate to fall to Li Hong, because Li Hong has such an ability and can give them what they want.

……

At dusk, the sunset under Hezhou City sprinkled his afterglow, making this black land look different, but what shocked everyone even more was the corpses that fell under Hezhou City, and a pool of congealed blood.

Today's siege battle is quite tragic, Lu Dongzan dispatched 6,000 Tubo soldiers to storm Hezhou City thirteen times, each time when the city was broken, Guo Shifeng stubbornly held the defense line, and drove the Tubo soldiers who climbed to the top of the city.

And Lu Dongzan was like an iron heart, he did not point to the end like the previous few sieges, but gave a death order, if he did not break through Hezhou City, he would behead the commander who led the army. The six commanders received Lu Dongzan's death order, bare their upper bodies, and personally commanded their subordinates to fight in the city, which made Guo Shifeng, Yuwen Chongtian and Liu Wenjie suffer a lot. Among them, Liu Jiewen was also injured in this battle, and Yuwen Chongtian was shot by the loss.

Moreover, when the Tubo soldiers attacked the city for the thirteenth time, if it weren't for the timely arrival of the army led by Heizhi Changzhi, it is impossible to say whether Hezhou City could be defended.

It's really because the defenders of Hezhou City have suffered too heavy losses.

After this battle, there were less than 4,000 of the 16,000 defenders left, defending the city for six days, and fighting fiercely with the Tubo elite cavalry for six days, the Tang defenders lost 12,000 people, and the Tubo elite cavalry killed 14,000 people.

The losses of the two sides seem to be comparable, but in fact, Datang's losses are even heavier.

After all, the Tang Dynasty relied on the defense of Hezhou City, and lost so much against the Tubo soldiers who were not good at attacking the city and did not have powerful siege equipment, which shows how strong the combat effectiveness of the Tubo people is.

This is also Guo Shifeng's command, if it were replaced by other generals, it is estimated that under the oppressive momentum of the 120,000 army of Tubo, the city would have been broken long ago.

Mixed with the smell of the sunset and blood, Guo Shifeng, Hei Tooth Changzhi, Yuwen Chongtian, and Liu Wenjie looked at the front tightly, because they got the news of the scout, saying that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had arrived outside Hezhou City, just ten miles away from Hezhou City, which made Guo Shifeng and his party, who were still leading the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, startled.

According to the news of Heizhi Changzhi, Guo Shifeng judged that the prince would have to arrive in Hezhou at noon tomorrow at the earliest, but he didn't expect that it only took more than half a day for the prince to rush to Hezhou City, which made Guo Shifeng admire the long-distance running ability of the prince's personal guard cavalry At the same time, he admired the prince's hard-working and strong willpower, he was a military general who fought on the battlefield, and he knew very well what it meant to run long distances.

When Yuwen Chongtian and Liu Wenjie heard the news, in addition to being surprised, they were left with excitement.

Because this news confirmed their guess, the prince really likes cavalry, and is quite optimistic about cavalry, as cavalry generals, they have their own opportunity is coming, and they have to prove that their opportunity is coming.

The breeze swept through everyone's hair buns, and a black line appeared in the sky, and then the earth trembled, and in a moment, a murderous iron horse appeared in everyone's sight.

"Yes, it's the Tibetans, ready to fight!" I don't know who shouted loudly on the city tower, which made the soldiers under the city panic. However, when they saw the Daxu Banner of the Tang Dynasty Prince behind the 600 Tubo Elite Cavalry, they found that they were a little surprised, because Guo Shifeng had already known through the Black Tooth Changzhi that the prince had a 600-strong Tubo Elite Cavalry beside him, and he had already ordered the soldiers guarding the city to pay attention to this situation.

"Pap-"

When Li Hong's 5,400 elite horsemen approached Hezhou City step by step at the same pace, not to mention Guo Shifeng, Heizhi Changzhi, Yuwen Chongtian and Liu Wenjie who were waiting for him under the city, even the guards on the city tower were stunned by this compelling momentum. The uniform pace and the marching formation with a line of a hundred war horses made the guards in front of them look so fierce that they trembled.

"It's too powerful!" Liu Wenjie couldn't help but exclaim, seeing this cavalry, he knew what a real cavalry was, which was comparable to the existence of the cavalry of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty.

"It's indeed a hundred-battle elite horse!" Guo Shifeng also praised, "There is indeed a dragon and a crouching tiger around the prince. ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also admires the general, otherwise he would not let the general defend Hezhou City for six days, which shows that he believes in the general's ability." Blacktooth Tsuneyuki said.

"General Ben knows that." Guo Shi sealed the road.

While the two were talking, Li Hong's cavalry was already less than six hundred steps away from Hezhou City. Guo Shifeng and the four of them hurriedly stepped forward and met Li Hong's war horse.

"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" The four of them walked up to Li Hong and hurriedly bowed and saluted.

Li Hong hurriedly jumped off the horse, and before Guo Shifeng bowed down, he supported him with both hands and said, "The general doesn't need to be polite, the general is defending Hezhou City for the Tang Dynasty, and his merit is higher than the sky, how can he receive this great gift." ”

Even if Li Hong said a very polite word, Guo Shifeng was very warm in his heart, Li Hong's words were unintentionally affirming his ability and affirming his merits in the siege battles in the past few days.

Immediately, Li Hong moved his gaze to Yuwen Chongtian and Liu Wenjie, who were behind Guo Shifeng, and said with a smile, "The two generals don't need to be polite, you have worked hard." ”

"It's not hard!" Liu Wenjie hurriedly said, "It's not hard to fight for Datang." ”

Yuwen Chongtian also hurriedly said, "Thank you, Your Highness, fighting for the Tang Dynasty is the honor of our soldiers, and we don't work hard." ”

Li Hong nodded slightly, he was very satisfied with the answers of the two, and he was also satisfied that the two of them had been accepted, and they had such a strong will to fight. Immediately, Li Hong introduced Li Duoqi, Chen Gong, and Zhao Zhongyong to Guo Shifeng, Yuwen Chongtian, and Liu Wenjie.

Immediately, everyone hugged Li Hong and walked into Hezhou City.

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In the Tibetan camp, Lu Dongzan's big tent.

When Lu Dongzan heard the scout's report that the Tang prince had arrived in Hezhou City, his face was flushed with excitement, and he immediately ordered all his subordinates to be called to the big tent to discuss the military situation. Because Lu Dongzan has not broken through Hezhou City for so many days, just to wait for this day.

Now that Li Hong has arrived in Hezhou City, it is time for him to capture Li Hong alive. As long as the Tang prince is captured alive, he can make a deal with the Tang Emperor, and what can he not have when he wants? With the money and materials obtained from the transaction from Datang, Tubo can't be strong if he wants to!

When the time comes, he will come to the city of Chang'an and let His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty bow down to him.

What a glorious thing! When the time comes, he will surely become the first person in history and will be remembered by the world forever! Thinking of this, Lu Dongzan, who was over sixty years old, was a little short of breath, and at the same time, his body exuded a chilling domineering aura that looked at the world!