Chapter 217: A Little Reward
Regardless of the crown prince Li Hong, even the generals around him, and a group of soldiers were also surprised when they saw only one enemy appear. The top story said that tonight they were going to have a big battle, to kill fiercely, and to make great achievements, but they didn't expect the result to be like this. The most disappointing thing is the ghost ride of the, the prince of the Tang Dynasty just made a promise to give them a reward after this battle, which made them very excited, and they wanted to try their best to realize themselves in this battle, so as to get more money, but they didn't expect the result to be that they didn't have to fight, their reward was gone.
"What's going on?" Li Hong asked. The generals around him were dumbfounded, who knows what the situation is! The 20,000 army and his party have not yet met, and they were killed so easily, which is too cruel.
Li Duoqi is too murderous, right? Zhao Zhongyong and Chen Gong muttered in their hearts, why do you have to keep a few for yourself!
Delehei, you're too cruel, aren't you? The cursed in his heart, you are robbing me and the ghost rider of my job!
Li Hong's roar woke up the commander who was still in a daze, he was already exhausted, and then saw the posture of Li Hong and a group of iron horsemen in front of him, and he fell off the horse.
"Send someone over and take a look." Li Hong said lightly. Zhao Zhongyong took the order, led two soldiers, and personally stepped forward to check. Later, he came back and reported to Li Hong that the commander had been scared to death.
Hearing this result, Li Hong's face did not have any expression change, Chen Gong and the were shocked, and a thousand-commander of the Tubo Spirit Rider was scared to death like this, this means how weak the Tubo Spirit Rider is? Do you still want to say how strong are Li Duoqi and Delehei?
In fact, Zhao Zhongyong's judgment is a bit biased, this commander is both scared to death and tired. He broke out of his camp, fled all the way to Qingfeng Canyon, and then fought a bloody way from the ambush on both sides, and rushed to Li Hong, which was enough to make him proud, but when he rushed out of the ambush, he thought he would see hope, but what he didn't expect to see was disappointment, fatigue plus disappointment and despair, he would be exhausted to death on horseback.
At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the canyon. Smack! Smack! Smack! Everyone raised their eyes and found that it was Li Duoqi and Delehei who were riding towards Li Hong.
When Li Hong saw Li Duoqi and Delehei, he didn't give the two of them a chance to give gifts, but asked, "Tell me, what's the situation?" ”
Li Duoqi first bowed to Li Hong, and then explained to Li Hong in detail the process of attacking the enemy camp at night, driving the enemy into the canyon, and then ambushing and annihilating the enemy by Delehei's army.
Li Hong listened quietly, did not speak, but moved his gaze to Delehei, wanting to get Delehei's confirmation.
"Yes, His Royal Highness the Prince, General Li is right, when they rushed into the Qingfeng Gorge, there were only 10,000 people, and we had 20,000 ambush soldiers, and in less than half an hour, they were all annihilated." Dele Black said in a loud voice. And in his heart, he was very shocked. In the past, the Tibetan people disdained such ambush battles, were not good at strategy, and only liked to charge and like force. Now after an ambush, 10,000 people were solved with bows and arrows and large stones, which made him shocked and admired Li Hong's tactical arrangement even more. With such a tactical arrangement, what can Lu Dongzan do even if he has an army of 200,000? Haven't you been tortured to death? Besides, does Lu Dongzan still have an army of 200,000 now?
Only the looked at Li Duoqi and Delehei with resentment on the side, as unhappy as they wanted, the two of them were really too bad, they didn't give themselves a chance to make meritorious contributions, and let their rewards be in vain.
"Your Highness, this is the spoils of war obtained from our attack on the camp this time, please take a look at it." Li Duoqi said to Li Hong. I saw a group of cavalry rush out behind him, carrying four large boxes to Li Hong's face, followed by three half-naked women who were tied up with sturdy faces with gorgeous faces but frightened faces.
"What's in the box?" Li Hong asked.
"It's money, I don't know how Harvey found it, the last general found it in his camp." Li Duoqi said. He was also very strange when he found the box, Harvey had followed Lu Dongzan all the way and had never acted alone, where did the money in this box come from?
Li Hong rode a horse and said, "Open it and take a look." ”
"No!" The Iron Guard took the order and opened the box with a "squeak".
Wow!
When everyone saw the contents of the box, they couldn't help but take a breath. Of the four chests in front of him, three chests contained silver, and two chests contained gold. According to a rough estimate, there are about one million taels of silver and about 300,000 taels of gold.
Seeing this windfall, Deleblack and the showed greed in their eyes. They were their Tibetan generals, and the Tibetan kings gave them very rich rewards, and they had never seen so much silver.
"Keep the gold in this box, and give the remaining three boxes of silver to the soldiers!" Li Hong said that he is not a person who loves money, so he doesn't look down on this bit of money at all, and besides, now is an extraordinary period, and it is too much trouble to hold these silver coins, so it is better to distribute them to the soldiers, so that they can better unite the hearts of the army, especially the loyalty of the Tubo soldiers.
"No!" Deleblack and immediately received their orders, and their excitement was indescribable.
"Your Highness, what should these three women do? Let them go? Li Duoqi asked.
Li Hong glanced at Li Duoqi, and then at Dele Black and with a greedy face, and he had an idea in his heart, "Look at the appearance of these three women, they must be Harvey's concubines, Tubo women are not suitable for the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, so I will give them to General Delehei and General last time." , you choose one of the three of them, and the other two are reserved for Delehe. ”
"Thank you, Your Highness!" The and the deleblack led at the same time.
When they heard that these three women were Harvey's concubines, Delehee and were very excited, and Harvey's eyes were very convinced that the woman selected by Harvey was the best beauty among the Tibetan women. In the past, due to Lu Dongzan's power, Harvey had to favor Lu Dongzan, they could only envy and envy Harvey, but now that Harvey is dead, his concubine is in front of him, and he was rewarded by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, how can the two of them not be happy?
They didn't contribute much in this battle, so they got money and beautiful women, and what was there to be dissatisfied.
"Your Highness, if Lu Dongzan finds out that Harvey's army has been destroyed, he will definitely pursue us with all his might, this place is in a canyon, it is very dangerous, let's leave early!" Chen Gong on the side suddenly spoke.
Li Hong nodded slightly and said, "You take the women, as for the money, distribute it when you get to a safe place." Now, you go to the army at once, and we will send it out at once. ”
"No!" With the generals just now, Deleblack and the were even more obedient, and as soon as Li Hong gave the order, they immediately took the order and left.
Looking at the figures of the two leaving, Li Hong sneered in his heart. People die for money, and birds die for food, this is indeed the truth. Don't look at the fighting power of the Tibetans, but as long as you give them enough money, you can't recover them.
In a few moments, the army was assembled.
Li Hong gave an order, and more than 20,000 troops left the Qingfeng Gorge and galloped towards the northeast. Today has already avoided a day, and after tomorrow, Li Hong will be able to lead Lu Dongzan to the area of Dafeichuan.
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Not long after Li Duoqi attacked Harvey's camp, a scout informed Lu Dongzan of what was happening ahead. Lu Dongzan was very surprised when he heard that the Tang army dared to turn around and sneak attack his pursuers at this time, and at the same time admired Li Hong's boldness. However, as the scouts continued to report on the battle situation, his face became gloomy and terrifying, and he no longer admired Li Hong's boldness.
"Give the order, and the army will march immediately." Lu Dongzan ordered that he should prepare to go to support Harvey immediately, at first he thought that Li Hong only had less than 4,000 iron cavalry, even if he attacked Harvey's camp, with Harvey's 20,000 troops, even if he could not completely annihilate Li Hong's army, it would cause great losses to the army, which would be more conducive to him pursuing Li Hong. But he didn't expect Harvey to be so hasty, and he was attacked by Li Duoqi without the strength to fight back, and the 20,000-strong army was defeated.
Thinking of this, Lu Dongzan regretted it very much, why didn't he go to support Harvey immediately when he got the news just now, it seems to be a little late now!
Indeed, Lu Dongzan thought so in his heart, and when he rushed to Harvey's camp, what he saw also confirmed his guess. Harvey was indeed defeated completely, not only was he defeated, but Harvey was also killed.
When Lu Dongzan saw Harvey's headless corpse, he was even more furious. Because from Harvey's untidy clothes, he could guess that Harvey was blocked in the tent by the Tang army and killed him with a knife.
The news that made Lu Dongzan even more fatal was a sentence from Sambas, "Daxiang, our things have been lost." ”
"What? Lost them all? Lu Dongzan asked loudly, this is the silver money that Liu Ju, the monk, paid him in order to kill Li Hong, one million taels of silver, three hundred thousand taels of gold, enough for him to build another 100,000 eagle cavalry army, just gone, this must have been plundered by Li Hong's army. Thinking of his 20,000 troops being slaughtered and millions of dollars robbed, Lu Dongzan's anger reached its peak, and he asked Sambas, "Do you know where they fled?" ”
"The direction of the army's escape has been determined, which is the Qingfeng Canyon ahead." Sambas replied.
"Li Hong is trying to drive them into the desert?" Lu Dongzan asked. Sambas replied, "That's probably what it means." ”
"Order the army, immediately pursue Li Hong, don't embarrass the prime minister again this time, otherwise don't blame the prime minister for being polite." Lu Dongzan angrily issued a military order.
"No!" Sambas received the order and rode away.