Chu County is a county town under the jurisdiction of Hezhou, and it is also a hub for the connection between Liangzhou and Hezhou. All military supplies in Liangzhou and Hezhou are hoarded here for distribution. Therefore, it is not wrong to say that Chu County is the rear of Liangzhou and Hezhou.

At dusk, an iron cavalry appeared outside the city. This is Li Hong and his group and his Eastern Palace army. Of course, there is also an elite soldier at the gate of Chu County, who is fully armed and on guard. They are the elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who appeared in garrison. Today they appeared here because they knew that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was coming to Hezhou and had to pass Chu County, so they appeared here under the leadership of County Magistrate Wang Mao and County Magistrate Cui Jie.

Because the geographical location that appeared was very important, there were a thousand elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty in Chu County, and the young man who commanded this elite soldiers was named Guo Huai, who was Guo Shifeng's cousin.

This young man was also beside Wang Mao and Cui Jie, and he looked handsome and handsome, which made him look like a general in vaguely.

"Is this the Prince's Highness?" Just as Li Hong's cavalry appeared in everyone's sight, Guo Huai couldn't help but ask, he had never seen Li Hong. He heard from others that the prince was weak and that the prince liked literature and was not good at martial arts. Therefore, in his heart, the prince Li Hong of the Tang Dynasty was a gentle and slim child, but now the Li Hong he saw in his eyes subverted his past imagination. He was wearing a prince's python robe, a cloak, and a sword at his waist, which made Li Hong show his domineering side.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince is here, let's go up!" said the county magistrate Wang Mao, then strode towards Li Hong's iron cavalry. Cui Jie followed closely behind and strode forward. Guo Huai immediately woke up and hurriedly followed the steps of the two.

Li Hong rode on the horse and stopped the war horse when he was only three hundred steps away from the gate of Chuxian County.

At this time, he also saw Wang Mao, Cui Jie and Guo Huai who were facing him from afar. This time, Li Hong was surrounded by military generals, and there were also civil officials, just like Sun Chuyou, Xiao Dezhao, Yang Sijian and Li Jingxuan. Therefore, Sun Chuyou introduced him. Although he had never seen the three, he also had a certain understanding of the three. Wang Mao was a son of the Wang family of Taiyuan, Cui Jie was a son of the Cui family, and Guo Huai was Guo Shifeng's cousin. The background of these three people was very profound.

"See Your Highness the Crown Prince!" Just as Li Hong thought, Wang Mao, Cui Jie and Guo Huai walked up to him and bowed and said.

Li Hong immediately came back to his senses and said to the three of them, "The three dear ministers don't need to be too polite!"

Wang Mao, Cui Jie and Guo Huai then stood up and saluted everyone behind Li Hong. Their official position was not high, so they naturally had to salute Sun Chuyi behind Li Hong and Xiao Dezhao and others.

"Your Highness has worked hard all the way. I have prepared a banquet in the county government. I ask Your Highness to go back to the city, take a bath and change clothes, and I welcome you to the highness." Wang Mao said. He was born in a noble family and had great experience in this area and knew how to receive Prince Li Hong.

Li Hong nodded slightly and said, "It's my fault for the magistrate Wang."

"It's very good. The food has been prepared in the city. The iron cavalry around His Highness can eat when they enter the city. Your Highness doesn't have to worry about them." County Magistrate Cui Jie said quickly, hoping to leave a good influence in Li Hong's heart, so that he would not be able to steal the limelight today by Wang Mao. Moreover, Cui Jie also knew that the cavalry around Li Hong was his personal guard, so he naturally had to entertain him.

The emperor has his own army, and the prince naturally has his own army.

"Okay!" Li Hong said with a smile, asking Li Duozha and Zhao Zhongyong to lead the army into the city to the barracks, and he entered the city with everyone under Chen Gong's guards.

Chu County is not far from Hezhou, only 300 miles away, and you can get there in one day with a quick horse. Moreover, along the way, Li Hong had already known the situation in Hezhou through scouts and messengers. Lu Dongzan's 120,000 army besieged Hezhou City, and Hezhou City, with only 16,000 troops, was in danger. In just three days, nearly 8,000 people were lost, which shows how tragic the battle was. Moreover, this was because the Tubo people were not good at siegeing the city, otherwise Hezhou City would have been destroyed long ago.

But even so, Li Hong did not think that he would march to Hezhou City overnight to support Hezhou City, but he decided to stay overnight in Chu County.

Because he knew very well that there were 8,000 soldiers in Hezhou City and the famous general Guo Shifeng, it would be easy to support Guo Shifeng for another three or five days with his ability. Besides, there were only 5,000 cavalry around him. Without infantry, what role could he have arrived earlier? In addition to making Guo Shifeng uncomfortable in commanding the city, he could do nothing. If he wanted to break the siege of Hezhou, he had to wait for Bingzhou, Lingzhou, and Chang'an City to do the army. Only when the soldiers in Hezhou City were abundant can he fight against Lu Dongzan's 120,000 elite cavalry.

As for the situation in Liangzhou, Li Hong is also very familiar with the situation in Liangzhou, and the situation in Liangzhou is not optimistic.

But Li Hong knew very well that with Pei Xingjian's ability, it was a bit difficult for Pei Xingjian, who had only 20,000 defenders to annihilate all the 80,000 cavalry of Mani. However, Pei Xingjian could still do it if he wanted to kill Mani himself without support.

Therefore, Li Hong was not worried at all about Liangzhou City where Pei Xingjian was in charge.

Of course, Li Hong also knew that it was one thing for Pei Xingjian to kill Mani, and it was another thing for annihilation of 80,000 Tubo elite cavalry. As for the number of defenders in Liangzhou City, it was difficult to catch 80,000 pigs, let alone annihilation of 80,000 Tubo elite cavalry?

Of course, there is another more important reason why Li Hong was not in a hurry to rush on his way. This time, Lu Dongzan chose to attack Hezhou City. Li Hong was very clear about what was the purpose of his attack on Hezhou City. Li Hong came for him because this news was told by Princess Gesang that Lu Dongzan wanted to capture him alive in Hezhou. Why did Li Hong tell Lu Dongzan this news? Isn’t it that he wanted to destroy Lu Dongzan under Hezhou City?

Therefore, from Lu Dongzan's perspective, he mainly attacked Hezhou City to cheat Li Hong, but from Li Hong's perspective, Li Hong asked Lu Dongzan to come to Hezhou City to cheat Lu Dongzan and the 120,000 elite cavalry around him.

Li Hong already knew that Lu Dongzan had guessed the relationship between him and Princess Gesang and the agreement reached, so Lu Dongzan was so anxious to destroy himself in Hezhou City. But Li Hong was really not afraid of Lu Dongzan, so don’t be afraid that he knew everything between him and Princess Sang.

Therefore, when Li Hong informed Lu Dongzan of the news of his journey west, he had decided not to let Lu Dongzan live. This time, Lu Dongzan personally led 200,000 cavalry to invade the Tang Dynasty and personally led 120,000 cavalry to attack Hezhou City. How could he let go of such a good opportunity to destroy Lu Dongzan? This time, even if half of the soldiers were lost, as long as Lu Dongzan was killed, Li Hong would be worth it. He was ready to destroy Lu Dongzan at all costs.

Of course, in addition to destroying Lu Dongzan, there are also 200,000 Tubo elite cavalry around him! (To be continued)
Chapter completed!