People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 1238 Li Xuan’s imperial legacy

The heavy rain that had been falling for seven consecutive days had completely stopped.

Lun Qinling stood on the wall of Anduo, looking at Mayongguan City twenty miles away.

There is already a vast land between the two places.

Turning slightly sideways, Lun Qinling asked: "Envoy, how much flood do you think King Nanchang accumulated on this mountain road?"

Zabala sighed softly and said: "The genius of the King of Nanchang actually thought of using the city gate as a dam. The heavy rains in the past few days have been very heavy, and even melted a lot of snow... Prime Minister, if you don't take any measures, , Anduo may not be safe."

"That's why I asked the envoy for advice. Apart from the current method, what else can we do to deal with it?" Lun Qinling finally turned around, with an old look on his familiar face, and even his temples were completely white.

Zabala shook his head slightly and said with a wry smile: "Prime Minister, this kind of thing is not something that a scholar like Xia Guan can come up with."

"The envoy has been in the Tang Dynasty for many years and has had many exchanges with the people of the Tang Dynasty. He also knows a lot about various military strategies and strategies. He should have a way to deal with this kind of thing." Lun Qinling looked at Zabala calmly, without giving him any advice. room for evasion.

Zabala smiled bitterly, what could he say.

Lun Qinling went back to Luoxe, and was killed in Luoxe city, and there was a river of blood.

The predecessor Zampu Mangsong Mangzan had several sons. After Mangsong Mangzan died of illness, the princess directly appointed Lu's son to succeed Zampu.

The other little princes had to surrender under the pressure of Lun Qinling. However, when Lun Qinling mishandled the Tang Dynasty, what they thought about was not how to unite to deal with the next dilemma, but to try to unite together. Overthrow the rule of the Gar family in Tubo.

He didn't care at all about Li Xuan who had already reached Tanggula Mountain.

Perhaps they thought that without Lun Qinling, they would be better able to withstand Li Xuan's offensive.

Who said that Lun Qinling had been defeated so many times by Li Xuan?

But unfortunately, Qin Ling's control over logic far exceeded those people's imagination.

After a bloody massacre, the whole family fell into silence.

Even if there were a few who occasionally interceded on behalf of others, they had all been killed by this time.

Zabala knew that if Lun Qinling was given time, he might be able to draw in the differences and disintegrate this so-called alliance bit by bit. But when Li Xuan had already started building dams to store water in Tanggula Mountain, Lunqin Ling had no time left. , he can only kill.

Kill until blood flows like a river.

Zabala raised his head and looked at the Gradandong Snow Mountain at the end of his sight.

The top of the snow mountain is still covered with white snow, but under the snow mountain, there is a lot of melted snow water.

All this water was locked by Li Xuan using long mountain roads and checkpoints on the mountain roads.

Locked like a long dragon.

In order to prevent the Tang Dynasty from breaking through the city gate, Qinling's method of deliberately blocking the city gate was fully utilized by Li Xuan.

Even the city became a tool for Li Xuan to store water.

Thinking of this, Zabala's heart suddenly jumped and he whispered: "Prime Minister, why don't we counterattack now? There can't be too many Tang people in those city gates."

Nowadays, the city gates are full of water, and there is no place for people to stay. How to defend them.

"They have boats." Lun Qinling shook his head slightly and said, "Even if we manage to kill them, facing the boats covering the water and the crossbows on the boats, we will only die."

"But there are so many of us, even if we occupy the city wall, open the city gates, and release water from the city." There was a trace of determination on Zabala's face.

As long as the water can be drained in advance, without this pressure, even if Li Xuan hoards more water, it will not be able to pose a threat to them.

"Let's give it a try." Lun Qinling smiled, waved his hand and said: "Assign five thousand people to Mayong. Even if we can't attack the city gate, we can force them to open the city and release water."

Zabala's eyes jumped. The meaning of Qinling was to sacrifice these five thousand people in exchange for Li Xuan to open the city and release water.

Half an hour later, five thousand cavalrymen, carrying various siege equipment, slowly came out of the opened city gate.

Zabala leaned forward and looked at the ten-foot-long wooden stake under the city, stabbing toward the sky.

In the city gate cave, a large piece of stone was moved out.

It is still the old habit of Lun Qinling to block the gate with a stone. This can not only prevent floods from washing the city, but also prevent the Tang people from breaking through the city gate.

Zabala suddenly paused, looked up at Lun Qin Mausoleum, and then said: "Prime Minister, should the layout of the city gate stones be changed?"

"How to change?" Lun Qinling turned around and stared at Zabala deeply.

Zabala said thoughtfully: "Drill a trench under the city gate all the way to the outside of the city, use it to discharge floods and prevent the flood from putting too much pressure on the city wall."

Lun Qinling breathed a sigh of relief, then shook his head and said: "The momentum of the flood is too strong. As long as there is a little gap, they can expand to infinity. When they captured Mayong before, the King of Nanchang used this trick Attack the city gate."

"Xiaguan Qianlu has no skills, so I can only rely on the Prime Minister for the rest." Zabala smiled bitterly and took a step back, and bowed his hands to Lun Qinling.

Lun Qinling shook his head and said: "It is not easy to deal with the flood."

After sighing with emotion, Lun Qinling put away his expression, looked at Zabala and said: "The war here is fierce and dangerous. Please ask the envoy to go to Nagqu first and rest there temporarily."

"Thank you for your concern, the Prime Minister. I am willing to cooperate with you..." Zabala was just halfway through his words when he accidentally caught a glimpse of Lun Qinling's fierce eyes. He immediately raised his hand and said, "I am willing to follow the Prime Minister's arrangements."

"Okay!" Lun Qinling suddenly smiled, then looked at Zabala and turned away.

When Zabala completely disappeared from sight, Lun Qinling's expression turned slightly gloomy.

"King Nanchang, is this person your chess piece?" Lun Qinling narrowed his eyes slightly.

Lun Qinling knew Li Xuan very well. He knew that with Li Xuan's acting style, he would definitely try his best to be by his side and arrange fine work in Anduo Pass.

This was how Li Xuan arranged it at Gradandong Pass.

Even Lun Qinling suffered a severe loss due to Li Xuan's calculations.

Zabala saved his life in the first place, and there were no problems in the whole process of saving him, but Lun Qinling still couldn't help but be suspicious.

Because in the past few months, the only one who has been close to Lunqin Mausoleum is Zabala. But unfortunately, his men stared at Zabala for a long time, but found no sign of him having any contact with the Tang army.

But even so, Lun Qinling did not want to see any risk appearing around him, so he sent Zabala away.

Raising his head, Lun Qinling looked at Mayong in the distance. He knew that those five thousand people could not shake Li Xuan at all.

But it can make Li Xuan think that he is at the end of his rope...

Lun Qinling sneered softly: Everything has just begun.

……

Countless crossbow arrows flew out from the city wall, and in an instant, the Tibetan soldiers below the city fell to the ground.

They are so densely packed that you can’t even count them.

The blood almost flowed into a long river.

But more Tibetan soldiers continued to charge with the ladders, not caring about their own life or death, and they were so densely packed that they were as numerous as ants.

"Your Majesty, are the Tubo people crazy?" Yang Zhirou stood behind Li Xuan and couldn't help but look at these Tibetan soldiers in horror.

"Lun Qin Ling is trying to test how sure I am that I can break through his Anduo Pass." Li Xuan's eyes fell on these soldiers and said softly: "If I am absolutely sure, then naturally I won't care. The life and death of these soldiers; if the king is not sure enough, then he will naturally kill all these soldiers."

"That's it." Yang Zhirou understood that this was a rhythm problem.

If Li Xuan knows what he is doing, he will naturally act without arrogance or impetuosity. If Li Xuan is panicked, he will naturally act randomly.

In this way, by talking about Qinling, we can get a glimpse of some of Li Xuan's facts.

Of course, if Li Xuan pretends to be panicked now, he can naturally gain some advantages, but he is not in the mood now.

Li Xuan waved her hand and said: "Speed up the cleanup and don't let any Tibetan soldiers board the city."

"Here!" Qiu Zhenmu immediately handed over his hand, turned around and waved. More right guard soldiers came forward with crossbows and shot all the Tibetan soldiers who were climbing to death.

Although the Tubo people's bows and arrows have a long range, they are relatively light. Especially this bottom-up attack almost completely exposed their weaknesses.

Not to mention, everyone on the right guard in the city is wearing armor, and the Tubo arrows cannot penetrate them at all.

Li Xuan turned around and looked at the city gate behind her.

A rippling blue wave reflects the white clouds on the horizon.

The water surface is only half a meter high from the city wall.

Above the water, there are four-person boats everywhere.

The canoe was equipped with loaded crossbows, and there were countless of them densely packed.

It seems that at this time, almost all the crossbows of the entire Luozhidao army were sent to the right guard.

There are tens of thousands of crossbow arrows here alone. The Tibetan soldiers under the city wall may have to retreat with only three casualties.

"Instruct all the ministries to prepare. Three days from now, we will open the city and release water at the same time." Li Xuan's words were filled with endless murderous intent.

"Here!" All the generals held their hands together with solemn expressions.

……

On the city wall, the smell of blood is everywhere.

Today, the Tibetan soldiers under the city finally retreated slowly after killing a thousand people.

But no one went out to clean up the bodies below.

On the city wall, if you are willing to scoop out water and flush it, it is already the limit.

All the generals in the army have retreated to Gradandong Pass. Only Li Xuan is left here, leading his right guard followers to garrison.

"Have you brought everything?" Li Xuan looked into the dark shadows aside.

Li Mo, dressed in Tubo armor, walked out silently, cupped his hands under the eyes of many brothers and said: "Report to the king, everything has been prepared."

"Take this opportunity to send it to Anduo Pass. Lu Qinling is already thinking about whether this king has any other means, so let him have a good experience of what it means to shake the earth and the mountains, and the sky collapses and the earth collapses." ." Li Xuan's eyes flashed with unspeakable excitement.

"Here!" Li Mo cupped his hands and retreated into the darkness.

Followed by more than a dozen figures exiting the darkness, and then headed towards Ando Pass.

At this time, the retreating Tibetan army should not have withdrawn to Amdo, and Li Mo and the others could catch up in time.

With a sigh, Li Xuan looked up.

The bright moon hangs high.

After Amdo is Tubo.

As long as Ando Pass is blocked, Li Xuan won't be able to get in.

Likewise, as long as Ando Pass is blocked, no news from Chang'an will reach Tubo.

No news from Tubo can reach Chang'an, which is an independent world.

Belongs to Li Xuan's world.

The kingdom that belongs to Li Xuan.

It belongs to Li Xuan's imperial inheritance.