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

Chapter 391 Poisoning and setting fire, self-destruct for survival

The waning moon is like silk, leaving only a little afterglow to sprinkle on the world.

In the southeast of Zhoucheng, a river about five meters wide, like a jade belt, flows slowly around the grain depot.

A man in black suddenly jumped up from the bottom of the river, and then fell to the ground silently.

In a blink of an eye, he was already clinging to the ground and rushing towards the courtyard wall of the grain depot.

There was no pause at all, he had already risen straight up against the outer wall, and silently sank into the grain depot in the darkness.

Several guards guarding the main entrance of the granary, although holding torches in their hands, found nothing at all.

……

There are 42 granaries in Wuzhou granary, 27 of which are full of grain.

After entering the granary, the man in black came to the door of the first full-grain granary on the west side with familiarity.

A small black ball was pulled out of his arms.

The man in black threw the black ball directly through the air hole on the warehouse door.

The next moment, a puff of white smoke rose from the black ball that fell on the ground.

The thick smoke filled the entire granary in a very short period of time.

The men in black left quickly, doing the same in eighteen full-grain barns one after another.

No one knew what the thick smoke from the black ball was.

Finally, the man in black carefully lurked to the granary on the north side, lurking in the darkness at the corner of the first granary in the last row.

A group of soldiers patrolled listlessly, and they didn't realize that someone had already invaded here.

There was a "pop", like lamp oil bursting, and it didn't attract anyone's attention at all.

The man in black has entered the granary silently.

A fire folder was directly lit up, and everything in the granary suddenly appeared in the sight of the man in black.

Hundreds of straw bags filled with grain were densely stacked in the entire granary.

Without the slightest hesitation, the man in black rushed straight to a straw bag in the front.

Grabbing it out, the straw bag in front of him was directly torn.

Immediately afterwards, a pile of yellow grain flowed out of the straw bag.

The man in black grabbed a handful, smelled it a little, and immediately became embarrassed.

Ten years old grain.

Pooh!
Throwing ten-year-old grain on the ground, the man in black turned and walked to the deepest part of the granary.

Then he grabbed it hard, and a straw bag burst out immediately.

The gravel and dead grass contained in it immediately fell out.

The man in black moved extremely accurately, as if he had known all the tricks for a long time.

The man in black quickly gathered the withered grass together, and then directly ignited the withered grass with the torch in his hand.

The flame burned along the dry grass to the straw bag on one side, and in a blink of an eye, the straw bag was already burning violently.

The man in black breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing the flames getting bigger and bigger, the man in black immediately turned around, opened the door of the granary and walked out. He still needs several granaries...

The flames shone brightly, and the man in black stopped moving.

Because in front of him, Li Xuan, Qiu Zhenmu, Li Zhu, and fourteen Qianniuwei in red and gold armor were all looking straight at him.

Especially Qianniuwei, everyone held a crossbow in their hands, and the cold crossbow was aimed at him.

In an instant, the man in black frowned tightly.

He looked at Li Xuan, and said with a dry voice, "Is this a trap?"

"That's right." Li Xuan pressed his right hand on the eight-faced Han sword, looked at the man in black with unusually calm eyes, and said, "When I first came to Wuzhou, I already guessed that you were going to attack the grain depot. gone."

"It's the two warehouse managers." The man in black gritted his teeth and said the names of the two warehouse managers.

"Yes." Li Xuan nodded directly, and said with a cold face: "It's just the two of them. The two of them have not been in this business for a long time, and some of them are not good at their hands and feet. This king just came here. I have exposed the tricks here, and after that, I ordered them to make up for the food they replaced."

"Replenish it?" The man in black glanced back subconsciously, as if asking: Where is it made up? All of it is clearly old grain.

"That can be prepared for Your Excellency." Li Xuan looked at the other party, tilted her head, and said, "Your Excellency shouldn't be surprised.

Those two guys are still at ease every day, because they promised the king that no matter who asks, they will not tell the truth about the grain depot, and even if someone asks, they will give each other's name and identity Report to the king. "

"Including me?" The man in black looked at Li Xuan in disbelief.

Li Xuan didn't directly answer the man in black's question, but looked at everything around her, and said softly: "This place was originally prepared for Fang Yunxiu and He Lao, but I didn't expect it to be Your Excellency in the end. deficit."

"Fang Yunxiu, Mr. He, they didn't come because you had already killed them." The man in black looked at Li Xuan in disbelief, shook his head, and said word by word: "Who would have thought that you would still miss him?" stay here."

A slight sneer appeared on the corner of Li Xuan's mouth, and said: "Your goal from the very beginning was to take down Zhoucheng, connect Lanxi, pass through Dongyang, and then go straight to Hangyue, but unfortunately, this step was strangled to death by this king. "

There was a sharp coldness in the eyes of the man in black. The plan of Tianyin Sect had been seen through just like that.

Li Xuan shook her head and chuckled lightly: "If you were a little slower and played more steadily, maybe this king would have even more headaches."

"Play steadily, maybe that's what you want." The man in black looked at Li Xuan with a hint of vigilance in his eyes.

They would be fools if they did.

Time is not on their side. The so-called steady and steady will only allow the court to gather more troops.

Even without Yangzhou's soldiers going south, Wuzhou can easily gather troops to block them in Wuzhou.

After taking Meiling Pass, they opened up the road to Wuzhou at most, and took Lanxi and Longyou counties.

But once they took down the state capital, the remaining seven counties would be under their control.

They can still see clearly which is more important.

"Actually, if you hadn't come to Wuzhou, my teaching is in the state city, and there are countless congregants in the city gate, watchtower, state government, and even in the aristocratic family. As long as the army arrives, the whole state can be taken immediately." City, the government has no power to resist."

The man in black couldn't help clenching his fists tightly, his eyes almost burst into flames when he looked at Li Xuan.

Li Xuan smiled lightly, nodded slightly, and said: "That's true. This king has seen through this from the very beginning. All the way from Luoyang to Wuzhou, I have been thinking about it day and night, and finally let this king see through it." Where is the biggest weakness of Tianyin Sect?"

"The biggest weakness?" The man in black was stunned.

The others present were also stunned.

Unbelievable eyes could not help but fell on Li Xuan.

Tianyin Sect actually has the biggest weakness?

"People!" Li Xuan sighed softly, and said in a low voice, "Your biggest problem is people!"

"I thought you were going to talk about it." The man in black was taken aback for a moment, slowly lowered his hands, then leaned forward slightly, and said with puzzled eyes, "Why is it a human?"

"Using one state to fight against three hundred states in the world, I am afraid that no one can do it except your empress." Li Xuan expressed her opinion on the biggest weakness of Tianyin sect lightly,

The man in black faintly understood.

He looked at Li Xuan in disbelief, and said, "Are you saying there are too many Muzhou people among us?"

"Isn't it?" Li Xuan looked at the man in black indifferently, and said with calm eyes: "Fang Yunxiu, Xu Lu, who is not from Muzhou, who is a devout follower of the Goddess Tianyin in the city, who is not from Muzhou. As long as you catch This point can hit your vitals immediately.

That is to say, the current governors of various states are not vicious enough, otherwise, all the immigrants from Muzhou in each city should be locked up, so why are you still making trouble? "

In the final analysis, the soldiers of Tianyin sect who left Wuzhou were only 3000.

It is also scattered in various states and counties, so it is no wonder that it can play a role.

What they really rely on is the immigrant believers in various cities.

This is also the reason why Li Xuan wanted to give Du Bixing the first credit.

As long as the remaining believers of the Tianyin Sect in Wuzhou City are strangled to death, the so-called uprising of the Tianyin Sect will not be able to cause a big wave.

"We also have quite a few local congregants." The man in black clenched his fists tightly.

"Your Excellency, are you talking about those Tianyin sect members who are hiding in the state government and county government?"

There was a slight sneer at the corner of Li Xuan's mouth, and then he said softly: "It means that the king has only been in Wuzhou for a short time, otherwise give me a month, believe it or not, I don't need to kill those Wuzhou locals at all. Soldiers can also make them all abandon the belief of Tianyin Sect."

Those who died under Li Xuan's hand with Fang Yunxiu were all Wuzhou local soldiers.

The man in black forced a smile, then nodded, and said: "Indeed, I admit that there are not many people in the world who are stronger than the King of Nanchang in terms of buying people's hearts."

In the final analysis, what Li Xuan did when he came to Wuzhou was nothing more than weakening the old rules and bad habits of some villains in the prefectural and county yamen.

If these profits that do not fall into the court are taken away from the officials, and then returned to the hands of the people, the people will naturally be grateful.

Others sending people to help the people harvest food are all trifles.

The people at the bottom can benefit, and the soldiers at the bottom will naturally not have too much trouble.

With money, there wouldn't be many people who sincerely followed the Tianyin Sect to rebel.

As for those greedy officials, at this time, I am afraid that they will have to stop temporarily.
After all, under the background of the Tianyin Sect's uprising, there will never be too many people who would dare to provoke the authority of the royal family and be killed to make an example to others.
"As for Liu Ji, your Excellency, which one of you locals is not inextricably linked to Hemu Prefecture?"

Liu Ji's deceased wife was from Muzhou, and the man in black in front of him...

"Do you know who I am?" The man in black stared at Li Xuan, Li Xuan's words just now revealed too much information.

"I don't want to know who you are." Li Xuan looked at him and raised his right hand.

His gaze still passed over the man in black, and the flames that landed directly behind the man in black still burned to the granary at the door, and said coldly: "Tang Lv, whoever set fire to the granary, hang up, family members sit together... you are dead That's good, I don't want to sit with your family."

"You still know who I am." The man in black's face became gloomy for a while.

"Fire the arrows!" Li Xuan's right hand slammed under his command, and in the next moment, countless crossbow arrows shot fiercely at the man in black at the same time.

At this moment, a gorgeous knife light suddenly appeared.

There was a sound of "ding ding ding" in the air, and the countless crossbow arrows shot were cut into two in an instant.

When the knife light fell, the man in black was about to say something.

At this time, Li Xuan waved his hand again, and immediately more Qianniuwei jumped out of the wall behind him.

Li Xuan swung his hand heavily, and the next moment, more crossbow arrows shot towards the man in black again.

"Ding ding ding... ding ding... ding..."

The long knife kept slashing the crossbow arrows, but suddenly, the long knife stopped abruptly, but then swung it like a horse.

The arrow rained fiercely.

The light of the knife fell, and the man in black standing in place reappeared.

Only this time, several crossbow bolts were firmly inserted into his left shoulder,
At this time, the Qianniu Guards who were around Li Xuan had reloaded their crossbows again.

At this moment, the man in black has already pulled off the veil from his face.

He blew himself up.

(End of this chapter)