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

Chapter 403 Soldiers approaching Lanxi, killing each other
At three o'clock, the sun is shining brightly.

Three huge official ships sailed mightily from the south of Wuzhou.

Finally, it docked slowly three miles south of Lanxi County.

The tall mast pierced straight into the clouds, and those who saw this scene from a distance felt a huge pressure coming from a distance.

The figures on the top of the city panicked for a while.

Li Xuan stood at the bow of the ship, watching everything in the distance with cold eyes.

The water of Wujiang River rushes forward non-stop, and the swaying waves reflect colorful rainbow light in the sunlight.

On the pier by the shore, Qi Guang led himself to select two teams of soldiers, stood under the boat, and bowed to Li Xuan at the bow.

Looking up from the bottom, the gold silk robe with a black background looked unusually cold.

It seemed that the whole world became extremely chilling in an instant.

Li Xuan lowered her head, looked at the uniform Wuzhou soldiers lined up in two rows, nodded expressionlessly, then raised her eyes forward, her brows and eyes suddenly turned cold.

Qi Guang bowed immediately, then turned around with a serious expression on his face.

"Let's go!" Qi Guang shouted coldly, and waved his hands forward at the same time.

"Follow the order!" The soldiers of the two teams suddenly agreed, turned around and strode towards the northwest, toward Meiling Pass.

Li Xuan pressed the eight-faced Han sword with her right hand, and watched the group of people move forward quickly from a distance.

They were a group of hundreds of people walking on foot, wearing longbows, quivering bags on their backs, and rifles on their shoulders. Chi Guoguo walked along the west wall of Lanxi County, heading straight for Meiling Pass.

The Lanxi County City quickly moved, and not long after, two soldiers on horseback ran away from Lanxi City, and quickly chased them in the direction Qi Guang was going away.

Li Xuan took a deep look at the top of the Meiling Pass, and there seemed to be a burly figure looking at Li Xuan's place from a distance.

The corners of Li Xuan's mouth froze for a moment, and he waved his left hand slightly backwards: "Li Zhu, you personally bring two teams of soldiers to guard Feng Canjun and his craftsmen, and you will bring the forged utensils and corresponding tools. , take a horse-drawn carriage to the Meiling Pass, the speed doesn’t need to be fast, just a little slower.”

"Here!" Li Zhu turned around and left without any doubt.

Soon, a loud noise sounded under the big ship.

One tool after another, all the unfinished ordnance was carefully carried onto the carriage by the soldiers under the reprimand of the soldier craftsman.

There was lively movement below, at this time, Feng Hua and Wang Qin rushed over from the back boat.

"My lord!" Feng Hua stood still and saluted, with a serious face, but asked with a trace of puzzlement: "My lord, didn't you tell me to ask the lower officials to recruit craftsmen to make ordnance in Lanxi?"

"Of course." Li Xuan looked down, then pointed to Lanxi County in the distance, and said to Feng Hua with a half-smile: "Feng Canjun hopes that this king will attack Lanxi head-on and kill a river of blood, or hope that this king Can you take down Lanxi County without bloodshed?"

"Of course it's bloodless." Feng Hua frowned without waiting for Li Xuan's words to fall, and asked, "Is it possible?"

"Naturally possible." Li Xuan smiled lightly, put her hand on the Eight-Faced Han Sword again, and raised her head and said, "There are only 1000 black soldiers left in Lanxi today, and they are all guarding Meiling Pass, and more than half of them are remnants and defeated soldiers. , The real power they have is just a group of soldiers temporarily recruited from Lanxi, there are as many as [-] soldiers, [-] guarding Meiling Pass and [-] guarding Lanxi County."

"There won't be that many. The number of soldiers recruited from Lanxi will never exceed 500." Feng Hua suddenly said something that surprised Li Xuan.

Li Xuan looked at Feng Hua with some confusion and said, "Although this king's figure is somewhat different, the difference will not be too big."

Li Xuan set his sights on Lanxi very early on. The number of soldiers recruited by Tianyin Sect from Lanxi will only be more than before, and it will definitely not be less than before.

"What the lord said, most of them are the people, not the soldiers." Feng Hua bowed slightly to Li Xuan, and said: "The lord doesn't know, Lanxi county government, including the arresters, the soldiers, all the soldiers The number of blades will not exceed 500, even if the members of Tianyin Sect scour the local aristocratic families and merchants, the number will not exceed [-], and most of the [-] people have gone to Meiling Pass. "

"So that's the case, it's the king who ignored it." Li Xuan suddenly realized, and bowed his hands solemnly to Feng Hua.

Although the imperial court allowed folks to own their own swords and even longbows, those who could really afford swords and longbows were wealthy households from all counties.

Ordinary farmers can't afford these things, and at most one or two hatchets are considered good.

Great, just buy two short knives and a dagger, that's all.

Tianyin Sect seems to be able to coerce more people, but most of these people have hoes and sickles in their hands, and they don't have many swords, guns and bows at all.

Their fighting power can be imagined.

……

"Now Lanxi County is guarded by ordinary people who have not experienced the cruelty of war. As long as the prince sends troops to attack, Lanxi County can be easily taken down." Feng Hua clasped his hands to Li Xuan, expressing his opinion.

Li Xuan nodded in satisfaction, then looked at Feng Hua and said, "Feng Shenjun has a heart, this truth is indeed the truth, but..."

Seeing Li Xuan's hesitation, Feng Hua hurriedly asked: "Is there something wrong with the officials, I hope the prince will explain a thing or two."

Looking at Feng Hua's sincere face, Li Xuan nodded in satisfaction, then pointed to Lanxi County in the distance, and asked: "How does the army look at this city in front of you? Do you think that among the tens of thousands of people in this city, today What is the biggest hidden danger?"

Fengjing couldn't help raising his brows, he subconsciously began to recall, and soon, his peripheral vision glanced at Li Xuan's body, raised his brows, and instantly remembered something, and blurted out two words: " Believers."

"That's right, they are believers." Li Xuan nodded, looked towards Lanxi County, and said softly: "The foundation of Tianyin Sect in Lanxi is those believers, with the Muzhou immigrants as the core, and the local poor people as vassals, Unite the shallow believers in other families, expand and attract more believers, and form a joint force, this is the greatest strength of Tianyin Sect in Lanxi."

Having said this, Li Xuan's face became serious: "These people are the biggest obstacles for me waiting in Lanxi; there are at least thousands of such people in Lanxi, plus their family members, relatives and friends, they are engulfing me. The people almost occupy the entire population of Lanxi County...Are we really going to kill the entire Lanxi County, tens of thousands of people, just for one city?"

Lanxi is a medium-sized county, with a population of more than 4000 households, including men, women, old and young, women, old and weak, and tens of thousands of people.

However, whether it was the end of the Sui Dynasty or the earlier Three Kingdoms period, there was always only one way to deal with these coerced people.

That is to kill.

"This king is not a vicious executioner. What I'm doing now is to give them a chance to survive." Li Xuan sighed, waved his hands, and said, "Let's do it."

"I will obey the order." Feng Hua and Wang Qin immediately handed over their hands, and then turned around to arrange for the transfer of ordnance.

Wang Bo stood on one side without saying a word.

Based on his understanding of Li Xuan, perhaps what he just said is indeed the true thoughts in Li Xuan's heart, but it is only one of the true thoughts.

What Li Xuan is really doing is still the old way.

He wants these people to betray Tianyin Sect again, and there is no possibility of surrendering to Tianyin Sect again.

Killing hearts.

It is what their Nanchang king is best at.

……

"Tap Tat Tat" two war horses were clinging to the city wall of Lanxi from the north, and quickly came towards the direction of the official ship.

Passing by the brigade escorting ordnance in the middle, the horse's hooves kicked up huge dust and landed on the cart, but the horse's speed must not have relaxed.

The horses quickly moved away from the escort team and came towards the official ship.

However, at this moment on the city wall, countless eyes watched all of this, but they didn't make a single move, not even shooting an arrow out.

You know, all these people under Li Xuan's subordinates went directly to Meiling Pass from under their noses.

From afar, Li Xuan saw someone arguing on the top of the wall.

There was a slight sneer at the corner of his mouth.

The war horse quickly stopped on the pier, and two government soldiers quickly boarded the boat, and then took out a bamboo tube from their body and handed it to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan opened the bamboo tube, took out the note and glanced at it, a slight sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He took out a brush from the flower stand beside him, wrote a character on it, and then handed back the bamboo tube.

The two government soldiers bowed their hands to Li Xuan, then turned around and disembarked, heading northwest very quickly.

They passed by the escorting ordnance group again, and also ignored them, and quickly headed north.

The appearance of the cavalry silenced the quarrel on the city wall for a while.

The quarrel did not resume until the teams escorting the artisans and siege equipment began to leave the county seat.

Li Xuan turned to look at Wang Bo, and asked in a low voice: "Mr. Zi'an, do you think they will attack the armed forces in the north, or attack us!"

Since arriving outside Lanxi County, Li Xuan has been sending people out non-stop.

If the people in Lanxi County could see through Li Xuan's reality, they would know that there were not many people on the official ship. As long as they came, they might be rewarded.

However, Wang Bo couldn't help shaking his head.

But anyone who knows enough about their prince will never step into this trap easily.

With a "squeak", the city gate to the north finally opened slowly.

The gate of the city farthest from Li Xuan's official ship opened, and the opponent's choice was self-evident.

Hundreds of soldiers, armed with swords and long bows, quickly moved towards the direction of the military equipment escort.

"Sure enough, there are still people from the Tianyin Sect among them." Li Xuan finally felt relieved.

"How could the Tianyin Sect not send people to control the county seat? Even if the county magistrate Xu Wen has already been used by them, he is not theirs after all, so how could they be at ease." Wang Bo shook his head, looking into the distance with piercing eyes The city wall: "Now the county magistrate Xu's opportunity has come, it depends on whether he can seize it."

"If he can't catch it, don't blame me for being cruel." Li Xuan said, putting one hand on the long sword at his waist.

Behind him, there is a whole team of Kuaiji government soldiers, a whole team of Wuzhou soldiers, and a whole team of Nanchang government guards. This is the last force in his hands.

Although it wasn't a standard formation for attacking the city, Li Xuan didn't believe that those civilians in the city who didn't even hold swords could stop him.

"Kill!" Suddenly, a loud shout sounded from the head of Lanxi County. From a distance, one group of people could be seen suddenly erupting, and then started a bloody killing of another group of people.

"My lord!" Wang Bo looked at Li Xuan worriedly.

Li Xuan waved his hand directly, and said indifferently: "This is what they have to go through. Only in this way can they forgive their sins; only in this way can they be regarded as anyway; only in this way can this king have reason to ask the court to forgive their sins." guilt."

Wang Bo lowered his head helplessly, then quickly raised his head and said, "The next official will go to write the document immediately."

"En!" Li Xuan nodded lightly.

Wang Bo quickly turned around and left, he wanted to finalize this matter thoroughly.

Not long after, the gate of Lanxi County on the opposite side opened again.

A group of people, with their heads lowered in dejection, came towards the direction of the official ship.

(End of this chapter)