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

Chapter 418 Greedy military exploits, bleeding to death
Outside Meiling Pass, a group of exhausted government soldiers were quickly withdrawing towards the pass city.

Li Xuan, who was standing on the top of the city gate and was talking, saw this scene, and quickly waved to Zhou Shen, Qiu Zhenmu and Li Zhu: "Let's go down and have a look."

"Here!" Qiu Zhenmu, Li Zhu, and Zhou Shen hurriedly agreed, and then quickly followed.

After Zhou Shen arrived at Meiling Pass, he proposed many improvement measures.

Although many places are just the increase or decrease of some numbers, after this increase and decrease, the power that can be exerted is even greater than before.

As soon as he walked down the gate tower, Li Xuan saw the previous team of soldiers entering from outside.

Everyone had a trace of blood stains on their bodies, and a few had wounds that had been bandaged.

Although he looked tired, the long knife was still tightly held in his hand, with a murderous look.

Yan Tao, who was standing on the side, was relieved after counting the number of people one by one.

"Report to the lord, this is the last batch, and the number is not lost." Yan Tao clapped his hands to Li Xuan and reported.

"En!" Li Xuan nodded slightly, then looked at the leader with a solemn expression: "What happened?"

"I happened to meet a few spies, and my subordinates were greedy, so they rushed to kill them." The gang leader cupped his hands, his face a little embarrassed.

"It doesn't matter. From the looks of you, you can tell that you have killed all your opponents. That's good." Li Xuan nodded in satisfaction.

"Thank you, my lord, for your tolerance." After a short pause, the team leader hurriedly said: "My subordinates have found out that in about half a day, the vanguard of the rebels will arrive under the city gate."

Li Xuan glanced sideways at the evening sunset in the west, nodded, and said, "Okay, let's go down and rest, Captain Yan, take a turn."

"Here!" Yan Tao immediately bowed and agreed.

"Thank you, my lord!" Several government soldiers immediately cupped their hands at Li Xuan with surprise on their faces.

Li Xuan waved his hand, and all the government soldiers retreated immediately.

Li Xuan turned to look at Yan Tao, and shouted in a low voice, "Close the door!"

"close the door!"

The city gate was slowly closed under Yan Tao's command.

Immediately, the guards at the gate of the city nailed the wooden stakes deeply into the ground, and then used the other end to push the gate of the city to death.

The city gate was hard to shake for a while.

At this moment, Zhou Shen, who was standing on one side, asked curiously, "Your Majesty, why don't you block the gate of the city with stones? That's what the general said when he heard that the prince was in Zhoucheng?"

Everyone knows that their Nanchang king has always been cautious and will not easily leave any loopholes for his opponents.

The method of inserting wooden stakes obliquely into the ground is strong, but no matter how strong it is, it is not as strong as sealing the door directly from the bluestone strips.

"Isn't this trying to give everyone more opportunities to build up their military exploits?" Li Xuan smiled softly, seeing the disbelief on everyone's faces, he said lightly: "If there are ten thousand troops from the Tianyin Sect outside, Then this king will definitely seal the city gate, but a mere thousand is not enough for the three of them to get between their teeth, so we have to try our best to keep them all here."

Li Xuan's last words were completely revealing.

The Tianyin sect came to Wuzhou this time, only a mere 1000 people.

Li Xuan had the advantage of the city gate, not only did he want to completely defeat him under the closed city, he even wanted to wipe him out.

Raising his head, Li Xuan looked at the sky in the northwest, and said softly: "A city defense battle is not as pleasant as a frontal encounter and a surprise attack, but a city defense battle is as exciting as a city defense battle. Once you win, you win with less If there are many, the meritorious service can be sent directly to His Majesty's case...Everyone, think about it, there are not many such opportunities in the entire Tang Dynasty."

Send it directly to the emperor's desk. With just this sentence, the breathing of everyone present immediately became heavy.

Seeing this scene, Li Xuan smiled faintly: "Meiling Pass is not only the key point for the Tianyin Sect to go south, but even if troops are sent from here, they can immediately advance to Jiande, and even go straight to Muzhou City; so the Tianyin Sect They will never let Meiling Pass go, even if they mobilize countless troops, they will still take Meiling Pass. The 1000 people in front of them are just an appetizer, but it is enough for this king and His Majesty to take a look. You guys are all set."

"What the prince said is true. The officials and others will definitely do their best." Zhou Shen gritted his teeth and bowed his hands solemnly.

Li Xuan smiled in satisfaction, and then said: "In this case, the guards of the city gate tonight will be handed over to the captain."

Zhou Shen immediately cupped his hands: "Don't worry, my lord, everyone, don't worry, there will be an end in sight, and nothing will happen to the city gate."

"Then I'll leave the first test to Brother Zhou. I'll go back and sleep peacefully." Yan Tao had a look of helplessness on his face.

He was just one step too late, and Zhou Shen snatched his first chance.

Li Xuan, as the captain of Guoyi of the Kuaiji Prefecture, the inspection school, has a regiment of [-] soldiers under his command.

The three hundred government soldiers were led by three lieutenants, Yan Tao himself, Zhou Shen, and Li Zhu.

Li Zhu is the head guard of the Nanchang Prince's Mansion, and the captain of the Kuaiji Mansion is only temporary. The real dispute with Yan Tao is Zhou Shen.

However, the goals of the two parties are different. Zhou Shen is not interested in joining the Kuaiji Zhechong Mansion. His purpose is to gain favor from the center through the King of Nanchang.

Li Xuan, the king of Nanchang, is still very young, but going forward in the future, at least a governor of a state is indispensable.

If he does well, in the future, let alone a school lieutenant, even Captain Guo Yi and Sima Yizhou can count on him.

……

At the seventh quarter of Yin time, the sky will be dark, and there will be darkness between the sky and the earth.

The entire Daciyan Mountain Range lowered its head in the darkness like a lurking giant beast.

Meiling Pass, like an iron hoop, was tightly wrapped around the giant beast's head.

But if the giant beast awakens, the entire Meiling Pass will be completely overthrown in a very short period of time.

Just as many guards on the checkpoint could not help falling into a deep sleep, suddenly, a burst of hurried footsteps sounded outside the checkpoint.

Everyone at the city gate was completely awakened immediately.

Raising his head, he suddenly saw several figures approaching quickly in the darkness outside the Guancheng.

The torch on the city gate was thrown down in an instant, and everything in the darkness was completely brightened.

The three guards dressed in blue were surprised and looked at the top of the city in panic. Under the firelight, although their faces could not be seen clearly, the extremely cold long arrows were aimed at them firmly.

"Don't shoot the arrows. We are Jiande soldiers. We are ordered by the county magistrate to send a letter to the governor of Wuzhou. Please open the city gate and let me wait in." The leader of the soldiers had a cold head Straight up, and immediately lifted up the package on his body: "Here is the official document."

"Official documents and identity documents, put them together in the basket." Zhou Shen poked his head out expressionlessly, and waved to his side, and a basket had already been put down.

The soldiers hurriedly loaded up their parcels and put their identity documents in the basket, and soon the basket went up.

Not long after, Zhou Shen's voice came from above again: "Alone, come up in a basket."

The servants below looked at each other and looked at each other. The leader of the servants subconsciously asked: "Shangguan, why don't you wait to open the city gate?"

"The city gate is sealed, and no one can open it. If you don't want to come up in a basket, then please go around the mountain from there."

On both sides of Guancheng, not to mention the steep mountains, it is also a long way to go around the mountains.

If it was Zhang Wanyu, masters like Ye Wanwan and Zuo Fei would be fine, but for others, they would just be courting death.

And no one knows what it is after going around the mountain.

In case of hard work and exhaustion, what is waiting for you is the sharp edge of officers and soldiers, then the gain outweighs the loss.

"The villain obeys the order!" The leading soldier had a bitter expression on his face, but then he sat in the narrow basket, and was pulled up to the city gate by the soldiers above.

As soon as he got off the basket, the soldier hurriedly bowed his hands to the officer in charge of the school lieutenant in front of him: "Little man..."

The sound of "poof" came directly from the soldier's lower back. Although it was extremely painful, he turned sideways subconsciously, but in the end he could see his own blood gushing out from his waist like a fountain. Then completely lost consciousness.

Immediately afterwards, two hanging baskets were lowered from above.

Zhou Shen's cold voice sounded: "You all come up."

The two soldiers below looked at each other, and just took a precise step forward and entered the hanging basket. At this moment, one of them suddenly raised his head, looked at the top of the wall, and shouted: "Brother Yang, tell the higher-ups to prepare more!" Some good wine and good food, brothers have worked hard, and the wine worms are here."

As soon as the voice of the servant below fell, he stared at the gate tower above.

However, there was no sound from the city gate.

The expressions of the two soldiers below couldn't help but change immediately.

Subconsciously, the two couldn't help but backed away, wanting to stay away from the city gate.

At this moment, Zhou Shen's voice came from the city gate incomparably coldly: "Fire the arrow."

In an instant, several long arrows shot down directly from the city gate, and the two soldiers retreated frantically in an instant, but they were also pierced through their chests in an instant, and blood burst out suddenly.

There were two "bang bang", and the two corpses fell directly to the ground.

The torch thrown on the ground was still burning.

Zhou Shen looked indifferently at the depths of the dense forest in the distance, and a sneer of disdain appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Luo Chuan's face in the dense forest became extremely ugly in an instant.

Just now, it was actually Luo Chuan who was going forward to open the city gate. If it wasn't for the fact that his subordinates were worried at a critical moment, stopped him and replaced him, then at this moment, the one who died here must have been Luo Chuan is gone.

"Kill!" With a cold shout, Luo Chuan couldn't help rushing up first.

The next moment, more than a dozen big men took advantage of the darkness and quickly rushed towards the city gate.

These people were very cunning, the tall ones rushed to the front, while the shorter ones hid behind the bodies of the people in front.

Directly avoiding the sight of the archers above.

More than a dozen people were divided into two rows, front and back, and rushed straight towards the city gate at high speed.

The road in front of the city gate is narrow, and there are only two lanes of traffic on weekdays. If one car is damaged, the cars behind will be blocked immediately.

These narrow roads simply cannot accommodate many siege soldiers.

The terrain is extremely unfavorable to the attacking side, but extremely beneficial to the defending side.

"Fire the arrow." Zhou Shen's extremely cold voice came.

Three-foot-long crossbow arrows shot down from the city gate tower rapidly, covering the heads of a dozen people.

Almost in an instant, half of the big man below was reduced.

"second round!"

"Whoosh, whoosh," more crossbow arrows shot down from the city gate tower.

In the blink of an eye, all the big men without any cover fell down.

"Stop shooting."

Zhou Shen's indifferent order came, and the crossbow above stopped firing immediately.

In an instant, the entire city gate fell silent.

Under the city gate, it became dark again. At this moment, a man with more than a dozen crossbow arrows stuck in his body moved forward in the darkness little by little. range, moving further away little by little.

Suddenly, a ray of fire light shone on his face.

He turned his head subconsciously, and saw Zhou Shen on the city gate at a glance.

At this moment, Zhou Shen was looking at him playfully, and then opened his bow and nocked his arrow.

"嗖嗖" two arrows shot straight, and in the blink of an eye, they were firmly nailed to Lu Chuan's left and right legs, and then firmly nailed into the ground.

Then let him wail miserably, let him lose blood and die.

(End of this chapter)