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

Chapter 420 The more you drink, the thirstier you become, and the more you drink, the more you die

The sharp long arrow shot straight into Li Xuan's eyes, but Li Xuan was not moved by it at all.

All of a sudden, his eyes skipped countless arrows and stared directly at Luo Yongjie under the city.

Looking at him is like looking at a dead person.

Four sword lights flashed in front of Li Xuan's eyes in an instant, and the long arrows were all cut off in an instant.

This time, nothing was missed.

When the light of the knife fell, Li Xuan was nowhere to be seen.

He had already retreated further back, looking over the city wall, and following the rain of arrows flying from the city wall, he looked at Luo Yongjie.

Arrows fell like rain.

In an instant, countless long arrows with a breath of death all fell on the heads of the archers of Tianyin Sect.

More than a dozen round shields wrapped abruptly from behind, covering the archers' heads in an instant.

They overlap each other, like a semicircular ball, covering almost all the archers, and at the same time, they are constantly rotating.

"Ding, ding, ding!" Dozens of long arrows almost all hit the round shield, but immediately after, many were bounced off.

A straight long arrow pierced down from the gap in the round shield, directly from the shoulder blade of an archer, and got into the heart of the confidant.

The figure fell to the ground without a sound, and blood flowed directly from the mouth into the soil.

Big feet stepped on the face of the fallen figure, and quickly exited the range of the long arrow.

The long arrows in midair disappeared without a trace in an instant.

But with the dead bodies already lying on the ground, the pungent smell of blood filled everyone's noses, and no one could hide from them.

……

On the city wall, Yan Tao, who saw this scene, suddenly looked at Luo Yongjie coldly, and said in a low voice, "This person has been to the Western Regions."

Li Xuan glanced at Yan Tao in surprise, and after thinking for a while, nodded in approval: "Indeed, judging by his age, he should have participated in the second battle against the Turks, which was the battle for the destruction of the Western Turks. Returned to the Tianyin Sect and participated in the Tianyin Sect uprising that year."

After a slight pause, Li Xuan's face was solemn: "This kind of round shield formation can only be used so proficiently by those who have fought in the battlefields of the Western Regions."

The round shield looks simple, and it is even recorded in every military book, but if you don't have enough battlefield experience, you will end up taking your own life in the end.

Luo Yongjie's round shield formation is so tight that only those who have been on the battlefield can know it, and only those who have been on the battlefield can train it.

Luo Yongjie was able to become the head of the Muzhou Jiande branch of the Tianyin Sect. He is an absolute confidant of the Tianyin Sect and must have participated in the uprising 20 years ago.

If he participated in the Tianyin Sect uprising that year, he would definitely not be involved in the subsequent war against Goguryeo.

Therefore, the only chance for him to participate in the war is to face the Western Turkic War in his early years.

This kind of old soldier fighting on the battlefield is not easy to deal with.

"I'm afraid there are quite a few people like this in the Tianyin Sect. If they are all soldiers trained in this way, I will be in trouble!" Zhou Shen watched as the Tianyin Sect members gradually gathered in the distance and retreated to the dense forest two miles away. , His brows frowned slightly.

"But there shouldn't be many. If there were any, I'm afraid they would all have died back then." Li Xuan shook her head and said in thought: "The people below seem to be proficient in using the round shield formation, but they actually didn't participate in it." How many actual battles, now it is just a response without much pressure, once pressure is applied, it will collapse immediately."

Li Xuan pressed her right hand on the Eight-Faced Han Sword, but her expression was very determined.

He had already seen through the true details of these soldiers of the Tianyin Sect.

That is, they have a lot of training, but their real combat experience is seriously lacking.

If they were to deal with soldiers from various states and counties, then naturally they would not be at a disadvantage, and would even gain the upper hand in front of some states and counties with loose armaments, but they were not enough in front of Li Xuan's Zhechong government soldiers.

Just like Zhou Shen, many of him and a team of soldiers under him had participated in the battle against Goguryeo that year.

Being bloody and not being bloody, being on the battlefield and not being on the battlefield are two completely different things.

"However, this kind of shield technique is very practical in such a narrow terrain... Captain Yan, bring a batch of round shields from Lanxi, maybe at some point, we will fight them head-on." Li Xuan's words suddenly changed, and everyone present was shocked.

"The next official obeys the order!" Yan Tao immediately bowed his hands and agreed.

Li Xuan looked up at the sky, and said calmly: "Wait, they will attack again soon...Feng Canjun, remember to bring the water up in time, the weather is quite hot."

The weather was quite hot, and even the members of the Tianyin Sect had retreated two miles away.

Li Xuan looked at everything on the opposite side, and now it depends on when Luo Yongjie will attack the opponent next.

Because within these two miles, all the trees have been cut down by Li Xuan, and even all the water sources within ten miles have been destroyed by Li Xuan.

Luo Yongjie could either lead his people back, or he could only grit his teeth and attack.

Carrying water up from the rear, thousands of people, will only be a drop in the bucket.

"Here!" The people present clapped their hands in agreement at the same time, they had vaguely seen the ending of Luo Yongjie and others.

……

Luo Yongjie took out the water bag, took a sip, and drank all the remaining water in the bag in one gulp.

"Luo Shan." Luo Yongjie glanced sideways, his adoptive son Luo Shan immediately handed over the water bag in his hand, Luo Yongjie took another big sip, and asked: "How is it, everyone How much water is left!"

"Not much more." Luo Shan said a few simple words, and then said with a worried face: "Father, why don't we lead people to retreat first, Meiling Pass is tightly guarded, if we attack by force, brothers The casualties were serious."

"You don't understand. There is a saying in the art of war. If we don't take Meiling Pass today, we will have no chance. Don't forget that we set off this time without any siege equipment. There aren't even many craftsmen." At this point, Luo Yongjie gritted his teeth and said, "The method of strengthening the wall and clearing the wild is actually used on me."

The cottages resting on the road, the surrounding water sources, and the nearby villages were all cleaned up.

Isn't this set up to fortify the wall and clear the field?

At this moment, Luo Yongjie already felt Li Xuan's difficulty.

He originally thought that the other party was just a fledgling kid who won Meiling Pass by relying on some tricks, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult.

He did not hesitate at all when he used methods that could only be used by old shameless bastards on the battlefield.

"Luoshan, you personally bring people back to the camp and bring over the water bags you collected. I want to see who can consume more than whom." Although Luo Yongjie is not the kind of famous general, but with years of battlefield experience, Also let him have his own set of things, it is not easy to clean him up easily.

Although the camp behind was several miles away, it happened to be next to the water source, so it was not difficult to transport the water here.

……

With a "snap", a water bag was thrown to the ground fiercely.

Luo Yongjie waved his hands vigorously, and said cursingly: "What's going on, I drank so much water, why is it getting hotter and hotter?"

Luo Shan's expression on the side was also a bit ugly, and it was not only Luo Yongjie who felt extremely thirsty.

Almost all the soldiers here are like this.

Obviously, everyone had already drank a lot of water, but it was as if they hadn't drank much, and they became more and more thirsty after a while.

"Maybe it's because the weather is too hot." Luo Shan forcefully explained.

Luo Yongjie immediately waved his hand and said, "Quickly urge the back to bring water up, and besides, hurry up and build more shields up."

Without sufficiently skilled craftsmen, it is simply not realistic to build a trebuchet.

Even if it is forcibly built, the range and power are not much higher.

But it is easy to make a shield out of wood, even if it is not so strong, it is not difficult to attack the city.

"There's also a battering ram!" Luo Yongjie gritted his teeth and said, "Smashing the city gate with a battering ram can also kill him."

I don't know why, Luo Yongjie's anger is getting bigger and bigger, and his hatred for Li Xuan is getting deeper and deeper.

Turning his head, Luo Yongjie saw Luo Chuan's body on the mountain road at a glance.

Even up to now, he still hasn't snatched Luo Chuan's body back.

In an instant, the hatred in Luo Yongjie's heart became even worse.

……

The sun is gradually setting towards the west.

On the city wall, Li Xuan calmly looked at the dense forest in the distance, when there was a faint sound of commotion.

Compared with Shen Su on the city wall, the opposite is like a vegetable market.

"They're going to lose their temper!" Li Xuan couldn't help saying, with a hint of disdain on the corner of her mouth.

"What the prince said is true. Although this Luo Yongjie has fought on the battlefield, he doesn't understand the way of commanding at all." Zhou Shen behind him couldn't help shaking his head.

"What do you mean by that?" Feng Hua was a little confused.

"When it's too hot, drinking water will make you thirstier, especially when you're restless." Zhou Shen turned sideways, looked at the countless soldiers beside him, and said softly: "Those people outside, Their water sources are far away, and they know that the water supply is insufficient, but they have to drink water in hot weather and are irritable, so they will only become thirstier, and most importantly, their endurance will be reduced in this situation.”

Decreased stamina is naturally a decrease in combat effectiveness.

"We are different. We know that we will have countless drinking water supplied at any time, so we are not in a hurry, and we are also restrained in replenishing water."

Li Xuan turned around to look at the increasingly noisy enemy crowd in the dense forest, and said softly: "If it was dusk before, maybe he would take the initiative to withdraw and find a place to rest and come back tomorrow, but it was noon before, so there is no day for the soldiers to rest Yes, so we have to persist until now, at dusk and sunset, they will launch the last wave of offensive, and after that, it will be a night battle, so..."

Li Xuan turned sideways, looked at Qiu Zhenmu, Li Zhu, Zhou Shen, Yan Tao, Wang Qin and Feng Hua, and said in a deep voice: "Tell everyone, this king does not want to drag the battle to night, so next, this king We must fight at dusk, and we must completely maim them to death!"

"The next officer obeys the order!" Everyone present suddenly agreed.

Li Xuan turned around slowly, and suddenly saw a wooden cart with a sharp giant log tightly tied to it, and it was slowly pushed out towards the city wall.

More than 20 soldiers protected the wooden cart from both sides, pushed the wooden cart, and came slowly from the city gate.

Li Xuan looked over the wooden cart and landed directly on the dense forest behind.

A cloud ladder was pushed out immediately afterward.

A pair of murderous eyes suddenly came into Li Xuan's sight.

Luo Yongjie.

On the top of the city gate, Li Xuan looked at him coldly.

One battle, one battle determines the outcome.

A battle is life and death.

(End of this chapter)