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

Chapter 422 Blood flowed into rivers, outstanding achievements
Dozens of corpses were piled up together, and blood flowed out from the gaps in the corpses, and then calmly flowed further away along the steps.

Li Xuan stood on three steps, seventy steps behind her was the city gate.

This area is also the place where the most corpses are piled up.

And these three steps were dug by Li Xuan in advance.

At this moment, behind Li Xuan, stood a whole team of Qianniuwei in red clothes and gold armor, holding tall horses stained with blood in their hands.

Their breathing was still a little short, but the killing intent in their eyes was slowly subsiding.

As soon as the city gate was opened before, Qianniuwei rushed out immediately.

The already exhausted and broken Tianyin believers were immediately killed by the cavalry and fled in all directions.

When they fled to the seventy steps away from the city, one of them didn't pay attention, and fell to the ground with a "snap".

This fall is immediately the difference between life and death.

People from Tianyin Sect are not familiar with this terrain.

When walking up, they can naturally notice the sudden appearance of steps, but when walking down, especially when fleeing, they don't care at all.

Crowding, pulling, hugging and falling, cannibalism...

In this way, under the pursuit of Qianniuwei, Tianyin's disciples were killed and injured immediately.

However, Qianniuwei's pursuit stopped here, Li Xuan had issued a strict order before, Qianniuwei's pursuit would stop at seventy steps, and these seventy steps were enough for them to kill to their heart's content.

One can imagine how many they killed.

……

Li Xuan raised his eyes from the blood-colored mountain road, looked at the distant forest, and asked softly, "Has Captain Yan led people to chase him down?"

"Yes, my lord." Qiu Zhenmu answered with cupped hands.

After Qianniuwei, Kuaiji Mansion soldiers, as well as Wuzhou soldiers, had already chased and killed the Tianyin Jiaozu who had escaped from under the city gate.

Those who descend live, those who do not descend die.

Make sure that the details of this battle are not revealed as much as possible.

Qiu Zhenmu took a step forward, cupped his hands towards Li Xuan and asked, "My lord, why don't you let us chase and kill them together this time?"

The three steps under his feet have been piled up by corpses. As long as he is careful, the horse's hooves will not be hurt by the steps at all.

"Because I am worried that you will not come back alive." Li Xuan's words made Qiu Zhenmu's face suddenly full of surprise.

In Qiu Zhenmu's surprised eyes, Li Xuan raised his head, looked towards the endless dense forest, and said in a deep voice: "This time, the king has ordered that Captain Yan chase all the way to the other side of the mountain before returning , you should know how dangerous it is, right?"

"Into Muzhou?" Qiu Zhenmu was startled, and he asked subconsciously: "Isn't the prince not planning to enter Muzhou?"

"Just try to go to the mountain pass on the other side as much as possible, rob and kill all the Tianyin believers in the mountain, so as to avoid the details of our battle with them being exposed this time, and watch the movement on the other side at the same time. If you encounter obstacles, you can choose Return, but this king has already ordered them to try their best to destroy the mountain pass, so as to delay the time for Tianyin Sect reinforcements to come to Meiling Pass."

Li Xuan's expression was indifferent, but she kept clenching and letting go of her fists. No one knew whether it was excitement or nervousness.

After a little deliberation, Qiu Zhenmu asked in a low voice: "Can I ask, how many people can the Tianyin Sect send into Wuzhou this time?"

"I don't know, but it should be more than 1000. After all, [-] people have died in our hands. No matter how stupid they are, they should know that they should increase their troops."

"That's at least two thousand?" Qiu Zhenmu was startled, and then cupped his hands and said, "Even if we have Brother Zhou's team, the total number will not exceed 1000. It is not very difficult to defend the city with 1000 people. Big, but there must be a lot of casualties."

Li Xuan nodded calmly, and said: "It is indeed possible, that's why I tried every means to delay the time for those people from Tianyin to kill Meiling Pass."

Qiu Zhenmu nodded slightly, he also thought of this.

At this time, Li Xuan started to walk forward, stepped on the corpse under his feet, walked towards the mountain road ahead, and said in a low voice, "Only in this way will we have enough time to prepare."

"My lord is worried that behind these 2000 people, there will be more people killed." Qiu Zhenmu immediately understood the subtext in Li Xuan's words.

Li Xuan stopped, looked in the direction of Muzhou City, and said with a cold face: "Once the Tianyin Sect raises troops, it can gather at least 2 troops. Although it is impossible to send all of these 2 people to Lanxi, but Half of them are inevitable... 1 people, brother Qiu, what do you think?"

"It's okay!" Qiu Zhenmu's words made Li Xuan immediately surprised.

Qiu Zhenmu immediately said: "This mountain road is rugged, and there are cliffs on both sides. The more troops the opponent has, the more difficult it is to deploy."

"They rushed up in one breath. In fact, I am not afraid of them, but I am afraid that they will attack in waves, wheel battles, crowd tactics, and with various means, we will barely be able to hold Meiling Pass. I will also suffer heavy losses, this is what this king does not want to see."

Speaking of this, Li Xuan looked sideways at Qiu Zhenmu: "This is also the reason why this king is unwilling to let you wait to enter the depths of the mountain road at will. On the one hand, it is really not worth it. On the other hand, this king hopes Qian Qian Niu Wei's sharp knife can be used in key places.

"My lord's words are justified, I will obey the order." Qiu Zhenmu saluted Li Xuan earnestly and respectfully.

"Also, I'm afraid it's not too far away from the time when the Tianyin Sect will actually start an incident. This incident may disrupt their marching rhythm and buy us time." Li Xuan's face suddenly became solemn.

In today's southeast, the most important thing is not Xia Harvest, but the rebellion of Tianyin Sect.

It is a matter of what name they will rebel in.

Li Xuan once learned from He Qing'er that this time, the Tianyin Sect raised troops in the name of Muzhou governor Shixu.

Coming from a family of Shi Xu, once he raised the banner against the imperial court, the consequences would be extremely serious.

"Brother Qiu, do you think His Majesty really doesn't have any special arrangements in Muzhou?" Li Xuan looked sideways at Qiu Zhenmu and asked his biggest doubt all the time.

To completely quell the rebellion of the Tianyin Sect, it is enough to send a general to completely ban the inheritance of the Tianyin Sect in Muzhou, so why bother.

"There should be. As far as my subordinates know, the court has sent people to Muzhou for many years, but in the end they lost all the information." Qiu Zhenmu couldn't help but shook his head slightly, his eyes With a trace of worry.

Instead, Li Xuan nodded seriously.

His entry prompter has the ability to spy on people's eyes and influence believers. Then, with the empress who has powerful mysterious powers, will he also be able to recognize the spy who sneaked into Tianyin Sect by the imperial court at a glance?

There were even other reasons, and Li Zhi was finally forced to take this step.

"Let's go, I'll go back, there are still a lot of things waiting for me in the city." Li Xuan waved her hand back, and then took the lead towards Meiling Pass.

The surrounding people and soldiers are very busy.

The wounded inside and the comrades who died in battle are all taken care of by their own comrades-in-arms and colleagues, but for the Tianyin believers who died outside, their corpses must be restrained by the soldiers of Lanxi County.

However, the guards in Lanxi were not completely unwilling. Li Xuan promised that unless the belongings of these corpses were truly important tokens, the rest would be handed over to them for distribution.

Of course, before they took action, those Wuzhou soldiers had already searched, and all the really valuable things had been taken away.

In such a hot weather, if the corpse is not removed quickly and buried, otherwise, it will easily cause plague.

……

"Wang Canjun, every soldier's merit inspection must be accurate." Li Xuan stopped and couldn't help explaining to Wang Qin again.

"My lord, don't worry, I have been doing this for many years." Wang Qin gave Li Xuan an angry look, and then went to work.

Qiu Zhenmu, who was standing behind Li Xuan, couldn't help but chuckled slightly.

Li Xuan didn't care at all, walked a little inside, and immediately saw Feng Hua who was repairing the trebuchet.

He hurried up: "Feng Canjun, this time, can I trouble you to install two trebuchets on the city wall, and then modify them slightly so that they can be fired easily?"

"Don't worry, my lord, I've been thinking about this matter for several days, it's better not to delay the matter of my lord." Feng Hua bowed his hands to Li Xuan earnestly.

"That's good." Li Xuan arched his hands, then turned to look at Qiu Zhenmu, and said, "Brother Qiu, let's go and see how the arrows are kept?"

The group immediately turned around and walked towards the warehouse.

While walking, Qiu Zhenmu asked, "My lord, is the situation really difficult this time?"

This time, the people brought by Zhou Shen did not directly intervene at all.

Li Xuan just brought the people who had been killed before, and he had completely wiped out the Tianyin Sect's strength of more than a thousand.

Although there are checkpoints to rely on, Li Xuan's strong ability to defend the city cannot be ignored.

"Brother Qiu, although I have done a lot of scheming in the previous few times, in fact, the bows and arrows and catapults really played a role."

After a slight pause, Li Xuan followed up and said: "Due to various reasons, whether it is Zuo Fei or Luo Yongjie, their preparations in this area were seriously insufficient, but it will definitely not be the case next time."

Li Xuan raised his head, looked in the direction of Muzhou, and said with a serious face: "Next time, they will definitely take the lead with enough catapults, enough crossbows, enough shields, enough ladders, and battering rams, and they will bring everything The equipment that can help them attack the city... these things, if you don't pay attention to them, it is very likely that you and I will die."

With the help of He Qing'er this time, Li Xuan caused a slight deviation in the content of the secret letter sent by Ye Wanwan, and the time was not able to catch up in time, so that he could plan to kill Luo Yongjie step by step.

But next time, he won't have this chance, no matter if it's Luo Yongjie or other people in Tianyin Sect, they will keep an eye on Li Xuan's every move.

Nearly a thousand masters all died in the hands of Li Xuan, how could Tian Yin teach not to be alarmed.

If Li Xuan recklessly fights back and enters Muzhou, even they themselves will go crazy.

……

After inspecting the entire Meiling Pass, Li Xuan returned to the Colonel's Mansion, where there were already a lot of official documents that Li Xuan needed to deal with.

Zhou Shen stood on one side, as if he was already waiting for Li Xuan to come back.

"Brother Zhou!" Li Xuan cupped his hands seriously.

"My lord!" Zhou Shen looked at Li Xuan and asked seriously, "I don't know what arrangements my lord has for my subordinates and others?"

Zhou Shen brought his two teams of government soldiers and three hundred veterans to Meiling Pass, but Li Xuan didn't let them directly participate in the battle, instead let them temporarily sit on the sidelines.

Based on Zhou Shen's understanding of Li Xuan, what Li Xuan did was definitely not to let them rest. On the contrary, Li Xuan obviously had other ideas, which is why he made such an arrangement.

"Those old soldiers need to be retrained. Their physical strength and other aspects are not comparable to young people." Having said this, Li Xuan paused for a while, then looked at Zhou Shen seriously, and said: "Brother Zhou , this king hopes that your subordinates can hide here, and then at the critical moment, they will stab everyone from behind and ruthlessly."

Ci'en Rock, Da Ci'en Rock, ten miles away to the northeast.

(End of this chapter)