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

Chapter 428 Painting with pen and paper, the enemy is in the painting

In the back garden of Meiling Pass, the gate guard Xiaowei's Mansion, white chrysanthemums, bellflowers, peonies, and other flowers are in full bloom.

Li Xuan was wearing a white blouse, and on the easel in front of her was a piece of rice paper.

A thin green bamboo pen quickly sketches on it.

In a deep valley, a simple square camp sits peacefully in it.

There are quite a few soldiers walking back and forth among them.

The smoke rose, and someone was already preparing breakfast.

How many tents, how many turrets, how many light and dark sentries, all of them are clearly displayed in Li Xuan's pen.

The breeze blew past, and there was something strange inexplicably.

Li Xuan's face was indifferent, and the tip of the fine pen in his hand moved back, a large blank area appeared.

A closed city appeared in the corner of the rice paper. In the dense forest below the city, there were dozens of secret sentries hidden, staring at everything on the city.

At the same time on the city wall, a general in red and gold armor was holding a thousand bull knife in his hand, staring down.

If the city gate has been completely blocked, maybe he has already been killed by now.

Seeing this scene, a slight smile appeared on the corner of Li Xuan's mouth.

Last night, Li Xuan deliberately arranged for Qian Niuwei to be on duty at night, and the leader was naturally Qiu Zhenmu.

However, after arriving last night, those people from Tianyin Sect seemed to be extremely tired, and fell asleep in the camp that had been built in advance.

If he had taken the opportunity to attack the camp last night, maybe Li Xuan could have killed hundreds of people, but unfortunately, he had no such plan in the first place.

Li Xuan picked up a piece of rice paper again, placed it on the easel, and continued to sketch in detail.

In a large tent, a general wearing silver chain mail sits on it, with long hair tied back, handsome face, beautiful face, this person is Zhang Wanyu, the leader of Hangzhou Church of Tianyin Sect.

At some point, she had already changed into a man's attire, and she was wearing a battle armor, sitting in the center, commanding the battle.

On the left side of the tent, stood the saintesses Ye Wanwan and He Qing'er, and several other branch hall masters.

On the left side of the battle, stood three middle-aged descendants also wearing chain mail.

Although they were wearing battle armor like Zhang Wanyu, the armor on these three people was somewhat crude.

It is the same style as the chain mail that Li Xuan once found in the Caobang courtyard in Yangzhou.

Sure enough, before Li Xuan destroyed that courtyard, an unknown number of chain mails had flowed into Tianyin Sect.

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"Master Xu, the time is right. I want you to lead 500 people to the Meiling Pass for a tentative siege. I want to know the distribution of crossbow weapons in Meiling Pass." Zhang Wanyu looked at the city with a serious expression. On one side is Xu Shan, the deputy head of the Jiande Hall of Tianyin Sect.

"This subordinate obeys the order!" Xu Shan promised in a deep voice.

"Hallmaster Hu!" Zhang Wanyu looked at Hu Guang, the deputy headmaster after Xu Shan, and said in a cold voice, "This seat orders you to send out all your people to find all the secret passages suitable for the passage of the army."

"The next official obeys the order!" Hu Guang looked at Zhang Wanyu, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, but he still obediently agreed.

If there is really any passage suitable for the large group of people near the Daci Enyan, I am afraid that those undead business travelers have discovered it long ago, so there is no need to wait for today.

What Zhang Wanyu is doing now, in Hu Guang's eyes, is giving random instructions.

If it were done by other people, Hu Guang and others must be 1 unconvinced, but Zhang Wanyu is different.

She is not only the niece of the Empress Dowager, but also the fiancée of Fang Yunxiu, the younger brother of Fang Fengjin, the master of the Muzhou hall, and personally the master of the Hangzhou hall.

No matter who is qualified or what else, no one dares to stab her.

"Saint!" Zhang Wanyu turned her head to look at Ye Wanwan, and then said with a serious face, "Saint, build the catapults, battering rams, and well rails, all of which are entrusted to the saint."

"Here!" Ye Wanwan respectfully agreed without any hesitation.

Zhang Wanyu looked at Ye Wanwan solemnly, and said emphatically again: "Whether I can successfully take Meiling Pass this time depends on the ordnance made by the saintess. If there is something wrong with those ordnance, don't blame me. Are you ruthless, saintess?"

"The well fence is not a problem, and even the battering ram is not a problem. The real problem lies in the special ropes used by the catapults. We can only use that kind of thing to build four catapults..." Ye Wanwan immediately answered the question. thrown out.

This time, in order to completely capture Meiling Pass, the Tianyin Sect brought a large amount of supplies when they set off from Jiande, including a large number of bows and arrows.

Even if it weren't for the rugged mountain road, I am afraid that everything they need, including catapults, well rails and battering rams, has already been prepared.

It's a pity that the journey is too far, and the mountain road is difficult and dangerous, so I can only carry some key artifacts, and then go to Meiling Pass to reassemble.

"Others, someone from the rear will send them over soon. No matter what is needed, the rear will do their best to help, but if..." Zhang Wanyu paused for a while, and then looked at the crowd: "If you can't take Meiling Pass within three days, why not?" Xinyuan Chaohe, then I am afraid that I will have to die and apologize, and no one in this room will be an exception."

Three days, three days later, the Tianyin Sect officially rebelled, and then changed to Yuan Baoying.

It is the task of these people to win Meiling Pass to celebrate the Xinyuan Dynasty.

If the task cannot be completed, then these people will have no place in the entire new dynasty.

"My subordinates must fulfill their mission and congratulate the Xinyuan court!" All the people present bowed their hands to Zhang Wanyu at the same time.

They all understand that the Holy Empress has the intention to pass on the throne this time, and now on the surface they are rebelling against the Tang Dynasty in the name of the governor of Muzhou, but it will not take long, as long as the situation is stable, the position will be passed on to the Wen Fuzhi's hand.

This is something all of their Tianyin believers recognize.

"So, everyone, go get ready." Zhang Wanyu raised her head slightly, and everyone else, including the saint Ye Wanwan, all retreated.

Only He Qing'er was suddenly stopped by Zhang Wanyu at the end.

"Master!" He Qing'er looked at Zhang Wanyu in surprise.

Zhang Wanyu waved her hand, looked at He Qing'er, and said softly: "Qing'er, now go and pick a team of dead soldiers with good skills. At midnight today, please lead your troops to steal the city."

"Stealing the city?" He Qing'er was taken aback for a moment, but then said solemnly, "What do I need my subordinates to do..."

……

Everything in the tent clearly appeared in Li Xuan.

Putting down the fine bamboo brush, Li Xuan raised her head, a trace of worry flashed in her eyes.

The Tianyin Sect arrived at Meiling Pass last night, but they had already sent people to build a camp in the rear a long time ago.

This time, they fully learned the lessons of Luo Yongjie before, and started to fight steadily, fully prepared, and never acted rashly.

However, all this is just the surface.

In three days, the Tianyin Sect's people wanted to capture Meiling Pass within three days, and fought steadily, how could it be possible?

"That means non-stop day and night." Li Xuan knew in her heart that the war was now the beginning of the real cruelty.

"If that's the case, wouldn't it be a strategy of exhaustion?" Li Xuan saw through some people's plans in an instant,
Zhang Wanyu didn't send out all the troops at the beginning, but only sent a mere 500 people for testing purposes.

Then at night, let He Qing'er lead the troops to steal the city.

How could He Qing'er succeed in stealing the city? It is more likely that she will be successfully repelled.

But under such repetitions, even if Li Xuan was a soldier in the city, few of them could rest in peace.

Even if he has other backhands, under this method, the advantages will be quickly compressed.

But... this is actually good, in this way, many things can be avoided.

Li Xuan turned her head and looked to the northeast, where Luoyang, the capital of God, was located.

Stretching out his hand to grab the two paper paintings, Li Xuan flicked his wrist, and the two paper paintings flew down into the small lake in front of him. They were soaked by the lake water very quickly, but then quickly fell into the water lake, and the undercurrent at the bottom of the lake In a blink of an eye, the two paper paintings were completely torn to shreds.

Li Xuan turned around, put her hands in her sleeves, and walked towards the front yard with a cold expression.

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Black leather boots, black fish scale armor, and a black and gold helmet.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Li Xuan walked up to the top of Meiling Pass step by step, holding a black long spear.

On the left and right sides of the city gate tower, there are two catapults that have been modified to adapt to the width of the city wall.

Feng Hua, Wang Qin, Yan Tao, Zhou Shen, Qiu Zhenmu, Qi Guang and others all stood on the top of the city gate, cupping their hands to Li Xuan: "My lord!"

Li Xuan nodded to the crowd, then walked through the crowd and walked to the crenel with a solemn expression.

Yu Ze and Wang Bo are not here, they are currently in Lanxi County.

Together with the county magistrate Xu Wen, they actively organized various materials and quickly transported them to Meiling Pass.

These matters are the key issues related to how long they can persist in Meiling Pass, and they are far more important than killing the enemy in front of the battle.

Under the city gate, one mile away, five hundred gray-clothed soldiers were forming a team with expressionless faces.

With a sharp long knife in his left hand and a solid wooden shield in his right hand, this is just a simple team of sword and shield soldiers.

In front of these sword and shield soldiers, the one wearing chain mail was the Xu Shan that Li Xuan had seen through Ye Wanwan earlier.

Behind the neat formation, there are two groups of soldiers, each carrying a ladder.

On the side of the ladder, standing at the edge of the forest, watching all this carefully, and preparing to spy on Li Xuan's tricks, was Zhang Wanyu.

Li Xuan looked at Zhang Wanyu from a distance, the corners of her mouth suddenly turned up.

Zhang Wanyu seemed to have seen Li Xuan's appearance, as well as the smile on his lips. She raised her head calmly, looked in the direction of the city gate with a blank expression, and finally spit out two words: "Order, attack!"

"Send the order, the enemy bandits appear within the range, and the catapult will attack immediately." Li Xuan gave the order, and everyone present immediately agreed.

At this time, Li Xuan looked sideways at the crowd, and said in a deep voice: "Since they are here, they don't even think about leaving. This king will keep this team behind."

"Here!" Everyone present immediately grasped Li Xuan's plan.

Although Li Xuan spoke loudly to keep all 500 people under Meiling Pass, none of them felt that this could not be done.

"Tat, ta, ta..." came the sound of small footsteps.

Under the city wall, a famous sword and shield soldier shrank under the shield, and rushed towards the city gate quickly.

The direction of their advance changes from time to time, running to the left for a while, and running to the right for a while, making it impossible to accurately capture their tracks.

Serpentine move.

The Tianyin Sect still has some capable people. Although the trebuchet is powerful, its direction and landing are too easy to be predicted.

As long as you are careful, the power of the catapult will be greatly limited.

But is it so?

A slight sneer appeared on the corner of Li Xuan's mouth, and he looked at the catapults on both sides. The first moment those knives and shields rushed into the range of the catapult, Li Xuan waved violently.

The next moment, two round boulders were thrown directly from the city wall.

They kept tumbling in mid-air, and smashed hard towards the heads of the Tianyin soldiers below.

With a "bang", the unlucky head was immediately smashed to pieces.

Plasma splash.

(End of this chapter)