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

Chapter 430 Try to learn from Xie An, the enemy of ten thousand people

The sound of fighting and shouting could not stop coming from the north gate, but the brightly lit Shouguan Xiaowei's Mansion was peaceful at the moment.

Li Xuan was sitting in the middle hall of the captain's mansion, with a calm face, eating the tofu mixed with shallots on the low table, and drinking the millet porridge beautifully.

The eight-faced Han sword with a black sheath is placed on the table, and the mahogany seven-step measuring sword is hung on the wall.

The sound of fighting went from weak to peak, and then from peak to calm again, Li Xuan looked indifferent.

Even now, he still leisurely dipped some chive flower sauce with tofu, and then tasted it slowly in his mouth.

At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps.

Li Zhu quickly appeared outside the door, cupped his hands to Li Xuan and said, "Report to the lord, the Tianyin bandits have retreated."

"En!" Li Xuan nodded indifferently.

Li Zhu followed up and said: "After hitting the city gate with the battering ram, they immediately realized that something was wrong, and quickly retreated."

Behind the gate of Meiling Pass, Li Xuan firmly blocked it with a stone, and there were wooden wedges and stakes inside.

Even if the gods come, they can't easily break through the city gate.

Even if the people of Tianyin Sect climbed the city wall along the ladder, it was just a different combat environment and had no effect on the overall situation at all.

Not to mention they didn't even go up the city walls.

"Indeed, they should have found out." Li Xuan chuckled, stopped the chopsticks in his hand, and after thinking for a moment, said in a deep voice: "The order is for Xu Canjun to send his subordinate, Si Gonglang, to go up to the city wall now, verify his military exploits, and publish it in the newspaper." Make a book."

"Follow the order!" Li Zhu immediately cupped his hands.

"Order the dining room, and give all the brothers in the city a plate of tofu mixed with shallots, and tell the brothers, don't worry about asking some questions, the tofu needs to be eaten piece by piece, and the work needs to be done piece by piece, tomorrow will be fine. It doesn't matter in the future, sometimes they will make meritorious deeds." Li Xuan gently moved the tofu cubes on the plate, as if shaking human lives.

"Here!" Li Zhu understood immediately, cupped his hands, and retreated silently.

Sitting in the hall, Li Xuan could clearly hear the cheers, gratitude and admiration coming from outside.

Xie An, I will also learn from you today.

Closing her eyes slightly, Li Xuan's gaze has turned to the other side.

……

On the bloody mountain road, Zhang Wanyu's face was ashen.

Especially the bursts of cheers from the city gate tower made her look even more ugly.

"Master, it was within our expectation that we could not win Meiling Pass this time, so why should you be depressed?" Ye Wanwan stood aside and comforted in a low voice. Other generals like Xu Shan didn't even Don't even dare to get close.

"I don't care about other things. I just care that the King of Nanchang completely blocked Meiling Pass. It will be ugly for us to win this pass." Zhang Wanyu's face was very embarrassed.

Ye Wanwan looked into Zhang Wanyu's gaze, and while she was thinking, a thought suddenly flashed into her mind: "Master, since the King of Nanchang has sealed the city gate, is he also ready to lose the city wall?"

After Ye Wanwan finished speaking, even she was shocked.

So far, these people have not even killed the city wall.

If it is said that they exhausted all their efforts and finally managed to kill them, but found that they had to face more traps and arrangements for sniping by their opponents, I am afraid that everyone would feel desperate.

Zhang Wanyu's face suddenly became gloomy and terrifying.

Thinking about it, Ye Wanwan immediately tried to persuade her, "Master, you can actually think about it the other way around. It won't be easy for me to get in, so it won't be easy for them to get out... If it is destined that they won't be able to take it down for a while, We will fight steadily, the big deal is, in the future, we will take down the Nanchang King while taking down Guancheng, so even if it takes a little longer, it will be enough to explain.”

Zhang Wanyu frowned slightly.

Before, their more plan was to win Meiling Pass.

In their prediction, Li Xuan would definitely lead Qianniuwei to escape before that.

Now taking down Li Xuan is also included in the goal considerations, so it will be understandable if it takes longer.

"Besides, what I really need is to take down Meiling Pass before Fang Fengjin's army kills us. If so, it won't be a delay." Ye Wanwan brought the matter to the most essential level with one sentence. level.

Conquering Meiling Pass as a gift to the Tianyin Sect is just icing on the cake.

However, their real purpose of taking Meiling Pass was to open the way for Fang Fengjin's army to invade Wuzhou.

As long as the army reaches Meiling Pass and they win the pass, it will not be regarded as a delay.

Hearing Ye Wanwan's excuse, Zhang Wanyu's expression immediately relaxed: "Okay, let's go back first, let's have a good discussion about what to do next, whether to continue the siege tonight."

……

"Yes, we must continue!" He Qing'er looked extremely determined, looked at Zhang Wanyu, Ye Wanwan, and everyone present, and said, "The purpose of attacking the city tonight is to exhaust the king of Nanchang and his subordinates and weaken their combat power. , Only in this way, after we break into Meiling Pass, can we open the city gate as quickly as possible and lead the army into the city."

"If it's just harassment, using a catapult is enough." Xu Shan looked at Zhang Wanyu and raised an objection.

"Not right." Ye Wanwan shook her head and said, "Today's battle has already destroyed a catapult. If it is destroyed again, it will not be able to recover for a while. If I want to attack the city again, I will have to pay for it with human lives." .”

The importance of the catapult is self-evident to them.

Today, with the well fence and the catapult, they can barely get to the city gate. If there is no well fence and catapult, then they will pay the price of more flesh and blood.

"It's definitely not possible if we don't attack. If we attack, the city gate is blocked, so we're in a dilemma." Hu Guang's face was also a little ugly.

"The city gate is just sealed, not sealed. As long as there are enough people, the stone strips can be removed and opened in less than half an hour." He Qing'er suddenly said something, and the eyes of everyone present It suddenly lit up.

At this time, Hu Guang suddenly said: "Then within half an hour, how much will we have to pay in human lives?"

"Maybe it won't take half an hour." At this time, Zhang Wanyu thought about it and said, "As long as we can take down the city wall and take down half of the pass city, then we can start from inside and outside at the same time. It may be faster to move the blocking stone."

"Hall master is wise!" He Qing'er immediately bowed to Zhang Wanyu.

The other people present also hurriedly saluted Zhang Wanyu: "Hall master is wise."

Lowering their heads, Hu Guang and Xu Shan looked at each other, with a trace of helplessness flashing in their eyes.

Burning the city gate is easy to say, but the city gate is so easy to be burned.

If this is the case, it would be better to use fire directly instead of siege walls or battering rams to attack cities in the past.

At this time, Zhang Wanyu, who was sitting above, spoke again: "Everyone, don't think so far, just understand that we have a way to open the city gate, but first of all, the primary goal is those city walls."

Zhang Wanyu's words immediately made everyone present understand that the reason why they said so much now was nothing more than to dispel the psychological blow caused by the news that the city gate of Meiling Pass was sealed.

The woman Zhang Wanyu is not that simple.

She looked at He Qing'er, and said in a deep voice: "Qing'er, at midnight tonight, you personally led a group of masters to make a surprise attack on the city wall and into the pass. I want to know the layout of the King of Nanchang in Meiling Pass?"

Since they were driven out of Meiling Pass, Tianyin Sect knew very little about the internal situation of Meiling Pass.

They don't know how many people there are in Meiling Pass, or how many people are arranged inside.

If they tried their best to take down the city wall, but found it more difficult to move forward, they would be in trouble.

……

In the dark of night, Li Xuan and Zhou Shen walked up to Guancheng together.

"I have met the prince, Brother Zhou." Yan Tao bowed his hands to Li Xuan and Zhou Shen successively, and then said: "Tonight, every half an hour, they will throw stones, but they have not gained anything."

Under the north gate is an urn city. Compared with the south gate, no matter how many stones you throw at the north gate, it will have no effect.

"Understood, let the brothers go down to rest. I will hand it over to Colonel Zhou in the middle of the night tonight, but there is a high probability that they will attack the city tonight, so I will leave everything to Brother Zhou." Li Xuan cupped his hands to Zhou Shen, Zhou Shen immediately returned the courtesy and said: "My lord, don't worry, my subordinates are already prepared and will not give them any chance."

Li Xuan nodded in satisfaction, and then said solemnly: "Yes, this is the truth. The best way is to keep them away from the city walls."

There was a trace of cruelty in Li Xuan's eyes.

Zhang Wanyu is much more difficult to deal with than he imagined, so from now on, it's best not to have any chance of them.

"I'll leave everything to Brother Zhou." Li Xuan cupped his hands, and then left with Yan Tao very neatly.

The night attack is just a trick, the real highlight will be tomorrow.

Although Zhang Wanyu said that she was not in a hurry, she secretly started preparing for tomorrow's siege.

For the night attack of He Qing'er and others tonight, she did not make any backup preparations.

Before he knew it, Li Xuan had walked around the Guancheng and arrived at the south gate.

It was at this time that there were bursts of shouts and killings from the north gate.

Li Xuan's perspective changed instantly.

Bright fires blazed beneath the north gate.

It's not that the people of Tianyin Sect are burning the city gate, but they are throwing torches from the city wall, and the flames rise up, illuminating the whole area below.

Although He Qing'er led a group of masters and could attack the city wall relatively easily, but there must be a chance.

Zhou Shen himself was a master. With so many people approaching He Qinger at once, he just threw the torch down the city wall, and everything was exposed immediately.

"嗖嗖嗖" long arrows shot down from the city gate non-stop, and the swords flickered, and the people kept approaching the city gate, but at this moment, a cold voice came from the city wall: "Crossbow arrows, shoot!"

With a "buzz", countless crossbow arrows, like a rain of locusts, fell straight down from the top of the head.

He Qing'er, who was a little later, had retreated a few feet away in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, a long arrow had already been nailed to He Qing'er's right shoulder, and blood flowed down her fingertips.

He Qing'er suppressed the anger in her heart, waved her hand back without hesitation, and shouted coldly, "Everyone, get out!"

In an instant, a group of masters quickly retreated, leaving only a dozen corpses in place.

Masters, the so-called masters of the rivers and lakes, can't play a decisive role at all on the real battlefield.

One enemy, one hundred enemies, how can it be compared with ten thousand people.

Especially the ten thousand soldiers who work together.

Numerous strong bows and crossbows, chariots and armors have long since completely smoothed the gap between the two sides.

He Qing'er's defeat has proved this point.

The angle of view was regained, and Li Xuan looked at the starry sky in the southeast direction with a dignified expression.

The crescent moon is like a hook, and the sky is bright, except for the southeast direction, which is hazy.

Blowing head-on, feeling the thicker water vapor in the air.

Cold wind blows.

Li Xuan said softly: "Starting tomorrow, the world will change drastically."

(End of this chapter)