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

Chapter 434

The heavy rain poured down, and strings of rain curtains dripped from the eaves.

In the courtyard, the rainwater has been paved into a thick layer, but it is still rising.

In the middle hall, Li Xuan was wearing a black brocade suit, sitting behind the table, with the eight-faced Han sword placed aside, with a serious expression on his face.

Qiu Zhenmu, Yan Tao, and Zhou Shen sat on one side, while Wang Qin, Feng Hua, and Qi Guang sat on the other side.

Look respectful.

In the eyes of everyone, Wang Qin stood up.

Holding a booklet in his hand, Wang Qin said with a serious expression: "This time, more than 870 people from the Tianyin Sect have attacked. , and worked together to defeat the enemy... A total of [-] six people were beheaded, and more than [-] people died when they were forced to trample on each other. Half of the camp was burned down, four wells were destroyed, and four catapults were destroyed. "

Listening to Wang Qin talking about the achievements of all parties one by one, no one in the room interrupted.

These figures are not their completely real gains, the losses of the Tianyin Sect are far greater than this.

But these figures are the most accurate figures that Gong Cao can calculate.

Every number is a real military achievement.

The imperial court will award rewards according to military merits.

After Wang Qin finished speaking, Li Xuan nodded slightly, and said in approval: "The meritorious deeds and confiscations must be recorded in detail for everyone. In addition, our own casualties and follow-up pensions must also be clearly counted, and then distributed in place."

"The next officer obeys the order!" Wang Qin immediately bowed to obey the order.

Wang Qin sat down, Feng Hua immediately stood up again.

Facing Li Xuan, Feng Hua said in a deep voice, "Reporting to the lord, the accumulated water in the city has been discharged smoothly, and the walls of the city have not been affected."

It has been raining heavily for two days and two nights, and it is still going on.

Meiling Pass itself is a terrain that is high in the south and low in the north. When it rains heavily, the rainwater immediately pours towards the north gate.

Fortunately, all the measures in the city were taken properly, and there was a soldier like Feng Hua joining the army, so everything passed smoothly.

"Don't be careless, no one knows when the rain will stop, no one knows when the rain will start again, more preparations are not doubts." After Li Xuan finished speaking, she motioned Feng Hua to sit down.

Feng Hua lowered his head and made eye contact with everyone present, each with a strange look in their eyes.

No one expected it?

If no one expected it, did the scene two days ago all be a ghost?
During the bloody fight that day, everyone was so excited that they had no time to think about it, but afterward, each of them looked strange and abnormal.

No one could have predicted it, but their Nanchang King had predicted it.

It is not a big deal to expect wind and rain, but it is expected that the wind will blow, when will it blow, and when it will rain heavily.

It's kind of creepy that it's almost accurate to the moment.

There is even an unfathomable smell in the dark.

Not only that, Li Xuan also predicted that the rain would be heavy in advance, look at the bluestone strips in the north gate cave.

With such a heavy rain, the city gate is soaked in it like this, so when the enemy army attacks the city next time, I am afraid they will be able to break through the city gate at once, but now the bluestone strips have been covered in advance, so that the enemy army will never have any chance.

Anyone would feel astonished at this delicate calculation.

And this is still them, the inside of Meiling Pass is still like this, and the Tianyin sect bandits outside the pass, the terrain high in the south and low in the north makes all the rainwater rush towards them.

After all this, the Tianyin Sect didn't know how many people and supplies they would lose.

It's a pity that these things can only be regarded as natural disasters, not man-made military merits.

"Report to the lord!" Qi Guang stood up immediately, looked at Li Xuan, cupped his hands and said, "The doctors, medicinal materials and food collected from Lanxi and Longyou have all been brought up, enough for me to wait here again." Stay here for more than a month."

"Pay attention to preservation and don't let the rain get wet. I'm afraid there will be more than one such heavy rain this autumn." As soon as Li Xuan finished speaking, Yan Tao couldn't help but said: "My lord means that from today onwards, There will be more rain coming."

For a moment, all the people present looked at Li Xuan in surprise and curiosity.

"Autumn is coming soon, and the autumn rains are continuous. I am afraid that such weather will last for a long time." Li Xuan turned to look at Yan Tao, solemnly: "Yan joined the army, the brothers have come here these few days, and they are in good spirits. Got some?"

"Reporting to the lord, retraining has already started, and if there is a battle, there will be no delay." Yan Tao bowed his hands seriously.

"That's good!" Li Xuan nodded in satisfaction, and then he looked at Zhou Shen: "Brother Zhou, what's the situation outside?"

At this moment, everyone present was in awe.

Zhou Shen stood up immediately: "Reporting to the lord, the sudden heavy rain that day extinguished the fire in the Tianyin Sect camp and saved them from disaster, but that place was no longer suitable for living, food and grass were burned, and the ground was covered with fire. They were all corpses again, so after barely making do for one night, all their men were immediately withdrawn ten miles away. Although there were many messengers traveling to and from the camp in the past two days, no reinforcements arrived, nor was there any food or grass to support them. .”

Li Xuan nodded, and said: "This king still said the same thing, don't be careless, Muzhou can't let us ignore it, if they really dare to do this, then when the rain stops, this king will dare to go out directly , go to Muzhou..."

Hearing what Li Xuan said, Qiu Zhenmu couldn't help but stood up immediately: "My lord, do we really want to go to Muzhou?"

"Going is definitely going, the key depends on when, if it is used up as a murder knife by others and thrown aside after use, it will be meaningless." Li Xuan's words seemed to be secretly pointing, Everyone present immediately looked at each other in blank dismay.

None of them are beginners, don't look at them now under Li Xuan's command, if someone is really thinking...

A burst of hurried footsteps interrupted the peace in the nave.

Holding a dark crimson name card in his hand, Li Zhu walked in quickly, and then put the name card on Li Xuan's desk.

Li Xuan frowned slightly, then reached out and opened the famous thorn: "Yue Zhi, Sima Yao Zhi of the Governor's Mansion of Yuezhou."

When Li Xuan saw this name, she was startled: "Why is he here?"

"Him?" Qiu Zhenmu, Wang Qin, Feng Hua and others looked at each other in dismay.

Under such a downpour, there were still people coming.

"To tell you the truth, it's Yao Sima, the Governor's Mansion of Yuezhou. This king once had some contact with him when he was in Hangzhou, but..." Li Xuan couldn't help frowning at this point: "It's just that at this moment, Yao Sima should It should be in Yuezhou, the worst should be in Hangzhou, what is he doing here now?"

The Governor's Mansion of Yuezhou is the Governor's Mansion of the Central Government, and Yao Zhi, as the Sima of the Governor's Mansion of Yuezhou, is the same official rank as Li Xuan's Wuzhou Biejia.

Raising his head, Li Xuan looked at Qiu Zhenmu, Wang Qin, Feng Hua and others, waved his hands, and said directly: "Please stay away for a while, this king will meet this Yao Sima first, this one has nothing to do. From the Three Treasures Hall."

"Wei!" Qiu Zhenmu, Wang Qin, Feng Hua and the others immediately turned around and walked towards the back hall without any hesitation.

Li Xuan looked at the famous thorns on the table, his eyes became cold without a sound.

Yao Zhi, the core disciple of the Wu Xing family, what is he doing here now?
Li Xuan is not a newcomer to the southeast, he is not a muddleheaded kid who can't understand everything.

At least Li Xuan has completely figured out the relationship between the Tianyin Sect and the major families in the southeast.

Although Chen Shuozhen was from Muzhou, he was from Wuxing Chen family.

Even in the early years, Muzhou was originally under the rule of Wu Xing.

When Chen Ba first established the Chen Dynasty, his mother's family was the Shen family, and his wife's family was the Zhang family.

The descendants of the Chen family intermarried with various families in the south of the Yangtze River. The Shen family, the Liu family, and the Zhang family all once served as empresses of the Chen Dynasty.

Even in the Yao family, there were people who were concubines of the Chen Dynasty, and there were countless subordinates of the Chen Dynasty.

Of course, after the change of dynasties, some may still retain weak ties, and some may even have turned against each other.

How exactly, it is difficult for outsiders to know.

When Chen Zhong told Li Xuan the truth, perhaps he had no good intentions from the very beginning.

Thinking of this, Li Xuan stood up directly from behind the desk, brushed off the non-existent dust on her body, packed her clothes, and walked quickly towards the door.

He wanted to meet Yao Sima in person.

After a while, Li Xuan and one of them walked into the garrison school captain's mansion together, and at the same time exchanged a little greeting: "How is Sima these days?"

"Not good, not good at all." Yao Zhi sat down at the side table with a bitter face, and then looked at Li Xuan and said, "I don't know why, this officer has tried almost all his strength, but he still can't get the information hidden in the Yue The Tianyin rebels in Wuzhou found it, and heard that the prince has gained a lot in Wuzhou, so he hurried to ask for advice. It's just that he never thought that in just a few days, the prince would make another great achievement, a miracle."

"Everything depends on the life of the soldiers, and has nothing to do with this king." Li Xuan waved his hands directly, and then looked at Yao Zhi with a little surprise: "It's just Sima, how could there be no traces of the Tianyin bandits?"

Li Xuan's eyes were full of surprise.

He has done so much in Wuzhou, as long as he is smart, Li Xuan's methods in Wuzhou can all be copied.

Not to mention completely finding out the old lair of the Tianyin Sect, at least they can follow the vines and find out all the Tianyin Sect members inside the state government office.

But now, Yao Zhi told Li Xuan that he found nothing.

Is it because he is incompetent, or is it that Tianyinjiao really hides very deeply.

Or do you mean nothing else...

Li Xuan keenly grasped the possible deep meaning in this, but his face was still full of doubts, and he didn't think about a certain aspect at all.

"It's not because Xiao Wang is demanding. There are definitely not a few of the bureaucrats and subordinates of the Yuezhou Governor's Mansion, who either participated in or sympathized with the rebellious bandits of the Tianyin Sect. If they are willing to seriously investigate, they can always find something. If you follow clues and traces, you will always find someone." Li Xuan looked at Yao Zhi with a puzzled face.

"I've tried it, and found quite a few, but they don't know where the Tianyin Heizu is hiding?" Yao Zhi looked embarrassed.

It is impossible for Li Xuan to blurt out a word subconsciously, but the moment he said it, he swallowed it back.

You know, once this sentence is said, it is impossible to spread countless lives, this cannot be said.

"Since you couldn't find them with your best efforts, the only possibility is that the other party is not hiding in Yuezhou at all." After a slight pause, Li Xuan suddenly pointed out another key point: "The summer harvest in Wuzhou is coming to an end. Then what about Yuezhou, how about the autumn harvest in Yuezhou, if it’s all ready, if it’s really not possible, let’s start the shipment earlier.”

Food and grass are the most important thing for the Tianyin Sect to start an incident. If the food can be transported to Yangzhou, or even the capital of the gods, then even if the Tianyin Sect succeeds temporarily in their plot, they will definitely fail in the end.

"Can't go."

Li Xuan's proposal was directly rejected by Yao Zhi.

Yao Zhi looked at Li Xuan, and said helplessly: "It's not safe to go now, because whether it's the sea or the canal, there are people who are always watching this batch of grain and grass, and if you rush to transport it, you will only fall into more traps. .”

A flash of light flashed in Li Xuan's mind, and he subconsciously said, "Sima was talking about the Zhoushan pirates, why, they have made some movement now?"

(End of this chapter)