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

Chapter 439

In front of Meiling Pass, there are steep mountains and Danya cliffs, which are as high as [-] meters.

Li Xuan was wearing a black fish-scale battle armor, holding the Eight-Faced Han Sword, and walked slowly on the city wall with calm eyes.

Not knowing what he thought of, Li Xuan stopped suddenly, looked sideways at Li Zhu, and said with sharp eyes: "Let our people immediately keep an eye on all movements inside and outside Sanhe Pass, and at the same time look north to see where the Muzhou Navy is. For all movements, this king needs to know where they are now and how fast they are moving every day?"

Without saying a word, Li Zhu clasped his hands, nodded, and then turned to make arrangements.

Li Xuan turned around and looked at the camp at the end of his line of sight in the distance. If he wanted to win this battle, the only thing he could use was the internal strife within the Tianyin Sect.

Today, the Tianyin Sect has rebelled in the name of Shi Xu, governor of Muzhou, but Shi Xu is obviously a puppet, and there is even a possibility that something has happened.

The children of a family of generals, at critical moments, do not lack the courage to commit suicide.

"Yuan Chao, you must do your best." Li Xuan was calculating quickly in her heart.

Muzhou soldier Cao Canjun Yuan Chao, a native of Taizhou, was recommended by Shi Xu as the inspector of Muzhou Sima earlier.

However, before the imperial court's approval came, he was already under the command of the rebellious General Manager Wu Yue.

This is a very ambitious guy. According to intelligence, Yuan Chao has already followed the Muzhou navy to the south.

In order to defeat this naval army, the key to breaking the situation is how to instigate Yuan Chao and Tianyin Sect's direct lineage to fight among themselves.

"Squeak, squeak!" A burst of noise sounded behind Li Xuan, and he turned his head subconsciously.

Impressively, two huge and tall well rails suddenly appeared behind the city wall and were pushed to a position five meters away from the city wall.

Zhou Shen and Yan Tao hurried up from the bottom of the city gate. While looking at the well in front of them, they cupped their hands to Li Xuan: "Your Majesty, the people below say that His Majesty ordered the two wells to be shut down. Lan was placed here?!"

"It's my king's arrangement!" Li Xuan nodded calmly.

Zhou Shen looked up at Li Xuan, and said with some uncertainty: "Your Majesty, if there are any spare archers, they can be placed on the city wall as much as possible, why should they be arranged on the well behind?"

"It's just to be prepared for accidents." Li Xuan waved his hand and said: "This king has never dealt with Fang Fengjin before, and I don't know his temperament or attack methods. I always feel a little uneasy, so I made some preparations. The archers here are all ordinary archers, with a few pairs of crossbows in their hands, and shooting at close range is always more than a deviation. In addition, there are other methods."

As Li Xuan said, he asked Qi Guang to bring a basket of limes directly to the gate of the city, and then looked at Zhou Shen and Yan Tao: "If there is something wrong at any time, just throw these limes down."

Fighting and throwing lime has never been a bright way.

But this is a battlefield, as long as they can win, no one will say much.

"Okay, you two continue to patrol, I have other arrangements to make." Li Xuan finished speaking, nodded, then turned and walked down the city wall.

Seeing the back of Li Xuan leaving, Zhou Shen and Yan Tao looked at each other, their faces became serious at the same time.

"My lord doesn't seem to be optimistic about this time's response to the enemy." Zhou Shen couldn't help but say it out.

Yan Tao nodded, and said: "My lord used to be grand and upright before, but now, it seems a bit desperate."

"I'll do my best." After Zhou Shen finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the city gate.

This time his face became completely solemn.

"It's nothing more than returning the body shrouded in horse leather, what else." Yan Tao followed closely.

……

"These two well rails are placed here." Li Xuan commanded his men to place the two well rails five meters in front of the gate of Wengcheng.

From this place, the entire Wengcheng can be completely covered.

But behind is the city wall, and the city wall of the Wengcheng can completely kill all the enemies who enter the Wengcheng, so there is no need for these wells at all.

No one knew exactly what Li Xuan was thinking, he immediately got out all the wells in the entire city and arranged them in various places in the city.

Those above Jinglan are not masters, most of them are selected from Wuzhou soldiers who can use crossbow accurately.

Even many wells are empty.

No one knew what Li Xuan was thinking, and no one dared to ask casually. In fact, no one had time to ask.

"Push out the four catapults here." Li Xuan looked at the ten catapults in front of him, thought for a while, and immediately made a decision.

In the entire Meiling Pass, there are already fourteen catapults available today, ten are now placed in the urn city, and four are on the city wall.

In addition, many other replacement parts have also been made.

Looking at the urn city that suddenly became empty, and the pile of rolling stones on the side, Li Xuan felt a lot more comfortable looking at it.

Li Xuan knew that many people felt a little baffled when they looked at him now.

His explanation to the outside world is that he is doing optimization and integration to maximize the combat power of the entire Meiling Pass.

But only Li Xuan knew that he was actually preparing for the worst.

At this moment, a rush of footsteps sounded outside the urn city.

A black-clothed mansion guard stopped not far away: "Your Majesty, Wuzhou soldiers Cao Canjun and Kucao Canjun are here."

Li Xuan was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly said: "That's right, they should come too."

After tidying up a bit, Li Xuan walked quickly towards the south gate of Meiling Pass.

……

Outside the city gate, the travel-stained Xu Jian and Li Yuanyi, with two teams of soldiers and a dozen carts, stood together outside the south gate.

Seeing Li Xuan with Li Zhu and several black-clothed house guards appearing at the door, Xu Jian and Li Yuanyi immediately cupped their hands: "I've seen the prince."

"You two have worked hard." Li Xuan helped the two of them up with his own hands, and said with a relaxed expression, "You two have come, and I really let this king breathe a sigh of relief."

"The subordinates know that there are three or four thousand troops coming from Muzhou this time, so the envoy asked me to come here in a hurry." Xu Jian said more things in one sentence.

Li Xuan was taken aback for a moment, and asked in surprise, "This news..."

"It's from the Governor's Mansion of Yuezhou." Li Yuanyi's eyes flickered slightly.

Li Xuan immediately understood that it was the news from Muzhou Baiqisi.

Although Muzhou fell, the entire Muzhou was not completely devoid of imperial court personnel.

Baiqisi, who has always been secretive, finally found out the news.

But Li Xuan had already received this information from Ye Wanwan.

Tianyin Sect dispatched a thousand more people to Meiling Pass than he originally expected.

This meant that the entire Meiling Pass, inside and outside, suffered twice as many people as before.

It makes people feel heavy.

After calming down a bit, Li Xuan reached out to ask Xu Jian and Li Yuanyi to enter, introduced the situation a little, and then said directly: "You two subordinates, go to Beicheng first, and replace half of the soldiers on Beicheng..."

"Let the officials go now, it will make them familiar with the situation of the city wall as soon as possible." Xu Jian immediately cupped his hands to Li Xuan.

He came down from the battlefields of the Western Regions, and he immediately understood the kindness in Li Xuan's voice.

Watching Xu Jian leave, Li Xuan then led Li Yuanyi into the main hall of the Guard School Captain's Mansion.

"Uncle, is there any news from the court, or an imperial decree from Your Majesty?" Li Xuan said a word, and then stared at Li Yuanyi closely.

Li Yuanyi shook his head slightly, and asked back: "Why, is my nephew looking forward to the imperial decree?"

"Huh?" Li Xuan nodded seriously, and said: "My nephew fought several times, and most of them were diehard followers of Tianyin Cult. Probably not more than half of them, and the remaining half are mostly people who have been coerced by bewitchment, if they can be won over, the power of Tianyin Sect will definitely be greatly reduced, but it can be defeated with one blow."

Hearing what Li Xuan said, Li Yuanyi didn't answer him directly, but looked at him thoughtfully.

"What's the matter, was there something wrong?" Li Xuan was a little confused, so she subconsciously turned to look at herself.

"I heard that when the prince was in the capital of God, he wrote a poem: The only wish in his life is to have food for three autumns." Li Yuan cupped his hands and said, "After coming to Wuzhou, the prince has worked hard and the people have received a lot. Even if there is food for three autumns, but there is also food for one autumn, this compassion for the people is a model for our clan."

"Uncle is too famous, Xuan just can't bear to see more killings." Li Xuan shook his head slightly, looked to the north, and said softly: "I believe His Majesty must be the same..."

"Nephew, it's good for you and me to talk about it." Li Yuanyi directly interrupted Li Xuan.

He looked at Li Xuan with a bit of worry. Li Xuan's words just now were not accusing the emperor of anything, but if the emperor didn't do what he thought in the end, he would be very troublesome if he was criticized.

Li Xuan smiled, waved his hands, and said firmly: "Uncle, don't worry, Your Majesty must think so. It is no secret that the imperial court conquered Tubo. It is necessary to prepare food and grass from various parties. The land of Muzhou has harvested a lot of grain for many years, and then put down the rebellion. In the end, the labor will be light and the labor will be light and the people will be at ease. If you want to keep the tax and food unaffected, the Muzhou soldiers will definitely not suffer too many casualties."

Although Li Yuanyi belonged to the clan, he didn't know very well about the court situation. Hearing Li Xuan's explanation, he immediately understood what was going on.

"In this way, the imperial decree should arrive just one or two days ago, but I don't know who will deliver the decree?" Li Yuanyi's thoughts turned to other directions inexplicably.

"My lord!" Li Zhu's voice sounded at the door, he looked at Li Xuan solemnly, and replied, "My lord, the Muzhou army is here."

……

Under the black flag, a large Chinese character Mu is embroidered in the center.

Under the black flag, a burly man wearing a golden light armor stood at the edge of the jungle.

On the city wall, a red flag hangs high, with a big Tang character embroidered on it.

Under the banner, Li Xuan looked at the burly man calmly.

[Fang Fengjin, under the command of Shi Xu, the general manager of Wu Yue, a general who shows his prestige, calm in mind, in the middle of Xuantai]

Fang Fengjin, Fang Yunxiu's elder brother, Fang Liyong's father, Lin Jie's cousin and brother-in-law.

These people all died at the hands of Li Xuan, and the hatred between them has long been as deep as an abyss.

Across the infinite space, the two looked at each other calmly and solemnly.

In an instant, countless swords, guns, swords and halberds, and countless corpses and seas of blood, kept impacting between the two of them, but neither of them could hurt the other.

Suddenly, Fang Fengjin turned the pier without any warning and headed towards the camp behind.

On the city wall, Li Xuan looked in the direction Fang Fengjin left.

On the entire mountain road, there are densely packed figures of Tianyin soldiers.

With all the swords and guns in their hands, everyone entered the camp in the valley behind in an orderly manner with awe-inspiring aura.

"It's really stable!" Xu Jian looked at the Tianyin camp without any chaos, and his expression became dignified.

Such an opponent, no matter where it is, is very difficult to deal with.

"It is indeed stable enough. Facing this king, an enemy who kills his brothers, sons, and relatives, he is so indifferent. It is really doubtful whether he is still human." Li Xuan's words made everyone's brows rise , have all relaxed unintentionally.

Such a person is indifferent and ruthless, although he is decisive, but there are also places that can be used.

But look at Li Xuan's wrist.

(End of this chapter)