: Navy movement, enemies meet

Author: Taiqing Yaodao

: Navy movement, enemies meet

In front of Meiling Pass, there are steep mountains and cliffs, hundreds of meters high.

Li Xuan wore a black fish scale armor, held an eight-sided Han sword in her hand, and walked slowly on the city wall with calm eyes.

Not knowing what he thought of, Li Xuan suddenly stopped, turned his head to look at Li Zhu, and said with sharp eyes: "Let our people immediately keep an eye on all the movements inside and outside Sanhe Pass, and at the same time, look north to check the movements of the Muzhou Navy.

Regarding all the trends, I want to know where they are now and how fast they are traveling every day."

Li Zhu said nothing, cupped his hands, nodded, and then turned around to make arrangements.

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

Today, the Tianyin Sect is revolting in the name of Shi Xu, the governor of Muzhou, but Shi Xu is obviously a puppet, and something may have happened.

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

"Yuan Chao, you must be more diligent." Li Xuan was calculating quickly in her mind.

Muzhou Bing Cao joined the army. Yuan Chao, a native of Taizhou, was earlier recommended by Shi Xu as the Inspector of Muzhou Sima.

However, before the imperial court's approval came, he was already a servant of the rebellious Wu Yue, the general manager.

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

If you want to defeat this navy army, how to provoke infighting between Yuan Chao and the Tianyin Sect's direct lineage is the key to defeating the situation.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" A series of sounds sounded behind Li Xuan, and he turned around subconsciously.

Suddenly, two huge and tall wells suddenly appeared behind the city wall and were pushed five meters away from the city wall.

Zhou Shen and Yan Tao hurriedly walked up from the city gate. While looking at the wells in front of them, they raised their hands to Li Xuan: "Your Majesty, the people below said that your Majesty ordered these two wells to be moved.

Is Lan placed here?!"

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

Zhou Shen looked up at Li Xuan and said with some uncertainty: "Your Majesty, if there are really extra archers, they can be placed on the city wall, why bother arranging them on the well fence behind them."

"It's just to prepare for accidents." Li Xuan waved his hand and said: "I have never dealt with Fang Fengjin, and I don't know his temperament or his attack methods. I am always a little uneasy, so I made some preparations. The above

The archers are all ordinary people with average archery skills. They have a few crossbows in their hands, and their shooting at close range is always more than accurate. In addition, there are some other means."

Li Xuan said, asking Qi Guang to carry the baskets of lime directly to the city gate, and then looked at Zhou Shen and Yan Tao: "If something goes wrong at any time, just throw these limes down."

Throwing lime into a fight is never a bright idea.

But this is a battlefield, and as long as we can win, no one will say anything.

"Okay, you two, please continue patrolling. I have other arrangements to make." After finishing speaking, Li Xuan nodded, then turned and walked towards the city wall.

Looking at Li Xuan's leaving figure, Zhou Shen and Yan Tao looked at each other, their expressions becoming solemn at the same time.

"Your Majesty seems not optimistic about facing the enemy this time." Zhou Shen couldn't help but say it.

Yan Tao nodded and said: "The prince used to use noble and upright methods, but now, it seems to be a bit desperate."

"We'll just do our best." After Zhou Shen finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the city gate tower.

This time, his expression became completely solemn.

"It's just a corpse wrapped in horse leather, so what?" Yan Tao followed closely.

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"Place these two well gates here." Li Xuan directed his men to place the two well gates 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. The Wengcheng wall can completely kill all the enemies who enter the Wengcheng, so there is no need for these wells.

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

The people above Jinglan are not experts, most of them are soldiers selected from Wuzhou soldiers who can use crossbows accurately.

Even many wells are empty.

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

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

There are now fourteen catapults available in the entire Meiling Pass, ten of them are now placed in Wengcheng, and four more are on the city wall.

In addition, many other replacement parts were also made.

Looking at the suddenly empty Wengcheng and the pile of rolling stones placed on one side, Li Xuan felt much more comfortable.

Li Xuan knows that many people look at him now and feel a little confused.

His external explanation is that he is optimizing and integrating to maximize the combat power of the entire Meiling Pass.

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

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

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

Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly said: "Yes, it's time for them to come."

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

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Outside the city gate, Xu Jian and Li Yuanyi, who were tired of their travels, stood outside the south gate with two groups of soldiers and more than a dozen carts.

Seeing Li Xuan, Li Zhu, and several palace guards in black appearing at the door, Xu Jian and Li Yuanyi immediately handed over their hands: "I have met the prince."

"Thank you for your hard work, both of you." Li Xuan helped the two of them up with his own hands, looked relieved and said, "The arrival of you two really makes me breathe a sigh of relief."

"My subordinates know that there are three to four thousand troops attacking Muzhou this time, so the envoy asked us to come in a hurry." Xu Jian said more things in one sentence.

Li Xuan was stunned for a moment and asked in surprise: "This news..."

"It came from the Yuezhou Governor's Mansion." Li Yuanyi's eyes flashed slightly.

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

Although Muzhou fell, there were not completely no people from the imperial court in the entire Muzhou.

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

However, Li Xuan had already received this news from Ye Wanwan before.

The Tianyin Sect sent one thousand more manpower to Meiling Pass than he originally expected.

This means that the number of people inside and outside Meiling Pass will be damaged twice as much as before.

It makes people feel heavy.

After calming down for a while, Li Xuan extended her hand to invite Xu Jian and Li Yuanyi to enter, briefly introduced the situation, and then said directly: "You two men, now go to the North City and replace half of the soldiers on the North City..."

"If you go now, I will definitely make them familiar with the condition of the city wall as soon as possible." Xu Jian immediately raised his hand to Li Xuan.

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

After watching Xu Jian leave, Li Xuan introduced Li Yuanyi into the main hall of the gatekeeper's mansion.

"Uncle, is there any news from the court? Is there any imperial edict from His Majesty?" Li Xuan said in one sentence, and then stared at Li Yuanyi closely.

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

"Huh?" Li Xuan nodded seriously and said: "My nephew fought several times, and most of the people he killed were die-hard Tianyin cultists. This time the Tianyin cult army came south, but among them were the same die-hard ones as before.

I'm afraid there won't be more than half of them, and the remaining half are mostly people who have been bewitched and coerced. If we can win them over, the Tianyin Sect's power will be greatly reduced, but it can be defeated with one blow."

Hearing what Li Xuan said, Li Yuanyi did not answer him directly, but looked at him thoughtfully.

"What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?" Li Xuan was a little confused and subconsciously turned around to look at herself.

"I heard that when the prince was in the capital city, he once wrote a poem: The only wish in his life is to get three autumn grains." Li Yuanyi cupped his hands and said, "After coming to Wuzhou, the prince has worked hard and the people have gained a lot.

There is enough food for three autumns, but there is also food for one autumn. This caring heart for the people is a model for our clan."

"Uncle, you are exaggerating. You just can't bear to see more killings." Li Xuan shook her head slightly, looked to the north, and said softly: "I believe that your Majesty must be the same..."

"Nephew, you and I can just talk about this." Li Yuanyi interrupted Li Xuan directly.

He looked at Li Xuan with a slight worry. Li Xuan's words just now were not to criticize the emperor, but if the emperor did not do what he thought in the end, he would be in trouble once he was criticized.

Li Xuan smiled, waved his hand, and said with certainty: "Don't worry, uncle, Your Majesty must have this idea. It is no secret that the imperial court is going to conquer Tibet. It requires many parties to prepare food and grass. The land of Muzhou has harvested very heavy food for many years. After that, the rebellion was suppressed."

In the future, we will definitely do less work and calm people's hearts. If we want to keep taxes and food from being affected, the Muzhou soldiers must not suffer too many casualties."

Although Li Yuanyi was from the clan, he didn't know much about the imperial bureau. When he heard Li Xuan's explanation, he immediately understood what was going on.

"So, the arrival of the imperial edict should have been one or two days ago, but I don't know who will come to deliver the edict?" Li Yuanyi's thoughts inexplicably turned to other directions.

"Your Majesty!" Li Zhu's voice sounded at the door. He looked at Li Xuan with a solemn expression and replied: "Your Majesty, the Muzhou Army is here."

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To be continued...