The waning moon is like silk, leaving only a little afterglow falling on the world.
Southeast of the city, a river about five meters wide flows slowly around the grain depot like a jade belt.
A man in black suddenly jumped up from the river, and then fell to the ground silently.
In the blink of an eye, he was already clinging to the ground and rushing towards the wall of the grain depot.
Without pausing at all, he had already risen straight up against the outer wall and disappeared silently into the grain warehouse in the darkness.
The few guards guarding the main entrance of the granary had torches in their hands, but they found nothing at all.
Wuzhou Granary has a total of forty-two granaries, of which 27 are full of grain.
After the man in black entered the granary, he felt familiar and silently came to the door of the first full-grain granary on the west side.
A small black ball was taken out from his arms.
The man in black threw the black ball directly through the air hole on the warehouse door.
The next moment, a plume of white smoke rose directly from the black ball that fell to the ground.
Thick smoke filled the entire granary in a very short period of time.
The man in black left quickly and followed the same pattern in the eighteen full grain granaries.
No one knows what the thick smoke coming from the black ball is.
Finally, the man in black carefully lurked into the north granary, lurking in the darkness in the corner of the first granary in the last row.
A group of soldiers patrolled listlessly, but they didn't realize that anyone had invaded here.
There was a "pop" sound, like a lantern frying pan cracking, and it didn't attract anyone's attention at all.
The man in black has entered the granary silently.
A torch was lit directly, and everything in the granary suddenly appeared in the sight of the man in black.
Hundreds of straw bags filled with grain were densely stacked throughout the granary.
The man in black didn't hesitate at all and rushed towards the straw bag at the front.
He grabbed it out and the straw bag in front of him was torn directly.
Immediately afterwards, a pile of yellow grain flowed out of the straw bag.
The man in black grabbed a handful and smelled it, and his face immediately became embarrassed.
Ten years of old grain.
Pooh!
Throwing the ten-year-old grain to the ground, the man in black turned around and walked to the deepest part of the granary.
Then he grabbed hard and a straw bag burst out immediately.
The gravel and dead grass contained inside immediately fell out.
The man in black moved very accurately, as if he already knew all the tricks.
The man in black quickly gathered the dead grass together, and then lit it directly with the fire stick in his hand.
The flames followed the withered grass and burned to the straw bag on one side. In a blink of an eye, the straw bag was burning fiercely.
The man in black breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing the flames burning bigger and bigger, the man in black immediately turned around, opened the door of the granary and walked out. He still had several granaries that he needed...
The flames shone brightly, and the man in black stopped moving.
Because in front of him, Li Xuan, Qiu Zhenmu, Li Zhu, and fourteen Qianniu Guards in red clothes and golden armor were all looking straight at him.
Especially the Qianniu Guards, each one held a crossbow in his hand, and the cold crossbow arrows were aimed at him.
In an instant, the man in black frowned.
He looked at Li Xuan and said in a dry voice: "Is this a trap?"
"That's right." Li Xuan placed her right hand on the Eight-sided Han Sword, looked at the man in black with unusually calm eyes, and said, "I had already guessed that you were going to attack the grain depot when I first came to Wuzhou. Already."
"It's the two guys in charge of the warehouse." The man in black gritted his teeth and said the names of the two warehouse managers.
"Yes." Li Xuan nodded directly and said with an indifferent expression: "It's just the two of them. They haven't been in this business for a long time, and they are a little clumsy. I just came here for a visit. The cat in this has been exposed
After getting tired of it, he ordered them to make up for the food they had replaced. "
"Have it been replenished?" The man in black glanced back subconsciously, as if asking: Where has it been replenished? Everything inside is clearly old grain.
"That can be prepared for Your Excellency." Li Xuan looked at the other party, tilted his head and said, "You shouldn't be surprised.
Those two guys are still free every day because they promised me that no matter who asks, they will not tell the truth inside the granary. Even if anyone asks, they will tell each other's name and identity. Report to the king. "
"Including me?" The man in black looked at Li Xuan in disbelief.
Li Xuan did not directly answer the man in black's question, but looked at everything around him and said softly: "This place was originally prepared for Fang Yunxiu and Mr. He, but I didn't expect that it was your Excellency who came in the end. deficit."
"Fang Yunxiu, Mr. He, they didn't come just because they were killed by you." The man in black looked at Li Xuan in disbelief, shook his head, and said word by word: "Who would have thought that you would still care about me? Stay here."
Li Xuan showed a slight sneer at the corner of her mouth and said: "Your goal from the very beginning is to capture the city, connect it to Lanxi, penetrate Dongyang, and then go straight to Hangyue, but unfortunately, this step was strangled by me. "
There was a sharp coldness in the eyes of the man in black, and the Tianyin Sect's plan was actually seen through.
Li Xuan shook her head and chuckled: "If you were a little slower and more steady, maybe I would have even more headaches."
"Playing slowly, maybe that's more to your liking." The man in black looked at Li Xuan, with a trace of vigilance in his eyes.
They would be stupid if they really did that.
Time is not on their side. The so-called steady attack will only allow the court to gather more troops.
Even if Yangzhou's imperial troops did not move south, Wuzhou could easily gather troops to hold them back in Wuzhou.
By capturing Meiling Pass, they could at most open up the road to Wuzhou and capture Lanxi and Longyou counties.
But once they capture the state capital, the remaining seven counties will be under their control.
Which one is light and which one is serious, they can still see clearly.
"Actually, if you hadn't come to Wuzhou, my religion was in the city, with countless followers, city gates, watchtowers, state offices, and even aristocratic families. As soon as the army arrived, we would have captured the entire state. The city and the government have no power to resist."
The man in black couldn't help clenching his fists, and his eyes almost burst into flames when he looked at Li Xuan.
Li Xuan smiled faintly, nodded slightly, and said: "That's true. I have seen through this from the beginning. I have been thinking day and night along the way from Luoyang to Wuzhou, and finally I have seen through it. What is the Tianyin Sect’s biggest weakness?”
"The biggest weakness?" The man in black was stunned.
Everyone else present was also stunned.
All eyes couldn't help but fall on Li Xuan in disbelief.
Tianyin Sect actually has its biggest weakness?
"People!" Li Xuan sighed and whispered, "Your biggest problem is people!"
"I thought you were talking about food." The man in black was stunned for a moment, slowly lowered his hands, then leaned forward slightly and said with puzzled eyes, "Why a human?"
"With the land of one state, against the three hundred states in the world, I'm afraid no one can do it except your empress." Li Xuan calmly expressed her views on the biggest weakness of the Tianyin Sect,
The man in black vaguely understood.
He looked at Li Xuan in disbelief and said, "Are you saying there are too many Muzhou people among us?"
"Isn't it?" Li Xuan looked at the man in black indifferently, and said calmly: "Fang Yunxiu, Xu Lu, which one is not from Muzhou, a devout believer of Tianyin Goddess in the city, which one is not from Muzhou. As long as you catch This will hit you right away.
That is to say, the current governors of various states are not ruthless enough. Otherwise, they only need to lock up all the immigrants from Muzhou in each city. Then
Why are you still making trouble? "
After all, the Tianyin Sect's soldiers who left Wuzhou were only three thousand.
It would be strange if they had to be dispersed in various states and counties to be effective.
What they really rely on are the immigrant believers in various cities.
This is also the reason why Li Xuan gave Du Bixing the first credit.
As long as the remaining followers of the Tianyin Sect in Wuzhou City are strangled to death, the so-called uprising of the Tianyin Sect will not be able to make a big splash.
"We also have many local believers." The man in black clenched his fist tightly.
"Are you talking about the Tianyin cult members who are hiding in the prefecture and county offices?"
A slight sneer appeared at the corner of Li Xuan's mouth, and then she said softly: "It means that my time in Wuzhou is still short. Otherwise, if you give me a month, believe it or not, I don't need to kill those Wuzhou natives at all." Soldiers can also make them all abandon the belief of Tianyin Sect."
Those who died under Li Xuan along with Fang Yunxiu were all local soldiers in Wuzhou.
The man in black forced a smile, then nodded and said, "Indeed, I admit that there are not many people in the world who are better than the King of Nanchang when it comes to winning people's hearts."
What Li Xuan did when he came to Wuzhou was, in the final analysis, nothing more than weakening the bad habits of some evil officials in the prefecture and county yamen.
If these profits that do not fall into the court are taken away from the officials, and then returned to the hands of the people, the people will naturally be grateful.
Others send people to help the people harvest food, which is just a small matter.
If the people at the bottom can benefit, it will naturally not be too difficult for the soldiers at the bottom.
With money, not many people would sincerely follow the Tianyin Sect to rebel.
As for those greedy officials, at this time, I'm afraid they can only stop temporarily.
After all, in the context of the Tianyin Sect uprising, there will definitely not be too many people who would dare to challenge the royal authority and be killed to scare the monkeys.
"As for Liu Ji, Your Excellency, among you locals, who among you are not closely related to Muzhou?"
Liu Ji's deceased wife was from Muzhou, and the man in black in front of him...
"Do you know who I am?" The man in black stared at Li Xuan. Li Xuan's words just now revealed too much information.
"I don't want to know who you are." Li Xuan looked at him and raised his right hand.
His gaze still passed over the man in black and fell directly on the man in black. The flames still burned to the granary at the door. He said coldly: "Tang Lu, whoever sets fire to the granary will be hanged and his family will sit together... you are dead. That’s fine, I don’t want to involve your family members.”
"You still know who I am." The man in black's face turned gloomy.
"Fire the arrow!" Li Xuan's right hand fiercely fired, and the next moment, countless crossbow arrows were fired at the man in black at the same time.
At this moment, a bright sword light suddenly appeared.
A "ding-ding-ding" sound was heard in mid-air, and the countless crossbow arrows shot were all cut into two pieces in an instant.
The sword light fell, and the man in black was about to say something.
At this time, Li Xuan waved his hand again, and more Qianniu Guards immediately jumped out from the wall behind him.
Li Xuan waved his hand heavily, and in the next moment, more crossbow arrows were fired towards the man in black.
"Ding ding ding... ding ding... ding..."
The long knife kept hitting the crossbow arrows, but suddenly, the long knife suddenly stopped, but then it started to swing like a horse.
The arrows flew away fiercely.
The sword light fell, and the man in black standing there was revealed again.
Only this time, several crossbow arrows were inserted into his left shoulder.
At this time, the Qianniu Guards originally beside Li Xuan had loaded their crossbows again.
At this moment, the man in black had already pulled off the face towel.
He blew himself up.
