Outside Meiling Pass, a group of exhausted soldiers were quickly withdrawing towards Guancheng.
Li Xuan, who was standing on the city gate and talking about something, saw this scene and quickly waved to Zhou Shen, Qiu Zhenmu and Li Zhu: "Let's go down and have a look."
"Here!" Qiu Zhenmu, Li Zhu, and Zhou Shen quickly agreed, and then quickly followed.
After Zhou Shen arrived at Meiling Pass, he proposed many improvement measures.
Although in many places it is just an increase or decrease in some numbers, after this increase and decrease, the power that can be exerted is even greater than before.
As soon as he stepped down from the city gate tower, Li Xuan saw the previous group of government soldiers filing in from outside.
Everyone had a trace of blood on their bodies, and a few had wounds that had been bandaged.
Although he looked tired, he still held the long knife tightly in his hand, with a murderous aura.
Yan Tao, who was standing on one side, counted the number of people one by one and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Replying to the prince, this is the last batch, no one is missing." Yan Tao returned to Li Xuan with his hands in hand.
"Yes!" Li Xuan nodded slightly, then looked at the leader with a solemn expression: "What happened?"
"I just happened to encounter a few spies. My subordinates were greedy, so they went to kill them." The team leader handed over his hands with a bit of embarrassment on his face.
"It doesn't matter. From the looks of you, you can tell that you have killed all your opponents, which is good." Li Xuan nodded with satisfaction.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your tolerance." After a short pause, the team leader quickly said: "I have found out that in about half a day, the rebel vanguard will arrive at the city gate."
Li Xuan glanced sideways at the sunset in the west, nodded, and said, "Okay, go down and rest, Lieutenant Yan, take credit."
"Here!" Yan Tao immediately bowed and agreed.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Several soldiers immediately raised their hands to Li Xuan with surprise on their faces.
Li Xuan waved her hand, and all the soldiers immediately retreated.
Li Xuan turned to look at Yan Tao and shouted in a low voice: "Close the door!"
"close the door!"
The city gate slowly closed under Yan Tao's command.
Immediately, the guards at the city gate drove each wooden stake deeply into the ground, and then used another one to hit the city gate.
The city gate will be difficult to shake for a while.
At this time, Zhou Shen, who was standing on one side, asked curiously: "Your Majesty, why don't you completely block the city gate with stones? This is what the general did when he heard that the prince was in the city?"
Everyone knows that their King of Nanchang has always been cautious and will not easily leave any loopholes for his opponents.
Although the method of inserting wooden stakes into the ground diagonally is strong, no matter how strong it is, it cannot be compared to sealing the door directly from the bluestone strips.
"Don't you want to give everyone more opportunities to build military exploits?" Li Xuan smiled softly, and looking at the disbelief on everyone's faces, he said lightly: "If there is an army of 10,000 from the Tianyin Sect outside, Then I will definitely seal the city gate, but a mere thousand is not enough to fill the gap between three people, so I can only try my best to keep them all here."
Li Xuan's last words completely revealed her grandeur.
The Tianyin Sect came to Wuzhou this time to kill only a thousand people.
Li Xuan occupies the advantage of the city gate. He not only wants to completely defeat him under the gate, but also wants to catch them all in one fell swoop.
Li Xuan raised his head, looked at the northwest sky, and said softly: "The city defense battle is not as pleasant as the head-on encounters and pursuit raids, but the city defense battle has the excitement of the city defense battle. Once you win, you can win with less." If there are more, the meritorious service can be sent directly to His Majesty's case... Come to think of it, everyone, there are few such opportunities in the entire Tang Dynasty."
Send it directly to the emperor's desk. With these words, everyone present immediately started breathing heavily.
Seeing this scene, Li Xuan smiled faintly: "Meiling Pass is not only the key point for the Tianyin Sect to move south, but once troops are sent from here, they can immediately attack Jiande and even attack the city of Muzhou; so the Tianyin Sect They will never let go of Meiling Pass. Even if they mobilize countless armies, they will take Meiling Pass. The thousand people in front of them are just appetizers, but they are enough for me and His Majesty to take a look. It depends on your quality."
"What the prince said is true. I, the official, and others will do their best." Zhou Shen gritted his teeth and held his hands solemnly.
Li Xuan smiled with satisfaction, and then said: "In that case, the guarding of the city gate tonight will be handed over to the captain."
Zhou Shen immediately handed over his hand: "Don't worry, my lord, don't worry, everyone, the end is coming, and nothing will happen to the city gate."
"Then I'll leave this first level to Brother Zhou. I'll go back and have a good sleep first." Yan Tao said with a little helplessness on his face.
He was just a step slow, and the first opportunity was snatched away by Zhou Shen.
Li Xuan, as the captain of Guoyi in Kuaiji Prefecture, had a regiment of 300 soldiers under his command.
The three hundred soldiers were led by three captains, Yan Tao himself, Zhou Shen, and Li Zhu.
Li Zhu is the chief guard of Nanchang Palace, and the school captain of Kuaiji Palace is only temporary. The real one with Yan Tao is Zhou Shen.
However, the goals of both parties were different. Zhou Shen was not very interested in joining the Kuaiji Zhechong Mansion. His purpose was to gain favor from the central government through the King of Nanchang.
Li Xuan, the King of Nanchang, is still very young, but moving forward in the future, at least one state governor will be indispensable.
If he does well, in the future, let alone a school captain, he will even be a captain of Guo Yi and a state commander.
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At the seventh quarter of Yin hour, the sky will be dark, and there will be darkness between heaven and earth.
The entire Daciyan Mountains, like a lurking giant beast, lowered its head heavily in the darkness.
Meiling Pass is like an iron hoop, tightly wrapped around the head of the giant beast.
But if the giant beast awakens, then the entire Meiling Pass will be completely overturned in a very short period of time.
Just as many guards on the checkpoint couldn't help but fall into a deep sleep, suddenly, a burst of rapid footsteps sounded outside the checkpoint.
Everyone at the city gate was immediately and completely awakened.
Raising his head, he suddenly saw several figures approaching quickly in the darkness outside Guancheng.
The torch on the city gate was thrown down in an instant, and everything in the darkness became completely bright.
Three officers in blue robes looked towards the top of the city with panic on their faces. Under the firelight, although their faces could not be seen clearly, the extremely cold long arrows were already aimed at them.
"Don't fire your arrows. We are soldiers of Jiande. We are following the order of the border county magistrate to deliver a message to the governor of Wuzhou, Wang Shijun. Please open the city gate and let me wait in." The leader of the soldiers had a cold sweat on his head. He took the risk and immediately lifted up the package on his body: "Here is the official document."
"Put the official documents and identity documents together in the basket." Zhou Shen stretched out his head expressionlessly, waved to his side, and a basket was already put down.
The servant quickly put the package and his identity document in the basket, and soon the basket was raised.
Not long after, Zhou Shen's voice came down again from above: "A man, come up in a basket."
The soldiers below looked at each other, looking at each other. The leader of the soldiers subconsciously asked: "Shangguan, why don't you wait to open the city gate?"
"The city gate is sealed and no one can open it. If you don't want to come up in a basket, then please go around the mountain from there."
On both sides of Guancheng, the mountains are steep and steep, and the journey around the mountains is also long.
If it were masters like Zhang Wanyu, Ye Wanwan and Zuo Fei, they would just pay it back. If it were anyone else, they would just be seeking death.
And no one knows what will happen after going around the mountain.
If after all the hard work and fatigue, what awaits you is the sharp edge of the officers and soldiers, then the gain will outweigh the loss.
"You just obey the orders, little man!" The leading soldier looked bitter, but then he sat in the narrow basket and was pulled up to the gate tower little by little by the soldiers above.
As soon as he got off the basket, the soldier quickly raised his hand to an officer who looked like a captain in front of him: "Young man..."
A "pop" sound came directly from the soldier's lower back. Although it was extremely painful, he turned sideways subconsciously, but in the end he could see his own blood spurting out from his waist like a fountain. He completely lost consciousness.
Immediately afterwards, two hanging baskets were lowered from above.
Zhou Shen's cold voice sounded: "You all come up."
The two soldiers below looked at each other, and just took a step forward to enter the hanging basket. At this time, they heard one of them suddenly raised his head, looked towards the city head, and shouted: "Brother Yang, please let us prepare more." Some good wine and good food, a hard trip brother, the wine bug is here.”
As soon as the voice of the soldier below fell, he stared at the city gate tower above.
However, there was no sound from the city gate.
The expressions of the two soldiers below couldn't help but change immediately.
Subconsciously, the two people couldn't help but retreat backwards, trying to get away from the city gate.
At this moment, Zhou Shen's voice came from the city gate in a cold voice: "Fire the arrow."
In an instant, several long arrows shot down directly from the city gate. The two soldiers retreated frantically in an instant, but they were also pierced directly through the chest in an instant, and blood suddenly bloomed.
With two "bang bangs", the two corpses fell directly to the ground.
The torch thrown to the ground was still burning.
Zhou Shen looked indifferently into the depths of the distant forest, with a disdainful sneer at the corner of his mouth.
In the dense forest, Luo Chuan's face turned extremely ugly in an instant.
Just now, the person who actually wanted to step forward to open the city gate was Luo Chuan. If his subordinates were not worried at the critical moment, stopped him, and replaced him, then at this time, the person who died here must have been Luochuan.
"Kill!" With a cold shout, Luo Chuan couldn't help but rush up first.
The next moment, more than a dozen big men had already taken advantage of the darkness and quickly rushed towards the city gate tower to kill them.
These people were very cunning. The tall ones rushed to the front, while the shorter ones hid behind the bodies of the people in front.
Directly avoiding the sight of the archers above.
More than a dozen people were divided into two rows, front and back, and rushed toward the city gate very quickly.
The road in front of the city gate is narrow, with only two lanes for traffic on weekdays. If one vehicle is damaged, the vehicles behind it will immediately be blocked.
These narrow roads could not accommodate many siege soldiers.
The terrain is extremely unfavorable for the siege, but extremely favorable for the defender.
"Fire the arrow." Zhou Shen's cold voice came.
Three-foot-long crossbow arrows shot down rapidly from the city gate tower, all covering the heads of more than a dozen people.
Almost in an instant, half of the big man below was lost.
"second round!"
"Swish, swish, swish", more crossbow arrows shot straight down from the city gate tower.
In the blink of an eye, all the big men without any cover had fallen down.
"Stop shooting."
Zhou Shen's indifferent order came, and the crossbows above immediately stopped shooting.
In an instant, the entire city gate immediately became quiet.
Under the city gate, it became dark again. At this moment, a figure with more than a dozen crossbow arrows stuck in his body moved forward bit by bit in the darkness, and bit by bit moved out of the shooting range of the crossbow arrows. , moving further away bit by bit.
Suddenly, a ray of fire shone on his face.
He subconsciously turned around and saw Zhou Shen on the city gate tower at a glance.
At this moment, Zhou Shen was looking at him with a playful expression, then he drew his bow and nocked an arrow.
"Whoosh" Two arrows shot straight, and in the blink of an eye they were nailed to Luo Chuan's left and right legs, and then nailed into the ground.
Then he was allowed to wail miserably and bleed to death.
(End of chapter)
