In the dark yellow tent, Li Xuan sat alone in front of a short table with a solemn expression.
The thin green bamboo pen in his hand quickly sketched on the paper.
A miniature catapult, a high upward parabola, and a simple outline of a green mountain all appeared in his paintings.
"The fireball still needs to be half a pound lighter, and the throwing arm needs to be a foot longer."
While Li Xuan was talking to herself, a long dotted line had been drawn out, and in the end it was only more than twenty meters away from the peak of Qingshan...
"Your Majesty!" A voice sounded from the door.
Li Xuan subconsciously raised her head, her expression softened, and said, "Come in."
Yu Ze opened the door curtain and walked in. The corner of his eye glanced at Li Zhu in the corner.
Li Zhu was hiding in the shadows, as if invisible, but he was there.
When he came to Li Xuan, Yu Ze cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, the Kuaiji soldiers have been attacking for a whole day today, but they only reached the mountainside when they were knocked down by rolling stones and trees... There were too many rolling stones and trees on the mountain. It’s like there’s no end to it.”
"How can it be endless?" Li Xuan put the bamboo pen aside, looked at Yu Ze with some humor, and said, "At most, people are constantly transporting people up from behind. They are constantly attacking, and there are always people above. It keeps consuming, but what is consumed at this time is manpower."
Li Xuan looked up at the door and said seriously: "What Governor Duan used today was actually just a false shot."
Yu Ze understood immediately: "It turns out that it was the prince's strategy to exhaust his troops."
Li Xuan picked up the rice paper on the table and threw it into the basin nearby. The basin quickly soaked the rice paper.
A bamboo pole stretched out, and in the blink of an eye everything in the basin was completely turned into a mess.
"Come on, let's go out and take a look."
Li Xuan picked up the Eight-sided Han Sword on the table, straightened her clothes and armor, and walked out of the tent.
As soon as the curtain was opened, a burst of noise suddenly reached my ears.
Li Xuan looked up and saw a black object thrown high into the sky, and then hit hard on the mountainside.
It exploded with a "pop" sound.
"Those are long shields!" Yu Ze stood on one side and introduced to Li Xuan: "Duan Duan threw the long shield halfway up the mountain, so that after the soldiers rushed up the mountainside, they could easily use the long shield to stabilize it. formation; similarly, because of these long shields, the top of the mountain had to keep rolling rocks falling down."
Li Xuan nodded lightly. The usefulness of these long shields was not difficult to see.
Fang Fengjin had used this method when he was at Meiling Pass.
On the mountainside in the distance, a dozen soldiers carefully avoided the rolling stones above their heads, then grabbed their long shields and immediately retreated to both sides.
The long shield was tilted, and the rolling stone on the top of the mountain fell down and immediately rolled towards the center.
All of a sudden, the falling direction of all the rolling stones and wood was limited to a small area in the center, and the speed of the subsequent soldiers rushing up the mountainside immediately increased greatly.
"Your Majesty, it's more than a hundred meters away. Can you rush up?" Yu Ze looked at Li Xuan with some hope.
Li Xuan shook her head slightly and said, "If you don't care about the cost, you can rush forward, but what happens after you rush forward?"
"Huh?" Yu Ze didn't understand what Li Xuan meant.
"After rushing up, everything will be the same as at Meiling Pass." Li Xuan turned around and walked out towards another place where the craftsmen were.
Yu Ze's expression immediately became serious.
When they were at Meiling Pass, the Tianyin Sect suffered thousands of casualties.
Although they finally broke through Meiling Pass, they were completely burned by Li Xuan.
If they followed what the Tianyin Sect did back then, they would inevitably end up in the same fate today.
Once their troops are severely damaged, it's hard to say whether they can continue the siege, or they may even be counterattacked by the Tianyin Sect and force Muzhou back.
While Yu Ze followed Li Xuan closely, he looked back at the front of the camp in the distance.
Standing among countless soldiers
In front of him, Duan Baoxuan seemed to be in command, and there was no hint that he was covering for Li Xuan.
Yu Ze knew in his heart that Duan Baoxuan and Li Xuan had the same concerns, so the battle to attack the mountain seemed lively, but in fact the troops used were not even one-tenth of the entire army.
Duan Baoxuan was counting on Li Xuan. In fact, everyone else in the entire camp was also counting on Li Xuan.
"Three-stage catapult arm." Li Xuan pointed to the newly improved catapult and said in a deep voice to the many catapult soldiers: "The short arm is used to throw boulders, the middle arm is used to throw rolling stones, and the long arm is used to throw boulders. to throw fireballs.
There are three types of fireballs, one is a fireball made of wood made of strong fire oil, one is a fireball made of tung oil grass, one is a fireball made of water-soaked grass, three kinds..."
Li Xuan explained the timing and methods of throwing different fireballs one by one. Before he knew it, the sun was setting.
The surroundings suddenly became silent. Li Xuan looked up and saw Qiu Shenji standing to one side with an extremely solemn look.
Equally serious were Huai Jin, Xue Qianfeng, Li Ji, Pei Xuan and others standing not far away.
A burst of pressure has come silently.
Li Xuan stopped, turned around and held his hands in his hands: "General Zhonglang!"
"Twenty-seventh Lang!" Qiu Shenji looked at Li Xuan with rare seriousness and asked solemnly: "Are you ready for tonight's offensive?"
Li Xuan looked back at the many soldiers and catapults, turned to Qiu Shenji, and replied seriously: "It will start in an hour."
"Okay!" Qiu Shenji immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He cupped his hands slightly apologetically and said, "Today, a total of two hundred soldiers from Kuaiji Prefecture and Huangshan Prefecture were injured or killed. If we can't take Black Dragon Ridge again, I'll wait for you." The price to pay will be greater."
Li Xuan nodded solemnly, and then looked straight at Qiu Shenji: "It's not difficult to attack Black Dragon Ridge, and it's not difficult to establish a bridgehead. It's rare to defend it against the Tianyin Sect's counterattack, and then capture the entire Black Dragon Ridge in one fell swoop. , this depends on the efforts of General Zhonglang and others."
At most, Li Xuan is just a person who comes to give advice. The real fight with Tianyin Sect has to rely on these people in front of him.
"As long as we can stand on the top of the mountain, then if we can't take it down, the prince can directly chop off our heads." Qiu Shenji looked extremely cold, and although his voice was not loud, it could be heard far away.
Suddenly, everyone not far away heard Qiu Shenji's words clearly, and their expressions changed slightly.
"I don't dare. Taking Black Dragon Ridge is just one of the battles. Later there will be the Tianyin Sect General Altar and the Empress. Everything depends on you." Li Xuan bowed slightly to everyone.
At this moment, everyone's expressions couldn't help but change slightly, and they quickly bowed and returned the salute: "I don't dare, everything is a matter of official rank."
If Li Xuan said the previous words as a member of the army, then he said the next words as the current king of the county, and even implicitly represented the entire royal family.
Everyone present was not deaf, and they had all heard some vague rumors.
Not to mention, the two people in front of me are a former Jinwu Guards Lieutenant General and the other a Qianniu Guards Lieutenant General.
Just the fact that these two people took office in Wuzhou and Shezhou on both sides of Muzhou at the same time before this incident is enough to show the importance of the saint.
Li Xuan stood up, looked at everyone solemnly and said, "I still need to make some preparations, please help yourself."
"Excuse me!" Qiu Shenji immediately handed over his hand, then turned and left.
Others followed and left.
Li Xuan went back to summon many pitchers to make intense arrangements.
Now that almost everyone's eyes were on them, they couldn't help but feel less nervous.
Huai Jin followed Qiu Shenji to the distance, finally opened the door curtain and ducked into a tent.
One water tank after another was placed directly in the tent, and more than a dozen soldiers buried their heads deeply into the water tanks.
After sixty breaths, there was a "crash" sound, and more than a dozen soldiers raised their heads one after another, and then breathed heavily.
These soldiers quickly retreated to one side and
More soldiers came forward from behind, and then buried their heads in the water tank.
Huai Jin and Qiu Shenji watched all this. At this time, Huai Jin looked sideways at Qiu Shenji and whispered: "The training method of King Nanchang is very simple, which is simple breathing training, and then hold your breath, hold your breath, you can hold it, He will stay."
"Why does he want to practice holding his breath?" Qiu Shenji suddenly opened his mouth and looked at Huai Jin, as if he suddenly had a flash of doubt: "Normally, if you are sneaking in the dark, even if you don't make a sound, you don't even have to breathe, right? What can you do within your breath?"
"Who knows, the King of Nanchang must have his own ideas." Huai Jin shrugged indifferently.
Qiu Shenji waved his hand and said solemnly: "The King of Nanchang is not the kind of careless person. He has his own ideas and designs in everything he does. His thoughts are so meticulous that he cannot notice even a small detail. It is possible that you will suffer a big loss.”
Huai Jin seemed to be awakened all of a sudden. He sighed slowly and said, "Indeed, the King of Nanchang is not that simple."
Thinking of the losses he had suffered at the hands of Li Xuan, Huai Jin felt heartbroken and had to admit that Qiu Shenji was right.
"But what is his plan for doing this? Shut up, shut up. It doesn't look like it has rained in the past two days. The wind is also west wind, and the fire attack will not work at all. What on earth does he want to do?" Huai Jin looked at Qiu Shenji and asked. A puzzled look on his face.
Qiu Shenji thought for a long time, trying countless explanations in his mind, but none of them made sense. He finally shook his head and said, "We still need to keep an eye on King Nanchang to see how he arranges it. There are always clues."
"Not bad." Huai Jin's face showed a trace of sinisterness.
Two middle-aged people in their late 40s didn't feel embarrassed at all to consider Li Xuan, a child under 20.
Half an hour later, the two people returned to the place where the catapult was placed.
However, everything was put in place, but Li Xuan was missing.
There was only Qiu Zhenmu standing beside the catapult, wearing red clothes and gold armor.
Qiu Shenji stood there very steadily and did not come forward to ask. On the contrary, Huai Jin looked restless.
The time came quickly. Suddenly, Qiu Zhenmu didn't wait for Li Xuan to appear. He raised his right hand and shouted loudly: "Throw stones."
Twelve fireballs were thrown halfway up the mountain in an instant, and the firelight instantly illuminated the mountainside.
At the foot of the mountain, a group of soldiers in black had begun to climb the mountain slowly.
"Silang, King Nanchang, why aren't you here?" Qiu Shenji finally couldn't help but looked at his nephew.
"Uncle, we have a whole night tonight!" Qiu Zhenmu turned his head and looked at Qiu Shenji, feeling a little helpless and a little funny.
But then, he said with a serious face: "Reporting to General Zhonglang, the prince is currently recharging his energy. He will appear in the second half of the night."
In the second half of the night, recharge your batteries.
Huai Jin immediately understood that he had been tricked by the King of Nanchang.
All his methods were useless.
