A small valley ten miles upstream of Luoshui, close to Luoshui, docked several large ships, and the personnel on board were preparing armor and the like. On the bow of one of the large ships stood two men in white, a man and a woman.

"Wu Zetian sent Yuan Xingchong to reinforce the Wu family, dispatched five hundred thousand knights, and is currently stationed on the north bank of Luoshui, corresponding to the Wu family across the horns of the dam." A warrior in a green suit ran up to Li Ruoxue and bowed down and said.

Yuan Xingchong led the fleet to the west, and there was no trace of hiding, and such a large fleet could not hide if it wanted to.

The ships of the Snake Spirit Sect were always patrolling on the Luoshui River, keeping an eye on the movements everywhere, and naturally discovered this fleet.

"Got it, you go down!" Li Ruoxue said.

The man in Tsing Yi turned around and got off the boat and galloped away.

"Ice Spirit Yuan Xing Chong," Li Ruoxue said.

After returning to Luoyang to arrange other matters, Li Ruoxue returned here by boat, preparing to start acting tomorrow.

"Half of the battalion of soldiers stationed by Wu Chonggui has moved outside the valley, I think Wu Sansi or Wu Youxu is here." Lin Qianyue said beside him, "Wu Sansi still made a move at a critical time. ”

"Wu Sansi, Wu Youxu, Yuan Xingchong, I don't know if there are any masters we don't know?" Li Ruoxue said, "Wu Zetian's preparation is very thorough. ”

"How could they send so many masters, could it be that they saw through our plan?" Lin Qianyue frowned.

The "Hidden Dragon" cooperated with the "Snake Spirit" to formulate this plan, and paid a huge price during the process, in addition to a few bottles of "Source of Life", just gathering masters, and the cost of building a ship was tens of thousands of dollars, which absolutely could not be lost. Especially this time, he also specially asked the "God of War" to send nearly 100 Tibetan masters, led by Duodan, the seven-rank grandmaster, to help the "Hidden Dragon" and "Snake Spirit" complete the plan. If it can't succeed, it means heavy losses, and it will be difficult to explain it to the Qinling Tomb in the future.

"The dam of Luoshuiyan is very important, it is not unusual for Wu Sansi to think of this, as for sending so many masters, it is related to the mistake of my snake spirit a while ago. Qiu Shenji suddenly attacked Heshan Xiangshe, forcing me to make a move with the pit viper, and Wu Zetian knew that he would naturally arrange the corresponding masters. Li Ruoxue said.

"I hope so." Lin Qianyue said.

Li Ruoxue secretly had a trace of contempt for Lin Qianyue in her heart, and she had no courage in the face of major events, and it would be difficult to become a big thing after all.

"The warship is ready, just wait for us to go down the river to capture the dam, destroy the dam, and then take advantage of the flood to break through the embankment and flood the sacrificial altar, we can take the opportunity to kill the civil and military officials under Wu Zetian's command, and completely paralyze the imperial court. Besides, even if the mission fails, you can escape along Luoshui," Li Ruoxue said, "What are you worried about, if Wu Zetian knew about our plan, he would not have sent people to garrison the dam, but would have gone up the river and directly attacked our base." ”

After listening to Yuan Xingchong's battle plan, Li Rong and Wei Chi Xiu added it to the account side by side.

"Why did Lord Changshi let the fleet go, knowing that the snake spirit might send a ship to attack." Yu Chi Xiu said quietly.

"Most of the fleet is a civilian ship, which is unusable. We also have no extra soldiers to board the ship and occupy, this return voyage, will be transported from Luoyang some soldiers who are proficient in water warfare, the boat in the middle of the night, as late as dawn can be here. When the snake spirit doesn't come, it will catch them off guard. Li Rong said.

"Lord Changshi is really a treacherous and slippery." Yu Chi Xiu sighed when he heard this.

"Haha." Li Rong listened and didn't say anything.

The two began to inspect the tents of the soldiers, and when they saw that everything was settled, they returned to the tent to meditate and prepare for tomorrow's battle.

On the eighth day of the seventh month, the auspicious day of the emperor's road, it is advisable to sacrifice

The heavy rain that had been falling for several days had stopped, and as soon as the sky cleared, the sky was blue and cleaner than usual, making people feel refreshed.

The altar of worship by the Luoshui was officially completed a few days ago. The bluestone paved table, surrounded by gray-white stone pillars, three-layer altar system, the altar is eight feet high, and each layer has nine steps on four sides, symbolizing the number of "days".

Around the altar, the soldiers of the left and right guards lined up neatly until they reached the gate of the imperial city, preventing all idle people from entering.

In Shangyang Palace, Wu Zetian, with the help of the maids, began to wear sacrificial clothes.

I saw Wu Zetian wearing a mopping robe, embroidered with gold silk woven into a lifelike, winged phoenix, wearing a phoenix crown and a xia veil on his head, a little red lips, sharp phoenix eyes, a little peony makeup between his eyebrows, a dignified and noble, and a sense of domineering.

"Your Majesty the Holy Mother of God, the rhubarb sacrifice is ready. His Majesty the Emperor was also waiting outside the palace. Shangguan Wan'er came to ask for instructions.

"I see." Wu Zetian said softly.

At the Luoshui weir, the rushing river flows eastward with a roar. Heavy rains for several days have made the water a little stronger, and the water level has risen a little more than before.

Suddenly, on the north shore upstream of the dam, a rocket shot into the sky, and then every other mile there were rockets in the air.

"Enemy attack!" Li Rong and Wei Chi Xiu hurriedly lifted the curtain from the tent, commanded the soldiers to put on their clothes and armor, and took up weapons to prepare for battle.

Although the imperial court had a water division, the water division was stationed in Dengzhou and Yangzhou towns, and the vicinity of Luoyang was better than nothing. Luoshui can only be regarded as a tributary of the Yellow River, the volume of water is not too large, and it is more difficult for warships to travel, so there is no sailor to patrol up and down.

A few miles upstream of the Luoshui Dam, two large boats full of soldiers rushed down the river and rushed towards the dam at high speed.

Li Rong sent people to set up guard posts along the upper reaches of Luoshui in advance, and when they saw an enemy attacking, the soldiers in charge of guarding immediately released rockets to transmit news. Just now, the soldiers saw two large ships carrying the soldiers upstream, and hurriedly lit rockets and shot them into the air to warn everyone.

"The Tang Army's vigilance is very strict." Lin Qianyue stood at the bow of the ship and looked at the rocket shooting into the air and said.

"The general trend has been achieved, and the resistance of individual people will not help." Li Ruoxue said coldly.

The soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the Left Leading Guard, stationed on the south bank, hurriedly left the camp under the command of Wu Chonggui and gathered together to prepare for defense.

"Legend has it that Li Rong is the chief of the imperial army, the seed of the future famous general, and it is really extraordinary." Wu Sansi looked at the chaotic left leading army guards, and then looked at the neat and orderly thousand knights on the opposite bank and sighed. At the same time, his heart strengthened his determination to kill Li Rong. Some people, especially the outstanding Li Tang clan, must not stay, and it is likely to cause a fatal scourge to the martial arts family in the future.

From the speed of an army's reaction when encountering the enemy, we can roughly judge the combat effectiveness of the army and its training in peacetime, and there is no doubt that Wu Chonggui is far inferior to Li Rong in this respect.

Seeing that the two large ships upstream were like galloping horses, they crashed towards the dam, and there was no intention of stopping to land on the shore to attack the garrison. Yuan Xingchong frowned, the snake spirit didn't want to entangle with the garrison at all, and destroying the boat was also destroying the dam.

"The warship is coming sideways and stopping the enemy's warship before it crashes into the dam," Yuan Xingchong shouted as he stood on the dam and the sound could be heard for miles around.

The warship moored upstream of the dam had only sailed from Luoyang this morning, and the helmsman of the warship hurriedly turned the rudder to turn the bow, and the sailors shouted the trumpet and rowed the boat with great difficulty, so that the warship slowly moved and crossed the front of the dam.

At this time, Yuan Xingchong didn't have time to think about where the snake spirit's warship was built, and commanded the warship to quickly block the waterway. In this way, even if the ships of both sides collide, they will not hit the dam.

Wu Youxu, Wu Sansi and You Shan also came out of the valley and came to the dam, looking at the snake spirit warship rushing over with a serious expression.

The snake spirit's warship is the same size and shape as the warship of the imperial court, the only difference is that the bow is inlaid with a huge iron bow, which is used for impact at first glance.

"Where did the snake spirit get the warship? There are no shipbuilding workshops in Luoshui at all. Yang Zhiyi looked at the huge and hideous bow and said in amazement.

"There are many hundred-year-old trees in the Bears Ears Mountain in the upper reaches of Luoshui, and as long as you find a craftsman, you can build a boat." Li Rong said solemnly.

"No way, the timber used to build the ships has to be processed for years before they can be used, how could they have prepared it years ago?" Yang Zhiyi said, "And these materials are difficult to transport, even if they get them from other places, it is impossible to hide them from the government when transporting them." ”

Although Yang Zhiyi has never worked in the sailor, he still understands some basic shipbuilding knowledge.

"Their ships don't need to be used for a long time, as long as they can be used today, and they can be used to the fullest extent if they fall apart afterwards, so they can use special wood for shipbuilding." Li Rong shook his head and said.

Li Rong originally thought that the snake spirit would use various means to get some ordinary ships, but he knew that he had actually built such a large special warship, and it had been specially modified. You must know that Wu Chenghe's proposal to sacrifice Luoshui was only two or three months, and such a large warship was built in such a short time, whether it was real wood or not, it can be seen that the hidden strength of the snake spirit should not be underestimated.

"Let's go up and stop the snake spirit's warship!" Wu Youxu said proudly.

The warship on Yuan Xingchong's side was not as large as the warship from the snake spirit because it was sailing on the Luo River, and there were no facilities to defend against impact, and it had just begun to turn around, and the hull of the ship could not be sideways for a while.