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Chapter 431: The Visitor

Since the beginning of the eleventh year of the Great Cause, Li Xian ordered the road out of Juyeze to be widened, and the road built was much wider and smoother than the official road built by the Great Sui Imperial Court. Nowadays, there is no shortage of craftsmen in Junozawa, and in addition to the craftsmen who build ships by sailors, there are also a large number of outsiders who come from all over the world.

It has been a long time since an army has invaded Junoze, and the land route out of Juyeze is too cramped and narrow, in order to facilitate the future army to travel smoothly, Li Xian asked Zhang Zhongjian to supervise the work, and led the craftsmen to dismantle and rebuild the gate of Junoze Cottage, the city gate has become more than twice as wide, and the suspension bridge has also been replaced with a new one, which is more solid.

This section of the city gate of the cottage has added a horse face, an arrow tower, and dozens of heavy crossbows have been installed at the head of the city, and the road into the mountain is blocked with these dozens of heavy crossbows, so you don't have to worry about how many people and horses come. A giant crossbow with thick calves can easily blast a war horse into two sections, even if it rushes up to the city, it can't help but hit the giant crossbow dozens of times.

The city gate and the road took a year to complete, with the help of the mountain, this section of the city gate is not long, only less than 100 meters, the city wall is tall and solid, even the eastern capital of the Great Sui Luoyang is also slightly inferior. Li Xian thought about treating Ju Yeze as his old nest, how could he not do his best to arrange?

This place is too steep, even if the expedition is defeated, as long as there are still a few thousand troops to withdraw to Junozawa, even a hundred thousand troops will not want to attack it. The mountain road is already rugged and difficult to navigate, and it can be said that it is foolproof to be blocked by such a majestic pass. Whether it is the official army or other rebel army, if you want to attack Zenai, the best choice is to take the waterway. If there is no person who is familiar with the water to lead the way, unless a huge warship like Yang Guang's dragon boat is used to run over the reeds and swing away, but once it is trapped, the dragon boat will also be stirred by the reeds, not to mention that the wheel pulp can't turn up, even if the slender man pulls it away, it may not move.

What's more, the three most powerful armies of Juyeze today, one is a light armored elite cavalry of 20,000 people, the other is a heavy armored Mo sword of 4,000 people, and there is a huge sailor division that is unique among all the rebel armies of the Great Sui.

After nearly three years of uninterrupted construction, now the Shuibo shipyard has a huge scale, all kinds of materials for shipbuilding are complete, after more than two years of preparation, now almost every month there is a five-tooth big ship out of the factory, plus Li Xian extorted the fleet from Jiangdu, it is the Donglai sailor led by Hu'er to arrive, and the naval army of Juyeze is almost equipped with the power of a battle. As for the other rebels on the Green Forest Road, there is no need to worry at all, most of them do not have the ability to fight as a water division.

Speaking of which, on both sides of the Yellow River, in addition to the fleet in the hands of Dou Jiande, the naval army in the hands of Wang Shichong, the general of the imperial court, can slightly threaten the water of Juyeze. It's just that Wang Shichong just arrived here a while ago, and he won't be stupid enough to rush into Juyeze to die. In terms of the danger of the terrain, he would rather fight Li Mi than provoke Li Xian. Of course, from another point of view, Wang Shichong also thinks that defeating Li Mi is much more effective than defeating Yanyunzhai.

Li Mi is a talent all over the world, and he is the fulfillment of the peach and plum, and Li Xian's strength is just a big horse thief no matter how strong he is, defeating Li Mi, Wang Shichong will replace Zhang Xutuo and Yang Yichen and become the first general of the Great Sui.

Now in Henan and Hebei, Wang Shichong first didn't want to provoke Dou Jiande in Hebei, not because he was afraid of him, but it was pointless to fight. Not to mention that he was not sure that he would defeat Dou Jiande's Xuzhou army, even if he had the ability, he would not do it. After winning the battle against Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong himself couldn't benefit at all, but he cheapened Luo Yi for nothing, but he was afraid that Luo Yi would wake up laughing when he slept.

Now Luo Yi is worried that there is no way to go south, and even he doesn't think that he can defeat Dou Jiande, so Wang Shichong will not rush over to make a stepping stone for others like an idiot.

Luo Yi has coveted the counties of Hebei for a long time, and Dou Jiande's strength is too strong, he can only be greedy but can't eat in his mouth, relying on a Zhuo County to feed his tiger and heavy armor is already stretched, fortunately, Xue Shixiong was killed by him, and Yuyang and other places have also fallen into Luo Yi's hands, which also solved his urgent need. Now in Hebei Province, the most powerful is Dou Jiande, followed by Youzhou Luo Yi, and then Xu Yuanlang.

Henan counties, in terms of military strength, the strongest is still Wagangzhai, although Li Mi and Zhai Rang lost in the confrontation with Li Xian, Li Mi was also beaten into a half-crippled. But the army he sent to attack other places was victorious, first conquered the Baihua Valley, and then took Luokoucang in one go, and obtained millions of stone military rations, and the strength of Wagangzhai suddenly increased. Especially in the battle of Baihua Valley, Li Mi designed to defeat the Sui general Liu Changgong, and received more than 10,000 people just from the government soldiers, and the weapons and armor were even more numerous.

Secondly, we have to talk about Yanyun Village, but although the army is not as strong as Wagang Village. But Li Xian sits on Qilu Dongping, the three richest counties in the Great Sui today, plus at least 50,000 elite soldiers in his hands, even if he fights again, Wagangzhai may not be an opponent.

When it comes to the official army, now in Henan Province, only Wang Shichong is still strong.

In this era of the rise of heroes, Li Xian had to be more careful. He said that he wanted to relax and give himself a day off to enjoy the mountains and rivers, but after all, he was just thinking about it.

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The carriage was escorted out of the city gate by more than 100 Li Xian's personal guard battalions, the Tiefutu cavalry, and the masters of the twelve Flying Tiger Five Divisions. The black carriage was not moving fast, but Li Xian, who said that he was enjoying the mountains and rivers, never got out of the car, and he didn't even lift the curtain of the car window.

After Li Xian brought back tens of thousands of grassland horses from Saibei, he set out to let the instructors of the Yanwu Academy, Cheng Zhijie, and Qin Qiong train cavalry on a large scale. Li Xian selected 6,000 people from the original elite cavalry and organized them into two guard battalions, each with 3,000 cavalry, one named Tiefutu and the other called the Blood Cavalry.

In order to ensure the loyalty of the guards, Li Xian transferred Iron Fang Wolf and Luo Fu from the Yanwu Academy, Iron Fang Wolf was the general of the Blood Cavalry, and Luo Fu commanded the Iron Floating Massacre.

On this trip, Li Xian didn't alarm too many people, but just asked Fu Hunu to bring two teams of cavalry, plus the twelve masters of the four divisions personally led by Ye Chuanyun, walking in Dongping County, it was more than enough to bring these soldiers and horses.

The black carriage traveled on the wide and flat road, and there was a small village more than ten miles out of the cottage, but the people in this village had all moved into Junoze since the imperial court sent soldiers to attack Junoze a few years ago. At that time, Li Xian had not yet conquered Yuncheng, and only lived in Juyeze.

The official road was too flat, and the carriage was so comfortable that there was no movement outside, but the inside of the carriage was already in a mess. Ye Huai fell weakly in Li Xian's arms, and he didn't even have the strength to put on clothes. And Li Xian leaned on the carriage and was slightly dressed in rough clothes, and the red in his eyes had disappeared.

Both of them were sweating, although there was a stove in the carriage, but you must know that it was the middle of winter at this time, and they were sweating, which showed that this battle was indeed too dangerous and fierce. It was cold outside the carriage, the sky was full of dark clouds, and I didn't know if there would be a heavy snow today. The carriage is full of spring, and the hot people are a little uncomfortable.

Ye Huaisleeve lay on Li Xian's body and gasped, lazy like a well-behaved white cat.

Li Xian wanted to sit up and get some water to drink, but as soon as he moved, Ye Huaisleeve couldn't help but let out a soft moan, her beautiful eyebrows like willow leaves furrowed slightly, and her red face couldn't help but change, and the moan coming out of his throat was a man who would be fascinated when he heard it.

"What's wrong?"

Li Xian asked softly.

"Nothing...... Some...... Some...... Hurt. ”

Ye Huaisleeve lowered his head and blushed and whispered, and then he was ashamed and didn't dare to look up at Li Xian's eyes.

Li Xian smiled and blamed himself a little: "I don't know what's wrong today, it's so angry...... It's me who is not good, next time I'll be gentle, that ...... Be gentle, for sure. ”

Li Xian stretched out his hand to help up the low table that the two people had knocked over, looked at the tea stains that still exuded fragrance on the floor of the carriage and smiled. Looking at the tired and weak Ye Huaisleeve in his arms, Li Xian couldn't help but feel some man-like pride in his heart. Conquering a world is as proud as conquering a woman in the eyes of men. He reached out and took the water bladder and handed it to Ye Huaisleeve, who shook his head slightly to indicate that he didn't want to move.

Li Xian reached out and picked up Ye Huai's clothes and covered her, and sat quietly with her shoulders around her shoulders.

"It's nice to have a car...... Although the carriage could not shake. ”

I don't know how long it took, Li Xian let out a heartfelt admiration.

Ye Huaisleeve struggled to get up, and was about to speak, but suddenly heard the sound of the Fuhu slave urn outside, and asked loudly: "Who is in front, stop!" ”

It can make Fu Hunu cry out in surprise, it can be seen that it is definitely not the people of Yanyun Village outside. At this time, Juyeze is just out, who can go straight to the hinterland of Dongping County except for the people of Yanyunzhai?

Li Xian's eyes narrowed slightly, and the corners of his mouth picked.

If someone really neglected their duties and let outsiders in, even if today was the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, a day of universal celebration, Li Xian would not fail to kill people for violations of military discipline.

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"Which general is ahead? I am Li Han, the captain of Guoyi under the command of General Xiong Kuohai, and I was ordered by General Xiong Kuohai to bring guests to ask to see the lord. I have the customs clearance documents in my hand, as well as my official papers, please check them by the general. ”

"Guests coming?"

The coldness in Li Xian's eyes became faint and slowly disappeared.

"Why didn't the spy send the news?"

Li Xian asked softly.

Ye Huaisleeve slowly shook his head while dressing and said: "If someone comes to dress up as an ordinary person to avoid the people from other cottages on the road, and mixes with the people to enter Dongping County, the secret spies will not find out." If it was a formal visit, the spy would never have heard of it at all. ”

Li Xian nodded, knowing that what Ye Huaisleeve said was right. If the people who came pretended to be ordinary people, and did not bring a few retinues, and only revealed their identities to the border defense army when they arrived at the border of Dongping County, the secret spies were not all monks with great powers, and they didn't necessarily know that someone came to visit Li Xian from outside.

The Fuhu slave outside responded, and then sent someone to check the customs clearance documents and official waist card in the hands of the captain named Li Han. Taking advantage of this time, Ye Huaisleeve was a little busy putting on his clothes, and then helped Li Xian put on his clothes neatly. was still interrogating outside, and Ye Huaisleeve quickly combed Li Xian's long hair.

"Sure enough, it's from General Xiong's army, so where did the guests come from to see our lord?"

Fu Hunu looked at the paperwork and nodded and asked.

At this time, Li Xian combed his hair and listened attentively. I didn't hear Li Han's answer, but I heard someone say loudly: "Sun Wuji, the head of the Zhongmen of the Tang Mansion in Xiataiyuan, was ordered by the Tang Duke to come to visit General Li of Yanyunzhai!" ”

Li Xian's eyes changed, and then he laughed.

"Is that him?"

The smile on the corner of his mouth was a little ill-intentioned, he shouted in the car, called Fu Hunu to the side of the car and whispered: "Let them in, tell my master and grandpa, just say that I am not in the village, let them take our generals from Yanyun Village and entertain the guests...... Don't skimp on wine and meat, you see? ”

No matter how loyal and honest Fu Hu Nu is, how can he not hear the bad smell in Li Xian's words after getting along with Li Xian for so long?

He smiled hesitantly and said, "I understand, I'll send someone to take them into the cottage, and the wine must be enough, huh...... It must be enough! ”