The mountains are undulating, and the trails are full of dark shadows at dusk and sunset.

Li Xuan stood at the head of the city, carrying a long sword at his waist, pressing his right hand on the female wall, looking at the narrow mountain road in front of him and the steep peaks on both sides.

Those shadows seemed to turn into countless soldiers under his eyes, rushing towards the level.

Li Xuan stretched out his hand, and these shadow soldiers suddenly disappeared without a trace, turning into darkness again, quietly hiding under the mountains.

His right hand landed on the hilt of the long sword, and Li Xuan's eyes flickered, as if something appeared in his mind.

Faintly, he could see that two groups of soldiers were fighting each other under his eyes.

Wang Qin stood behind Li Xuan and couldn't help but ask, "Lord Wang, is there any feasible strategy for the terrain here?" ”

Wang Qin thinks that he knows this king of Nanchang quite well, and a person like the king of Nanchang, with a roll of his eyes, can immediately come up with five or six methods.

Li Xuan glanced back at Wang Qin in some surprise, nodded, and said: "Once the Tianyin Sect mobilizes troops, the number of troops will be at least thousands, and the mountain road is narrow, which is not conducive to the deployment of troops at all, so the best way for us is to force the other party to fight hard......

"Use bows and crossbows and catapults to kill and injure the Tianyin cultists on a large scale." Wang Qin somewhat understood.

He joined the army as a gongcao, and many things were insightful.

"Hmm!" A trace of hesitation flashed on Li Xuan's face, and he thought about it and said: "But the bow and crossbow and catapult, after all, we have to consider the battle damage, we may be able to have the upper hand at first, but after the bow and catapult are used up, I am afraid that I will have to fight with them when I wait for myself." ”

Li Xuan didn't like hard fighting, he shook his head and said: "If that's the case, I'm afraid I'll have to accompany myself in it, so before they arrive at Meiling Pass, we have to consume their energy as much as possible, delay their arrival at Meiling Pass, and make them walk longer and more tired on the mountain road." ”

"So the prince ordered the villages and cottages on both sides of the mountain road to be burned......" Wang Qin suddenly understood Li Xuan's plan, and blurted out a sentence: "It's still a plan to exhaust the soldiers!" ”

"This can only be done, using the strategy of exhausting troops, plus we and others have more ordnance than them, so that we will have a greater advantage, and a little accumulated advantage will become a victory."

"The lower official has been taught." Wang Qin looked at Li Xuan and stretched out his hand.

Li Xuan has been carefully calculating almost every step since he set out from the state city.

Step by step, he accumulated his own strength, weakened the opponent's strength, and won one victory after another.

And in the middle, even if there are casualties, the casualties have been reduced to the lowest possible level.

The key is that after several battles, Qianniuwei, Huijifu soldiers, and Wuzhou soldiers have gradually adapted to the rhythm of the war.

"Yan joined the army at the front to block the mountain road, and Brother Qiu took Qian Niuwei and the hunter-born soldiers to strangle all the remnants of it, and prevent the details of the fall of Meiling Pass from being exposed as much as possible, so that our advantage can be maintained until the Tianyin army is killed."

Li Xuan put his hands behind his back, looking at the rolling mountains in front of him, with a hint of ruthlessness in his eyes.

In order to ensure that his advantages could be retained for a long time, Li Xuan even sent Qiu Zhenmu out directly.

If it weren't for Qiu Zhenmu and their best efforts to stop them, I'm afraid Li Xuan would have killed them in person by now.

The purpose is to take advantage of these advantages and kill and injure the enemy as much as possible.

"Don't worry, the prince, we will be able to firmly guard the Meiling Pass, and don't let the Tianyin thieves have the slightest possibility of overstepping." Wang Qin gave Li Xuan a firm hand.

For guarding Meiling Pass and preventing Wuzhou from falling into the flames of war, Wang Qin and Li Xuan stood on the same position.

They are different from the local families in Wuzhou, only when Wuzhou is more prosperous, and only the officials who come here will have the opportunity to go to more positions.

Once Wuzhou falls into uncontrollable turmoil, then none of them should think about it.

The high emperor thinks more about what has always been a matter of cost and benefit.

If these people firmly hold the checkpoint of the Tianyin Sect's southward movement, then the emperor will definitely not be stingy with the addition of officials to the knighthood.

But if they let the Tianyin Sect invade Wuzhou, and Wuzhou will be eroded, then their careers will come to an end.

If these people can successfully block the Tianyin Sect from Wuzhou, or even enter Wuzhou in turn and destroy the Tianyin Sect, then they will be tantamount to making a peerless feat.

It is comparable to the victory of the left prime minister Liu Renliang in Baijiangkou, and it is not impossible to pay homage to the prime minister when the time comes.

"It depends on how strong the Tianyin Sect is, how many people they will send to Meiling Pass, if there are too many enemies, we should keep the useful body first, after all, as long as there is us, they will always be afraid of three points, if there is no us, who knows what they will be crazy about." Li Xuan shook his head slightly, he didn't approve of blindly sticking to it.

Wang Qin was slightly stunned, and then suddenly said: "It's the lower official who is presumptuous." ”

Li Xuan is the king of the county, he is still young, and he can not be a driver in a state, but if he makes too much merit and forcibly sends him to a higher position, it will definitely be a curse or a blessing for him.

"It doesn't matter, in fact, in the eyes of this king, what if you let it go a little, what if Meiling Pass is lost...... If we can directly annihilate more Tianyin thieves on the Wujiang River, then when the time comes, the merit will be greater than the fault. Li Xuan turned sideways and looked southeast.

Unconsciously, the wind became louder and louder, but no one noticed.

Under the dark sky, a little shadow of the Wujiang River can be faintly seen.

It stretches for a long time, converging down from the Pan'an Mountains, then north to Jinhua, then westward to Lanxi, and finally from Lanxi all the way north, crossing the rolling mountains, passing through Tonglu, entering Fuchun, and finally entering Hangzhou, reaching the East China Sea.

If the vast Wujiang River is used well, Li Xuan and others located in the upper reaches will have a great advantage.

"Joining the army, Zhuge Town, which is not far from here, you should know, so what is the most memorable thing in Zhuge Kongming's life, and do you still have an impression of joining the army?" Li Xuan suddenly mentioned Zhuge Kongming.

"It's a straw boat borrowing arrows." Wang Qin nodded, and then he said: "But that's just a folk romance, "Three Kingdoms. The Biography of Lord Wu and Wei Luo both record that the protagonist of this incident is Sun Quan, the master of Wu. ”

"Yes, what is really worth writing about is the battle of Chibi." Speaking of this, Li Xuan turned around and asked: "Do you still remember the battle of Chibi, the comparison of the strength of the Cao army and the Sun-Liu coalition army." ”

According to the records of the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", the strength of Cao's army should be about 150,000, 100,000 descendants and 50,000 Jingzhou soldiers who surrendered to Cheng; Sun and Liu joined forces, Liu Jun had more than 30,000 people, Sun Jun more than 50,000 people, and 21 numbers. "Wang Qin is just from the Taiyuan Wang family, and he is very familiar with these things.

"Yes, Cao Mengde, who fought in the Battle of Chibi, has not gone south all his life, and the general trend of the world has reversed, and we are now following the example of the sages, and we may not be able to beat the Tianyin rebels." Li Xuan's expression flashed with an unimaginable look.

Zhuge has been good at water and fire all his life, which is what Li Xuan has always longed for.

As for other battlefield fighting skills, they are not as good as skillful use of time.

Between the handovers, hundreds of thousands of enemies were completely reversed in an instant.

"Lord Wang, please be cautious, you and I can talk about this, if someone hears it......" Wang Qin suddenly whispered a word to Li Xuan, and Li Xuan was suddenly slightly stunned.

Wang Qin's words suddenly made Li Xuan silent.

When Gaozong Li Zhi was alive, Li Xuan was the emperor's cousin.

Once Li Zhi passed away, whether Li Xian ascended the throne or Li Dan ascended the throne, he was a veritable imperial uncle.

If Liu Bei is mentioned casually, it will inevitably make people think more.

Li Xuan suddenly thought of Jinhua's Sangu Villa, Zhuge Town in front of Meiling Pass, and now he suddenly mentioned the Battle of Chibi, these things, as if there was an invisible hand, guiding him in a certain direction.

But Li Xuan knew in his heart that the invisible hand that was really guiding him secretly was himself.

Suddenly, Li Xuan smiled slightly.

It seems that after going back, you have to change the name of Sangu Villa, from Sangu to Sigu.

Look in front, look back, look left, look right, look around the villa.

"It's a pity, between you and me, we can't get too close after all." Li Xuan sighed lightly, stretched out his hand and asked: "Let's go, join the army, accompany this king to carefully inspect the defense of this city, how long I can wait here in the future depends on how well we are prepared." ”

Wang Qin paused slightly, but then said solemnly: "Subordinates obey the order!" ”

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The whole Meiling Pass, the south is high and the north is low, from the plane point of view, the Nanguan city wall and the Beiguan city wall are at the same level.

The reason for this is because the Beiguan city wall is one meter higher than the Nanguan city wall.

It was the height of this meter that made it more than twice as difficult for the Tianyin Sect to attack the city.

"If we can recreate some special shields, the height is just right to be able to go from here to there, so that even if there is a catapult on the Tianyin Sect's side, we don't have to worry about it at all." Li Xuan was on the city wall, walking from north to south, exactly four meters wide.

"Four meters?" Li Xuan frowned slightly, this data is a little difficult to handle.

"Actually, you don't need to cover them all, there are a few sides, and then let all the soldiers retract into it, after all, I won't be full of soldiers on the city wall like the Tianyin Sect guarding the city, we will use more crossbows and catapults." When Wang Qin mentioned the catapult, he couldn't help but pause slightly, and then looked at the city.

This height, this slope.

All of a sudden, the power of the catapult immediately increased by half a percent, so that their chances of success in defending the city would be higher.

"In this way, it will be troublesome to join the army and Mr. Feng here, this king has to write a letter to the envoy, in addition, Hangzhou and Yuezhou also have to send a letter to urge, so how early can the two families support, I don't know how much less to sacrifice when I wait here."

Li Xuan bowed his hand to Wang Qin seriously, and then explained a few more words, before turning around and leaving.

Walk around the whole key interior and make a little more arrangement.

Li Xuan returned to the Captain's Mansion and inspected the various official offices, and then Li Xuan returned to the temporary official office.

Waving his hand to let Li Zhu go down, Li Xuan took care of himself and wrote a letter on the table.

Hangzhou Assassin's Mansion, Wuzhou Governor's Mansion, and Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, Li Xuandu wrote a letter to introduce the situation in Wuzhou in detail.

He didn't ask for help as soon as he opened his mouth, and if he asked for help directly as soon as he opened his mouth, it would inevitably make people feel too embarrassed.

In the letter, Li Xuan calmly recounted everything he had done during his time in Wuzhou, and at the same time expressed his concern about the imminent attack of the army in Muzhou, and begged several seniors to give some assistance.

For the current situation, Li Xuan restored it as realistically as possible, without exaggerating the description.

He didn't want his negligence to end up in an uncontrollable lapse of the situation.

After writing the letter, before I knew it, it was late at night, and it was almost time.

Li Xuan washed up a little, and then went to rest on the couch in the back.

At this time, except for a few soldiers on duty, the vast majority of people in Meiling Pass also fell into a deep sleep.

The fighting of Chenshi, and the fact that there was only a full day of labor, made people quickly fall into a deep sleep.

At this time, under the bed in Li Xuan's bedroom, the floor suddenly overturned, and then a figure appeared under the bed.

Lilac breast-length skirt, long shawl hair, a look of resentment, and fire in his eyes.

He Qing'er, the daughter of He Zheng, who joined the army in Wuzhou.

She never left Wuzhou, but quietly hid in the secret compartment under the bed of the captain of the guard, and quietly killed in the dead of night.

And at this time, lying on the couch was her killer.

A cold light flashed, and a short sword was pulled out of its scabbard.

He Qing'er walked to the bed step by step and looked at Li Xuan, who was breathing evenly.

There was a flash of anger in his eyes, and the next moment, the short sword had already stabbed down fiercely.

Suddenly, a hand flashed like lightning, grabbed He Qing'er's wrist directly, and then pulled it down hard.

He Qing'er's whole body immediately fell uncontrollably on the bed......

(End of chapter)