Outside Meiling Pass, a team of exhausted government soldiers was rapidly retreating towards the city.

Li Xuan, who was standing on the tower of the city gate and was talking about something, saw this scene and hurriedly beckoned to Zhou Shen, Qiu Zhenmu and Li Zhu: "Let's go, go down and have a look." ”

"Whoa!" Qiu Zhenmu, Li Zhu, and Zhou Shen hurriedly agreed, and then quickly followed.

After Zhou Shen arrived at Meiling Pass, he put forward a lot of improvement measures.

Although many places are just some increases and decreases in numbers, after this increase and decrease, the power can be exerted even more than before.

As soon as he walked down the city gate, Li Xuan saw that the previous team of government soldiers was rushing in from outside.

Each of them had a trail of blood on their bodies, and several had bandaged wounds.

Despite looking tired, the long knife was still tightly held in his hand, and the murderous aura was cold.

Yan Tao, who was standing on the side, counted the number of people one by one, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

"Back to the prince, this is the last batch, and the number is not lost." Yan Tao bowed back to Li Xuan.

"Hmm!" Li Xuan nodded lightly, and then looked at the leader with a solemn face: "What happened?" ”

"I happened to run into a few spies, and my subordinates were greedy, so I went to kill them." The guy arched his hand, and his face was a little embarrassed.

"It's okay, just look at the way you look, you know that you have killed all your opponents, which is good." Li Xuan nodded with satisfaction.

"Thank you for your leniency." After a pause, the gang leader hurriedly said: "My subordinates have found out, and in about half a day, the anti-bandit vanguard will arrive under the city pass." ”

Li Xuan glanced sideways at the dusk and sunset in the west, nodded, and said, "Okay, go down and rest, Captain Yan, take a turn." ”

"Whoa!" Yan Tao immediately bowed down and agreed.

"Thank you, Lord Wang!" Several government soldiers immediately bowed their hands to Li Xuan with surprise on their faces.

Li Xuan waved his hand, and the government 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 the wooden stakes deep into the ground, and then used another head to push the dead city gate.

The gates were hard to shake for a while.

At this time, Zhou Shen, who was standing on the side, asked with some curiosity: "Your Majesty, why don't you use stones to completely block the city gate, and the last general heard that the prince was in the state city, so he did this?" ”

Everyone knows that they, the king of Nanchang, have always been cautious and will not leave a little gap for their opponents.

Although the method of inserting the wooden stake diagonally into the ground is strong, no matter how strong it is, it is not as strong as sealing the door directly from the bluestone strip.

"Isn't this wanting to give everyone a little more opportunity to build up their feats?" Li Xuan smiled lightly, looking at the disbelief on everyone's faces, he said lightly: "If it is the 10,000 army of the Tianyin Sect outside, then this king will definitely seal the city gate, but only a thousand, I don't think it's enough for the three of them to stuff their teeth, so we can only find a way to keep them all here as much as possible." ”

Li Xuan's last sentence was completely revealed.

The Tianyin Sect came to Wuzhou this time, and there were only a thousand people.

Li Xuan occupies the advantage of the city gate, and he not only has to completely defeat it under the closed city, but even wipe it out.

Raising his head, Li Xuan looked at the sky in the northwest and said softly: "The battle to defend the city is not as pleasant as the head-on encounter and the pursuit and raid, but the battle to defend the city has the excitement of the battle to defend the city...... Everyone, think about it, there are not many such opportunities in the entire Datang. ”

Sent directly to the emperor's desk, just this sentence, everyone present immediately breathed heavily.

Seeing this scene, Li Xuan smiled faintly: "Meiling Pass is not only the key point of the Tianyin Sect's southward movement, but even once the troops are dispatched from here, they can immediately enter Jiande, and even go straight to the city of Muzhou; Therefore, the Tianyin Sect will definitely not let go of Meiling Pass, even if they mobilize countless troops, they will take Meiling Pass, the thousand people in front of them are just appetizers, but it is enough for this king, and Your Majesty, to take a look at your quality. ”

"What the prince said is very true, the lower officials and others will definitely do their best." Zhou Shen gritted his teeth and gave up his hand solemnly.

Li Xuan smiled with satisfaction, and then said, "Since this is the case, then the guards of the city gate tonight will be handed over to the captain." ”

Zhou Shen immediately surrendered his hand: "Don't worry, don't worry, you can rest assured, there is a general, and there will be no accident at the city gate." ”

"Then this first level will be handed over to Brother Zhou, I'll go back and sleep peacefully first." Yan Tao had a little helplessness on his face.

He was just one step slower, and the first opportunity was snatched away by Zhou Shen.

Li Xuan, as the lieutenant of Guoyi of the inspection committee, has a total 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 head of the guard of the Nanchang Palace, and the captain of the Inspectorate Mansion is only temporary, and it is Zhou Shen who really has Yan Tao.

However, the goals of the two sides were different, and Zhou Shen was not very interested in joining the Huiji Zhechong Mansion, and his purpose was to gain favor from the center through the king of Nanchang.

Li Xuan, the king of Nanchang, is still very young, but in the future, moving forward, the history of a state assassin is at least indispensable.

If he does a good job, in the future, let alone a school captain, even Guo Yi Du Lieutenant and Yizhou Sima have hope.

……

At seven o'clock, the sky will be dark, and there will be darkness between heaven and earth.

The entire Daciyan Mountain Range, like a lurking giant beast, bowed its head in the darkness.

Meiling Pass, like an iron hoop, was stuck on top of the giant beast's head.

But if the giant beast awakens, then the entire Meiling Pass will also be completely overturned in a very short time.

Just when many guards on the checkpoint couldn't help but fall into a deep sleep, suddenly, a rush of footsteps sounded outside the pass.

The people at the city gate were immediately awakened completely.

When he raised his head, he suddenly saw that outside the city, in the darkness, several figures were rapidly approaching.

The torches on the city gate were thrown down in an instant, and everything in the darkness was completely brightened.

The three messengers in blue robes looked at the city with panicked faces, and under the firelight, although they couldn't see people's faces clearly, the cold long arrows were already aimed at them.

"Don't let go of the arrows, we are Jiande soldiers, and we are ordered by the border county order to send a message to the envoy of the king of Wuzhou, please open the city gate and let me wait to enter." Cold sweat broke out on the head of the servant at the head, and he immediately lifted the package on his body: "The official document is here." ”

"Official documents, identity papers, and plates are put in a basket together." Zhou Shen poked his head out expressionlessly, beckoned to his side, and a basket had already been put down.

The servant hurriedly put the package and his identity document in the basket, and soon the basket was raised.

It didn't take long for Zhou Shen's voice to come down from above again: "Alone, come up in a basket." ”

The servants below looked at each other, looked at each other, and the soldiers led subconsciously asked, "Shangguan, don't you wait to open the city gate?" ”

"The gates of the city are sealed, and no one can open them, so if you don't want to come up in baskets, then please go around the mountain from that side."

On both sides of the castle, the mountains are steep, and the road around the mountains is also long.

If it is Zhang Wanyu, Ye Wanwan and Zuo Fei, it is just a matter of returning it, and if it is someone else, it is purely looking for death.

And no one knows what it will be after going around the mountain.

If, after all the hardships and fatigue, what awaits you is the blade of the officers and soldiers, then the gains outweigh the losses.

"The villain obeys the order!" The head of the servant looked bitter, but then sat down in a narrow basket, and was pulled up to the city gate tower by the soldiers above.

As soon as he got out of the basket, the servant hurriedly threw his hand to an officer who looked like a lieutenant in front: "Villain......"

The sound of "poof" came directly from the back of the soldier, although it was extremely painful, he subconsciously turned sideways, but in the end he could see his blood spurting directly from his waist like a fountain, and the person completely lost consciousness.

Immediately after, two hanging baskets were lowered from above.

Zhou Shen's cold voice sounded: "You all come up." ”

The two servants below glanced at each other, just took a step forward accurately, and entered the hanging basket, at this time, I heard one of them suddenly raise his head, look at the head of the city, and shouted: "Brother Yang, let the above prepare more good wine and food, brother has worked hard, and the wine worm has come up." ”

As soon as the voice of the servant below fell, he stared at the city gate tower above.

However, there was not the slightest sound at the city gate.

The faces of the two servants below immediately couldn't help but change.

Subconsciously, the two of them couldn't help but retreat backwards, wanting to stay away from the city gate.

At this time, on the city gate, Zhou Shen's voice came coldly: "Release the arrow." ”

In an instant, several long arrows shot down directly from the city gate, and the two soldiers retreated frantically in an instant, but they were also directly pierced through the chest in an instant, and blood suddenly bloomed.

There were two "bangs", and the two corpses had fallen directly to the ground.

The torches that were thrown on the ground were still burning.

Zhou Shen looked indifferently at the depths of the dense forest in the distance, and a sneer of disdain appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Luo Chuan, who was in the dense forest, his face became extremely ugly in an instant.

Just now, in fact, the person who was going to step forward to open the city gate was Luo Chuan, if it wasn't for the fact that his subordinates were a little worried at the critical moment, stopped him, and replaced him, then at this time, it must have been Luo Chuan who died here.

"Kill!" With a cold drink, Luo Chuan couldn't help but take the lead in rushing up.

The next moment, more than a dozen big men had already taken advantage of the night and quickly killed the city gate.

These people are very cunning, the tall ones rush to the front, and the shorter ones hide behind the body of the person in front of them.

Directly dodged the sight of the archers above.

More than a dozen people were divided into two rows, front and back, and rushed towards the city gate at a rapid speed.

The road in front of the city gate is narrow, and there are only two lanes of traffic on weekdays, but if one car is damaged, the vehicles behind it will be immediately blocked.

These narrow roads simply could not accommodate many siege soldiers.

The terrain is extremely unfavorable for the besieging side, but extremely favorable for the defending side.

"Shoot the arrows." Zhou Shen's cold voice came.

A three-foot-long crossbow bolt fell rapidly from the city gate tower, all of which shrouded the heads of a dozen people.

Almost instantly, half of the big men below were missing.

"Second round!"

"Whoosh", more crossbow arrows shot straight down from the city gate tower.

In the blink of an eye, all the big men who had no shelter had fallen.

"Stop shooting."

Zhou Shen's indifferent order came, and the crossbow above immediately stopped firing.

In an instant, the entire city gate fell silent.

Under the city gate, it became dark again, and at this time, a figure with more than a dozen crossbow arrows stuck in his body kept moving forward in the darkness, moving out of the shooting range of the crossbow arrows little by little, and moving farther away little by little.

Suddenly, a ray of fire shone on his face.

He subconsciously turned his head and saw Zhou Shen on the tower of the city gate at a glance.

At this moment, Zhou Shenzheng looked at him playfully, and then opened his bow and arrows.

The two arrows of "whoosh" shot straight forward, and in a blink of an eye, they were nailed to Luo Chuan's left and right legs, and then nailed into the ground.

Then let him cry out and let him bleed to death.

(End of chapter)