People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 499

In the dark yellow tent, Li Xuan sat alone in front of the short table, with a serious expression on his face.

The green bamboo brush in his hand sketched quickly on the paper.

A scaled-down catapult, a high-up parabola, and a simple green hill all appeared in his pen.

"The fireball still has to be half a catty lighter, and the throwing arm has to be a foot longer."

While Li Xuan was talking to himself, a long dotted line was drawn out, and finally it was only 20 meters away from the peak of Qingshan...

"My lord!" A voice sounded from the door.

Li Xuan raised her head subconsciously, her expression eased, and she said, "Come in."

Yu Ze opened the door curtain and walked in, he glanced at Li Zhu in one corner from the corner of his eyes.

Li Zhu was hiding in the shadows, as if he couldn't see, but he was there.

When he walked up to Li Xuan, Yu Ze cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, the soldiers of the Kuaiji Mansion attacked for a day today, but at most they only reached the mountainside before they were smashed down by rolling stones... There are too many rolling stones on the mountain. It's like endless."

"How could it be endless." Li Xuan put the bamboo pen aside, looked at Yu Ze with some amusement, and said, "At most, there are people transporting up from the back non-stop, and there are always attacks from above. Constantly consuming, but at this time, what is being consumed is manpower.”

Li Xuan looked up at the door, and said seriously: "Today, what Duan Dudu used was actually just a feint."

Yu Ze understood immediately: "It turned out to be the prince's strategy to exhaust the army."

Li Xuan picked up the rice paper on the table and threw it into the water basin beside him, the water basin soon soaked the rice paper.

A bamboo pole stretched in, and everything in the water basin was completely messed up in a blink of an eye.

"Come on, let's go out and see."

Li Xuan picked up the Eight-faced Han Sword on the table, adjusted her armor, and walked out of the tent.

As soon as the curtain was lifted, a burst of noise came to my ears.

Li Xuan looked up, and suddenly saw a black object being thrown high into the sky, and then smashed hard on the mountainside.

It exploded with a "pop".

"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 charge up the mountainside, they can easily use the long shield to stabilize it. Similarly, because of these long shields, the top of the mountain has to keep dropping rolling stones."

Li Xuan nodded faintly, the usefulness of these long shields is not difficult to see through.

Fang Fengjin used this method when he was at Meiling Pass,

……

On the mountainside in the distance, more than a dozen soldiers carefully avoided the rolling stone above their heads, then grabbed their long shields, and immediately retreated to the sides.

The long shield was tilted, and the rolling stones and trees 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 trees was confined to a small area in the center, and the speed of the subsequent soldiers rushing up the mountainside was greatly increased immediately.

"My lord, over 100 meters, can you make it up?" Yu Ze looked at Li Xuan expectantly.

Li Xuan shook her head slightly, and said, "If you don't care about the cost, you can go up, but what happens after you go up?"

"Huh?" Yu Ze didn't understand what Li Xuan meant.

"After rushing up, everything will be the same as before at Meiling Pass." Li Xuan turned around and walked out to another place where craftsmen were.

Yu Ze's expression immediately turned serious.

When they were at Meiling Pass, thousands of people were killed or injured by the Tianyin Sect.

Although the Meiling Pass was broken in the end, it was burned to the ground by Li Xuan.

If they followed what the Tianyin Sect did that day, they would inevitably end up in the same situation today.

Once their troops are damaged too much, it's hard to say whether they can continue to encircle and suppress, or they may even be forced to repress Muzhou by Tianyin Sect's counterattack.

While following Li Xuan closely, Yu Ze turned his head to look in front of the camp in the distance.

Standing in front of countless soldiers, Duan Baoxuan seemed to be in command, and he couldn't tell that he was covering for Li Xuan at all.

Yu Ze knew in his heart that Duan Baoxuan and Li Xuan had the same concerns, so the battle to attack the mountain looked 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, other people in the entire camp also counted on Li Xuan.

……

"Three-stage throwing arm." Li Xuan pointed to the newly improved catapult, and said in a deep voice to 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 fierce fire oil wooden fireball, the other is tung oil grass fireball, the other is water-soaked grass fireball, three kinds..."

Li Xuan talked about the time and method of throwing different fireballs one by one. Before I knew it, it was already sunset,
The surroundings suddenly fell silent, Li Xuan raised her head, and immediately saw Qiu Shenji who was standing beside him very solemnly.

Equally serious, there are 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 cupped her hands: "General Zhonglang!"

"27 Lang!" Qiu Shenji looked at Li Xuan with a rare seriousness, and asked solemnly, "Have you ever prepared for tonight's offensive?"

Li Xuan looked back at the soldiers and the catapult, then turned to look at Qiu Shenji, and replied seriously: "It will start in an hour."

"Okay!" Qiu Shenji breathed a sigh of relief immediately, cupped his hands apologetically, and said, "One day today, two hundred soldiers from Kuaiji Mansion and Huangshan Mansion were either injured or killed. The price to pay will be greater.”

Li Xuan nodded solemnly, and then looked straight at Qiu Shenji: "It is not difficult to attack Heilongling, and it is not difficult to build a bridgehead. It is rare to defend against the counterattack of Tianyin Sect, and then take down the entire Heilongling in one fell swoop." , it depends on the efforts of General Zhonglang and the others."

At best, Li Xuan could be regarded as a person who came forward to come up with ideas, and it was up to these people in front of him to really fight the Tianyin Sect head-on.

"As long as you can stand on the top of the mountain, then if you can't take it down, the prince can directly cut off our heads." Qiu Shenji looked extremely cold, and although his voice was not loud, it spread far away.

All of a sudden, the people not far away had clearly heard Qiu Shenji's words, and their expressions changed slightly.

"Don't dare, taking Black Dragon Ridge is just one part of this battle. Later, there will be the main altar of the Tianyin Sect, and the empress. Everything depends on you." Li Xuan bowed slightly to the crowd.

At this moment, everyone's expressions changed slightly, and they hurriedly bowed to return the salute: "Don't dare, everything is the job of the subordinates."

If the former words were said by Li Xuan as a member of the army, then the latter words were said by him as the current county king, even faintly representing the entire royal family.

None of the people present were deaf, and they had heard some faint rumors.

Not to mention, the two in front of me are the former Jinwuwei Zhonglang General, and the other is the inspector Qianniuwei Zhonglang General.

Just these two people, before this incident, took office in Wuzhou and Shezhou on both sides of Muzhou at the same time, which is enough to show that the saint's attention is serious.

Li Xuan stood up, looked at the crowd solemnly and said: "This king still needs to make some preparations, everyone, please do your own thing."

"Excuse me!" Qiu Shenji immediately cupped his hands, then turned and left.

Others also left together.

Li Xuan turned around again and summoned many pitchers to make tense arrangements.

Now almost everyone's eyes are on them, and they can't help being nervous.

……

Huai Jin followed Qiu Shenji to a distance, lifted the curtain for the last time, and slipped into a tent.

One water tank after another was placed directly in the middle of the tent, and more than a dozen soldiers buried their heads deeply in the water tanks.

After sixty breaths, there was a "crash", and more than a dozen soldiers raised their heads one after another, and then breathed heavily.

These soldiers quickly retreated to one side, followed by more soldiers coming 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 said in a low voice, "Nanchang King's training method is very simple, it is simple breathing training, and then hold your breath, hold your breath, if you can hold it, He stays."

"Why does he want to practice holding his breath?" Qiu Shenji suddenly opened his mouth and looked at Huai Jin, as if a trace of doubt suddenly flashed: "It is said that sneaking in the dark, even if you don't make a sound, you don't even need to breathe, right? What can you do within a short time?"

"Who knows, the King of Nanchang must have his own ideas." Huai Jin shrugged indifferently.

Qiu Shenji waved his hands, and said with a serious face: "The King of Nanchang is not that kind of careless person. He has his own ideas and designs in everything he does. His thoughts are so meticulous that he can't notice a small place. It may be a big loss.”

Huai Jin seemed to be woken up all of a sudden, he sighed slowly, and said, "Indeed, the King of Nanchang is not that simple."

Thinking of the loss he suffered at Li Xuan's hands, Huai Jin's heart ached, but he had to admit that what Qiu Shenji said was reasonable.

"But what is his plan for doing this? Hold your breath, hold your breath, it doesn't look like it's raining these two days, the wind is also west wind, and the fire attack will not work at all. What exactly is he trying to do?" Huai Jin looked at Qiu Shenji, and looked at him. A puzzled look on his face.

Qiu Shenji thought about it for a long time, and thought about many explanations in his mind, but he couldn't figure it out. He finally shook his head and said, "We still need to keep an eye on the King of Nanchang to see how he arranges, there will always be clues."

"That's right." Huai Jin's face showed a hint of ruthlessness.

Two middle-aged people in their late forties didn't feel ashamed at all to calculate Li Xuan, a child under twenty.

Half an hour later, the two returned to the place where the catapult was placed.

However, everything has been placed in place, but Li Xuan is missing.

There was only Qiu Zhenmu beside the catapult, standing on one side in a red dress and gold armor.

Qiu Shenji stood there very steadily, and didn't step forward to ask, but Huai Jin, looking restless.

The time was up soon, and suddenly, Qiu Zhenmu didn't wait for Li Xuan to appear, directly raised his right hand and shouted loudly: "Throw a stone."

Twelve fireballs had been thrown into the halfway up the mountain in an instant, and the firelight instantly illuminated the halfway up the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, a group of black-clothed soldiers have begun to climb the mountain slowly.

"Silang, the King of Nanchang, why didn't you come?" Qiu Shenji finally couldn't bear it, and looked at his own nephew.

"Uncle, it's been a whole night tonight!" Qiu Zhenmu turned his head and looked at Qiu Shenji, feeling a little helpless and amused at the same time.

But then, he said with a serious face: "Reporting to General Zhonglang, the prince is currently recharging his energy, and he will appear in the middle 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.

(End of this chapter)