At the Commissioner's Government Office, Li Keyong looked at the letter in his hand silently for a long time, and his expression was capricious. The civil officials, advisers and trusted subordinates who were sitting on both sides looked at Li Keyong on the main seat nervously, they were afraid to breathe.
Li Cunxiao, for whom Li Keyong had great expectations, had seventy thousand troops and assumed at Yizhou City. He had a private correspondence with Li Ye even when the war was so intense!
In Li Ye's letter, a large part of the content was persuading him to surrender. His words were extremely cordial and enthusiastic, full of admiration for Li Cunxiao, and the rich conditions of commitment made the onlookers envious!
Not only that, Li Siben, whom Li Keyong arranged in Yizhou to help Li Cunxiao, was actually monitoring him and reporting his actions back to Li Keyong. The Imperial Army had been attacking the city for many days, but they didn'
Li Keyong was the commissioner of Hedong, and he controlled the military and political power of Hedong. The official position of magistrate in Taiyuan was also in his hand. Apart from Li Keyong, the two vice magistrates in Taiyuan Prefecture had the highest real power. Zhong Meili was one of those two young vice magistrates. He was in his fifties and was from prominent family in Taiyuan. His cultivation remained stagnant after reaching the Qi-refining Level 4, thus he had no hope of being promoted to the Qi-refining Level 5. However, this did not hinder his stature. On the contrary, as a core figure representing the power of the Taiyuan native family and controlling power in the government office, Zhong Meili had a solid "mass foundation." All this could be attributed to his transcendent wisdom in the ways of the world. Because of this, Zhong Mansion was always a place that was crowded with visitor. There were many high ranking
Changning Community was an insignificant region in Taiyuan city. It was neither rich nor poor, and was a common area, but there were people from all walks of life. Dongxi Restaurant was an ordinary wine shop in the Changning Community. It was located in neither a lonely nor busy street. Meanwhile, its interior decor was simple but elegant, without any bright spots. Therefore, the guests were all the usual common crowd. When it got dark, Dongxi Restaurant closed early as usual. The lamps that lit up the backyard were rather dim. It was evident that they used inferior lamp-oil, as it gave off an unpleasant smell. The only advantage of the lamp-oil was that it was cheap. However, the workers in the store, who were preparing the food materials for the next day, did not care about that, because they could not afford such lamp-oil in their daily lives. In this era, people started work at sunrise and retired at sunset. Only the wealthy families in
Li Keyong did not want his people to quarrel anymore, so he asked Fang Qingzhen directly, "What's your opinion?" Fang Qingzhen was one of Li Keyong's three great advisors, so his opinion had always been highly valued. Now, he said, "The root of the issue about the 13th Grand Guardians is that he has connections with Prince An. Rumors are not groundless. Now, everyone in the Hedong Army is panicky, which has seriously affected the general situation. To give everyone the true picture and quell the unrest, we must evacuate the 13th Grand Guardian from Yizhou!" Li Keyong nodded without speaking, and sank into deep thought. Fang Qingzhen believed that Li Cunxiao must go back to Hedong. After a while, he asked the Secretary, "What do you think?" "The 13th Grand Guardian assumed personal command in Yizhou and pinned down Li Ye and his almost 300,000 troops. He made contributions rather than errors. If we replace him without any real evidence, the o
Li Ye said this in an assertive tone and continued with a smile, "Although the Black Office lost some people in Taiyuan city, it's only a small price we will inevitably pay for the big action." "There is no intelligence and assassination yamen under Li Keyong. With only yamen runners and ordinary officials, he can't uproot the Black Office in Taiyuan city. I'm sure you will agree that the Black Office is well hidden in Taiyuan city. Even if Li Keyong's subordinates dig deep, they can't distinguish them from ordinary people." After listening to Li Ye's words, Song Jiao gave him an angry stare. Li Ye continued, "It does not matter if there is no rumor that Li Cunxiao will defect in Taiyuan city. A rumor does not have to last forever if it existed once. It has successfully caused instability among the various powers of Taiyuan. And, Li Keyong's prestige has declined a lot. Most importantly, Li Keyong now has doubts about Li Cunxiao."
With the help of the monks from Land Buddhism, Li Siben could escape if he wanted to. However, he insisted on fighting to the death on top of the city wall. Thus, he met with death. Li Sien was not the commanding general of Yizhou city, so he had less responsibility. Even if the war failed, he could comfort himself that he was not any better than Li Cunxiao, on the excuse that he was not the one who arranged and organized the troops. So, he left. Li Ye saw from the air that Shangguan Qingcheng had killed Li Siben. He also saw the route that the elites led by Li Sien broke away and escaped. However, he did not chase after them because he knew that Li Sien could not have fled to Taiyuan city. While attacking Yizhou city, he ordered the Zhaoyi Army in the three counties in the northwest of Yizhou city to block the road and forbade them to let the defeated Yizhou soldiers flee to Taiyuan city. Li Ye took a look at the northwest. Ac
He could recapture Fenzhou. Even though Liu Dazheng repaired the city's defense more than a month ago and had 100,000 soldiers, he could break through Fenzhou in three days and reverse the current pitifully unfavorable situation for Taiyuan as long as he was given a strong force. Otherwise, once Li Ye from Yizhou in the southeast and Liu Dazheng from Fenzhou in the southwest sent troops to Taiyuan at the same time and eventually joined forces there, then Li Keyong would really lose the general trend. He would have no retreat and have no choice but to fight desperately. But how many ordinary people and soldiers would still support him at that time? If the soldiers had low morale and no fighting spirit, how would they face Li Ye's elite Pinglu soldiers who had high morale? Li Cunxiao thought he could recapture Fenzhou and turn the tide of the battle. But he couldn't meet with Li Keyong. Li Keyong would
The sky was turning bright. In the south of Taiyuan, there was a steep mountain in the desolate land. On the summit, Li Ye stood against the wind on top of the pine tree, his hands clasped behind him as he quietly looked at the beautiful eastern sky scene. When the sunlight shone over the land, mountains, and crept up Li Ye's shoulders, the people he was waiting for appeared. It had been seven days since the Imperial Army surrounded Taiyuan. In these seven days, the Imperial Army didn't take any action, and Li Ye looked like he was going out for a visit and to camp outside Taiyuan. Li Ye had been waiting for seven days with many Great Cultivators and more than 300,000 troops, so the people he waited for were, naturally, very important. Li Ye raised his head slightly and looked at the people coming towards him. In the red clouds, two immortals with an untainted temperament walked toward Li Ye as easily as walking o
Chen Jizhen was furious about Li Ye's provocative remark. He immediately turned his wrist and took out his magic treasure. It was a rough golden machete, shining with colorful light. It was obviously not an ordinary thing. While Chen Jizhen was about to fight, Huang Jingyuan suddenly pulled him and shook his head with a dark and cautious look. They were not afraid of Li Ye since they dared to come here. What was more, they had to solve Li Ye by the way. Li Ye took the initiative to leave the heavy protection of the army and appeared in the wilderness, against common sense. He also provoked them, the cultivators in the Sky Immortal Realm, with arrogant words. If Huang Jingyuan couldn't understand it was a fraud, he was stupid. Chen Jizhen turned to glare at Huang Jingyuan. "Why are you trying to stop me? This guy is deliberately mystifying us. Let me kill him!" His attitude was resolute and he had no scruples. In h
Seeing the steep appearance of the black rhinoceros elite cavalry of the Returning Righteousness Army, Buddha Zi was already very shocked, and when he realized that a large swathe of cultivators were in black, stepping on the rolling yellow sands and rolling towards Yangguan, his eyes were about to stare out.He knew that Dunhuang's Returning Righteousness Army, could possibly support Yangguan, but those 5,000 light cavalry yesterday afternoon were already the limit of the troops he thought Zhang Huaishen could mobilize.The reason why he was so sure of this was because before initiating the Battle of Yangguan, the Sect of Release had already secretly contacted Sohun and said that they would work together inside and outside.Originally, this matter seemed redundant to Buddha Zi, who didn't think that the tiny Yang Guan, with a mere 10,000 generals, could hold back his army of 50,000 cultivators. In Buddha Zi's view, this is completely flat to give Suo Xun a rich an
The remaining sun was like blood, but it spread a layer of golden radiance to the inside and outside of the Yangguan.Off the wall below has been a bloody piece, almost can not see the rammed earth and yellow sand, not to mention the flow of blood in the body, only hanging in the female wall of broken limbs, broken everywhere in the bowels of the intestines, doubly so shocking. With this layer of gold rendering, even showed a few points of holy meaning.It was a pity that the sun set in the twinkling of an eye, and when countless fires appeared inside and outside of the Pass Wall, the bursting aura light clusters, flashing sword aura blade lights, overflowing colorful auras, and countless warriors running and fighting in either bright or dark light, with shadows and shapes like ghosts, set off the dilapidated and majestic Pass City as a ghost city.Li Ye knew the battle wouldn't last much longer.The monk regiment has been killed and wounded more than half, t
The reason why he told Suo Zhang's this, Suo Xun's purpose was clear to gain his wife's understanding and support. After all, Suo Zhang was Zhang Yichao's daughter, and her prestige among the Zhang family members was not low.This is something that Sohun has been doing all along and has basically been confirmed, if not, he wouldn't be telling his wife this right now, but would have imprisoned her instead. To emphasize it again right now as the big event is being unleashed will help to strengthen his wife's morale.Putting on his armor, Sohun came to the council chamber.The dignified subordinates and staff in the residence had already waited for many things, and his close generals in the army, including some of the Guazhou-based Returned Army Provisioners Great Cultivators of the Real Life Realm had also been notified to rush over.Launching a mutiny and mastering the Returning Righteous Army was a major event that Suo Xun had been planning and preparing for
Seeing that the Buddha son had gone berserk, the monks began to attack Yangguan regardless of the casualties, countless cultivators of the high qi practicing stage swooped down to the place where the turquoise blue star feathers were emanating from, and Zhang Huaishen went to work with arranging for the good fighters in the Returning Righteousness Army to start a battle-within-a-battle with the opposing side around the magic weapon bed and crossbow formations after he had reported a word to Li Ye."The magic weapon bed crossbow is indeed an unrivaled weapon in the sand, if the number can be doubled, the range will be able to cross-cover all the open space in front of the pass, and as far as defending the city is concerned, the Tang army can be invincible. This kind of artifact, is really unbelievable!" Chu Nanhuai was overwhelmed with emotion.This statement of his kept the crowd nodding.Li Ye, however, did not comment.No matter what kind of world, the impr
Seeing Zhang Huaishen and the great cultivators behind him, the Ming King immediately changed his face and screamed out in a dark voice, all of a sudden his fighting spirit was completely gone and he drew himself up and was about to fly away, while at the same time shouting sharply to the other Vajra Realm great cultivators, "Stop him!"Li Ye would not let him have his way, activating his Step by Step Sword Style to cut down the several Vajra Realm members in his way, and unfolding his stance to hurriedly chase after the Ming King.Some of the surrounding Vajra Realms were confronted head-on by Zhang Huai Shen and the others, and had no choice but to catch and fight with them, while the other part hurriedly chased after Li Ye from the two flanks in order to cope with the Ming King.Seeing that there were still two Vajra Realm high ranks in front of him blocking the way, and that the Ming King was fleeing so fast that he was about to arrive behind the Monk Corps For
Li Ye's aura had been consumed so much that he was left with 30% to 40% of it, and if the Sect of Release was ruthless, he would only have enough to sustain a battle.But the truth was, he couldn't spell out all of his aura, or else there wouldn't even be any room for him to get away.The situation was already very difficult at this point, and Li Ye was still about to face the situation of being at the end of his rope no matter how much he saved.Thinking about it, the next battle could only focus on relying on the power of the magic weapon bed crossbow.With this in mind, he called Peng Zushan over and asked him if he could further refine the use of the magic weapon bed crossbow to make it more useful.Peng Zushan said bitterly, "Your Highness, not to mention boosting the power of the magecraft bed crossbows, it's good that they can still be used in the next battle. In this battle just now, two of the ten mana bed crossbows broke, one was destroyed by
Quantitatively speaking, the deaths and injuries of thousands of monk soldiers did not have an essential impact on the monk corps, at least the white sea of them running towards the Yang Pass wall once again was still so turbulent and surging that they could not be seen at a glance.Between battles, Peng Zushan ran up to Li Ye, red-faced and stammering, and asked if King An could repel a few more attacks from the thief vultures if he had the chance, so that they could do a few more siege impacts, and the magical weapon bed crossbows on the barrier wall, and the various magical weapon bows that they had modified, would be able to play a greater role.Because the magic weapon bed crossbow had just been equipped, their previous estimation of the power and range of the bow was inadequate, the placement was flawed, and there were shortcomings in the crossbow's cross-coverage, leaving room for improvement in the lethality inflicted on large-scale siege armies.Now after
As soon as the sword style was activated, Li Ye's figure disappeared into thin air, and the thirty-odd Vajra Realm members simultaneously felt a chill go straight to their heads, as if they were falling into an abyss. That was the sign of extreme danger descending, and they couldn't help but all change their colors drastically.The leader of the monks just roared "disperse", just to see in front of the companions of several people neck blood spray, round head spinning flying into mid-air, no matter how hard the following words, can not say a word.Suddenly he found his vision spinning in the sky, as towering towers, crumbling walls, tidal waves of monks, blue skies, and even a white-gold sun slipped past his eyes one after another. Finally his sight returned to his companions, and he saw that they were looking at him in the same way that he had looked at the monks whose heads were suddenly flying across the room.Steeply, he noticed that a headless body that was be
The siege began suddenly, 50,000 monks and soldiers holding Zen staffs, dharma swords, shields and other blades and weapons, the rising tide of the sea like a violent sweep towards the pass; the siege began logically, because they had gathered outside the pass for a long enough time, and the generals and soldiers of the army of the Returning Righteousness at the head of the pass had long since finished preparing for the battle.Long days of winter sunshine, the four fields of sunshine, rolling smoke and dust at the feet of the monks and soldiers who could not see the edge of the sea, wave after wave tumbling up, this is the yellow sea of mud and sand, without half an exaggeration.The gateway trembled, a fine dust swirled up half an inch from the rammed earth walls, and a wisp of fine sand poured down.In the trembling is not only the Yangguan, the land outside the same, neat footsteps over the sound of war drums, as if a burst of thunder, Wood a face will be throu