Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Xie Yun stepped forward and stood beside Empress Wu without saying a word.
Empress Wu asked, "Did you see it?"
Xie Yun, however, did not follow her gorgeous fingertips to look at the battle formation on the distant plain, but asked instead: "The Empress Dowager wants to use me as a threat?"
"I think too much." Empress Wu said, "You have been operating in the forbidden palace for many years, and the old department of the Beiya government has not been dispersed. Everyone is watching with wide eyes. If you are pushed out as a shield, let alone it is useless, wouldn't it be Responding to the words of the rabbit dying and the fox mourning first?"
"What did you call me to do after that day?"
Empress Wu cast her eyes on Xie Yun, and laughed for a long time: "The apprentice you brought up with your own hands came all the way to destroy our country in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. How can I not let you see with your own eyes that his head is in a different place and his body is smashed to pieces?!"
"Let out the cavalry and get on the crossbow!" Empress Wu let out a terrifying roar: "Kill them all outside the city gate!"
The horn of the charge resounded through the sky and the ground, and the cavalry on the left and right flanks of King Qin's army rolled up dust like a hurricane.
Under the gate of the city in the distance, the vanguard of the Xiaoqi Battalion launched a row of thousand-stone crossbows, and the burning kerosene barrels smashed towards Qin Wang's army all over the sky!
Shan Chao withdrew his gaze from the city tower, his face was watery and expressionless, he blocked all Li Jingye's hesitant questions, and said coldly: "Chang'an is surrounded by eight waters and is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is enough food and grass in the city. Under such circumstances, it is not difficult to defend the city for more than a month, but the morale of the southern army will be wiped out. Therefore, we must win a big victory today, otherwise it will not be enough to comfort the hearts of the people in the world. Come on, let's attack the city!"
Li Jingye said in a low voice: "The general's family is all in the city, if the Wu family is cruel..."
This is usually not said before the battle, but Li Jingye knows that there are facts whether he says it or not, and he just wants to appease him at this time. Unexpectedly, Shan Chao was unmoved when he heard the words, only a sneer slowly appeared on the corner of his lips.
Ever since he watched the miracle of destiny in Luoyang City happen in front of his eyes, the British public had some indescribable fear and fear towards Shan Chao. At this moment, he stared at the invisible smile lines, and inexplicably smelled a strong bloodlust breath.
Shan Chao didn't answer him, and suddenly whipped his horse:
"drive!"
The cavalry responded generously, and followed him towards the rain of fire!
"Please take refuge temporarily!"
The guards swarmed forward and pushed Empress Wu backwards. Arrows rained from the city tower to the battlefield. forward!
With a swing of Shanchao's halberd, dozens of enemy soldiers around him were thrown off their horses, and they were instantly turned into bloody mud by the rolling horseshoes. The stacks formed an iron wall, which was pushed backward by the arrow.
Snapped!
Shan Chao held the hot arrow body, raised his bow with his backhand, and the steel arrow rose high into the sky like a meteor against the overwhelming torrent!
Yu Wenhu dodged to dodge, cursed loudly, and saw the steel arrow sticking to his body, and shot through the head of the soldier in an instant!
"Report—Li Zhishi faced the enemy head-on and was beheaded from his horse!"
"Report - Ma Jingchen was defeated before the battle and has been captured alive!"
"Report!"
As soon as they met each other, the two fierce generals were damaged one after another, and no one could block the power of Shan Chao's sword
Yu Wenhu ruthlessly pushed away the reporting soldiers, ran down the tower himself, and led the heavy troops out of the city!
At this moment, the battlefield has completely turned into a meat grinder, and countless corpses are piled up in the trenches. Shan Chao led the cavalry he personally brought out in various battles all the way, relying on his superb riding skills to avoid the heavy crossbow fire, while Li Jingye, who was guarding the Chinese army, made people keep loading the siege crossbow, and the cooperation between the two was extremely exquisite , The torrential rain of 10,000 tons of boulders smashed the Chang'an city wall into deep pits one after another.
The front line continued to advance towards the city tower, and the rushing car crushed the flesh and blood and galloped forward. King Qin's army could be said to be one after another, almost holding the ladder under the city wall with countless corpses!
Yuwenhu let out a roar, and the horse charged forward with all its strength, and slammed into the enemy's vanguard, knocking dozens of cavalry backwards in an instant!
Clang—
Sparks splashed in all directions, and the swords clashed. Shan Chao and Yu Wenhu brushed past each other, and the two turned around at the same time. After a few more moves, the strength of the swords overturned the surrounding infantry.
"You traitor!" Yu Wenhu roared: "Today I will completely solve you!"
When there was a deafening bang, Yuwenhu's long spear slashed towards Shanchao's neck, but Shanchao didn't dodge it. While holding the gun, the halberd passed close to Yuwenhu's head, and flew away in a thrilling manner. His helmet!
The soldiers applauded loudly, and the helmet flew far away into the battle formation, but Yu Wenhu snatched it, and the huge force like Mount Tai bent the halberd in Shan Chao's hand abruptly!
Shan Chao exhaled hot blood, and threw away the halberd with his hands.
The steel halberd, whose wrist was hundreds of kilograms thick, landed heavily, splashing blood-soaked mud. Immediately, his back muscles tensed, the compression spring vibrated, and the roar of dragons roared all around, and he pulled out Long Yuan with his backhand!
A scorching snow light flashed across Yuwenhu's pupils.
For a moment, he vaguely saw the green dragon spiraling up into the air from the sword body, he saw it clearly, but before the fear arose, he was suppressed by himself, instinctively let out a violent roar, raised his spear and stabbed.
—However, at that time, no one could read Manifest Chao's sword moves.
Hearing the clash of swords and soldiers in mid-air, like heavy rain hitting pear blossoms, or like countless sharp blades scraping people's faces, all the cavalry staggered and retreated, and even the brave horses couldn't help neighing in fear. In the blink of an eye, the dust billowed and blocked everyone's sight, and the whirling light of the bluish-white forest cut the wind and sand into countless pieces.
Bang!
An unusually bright sound tore the eardrums, and half of the gun body was seen spinning into the sky!
"you!"
Yu Wenhu's roar was like a dying beast, and in the next moment, two heavy objects fell to the ground, and the two of them fell off the horse's back at the same time.
The horse stomped and turned around, and the cavalry rushed forward in shock. At this moment, Shan Chao knocked Yu Wenhu over with a heavy and ruthless punch, and stabbed down with his sword like lightning!
At that moment Yu Wenhu really thought he was going to die.
He subconsciously closed his eyes, and then, the chill passed by his ears, and he stabbed into the dirt!
"..." Yu Wenhu opened his eyes tremblingly, turned his head, and Long Yuan's sword that cut iron like mud was facing his pupils.
The cheers of the cavalry were earth-shattering and spread rapidly into the distance. Yu Wenhu closed his eyes, and the memory of his disastrous defeat by this person in the East Tour Palace that year flashed in front of his eyes. After a long while, he trembled and said fiercely: "...you kill me!"
Shan Chao's head and face were covered with blood and dust, but the dim yellow sun reflected from behind him, and half of his face showed an extremely rigid, straight, cold and stern and irresistible outline.
"You have acted faithfully, what is your crime?" He asked indifferently, stood up and shouted: "Come on, take him down!"
Yu Wenhu couldn't believe it, and was immediately pulled up by several soldiers and taken down, only to see Shan Chao walking towards the horse, turning on his back, and swiping his long sword.
Jianfeng reflected dazzling light under the sun, and his steady voice spread in all directions: "Follow me to kill—"
"Kill!" The cavalry responded brazenly, rolling up the torrent of charge, rushing towards the city gate in black!
boom!
The chariot ran rampant among the crowd, and the siege crossbow on the vehicle threw huge boulders. With the earth-shattering noise, it left a large number of cracks on the city gate.
However, immediately after, hundreds of kerosene barrels were thrown on the wall of Chang'an City Tower, and several flaming fire bombs hit the rushing car head-on!
The whole car was instantly bathed in the skyrocketing fire. The flames crackled the wood, and the soldiers yelled fiercely. They all jumped out from the heights with flames all over their bodies. After rushing several miles away, everyone's expressions on the battlefield changed dramatically.
"General Shan!" Li Jingye was drenched in blood, and rode forward from the rear, almost furious: "The city is about to be destroyed! What should we do?!"
-what to do
Shan Chao frowned, looking through the billowing black smoke, he saw that the city gate was crumbling, as if it could be knocked down as long as he rushed over and stretched out his hand; however, in this gap where no one could step forward, countless soldiers in the city were swarming up, racing against time Fortify the gates.
What should we do now? !
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"Report!"
"General Yuwen was defeated in front of the battle and was captured alive!"
There was an uproar on the tower, and Empress Wu suddenly got up: "How could it be?!"
Behind her, Xie Yun let out a sigh of relief, his tight shoulders slightly relaxed.
The ladders are built on the city wall, and countless Qin Wangjun are continuously climbing up. The top of the city tower is like boiling water. Everyone is running, everyone is shouting, and the sky is covered by dense bows and arrows.
In a corner that no one noticed, a young man in black climbed up the steps and stood in front of the gatehouse.
"who?"
As soon as the soldier who made the sound finished speaking, a cold light flashed in front of his eyes, and the head rushed into the air with blood trailing.
The people around were terrified, and three or five soldiers shouted subconsciously at the same time: "Stop!" "Don't move!" "Escort, there are assassins!"
The soul-snatching hook slashed backhand amidst the fan-shaped blood. Wherever the hook blade touched, stumps and broken arms flew up. The young man hooked his hood down with his little finger, revealing short fiery red hair and a sinister smile on the corner of his mouth.
In the distance, Tianhou turned her head abruptly, and was startled and furious: "Jing Ling?"
Jing Ling stood up, and in an instant, five or six feathered arrows were nailed to the place where he was standing. His black-clothed figure passed over everyone's heads like a god of death. Almost every step he took, several people were cut in half by the huge iron hook. Everyone changed color in horror, screaming and backing away!
"Cover the Empress!"
"Quick, hurry up and escort!"
Surrounded by her own soldiers, Tianhou staggered back to the side door, only to see Jing Ling stop, standing in front of Xie Yun, staring at him indifferently, with a heavy soul hook coming down from top to bottom—
With a pop, half of Xie Yun's cheek was spattered with blood, and the guard behind him was chopped into several pieces silently.
Jing Ling withdrew the soul-capturing hook, cut off the black iron chain on Xie Yun's wrist, squinted at him for a moment, and mocked: "Come with me, senior."
Xie Yun rubbed his wrists, let out a long breath, shook his head and smiled without answering, then picked up a bow and arrow from the corpse of a soldier on the ground, and walked towards the city wall.
When passing by, Jing Ling frowned suspiciously, followed him and turned his head, only to hear Xie Yun's smiling voice: "Bai has been called a senior by you for a few years, but he hasn't taught you anything. You should complain when you say it." I don't care about my juniors anymore."
"..." Jing Ling's expression was half loose and half vigilant, he hesitated for a while and said: "The head has already contacted the gang of trash Beiya imperial guards to meet him under the tower, and asked me to take you down, you..."
"I'll go later." Xie Yun said softly, put the steel arrow on the steel arrow with his slender fingers, and drew the bowstring.
The pale sun slid iron light on the ridge of the arrow, the bowstring was full and stretched like a full moon, and the arrow pointed at the direction of Shan Chao on the battlefield.
"Can you shoot?" he asked.
"..." Jing Ling provocatively said: "Yes. What, you teach me?"
In the distance, Shan Chao's horizontal sword immediately looked at the arrowhead that reflected a star of cold light high in the sky.
"Well, I'll teach you." Xie Yun raised the corners of his pretty lips: "I'll only teach you once, watch it."
As soon as the words fell, Xie Yun suddenly turned the arrow, raised his breath and let go!
hum—
There was a distant sound when the arrow came off the string, Xie Yun let go, five nails burst at the same time, and the iron bow fell to the ground and shattered into several pieces.
In the next moment, the sharp arrow suddenly turned into a blue dragon, and in the focus of tens of thousands of people, it let out a roar that shook the world!
The gatekeeper screamed in despair amidst the bang, but it was too late. Even the fastest and most agile cavalrymen can only feel the killing arrow piercing through the air, and the huge body of the giant dragon passing over their heads.
Immediately afterwards, the huge bearing on the top of the city gate exploded, and under the impact of the dragon's head weighing more than 10,000 jun, it shattered into countless powders!
- snatch!
With a heavy sound, the arrowhead was nailed to the city gate. The heavy door that lost its bearing support immediately trembled, sawdust filled the sky and the rope twitched, and it slowly fell down under everyone's shocked eyes.
Before the dazzling brilliance of the arrow breaking the door completely dissipated from the sky, the tens of thousands of troops realized an unbelievable fact at the same time—
The city is broken.
The precarious city of Chang'an was finally broken.
"Guard the palace!"
Empress Wu's roar spread all over the country. Correspondingly, a loud horn for an all-out attack was sounded on the battlefield, and then the horseshoes and heavy luggage rumbled loudly, shaking the entire plain!
Nothing can stop this iron cavalry from charging towards Daming Palace.
——The precarious Li Tang royal family, finally, under the leadership of its new successor, once again rushed to the pinnacle of world power.