The sound of iron halberds and steel knives continued, and the palace guards tightly surrounded the way ahead. At the same time, not far away, more soldiers shouted and rushed, thickening the encirclement layer by layer, forming a human wall full of swords.
Shan Chao wrapped Xie Yun in his outer robe, and glanced across the faces facing the enemy.
The black feathers all over the sky gathered suddenly, turned into a black sparrow, and stopped on the horse's back.
In the Shangyang Palace in the distance, Empress Wu stood at the top of the high and wide palace steps, and turned around to look at it, with indescribable shock suddenly appearing on her face.
"Come... come, pass on Ma Xin!"
The experience of standing on the political pinnacle for more than ten years made Empress Wu immediately calm down after just a moment. Ma Xin hurried up, before he could kneel down, he only heard Empress Wu shouting loudly: "How is your commander treating you?"
Ma Xin did not hesitate: "The kindness is as heavy as a mountain, and I wish to die!"
"… very good."
The wind blew from the sky, swept over the supreme woman of the Tang Empire, and lifted back her golden and embroidered dragon and phoenix robe.
"The guards of the palace have mutinied, and now they order the whole army of Beiya to enter the palace to protect the holy driver..."
Empress Wu paused word by word and said, "The time has come for you to follow suit to death."
"There is an order from the sage, Commander Xie of the Forbidden Army commits a rebellion, and he will be killed on the spot!" The guard stomped his halberd on the ground and shouted: "General Shan, please make way!"
"General Shan, make way!"
Zhentian shouted, the dark sword eyebrows of Danchao gradually picked up, and asked: "What if I don't let it?"
The chief guard said angrily: "The general wants to resist the order?"
"..." Shan Chao was silent for a moment, swords were tense all around, and countless eyes fell on his stern, sculpture-like face.
"Yes." Shan Chao said flatly.
Everyone was in an uproar, and the chief guard held his breath in his throat, and shouted: "Bold! Give it to me!"
As soon as the words were finished, a sharp arrow shot out from the crowd beside him, and was avoided by the spiritual war horse with a long hiss. Immediately afterwards, the guards roared loudly, scrambling to be the first!
Countless spears, feathers and arrows flew into the air, reflecting the vast sky, densely filling all vision. At that moment, the soldiers approached the city and fired their bows and arrows, but Shan Chao gently closed his eyes, and the darkness turned into a similar scene many years ago, and the deepest impression in his mind was Xie Yun's back that was always in front of him.
Long Yuan let out a long howl, and the air current rolled up on the ground like a thousand hectares of thunder, rushing in all directions.
The war horse raised its front hooves high, its vigorous body was almost perpendicular to the ground, and it slammed into the dense crowd!
The Luoyang palace stretches for thousands of slopes, and it has never been so chaotic as it is now. The imperial forbidden garden that everyone in the world yearns for has turned into a Shura field in an instant.
The long sword was like a rainbow, invincible, and the battle formation surrounded by hundreds of people suddenly became fragile and vulnerable, with steel snapping and people shouting and neighing one after another. Looking from a height, the direction of the horses is unstoppable. Countless soldiers were knocked out as soon as they saw each other. Fly!
"Stop him!" The head guard barely propped himself up from the ground, with blood pouring out of his mouth and nose, and a look of extreme horror flashed in his eyes: "Quick! Call for reinforcements! Stop him!"
However, Shenjun leaped in the air, like black lightning across the heads of everyone, and he had come to the end of the stone road in the blink of an eye.
-boom!
The horseshoe slammed heavily on the ground, and the shock wave shot out, like thousands of invisible sharp arrows, shaking the cavalry who had rushed forward to retreat!
"What is General Shan's intention to attack the Forbidden Garden?! Hurry up and catch him!"
The huge Luoyang Palace was awakened, and more and more soldiers came galloping from all directions. There were long spears on both sides of the road, and the knives formed an impenetrable iron net, smashing down on Shan Chao.
Every inch of space, every corner is full of sharp blades that glisten with cold light, and flesh and blood will fly everywhere if it touches the slightest bit. And Shan Chao showed no fear, the arm holding the war halberd had obvious muscles and bones protruding from the force, and forced a bloody breach in the net of heaven and earth!
The sky was overcast and cloudy, and thick water vapor gathered in the wind to form a torrent, washing every inch of land under your feet.
Shan Chao shot straight away, taking a deep breath of the salty air mixed with iron and blood. It is obvious that one step forward will lead to a steep abyss of hundreds of feet, and he may be smashed to pieces by a thousand arrows at any time, but at this time he is strangely without a trace of fear.
All his senses were concentrated behind him, Xie Yun leaned on the horse's back, his heavy weight clinging to his spine.
Infinite power came from the square inch where the skin was touching, and poured into the limbs and bones continuously.
"The Empress has a decree, the guards mutinied—"
"The rats are bold, and they will be caught soon!!"
Countless soldiers and horses suddenly poured into the forbidden garden, gathered into sharp arrows and pierced into the battlefield, instantly cutting the guards who rushed up wave after wave to pieces!
The accident happened suddenly. Shan Chao swept the halberd and split the horse of a guard in front of him in half. The deformed halberd tip sank deep into the horse's bone due to too many slashes. He sent the halberd forward fiercely, and the heavy horse corpse overwhelmed the guards who came one after another.
Taking advantage of this gap, he raised his eyes and found that those who came to support him in a steady stream turned out to be the Imperial Army of the Beiya!
—Who opened the gate of the palace to allow the Imperial Guards from the Beiya to invade
Guard mutiny? How is this going? !
Shan Chao looked far away, on the high platform far away from the palace gate, a figure with a golden red skirt was standing proudly facing the wind. In an instant, he understood something - the mantis catching the cicada and the oriole were behind, the emperor wanted to kill Xie Yun, so Empress Wu blatantly Inverted.
The change of Xuanwumen fifty years ago finally kicked off again in the Forbidden Palace Liangyuan beside the Luoshui River.
"The surname is Shan!" Ma Xin cut down the left and right guards in front, charged against the flow of people, and shouted sharply: "Put down the commander! Where are you going to take the commander?!"
... Where are you going
Shan Chao held the rein in one hand, and gently caressed Xie Yun's unconscious cheek sideways. The nails that had been turned up due to the violent slashing continued to ooze blood, leaving four trembling fingers on the gray and cold skin. mark.
Thousands of miles of rivers, thousands of hectares of desert, all hope recedes to the distant horizon, and they can't go back.
"... Mr. Ming," Shan Chao said hoarsely.
The black sparrow hidden in Xie Yun's skirt remained motionless.
"You still have to live under Tianhou's subordinates, so go away, this kindness can't be repaid..." Shan Chao stared deeply at Xie Yun, his voice trembling with sobs: "If you don't leave, I'm afraid I will implicate you later .”
The black sparrow flapped its wings uneasily, seeming very hesitant. Shan Chao turned around and took Long Yuan up, only to hear Ming Chongyan's struggling voice suddenly in his ears: "...wait a minute!"
The single super action paused slightly.
"Dragon-binding grass grows all over Fulong Mountain in Qianzhou. Wherever the grass grows, there must be clear springs. The spring water can detoxify the poison. Commander Xie was just wiped by the poisonous crossbow... There should be salvation."
A scorching light suddenly flashed in Shan Chao's eyes, but Ming Chongyan's voice was very urgent, as if he was forcing himself to finish speaking quickly without regretting: "Tianhou believes in Qinglong's words, and will definitely send someone to pick up Commander Xie when the time comes. Don't follow back to Luoyang City... go, General Shan, there will be a period later!"
"Shan Chao!" Ma Xin swung his halberd brazenly, cut off the guards who blocked the way, including men and horses, and ran wildly in the blood of the horses, and shouted: "Put down my commander!!"
-Ding!
The seven-star Longyuan collided with the steel halberd, and the great power of a thousand stones was condensed on the same point, bursting out a shining electric light.
Immediately, the two passed by, the weapons made a deafening friction, and the war halberd burst into cracks under the overwhelming pressure of Long Yuan!
Ma Xin roared: "You ungrateful..."
At this moment, the hand he stretched out to Xie Yun was caught, and the peerless sword reflected snow light, illuminating Shan Chao's face as hard and cold as black iron.
Ma Xin only felt an extremely hot energy from his wrist rushing straight to his heart, which made him lose his voice immediately, and then his eyes went dark, and his whole body flew out from the horse's back!
Ma Xin fell to the ground with a loud bang, and the first thought in his subconscious mind was that my life was over, but the expected severe pain did not come. Panting heavily, he got up from the ground and grabbed the halberd, which was extremely light. Only then was he shocked to find that the body of the steel halberd had bent in a terrible arc, and the lower half had been cut off abruptly and flew out.
"...!"
As soon as Ma Xin raised his head, the surrounding fights shook the sky, and he saw Long Yuan pointing at no one to stop, the horse turned into a black shooting star, and he didn't turn his head back to the palace gate!
There was a soft whoosh, and no one could hear it on the battlefield where flesh and blood were flying.
The black sparrow fluttered its wings and flew into the sky, and disappeared in the direction of King Yong's Beppu in a blink of an eye.
"Over a thousand forbidden troops, no one can stop him?" Empress Wu frowned: "Are you kidding me?!"
On the high platform, Empress Wu pushed aside the cronies who hurried forward to protect her, and strode to the stone wall. Looking down from a height, the Forbidden Garden has turned into hell, and the flames of war spread all the way to the Yang Palace, tightly surrounding the heart of imperial power.
The palace guards had almost no power to fight back against the strong and powerful elite imperial army. The barely formed battle formation was smashed to pieces in a very short period of time, and the remaining small groups gathered together could only be massacred. As far as the eye can see, there are overwhelming screams for killing, and tragic cries when he is dying.
And in the wave of blood and fire, a horse riding a divine steed rushed to the bottom of the high platform in an instant like a sharp knife going against the current!
Shan Chao raised his head and looked at Tianhouyao.
Although she was standing on a high place, Tianhou had the illusion of a position reversal in an instant, and she grabbed the wall with her hand wearing the jade finger guard: "—Shan Chao! Where do you want to go? Thank you!" Commander put down!"
Shan Chao closed his eyes slightly in front of her majestic and irresistible order, Long Yuan retracted his sheath, and snatched the bow and arrow from the soldier who was hacked to death beside him.
"... he is..."
Empress Wu's pupils were stern like thorns, and she suddenly shouted: "Close the palace gate! - He wants to break into the palace!"
Before the last word landed, the black horse raised its front hooves and galloped with all its might!
Gunpowder smoke and fire quickly retreated from the side, and the palace gate at the end of the road was towering, and countless soldiers staggered forward with bows and arrows on their backs. However, Shan Chao couldn't see, hear, or feel anything; the feathered arrows all over the sky turned into tiny spots of light, and all he could see was the huge red copper door that suddenly activated.
"kill-"
"kill!"
The arrows covered the sky, the horse leaped into the air, and Shan Chao drew the bowstring at the very top.
——Everything I have learned, everything I have experienced, is for this moment, for your sword, no one can stop it.
As if the sky was full and the moon was full, the sharp arrow flew out spinning, leaving afterimages in everyone's sight.
Immediately afterwards, the soldiers who closed the door were nailed to death, and the arrowhead remained undiminished, knocking the copper door forward with a bang!
The soldiers yelled in horror, and everyone on the high platform was terrified. Empress Wu's eyes showed a complex look of shock, anger and a little bit of relief.
The billowing flames rolled towards the gloomy sky, and I saw the war horse passing through the rain of guns and arrows, straddling the heads of everyone, and rushing out from the gap in the huge palace gate!
The war horse leaped to the ground, and the bricks and stones turned into splashing powder under the horse's hooves. Shan Chao's powerful right hand grabbed the arrow handle on his left shoulder, with a muffled grunt, he pulled out the arrowhead without hesitation, and threw it away amidst the blood splattering. He immediately picked up Xie Yun behind him, picked him up in the air, and hugged him tightly. in his arms.
Flesh and blood are inseparable, as if the long parting of the ten years in the middle has never existed.
The horse did not stop for an instant, and ran away in the southwest direction, and soon turned into a distant black spot under the gaze of the Empress of the Empire.
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—End of volume three—