The night wind was bleak, and the air was filled with the smell of blood. Apart from the sound of horseshoes coming and going and killing, there seemed to be no other sounds in the entire capital city. In other words, even if there were other sounds, they had long been buried in the Among these more domineering voices.
Xue Poye knew immediately that the north gate of the capital had been breached, and all the Habayashi guards knew that they would be the ones who would fight to the death next.
Every Habayashi Guard in the Habayashi Camp has undergone strict training, so they have the courage to fight any opponent. The bursts of horseshoes and billowing smoke did not bring them the slightest panic.
"My lord, it seems that they will be here soon." Gong Yangyue had always kept a smile on his face, but this time there was no smile on his face.
Xue Poye leaned against the wall of the gatehouse, looked up at the night sky, and said calmly: "Come on, come early."
The flames shot up into the sky, and the Habayashi guards on the upper floor of the palace heard the cheers of the rebels coming in from all directions. Everyone knew that the rebels should have attacked the city of Kyoto from all directions.
The garrison was able to last for several hours, which gave the Habayashi Army a precious time to deploy their second line of defense. In any case, they are a group of soldiers worthy of respect.
The sound of fighting did not stop because of the rebels' destruction of the city. There were still shouts and miserable cries from all sides. The battle in the capital city was still going on, but it probably wouldn't last for too long.
Although Xuanyuanchou had not been in office for a long time, he successfully fulfilled his responsibility as the defender of the capital.
"It seems that Xuanyuan's defense is more ominous than good." Gong Yangyue looked at the front of the flames, shook his head and sighed: "In our capital, Xuanyuan's defense is the only one who can really lead troops to fight."
Xue Poye said calmly: "It is inevitable for a general to die on the battlefield. A real soldier dies on the battlefield, but he deserves to die." He said leisurely: "Just teach me... the horse leather shroud...!"
His voice is a bit vicissitudes, perhaps at this time, no matter who sings the voice, it will taste like this.
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After a fierce battle, the four armies of the rebel army attacked the capital city from all sides. Although the defenders of the capital fought desperately, they were outnumbered and became weaker and weaker. There were countless casualties among the generals, and the more than 10,000 Kyoto garrison, under the pincer attack of the four armies, was finally left with very little.
As for the rebels, there were also nearly 10,000 casualties. The four gates of the capital flowed into rivers, and corpses piled up like mountains. The smell of blood, through the night wind, permeated the sky over the entire capital city.
The defenders were either killed or captured. Under the flag of the Fourth Prince, except for some rebels who blocked the four gates, the four armies merged into a line and attacked the palace from the main gate towards the Yang Gate.
In front of the tens of thousands of troops, there were criss-crossing residential streets. The rebels could only be divided into a dozen long snake-like teams, ready to cross the streets and gather at the square in front of Chaoyang Gate.
According to Liu Guogong's suggestion, more than a dozen routes of long snake troops should be led by the officers and soldiers of the Wuzhou battalion as the snake heads, and the guards from the two battalions of the Southern Forest and the Northern Forest will follow behind. The fourth prince naturally agreed to this suggestion without hesitation.
The officers and soldiers of the Wuzhou camp were not idiots, and Yin Huangda, the prefect of Wuzhou, was not even a fool. He knew that this was to use his army as cannon fodder, but under such circumstances, how could he raise objections.
The rebels are still afraid of the purple-clothed ghosts of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Kyoto Prefecture, and they also know very well in their hearts that those ghosts may come out from somewhere. The rebels would definitely not be surprised when a group of purple-clothed spies came. Those dark killers themselves were not normal people.
Those were the dark forces carefully cultivated by His Majesty the Emperor. They were not seen when they attacked the city, so these dark personnel were either guarding the palace, or hiding in the shadows of the criss-crossing streets, waiting for an opportunity to come out.
The most elite cavalry were at the forefront of the Wuzhou camp.
After a tragic siege battle, these cavalry were the most vigorous force to maintain. In the siege battle, the cavalry of the noble arms did not participate in the siege, and the 800 cavalry in the Wuzhou camp just stayed silent. In the rear, after waiting for the city to break, they rushed into the capital city in one fell swoop.
The fully armed cavalry were as fast as lightning. After they rushed into the city, they were undoubtedly demons that fell from the sky to the garrison troops who had fought hard.
Like chopping melons and chopping vegetables, most of the garrison died at the hands of these cavalry.
Although they were the last to join the battle group, the blood on their blades was much more than other arms of the brother army.
Although they knew that the most powerful dark troops of the Great Chu Kingdom would be hidden in those peacefully hidden houses, the cavalrymen sat high on their horses. This kind of pride made them underestimate the danger they were about to face.
The sound of rumbling horseshoes sounded in the empty street.
The layout of Kyoto itself is very characteristic. In front of the majestic imperial palace, there are many houses, but there are more than ten fan-shaped avenues in a regular manner. At first glance, it looks like traces of light emitted by the imperial palace, or like a peacock spreading its tail.
The Qizhou cavalry rushed to the street first. The clean and smooth street was paved with bluestone, and the strong horseshoes stepped on it, making a "da da da" sound. It's like a movement with a clear rhythm.
It's just that maybe the knights didn't know that this is the movement of death!
On the long street, galloping horses, the words of the fourth prince gave the soldiers a great temptation.
"Whoever rushes to the square first will be promoted to three levels in a row, and a reward of one hundred taels will be rewarded!"
There must be brave men under heavy rewards, and the Great Chu Kingdom has always had no shortage of warriors.
Sitting in the rear, the Fourth Prince was surrounded by Liu Guogong, Ye Guogong, Liu Tuo, Ye Dao, Huang Da and other main elements of the rebellion. Although Huang Da's face was calm, there was a strange light in his eyes.
Liu Guogong and Ye Guogong maintained the stability of the old man, but Liu Tuo glanced at Huang Da from time to time, his eyes were full of disdain and mockery.
When His Majesty the Emperor vomited blood, many courtiers began to feel emotional, but most of them still expressed their goodwill to the prince in a pragmatic manner. After all, the prince is the orthodox prince and future monarch of the Great Chu Kingdom.
It's just that Huang Da, governor of Mozhou, is very interesting.
This person has always been a very low-key person. He is close to the capital, so he is cautious. He has never had any famous deeds in the government and the public. He can only be regarded as a so-so official. If you are prosperous, you can live and work in peace and contentment.
Such an official is nothing more than normal.
But it's strange to say that after His Majesty vomited blood, the usually low-key governor of the state of Wuzhou unexpectedly took refuge in the fourth prince Liu Zifu's subordinates in secret at the first time, and he was extremely attentive and gave a large sum of money. Gold, silver and jewelry even hinted that the Wuzhou camp is at the disposal of the fourth prince at any time.
In this mutiny, the fourth prince really used him.
Since the mutiny, Huang Da has been active and humble. He is a very obedient character, but in Liu Tuo's eyes, he is just a dog used by the fourth prince.
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A dozen or so cavalrymen from the Haozhou camp rushed to the front, and the horses under their seats made thunderous hooves, ruthlessly breaking the tranquility of the street.
"hiss!"
The few war horses rushing forward were breathing the air of Kyoto vigorously, maintaining a steady speed, but at the same time, neighing in pain!
The neighing sound stopped from the middle, and several war horses fell to the ground at the same time!
The horse's heavy body smashed hard on the bluestone floor of the street, shaking up a few strands of dust, but the street seemed to tremble, the horse's head hit the ground heavily, and blood gushed out!
And the cavalry on the horses, no matter how good their riding skills were, were caught off guard by this sudden change and fell to the ground. The black poisoned crossbow shot out and pierced into their bodies fiercely.
At the same time when the first few horses fell to the ground and the cavalrymen were killed by crossbow arrows, countless hissing sounds suddenly came from the whole quiet street.
These noises did not come from the mouths and noses of those galloping war horses, but from the ground. The streets of Kyoto were paved with square bluestones, and the gaps between the bluestones were filled with loess.
Those hissing sounds came from the fine loess between these bluestone slabs.
At the same moment, the loess between the bluestone slabs on the long street suddenly cracked!
There seems to be some magical power on both sides of the street, and a thin black leather rope bounces from the cracked loess. The leather rope is too thin to be attached to the hook, but there is a faint light shining faintly, which should be quenched. Poison needles.
Dozens of specially made black tripping ropes suddenly and miraculously appeared on the smooth street just a moment ago!
Countless muffled sounds sounded at the same time, and the cavalry brigade of the Wuzhou Xing camp suffered a merciless blow at this moment. There were about thirty or forty cavalry in total. land.
All of a sudden, people on the street turned on their backs, screaming miserably. I don't know how many people had broken tendons and bones, and smashed together heavily, rolling and bleeding.
Immediately afterwards, the sound of swishing piercing sounded, these sounds were like the command whistle coming to harvest orders in the dark, it was frightening, countless black crossbow arrows shot out from the houses on the street, Shooting at the rebels who fell to the ground stopped their screams in an instant.
Those who raised the troops were immediately stunned, and stood on the ground for a while.
They thought that there would be hidden killers from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Kyoto Prefecture in this quiet long street, but they didn't expect that the other party's methods would be so quick, effective, ruthless.
At the same time, there were more than a dozen streets, the mournful hiss of people turning their backs on their backs, and the incomparably quiet dozen bluestone roads completely boiled at this moment.
But in an instant, there were more than a hundred dead people on more than a dozen bluestone roads. These dead people were all pierced with crossbow arrows, and the ambushers did not shoot their horses. Next to the dead body, he neighed in pain while kicking the horse's legs up and down.
The scene is extremely miserable!
The rebel army was blocked by this, and the cavalry was forced to pause, and the formation bound by the streets of Kyoto couldn't help but panic, but at this moment, they could only hear a few loud shouts from the army, and immediately Inside, the order was clearly and forcefully issued to stabilize the vanguard battalion.
Immediately afterwards, the shield-bearing soldiers caught up from behind, stepped on the pool of blood on the long street, bravely broke through the wooden doors of the houses on both sides of the street, and rushed into those dark spaces. The sound of killing, but the real situation of fighting can't be seen.
With a bang, a large hole was opened in a residential house, and a rebel covered in blood was stabbed to death and fell out.
At this time, in those houses, there are still many sergeants who are fighting fiercely with the subordinates of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Kyoto Prefecture who are ambushing here.
Ye Dao rode on the horse, staring ahead under the military flag, suddenly picked up the whip in his hand, and swung it down vigorously.
"Woo woo woo...!"
A rush of horns sounded in the fierce battle, so the sergeants who followed the soldiers bravely separated from the left and right, and rushed fiercely at the houses on both sides.
At this time, there were still screams on the long street, the sound of knives piercing bones in the houses, and the muffled sound of corpses falling to the ground, but it was extremely difficult to see the figures of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the subordinates of the Kyoto Prefecture. All I knew was that these people were by the street Murders are going on in the house.
Corpses flew out of the dwellings from time to time, mutilated corpses, some of the rebels, and some dark night ghosts in purple or black.
Many arrow holes suddenly appeared on the small houses on both sides of the street. The Metropolitan Procuratorate and the subordinates of the Kyoto Prefecture ambushed among them, armed with crossbows, killed the rebels who were standing in the open of the long street, and the blind rebels were hit by arrows one after another. fall down.
A dozen small long streets are more difficult to conquer than the four gates of Kyoto.
The horns of the rebel army are getting louder and louder. The generals of the rebel army know that if they want to get close to the palace, this is a bloody road that has to be killed. Therefore, during the sound of the horn, the rebel army rushed to the houses on both sides desperately. Dead, people continue to rush in.
The fight hidden in the dark is more frightening than the fight in the light like a beast.
The fourth prince and a group of people were riding on tall horses, watching the fight on the long street, they were all terrified, even the two princes who had seen countless fight scenes could not help but look solemn at this moment.
This is the dark force cultivated by His Majesty the Emperor. It is indeed terrifying. The tens of thousands of troops are actually blocked by these thousand dark killers on more than a dozen long streets, unable to move forward.
His Majesty the Emperor knows, I don't know whether it's joy or sorrow!
The dark force he cultivated by himself, with the strength of a thousand people, can stop the attack of tens of thousands of troops. This is naturally a miracle, and it is a place to be proud of and proud of. However, it is only a matter of time before these thousand elites perish. The sorrow of His Majesty the Emperor.
His dragon body has not yet been buried, but the dark warriors he has cultivated so hard will follow him into the underworld.
At the gate tower of the imperial city, Xue Poye and the Habayashi guards also witnessed the fight that took place on the long street. The screams that pierced the sky spread across the long street and spread over the entire capital, making people creepy .
Only at this time did Xue Poye truly see how powerful the dark fighters are.
Although he often heard about the terror of the Kyoto Prefecture and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he had never seen it himself, so he didn't feel much in his heart, but what happened today made him understand the horror of this force.
Maybe even Habayashi guards couldn't resist their attacks in the darkness.
The long and narrow street was filled with corpses that flew out of the houses, and the heavy corpses of horses that took up half of the street. Human corpses and horse corpses were mixed together, and the gurgling blood flowed in pools, spreading to the bluestones of the long street. In the gaps on the road, it is like the blood of the bluestone road, flowing, flowing... !
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On the thick palace wall and under the majestic gate tower, the prince hid in the gap between the two shields, watching what happened in front of him with terrified eyes, his face turned pale.
The civil servants of the Great Chu, headed by Lanwuqing Shuzheng, were standing behind the prince, looking at the thrilling scene on more than a dozen bluestone streets.
"Why don't you let the people in the city take up weapons?" The prince's voice seemed a little weak because of fear: "There are hundreds of thousands of people in the city. Could it be that the court is in danger, so they can only hide in the corner and watch helplessly?" ?"
This is a stupid remark, and the eyes of many ministers behind him are filled with disdain and even sadness.
There was even anger in Lan Wuqing's eyes, she didn't even look at the prince, she just said indifferently: "Does the prince want Kyoto to become a dead city?"
Anyone with a little knowledge of military knowledge knows that soldiers and civilians are two absolute extremes.
Soldiers have undergone special military training and are equipped with sophisticated equipment and weapons. They are killing machines. Countless killing machines work together. For ordinary people, it is a kind of demonic nightmare. Ordinary people are just ordinary people who work from sunrise to sunset. Some people may not even be able to kill a chicken, let alone kill people? Regardless of the means of killing or the courage to kill, the soldiers are absolutely strong. If the people of Kyoto are armed, not to mention the time and coordination it takes, but only the combat effectiveness. Block the car.
That would be a massacre of disparity in strength.
The prince could hear the dissatisfaction in Lan Wuqing's voice, but at this moment, he was helpless. Seeing that the rebels were about to attack, as the prince himself, he didn't know if he would see the sun tomorrow.
The sniping on the long street is still going on, but the rebels are strong after all. Although they have to pay huge casualties every step forward, they have already penetrated half of the long street in the human tactics, leaving a large area along the street. Corpses and blood.
It's just that the casualties of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Kyoto Prefecture were too expensive. By the time the rebels attacked half of the street, the dark fighters who had always been feared by the world in the name of darkness had already lost more than half of their manpower.
Surrounded by everyone, the fourth prince rode a steed and slowly stepped onto the long street.
In front, the soldiers quickly cleaned up the corpses on the long street, clearing a clean path for the Fourth Prince to move forward, but the blood in the air tangled in his nostrils, making the Fourth Prince's brows tightly frowned.
Marching forward with blood, victory... Maybe it's just around the corner!