Chapter 1 The monster is coming
The sun rises in the east, and there are thousands of colorful clouds.
The golden morning light casts long shadows of the gray and gloomy mountains of Huangshi Mountain on the Xiaoyao Pond. There are no ripples in the lake, and not even a breath of wind blows across the hundred-hectare mirror surface. The wild sounds of Yanzhou in the center of the lake are silent, and everything in nature seems to be carefully hiding.
I got up, for fear of revealing my whereabouts and attracting evil spirits on the island. Only the Xingyue Altar with flags fluttering was noisy and crowded with people under the bright lights. Officials and craftsmen were making final preparations for the heaven-sacrifice ceremony. The shady trees blocked the morning light.
The night is not far away yet, the light still has to wait.
A purple smoke column rose into the sky from the south bank of Xiaoyao Pond. The sharp-eyed soldiers of Xuanjia Battalion saw it and felt that the smoke column was a bit strange, so they immediately reported it to their superiors. He Fugui, the commander of Xuanjia Battalion who was stationed at Xingyue Altar, came to the stage to take a look. In the hazy morning
He could not clearly see the situation where the purple smoke was rising, but today was the emperor's ceremony to worship the heavens. There could not be any mistakes. He Fugui immediately sent a team of scouts out of the island to go ashore to investigate carefully.
The three scouts just got off the winding bridge connecting Shuangzhou. Ahead of the road, they could already see a group of stragglers rushing to the shore. They watched intently. A group of honor guards tilted their ceremonial crowns and tore their auspicious clothes, and they were all panic-stricken.
Like lost dogs, looking behind them, the Xuanjia soldiers wearing the same equipment as themselves threw away their helmets and armor, covered in blood, and fled, pushing the honor guards in front of them.
The scouts responded immediately and sent one person back to the continent to report He Fugui. The remaining two people separated and rushed to the Xuanjia Army. No need to ask, the defeated soldiers had already shouted at the top of their lungs.
"Prince Ying has rebelled! Prince Ying has rebelled! The Crown Prince has run away!"
The scout reported back to the continent and concisely reported what happened to He Fugui. He made a prompt decision and issued the military order. A team of a thousand people quickly assembled in the south of Xingyue Altar. Just as he was about to set off, his neck suddenly went cold, and his eyes rolled over.
On the ground, the last thing he saw was his headless body and his deputy carrying a bloody knife.
Just when the golden dawn lit up the tallest leaf in Yanzhou, the first miserable red blood flower burst out in front of the Xingyue Altar. Then, strange and beautiful blood flowers bloomed everywhere, and the blue-white Xingyue Altar was covered with blood flowers.
It was eaten away and finally dyed crimson, and all the craftsmen, supervisors, and officers were cleansed.
A brown-gray torrent, led by a white spot, quickly engulfed all the souls on Yanzhou, leaving only the black-armored Xuanjia Army and the Tuqu people in fur coats and fur hats. The torrent was like mercury pouring down the ground,
They quickly surged across the Jiuqu Lingqiao and ran headlong into the defeated soldiers who had been pinned to the shore by the scouts. Blood spattered and screamed. The inexplicably frightened defeated soldiers almost lost the courage to scream. They opened their eyes wide and scattered.
His eyes and cleft mouth disappeared from the world layer by layer.
The brown-gray torrent ended the rout like a melon or a vegetable, advancing straight towards Yong'an Gate without slowing down, followed closely by Tequ Jingqi and the Xuanjia Army who had changed their generals.
The earthquake gradually started and thunder rolled. When Yu Zhan climbed up to the city and looked out, he saw thick smoke and dust rising from the Yellowstone Mountain. Purple lightning flashed back and forth in the smoke. He didn't know what drastic changes had happened in the mountain. While he was in a trance, the soldiers urgently reported the enemy's situation to the north.
From where the smoke and dust rose on the official road, a group of cavalry rushed towards them. Their uniforms were very strange, and they were not flying flags. For a moment, they could not identify their group. Looking back, the yellow smoke column had not yet risen in the imperial city, and King Ying had not succeeded in forcing the palace.
, I must stick to Yong'an Gate and not let any troops who disrupt the plan pass through.
"Chifeng camp, listen to the order and set up arrows!"
Eight hundred Phoenix soldiers drew their arrows and set their bows.
The cavalry came closer, and the smoke behind them dispersed slightly, and the dark cavalry could be faintly seen following them.
"Open your bow!"
A cluster of eight hundred arrows pointed towards the sky, and the bowstring creaked and stretched.
The leading enemy general had snow-white horses, and was surrounded by more than twenty red cavalry. Behind him were more than two hundred cavalry, either brown or gray. Each man held two full-moon scimitars, and the cold light shone in all directions.
"Fire the arrow!"
The bow strings clanked, arrows shot out like locusts, and a black bird with arrows as its feathers gathered in the sky. It rushed into the air and then turned over and swooped down, charging at the ferocious hawk of the cavalry approaching quickly.
An unbelievable scene happened to the soldiers at Yong'an Gate. Eight hundred feather arrows were fired at more than two hundred cavalry, and most of them were hit. However, the steel clusters that could penetrate shields and armor were like bamboo sticks nailed with beef tendons.
Instead of reaching the flesh, they were bounced off the bodies of the men and horses and fell to the ground. The enemy formation howled like hungry wolves, which seemed to be demonstrating but also mocking.
"Close-range shooting!" The enemy's equipment was weird and the scattering effect was poor, so Yu Zhan immediately modified his order.
The Phoenix Guards drew their bows and arrows again, waiting for the commander's order.
Those with strong eyesight suddenly exclaimed, and the surprise spread quickly like ink pouring into water. The bow strings that were originally opened were replaced by the wide mouths of the soldiers, and the arrows that were originally pointed at the enemy soldiers were replaced by shocked eyes.
Yu Zhan saw that all the soldiers were distracted before the battle and were about to explode. The deputy general beside him asked for observation urgently. He turned to look at the enemy soldiers who had already advanced a hundred steps, and couldn't help but take a breath of air.
The first horse is all white, but it does not have a helmet on its head. Instead, it is covered with fine white body hair. Upon closer inspection, it is found that this horse has no horse head. A human body is suddenly attached to the snow-white horse, which is connected from the top of the head.
On the back is a long white hyena fluttering in the wind. It has a human body and a horse body with knotted muscles and a ferocious face. Its two blood-red eyes are burning with the soul-stirring arrogance of wild beasts. It holds two large silver scimitars in both hands, and the frost blades are faintly glowing.
Glowing with blood.
Yu Zhan rubbed his eyes and saw that the enemy was ten steps closer. Behind the white demon knight was a red monster with the same head and body as a human and a horse, and behind him was the same monster in brown or gray. Although the soldiers were well-trained, they had never seen it before.
Such a monster, no wonder everyone was shocked and stunned.
"Hey!" A loud shout woke up the Phoenix Guards. Yu Zhan, who had experienced hundreds of battles, was stunned when he saw this strange situation, and then shouted an order, "Shoot in the eyes!"
Before the Chifeng battalion could fire its arrows, the monster had already taken advantage of the stunned moment of the defenders to rush to the moat. The Chifeng soldiers rained down arrows, and it was difficult to hit the front door. The arrows that pierced the head, shoulders, and backs were all solidly struck.
The fur bounced away one by one.
"Gather!"
The Thirteen Gates of Zhongxuan are built in the inner and outer urn city model. The city wall crosses the urn city and divides it into two, with two urns and three gates. The city is three feet high. If there is no ladder well to climb the city, attackers will face the blocking of the three thick gates.
With the siege of two people entering the Wengcheng. Zhongxuan City is high, and the opponent is all cavalry. Guarding the gate is the focus of defense. As usual, Yu Zhan ordered the guards scattered on the city wall to gather around the Wengcheng. The two hundred guards in the city blocked the land and horses and filled the Wengcheng to defend the city.
The inner gate and horse path only await close combat.
Something happened that everyone will never forget.
The demon army of humans and horses did not gather towards the city gate, but split into two, accelerated and jumped over the ten-foot-wide moat, and rushed towards the walls on both sides of the city gate. Judging from the posture of the monster, it seemed that Zhong Xuan's solid city wall was regarded as paper.
It's fuzzy and wants to be broken by a collision.
Seeing that the demon army, which was as fast as a hurricane, was about to hit the wall, the soldiers on the wall couldn't bear their curiosity and stuck their heads out to see what happened. Unexpectedly, the demon jumped suddenly, and its four hooves leaned slightly with the momentum.
He jumped repeatedly on the wall and rushed straight up to the three-foot-three high wall.
The white monster headed by it was extremely handsome, and it jumped onto the wall first.
The twenty-four red monsters behind him could barely cling to the wall with their front hooves, kicked up the wall with their hind legs, and defended the white monster with their swords.
The brown-gray monsters were obviously not as powerful as the white-red monsters. The tallest one only jumped to a distance of one person from the top of the wall. But just when it was about to fall, the second wave of monsters that jumped up had already filled up under its hooves. They relied on their companions' horses to
Jumping back again, they all climbed into the wall. Many brown and gray monsters took advantage of the skill of stacking Arhats, and half of them jumped onto the top of the wall. After landing, the remaining monsters gathered under the city and attacked the city gate.
Chapter completed!