In the first year of Hongdao, Tang Gaozong died of illness, and the crown prince Li Xian succeeded to the throne, that is, Tang Zhongzong, and Wu Zetian was the queen mother of the dynasty, after Zhongzong succeeded to the throne, he wanted to establish a force of his own to compete with Wu Zetian, and the relatives of the Wei Emperor headed by Empress Wei became the biggest supporters of Zhongzong, Zhongzong planned to promote Empress Wei's father Wei Xuanzhen to serve in the middle, but was strongly opposed by Prime Minister Pei Yan, Zhongzong said angrily: "What if I give the world to Wei Xuanzhen?" Pei Yan conveyed this to the empress dowager Wu Zetian, who was furious when he heard this.

Soon, Wu Zetian convened hundreds of officials in Hanyuan Palace, Pei Yan and Yulin General Chen Wuting led the forbidden army into the palace, announced the Empress Dowager's order, abolished Zhongzong as the king of Luling, Zhongzong disagreed and asked Wu Zetian: "What crime do I have?" Wu Zetian said: "You want to give the world to others, and you still say that there is no sin?" Wu Zetian abolished Zhongzong and established Li Dan, the king of Yu, as the emperor, that is, Tang Ruizong.

In September of the same year, Xu Jingye, who was demoted to Yangzhou, united his brother Xu Jingyou, Tang Zhiqi, Du Qiuren, Luo Bingwang and others to launch a mutiny in Yangzhou, against Wu Zetian's dynasty, Luo Bingwang in response to Xu Jingye, for his "for Xu Jingye to discuss Wu Cao", for a time the national officials, the people have responded, the followers reached 100,000 people, Wu Zetian was shocked when he heard the news, urgently mobilized 300,000 troops, with Li Xiaoyi as the governor of Yangzhou Province, sent troops from Luoyang to quell the rebellion, after more than 40 days of fierce fighting, Xu Jingye rebellion was finally put down.

When Wu Zetian was busy quelling the Yangzhou Rebellion, Prime Minister Pei Yan took the opportunity to blackmail Wu Zetian and wanted to support Ruizong Li Dan's pro-government, and Pei Yan was also killed by Wu Zetian. After that, Wu Zetian made a thorough adjustment to the prime ministers of the imperial court, and replaced all the prime ministers of the outer court with his cronies. Since then, no one in the DPRK has dared to oppose Wu Zetian's people in the court.

Zhongzong Li Xian was deposed as the king of Luling and then placed under house arrest in Shendu, during which his wife Wei gave birth to a daughter, named Li Xianhui, who was Li Xian's seventh daughter. The following year, Li Xian was demoted to Fangzhou.

Drive...... Drive...... Drive......

As the sun sank in the west, four carriages and eighteen horses galloped on the official road leading to Fangzhou, and on the eighteen horses were Li Xian's secret guards, all of whom were dressed in soap robes and wore hats, and those guards surrounded the four carriages and advanced. In the carriage at the front, a gentle and elegant middle-aged man was dressed in nine silk robes, wearing a three-beam gold crown, white socks and black clothes. This person is Li Xian, the king of Luling who was demoted to Fangzhou, Li Xian looked at the slowly dim sky outside the window, and from time to time raised the mutton fat jade wine jug in his hand to drink a few sips of pear blossom spring in the pot.

One of the guards, who was at the front on horseback, walked his horse to the first window of the car and saluted into the window, "Your Highness! There is a pavilion not far ahead, and now it's getting late, how about we go to the pavilion to rest for a night? When Li Xian heard this, he only said to the man: "Okay! ”

But after half a moment, I saw a maid in a car behind salute and shout to a car in front: "Your Highness! Your Highness! The princess is about to give birth! ”

Li Xian was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately asked everyone to stop the carriage and horses, and then prepared to get out of the carriage, and at the moment when Li Xian just stepped out of the carriage, an arrow flew towards him like a cloud piercing through the sky.

The two guards who walked in the front were deaf, and as soon as they heard the sound of a sharp arrow breaking through the air, they immediately reminded Li Xian loudly: "Your Highness, be careful! At the same time, one of them drew his sword like the wind, and the other copied his spear like lightning, and at the same time they lifted their bodies, and with one toe on the horse's back, they went towards the sharp arrow. However, the flying speed of the sharp arrow was too fast, and it had already flown in front of Li Xian in a blink of an eye, no matter how fast the two guards were, it was impossible to block the sharp arrow at such a distance. Just as the arrow was about to pierce Li Xian's head, the guard closest to Li Xian leaned in front of Li Xian, and the arrow hit the guard's chest. The guard's eyes widened, his hand tightly grasped the arrow stuck in his chest, and said to Li Xian: "Your Highness be careful...... This arrow...... Yes...... Poisonous! ”

Li Xian's face turned pale with fright when he saw this, and his whole body trembled and squatted down by the wheels, and the two leading guards had also come to Li Xian's side at this time, guarding the Quartet with swords and guns.

As the first arrow missed, more than a hundred black-clothed men suddenly rushed out from all directions, wearing hats, soap towels covering their faces, arrows and bows in their hands, and all kinds of weapons hanging on their waists or backs. Before the more than 100 people arrived in front of Li Xian and them, arrows flew towards the first car from all directions.

Those guards each protected the four sides of the chariot, and the swords in their hands waved like the wind, knocking those arrows to the ground one by one, and one of the two leading guards burst out like thunder: "The king of Luling is here, who dares to make a mistake?" ”

These eighteen guards were secretly selected by Li Xian when he was made the prince, because of Prince Zhang Huai, Li Xian did not dare to take his mother lightly, so he secretly selected eighteen martial arts masters as his personal guards, these eighteen people from Li Xian as the prince to the emperor, and then to the king of Luling, have been loyally following and protecting Li Xian's safety, known as the "eighteen secret guards".

These eighteen secret guards, with two commanders on the left and right, and Luo Xin, the commander on the left, is a descendant of Luo Cheng, a famous general in the Tang Dynasty. Lin Han, the right commander, was originally a wanderer in the rivers and lakes, with a long sword in his hand and outstanding swordsmanship. The other sixteen people are also masters from all over the world, all with unique skills.

Seeing that the arrows were blocked by the secret guards who knew the enemy was attacking, the more than 100 people immediately dropped the bows and arrows in their hands, and each took out a variety of weapons from their waists or backs and headed towards Li Xian.

The more than 100 people looked at Li Xian, who was already frightened, and the remaining seventeen secret guards, and one of the leaders smiled: "I know that it is the chariot and horse of the King of Luling, an outdated emperor, there must be a lot of valuable things on him, right?" ”

Luo Xin looked at it, there were a total of one hundred and eight of these people, surrounded from all directions, although these people covered their faces with soap towels, but Luo Xin still recognized the origin of these people at a glance. Luo Xin heard the man's words again, and asked angrily, "Whose order did you yellow-robed Xingsha do this time?" ”

Luo Xin wandered in the rivers and lakes for a long time before entering the palace, and then devoted himself to Hualuo Village until he was selected by Li Xian to serve as the commander of the secret guard in the palace. Therefore, Luo Yan is very familiar with the "Yellow Robe Xingsha", the Yellow Robe Xingsha is not wearing a yellow robe, but a desperate soldier cultivated in the Huangpao Mountain Hualuo Zhai Army. Huangpao Mountain Hualuo Village, as early as the Yellow Emperor period in the establishment of the military village here, and then there is Jiang Taigong here to point troops, the Han Emperor Wu Emperor period of the general Wei Qing here to cultivate warriors, the Three Kingdoms period is the important place of Wu Shu to fight. Gaozu established the Tang Dynasty, and Hualuozhai sent a large number of talents to the Tang Sixteen Guards.

The man in the leader of the yellow-robed star demon smiled: "Commander Luo, although you have also been ranked as the third of the eight great commanders in Hualuo Village, you must also know that one hundred and eight of us are dispatched together, and the 'Yellow Robe Heavenly Star Array' is launched, I'm afraid you eighteen secret guards can't help it, right?" The man laughed, and the rest of the crowd laughed along. In the midst of laughter, another person shouted: "What eighteen secret guards, this has just died, it should be called seventeen dead ghosts!" When everyone heard this, they laughed unscrupulously.

Luo Xin's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he secretly said in his heart: This yellow-robed Heavenly Star Array was created by the strange person Yuan Tiangang, unpredictable, and it is difficult to resist with my own strength, but there are other sixteen secret guards, although Commander Lin is usually silent and rarely speaks, but his swordsmanship is exquisite and exquisite, and he enjoys the name of the Sword Saint in the rivers and lakes, and the other fifteen people are also one in a million good hands, if so, we seventeen people should be able to save His Highness from this yellow-robed Heavenly Star Array.

Luo Xin made up his mind, and said to the leader: "The Yellow Robe Heavenly Star Array is not unbreakable, don't underestimate the seventeen of us too much." ”

Lin Han heard the words on the side, and said in a deep voice: "Commander Luo, don't talk nonsense with them!" Protect Your Highness! Capture the thief and capture the king first, I really want to know that golden-backed knife! With that, he swung his sword and headed for the leader.

The leader naturally knew how powerful Lin Han was, and when he saw Lin Han coming towards him, he didn't dare to be careless, and immediately waved the golden-backed knife in his hand to meet the enemy. The rest of the people also showed their weapons and went towards Li Xian.

I saw that Li Xian had already gone to the five gods at this moment, but he was just squatting down at the wheel, holding his head with trembling hands, his whole body trembling uncontrollably, and his upper and lower teeth were already trembling and fighting.

After a scuffle of incense, this earth-shattering battle also came to an end with the night completely darkening, and there were only three people left in the yellow-robed Xingsha, one of whom had a broken arm. And the situation on the side of the Eighteen Secret Guards is not much better, after a big battle, only Lin Han and Luo Xin are still alive.

Lin Han's swordsmanship was sharp, rushing forward, his sword was like a lightning bolt, and the whole person was like a bolt of lightning, shuttling through the yellow-robed Heavenly Star Array. Luo Xin's marksmanship is calm and broad, and he has been guarding Li Xian's side, in order to save Li Xian, Luo Xin is also injured in many places, not to mention riding a horse at this time, if he is not treated in time, I am afraid that his life will be in the mundane.

Li Xian looked at the enemy who had retreated, and then looked at the secret guards who had died, and his heart was gloomy, these eighteen secret guards had been loyally following him since he was the crown prince, and he died to protect himself at this moment, how could he not be sad?

Lin Han came to Li Xian's side and saluted Li Xian: "Your Highness, the thieves have retreated, and we and the other eighteen people are only the two people left who are humble and Luo Commander, and Luo Commander must also be treated as soon as possible. ”

Li Xian didn't have a sober mind to think about these at this time, so he just said repeatedly: "Okay! Good! Good! Let's hurry to the pavilion first. ”

Li Xian also immediately checked, but the family members who were degraded this time did not have any casualties, and Webster was about to give birth, and there was a maid by his side to serve, and the maid died in the chaos in order to protect Webster. Li Xian's seven daughters and two sons were also fine in the next two cars, they were all just frightened.

Li Xian listened to Lin Han's words again, and changed the four cars to three, the first car was ridden by Li Xian, Wei Shi and a maid, the second car was taken by the children who followed Li Xian, the third car carried Luo Xin, and Lin Han and another secret guard escorted the three cars towards the front pavilion.