Chapter 173: Bloody Battle in the Palace (Part II)
Ling Muyun killed the forbidden guards who were blocking him, swept for a while, and saw that the forbidden guards behind him had been thrown off and disappeared, so he stopped to deal with his injuries.
Ling Muyun's treatment method was very simple, that is, he reached out and sealed the acupoints near the wound with the method of acupoints, stopped the blood, and then tore off his underwear, tore off two white cloths, and bandaged the wound simply. Now that the situation is urgent, Ling Muyun has no choice but to deal with it so simply, if he wants to treat it carefully, he has to wait until he is out of danger.
"The assassin is here, catch him!"
At this time, a small group of imperial guards suddenly passed by here, and saw Ling Muyun who was dealing with his injuries, and immediately rushed towards him.
"What an inexhaustible fly!" Ling Muyun snorted, put on his clothes casually, stretched out his hand to pull out the long sword inserted in the ground, and rushed towards these imperial guards. The two sides walked opposite each other, and the distance between them was rapidly approaching, and the distance was still dozens of zhang away, but in a few breaths, the two sides had already rushed to each other.
"Kill!" More than a dozen imperial guards rushed in front of Ling Muyun, shouting in unison, each showing their proud martial arts, and the blades in their hands slashed towards Ling Muyun with a strong wind.
A hint of ridicule flashed in Ling Muyun's eyes, although the martial arts of these imperial guards were much higher than those of the forbidden guards, but in Ling Muyun's eyes, they were much easier to deal with than the forbidden guards. Because these imperial guards are not fundamentally different from the people in the rivers and lakes in the way they fight, they all rely on martial arts to fight alone, and there is no discipline at all, even if there are many people, it is difficult to form a joint force.
The Forbidden Guards are different, the Forbidden Guards are actually the elite of the army in essence, if they fight alone, the Forbidden Guards are naturally far from being the opponents of the Imperial Guards, but if they pay attention to group battles, have strict discipline and are proficient in battlefield combat, they can exert much greater power than the Imperial Guards.
If the same number of Imperial Guards and Praetorian Guards are allowed to fight, if the number is in the single digits, then the Praetorian Guards will only be completely abused by the Imperial Guards, and even one Imperial Guard can defeat the combination of several Praetorian Guards. But once the number of people reaches more than ten, the strength of the two sides will change dramatically, whether the imperial guards can win is difficult to say, more than ten people still have a fight, if it reaches the scale of more than dozens of people, the imperial guards will only be crushed and exploded.
The two sides fought together in an instant, but seeing the cold light of the long sword in Ling Muyun's hand, the sword aura was vertical and horizontal, and it rushed into the crowd of the imperial guards like a swimming fish. Originally, these imperial guards were still very happy, thinking that it was finally more beneficial for them to besiege Ling Muyun, but as soon as they really fought, they were shocked to find that it was not the case at all.
Although Ling Muyun was surrounded by them, his body was agile and fast, suddenly in the east, suddenly in the west, suddenly in front, suddenly behind, his body was fluttering like a ghost, and he was able to come and go freely among them, obviously it was a dozen of them who besieged Ling Muyun, but they really didn't feel the slightest advantage of being outnumbered, but it was as if Ling Muyun was fighting with them alone. It's just that in this way, how can they be Ling Muyun's opponents? In the face of Ling Muyun's meteor lightning-like fast sword, he often couldn't parry a few moves and would be injured under Ling Muyun's sword. After only a dozen breaths of fighting, most of the casualties were already lost, and the remaining few were only struggling to hold on.
Just as Ling Muyun was fighting with a small group of imperial guards, a noisy footsteps came, and Ling Muyun took advantage of the gap in the battle to look, only to see that a large group of forbidden army guards had rushed over, numbering hundreds of people, and there were quite a few archers. Moreover, the officer who led the team was obviously a person who was deeply connected to the battle array, and after leading the troops to arrive, he did not immediately lead his soldiers into the battlefield to support the imperial guards who were killed by Ling Muyun and retreated, but lined up the battle formation, and made the archers ready.
Seeing this scene, Ling Muyun was also secretly anxious, and his heart moved, but he was no longer busy cleaning up the few remaining imperial guards around him, but forced them to move closer to the forbidden guards who had already lined up with him with his swordsmanship, but he wanted to rush to the front of the forbidden army with the help of their shields. Bows and arrows are long-range offensive weapons, but they are not conducive to close combat, as long as they can rush closer, not to mention anything else, at least the dozens of archers on the other side will be considered useless.
The remaining few imperial guards were being beaten and couldn't resist, and suddenly felt that the pressure was light, and they couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts. However, Ling Muyun didn't eliminate all the pressure all at once, but just lightened it just right, allowing them to take a breath, but not letting them escape, and he could also lean in the direction of the forbidden army's phalanx according to his heart.
Those imperial guards were suppressed by Ling Muyun to the point that they could only parry, and they had no power to fight back, and they could barely save their lives by desperately resisting, and they had no energy to observe the surrounding situation at all, so they naturally couldn't guess Ling Muyun's calculations. But the people on the forbidden army's side were not fools, and they could easily see through Ling Muyun's scheme. The leader of the forbidden army immediately shouted: "Brothers, get out of the way, we are going to release the arrows!" ”
Several imperial guards only reacted at this time, and they didn't care about fighting with Ling Muyun again, they all tried their best to get out of the battle circle, so as not to be a live target for the archers of the forbidden army with Ling Muyun.
"If you refuse to obey, what is the use of keeping you?" Ling Muyun snorted coldly, the originally relaxed offensive suddenly intensified, the sword light was like a waterfall, dense like rain, several imperial guards had already been dragged down in the battle in front of them to exhaustion, and they suddenly couldn't resist it, and they all screamed and fell to the ground at the moment, dying of despair.
"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!"
As soon as the leader of the forbidden army saw that all the imperial guards had died under Ling Muyun's sword, he no longer hesitated, and immediately gave the order to shoot arrows and kill. Dozens of archers immediately filled the longbow in their hands, and then shot out in one volley, and suddenly dozens of sharp arrows tore through the air and roared towards Ling Muyun, dense like rain.
Seeing the rain of arrows coming head-on, Ling Muyun suddenly reached out and grabbed the corpse of a royal guard on the ground and blocked it in front of him, but he used it as a human shield. "Puff puff puff ......" There was a dense sound, and the corpse that was blocked by Ling Muyun in front of him was hit by more than a dozen arrows in an instant, and the blood that had not yet condensed sprayed out, and it was directly shot into a hedgehog.
Although Ling Muyun was not shot by the rain of arrows because of the human shield, he was also stunned by the impact from the dense impact on the corpse, and felt that the rain of arrows stopped, and when the human shield that was about to block in front of him was put down, he swept towards the forbidden army column with it in his hand.
"Divide into two teams and release arrows in turn!"
With the order of the leader of the forbidden army, dozens of archers were immediately divided into two groups, one group of more than 20 people, one group set up the arrows after releasing the arrows, and the other group took the opportunity to release the arrows, and the two groups took turns without stopping. In this way, although the density of the arrow rain is reduced by half, the interval between them is reduced to a minimum, and the more than twenty archers shoot arrows at only one person, which is enough to form a dense kill.
The distance between Ling Muyun and the forbidden army was actually not too far, only a few dozen zhang, if this distance was placed in normal times, Ling Muyun would only need a few breaths to rush to the front. But under the dense shooting of those forbidden army archers, Ling Muyun's speed was greatly reduced, although he had a human shield in his hand, but it was not a real shield after all, not only was it inconvenient to hold, but it was impossible to cover his figure, and many times he had to dodge and move, which greatly delayed his forward speed, and after six or seven waves of arrow rain in a row, Ling Muyun rushed to a place more than ten feet in front of the forbidden army.
"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!"
......The dense rain of arrows struck again, Ling Muyun suddenly felt a pain in his hand, and only then did he find that the corpse of the imperial guard, who had been beaten as a human shield, had been smashed by countless arrows, and the power of the arrows had also increased greatly, so it actually passed directly through the rotten flesh and cut a wound on his palm.
Ling Muyun threw away the corpse that had become a mess of rotten flesh in his hand, and rushed forward with all his strength. Anyway, at this time, the distance between them is only a dozen feet, and it can be regarded as close to him, even if he doesn't use a human shield, it's nothing.
"Boom ......" Another wave of arrows rained through the air, and the long sword in Ling Muyun's hand danced rapidly, swinging a dazzling sword light in front of him, and the arrows shot were blocked and flew away. If Ling Muyun was allowed to resist the continuous rain of arrows, it might be a little reluctant, but just to block the next wave of arrow rain, with his ability, it was not a difficult task. And now that he has been brought closer, those archers will no longer have a chance to continue firing arrows.
"Archers stand back, pikemen step forward!"
At the command of the leader of the Praetorian Army, the archers stood up and stepped back in order, while the Forbidden Army, who had been standing behind with spears, took two steps forward in a neat manner. The dense spears were raised in unison, and a forest of spears suddenly formed and stabbed towards Ling Muyun.
"Open it for me!" Ling Muyun shouted violently, urging the true qi in his body with all his might, and with a twist of the long sword in his hand, he drew a crescent-like sword light, and slashed at the Rulin spear.
There was a dense burst of sound, the broken spears and spears flew in all directions, and the row of forbidden guards who were blocking the front vomited blood and fell backwards, and it was actually Ling Muyun who forcibly split a gap in the forest of guns. A strange flush surged across Ling Muyun's face, but his body did not pause, rushing into the ranks of the forbidden army like a gust of wind along the split gap.
(To be continued)