Tom inserted the end of the halberd in his hand into the dirt, then erected the shield on his chest, let the bottom of the shield be tightly inserted into the gap in the stone slab to enhance stability, then lowered his head slightly, and looked at the main entrance filled with thick smoke from the gap in the shield, like everyone around him, they were all loyal to the emperor's personal guards, from the moment they joined the personal guard, they had sworn to abandon their family and be loyal to the emperor for eternity.

This kind of oath means that after the death of the emperor, they will be buried with them, because no new heir to the throne will leave these abandoned sons who are loyal to the former emperor, and their own death can be exchanged for the honor of the family, so generally those who enter the personal guard are some wailang, or people who have no status in the family, wailang refers to the wild seeds left by those nobles who have been amorous overnight.

For any wild species, being able to enter the palace as a personal guard is already the best ending. Most of them survived ten years of service, and the emperor would personally give them a piece of land and a basic knighthood. However, Tom was unlucky, and joined the Guards when the Emperor was seriously ill. But he doesn't resent anyone.

Although the emperor fell ill, the seven princesses were very friendly to their guards, and even personally persuaded them to go home, some of the greedy people who were afraid of death took the coil and went back, and the eldest prince did not do too much to obstruct it, but those who stayed were completely bullied and ignored in the ancestral family, even if they went back, the pressure and humiliation they had to bear were not as good as the dignified battle death.

"Little brother, don't be too nervous, just follow the training."

"Hmm!"

Although he said this, Tom was on the battlefield for the first time, and the person who spoke to him was the captain of the guard, a middle-aged man with gray hair, who was said to be a very famous adventurer before, and finally attracted by the king's charisma, and was willing to be the captain of the guard for the rest of his life.

"They're coming!"

After the captain finished speaking, he quickly retracted his head into the shield array and roared.

"Arrow defense!"

The guards listened to the captain's command, and the soldiers in the back row all covered their shields on the top of the shield, and then the sound of arrows roaring through the air, the equipment of the guards must be the best in the kingdom, there is no doubt about this, the front row of heavy shields made of pure metal, there is a small pull ring, and after opening the pull ring, you can immediately throw away the heavy shield that affects mobility, and the other round shield is inlaid in the heavy shield by the trap ring buckle as an additional defense. A double shield formation unique to the guards was formed.

Countless arrows crackled like rain, crackling on the heavy shield overhead, almost all of them were bounced off, with this wave of arrows after the rain of arrows, the smoke rushed out of the howling soldiers, the first wave of people quickly died on the shield spear array, but the corpses quickly blocked the observation hole between the gaps in the shield, the second wave of soldiers took the fire oil and lit it and threw it on the heavy shield array.

Helpless, from positional warfare to bloody hand-to-hand combat, the quality of personal work is nothing more than killing a few more people, swordsmanship in this world is just a little extra flower on top of excellent physical fitness, the sword, is nothing more than stabbing, chopping. The so-called swordsmanship, which only adds precision and strength on the basis of stabbing and slashing, is completely different from magic.

This is the most primitive killing, Tom used his broken shield to resist the blow of the second prince's soldier, and then used his foot to exert force, tripping the soldier who cut at him, in the soldier's desperate scream, Tom did not hesitate to cut his head, the blade was off, the secretion of adrenaline and ten minutes of fighting had made his physical strength almost overdrawn.

The thick blade was specially made to deal with protracted battles, and the two thick shells wrapped the extremely sharp blade, which remained sharp while not breaking easily, and the blade was already full of broken cuts. The huge weight, with the blessing of the arm muscles, slashed at the unfortunate soldier's face, smashing into his head along with his facial bones.

The screaming stopped abruptly, Tom gasped and straightened up to look around, the fight was going on, but Tom's world seemed to pause. The dizzying sun shone on him and he couldn't open his eyes. He seemed to drink saliva, and suddenly he missed the apple pie that his mother made for him when he was a child. Tom felt the greatsword in his hand begin to grow extremely heavy. Intense tinnitus begins in the ears. This completely hopeless battle was almost a one-sided slaughter.

"Be careful!"

Tom felt his body be pushed to the ground and rolled over, and Tom watched as the captain of the guard knelt on the ground holding his hand, his hand being cut off. As if the voice instantly returned to his mind, Xiao Ming's head came to his senses, and he raised his big sword and stabbed the enemy soldier who was about to be beheaded. Then he quickly pulled the captain into the corner of the corridor and pierced the wound with his own turban.

"Leave me alone, let everyone retreat to the main hall, and use the terrain of the main hall to block the enemy as much as possible!!"

"But Captain!"

"Get out! That's an order! ”

Tom stood up uncomfortably and glanced back at the captain who was clutching his severed arm and trying to stop the bleeding. Then he ran out quickly, issuing an order to retreat while running, more than half of the five hundred meters of the guards had been killed and wounded, and they retreated while fighting, and when the last guard entered the heavy wooden door of the main hall, the rest of the people closed the door with all their might.

The retreat of the guards meant that the entire rest of the palace was given to the troops of the second prince, including the emperor's dormitory. But now their group of mortally wounded and exhausted warriors continued to rest, even for a short time. After blocking the wooden door with everything in the main hall, the warriors consciously began to take care of the wounded and rest as much as possible.

This process is also part of the plan, Her Royal Highness Natiri once said that once more than half of the casualties are lost, let the guards immediately retreat to the main hall, and after that, there will be no follow-up orders, Natiri's final deployment is to defend the main hall, the guards don't know why they do this, but now for them this is the only order that can be followed.

The vanguard troops of the second prince easily blocked the guards into the main hall, leaving a group of unlucky ghosts who were drawn to the next lot, and the others were excited to start searching the palace, and the time limit given to them by the second prince was three hours, and within three hours, everything in the palace except for the treasury and the king and the seven princesses of Natiri, all the people were distributed by themselves.

Even if you can't invade the treasury, it's an imperial palace after all. Countless antique calligraphy and paintings, gold was blatantly placed in a conspicuous place, and a group of soldiers roared excitedly and rushed up to the third floor, they thought they were smart, and they hoped to be able to catch the emperor and the princess first in exchange for greater invisible benefits than the wealth that could be seen with these eyes.

What they didn't expect, however, was that they were the first to enter the corridors of hell. The soldiers chased and pulled each other to be the first to reach the third floor, and when the first soldier climbed the last flight of stairs and stood in the long corridor looking for the emperor's bedchamber, he saw several men in maid costumes lying on their stomachs or crouching at each other, and each of them tilted their heads and pointed at them with a black object in their hands.

"Sting~"

With a loud sound like a cloth being torn, the soldier saw that the heavens and the earth were spinning, and he saw that his neck was spurting blood, and his body seemed to be exploding, and then, there was no more.

To the eyes of the soldiers who had not ascended the stairs, they only heard a loud noise, and then the soldier who rushed to the front shattered into crumbs of flesh after a flash of yellow light. A group of people were sprayed with blood all over their bodies, and although they already had a lot of blood on their bodies, they were all one person in an instant. Turned into a puddle of mud, this was the first time they had seen it.