Chapter 113: Covering the Moon

There are three reasons why Fan Xian was shocked, one is that the emperor sent himself down the mountain with that trace of pity, which was really unexpected, the second is that the emperor's words seem to have lost the usual confidence, and the third is the emperor's last sentence...... Who sits on that chair and lets him make up his mind? Is this a last word or what? The question is, even if he is fated enough to rush back to Kyoto thousands of miles before the eldest princess preaches the established facts, what strength do he have to turn his idea into reality?

This is not the Jiangnan Ming family, not the Cui family, not the court officials in Kyoto, not the poor people in the Qin Heavenly Prison, but the imperial palace, but the belonging of the world!

The corners of Fan Xian's lips showed a wry smile, even if he was a powerful minister of Qingguo, but he didn't have a single soldier in his hand, what could he do to stabilize Kyoto for His Majesty?

"I won't lose. A smile appeared on the corner of the emperor's lips, and the smile was full of cold killing intent, "Even if you lose, if Ye Liuyun and Sigu Jian accompany me to the funeral, what are you afraid of? You don't have to worry, Dean Chen is in Kyoto, the Queen Mother is in the palace, those people can't make much trouble, you take my will, take my seal, if anyone dares to stop you...... Kill them all!"

A cold sweat broke out on Fan Xian's forehead, thinking that if the Ye and Qin families were also reversed, even if he was a great grandmaster, at most he could only fight guerrilla warfare, how could he kill them all?

He had already seen the trace of uncertainty in the emperor's heart, and his heart couldn't help but be a little gloomy, if the emperor really died on the top of Dadong Mountain, what would the world become? Whether it was the crown prince or the second child succeeding to the throne, this Qingguo was afraid that there would be no place for him again, did he really want to hold that cornucopia and embark on the second road?

However, the situation has not reached the most dangerous moment, there are old eunuchs Hong and Uncle Wuzhu on the top of the mountain, plus more than 100 tiger guards, no matter what kind of strong enemy they encounter, they can support for a long time.

There is only one way to climb Dadong Mountain, and the task of the five thousand longbowmen at the foot of the mountain is obviously to cut off the connection between Dadong Mountain and the world, at least for more than three days, to make time for the events in Kyoto, and to really kill the king, these rebels will not play any role.

Because the emperor will not be stupid to go down the mountain.

And then...... Ye Liuyun will climb the mountain.

This is indeed a gamble, if the general trend of the Three Kingdoms in the world is still the same as in the past - the monarch of Qingguo set up a bureau to snipe Ye Liuyun, it must be something that Northern Qi and Dongyi are very willing to be optimistic about, and Kuhe and Sigu Sword will not abandon their identities and come to intervene.

But...... The cold sweat on Fan Xian's forehead had dried up, and he only felt a chill on his body, and when he was in Wuzhou, his father-in-law Lin Ruofu had reminded him that for a tempting and even somewhat gorgeous goal, the great masters might naturally come together.

Fan Xian's mouth became more and more bitter, if the situation really developed like this, where could there be living people on this Dadong Mountain? But could it be that the emperor didn't expect this situation at the beginning? He glanced at the emperor's face pet cautiously, and found that the emperor's face was a little heavy, and the pupils in the night were flashing with flames...... He didn't dare to continue thinking about these questions, and quickly analyzed the situation in front of him in his mind, the outcome of the Dadongshan situation is unknown, but if it is deadlocked, there is a problem in Kyoto, and he must bring the news that His Majesty is still alive to Kyoto and to the side of the Queen Mother.

Even if His Majesty dies and he returns to Kyoto, he must convince the Queen Mother that His Majesty is still alive. Otherwise, judging by the Empress Dowager, once she learns of Her Majesty's death, she will definitely choose to let the prince of the Qin family ascend the throne and stabilize the government of Qingguo.

The emperor is her son, and if someone wants to hurt the emperor, the queen mother will definitely not allow it. But if the death of the emperor becomes a definite fact, as the eldest generation of the imperial family, the queen mother must consider the survival of the entire imperial family and the survival of the world.

Therefore, whether it was from his own safety or from the situation in Kyoto, Fan Xian knew that the emperor's arrangement was very correct, and he had to return to Kyoto with His Majesty's handwritten letters and seals to stabilize the situation in order to deal with the post-grandmaster era.

Yes, in the post-grandmaster era, in the battle of Dadongshan, no matter who wins or loses, there will definitely be one or two great grandmasters who will withdraw from the stage of history.

............ He nodded silently and said, "Please rest assured, nothing will happen in Kyoto." โ€

The emperor looked at him deeply and said, "The road here is difficult, you have to be careful. โ€

Fan Xian was slightly stunned, originally in his heart he had a lot of sarcasm and self-deprecation for the emperor's previous words about "my four sons", but when he heard such a sentence, his heart softened a little.

โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€” fastened his belt and confirmed that he was fully equipped, Fan Xian quickly transformed from the identity of a courtier to a nine-rank night walker, and his breath was restrained all over his body, as if he wanted to merge with the scenery of the top of Dadong Mountain.

Only those irritating silver moonlight shone on his body not so harmoniously.

He carried the emperor's seal and a handwritten letter to the queen mother in his arms, which was not very heavy, but he felt very heavy - he knew that the news of the siege of Dadongshan would definitely return to Kyoto soon, and the news of returning to Kyoto at the same time was the assassination of His Majesty Xiร  - the eldest princess played a perfect time difference, she didn't even need to prepare anything in Kyoto, as long as the emperor's death was confirmed, the queen mother had to come out from behind the curtain in grief and choose one of the three princes to succeed to the throne.

At this time, the sacrifice to the sky has not been completed, the decree of heaven has not been descended, although the world knows that the prince is about to be abolished, but the prince is still the prince, no matter from the perspective of the stability of the court and politics, the queen mother will choose the prince to succeed to the throne.

This is not a conspiracy, it is just a situation to borrow the situation, and it will come naturally. Even if the emperor left countless followers in Kyoto, Chen Pingping was loyal to the forbidden army, but when the news of the emperor's death spread all over the world, who would dare to disobey the will of the queen mother head-on, unless ...... They wanted to rebel a second time.

Fan Xian stretched his limbs, as if he wanted to make the burden on his body easier, he knew that he was tantamount to carrying Qingguo's dragon chair on his back.

"They're your own brothers, after all. The emperor stood beside Fan Xian, who was dressed in black, and said indifferently: "If you can, you won't kill, especially Chengze." Whereas...... If you have to kill them, you will kill them all. โ€

Fan Xian's heart was slightly cold, and he nodded.

The corners of the emperor's lips curled slightly, he looked at the small boat on the distant sea, and said sarcastically: "Why is Uncle Liuyun so slow? Could it be that as a great grandmaster, he still has uncontrollable timidity in the face of me, and the great grandmaster still needs a helper?"

Fan Xian smiled, didn't say anything, looked up at the bright moon in the sky, and frowned.

............ "When I was white, I once told you why I chose Dadong Mountain to worship the sky. The emperor suddenly said: "The first thing is, of course, to invite the fifth child out of the mountain." โ€

Fan Xian looked at the emperor.

The emperor looked at him and said calmly, "The second reason is ...... Dadong Mountain is a lonely peak on the seaside, and it is the best place to die, Yun Rui asked Yan Xiaoyi to surround the mountain, and then asked Uncle Liuyun Shiran to go up the mountain to stab me, but I had nowhere to go. โ€

Dadong Mountain hangs lonely on the seaside, there is only one desperate way to go to the foot of the land mountain, and the back mountain and the sea side is an absolutely smooth stone wall like jade, even the great master can not perform light kung fu on it, if the emperor is assassinated here, it is really difficult to fly.

"I chose the death place of Dadong Mountain to give Yun Rui an illusion. The emperor seemed to have gotten rid of the news that Si Gu Jian might be coming, and returned to that confident look, quietly looking into Fan Xian's eyes, as if to see through his sincerity.

She thought she could block all the news of Dadongshan and let her do something in Kyoto, but she forgot about it...... I chose this place of death, naturally because there are people around me who can get out of the place of death...... A living person who flew out. โ€

Fan Xian smiled bitterly, thinking that his peerless skills did not escape His Majesty's eyes, it seems that there are few things that His Majesty does not know about his own affairs - in this world, probably only his own peculiar exercise method can help him slide down the smooth Dadong Mountain, the emperor caught himself in Dadong Mountain, and it turned out that he was ambushed here.

His majesty thought was really far-reaching, Fan Xian's heart suddenly moved, and he was no longer as worried as before, since he could even use himself, how could he not make a plan to deal with the most dangerous situation at the moment?

The emperor smiled and said, "I once told the palace that your ability to climb walls is very good...... Much stronger than me. โ€

Fan Xian looked at the abyss-like cliff under his feet, twisted his neck, and made a rare joke: "There is a son over the wall, but it's a pity that the moonlight is too bright tonight." โ€

"The moon has a yฤซn sunny and round deficiency, this is what you once said. The Emperor looked up at the heavens and said, "I can't predict everything that will happen, but I know that the moon can't stay so bright forever. โ€

When the words fell, a layer of dark clouds floated in the sky, covering the full moon behind the clouds, the silver light flickered, the night returned to the earth, and the top of Dadong Mountain was pitch black.

By the emperor's side, there was no trace of Fan Xian.

โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€” night forest at the foot of the mountain, the smell of blood was everywhere, fishier than the smell of the sea breeze. Occasionally, the moonlight shines through the forest, and you can faintly see dead corpses everywhere in the mountains and forests, some corpses are lying on the ground, some corpses are leaning weakly on the trunks of trees, most of the dead are wearing the clothes of the forbidden army, and more consistently, these forbidden soldiers who were sniped to death are pierced with several feather arrows.

The feather arrows penetrated deep into the bodies of the deceased, stabbing them fiercely into the trees and the ground, and the field looked very miserable and terrifying.

The forest at the foot of Dadong Mountain is dense, and the official road is covered by the night sรจ and the forest at the same time, and the general appearance can no longer be seen, only countless corpses and blood can be seen. The closer we get to the foot of the mountain, the remnants of the scene indicate that the previous battle is more intense.

A fire was lit and then extinguished, and only a few trees burned in the forest near the mountain gate, which lit up only a corner of the silent night, and the smell of burnt paste lying on the ground gradually rose, suppressing the smell of blood and the smell of the sea breeze, and making the troops on both sides begin to tense.

"Whoosh!" There was a sharp sound of breaking through the air, and a long feathered arrow shot out like lightning, and one of the forbidden soldiers at the edge of the forest was closest to the periphery!

The forbidden soldier held the long arrow in his chest and wanted to pull it out, but under the severe pain, he no longer had the strength and sat down slowly.

In the process of sitting down, three more feather arrows broke through the air and pierced him fiercely!

The janissary tilted his head, blood spurted from his lips, and he died.

............ There was silence at the foot of the mountain, and the five thousand rebels came to Dadong Mountain unknowingly and launched the most despicable and sudden night attack on the two thousand forbidden troops. The forbidden army was unable to react for a while, and in addition, they did not prepare the heavy armor needed for field battles...... The attacking rebels were Yan Xiaoyi's personal battalion, more than 5,000 longbow soldiers, who feinted in Cangzhou and Yanjing, and under the acquiescence and deliberate cover of the Sigu sword, they traversed the sixteen vassal states of Dongyi City, and penetrated through a secret passage in the north of Tangzhou, and it took nearly 20 days to seal Dadong Mountain like 5,000 ghosts.

The scouts along the Dadong Mountain were sniped by the masters of the rebel army, and they didn't have time to send any news - 2,000 forbidden troops who did not wear heavy armor were raided by 5,000 longbowmen, and it is conceivable what a heavy price they would pay.

And what made these forbidden soldiers most angry and painful was that the first wave of attacks on the rebel archers turned out to be rockets!

At that moment, thousands of sky lanterns seemed to be lit at the foot of Dadong Mountain at the same time, fluttering towards the camp of the forbidden army, the rocket ignited when it landed, the camp burned, the forest burned, everything burned up, and the momentum was extremely fierce. At that time, it was the little fire that Emperor Qingguo and his party saw on the top of the mountain.

However, it was impossible for the forbidden army to distract themselves from fighting the fire, because the burning fire, the sudden brightness of the night forest, exposed all of their figures to the field of vision of the opposing archers. Although the forbidden army was well-trained and immediately looked for suitable terrain cover in the first place, they still paid more than 200 lives in the rain of arrows that followed!

This was followed by a bloody and tedious counteroffensive, a breakout, a defeat, a siege.

A place of corpses, a mountain full of blood.

Within a few rounds, the rebels defeated the forbidden army and won a preliminary victory, blocking the forbidden army's ranks in a radius of nearly half a mile to the left of the mountain gate of Dadong Mountain, and at this moment, the rebels' offensive suddenly came to an abrupt halt, only occasionally cold arrows shรจ came out, killing those forbidden troops who intended to break through the siege and report the news.

The occasional sound of arrows made the woodland, which had suddenly become dead silence, even quieter, as quiet as death.

............ Suddenly, a bloody man suddenly stood up from the pile of dead bodies, in such a moonlit night, in such a Shura field, suddenly such a scene appeared, the sergeants on both sides felt terrified, but immediately numb again, so many people died, where would they be afraid of corpses?

Yan Xiaoyi's fingers trembled, and the ten arrows shried, and the target of each arrow was not repeated, aiming at a certain place on the bloody man, covering all his body, so poignant that the person couldn't avoid it at all.

This is a military order, and it is strictly forbidden for anyone to break through, so every one of the incoming rebels has to ensure that the person dies, and suddenly finds that someone has come out of the pile of dead bodies, and the archers subconsciously shoot arrows, thinking that you are not dead yet?

But no one could have imagined that the more than ten soul-devouring arrows in front of the bloody man didn't care at all, he just picked up the two corpses around him and danced like a shield!

A series of muffled sounds sounded, and more than a dozen arrows were almost in no particular order, and at the same time, the bloody man in the shรจ, but the next moment it became clear that it was just shรจ on the dancing corpse of the bloody man, spurting out countless blood water, which made the bloody man even more terrifying.

The corpse is heavier than the shield, but this bloody man can dance the corpse and block extremely fast arrows, it must not be said that this person's arm strength is very amazing, and his vision and realm are even more jaw-dropping.

There seemed to be an order from the rebel camp, so there was no such thing as a salvo of arrows.

The bloody man slowly put down the corpse in his hand and grinned, as if he was mourning something, sympathizing with something, feeling something, and then he slowly walked in the direction of the mountain gate, without the disturbance of arrows, he walked very calmly.

He walked under the mountain gate, and there was a thunderous cheer from the forbidden army.

They didn't know who the bloody man was, but they knew that the bloody man was an official of the Supervisory Yuan, a close confidant who followed Vantis, and an absolute master...... In the third wave of the rebel offensive, the Inspectorate official alone killed more than 40 longbowmen, until they were finally overwhelmed by a wave and buried in a pile of corpses.

Everyone thought he was dead, but they didn't expect him to be alive, and on such a terrible night, when the rebels might kill all the forbidden troops at any time, they suddenly found that they had such a strong man, which was enough to boost the morale of the few remaining forbidden troops.

That's why there was that thunderous cheer.

Wang Shisanlang walked to the burnt black mountain gate, slowly sat down on the stone steps, took the towel handed over by a member of the Qi Nian group beside him, wiped the blood on his face, and revealed that bright and handsome face.

He grinned, showing a mouth full of healthy white teeth, and smiled at the other side of the night, at where the rebels were.

Thirteen Lang, a true warrior, learned to use corpses to block arrows tonight, he is no longer a reckless man, if Fan Xian saw this scene here, he would definitely sigh like this.

............ With the slight sound of horses' hooves, the rebel camp was divided, and several horses came out, and on the first horse sat a man, who was covered in black clothes and covered his face.

Yan Xiaoyi's personal soldiers didn't know who this man in black was, but they only knew that Yan Dadu had strictly ordered that this battle was commanded by this person. Originally, although the soldiers strictly adhered to the military order, they were still a little dissatisfied in their hearts, but until they crossed the mountains and rivers to the foot of the East Mountain, the black-clothed man counted out the military orders, divided and surrounded them, and beat the forbidden army to the ground...... They are all very simple orders, they are all very direct arrangements, but they are very jฤซng very cleverly fit the terrain at the foot of Dadong Mountain and the environment of the night, this man in black uses soldiers...... True as God.

Facts have proved that at this time, the eyes of the five thousand longbowmen in the field looked at the man in black, except for admiration, there was only fear, even if the previous incomprehensible sudden order to withdraw troops, no one dared to doubt it.

The man in black is tall, and he looks more powerful when he sits on a horse, but it is a pity that he is enveloped in black, and he can't see his true face and the majesty hidden under the black clothes.

The man in black looked at the young man covered in blood and white teeth like jade under the mountain gate from a distance, and a voice came out of the black cloth, and he sighed very much.

"Great...... Killed three times did not kill him, he is really a warrior, if this person joins the army, within a year, there will be another fierce general in the world. โ€

The man in black suddenly smiled: "But the general trend has been achieved, how can the power of the horseman go against the sky?" It's just a pity, after a while, this strong man will die." โ€

Someone beside him suddenly sighed. The man in black turned his head to look and asked gently, "Yun everyone, do you cherish your talents?"

The person who sighed was not an outsider, it was the first disciple of the sword in Dongyi City, a generation of swordsmanship!

Fan Xian was not mistaken, Dongyi City really sent their most sharp killer team to help the rebels of the eldest princess, and it was Yun Zhilan who personally led the team!

Yun Zhilan glanced at the black-clothed man beside him, smiled a little reluctantly, but did not answer this sentence. Because of everyone in the room, only he knew who the young man who was covered in blood but still strong and kept smiling.

That person is not an official of the Supervision Yuan, or even a citizen of Qingguo! He is Wang Shisanlang, the youngest disciple of Shizun's most beloved master, and his most accomplished junior disciple.

"Are you all crazy?" Yun Zhilan muttered to himself. He thought to himself, since the junior brother knew that the master had sent someone, why did he still guard the mountain gate like a fierce tiger? What was he thinking?

"The master sent you to follow Fan Xian, but it didn't make you really Fan Xian's help" Yun Zhilan looked at the bloody man under the mountain gate in the distance, and thought in his heart: "If you do something, you will be loyal? Even if you don't care about the interests of the master, what is this crazy...... Or is it the Ming Killing Heart that Master admires the most?"

"If you're not crazy, how can you survive?" the man in black replied lightly to Yun Zhilan's sigh.

Yun Zhilan shook his head and didn't say anything, although he didn't know why the little junior brother did this, but as the descendant of the Sword Mansion, he respected the little junior brother, so he wouldn't reveal the details of the little junior brother in front of this man in black.

He didn't know who this man in black was, but all the teams at the moment were led by this person, and he had watched for a long time, he had to admit that this man in black was really good at using his troops, and he had no dangerous moves, all of which were steady and steady step by step, but he had allocated the resources of the entire rebel army to a state close to perfection, and did not give Qingguo's forbidden army the slightest chance to fight back and break through.

Yun Zhilan came out with most of the masters of the Sword Mansion, and cooperated with Yan Xiaoyi's personal battalion, and there was a huge problem with the cooperation between the two sides, if the six swordsmen of the Supervision Yuan on the mountain or those tiger guards with high martial arts broke through, it would not be so easy to completely seal it.

However, the man in black on the horse seemed to have a pair of divine eyes that could see the details of the battlefield, and at the beginning of the raid, he forcibly ordered the masters of Dongyi City to set up ambushes in places that seemed to be insignificant.

At first, Yun Zhilan didn't understand, but when the sniping occurred again and again in the dark, when the breakthrough on Dadong Mountain was fiercely pressed down by the wrist of the man in black...... Yun Zhilan finally understood that this man in black was definitely not an ordinary person, he could lead the battlefield all, but he did not let go of any possible loopholes.

With such a use of troops, it has not been immersed in the battlefield for decades, and it cannot be achieved - so Yun Zhilan is very puzzled, why didn't Yan Xiaoyi personally lead the troops here, who is this man in black?

He was guessing, in fact, many people in the rebel army were speculating about the identity of the man in black, this man in black only joined the rebel team with two personal soldiers, and he was full of clothes, but he used his soldiers like a finger and killed with a dashing and fierce killing, which was very admirable.

The man in black did not explain to his subordinates the intention of stopping the attack at this time, but just looked indifferently at the mountain that suddenly rose in front of him. This trip led the rebels to attack, which is only part of the agreement, and does not temporarily take this group of forces into your own hands, Your Majesty...... It's hard to make that decision.

Suddenly a dark cloud floated in the sky, covering all the bright moon, and it was dark near the mountain gate, and the man in black did not move on his horse, only the short weapon in the cloth bag held by the two people beside him was shining faintly.

โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€” Fan Xian didn't know how long the moon would be obscured, he slid silently towards the bottom of the mountain, his speed did not slow down or increase, and he kept a steady speed in horror. During the day, the jade-like wall of Dadong Mountain exudes a faint deep light in the middle of the night, which perfectly blends with him in night clothes.

Dadong Mountain is like a knife-like dividing line on both sides of the mountain, straight into the ground by the sea, where there is a master of Dongyi City, so it is impossible for him to choose that route, only to descend from the side facing the sea breeze.

No one in this world could slip out of such a desperate situation, except Fan Xian - so he was not worried that the people on the sea, the rebels on land would find their traces, but he was still extremely nervous, because he always felt that a pair of eyes behind him were piercing through the night and the howling sea breeze, calmly watching him.