Chapter 22: Inside the Heavenly Palace (4)

In a wide corridor with no end in sight, a line of soldiers and mercenaries was erected.

The mercenaries in the front row held the beast-faced square shield, half-kneeling on the ground, and the long shuo with a barbed blade poked out of the gap in the shield, which was the arrangement of the second-row mercens, and on the shoulders of the second-row mercenaries were set up one after another crossbows, and the arrows flashed in the cold light, pointing directly at the three people at the other end of the corridor.

Lu Bu, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun.

The three of them fought all the way into the depths of the Heavenly Palace, and the enemy's configuration changed from a straggler at the beginning to a military formation that began to take shape, and now, the mercenaries in the military formation configuration have been upgraded to a higher level.

"Phew, is this a mercenary general?"

A sticky smell welled up in his throat, Zhang Liao tilted his head and spat out a mouthful of phlegm, he looked at the back of the military formation, and shook the spear in his hand.

At the end of the military formation, behind the layers of guarded mercenaries, stood a tall figure, that figure was also a mercenary, but compared with ordinary mercenaries, it was as tall as two or three mercens, and its body was not a simple clay, but a carefully painted painting, the appearance of the green face and fangs, a bit like the masks of the witches when they danced the puppet.

The tall mercenary spear in his hand, his short sword at his waist, and the black-bottomed beast-faced banner on his back, stood motionless behind the military formation, and the huge coercion continued to emanate.

Zhang Liao was already a little tired at this time, and his general's ability was not obvious in the face of mercenaries, so he could only use brute force, but his physical strength was not as good as his true qi, and the speed of exhaustion was always faster.

"Not ......"

Staring at the tall mercenary in the distance, Lu Bu slowly shook his head, the blood qi around him surged, and the blood qi armor on his body became a little thicker. Although his general's ability is not very useful in terms of attack like Zhang Liao, the defensive effect of the blood qi armor is real, so it seems that his condition is much better than Zhang Liao.

“…… That's the First Emperor's Heavenly Army. ”

Lu Bu said solemnly, and the expression on his face became serious.

"The First Emperor's Heavenly Army?"

Zhang Liao turned his head to look at Lu Bu, and when he saw the determined expression on Lu Bu's face, he couldn't help but smack his lips.

"That's a problem."

As a military general, especially the general of the unified army, Zhang Liao has an understanding of many powerful military forces in history, and the First Emperor's Heavenly Army can be regarded as the most prestigious type of army. When the First Emperor unified the Six Kingdoms, if it was not for the activity of the First Emperor's Heavenly Army, it would definitely not be so smooth.

Hearing the conversation between the two, Gao Shun didn't say anything, he was still in the posture of half-kneeling and carrying a knife in his back, but the muscles on his body seemed to be a little tighter.

"Up?"

is worthy of being a famous general in the future, in the face of the First Emperor's Heavenly Army, Zhang Liao was not afraid, but quickly ignited his fighting spirit, he swept the spear in his hand, and his face was eager to try.

No one answered, but Gao Shun rushed out directly.

His figure disappeared in an instant, and a large black shadow instantly spread, countless chains extended from it, and a large net composed of chains was formed in an instant, and when his figure reappeared, it was stepping on the chains. The chains fired, and he rode the chains towards the dense mercenary formation.

At the moment when Gao Shun moved, the mercenaries on the opposite side also moved, and the crossbow arrows that had already been aimed were fired in unison, making a terrifying whistle and whistling sound.

Gao Shun didn't dodge or dodge, he directly put the door panel broadsword in front of him, and the crossbow arrows shot at the broadsword, making a clanging sound, but Gao Shun's castration was not blocked by these crossbow arrows, and he quickly rushed into the military formation composed of soldiers and mercenaries with chains.

"Boom!"

If it were an ordinary soldier, this shield wall would have been smashed by Gao Shun's incomparably brutal force, but it was those mercenaries who didn't know what pain was and had infinite strength that supported this shield wall. In the dull sound of the explosion, the knife face and the shield surface collided together, and neither side even flinched a bit.

However, it was not only Gao Shun who moved, in the next second, Lu Bu and Zhang Liao also flashed out from behind Gao Shun, the two of them waved the weapons in their hands one left and one right, and smashed on Gao Shun's big knife together, and another muffled sound sounded, although this muffled sound was not as violent as before, but the solid shield wall was indeed shaken.

No, it was not the shield wall that was shaken, but the mercenaries who supported it!

Under the combined efforts of the three of them, the brutal force directly broke the mercenary's arm, the soil splashed, the shield wall broke through, and the three broke into the military formation, but what greeted the three was not the wanton killing like wolves entering the flock, but another dangerous hand-to-hand encounter.

For the three of them, these mercenaries have many tricky things to do with ordinary soldiers, but the most difficult thing is their inexhaustible morale, the moment the three of them broke into the military formation, the short swords and long swords that had been prepared attacked the three of them one after another, not to mention the crossbow arrows that were shot from the shadows from time to time. But fortunately, the three of them had adapted to this kind of intense battle, and in the shadow of the sword and sword, the blood and chains rolled, and one by one the mercenaries slowly fell.

"Boom!"

In the light of the silver sword, the head of the last mercenary was pierced by a spear, and the headless mercenary fell backwards, smashing into clods of earth. Zhang Liao gasped and withdrew his spear, during the fight, he was still hit by a crossbow arrow sneak attack, and blood flowed out of his shoulder, not that he was afraid of pain, but the arrow of the crossbow arrow was still in the wound, and every time he moved, the arrow rubbed the flesh and blood once.

"Wenyuan, how's it going?"

Lu Bu glanced at Zhang Liao with his peripheral vision, the young general's lips were already a little white, obviously he had lost a lot of blood.

"No, it's out of the way."

Although he said so, Zhang Liao's movements with the gun were obviously not as natural as before.

Looking at the tall figure of the First Emperor Heavenly Army not far away, Lu Bu pursed his lips, and a wisp of blood and qi silently separated, covering the wound on Zhang Liao's shoulder, not that he didn't know how to cut the wound and take out the arrow, but at this time, there was no time for him to do that - the First Emperor Heavenly Army had already begun to move.

"Up!"

The first to jump up was still Gao Shun, a splash of black shadow directly splashed on the tall body of the heavenly army, a chain was dragged out of the black shadow, the other end of the chain was connected to Gao Shun's body, Gao Shun's figure flashed around the heavenly army, and the chain coiled up one by one.

Lu Bu also jumped up, his Heavenly Painting Halberd finally attached a touch of blood, and a huge phantom was formed again, and in the midst of the surging blood, the blood-red giant halberd slashed fiercely at the head of the Heavenly Army with a ghost face.