There used to be such a legend in the empire, that is, the legend about the two greatest emperors in the history of the empire, one is the emperor of the empire, the first emperor, and his grandson, Emperor Tianwu the Great. One founded this great empire, while the other was the one who pushed this empire to the pinnacle of the Celestial Dragon Continent. The reason why these two legends are circulating, it is because these two people have always had their elite men and horses in their hands when they pacified the world and conquered the Quartet, and their cultivation may not be the highest in the entire empire, but the execution of the battlefield is definitely the highest, and more importantly, the two corps in their hands have a special belief in the existence, but this belief disappeared after the death of the two emperors, and there is no such belief, but whenever the empire encounters a crisis, the two sleeping corps of the empire will wake up。

Since the royal family felt their own crisis, they began to formulate Jihua step by step, first giving Liu Fan the gun used by Ximen Zhong back then, constantly improving Liu Fan's identity within the empire, trying to introduce Liu Fan, a new successor. It's just that things are changing too fast, so fast that people are a little caught off guard, so that all the arrangements of the royal family have been controlled by Zhang Rang before they are in place.

As Ximen Zhong and Liu Fan said back then, the royal family belongs to the God of War clan, and their clan was born to fight. The God of War clan has irreplaceable glory, and this glory is absolutely desecrated by others. Liu Fan also tried to learn more about the three bloodlines that had been hidden behind the history of this empire, but they all failed. Although Liu Fan was very puzzled in his heart, he wanted to solve the mystery in front of him. But there was no way.

Liu Fan's order has been issued for several days. On Liu Fan's way to Tianlong Academy. There is also such an army in the north of the empire that is marching quickly towards the imperial capital, led by 3,000 cavalry, black clothes, black armor and black flags, which is the costume of the imperial Shenwu army. The blue feathers inserted above the battle helmet fluttered in the wind, and three thousand war horses beat the ground rhythmically, led by two military generals, but one was a male general, and the other was all female heroes. The two are Ma Chao and Zhu Yao, who married on the land of Yongzhou, and now the two are the vanguard of the Yongzhou Army to reinforce the imperial capital.

"Tongguan is ahead, there is no army to stop us along the way, it seems that all the troops have been transferred to the imperial capital. Ma Chao sat on the war horse with a tired face, observing the looming city pass in the distance with the sun, and Zhu Yao beside him also stopped, looking at Ma Chao with a worried face, followed by dozens of guards looking around vigilantly. The three thousand cavalry did not stop, and still marched quickly towards Tongguan.

"The whole army picks up. Strive for the day after tomorrow to the end of the imperial capital!" Ma Chao shouted loudly to the soldiers under his command, and the faces of everyone in the cavalry behind him were tired, but no one complained. These people are all the elite soldiers and horses left by Yuwen Chengdu in the Yongzhou Army. These three thousand are most of the few remaining veterans, and this time they were all brought by Ma Chao. The cavalry behind him roared and whipped the horses that sat down, and hurried towards Tongguan.

Tongguan, one of the two checkpoints that locked the empire, the empire had already considered all aspects when choosing a site for the imperial capital, especially the defense of the imperial capital, and the imperial generals of Wencheng quarreled fiercely about it, and finally selected the interior of Sizhou. The terrain here is very suitable for use as an imperial capital, surrounded by fertile fields, suitable for large-scale cavalry battles, and the cavalry of the empire is proud of the existence of the entire Tianlong Continent, especially the cavalry combat effectiveness of the Bingzhou Corps and the Liangzhou Corps, which makes the surroundings even more frightened.

Not only that, the terrain of the two artificially transformed checkpoints in the later period of Tiger Prison Pass and Tongguan is even more dangerous, and the two pipelines leading to the imperial capital can be easily locked, and a large number of elite troops are stationed in the two places. The reason why the Lion Empire was able to fight near the imperial capital back then was that the border troops of the empire were all evacuated, and there was no defense at all before they were captured.

Ma Chao led his cavalry to advance quickly towards Tongguan, he didn't know that a huge mutiny was brewing in Tongguan at this moment. Garrisoned at Tongguan was the Twelfth Praetorian Legion, one of the only two remaining Praetorian Guard Corps, which did not join the attack on the south, so it did not take over the change and continued to be led by Zhang Rang's cronies. After all the Praetorian Guards defected, Zhang Rang strengthened his control over this legion, and the officers of the Praetorian Guard, both up and down, were cleaned up on a large scale, and it can be said that the rest were basically Zhang Rang's cronies.

It is also a coincidence that Zhang Bai of this legion could have been controlled, and after Zhang Bai felt that the situation in the imperial capital had changed, he immediately sent an order to Ma Xiao, the commander of this legion, and asked him to immediately take the soldiers and horses to the imperial capital. Originally, everything should have developed like this, Ma Xiao had gathered the entire legion, and had already announced the order, preparing to take his soldiers and horses to the imperial capital, but at this time Ma Xiao suddenly fell ill, yes, he fell ill, and it was a serious illness. Ma Chao couldn't afford to be sick like this, and he couldn't sort out military affairs while lying on the bed, so the start of the army stopped. It also made the originally stable army suddenly agitated, although the deputy corps commander and the legions at all levels worked hard to suppress the pressure, but at this time the situation was no longer under their control.

Ma Xiao did not hand over the military power before he fell ill, not because he didn't want to hand it over, but because he didn't have time. Seriously ill, Ma Xiao suddenly fell ill, although the deputy corps commander was urgently asked to take over the entire corps, but there was no soldier charm to mobilize the army. Although an urgent document was sent to Zhang Bai, this official document could not be approved in a day, and during this time, the army could only continue to be stationed in Tongguan and could not open to the imperial capital.

Wu Yan, a guard brought back by Liu Fan when he was a minister in Qingzhou, he only appeared by Liu Fan's side a few times. On the day of the mutiny, Wu Yan was not in the army for some special reasons, so that when the imperial capital was in turmoil, he had no spare strength to find his army. Wu Yan is very smart, he naturally knows how to keep a few, so several unimportant secrets were revealed to Zhang Rang by Wu Yan. And Wu Yan also saved his life because of this. And in the subsequent actions, the performance of hard work finally won Zhang Rang's trust. After several transfers, Wu Yan is now the commander of a division of the Twelfth Praetorian Guard Legion.

The Twelfth Praetorian Guard Army has three divisions, each with 100,000 people, and I have to say that the guard that Liu Fan inadvertently collected back then is still quite capable, and the traitor is no worse than Bai Qi. He didn't achieve the kind of achievements that Bai Qi had, it was completely limited by his talent, otherwise the current Twelve Praetorian Guard Legion would be surnamed Wu, but surnamed Ma. Wu Yan is very capable. As the commander of the division, he soon took the entire division into his own hands, and even if Zhang Rang and Zhang Bai adjusted the combat officers several times, they could not shake Wu Yan's position in the division and regiment in the slightest.

Zhang Rang once commented on Wu Yan, that is, the most loyal white-eyed wolf raised by Liu Fan, if it wasn't for Wu Yan's betrayal back then, Zhang Rang probably wouldn't have been able to sweep away the Liu family so thoroughly. Of course he wouldn't know that Wu Yan was doing this to prepare for today, the Twelfth Praetorian Guard Legion was very important, he was an important bargaining chip for Zhang Bai to control the imperial capital, although the 300,000 people had not experienced any major battles, they were absolute veterans from top to bottom. When these two corps were formed, they were composed of veterans drawn from each army, so don't look down on them because they haven't fought a war. They are all veterans who dare to die and fight. Zhang Bai also attached great importance to this legion, and his weapons and equipment and treatment were even far better than those of the Imperial Guards. Even in terms of military salaries, they are better than the soldiers of the Guards.

Berserk Division, this is the name that Wu Yan gave to his division. Wu Yan was wearing a heavy armor and holding a huge mountain-opening sword in his hand. In the big tent of the division commander, hundreds of officers have been gathered here, and everyone is resolute. They all already knew what Wu Yan was going to do, and everyone's hearts were very excited, what was the most important thing in the troubled times, that is, military merit and military power.

"Division commander, it is indeed the Shenwu Army that came from the north, and the banner is the word horse, it should be Ma Chao of the Shenwu Army Yue Fei's department. The commander of the Scout Army of the Berserk Division said to Wu Yan who was sitting at the top, everyone here is Wu Yan's henchmen, and they naturally know who the lord they want to be loyal to.

"They are finally here, Wu Hui, you take 3,000 people to pick them up now, let Ma Chao immediately take his soldiers and horses to ambush outside the pass tonight, if I wait for things to be unsuccessful, I will send someone to open the gate of Tongguan, and you will immediately wave your troops to attack the military camp." A sneer hung on the corner of Wu Yan's mouth, Wu Yan was very confident in the mutiny, but confidence does not mean that he could succeed, Wu Yan wanted to seek stability, control the entire legion, and then wave his troops to attack the imperial capital.

Wu Yan already wanted to mutiny when Ma Xiao had just fallen ill, but the deputy commander of the legion, who had always been very low-key at that time, suddenly took over the military power of the entire legion, which caught Wu Yan off guard. Fortunately, Wu Yan soon adjusted his strategy and continued to hide and wait for Yue Fei's troops of the Shenwu Army in the north to go south, and use them as foreign aid to take down the entire legion. Wu Yan quickly mobilized the entire division and controlled the key points everywhere, although the other two division commanders expressed their dissatisfaction with Wu Yan, but under the strong pressure of Wu Yan's division, they could only swallow this breath hard, watching Wu Yan's division take over the defense of Tongguan.

"Division commander, the other two divisions have a lot of opinions about us, and I heard that they have privately united and want to challenge the deputy commander and drive us out of Tongguan. A regimental commander under Wu Yan's command walked to Wu Yan's side and whispered, Wu Yan's berserk division is the strongest in the entire Praetorian Guard legion, and the other two divisions are living in the shadow of rage, so it can be said that the 12th Praetorian Guard Legion is the legion of the berserk division.

"Hmph, those two wastes also want to deal with me, if it weren't for Zhang Rang supporting them in the back, they would also want to sit in the position of the commander of this division, it's really too much to overestimate themselves. The corners of Wu Yan's mouth hung a sneer, the reason why he was so confident in this mutiny was completely because the division commanders of the other two divisions were too wasteful, it could be said that the two of them were synonymous with waste, if it wasn't for Zhang Rang supporting them in the back, they would not have been able to ascend to the position of the commander of this division.

"Division commander, these two people are not terrible, but there are 200,000 troops standing behind the two, and we have to pay attention to it, if we really let these two people jump out, the soldiers under our command have already controlled the key points of Tongguan, and the troops are scattered, I am afraid that they are not their opponents. Another brigade commander said worriedly. Since ancient times, the most feared thing about mutiny is that the soldiers under his command will not be able to control the situation. Especially in the case of a disparity in forces.

Wu Yan's brows furrowed instantly. The top and bottom of the berserk division are all looking forward to him, but there are really not many Liliang that he can control in the other two divisions. Wu Yan's eyes flashed with a glimmer of essence and said to everyone: "You immediately command now, from now on, everyone will be unsheathed and arrows will be wound, and I want you to be ready for battle for twelve hours." In addition, Tianya, with my personal guards, closely monitor the commander's tent, if you find that there are people from the other two divisions entering and leaving it. Gotta find a way to bring them to me. ”

"No matter what, we must do it tonight, the Shenwu Army will be able to reach the outside of the pass tonight, and we should work together inside and outside, and take the twelve Praetorian Guard Corps in the control of Tongguan in one fell swoop. Wu Yan said to everyone with a solemn face, and everyone immediately agreed in unison.

The soldiers of the 3,000 Berserk Division rushed out of Tongguan with Wu Yan's warrant, and the 3,000 soldiers could not hide from people's eyes and ears, especially some people with good intentions even sent people to watch the troop movement of the Berserk Division closely. No one even knows what the reason for this is, the other two divisions and the Berserker Division are inherently incompatible, and it can even be said that they want to replace the Berserk Division. The information that Wu Yan's 3,000 soldiers and horses had left the city was immediately reported to the commanders of the other two divisions and the deputy commander who controlled the whole army.

Although everyone had already seen the recent abnormality of the Berserk Division. But they didn't dare to attack the Berserk Division, which was the most combat-effective unit among the Twelve Praetorian Guards. Moreover, no matter how the regiment adjusts, the officers and soldiers will become Wu Yan's henchmen in the shortest possible time. Anyone who is not his confidant will disappear inexplicably in a short period of time, and although everyone knows what the reason is, no one dares to bring up the meaning. Because no one except Wu Yan could control this brave division.

"General, there are 3,000 soldiers on the opposite side, and they are under the banner of the Tongguan defenders. "Talking about Wangshan running a dead horse, although Ma Chao has been able to roughly see the outline of Tongguan, there is still a long way to go to Tongguan. The three thousand cavalry who rushed out of Tongguan also marched towards Ma Chao at full speed, Ma Chao's cavalry were all one person and three horses, changing horses without changing people, and the marching speed of both armies was very fast.

"Tongguan defenders?" Ma Chao's brows furrowed instantly, the Tongguan defenders had already received information on the way here, and they were all Zhang Rang's henchmen. Ma Chao originally wanted to camp under the pass of Tongguan tonight, waiting for the arrival of Yue Fei's army in the rear, and was trying to find a way to solve the garrison of Tongguan. Ma Chao didn't expect that the defenders of Tongguan would come out, and there were 3,000 people who came, and the number of people who came was the same as his own, could it be that something happened in Tongguan?

"Order the soldiers to be on guard and watch my orders take place. Ma Chao didn't dare to be careless, no matter what the other party's purpose was, be prepared. The three thousand cavalry Ma Chao have not yet seen it, if it is not for the geographical pass of Tongguan, it is too dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Ma Chao even dared to take the three thousand people under his command to attack the city directly.

Two cavalry teams of 6,000 people met them, and soon the defenders of Tongguan stopped, and the leading general Wu Hui quickly met them with a few personal guards. Seeing this situation, Ma Chao hurriedly ordered the soldiers under his command to listen, and quickly greeted him with several personal guards under his command.

"Is it Ma Chao and General Ma of the Shenwu Army?" Wu Hui sat on his war horse and looked at Ma Chao up and down, and he was indeed surprised in his heart. The strong smell of blood on Ma Chao's body made him, a battle-hardened general, feel a little surprised, especially the murderous aura on Ma Chao's body made this veteran who had killed countless enemies feel a little unbelievable, a general less than thirty had such a strong murderous aura, could it be that he had been fighting since he was born in his mother's womb?

"It's down, I don't know if you're it?" Ma Chao put down the dragoon spear in his hand and said to Wu Hui, and Ma Chao judged Wu Hui's strength by looking at Wu Hui, Wu Hui was definitely not Ma Chao's opponent.

"Under the Captain Wu Hui of the Berserk Division of the Twelfth Praetorian Guard Regiment. Wu Hui arched his hand and said to Ma Chao: "This is the letter that the commander of our division asked me to hand over to General Ma." ”

A personal guard behind Ma Chao stepped forward to take the letter in Wu Hui's hand, Ma Chao's face flashed with joy after reading the letter, don't look at Ma Chao with the cavalry under his command to march to the emperor's capital smoothly, these are just those troops are unwilling to come out to stop it. But Tongguan is a level in the imperial capital, if this level is still in the hands of Zhang Rang's people, it will definitely not let the soldiers under Ma Chao's command pass so easily.

"Order the soldiers under your command to dismount and rest, and we will definitely rush to the outside of the pass to ambush tonight. Ma Chao's heart jumped a little relaxed, if he could take Tongguan, even if the battle in Dijing failed, he could still use the passage of Tongguan to go north, attack Yongzhou, or enter the border of Bingzhou, it can be said that even if they fail, they still have land to go. (To be continued......)