The population of Chang'an is endless, and the streets are naturally dirty. Especially at the end of the year, there are more people, and the excitement is lively, but it is not as beautiful as before.

Today, however, is different. Coming out of the gate of the imperial city, all the way to the main gate of Ximing Temple, the six-zhang wide Vermilion Bird Street was swept extremely clean, not to mention a piece of snow, even a grain of dust is difficult to find. The mortar joints between the rough-faced bluestone bricks can shine brightly.

Knock knock! knock knock! knock......

The big drum on the main gate of the imperial city "Suzaku Gate" is also called the Tiansheng drum, and it cannot be knocked on weekdays.

Early this morning, I knocked thirteen times in a row, six light and seven heavy. It is the meaning of the end of the sixth year of the Great Calendar, welcoming the seven-year new life.

After the drum sounded, the towering wooden door of the Vermilion Bird Gate slowly opened, and four columns of forbidden troops walked out of the door neatly. After walking a short distance, they gradually divided into two teams, left and right, lined up along both sides of Suzaku Street, shoulder to shoulder, foot to foot, to make two human walls.

The forbidden army is divided into two parts: north and south. The sixteen guards of the Southern Ya, after Tianbao (Tang Xuanzong), only the official name remains. The 10th Army of the Northern Ya, 1,000 people per team. It is divided into: left and right Yulin Army, left and right Longwu Army, left and right Shenwu Army, left and right Shenwei Army, and left and right Shence Army.

Among them, the four armies of Shenwei Shence are all under the control of Yu Chaoen, and the four armies of Longwu Shenwu are balanced with each other and stay in the inner house.

And at the end of the year, the person in charge of guarding is the "Northern Ya Yulin Army", which is known as the "elite of the elite". The strongest left and right guards in the forbidden army not only require high martial arts and excellent virtue, but also must be one in a hundred in height and appearance.

A group of such mighty men are lined up on a human wall, a head above the people. Wearing a golden robe inside, wearing silver scale soft armor outside, holding a three-foot horizontal knife, he threw a pestle in front of the people, with a majestic momentum, not angry and self-imposing.

After the forbidden army separated the streets, they surrounded the Ximing Temple, and all the places where the Son of Heaven would pass, not to mention pedestrians, even flies could not fly in.

The onlookers have already crowded the nearby streets and alleys, just waiting for the arrival of the Son of Heaven to catch a glimpse of the holy face.

"Woo~!woo~~!"

The sound of the horn first sounded in the Suzaku Gate, the main gate of the south of the imperial city, and then the secondary gates on the left and right sides - Hanguang Gate and Anmen, and then spread from the east and west directions to the other four gates of the imperial city: Shunyi, Anfu, Yanxi, and Jingfeng.

After the imperial city, this sound is like a beacon fire and wolf smoke, extending to every city gate of Chang'an, starting from Hualin Gate in the west, to Guanghua Gate, Kaiyuan Gate, Jinguang Gate, Yanping Gate, and Anhua Gate. From the east to Demen, Jingdaohuamen, Chunmingmen, Yanxingmen, Qixiamen.

The sound of the horn covers the entire Chang'an City, heard everywhere, and sounded everywhere. This voice is both loud and low, and people can't help but be silent, this is the majesty of the heavenly family.

The east and west voices are intertwined at the same time on the "Mingde Gate" of the south main gate of Chang'an, and they are re-converged into six short and seven long. Immediately afterwards, the 2,000 forbidden troops on the entire Suzaku Street stamped their feet at the same time: "Xing!"

There are millions of people in Chang'an, and no one dares to make a noise.

After the prelude, it is the auspicious time for the year-end festival.

The Son of Heaven Honor Guard is divided into four levels: Huang Lu big battle, Huang Lu half battle, Huang Lu horn battle, and Huang Lu fine battle.

The Great Battle is the largest ceremony in the emperor's life, such as enthronement, sacrifice to the sky, and enshrinement of Zen. The year-end sacrifice is a big sacrifice in the regular ceremony of the year, which should have been used for half a battle, but when His Majesty did not like extravagance, he reduced the amount of money in the palace, so it was reduced by half, and only the yellow horn was used.

The first team of this honor guard is "Jinwu", headed by five black-background year flags, five Wuyue flags, five Qinglong Vermilion Bird Xuanbai Tiger flags, and ended with a five-pole soap flag.

After that, there is the honor guard of the military department, from beginning to end, in order: Tianyi Flag, Seti Flag, Wuchen Flag, Twenty-eight Suzhou Flag, Eleven Lettered Flags, Six Missionary Flags, Six Farewell Flags, and a Yellow Flag.

After this is completed, it is the real team of the Son of Heaven, led by the Long Live Monarch Banner and the World Peace Flag, and there is a lion flag on the left and right, a golden luan, and a golden phoenix flag. After the flag team, there are ten Tianzi canopy "Huangluo umbrellas", divided into two teams, each of which is half a zhang in size and weighs about 100 catties.

By the time all the honor guards came out, it was already after a stick of incense.

Six single bikes, cyan roofs, for the imperial court six Shangshu, and then there are still three single bikes, the roof is changed to purple, is the highest officials in Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, Shangshu Province three provinces: Zhongshu Ling, Shizhong, Shangshu Ling. After that, there are two double bikes, with a black roof, which is larger than the front car, and is the prime minister of the left and right.

Followed by four tall horses, white, yellow, brown and red, of different colors. Each one of them is a one-of-a-kind horse. These are the four most trusted royal brothers and sisters of the emperor, who do not wear ceremonial clothes, but wear military armor, to show the heart of the imperial family to protect the family and defend the country and fight on the battlefield. King Xiang rode a red horse, and he was among them.

The most central part of this team is the emperor's dragon cha, without horse-pulling, with people and lotus, twenty-four sedan chairs, the sedan body is half a zhang square, the square column, with the yellow gauze curtain as the wall, the top is covered with a square thread, the style is complicated: the satin red and purple two-color silk is the bottom, no embroidery pattern, the four corners of the copper dragon head, hanging colorful tassels.

The emperor and the empress sat in it, both in yellow dresses. Looking at the inside from the outside, you can only see its shape, not its appearance.

After the dragon, it is the single horse sedan chair of the prince and the king of harmony, one yellow and one black, side by side, and then there is the honor guard of the harem concubines, a total of four concubines and nine concubines, all of which are single-carriage chariots, and the concubines use the red gauze tent, and the concubines use the pink gauze tent.

At the end of the line were other important ministers and officials.

The whole team has more than 1,000 people, shaped like a long dragon.

Li Bing was not in the year-end sacrifice procession, and with Anzi, Yinglan'er, Qian Yi, Wei Ze, and Ma Xuewen, they also stood not far away, looking at this viewing team. Wei Ze's retinue occupied a place, separating a few people from the common people without suffering the pain of being crowded and crowded.

At first, the people were still afraid of the majesty of the heavenly family, and they all silently watched the honor guard, and as soon as the six departments and three divisions came out, the crowd began to boil, and the sound of "long live, long live, long live" was endless.

The emperor of this dynasty, once changed the fatigue of the Anshi Rebellion, although it was not able to completely drive out the threat of Tibet, but the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty finally settled down, coupled with the emphasis on agriculture and commerce over the years, clearing taxes and thin labor, among the people, very prestigious.

"It seems like it's about the same every year. "Wei Zehe and Xuewen are people from Chang'an, and they see each other every year at the end of the year, and there is nothing special about it. It was Qian Yi, Ying Lan'er and Anzi who looked at such a spectacular team and were elated.

Li Bing was holding a sword in his hand, which was the "tired dust" that King Mu gave him. He had something in his heart, so he kept silent with a cold face, not looking at the honor guard, but paying close attention to the tall buildings on the left and right sides of Suzaku Street. If someone really attacked the sacrificial convoy, it would be most convenient to do so from these heights.

"There are assassins!" exclaimed, and seventy or eighty people jumped out of the towers on both sides and raided the honor guards.

However, the forbidden army also reacted extremely quickly, immediately reorganized the formation, protected the emperor, and one hundred and ten people took the initiative to attack, and they were already fighting in the air.

The two groups of people fought together in an instant, and the sound of knives and guns was endless. The people were frightened by this sudden situation and fled in all directions, and the scene was suddenly chaotic. The ranks of the Forbidden Army continued to shrink, and so did the Assassins, and the small area became more and more populated.

Among the assassins, a masked man in green clothes, with extremely high martial arts, killed a group of forbidden soldiers around him in three or two clicks, and aimed at the emperor's sedan chair in a blink of an eye. stepped on the concubine's car in one step, flew three steps, and appeared in front of the emperor's car in an instant.

The two Praetorian Army Commanders tried to intercept them, but they were killed just by looking at them.

The prince and the king were the closest to the emperor's chauffeur, and the two were also surrounded by a group of forbidden troops, and the prince saw that the emperor's garrison seemed to be insufficient to resist this person, and he was unwilling to hide behind the crowd anymore, so he drew his long sword, wanting to protect his father to the death.

In terms of martial arts, although he has some foundation, he is not much different from the ordinary forbidden army, if he really takes a move in person, where is there still a way to live?

Fortunately, one big hand grabbed his collar and pulled it back, and with the other hand holding a sword, he faced the long knife of the man in Tsing Yi and went up.

This person is Li Xu, the king of Xiang.

"Wow!!" The two fought back and forth with each other, the moves of the people in Tsing Yi were extremely fast, but Li Yan's sword moves were calm and vigorous, the two restrained each other, and the kung fu was almost the same, and it was difficult to distinguish between them for a while.

forced the people in Tsing Yi to retreat, Li Yu continued to attack, plus several forbidden army captains, assisted from the side, and for a while forced him to retreat.

The kung fu of the commander of the forbidden army seems to be much worse than that of the people in Tsing Yi, but after many years of collective training, the sword formation that has been studied has played a role at this time. With Li Yu dragging him, the sword formation quickly took shape, trapping the people in Tsing Yi in it.

The Tsing Yi swordsman had to deal with Li Yan's swordsmanship on the one hand, and he had to look at all directions on the other, if it weren't for his light work, this sword array would have contracted and killed him in it.

Looking at other places, the assassins continue to pour out, and the costumes are roughly divided into three kinds, one is slightly back to the style of the Fu, the other is the Central Plains military robe, these two are mostly miscellaneous soldiers, and the combat power is roughly equivalent to the forbidden army, and the other is this masked man in green clothes, all of whom are assassins with extremely high kung fu, but the number is not much, about 20 people in total.

Among the people in Tsing Yi, the three of them were the most fierce.

Seeing that the Tsing Yi swordsman was about to be dragged into the sword array, a fat and strong man not far away picked up a pair of sledgehammers, smashed the leader of the forbidden army who was fighting with him upside down and flew out, hitting the stone wall, his ribs all over his body were shattered, and he lost his life.

He barely knew how to do light skills, and in the middle of the crowd, he flew up the left and right with the double hammer, and the forbidden soldiers were swept into the sky one after another, and the flesh and bones were splashed everywhere, so that he opened up a bloody road and killed the Tsing Yi swordsman.

The pair of hammers in his hands were not ordinary hammers, but armillary hammers.

It wasn't long before it came out. Legend has it that Li Yuan's power is infinite, and the ordinary hammer is as light as a feather in his hand, so he turns the head of a one-foot hammer into a foot and a half, so that the weight is more than twice as much. He still felt that it was not enough, so he replaced the hammer head with a lead hammer head, and then re-finished it with gold, so that the armillary hammer weighed more than four times as much as before, and it was indeed the king of blunt weapons.

The sword array is mysterious, but he can't resist this fierce hard move to dismantle, this fat and strong man doesn't care which side of the forbidden army feeds the sword, just a hammer to resist and take these thousands of moves. The sword array that trapped the Tsing Yi swordsman was instantly disturbed.

"Go and get that swordsman, and I'll give it to you!"

The commander of the forbidden army had not formed a formation before, and he was not an opponent of the swordsman, but this position had been listed, as long as there was no disturbance from the fat man, if he wanted to trap the swordsman, he could still do it.

Li Xu's swordsmanship is vigorous, but his strength is still not the opponent of this fat man, no matter how he uses his sword, he will always be mistaken and resolved.

Although the fat and strong man couldn't please him, but if he continued to stalemate like this, the light skills of the Tsing Yi swordsman seemed to be much faster, and he was about to get out.

Li Xuan grabbed a horizontal knife from the dead forbidden army with one hand, and changed it to dual wielding, a right-handed sword and a left-handed knife, each using a swordsmanship.

Sure enough, his rich combat experience is not comparable to ordinary people, and he can see at a glance that this person has two hands and a strong and powerful hammer, but it also brings disadvantages, that is, it is not flexible enough and difficult to change moves.

Seeing that the fat man blocked his sword with one hand, Li Yan changed his move with his left hand at the same moment, although the person also had a hammer, but the armillary hammer was much slower than the horizontal knife, and he couldn't cope with it in an instant. In addition, he doesn't know how to do light skills, and he doesn't get out much when he is entangled by Li Yan's body method, and the more he fights, the more anxious he gets, the more he loses.

In just ten rounds, he was already stabbed three times by Li Yan. However, this person is really rough and thick-skinned, and after being stabbed, he didn't act slowly at all, and he still resisted stubbornly.

Seeing that the Tsing Yi swordsman seemed to be about to escape from the sword array, Li Yan smashed the hammer with a fat strong man, jumped up on tiptoes, and then flew out upside down with the strong strength of the Heavenly Hammer, stopped at the Tsing Yi swordsman in the air, and turned around with a sword and a sword.

Seeing that he was about to get out of the sword formation, he was forced to dismantle by Li Yan's move.

The two swords rushed against each other, each retreating.

Although he was not injured, he was really annoyed that he was ready for Li Yu to stop him and fell back into the center of the sword formation!

The number of Assassins in the streets has increased by hundreds. The forbidden army suffered continuous casualties, and it was gradually overstretched to deal with it.

Suddenly, two teams arrived and joined the battle, one was the Chang'an City Guard, which was originally on standby, although the martial arts were not as high as the forbidden army, but fortunately, there were many people, and 2,000 people went to the various passages of Suzaku Street, and it was difficult for the new assassins to kill them.

The other one is even more strange, it is actually the Tongguan defenders.

Tongguan and Chang'an are more than 100 miles away, and they have always been important towns, with more than 10,000 defenders. At this moment, only the elite are coming, and there are probably two thousand more people. These 4,000 people joined, and the situation was quickly stabilized.

"Can't be delayed! Kill the Dog Emperor first!" In addition to these two people, another leader in Tsing Yi shouted loudly, shook off the forbidden army around him, and stepped to Li Yan's side in three or two steps.

He had long gray hair and was extremely tall.

Although the three masked leaders in Tsing Yi are all tall and strong, they all have differences when they look closely. The man in Tsing Yi is lean and strong, the man with the hammer is fat and stocky, and the gray-haired body is in between.

Li Xuan was about to slash at the fat and strong man with a knife, but the gray-haired man flashed to his side, clasped his hands together for eleven beats, and actually clamped Li Yan's horizontal knife.

Receiving the white blade empty-handed, not only was he not injured, but also made Li Yan's horizontal knife unable to advance a single inch.

"Outside the horizontal training master?" Li Xuan was suspicious in his heart, and before he could take out the sword again, the man's palms moved back and forth slightly, and with fierce force, he actually broke the horizontal knife at the waist.

The horizontal knife of this weapon supervisor, to say the least, is also more than five grades, and the forbidden army is even more sophisticated, from the fourth grade, the fourth grade is also very common. This person was able to break these four-grade swords empty-handed in Li Yan's hands, which was really powerful.

Before he could break up with the gray-haired man again, two armillary hammers had already fallen from the top of his head, and Li Yan hurriedly raised his sword to resist.

"Poof!"

The two hammers were blocked, but the gray-haired man was slapped in the chest. The palm of this horizontal training master, with internal strength, is too fierce, even if the skill is as profound as Li Xuan, it was stirred up without internal churning, and a mouthful of blood vomited on the spot.

"Not dead?" Grayhair was greatly surprised, it was one of the few times he missed.

The gray-haired man looked at the swordsman in Tsing Yi and said to the fat man, "You go and save him!"

Time was pressing, and he didn't give him a chance anymore, and went straight to Li You's door again.

Li Bing, Ma Xuewen, and Ying Lan'er were also in the crowd to stop the assassins.

But seeing that his father was seriously injured, where did he stay. At the moment, I don't care about any pickled things with internal strength or internal strength, when it comes to "tired dust", try to control the internal force, I don't want the dantian to still be imprisoned, and I can't raise a trace of true qi.

can only rely on his body technique, a spurt of starry night return, rushed to Li Xu's side first, and was watching the gray-clothed man slash at Li Yan's forehead.

Knowing that this person was too powerful, he didn't dare to keep his hand at all, and forcibly operated Zhou Tian's true qi, and ten percent of his true qi gathered together, and slashed horizontally with a sword in both hands.

"Wave the sun!"

He hadn't used his internal strength for a long time, and when this trick came out, it was five points stronger than a month ago. Sure enough, once this "Xuanming Black Sutra" is practiced to the realm, this internal strength will grow on its own, and the rumors are true.

A burst of copper smoke powdered, like a sky full of bright stars.

The speed of the tired dust shook the air, causing a violent buzz, causing a wave of scorching air, burning all the copper dust around the sword body red, dragging out a long trail of light.

When the gray-haired man saw Li Bing coming, he wanted to slap him away with one palm, but suddenly seeing the momentum of this swordsmanship, he was also half jealous, and stretched out his hands to slap the sword.

"Shhh

The two played against each other. Li Bing was shocked by this person's internal force and took three steps back, almost unable to stabilize his body. The man in gray took half a step back, frowned, and looked at his hands, which had been cut off with a bloody mark.

Drops of blood were pouring down the ground, and I can't remember how many years I hadn't felt like this.

He glanced at the young man in front of him fiercely, and his brows were twisted: "If you don't get rid of this son, it will become a trouble!" didn't stop for a moment, and ran towards Li Bing.

Li Bingti was about to dismantle the sword, and a shadow also came to his side to help him, it was Li Xuan.

"If you're not careful, I'll let you come back now!"

Li Bing and Li Xuan glanced at each other, and they attacked left and right.

Without the shackles of the "Three Golden Locks", Li Bing's mana is much stronger than before. Even if he stands with Li Xuan, it doesn't seem to be much the same.

Li Xuan also used all his strength, and the swordsmanship seemed to have changed again. The man in gray looked at such a ferocious momentum, and he didn't dare to take the sword with his bare hands in front of him, and he fought and retreated.

"Ahh

There was a fierce battle on this side, and a miserable scream on that side caused the three of them to turn back.

"Withdraw!"

It turned out that with the help of the fat and strong man, the swordsman in Tsing Yi got rid of the sword formation, and relied on his peerless body skills and light skills, in the strict garrison of the forbidden army, he was like a loach, and he just escaped into the emperor's holy bowl in an instant.

With a knife in his handle, a bright red blood mark appeared on the yellow veil!

"Brother Huang!"

"Your Majesty!"

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"Tang horizontal knife" is the standard weapon of the Tang Dynasty sergeant, and the Japanese sword is evolved from it, saying that it is a knife, but it actually looks like a sword, which can be Baidu.

I didn't write it yesterday.,Today's some are more than 5,000 words.。。 I have to go to bed quickly, and I have to go to work tomorrow.

Due to time constraints, this chapter has only been checked once, but so far, I am very satisfied.