Chapter 3 Knives and axes

"This is the idea of the Protector, the Protector does not represent his father, he has no right to arrest this king. ”

"Hehe, it seems that there is nothing more to say, since you are stubbornly resisting, the official has no choice but to execute you on the spot. ”

"How dare you attack someone in the royal family. ”

"This officer is carrying out orders!"

"Then there's no way, let's go to war!"

"Go to war!"

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In June, the weather is getting hotter, with blue skies and white clouds, and the sun is shining.

Under the light, a bloody battle of moral loss is being staged.

Dongfang Changqing was dressed in a military uniform, with fish scale soft armor inside, and held a four-foot long knife to lead the Praetorian Guards to encircle and suppress the prince's mansion. The long knife in his hand is named Yuwei, it is a peerless knife with no blood, it is an ancestral thing, although there is no spirit beast possession, but the perennial battle has absorbed endless evil energy, has opened the spirituality, and is no longer an ordinary thing.

Dongfang Changqing usually uses a long knife with a length of more than six feet, which is used to protect His Majesty, and today he replaced his portable saber with the symbol of the family, Yuwei, which shows that he expected that there would be a tough battle to be fought.

He was over forty years old, his long gray hair was tied in a helmet, he was two meters tall, and his back was slightly hunched, which was caused by his perennial bowing back in front of His Majesty, but it still did not affect the heroic spirit of that body. Holding a four-foot rain in his hand, the red cloak dragged behind him, with the heroic spirit of a young general.

Compared with him, the general Wang Shangguan Hongri is much more sophisticated and mature, and his appearance looks more like a fierce general who is charging into battle. Dressed in heavy silver armor, he wears a tiger-headed steel helmet, holds a battle axe in both hands, and carries a scimitar at his waist.

The axe in Shangguan Hongri's hand is a fierce weapon that follows him to fight on the battlefield and take the enemy's head, the name is Xiongba, Xiongba is also spiritual, and the weapon spirit produced by absorbing blood for a long time is the same as Yuwei. Shangguan Hongri's three-plate axe killed countless enemies, which frightened the six departments outside the Saiwai.

At this moment, the two generals of the empire are facing each other, and those who are lucky enough to witness it can really be described as a great luck in their lives.

The confrontation between the two armies is divided into two ways: sneak attack and frontal charge, and the frontal charge is generally after the general has decided the victory and defeat in a head-on duel, and then the soldiers charge each other. At this moment, the Praetorian Guards have an absolute advantage in numbers, and they should give up the ordinary rules and charge directly, but Dongfang Changqing wants to fight him here first out of the aggressive psychology of martial artists and the psychology of wanting to defeat Shangguan Hongri and seize his prestige.

Shangguan Hongri naturally knew what the other party was thinking, and even knew that Dongfang Changqing had always wanted to fight with him, proving that if he went to the border to fight, he would do better than himself. This is an opportunity for Shangguan Hongri to duel with the enemy coach in the case of a numerical disadvantage, regardless of victory or defeat, it will be beneficial to his side.

So, he stepped forward with a double axe, and the steel shield and purple indigo were no longer around, and there was only one black bat as his deputy. Shangguan Hongri has a lot of capable people, but after all, the border is vast, and the capable people under his command are distributed all over the border, and there are only a few who can be brought with him every day.

Sometimes thinking back quietly, Shangguan Hongri will also blame himself, and he will also review, thinking carefully that if he hadn't had a hard fight with Shen Fei, the elites under him would not have died tragically one after another.

Shangguan Hongri was armed with a double axe and wore heavy armor, such a heavy armor should have been suitable for horseback, but Shangguan Hongri was powerful enough to reach a thousand jun, wearing heavy armor and holding heavy weapons to move as usual. He walked out of the queue, his armor shining brightly, and his fat body was like a Hercules king, giving people heavy pressure.

On the other hand, Dongfang Changqing, although he is also in his early forties, his figure is much taller than Shangguan Hongri, wearing a military uniform, with close-fitting soft scale armor, and holding a rain micro long knife, not so much a general who charges into battle, but a chivalrous man who travels the world with a sword. The long cyan dragon wrapped around his blade, roaring from time to time, shocking the enemy.

The two of them are both the highest-ranking generals in the empire, one is in charge of hundreds of thousands of troops on the border, and the other is in charge of the elite troops of the empire to protect His Majesty.

Let's go to war, in this place where the jungle eats the strong, only the collision of swords and swords can distinguish victory from defeat. Dongfang Changqing, the commander of the Praetorian Guard who obeyed the orders of the old emperor, and Wang Shangguan Hong, the general who formed an alliance with the great prince, will finally have this battle!

"Kill!" The long knives and double axes moved forward, and the fierce air flow spread in all directions with the collision of the knives and axes as the core, and the sergeants could only retreat, "Kill!

Finally, the brawl in the imperial capital finally began.

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The knife, one of the short weapons, is used on the battlefield far more than the sword, the knife is good at cutting but not good at stabbing, the blade is relatively thicker than the sword, and the range of slashing is naturally wider. The commander of the Praetorian Guard, Dongfang Changqing, the imperial general Wang Shangguan Hongri, and the lord of Qingzhou City, Aung Sanqing, all of the most famous generals in the empire use knives, which shows that knives are better than swords on the battlefield.

Axe, one of the heavy weapons, a single axe generally weighs more than 200 catties, so there are not many people who can swing the axe on the battlefield, let alone use it to kill the enemy.

Shangguan Hongri became famous for his axe, and the two axes beheaded countless enemies, the most famous of which was a confrontation between him and Jose, the general of the six departments outside the Saiwai, when Jose used a hammer, he used an axe, and the two used heavy weapons in both hands, and fought hard for 300 rounds, and finally Shangguan Hongri's double axe chopped Jose's double hammer alive, and then killed it.

The heavy weapon weighing hundreds of catties was waved hundreds of times in his hand, and Shangguan Hongri's strength could be imagined.

Swords and axes are rare weapons, and it depends on whose skill is better.

Everyone only saw the true qi of the green dragon transform into an almost real green dragon, and pounced fiercely with Dongfang Changqing's swing of the knife. Shangguan Hongri's double axes were staggered and protected on his chest, and the warrior's fighting strength rose from the dantian, flowed through the eight veins of the Qi Sutra, and finally poured into the double axes through both hands, and a gang qi shield immediately rose to block the gnawing of the green dragon.

"Boom!" Shangguan Hongri would not stand still, after blocking the enemy's attack, the two strong and powerful arms were raised upward, and the axe in his hand was infinitely magnified, flying outward, cutting the neck and tail of the green dragon, forcing Dongfang Changqing back to its original place.

The latter showed his true body, and his face turned pale, showing that he had suffered a dark loss. In sight, Shangguan Hongri rushed up while shouting, like a crazy bull. Rushing within five steps, he suddenly raised his arms, and two blood axes swung forward at the same time, and the sharp axe shadow magnified a hundred times in mid-air, with the momentum of killing the dragon.

Dongfang Changqing saw that the huge axe shadow covered the sky and the sun, blocking all his retreats, took a step back, and turned into a wisp of smoke and disappeared in place.

Dongfang Changqing is not just the commander of the Praetorian Guard, he also shoulders the position of the patriarch of the Tongtian Sect and the Killer Group at the same time, that is to say, he has the head of the three families of martial artists, assassins, and demons, and the technology that turns into smoke and disappears at this moment comes from the identity of the assassin.

"Boom!" The two blood axes fell, and the bluestones in the courtyard were all shattered, but Dongfang Changqing had turned into smoke and disappeared in place, and the breath on his body was all converging.

Shangguan Hongri's heart sank, and he gathered his tomahawk and looked around, but he couldn't find any trace of the other party.

"Stealth, so you're still an assassin. "Shangguan Hongri has no shortage of assassins under him, so he naturally knows the methods that the other party is using now, but in his opinion, the assassination technique is not on the table, and it should not be the director of an imperial general.

In response to him was a bloodless sword, the name of this knife was Yuwei, which was the ancestral heirloom of the Dongfang family. The knife came from behind, silently, restrained the due murderous aura and color, and stabbed directly at the empty door of Shangguan Hongri's vest.

"General!" the soldier behind him saw clearly and reminded anxiously.

Shangguan Hongri immediately turned around and took an axe, but the axe blade hit the blade but failed to stop its forward momentum, the knife was as slippery as water, and it actually flowed against the axe blade, piercing into Shangguan Hongri's arm armor.

"Click!" The armor shattered, and the axe held in Shangguan Hongri's other hand arrived, forcing Yuwei's long knife to retreat into the void and turn into a wisp of smoke.

Shangguan Hongri was out of breath, and his arm armor resisted the attack for him, and he was lucky not to be injured. However, it's okay this time, it's hard to say next time, Dongfang Changqing's attack is completely traceless, because there is no trace to be found, so it can't be defended, if it weren't for the exclamations of the soldiers who reminded him, I'm afraid he wouldn't even be able to turn around the most basically, how should he defend next time, he won't be directly wiped his neck.

Shangguan Hongri felt in danger, he never imagined that Dongfang Changqing, as a general, was so proficient in assassination techniques, and what he didn't expect was that Dongfang Changqing's stealth skills were much stronger than the strongest assassins under his command, and he couldn't detect any traces at all.

Killing enemies on the battlefield is often hard-hitting, and Shangguan Hongri has the most headache for this kind of sneak attack technique, and he feels powerless.

"What should I do, how can I deal with him?" Shangguan Hongri pondered, and finally thought of a way.

The sky is blue and white, and there is no shadow of Dongfang Evergreen in everyone's sight, but he does exist. Dongfang Changqing's stealth skills are quite superb, so superb that they can no longer be found after disappearing into mist.

Shangguan Hongri clenched the handle of the axe with both hands, looking around nervously, in the eyes of everyone, he was already a little panicked, because of the sudden and powerful sneak attack that had just taken him by surprise and shattered half of his shoulder armor.

Changing positions from time to time, swinging axes and slashing from time to time, and his aimless actions confirmed the panic in his heart. Dongfang Changqing watched coldly, using stealth techniques to walk through the shadows that had shrunk to the extreme under the bright sun, and still not be discovered by others.

Accompanied by the old emperor, he has always trusted him, and Dongfang Changqing naturally has extraordinary ability.

He once again quietly approached the prey, no matter how skilled his stealth skills were, he would definitely show his body when he hit the killer, so he needed to get infinitely close to the prey, and mobilize his body functions to the extreme at the moment of breaking the stealth state, in order to give the prey a fatal blow.

Dongfang Changqing quietly approached by stealth, and he approached Shangguan Hongri infinitely, waiting for the most suitable opportunity to give the most fatal blow.

The whole process was quite smooth, but he suddenly felt that the temperature in the space suddenly dropped, as if a layer of frost suddenly fell and completely enveloped him, and what was even more terrifying was that there was an eerie and terrifying aura hidden in this sudden cold, as if a pair of bloodshot eyes opened behind him.

Dongfang Changqing panicked in his heart, thinking of the scene when Shangguan Hongri and Shen Fei were fighting, and thinking of the five evil ghosts that appeared at the same time. Shangguan Hongri has been fighting outside the country for many years, and it is possible to practice to the human kingdom without alien arts.

Dongfang Changqing stabilized his mind and continued to remain in a stealth state, but the slightest chill wrapped around his limbs like hair, surging into his mouth and nose, making him feel very uncomfortable, let alone launching an offensive.

"What a powerful means, worthy of the Great General King!" Dongfang Changqing, who has experienced a hundred battles, understands in his heart that the Great General King must have used some kind of secret technique to block the space within three meters, and it may not be so easy for him to sneak attack again.

Dongfang Changqing realized this, and quietly retreated to prepare to withdraw from the range shrouded in cold air, how could he think that it was easy to go, but difficult to retreat. The bone-piercing cold air was like long black hair wrapped around his limbs, desperately surging into his mouth and nose, and the force became stronger and stronger, in a vain attempt to put him to death. What was even more terrifying was that the eyes that opened from behind him were getting brighter and brighter, so bright that they reflected the outline of the whole face, and it turned out to be a big-headed baby, with a blue complexion, jagged fangs, and an eerie smile behind him, and the cold air was spit out of his mouth.

"Damn, this is Miao Jiang's witchcraft!" Dongfang Changqing didn't dare to hold it up anymore, and did it with all his might, accompanied by the rain slashing vertically and horizontally, a lifelike, fierce and powerful green dragon rose from the ground, breaking through the Yin Qi blockade and rushing directly to Shangguan Hongri's vest empty door. The latter had already prepared, his arms opened and his shoulders together, and his whole body spun like a top, forming a murderous tornado.

The green dragon with teeth and claws pounced, and his huge head was slapped again and again by two spinning axes, and after being beaten dozens of times in a row, he flew back dizzily and fell to the ground, revealing Dongfang Changqing's pale face, he endured it for a while, and then it was unbearable, and he bent down and vomited.

"But Erl. Shangguan Hongri couldn't hide his smugness, this time he was obviously slightly better, but he didn't pursue, because this toss was also a great loss to him, and he used the kung fu to temporarily stop fighting to regulate his internal breath.

Dongfang Changqing didn't say a word, his lowered forehead showed a almost cannibalistic gaze, like a wounded leopard. Obviously, Dongfang Changqing will not admit defeat, he still has a killer feature.

The sun is setting in the west, and more fierce battles are about to begin. Dongfang Changqing wiped off the stains, straightened up, and clenched Yuwei. The axe is a heavy weapon, the knife is a light weapon, and it is normal for the knife and the axe to attack and fall into the wind. It's just that there is one thing I didn't expect, that is, Yuwei, who has the blessing of Qinglong's true qi, is still inferior to Shangguan Hongri's pair of blood axes.

This is enough to prove the strength of the other party, no wonder the old emperor has repeatedly warned that Shangguan Hongri is an opponent that cannot be taken lightly, and he cannot be attacked until he is fully prepared. Fortunately, he fought with Shen Fei and damaged several fierce generals who came to the imperial capital with him, otherwise it would be really difficult to deal with today.