Chapter 22: The Black Serpent Strikes

Wang Xiaoyu and Xu Qingchun fought against each other for a long time, and Xu Qingchun received an order from the King of Beiling before he came on the field, and he could only lose, not win, but he couldn't let the Jincheng Emperor see it. The two fought for more than 100 rounds, Xu Qingchun deliberately fell into Wang Xiaoyu's false move, hit his forehead, fell to the ground, struggled a few times to get up but failed, raised his right hand to admit defeat.

Jincheng Tianzi saw that his people had won, and applauded, and a woman gave Wang Xiaoyu a plate of golden gold. Wang Xiaoyu faced the Son of Jincheng, knelt down to thank him, got up and took the plate and retreated.

In the second game, the girl stood in the middle of the competition field and shouted: "Li Guisheng, the captain of the ten-member Golden Praetorian Guard, against Wang Rong, the captain of the Beiling Army. The girl raised her hands and stepped back to the sidelines, slashing her hands forward while shouting, "Fight!"

Wang Rong is the position of hereditary father, and he has also practiced a good skill in the border pass all the year round, and Li Guisheng used the forbidden army to subdue the tiger at the beginning and wanted to make a strange move to capture Wang Rong and win. Wang Rong had already seen the previous round of competition, and knew in his heart the power of this trick, so he first dodged and looked for a counterattack opportunity. The two attacked and flashed, Li Guisheng failed to catch Wang Rong after attacking more than ten times in a row, and he was a little impatient in his heart, and he shot faster and faster, but he never caught Wang Rong. Wang Rong had a hard time dodging at first, but after gradually figuring out the routine of the forbidden army's dragon catcher, he became much calmer, one became more and more impatient, and the other became more and more calm, and everyone had already seen the victory or defeat.

Sure enough, Li Guisheng was too impatient and had too many flaws, so he was grabbed by Wang Rong's backhand and pressed to the ground, and his arm was broken by Wang Rong's "clucking". Li Guisheng's painful sweat beads rolled down, he always gritted his teeth and refused to admit defeat, and he couldn't get up after several struggles, Wang Rong peeked at King Beiling, only to see that King Beiling wanted him to nod slightly, Wang Rong understood, and pushed forward with his left hand, and with a "quack" sound, Li Guisheng's arm was broken alive.

Wang Rong let go of his hand, Li Guisheng struggled to stand up, dragged his broken arm, gritted his teeth and pounced on Wang Rong again.

At this time, the Son of Heaven stood up and said loudly: "Guisheng, you have already lost, retreat." ”

Li Guisheng listened to the order, bowed to the Son of Heaven of Jincheng and retreated.

The Son of Heaven raised his glass and said loudly to King Beiling, "You are Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." ”

King Beiling hurriedly raised his wine glass and said: "They are all wild men in the mountains and forests, and it is a fluke to compare them indiscriminately." After saying that, the two toasted a glass of wine together.

A woman gave Wang Rong a plate of gold, and Wang Rong took it, kowtowed to the Son of Heaven in Jincheng, and retreated.

Retreating to the sidelines, Lu Yunli walked towards him and said, "Wang Duwei's kung fu is so vigorous. ”

Wang Rong: "I also want to thank Brother Lu for giving me such an opportunity by speaking in front of the prince." ”

Lu Yunli: "You and I are brothers, why bother to say these kind words, invite me to a drink after this busy time." Wang Rong readily agreed. He took the hundred taels of gold and returned to the barracks outside his palace.

At this time, a golden janissary rushed in and whispered something in the ear of the emperor of Jincheng. I saw that Jincheng Tianzi's face suddenly became ugly, he stood up, and the beautiful women around him flew up to support him, and hurriedly walked towards the north gate. Lu Yunli knew that something must have happened, so he followed over, and saw the general Lan Ji coming back, Lan Ji was covered in blood, with many deep wounds on his body, and an arrow stuck in his left shoulder, and blood flowed.

The Son of Heaven of Jincheng stepped forward to support Lan Ji and called the Imperial Doctor loudly, Lan Ji's consciousness was already very blurred, and when he saw the Son of Heaven of Jincheng in front of him, he had to kneel down, but was stopped by the Son of Heaven. Lan Ji said: "The subordinates are incompetent, and they have been ambushed by the blue wolf iron horse. Thousands of blue wolf iron horsemen surrounded us, rushed left and right, and killed most of us before we got out of the bloody road. Lan Ji was a little out of breath at this time, and took a few breaths of relief before he continued: "We ran all the way to Bingma County, they were chasing after them, and from time to time there were ambushes on both sides. All the soldiers I brought with me died in battle. After saying these words, he had exhausted his last strength and lost consciousness.

The imperial doctor rushed over at this time, and everyone carried Lan Ji to the hall where he was drinking just now, found two tables and put them together, and carried Lan Ji to the table. The three imperial doctors applied hemostatic medicine to him and bandaged the wounds, and the imperial doctors around the Son of Heaven were really first-class, the techniques were fast and effective, and the wounds on Lan Ji's body were all used to stop the bleeding. Finally, he pulled out the arrow on his shoulder, and the two imperial doctors said at the same time: "One, two, three!" When he said three, one pulled out the arrow vigorously, and the other took advantage of the fact that the blood was not gushing out, wrapped it in hemostatic medicine and thick gauze.

When the palace was still urgently treating Lan Ji, there was a sudden shout of killing outside, and a group of black-clothed masked people jumped into the north wall and rushed straight towards the Son of Heaven in Jincheng. When Lu Yunli saw the clothes of these people and the Heavenly Tribulation Knife in his hand, he immediately understood that these people were black snakes, and their target was the two rings on the hands of the Son of Heaven in Jincheng. These two rings are also what Lu Yunli wants, of course, he can't watch them being snatched away. But Mo Xin was not around, because since the arrival of the Son of Heaven in Jincheng, only the Golden Praetorian Guards and a few guards of the palace were allowed to wear weapons in the palace. Lu Yunli saw a three-foot-long, iron-cast burning stick beside the charcoal fire of roasting sheep, picked it up, and hid it behind him, only to see that the number of black snakes was as many as two hundred, and these two hundred people rushed straight to the Jincheng Emperor, among which there were two familiar figures, Feng Yuanxing and Sun Li.

Sun Li also saw Lu Yunli in the crowd, and Lu Yunli was slowly approaching the Son of Jincheng at this time, because the Golden Praetorian Guards around the Son of Jincheng were gathering, forming a golden wall. The Golden Praetorian Guard set up a position to protect the Son of Jincheng and many ministers, the King of Beiling, the concubines, Lu Yunli, and Lan Ji, who was lying unconscious on the table.

Lu Yunli saw that it was not Sun Li who was the leader of the black snake, but the person who had been standing behind and had not drawn his sword, and that person was masked like other black snakes, only revealing a pair of eyes, a pair of cold eyes, and no emotion. The man's eyes were only fixed on the Son of Heaven in Jincheng, as if the rest of the people were just air.

Although the Golden Praetorian Guard is only one in tens of thousands, it is difficult to resist these brutally trained killers. When the Golden Praetorian Guard was doing its best to protect the Son of Heaven in Jincheng, the two brothers Zhang Evil and Zhang Le led more than a dozen guards outside the palace to kill the Black Snake at the East Gate. Although Zhang Evil and Zhang Le were bandits, they were no match for the attack of many black snakes, and they were hacked to death under the knives after a while, and the dozen or so guards they brought were also killed on the spot like cutting vegetables.

The shouts and killings here were all shouted by the Golden Praetorian Guard, and the Black Snake people were all silent, and in their eyes, the louder the other party's shouts, it meant that they had already been frightened.

The cloud-piercing arrow was fired, showing a huge word of reinforcement in the sky, but the soldiers stationed outside the city did not come to the rescue for a long time.

Lu Yunli didn't understand why there was such a big commotion in the palace, and there was an order to pierce the clouds, but the 100,000 soldiers outside didn't seem to hear or see it at all, and they couldn't help but think of Yancheng in their hearts.

Seeing that the five hundred gold janissaries brought with him had killed dozens of people, all the soldiers with weapons in the Beiling Palace's mansion had already been killed.

Now the only one who can fight in the palace is the Golden Praetorian Guard, and at this time, a person flew out of the Golden Praetorian Guard team, jumped to the front of the formation, and made a Mo knife in his hand to cut down three or four black snakes in a row, and the attack was clean. The Golden Praetorian Guards were also driven forward by this person, and the black snake was forced to retreat a few steps by this momentum, and then stopped steadily. Just for a moment, the black snake immediately counterattacked more violently. At this time, the cold-eyed man of the leader of the black snake pointed to the ground with his left foot, and rushed to the golden Praetorian Guard with the Mo knife like an arrow off the string, pulled out the same Heavenly Tribulation Knife as the other black snakes, and slashed at the head of the Praetorian Guard, which was blocked by the Praetorian Guard with the Mo knife, and the two fought together.

Whether it is speed or strength, the two are evenly matched, their aura has shocked everyone, it was a very crowded place on the ground where the two were fighting, there were only two of them in the circle, the sword light crossed like a meteor, only the two people who were fighting could see the direction of the other party's knife, and the others only saw the two of them dancing into a ball, and it was difficult to tell which move was hit.

Lu Yunli was standing in the crowd behind him with a burning stick in his hand, as close as possible to the Son of Heaven in Jincheng. If it was someone else, naturally the farther away from the Jincheng Heavenly Son, the better, but these people were all tightly surrounding the Jincheng Heavenly Son, this was the perfect time to show loyalty, and the reason why Lu Yunli couldn't walk away was that he found that Sun Li in the black snake was trying to rush towards him, if it wasn't for the Golden Praetorian Guard's blocking, he was afraid that he would be arrested again.

Lu Yunli quietly asked a civilian official beside him: "Who is the Golden Praetorian Guard who made Mo Dao, and why is it so powerful?"

The civil official said: "This person's name is Dongyang, and he is the chief of the Golden Praetorian Guard appointed by the Son of Jincheng Heaven, and all the Golden Praetorian Guards are under his control. ”

Lu Yunli had already guessed that the Son of Heaven of Jincheng must be as skilled as a cloud, and continued to ask: "But I don't know if there is a figure like this Dongyang in this group of people." ”

The civil servant said, "Only embroidered clothes can be compared." ”

When Dongyang and the leader of the black snake were still fighting, there was a scream behind everyone, and another team of black snakes entered the south gate, and the number of this team of black snakes was also two hundred, and the two teams of black snakes were like two black blades, approaching the son of Jincheng. The reinforcements did not come for a long time, and the black snake behind him did not have a strong army to stop it, and it was about to be killed. I saw that the eunuchs and palace concubines took out their crossbows from all over their bodies and shot at the black snake, the technique was so fast, it was obviously practiced for a long time, so that the black snake could not avoid it. Dozens of arrows shot out in an instant, and seven or eight blacks fell.

The leader of this team of black snakes is even more creepy than the previous one's eyes, the eyes are the same as those of poisonous snakes, the pupils are slender, and just a pair of eyes is enough to make the other party lose the will to fight. Medium build, dressed in black, is a lean man.