Chapter 148: Honor

Qin family rebels after this block, cavalry momentum was forced to a meal, by the Kyoto streets and alleys bound body formation can not help but some panic. However, at this moment, only to hear a number of loud shouts in the army, in the first time, clearly and forcefully issued an order, stabilized the vanguard battalion.

Immediately after that, the shield-wielding soldiers caught up from the back, stepped over the blood pools on the street, and bravely broke through the wooden doors of the houses on both sides of the street, rushing into those dark spaces. For a while, the left side of the street was filled with the sound of drinking and killing, but the real situation of the fight could not be seen.

Snapping sound, a residential house broke open a big hole, a rebel covered in blood was stabbed to death and fell out. At this time, inside those civilian houses, I don’t know how many other soldiers are fighting with the Ministry of Supervision that ambushed here, carrying out a vicious killing.

The rebel army’s military discipline was strict, and when Qin Heng coldly ordered a counter-attack towards the two sides of the street at the cost of the massive consumption of his soldiers’ lives, the crossbow rain coming from all around naturally weakened.

Shining swords flashed by, and dozens of insidious trip locks on the street’s verdant stone slabs were sharply and incomparably chopped off. These black leather cords were like poisonous snakes that had their heads chopped off, paralyzed helplessly on the ground, while the poisonous needles on them that glowed with a metallic luster were like the crystalline liquid on the snake’s skin.

Qin Heng rode on his horse, gazing ahead under the military flag, violently taking up the horse whip in his hand and swinging it down with force.

A fierce general beside him stifled a grunt, held his lance and shouted, “Kill!” With his feet clamped onto the horse’s belly, he led hundreds of cavalrymen and charged toward the middle of that long street once again. For a while, only the hooves of the horses could be heard rolling up like wind and thunder, and the momentum was compelling.

And at this time above the long street there is still the sound of tragic cries, residential houses there is still the sound of the blade into the bone, the muffled sound of the corpse fell to the ground, but it is extremely difficult to see the figure of the Ministry of Supervision, only to know that these people are in the street side of the residential houses to carry out the work of killing people.

Gradually blood seeped out from underneath the wooden door.

That fierce general of the Qin Family’s Vanguard Battalion turned a blind eye, leading his subordinates to sprint above the long street. The only thing that could be seen was this person’s lance stabbing out, shaking up a violent wind, and piercing into a wooden door next to his horse with a chomp!

With an earth-shattering bellow, the fierce general picked his spear and returned, only to see a black-clothed man picked on top of the lance, blood dripping from the spear, the tip of the spear piercing through the chest and abdomen of that secret agent of the Supervisory Board!

That general under the armor let out a muffled grunt, and with a single arm, he flung the corpse on the tip of his spear like a paper bag.

He took the lead on a horse, stepping over the pools of dead bodies and blood on the street again, galloping once again, the black lance in his hand was made of steel, powerful and unrivaled, the gun was not false, actually picking five wooden doors along the street, killing several people in a row in a fast gallop.

Qin Heng in the rear coldly watched his men’s first fierce general, will hand wave, order the whole army in turn pressure, ready to use a strong force, directly overpower the street on both sides of the Supervisory Yuan sniping. Although he had lost nearly two hundred soldiers in the first encounter, Qin Heng’s mind still did not have a single tremor, he never thought that the tactics in the darkness like the Supervisory Court could truly stop a large army from moving forward.

An official of the Procuratorate, armed with a hard crossbow, appeared on the upper floor in front of him on the left, aiming at the striker through the window, but unexpectedly, before he had the chance to pick the trigger, a feathered arrow had already shot through his eye socket, and the official let out a muffled grunt as he fell down the stairs.

Immediately after the sound of snorting, followed by the vanguard of fierce generals, in the street, dozens of horseback riding wildly soldiers holding a light bow, in the left and right continuous shooting, arrows shot out quickly.

Many arrow holes appeared on the small buildings and houses on both sides of the street, and the subordinates of the Supervisory Yuan who were ambushed in them were hit by arrows and fell down when they were ready to kill the fierce general with crossbows. The world’s three major forces will be the strongest of the Qing army’s mounted archery, this time the horse on the street, holding a hard bow, even in an instant, shot the Supervisory Yuan crossbowmen do not dare to show their shape!

Even if there are occasional crossbow arrows shot from both sides, also seems to have little accuracy, shot at the heavy armor on that fierce general, but also unable to penetrate its body, just bloomed a little blood.

Only a short while, that Qin family general has led the vanguard battalion rushed out about more than a hundred feet. Behind him is the vast cavalry itself, see ahead is a piece of open land, straight to the palace can no longer be blocked.

Just at this moment, only to hear a harsh arrow in the long street above the sound, snap snap snap, the street on both sides of the residential window all closed up, although the mansion in the killings continue, but the long street above the return to the calm, extremely strange calm.

That family general is full of blood stains, a face of fury, a vibration of the lance collected in the back, like a mountain axe straight stabbing the street, although noticed the street on both sides of the phenomenon, but there is not a trace of palpitations, at this time the sudden trend has become, just by the Supervisory Yuan those devious tricks, how can block the army forward.

“Rats.” He thought contemptuously.

“Rats.” Qin Heng led the army to press over to the long street, looking at the long street that suddenly returned to quiet with a cold face, slightly mocking thinking, the Supervisory Yuan is still not allowed to see the light after all.

Right at this moment, the long street that had returned to calmness after the arrow of the order suddenly resounded with a call to arms, which had only one word.

“Wait!”

This word “wait” was extremely simple and clean, yet it contained endless killing opportunities. The pupils of Qin Heng’s eyes shrunk slightly as he raised his eyebrows.

The rebels drew their bows in unison, and countless arrow feathers shot out, stabbing straight at the place where that command was issued.

However, immediately afterward, in the middle of the long street where there was only the sound of horses’ hooves, muffled killing sounds, and arrows breaking through the air, once again, that trumpet command rang out, “Hou!”

Qin Heng’s face clouded over. Running on top of the long street with the reins in hand, he did not know what this sound of the Inspectorate’s wait meant, he could have chosen to split his troops at this time, bypassing this long street with the Inspectorate’s heavy forces in ambush, he could have chosen a more prudent way – however, the military order was like a mountain, since his father had ordered him to be the first one to arrive at the Imperial Palace, he had to keep up his speed, even though …… have to pay a greater price.

So he violently waved his hand in the horse whip, thousands of rebels above the long street in unison, “Kill!” Like a flood, the brigade of rebels with light armor in their bodies just covered up above the empty and dangerous long street.

The fierce vanguard general whose spear was in his hand and no one dared to stop him had already led more than dozens of his own cavalry behind him to the end of the long street. Behind the zhengyangmen in the sunrise under the light, in front of the open area in the attraction of him, more distant faintly visible palace is still waiting for his attack, so he is full of pride, valor incomparable ……

However, he suddenly heard the thunderous sound of horses’ hooves, and then saw that more than two hundred cavalrymen suddenly appeared at the open end of the long street. These cavalrymen appeared here at an unknown time, wearing bright armor and holding long swords, waiting for the rebels in silence and indifference.

On the side of these cavalrymen, there were more than ten scattered corpses, it was the ten-odd riders of scouts that the Qin Family rebels had dispersed, not only were the scouts dead, even those warhorses had fallen to the ground.

The pupils of the Qin family vanguard general’s eyes shrunk, he knew that these cavalrymen were hard hands, otherwise it was impossible to pounce on more than ten riders of his own subordinates without making any noise.

It was the forbidden army!

It was impossible to stop at this point. The vanguard general tightly gripped the iron spear in his hand, the roughness and cool coldness of the spear shaft made him feel endless confidence, then with a clip of his horse’s belly, he charged towards the forbidden army brigade with dozens of riders behind him!

The general of the forbidden army had his whole body shrouded in armor, only revealing a pair of eyes, and there was not a trace of any other emotion in these eyes at this time, only calm indifference and determination, indifference to his own life, and the determination to complete the task explained by the marshal.

He raised his saber high in his hand, the blade flashed brightly, chilling, a clip on the horse’s belly, the horse underneath him violently struggled, like an arrow out of the string popped out.

Hundreds of cavalry just like this with unrelenting courage, rushed up, like two floods of different colors, immediately to collide head-on!

Right at this moment, the long street that had just been quiet for a moment, suddenly resounded with the sound of a Supervisory Court’s call – “Release!”

The vanguard general of the Qin family, with bloodshot eyes, looked at the forbidden cavalry rushing over at high speed and shouted violently, his horse suddenly accelerated and was already about to rush out of the street, when he suddenly heard this sound of release in his ears.

His mind was firm and ruthless, without a hint of panic or slowing down. He did not care at all about these rats of the Supervisory Court, he cared about these very tough forbidden soldiers on the front, he had to kill a bloody road for the general, kill a bloody road to the palace.

A black shadow was thrown out from the residential house next to the street, and appeared in mid-air right before the head of this vanguard general’s horse.

The vanguard general held his elbow and picked it, the tip of his spear flashed, snorting several times, the black shadow was instantly torn to pieces, the fabric flew about, and the powder mixed inside was swung into the air, a little of it spilled onto the body of the vanguard general, but most of it spilled onto the horse.

He closed his breath, his eyes were blood red, he knew that the inspectorate was powerful with poison, but he was not afraid at all, as long as the poison could not enter his heart for a while, he would be able to kill those forbidden soldiers who were getting closer and closer to him, but he was worried about his horse, and he struck the end of the gun on the horse’s buttocks, and the horse was frightened and accelerated once again!

Suddenly, a series of spring machine sound, calm for a long time above the street, crossbow arrows again. Qin family vanguard will coldly grunt, long spear a stroke, protect their own vitals and horse head, only to see a piece of gun wind swings out, countless crossbow arrows were he dialed down on the ground, occasionally a few crossbow arrows hit his armor, clanking a crunching sound, powerless to fall to the ground.

However, …… this fierce general suddenly found that among the crossbow rain, there are a few touches of red with inauspiciousness.

Red?

Fire?

Snorting, three crossbow arrows were shot at the heavy armor and horse head of this vanguard general, the crossbow arrows were bundled with fire cotton, burning fire, not conspicuous in the red sunrise, but …… extraordinarily deadly.

The fire touched the powder on the heavy armor, abruptly a bang will burn up, from the horse head until the heavy armor and then to the helmet, but wherever on the powder place, the fire will instantly spread over, just a blink of an eye, the fire will be blazing and burning, will be the vanguard will be shrouded in the fire!

Snorting …… a miserable bellowing cry came out from the flames. At this moment, that humongous vanguard still remained in a charging stance, while his person had already become a burning torch!

He roared in terror and threw away the gun in his hand, trying to slap the fire out of himself. However it had become something he would never be able to do, the fire set by the Inspector General’s office was not so easy to put out, and he knew he was finished, and his heart was overwhelmed with fear.

The horse was in great pain, letting go of the horse and galloping wildly, shrouded in fire, a horse and a rider, just like this horrifyingly galloped to the front of the front line of the forbidden army.

The general of the forbidden army indifferently and slightly mockingly looked at the fireman who ran, when the two riders crossed over, with a shinning sound he swung his long sword, the sword came out without a sound, passed through the fire, and chopped off the head of that general of the front line.

With a click, the head snapped off, tied by the neck armor, and burned in the flames.

The horse with the fire roared sadly and charged blindly, carrying its owner, who was already headless on his body, and slammed headlong into an alley wall next to the street, with an extremely heavy muffled thud, falling to the ground with the horse and man, neighing sadly in an extremely miserable manner.

No one bothered to look at them, the forbidden army armor troop of only two hundred or so riders was at that moment maintaining an extremely high speed, straddling the corpses of those rebel pioneers that had been shot into a beehive and burnt to a crisp, charging towards the central army where Qin Heng was!

Qin Heng did not know what kind of shameless and insidious murder he had suffered from his most valued and trusted vanguard, and when he heard the second waiting order from the Supervisory Court, he had already ordered his army to start pressing towards the two sides of the long street, as the Supervisory Court’s secondary attack had already begun.

After a long silence, after those two cold waiting orders, the rain of crossbows fired at the rebels became even more abundant, while more of them were aimed at the midsection where the military flags were located, especially where Qin Heng’s personal battalion was located.

“It’s a crossbow!” Finally, a rebel cavalryman cried out in fear, and amidst the sound of a hail of crossbows and arrows breaking through the wind, this cry seemed particularly alarming. Duh duh duh duh duh duh, a series of dense striking sounds rang out, one crossbow bolt was blocked, what about the second, the third?

More than ten soldiers bravely blocked in front of Qin Heng’s horse, they only had elbow shields in their hands, which were not enough to withstand such dense and fast crossbow arrows, so they had to use their own bodies and the tall body of the war horse to be a meat shield for Qin Heng.

On top of the long street, there were people and horses tumbling over each other, and there was a series of sad and miserable cries, and I don’t know how many rebels had crossbow arrows stuck in their faces, and blood and sweat were mixed in one place, and there was an emergency in every direction.

In just a moment, half of Qin Heng’s soldiers around him died. Qin Heng knew that the Inspectorate was targeting himself, his face was covered in blood, and his face looked particularly hideous amidst the blood. It was only at this moment that he finally determined that Fan Xian had allowed the Supervisory Court to ambush him at the bottom of the Zheng Yang Gate, not just for the sake of blocking and delaying, but was prepared to fight for his life …… to leave his own life here!

Although he didn’t know why Fan Xian valued his own life so much, he was fearless, just seeing the initially calm and then crossbow noise on the long street, his own subordinates bravely and helplessly fighting with those poisonous powder crossbows, a vein appeared on his temple, a wave of anger filled his chest. These rats could only use these unorthodox means, could they also dare to think of trapping themselves?

He pulled out the long sword at his waist, clipped his horse’s belly, and his horse leaped like a dragon, leaping out amidst the crossbows and arrows, bellowing, “For the sake of the Kingdom of Qing, kill!”

The main general began to risk his life to charge the front, the rebels’ morale was greatly boosted, shouting the word kill in unison, braving the crossbow rain to break into the depths on both sides of the street, using their own bodies and lives to suppress the second wave of the Supervisory Court’s attack a little.

After all, the rebels were outnumbered, and as long as they could make head-on contact with the officials of the Procuratorate hidden in the darkness, they would naturally gain the final victory.

However, right at this moment, the forbidden army at the other end of the street had already rushed over. There were only more than two hundred riders, but they were like two thousand riders with a rumble of thunder, murderous and unstoppable!

Like a torrent, rushed into the formation has been forced to spread out the Qin family army. Both sides are armor in body, blade in hand, killing intent boiling heaven, although the Qin family army’s formation is a bit chaotic, but in the not very wide long street above, this is a never retreat right on the collision.

The two cavalry that were moving forward at high speed had their first head-on collision on the long street under the Zhengyang Gate, and like two sledgehammers, they ruthlessly smashed together, resounding with a loud sound that made countless people’s eardrums ache with pain and incomparable fear.

In an instant, countless iron horsemen fell off their horses and were trampled, and the people on the horses were picked to death, squeezed to death, hacked to death, and shocked to death.

Swords and spears clashed, iron armor clashed, and auras clashed.

Qin Heng looked at this scene with a face full of iron, thinking to himself how many people did Fan Xian and the Great Hall have, to actually ambush so many under the Zheng Yang Gate?

“I smashed all the ministries that could be moved within the Zheng Yang Gate.”

Fan Xian stared at the looming wolf smoke within Kyoto and said with a sullen face, “Although I didn’t guess that they were actually powerful enough to enter the city from the nine city gates, since I smashed them within the Zhengyang Gate, I’ll be sure to smash them out of the way!”

The Grand Prince glanced at him and looked at the rebel flags that were gradually approaching in the streets of Kyoto, and couldn’t help but shrink the pupils of his eyes slightly as he said, “It’s only all the way in the end, and the general trend is irreversible. Earlier that moment, if you rushed out against the odds from within the Zheng Yang Gate, you might really have a chance to break out.”

“The Rapunzel definitely has reserves outside of Kyoto.” Fan Xian said, “Breakout? What am I going to break out with?”

“Didn’t Jing Ge disappear into Kyoto with two hundred black riders?” The Grand Prince glanced at him.

Fan Xian didn’t respond, but just looked at the square below the palace with a heavy face. This plaza was extremely large, and had once arrayed tens of thousands of people during a military parade back then. At this time, he could vaguely feel the tremor of the earth, and thought that the rebels of the eight roads were about to encircle here. Such a momentum, even if he has long seen through the word life and death, but also can not help but start to tremble.

He raised his head to look at the direction of the gate of zhengyang, in his heart it is clear, he and the big prince to stay outside the palace strength is basically concentrated in that way, no matter who wants to come from there to the palace, I’m afraid that all have to pay a very heavy price.

If he knew it was the second generation leader of the Qin family, who was now struggling to break through the crossbows and poisonous smoke, he would have laughed out loud, for the Qin family’s sniping in the valley, Fan Xian had always kept it in his heart – he just didn’t know that those loyal subordinates of the Supervisory Yuan, and the cavalry brigade in the forbidden army, who were tantamount to committing suicide, would still be there a few moments later, or would be in the same place? The only thing I don’t know is how many of them will survive a few moments from now.

However, just as the Grand Prince had said, a mere city gate was simply not enough to change the general situation.

At the foot of the Imperial City, a cavalryman appeared at the street corner at the edge of the square. At this time, the entire forbidden army had already gathered into the palace, and the square outside the palace gate was empty. That was why the appearance of this cavalryman seemed so abrupt. It was as if an incongruous black spot had suddenly appeared in the empty sky and earth.

In the sound of horses’ hooves, the cavalryman did not make any stops, and directly rushed from the edge of the square to the center of the square, arriving in front of the Imperial City.

In the rear of this cavalry, followed by the second cavalry, the third cavalry, the tenth, the one hundredth, the one thousandth …… black pressurized Qin Ye two family army, which the eight road in the sweep clean along the road after some resistance, finally with a kind of dark cloud pressure of the trend, came to the front of the imperial city.

The densely packed rebels surrounded the entire palace in silence and coldness. The murderous aura that permeated this silence, this aura that was so calm and steady that it made the forbidden army officers and soldiers above the imperial city shudder for no reason at all.

Fan Xian and the Grand Prince finally didn’t chat to hide their inner tension, and watched everything in front of them in silence.

A few moments later, a banner hunting in the morning wind appeared in the crowd’s field of vision, which traveled from the long street at the corner of the plaza, revealing a large Qin character on it.

Another ride from the imperial city under the other side of the speeding arrival, holding a large flag, written on the word Ye.

Finally appeared is a side of bright yellow flag, above the empty word, just with gold thread embroidered a dragon in the clouds, golden claws grasp broken auspicious clouds, stepped into the air.

“Even the dragon flag is played out squarely.” Fan Xian finally spoke after a long silence. The army of Qin Ye’s two families was too powerful, and although he was a ninth grade expert with an incomparably resolute heart, yet he still couldn’t help but feel his scalp go a little numb in the face of the densely packed army.

“Are you afraid?” The Grand Prince looked at him expressionlessly.

“Anything in abundance will seem terrifying, as is the case with ants, as is the case with rats, as is the case with cockroaches, not to mention people?” Fan Xian summoned a subordinate and said something.

The three large flags slowly traveled, right in the blazing eyes of the rebels around the square, in the eyes of the Imperial City’s forbidden army on guard with a slight fear, and arrived right in front of the palace, behind the first rider to enter the square, waving in the wind.

“You have been steadfast in not breaking out, I always thought that you still had some cards left.” The Grand Prince’s eyes narrowed slightly as he looked at those riders in front of the palace, those flags, and said slowly.

“My cards are long gone.” Fan Xian said without changing his face, “But I always thought that those old guys were always not so bad as to see death, always thought that since the rebels had already entered the city, they should jump out and play Super Seiya Man, but unfortunately …… it seems like I guessed something wrong.”

“What is a Seiya man?” The Grand Prince curled his lips and said, “I’m also wondering, did President Chen really get poisoned?”

Fan Xian looked at the mountainous military force in front of the palace, and suddenly took a deep breath, slapped the green bricks of the imperial city, and said, “It’s the two of us, so what?”

The Grand Prince gave him a deep look and said, “I don’t want to die with you.”

The storm was full of sorrow, the two sorrowful people in the corner tower of the Imperial City were telling jokes. The soldiers of the surrounding forbidden army commanders secretly watched this scene, listening to the Little Eunuch and the Marshal’s bright laughter, for some reason, they also felt that the rebels in front of the palace were not as scary as they had imagined.

The grand prince looked at the lone three flags in front of the palace and that knight at the forefront, smiled and said, “They are using their aura to oppress us, intending to make the forbidden army timid …… My subordinates, where would they be so timid.”

“We smashed all the cards in our hands into the Zheng Yang Gate, for what?” Fan Xian narrowed his eyes at the four riders standing before the palace.

“For the sake of killing the other side’s sharpness and invigorating the heart of our own army.”

“Then how can we allow these four riders to stand so arrogantly in front of the palace to demonstrate?”

“According to military tradition, the first cavalryman to arrive will receive supreme honor.”

Fan Xian stared at the rider who looked like a black dot, and after a long time, he suddenly spoke, “Then let him fall in honor.”

The Grand Prince frowned, as the Grand Marshal of the Western Conquest Army, he had a natural respect for the military traditions of Qing, and although he was very disgusted with those few riders silently flaunting their weapons in front of the Imperial Palace, he didn’t think of doing anything about it, and the other party stood at an extremely good position, which made it extremely difficult for the arrows to reach them.

Fan Xian said categorically, “I’m not a soldier, and I don’t understand honor, I only know that this is your death, and if you’re still standing in front of me at this time, that’s ……”

A sentence has not yet spoken, his hand has been swung down, the imperial city corner tower that has been silent for countless years of the guard crossbow, suddenly issued an extremely mournful scream, seems to be to once died in this palace in the resentment of the souls are awakened up.

Click …… after a loud spring sound, a crossbow arrow as thick as a child’s arm, such as lightning like out of the crossbow, along the set trajectory shot out.

In front of the palace stood alone a few riders, a few banners, although lonely but arrogant, cold and contemptuous look at the imperial city on the forbidden soldiers, conveying a powerful deterrent and oppressive force.

All this however was broken away by the sound of the crossbow.

The first knight to enter the confines of the Imperial City didn’t even have time to raise his head before the huge crossbow bolt penetrated his body and shot into the body of his warhorse, accompanied by a huge splash of blood, nailing one man and one horse hard to the stone floor of the square!

At this time Fan Xian also finished his sentence, “…… Stupid.”