The carriage went faster and faster, and more and more people were disturbed.

A large number of new army soldiers poured out from palaces and courtyards in all directions and moved towards the carriage.

"Stop them! Go and report to Liu Shuai!" someone among the sergeants shouted.

This carriage is like a drop of the sweetest nectar, attracting countless bees and butterflies to chase it endlessly.

A powerful arrow shot from the right side.

Bai Xueyin, who was sitting on the charioteer's seat, didn't even look, and swung the sheathed long sword to deflect the arrows, as naturally and simply as swiping at mosquitoes.

"Brother, there are more and more of them."

"Be careful."

Hongwumen, Chengtianmen, Duanmen, Meridian Gate, Fengtianmen, Fengtian Hall, Huagai Hall, and Jinshen Hall are located from south to north on the central axis of the palace, collectively known as the Five Gates and Three Halls. Among them, Fengtian Hall is the most magnificent.

It is the place where the emperor holds major ceremonies and receives congratulations from officials.

Later, Yongle moved the capital, and the Fengtian Hall was still set up in the Imperial Palace in Beijing. After it was burned down and rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty, it is now the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City in Beijing.

In front of the majestic Fengtian Temple, in the open square, horses galloped at full speed, and the carriage they pulled kept bumping on the brick floor. A man and a woman sat on the charioteer's seat, but they were not affected at all. In the night breeze,

The clothes fluttered in the breeze, like a couple of gods and immortals.

Behind the carriage and on the left and right sides, countless New Army soldiers with bright helmets were approaching in the direction of the carriage. Arrows flew from time to time, but they were easily deflected by the men or women on the carriage. Such a scene occurred in a dense and dense environment.

Inside the palace, people are so nervous that they are almost suffocated, but they also give rise to a sense of confusion and disharmony.

The carriage passed through the square in front of Fengtian Hall, passed through Fengtian Gate, Meridian Gate, Duanmen, and Chengtian Gate, passed the Waiwulong Bridge, and entered the imperial road on the north side of Hongwu Gate.

This royal road connects Hongwu Gate and Waiwulong Bridge, and is more than a thousand steps long, so it is also called the Thousand-step Corridor. On its west side are the military institutions of the imperial court, including the central, left, right, front, and rear military governors' offices, as well as

Taichang Temple, General Affairs Department, Jinyiwei, Qishouwei, Qintianjian, etc. On the east side are the Zongren Mansion, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Husbandry, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry, as well as the Han Academy, Zhan Shifu, Taiyuan Hospital and other institutions

, it can be said to be the centerpiece of the Ming Dynasty.

Liu Jing led the new army into the palace through Xihua Gate. Although the soldiers quickly spread inside the palace and guarded the various palace gates, the thousand-foot corridor was too long and there were no concubines or maids to move around here.

In addition to guarding the southernmost Hongwu Gate, the soldiers did not have many manpower distributed on both sides of the Thousand-Step Corridor.

Now Lanqiao chose to break through the Qianbu Corridor, which was actually a clever move. They used the length of the royal road and the speed of the carriage to throw off the pursuers, so that they only had to face the enemies guarding Hongwu Gate in a short period of time.

There were 800 New Army soldiers deployed at Hongwumen.

As early as the carriage entered the royal road, they locked the palace gate and set up numerous roadblocks at the end of the royal road in front of the door so that the carriage could not pass easily.

If you want the carriage to rush out of the Hongwu Gate, you first need to remove the roadblocks, then break the door locks, and then push open the two thick palace doors. Under the protection of eight hundred soldiers, it will be difficult if you cannot kill them all.

Complete time-consuming and labor-intensive tasks like removing barricades and breaking door locks.

Therefore, the sergeants only need to drag for a moment, and a large number of companions pouring out from Chengtian Gate can pass through the imperial road, meet up with the defenders at Hongwu Gate, and form a pincer attack from the north and south, blocking Lan Qiao and others.

At the end of the royal road, it is difficult to fly with wings.

Liu Jing himself was also alarmed by the breakout of Lan Qiao and others. He followed the surge of his own soldiers from Fengtian Hall and out of Chengtian Gate. He started Qinggong and chased the galloping carriage at a speed as fast as a galloping horse.

As a result, a strange scene formed on the Qianbu Corridor.

At the southernmost Hongwu Gate, eight hundred soldiers were waiting on both sides of the palace gate and roadblocks. A carriage that was jolted to the point of falling apart at any time came speeding over. Behind the carriage were Liu Jing and his Eight Huntian Guards, who were in hot pursuit.

After that came countless New Army soldiers.

A fierce battle is about to break out.

The leader of the eight hundred soldiers guarding the gate is named Xu Zhenhua. He is in his early thirties and was highly appreciated by Xu Huizu when the new army was formed. Now Liu Jing also thinks highly of him and orders him to blockade Hongwu Gate.

He has a total of 500 soldiers and 300 archers under his command. It can be said that he and the New Army soldiers participated in the Battle of Crescent Bay with Xu Huizu and saw it with their own eyes against the carriage protected by just two people.

Blue and White, who work together like gods from heaven, don't have a sense of awe in their hearts?

Because he was in awe of his opponent, Xu Zhenhua paid enough respect to the carriage escorted by Blue and White. Five hundred soldiers guarded the Hongwumen palace wall like a half-moon, surrounded by six rows of roadblocks, and blocked the entire palace.

The gate and royal road were surrounded by water. At the same time, three hundred archers were lined up in two rows, standing high on the top of the palace wall. From a commanding position, they could rain arrows at any time.

Ren Lanqiao was so powerful that he wanted to force his way into such a well-arranged palace gate fortress. Maybe he and Bai Xueyin would have a chance to break out together, but it would be a fool's errand to escape together with the carriage behind them.

"Fire the arrow!" Xu Zhenhua raised the sword in his right hand high, and the three hundred archers on the wall shouted. The arrows shot out like raindrops, drawing perfect arcs in the moonlight, and headed towards the speeding carriage like a heavy rain of iron.

Spread over.

Lan Qiao climbed up from the chariot seat to the roof of the car, holding the horizontal sword in his hand. A transparent wall of infuriating energy appeared like a huge protective umbrella, placing himself, the carriage and Bai Xueyin under the umbrella.

Crack, crackle, crackle, the rain of arrows fell, and each arrow cluster hit the wall of Zhenqi, bursting out a spark-like light and making a crackling sound at the same time. Hundreds of arrows arrived at the same time, really

The air wall is constantly bright and crackling, like little fireworks, illuminating the space around the carriage.

The distance between the carriage and Hongwu Gate was shortened from 200 steps to 150 steps.

Bai Xueyin drove the carriage, feeling the sense of security brought by the blue bridge standing on the roof to block arrows, and sighed quietly: "I just feel that helping you on the left side of Luzhou Road that day was the most correct thing I have ever done in my life.

decision."

Lan Qiao knew that she was referring to the first meeting with him on the outskirts of Luzhou, and smiled slightly: "Actually, the reason why we have reached this point is full of accidents and coincidences. Later, on Tianlian Peak, if Liang Mengxing had not led the White Lotus Sect,

He came, and I happened to be injured in the decisive battle with him. I was in a dilemma and had no way to do anything. I didn't dare to knock on Junior Sister's door rashly and turn the evil thoughts deep in my heart into reality."

"Unexpected thoughts..." Bai Xueyin muttered these four words silently, and couldn't help but think of the day that changed her life and destiny. Her cheeks turned slightly red, and the corners of her mouth raised an intoxicating arc.

He asked with interest: "When did senior brother have that...unreasonable thought about others?"

"Probably at the foot of Muyu Mountain, we knew there was no hope of survival." Lan Qiao laughed to himself, "I remember at that time, it was you who punched us down, and we found the hope of survival."

When he mentioned the "embarrassing thing" in the past, Bai Xueyin spat in a low voice: "Wow, senior brother, it turns out that you had thoughts about this person so early. It's a shame that you still pretended to be okay for so long."

Lan Qiao muttered: "Junior Sister, with her soft-spoken temperament and strong-willed temperament, I'm afraid I'll run into trouble if I go too far."

Bai Xueyin lowered his head slightly and said in a voice like a mosquito: "When I was practicing the fifth level of Qiankun Jue in the river valley, you touched all those shameful parts. I clearly promised you a long time ago in my heart, but you still don't know anything.

.It’s so annoying!”

"If it were another man, I would die immediately, but I would not let them touch me." She smiled sweetly, and then added, "No wonder Sister Jingshu said that senior brother is a big stupid fish, it is really appropriate.
Chapter completed!