Chapter 452: The First Swordsman of the Tang Dynasty
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The rain became heavier, and the big beans hit the ground, splashing countless mud and water. The dirty rain brought the dust from the road to the canal by the street.
In the heavy rain, a rapid iron hooves of war horses hit the bluestone slabs on the main roads in the north and south of Gaoling City.
"Who!" Chen Duo shouted loudly!
His hoarse voice was alert and a hint of horror. The city gate had already been closed. Why did the iron hoofs of war horses suddenly sound in the city? At this moment, a group of knights rushed out of the rain and fog. They were wearing knights without war robes. They were wearing brown shirts, but the war horses under their streaks were majestic.
Chen Duo saw that these people were neither the soldiers and horses of the towns outside the city, nor the Shence Army or the yamen runners in Gaoling County. He had no time to count them, but there were at least fifty cavalry. These people were not wearing iron armor, leather armor, did not carry crossbows, and even spears. But everyone held a bright long sword in their hands. This was not a three-foot sword like a horizontal sword, but a four-foot or even five-foot two-handed long sword.
"There are also on the left!" A scream came from behind. Chen Duo then realized that a team of cavalry rushed from the left and right, with the number of dozens of cavalry.
"No progress!" Chen Duo shouted, the horizontal knife in his hand had been unsheathed.
This was another cavalry arrived, with dozens of cavalry. A thin old man with gray hair and over fifty years old, carrying a long black iron sword and rushed straight towards him.
"Where did the old man who didn't know the rules come from? Shen Ce Army is forbidden to move forward!"
"Where are the evil dogs barking?" Xin Xi shouted coldly immediately. The rain wet his clothes, but it still couldn't hide his anger. "It's a pity that it's just a group of evil dogs, and they dare to bully others with their power!"
The mountain monk Ce hurried forward and shouted, "What evidence do you have to say that you are the Shen Ce Army? I have never seen the Shen Ce Army who hides his head and looks down. At the feet of the emperor, you actually dare to pretend to be an imperial guard and besiege the emperor's commander. You are seeking death!"
"The Emperor's General?" The heavy rain covered the sound of the horse's hooves, and a team of black-clad knights came forward and blocked Xin Xi's way forward. One of the black-clad knights was Feng Chuang, the Shen Ce Army's actions were commanded by him. He smiled coldly and shouted rebelliously: "It might have been, but now, I guess I will be called the former general."
"Are you really crazy?" Shan Monk Dao, "removing your troops immediately. Why not, let us report this matter to Your Majesty, you know the consequences."
"Don't talk nonsense to them, he knows very well what he is doing." Xin Xi said calmly.
Feng Chuang smiled and said, "This is true. But if you have a way in heaven, you don't go, and if you have no door to hell, you break in. Since you are here, do you think you can leave alive? Before you die, you can sign up for the nameless ghost under my sword."
"Sizhou Xinqian!" Xinqian shouted coldly.
When Feng Chuang heard this name, he couldn't help but change his color, and even the Shen Ce army behind him was shocked.
It is really that this name is so legendary that the listener changes color without doing anything.
"Xin Xi? You are the prince of Jincheng, and you are the minister of the Secretariat of Pingzhang. The grandson of Taiyuan Yin Xin Yunjing? Six years ago, during the Pang Xun Rebellion, he went to Sizhou surrounded by rebels with a sword, and broke out the siege twelve times to bring reinforcements and borrow grain from Sizhou Xin Xi?" Feng Chuang asked in surprise, his tone full of disbelief.
Xin Xi pulled out the black iron sword from the sheath and kicked the horse forward.
"Since you know my name, you should know that when you encounter what you see, I, Xin Xi, will never turn a blind eye to me. Draw your sword. Although I wish you could kill you immediately for those of you who should have defended your country, but now they have become lackeys in some people. But I would rather have a weapon in your hand when you die." He looked at Feng Chuang coldly and lightly, "If you still have a little conscience in your heart, or if you don't want to die under my sword, then you are anxious to bring troops away now. Li Jieshuai, the army in the country, fought for the country and entered the capital triumphantly. You dare to murder the loyal ministers of the country. You must first ask me about the long sword in Xin Xi's hand."
Feng Chuang's face looked ugly, and Xin Xi's name was too loud, especially after the Battle of Sizhou, he was named the world's number one swordsman, and he was known as Zhang Zhongjian, the bearded guest among the three heroes of Fengchen in the Sui Dynasty. Some even ranked him with Guo Jie, a hero of the Han Dynasty.
Although Xin Xi was not tall and looked a little thin, he was accustomed to swords since he was a child. Although his grandfather was named king and prime minister, he refused to enter the government until he was fifty years old. He was always holding swords and doing righteousness. Until during the Pang Xun Rebellion six years ago, the rebels besieged Sizhou. At that time, Xin Xi's friend Du Qing was the governor of Sizhou to guard Sizhou. After Xin Xi learned that his friend was surrounded, he broke into Sizhou with a sword alone, preparing to break through with his friends.
Du Qing was the grandson of Du You, the prime minister of Emperor Dezong, and the younger brother of Du Qing, the prime minister of Emperor Wuzong, and the cousin of the great poet Du Mu. The prime minister's family and famous family, he was very general and ambition. After hearing Xin Xi's persuasion, he said with a sigh: Usually, he eats the king's fortune, but if he is in trouble, he abandons the city and the people, and allows thieves to kill and loot, and bears the king's country. Is this what I, Du, do? I swear to die with the soldiers in this city together! Xin Xi was moved when he heard this, and suddenly said: I, Xin Xi, would like to die with the public in this city. But I still need to go home and part with my wife. So I bid farewell to Du Qing and return to Guangling's home to say goodbye to his wife.
After Xin Xi returned home and bid farewell to Sizhou, Pang Xun had received tens of thousands of reinforcements from Li Yuan and surrounded the small Sizhou. The people helped the elderly and the young and fled east to avoid the war, but only Xin Xi, an old man, walked west. Those who knew Xin Xi advised him to go back quickly and not to die. Xin Xi smiled and refused to answer. When he arrived at the city of Sizhou, he saw that Pang's army had already drained the surrounding water of Sizhou. He rode a small boat alone and entered the city from the Shuixi Gate.
Xin Xi entered Sizhou. At that time, the rebels surrounded Sizhou. The soldiers in the city were short of food. Xin Xi broke through the siege twelve times and went to various towns to get reinforcements to borrow food.
After the Chongxun Rebellion was quelled, Xin Xi was appointed as the judge of the Sizhou Tuanlian, and later served as the governor of Haozhou, Caozhou and Sizhou. At present, the governor of Sizhou had just been appointed, and the fifty-six-year-old Xin Xi was summoned by the court to the capital to stand by.
When it was dark yesterday, Xin Xi arrived at Gaoling with two nephews, a 150-person guard and his disciples who followed him to learn swords. Since Xin Xi was low-key all the way and did not report his official account, no one knew his identity.
Now Xin Xi came out halfway, and Feng Chuang was in a dilemma. But in the end, he still gritted his teeth and said to Xin Xi: "In the Battle of Sizhou, the heroic and loyalty that Xin Gong showed was admired by the people of the world, and I admired it very much. But now I have to get out of here, but I can't. I have the responsibility in my hands, sorry!"
Xin Xi's guards and disciples drew their long swords one after another. More than a hundred cavalry faced hundreds of guards, but none of them retreated.
Feng Chuang had more than a thousand people under him, and in addition to the troops attacking Didian, he still had five hundred people on the periphery. Although Xin Xi's reputation was very good, he believed that they had few attacks on the crowd and they were not without a chance. "Envoy Xin, even if you kill me, can you kill all my brothers? Moreover, you should know in your heart who we are doing for. Do you think it is worth offending that noble person for a Li Jing whom we have never known each other? If you can give face and let go, we will never dare to make things difficult for Xin. Moreover, this is also a face for the noble person, and the benefits behind it are less than the envoy Xin."
Xin Xi pointed at Feng Chuang's chest with the sword that had broken through the twelve bloody battles and drank the blood of the rebels.
"Who do you think I, Xin Xi? Others may be afraid of him, but what are I afraid of?" Xin Xi looked at the long sword in his hand, "Sword, a gentleman among all the soldiers, he is upright. I, Xin Xi, hold the sword all my life and will never do anything Ah Fu's powerful. Mountain monk, veteran, draw the sword!"
"Abide by the order!"
"Since these people are not wearing the armor of the imperial guards." Through the night and the heavy rain, a hint of seductive expression appeared on Xin Xi's face. "Then they are not worthy of being an imperial guard. Those who dare to stop us will be killed without mercy!"
"No!" Feng Chuang screamed in surprise. But Xin Chuang's disciples and guards had already drawn their swords and rushed over. As the number one swordsman of the Tang Dynasty, these people were naturally masters of swordsmanship. Xin Chuang rode his horse and stormed the spear that had been stabbed several times with a black iron sword. The sword was like lightning and like a dragon. Several swords in succession passed by, and the several soldiers in black-clothed Shen Ce who were blocking their necks were all covered.
His sword was spiritually evaded the surroundings, and the ghostly black-clad cavalry slashed forward. He grabbed the horse's belly and rushed forward. The war horse stood up high. The steel-made horse's hoof on the front hoof kicked directly on the head of a Shen Ce Army's war horse in front, directly knocking the war horse down.
Soldier Shen Ce cursed loudly, but Xin Xi's disciples and guard swords were falling like rain, and they continued.
As soon as Feng Chuang started fighting, he rode his horse back and ran away. Facing this legendary swordsman, he really couldn't raise any courage.
Xin Xi rode his horse and rushed towards him, slashing Feng Chuang's helmet with one sword, which shocked him to a dazzling snake. Before he could wake up, he felt a fog flying in the clouds. When he came back to his senses, he had been captured alive by Xin Xi.
"Mountain monk, elder, hurry up and kill into the mansion. It is important to rescue Li Shuai!" Xin Qi shouted.
Chen Duo was knocked off the horse by a swordsman and staggered down. Half of his face was covered with Gu Gu's blood flowing down his face. When he turned around, he happened to see Feng Chuang being grabbed by Xin Xi and thrown into the mud. Then a swordsman cut off his head with a swordsman, leaving his headless body lying in the mud.
The swordsmen danced their swords and stirred up a bloody storm. The Soldier Shen Ce was unstoppable. A huge horse's hoof suddenly appeared in front of him, and then his whole body was stepped into the mud by one hoof. He felt a heart-wrenching pain in his stomach and bloody mouth.
He saw the swordsmen raising their swords and falling down the Shence soldiers like chopping melons and vegetables. The imperial guards who used to show off their power in Chang'an City were vulnerable at this time.
Chapter completed!