"Lunatic, he's really a lunatic!"
Lin Di muttered. He quickened his pace as he left. Wasn't it just a failed assassination attempt? Look at his dejected appearance. He's useless! Suddenly, Lin Di stopped in his tracks." A low buzzing sound came from afar, and the ground was shaking slightly. He looked at the snowy horizon in bewilderment and then at his subordinates beside him."Did you…hear anything?”
His subordinates pricked up their ears. Someone said softly,""It sounds like the mobilization of troops…is it cavalry?”
"Haha, impossible!" " No," Lin Di flatly denied." The Imperial Capital is the imperial capital. Daya West Street is close to Central Street. Who would dare to raise an army here in the middle of the night? Unless they want to rebel!"
Lin Di said with certainty. The trembling and the sound of hooves became clearer and clearer. Suddenly, one of his subordinates cried out,"Sir, look!"
At the end of the snowy street, there were specks of light. The number of specks of light increased rapidly, forming a bright band of light. It was clearly a cavalry army charging at them with torches in their hands! The sound of hooves rumbled. The torches were shining brightly. The men were like tigers and the horses were like dragons. Before the troops could get close, a strong aura of an elite who had fought for a long time had already hit them. The flag in front of the troops suddenly jumped into their eyes. The cross pattern of the sword and shield revealed a murderous aura in the fire!
"It's the cavalry of the military police!" Lin Di cried out.”He immediately turned around and ran." Run!”
The streets were filled with exclamations.”
But it was too late. When the assassins saw the cavalry, the cavalry also saw them. The cavalrymen suddenly sped up, and the formation let out a terrifying roar."Revenge! Kill, kill, kill!"
Luo Shijie's subordinates did not lack experts, but the result was not difficult to imagine when the mob that was hastily formed for the purpose of assassination went up against the military police cavalry that cooperated well with each other. The assassins couldn't even withstand the first round of attacks before they were completely defeated by the crossbows. What followed next was a complete defeat and they fled in a sorry state.
The military policemen rode on their warhorses and raised their sabers high as they chased after the fleeing assassins. The assassins were frightened and lost their hunt. They casually threw away the weapons in their hands just to run faster. Everyone knew that a two-legged man would never be able to outrun a four-legged warhorse. In order to avoid being chased, some people hid in civilian houses, some lay on the ground with blood smeared on their faces as corpses, and some climbed over walls and crawled through dog holes. In order to escape, people thought of all kinds of ideas.
However, only a few lucky ones could escape with their lives. Like a storm, the cavalrymen quickly closed in and caught up with the fleeing crowd. Before the men and horses arrived, a rain of arrows came from the front, shooting down the fleeing killers on the spot. Then, the horses 'hooves trampled over them fiercely, turning them into meat paste.
The streets were filled with screams and pleas for mercy. Seeing that they could not escape, many assassins hurriedly knelt down and raised their weapons, shouting,"I'm an officer of XX! Spare me!" However, the gendarmerie's reply was a horizontal slash with their sabers.
Half an hour ago, Luo Shijie and his subordinates were still awe-inspiring killers. They never expected retribution to come so quickly. Most of the 300 or so people who participated in the assassination were caught up by the cavalrymen while they were escaping. They were hacked to death by sabers or shot to death by crossbows. Some were even trampled to death by horses 'hooves. None of them managed to escape with their lives.
The sounds of fighting rang out again on the long street in the middle of the night. The residents closed their doors in trepidation and peeked at the tragic battle through the gaps in the windows. It had been a long time since the Imperial Capital had such a large-scale battle. No, it should be said that it was an out-and-out war.
It wasn't that there were no people who resisted. Under the eaves of the street corner, the Undead Camp soldiers surrounded Lin Di. They were grouped together like a group of foxes, with their backs against the houses to block the cavalry's charge. This was the standard formation for infantrymen to deal with cavalry. Lin Di didn't expect to stop the cavalry in this way. He only hoped to delay the destruction. Perhaps at the last moment, the Regent King would send someone to save them. With such faint hope, the soldiers of the Undead Camp repelled two cavalrymen's charge and killed two of them.
However, Lin Di did not manage to wait for the Prince Regent's reinforcements. Seeing that the attack had failed. The military police immediately adjusted their strategy. The cavalrymen of the Overwatch Office were all equipped with light crossbows. Although they were not as skilled as the Empire's regular elite cavalry, riding and archery were not difficult for them. A group of cavalrymen swept past, accompanied by a dense rain of arrows. The Undead Camp soldiers let out a series of miserable screams. The wave of cavalrymen seemed to be endless, and after one group passed, another group followed. By the time the seventh unit of cavalrymen passed by, the people under the eaves were no longer able to stand, and the dense arrows had already covered the entire body.
The Empire's new star general, Lin Di, was shot dead by arrows, and his accomplice, the commander of the assassination, Luo Shijie, did not escape either. At the last moment of his life. The commander of the Zi Chuan clan chose dignity. Unlike his subordinates, he didn't climb the wall and crawl through the dog hole. Instead, he led a few bodyguards under the big parasol tree to meet the surging cavalry.
the chief commander's courage is commendable. But the result was the same. Because he wasn't wearing any clothes that indicated his identity, in the chaos, the cavalrymen didn't know that they had just killed the chief of the family. They only whistled and went to chase after the other escapees.
The sound of horse hooves rumbled, and a dark mass of cavalry surged through the streets like a tide. The military police had stern expressions, with sabers at their waists and light crossbows in their hands. At the head of their surging tide, there were short screams and screams from time to time.
Surrounded by a large group of guards holding torches. Yuwen Batian appeared. He sat on his horse and observed the entire battlefield. He looked at the corpses on the ground with an unnoticeable worry in his eyes.
The battle ended very quickly. The cavalrymen rushed back in twos and threes, their unsheathed sabers stained with blood. The sound of hooves could be heard as an officer rushed over on his horse. He jumped down from the horse and walked quickly to Yuwen Batian,""Milord, the assassins who escaped have all been eliminated.”
Yuwen Batian leaned over and asked,"Are there any survivors among our brothers?"”
The officer lowered his head and said,""I'm sorry, my lord. We have found their bodies. All 107 of our brothers died in the line of duty.”Luo Shijie gathered the corpses together for investigation, which also made it easier for the military police to count the dead.
Yuwen Batian sighed and lowered his head. He took off his helmet and slowly held it in front of his chest.
He felt an unspeakable sense of shame for his subordinates who died in the line of duty. Before the assassins took action, Yuwen Batian secretly left the convoy alone, but left all the guards as bait to attract the attack. Whether it was his character or his way of being an official, Yuwen Batian did not think that he was wrong. It was the duty of the guards to sacrifice their lives to protect the lives of their officers. Only by escaping alive would they have a chance to avenge them.
But for some reason, Yuwen Batian still felt uncomfortable looking at the guard's eyes.
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