The Way of the Heavens

In the Cliff Mountains, in front of Tianmen Pass, after the brutal and tragic battle during the day, the whole wasteland seemed to be filled with a strong smell of blood, and the pungent smell made people nauseous.

However, as a member of the army that had experienced that brutal war, the soldiers of the Tianlang Army and the Tang Army were already familiar with the strong smell of blood. They were hungry and ate food in this wasteland full of blood and dead souls, without being affected at all.

In the Tang camp, torches were bright, illuminating the entire camp, leaving no place for people to hide. At the same time, teams of soldiers with fierce spirits kept patrolling back and forth, guarding against assassins and spies sneaking into the camp.

At the same time, on the sentry towers built on the outer towers, there were also Tang soldiers who stood guard all night, staring at the Tianlang army opposite with sharp eyes to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the night to attack at night.

In the main tent, many soldiers were discussing the war. The commander of the Tang Dynasty in the main seat was wearing a set of silver-white armor, on which was engraved a red dragon with bared fangs and claws, like a living creature.

This Tang Dynasty commander was about twenty years old, handsome, and originally had a kind of elegant and gentle temperament, but under his ferocious armor, there was a hint of iron-blooded murderous intention. He was Ji Chen, the fifth prince of the Tang Dynasty!

A year ago, the three strong men of the Qiu family, Xuegu, and Yungu made a big fuss in the imperial city, forcing the Tang Dynasty royal family to hand over the key to the ancient battlefield ruins, but they were scared away by the ancestors and powerful background of the Tang Dynasty royal family. The reason was that it was rumored that the fifth prince Ji Chen had obtained a rectangular stone slab.

But after that incident, the Tang Emperor summoned Ji Chen and asked for the rectangular stone slab on his body. At the same time, the Tang Emperor knew that this stone slab was the source of the disaster. Although the Tang Dynasty royal family was strong, it was barely considered a first-class force in the entire Xuanyu.

As the saying goes, a man is innocent but guilty of hiding a wall. Today, only three forces such as the Qiu family, which are almost as powerful as the Tang Dynasty's imperial family, came. In the future, a stronger force will descend on the Tang Dynasty's imperial city, and the royal family of Ji will be in danger.

So after a struggle of ideas and a secret talk with the ancestors, the Tang Emperor could only reluctantly present the rectangular stone slab to the Xinghe Sect, the backer of the Tang Dynasty.

And what happened in Xuanyu later was just as the Tang Emperor expected. When the forces of the other seven domains of Zhenwu Continent descended on Xuanyu, those forces that had rectangular stone slabs but were not the top forces suffered a catastrophe, and even the Chixue Sect, one of the six top forces, was no exception!

After a few months of fear, it was discovered that the strong men of the forces in other domains stopped fighting and divided the rectangular stone slabs, and no longer set off bloody storms. Instead, they remained silent, as if waiting for something.

For a time, the situation in the entire Xuanyu became peaceful and weird, and the atmosphere became more and more suppressed.

But the Emperor of Tang breathed a sigh of relief. Judging from the reactions of the major forces, as long as the Tang Dynasty imperial family does not provoke them, those forces will not be idle for no reason to wipe out the Tang Dynasty imperial family. After all, the major forces are paying attention to the ruins of the ancient battlefield, waiting for its emergence.

But at this time, a message was circulated in the Tang Dynasty Imperial City: Yanyun Zhenbei King got the support of a major force and wanted to rebel, overthrow the rule of the Tang Dynasty imperial family Ji family, and establish a new dynasty!

As soon as this news came out, the Emperor of Tang was shocked. You must know that Zhenbei King had been guarding the Yanyun area in the north of the Tang Dynasty for decades to resist the invasion of Tianlang Country.

His reputation in the Tang Dynasty is well-known to everyone, and even the people of the 18 counties of Yanyun only know Zhenbei King but not the Tang Dynasty Emperor!

If Zhenbei King really rebelled, with the Yanyun Iron Cavalry, which is considered the most powerful army in the Tang Dynasty, and the 200,000 Yanyun troops completely controlled by Zhenbei King and guarding Tianmen Pass, it is really possible to successfully overthrow the Tang Dynasty.

The emperor is the most suspicious, and now Xuanyu is in a strange situation, with countless powerful forces everywhere, and the King of Zhenbei is more powerful than the master, so whether the news that the King of Zhenbei is going to rebel is true or false, the Emperor of Tang is determined to eradicate him.

After a series of plans, the King of Zhenbei Jun Wentian was deceived by the Emperor of Tang to the Tang Imperial City, and the former was placed under house arrest.

As for why the King of Zhenbei Jun Wentian was not killed, one is that the Emperor of Tang remembered his old friendship and could not bear to kill him. After all, the two were old friends when they were young and had traveled through Xuanyu together;

Second, he was afraid that the three thousand Yanyun Iron Cavalry and the two hundred thousand Yanyun Army would rebel in anger after hearing that the King of Zhenbei was killed, and then the Tang Dynasty would suffer a heavy blow.

On the contrary, if the King of Zhenbei was only placed under house arrest, although the Yanyun soldiers were dissatisfied, they would not rebel. Instead, the Emperor of Tang could slowly remove the influence of the King of Zhenbei in Yanyun and regain control of it.

At this time, the neighbors of the Tang Dynasty knew that their mortal enemy Jun Wentian was under house arrest in the Tang Dynasty Imperial City, and they were overjoyed. After confirming the news again and again, the king of Tianlang resolutely sent a million troops to attack the rich Tang Dynasty and plunder the fertile soil.

At this time, in order to deal with this situation, the fifth prince Ji Chen, who was ordered by the Tang Emperor to stay in the imperial city for a few months, became the commander-in-chief to resist the invasion of Tianlang. After all, among the princes, Ji Chen was the most powerful and his wisdom was also among the best.

Ji Chen was wearing silver-white battle armor, sitting in the main tent, looking at everyone present, and said: "Generals, do you have a plan to repel the enemy?"

I saw a middle-aged general in blood-red armor walking out from the left below, with a strong aura of evil and hostility intertwined on his body, as if he had just walked out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

The middle-aged general saluted with his fists and shouted: "Marshal, tomorrow my Yanyun army is willing to be the vanguard and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!"

"Haha, defeat the enemy in one fell swoop? In today's battle, the Yanyun army suffered countless casualties, not much less than the Tianlang army. I thought the rumored Yanyun army was so powerful that it could fight ten to one. It seems that it is just so-so. The rumor is not credible." A young general on the right sneered.

As soon as the words fell, the generals of the Yanyun lineage on the left side of the main tent were furious and glared, "Hmph, with you trash who have not fought in more than ten years, how can you be compared with my Yanyun army!"

In order to resist the million-strong army of the Tianlang Kingdom this time, the Tang Emperor mobilized 500,000 troops from other parts of the Tang Kingdom to guard Tianmen Pass together with the 200,000 Yanyun troops.

Unlike the Yanyun army that has been guarding Tianmen Pass and resisting the fierce Tianlang army in the north for decades, these troops that came to support are in a stable environment and have no experience in fighting on the battlefield. Many soldiers were timid before fighting, and their combat effectiveness was instantly weakened by two or three levels.

In the daytime battle, this army, which was twice as large as the Yanyun army, did not even kill as many enemy troops as the former, so the Yanyun generals regarded them as trash.

The counterattack by the Yanyun generals instantly triggered a war, and the two sides began to quarrel constantly, pointing at each other's noses and cursing, and they were just about to fight.