pertwk Chapter 1641 Backup Plan Launched
Chapter 1641 Backup Plan Launched
Chapter 1641 Backup Plan Launched
His roar was indeed deafening. The guards and patrolmen under the city heard it and hesitated for a moment.
But the more than 1,000 temple soldiers just focused on the attack, banging on the door, and didn't care about anything else. When people looked around, they saw that everyone around them had already taken up their knives and did it. People tend to follow the crowd, and if they see what everyone else is doing, they will follow suit, and most likely they won't make a big mistake.
Look at General Bai, he has been in the army for half his life, fighting for his country, and now he is the king's favorite and a high-ranking official. Why did he give up the wealth and glory that an ordinary person could never achieve in a lifetime, and risk being beheaded and his clan being exterminated to rebel?
How depressed must he be?
Besides, if he really rebelled, could the king trust him for decades?
Is the king stupid?
So, it’s okay, it’s okay, just keep doing it!
The guards on the city wall were whipped several times by Zheng Da, and were infected by the war atmosphere, so they had to cheer up and shoot arrows.
Casualties began to appear both inside and outside the city, and the battle finally became serious.
As Bai Tan's army launched a massive attack, the palace walls began to glow - the defensive formation was activated.
The Yao Kingdom had been in existence for nearly two hundred years, and although there were occasional turmoil, it was mostly prosperous. The successive Yao kings added bricks and tiles whenever they had nothing to do, and were willing to spend both time and materials to build the walls of the palace as hard as an iron barrel.
Needless to say, its quality is excellent. There are as many as eleven defensive formations of various sizes. Not only are they nested within each other, some of them can also complement each other. If one is broken, another will automatically fill in.
It costs a lot of money to activate so many layers of defense formations, but if the war can spread here, there is no need for King Yao's Palace to save money.
Therefore, as long as the operation is done properly, it is no exaggeration to say that only a hundred or so people on the city wall can stop thousands of troops below.
It has been a long time since these formations were activated, and the current city patrols have no idea how powerful they are. But Bai Tan knew that with the little power he had, it would be impossible to break through the palace gate in a short time!
He stared at the three statues embedded in the wall.
These three statues were giants with bulging eyes and fangs, more than 50 meters tall. They looked like carvings, but Bai Tan knew that these three things were war puppets, which could be activated in two quarters of an hour!
If they crawled out, there would be nothing to do but lie down on the crowded main street and roll over, crushing many people to death.
His original plan was to rush through the palace gate without bloodshed with the help of Xu Yankun, thus overcoming the most difficult hurdle of this rebellion.
As long as he tears off this hard outer shell, the Yao Palace will only reveal its soft belly to him.
What made him regretful was that Zheng Da killed Xu Yankun and ruined his best plan.
What a pity, this should have been the fastest and least bloody strategy.
The worst thing was that Zheng Da suddenly took back power and rushed to guard the south gate of the palace. This meant that King Yao had discovered their uncle and nephew's rebellion first!
He and Bai Hengbo had been cautious until this evening, when King Yao entrusted them with an important task, giving them the power to command troops inside and outside the palace.
What kind of favor is this?
Why did he suddenly change his attitude at night? Did he follow Shi Songwei's clues to find the Shi brothers and then him, or did someone inform on him?
This time, there were only a few people who knew about the conspiracy. Qingyang's plan for him was to "hide the sword and take advantage of the situation", almost separating the actions from those of other participants and minimizing the possibility of leaks. Otherwise, why didn't King Yao implicate him when he arrested so many officials in the early stage?
Qingyang's tactics are indeed superb.
That was a massive and detailed job, and Bai Tan was amazed just watching from the side.
It would not be unfair for King Yao to be defeated by this old woman.
But she has done so much, who can still find out about Shi Songwei?
The worst thing is that Zheng Da took back the power of the Minister of Justice, so what about Bai Hengbo?
Has Bai Hengbo met with an accident?
Bai Tan's heart sank. The situation had taken a turn for the worse, and his control over the army was not secure. He could not waste any more time outside the palace gates!
Fortunately, he had two plans.
When Qingyang and he made the plan in advance, they had taken into account the situation where the city gate guard was temporarily replaced and Xu Yankun was unable to perform the task.
There couldn't be just one plan for such a major project. They had carefully considered every detail beforehand.
Bai Tan took out a pure black talisman from his arms. It was only the length of his index finger, but the runes on it were golden, which was particularly eye-catching under the firelight.
There is also a pattern on the talisman, which looks like a small flower basket.
His confidants helped him block the rockets shot down from the city walls. Bai Tan bit his index finger, smeared the blood on the black talisman, and prayed in a low voice.
As soon as the last word was spoken, there was a "puff" sound, and the black talisman suddenly caught fire and turned into ashes in a few seconds.
Only the flower basket pattern was hanging in the air, shining brightly, and then disappeared after five breaths.
After finishing this set of movements, Bai Tan actually had sweat on his forehead, because reciting the incantation was extremely strenuous, as if a huge rock was pressing on his chest, and his throat was blocked, making it difficult to utter a sound.
Bishop Liang of Miaozhan Tian Temple explained to him that this was resistance.
The secret he recited had to penetrate the resistance between the two worlds and reach the heavens, so this process consumed a lot of energy.
Fortunately, the black talisman worked and his efforts were not in vain.
Just at this moment, a group of people and horses rushed out from the end of the long street, and the sound of their hooves was like thunder!
There were two familiar faces running in the front. When Bai Tan saw them, he frowned and thought to himself that something was wrong.
Tu Han, single is heavy!
Tu Han is also a general of Yao State, as famous as Xue Zongwu. He has been leading troops in the south, but recently returned to Tianshui City to do some work.
Shan Zezhong was appointed the commander of Wuling the year before last. He was Tu Han's good friend and fellow townsman. When Tu Han was ordered to suppress the rebellion, he also came along.
Earlier, Bai Tan and Qing Yang discussed the major plan and mentioned four or five generals including Tu Han. However, these generals only had 200 personal guards in the capital, and King Yao did not trust these foreign generals as much as he did Xue Zongwu, and never let them lead troops to suppress the refugee riots, so Qing Yang decided to ignore them for the time being and concentrate all his forces on the palace city.
After all, there were too many idle generals in Tianshui City at that time, and it was impossible for them to eliminate them one by one.
But now Tu Han has at least a thousand men behind him, and judging by their uniforms, they are composed of city patrol soldiers and guards. This means that Tu Han has obtained the special permission of King Yao and can temporarily lead the army!
Even though that old guy is stupid, the power in his hands is really a good thing. He can appoint people at will!
And this is the shortcoming of Bai Tan and Qing Yang: it is not easy for them to get some troops in Tianshui City.
Tu Han practiced the lion roar, and his voice was louder than Zheng Da on the palace wall. When he roared, it was like thunder: "Bai Tan has been dismissed from his post and has no more energy! You idiots are still working for him, don't you want your whole family to be executed?"
When some guards at the foot of the city heard this, they couldn't help but look at Bai Tan.
General Bai has no more energy?
In Yao State, only the monarch can remove a high-ranking military general from his position, thereby reducing his energy generated by his official position!
And this kind of reform can only take effect through formal documents.
In other words, if Bai Tan loses his energy, we can basically conclude that he is committing rebellion!
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Bai Tan remained calm and smiled coldly: "Nonsense! Look at this army, don't they have any Yuan power?"
To rebel today is to put your head on the line, and to die if you fail. He had prepared himself mentally long ago, and would not be easily startled.
Besides, he has a strong backing, so why should he be afraid of King Yao’s minions?
When everyone heard this, they realized that, yes, everyone had energy when they attacked the palace.
In fact, Bai Tan has changed the concept.
Just when everyone's attention was drawn to the newly appeared Tu Han army, a green light suddenly flashed in the pupils of an archer on the palace wall, and he froze.
At the same time, there was a flower basket-shaped mark on his arm that glowed faintly, but it was covered by armor and no one could see it.
This pause lasted about two breaths.
The first thing he did when he resumed action was to step back a few steps, turn the bow and arrow in his hand, and suddenly aim at Zheng Da!
As soon as the hand loosened, the arrow left the string.
Zheng Da caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye and quickly dodged to the side. The arrow hit the battlement, only one foot away from him.
But this arrow is an explosive arrow.
The moment it hit the battlement, it exploded, blowing away all the people around it.
The battlements were solid and protected by formations, leaving only a shallow dent. But the others were not so strong, and although they had their energy to protect them, they were still blown unconscious and had tinnitus.
Zheng Da was closest to it, and although his life was not in danger, he was still shocked to the point of seeing stars and bleeding from his nose.
The guards around him were also knocked to the ground.
Taking advantage of this gap, another guard rushed forward from behind and shot him in the back!
He went in from behind and out from the front, stabbing through them.
Two faint lights flashed across Zheng Da's body, and two protective magic weapons exploded one after another, but neither could block the fatal blow.
The guard's strength was insane. After the tip of the spear pierced Zheng Da, the remaining force was still there and it was nailed to the wall, causing the spear to vibrate continuously.
Looking at his eyes at this moment, not only was there a hint of green light hidden in them, but his pupils were also completely dilated.
The two guards suddenly turned against each other and joined forces to kill people. There was no warning beforehand, and the people around were horrified. Especially the man who assassinated Zheng Da, who was not strong and had a relatively gentle temperament, was considered a good guy by everyone. Why would he suddenly kill his superior at this critical moment?
The two men succeeded in snatching Zheng Da's keys.
Zheng Da's personal soldiers were shocked and barely stood up and shouted: "Stop them and kill them!"
The guard who had shot Zheng Da with an arrow earlier turned around, expressionless:
"Bai Tan is following the will of heaven, and you are not allowed to stop him!"
Although he was the only one speaking, it sounded as if hundreds of people were speaking in unison, with such majesty that both the enemy and us on and off the city could hear it!
Everyone looked up in surprise, only to see a huge green and purple illusion emerging from behind the guard, in the shape of a flower basket.
There were dozens of flowers in the basket fluttering in the wind, but upon closer inspection, they were actually colorful poisonous snakes spitting out their venom!
As soon as they appeared, everyone felt a heavy rock pressing down on their hearts.
This kind of pressure is by no means fake.
Someone immediately screamed: "Goddess Fenghe!"
The flower basket and the poisonous snake are the symbols of the goddess Fenghe. Who in Tianshui City doesn't know this?
(End of this chapter)