Chapter 75: Chaos
The ghost chaos in the imperial city came to an end, and Lu Yi gained great benefits.
To the northwest of the Prime Minister's Mansion, which is the direction from which the whistling northwest wind came, there were two carriages driving normally on the street. Suddenly, the horses lost their composure and the two carriages collided with each other.
There was a small stove for heating in the carriage, which immediately caught fire.
No one knew what was in the carriage, but when the flames started, extremely thick green smoke wafted out, and a refreshing fragrance followed the northwest wind and rushed straight to the vicinity of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
A strange fragrance filled the air. The soldiers of the city defense army patrolling inside and outside the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the guards of the Prime Minister's Mansion stationed at various posts, all took a few deep breaths and felt warm all over. A surge of heat rushed to their foreheads through their blood.
To the west of the Prime Minister's Mansion, on a tall building, several girls in light gauze suddenly appeared on the roof. They held silver bells in their hands and gently struck them, and the beautiful "ding ding" sound spread in all directions with the wind.
This 'ding ding' sound has a strange rhythm. When the soldiers and guards heard this sound, they felt hot all over, their hearts began to beat fast, and their emotions were unconsciously controlled.
The girls began to sing and dance.
They giggled, and their gentle and sweet laughter was like the sound of nature. Driven by the powerful Yuan Gang, it was carried by the wind for more than ten miles and enveloped the surrounding neighborhoods.
To the north of the Prime Minister's Mansion, closest to the two burning trains, a team of city defense soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding long spears were marching in formation outside the Prime Minister's Mansion. Suddenly, two soldiers roared loudly, swung their long spears and killed their comrades around them.
The shiny three-foot-long spear head pierced through the bodies of several soldiers like a broken bamboo.
The severely injured soldiers screamed in agony. They looked at their comrades who had suddenly attacked them, at a loss as to what to do. Their eyes were instantly stained with blood.
They brandished their weapons and launched a fierce counterattack against those who suddenly attacked and injured people.
Before the leading officer could stop these suddenly crazy subordinates, his eyes turned bloodshot.
Amid the girls' gentle laughter, the officer drew his sword, a pale-white aura lingering on the blade. He roared and swung his sword, and seven or eight soldiers were stabbed in the chest, spitting blood and flying up.
What happened to this team of city defense soldiers spread quickly like a plague.
Just like a replica of what happened in Sijifang a few days ago, the soldiers and guards who were originally in good condition around the Prime Minister's Mansion, and even the servants, maids, and servant girls in the Prime Minister's Mansion, as well as the craftsmen, cooks, housemaids, and handymen, all had bloodshot eyes and attacked the people around them like crazy.
The Prime Minister's Mansion was suddenly in chaos.
On the hill in the backyard, under the tall building, a chief clerk from the Prime Minister's Mansion suddenly ran up the stone steps, shouting sternly: "Prime Minister, there is something wrong in the mansion, someone is making trouble... Please, Prime Minister..."
With a few "chi chi" sounds, from all directions and around the Prime Minister's Mansion, whistling arrows flew into the sky and then exploded into balls of fire in the sky.
Shouts and cries of killing were heard everywhere. The two gates to the south and west of the Prime Minister's Mansion were breached. Teams of ordinary-looking men dressed in colorful clothes, wearing heavy armor, holding sharp blades, strode into the Prime Minister's Mansion without saying a word.
Kill anyone you see, chop anyone you see.
Among them, there was a group of highly qualified archers. They followed the team closely and when they encountered the enemy, they would shoot a volley of arrows at them. The armor-piercing arrows made by Dayin officials were extremely lethal. The guards in the Prime Minister's Mansion who were not wearing armor but only equipped with swords and other personal weapons could be pierced through with one arrow.
Different from the archers in the Imperial Guards and the Yulin Army who formed large groups and covered the battlefield with rain of arrows.
The archers in the attacker's team acted independently and chose their own targets. Each arrow was like the fangs of a poisonous snake suddenly attacking in the dark, precise, ruthless, and deadly in one shot.
This is underworld tactics.
The threat they posed in a melee was ten times more dangerous than that of the Imperial Guards and the Imperial Guards.
"Come..." A guard leader suppressed the bloodthirsty and murderous impulse in his heart and rushed out from the darkness. Just as he was about to call for reinforcements, an arrow whistled and pierced his throat.
"Yes..." Another city defense general staggered out with several subordinates.
A volley of arrows came at the city defense commander, who felt hot all over and a little weak in his limbs, and several brave soldiers behind him were shot in the vital parts of their bodies and fell to the ground with blood gushing out.
"What..." An official from the Prime Minister's Mansion rushed out of his official room, waving a light decorative sword for civil servants. Just as he was about to shout loudly, more than a dozen arrows hit his vital points almost at the same time, almost breaking him into pieces.
Two fist-sized kerosene cans flew out and smashed into the official's public housing.
Kerosene splashed everywhere, the phosphorous fire ignited the kerosene, and the public building was quickly engulfed in flames.
Fires rose all around the Prime Minister's Mansion, echoing with hundreds of fires in the distant streets. Pillars of black smoke shot straight into the sky and merged with the thick clouds in the sky.
I don’t know if it was a change in the weather or if the heaven and earth were feeling something.
Suddenly, a dull thunder sounded in the dark clouds in the middle of winter. Flashes of lightning rolled across the sky like wheels. In the gaps between the dark clouds, large flashes of lightning illuminated the burning Kunpeng Pavilion.
Inside Kunpengfang, the sounds of whistles and gongs rang out from all directions. Groups of patrolling military marquises, fangling yamen runners, and city defense soldiers ran around like headless flies. Some people fell to the ground in panic, their faces covered in blood.
Most of the people living in Kunpengfang are royal relatives and top officials.
Fires were breaking out everywhere, and everywhere the guards of these big shots were roaring and shouting. They were waving the identity badges of the big shots and ordering the military marquises, yamen runners, and soldiers running around in the streets to quickly surround their own mansions and not let their big shots get into any danger.
There was fire everywhere, smoke everywhere, people running around everywhere, and guards and servants of various families dancing everywhere.
I didn’t expect that Kunpengfang would be attacked.
Dayin has been established for more than 1,800 years. Except for the first dozen years after its founding, there were still remnants of the previous dynasty who would suddenly jump out to kill people and set fires. Over the past 1,800 years, Dayin has been peaceful and harmonious for too many years.
Especially, Kunpengfang, the super-quality market under the imperial city, who can set fire here? Who dares to set fire here?
Kunpengfang, on this night, was like an unguarded little girl, exposed naked in front of some people who had been planning for a long time, and instantly fell into an extremely passive and extremely confused state.
The sound of 'puff' was heard continuously.
More than 10,000 assassins surrounded the Prime Minister's Mansion. They rushed into the mansion, killing and burning people along the way, and in an instant they had killed half of the mansion.
The Prime Minister Zhu Chong at the time was extremely concerned about his own safety.
On weekdays, there are thousands of city defense soldiers stationed around his mansion. There are also a large number of family guards stationed in his own mansion all year round. Those servants and maids are mostly strong and sturdy men.
However, the strange fragrance and wonderful music disturbed the mind. The city defense soldiers around the Prime Minister's Mansion and the guards in the mansion had their fighting power greatly weakened. They also started a civil strife among themselves, killing each other with blood and flesh flying everywhere.
These killers surrounded the mansion from all sides and efficiently killed their way to the core area along the corridors and corridors in the mansion.
Wherever he passed, no matter if they were family generals, bodyguards, servants, domestic servants, even those boy servants, maids, and even the watchdog who was also caught in the chaos, they were all chopped to death with a single blow of the knife, and then stabbed a dozen times more, making them deader than dead.
These killers threw kerosene cans everywhere and smashed things. In just a short period of time, half of the Prime Minister's Mansion was turned into a sea of fire.
In addition to arson, these killers also poisoned.
The various projectiles they threw exploded one after another, and clouds of poisonous smoke and poisonous powder sprayed everywhere. The air was filled with a pungent smell, and some guards who still had the strength to resist fell to the ground in the poisonous gas.
But, this is the residence of Prime Minister Dayin after all.
These assassins caught the Grand Prime Minister's Mansion by surprise. They successfully broke into the Mansion, cleared out the public housing where the officials usually worked on the periphery, then rushed into the double doors and the middle area where the Grand Prime Minister usually entertained guests and handled affairs.
The defense here is more strict than the outer area.
These killers finally encountered the core forces of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
A team of hundreds of soldiers wearing heavy armor, with wet towels covering their faces and holding special sabers, led by a dozen men in long robes and feather crowns with calm expressions, lined up in a row and blocked the front of the murderous team.
With a slight hiss, hundreds of killers brandished their weapons and rushed forward with great bravery.
The soldiers lined up in a row raised their sabers in unison. A faint light of Yuan Gang flickered on the blades of hundreds of sabers. They swung their swords together, and the blades tore through the air, making a sharp and terrifying sound of tearing cloth.
With one strike of the sword, hundreds of assassins were chopped into two along with their weapons and armor before they could even get close to the soldiers.
Another group of killers rushed forward, and the soldiers swung their swords again, and hundreds of killers were cut in half.
After six waves of continuous charges, nearly two thousand killers were easily killed by these armored soldiers. Some were split into two pieces and did not die for a while. They fell to the ground, twitching all over. Finally, they could not bear the severe pain and let out a shrill howl.
A master among the killers rushed out.
They were also wearing heavy armor and holding heavy long weapons such as spears, horse lances, heavy halberds, maces, etc., and they rushed towards the soldiers blocking the way with great bravery.
These masters among the killers obviously have more autonomy than those silent killers.
As they rushed forward, they shouted loudly: "Clear the emperor's entourage, kill the traitors, and avenge the people of Anping Prefecture!"
There were nearly a hundred masters, all of whom had reached the Tuomai realm. Although they were all at the first or second level of Tuomai realm, the weapons in their hands were emitting a faint Yuan Gang glow, and the sound made by the weapons when they were swung was like thunder.
A dozen calm-looking men in long robes chuckled in unison. They drew their swords one after another and flew forward as lightly as floating clouds.
The sword light was swirling, and rays of Yuan Gang flew out from the sword edge, flying in the air for more than ten feet with incredible force. More than a hundred assassin masters in the Tuomai realm were caught off guard, and were cut off in mid-air by the sharp sword force, and their blood was spilled on the spot.
An old man in a green robe was holding a long sword. He flicked his finger lightly on the sword tip, and with a humming sound, the sword rang up into the sky, and the sound could be heard for miles.
"You ignorant bastard, you broke into the Prime Minister's residence at night. This is a crime punishable by the execution of all nine generations of your clan!"
"Kneel down, surrender, and I'll give you a..."
Before he could finish his words, there was a whoosh and the old man's head exploded into pieces.