"Boom--" "Boom--" "Red--" The mouth of the "giant bell" cast in the bronze of the three gates flashed, and thousands of projectiles and stones were sprayed off the head of Chongxuanmen by gunpowder. In an instant, a bloody gap was swept out at the center of the archer team of Wanqi Camp who was looking up and shooting up. (Note: Chongxuanmen, the north outer gate of the Daming Palace.)

All archers who were sprayed head-on died terrible.

The chestnut-sized projectiles and stones can be ignored under the air waves generated by the explosion of gunpowder. Even the iron vest that can block the strong crossbow was hit by several projectiles and stones at the same time, and it was smashed deeply inward. At this time, the hard iron became an accomplice of the projectiles and stones, turning into sharp blades, directly piercing the chest cavity of the armored person.

Even though they were lucky enough not to be right at the mouth of the "clock", a large number of archers were still affected by fish. They shot from the top of the city to projectiles and stones, hitting their arms, calves, mouth, nose, neck, etc. that lacked effective protection, and immediately chiseled bloody holes.

Although these wounds will not take away a person's life immediately, their size and appearance are extremely bloody and terrifying. The injured person immediately lost all his strength and fell to the ground and rolled in pain, and at the same time he screamed in a shrill voice.

Fear was accompanied by screams, and instantly spread outside Chongxuan Gate. Not only the archers, but also the troops who were pushing the rushing carts to climb the dead soldiers. Some brothers who were loading fire thunder for the catapults also threw their homes behind them, for fear that they would not be able to dodge in time and become the next target of the "Bronze Bell".

"Idiots, wastes, stop me and don't retreat. If you kill the demon queen, what do you want? If the demon queen doesn't die, she will definitely kill you and other three clans!" Zhong Shaojing, the commander of the Wanqi Camp, was furious, and rushed out from behind the shield cart with a horizontal knife, and chopped towards a captain who was leading the retreat.

The captain was caught off guard and was chopped to the ground by him. Blood suddenly jumped up more than three feet high along the blade, splashing the surrounding robes and faces.

The soldiers of the Wanqi Battalion around were so scared that they stopped. Then, they quickly remembered what kind of punishment they would face after the failure of the rebellion. They made a long list of howlings of ghosts and wolves, turned their heads and rushed towards the closest catapults, fire dragon chariots, and crossbows that were loading fire thunder with all their hands and feet, pressed the crossbows, and shot crossbow arrows.

Chongxuan Gate is the outermost defensive facility on the north side of the Daming Palace. The city wall is as high as two feet high. The inner core is made of mud slabs, and the outer skin is wrapped with thick blue bricks. Crossbow arrows shoot up from a distance, making it difficult to hit the targets in the enemy tower and the city wall. The effective killing distance of the Fire Dragon Vehicle is only twenty steps, and it is even more impossible to spray the flames on the top of the city between more than ten feet.

Only the catapult cart improved by Zhang Qian, the former military weapon supervisor, can throw the lit fire thunder onto the city wall of Chongxuanmen. However, due to the lack of training, the soldiers of the Wanqi Camp were extremely unfamiliar in using the catapult cart. Not only did they take a long time to launch a round of attacks, but the fire thunder thrown was not accurate. Either hit the wall bricks, rolled outside the city, or crossed the city wall, and landed on the vast military garrison between Chongxuanmen and Xuanwumen, without any achievements.

On the contrary, the palace guards and Wei family members on Chongxuan Gate suddenly received the support of the three strange bronze bells, and their morale was greatly boosted. Under the command of Xue Sijian, everyone controlled the catapult carts, which were also carefully built by military weapons, and shot fire thunders one after another outside the city. Soon, they blew up more than a dozen fire dragon carts, catapult carts and crossbows outside the city, making the rebels' offensive against the Daming Palace more and more unsustainable.

"Arrowers, archers are in a team, approaching the diffusing, suppressing the catapults on the city!" Seeing that the situation was not good for one side, Zhong Shaojing was furious and waved his sword to force the archers to gather again. "Since you have embarked on this road, don't think about retreating halfway. The prince failed to force the palace to the palace, and the demon queen was not allowed to leave any of the people who followed him."

The last sentence is a fact that happened in the third year of Shenlong. Many of the soldiers of the Wanqi Camp present had witnessed it with their own eyes. In an instant, shouts and scoldings rose up, and the archers who were unfortunately involved in the rebellion or were bewitched and actively participated in the rebellion, while greeting Wei Wushuang, Xue Sijian, Shangguan Wan'er and Zhong Shaojing's ancestors, the eighth generation, gathered together again to head towards Chongxuanmen, and tried their best to release feather arrows to the top of the city.

After all, there were many people and the feather arrows they shot were not accurate, but they were both urgent and dense. Soon, a large number of casualties appeared on the top of the city, and the rhythm of the counterattack was seriously disturbed.

However, before the attacking organizer Zhong Shaojing breathed a sigh of relief, three bronze bells were pushed out of the enemy building on Chongxuan Gate. The bell mouth shot out hot flames at the archer. "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

The projectiles were as dense as hail, and under the propelling of the wave of gunpowder, they shot into the archers' team outside the city. Nearly twenty people were overturned to the ground by the projectiles on the spot, and almost the same number of people were shot out of their bodies, and blood was like a spring.

Zhong Shaojing spent a lot of effort to gather again, the archer team quickly fell apart. Many people would rather face the horizontal sword of the superviser than continue to stand under the city wall and be shot into a sieve by the projectile!

"The Empress Dowager is wise!" "Long live the Empress Dowager, long live, long live!" "The Empress Dowager has this magical weapon, and the thief will definitely be defeated!" Cheers sounded at Chongxuan Gate, forming a sharp contrast with the screams under the city. General Xue Sijian, general of the Gate of the Gate, Wei Jie, general of the Zuo Qianniu, and others bowed excitedly to a certain position on the enemy's building.

"It depends on your achievements!" Empress Dowager Wei Wushuang wore the dragon armor that Li Xian liked the most during his lifetime, with a phoenix-winged helmet on his head, waved his hands gently at Xue Sijian, Wei Jie and others, and shone with heroic spirit from head to toe. "Stay work hard. After dawn, the soldiers of the guards will enter the city, and the thief will definitely die without a place to bury!"

"The Empress Dowager is wise!" "Long live the Empress Dowager, long live, long live!" "The Empress Dowager..." The cheers resounded again on the city. Not only Xue Sijian, but also Wei Jie and other Empress Wei's confidant generals, but even at this moment, every imperial guard and eunuch stationed in Chongxuanmen believed in the upcoming victory.

Indeed, the rebellion broke out extremely suddenly, and it is said that a large number of royal families participated, including the great nephew of Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jin, the prefect of Jingzhao, who appeared in the rebels. However, from midnight to now, after two hours of fighting, the rebels still failed to take a step beyond Chongxuanmen.

The three imperial guards formed by elite troops were drawn from the Khotan camp. Although the number of troops was far inferior to that of the rebels, they stubbornly blocked the rebels' attacks launched at the same time at Chongxuan Gate and Baibeast Gate. At the critical moment, the Empress Dowager Wei Wushuang not only put on armor to fight to boost morale, but also took out the magic weapon presented by Zhang Qian, the guardian of the Shangdu years ago to His Majesty the Emperor Zhongzong, and the "Divine Bell" to the country.

Although the three-mouthed bronze bells look weird, they are filled with gunpowder, projectiles and stones, their lethality is extremely great. Especially for archers who cannot wear heavy armor, each round of volleys can cause huge casualties to the opponent.

The greater blow was on the morale of the rebels. Since Xue Sijian, the bronze bell, pushed the Chongxuanmen city wall with a wheelbarrow to launch the first round of shooting, the morale of the rebels has begun to plummet. Now, it has reached the point where Zhong Shaojing needs to use killing to maintain order!

The champion general Wei Bo, with the other elite troops of the Khotan camp, was stationed in the Weiyang Palace. Wei Feng, Wei Feng, Lang General Gao Song, and Prince Wu Yanxiu, each commanded tens of thousands of government troops and stationed outside the four gates of Chang'an City. As long as we persisted until dawn, Wei Bo, Wei Feng, Gao Song, Wu Yanxiu and others figured out the situation, we would surely lead the army into the city to suppress the rebellion immediately. At that time, the group of traitors who were temporarily bought by Princess Taiping and Li Jin and others would inevitably be defeated!

"Be careful of the rift!" Zhaorong Shangguan Wan'er was also wearing armor and stood on the Chongxuan Gate enemy building. However, she did not flatter Wei Wushuang with Xue Sijian and others, but just raised a shield carefully to protect Empress Wei's neck and lower abdomen. "The rebels were vicious, and the Wanqi Camp was formed to recruit Rangers, and there were many masters who used bows among them!"

As soon as he finished speaking, several arrows roared from the darkness. Although they did not shoot the shields in the hands of Wei Wushuang and Shangguan Wan'er, they shot the beams of the enemy tower above the two of them, making wood chips splash.

The cheers came to an abrupt end. Xue Sijian, Wei Jie and others were all so scared that they widened their eyes and their hair stood up. After seeing clearly Empress Wei was safe, they immediately became furious again. They all looked for strong bows and sharp arrows and launched a counterattack towards the rebels under the city. They vowed to shoot the guy who fired the cold arrows into a hedgehog.

Empress Wei didn't find it strange to see these flattery tricks too much. She smiled and nodded slightly at Shangguan Wan'er, then opened her voice and said loudly, "Don't waste your energy, you'll hide long ago. Hurry up and clean up the bronze bell, reload the gunpowder and projectiles, and prepare to deal with the next attack of the thief."

"The Queen of Saints is wise!" Xue Sijian and others agreed in unison, leading the eunuchs and guards to the still hot bronze bell. Following the steps of secretly practicing hundreds of times in advance, they familiarly cleaned the "bell" chamber with cloth to prepare for the next round of launch.

"I didn't expect that Zhang Tejin's power to deal with the White Horse Sect was as powerful as a friend!" Shangguan Wan'er's eyes were quickly attracted by the bronze bell, she shook her head, and sighed in a low voice. "I'm sorry, the stupid monks of the White Horse Sect, until now, she thought that she had done something wrong and attracted thunder!"

"Not only the monks of the White Horse Sect were kept in the dark, but there are probably not many people in the world who know the purpose of the bronze bell." Wei Wushuang smiled and looked proud. "Otherwise, the crazy woman Li Lingyue would not have only let the thief take the catapult cart to attack the Daming Palace today!"

"The Empress Dowager is wise and can actually find the secret that Zhang Qian refused to tell anyone!" Shangguan Wan'er looked full of admiration and raised her shield to express her respect to Wei Wushuang.

"It was the late emperor who was wise. After getting the black gunpowder and fire thunder presented by Zhang Qian, he immediately figured out the real purpose of the bronze bell!" Wei Wushuang continued to smile and shook his head. His eyes were reddened by power. "The Ai family was still very angry at the time and wanted the late emperor to ask why Zhang Qian deceived the emperor. But the late emperor said that the fewer people know the better. Now it seems that the late emperor is right. He had expected that Li Lingyue and others would never be willing to lie dormant!"

"The late emperor predicts things like a god!" Shangguan Wan'er was stunned, and then exclaimed from the bottom of her heart. "It is a blessing for me to follow the late emperor and the holy queen."

"You are not bad either. Before the late emperor passed away, he praised you for being the prime minister many times." Wei Wushuang felt relieved and praised him casually.

"I am just a firefly. Only by relying on the late emperor and the saint and the last horse can we emit a little light!" After serving Wei Wushuang for so many years, Shangguan Wan'er had already figured out the other party's temper, lowered her head, and spoke in a low voice.

"Okay! The more you say it, the more you become more modest you become!" Empress Wei waved her hand and smiled and shook her head, "Apart from not being surnamed Li, what are you a hundred times better than Princess Taiping?! Just as a woman, you can't be a general or a prime minister!"

"Wan'er doesn't want to be the prime minister, she just wants to stand behind the empress dowager forever." Shangguan Wan'er was moved to her eyes and bowed to salute, "It's dangerous here. Please ask the empress dowager to enter the enemy building for a while. I hold the sword and shield, and be the empress dowager here. Whenever there is any situation, report to the empress dowager immediately."

"Yeah!" Wei Wushuang understood that his purpose of boosting morale had been achieved. Continuing to stand in a clear position would only increase the burden on Xue Sijian, Wei Jie and others. So, he nodded with a smile. Then, he slowly moved his body backwards. Unexpectedly, he was tripped by an arrow shaft that had fallen to the ground before, and his steps immediately began to stagger.

"Be careful of the empress dowager." Shangguan Wan'er screamed and rushed over to help. Another female official, Kudi, who had been in the palace to help draft the edict since the Wu Zetian era, rushed forward and held Wei Wushuang's arm hard.

"It's okay." Empress Wei struggled to stand firm again and took advantage of the situation to break free from Shangguan Wan'er and Kudi's arms. "Let go, the soldiers are watching. At this moment, I cannot be supported by anyone."

After saying that, she looked at Shangguan Wan'er, who was full of worry, and whispered, "The Ai family was just tripped, you don't need to be so panicked. If you have the skill to support the Ai family, it's better to go outside to patrol the morale of this palace and calm the morale of the army."

"Yes!" Shangguan Wan'er agreed decisively, then thought about it again and reported carefully, "The Chongxuan Gate is obviously as solid as a golden soup. On the Hundred Beast Gate, there are brothers from Wei Hu who came from Yutian to defend, and there must be no mistakes. What I am worried about is Xibian Gate, which is connected to Tai Chi Palace. The Empress Dowager has been reluctant to let someone block this gate, saying that she wants to keep it there for the champion general. But if the traitor detours the Tai Chi Palace..."

"You go there for a tour, and send someone to urge Wei Bo to ask why he didn't come to support him!" Wei Wushuang interrupted without thinking.

"I have sent someone to urge me three times, but there has never been a reply!" Shangguan Wan'er's face immediately became a little dim. She lowered her head and responded in a low voice.

"Send people to urge them again to avoid the person sent out earlier being intercepted and killed!" Wei Wushuang was stunned and then made another decision.

"Yes, I will go to inspect Xibianmen first. If I can't wait for the champion general to lead my troops to rescue him, I will go to the Weiyang Palace to move troops in person!" Shangguan Wan'er gritted her teeth and answered neatly.

What Wei Wushuang admired was her sharpness and nodded with a smile. Then, she personally sent her off the horse road, watched her back grow far away surrounded by the guards, and then slowly walked into the enemy building with her shield and horizontal sword.

The eunuchs brought the bamboo chairs intimately, while the palace maids pale and fanned her. Outside the enemy building, the rebels were still trying to organize new attacks, but one wave was worse than another. The guards and eunuchs at the city, under the command of Xue Sijian and Wei Jie, became more and more brave as they fought. Every now and then, they used a bronze bell to bring three bullets to the rebels, and beat the latter to scream and blood flowed into a river.

It was less than April, and the weather in Chang'an City was already so hot that it was a bit uncomfortable. Especially the upper body, which was firmly protected by the Panlong Armor, had no other ventilation location except under the armpits. People's sweat quickly moistened the close-fitting clothes, and a few stinky smells appeared.

The war was tense before, and only smoke and blood could be smelled in Wei Wushuang's nostrils. At this moment, the rebel offensive was successfully curbed, and the smell of sweat quickly became clear.

In this life, even when she was demoted to Luling with her husband, she had never been so "stinky". She immediately frowned her brows gently.

Knowing who forced me to such a mess, Empress Dowager Wei Wushuang whispered, "Damn Li Lingyue, I will never be ruthless to you this time!"

If she had followed her idea, three years ago, when the prince rebelled, he should have made excuses to tear off Princess Taiping Li Lingyue. However, her husband Li Xian was soft-hearted at the critical moment and only ordered Princess Taiping to think about his mistakes behind closed doors, but did not punish him, and even did not take any action to cut off the minions that the person had installed in the court!

Wei Wushuang knew why her husband did this. In her husband's heart, the most important Li family country. Once Princess Taiping and Prince Xiang were killed, if he was not very strong, the government would inevitably fall into the hands of the Wei family. Therefore, using the strength of Li Lingyue and Li Dan to restrain the Wei family is the husband's true intention, and it is not ruthless at all!

However, Wei Wushuang did not say it out loud. Even between husband and wife, they occasionally need to pretend to be stupid. Anyway, Li Xian’s support for her has not decreased at all in recent years, and even chose to turn a blind eye to her behavior of promoting her confidant.

As for the balance that Li Xian painstakingly created, in her eyes, she was actually so fragile that she was vulnerable. Even before Li Xian died, she could easily pull Dou Congyi, Cui Shi, and even Xiao Zhizhong to her side. What's more, after Li Xian's death?

In fact, Li Xian's arrangements did not play any role. Since his death, she has been step by step, weakening the power of the Prince of Xiang and Princess Taiping, and has now successfully achieved national affairs, and has made decisions based on her own words. In addition to not deposing the emperor and tyrannical command, she is undoubtedly the second Zetian Great Sage.

She was almost sure to win, and her only omission was that she didn't expect that Li Lingyue was so bold that she colluded with some of the Li royal family to rebel before she launched the last attack!

But so what? From last night to now, the rebels attacked for two hours, but the Daming Palace is still firmly in her hands. At least 50,000 soldiers inside and outside Chang'an City will be ordered to enter the city to quell the rebellion after tomorrow. In the Weiyang Palace not far away, thousands of elite Khotan soldiers who have experienced many battles are stationed. Under the leadership of her cousin and champion general Wei Bo, these soldiers can cut off the rebels' retreat at any time and beat them all in one go!

But Wei Bo’s reaction tonight was too slow!

Thinking of the distance between Weiyang Palace and Daming Palace, Empress Wei was very upset. Logically, Wei Bo should have heard the explosion from Chongxuan Gate more than an hour ago and rushed to reinforce. However, until now, Wei Bo still has not sent a soldier!

She had already ordered Shangguan Wan'er to send three imperial edicts to Wei, but she received no response. So just now, she had to agree to Shangguan Wan'er's volunteer to urge him personally. If he was intercepted by rebels on the way, although Shangguan Wan'er was extremely wise, she was a daughter after all...

Thinking of this, Wei Wushuang began to secretly worry about Shangguan Wan'er's safety again. Although the relationship between the two parties was not too close when sharing a husband with this woman, Shangguan Wan'er was in the same state as Princess Taiping Li Lingyue.

For a common enemy, she and Shangguan Wan'er got closer and closer. Especially after Li Xian lost the ability to be a husband, the conflict between her and Shangguan Wan'er suddenly disappeared, and the only thing left was mutual appreciation!

After all, she was a little tired. Thinking about it, Wei Wushuang's eyelids began to become heavy and her breathing became more and more even. In a daze, she suddenly saw her husband Li Xian again, her body had completely recovered, and she rode on a pure white horse, stretching out her right hand to herself with a smile.

"Master!" Wei Wushuang forgot the fact that her husband had died in an instant, screamed excitedly, and reached out to pull Li Xian's hand. However, her husband and Baima disappeared at the same time. The only thing that responded to her was a shrill scream, "Ah—"

"Who is making noise!" Wei Wushuang suddenly recovered from ease, sat upright, and glared at the surroundings.

The vision in front of him was blurred at first, and then it gradually became clear. The smell of blood was so strong that Shangguan Wan'er quickly stepped in with a knife in one hand and a shield in the other. Behind this person, a face that Wei Wushuang could never have imagined.

"King Qiao, who asked you to come back? Do you want to rebel too?" Wei Wushuang suddenly exerted force, pointed to the face behind Shangguan Wan'er, and shouted angrily.

"In trouble in the country, I have to stand up as the son of the late emperor!" King Qiao Li Chongfu, who had never had any sense of existence and was suppressed alternately by Wei Wushuang and Princess Taiping, looked down at Wei Wushuang and responded loudly. "However, the Empress Dowager, doing such a rebellious manner, can he be worthy of his father's grace for many years?!"

"Empress Dowager, help me!" Ah——" The voice of Xue Sijian, the general of the gate, rang outside the enemy building, and then turned into a scream.

"Help!" "Give me aside!" "Don't kill me, don't kill me, I'm just ordered to guard the Daming Palace." "I'm willing to surrender, I'm willing to surrender..."

The sound of help and mercy sounded out one after another, and in a blink of an eye, the Chongxuanmen resounded through the blink of an eye. Without waiting for Wei Wushuang to react, more people rushed up quickly along the stairs. General Chang Yuankai of Yulin, General Li Ci of the Right Yulin, General Li Qin of the Left Jinwu, and even Zhou Yiti, who was highly valued by him, were still bleeding from his hands, but his face was filled with excitement and pride of accomplishing his achievements!

"You, you..." In an instant, Wei Wushuang understood the reason why the champion general Wei Bo had not come to rescue him for a long time.

The three imperial edicts were all spread by Shangguan Wan'er. However, Shangguan Wan'er had long colluded with King Qiao Li Chongfu, Princess Taiping Li Lingyue and others, and could change her imperial edict at any time. In her name, she ordered Wei Bo to act rashly!

Just now, Shangguan Wan'er took advantage of her negligence and went to Xibianmen with the excuse of patrol. Then, she brought King Qiao Li Chongfu and his confidants to the Daming Palace and caught Xue Sijian and others off guard from behind.

"Kill the demon queen and clear the king's side!" More soldiers rushed into the enemy building with slogans, driving the stunned eunuchs, palace maids and a small number of guards to the side and disarm them all. At the same time, they surrounded the Queen Mother Wei Wushuang.

Only the only one who was not driven away was Kudi, a female official who was respected by Wei Wushuang. The woman quickly took out a sealed imperial edict from her arms and held it high to the center of everyone. She opened her voice and declared loudly: "The emperor's will, please ask the empress dowager to come forward to receive the imperial edict..."

Shangguan Wan'er and Kudi had the opportunity to draft imperial edicts and contact seals before Li Xian's lifetime. Therefore, without reading, Wei Wushuang knew that this imperial edict was a forgery, and as for the content written above, she could guess clearly.

He raised his hand and slapped Kudi hard. She stared at her eyes and walked forward two steps. Wei continued to point to Shangguan Wan'er, and his voice was stern, "You, you, this bitch, the lord, the emperor and the Ai family, have you treated you at all unfairly? You actually..."

"The Empress Dowager is wrong!" Shangguan Wan'er raised the horizontal knife and slapped Empress Wei's fingers to the side, "It was the Empress Dowager who let me down first, not the Empress Dowager who let me down."

"You, you're talking nonsense!" Wei Wushuang knew that the situation was hopeless, but he refused to wait for death. He widened his eyes and continued to roar, "You just said that you would rather stand behind the Ai family in this life. You just said that you should be the eyes of the Ai family. You are a bitch, and you will get what you can get if you let others become emperors? The Ai family treats you as a slaughter, and you are unwilling to be satisfied? Could it be that you can still marry Li Chongfu and become his queen?"

A few words, one more shriller than another, one more evil intent. However, Shangguan Wan'er was not angry at all, smiled, walked quickly behind Wei Wushuang, lowered her head, put her mouth to her ear, and added with a very small voice, "Has the Queen Mother forgotten that when you were at your most downturn, who had helped you?"

As she spoke, her voice suddenly became thicker, vaguely as if from an old monk who was about to die, "Saint, have you forgotten what promises you made when you converted to Buddhism?"

"You, you..." My heart suddenly shivered. Empress Wei stared wide and turned her head to look at Shangguan Wan'er, with disbelief on her face.

The voice was very low, but she was extremely familiar with it. After receiving the funding of the White Horse Sect and becoming the saint of the sect, the voice of the Dharma King who was kneeling down for the first time was exactly the same as it is now. However, she always thought that the Dharma King was an old monk like Huifan, and never expected it...

Before she could reveal her identity, someone suddenly pushed her waist hard, and her body instantly lost balance. Then, a greater thrust came, pushing her directly out of the enemy building, climbed over the railing, and fell straight to the ground.

"I have said that you should always stand behind the Empress Dowager." During the fall, Empress Wei vaguely heard Shangguan Wan'er's voice again, soft and cold.

She suddenly laughed, and the corners of her mouth were full of mockery.
Chapter completed!