Retrograde for thousands of years

Chapter 83 Night of the Long Knife
"Damn, damn it!"

Emperor Liang slammed the teacup onto Liu Jin's head, and the hot tea flowed along his head and into his clothes.

But Liu Jin lay there motionless, his attitude remained unchanged: "Your Majesty, you cannot act rashly at this time."

After leaving the Tianlao, Liu Jin returned to the imperial city immediately, knocked on the locked door of the forbidden palace, and reported everything he saw and heard to the emperor.

The old emperor was greatly surprised and ordered the deputy commander-in-chief Ouchi to go find Zhou Huan and the leaders of the nine sects with his handwriting. If there is anything, they can sit down and talk about it instead of going to war.

But the secret edict has not yet been issued, and the power of the nine sects in the capital has been mobilized.

Even in modern times, with large-scale lighting and surveillance, riots are a headache, let alone in ancient times?Those martial arts masters who come and go can form an elite team. Hundreds of ordinary soldiers are like leeks to them. As for the masters in the palace, it is too late to protect the emperor at this time, so how can they dare to dispatch on a large scale?
The opponents are nine sects. After 200 years of accumulation, each sect is full of masters. Especially after the news of Aunt Tang's critical illness, there are countless masters hidden in the capital.

"This Wang Huan is really bold and reckless, a man who deceives the emperor and ignores his superiors!"

He gritted his teeth fiercely and said, but the old emperor felt extremely regretful.

Frankly speaking, when Zhou Huan came to the capital, he had been doing legal business, including running newspapers, and he had not messed around. The taxes paid to the court increased by tens of thousands taels, and he also knew how to do it under the unspoken rules.

Even after he was tried, His Majesty the Emperor had a chance to stop Zhou Huan. All he had to do was issue a decree and retry the trial. However, the old emperor wanted to temper Zhou Huan and let him know the majesty of the royal family. He even wanted to take Zhou Huan under his wing. Used to control Chen Yunying's thoughts for himself.

However, who would have thought that he would directly overturn the table!

The radicals within the Nine sects have endured it for too long, and now Wang Huan has unplugged the insurance. This is like the emperor allowing Jiedu to cast money for himself and become an official. The Nine sects do not even need to confirm Wang Huan's fate. Are they the descendants of the great master Zhou Huan? They only need a reason, a reason to interact with Aunt Tang.

This is the promise of your relatives. If anything happens, you go to your relatives, not to mention that you are about to die, maybe you are already dead!

How much of a threat does the dying Aunt Tang still have in the eyes of the nine major sects?The nine sects have been suffering from Madam Tang for a long time.

This is the first step to cast stones to ask for directions, so the nine sects immediately united together. Just like no matter how great the hatred between Jiedu envoys was, they would not object to giving everyone money to appoint officials. Tonight, the nine sects were ruthlessly Slap the court hard in the face.

Who is willing to pay so much taxes every year, and who wants to have an emperor above them? What scares His Majesty even more is that the Nine sects did so without hesitation.

The only possibility is that the Nine sects do not believe that the imperial court can threaten them.

In their eyes, the imperial court is like a chicken and a dog!
———Separator————

The entire Shilang Mansion was mobilized, and the martial arts masters in the courtyard picked up weapons one by one, put on leather armor, lit torches, and prepared to serve their master in high spirits.

Qian Shilang told everyone present that everyone would be rewarded 50 taels of silver tonight, and those who had more merit in killing the enemy would be given preferential treatment if there were casualties. The 60-year-old man also got a sword. 30 years of Qi training made him and It’s not that you are helpless.

The door of the Minister's Mansion was opened, and a group of 30 people walked outside in neat steps. Also accompanying him was his neighbor, Su Chengxiang, the Minister of War.

The two old men knew that the night was the best cover for the nine sects. As long as they could survive tonight, everything could be saved, and the two of them headed towards the Yamen. What they needed now was to get the six departments running!
Even at this time, they thought the Nine Sects were a sneak attack.

The sound of fighting could be heard everywhere along the way, bloody corpses were seen on the road from time to time, and some people fled to Qian Shilang's team, reporting what happened.The three major sects in the capital suffered a devastating blow. Countless men in black swarmed out and bulldozed all three major sects together with the rudders.

The patrolling Praetorian Guards and City Guards suffered heavy casualties from the beginning, and many of the remaining ones took off their clothes and fled home.

Many court officials were assassinated, and it was difficult for everyone to unite to resist their opponents on a dark and windy night.

There was a conflict between the imperial court and the men in black. Three thousand imperial guards and two hundred internal masters were dispatched from the imperial city. As a result, they were met with a sniper attack by three hundred martial arts masters wearing heavy armor and holding iron spears.In the darkness, although the three thousand infantrymen held torches, they were difficult to mobilize. The team collapsed completely after being penetrated three times in a row.Those of the Imperial Guards who survived either fled in all directions or knelt down and begged for mercy. Of the 200 Ouchi masters who accompanied them, only twenty came back.

"Those people are not martial arts masters at all, they know how to cooperate, they are not afraid of death, they are the army!"

The man with his face covered in blood shouted hoarsely. The court has always claimed that martial arts masters do not know how to cooperate, and they are scattered when there are many people. They even used the legend of the Condor Heroes as a textbook to let everyone see what the masters of the five arts look like when facing the army. .

However, what happened tonight was beyond everyone's expectations.

"Don't worry, everyone. As long as it's dawn, the imperial army will be out in full force. By then, the rebels will be wiped out, leaving nothing to hide!"

Minister Qian loudly encouraged his men, saying that the court was just caught off guard.

"Hello, Mr. Qian."

Someone appeared on the street corner and looked at Qian Shilang with chills in his eyes.

That was Qingxu Zhenren, a good friend of Qian Shilang for 30 years.

"Qingxu, you &..."

Before Minister Qian could say anything, Master Qingxu came over like lightning with an iron gun in his hand.

"Stop him!"

The guard roared loudly, but the next moment his cry turned into a scream.

The dark iron spear was like a bolt of lightning, and it flew in front of him and exploded with a loud bang. Five or six spear flowers instantly enveloped several guards, and the next moment their bodies turned into fragments!
Qingxu's body did not stop, and the dark iron spear turned into the death-defying message of the King of Hell at this moment, like a black dragon, and the guards fell to the ground one after another while baring its teeth and claws.

This is Wudang Sanqing, one of the top masters in the world. Thirty guards want to stop him?
Su Qiaoer gritted her teeth, turned around and fled into the nearby houses. Even if she is a famous master of the younger generation, she can't resist such a master as Wudang Sanqing.

The cold iron gun fell on Minister Qian's throat, and then hit him in the face.

"Servant Qian, someone wants to see you."

(End of this chapter)