140: White Robe

Three thousand White Horse Righteous Cavalry.

This was precisely Sheng Changge's trump card.

After the last Rebirth, the overall combat power of the White Horse Righteous Cavalry had more than doubled!

Every soldier was already an elite, and now possessed the strength of five-layered armor.

In Sheng Changge's view, they were undoubtedly an invincible silver spear!

"How can there be these cavalry in the Imperial Palace?!"

When he saw the White Horse Righteous Cavalry, Li Yuanyuan's pupils slightly contracted.

Cavalry, to ordinary infantry, possessed destructive power!

This cavalry unit, at present, was clearly here to protect Sheng Changge.

If the number of cavalry was large, he would find it difficult to avenge Third Prince Sheng Tianlong tonight!

Amidst these thoughts,

Li Yuanyuan then saw all the White Horse Cavalry appear.

Overall,

there were only about three thousand of them.

This made him let out a sigh of relief.

Only three thousand; facing his fifty thousand Imperial Guards, no matter how powerful the cavalry were, they were just a grasshopper in a swarm of ants, only able to hop around a bit.

"We have reinforcements!" Several ministers, upon seeing the White Horse Righteous Cavalry, became slightly agitated: "Your Highness, we can escape!"

Yes, escape.

In the eyes of the ministers,

this contingent of troops could only allow them to escape.

No one understood that Sheng Changge's goal was to thoroughly defeat these Imperial Guards and that Li Yuanyuan!

"Whoosh!"

A volley of arrows was the White Horse Righteous Cavalry's greeting.

Just this one volley of arrows caused the tide-like Imperial Guards to fall down in a swath!

"Charge for me, break them up!"

Li Yuanyuan raised the long sword in his hand and shouted loudly.

In the confined space of the Imperial Palace, cavalry could not possibly maneuver, let alone create distance!

Li Yuanyuan, having experienced hundreds of battles, could see this at a glance.

"Whoosh!"

Another rain of arrows fell among the Imperial Guards.

The White Horse Righteous Cavalry were like emotionless weapons; every attack left a deep wound among the Imperial Guards!

Enduring this precise and terrifying arrow rain, the Imperial Guards, under Li Yuanyuan's command, finally charged into the White Horse Righteous Cavalry's formation!

"Kill!"

One by one, the Imperial Guards, holding their long sabers, crashed into the white-robed Army!

Unfortunately, the situation was vastly different from what Li Yuanyuan had imagined.

It was like an egg hitting a rock.

The White Horse Righteous Cavalry's extremely deceptive numbers caused thousands of Imperial Guards to evaporate in an instant!

Dense piles of corpses lay on the ground.

The Imperial Guards, who had initially been full of Aura and intended to break through the white-robed Army formation in one go, all fell into a state of stagnation!

Li Yuanyuan's shock was particularly evident.

Relying on his keen eye, he clearly understood the strength of those white-robed soldiers at this moment.

Their average strength was at the five-layered armor level!

Five-layered armor!

In his elite troops guarding the frontier, they could serve as a chiliarch!

Yet, before him, they were just basic soldiers!

How could such an iron cavalry be trained?!

"Where righteousness leads, life and death follow, Heaven bears witness, White Horse accompanies... Charge!"

Three thousand white-robed soldiers raised their long spears and shouted in unison, their morale soaring!

Suppression in troop type, suppression in strength, suppression in coordination.

In everyone's eyes, the vast numbers of Imperial Guards fell like stalks of wheat!

And those white-robed cavalry were like an Army descended from Heaven, invincible!

Even the large number of palace attendants, maids, and eunuchs watching from afar could tell from the confrontation that the scales of victory on the battlefield were steadily tipping towards the white-robed Army!

Three thousand against fifty thousand, this was fundamentally impossible!

"This... this is Your Highness's Army?"

Many ministers clearly found it difficult to remain calm.

This was like a miracle, truly and genuinely happening before all their eyes.

Three thousand people fighting fifty thousand.

It wasn't a stalemate, but a crushing defeat; how could it not be shocking!

Time flowed by in this great battle, with the Imperial Palace as the battlefield.

One hour, two hours... even other Imperial Guards commanders and ministers rushed over.

However, these newly arrived Imperial Guards commanders and officials were all in a state of observation.

For now, the current battle, for the assembled ministers, was completely unclear as to which side was actually in the right!

Because Emperor Third Prince Sheng Tianlong was dead, they were now a Dragon without a head!

After more than two hours of slaughter, people only saw the Imperial Guards falling one by one.

In this slaughter-like display, the white-robed soldiers and their white steeds were all stained with blood, like Asuras on the battlefield!

The Imperial Guards who had not yet joined the battle, seeing the meat grinder-like situation ahead, completely lost their morale.

Many Imperial Guards even harbored thoughts of retreating... "Li Yuanyuan has betrayed the country and intends to slaughter many ministers of the court. Do you Imperial Guards still stubbornly insist on helping him oppose the court?!"

Sheng Changge's voice suddenly resounded throughout the area outside Yuanlong Hall.

This voice...

caused the Imperial Guard unit, whose morale was already at its lowest point, to pause and stop their charge.

Many Imperial Guards looked at each other; most of them were actually unclear about the current situation.

Because they only followed military orders.

Seeing these Imperial Guards stop their advance because of Sheng Changge's words, a trace of Evil Qi flashed in Li Yuanyuan's eyes: "What are you hesitating for?!"

"Sheng Changge, along with a group of ministers, has rebelled and already conspired to murder the Emperor!"

These firm and powerful words reignited the anger of the low-morale Imperial Guards.

Yes, in the Imperial Palace, in front of so many of them, the Emperor was murdered.

Such an act, if they did not capture the culprit, how could they be worthy of the Imperial Guard armor they wore?

But just as the Imperial Guard unit was about to once again confront the White Horse Righteous Cavalry,

Sheng Changge's words resurfaced.

"The Emperor? I and many ministers in the court all witnessed that Third Prince Sheng Tianlong is not of royal blood at all!"

"How can someone without royal blood be worthy of the throne?!"

These words made the Imperial Guards stop.

They looked at Li Yuanyuan, then at Sheng Changge inside the hall.

The Imperial Guards hesitated, they were confused, they doubted themselves.

This was Sheng Changge's goal.

Having witnessed the strength of the White Horse Righteous Cavalry, these Imperial Guards fundamentally did not want to fight anymore; stubbornly joining the battle was suicide for them!

Sheng Changge's words were precisely giving them a way out.

Therefore, between Sheng Changge's and Li Yuanyuan's words, the Imperial Guards would inevitably be more inclined to believe Sheng Changge.

Of course, all of this was built upon the deterrent power of the White Horse Righteous Cavalry!

The Imperial Guards were broken; they had no possibility of continuing the fight.

Compared to combat power, morale was the most important thing.

The Imperial Guards at present had clearly lost this most important thing!

Li Yuanyuan sighed deeply, his gaze revealing a chilling intensity: "Sheng Changge, I will definitely bring my three hundred thousand elite Army from the frontier to take your head!"

Leaving behind these words filled with intense unwillingness,

Li Yuanyuan turned his horse and rode away.

But, at this very moment,

"Traitor, don't run!"

From among the White Horse Righteous Cavalry, a young white-robed general, riding a white horse, shot out like an arrow from a bowstring, chasing directly after Li Yuanyuan!

Watching the young white-robed general charge out of the formation,

Sheng Changge in the great hall exclaimed: "This must be the one among the White Horse Righteous Cavalry who obtained the Zhao Zilong template."

Sheng Changge didn't know Zhao Zilong personally, but that didn't prevent him from learning about him from the System.

Therefore,

seeing the young white-robed general chase after him, Sheng Changge didn't feel much worry.

According to the System, Zhao Zilong was infinitely more powerful than Li Yuanyuan!