Contrary to Chang Yuchun's prediction, Chen Longxiang did not lead his troops to abandon the capital and instead went to the primitive forests from Afeihu Ridge to Imjin River in Goguryeo to wage guerrilla warfare against the imperial army that came to quell the rebellion.
In fact, from the very beginning of his rebellion, Chen Longxiang never intended to back down.
With his unparalleled bravery and strength, how could he possibly retreat or annihilate the enemy's sharp edge?
If he wanted to, he could even single-handedly cut through the entire 500,000-strong imperial army that came to quell the rebellion.
Therefore, Chen Longxiang not only did not run away, but he was prepared to take everyone with him to be buried with his deceased concubine Su Wan'er and their unborn child.
At this time, the once vast Goguryeo capital had long since been transformed into a living hell.
From the royal palace to the main streets and alleys of the city, and up and down the city gate towers, the scene was already one of carnage and despair.
Apart from the city guards who opened the city gates to escape in advance, and the civilians who hid in their homes and stayed indoors, everyone else who was encountered by Chen Longxiang on his inevitable route, whether human or livestock, became the victims of Chen Longxiang's hammer.
Today, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe Chen Longxiang as someone who single-handedly slaughtered an entire city.
His golden armor was stained with the blood of countless people, so much so that the once bright and dazzling armor had become dull.
The pair of golden hammers in his hands, which had slaughtered countless innocent lives, seemed to transform into two ferocious dragons with gaping maws, mercilessly devouring everything in their path.
At this moment, Chen Longxiang, with his disheveled hair, no longer resembled a "human" at all. He was a demon from the depths of hell, exuding a cruel and bloodthirsty aura.
His heart died completely the moment his beloved concubine, Su Wan'er, died from postpartum hemorrhage.
What remains is nothing more than a mindless, emotionless killing machine.
His only thought was to kill everyone and die with his wife and children.
"General, it is Chen Longxiang, the commander-in-chief of the rebel army!"
At this moment, among the soldiers of the vanguard battalion who had just arrived at the Goguryeo capital, a commander of a thousand men hurriedly said to the vanguard general, Marquis Anxi Lan Yu, "General, my reconnaissance has revealed that the Goguryeo capital is littered with corpses lying haphazardly."
"And on those city walls, there are corpses of the rebel soldiers who were defending the city!"
By the end of the report, even the commander's voice trembled: "General, this, this rebel commander Chen Longxiang, actually slaughtered all the soldiers, civilians, and people in the city without mercy!"
hiss--
Upon hearing this, even Lan Yu, the vanguard general who prided himself on being a fierce warrior who had fought his way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, couldn't help but gasp in shock.
Looking at Chen Longxiang, who stood alone on horseback thousands of paces away outside Pyongyang, a hint of fear involuntarily crept into his eyes.
In fact, even without his subordinates reporting to him, Lan Yu had already sensed something was wrong before arriving in the Goguryeo capital.
On one hand, there was the panic and fear shown by the rebel soldiers and innocent civilians who were fleeing in all directions, as if there was some terrifying existence in the royal city that made people afraid.
On the other hand, there were the corpses of the soldiers who died tragically on the battlements of the royal city walls, and the corpses lying haphazardly in the streets and alleys of the city that could be seen through the wide city gate.
A terrifying thought suddenly flashed into Lan Yu's mind—this, this rebel commander Chen Longxiang, actually took the initiative to slaughter all the rebel soldiers and innocent civilians defending the city before the imperial army arrived at the city gates.
He single-handedly slaughtered an entire city!
At this moment, Lan Yu no longer had the mind to ponder why the rebel commander Chen Longxiang would do such a thing. What he was worried about was whether the few thousand vanguard soldiers under his command could stop the mad Chen Longxiang!
Boom! Boom!
Suddenly, a series of muffled claps of thunder resounded in the sky once more.
Chen Longxiang, who stood proudly outside the city, also lifted the long hair covering his face amidst the rolling thunder. His cold, empty gaze stared straight at Marquis Anxi Lan Yu in front of him and the thousands of vanguard soldiers behind him.
Chen Longxiang remained expressionless, repeating only one sentence: "You will all die—"
drive--
The next moment, he suddenly slammed his fist into the horse's belly, and the warhorse, in pain, immediately reared up and charged straight towards the vanguard camp where Lan Yu was, like a gust of wind.
Clang, clang, clang!
The man and his horse, cheered on by the rolling thunder, actually possessed the imposing presence of a vast army.
As Chen Longxiang moved with the sound of thunder, Anxi Marquis Lan Yu's heart began to pound wildly. An inexplicable sense of tension and pressure instantly swept over Lan Yu's entire body.
This feeling was something that the fierce general Lan Yu had never experienced before;
Back then, when Lan Yu was fighting alone in the Uyghur Princess City, even when he had to tie himself to a flagpole to continue commanding the battle and was in danger of dying on the battlefield at any moment, Lan Yu never felt this kind of deadly tension and pressure.
The one who brought all this to light was Chen Longxiang, the rebel commander who was only one man and one horse.
"Archers, prepare—"
Lan Yu dared not underestimate the enemy and immediately ordered: "Vanguard cavalry, prepare to follow me into battle!"
"kill--"
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!
A moment later, when Chen Longxiang, alone on horseback, was less than two hundred paces away from the vanguard camp, Lan Yu decisively gave the order to fire arrows.
In an instant, arrows rained down.
Despite the oncoming rain of arrows, Chen Longxiang, galloping wildly on his horse, didn't even blink. He continued to charge forward with fierce eyes, undeterred by any obstacle.
The arrows fired by the vanguard archers seemed to fear Chen Longxiang's powerful aura and dared not approach him. However, Chen Longxiang's warhorse was hit by a lot of arrows.
However, they were all deflected by the heavy armor covering the warhorses, and were not harmed in the slightest.
"Vanguard cavalry, charge!"
Finally, Lan Yu no longer hesitated and personally led his more than a thousand elite cavalrymen straight towards Chen Longxiang, the rebel general who was alone on horseback.
boom--
As expected and logically, the man and his horse collided with the thousands of elite cavalry of the vanguard battalion during their high-speed charge.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Longxiang charged into the encirclement alone, like a dragon breaking free of its chains. He moved through Lan Yu's cavalry formation as if there were no people there, wielding a golden hammer in one hand and charging around, smashing it down with force.
Each swing of the golden hammer was accompanied by a scream and a corpse leaping high into the air.
Even the fierce general Lan Yu was not spared. With a single blow from Chen Longxiang's hammer, he was sent flying high into the air, his vision spinning and jumping around.
The last thought in his mind was: "The power that the Four Symbols cannot match is indeed well-deserved!"
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