In my dream of returning to the Tang Dynasty, I snatched Wu Zetian from my lap.

At the same time, the guards of the Prince of Han's mansion, as well as Cheng Chuliang and his group, had completely closed in and were standing guard in a surrounding formation.

A bead of sweat dripped from the man's nose.

With his head down and the light dim, Li Yuanchang couldn't see the other person's face clearly for a moment.

The commotion nearby seemed completely irrelevant here, and the two sides fell into a three-breath silence.

In that moment of silence, Li Yuanchang had already placed one hand on the blade.

"Lift your head up!"

He gave the order to prepare for battle almost in a commanding tone, while simultaneously using his eyes.

Guo Chao, Cheng Chuliang, and others were his trusted confidants who had followed him for a long time, and their eyes now revealed sharpness.

Under pressure, the man finally looked up and revealed a smile, revealing a Hu (non-Han) face!

"Greetings, Your Excellency."

Li Yuanchang squinted. There were quite a few non-Han generals within the Tang Dynasty, which didn't necessarily mean anything, but he had a gut feeling about it.

"You don't recognize me?"

"Your Majesty, we are newly transferred, so..."

"Everyone lie down on the ground." Li Yuanchang said directly. It didn't matter if they didn't know him, but in the Tang Dynasty, no one would call themselves a king. They were usually called the King of Han, or Your Highness.

These words further dampened the atmosphere, bringing it to near freezing point.

The other person paused again, fell silent again, and kept making eye contact with each other.

Without considering the consequences, Li Yuanchang acted first: "Take him down!"

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Cheng Chuliang and his men pounced on them like human tigers and leopards.

This startled Li Ke greatly. He attacked right after only asking a few questions? What if he guessed wrong? How would he handle the situation?

These are imperial guards.

Disturbing the Emperor's banquet and attacking the Imperial Guards could, to put it bluntly, lead to being labeled a traitor!

next second.

"Fight them!!" the leader suddenly roared, revealing his ferocity. Moreover, he spoke not in Chinese, but in standard Turkic.

In an instant, all thirty-odd people looked up, revealing their true faces—all of them were of Central Asian descent with brown eyes.

"kill!"

They roared and fought fiercely with Li Yuanchang's men.

boom!

Swords clashed, sparks flew.

This quickly attracted the attention of the Imperial Guards nearby, who were initially stunned to see their own men fighting: "What's going on?"

"Quick, they're assassins!"

"They are the assassins!!" shouted the Hu people, trying to confuse the situation.

This caused the Imperial Guards nearby to hesitate to make any move immediately.

Furthermore, because the main camp was too noisy, the small-scale conflict in this corner did not spread and did not attract more troops to come over immediately.

On the contrary, the Hu people had a lot of helpers appearing from all directions, all of them in Tang army uniforms, totaling more than a hundred people.

In the blink of an eye, Li Yuanchang and his group were surrounded.

Moreover, an extremely difficult situation broke out: the two sides fought each other in a chaotic melee, making it impossible to distinguish whether the other side was an enemy or not, and the guards could only passively fight back.

Li Yuanchang was furious. He kicked one of the men away and shouted from a high place.

"I am Li Yuanchang, Minister of War. All are under my command!"

"Those of Hu (non-Han) descent, drop your weapons and retreat, or you will be executed!"

"Notify the main camp, there are assassins!!"

A tremendous sound echoed, tearing a corner of the night apart.

Although the banquet guests couldn't hear it, the nearby Imperial Guards all heard it. With Li Yuanchang's shout, they no longer hesitated and joined the battle.

With the participation of a large number of imperial guards, the situation was instantly reversed, and the Hu people were completely surrounded.

Some of the Imperial Guards with non-Han ancestry followed orders, discarding their swords and retreating, thus avoiding confusion between friend and foe.

Li Yuanchang's exceptional reaction speed allowed him to quickly regain control of the situation.

boom!

The two sides fought fiercely, and blood splattered everywhere.

One after another, the Hu people were exposed and crushed by the combined forces of the two elite troops, just one step away from Li Shimin.

Enraged by this, the Hu assassins, realizing their attack was hopeless, turned their attention from the Heavenly Khan to the King of the Tang Dynasty.

"Kill him!"

"He is the King of the Tang Dynasty!!"

"kill!!"

At least twenty or thirty people recklessly swung their knives at him, injuring several guards and even knocking Yuchi Baoqi over.

The opponent was fighting recklessly, going straight for the kill, with no intention of surviving.

Li Yuanchang kicked over a row of weapon racks, stopping the enemy in his tracks, and then leaped up, splitting Mount Hua in two with his might.

They brought the speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness honed on the battlefield to their fullest potential.

puff! !

A head the size of a watermelon flew more than ten meters away.

"what!"

A Turk leaped and grabbed Li Yuanchang around the waist, while the others quickly finished him off with their blows.

Crack!

Tang swords clashed, sparks flying everywhere.

The guards rushed forward and blocked the attack, but Li Yuanchang was grabbed around the waist by the Turk and shoved directly into the manger.

"Go to hell!"

Only then did Li Yuanchang realize that the person pressing down on him was the leader of the Turks from earlier, whose hooked nose was very conspicuous.

He drew his sword and stabbed.

boom!

Li Yuanchang grabbed his wrist with his left hand and chopped out with his right.

The opponent was also a master of fighting and blocked Li Yuanchang's wrist as well.

The two fought fiercely, their veins bulging.

boom!

Li Yuanchang's head suddenly slammed into it.

"Ah!" The Hu man screamed in agony, his arm momentarily losing its strength as Li Yuanchang subdued him, the knife almost pointing at his neck.

Suddenly, a flash of cold light streaked across the sky—it was a knife that slashed at Li Yuanchang's side without warning.

He had no way to dodge and could only try to avoid vital areas like the head.

A hair's breadth away.

"Seventh Uncle, watch out!"

Li Ke suddenly appeared out of nowhere, using his arm to block a knife for Li Yuanchang, and at the same time tackled the Turkic assassin.

"King Wu!" Li Yuanchang roared, for he saw blood.

He angrily rammed into the Hu chieftain, this time smashing his hooked nose, and then kicked him over. After escaping, he rushed towards Li Ke.

He finished off his opponent with a single blow.

"How are you?"

Li Ke was in so much pain that he was covered in cold sweat, his entire arm was stained red with blood, and the cut was very long.

Li Yuanchang was furious.

"Don't move!"

"..."

Meanwhile, at the main camp, Li Shimin was still enjoying a drink with many trusted confidants.

General Gu Fei, holding his Tang sword horizontally, rushed to him and whispered something with a serious expression.

Li Shimin's eyes widened in shock, and he instantly sobered up.

boom!

He slammed his fist on the table and stood up: "Quickly send reinforcements to the King of Han and the King of Wu!"

"yes!!"

At this moment, Cheng Yaojin and the others sobered up.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong?"

Li Shimin's face was grim and angry: "There was an assassin attack, but they were intercepted outside by the Prince of Han and others!"

"Let's go, I want to see who has the guts!"

He angrily rebuked, then strode forward with imposing manner.

Upon hearing this, the entire banquet erupted in uproar. An assassin?!

Immediately afterwards, a series of rapid footsteps sounded as a large number of imperial guards began to pour into the scene, and soldiers from various parts of the hunting grounds also came to reinforce the area.

The scene was engulfed in flames, and the army was packed in layers upon layers.