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

"Son of a bitch!"

"They really are government soldiers!"

"Let go of my brother!" Lu Congjun roared.

"Back off! Back off!" Guo Chao and the others roared, standing back to back in defensive stance.

One side was shouting for the release of the prisoners, while the other was shouting for retreat. The noise was immense and chaotic, and a single misstep could have resulted in a chaotic brawl.

"You little brat, you dare cause trouble here? Don't you know how many eyes Lord Ma has?" Lu Xiangdong threatened fiercely, his anger burning.

"Shut up!"

Li Yuanchang kicked him in the knee.

boom!

"Ah!" Lu Xiangdong screamed and fell to his knees.

This enraged the Lu family members, who erupted in shouts and curses.

Li Yuanchang grabbed his hair with one hand and held a knife horizontally in the other.

"Who wants to come up?"

"Who wants to come up?!"

He roared twice in succession, deafeningly loud, and the blade had already drawn a bloody gash on Lu Xiangdong's neck.

Lu Congjun was furious, but dared not make any rash moves.

"Li San, don't do anything rash!"

"Release my older brother, and I'll let you go."

Li Yuanchang sneered, "If you can believe such words, pigs can fly."

"Don't try that with me. Tell your men to clear a path and get the horses ready, or we'll collect his corpse!"

Lu Congjun's eyes widened in anger, and he couldn't resist bringing down his knife.

Seeing that the other party remained unmoved and refused to give way, Li Yuanchang, a man of few words and ruthless nature, swiftly brought down his knife.

Stab it!

"Ah!!" Lu Xiangdong covered his ears and let out a heart-wrenching scream.

His entire right ear was cut off, and it was bloody.

"Son of a bitch!!"

The entire Lu clan was furious.

"To give way or not to give way?!" Li Yuanchang shouted, showing no fear in the face of the increasing number of Lu clan members surging forward, using seven people to counterbalance the opposing family's force of over a thousand.

At this point, Lu Xiangdong was the first to break down, crying out in agony, "Make way! Make way for them!"

Lu Congjun gritted his teeth, veins bulging, but he had no choice but to order, "Make way!"

"Second Master!"

"Make way!" Lu Congjun shouted again.

The Lu clan members reluctantly made way for them.

"Guo Chao!"

Li Yuanchang mentioned Lu Xiangdong.

Guo Chao and the others immediately understood, covered for each other, and remained vigilant of their surroundings before retreating step by step.

The short distance of 100 meters felt like an eternity.

Both sides are on high alert.

Li Yuanchang dragged the man backward, estimating that it would be some time before the other reinforcements from the inner palace arrived, and Lu Xiangdong was their only trump card.

This Lu family stone village is practically a "tazhai village," meaning everyone has a share in it, and they can't possibly leave.

In this near-suffocating standoff, Li Yuanchang was getting closer and closer to the village entrance, but the road was also getting narrower and narrower.

Not only were both sides crowded with people, but there were also courtyard walls blocking the way.

"Second Master, we can't let them leave!"

"This concerns the entire clan, you must make a decision quickly!" someone urged anxiously in Lu Congjun's ear.

Lu Congjun certainly knew what would happen to the entire village if Li Yuanchang and the others took the message back.

With a fierce glint in his eyes, he glanced at several of his trusted confidants around him before suddenly launching his attack!

"Your Highness, be careful!"

Guo Chao exclaimed in surprise, trying to stop them, but it was too late.

Li Yuanchang didn't expect Lu Congjun to actually dare to make a move. Since there was nowhere to hide in the narrow terrain, he could only use Lu Xiangdong as a shield.

puff! !

A splash of scalding blood landed on the wall.

Lu Xiangdong clutched his neck tightly with both hands, blood oozing from it, his eyes wide with disbelief as he stared at the figure before him.

Lu Congjun was also stunned for a moment, not expecting to accidentally kill his own elder brother.

"Big brother!"

"Boss!!"

Lu Congjun flew into a rage, his eyes bloodshot: "Bastards, kill them! Avenge our brother!"

"Kill them!"

The members of the Lu family in Shizhuang went completely berserk, and the situation spiraled out of control.

Li Yuanchang kicked Lu Xiangdong's corpse away, buying himself a moment. Then he took out his waist token and shouted from a high place.

"With the King of Han here, who dares to act recklessly?!"

The sound, like a booming bell, reached everyone's ears.

The weight of the title "King of Han" was far beyond what they could challenge. The hundreds of people froze, stunned, staring intently at the waist token.

"Anyone who dares to lay a hand on this is committing treason! Their entire family will be exterminated, and they will not be spared lightly!"

"Kneel down!!"

Li Yuanchang roared, and Wang Wei rolled on.

The members of the Lu clan all looked at Lu Congjun, the second master of the household.

Lu Congjun's face turned pale and then red, filled with regret, fear, resentment, and struggle...

Finally, a hint of madness suddenly appeared in his shifting eyes.

Since things have come to this point, death is inevitable either way. Leaving the Prince of Han alive and blocking the news might offer a glimmer of hope.

At least, that's what he naively thought.

He pointed the knife at it: "Fake!"

"That's fake!"

"If the news leaks, the Lu family's business in the Stone Manor will cease to exist, and the entire clan will be executed. Kill them, and everything will be fine!"

"Kill them all!!"

As soon as he roared, the family members of the Lu family estate, who had strong family ties and didn't know the weight of the prince, all went berserk.

"Kill them!"

boom!

Boom!

A hand-to-hand battle erupted in the narrow passage.

Guo Chao and five others fought back fiercely, slashing and drawing blood everywhere.

"These lunatics!" Li Yuanchang cursed angrily. He had just revealed his status, and they still dared to make a move. They were truly the most unruly of the unruly.

"Your Highness, let's go!"

Guo Chao roared, displaying extreme bravery. After all, he came from the border army, and dealing with these private retainers was nothing short of overwhelming.

But one person's strength is ultimately limited. The enemy has already mobilized hundreds of people, and the entire village wants them dead.

Instead of stepping on their shoulders to leave alone, Li Yuanchang, in a moment of desperation, came up with a clever idea.

"Hold on!!"

After he finished speaking, he took a sprint and crashed into the wall with a bang.

Instantly, sand and dust fell, but the wall remained unmoved.

Li Yuanchang did not give up. He kept ramming against the wall in the limited space. The wall was not thick, only about half a palm thick.

Although it was made of bricks, stones, and rammed earth, after decades of wind and rain, it has been mostly corroded and cannot compare with the reinforced concrete of later generations.

After being hit more than a dozen times, cracks have appeared in the wall.

But even though they were only inches apart, the space was compressed once again.

Even in street fighting, the six men were increasingly overwhelmed by the vicious family retainers, who numbered in the hundreds, in a relentless battle.

Three guards were subsequently wounded.

Li Yuanchang was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, thinking to himself, "I'm a dragon crossing the river, how could I drown in a ditch?"

If he were to die here, it would become the biggest joke in the Tang Dynasty—a prince killed by a bunch of unruly commoners.

"ah!!"

He roared and, with all his might, rammed into the ground.

boom! !