Chapter 523

"No, your majesty, the palace is on fire!" the guard who opened the road in front ran back with a disheartened face and a look of panic. "The back hall has been burned and can't go in!"

Nie Hong looked at the smoke billowing palace and frowned tightly.

At this time, the minister and their family members finally calmed down, with a look of fear on their faces.

"Emperor, what should we do now?" the commander was a little uncertain. "If we send someone to have a head-on conflict with the assassin, we won't have enough escorts, but if they let them shoot hidden arrows, our people will be injured sooner or later..."

As soon as the voice fell, a young bodyguard in front got an arrow on his shoulder. He stepped back two steps with a painful look.

Nie Hong suddenly covered Wen Xiao's eyes for fear that she would see the blood on the guard's shoulder.

"There is a divine Archer among the assassins..." the commander's deputy looked dignified and said, "several bodyguards were hit by an arrow on the shoulder with a knife, so they almost lost their combat effectiveness..."

"Let the wounded retreat and dress up quickly," the commander said, gritting his teeth as he saw several arrows coming again. "Cheer up! You must not be hurt by just a few arrows!"

Several people waved their swords and chopped the arrows to the ground.

But when all their attention was on the arrow, the disheveled bodyguard had slowly approached the center of the protection circle.

On one side were several bodyguards with injured arms. Now the injured hand hung weakly, and the other hand held a sword and looked around with vigilance.

The disheartened bodyguard slowly squeezed behind Nie Hong through the gap of several people's retreat.

"Your Majesty, be careful!" he suddenly shouted to the right front. He saw that everyone's eyes were subconsciously looking at the direction he pointed to. A ferocious light flashed in his eyes. While staggering close to Nie Hong, he took out a short blade and stabbed him in the back of Nie Hong's heart!

"Your Majesty -" seeing the cold light of the short blade, the commander couldn't help yelling, but he was two bodies away from the assassin dressed as a bodyguard, and there was no time to stop all this.

But when he was almost desperate, he saw the imperial concubine in the emperor's arms suddenly break away from the man's arms and hit the sharp blade!

In the confusion, Nie Hong only felt that his arms were empty. He subconsciously turned around. The next second, he saw the girl facing himself in front. Behind her, there was a ferocious bodyguard who had just retracted his hand.

Nie Hong caught the girl who fell forward, and his brain was blank.

The bodyguards surrounded the assassin.

The assassin wanted to bite his tongue and kill himself, but he was led by the imperial Lin army to remove his chin.

The cold arrow in the distance symbolically disappeared after a few times, and the commander shouted to send someone to chase it.

Li Derong leaned over.

The imperial doctor also stumbled and rushed over.

Nie Hong only felt that his soul was separated from his body and looked down at himself stunned on the ground.

Is the fool holding Wen Xiao himself?

Is that the person with blood stained hands and trembling speechless?

That stupid person who can't even protect his own woman is himself?!

The girl nestled in his arms and was dying. The warm liquid kept flowing down from the wound. The imperial doctors hurriedly took gold sore medicine, wrapped bandages and wiped the wound on the imperial concubine's back. They could stop the blood. They heard the man's calm voice without a trace of emotion.

"If you can't save her, you don't want to live."