Chapter 958

The night fell low, and the breeze of the grassland with the cold and penetrating temperature was like a fine knife on the face.

The atmosphere tonight was particularly dignified, and almost every guard on patrol tightened his face.

At three o'clock, the imperial court guard changed shifts again. This time, all the fresh faces came up.

The four princes were dressed in armor and hung a big knife around their waist.

His appearance followed the king of Northern Xinjiang. When he dressed up like this, he looked majestic, like a lion patrolling the territory.

"Everything is arranged?" He asked his confidant again, "what time is it now?"

My confidant said, "it's just midnight, and there's still a quarter of an hour before the time agreed by your highness nine."

"A quarter of an hour?"

The fourth Prince felt that every second was like a year. Seeing that his long cherished wish was coming true, he couldn't wait for half an hour.

"Check everywhere again and make sure everything is safe."

He paced back and forth, as if he remembered something, and called back the subordinate who had just turned around, "where's Mr. Sun?"

At such an important moment, he hopes that someone will witness it with him. If Sun Wen is here, he can feel at ease.

The counselor who played with the political situation in Northern Xinjiang dumped the wise man in Northern Xinjiang for a few blocks in the hearts of the four princes.

His confidant said, "Mr. Sun claims to be old and can't see blood. He has gone back."

After hearing this, the fourth prince took a swipe at the corners of his mouth and couldn't help taking Sun Wen.

He forgot that Sun Wen was a weak scholar who could not lift his hand and shoulder.

If a bloody battle breaks out later, he will stay here as a scholar. No one can guarantee his safety. It's better not to come.

"Let him go."

Anyway, the overall situation has been decided. Whether Sun Wen is here or not has little impact.

The fourth prince was suspicious. He couldn't help but go to the king's tent and was relieved to see the king of Northern Xinjiang still on his bed.

Time passed by minute by minute. Finally, it was the appointed time. The four princes' heart beat like a drum and became more and more nervous.

However——

Why no one?

Several confidants reported one after another that all the checkpoints were their own. They didn't see Lao Jiu at all. What's the matter?

"... did this old nine have too much fun with his wife to delay his time?"

The fourth Prince whispered privately and dared not relax. He ordered his people to guard all checkpoints and not take it lightly.

After the agreed time, people who were originally highly nervous slowly felt depressed.

The fourth Prince's fist was tight and loose, loose and tight, and finally couldn't help but want to get up.

Before he took two steps, he heard the sound of killing in his ear, and his eyes widened with joy.

However, the smile on his face had not faded, and dozens of subordinates rushed in covered with blood. The leader was his confidant.

"Your Highness four - we've been tricked - let's go!"

His confidant's words made the four princes feel a cluttering and ominous premonition.

"Wait -- what do you mean?" The fourth Prince subconsciously held his confidant. The special rattan armor on the other side was cut out of a long wound by a sharp blade. The skin and flesh turned outward, and the blood flowed outward. He was excited and said, "what's the meaning of 'we've got a plan' -"

The confidant raised his hand and tied the waist with a cloth strip to stop the wound. The guard rushed in from the outside firmly protected the four princes.

When the subordinates were about to explain, the cry of killing was getting closer and closer. The fourth prince saw that the private soldiers he carefully raised were retreating day by day.

He stepped back and dropped several bodies.

The enemy outside was so fierce that the four princes could only take people and fight and retreat, forcing them near the king's tent.

The confidant of the fourth Prince is a clank man in Northern Xinjiang. His face has been stained with blood, his eyes are slightly red and almost want to cry.

"Your Highness, there is no coercion at all - we have been calculated -"

Even a fool can see something wrong, let alone the fourth Prince is not a fool at all.

"There is no forced Palace - if there is no forced Palace -"

If Lao Jiu didn't force the palace, wouldn't he use his power to open the king's account and guard, and change his own behavior——

After a fierce battle, more than a thousand elite princes lost 80%, and the rest were disabled and defeated.

Seeing that they were about to be forced into the king's tent, suddenly hundreds of swordsmen and axes rushed out of the king's tent and stopped them with the pursuers.

The fourth Prince turned his mind quickly and guessed something vaguely. His back teeth creaked with hate.

He was caught in Lao Jiu's plot!

Watching the people around him die one after another, the enemy is getting more and more, getting closer and closer, and the four princes are unable to return to heaven.

"Fourth brother, I didn't expect you to make such a crazy move to force the palace to kill your father!"

The cries of killing gradually subsided, and the whole place was covered with corpses and broken limbs. The blood made the land muddy, and the smell of blood in the air could not be dispersed. The four princes stared in a certain direction. The crowd surrounding them separated on both sides and came a familiar figure.

"You are the one who killed your father!"

The fourth Prince clenched his back teeth angrily, and was so angry that he wanted to crack his eyes.

"Fourth brother, now it's all like this. Do you still want to open your eyes and tell lies?"

The ninth Prince smiled contemptuously. One by one, the important officials in the court stood behind him and looked at the fourth prince with complex eyes.

Some people are disappointed, some are angry, some are indifferent, some are shocked... But no one trusts him.

"You change the guards near your father's tent, secretly change your own people, and you wear armor and a knife. Dare you say you're not rebellious?" The ninth Prince sneered, "brother Wang received the news early in the morning. At first, he didn't believe it. Unexpectedly, the fourth brother actually did so. So many people saw it with their own eyes. What else would the fourth brother have to argue? If brother Wang hadn't come early, the fourth brother would have forced his father to make you a prince?"

The fourth prince was cold all over.

The ninth prince said again, "if the fourth brother doesn't have any opposition, why do people who see the king's brother kill them?"

The fourth prince said stubbornly, "Gu received the news that you want to kill your father in the palace, so he specially arranged people to intercept it in advance..."

The ninth Prince looked up to the sky and laughed with tears. Other important officials in Northern Xinjiang couldn't bear to look straight at him.

They didn't know whether the ninth prince had a rebellion, but they saw the evidence that the fourth Prince wanted to force the palace to kill his father.

Now he has been caught. Instead of repenting, he has found such a bad excuse to sophistry.

The ninth Prince sneered, "fourth brother, you can't slander your brother. You'd better put it in front of your father!"

The fourth prince was like falling into an ice cellar. He looked at the ninth prince with a bit of panic, as if he didn't know his brother.

"Fourth brother -"

The ninth prince went to the fourth prince. The others had been subdued, and the fourth prince was bound into zongzi.

"Bah!" The fourth Prince spit in his face.

"Fourth brother - don't be angry." The ninth Prince raised his hand to wipe off his saliva in a good temper, pasted it on the fourth Prince's face intact, deformed his facial features, squeezed each other's chin with the other hand, sneered and said, "do you know how you lost?"

The fourth Prince suddenly opened his eyes.

"Because, who let the fourth brother treat his younger brother's confidant as his own staff."

Sun Wen?

"Is Sun Wen your man?"

"Otherwise? My good fourth brother, thank you for your hard work to help me remove so many obstacles."