Chapter 437 [Backstab]
Sheng Wei suddenly opened his eyes and sat up in shock.
There was only a lantern in the tent, emitting a faint light, and dense crowds of people could be seen outside the tent.
He wiped the sweat from his head.
Five hundred people surrounded him and protected him tightly. With so many people around, how could he still be afraid of ghosts?
You are really scaring yourself.
Sheng Wei got up, put on his shoes, got out of bed, and prepared to go out of the tent to urinate.
As soon as he opened the tent, the guards standing densely outside turned back to look at him. Each of their eyes was dark, and a strange feeling came over him.
He vaguely heard the guards who were farther away from him whispering, "Is what those people outside saying true?"
"I don't know. I heard someone has already verified it."
"I really heard it just now."
"Me too."
......
These guards who were talking noticed that Sheng Wei came out of the tent, but did not immediately fall silent as usual, but continued to chat casually.
Sheng Wei felt that the way these guards looked at him seemed to have changed.
He casually grabbed a deputy general beside him and asked: "What did you just hear?"
"Did you hear my father's voice?"
The deputy general did not dare to hide it, "We heard it, we heard the late emperor's voice, it seemed to be saying..."
Sheng Wei tightened his grip a bit more: "What did you say?"
The deputy general looked terrified: "He said he came to see you."
Sheng Wei was shocked. This wasn't a dream, it was real. He had never imagined that a fifty-year-old man, helpless and forced to jump into the sea, could actually survive.
Where does he get the troops to compete with me?
Countless questions flashed through my mind.
The more Sheng Wei thought about it, the angrier he became. He was actually scared to the point of breaking out in a sweat by the voice of an old man.
A captain, encouraged by those around him, bravely asked, "Your Highness, will reinforcements arrive? Can supplies still be delivered?"
This question made Sheng Wei even more annoyed. The reinforcements did not arrive at the agreed time, and no one came to report the news.
Could it be that my father’s men have blocked their reinforcements?
How is this possible?
Just when Sheng Wei's thoughts were in a mess, something wrapped in cloth fell from the sky and rolled to the ground, scaring everyone.
A guard bravely lifted the outer cloth, revealing a human head.
Everyone gasped!
Someone recognized him: "This, this is General Luo, the leader of the reinforcements!"
"General Luo, despite his great martial arts skills, was beheaded. I'm afraid we have no hope..."
Sheng Wei's eyes widened when he heard this. "Who said that?! We have so many people here, and you're already saying bad things?"
The soldier who was speaking saw that the eldest prince, who was always tyrannical, was angry. Not only did he not beg for mercy immediately, but he looked at him with a questioning look.
For the first time, Sheng Wei felt his authority was being challenged. "Come here! Drag this bastard who's demoralizing the army down and whip him!"
After he gave the order, no one moved.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from a distance: "The people who went to the west of the rain forest to surrender are back!"
"The emperor's words about not killing those who surrender but giving them food are true!"
"Come and take it! This is the meat bun that His Majesty sent over. It's still warm!"
The guards who were originally in a stalemate with the eldest prince immediately became agitated and rushed towards the soldier who was distributing buns.
The men handed out meat buns while shouting slogans: "The emperor has said that whoever captures the eldest prince alive will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver and promoted to a higher position!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's eyes turned towards Sheng Wei with fierce expressions, like hungry wolves seeing meat buns.
The high and mighty eldest prince instantly turned from a person in power into the prey of the guards present, and the encirclement sent to protect him also became his cage.
The two lieutenants who had sworn allegiance to Sheng Wei quickly drew their swords and pulled Sheng Wei towards the less crowded area, "Quick! Run, Crown Prince!"
The right deputy general cleared a path for Sheng Wei.
At this time, there were still many soldiers who were hesitating.
As the Left Lieutenant General ran, he tried to win over whoever he could. He shouted, "To those soldiers who participated in the hunt for the emperor, did you really think you could escape? There's still a way out if you follow the Crown Prince! Even if you die, the Crown Prince will treat your families well!"
After he finished speaking, those five hundred people who had personally participated in the hunt for the emperor joined the eldest prince's team one after another. More than fifty people fought bloody battles and temporarily protected Sheng Wei and helped him escape about a hundred meters away.
However, the number of people protecting Sheng Wei along the way was decreasing, and most of them were either killed or seriously injured and fell to the ground.
Sheng Wei fled in a panic, panting, "Didn't we dig a secret passage here to get to the snowfield when we went hunting?"
Deputy General Zuo's eyes flashed: "I remember now! I will take you there right away."
He ran for a while in a panic.
Sheng Wei suddenly stopped.
The deputy generals on both sides looked at Sheng Wei anxiously with puzzled expressions: "Your Highness, the Crown Prince, why don't you run away?"
"I have no strength left. I will carry you on my back."
Sheng Wei's eyes swept across the two men's faces, and a cold sweat broke out on his back. "Is this direction west? Are we running west?"
Could it be that these two people took him away from the pursuers not because they really wanted to protect him, but because if there were fewer people, there would be no one to share the credit with them?
As expected, as soon as he raised the question, the two deputy generals, who were originally anxious, looked at each other, and their expressions instantly became gloomy, and their expressions changed extremely quickly.
The faces of the two people in the dark night made people's backs cold.
Sheng Wei couldn't help but take a few steps back, bent down and pulled out a dagger tied to his calf from his boots.
He said threateningly with a sullen face: "Your wives and children are both in my hands. How dare you do anything to me?"
Deputy General Zuo said with a stern face, "That's why we must capture the eldest prince alive."
Sheng Wei stepped back, his back hitting a wall of people hard.
Sheng Wei swallowed and looked back, and a long-lost face appeared in front of him.
It turned out to be his father Sheng Zhixing who died in the sea!
The left and right deputy generals had not expected Sheng Zhixing to find the eldest prince so quickly, and they immediately knelt before Sheng Zhixing and said, "Your Majesty, long live His Majesty!"
Sheng Wei looked at Sheng Zhixing's wrinkled face, clenched the dagger in his hand, and his brain was working fast. This old man actually appeared in front of him so openly. Isn't he asking to be a hostage?
As soon as this thought came to his mind, he immediately wanted to strangle Sheng Zhixing with his backhand and put the dagger on Sheng Zhixing's neck.
However, the other party saw through his action in advance, and directly tied Sheng Wei's hands behind his back, and kicked the dagger out of Sheng Wei's hand.
This smooth and flowing movement stunned the other three people present. Is this still their old emperor?
"How is this possible?"
Sheng Wei looked at Sheng Zhixing in surprise, trying to confirm whether the person opposite him was his father who was in his fifties.
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