Chapter 1432
Siege, The Origins and Heads of the 4th Prince
Chapter 1432 Siege, The Fourth Prince's Origins and Head
"General Chu, our Imperial Guards will also go out of the city to lend a hand. We entrust the safety of the Prince of Ye to General Chu's care." Seeing that the battle outside the city was at a stalemate, Chief Wei could no longer stay on the city wall. He took his leave with ten Imperial Guards.
That's right, that's all the Imperial Guards. The rest of the Imperial Guards are on duty at Qin Xiaogu, Madam Guan, and the Mushan Weapon Factory.
"Go with peace of mind, but be careful of the plague. Don't be reckless, and return immediately if things look bad!" After all, he was His Majesty's imperial guard, so General Chu gave him serious instructions.
The reason why General Chu and his men knew that the poison sacs carried the source of the plague was not by guesswork, but because Commander Gan and his men released the order arrow when they were killing the enemy.
The black smoke arrow signifies that the enemy is using poison. At this time, what else could the enemy's poison attack be? It must be plague poison.
However, Zhen Ling, Da Feng, Xiao Feng, Gao Dai, and several other commanders, along with Commander Bai, did not refrain from providing support despite the possibility of contracting the plague.
After receiving the military order, they cursed, "Damn General Chu, he finally gave us the order! We were almost driven crazy by his dawdling!"
General Chu, who wasn't at the city gate: "..." You just wait!
"Boys, grab your weapons, get your horses, charge! Kill the enemy and save your comrades!" Commander Zhen shouted. After the horses were released from the barbican, he pulled on the reins, leaped onto his horse, and charged forward.
Commander Ling hurriedly followed: "Commander Zhen, slow down! You're too old and your stamina can't keep up. Let me go first!"
With a whoosh, warhorses galloped out of the barbican. The elite soldiers, like Commander Zhen and Commander Xiao Ling, grabbed the reins, mounted their horses, and charged toward the battlefield without stopping.
That's how powerful they are.
Those who lack this instinct are not qualified to squat at the city gate waiting for orders.
"Damn it, Lao Zhen and Xiao Ling are too impatient. Our supply battalion hasn't even moved yet and they're already charging in. They don't have any long-range weapons to cover them. They're deliberately trying to increase our casualties!" Commander Gao and Commander Dai cursed, hurriedly leading the supply troops to lay tracks and pushing catapults with a clatter, rushing towards the moat.
……
Whoosh whoosh whoosh, boom boom boom boom!
In the final section of the battlefield where the Fourth Prince's barricade camp was located, Jiang Dalang and his elite assassin squad had already approached the Fourth Prince with their sharp weapons and astonishing assassination skills.
It only took a dozen breaths to go from more than 20 meters to the current 10 meters.
Such overwhelming offensive capabilities, like those of a speeding war chariot, even astonished the illustrious Northern King Beiqidemo and Alatona, who was renowned for his swift killing skills and had successfully become the Fourth Prince's bodyguard, so much so that they dared not linger any longer.
"Quickly, stop fighting the Wei soldiers head-on, get the Fourth Prince away... just carry the Fourth Prince away, don't try to pull the horse to the carriage!" Bei Qidemo shouted, abandoning his command of the soldiers to defend against the enemy, and ran towards the Fourth Prince.
After witnessing the strength of Jiang Dalang's Wei army, Alatona quickly leaped several times and turned to run towards the Fourth Prince.
However, it was just as they turned and ran that Lan Hu and Xiao Yi were able to spot them.
Whoosh—whoosh—!
Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble!
The firearms shot out with the wind, and six explosions rang out in succession, completely destroying the area near Beiqidemo and Alatona.
The enemy soldiers within a six-meter radius were all wounded or killed by the sharp weapons, which also created a gap, allowing the Fourth Prince, who was protected by a wall of people, to be exposed to Jiang Dalang and his men.
The ten-man blitzkrieg team, along with Jiang Dalang, sprang into action in the blink of an eye. Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh; boom, boom, boom!
Jiang Dalang then used the lasso with the half-moon dagger attached to it to quickly spin it around, and with a flick of his arm, threw the lasso with the dagger toward the Fourth Prince...
The fourth prince felt a chill run through his body, as if he were frozen in ice. Despite his many skills to escape, he was unable to move at this moment and could only think of Fragrance Courtyard, when he first met this person.
At that time, he looked down on this person and regarded him as a customer of a brothel... He thought that even if this person had never been a virgin, he still had some sharpness and youthful integrity, but it was impossible for him to remain steadfast in his innocence forever.
Once this man has tasted the pleasures of the girls at Fenfang Courtyard, he will, like other men in the region, knowing full well that those girls are innocent and miserable, continue to harm them.
Unexpectedly, the last news he received was that this person, together with that bastard Qin family and the weak official Liang Wei, rescued those girls and even aired their dirty laundry in public, forcing the customers who had been to the brothel to turn themselves in to the authorities!
Upon learning the news, he considered sending spies to kill him, or to destroy the women of Qin Jiang, Xu Qiao, and other families, turning them into girls in the Fragrance Courtyard, so that they could make money, recruit people, and gather intelligence for the God Protector of the Eastern Desert.
But with the Fire Flame Poison nearing its peak and trouble brewing in the mountains, he had no choice but to return to the Eastern Desert ahead of schedule. He was preparing to lead his troops to slaughter the Wei people who had been ravaged by the grain depletion, flatten Taifeng Town, and enslave the families of Qin Jiang and Xu Qiao.
With a whoosh, the long lasso with a sharp mountain knife attached came like lightning, wrapping around the Fourth Prince's neck like a long snake. Hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss, crack!
While the Fourth Prince was still trying to stand up with his badly injured legs to save himself and fight back, with his eyes still open, his head was severed by the spinning half-circle mountain blade!
Still hooked by the serrated inner blade of the knife, and entangled by the long rope, with a pull of the rope from Jiang Dalang's side, his head was retrieved into Jiang Dalang's hand with a snap, and he held it high: "The enemy's fourth prince is dead, retreat! Those who linger will be executed!"
He also shouted in the enemy language that the Fourth Prince had been killed, and Lan Hu, San Jun, Xue Feng and others repeated the shout.
The enemy troops in the Eastern Desert all heard it and were stunned for a moment, ceasing their attack.
By the time they came to their senses, Jiang Dalang and his men had already run nearly ten meters and were getting closer and closer to the tunnel entrance.
"Kill! Kill this bastard from Liangwei! Avenge the Fourth Prince!" shouted the vanguard of the suicide squad. Their vanguard leader had been killed by this bastard from Liangwei. This was a great disgrace to them, an unforgivable crime. They had to chop this Liangwei soldier to pieces to atone for their sins!
However, some soldiers from the Eastern Desert refused to believe it: "Impossible! The Fourth Prince is the leader of the vanguard army, he has been approved by the gods, and he is the prince second only to the First Prince of Divine Power. It is absolutely impossible for him to be so easily killed by Liang Wei!"
"It's fake, Liang Wei is deliberately trying to demoralize our troops!"
"Quickly, go check where the Fourth Prince fell! He must still be alive!"
Honestly, the enemy army, which always felt they had divine protection and power, simply couldn't accept that their master had been killed like that.
In an effort to save face, eighty percent of their troops chose to turn back and see the Fourth Prince.
Even Xiqin Erqin and Beiqi Dekui firmly believed that the Fourth Prince was not dead, but that the royal guards who protected him had died, so they all spurred their horses toward the Fourth Prince.
What they found were three corpses.
One of the headless corpses was that of the Fourth Prince... His red-gold armor was unique to princes. Unless Liang Wei, that bastard, could quickly replace the corpse with the Fourth Prince's red-gold armor after killing someone, then this headless corpse could be fake.
"King of the North!" Bei Qi De Kui rushed towards Bei Qi De Mo, embracing his corpse and roaring, "The bastard Liang Wei killed my King of the North! I, Bei Qi De Kui, and the people of the North will fight Liang Wei to the death!"
His words were very cunning. Because the Fourth Prince was dead, those of them who were close to the Fourth Prince would all be punished. But if they also became the victims, the punishment would be lighter.