I, the prince, only want to be deposed.

Chapter 474 Great News! (Two in One)

This is a mutiny!

Days of oppression, fatigue and "shooting in line" had already brought the psychological pressure of the Hun soldiers to the limit, and almost everyone was filled with resentment.

At this moment, the ruthlessness of the supervisory team became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

As these shouts appeared, they were responded by countless people at once.

Moreover, judging from the current situation, charging into the Han army camp would almost certainly lead to death, but if they turned against the Han army and killed the supervisory team within reach, there would at least be a glimmer of hope.

The desert is huge, the grassland is huge, and the Western Regions are also huge.

Even if they became rebels and really wanted to hide their identities and escape, the Xiongnu Chanyu might not be able to find them. They could just go to a place where no one knew and start a new life.

But if they died under the powerful crossbows of the Han army or under the arrows of the supervisory team, they would have nothing.

"It's all Wu Shilu's fault. He forced us to die!"

"Why didn't he charge into the Han army camp himself? He didn't even show up in front of the Han army camp. He himself was afraid of death, but he wanted us to die!"

"I've heard that he likes to kill. Even the closest people will be killed if they are dissatisfied with him. He has no heart at all!"

"With such a Zuo Xian Wang, what future does the Xiongnu have?"

"The emperor of the Han Dynasty has always treated the surrendered Xiongnu with kindness. If we can capture him or kill him and present him to the Han army, the emperor of the Han Dynasty will definitely reward us handsomely, and perhaps even make us a marquis!"

"..."

Many people had red eyes and were venting their resentment loudly.

However, no one has actually taken action against the supervisory team behind them yet, because they don't want to face the supervisory team's already drawn bows, and some people are just bluffing.

Even so, the commander of the supervisory team still changed his expression and shouted:

"What do you want to do? Are you going to rebel? The supervisory team is fully armed. I want to see who dares!"

at this time.

"call out!"

Someone in the Hun army in front suddenly shot a cold arrow.

When the commander of the supervising team saw the cold light, he immediately tightened the reins and retracted his neck to hide behind the horse's head.

"Sh ...

Accompanied by the warhorse's fierce struggle and cry of pain, the arrow hit the horse's neck right on the horse's neck as it was being pulled up by the supervisory team leader. The warhorse jumped in pain and threw the supervisory team leader off the horse.

next moment.

"Shhhhhhh..."

It wasn't just the commander of the supervising team and his horse who were frightened.

The soldiers of the supervising team also felt the threat of death. They were terrified that the Hun army in front would continue to shoot arrows at them, so they did not dare to hesitate at all and released the bowstrings that were already full.

"what!"

"The supervision team has started killing people, are you going to just sit there and wait to be killed?"

"Kill them and capture Wu Shilu. Our lives are not in his hands!"

"If you don't let us live, then no one will live!"

Amid screams, the Hun army in front suddenly fell into chaos.

At this point, they have no way out.

The supervisory team did not have the Han people's light crossbows. The bows they used were the same. When the supervisory team could shoot at them, they could also shoot arrows back.

So, the Hun army in front immediately began to draw arrows and fight back.

Many people even turned their horses around and quickly formed the Huns' messy charging formation, charging towards the supervisory team behind them.

For a moment, the Xiongnu army, which had been somewhat orderly, was in complete chaos...

This is just what happened to the front army, which had the largest number of people.

In fact, when the supervision team pressed forward and drew their bows and arrows at the Xiongnu soldiers whose san values ​​had almost dropped, similar things happened to the left and right armies.

It was just that a general of the left army, seeing that the casualties were too heavy, wanted to negotiate with the supervision team and hoped to suspend the offensive. He made a death appeal to Wu Shilu and demanded that this farce of seeking death be ended.

As a result, the general was shot dead by the supervision team, so the soldiers of the left army were filled with grief and anger and took the opportunity to rebel.

The right army was responsible because before the supervision team arrived, some soldiers could not bear the continuous oppression from their generals and brazenly assassinated their commander.

When the supervision team pressed forward, the right army had already begun to retreat, so when they encountered the supervision team, another big battle immediately broke out.

"This! This! This! What do these idiots want to do?!"

Wu Shilu rode his horse on the high ground. Although he didn't know what had happened to the three armies, he had the best view and could see that something was wrong with the situations of the three armies.

After all, when someone's army was charging the enemy, they would suddenly turn their horses around and charge towards their own supervisory team, and they might even look more ferocious than when they were charging the Han army's camp, so that the army in front and the supervisory team had become a mess.

"..."

The old counselor on the side naturally saw it clearly.

He already knew what was happening, but he didn't dare to join in.

Because the war has now turned out like this, as the person who gave advice to Wu Shilu, he himself is in a difficult situation - he can't save himself.

In fact, when the second wave of arrows from the Han army ended, he had already realized that this battle could not be won.

Even when he suggested to Wu Shilu to launch a general attack at the beginning, it was not because it was the right way to fight, but because the previous harassment tactics had failed, and he saw murderous intent in Wu Shilu's eyes.

Therefore, knowing full well that Wu Shilu would never admit defeat and that suggesting he withdraw his troops would only result in him being killed immediately by Wu Shilu, he adopted a measure of self-preservation. Of course, there was also a little bit of luck involved. What if it worked?
Now the general offensive is no longer effective and may even cause greater losses to the Xiongnu army.

Judging from the situation below, there may have been a mutiny.

The old counselor's heart sank to the bottom.

He knew that he was doomed. Wu Shilu would kill him no matter what this time, and would also put the blame on him, making him doomed from everlasting damnation and a sinner of the Huns even after his death.

Of course he doesn't want to die.

But if he doesn't want to die, he must do something to change his situation... Anyway, the only thing that is certain now is that after this incident, Wu Shilu, Wuwei Chanyu, and even the entire Xiongnu will probably not tolerate him.

"What on earth is going on? Tell me what on earth is going on?!"

How could Wu Shilu not see that the situation was hopeless? In a rage, he turned around and questioned the old strategist loudly with murderous intent on his face.

However, the moment he turned around, he felt a sharp pain in his lower back.

The old strategist had stuck behind him at some point, with a cruel look on his face.

"you……"

Wu Shilu was startled and his eyes subconsciously moved downwards to look at the pain in his lower back.

I saw that the place was already stained with blood.

The instigator of all this was the old counselor whom he trusted. He took advantage of his inattention and stabbed him in the back with a dagger hidden on his body. "Wu Shilu, I have tolerated you for a long time."

The old counselor gritted his teeth and gently turned the dagger in his hand.
"You can't blame others or me for what happened today. You can only blame yourself for being too arrogant. Otherwise, this battle would never have turned out like this... Now that things have come to this, I have no choice but to lend you my head in order to protect myself."

"Ahhh!"

The piercing pain made Wu Shilu scream continuously.

At this moment, the murderous intent in his eyes had completely disappeared, replaced by uncontrollable fear.

When facing death, he was more terrified than ordinary people. He grabbed the old counselor's hand and shouted for help to the guards behind him with trembling lips:
"Protect the king! Protect the king! Someone is trying to assassinate me, kill him!"

"..."

However, what responded to him was the relieved indifference of the guards.

As guards around Wu Shilu, no one knew better than them how many of their comrades had died at the hands of Wu Shilu, sometimes just because of a wrong honorific.

Following Wu Shilu is even more dangerous than fighting against the Han army, and the death rate is even higher... It was like this before, but this time it seems that the death rate in fighting against the Han army is slightly higher.

"Are you deaf? Why don't you come to my rescue? You are protecting me like this. Aren't you afraid that I will kill your entire clan?!"

This was the first time that these guards showed such an attitude in front of him, and Wu Shilu was furious as usual.

However, it would have been better if he had not cursed like that. After he did, all the guards turned their heads away, neither looking nor listening, as if they didn't exist.

"Wu Shilu, you are still so erratic even when death is imminent. Even your guards are unwilling to help you."

The old counselor sneered,
"This is just like a saying in a book from the Han Dynasty, which seems to be called 'Misfortunes sent by heaven can be avoided, but misfortunes brought upon oneself cannot be escaped'. You have done many misfortunes in the past, but have you ever thought that you would end up like this today?"

……

"Su Wu, send your men to pass on the message to the various troops to speed up the march!"

This time Wei Qing did not ride a horse, but sat in a carriage with the army. While on the way, he called Su Wu over to explain the matter.

His health was deteriorating. After all, with the worsening of his condition and the fatigue of these days, his daily eating was greatly affected, and riding a horse had become unrealistic.

The most important thing is that we still don’t know what the situation is with Liu Ju.

Now that the beacon has finally been lit, they are naturally asking him for help, and there is a high probability that they are facing the problem of being unable to handle the situation alone.

Therefore, even if he arrived a moment earlier, Liu Ju could avoid a little risk.

"Yes, General, don't worry too much. With your ability, you may have already defeated the enemy. Lighting the beacon fire is just to notify us to go and clean up the mess."

Su Wu agreed and even said a few more words to comfort Wei Qing.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Wei Qing was in very poor health.

However, no one could explain what exactly happened except Liu Ju, so they could only think positively and assume that Wei Qing was just overworked recently.

"I hope so... Go quickly."

Wei Qing still had that serious look on his face. He nodded and waved his hand.

"promise!"

This continued until Su Wu left.

Wei Qing lowered the curtain, a look of disappointment and reluctance finally emerged on his face. He took out a scroll of bamboo slips that had already been written from his arms, and gently rubbed it with his withered, sallow hands.

Naturally, no one knows his own body better than himself... The feeling of running out of energy is becoming more and more intense.

And this scroll of bamboo slips is his suicide note.

Liu Ju had deceived him temporarily before, but he could not deceive him forever.

Now he had guessed why Liu Ju was so confident and firmly believed that Liu Che would let him stay in the Western Regions to lead the troops again.

He also guessed why Liu Che suddenly wanted to see the general who had just walked out of the Jianzhang camp, and why he told him not to hide his incompetence and not to feel burdened anymore.

Liu Ju was knowledgeable in medicine.

Although he always refused to admit it, anyone could see that he could see conditions that many people could not, and the judgments he made were always accurate.

Therefore, Liu Ju must have seen something early on.

I just didn't tell him.

He recalled that when Liu Ju first met him in Loulan, he had "casually" asked about his physical condition, and he also recalled the seemingly unnatural smile on Liu Ju's face at that time.

Now that I think about it, although Liu Ju didn't say anything, he actually said everything...

Everyone is destined to die, and it's not that Wei Qing couldn't accept the reality of death, but there were some things that still worried him.

For example, his three useless sons.

After elder David Kang went to Bowang Garden, he did have some success and became a close minister of Emperor Liu Che. This was a huge progress that exceeded his imagination.

However, this child did not distinguish between the important and the unimportant, and actually treated Liu Che as his elder and was too close to Liu Che, which was not a good thing.

The second and third brothers are fine, as they both have the title of marquis.

But Wei Kang would not suffer any loss. After his death, as the eldest son, he could inherit the title of Marquis of Changping, which was a title of marquis with ten thousand households, better than the second or third sons.

For example, his two elder sisters, Wei Zifu and Wei Junru...

Wei Qing has been thinking a lot these days.

Naturally, the person that people think about the most is Liu Ju, because he is the future of both the Wei and Huo families.

The reason why he finally agreed to Liu Ju's "joining the game himself" was to prepare for this.

Even though Liu Che had shown the edict to him and Wei Zifu when he deposed Liu Ju, the emperor's mind is unpredictable and who can predict what will happen in the future?

So even though it was a bit risky, he gritted his teeth and agreed.

Because once this is accomplished, Liu Ju's prestige in the army will be more solid, even more solid than his.

After all, not everyone can make half of the Western Regions surrender with just one move, and defeat the Right Wise King to complete the feat of "inscribed on the Yanran Stone", which is almost comparable to Huo Qubing's "sealing the wolf and lazing in the Xu".

If he could defeat the main force of the Huns and truly drive them out of the north of the Han Dynasty, forcing them to migrate westward, then Liu Ju's position would be completely stable.

Whether he has appointed a crown prince or not, there cannot be another crown prince!

What Wei Qing is doing now is to cooperate with Liu Ju.

Was it Liu Ju who was sending him “local specialties from the Western Regions”?

No, he wanted to help Liu Ju achieve a great feat before his death, making him the unique crown prince and general in the Han Dynasty!

Just as I was thinking about it.

"Report! General, good news, great news, great victory!"

Suddenly, a report from a scout with a broken voice came from outside the carriage. Along with the rapid sound of horse hooves, the messenger stopped in front of Wei Qing's carriage, bowed briefly, and continued speaking...

(End of this chapter)