Chapter 292: The First Step

When Lin Zhan was injured in a house in Yaxian County, he was so angry that he couldn't be interested in anything.

Chen Jing has long been accustomed to the attitude of his master, if it weren't for His Royal Highness's conversation and laughter, he would have eliminated the fierce rivals around him one by one, he thought that he planned to rely on the position of the crown prince for the rest of his life. I was once worried that I would shed my blood for His Highness for the sake of this profession of strategist.

Fortunately, although His Royal Highness is often lazy, because of the background of the queen's concubine, even if he doesn't fight, he has to fight.

Outsiders say that His Royal Highness must be more suspicious by nature, which is also a common problem of the Sidi royal family. But Chen Jing felt that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was not so much like His Majesty as he was more like General Yangwei, the brother of the Queen Mother.

Just because General Yang Wei died young, the world does not know his character.

And Chen Jing was originally a strategist arranged by the queen's family to Lin Zhan, so he was naturally no stranger to General Yangwei. As a child, General Yang Wei was already famous. He has connected several cities in the west, and is known as the first god of war in Xidi.

It's a pity that this victorious general on the battlefield died of a small wind chill. When he heard the news, Chen Jing couldn't believe his ears. He would rather General Yangwei die on the battlefield, under the sword of the people of Xiyan.

At that time, he had already learned strategy with his master, and he occasionally listened to the middle of the matter, and he already had a faint guess in his heart.

When General Yangwei's fame first appeared, it was when His Majesty married the Empress. The general's fame was at its peak when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was born. In the years that followed, General Yang Wei continued to teach His Highness martial arts.

Your Majesty could not allow his relatives to become bigger. What's more, the queen's family is huge, and she has the military power of a powerful general, which is simply like a tiger with wings. is also because of the addition of the prince of the East Palace, it is inevitable that people will be suspicious.

At that time, His Majesty was in the prime of life, and he was afraid that someone would take the throne, so he quietly poisoned the general.

When he was young, Chen Jing only dared to doubt, and the poisoning theory was due to the fact that His Royal Highness had found a powerful doctor a few years ago and asked him to examine a pair of bones.

The bones had been turned into white for years. But the strange thing is that the white bones are fluorescent at night, especially the eyes and nose, which are faintly blue.

The doctor bluntly said that the skeleton had been poisoned by a chronic poison called Yezhaoxiang.

This poison is very vicious, and the poisoning is impossible to detect at all, and the appearance is no different from ordinary people. With the slightest trauma, the poisoned person will die. And when the poison occurs, it is like suffering from wind and cold, and the cough does not heal for a long time, until the oil runs out and the lamp dries up.

When Chen Jing heard about this, he was so shocked that he couldn't say a word, and his back was already soaked in cold sweat.

His Royal Highness didn't say anything at the time, but only let the bones be buried.

But since then, His Highness has begun to secretly deal with several other princes. Even the fact that the three princes and the concubine were plotting against His Majesty and poisoning him this time had long been in His Highness's calculations.

Chen Jing saw through it and didn't say anything, he seriously assisted Lin Zhan, and he had no two hearts. Even though, his purpose of seizing the throne is not simple.

"What are you thinking?"

The man on the couch put down the book, and his handsome eyebrows were a little cold because of his illness, and he was a little softer.

Chen Jing almost wiped his eyes, lest he be dizzy and misunderstood.

"The subordinates are just thinking about what the four princes are doing at the moment."

Lin Zhan raised his eyebrows slightly, and suddenly smiled: "What do you say, what do you dare to do with the fourth child's temperament." ”

"And so it is." Chen Jing thought of something, and couldn't help but smile lowly: "I heard the spy come to report, since His Royal Highness issued an order to the four princes, he has been restless every day, and even with Zhao Junshi, he has lost a lot of weight. ”

Lin Zhan snorted lightly, and looked down on the cautious behavior of the four princes.

"He's cheeky. If he didn't want to come, he naturally didn't have to petition. It's really cheap again, and I'm not willing to pay. ”

Chen Jing pursed his lips and said in his heart: The words are not rough, and this is just the right way to describe the four princes. At the beginning, the third prince and the fourth prince were both eyeing the position of general and vying to be the vanguard of the war against Xiyan. It's just that the concubine is better and blows the pillow wind to His Majesty, and the third prince won the first place.

But as soon as the third prince died, the fourth prince came. He didn't believe it, with the temperament of the four princes keeping an eye on the situation, he would not know the reason for the death of the third prince. Since he was willing to come, he knew that there was a profit to be made in it.

What is the picture? The throne, of course. As long as he makes great contributions, the ministers of the court and the central government have to weigh whether the candidate for the position of the crown prince is suitable.

Sidi ruled the country by force, as it should be. The four princes seem to be cold, but they are also calculating.

"Then how does Your Highness think you should deal with the Four Princes?"

"Deal with? No. Lin Zhan smiled mysteriously, looking like he was watching a good show, "Wait and see, the fourth child is going to kill himself." ”

Chen Jing found that even if he grew up watching His Highness, he couldn't understand His Highness.

The army did not move, and the Xiyan army never left the city, the two sides were deadlocked, and he really didn't know how the fourth prince would die.

Do you want the Xiyan Army to play a trick and play the four princes?

……

Spring should be rainy in Japan, but the rain in Gancheng is a bit difficult.

And this year, the Sidi army pressed the border, resulting in ten rooms and nine emptiness, a large area of land was deserted, no one would farm, and naturally no one would care when the spring rain came.

Although there was a large army pressing the border, it was not a disaster year, and although the rain came a little late, it still came.

At first it was just a wisp, like a cow's hair, and then like a bean, until it drifted away like smoke for a long time.

This heavy rain came too quickly and too violently.

The smoke and dust on the ground were lifted up by the rain and fell heavily.

The roads were full of standing water, and muddy soup was rolling all over the ground.

At such times, no one wants to go out.

Qin Xiang opened the window, stared at the dark clouds outside the window, and fell silent.

She doesn't look at the weather, and she doesn't know how long this rain will last. She now longs for a mobile phone with internet access to monitor the weather anytime, anywhere.

The third son, who was passing by with a plate of cakes, looked at the sky and said, "It's about the same as Mrs. expected, this rain will be overnight, and the rain will slow down in the early morning of tomorrow." ”

Qin Xiang secretly said, where did he hear it, she didn't say this.

The third son said: "The subordinates have already arranged all the manpower, everything is arranged, and there will be no delay in Madame's plan." ”

Qin Xiang swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, waved his hand, and decided to forget it.

Regardless of where Miko heard that, let it be as she said.

There were also torrential rains on the grasslands, and some of them rained more violently and strongly than they already do.

Sometimes, hailstones the size of a bull's eye will fall, killing livestock and even people may be stunned.

The fourth prince yawned, his eyes were blue and black, and he squatted on the couch wrapped in a broken quilt and looked at the ground.

The rain was so heavy that the water had spread into the tents. Even if his tent was set up on a slightly higher ground, it was flooded at the moment. One can imagine what the situation will be like in other camps.

Zhao Junshi has been sent out by him to help the soldiers tidy up the camp tent, and he is the only one in this big tent.

I don't know what's going on, he was restless early this morning and woke up early.

The fourth prince looked at the earthworm that had climbed up along the rain, and the small thing as thick as his thumb was trampled into mud by his foot.

"Sure enough, I thought too much because the sound of the rain was so annoying."

Because of the rain, the Sidi army tossed for a long time before sleeping one after another. In the whole camp, there was nothing but a snoring.

The rain outside the tent continued, until above the clouds, the sun came back to the world, and the rain was like a cow's hair, and it was a good time to sleep.

A soldier came out from behind the tree with his trouser belt, and was about to tie his trouser belt when a hand slapped him on the shoulder.

The little soldier was frightened, looked back, and laughed: "You're going to pee too?" The rain was so heavy that I couldn't sleep. ”

After greeting him, the person who came spoke authentic Xiyan dialect suddenly threw out a long rope when the soldier turned around.

The creep's neck was choked and he had trouble breathing. He struggled subconsciously, but the strength of the person behind him was extremely strong. There was a ho-ho sound in his throat, and his feet slowly gave up the struggle.

The murderer strangled the soldier to death, dragged the man to the bushes behind the trees, carefully covered them, and then tidied up his robes. Then, he calmly returned to the camp.

If you look closely, you will find that as he walks, he throws small mud balls on the ground. And the route of his actions spread almost all over the camp.

It's just that because of his low status, the tents where the generals live cannot be approached.

Later, he returned to his tent and slept quietly on his bed and clothes.

No one noticed that he had left, and the tent was filled with only the sound of sound of snoring.

The rain is getting lighter, and the sky is about to dawn. But in the camp of Sidi, there was a fog. Bit by bit, the whole camp was gradually encircled.

Someone woke up in a daze, planning to take a soak of morning urine. However, after walking a few steps, he moved to a no-man's land, and before he could untie his pants, he fell to the ground with a thud.

Similar things happened one after another in the camp of Sidi, because not many people woke up, and no one noticed this strange scene.

But because of the shroud of white fog and inexplicable fainting, everything was also covered with a layer of mystery.

The fourth prince woke up in a daze, and suddenly realized that something had slipped into his tent. When he looked closely, he found that it was a wisp of mist.

Foggy?

Before the fourth prince could figure it out, the sound of a heavy object falling suddenly came from outside the door.

The four princes were stunned, wrapped in robes and went out.

Then, I saw Zhao Junshi lying in the mud in embarrassment, with a surprised expression on his face, but he was already unconscious.

Not good, this mist is poisonous!

The fourth prince subconsciously covered his mouth and nose, wet his handkerchief again, and then ran outside.

At this time, the camp was already shrouded in fog, and there was an increasingly fierce posture.

The four princes stumbled and ran, and met a few people who were still awake on the road, and hurriedly called people to beat gongs and drums, so that everyone must be alert.

At this moment, Gancheng not far away.

On the city wall, Qin Xiang and Han Yunxiao stood side by side.

From a distance, you can still see the gray-white tent that you could see clearly, which has been hidden by the fog.

From here, it looked like the camp had been swallowed up by the white mist.

Qin Xiang pursed his lips, looking hesitant and nervous.

Han Yunxiao didn't turn his head to look at her, but silently stretched out his hand and quietly clenched her cold little hand.

Qin Xiang was encouraged, relaxed and continued to appreciate the good show she had personally arranged.