Deposed Crown Prince: After three years of service on the frontier, the entire court knelt and begge

Gulimiza shook her head upon hearing this: "Your Highness, of course not. I told you, after I married you, I would be yours!"

“You are surrounded by people who have helped you a lot, but I am the only one following you and can’t help you at all… On the contrary, I’m even causing you a lot of trouble.”

Xiao Ce finally understood that Gulimiza must have heard a lot about Yin Pan'er.

This could be considered as causing a slight feeling of inferiority.

Xiao Ce pulled Gulimiza into his arms, a mischievous grin on his face: "Don't you know how important you are to me? You can solve my biggest problem..."

Gulimiza's ears instantly turned red all the way to the back of her ears.

"Your Highness, as you know, that's not what I meant..."

Xiao Ce pinched Gulimiza's cheek and then said, "Alright, don't overthink it! I'm here to be your women, to enjoy life..."

"And if one day I need your help, I will tell you that I believe you can handle things on your own with the right job."

After Xiao Ce said those words for a while, Gulimiza calmed down considerably.

Less than an hour later, Han Da had reorganized the army.

"Your Highness, we are almost ready. Would you like to depart now?"

Xiao Ce nodded, but his gaze was drawn to a person behind Han Da.

Seeing this, Han Da began to introduce, "Your Highness, I really must introduce you. This is the substitute that the Princess Consort has been helping you find..."

As he spoke, Han Da patted the soldier behind him who bore a striking resemblance to Xiao Ce: "What are you standing there for? Bow to the Prince..."

The soldier, who bore a striking resemblance to Xiao Ce, immediately knelt on the ground.

He knelt down and bowed respectfully to Xiao Ce.

It was fine as long as he didn't move, but once he moved, Xiao Ce started to feel a little dazed.

This feeling is so weird.

There was a strange feeling of watching myself kneel before myself.

"Your humble servant Shen Tao greets Your Highness."

"You studied me?" Xiao Ce looked him over, and the more he looked, the more similar he seemed.

After staring at it for a while, I found that it was at least 80% similar.

The stand-in, Shen Tao, nodded respectfully: "Your Highness, that's right, we were personally trained by the Princess Consort."

Xiao Ce suddenly realized why he could imitate it so well.

Xiao Ce was deeply moved.

Because he and Yin Pan'er didn't actually spend much time together.

Yin Pan'er was able to use his memory of his appearance to train the stand-in to look exactly like him.

After Xiao Ce helped him up, he asked, "Do you know what a stand-in does?"

The double, Shen Tao, looked at Xiao Ce with a determined expression and said, "Your Highness, of course I know. I was impersonating you to take the blow for you!"

"Then you're still willing?" Xiao Ce asked, somewhat puzzled.

The double, Shen Tao, gleamed with fervor in his eyes: "Your Highness, of course I'm willing! To be able to impersonate you is the greatest blessing Heaven has given me. If I could die for you, it would be my greatest honor! Because if I die, it means I've shielded Your Highness from danger! My family, my relatives, my friends will all be proud of me!"

"..."

Looking at his fanatical expression, it's clear he's been brainwashed quite a bit.

Even Han Da, standing to the side, said to Xiao Ce, "Your Highness, please don't feel burdened. This is truly his honor. There are over a hundred such doubles, and he was chosen entirely because he resembles you! No one else would even be qualified..."

After hearing Han Da's words, Shen Tao nodded in approval.

It's clear that they highly approve of it.

Xiao Ce nodded and patted the substitute Shen Tao on the shoulder: "Well done! Try your best not to die if you can stay alive!"

Shen Tao nodded.

They then set off, as they had a 'Shadow' team on their side.

This "Shadow" team is the most formidable among the special forces trained by Yanjia.

This team was fully armed, and Xiao Ce, along with Gulimiza and her group, blended into the shadow team.

After leaving Yanmen City, a wide cement road, large enough for three carriages to pass side by side, came into view.

Because there were no such heaven-defying things as the '10,000-ton king' in this era.

The weight of goods transported by ordinary horse-drawn carriages and oxcarts would never exceed the limit.

Therefore, it wouldn't damage the roads. This wide and flat road truly caught Xiao Ce's attention.

Yin Pan'er truly carried out everything he assigned her.

Although Gulimiza was dressed in the same special forces uniform, she covered herself up completely: "Your Highness, if the Western Regions could also have such roads, our trade would be much better."

Xiao Ce naturally understood her implication: "I've already told Nan Xi; how to carry it out is his business..."

Gulimiza said gratefully, "Your Highness, you are not only a savior here, but also a savior of the Western Regions..."

Xiao Ce waved his hand with a smile: "Alright, stop with the act... Being a savior isn't easy. You have to be fully armed and can't even show your face here."

...

After Xiao Ce left Yanmen City.

Within Yanmen City, some people who were secretly observing released a few ravens.

Meanwhile, on the road that Xiao Ce had to take back to the Northern Desert Prince's Mansion.

In a dense forest, there lived a group of people whose hair and beards grew all together, dressed in tattered clothes like wild men.

Then the leader shouted.

Hundreds of people fell from the surrounding trees, all dressed in tattered clothes and with disheveled hair.

However, despite this, it was immediately obvious that these people were not from the Xiao Kingdom.

Instead, they were the Slavs that the people of the northern desert had been searching for.

Since their failed assassination attempt on Yin Pan'er, a wave of hunting down foreign tribes has swept across the entire northern desert.

Because Yin Pan'er has a great deal of control over the Xiao Kingdom.

These people had an almost superstitious worship and love for Yin Pan'er and Xiao Ce.

So they originally planned to find a remote place, but the craze was too big.

It's no exaggeration to say that in the northern desert, if a dog doesn't look like a local, it will be taken to the authorities.

They had managed to infiltrate the northern desert with great difficulty, and they had all signed a life-or-death pledge.

You cannot leave this place without killing the supreme commander of the northern desert.

So they packed up their weapons and personnel and plunged into this primeval forest.

They should still be thankful that the people of the northern deserts left behind such a large area of ​​dense forest.

Due to the land reclamation order issued by the northern desert, many of the dense forests in the northern desert were initially cleared by various land reclamation people.

Later, some officials still said that if all these primeval forests were cleared out, it would cause some environmental impacts.

Therefore, Yin Pan'er suspended the land reclamation order.

This gave these people a place to stay.

The leader of the Slavs looked at the group of Slavs coming down from the tree, a smile of excitement flashing across his face, and said to the crowd.

"I have some good news for everyone: our great Tsar has already sent people to take control of a faction within the Kingdom of Xiao. It's located in the heart of Xiao, which means that we Slavs now have a base of operations in Xiao!"

This man is named Andrei, and he is the captain of this expedition.

After Andrei finished speaking, the people on this side did not react excessively.

There was no happy expression on his face.

Andrei addressed the crowd, "What? Aren't you happy?"

Then a tall, burly Slav spoke up: "Captain Andrei, what does this have to do with us? We swore an oath to His Majesty the Tsar that we would wreak havoc in the northern deserts! But now they've forced us into this remote mountain forest, forcing us to live a life of savagery..."

Once one person spoke, the others chimed in.

“That’s right, Andrei. We don’t even dare to show our faces now... If we cower here, we might just be waiting to die. If we dare to show ourselves, let alone their army, we could kill even their civilians.”

...

Seeing the deep resentment on his subordinates' faces, Andrei smiled and pulled a raven from his pocket.

"That was before! We're saved now! This news just arrived..."

After Andrei held the raven aloft, despite his impassioned speech.

However, his subordinates remained indifferent.

It's no wonder they're numb; similar things have been happening all along.

The promised good news turned out to have little impact other than causing them to lose some of their own men.

They weren't allowed to leave either.

However, they had a death warrant and dared not leave.

If you go back and desert, there will only be one outcome for you: death!

"There are two letters here. One is from our informant in Yanmen City, saying that Xiao Ce, the true ruler of the Northern Desert, has returned and is now on his way to his capital city in the Northern Desert."

The former city has now been transformed into a royal city, which can be considered the capital.

Despite hearing the news from Andrei, everyone remained calm.

Given the circumstances, it wouldn't be easy for these people to assassinate someone.

"The other letter was from His Majesty the Tsar!"

After Andrei finished speaking, the eyes of these people, which had previously lost their luster, suddenly lit up.

What did His Majesty the Tsar tell us?

Andrei's face lit up with excitement: "His Majesty the Tsar said that as long as we kill Xiao Ce, we'll have completed our mission! We can go home! And we'll still get the rewards he promised, the titles and honors!"

These words, once spoken, shocked these people who were like walking corpses.

A light flashed in their eyes in an instant.

"really?"

Andrei took out a letter and handed it to everyone to read.

After everyone had read it, their expressions became extremely excited.

"Done!"

"Good, bottoms up!"

"Andrei, killing just one person is much simpler..."

"How long until that prince from the northern desert arrives?"

Looking at these people, all of them shouting and yelling, Andrei's confidence was rekindled.

After all, there are only a little over a hundred of them!

They still have a chance of succeeding in assassinating someone.

They were initially full of confidence when they were sent to cause chaos in the northern desert.

After arriving here, I was amazed by the cohesion and centripetal force that permeates this northern desert region from the bottom up.

Andrei saw that everyone's enthusiasm had been mobilized.

"According to our inside source, they have already set off from Yanmen City and it will take them at least a day to reach us. So, they should arrive in our area tomorrow afternoon."

"This time they are accompanied by three thousand guards and two thousand shadow guards! Although there are many of them, it will not be difficult for us to break through their defenses and kill people if we use suicidal attacks."

"To defeat the overwhelming odds, we must be fearless in the face of death to have any chance of killing that Northern Desert King!"

After listening to Andrei's words, the group nodded.

"No problem! We're not afraid of dying, we're just afraid of waiting to die here!"

“That’s right, Andrei, we’ve all been trained. We’re no longer afraid of death… what we fear is being unable to die at all!”

Andrei addressed the crowd, "Alright, then let's follow the rules. Draw lots!"

As Andrei spoke, he pulled out a smuggler from his person, the smuggler's handwriting bearing numbers...

"Ten people per group! Those ranked higher are the first to rush up."

These people nodded one by one, and what was somewhat surprising was that there was no fear in their eyes.

On the contrary, there is a certain fanaticism.

In less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, they had determined the order of the suicide attacks.

He then went into the cave and took out all the weapons he had hidden there.

They carried mostly muskets and bombs.

After taking the bombs out of the box, they checked them one by one, and then wrapped them around their bodies.

When they got involved, they did it with practiced ease.

Andrei addressed the crowd, saying, "The Tsar will not forget any of your families who have died, and neither will we!"

Everyone nodded.

"We fear nothing, we only ask to die a worthy death!"

...

The next day, these Slavs lay in ambush early in the morning.

In terms of willpower, these people are no less capable than the shadow guards trained by Yan Jia.

So when they spotted a scout advance team at the crack of dawn, they were well hidden.

Not a single clue was revealed!

However, what surprised them was how quickly these people arrived.

Actually, Xiao Ce was in a hurry to get back. Han Da also felt that if they lingered on the road for too long, the danger would increase.

They traveled day and night.

After watching the scouts return, Andrei shouted to those around him, "Everyone, pay attention! After this battle, no matter what, we'll be able to go home!!!"