Compared with Yingdu in the south, Jingcheng has long been a land of ice and snow. Similar to the fact that the weather was bound to change every time the dynasty changed for more than 2,000 years, the climate in the last years of the Warring States period was also extremely abnormal, with great droughts, epidemics, locust plagues, sudden cold, snow disasters, earthquakes, and ...... various disasters occurred frequently. Among them, Qin is the hardest hit area, following the severe drought that lasted for several months three years ago, and this year there was another earthquake in Qin.

If natural disasters are frequent after Qin, the emperor will not dare to make a large-scale expedition, but will issue an edict to apologize to heaven. During the Warring States Period, the Qin State had not yet compiled a set of demagogic Taoist systems that were ordered by the heavens, and the natural disasters had not yet been directly related to the king. In the rear earthquake, the front line was still attacking, and even, in order to destroy Zhao as soon as possible, Zhao Zheng, the king of Qin, went to Jinyang, which was three hundred miles away from Jingcheng.

Standing on the high place of the Qin camp in Jingcheng, Jing Ke saw at a glance the fallen soldiers left behind after the battle between the two armies outside the camp, and the snow fell all night, but it did not cover the lodging corpses, revealing long shirts and halberds of different colors. Countless crows landed on the exposed cold flesh, and they pecked hard, and every time a piece of flesh or an eyeball fell, the crows would fiercely snatch it, provoking a crow to chirp.

"The Zhao army has become the end of the strong crossbow." Yan Dan, who was wearing a white fox fur, stood beside Jing Ke. Although the battle the day before yesterday was not decided, the Qin army was strong, and the follow-up troops were constantly coming from Jinyang.

"In that case, why don't you behead Li Mu?" Jing Ke retracted his gaze and looked at Yan Dan in confusion.

"The Qin army can defeat the Zhao army, but it can't kill Li Mu." Yan Dan said. "And the Zhao army is weak, so it can avoid the war. Li Mu and Lian Po are Zhao's arms, and one of his arms is broken, and Zhao should die. Therefore, the assassination of the monarch is not only related to the survival of Yan and Wei, but also to the hope of the Qin State for a day. ”

Yan Dan looked at Jing Ke with complicated eyes. He stabbed Li Mu several times but couldn't, Taifu Juwu found Tian Guang, and Tian Guang found Jing Ke again. Jing Ke is not a Jing, but a Qing. The Qing family came out of Qi, and later entered the guard as a doctor of the country. Eight years ago, the Five Kingdoms failed to join forces, and Jing Ke suggested that Wei Yuanjun help him assassinate Qin, but Wei Yuanjun did not accept it, and as a result, Wei Guo was swallowed by Qin, and Wei Yuanjun was moved to Yewang. Jing Ke's desire to assassinate the King of Qin was also revealed, and he had to change his name to Jing and travel the world to make friends with swordsmen.

It is not impossible for a person who originally planned to assassinate Qin to suddenly turn enemies into friends and help them to abuse. Another thing that Yan Dan asked Zhao Zheng to promise that day was to promise to defend the country and restore the country, at least Puyang. If Jing Ke is a loyal minister, he should assassinate Li Mu for this, if Jing Ke is a righteous and self-interested person, he should be rewarded with a lot of money, and it is natural to assassinate Li Mu.

Yan Dan's gaze was finally full of expectations. This man who has passed the age of standing does not have half of the ferocity and hideousness of an assassin, but only the gentleness and elegance unique to the doctor, the fierce sword hanging from his waist, and the man and the sword are so harmonious and natural. If it weren't for Tian Guang's recommendation, no one would have thought that such a personable person would be an assassin.

Under Yan Dan's gaze, Jing Ke kept a smile on his face, he felt that there was something in his chest blocked, this kind of thing was like hot molten iron, which was going to burn and burn his abdomen, but he had to persevere, and persist until the day when the assassination was successful.

"Such a Ke family still hopes that the prince will ......," Jing Ke mentioned his family, and a trace of sadness flashed on his face.

"Jun's family is Dan's family." Yan Dan solemnly agreed. "However, in order to win the trust of the Zhao people, Jun ran to Zhao and killed several people."

"That's how it should be." Jing Ke nodded heavily, this is the price that must be paid for the assassination, and he is willing to bear it. "Brother Tian's family wants to go to Chu, and he also asks the prince to send him to Chu."

On the day Jing Ke left Xianyang, Tian Guang, who was told by Yan Dan that "the major affairs of the country are also, may Mr. not leak it", killed himself. This is a pimple in Yan Dan's heart, Jing Ke mentioned that Tian Guang's family wanted to enter Chu, his words were more solemn, and said: "The death of light, my fault." His family should be subject to the Lu of Yan in the world, how can they go to Chu? ”

"Brother Tian's mother is afraid of the cold, and everyone says that Chu is warm in winter, so she wants to enter Chu." Jing Ke said. "The prince wants to report to Tian Guang, but after his mother dies, he can take someone back to Yan Kingdom."

"No." The assassination cannot be leaked, so all those involved in this matter have their families hostage in Xianyang. Tian Guang died, and whether his family was detained in Xianyang was of no value. Pressing on this matter, Yan Dan asked, "With Coindo, when will this matter be completed?" ”

"It can be done in three years." Jing Ke's words surprised Yan Dan, he asked when, but Jing Ke said three years.

"No." Yan Dan shook his head again and again. "King Qin is heartfelt, and if he stabs Li Mu for three years, he will be angry."

"The prince should know that Li Mu is a military general, and it is reported that Lou Fuzhi Hu is his personal guard, and others are not allowed to approach him ten steps. Ke's swordsmanship, ten steps necessary, not ten steps away, stabbing can't be. "Jing Ke is already deep." Ke has no regrets when he dies, but he is only worried about the prince's return to the country. ”

"Three years is too long." Yan Dan still shook his head, he didn't care if it was three or four years, but Zhao Zheng cared very much. The rise of the Chu State, the alliance of the four countries, he is now anxious to destroy Zhao. If Li Mu is not assassinated before the Qin army destroys Zhao, so Zhao is killed, the ancestral temple alliance will be invalid. "After the new year, but in October, Li Mu will be killed."

The Qin calendar begins with October, which means that it is now the sixteenth year of King Qin, and it will be the seventeenth year of King Qin from October next year, and the eighteenth year of King Qin from October of the year after next. According to the calendar of the Kwantung countries, this year, next year, and the year after next (before October), this is already three years.

The time Yan Dan said was not far from the time expected by Jing Ke in his heart, he took a deep look again and said, "Respectfully!" ”

"Good." Yan Dan exhaled, and in order to show his closeness, he patted Jing Ke on the shoulder a few times, and said, "Jun will go to Zhao Ying tonight." ”

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"In this way, the Qin people are invincible?" The shogunate was brightly lit at night, and Li Mu looked at the generals under his command. In the confrontation the day before yesterday, the Zhao army failed to get any cheap, and the most feared thing was the Qin army. Although the cavalry could not run fast with heavy loads, once they rushed up, even if the soldiers of Zhao were armed with spears, it was very difficult to resist this kind of spear charge with landslides and ground cracks.

"The method of riding and charging into the formation is learned from the Chu people." When the fox baby went to Chu last year, he specially asked to see the Chu army's heavy cavalry charging into battle, and hoped that the Zhao army would also have such an iron horse. It's a pity that although the Chu army 'taught each other', the cavalry of the Zhao army didn't seem to be able to learn anything.

"Hmm. Unstoppable? "Li Mu looked from the fox baby to Sima Shang, and from Sima Shang to the cavalry general Lou Li, and finally saw the horse guard who led the Zhao army to ride heavily." If there is nothing to defend it, and if we go to war again, our army will be defeated. ”

"General Chu once said that the heavy cavalry destroyed the formation, which was realized by the king of Chu when he watched the sea. The tide is endless, and the reef is angry, and those who are as soft as water can also break the world. The army formation of Yu, the column of heavy cavalry is the tide of the sea, and the array of foot soldiers is the reef. If the heavy cavalry cannot retreat from the formation, the left and right will be re-attacked, and the foot soldiers will be re-attacked by the heavy attack but cannot retreat, and then the left and right will be re-arrayed......"

Ma Wei went to Chu with the fox baby, but he only knew the principle of heavy cavalry combat, and did not know how to train war horses and train into a queue. The actual tactical level is similar to that of the Qin army's cavalry, and they are all rushing in a swarm, and if they can't rush, they will fight and turn around. The key is that the Qin army has a large number of cavalry, even if it is a swarm of rushing formation, it is enough to make the soldiers frightened, so as to break the military formation.

"Or you can shoot it with a crossbow." Sima Shang thought of a solution. "The heavy arrows of the Chu army can break the leather armor in 70 steps, our army has the upper hand, 80 steps or break it, and then fight when the crossbowmen set up a spear formation, the domain cavalry rushes to me, shoots the horse but does not shoot the person, the horse is frightened, and the domain rider breaks itself."

"Good!" The most worried domain rider can resist it, and Li Mu has nothing to worry about anymore.

"How heavy are our troops?" Sima Shang asked the fox baby again. The Zhao army was full of two-winged light arrows, and only Chu had the heaviest arrows among the four countries.

"A million have been shipped last month, and the archers are so heavy that they have not been used." The fox baby shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"Order, fight again tomorrow for all lieutenants......" Li Muzheng ordered the archers of each lieutenant to replace the heavy arrows of the Chu State, and suddenly there was an urgent report outside the tent, and the military officials shouted: "General Yu, someone in the Qin camp has fled to our army." ”

"Someone in the Qin camp fled to our army?" Li Mu was puzzled. There is nothing strange about the Qin army's desertions appearing from time to time, it is strange that things will be reported. "Why did you report this to the shogunate?"

"General Yu, this person is the defender Jing Ke, who stole the secret recipe of the Qin army and fled to our army." Late at night, the main general was alarmed by a desertion of the Qin army, and the military officials were also a little uneasy. After he finished speaking, he saw that Li Mu, Sima Shang, and Fox Baby didn't say anything, so he had to retreat.

"Slow!" The fox baby chuckled, "Since his people have stolen the secrets of the Qin people, they also invite the general to see them." ”

"The big war is coming, this person must be the Qin people, there is no doubt that they will die, why do they need to meet." Sima Shang didn't believe in stealing the secrets of the Qin people at all. "Please kill him, General."

"What's the matter?" The fox baby likes to fight wits the most, and he doesn't believe that Qin Jian can jump out of the palm of his hand.

"Summoning... Guards. Li Mu hesitated, since the fox baby wanted to see it, then he would see it.

Since he assassinated Li Mu in Zhao, it is natural to have a set of reliable arguments. How to steal the secret of the Qin army? How to escape from the Qin camp, and even how to enter the Qin State, there must be no flawless reasons. This point was fabricated by the Governor's Mansion, and Jing Ke had memorized it perfectly, but what he never expected was that as soon as he entered the Shogunate, he met an acquaintance.

"It's you ......" A swordsman in the shogunate was taken aback when he saw Jing Ke, and Jing Ke was also shocked at this time. He remembered this person, he had a few exchanges with this person in Handan, and was angry when he was arguing about the sword style, and he fled.

"Lu Goujian, do you know him?" Li Mu has Lou Xuan's personal guards by his side, and there are also Zhao swordsmen, and Lu Goujian is the leader of Zhao swordsmen.

"General Yu," Lu Goujian kept staring at Jing Ke, "this person used to fencing with the villain in Handan in the past, and because his sword style was not correct, he was angry with the villain. There are few elegant people who practice swords, and elegant people have a righteous sword style but not evil......"

"General Yu, Jing Ke is a defender, and Wei was destroyed by Qin, so he hated Qin and practiced swordsmanship hard. Ke Xiangren is the concubine of the Qin general Zhao Wan, recommended by it, and made Zhao Wanshe, these two days Qin general Yang Duan and the general discussed the battle, Ke eavesdropped on the gap and rushed into the Zhao camp. ”