Chapter 12: Gai Nie and Jing Ke

Yanmen Pass, the city is several zhang high, the city gate is also more than one zhang high, the city gate is a drum tower just above it, you can see a big drum that is higher than the person in the distance. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info At this moment, the city gates were closed, and the officers and soldiers of the city guards yawned, staggered, and looked drowsy. The ugly time is when people are the most sleepy, and it is also the reason why Li Xin chose this time to pass the test.

Everyone quietly sneaked to the city, as soon as Li Xin raised his hand, the two black wolf guards took their bows and wound them, and the light crossbow arrows instantly silently took the lives of the two Zhao soldiers. Ying Zheng couldn't help but sigh, born in troubled times, human life is really not valuable.

Six ropes were thrown up the wall and hung on the battlements, and five men jumped up the wall in three steps and two steps, more nimble than monkeys. On the city walls, they quickly dispersed their guards.

Li Xinli pulled one of them, which seemed to be very strong, and then stepped aside and said to Ying Zheng: "Childe, please." ”

"I," Ying Zheng pointed to his nose and looked a little embarrassed, seeing Li Xin nodding to himself, "Okay, I'll try." ”

Ying Zheng grabbed the rope, gritted his teeth and exerted his strength to feed, and worked hard for a long time, but his feet were no more than half a foot off the ground. Seeing everyone looking at him in surprise, he smiled awkwardly: "I'm sorry, I'm not good at climbing walls." ”

"Childe may be too tired, it doesn't matter," Li Xin helped Yingzheng find a step, and then explained to Fan Yuzhi: "You go up first, and then pull Childe up." ”

Fan Yuzhi said "yes", grabbed the rope with both hands, and jumped up to the city tower a few times, at the same time, Li Xin and the remaining people under the city wall also climbed up the city tower, and he led people to explore the way, leaving Yingzheng alone to hang like a spider by the city wall and shake.

Fan Yuzhi grabbed the rope and poked his head out and whispered to Ying Zheng who was hanging on the rope: "Don't move, I'm not good at using force." ”

Ying Zheng scolded: "You and I are willing to dangle like a pendulum, you hurry up and pull it, there is a lot of nonsense." ”

"Do you want me to help?" Zhang Han suddenly stood beside Fan Yuzhi with bad intentions.

Fan Yuzhi looked vigilant: "What do you want to do, if you dare to mess around, aren't you afraid to attract the people of Zhao Guo?" ”

Zhang Han nodded, and seemed to have thought of a good idea: "Yes, if you bring Zhao Guoren here, will everything be easy?" ”

Zhang Han kicked a stone under his feet hard, and the stone hit the big drum in the drum tower like a bullet, and the loud sound alarmed all the sleeping people, including the nearby officers and soldiers of the Zhao State.

"Someone is sneaking up," Zhao Jun, who was in charge of the lookout in the dark, shouted, and in an instant, a large number of bows and arrows rained down, and at the same time, the miscellaneous footsteps were approaching quickly, and it was the infantry of Zhao State who was coming.

"Fight a bloody road," Li Xin ordered, and the few people who took the lead in exploring the road fought with Zhao Guo's infantry first, regardless of the danger of exposure.

Fan Yu was in a hurry, ignoring the fact that the rain of arrows might kill him at any time, he shouted loudly, and struggled to pull Ying Zheng down to the city wall, and then stretched out his hand, ready to pull Ying Zheng to the city wall.

"Do you think if you fall from this tower, will you fall to your death?"

"What do you mean?" Unable to react to Ying Zheng and Fan Yuzhi, Zhang Han went down with a knife to cut the rope, and Ying Zheng's body fell sharply, and there was no movement as soon as he heard the bang.

"You are looking for death" Fan Yuzhi was furious, and waved his knife to slash at Zhang Han, and with a bang, a bow and arrow shot by Zhao Guoren hit the blade, and the two quickly separated.

"It's better to take care of yourself first," Zhang Han sneered, and then flew up and jumped towards Zhao Guoren. Fan Yuzhi glanced at Yingzheng who was lying motionless on the ground downstairs, but there was no way to rescue him, so he could only kill him first.

Tonight's Yanmen attention is sure that no one sleeps, although the shouting and killing sound lasted for a short time and quickly subsided, but the tense atmosphere has been permeating the night sky for a long time.

A middle-aged man dressed as a general hurriedly walked up to the city tower, with a long beard and beautiful hair, and there was no lack of a trace of books in his majesty, all the soldiers of Zhao saw this person and bowed respectfully, calling out "General", this person was Li Mu, the general of Zhao who came to Yanmen Pass temporarily. Behind him was a man yawning with a sword, like a guard but not like a guard, and everyone complained when he saw it: "I don't sleep in the middle of the night, what are you tossing?" ”

The two came to the drum tower, where there were two corpses dressed in black, and a person dressed in a long robe and a civil official was inspecting, and when they saw Li Mu coming, they hurried to meet them.

Li Mu asked, "Yin Guanling can find out their identities, who are they?" “

The civil official respectfully took the two tokens: "Judging from the appearance of the tokens, weapons and crossbow machines found on their bodies, they should be the black wolf guards of the Qin State." ”

"Qin State? Black Wolf Guard? Did you catch any live mouths? Li Mu hurriedly asked.

The civil official shook his head: "We searched the square garden inside and outside the city gate for more than ten miles, but we didn't see any live mouths. Most of the people who came were well-trained and extremely capable of fighting, and most of them fled, and these two were left behind, and we paid a great price to kill them. These people all regard death as home, and they are not afraid of death, and it is difficult to catch them alive. ”

"The Qin State is undeniable, the defeat of Handan more than ten years ago has not disintegrated the courage and will of the Qin people, once the Qin State is strong again, it will definitely become a threat to all countries," Li Mu felt a feeling, and then asked the civil official, "What special person can you see in that group of people, a man about sixteen or seventeen years old." ”

The civil official shook his head: "The scene was chaotic at that time, and I didn't see any special characters. ”

Li Mu nodded: "Bury these people well, sacrifice their lives for the country, they are all heroes." ”

The civil official went down to deal with the aftermath, Li Mu walked to the city wall, looking at the vast area in the darkness, the starlight tonight is so bright, it makes people feel refreshed.

The man holding the sword beside him walked over, yawned and said, "How about it, let's take it off." I told you earlier, it's good for the distinguished guests to come in unknowingly, and they have to act in such a drama of wanting to indulge. Well, now I don't know if the important guest you are waiting for is here, and I don't know if he is alive or dead, if you accidentally get killed by your group of fools in Yanmenguan, it will be a big joke. ”

Li Mu sighed: "It's not easy to welcome in quietly, you don't know how frequent the White Fox's actions in this area are these days, if you let the king know that I am assisting the Qin State to find their lost eldest son behind his back, even if I don't deal with me, it will affect the trust between our monarchs and ministers, which is definitely not the blessing of the Zhao State." ”

Hugging the sword, he said: "Since you monarchs and ministers trust each other, why don't you tell the king about your idea of using the prince of Qin, maybe he will support you." ”

Li Mu shook his head: "It's difficult, although I don't know what the king's attitude towards the current Qin State is, from the White Fox Guard's unsparing efforts to clean up the black wolf these days, I can guess a few points." Qin and Zhao have the same roots, but their enmity is as deep as the sea. In the Battle of Changping, almost every Zhao person had a loved one die at the hands of the Qin people, even if the two countries have been at peace for nearly twenty years, this hatred may not have been wiped out by time. If this sentiment is exploited by people with good intentions at this time and becomes a tool to provoke another dispute between Qin and Zhao, it will not do Zhao any good except for the benefit of the fishermen of Wei who covet us. My choice to help the Qin State is based on this consideration, if that prince can really become a pawn for me to unite Qin against Wei or divide Qin and weaken Qin or even destroy Qin, then the benefit to my Zhao State is definitely a hundred times more than killing him. “

The sword-hugging man nodded: "It's worthy of being a general, it's really calculating, I can't think of such a good plan even if I think about it." It's a pity that I don't know which son is alive or dead now, and your plan probably won't work. “

Li Mu laughed: "Are you cursing me?" I have heard that those who are destined by heaven will be blessed by heaven, and if that person is really the chosen one, how can he die easily. Otherwise, even if I help him up, how can he compete for the throne with those princes of Qin in Xianyang, achieve the second Jijun Rebellion of Qin, and let Qin decline again. Let's wait to hear the good news. ”

The sword-bearer jokingly said, "Okay, I wish you good luck." ”

After a while, the sword-hugger asked again: "I still don't understand a little, can't Qin Guo secretly do such a secret thing as looking for Gongzi, why do you still have to tell you secretly, I'm not afraid that you will slaughter that Gongzi with one sword?" “

Li Mudao: "No matter how strong a fortress is, no matter how powerful a country is, it is by no means monolithic, even if it is peaceful on the surface, it is always full of struggle inside. No matter how confidential it is, once it involves its own use, what should be sold will still be sold. Otherwise, do you think that the White Fox Guard has the ability to predict the future, maybe the Black Wolf Guard has not yet left Xianyang City, and the news of the Qin State looking for the eldest son has already reached the hands of some people, not to mention anything else, at least the Qin State Zhonggong Cheng Jiao's faction will definitely be, they don't want this stumbling block to go back. ”

The sword-hugger nodded: "Well, it makes sense, it's good that you got the news as soon as possible and took a countermeasure, otherwise that boy would be really dangerous." “

Li Mu shook his head: "You are wrong, my news is not from them, the source of my news is a person you would never imagine, and he has already laid the groundwork for this plan, and contained the main threat, which makes me admire and fear his wisdom." ”

"There aren't many people who can make you say that, who is it?" The sword-hugger asked.

Li Mu smiled and said nothing.

Holding the sword, he said: "If you don't say it, forget it." To be honest, I just like to see you sell Guanzi, and the thief is a bit cheap. ”