The little man will never catch the attention of others in the torrent of history, unless he has something earth-shattering or becomes strong enough.

Jiang Rou is now a little person who is not strong enough, so her departure is as natural to Ye Qingchen, Gu Qi and others as the leaves on a tree falling in the wind. Only Ji Qingchen knows that Jiang Rou is not only a singer, but also a secret guard who has left the country, and Jiang Rou's departure is from his original intention.

It's just that for Ji Qingchen, Jiang Rou is just a passerby in his life, how can he take the other party to heart? Now what really bothered him was Gu Qi, because the great strategist had already resigned to him, saying that he would make the last trip and ask for the regret in his heart, and then he would go to King's Landing to make peace with him.

Ji Qingchen was not afraid that Gu Qi would lose his words and never go back, he knew that a madman like Gu Qi would make a heavy promise as long as he agreed. What he was worried about was Gu Qi's safety, because the place where Gu Qi was going to travel was not anywhere else, it was Yanmen Pass in Liaozhou, northeast of Dayan. Because of the battle between Dayan and Beirong ten years ago, Prince Dayan died in Yanmen Pass, and because of the battle between Dayan and Beirong three years ago, Ashina, the king of Beirong Khan, 61 Nuhachi, was shot by Xiang Ziyu, the god of Dayan, with an arrow under Yanmen Pass. So whether it is for Beirong or Dayan, Yanmen Pass is an ominous place, Gu Qi is the first national soldier-level strategist recruited by Ji Qingchen, how can he rest assured that such a person will go to Yanmen Pass?

It's just that Gu Qi has made up his mind, no matter how much Ji Qingchen and Ye Qingchen persuade them, they are unwilling to change their itinerary, Ji Qingchen saw that Gu Qi was bent on going his own way, and he was not easy to be strong, so he could only helplessly send Gu Qi out of the pavilion.

The day after Gu Qi left, Ji Qingchen's horse team also set off to continue south.

Because of the night attack of the Beirong cavalry outside Ningzhou City, even if there was a big contradiction between Ji Qingchen and Ningzhou General Liu Donglou, the important officials in the military and political circles of Ningzhou could not ignore the safety of the Nine Emperors, so the Ningzhou General's Mansion and the Assassin's Mansion did not dare to be careless, and specially sent a hundred Ningzhou cavalry to guard his safety along the way. And because there were more singers and smokers in the team, it was necessary to add an extra cart, two carts and more than 100 elite cavalry to walk out of Ningzhou City on the official road.

Ningzhou is only separated from King's Landing by the Northern Capital, but it was delayed in Ningzhou for a few days, Ji Qingchen didn't want to waste his time on the itinerary, and he didn't want to deal with the officials along the way, and after discussing with Ye Qingchen and Guo Lun, he decided to enter the Northern Capital after leaving Ningzhou, passing Chu County, then Bin County, and then going up to Qiaoshan to the Red Deer Ferry and then taking a boat into King's Landing, and the team only stopped at the pavilion along the way to rest, and was not allowed to enter the city to rest. It's just that Qiaoshan is lush with trees and green trees, and Ye Qingchen thinks that he needs to walk more than 100 miles of mountain roads to cross Qiaoshan to the red deer ferry on the bank of the Weishui River, and the number of his team is too large, so it is easy to be ambushed by the enemy on this mountain road.

Ji Qingchen did not deny this possibility, but he felt that his party had entered the realm of King's Landing, and Qiaoshan was the location of the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum, and the Yellow Emperor was the ancestor of the Dayan Ji clan. Besides, he said that Qiaoshan to the red deer ferry port could save two days, and there would be no more entertainment for officials from nearby states and counties along the way, and he wanted to go to Huangling to worship, so he decided to take this road.

In this way, after a long journey of more than a month, the team finally arrived at Qiaoshan at noon on this day.

"Your Highness, Qiaoshan has arrived!" When the team reached the bottom of the mountain, Guo Lun stepped forward and reminded softly.

Ji Qingchen reined in the war horse, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and saw the lush Qiaoshan in front of him, he suddenly thought of a strange statement about the world of Qiaoshan. It is said that Qiaoshan was originally just an ordinary dirt mountain in the Hexi Plateau, which is crisscrossed by ravines, and like the surrounding mountains, only miscellaneous trees and weeds grow, and it is withered and bleak and yellow every autumn. But since the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, this bridge mountain has given birth to thousands of pines and cypresses that are evergreen in all seasons, covering the mountains of more than ten miles in a radius of more than ten miles lushly. For more than 1,000 years, the pines and cypresses all over the mountain are towering and hugging, the branches are entangled, and the whole bridge mountain is covered tightly by the pine and cypress. But there is a mountain wind blowing, the pine waves all over the mountains are like an angry tide, and the sound is heard hundreds of miles away, and the rich rosin fragrance will fill the entire western plateau with the mighty long wind. Therefore, since the emperor was buried in Qiaoshan, Qiaoshan has become Qiaoling, and it is also called Huangling by the Yan people. Since Emperor Yanping moved south to set the capital in King's Landing, Qiaoshan Huangling has become a holy place for Yan people to worship.

Ji Qingchen sat on his horse and watched for a long time before ordering the team to rest in place, and he was going up the mountain to worship his ancestors.

After he gave the order, he and Ye Qingchen tidied up their clothes, prepared things for sacrifice, and began to go up to the Huangling Tomb in Qiaoshan Mountain.

Guo Lun received the order, and immediately selected eight people from the accompanying Ningzhou cavalry, divided them into four teams in pairs, and placed them on the four sides of the horse team a hundred meters away from the horse team to ensure the vigilance around the car team, and then led more than ten Yu Linlang to follow Ji Qingchen's side closely.

An hour later, everyone arrived in front of the Yellow Tomb.

I saw a piece of green and lush ancient cypress on the hillside, the mausoleum was simple and majestic and a little cool, facing a huge mound, there was a prayer platform built by Emperor Yanping in front of the mound, a big stone tablet was erected in front of the stage, and many stone tablets on both sides of the mausoleum were engraved with sacrificial texts.

When facing the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum, Ji Qingchen stood quietly in front of the monument, with mixed feelings in his heart.

The Ji family was founded for 800 years and established the Dayan Dynasty, which was able to maintain the immortality of the country in several wars, just because it had a great relationship with the Yellow Emperor. In addition to the fact that the Yellow Emperor is the ancestor of the Ji family, because he was born in the Xuanyuan Valley of Shangtai, the Xuanyuan Person, the Heavenly Turtle, the God of Xuanwu, the God of the West, and the root of the four spirits, which is precisely the foundation of the existence of the Yan State before, so the entire Yan people admired the Yellow Emperor very much, worshipped him, and worshiped him as their ancestors.

Therefore, the Yellow Emperor became the common ancestor of the entire Great Yan people.

With such a powerful ancestor like the Yellow Emperor who can give the Yan people confidence, the Yan people will boast that they have the blood of the Yellow Emperor flowing in their bodies, like the viscous blood of bronze, so that someone will always stand up at the moment of national crisis and save the Great Yan Dynasty on the verge of annihilation more than once.

After silently worshipping the Huangling, it was already late when he returned to the team at the bottom of the mountain again.

Ji Qingchen ordered Guo Lun to let everyone eat.

He just simply ate and drank something, and then confirmed the situation of the red deer ferry with Ye Qingchen and Guo Lun, and gave the order to continue moving forward.

Guo Lun received the order, and while he sent people to recall the sentry posts, he gave a military order to the resting cavalry, "All the soldiers get on their horses - the team sets off!" ”

Yu Linlang and the Ningzhou cavalry who were resting immediately got on their horses when they heard the military order, and took the initiative to divide into two squads in front and rear, and tightly guarded the two carts and Ji Qingchen in the middle and began to climb the mountain.

However, when the team was halfway up the mountain, Guo Lun suddenly felt an inexplicable killing machine attacking him, he couldn't help but be surprised, and was about to be born to remind everyone, when he saw a feather arrow cut through the silence on the mountain road and shot at Ji Qingchen at a speed like a bamboo.

"Click-" The white light flashed, and the long arrow was cut in two.

"There is an enemy attack - quasi-......," Guo Lun shouted loudly.

But before he finished his words, dozens of feather arrows shot at the same time from the place where the feather arrows were shot out just now and shot at Ji Qingchen and the team moving forward.

"Ahh

"Poof—snort—" The sound of feathered arrows piercing flesh resounded over the mountain road.

The sound of "plopping-" was endless, and the team suddenly fell into chaos, especially the Ningzhou cavalry, who had already been frightened by this inexplicable rain of arrows, and kept roaring and screaming with the neighing of war horses.

Guo Lun's heart tightened, he immediately rode a horse and rushed towards Ji Qingchen, only to find that because Yu Linlang's escort His Royal Highness was not injured, he was relieved, but at this time, more than a dozen Ningzhou cavalrymen had fallen off their horses with arrows, and the other Ningzhou cavalry also lost their composure.

"Quickly—protect Your Highness—" Guo Lun shouted angrily when he saw the Ningzhou cavalry in chaos, he used his spear to block the long arrows fired at him, and at the same time loudly ordered the panicked Ningzhou cavalry around him.

The Ningzhou cavalry was a little flustered by this sudden rain of arrows, and now when they heard Guo Lun's order, they stabilized their panicked minds, and immediately urged the horses to rush to Ji Qingchen, surrounding Ji Qingchen and the two carriages in the middle, and forming a human wall with their bodies.

It's just that the rain of arrows shot by the enemy on the opposite side is too dense, and the Ningzhou cavalry on the periphery of the human wall has already fallen to the ground one after another, with screams and moans from time to time. Even though the Ningzhou cavalry on the horse kept blocking the feather arrows shot at them with their long swords, many of them still fell to the ground and screamed.

At this time, Ji Qingchen looked at the source of the arrow rain, and found that it was in the dense forest ahead, and then looked at the feather arrows that killed the Ningzhou cavalry, and he suddenly ordered Guo Lun in a loud voice, "Captain Guo, they use crossbow arrows, which are only a hundred steps away from us, as long as you lead people to kill them, you can stop them!" ”

"No!" Guo Lun did not hesitate, immediately took the order, and shouted to the cavalry beside him, "Yulin cavalry stay to protect His Royal Highness the Nine, and the Ningzhou cavalry will kill me-"

After that, the horse rushed out first.

The Ningzhou cavalry guarding Ji Qingchen's side were enraged by the rain of arrows just now, their eyes were already full of bloodthirsty fierce light, and now when they heard Guo Lun's order, they followed closely behind Guo Lun and screamed and killed the enemy in the dense forest opposite.

Guo Lun and the Ningzhou cavalry had just rushed forward a few steps before the rain of arrows stopped abruptly, and dozens of assassins on war horses, dressed in black, and armed with iron swords, rushed out of the woods opposite.

Ji Qingchen, who was riding on a war horse, saw this group of assassins, his heart trembled, because when he saw the five-foot-long giant swords in the hands of the assassins, his heart suddenly thought of their true identity - the Eastern Wilderness Iron Sword!