Chen Tang is not a benevolent person, his character is a person who achieves great things, and he is not informal, otherwise he would not have coerced Gan Yanshou to send troops together in history, and he would not have sent troops to the Western Regions under false pretenses.

Conquering this pass is only the first step in the surprise attack on the Lie Country, and there is no room for mistakes, if these soldiers are released, there is really a possibility that the news will leak and cause the surprise attack to fail, because they can't take the right path, they can only take the dangerous road in the mountains, and the speed must be slow.

In order to ensure the surprise attack strategy, there is naturally no problem in sacrificing some soldiers of the enemy country.

Those soldiers of the Lieguo were all frightened, and at this time, Lu Zhonglian opened his mouth and said: "General Chen, it is not wise to kill and surrender indiscriminately, this place is not far from my Linchuan East County, send a soldier to find the Ximen Leopard County Guard, and ask him to send soldiers to garrison this city, and escort all these soldiers back, it will not take long, tomorrow morning, the soldiers of my new country will arrive." ”

Chen Tang pondered for a while, calculating the time spent in his heart, and after calculating that it would indeed not affect the surprise attack, he immediately sent soldiers, mounted horses, and went to Linchuan East County.

Not long after dawn, the army sent by Ximen Leopard came over and took over this pass, while Chen Tang led the soldiers and continued to march rapidly, heading towards the capital of the Emperor of Lieguo.

……

The other side.

Jing Ke was already riding a horse, out of the Qinglong Pass, galloping on the plain county, the endless plain area, continuing to the northeast, also bypassing the city occupied by the new country, taking the road to the east.

Jing Ke was followed by some people, all of whom were friends in the rivers and lakes, and this time in order to plan his assassination, these friends also made a lot of efforts, including spreading rumors and news, including bribing officials of the Lieguo.

The Lieguo is not like the new country, because it is the heavy agriculture and suppression of business in the Shang Dynasty, so the entire domestic exchange with foreign countries is not obvious, and the degree of commercial development is very low, although in the comprehensive national strength, there are also requirements for thorns, but generally speaking, each upgrade only needs to meet the minimum level of comprehensive national power points.

The comprehensive national strength looks at two, one is the lowest, for example, the comprehensive military strength and so on to 5 points, the second is to look at the total, all the comprehensive national strength to reach an index, for example, need to reach 30 points, then after meeting the minimum standard, there must be a very high index.

After a full day's travel, Jing Ke arrived at the border of the Lie Kingdom, and a city appeared in front of them.

"This city is called Huguan, it is the southernmost city of the Lieguo, if you want to enter the Lieguo, after all, you have to get a document here, or a customs clearance permit, and you also need a document to stay in the Lieguo for the time being, if you don't have a document in the territory of the Lieguo, if you are caught, you will be killed on the spot."

The man on the side said in Jing Ke's ear.

These countries in the Plains County did not have walls built, and many times they could bypass the city by breaking into the territory of the Lie Kingdom, so this rule was very important.

"After entering the city, go to the government to handle the paperwork."

Jing Ke asked, "Don't need to be dotted?" ”

"There is no need here, because the laws of the Lieguo are very strict, and the border officials dare not embarrass the people too much, and we are not fugitives, so we can naturally get the documents."

After the search, he entered the city, went to the county government to handle the documents, and then Jing Ke and the others went to the imperial capital of Lieguo.

The Imperial Capital of the Lieguo is located almost in the northeast corner of Pingyuan County, in the northeast of the entire Lieguo County, which is why it will be closer to the north from Linchuan East County.

Along the way, Jing Ke only saw many men plowing the fields, but the business caravans were pitifully few, and there were almost no caravans.

Although the people of these martyr countries do not seem to be as high in spirit as the people of the new country, and they are not as rich as them, the clothes they wear are still acceptable, and the farmland is large, and the food produced is sufficient, but there will be no famine or other situations.

Another day later, I came to the imperial capital.

Jing Ke and they stayed in an inn, and the two of them went to find their previous contacts and started to make a relationship, while Jing Ke lived in the inn.

He put the map of the new country he had obtained on the table, and took out the dagger from his baggage, the cold light on it was shining, and the blade was already completely soaked in poison, as long as he stabbed it, he would definitely die!

Going to the palace of the Lieguo is also to go through a lot of scrutiny, clothes and shoes, these will not be let go, if you want to bring this dagger in, it is still very difficult.

Jing Ke placed the dagger on the far left side of Kanyu, then rolled up the map, carefully rolled it, and placed it together.

Jing Ke waited patiently in the inn room, outside the window was the noisy street, through the window, you could see the wall of the palace in the distance.

It wasn't until late afternoon that the entourage came in.

"It's all arranged, it will take a few days, and you will be announced to enter the palace."

Jing Ke nodded: "Thank you both." ”

"The rest is up to you, we can only help you get here."

"I understand."

……

Two days later, in the evening.

"General, there is Hengniu Mountain in front."

Chen Tang looked at a horizontal mountain range in front of him, this was the last big mountain in the northeast of Pingyuan County, after crossing it, it was basically a flat road, plus the distance between the surrounding cities was far away, they could go all the way directly to the Imperial Capital of the Lieguo Kingdom.

"Go up the mountain."

The soldiers climbed up the mountain, Chen Tang sent scouts to probe forward, after crossing this mountain, not far away, there was a city, this city was stuck at the entrance, from the three directions after the north of Hengniu Mountain, this city can be connected.

In other words, this city is the penultimate level of Chen Tang's surprise attack, and if they can take this city, they will be able to go straight to the imperial capital.

But if they can't take this city, the surprise attack can only be stuck here, and they can't bypass it, Chen Tang They don't have horses, only horses are in this city.

Again, after bypassing, soldiers will often be sent to patrol this city, in case they find Chen Tang and them, and then they will be attacked by the enemy, and it will be over.

"General, this city is Hengniu Pass, this area originally did not belong to the Lieguo country, but a small country barbarian, such as this Hengniu Pass, in fact, it is a small barbarian tribe in the mountains, and later the Lieguo was destroyed and became the territory of the Lieguo country, and this town guarding the Hengniu Pass is not a barbarian tribe, but a small country attached to the Lieguo."

"Why is that?"

Chen Tang looked at Lu Zhonglian.

Lu Zhonglian said with a smile: "The general doesn't know, the expansion of the Lie Kingdom is too fast, and the number of troops is too small, such a large territory, if you send your own soldiers to guard it, there are too many places for the rest of the mercenaries, wouldn't it be a waste to put the troops here?" Therefore, the Lieguo directly asked the small countries that were vassals of themselves to send troops to guard here, after all, it was a dangerous pass, it was easy to defend, and it could also save troops. ”

"I see."