Hangu Pass.

When the mighty iron cavalry came to the city gate, a general guarding the city gate slowly stepped forward to ask.

After confirming the identity of the comer, under the signal of the general, all the Qin guards, officials, and people who came in and out of the city gate avoided aside.

"Yanguo carriage? You see, it seems to be an envoy of the Yan Kingdom! ”

"What's going on! In the past, the envoys of the Yan State did not have an iron cavalry escort to the Qin State, how could there be so many iron cavalry escorts now. ”

"I don't know! Isn't something big going on? ”

Outside the city gate, one by one, surnamed Qin Guobai, stood aside and discussed in a whisper, looking at the iron cavalry and the carriage of the envoys of Yan State who walked in front of them.

Some scholars and merchants in the crowd also looked at each other and whispered with curiosity on their faces.

And on the tower of the city gate.

After hearing the report from under the tree, the general of Hangu Pass got up and walked down the city gate from the castle tower.

Hangu Pass is known as the first Xiongguan in the world, and it has blocked the joint attacks of the vassal states for the Qin State several times, and the reason why it is so large is naturally inseparable from its dangerous geographical location and the huge river in front of Hangu Pass.

The walls of Hangu Pass are built along the river, almost all of the flat land under the mountain range, and except for a dangerous pass, there are huge towering high tombs on the left and right.

Under dusk.

The guards of Hangu will soon come to the city gate with their cronies.

As the carriage slowly stopped, the guard glanced at the carriage of the envoys of the Yan Kingdom behind him, and then turned his head to look at the carriage in front.

After seeing Bai Yan get out of the carriage, the guard slowly raised his hand to salute.

"General White!"

The guard general is the person Bai Yan knows, and Yang Yan, who has saved his life.

When Bai Yan saw Yang Yan, he hurriedly stepped out of the carriage and saluted Yang Yan because of the smile on his face.

"General Yang!"

Bai Yan was not surprised to see Yang Yan in Hangu Pass, when he attacked Zhao, Yang Yan was a little anxious, although he picked up a life, he almost caused a catastrophe.

When he returned to Xianyang, Qin State, he had been recuperating from his injuries, and after his injuries were healed, he was demoted and transferred to Hangu Pass as a guard.

These are all said by General Yang when Yanmen is good and there is no city, and before coming to Qin, General Yang also instructed Bai Yan to stay for one night if he hurried to Hangu Pass.

"Long time no see, General Yang is fine!"

Bai Yan saluted Yang Yan again.

In this era, it is normal to compile rituals, and with the higher the status, the more frequent the rituals, and no one wants to repeat the mistakes of their ancestors, because one less ritual, they will be misunderstood by others as despised and have a bad reputation.

When he was young, he was in the Qi Kingdom, and at that time, Bai Yan's status was low, and he didn't need to make rituals at all, he was very casual.

But not now!

Even for people who are very familiar with each other, just like Yang Yan in front of him, even if he has the grace to save his life, Bai Yan must pay great attention to these details.

"I've been doing nothing in this Hanguguan all day, so don't mention it!"

Yang Yan smiled and raised his hand to return the salute, then shook his head.

While speaking, Yang Yan also saw the back of the convoy, the envoys of the Yan Kingdom.

"This is Jing Ke, the envoy of the Yan Kingdom!"

Bai Yan saw Jing Ke and turned around to introduce Yang Yan.

"Qin Chen Yang Yan, I've seen Yan Envoy!"

Yang Yan heard Bai Yan's introduction, and turned his head to Jing Ke to salute.

"Yan envoy Jing Ke, I've seen General Yang!"

Jing Ke held the envoy of Yan Guo and returned the salute to Yang Yan.

"After a long journey, my father has already written to Yan that Yan has prepared a residence for General Bai and Yan Envoy! Please! ”

After Yang Yan finished the salute, he glanced at Jing Ke, then turned his head to look at Bai Yan and made a gesture of please.

Bai Yan did not refuse, raised his hand to salute, and after the salute, he followed Yang Yan to the residence.

As the gateway of the Qin State and the most important pass of the Qin State, Hangu Pass naturally stationed a large number of defenders, and in the pass, some of the household registrations of the people selected at all levels were also relocated to Hangu Pass.

This also leads to the fact that although Hangu Pass is not as good as the city, restaurants and post stations can be found everywhere, but you can also find places to eat and drink everywhere.

Yang Yan lived in the camp at the foot of Guannei Mountain, although he could take Bai Yan there, but it was inconvenient for him to accompany Yan and his party.

Therefore, Yang Yan could only place Bai Yan and the others in some simple wooden houses in Guannei, which was really rare, after all, Hangu Pass was not a city at this time.

Bai Yan naturally didn't care.

And Jing Ke has no opinion, although Qin Wuyang looks down on the wooden house a little, but seeing that it is getting late, he also knows that he has no choice, if he does not live here, he can only sleep in the carriage tonight.

On the castle of Hangu Pass.

Under the wooden house above the city gate, Yang Yan ordered someone to bring the prepared wine and meat to be presented.

"The food of the Qin State, don't dislike it with the Yan envoy!"

Yang Yan looked at the chicken, pork, fish, mutton, and some corn that were sent to the wooden table in front of the envoys of the Yan Kingdom in turn, and said with a smile.

The Qin Kingdom is mostly mountainous, river and hilly, and it is not as close to the sea as the Yan Kingdom.

"Why dislike it, it's so hearty and delicious, it's heart-wrenching."

Jing Ke smiled and saluted back.

Looking at the table of good dishes and meat in front of him, Jing Ke heard Yang Yan's words, not only sighed in his heart, before he met Gongzi Dan, he was in Yan Kingdom, and it was rare to eat meat.

Until he met Gongzi Dan, Gongzi Dan not only gave him status and wealth, but also gave him the beauty he once did not deserve, and good wine and food were indispensable every day.

Along the way, the officials of the Qin State, who were unattainable in the past, treated him with courtesy, and even the generals of the Qin State in front of him respected him very much.

These were things he had never dared to imagine.

Jing Ke was more and more grateful to Gongzi Dan in his heart.

The person who is a confidant dies, and Jing Ke knows that the only thing he can repay Gongzi Dan is to go to Xianyang to assassinate Yingzheng.

"Hahahaha~! Swallow makes a wonderful person! ”

Yang Yan looked at Jing Ke's appearance, and also laughed heartily, picked up the wine jug beside him, poured wine for the wine lord, and then picked it up and faced Bai Yan and Jing Ke.

"Please!"

Yang Yan toasted.

If this wine and food were in the city, it would not be difficult to arrive, but in this Hangu Pass, Yang Yan had spent a lot of thought, and the remaining meat had been sent to the camp to make soup for the soldiers.

"Please!"

"Please!

”

Bai Yan and Jing Ke also picked up the wine jue and said to Yang Yan, and then drank all the wine in the wine jue.

The afterglow of the sunset should shine on the head of the city of Hangu Pass, and looking along the position of Bai Yan here, the scenery is full of golden rivers and mountains, and the scenery is unique, which makes people feel particularly comfortable.

Yang Yan and Jing Ke chatted about some things about Yan Kingdom.

After all, Jing Ke is an envoy of Yan State, and the person who comes is a guest, Yang Yan will naturally take care of it, at this time all the officials know the truth, after all, the current care is also a friendship, after Jing Ke returns to Yan Country in the future, he may not know what the children of the Yang family will go to Yan Country in the future.

Jing Ke and Yang Yan talked eloquently.

When chatting.

Jing Ke was drinking with Yang Yan while asking about the Qin State.

Jing Ke was also polite, after all, he didn't want to know anything, and he knew that Yang Yan, who was an official of the Qin State, would not tell him the secrets of the Qin State, this Yan envoy.

However, to Jing Ke's surprise, Yang Yan suddenly fell silent when he heard his words.

"In the past few days, a major event has indeed happened in the Qin Kingdom!"

Yang Yan sighed, then slowly turned his head and looked at Bai Yan.

"A few days ago, the eldest son of the right prime minister, Changping Jun, was assassinated in the state of Chu, and his head was cut off, and his body has now been sent back to Xianyang."

Yang Yan told the matter of Minuma.

As the guard general of Hangu Pass, he naturally knew about the death of Mi Nu, after all, the body that was transported back to Mi Nu from Chu also had to pass through Han Gu Pass.

Yang Yan's face was gloomy, recalling that when he first learned about this incident, Yang Yan was covered in cold sweat, and he didn't dare to imagine that Mi Nuan was actually assassinated in the Chu State.

You must know that it is the eldest son of Changping Jun, who was originally the one who wanted to inherit the mantle of Changping Jun, but now, he died in Chu State so inexplicably, that is Chu State, the place where Changping Jun's bloodline comes from, who can believe that Mi Nuan will be killed in that place in Chu State.

"What, the son of Changping-kun, killed?"

Jing Ke was surprised when he heard Yang Yan's words.

The other Yan State officials behind the wooden table also looked at each other, their faces stunned.

They didn't expect this to happen.

"Is there any news from Xianyang now?"

When Bai Yan heard Yang Yan's words, his brows furrowed slightly.

This is all pretended by Bai Yan, Bai Yan is not surprised by the death of Mi Nu at all, if he really wants to say an accident, he didn't expect that the hatred of the Zhang family is so strong, how long has it been, and he killed Mi Nush.

It is estimated that after finding the enemy, he did not have the slightest soft-hearted heart and did it directly.

Thinking that Zhang Huang had said that Zhang Liang's father Zhang Ping was dead, Bai Yan guessed that in addition to Zhang's reputation, it should be this incident that stimulated Zhang's family, so that after Zhang's family learned about it, he would kill Minuma to vent his anger regardless of it.

Bai Yan smiled in his heart.

I didn't expect the Zhang family to be able to kill Mi Nush in the Chu State, and it seems that the Zhang family's connections and power still exist.

"There is no news yet, but I heard that the king is furious and has sent envoys to the state of Chu!"

Yang Yan shook his head, looked at the wine lord, and then looked at the pass outside the city.

"I don't know if I can find out! If not, it is estimated that this matter will cause soldiers! ”

Yang Yan didn't care about Yan Envoy Jing Ke.

In Yang Yan's eyes, even if he didn't say it, Jing Ke and other envoys of the Yan Kingdom would know about it, so it was better to say it now.

If these envoys of Yan State suddenly repented, they would have taken a little less and regretted Yan Guo earlier, so he could keep Bai Yan here, and then immediately sent a letter to Xianyang, maybe he could have the opportunity to go to Yanmen with Bai Yan, lead the troops to attack Yan, and then make meritorious contributions.

"Probably not!"

Bai Yan shook his head.

Yang Yan, Jing Ke and the others suddenly looked at Bai Yan with a puzzled expression.

Bai Yan also sensed everyone's gaze and explained.

"The person who can do it in the Chu State, has the ability, and succeeds in killing the Minuma must not be a small clan, if the Chu State does not want to fight with the Qin State, all the forces will investigate it clearly."

Bai Yan said.

In fact, what Bai Yan wanted to express was, don't underestimate Changping Jun too much, in Chu State, Changping Jun's connections are far beyond what people can imagine.

But Bai Yan naturally wouldn't express this sentence.

"Yes!"

Yang Yan heard Bai Yan's words, thought for a while, and nodded slowly.

Although it was a pity in his heart that he couldn't let Yan Envoy bluff back, he also knew that Bai Yan had a point.

At this moment, Yang Yan couldn't have dreamed of it.

He wanted to bluff the Yan envoy who went back, the purpose of this trip to Qin was to assassinate Ying Zheng, and he didn't say anything about going back at all.

"It seems that the Qin State is not peaceful either!"

Jing Ke said.

Yang Yan looked at Jing Ke and didn't refute, but he also remembered another thing.

"By the way, there's one more thing."

Yang Yan remembered something and turned his head to look at Bai Yan.

"I heard that General Chu Cheng's clansmen, all of whom traveled abroad some time ago, have been killed, even the branches that have blood with the Chu clan are no exception!"

Yang Yan opened his mouth to remind Bai Yan.

The warriors who were slaughtered before had already begun to take revenge, so Bai Yan was more careful.

Although it was Chu Li's betrayal of those scholars that led to the tragic death of those scholars, if there was a chance, those scholars would definitely try their best to take revenge on Bai Yan.

"Is it the hand of the thief?"

Bai Yan asked, looking at Yang Yan.

Yang Yan shook his head.

"It should be, but the strange thing is that General Chu Cheng did not see Xianyang, but let all the clansmen hide in the clan mansion."

Yang Yan said this, puzzled, only felt very strange, but he didn't know what was strange.

Under the eaves.

Looking at the sunset, Bai Yan ignored General Chu Yan's affairs, and General Chu Yan's fate was already destined to not be much better.

Now Bai Yan is more concerned about how to use Changping Jun's hand to destroy the Zhang family.

As for whether the anger will be drawn to his body, Bai Yan is not worried about this.

Although Ran Wu was a person that Bai Yan trusted very much, Bai Yan still did not tell Ran Wu about Changping Jun.

And the conspiracy and plot between him and Cho You at the beginning, these Ran Wu didn't know, Ran Wu was only responsible for killing, from the beginning, Ran Wu would not investigate these things, this is also where Bai Yan is most at ease with Ran Wu.

Ran Wu knows how to advance and retreat, and knows that if he shouldn't investigate, he will never investigate.

"General Bai, under this dusk, the scenery is pleasant, I heard that General Bai's swordsmanship is outstanding, I don't know if I can use this wine to give advice."

Suddenly, a sentence sounded, which made Bai Yan return to his thoughts, turn his head, and follow the sound, and saw Qin Wuyang staring at him with a fiery face.

This look is not the first time Bai Yan has seen him along the way.

Bai Yan knew early on that Qin Wuyang had always wanted to take the opportunity to fight him, to defeat him, make him ugly, and lose his name.

When the time comes, everyone in the world will praise Qin Wuyang.

And he'll be laughed at.

At first, Bai Yan could feel it, but he didn't understand why Qin Wuyang wanted to fight, but he kept holding back, and he was very puzzled by what Jing Ke had come up with behind Qin Wuyang's back.

It wasn't until now, looking at Yang Yan beside him and looking at the Qin generals around him, that Bai Yan understood that he was worried that he would refuse, so he would pick a place with a lot of people.

"Wuyang, it's the time for wine, why do you compete!"

Jing Ke turned his head, frowned, looked at Qin Wuyang with a dissatisfied expression, and after finishing speaking, he glanced at Bai Yan.

"General Bai just drank a lot, Wuyang was born a villain?"

Jing Ke scolded softly.

On the surface, although he was scolding Qin Wuyang and asking Qin Wuyang if he planned to take advantage of others' weakness, it actually fell into Bai Yan's ears, but it was very easy to arouse dissatisfaction.

If you come to another person, it is estimated that you will stand up directly and agree to the competition without hesitation, after all, everyone is drinking together, and no one will drink much, if Qin Wuyang wants to compete, if he doesn't accept it, it will make people laugh if it spreads.

"General Bai don't be surprised, Wuyang is young, he is drunk for a while, and his words are lost!"

Jing Ke turned around and explained to Bai Yanji as a Yan envoy and a guest.

Qin Wuyang also stood up at this time, and in front of everyone, he came to everyone and saluted Bai Yanji.

"Wuyang is inconsiderate, General Bai should not be blamed! Take him to the day when General Bai has never drunk, and Wuyang will seek advice again! ”

Qin Wuyang bent down and saluted and said slowly, his tone slow.

Although it was an apology, it also made Yang Yan frown slightly.

At this moment, Yang Yan sensitively noticed that the eyes of those soldiers around him had obviously been affected by Qin Wuyang's words.

"Then look for another day!"

Bai Yan looked at Qin Wuyang, raised his hand with a smile, and slowly saluted.

The voice fell.

Jing Ke and Qin Wuyang were both shocked, but they didn't expect Bai Yan to really care about face, and he was not even afraid of being laughed at.

This!

！

Just when Jing Ke and Qin Wuyang were caught off guard because of Bai Yan's words, Bai Yan's voice sounded again.

"Bai Yan's drinking is small, but he is worried that one is not good, and it will hurt the Yan envoy, this is a loss of etiquette, and if it spreads, he will laugh at me Qin Guo for being rude!"

Bai Yan looked at Qin Wuyang, his eyes were straight and there was no trace of dodging.

This is what it looks like.

In an instant, the young Qin Wuyang stared at Bai Yan with wide eyes and full of anger.

What is called an accidental injury to him.

Will he Qin Wuyang be afraid of pain?

In Yan Kingdom, from childhood to adulthood, no matter whether he was the same age or an older person, no one dared to say this to him.

"General Bai's words, Qin Wuyang has to give it a try, the sword is ruthless, if General Bai has the ability, Qin Wuyang will die, and there will be no complaints, but I hope that if General Bai has a mistake, don't blame Wuyang is!"

Qin Wuyang looked at Bai Yan breathlessly, and at this moment, in his mind, he wanted to kill Bai Yan immediately.

Next to the city road.

The four iron cavalry soldiers guarding the side, hearing Qin Wuyang's words, glanced at each other, and then showed a strange smile.

Others hadn't seen it, but they had seen the general's swordsmanship with their own eyes.

In their eyes, Qin Wuyang's actions were undoubtedly looking for death.

"Dancing Sun!"

Jing Ke glared at Qin Wuyang angrily, this time he was indeed a little angry, in the original plan, it would be good to have a simple competition, but at the moment, Qin Wuyang was obviously not going to use a wooden sword, but was planning to use a real sword.

The sword has no eyes, Jing Ke just wants to find out Bai Yan's martial intentions, and prepare for killing Bai Yan in the Xianyang court in the future, this is not the place to kill Bai Yan.

"Humph!"

Qin Wuyang saw Jing Ke's eyes, full of anger, but also a little restrained.

After all, looking at Jing Ke, Qin Wuyang still respects him very much, whether it is martial arts or courage.

"General Bai, if you really want to compete, Jing Ke thinks that the wooden sword is enough, after all, under the wooden sword, you can also see the victory or defeat, and my Yan State and Qin State are from an alliance, not an enmity."

Jing Ke turned around, sighed, looked at Bai Yan and suggested, even worried that Bai Yan was more serious, Jing Ke also deliberately moved out of Yan and Qin.

Yang Yan knelt behind the wooden table, watched this scene with great interest, glanced at Jing Ke, and then looked at the young but provocative Yan envoy.

Turning his head to look at Bai Yan beside him, Yang Yan was not worried about Bai Yan at all.

After all, Yang Yan was outside the city, and once on that night, by the bonfire, he saw Bai Yan with blood all over his body, even his face and hair.

How strong Bai Yan is, Yang Yan doesn't know, but Yang Yan knows that Bai Yan is definitely not bad.

Under the eaves.

Under Jing Ke's gaze, Bai Yan raised his hand.

"Naturally!"

Bai Yan said.

This is also to tell Jing Ke that Fang Cai's words, he Bai Yan also agrees very much.

Looked at.

Jing Ke breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, Qin Wuyang looked happy, and his vicious eyes looked at Bai Yan deadly.

A moment later.

Under the gaze of Yang Yan, Jing Ke, and the other two Yan Chen, as Qin Shu sent the wooden sword used to practice in battle, Bai Yan and Qin Wuyang got up and walked to the city road with a wooden sword each.

At this moment, in the city road, although all the Qin soldiers around were standing guard, they actually looked sideways.

Qin Wuyang shook his wooden sword in full view of everyone and sneered.

"Lighter!"

After speaking, Qin Wuyang looked up ten steps away, stepped back from the official uniform of the Qin State, and wore Bai Yan in black.

Remembering that when he was in Yan Kingdom, no one had ever been his opponent, and remembering the feeling when he was killing, Qin Wuyang slowly held the hilt of the wooden sword in both hands, the tip of the sword was aimed at Bai Yan, and his eyes showed fierce intent.

Bai Yan naturally also saw Qin Wuyang's eyes.

Under the illumination of the sunset at dusk, under the gaze of everyone, Bai Yan stood in the middle of the city road, slowly holding the wooden sword in his hand with his backhand, sticking it behind him, and then slowly looked at Qin Wuyang.

"How weird?"

Jing Ke suddenly frowned slightly, he had traveled to the rivers and lakes for so many years, and he had never seen such a posture of raising a sword.