The younger brother of the First Emperor

Chapter 233: A woman dies for her confidant, and the Qin Dynasty marches eastward!
Ying Bai knelt down, kowtowed, and leaned at Ying Chengjiao's feet, begging:
"Please let me finish my words, Second Young Master."

Being able to be a palace maid, Ying Bai's figure and appearance were among the best among the women in the world.

The half-dressed beauty deliberately raised her hips, raised her pale face, and swayed her watery eyes.

She looks so pitiful, and even has a morbid beauty.

The animal skin shook again, and Ying Chengjiao could hardly suppress the evil fire in his heart.

"Just to say a few more words for your king, are you willing to sell your body? You are a Qin girl, not a Zhao girl!" The young man had an urge to unfold the animal skin and place it in front of Ying Bai.

Let this stupid woman take a good look.

How did the king, whom she was willing to sell her body to protect, treat her?

"Speak!" The boy resisted the urge: "Speak now and get out!"

Ying Bai kowtowed in thanks, his words flowing quickly and clearly:

“As the Second Young Master, all you have to do is return to Xianyang.

“Even if the Second Young Master himself does not want to fight for the throne, he will be pushed into it by those with ulterior motives.

“The Second Young Master once said that the tree wants to be still but the wind does not stop.

"I think this sentence is very appropriate at this time..."

Ying Bai spoke word by word.

Bai Qi, who had inadvertently intruded into a coup d'état that was not yet in progress, nodded repeatedly as he listened.

What this woman said was exactly what he wanted to warn Ying Chengjiao, and it was even better than what he said.

Father, like son.

In Bai Qi's opinion, Master Cheng Jiao usually doesn't need anyone to remind him, and he can figure out things like this without having to think too much.

But now, Prince Chengjiao is overwhelmed by the information that the king is seriously ill and needs someone to wake him up.

Ying Chengjiao's face was gloomy, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was in a very bad mood.

The animal skin in his hand was shaking less and less, but it never stopped and was about to be crushed.

"...The eunuch has finished speaking." Ying Bai finished speaking and looked at Ying Chengjiao pleadingly: "Please don't return to Qin, Second Young Master."

"Get out of here if you're done talking." Ying Chengjiao grabbed Ying Bai's arm and pulled him up, then threw him towards the car curtain.

Ying Bai was dragged across the floor of the carriage and fell in front of the curtained door.

The bloodless hand hit the car curtain due to inertia.

The car curtain is lifted.

The sun shines in.

Shining on Ying Bai's hand, the blue veins were extremely obvious on the white skin.

The car curtain rebounded and swayed.

The sunlight disappears and reappears.

The sickly white hands alternated between light and dark.

"Second Young Master." Ying Bai slowly half stood up.

His hands moved with his body, shrinking into the car, which went from bright to dark.

The woman reached into the snow-white underwear again, slowly pulled open the white underwear, and said with red eyes:

"The king did not kill the late king. The king only forced the emperor to abdicate. He did not intend to kill his father."

Ying Chengjiao lowered his gaze to the canyon that was slowly revealing its scenery and gradually losing its mystery, and said in a cold voice:

"Put on your clothes. I have no sexual interest in your body."

The woman's hands did not stop, the corners of her mouth curled up, and she laughed miserably:
"The eunuch knows."

The little lotus showed its pointed tip and trembled, as if it was about to burst out.

A flash of dark gold dazzled Ying Chengjiao's eyes.

Handle...Ying Chengjiao's mind automatically retrieved the name based on the dark gold shape.

This thought just flashed through my mind.

Ying Bai grabbed the dark gold with his backhand, raised it one foot higher, and stabbed it into the chest.

Pale tender flesh, dark gold handle.

Ying Chengjiao's pupils dilated.

He exerted force with his feet and flashed in front of Ying Bai, as agile as a monkey.

He held Ying Bai's wrist, which was so thin that it could not be grasped with one hand.

I don't know how such a thin wrist can burst out with such strength to pierce all the way to the handle.

"The Second Young Master is truly virtuous." Ying Bai murmured, "Given the King's character, how could he keep me here?"

"It's so stupid!" Ying Chengjiao placed his hand on Ying Bai's chest, sensing the blood under the skin and judging where the knife would land.

If it hadn't hit the heart, maybe it could have been saved.

"If the king didn't trust you, he wouldn't have sent you to deliver the letter to me!" While examining Ying Bai's body, Ying Chengjiao used words to arouse Ying Bai's desire to survive.

Ying Bai struggled to hold his other hand in front of him, trying to grasp the dark gold hilt and pull it out:

“Second Young Master.

"I went to the Imperial Medical Bureau to get the Yangqi Pills. I was the one who killed the late king. Your Majesty has nothing to do with it."

"Bitch!" Ying Chengjiao took away Ying Bai's restless hand: "You are just a worthless life, not worthy of my grandfather's life!"

Ying Bai looked at the Second Young Master and stammered:

"If the Second Young Master kills me and takes my head back to Qin, there might be a chance for him to become king.

“The Second Young Master doesn’t even want to kill me, so how can he fight with the Crown Prince when he returns?
“If you insist on returning to Qin, then you should draw this knife and take my head with you.

"Use my blood as a guide to help the Second Young Master become king.

"If not... Second Young Master, the King does not want you to die, and I, the eunuch, do not want to see you in the afterlife."

Ying Chengjiao was stunned.

It hit him right in the heart and there was no way to save him.

Even if Bian Que were reborn, he couldn't save her.

He slowly grasped the dark gold hilt on Ying Bai's chest:
"Are you ready to die?"

He looked at Ying Bai's pretty face which couldn't get any paler, and said softly:
"Would you like to say a few more words?"

When the knife is pulled out, blood gushes out and the person dies quickly.

Ying Bai raised his lips with difficulty and said weakly:
"Your Majesty, are you really asking me to stay in Qi and not return to Qin?"

"Really." Ying Chengjiao nodded: "You are the person the king trusts the most."

"I am the person the king trusts the most..." Ying Bai murmured, his lifeless pupils blooming with a strange light: "Didn't the Second Young Master lie to me?"

Ying Chengjiao picked up the animal skin and made a move to unfold it in front of Ying Bai:
"look by youself."

Ying Bai closed his eyes:
"The king said that only the second young master can see Wang Ling...

"I believe in the Second Young Master. He is a gentleman and a gentleman will not lie.

"Second Master, please draw your sword."

The woman's mouth curled up.

[The Second Young Master is truly virtuous...]
Ying Chengjiao threw away the animal skin and quickly drew his sword.

Blood spurted onto the roof of the car.

Tick-tock, tick-tock
The convoy set off and headed west, leaving spots of bright red along the way.

On the top of Linzi City, the seventh princess Tian Yan, who had not seen Ying Chengjiao for a long time, stood there.

She watched the convoy driving out of the city gate until it disappeared from her sight.

"Princess, please return to the palace." The personal maid Xuanyi said carefully: "Yingzi will come back."

Tian Yan's face is more beautiful than last year, but also thinner.

The girl, who had just tasted the sweetness of love for the first time, lowered her head as she was warned by her teacher.

The words "home" and "country" are constantly entangled in my heart.

Her father didn't believe that Qin would attack, but she did.

Her teacher Meng Yu never missed a thing.

But...what can she do even if she knows?
What can she, a woman, do in this chaotic world?

She didn't know, and her teacher Meng Yu didn't know either.

In the evening, in Mengjia Village outside Linzi City.

Meng Yu and his wife lay on the thatched roof, watching the setting sun getting bigger and bigger, and the red sunset glow in the west.

"It's so beautiful." said Meng Yu's wife.

"Yes." Meng Yu agreed with a smile
The sun sets in the west, the old Qin ruler is gone, and the sky is red. The second year of Qin Prince Chu, the second month, the ninth day.

The Qin general Duke Biao led his army to capture two cities of the State of Han.

Then, taking advantage of the period when the main force of the Zhao army was continuously transported to the State of Yan, they attacked Yuci, Xincheng (Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province), and Langmeng (Yangqu County, Shanxi Province) of Zhao.

In just two months, he captured twenty-three cities from Han and Zhao.

Although the veteran general Lian Po had long been on guard against Qin's eastward advance.

But without sufficient troops, prevention is useless.

This time, the Qin State launched a massive attack on Zhao. The veteran general Lian Po was so short of troops that he even organized women into an army and sent them to the battlefield.

Eight thousand Zhao women were killed and more than 20,000 were injured.

After the female soldiers fought against the Qin State for the first time, the Zhao State launched a policy of training female soldiers and became the only country among all the nations where the entire population was truly a soldier.

At this critical moment, Zhao Wangdan did not blame the veteran, but praised him highly.

He said that apart from the veteran generals, no one else could stop the Qin army under such circumstances.

King Dan of Zhao, who originally wanted to continue attacking Yan in one go, quickly sent envoys to negotiate peace with Yan and also brought in Wei and Han, which were also part of the Three Jins.

King Xi of Yan was unwilling at first.

Qin's sudden move eastward was a disaster for Zhao, but a good thing for Yan.

Qin State didn't border Yan State, so how could it attack Yan State? Qin State's target was Zhao State!
As long as Yan State can hold Zhao State's main force within its territory.

The vast and empty homeland of Zhao State was like a naked beauty in front of Qin State, and Qin State could play with it however it wanted.

By then, how could the State of Zhao not perish?

Ju Wu, the Taifu of Yan State, was extremely anxious and kept telling King Xi of Yan the truth that if one's lips are gone, the other's teeth will be cold.

Once Zhao was destroyed by Qin, Yan would change from being a neighbor of Zhao to being a neighbor of Qin.

With Qin's current style, it will definitely destroy Yan.

King Xi of Yan had different ideas from Ju Wu.

If Qin conquers Zhao, the main force of Zhao will definitely return to provide support.

The State of Yan could not only recover its lost territory, but also beat the downtrodden State of Zhao.

Maybe in this war to destroy Zhao, Yan will gain more benefits than Qin, and it is not certain who will destroy whom by then!

Ju Wu cited the Battle of Changping as an example.

It is said that Qin State had caused Shangdang County of Han State to lose contact with Han State and was about to take over Shangdang County.

At this time, the prefect of Shangdang County offered Shangdang County to Zhao, and Zhao accepted it.

The reason why Zhao State lost its men in the Battle of Changping was because it seized Shangdang from Qin State.

If Yan State takes advantage of Qin State, it will suffer the same fate as Zhao State.

King Yan sneered.

The counterargument was that the Battle of Changping was able to be fought because Qin's troops were not damaged.

If Qin destroyed Zhao, would its military forces not be damaged?
Didn’t Qin need soldiers and time to annex Zhao?

Doesn’t Qin need soldiers and time to digest Zhao?

With this much time, the State of Yan could develop rapidly relying on the land it had seized, and by then it would be able to swallow up the State of Qin in one gulp.

If it were just the Zhao envoy and Grand Tutor Ju Wu, it would not be enough to make King Xi of Yan change his mind.

But, people came from Wei and Han.

Tang Ju, the envoy of Wei, and Han Fei, the envoy of Han, clearly expressed the attitude of the King of Wei and the King of Han - to unite and attack Qin.

If Yan State does not consider the overall situation, then Wei State and Han State will have no choice but to attack Yan together with Zhao State for the sake of the overall situation.

During the period of flood control, Qin still had enough troops to attack Han and Zhao.

Needless to say, South Korea, which was stunned by the defeat, already wanted to kneel down and sing "Conquer".

The Wei State was shocked to see the two brothers being beaten.

If the first country Qin attacked was Wei instead of Han, Wei would have lost land.

The exaggerated fighting power of Qin State brought the Three Jins together again.

King Xi of Yan knew that peace talks were inevitable, but he absolutely could not do so under such threats.

Once this precedent is set, won't the State of Yan be at the mercy of others in the future?

Han Fei was a stutterer, so he used a pen instead of his mouth to write a scroll of bamboo slips, which was read out to him by his followers in the court of the State of Yan.

The general idea is that when the five countries forced Qin, Yan also participated.

If Yan does not negotiate peace now, but instead wants to attack Zhao together with Qin, then after Qin destroys Zhao, won’t it remember the scene when Yan forced Qin in the first place?

If Qin wanted to attack Yan without Zhao blocking it, who could stop it?

Tang Ju was eloquent and directly drafted the peace negotiation charter for Zhao and Yan.

It was finally decided that Zhao would temporarily station its troops in the city it occupied on the border of Yan State.

In addition to returning all the cities that Zhao had occupied in Yan's homeland, Zhao also had to give Yan eleven more cities.

Han Fei gave the face, and Tang Ju gave the substance.

King Xi of Yan agreed reluctantly.

Zhao, Wei, Han, and Yan reached a consensus.

The only two major countries left in the Central Plains were Chu and Qi.

The four countries also sent envoys to Chu and Qi, hoping that the two countries would join in the coalition attack on Qin.

King Yuan of Chu was happily taking care of the baby and didn't pay any attention to this matter.

According to the old rules, all power is delegated to Chunshen Jun to handle it.

In the eyes of King Yuan of Chu, Qin's eastward expedition was not a big deal, not as big as his replacement of Li Yan as queen.

Just go out, can you conquer the State of Chu?
Given the complex terrain and continuous waters of the Chu State, even if Ying was lost again, Chu would not be destroyed.

If Qin really wanted to destroy Chu, even if it was a one-on-one fight, even if Qin could win, the war would have to last at least ten years.

By then, Qin's family will be in big trouble.

It’s been nearly three years since we started the flood control work, right?
How much food did you eat?

How much manpower was used?

The Qin treasury can still fight for another ten years? King Yuan of Chu did not believe it.

And they came out to fight and ignored the flood control?

Not much.

This battle will only last for a year, and no one will continue to control the floods in Guanzhong, so three years of work will be in vain!

Chunshen Jun Huang Xie and King Yuan of Chu made roughly the same judgment.

Huang Xie first discussed with his ministers in the court why Qin was marching eastward, and then summoned his retainers to discuss the matter.

In the end, Huang Xie came to the conclusion that the Qin State was courting death.

Since Qin is asking for death, there is no reason not to help him.

Huang Xie agreed and joined the coalition to attack the tyrannical Qin.

Just like the last time when Qi forced Qin to do so, it did not participate.

King Jian of Qi was furious. For the first time, he acted like a king and refused to participate no matter who tried to persuade him.

Yan, Wei, and Chu just came to attack Qi, and now you want to lead Qi to attack Qin? Do you think that my Great Qi has no memory?

Qin and Qi.

One west, one east.

The territories of the two sides are completely non-contiguous, which is the farthest distance.

King Jian of Qi agreed with Fan Ju's theory of making friends with distant countries and attacking nearby ones, and believed that Qin was the best ally and that the strategy of forming alliances could help to stop the other countries.

This king would ask this question every few days - is there any information about Yingzi's return?

Ying Zi, whom King Jian of Qi had been thinking about for a long time, arrived at Hangu Pass in Qin State on February 5th.

Before entering the customs, Ying Chengjiao noticed that the atmosphere was strange.

But this strangeness was not the sorrow he had imagined, but rather solemnity.

It doesn't look like the king of Qin is about to die, but rather like the country is about to go to war.

Could it be that nothing happened to my father... Ying Chengjiao was very confused, but his anxious heart couldn't calm down.

He asked his subordinates to reveal their identities to Meng Wu, the commander of Hangu Pass, and ask for permission to enter the pass.

Meng Wu did not show up, it was Bie Gong who showed up.

Duke Bie stood at the gate and asked Ying Chengjiao, who was at the gate, for something:
"Where is Ying Bai's head?"

(End of this chapter)