The group of people galloped all the way, not daring to stop except for a moment's rest at night. The three drivers took turns driving until the early morning of three days later before they could enter the junction of Jibei County and Jiaodong County. They would reach Chengshan in another day.
Xingzhong had already got out of the carriage, and after disguising himself, he rode forward with his guards. The mountains and forests at the junction of the two counties are lush, and they are very close to Chengshan. They can get the news in time, but they are far away from the Central Plains. If those people want to take action, now is the best time.
Everyone mustered up their energy and moved forward cautiously.
Suddenly, the two horses pulling the carriage roared loudly, and then the carriage suddenly stopped. I was unprepared and fell directly onto someone. I stood up with difficulty, lifted the curtains of the car, and everyone was already protecting me in the center.
I endured the pain in my head and asked, "What happened?"
Xingzhong concealed his identity and could not speak. Meng He replied: "Your Highness, someone cut a tree across the road ahead. Your Highness, stay in the car and do not come out."
As soon as Meng He finished speaking, more than twenty people sprang out from the mountains and forests on both sides, all of them masked in black cloth and rushed forward with sharp knives in their hands.
I trembled and fell back into the carriage. I heard the sound of metal hitting outside. This was a real fight. I wouldn’t be invulnerable just because I had traveled through time. In this era, if I was cut with a knife and my internal organs were injured, There is a high probability that he will die.
"Let's fight as soon as we come up. In a normal plot, I shouldn't ask who's coming first, and then you pretend to make me understand. At the last critical moment, reinforcements will arrive?" 'I lamented in my heart: 'The film and television mistook me! '
I only brought a dozen people with me this time. Although there are two masters, Meng He and Xingzhong, there are so many ants that they can kill an elephant, and it is difficult for two fists to defeat four people. I don’t know if the guards can withstand it.
I shrank my head and hid in the car. For about a quarter of an hour, the sounds of fighting outside gradually subsided. I dared to lift the car curtain and look out. There were many people lying on the road, moaning non-stop. There were my guards and even more masked people. People who are injured by cold weapons will not die immediately unless their heads are injured. It is really a tragic situation.
At this time, there were not many masked men left, Xing Zhong and Meng He were still fighting, and there were only three guards left. As the last knife fell, the entire masked man army was wiped out.
Meng He pulled up a less injured person and shouted suddenly: "Who do you dare to block the official road!"
The masked man didn't reply. Xing Zhong frowned, pinched the man's mouth, squeezed it away, and saw that there was no tongue! I checked a few more people, and they all had their tongues cut out.
Xing Zhong stepped forward and reported back: "Your Highness, the people who committed the assassination all had their tongues cut out and were unable to speak. We don't have time to interrogate them now. When we get to Chengshan, everything will come to light. I suggest that everyone be killed."
I hesitated and said, "If you want to kill the other party's people, just kill them. Even if our own people don't have the conditions to treat them, it wouldn't be good to just kill them."
Xingzhong and Meng He looked at each other, then looked at the person lying on the ground. Xingzhong said carefully: "Your Highness, I want to kill the masked man. I have sent the remaining people to find our guards." Clean room, they will come to rescue..."
My face suddenly turned red, and I looked at the people still lying on the ground. Fortunately, we spoke in low voices, otherwise some of them would be so angry...
Then several people from Xingzhong carried away the wood blocking the road, and only the three of us and two other guards were left, continuing to rush towards Chengshan.
Worried that the other party would intercept and kill more than once, part of the people sent by Xingzhong to find the clean room were sent to the place where they were attacked and killed for treatment and protection, and the other part followed me one after another after we passed Jimo City, the Jiaodong County seat. Go to Chengshan. Cheng Lin, the governor of Jiaodong County, is currently accompanying Ying Zheng in Chengshan. We don't know what the situation is, so we don't dare to stay in Jimo City.
It was not until the beginning of Shenshi that the group of people finally saw the outline of Chengshan in the distance. It would take another hour to reach Chengshan, and my heavy heart became more and more anxious.
It has been seven days since Xingzhong left Yingzheng. I don’t know what Chengshan’s condition is like. Whether Yingzheng’s health has improved or he has fallen into a coma again. I suddenly felt that Ying Zheng's approach might not be the best choice. Now that Ying Zheng is seriously ill, the safest way is for me to stay in Xianyang. The ministers who follow Ying Zheng are almost all the important ministers in the empire. There should be at least one or two loyal ministers. If Ying Zheng really has an accident in Chengshan, someone can pass the news to me. There is already Right Minister Feng Qu in Xianyang City. Ji Ji, the Ying family members, and the Northern and Southern armies guarding Xianyang City may be able to turn the tide.
However, it can also be said from the side that Ying Zheng is still too confident. He thinks that as long as he is alive, no one will dare to rebel. In addition, I don’t know why he made me the prince. Many people in later generations have speculated that Ying Zheng loved Hu Hai very much. Maybe I was just a cover-up. In fact, it is not impossible that he still wanted Hu Hai to be the second emperor of Qin.
While I was thinking about it, the carriage slowly stopped. I was a little surprised. It was still some distance away from Chengshan. It had only been less than half an hour. It was impossible to reach it. Could it be that someone was intercepting it again?
I vaguely heard Xing Zhong talking outside. I was about to ask when I heard a voice: "Lieutenant General Zhang Siyuan, your highness, is here to receive the emperor's order. I am here to escort your highness to Chengshan."
I opened the curtain of the carriage and saw an army of about two to three hundred people lined up neatly outside, all of them cavalry. One person bowed in front of the carriage and saluted.
Xing Zhong nodded imperceptibly, and I said, "No need to be polite, without further ado, let's continue on our way."
Since Xingzhong indicates that this person can be trusted, it means that what he said is true. If he had received Ying Zheng's order to pick me up, Chengshan's matter would have most likely been solved, otherwise Ying Zheng would not have been able to be so grand.
Zhang Siyuan stood up and said yes, and the motorcade continued to set off. We are about to reach Chengshan. There are about 300 people in the clean room and cavalry joining the convoy. They will probably not encounter another interception. If even three hundred elite cavalry cannot guarantee my safety, then I should imitate Fusu in history and wipe his own neck as soon as possible. This is no longer a matter of false edicts or not. With this force, I can just kill the imperial palace and chop Ying Zheng into pieces. It’s over…
Half an hour later, the motorcade slowly stopped, and Xing Zhong reported outside: "Your Highness, we have arrived at Chengshan Palace!"
