Ying Zheng and others were checking the battlefield when they heard footsteps coming from outside the forest.
"Hidden!" Ying Zheng shouted and led everyone to hide quickly.
People outside the forest seemed to feel something was strange, so they also stopped.
The two spies quietly came to the outskirts of the battlefield, took a general look at the situation, and then cautiously withdrew.
Not long after, a group of people wearing special clothes, holding flying crossbows in their hands, sneaked into the forest in a fighting posture.
The leader was none other than Zhang Yong, the leader of the Tiger Army.
Sure enough, the reinforcements have arrived!
Ying Zheng was afraid of being accidentally injured, so he did not stand up. He just shouted: "Commander Zhang, I am here."
Zhang Yong recognized King Qin's voice and hurried over with his men.
"Your Majesty!" Zhang Yong knelt down on one knee and said, "I will come to my rescue late. Please punish me, Your Majesty."
"Haha, what the hell." Ying Zheng stood up and said with a smile, "I am surprised that you can come here. How can I punish you?"
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"Thank you, Your Majesty." Zhang Yong stood up and said, "Can Your Majesty be injured?"
"It's okay, there's nothing wrong with us." Ying Zheng said.
Zhang Yong looked at Zhao Tuo and Yang Huai, and couldn't help but remain vigilant, and quickly asked: "Your Majesty, are these two...?"
General Ying Zheng briefly explained how he met the two of them.
Zhao Tuo, Yang Huai and Zhang Yong saluted each other.
Ying Zheng asked: "How is the situation outside?"
"The two groups of thieves outside have been completely wiped out." Zhang Yong said, "One of them is a team of a thousand people. Although they are all wearing common people's clothes, judging from their skills, they are all soldiers who have undergone long-term training."
"The other group of thieves are the Jianghu people lurking in the mountains and forests. There are about three hundred people in total."
Ying Zheng asked: "How many people did you bring?"
"Three hundred." Zhang Yong said, "Because it involved a border dispute, Mr. Li Si didn't let us come with too many people. We followed the king for about thirty miles. Because we found traces of a fight, we quickly pursued him. Come."
"Three hundred?" Zhao Tuo asked in surprise, "Killing more than a thousand people on the other side?"
"Haha, you can't be wrong." Thorin smiled and patted his shoulder, "For the Tiger and Ben army, even five thousand can deal with it."
Zhao Tuo was surprised again and looked Zhang Yong up and down again with doubt.
Ying Zheng then asked: "Is there anyone who escaped? I want to live."
"I have sent people to track them down. If anyone escapes, they will be captured and brought back." Zhang Yong said, "There are a few injured right now. I will pick two who can walk and bring them over for the king to interrogate."
Ying Zheng nodded, and Zhang Yong turned around to pick up the prisoner.
Not long after, two prisoners were tied up with ropes. One was in tight black clothes, and the other was dressed like an Orion.
The two of them were escorted all the way, passing by broken limbs and broken arms, and stepping on the ground stained red with blood, so their earlier momentum had long been exhausted.
The tiger army behind them didn't even bother to warn them, and kicked them on the legs. Plop, plop, they fell to their knees one after another.
Ying Zheng looked at the two assassins in front of him and asked coldly: "Tell me, who are you and who sent you here?"
The Orion was so dressed that he started to tremble all over, hesitating and hesitant to say what he wanted to say.
The man in black was quite tough. He puffed out his chest and said, "If you want to kill me, then kill him. I'm afraid of you."
Ying Zheng signaled with his eyes, Zhang Yong immediately raised the knife and dropped it, and the man in black fell next to the man dressed as an Orion.
The hunter seemed frightened out of his wits. He kowtowed several times and said, "I say, I say, please spare my life."
"Say what I want, I won't kill you." Ying Zheng's tone became even colder.
The Orion swallowed his saliva and then said: "Back to your Majesty, we are the subordinates of Young Master Zhao Jia. He originally planned to seize the crown prince's position and ascend the throne as King Zhao when the late king returned to the west, but he did not want to be beaten by you, Your Majesty. The plan was messed up, so I held a grudge and was always looking for opportunities to take revenge."
"Zhao Jia?" Ying Zheng asked knowingly, "But the prince who was deposed before in the Zhao Kingdom?"
The Orion nodded repeatedly and said: "Exactly, exactly. This time he heard that the king was coming to Huashan, so he sent us to assassinate him."
Ying Zheng's brows rose and he asked, "Heard? Who did he listen to?"
Ever since the attack, Ying Zheng has been thinking about this question, how did the assassin know his whereabouts.
The most likely possibility is that there are spies from the enemy country in Xianyang, and they are lurking around him. Compared with finding out who is going to assassinate him, it seems that it is more important to find out where the nails around him are.
"My status is truly humble. I am just following orders." The Orion bowed his head and said, "As for how Zhao Jia got the news, I don't know."
Ying Zheng pointed to the man in black lying beside him and asked, "Who are this group of people?"
Orion replied: "They are all Jianghu people from South Korea. They are dissatisfied with the annexation of their country, so they have been looking for opportunities to take revenge."
"How did they know the whereabouts of the widow?"
The Orion lowered his head lower: "This is also the news delivered by Zhao Jia."
"So... the mastermind behind this time is Zhao Jia?" Ying Zheng looked at the prostrate man in front of him with contempt.
"The villain dare not lie even a little bit."
The anger on Ying Zheng's face instantly dissipated, and instead he laughed: "You are so arrogant in assassinating me, aren't you afraid that I will raise troops to attack Zhao?"
The Orion couldn't hold back his anger: "Your Majesty asked King Zhao to escort Zhao Jia to the State of Qin and just deal with it as you like. Why should all the lives be ruined?"
"Why bother?" Ying Zheng said sternly, "If your assassination succeeds, it will not only be a loss of lives!"
The hunter was obviously panicked, and he said, "Please, Your Majesty, let the people of Zhao State go. Now that we are all under the law, there is only Zhao Jia behind the scenes. It really has nothing to do with the people."
"You don't have to worry about it now." Ying Zheng said, waving his hand to signal the Huben army to take the prisoner away.
The Orion-looking prisoner was like a deflated rubber ball. He had no strength at all and was dragged back by the two tiger sergeants.
Zhang Yong asked: "Your Majesty, what should we do with the remaining prisoners?"
"Take this and this together back to Xianyang." Ying Zheng said, "I want to see what Zhao Guo gives me."
Thorin asked: "Brother Wang really wants to raise troops to attack Zhao?"
Ying Zheng said: "After thorough investigation, this guy just now may not be telling the truth."
"Yes." Qiang Yu analyzed, "In my opinion, he is deliberately throwing dirty water on Zhao Jia. These confessions are all arranged in advance."
Yang Huai then said: "Yes, even rough guys like us can't sell the master as soon as he comes up, let alone these dead soldiers who have been mentally prepared for it?"
Zhao Tuo said: "I also feel something is wrong."
Ying Zheng nodded and said: "The problem is that these people come here with the intention of death. No matter how you torture them, they will still say the same thing."
Thorin smiled and said: "Brother Wang, I am really interested in going back and trying to torture him."
"We'll talk about it when we get back," Ying Zheng said, "But I think it's true that these two groups are not together."
Zhao Tuo said: "The accent of this man in black is indeed not from Zhao, but more like that from Wei."
"Wei Guo?" Ying Zheng frowned slightly, "It would be more interesting if Wei Guo was involved."
"What reason does Wei have to assassinate in secret?" Thorin asked doubtfully.
Qiang Yu explained: "I still don't understand. Zhao, Wei, and Han all belong to the Three Jin Dynasties and are closely related to each other. Now that Han is destroyed, how can King Zhao and King Wei not consider countermeasures? Since they can't defeat Da Qin on the front battlefield, then I can only come to Yin."
Although Zhao Tuo and Yang Huai were from the State of Zhao, they did not find these words harsh. Instead, they were curious about what the State of Zhao would lose this time.
"We will discuss this matter when we go back." Ying Zheng arranged, "Qiang Yu, you first go back with some of the Tiger and Ben troops to recover from their injuries, and then tell Li Si everything that happened here and ask him to check inside Xianyang and who is contacting Zhao country, the focus is on Jing’s class.”
Ying Zheng clearly remembered that before setting off, he only visited Jing Kiln, picked out some flying crossbows and swords, and told Jing Fan where he was going.
Of course Jing Fan can be trusted, but the people around him may not.
Qiang Yu took the order and said, "My brother, take the order."
In front of the tiger and Ben troops, the brothers also changed their relationship to monarch and minister.
Ying Zheng looked at Zhang Yong and said: "Zhang Yong, take the remaining Tiger and Ben troops, continue to search for the remnants, and clean up the place. Do not burn the corpses, just pile them into the valley to the north. After processing, follow me."
Although Zhang Yong didn't know why, he still obeyed the order.
Ying Zheng looked at Zhao Tuo again, his eyes becoming extremely soft: "Cousin, I said before that I would go to your house to see my uncle. Is it convenient now?"
Zhao Tuo was stunned for a moment before saying: "Convenient, convenient."
He seems to have not gotten used to Ying Zheng's different role changes.
Thorin laughed at the side and said: "What's convenient? Let's change our clothes quickly. How can we go to meet our elders like this?"
Ying Zheng laughed: "Yes, yes, let's change our clothes, Thorin, and prepare the money. We need to get some gifts."
Thorin: "..."
These days, there is a cost to talking too much.
Zhao Tuo quickly excused himself: "No, no, the Orion family doesn't have so many etiquettes."
"Then it's up to the guests to do as they please." Ying Zheng said, "Let's hunt more prey along the way, and we'll be able to provide you with enough money for a year."
Zhao Tuo couldn't resist, so he said: "We should entertain you. If there are too many prey, we should ask the sergeants to share them."
When Thorin heard this, he swallowed twice, and the glutton in his stomach screamed.
"When you talk about food, my stomach is growling." Thorin chuckled and said, "It's getting dark now. Hurry up and cook. I'll have the strength to travel tomorrow."
So Thorin took some people to start cooking, while another group of soldiers cleaned the battlefield.
After eating and drinking, Ying Zheng pulled Zhao Tuo and Yang Huai and asked many things about their families.
It turned out that the two families lived next to each other and both lived in Yangjia Village. Zhao Tuo's father, Zhao Li, was Yang Huai's father, Yang Lin, who led his family to defect.
Early the next morning, the team was divided into two groups, one group escorted Ying Zheng to Zhao Tuo's house, and the other group accompanied Qiang Yu back to Xianyang.
In less than a day, a village of several families appeared at the foot of a mountain on the edge of Huashan Mountain.
"That's it. Cousin, please rest here for a while, and I'll go report it." After Zhao Tuo said that, he flew towards the mountain village.
Ying Zheng didn't want Hu Ben's army to be too exposed, so he asked Zhang Yong to camp in the forest, while he walked slowly towards the village, accompanied by Solin.
Near the entrance of the village, I saw an old man in his sixties standing with Zhao Tuo, looking towards this side.
Ying Zheng waved and ran over quickly.
"Is this the King of Qin?"
"Is this my uncle?"
Both sides asked Zhao Tuo at the same time.
"Exactly, exactly." Zhao Tuo said one sentence to each other.
Zhao Li trembled slightly and took Ying Zheng's hands: "Unexpectedly, Zheng'er, who often cried in my arms since childhood, has grown into a strong man!"
"Uncle is also old." Ying Zheng said.
"Let's go, let's talk at home." Zhao Li still pulled Ying Zheng.
As soon as he took a few steps, he heard Zhao Li shouting to the village: "Folks, here comes the hero who celebrates New Year's Eve for the people. Let's light firecrackers to celebrate!"
Ying Zheng: "..."
