"The thirty-third year of the First Emperor, Xia."
"Young son Hu Hai led an army of five thousand guards to kill the evil dragon at Langyata. Langyata is several miles square and a hundred feet high. There is a mountain road up and down. Young son Hu Hai lost his way halfway."
Hu Hai was more or less educated, and he could already think of how the historians would record this matter.
He also knows that if this matter is recorded in the history books, he may become a laughing stock for all generations!
Kill the dragon!
What a majestic thing!
When I came here, the official of Zhongche Mansion had earnestly taught me that killing the dragon should not be taken lightly. Although the First Emperor wanted to abolish the young master and support Su, everything depends on how well the evil dragon kills him.
Jiao is a strange beast. Strange beasts are all conceived by destiny.
If Hu Hai can successfully kill him, it will naturally prove that Hu Hai has destiny!
If Hu Hai fails - the evil dragon is entrenched on the top of the Langya platform. If he doesn't kill him, he will not be able to sacrifice to heaven. If he cannot sacrifice to heaven, he will not be able to depose the young master Fusu!
Because of this, Hu Hai was also very considerate during this trip. He put away his usual perverse nature and asked Li Chao beforehand.
He never expected that Li Chao could lead him to get lost on Langya Terrace!
Hu Hai didn't even know how he got lost, because there was only one way to the top of Langya Stage.
Although there is a difference between the royal road and the side road, which makes the army have to go around the mountain road, the road to the top is still the same.
What a fool!
He looked at Li Chao fiercely.
It’s only because of myself that I wanted to compare him to Wu Anjun!
At this moment, let alone Mr. Wu An.
No matter how he looked at it, Hu Hai felt that this person was a complete idiot!
Even the gesture of swallowing realgar is full of stupidity!
Isn't Ermo sent by Fusu to trick me?
Li Chao couldn't care less about what Hu Hai was thinking.
The killing of the dragon at Langyatai this time is Li's hope and only chance to return to the Qin Dynasty!
The competition in the Great Qin Dynasty was extremely fierce, and the succession of ministers was very fast.
More than ten years ago, when Li Chao's father Li Xin was still alive, he became a general and was one of the Nine Qin Qing at that time. However, once he was defeated and died in depression, Li Chao, not to mention inheriting Li Xin's position as Jiuqing, could not even squeeze into the court, and could only become a small cavalry captain.
If something unexpected happens again when Lang Ya kills the dragon, he, the Cavalry Commander, may not be able to survive. In this case, the Li family will be lost to everyone!
It was just a matter of obscuring everyone. Since the Zhou Dynasty, family struggles among the great nobles had already become intense. However, the monarch turned a blind eye to this and even condoned and provoked it, viewing it as an effective means to safeguard monarchy.
However, the First Emperor had a cold nature and wanted to take over the world's authority. Deep down in his heart, he probably wished that all the nobles he disliked would die, and he would not stop the family struggle.
The Li family also has enemies. If they lose even this last bit of military power, I am afraid that the entire Li family will die without a place to bury them!
He swallowed all the realgar in the bamboo tube in one gulp, took off the water bag from his waist, took a big sip of water, and washed the realgar powder down his abdomen.
These were fine realgar powder. As soon as Li Chao swallowed it, he felt a thunderous sound in his abdomen and cramping pain, as if a dull knife was cutting the flesh in his abdomen, which made him break out in a cold sweat.
However, in such pain, Li Chao showed joy on his face.
In the past, the First Emperor asked Wang Jian how many troops he would need to destroy Chu. Wang Jian said, six hundred thousand.
The First Emperor was displeased and asked Li Xin again. Li Xin said, "You can get 200,000 yuan."
The First Emperor was overjoyed and sent Li Xin to lead an army of 200,000 men, with Meng Tian's father Meng Wu as his deputy, to attack Chu.
After arriving in Chu, Li Xin ordered Meng Wu to lead troops to attack Qiuqiu, while he himself defeated Pingyu. All the way to Xiangyang, the Chu general Xiang Yan had 400,000 troops, but he did not dare to face his attack.
At this time, Lord Changping suddenly rebelled against the Qin Dynasty in Yingchen. Li Xin was instantly attacked from both sides, and his food and grass were cut off, so he had to return to attack Lord Changping. And Xiang Yan took advantage of the unstable morale of the Qin army to raid Li Xin's rear army, defeating the Qin army and killing seven Qin army captains!
At that time, Li Xin knew that the reason why Wang Jian said he needed an army of 600,000 was not because he was at a disadvantage, but because he needed to guard against the unrest in the rear and needed a large army to garrison along the way!
This was a famous and experienced general. When Li Xin died in depression, his last words to Li Chao were only four words.
Be prepared!
Since then, Li Chao has engraved the four words of being prepared into his bones!
For example, the dragon is slightly poisonous. Although it is not known whether the poison can be spread in the clouds when traveling in the clouds, and the poison does not seem to kill people, Li Chao still prepared realgar for the entire army.
Realgar is a good detoxification medicine, and it is even the only reliable detoxification medicine in Da Qin. It's just a poison, of course!
Taking a deep breath, Li Chao suppressed the turbulence in his heart and looked behind him again.
The fog was now so thick that he could barely see clearly one foot in front of him, and it even tended to become thicker. Li Chao was secretly stunned.
As expected of a dragon, even such a young one has such amazing magical powers!
However, it doesn’t stop there!
He let out a fierce roar: "Pass my order, the whole army will take the powder, and the chariots will turn around on the spot, and those who are behind will be those who are ahead!"
"The Commander-in-Chief of Cavalry ordered the entire army to take medicinal powder!"
"The chariot turns around on the spot!"
The voices of the soldiers were heard one after another. Li Chao felt relieved when he heard this familiar voice.
Mist can block sight, but it cannot block sound.
And although I don't know why the poison of this dragon is so magical, it can actually make me travel so many miles without knowing it. Even if I count the wheels, I will make mistakes. However, some things cannot be changed.
For example, where the royal way is!
No matter how weird the poison is and how thick the mist is, can it still destroy the royal path?
Li Chao remembers clearly that the Waibo Tree is at the beginning of the second level of the mountain road.
The army came up from the side passage on the first floor. The side passage was on the side of the royal road, only a few dozen feet away from the royal road.
It's just that the three-layer earth platform is shrinking inward layer by layer, causing collapse and vegetation growth. Of course, the most important thing is the heavy fog.
Otherwise, Li Chao could directly see where the imperial way is at this time!
At this time, he could no longer care about anything else. Expressing respect to the First Emperor had already been forgotten.
The top priority is to quickly go to the top of Langyatai and seal off the water pool!
Yes!
Li Xin suddenly raised his hand and knocked on his iron helmet again, with a look of annoyance on his face.
He was still scoffing at first. Although this dragon was quite magical, his skills were limited to that. He actually wanted to rely on the heavy fog to obscure the sight of the army to escape.
This is hiding one's ears and stealing the bell!
However, at this moment, he suddenly thought that the reason why the evil dragon was covering Langyata through the clouds was probably not to block the road so that he could not reach the top of the platform.
But to take the opportunity to escape!
Yes, it must be so!
"Where are the charioteers? Turn the chariot quickly!" He suddenly roared and took the lead in guiding the horses. The soldiers behind the chariot also heard the sound and ran over, hurriedly starting to turn the wheels.
Countless orders came from behind, and there were also silhouettes of people in the mist, the sound of armor clashing, and the neighing of war horses. There was also the muffled sound of the sergeant, who was not sure whether he was accidentally injured by a chariot or kicked away by a war horse.
There was even a "crash" sound of wood breaking, as well as the roar of the marquis and others calling for the soldiers to carry the cart.
Although he couldn't see it, he could tell just by listening to the sound that the army was already in a hurry.
The chariot was extremely heavy, and in the Qin Dynasty, the wheels of the chariot were directly mounted on the axle, and the body of the chariot was also directly fixed on the axle.
Unlike later generations, the axles of Qin Dynasty did not rotate, but relied on wheels to rotate.
In addition, there is no steering device at this time. When the military vehicle turns, it relies solely on hard dragging and moving.
This resulted in the vehicle body being extremely sluggish when moving and easily damaged when turning. When turning around, two wheels fell off and the entire vehicle collapsed, crushing the soldiers under the vehicle body. This was normal.
Therefore, it is taboo for a military vehicle to turn around on the spot!
In addition, this time the Guards Army took the stage in a three-cheer formation. Sanche means three chariots traveling in parallel. Although the mountain road is wide enough to accommodate six chariots traveling in parallel, it is still extremely cramped for three chariots to turn around at the same time.
But Li Chao could no longer care about so much at this time. He roared and ordered again: "Zuo Che, make a U-turn first and follow my car. Yu Che goes slowly!"
In the Qin Dynasty, the right was respected, and men were ordered to drive on the right, women on the left, and cars in the middle.
However, all the troops are men, and they are usually on the right side.
Moreover, because Langyatai has been in disrepair for a long time, many of the earthen platforms have collapsed, and there are many mountains and rocks collecting soil on the left side of the road, so the Weiwei troops also moved to the right on the mountain road.
At this time, with the help of the open space on the left, Zuo Che could turn around. As for the middle car and right Che, Li Chao no longer planned to wait.
At this time, his chariot had already completed the U-turn due to the efforts of the soldiers, and luckily the wheels did not fall off.
This is also because Hu Hai is the main general and Touche only has this chariot, so he has much more room for maneuver.
As soon as he completed the U-turn, Li Chao roared again: "Follow my car!"
As he spoke, he shook the reins hard, and the chariot began to drive towards the rear of the team.
The sound of wheels rumbled, and military vehicles drove out of the fog one after another, following Li Chao's lead vehicle. Of course, there are also cases where the fog blocks the view, causing two cars to collide directly with each other, causing people to flip over.
But these are not big things!
Li Chao looked at Daoyou with bright eyes. If it weren't for the fact that the chariot itself was also a powerful weapon to stop the evil dragon, he would have even wanted to give up all the chariots at this time!
Without him, it's just because the speed of the chariot is too slow, and to shoot the dragon, all you need is a crossbow!
As he moved forward, he continued to calculate the distance in his mind.
Li Chao brought a total of forty chariots to Langyata this time, divided into three chariots. Including the lead chariot that he personally drove, the total was fourteen chariots, that is, fourteen horizontal columns.
And the distance between each che is eight feet, and the whole army has a total of more than four hundred feet.
From the crooked neck tree to the royal road, it is about eighty feet. If Li Chao travels very carefully, he will definitely be able to see the royal road!
While counting carefully, he continued to move forward. The distance was only eighty feet. Even if the chariot moved forward slowly, it would only take an instant.
Li Chao jumped off the chariot, ran a few steps, and looked eagerly to the right, which was the left side of the road.
The next moment, he suddenly froze on the spot, and his whole body couldn't help but start to tremble.
According to original calculations, he should have reached the center of the royal road at this time, and the royal road was ten feet wide, so even if there was a slight error, it would not be a big deal.
However, at this moment, he did not see the shadow of Yu Dao.
What catches the eye is still the crooked-necked tree!
"This fog is very strange."
When Li Chao was doubting his life on the Langyatai Mountain Road, a tranquil voice sounded on Xiaozhu Mountain next to Langyatai.
It was Zhao Gao who spoke. He was holding a goose feather fan and sitting on a mat on the top of the mountain. His crown was fluttering in the sea breeze and he looked quite graceful.
Zhao Gao was not alone. There was a straw mat beside him. There was also a person sitting on the straw mat. He had a square face and a beautiful beard. It was Li Si.
The place where Langyatai is located is Langya Mountain, and Langya Mountain is a double mountain. Among them, the one as broad as the platform is Langyatai, and the one standing out from the northwest side is Xiaozhu Mountain. Looking at Langyatai from the flat ground.
Xiaozhu Mountain is the same height as Langyatai. From the top of Xiaozhu Mountain, you can see the top of Langyatai, but you cannot see the top of the altar built by King Goujian of Yue.
This place guards the northwest of Langyatai. There are Langyashan garrison and beacons on the mountain. It was originally a place for garrison.
This time Hu Hai went to Langyata to kill the evil spirits, and Zhao Gao naturally wanted to accompany him. He was Hu Hai's partial commander, responsible for keeping watch for Hu Hai and preventing evil spirits from escaping from the northwest.
As for Li Si, he was responsible for planning the movements of the First Emperor. Before the First Emperor came to Langya, he had to build palaces and lay stone roads in advance.
And now that the First Emperor is preparing to climb Langyata to worship heaven, he naturally has to dispatch civilian soldiers to repair Langyata in advance.
At present, the people are ready. He has captured all the Langya people who worshiped the fairy dragons under the Langya Terrace. He is going to let these people repair the Langya Terrace as a punishment.
The only thing missing is Hu Hai slaying the evil spirits.
Different from Zhao Gao's calmness, Li Si was slightly uneasy and frequently looked in the direction of Langyatai.
Although he was greedy for money, after all, he was a famous minister and a great nobleman. He was known as a sage in the world, so he naturally had the conduct of a scholar-bureaucrat.
Although there is evidence in the hands of Hu Hai and Zhao Gao, and also because of the different schools of thought, if Fusu comes to power, he, a Tingwei, may have to live in the Tingwei prison he built himself. But as a Jiuqing Tingwei, he knew that Fusu was more suitable for Qin II!
If Fu Su came to power, he would not be able to get the whole body even if he wanted to, but his family would still be able to be saved.
Because Fusu is kind!
And if Hu Hai becomes the second emperor of Qin, he and his whole family may be in danger of eternal disaster!
Because the First Emperor only killed cruelly, but Hu Hai was brutal!
"Is Tingweisi worried about the young son slaying evil spirits?" A high-pitched voice rang out, waking Li Si from his daze.
He turned his head subconsciously, and it was Zhao Gao who spoke.
Zhao Gao had a calm smile on his face at this time, but there seemed to be a strange light shining in his eyes.
Li Si sighed secretly in his heart.
If Fusu becomes the second emperor of Qin, he will definitely be put in prison. This is not because Fusu has a grudge against himself, but because Fusu is studying Confucianism. As the second emperor of Qin, Confucianism will flourish in the court. However, he was a legalist and would be criticized by Confucianists. However, Fusu was not like the First Emperor. Since he was a benevolent person, he would not kill to stop it.
In this way, protecting his family is already his limit.
And if Hu Hai becomes the second emperor of Qin, his whole family may be destroyed, but there may be a way to survive. Just because Hu Hai was cruel, if he didn't like it and ten thousand people made suggestions, he would kill these ten thousand people as well.
The most important thing is that if he changes sides at this time, there is no need to wait for Fusu or Hu Hai to become the second emperor, and the First Emperor can make himself irreversible!
"This is the first time that the young son has led an army, so I am very concerned about it." He gathered his thoughts, raised his hands and spoke.
A smile flashed across Zhao Gao's face, and his eyes swept over Li Si's saluting hand unnoticed.
Li Si is a Tingwei, the ninth minister of the Qin Dynasty. Zhao Gao was only the official of Zhongche Mansion. Although the First Emperor wanted him to succeed his father as Lang Zhongling, at least so far, he had not been promoted.
Moreover, even after promotion, his status is still below Li Si. Because Li Si is not only Jiuqing, he is also the Third Duke.
The three princes are the prime minister, the Taiwei, and the imperial censor. The three ministers and the nine ministers did not originally hold concurrent posts. However, the First Emperor took over the authority of the world and divided the post of prime minister into two. The first one was Wang Guan, Weilin. These two men died early, and the First Emperor ordered Li Si to take their place.
And Li Si was the prime minister on the left. As for the prime minister on the right, the First Emperor seemed to have forgotten to appoint him.
In the Qin Dynasty, the right was respected. Since Li Si was the prime minister of the left, according to later generations, he was the deputy prime minister. However, the prime minister is vacant, and he, the deputy prime minister, serves as the prime minister full-time, but his level is not enough to make up a third official.
The most outrageous thing is that his official position is Tingwei Jiuqing, and Prime Minister Zuo can only be considered a part-time official. And the fictitious right prime minister is the legitimate prime minister. Not only did he become the prime minister, he also became the Taiwei and the imperial censor.
If Li Si had studied the science of later generations, he would have said that this is Schrödinger's prime minister. Let's say he doesn't exist, it's in the official documents. To say that it exists, no one has ever seen it.
In any case, the only living duke in Da Qin at this time is Li Si, although he is only half a duke, and he holds concurrent posts. He is the head of the court!
However, even Sangong must bow to Zhao Gao!
This is what a man should do!
Zhao Gao was slightly intoxicated, but the next moment, a hint of haze flashed across his eyes.
He was born in the Hidden Palace, he is no longer a man!
Not only him, but his mother, after suffering inhuman humiliation, was physically mutilated and could not even enter the Zhao family cemetery, so she had to be buried in the wild!
Although great hatred welled up in his heart, Zhao Gao did not show any signs of it.
He raised his sleeves gracefully: "Please drink!"
In the Qin Dynasty, tea was still called "tea", which was still considered poison. Therefore, the common conversation between scholar-bureaucrats was not drinking tea, but drinking alcohol.
With a "ding" sound, a small gong was struck. The two of them raised the small bronze gong together, covered it with their sleeves, raised their hands to signal, and then drank it all.
Putting down the wine prince, Zhao Gao shook his goose feather fan slightly without even looking in the direction of Langyatai, and said softly: "Wei Ting is overly worried."
"Although the young son is leading an army for the first time, his deputy general is Li Chao, from a family of famous generals!"
"Li Chao?" Li Si looked puzzled, "Is he the son of Da Changxin?"
Dachangxin is Li Xin, and folk rumors say that he was named Marquis of Longxi. However, in fact, the First Emperor abolished the enfeoffment, and the last two ranks of the 20th rank, the Marquis of Guannei and the Marquis of Che, were in name only.
Even Meng Tian never became a marquis because he entered the court too late. How could Li Xin, a general who defeated the army, be granted the title of a marquis?
When his title was the highest, he was the 18th-level concubine, so he was called Daizhangxin.
"It's this person." Zhao Gao nodded.
Li Si looked surprised. Although he was also a Li family, he was a Li family from Chu, while Li Xin was a Li family from Longxi. There was no relationship between the two.
What surprised him was that Zhao Gao had just left the Hidden Palace last winter. Within a few months, he was not only able to establish his own power in the court, he was also able to seize his own leverage, and even had time to recruit famous generals!
Although Zhao Gaonai was the order of the CRRC and prepared the trip for the First Emperor, it was convenient for him to intervene in the Wei army. However, within a few months, Li Chao was able to be found, and his actions were too fast.
After all, it had been six years since Li Xin's death, and even Li Si had not paid attention to what official positions his successors were holding.
"How did the CRRC government pay attention to this person?" He asked with bright eyes.
He had a feeling at this time that Zhao Gao's plan seemed to be huge!
"Without it, in the first month of the first month, the First Emperor ordered me to prepare for a patrol. When I arrived at the Weiwei Army, I found that the Weiwei Army seemed to have a grand intention, so I could take some time off!"
Speaking of this matter, Zhao Gao also felt quite proud: "I am very surprised. The method of training the Weiwei army was created by Bai Qi, Lord Wu'an, who observed Wei soldiers. How could the Jin people have such a tendency to take advantage of their leisure time?"
"Later I asked Wei Wei Jie, and Jie said that this was Li Chao's contribution."
"Then I went to the Weiwei Army several times and observed carefully. I found that Li Chao behaved like a famous general. He was as motionless as a mountain and everything was in order..."
There was a burst of noise from the direction of Langyatai, and Li Si couldn't help but look at Langyatai. But Zhao Gao still looked intently, with a calm expression on his face: "We have no worries, Lieutenant Ting. Li Chao was prepared even if the mountain collapsed in front of him. Perhaps the evil spirit has been captured, and the soldiers will praise him!"
"Maybe there was an accident..." Li Si frowned, looked in the direction of Langyatai, and answered slightly absentmindedly.
Due to the fog blocking him, he couldn't see clearly what was going on, but he just instinctively felt that something was wrong.
"How could there be an accident?" Zhao Gao's brows moved slightly, his eyes slightly cold.
He spent many years in the hidden palace, and the hidden palace is a place where people can eat others, and there must be no weakness.
Therefore, although Zhao Gao looks friendly on the outside, he cannot tolerate any disobedience in his heart.
He continued speaking in a calm voice: "Li Chao is quite talented as a famous general, but although the demon on the stage is a real dragon, he is still young!"
"The dragon has the ability to move clouds and cover the entire Langyatai with fog, and my army has Sinan!"
"And we are watching from the sidelines. As long as this dragon cannot escape, what accident will happen?"
Before he finished speaking, a sergeant suddenly rushed over and knelt on one knee in front of the table.
"The report was successful," he said with a surprised look on his face, and his voice was a little erratic. It was obvious that he couldn't understand what happened on the Langya platform. "The military marquis at the foot of the mountain sent someone to report. He heard the noise at the mountain road below the platform..."
After swallowing his saliva, he continued: "The Cavalry Commander got lost on the mountain road, please get back to the car!"
There was a crisp sound of "clang", but Zhao Gao's body suddenly shook, knocking over the table on the mat. The wine cup and the copper basin for warming the wine rolled down, and the hot water even splashed on Li Si's face.
But Li Si was caught off guard. He jumped up with a "Ah" sound and hurriedly started to undress.
Zhao Gao also scalded his feet with the hot water, but at this time he seemed to be unaware and stared blankly at the soldiers who reported the news.
"What did you just say?" He suspected that there was something wrong with his ears.
The soldier who reported the message also knew that what he said was extremely ridiculous, but he was acting on orders. After hearing what he said, he swallowed again and repeated: "The riding captain got lost on the mountain road, and then got back to the car!"
There was a muffled "thud" sound, but it was Zhao Gao who kicked the copper basin away with his bare feet. At this time, the graceful look on his face disappeared, and the goose feather fan in his hand seemed to turn into a big axe, and with one blow, the soldier who reported the message was killed. Split in half.
His eyes were like poisonous snakes, staring at the soldier who reported the message: "There is only one way to the Langyata stage, how did the Cavalry Commander get lost?"
"Hey, do you think I'm easy to bully?"
(End of chapter)
