Twenty-three and twenty-four ghosts assist each other

  "Speak up, who killed the entire Hu family? Why did you throw me into the yard to frame me?" The purple-robed Jing Ke reappeared: a purple robe with double-layered long sleeves and an outer layer of purple armor, wearing purple trousers, and wearing square-mouthed, pointed-toe shoes. On his head was a deep purple crown with two rows on top, and his pupils were also shining with a cold purple light. He stared at the burly old man.

  "Transform?" Lao San and Lao Si hastily stepped forward, their faces shocked but fearless as they blocked the heavily injured Lao Da who was crouching on the ground: "No matter if you're human or ghost, don't even think about hurting my big brother!"

  Looking closely, Jing Ke was already standing in mid-air, without flames, yet forcing people not to dare look straight at him. The two commoners who had come up earlier, how could they still dare to stay by his side? They cried out and retreated back.

  "Is that so? Not a word? Then I have no choice..." With a lift of his hand, the sword at his waist was suddenly grasped in his hand.

  "Wait!" It was Lao Er, and his subsequent actions were also quite amusing. He pulled out his own short knife, waved it around, and lightly tossed it onto the ground. Then he jumped down from Lao Da's shoulder, picked up his own knife again, and said: "We four people owe you our lives, if you want to take our brothers' lives, don't be polite, I'll come myself." As he spoke, he grasped the knife handle with both hands, ready to stab himself in the chest.

  "No, Second Brother..."

  "Second brother, stop!"

  He stopped just in time, the knife almost pierced through. But then Lao Er continued to laugh and said: "Dying is easy, but if one of us brothers dies, I'm afraid it will be even harder for you to find out who's harming you. Hehehe."

  "Then tell me who is really harming me!" The sword was already pointing directly at the short and stout Lao Er.

  "It's not hard to tell you." Lao Er lightly turned around, looking at the fleeing civilians, and sighed: "It's just that by the time we've explained things clearly to you, Fanwu City will probably have no more civilians left alive."

  "What do you mean?" The murderous aura decreased, Jing Ke put away his sword and asked: "Don't speak in a roundabout way, say it quickly."

  Turning back, the second brother said: "Think about it, why did the Qin army pursue and kill us brothers? Why are there no survivors among the people along the way? It's because they're afraid of being discovered by their main force. The Qin people have always been ruthless and cruel, having buried alive 400,000 surrendered soldiers of Zhao. If this time they come to attack without sufficient resistance from the soldiers of Zhao, then our country will be left with no survivors."

  Yes, Jing Ke finally realized that the words of the people he heard earlier meant that the Zhao army had already withdrawn from the north side of Fanwu and there was no reinforcement on the Changshui line. At this time, if it were a real Qin army, then Fanwu would be lost, and the Qin army could directly insert Handan and defeat the Zhao army.

  What was it like in history? Jing Ke didn't know much, but as one of the youngest generals of the Republic in the past, although later only a lieutenant colonel, he was familiar with military affairs and wars in history. He must have had a battle between Li Mu and the Qin army.

  "No way, this isn't history. I won't let history change!" He muttered to himself, retracting his killing intent and returning to his normal appearance.

  "So what do you think we should do?" He couldn't help but ask for advice, and in Jing Ke's heart, he had already admired this short but clever guy, who was so fearless in the face of danger and so resourceful.

  "We Lu people have never liked the Qin army! My brother has also killed countless Qin soldiers!" It was still the second one, who walked in front of Jing Ke with his hands behind his back and said: "This time I think you will help the Zhao army too. After all, you can only explain to them that the person who killed the people of Hu's village is not you if you help them!"

  "What's your idea? Spit it out, I'm getting impatient!" Jing Ke was already anxious and loudly said: "If we're any slower, the Qin army will probably arrive and attack us!"

  "Old Master?" Lao Er asked strangely: "Lao Zi, surname Li, name Er, courtesy name Boyang, from Chou County (now Zhoukou, Henan Province), what's he impatient about?"

  Dizzy, it seems that the "voice disorder eliminator" is not omnipotent after all. Jing Ke, this "old master", was still treated as an old master by the ancients.

  "Hurry up... speak!" With a gesture of surrender, Jing Ke had no choice but to swallow his temper.

  "Listen, Jing Ke, you and I will go together. Hurry up to the Zhao army and inform them that the main force of the Qin army is here." Then the second elder turned around and said: "Third elder, fourth elder, take good care of the eldest brother. I think the Qin army will send soldiers to kill us immediately, you must hurry up and bring the eldest brother away from here, find a place to hide well."

  The two brothers nodded and also heard the eldest's reminder: "Second brother, be careful on the road!", only then did the second brother turn his head to look at Jing Ke: "What does the great hero think?"

  "Who are you?" Jing Ke looked at him suspiciously, standing on the ground without even crouching down to his height, and said softly: "You'd better stay behind to take care of your family brothers too. I'll go alone, it will be faster that way. Besides, my shoulders aren't enough for you to squat on."

  "Hahaha." The old man burst out laughing: "So, Jing Ke is worried about this. Don't worry, I won't ask you to carry me on your back, but you have to hurry up, or you'll delay my schedule..." After finishing speaking, his figure was already swift as a shooting arrow, and his voice trailed off in the distance: "Only when we're together will they believe it..."

  "Jing Ke, great hero, please believe us." That old man said with one knee on the ground: "You saved our lives today, how could we harm you? My second brother has the fastest legs among his brothers, hurry up and go!"

  "Alright, I believe you!"

  ……

  "My father will..."

  "No need to say more!" Li Mu and his daughter, General Li Xiaoguo, were arguing. Li Mu said: "General Sima's letter is not fake, and General Zhao Cong can testify that we almost fell into Qin's trick! If the Zhang River is lost and the city wall is broken, Handan will be destroyed."

  Li Mu turned around and shouted: "Pass on my military order, speed up the advance!"

  "But, historically...". As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Li Xiaoguo felt like he had misspoken and quickly covered it up by saying: "Historically, Qin's military tactics have always been unpredictable. If we lose Bianwu, the Qin army can directly attack Handan!"

  "What's the point of discussing what-ifs?" Li Mu urged his war horse forward: "All officers and men, listen to my orders! Hurry back to Zhangshui River and catch the Qin army off guard!"

  It is...

  "What can be done?" Li Xiaoguo said helplessly and anxiously, looking at Gu Shi Kai and Gong Sun Jie, "History has it that our ancestors fought against the Qin army, but if this is changed, who knows what kind of consequences will arise in the future?"

  "It's all over, our plan is also over. The original intention of maintaining history has been ruined, and the plan to assassinate the Qin Emperor without any descendants has failed." Gu Shi let out a sigh and said: "As you said, history has changed, and we don't know how our path will go from here?"

  "A report..." A cavalryman rushed up at this moment and reported: "Report to General Xiao, there are two people chasing after the rear team, saying that they have urgent military information to report to General Xiao and General Da."

  "What kind of person?"

  "It's... it's..." he stuttered a bit, and the soldier only spoke hastily after seeing Gu Shi and Gong Sun Jie's murderous gaze: "It was indeed Jing Ke and a dwarf who killed people at Hu's Manor! Our men have already surrounded them!"

  "What?" Li Xiaoguo asked urgently: "Did you have a fight?"

  "Under arrest!"

  "What nonsense!" A tender rebuke, he hastily urged his horse towards the rear troops.

  In the distance, a large circle of soldiers surrounded two people standing in the center, one tall and one short. Li Xiaoguo focused his eyes on them, if it wasn't Jing Ke, who else could it be? He hastily shouted: "Halt! Everyone halt!"