“Okay, then I will…”

Li Fusheng’s words were cut short.

It was as if a chasm had suddenly appeared on the straight road ahead.

Silence,

Silence,

Silence…

Finally,

Li Fusheng pointed at Zheng Fan with a smile and said,

“Zheng Commander, oh Zheng Commander.”

“Your subordinate is here!”

“How did you manage to shout ‘dare not’ with such imposing and resounding force?”

“From the moment I first met you, Lord, you have been like an elder to me. In front of an elder, I would not dare to hide or conceal anything.

Since you asked whether I dared or not, then I spoke my mind.

I dare not. I am not afraid of dying in battle. If you were to order me to fight now, and I died on the battlefield, I guarantee I wouldn’t even frown!!!”

Xue San, standing to the side, opened his mouth and licked his lips.

“But I don’t want to die that way. I feel that if something unexpected happens in the city, it would be a stifled death.”

“Scared?”

“Yes, I am scared!”

“Hah…”

Li Fusheng let out a long sigh. This desert killing demon, covered in blood and the first to charge forward, didn’t show the slightest bit of anger. Instead, he sat back down, reached out, and patted his knee, saying:

“Zheng Commander, a man cannot always keep his head down in this world. Occasionally, he must raise his chest.”

Zheng Fan raised his chest and said loudly:

“Your subordinate dares not!”

“…” Li Fusheng.

“Lord, we can try shooting the letter into the city with arrows.”

“Heh, Zheng Commander, do you know what an honor it is to be an envoy to an enemy country before its capital, what a qualification it is?

Even five, ten, twenty years from now, it will be your capital to stand on!”

“Your subordinate knows.”

At this time, the Yan army had cut off the Qian Kingdom’s reinforcements from the capital region, so it could be said that they were at the gates. To be a lone envoy to the Qian Kingdom at this time, to enter the Qian Kingdom’s capital, to enter the Qian Kingdom’s court, to deliver a letter to the Qian Kingdom’s emperor and a crowd of civil and military officials, conveying the Yan Kingdom’s demands.

This was simply the ultimate way to farm reputation!

But there was a premise,

You had to come out alive.

If you died, what use was this posthumous fame?

He, Zheng Fan, didn’t intend to be remembered for generations in this world.

Zheng Fan just wanted to live well, live a flavorful life, and live with dignity.

Although, it was a tradition that envoys were not killed in wars between countries,

Although, the Qian Kingdom was a land of etiquette,

What if the Qian people suddenly went crazy?

Although the Qian Kingdom’s troops in the capital region were separated by the Bian River to the north, and the Qian people probably wouldn’t dare to come out of the capital city to fight in the field again, if he entered their capital alone, and they swarmed him, could he fly out?

Even if he could fly, he would be shot into a hedgehog by archers.

He was a transmigrator, with so many demon kings by his side. Wouldn't it be great to just stay put and level up safely?

He didn’t have an urgent need to quickly stand out, and he had already accumulated quite a few merits.

Why take this risk?

“Some time ago, you asked me why your realm has been stuck at the eighth rank.”

“Yes.”

“I told you to nurture your killing intent.”

“Yes.”

“Killing intent, how is it nurtured? A true man, standing upright between heaven and earth, looking down on all directions, that is true killing intent!”

“Your subordinate is enlightened.”

“Your state of mind is still too cautious. Perhaps that is the problem with you smart people. You are too cautious, excessively cautious.”

“Yes, your subordinate is enlightened.”

“The reason for sending you is, firstly, you are the smartest one in our army, and you are also very pleasant to talk to.”

“…” Zheng Fan.

“Although I am a rough man from the military, I also know that envoys must be those who are eloquent and intelligent. Otherwise, if people curse you in a roundabout way, you wouldn’t even understand and would still nod and smile, saying: Yes, yes, yes.

Wouldn’t that be utterly humiliating?”

“Yes.”

“Furthermore, it was the Marquis who mentioned you to us first, saying that you are a very interesting person. The Marquis also said that if that Southern Marquis hadn’t refused to let you go, he would have wanted to poach you to our Zhenbei Army.

However, since you are from Beifeng County, you and I are from the same hometown.

I have also seen it for myself these days. You, Zheng Fan, are a capable person. Don’t laugh at me, a man knows his own affairs. You can ask me to lead these lads to kill people. These lads are all heroes, not a single coward among them;

But if you talk about playing tricks, scheming, governing a place, dividing and disintegrating, calculating people’s hearts, our Zhenbei Army really lacks such insidious people.

You, Zheng Fan, are an insidious person!”

“…” Zheng Fan.

Xue San, standing to the side, was holding his crotch to suppress his laughter.

“Don’t look down on yourself for being just a Commander now, but frankly speaking, what you have been doing these days is far more than what a Commander should be doing. I just want to leave good things to the people I have faith in.

After this mission, after the war, when merits are rewarded, I can guarantee you a city governorship.”

According to the current system in Great Yan where the military and government are not separated, a city governor is equivalent to having both military and political power in one city.

With the abilities of these demon kings under Zheng Fan’s command, having a stable base, development in all aspects will definitely be on the right track in a short period of time.

But Zheng Fan said directly:

“Lord, why not give this credit to someone else?”

Li Fusheng nodded,

Zheng Fan let out a long sigh,

Li Fusheng smiled,

Zheng Fan smiled along,

“Cui Liu Fort Commander Zheng Fan, listen to the order!”

“Your subordinate is here!”

“Order you to go to the Qian Kingdom’s capital tonight as an envoy to deliver the letter!”

“Your subordinate… obeys!”

Earlier, when you were asked whether you dared, you could play dumb, you could be shameless.

But once it was a formal military order,

According to military rules,

Those who disobey orders,

Will be executed!

Li Fusheng stretched, seemingly pulling at his wound, causing him to stiffen slightly.

Immediately afterward,

He opened his mouth and said:

“Before you go, I will have people shout under the walls of the capital.

Dare to kill my envoy,

I, Li Fusheng,

Will slaughter ten thousand civilians in the capital region to be buried with him!”

………

“That’s how it is.”

By the fire, Zheng Fan had told everything that had happened earlier.

“I refused because I knew that my personal safety was a small matter, but if my actions were to cause an accident for you, I would not be able to bear it.”

Xue San then said:

“My lord, you don’t need to worry about us. At this time, being an envoy to the Qian Kingdom’s capital, the thought alone is exciting!”

Liang Cheng nodded,

A’ming nodded,

Si Niang nodded,

Fan Li slapped his forehead and said:

“That’s right!”

Even the Demonic Seed within Zheng Fan’s armor trembled slightly at this moment.

“…” Zheng Fan.

Very helpless, and also very sad.

“My lord, since you are going, then you must think about who to bring. Although it is a lone envoy, you should be able to bring two followers, right?” Si Niang said.

“Yes, you can bring two.” Zheng Fan said.

Xue San immediately said: “I’ll go!”

“No.” The blind man refused.

“Why?”

“It would be a disgrace to the nation.”

“…” Xue San.

The blind man straightened his clothes. His face still had some traces of fatigue, but he still said with certainty:

“I have been studying a lot about the Qian Kingdom’s court recently. I will accompany the lord. The other one should be A’ming.”

A’ming nodded slightly, indicating his agreement.

There was nothing to be proud of, because A’ming knew why he was chosen.

Fan Li asked with some doubt:

“What about me?”

“Shut up.”

Fan Li, he dared not bring him. What if Fan Li opened his mouth and went on a rant in the Qian Kingdom’s court, resulting in the Qian people breaking the tradition of not killing envoys?

For example, shouting in the main hall:

“Old Emperor, you get down from that dragon throne and let my lord sit on it!”

“Okay, then let’s prepare. We’ll go when it gets dark.”

Zheng Fan also let go,

The worst outcome would be nothing more than being shot into a hornet’s nest by the defending soldiers under the city walls.

“What about the documents?” the blind man asked.

Weren’t they going to deliver the documents? Where were the documents?

“Uh…” Zheng Fan then remembered and said to the blind man: “Li Fusheng said to let me write it myself.”

The blind man nodded. The work of the documents would definitely be prepared by him. He couldn’t help but ask again:

“What are the requirements?”

When writing a paper, you have to have a point.

Zheng Fan reached out, covered his face, sighed, and said:

“There is only one requirement.”

The blind man let out a sigh of relief, thinking: If there is only one requirement, then things will be much simpler.

“That is to make the Qian people angry.”

“…” The blind man.

………

This was a mission that was not in the original plan, but the various complex changes in the battle situation gave rise to this situation.

Li Fusheng’s troops traveled a hundred miles at high speed, crossed the Bian River, and then captured the Qian Kingdom’s Xifeng Ferry in one fell swoop, isolating the Qian people’s troops in Xishan County outside the capital region.

Li Fusheng only had two choices before him.

One was to take advantage of this time to directly attack the city;

The other was to use other various means to put pressure on the Qian Kingdom’s court officials and on the Qian Kingdom’s emperor.

Zheng Fan didn’t know whether Li Fusheng would attack the city.

But when he came out of the military camp, Zheng Fan had already seen the Zhenbei Army soldiers driving the nearby Qian Kingdom civilians to cut down trees to make equipment, some of which were clearly intended for attacking the city.

The walls of the capital were very high;

There were also many people in the capital.

It was almost impossible to capture this city in a short period of time, but since they were already at the city gates, it would be inappropriate not to attack once.

Most importantly, the various bizarre performances of the Qian people along the way gave Li Fusheng a lot of confidence.

If they could capture the Qian Kingdom’s capital in one fell swoop and loot the emperor and civil and military officials in the city, the Qian Kingdom would probably be finished.

Dreams were always necessary, and at the same time, they needed to move their fingers to practice them.

The blind man sat on the horse and said:

“My lord, if they really want to attack the city, they will definitely use the captured civilians as the first batch of cannon fodder.”

“Yeah.”

Zheng Fan knew what the blind man meant. He was worried that he would not be able to bear it when he saw this scene in the future, so he was laying the groundwork in advance.

But people were such strange creatures. Commander Zheng was reluctant to kill the small sword boy earlier, but now, he felt that there was nothing wrong with driving the captured Qian Kingdom civilians to be the first wave of cannon fodder to exhaust the Qian people’s defense supplies.

If it wasn’t them dying, it would be his own people dying. Therefore, people would be very kind when their own interests were not involved.

A’ming raised the flag.

In this era, there was no tradition of raising a white flag, but it was still generally considered unlucky. However, if they wanted to show their identity without lowering their status, they had to carry something.

Zheng Fan felt that this envoy thing was probably a spur-of-the-moment idea by Li Fusheng. The things an envoy would use were not prepared.

In order to avoid being shot into a hornet’s nest before they even reached the city gate, everyone temporarily made a colorful flag, which was being held by A’ming.

This flag looked so silly no matter how you looked at it…

However, it still had an effect, which was that when the three of them rode over, you could clearly see many figures on the city walls, but no one shot arrows.

When they reached the city gate,

Someone above shouted:

“Who goes there?”

Zheng Fan raised his head and shouted:

“Envoy of Great Yan, ordered to pay respects to the Qian Emperor!”

Next, was waiting.

This wait lasted for more than an hour.

Finally,

Three baskets were lowered from above.

Zheng Fan and the others dismounted, entered the baskets, and the baskets were raised to the city wall.

After getting down, Zheng Fan was still straightening his clothes. There was nothing to straighten, it was just a habitual action.

At this time, a middle-aged civil official in a green robe stood in front of Zheng Fan and the others and said:

“This official is Shao Wenjie, Vice Minister of the Court of State Ceremonial, ordered by His Majesty to lead the Yan envoy to pay respects to His Majesty.”

Zheng Fan nodded to him.

Shao Wenjie was stunned for a moment, and said:

“Yan envoy, can you show the letter of credence and seal of the envoy for this official to verify?”

“Letter of credence, seal? Didn’t bring them.”

Shao Wenjie immediately revealed a disdainful expression and said:

“The Yan people are indeed barbarians. They don’t even pay attention to these courtesies!”

The soldiers around him cooperated by showing mocking smiles, although it was a bit forced.

Zheng Fan nodded and said:

“I’m really sorry. I didn’t expect the war to be fought so quickly that we didn’t have time to prepare.”

“…” Shao Wenjie.

The smiles on the faces of the surrounding soldiers disappeared and were replaced by angry emotions.

Fully interpreting what it meant to be an incompetent rage.

To be honest, he really didn’t want to take this job before accepting it, but after accepting it, Zheng Fan understood a principle. If he wanted to leave here safely, he had to hold his head high and couldn’t be weak.

This was no longer a question of the envoy representing the dignity of the Yan Kingdom, but the more forceful and arrogant you were, the less people would dare to touch you.

However, the situation was pretty good now. It was the Qian Kingdom that was besieged, so Zheng Fan was very confident.

Most of the famous envoys in history were envoys from weak countries to strong countries, either showing courage and boldness, or being wise and resourceful, each with their own characteristics and brilliance.

As for envoys from strong countries to weak countries, there was nothing special about them, because they were uniformly arrogant.

Shao Wenjie didn’t speak. He wasn’t qualified to say anything. The situation was critical now. The Yan people had already fought under the capital, and only His Majesty and the Prime Ministers could make decisions. He couldn’t interrupt.

“Yan envoy, please follow me.”

Zheng Fan also made a gesture of invitation and then followed behind Shao Wenjie.

Accompanying them down the city wall were also two teams of armored soldiers, all with bright and gleaming armor. These should be the Qian Emperor’s personal Imperial Guards, the Silver Armored Guards.

Just as they went down the city wall and walked to the ground,

They saw a young general in armor rushing over with his subordinates in a hurry.

The Silver Armored Guards on both sides didn’t stop them, but deliberately made way for them.

“Where are the Yan barbarians? Where are they? Let grandpa kill them for a drink!!”

The young general was very arrogant.

Shao Wenjie glanced at Zheng Fan behind him. He wanted to see Zheng Fan’s reaction.

However,

Zheng Fan just wanted to laugh.

Even at this time, did the Qian Kingdom’s officials still want to treat the development of things with their old ways of thinking?

Did they want to use this method to suppress the envoy’s arrogance?

The problem was, the Yan army was already outside your capital. Who were you bluffing?

At this moment,

Commander Zheng showed a completely different side from the one he had shown in front of Li Fusheng earlier,

He took the initiative to push Shao Wenjie away,

Extended his finger and pointed at his neck, pushing it forward,

And shouted loudly:

“Come on, come on, my neck is here. If you don’t chop it off today, you’re my grandson!”