The Assassination of the King of Qin by Jing Ke

full-body-wearing full-body wearing mourning. Everyone was especially sad. The sky was so bleak, the wind was so cold, the sun was not shining, the water in the river was frowning and wrinkling, and the grass on the river bank was swaying back and forth as if they couldn't cry out to strangle their intestines. Several people in the room are all crying, pulling hands, pulling heads, not a sound to suppress the tears, not to let them flow. They all hate themselves and despise themselves. They knew that Yan was going to die, but they didn't know how to resist Qin. They prayed in secret, asking God to let Jing Ke succeed. They looked at the water flowing, but they were angry that it should not be flowing so peacefully. Gao Jianli, Jing Ke's friend, was playing a sad song with a bamboo ruler. When they heard the sound of the bamboo ruler striking the zhu string, they were so sad that their sweaty hairs stood up. Jing Ke pressed the beat, exhaled to the sky, and sang

I exhaled to the sky and sang

I ran into the tiger's den to get rid of the disaster.

The wind from the north was cold, and the water was cold.

The wind from the north is so cold that the warrior will never come back!

When Prince Dan and the rest of his beloved family heard "the brave man will never come back", they could no longer hold back the tears in their eyes. Prince Zidan poured a cup of wine and handed it to Jing Ke on his knees. Jing Ke took it, drank it down, took Qin Maoyang by the hand, jumped into the car, and flew away without looking back.

In 227 B.C. (the 20th year of Qin's reign, the 28th year of King Xi of Yan, and the first year of King Dai Jia), Jing Ke arrived at Xianyang and informed the king. As soon as the king of Qin heard that the envoy of Yan had sent the head of Fan Yuzhi and the map of Duko, he asked Jing Ke to go to him. Jing Ke went up the steps of the Qin court with Fan Yuqi's head in his hand and Qin Wu Yang with the map of Du Kang.

As soon as Qin Maoyang saw how majestic the Qin court was, he couldn't help but get scared. When the King of Qin's left and right saw it, he drank and said, "Why has the messenger's face changed color?" Jing Ke turned around and saw that Qin Weiyang's face was as white and blue as a dead man's. He had to kowtow and said to the king, "He is a rude man from the north, he has never seen the majesty of the king before, so he was a bit scared. Please forgive me, Your Majesty!" The king said to Jing Ke, "Tell him to go back! You come up alone." Jing Ke blamed Qin Wei Yang for being a "helper", so he held the wooden box alone and offered it to the king. The king opened it and saw that it was the head of Fan Yuzhi. Then he asked Jing Ke to bring the map to him. Jing Ke went back to the bottom of the stairs and took the map from Qin Maoyang's hand. He opened the map slowly and showed it to the king one place at a time. At the end of the fight, the dagger rolled up on the map was revealed. Jing Ke grabbed the dagger, threw away the map, grabbed the king's sleeve with his left hand, and stabbed him with his right. The King of Qin turned backward with great force and the sleeve broke. He jumped over the side screen at once and was just about to flee when Jing Ke came after him with his dagger. The King of Qin saw that he could not run and there was no place to hide, so he ran around the large bronze pillar in the courtroom, with Jing Ke pressing closely. The two of them seemed to go around like a horse lamp. The few civil officials standing at the top of the stairs were all unarmed; the warriors at the bottom of the stairs were not allowed to go up without orders, and they had to deal with Qin Weiyang at the bottom. Jing Ke was pressing so hard that the king could only run around the pillar. Although he had his sword with him, he didn't even have the time to pull it out. One or two city officials tried to stop Jing Ke, but he kicked them away. One of them, a doctor who was serving the king, picked up a jar of medicine and hit it at Jing Ke. The king of Qin took advantage of this blink of an eye to pull out the sword. But he was in a hurry and the sword was too long to pull out. One of his men shouted, "Your Majesty, pull the sword up to the back of the spine, and you can pull it out!" So the king did as he said and pulled out the sword. With the sword in his hand, he was emboldened. He stepped forward and cut off one of Jing Ke's legs with his sword. Jing Ke couldn't stand up and fell next to the bronze pillar, picked up his dagger, and threw it at the King of Qin. The king dodged to his right and the dagger passed by his ear, hitting the bronze pillar with a loud bang and sparking. The king of Qin then slashed at Jing Ke, who used his hand to block it and lost three fingers. He smiled bitterly and said, "Your luck is not bad! I wanted to force you to return the lands of the vassals, so I didn't do it earlier. But you will not be able to annex the world by force!" The King of Qin struck Jing Ke several times with his sword and killed him. The warriors chopped up the man who was standing at the bottom of the steps.