In the affinity hall of the Ji Palace, the attendant Ling Wang looked up at Ji Kang, who was reading the documents at the table.

The young king found his own family, and after reviewing a document, a smile appeared on his face.

When Wang Cong saw Ji Kang's expression, he understood that the document just now must have brought good news to Ji Kang.

After entering October, except for a few counties in the northern part of Liaodi, the autumn harvest in most of the other counties of Yan has ended. Judging from the current statistics, this year's grain harvest in Yan has hit a new high.

Especially this year, the three counties of Daijun, Yanmen, and Yunzhong, which have just been incorporated into the territory of Yanguo, although the grain output is not rich, it is enough for the people of the three counties to persist until next year.

Ji Kang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, so there was no need to send grain to these three counties on a large scale from other counties in Yan Country in the future. The pressure of Yan Guo was immediately lightened at the current stage.

Yanmen and other three counties have now entered a normal development track.

Picking up the teacup on the table, Ji Kang took a sip of tea.

Standing up, he slowly walked to the map in front of the wall next to him, and his eyes were fixed on the location of Jinyang City on the map.

"Reading the Minutes of History Fangyu" cloud: "Jinyang, controlling the mountains and rivers, standing on the shoulders of the world, is the foundation of Hedong, and the place where ancient and modern times must fight", and there is also a saying that "Jinyang has many wars in the past dynasties and is known as the ancient battlefield in the world".

According to the plan of Yan Kingdom, it is best for Jinyang City to be returned to Yan Kingdom before the end of this year.

Next to the map, Ji Kang wandered for a few steps, made up his mind in his heart, and ordered Wang Cong, the attendant: "Wang Cong, you can order the drama to draft an edict, and order the Changguo Junle who is stationed in Dai County to lead my army and enter Jinyang." ”

"No." Wang Cong bowed and answered.

After Wang Cong withdrew from the palace, Ji Kang suddenly thought of the life of the king of Changguo in the previous world.

In the previous life, the Yan State was not so strong, but the Qin State already had the strength to dominate the world.

Under the national policy of "distant friendship and close attack" of the Qin State, the Yan State and the Qin State formed an alliance and made good friends, and the Yan State did not see at all what kind of fate the Yan State would bring to the Yan State from the king to the Xiang State.

In Yan Kingdom, the only important ministers who keep a clear head about this are Le Jian and Jiang Qu.

After the Battle of Changping, Le Jian and Jiang Qu advocated that Yan should adopt the national policy of forming allies with Zhao and jointly resisting Qin.

At that time, the king of Yan and Ji Kang's eldest brother, Ji Xi, also agreed to the idea of friendship with Zhao at first.

So on Zhao Wangdan's thirtieth birthday, Ji Xi sent Yan Xiang Li's belly as an envoy to Zhao to congratulate King Zhao on his birthday and give him a gift of 500.

After returning to China, Ji Xi asked Yan Xiang what he thought of Zhao Guo.

Su belly said to Ji Xi: "King Zhao is strong and all die for a long time, and he is lonely and not strong, and he can be cut down." ”

Ji Xi asked Changguo Jun Lejian for his opinion, and Lejian replied at the time:

"King, Zhao is the barrier to the south of my Yan country, and my Yan country should join forces with Zhao to fight against Qin and Qin at the moment, which is the best policy. Besides, Zhao is a country that resists strong enemies on all sides, and the people are familiar with fighting, and they cannot fight. ”

Ji Xi said: "I attacked with more than five times the strength of the Zhao army, how about it?" ”

Rakuma continued, "Not either. ”

Ji Xi was furious, and he sent 2,000 times, 600,000 soldiers, and divided his troops into two ways to attack Zhao.

Libei led the army to attack the department (now north of Baixiang County, Hebei); Qing Qin Dynasty (now Wei County, Hebei).

Only Jiangqu dissuaded the king of Yan and said: "The king who has made peace with people and drank people with five hundred gold, because of the report of the messenger, has turned friendship into attack." It would be unlucky to do so, and the dispatch of troops would not be successful. ”

Ji Xi didn't listen, and prepared to personally lead an army to follow behind the army.

Jiangqu pulled Ji Xi's robe to stop King Yan, and said, "The king must not go in person, it will not succeed." ”

Ji Xi ignored the generals, and continued to cut Zhao.

Jiang Qu said with tears in his eyes: "Great king, the minister is not for himself, but for the king!" Now that the Qin State has the heart to annex the world, our Yan State should unite with the Zhao State to jointly resist Qin, so that our Yan State and the Zhao State can survive; Otherwise, both countries will die. ”

Ji Xi was furious when he heard this, and kicked the ditch away.

When the army led by Ji Xi arrived at Song Zi (about the middle of present-day Jin County, Zhao County, and Shulu County, Hebei), Zhao State envoy Lian Po was the main general, and he broke the Yan army in Shanda and killed the chestnut belly; Le Cheng is in the generation of the Yan Army, and the capture of Qing Qin.

Lian Po led the army to chase the Yan soldiers for more than 500 miles and surrounded the capital of the Yan Kingdom.

Yan had no choice but to follow the conditions proposed by Zhao to preside over the peace negotiation with Jiangqu as the prime minister, and cut the five cities to Zhao before the Zhao army relieved the Yan siege. Lian Po was awarded the title of Weiwen for his merits, and he was called Pingjun, and he was a fake country.

Lejian saw that Ji Xi did not listen to his own advice, which led to the defeat of the Yan army, and he left Yan and joined Zhao.

After that, Lejian was unwilling to lead troops for Zhao Guo and died depressed.

Thinking of this, Ji Kang couldn't help but say to himself: "This time to kill Zhao, why don't you see Le Jian and Jiang Qu come out to admonish?" ”

On October 12, Wolf Mengcheng (now Yangqu County, Shanxi Province).

Xu Kai, the commander of the Zhao army, was inspecting the city wall, looking north from the city wall, because after the autumn harvest, the fields in the north had turned into a bare white land, at least a few miles away, there was no place to hide.

Looking back at Zhao Jun at the head of the city, he looked listless.

Xu Kai couldn't help but scold: "Cheer me up!" The Yan army has not yet arrived, what do you look like? They all drooped their heads, like shrunken turtles, and straightened their bodies for me. ”

Xu Kai's mood was very bad, the 50,000 army led by the commander of the Zhao army, Le Cheng, after staying here for half a month, saw that the main force of the Yan army did not go south, and led the army back to Jinyang City despite Xu Kai's plea.

At this time, the defenders of Zhao State in the city were only 6,000, and counting the men recruited in the city, there were only more than 10,000.

Xu Kai had received a report from the repulsors, and knew that Lejian had led the army of Yan and went south to Wolf Meng. And just yesterday, Xu Kai had learned that several cities in the north of Wolf Meng City had either surrendered to the Yan army or were conquered by the Yan army.

Wolf Mengcheng is located at the northern end of the Jinyang Basin (now Taiyuan Basin), with the Xiawu Mountains in the west and the Taihang Mountains in the east, which is the last barrier to defend the north of Jinyang City, and its strategic military position is extremely important.

After the division of Zhao, Wei and Han, Zhao did not open up Yanmen and Yunzhong counties at that time, in order to prevent the invasion of the northern grassland tribes, Zhao Xiangzi also ordered the construction of Wolf Meng City at the same time as building Jinyang City.

In the east and west mountains of the city, because there are often jackals infested, and because the terrain here is thousands of ravines, quite like a "Meng" word, so after the city is built, it is named "Wolf Meng".

For Yan Guo, if you want to occupy Jinyang, you must take Wolf Meng.

The defenders at the head of Wolf Mengcheng, after being scolded by Xu Kai, became more and more cautious.

If you usually see Xu Kai's fire, Wang She, who is Xu Kai's deputy general, will inevitably come forward to persuade Xu Kai. But in the past few days, Wang She has been a little restless, and he always looks preoccupied.