With Li Mu's siege, the atmosphere in the Ji Capital began to become tense, and this atmosphere also affected the palace city of Yan Kingdom, many palace people even broke things because of nervousness when doing things, and the bosses who would usually be angry about it either directly made a big fuss and punished them, or just sighed and turned a blind eye.

In the city, although it is clear that the Zhao army has not yet entered the city, the streets of Jidu, which are still lively on weekdays, suddenly become extremely deserted, and everyone stays at home in horror, waiting for good news or bad news to come.

As the supreme leader of the Ji Capital at this moment, Empress Dowager Yan sat very calmly in the main hall of the palace city, listening to the ministers and generals of Yan State in front of her report the situation.

"Queen Mother, the Zhao army has been besieging the city for three days, and in the past three days, the Zhao army has not had any other specific siege actions except for sending a small number of cavalry to harass it. Lao Chen thought that the people of Zhao were probably due to insufficient troops, so they just wanted to besiege Jidu. ”

The one who spoke was a middle-aged general named Leping, who was about the same age as Le Cheng, and was the number two person in the Yan Kingdom Le clan in addition to Le Jian, and was also the supreme military commander of the Yan State who was now in charge of guarding the Ji Capital.

Leping's words made the solemn expression on Empress Dowager Yan's face relax a lot, and she was about to say something, but another voice suddenly sounded: "Empress Dowager, the old minister has something to say." ”

Empress Dowager Yan's gaze moved to the person who spoke, and after staring at the other party for several seconds, Empress Dowager Yan said slowly: "Cai Qing, what's the matter with you?" ”

To tell the truth, Empress Dowager Yan is actually extremely dissatisfied with this Cai Niao in her heart, if it weren't for the fact that this Cai Niao is a godminister, and at the same time, Empress Dowager Yan doesn't want to be completely hollowed out by Lejian, Cai Niao and those old ministers who oppose Lejian would have been cleared out by Lejian a long time ago.

When it comes to dealing with political opponents, Rakuma has always been ruthless.

Cai Niao was also taken aback by Empress Dowager Yan's unkind gaze just now, and then suddenly woke up that he had not completely surrendered to Zhao State at the moment, and life and death were still in the thought of Empress Dowager Yan, so the next tone subconsciously became very respectful: "Queen Mother, the old minister has also followed the army to go out before, you must know that the people of Zhao are coming from the grassland for a long distance, and it takes time to make siege equipment. ”

Empress Dowager Yan moved her gaze to Leping's body and asked, "General Leping, is what Cai Qing said true?" ”

Le Ping paused for a moment, and then nodded and said: "Back to the Queen Mother, this is indeed a possible thing, but the minister thinks that the strength of the Zhao people outside the city is no more than twenty or thirty thousand people at most, and even if they attack the city fiercely, their strength is very limited." ”

Sun Tzu once said in the Art of War that there are ten sieges, although there are few ten sieges in specific battle situations, but if there are no defenders two or three times the strength of the troops, then the attack of the besieging side is often difficult to work or even in vain, for this Leping is naturally well aware.

But Cai Niao obviously didn't agree with Leping's meaning, and saw him continue: "Queen Mother, the strength of the Zhao State army is known to the world, although the number may only be twenty or thirty thousand, but after all, it is an army led by Li Mu, and its elite level must be far beyond everyone's expectations, and the old minister thinks that it must not be taken lightly. ”

Le Ping glanced at Cai Niao, and felt that the other party was making a little fuss, but after all, what the other party seemed to say was somewhat reasonable, so Le Ping didn't plan to refute it.

Empress Dowager Yan pondered for a moment and said, "So Cai Qing means ......"

Cai Niao hurriedly said: "The old minister's meaning is actually very simple, the old minister's family now has hundreds of doormen, and now it is the time of the national crisis, the old minister is willing to contribute all these doormen, let them go to the city to help defend the city, so as to fulfill a little duty of the courtier!" ”

As soon as Cai Niao's words came out, the ministers of the Yan Kingdom who were with Cai Niao all the way immediately rushed to say: "Queen Mother, the old minister is also willing to send guests to help defend the city." ”

"Queen Mother, the minister is also willing to help defend the city!"

So in this way, the other ministers of Yan Kingdom who were present were also not to be outdone, but not to mention, as soon as you made up for me, there were almost 10,000 people coming out.

Empress Dowager Yan looked at the ministers so enthusiastic, and her heart was somewhat comforted, in the opinion of the Empress Dowager, there are still so many ministers of Yan Kingdom who are willing to fight to protect the Ji Capital in this unfavorable situation of Yan Kingdom, which is actually a very rare thing.

Don't you dare to break the hearts of these loyal ministers.

So Empress Dowager Yan turned her gaze to Leping and said, "General, what do you think of this matter?" Judging from the old woman, Cai Qing and others are also patriotic. ”

Leping actually doesn't want to use these doormen, firstly, the guard force of Jidu has not yet reached the point where it needs to be replenished, and secondly, these doormen and inns are not professional soldiers, and it is okay to be a civilian man in the city, and it may add chaos to fighting in the city.

But now that Empress Dowager Yan has talked about this, what else can Leping do? had to agree with him: "The Queen Mother has a life, and Leping will naturally follow it." ”

After a while, Cai Niao and his group walked out of the palace gate happily, judging from the expressions on their faces, anyone would think that they were actually just happy for the thistle to have a little more hope, but no one knew what they really thought.

"Is it all arranged?" Cai Niao whispered to the other ministers, because they were too embarrassed for others to approach when they walked together, they were not afraid of others eavesdropping.

What's more, even if someone else overhears it, it's useless.

"It's all arranged." The rest of the ministers nodded their heads.

"Good." Cai Niao said with satisfaction: "Remember to explain to those key henchmen, let them do a good job, and don't live up to our trust in them!" ”

Saying that, Cai Niao gently stretched out the three fingers of his right hand, gestured towards everyone, and then said with a smile: "Since this is the case, then we will go back to our respective homes and wait for the moment when the news of victory comes." ”

In the following days, Li Mu was not idle, he tried to launch several fake sieges, but it also made the city head of the Ji capital panic.

But after all, Li Mu didn't really prepare any siege equipment, thousands of Zhao soldiers rushed with a cloud ladder and hula, and then saw that something could not be done and retreated, basically like this, it is okay to scare people, but it is a pipe dream to attack the city.

After this situation lasted for several days, the people of the Yan Kingdom in the Ji Capital finally began to feel a little at ease, and Le Ping patted his chest towards the Empress Dowager Yan in front of him with great certainty: "Please rest assured, unless the Zhao people continue to increase their troops, otherwise, with their current strength, it will be impossible to break through the Ji Capital!" ”

Empress Dowager Yan was relieved when she heard this, and it was not only Empress Dowager Yan who was relieved, but also the defenders above the city of Yan Kingdom.

Before I knew it, it was the night three days later.

From the siege of the Zhao army to the present, there has never been a time when the city has been attacked at night, so when the task of night duty is drawn, the defenders of Yan State not only do not feel that this is a difficult task, but also wish to be a part of the night duty.

The person in charge of guarding the east gate of the thistle capital is a five-hundred-man lord, and at this moment he is leading his two hundred-man team to patrol above the city, and after patrolling a circle, he naturally enters the corner tower.

At this moment, there were already many people sitting in the corner tower, and one of them hurriedly stood up after seeing the five hundred lords of the Yan Kingdom coming in, and said with a smile: "The five hundred lords are here, please sit down." ”

The five hundred lords twitched their noses, then their eyes lit up, and they said with a smile: "You are drinking at this time, aren't you afraid that the military order will not be successful?" ”

It was said that it was a military order, but when these five hundred lords said this, there was no trace of wanting to carry out the military order.

When the man who came up to meet him heard this, he immediately took out a wine gourd and said with a smile: "The five hundred lords are laughing, we just drink some wine to warm up our bodies because of the bitter cold of the spring night." Come, this is the wine that I have brought out of the house, and five hundred lords have come to drink it. ”

As soon as the five hundred lords pulled out the lid of the gourd, a smell of wine immediately came out, and they couldn't help but praise: "Sure enough, it's not a good wine from Cai Qing's family." ”

It's not polite to say, just take a sip and drink almost half a gourd.

The several Yan State officers who followed behind the five hundred lords were obviously also familiar with this, everyone was giggling and laughing, and the wine and meat sent to them were even more nonsense, and the whole atmosphere was very lively.

Suddenly, the eyes of the five hundred lords widened, and he sat up from the ground at once, and said, "This wine has a ......," and before he finished speaking, the whole person fell down with a bang.

Not only these five hundred lords, but more than a dozen lower-level officers of the Yan Kingdom in the corner tower also fell one by one at the same time.

And the rest of those who are completely awake are from Cai Niao's faction.

One of them, who looked like a leader, whispered: "It's all overturned, leave them alone for now, go down to the city immediately and take the city gate, and opening the city gate is a great achievement!" Also, quickly light the torches and signal the outside of the city! ”

A moment later, a flash of fire suddenly swung through the air in a certain trajectory across the city, and it was a full three times before it disappeared into thin air again.

At the moment when the firelight disappeared, a shout of killing suddenly sounded inside the city gate, and hundreds of doormen with weapons in their hands swarmed out of several courtyards near the city gate and rushed towards the city gate.

At the same time, in the darkness outside the city, there began to be a terrifying sound of horses' hooves!