When Empress Dowager Yan came to Xiangping and collected almost the last bit of strength that could be collected in the entire Liaodong County, forming a force of 10,000 people, Li Mu came.

This time, Li Mu brought 15,000 cavalry from the Zhao State, and the other 15,000 cavalry were left by him in Jidu, including his deputy general Zhao Kuo.

In fact, Li Mu only came five days later than Empress Dowager Yan.

This is mainly because the speed of the march of Empress Dowager Yan and her escorts is not fast, at least it cannot be as fast as the professional cavalry led by Li Mu.

After learning the news, Li Mu couldn't help but feel a little sorry in his heart, if he could really start the pursuit on the second day of Yanhou's escape as originally planned, it was estimated that it would not take three days for Yanhou's mother and son to fall into his hands.

As long as the 8,000 cavalry is left in the Ji Capital, it can be ensured that when Li Mu captures the Empress Dowager Yan's mother and son and returns to Ji Capital, the capital of the Yan State is still in the hands of the Zhao army.

"It was a mistake." Li Mu looked at Xiangping City in front of him and said to Yiqusheng beside him.

Yiqu Sheng nodded, then shrugged his shoulders and showed a big smile: "It turns out that you also have a day when you make mistakes. ”

Li Mu smiled, and the expression on his face was very calm: "People will make mistakes one day, and of course I am no exception." ”

Li Mu knows very well what the reason for his mistake is, and it is precisely because he did not know the "enemy" in "knowing himself and knowing the other".

He didn't underestimate himself, but he overestimated the speed of Empress Dowager Yan's escape.

After all, Empress Dowager Yan is just a woman, she has never even ridden a horse a few times in her life, let alone this experience of fleeing thousands of miles in a row, how can she be fast?

This time, Li Mu didn't plan to continue to make this mistake.

Therefore, under the command of Li Mu, the Zhao army soon launched a tentative attack on Xiangping City.

The siege of the cavalry is actually very boring, that is, it is simply a horse galloping back and forth under the city wall, and if someone rises on the city wall, give him an arrow.

High-speed cavalry shooting is not difficult for the cavalry of Zhao State, who are mostly Hu people, and the soldiers of the Yan Army who keep falling from under the city are the best proof of the archery skills of the Zhao cavalry.

At the beginning, there were still many Yan soldiers who dared to shoot at the cavalry of the Zhao army, but after two or three hundred corpses fell from the city in just two quarters of an hour, no Yan army dared to show their heads.

Yiqu Shengxing's horse returned to the front of the battle, raised the head of a Yan army commander in his hand and smiled at Li Mu: "It seems that the quality of the Yan army soldiers here is nothing more than that." ”

Li Mu shook his head and said, "Didn't you find out?" These guys are actually just civilians and young people, and the real soldiers actually didn't have many casualties. If my prediction is correct, the other side must be trying to lure us into attacking the city, so that we can effectively kill us. ”

Yi Qusheng's eyes widened, and he seemed very skeptical of Li Mu's words.

"The walls of Xiangping City are not high at all, I think as long as we have a hundred ladders, then we will definitely be able to break through it!" Yiqusheng swore to Li Mu and said.

Forests are not uncommon in Liaodong, and hundred-year-old trees abound on this inaccessible land, so after three days, Li Mu's department gathered a hundred ladders and began to prepare for the siege.

Not surprisingly, this time the siege was repulsed.

In the past few days, Zhao Jun had never given up his daily routine hunting in the city, and Yan Jun seemed to have really been frightened, and he had been cowering in the city and not coming out.

But when the Zhao army really held the ladder and tried to attack the city, the Yan State finally broke out their true combat power for the first time.

Li Mu rode a horse and stood under the handsome banner, watching one after another soldiers of the Zhao State fall from the cloud ladder like raindrops and lose their lives, and then gave the order very calmly.

"Mingjin retreats."

As a pioneer general, Yiqusheng, who had attacked the city for a whole hour, returned to Li Mu with a disgraced face, with an arrow stuck in each of his left and right arms, which looked asymmetrical, which made Li Mu's heart a little uncomfortable.

"You're right, Metropolitan Governor, the people of the Yan Kingdom were indeed hiding their strength a few days ago."

Under the ruthless education of facts, Yiqu Sheng was finally convinced.

But Yi Qusheng still couldn't figure it out: "If you already knew that the Yan people were hiding their strength, then why did you want to attack the city this time?" Isn't this a waste of time for the soldiers to die? ”

Li Mu shook his head calmly: "Speculation is just speculation, we must find a way to turn speculation into facts, if the march to war only relies on speculation to make decisions, then sooner or later one day you will die on your own speculation." ”

Yi Qusheng shouted: "So in order to confirm your guess, you let hundreds of your subordinates die for nothing?" ”

Li Mu stared at Yiqu Sheng sternly: "First of all, they didn't die in vain, as long as it was a siege battle, then they had to pay sacrifices, if you want to break through a city without dying, it's impossible." Secondly, I think it is a very valuable thing to sacrifice a few hundred men to avoid the defeat of my 20,000-strong army. At last, if you dare to charge the commander in such a way, go out and get fifty sticks for me at once. ”

Listening to the sound of the sticks being pulled down and the screams of Yiqusheng, Li Mu's mood finally improved a lot.

Then Li Mu made a decision, he only used 10,000 cavalry to besiege this Xiangping City, and the other 10,000 people swept around the entire Yan State Liaodong County and other cities.

Before the start of the war, Lejian had already transferred almost most of the combat forces in Liaodong County to the direction of Linle City, and then a few days ago, Empress Dowager Yan concentrated the remaining little combat forces in Xiangping City, so the other dozen or so small cities in Liaodong County surrendered to the Zhao people almost without any resistance.

The consequence of this is that Xiangping City has completely become an isolated city.

"Empress Dowager Yan and King Xiao Yan can't run away this time." After doing all this, Li Mu said to Yi Qusheng with great certainty.

Yi Qusheng nodded, and stopped talking.

Li Mudao: "There is an order in the army that women are not allowed to enter the camp, let alone forced to have a relationship with women. ”

Yiqusheng shouted: "Those two women admire me, they are voluntary!" ”

Li Mu nodded: "If a woman's husband and father-in-law have already gone to the battlefield, and she faces a murderous Hun with a saber in her hand, they must be willing to survive." If there is such a voluntary next time, then I will whip you another fifty military sticks. ”

Yi Qusheng wanted to say something, but he was kicked out of the big tent by Li Mu.

So Li Mu also coincidentally adopted the same approach as Pang Xuan, that is, to besiege but not attack.

Pang Xuan sent Ju Xin and led a detachment of 30,000 people to sweep the entire Yan Kingdom, and brought all the Yan lands except Linle and Xiangping into the pockets of the Zhao State.

Although it encountered very strong resistance, with most of the forces capable of fighting concentrated in Linle and Xiangping, sporadic resistance was simply no match for the formed Zhao army.

Killing people is a must, and Ji Xin mercilessly killed all those who dared to resist with an iron fist, and gave those Yan officials and families who were willing to surrender to assist Zhao officials in governing the place.

In fact, for the low-level commoners, it doesn't matter if their own king is called King Yan or King Zhao, the reason why Qi has encountered great opposition to the annexation of Yan is only because the nobles of Yan have not received any benefits in it, or they have not gotten enough benefits.

Therefore, under the two-pronged action of Ji Xin, who had been watching Yan for a long time, most of Yan quickly calmed down, and the wave of rebellion against Zhao State has basically disappeared.

When all this is done, not only is spring long gone, but even summer is coming to an end.

The siege of Linle City is still continuing, and the morale of the Yan army in the city is also getting low day by day, especially when the leaflets of the Zhao army shoot in every few days, this morale slump will hit a new low.

Pang Xuan is a guy who knows how to attack the heart very well, so every time a flyer mentions the fall of a certain city and a county, the seals of these city guards and county guards will definitely appear on the flyer this time, and then the Yan soldiers who belong to these places in Linle City will break out into riots, the scale is small and large, but the common point is that people will die every time.

After a lot of time, even Lema, who was lying on the bed, felt that he could support it for almost half a year but still hadn't fallen, which was a miracle.

But in any case, Linle City has not been conquered, Xiangping City has not been conquered, and other countries seem to have completely forgotten about Zhao Guo's attack on Yan, and there is no sign of sending troops to help Yan at all.

However, according to the information that Hu Yiwei kept transmitting, the four countries of Qin, Qi, Han, and Chu were all preparing for war with all their might, and they all coincidentally placed the main direction of defense on the border with Zhao.

Except for the war of Zhao and Yan, there was no other war on the entire continent.

"We're the enemy of the world!" After Zhao Dan learned of this situation, he said these words to the ministers in front of him with a smile.

Regarding Zhao Dan's self-ridicule, the ministers of Zhao State obviously did not seem to have any psychological pressure, but smiled and agreed with Zhao Dan's words.

This kind of thing is the enemy of the whole world, and the monarchs and ministers of Zhao have long been accustomed to it.

If everything continues like this, the probability of taking the Yan Kingdom is simply 100%.

It's just that there are still many people in this world who don't want to see Zhao State destroy Yan State so smoothly, so when autumn comes, the battlefield finally changes again.

Reinforcements from the Yan Kingdom are coming.