"In other words, did the Qi army withdraw from Jidu on its own initiative?"

Ji Zhi, who has become the king of Yan, looked at the city quilt and the orchestra pit under the stage, and asked slowly.

"Yes." The city was said, "On that day, General Lechi commanded the battle, and saw that the Qi army at the head of the city had been defeated and retreated, so he ordered his ministers and others to lead the army to attack the city. As a pioneer, the minister took the lead in breaking through the city gate, but he didn't see the Qi army, he thought that the Qi army had collapsed, and was preparing to sweep away the remnants, but he didn't expect the Qi army to break through the encirclement of our army from the north gate and rushed out directly! ”

The orchestra pit stood there, brushing his beard and squinting his eyes, as if listening to the words of the city's quilt.

"The king, the minister thought that the Qi army would be able to escape, although it was because Kuang Zhang was scheming and had the intention of abandoning the city, but General Le's mistakes in command cannot be exempted."

"If General Le could have predicted that the Qi army had the intention of breaking through when he was in command, then the Qi army would naturally not have been able to escape from Jidu so smoothly, but would have been captured by our army. Or, when the general arranged the army, he made an ambush on the way of the Qi army's escape, and naturally this would not happen. ”

"Yes, no matter what, General Le has an inescapable responsibility."

"This..."Ji Zhi looked at the city quilt, and then at the orchestra pit standing aside, and didn't know what to say for a while. After all, Le Chi is the reinforcement sent by Zhao State to help him deal with Qi State, and he is also the general he relies on the most, if he is to blame at this moment, Yu Zhao State will definitely not look good. Now that Zhao Guo has just destroyed Zhongshan, and his momentum is booming, if he sees his own people being blamed, I am afraid that he will be the same as Qi State, and he will also send troops to Yan State, and then he will regret that he has no place to cry.

"The king, the ministers and others feel that after all, General Lechi has to consider a lot of things when commanding, and some mistakes are inevitable." Su Dai saw that Ji Zhi was difficult to make a decision for a while, so he hurriedly came out to play a round. "Judging from the situation at that time, if our army surrounded the Qi army very strictly, I am afraid that the Qi army would fight to the death, and the victory or defeat of the battle of Jidu would be between the two words."

"What's more, with the strength of our army, the places that General Le can take care of must be insufficient, if it is the same strength as the Qi army, there will be no such omission."

When Ji Zhi heard it, he did have some truth. With the strength of the Yanzhao coalition army now, it is already very good to be able to besiege the city, and this is still due to the fact that there are few soldiers in Jidu and other reinforcements have not yet arrived. If it drags on for a few more months, I'm afraid that the thistle will not be able to attack it by then.

"As for the suspicion of the general, there are some reasonableness, but as a person in the army, he can't command the whole army, and he doesn't know General Le's difficulties. This dispute is also reasonable. ”

Ji Zhi looked at the city quilt and then at the orchestra pit, which seemed to be the truth.

"The King." Le Chi was a little tempted to see what Su Dai said, so he came out, "At that time, the king was in our army, and he should know that except for the Chinese army, all the troops had already attacked. If, as the general said, he rashly went to encircle the Qi army, I am afraid that the Qi army would attack our army in turn, and the king's situation would be dangerous. ”

As he spoke, he stood up, looked at the city quilt and said, "As for what the general said just now, arranging an ambush on the road that the Qi army must pass through to retreat, I think it is very undesirable. The strength of the Qi army in the city of Jidu is not comparable to me, if part of the troops is divided into a part to snipe the Qi army, less is to bury the lives of the soldiers in vain, and more, the siege is more disadvantageous. Rather than this, why not devote all your forces to the siege of the city, and instead hope to expand the results of the battle? ”

"I'm afraid that in the eyes of the old general, he wanted to let the Qi army have a way out, so he said so." The city couldn't help but sneer. "If you arrange an ambush outside, the Qi army can at least lose most of it, instead of retreating like this."

"What the general said was inferior. The ambition of our army should be to attack the city, not to destroy the Qi army, these are two different things. The more the orchestra pit talked, the more excited he became.

"If you can't destroy the Qi army, even if you capture the capital of Ji, what's the use? Another day, the Qi army made a comeback, and the thistle capital was still in danger, could it be that at that time, the old general realized the mistake of this move? "The city quilt is also unyielding.

"This time, that time. If a certain person has an army of 100,000, he can naturally take measures calmly and capture the Qi army without much effort. Now that our army is under-armed, the weapons and armor are not neat, and the training of soldiers is also extremely lacking, isn't it a joke to talk about destroying the Qi army with this force! ”

"The king invited the general to come, naturally, to do this extremely impossible thing. If everything can be done, what about the general? ”

"In this case, after a certain self-esteem will be known to the king of my family, he will lead the Zhao army and leave the Yan Kingdom. The city was overwhelmed by the generals and martial arts, so naturally there was a way to expel the Qi army. After that, he didn't salute Ji Zhi, turned around and left the main hall, no matter how Ji Zhi called him, he ignored it.

Ji Zhi just wanted to turn around and reprimand the city quilt, but the city quilt took the first step to ask Ji Zhi for the guilt, saying that he was offended by his words, and his heart was really for Ji Zhi's sake. In this way, after all, the city quilt is Yan Guo's own general, and when Ji Zhi saw this, he could only order the city quilt to apologize to the orchestra pool, and he must be kept and not offended by Zhao Guo.

"Alas!" Ji Zhi sat down heavily, and said to Su Dai with a wry smile, "I didn't expect the two generals to make such a fuss about this matter." ”

Su Dai owes himself, "The city is also for the sake of the king." No matter how good the orchestra is, it is just the general of the Zhao people, the commander's soldiers and horses, although the soldiers are strong and strong, they can never be used by me, and they still need to rely on the generals of the city and these Yan country's own people. ”

"Why don't you know about this?" Ji Zhi said, "The city is competing with the orchestra pit, nominally a power struggle between the two, but in fact it is a question of whether Yan Guo should be the leader. The widow also wants to rely on the city to command the army, but now that my Yan State has limited troops, if the Zhao State withdraws its troops, the Qi State will come back in an instant. ”

"In the final analysis, it's the choice of the king's side, or it's too few." Su Dai responded.

Ji Zhi turned to look at Su Dai, "Listening to Qing's words, it seems to be interesting." ”

"Don't dare." Su Dai said, "The king, the minister just thinks that although the king is in a high position now, the right to mobilize the army is not with the king, but between the two generals. If you can take military power into your own hands, these problems will be solved. ”

"It's easier said than done." Ji Zhi smiled bitterly, "Not to mention that the widow is in the military, his knowledge is limited, and even the martial arts are sparse and tight, just to say that the main force of this coalition army is the Zhao State troops." With Zhao Guoren's thoughts, how can he be willing to give military power to a widow? ”

Su Dai smiled and said, "Since the other party is unwilling, why doesn't the king go straight to get it?" ”

Ji Zhi's face tightened, I don't know what Su Dai meant?

When the king first entered the city, he was welcomed by the people of Jidu, which just shows that the king's popularity and bearing are well received by everyone. Even in Zhao Guojun, the evaluation of the king is very high, and he feels that the king cherishes talents and loves talents, and he must be a generation of virtuous monarchs. ”

"It's still a bit of a fallacy." Ji Zhi was embarrassed.

Su Dai shook his head, "That's not the case. The king must remember that in today's troubled times of the Warring States, the most valuable person is also talented. If the king can gather some worldly talents around him, this revival of the Yan Kingdom will naturally be just around the corner, and the people you can rely on are no longer limited to the city and the orchestra pit. For example, Zhao Guo, Wen Youle Yi, and Wu Youpang Cong, these are the two people that King Zhao relies on the most, but others, such as Fei Yi, Wei Yi, Niu Qian, and Zhao Zhuang, are all talents for a while, and several people are holding each other back, so that they can work together and behave each other in front of King Zhao. And King Zhao is a monarch who is deeply versed in the way of balance, which is worth learning from the king. ”

"Well, what Qing said makes sense." Ji Zhi nodded in response.

As I said just now, if the king recruits talents with great fanfare, then people of insight will naturally come to Yan, and the king only needs to sit on the high platform alone and dispatch troops, and there will be no difficulties today. Even, even the people of Zhao State are afraid that they will come to Yan Kingdom to assist the king and achieve immortal achievements. ”

"Hehe, if you can attract talents like Le Yi to come, the widow will definitely welcome him. It's just that it is estimated that with King Zhao's favor, Le Yi will not come to Yan Kingdom, which is a pity. ”

"Although Le Yi is a great talent, he does not have to have it. In the vast sea of people, there are many people who are smarter than Le Yi, and the king doesn't have to be presumptuous because of this. ”

"Qing's words, let the widow think about it a little more."

"No."

"By the way, there is one more thing, the widow is still hesitating, I don't know if Qing can share the worries of the widow."

"Your Majesty, please speak."

Ji Zhi sorted out his thoughts for a moment and said slowly: "What the city was said just now is not completely unreasonable. If Le Chi can wipe out the main force of the Qi army as much as possible in the big war, our army will have enough time to hoard grain and grass, and go south to drive the Qi army out of the territory of Yan and restore the prosperity of Yan State. ”

"And now, the Qi army has retreated, and even if our army is reorganized, it will take some days before it can go south. Not to mention how many variables there are during this period of time, it is a question whether we can support our army to defend against the counterattack of the Qi army. Therefore, the widow reconsiders whether to levy heavy taxes. ”

From Su Dai's standpoint, it is actually very easy to answer, that is, to instigate Ji Zhi to levy heavy taxes, it is best to be able to make a living, and when the Qi army comes back, it will be twice the result with half the effort.

But at this moment, he must answer this question as a minister of the Yan State in order to gain the appreciation of Ji Zhi, otherwise this question is the beginning of ending his identity as a spy. From then on, Ji Zhi will no longer trust himself.

Su Dai pretended to think for a while, and then slowly responded: "I think it's inappropriate." If we take the land occupied by the king now, imposing heavy taxes will burn the people's newly raised goodwill towards the king, and all our previous efforts will be in vain, which is also the reason why Zizhi and others failed. So in any case, this tax can't be too heavy. ”

"However, if they can't pay heavy taxes, not only will the widows have no money to repair the city, but I am afraid that it will be a problem to feed the army. So, what should I do? ”

"This... Perhaps the king can repair a book, borrow some grain and grass from Zhao Guo, and agree to return it when the time comes. After all, if the king stood on the side of the Qi State, the soldiers of the Zhao State would be in danger. King Zhao should be able to realize what is at stake. ”

Ji Zhi thought about it and sighed, "Alas, let's talk about it in a few days." ”

"No."

(End of chapter)