The Yan Coalition Army got rid of the looted property from Yidu, and immediately calmly traveled to Jicheng, the capital of Yan Kingdom!

Only three days after leaving Yidu, the coalition army broke through Zhuoyi of Yan with the help of the siege weapons of the Song army!

Zhuoyi is the only big city between Yicheng, the lower capital of Yan and Jicheng, the upper capital, and can be described as the real hinterland of Yan. And when the Yan people heard that the King of Qi had sent a large army to crusade against Zizhi and wanted to improve the chaotic situation in the Yan Kingdom, the Yan people were still extremely supportive. There are a lot of "leading parties" among the Yan people, and they personally guide the way for Kuangzhang's army!

However, Zhuoyi was breached, and the behavior of the coalition army made all the Yan people frightened! Under the rule of Zizhi, they were indeed not as good as they were under the rule of King Yan before, but now that the Qi people they were eagerly waiting for had come, their lives had not only become better, but worse!

After all, the civil war between the Yan people was just a civil strife, which caused the entire national order to collapse and fall into chaos! However, the army of the Qi people came, not to quell the chaos, but to take advantage of the fire to rob!

Zhuoyi, like the previous Yidu, was looted, not to mention. This time, the coalition forces arrived in the hinterland of Yan Kingdom, and they also brought a kind of crazy killing that they hadn't done before!

In Yan Kingdom, the farther north it is, the closer its customs are to Rong Di, and the more fierce its folk customs are! For them, whoever plunders their property is their enemy! They will not pay attention to any gentleman's revenge, ten years is not too late, but directly return on the spot! Whoever grabs their things, they just the guys up and fight with each other!

Such a fierce folk style naturally caused the cost of the coalition army's looting to rise! Therefore, in order to reduce the cost of this looting, those coalition soldiers who want to make a fortune directly resort to the simplest and crude way: those who dare to resist, there is no mercy!

In a village, whoever dares to resist will directly slaughter the village! In the territory of a family, if someone dares to resist, they will be wiped out directly!

Such a war has completely departed from King Qi's intention of "setting things right and rebuilding the Yan Kingdom", and has become a war of conquest in the true sense! The Yan people no longer regard the coalition army led by the Qi State as a rebel army from the Central Plains of China, but as a barbarian who is no different from the northern Hulu!

They began to spontaneously resist the army from the Qi State! However, the resistance of the Yan people, because it was carried out spontaneously and spontaneously, was not an organized act, and it did not cause much loss to the coalition forces at all!

At this time, Kuang Zhang led the coalition army to continue to advance and directly arrived at the city of Jicheng, the capital of Yan Kingdom!

Jicheng, the capital of the Yan Kingdom, will be the famous imperial capital of my Celestial Dynasty in the future generations! However, if Dai Yan came to the current Jidu City, he would definitely be extremely disappointed in such a short city!

Yan is located in the north, and it is originally a bitter cold land with vast land and sparse population. In the hundreds of years of the Yan Kingdom, there were very few wars with the Central Plains countries, and the main enemies they faced were all from the Zhudonghu nomadic tribes in the north, which did not have particularly strong siege capabilities!

Therefore, the city of Jidu, the capital of the Central Plains, looks particularly short compared to the capitals of the Central Plains!

However, although Yan Country is located in the bitter cold land of the north, Jidu is not a poor place! A large country that has been established for hundreds of years must have accumulated extremely amazing wealth! The coalition soldiers who participated in the Yan Raid, everyone knew that they didn't need Kuang Zhang to agitate at all, they had extremely high morale!

Zizhi, who is in the city of Jidu, now regrets it extremely! Thinking that at the beginning, he was a powerful minister and a powerful minister who was deeply trusted by King Yan, but now he has been designated as a "traitor" by the Qi people, in the face of such a powerful military force of the Qi State, where can he survive?

At this moment, he thought of the person who brought him to such a situation, Lu Mao Shou! As the right-hand man who assisted him in obtaining the throne, Lu Maoshou is now the prime minister of Yan State!

When Lu Maoshou was brought to Zizhi, he immediately saw that today's Yan Wang's expression was extremely wrong, so he put away the previous smug attitude and became extremely cautious!

Seeing Lu Maoshou like this, Zizhi immediately asked coldly: "Xiangguo persuaded the first king with Zen Rangzhi before to give up the country to Zaixia. And the Qi State is opposed, and the army is already under the city, and the Yan State is now in danger, and it is unknown what strategy the Xiang State can have to retreat from the enemy? ”

Lu Maoshou became more nervous when he heard Zizhi's words, and he heard the meaning of asking for guilt in Zizhi's words! Therefore, he hurriedly replied: "Great King, you can take over the Yan Kingdom from the hands of the first king, but you are adhering to the mandate of heaven, where does the villain dare to take credit?" After saying that, he immediately knelt on the ground, and did not dare to raise his head!

Zizhi heard Lu Maoshou's answer, and immediately asked irritably: "These false courtesies, Xiangguo will be exempted." This king now wants to ask Xiangguo, is there a way to retreat from the enemy? ”

Seeing that he couldn't avoid it, Lu Mao Shoucai pretended to be contemplative, and said to Zizhi: "King, now that my Yan country is in such a critical situation, in the face of the successive defeats of the Qi army, although there are military reasons, but the biggest problem is that the people of my Yan country are not familiar with the system of Zen concessions, and the people of the country are not the same!" Today's crisis is not the crisis of the king alone, but also the crisis of the entire Yan Kingdom. In my opinion, at this time, the first king will definitely not be happy to see that the Yan Kingdom is in such a chaotic situation, and we can invite the first king to come out, appease the people's hearts, and call on the people to resist the invasion of the Qi Kingdom with us! ”

"It's okay to invite the former king out to appease people's hearts, but are there any other suggestions?" Zizhi's expression softened a little, and then he asked.

Lu Maoshou continued: "King, in addition, I think we can also go and negotiate peace with the coalition forces!" As long as the Qi State is willing to withdraw its troops, we can directly cede all the land south of Zhuoyi to the Qi people! In the following opinion, such a suggestion will inevitably be tempted! ”

When one of the sons heard Lu Maoshou's suggestion, he was immediately angry, and immediately asked angrily: "Lu Maoshou, do you know that my Yan country has been in the country for hundreds of years, even if I was beaten by the Hu people to the point of almost losing the country, I have never signed an alliance under the city with the enemy country and ceded an inch of land?" If I set a precedent of betraying the country, and I will be recorded in the history books in the future, I will definitely be nailed to the pillar of shame in history. ”

Lu Maoshou heard Zizhi's words, and said disapprerovingly: "King, the difficulties you are facing now are urgent matters that burn your eyebrows, not things after you!" If the king rashly engages the Qi army, once the army is defeated, why will he not be nailed to the pillar of shame? In order to strive for this glimmer of life, the king must make a good decision! ”

Hearing Lu Maoshou's words, Zizhi was not as angry as before, he thought carefully for a while before saying to Lu Maoshou: "Then it depends on Xiangguo's opinion." I will go to the palace today and invite the first king to come out, appease the subjects, and let them rise up to defend my Yan kingdom. As for the matter of negotiating peace with Qi Guo, please trouble Xiangguo to work hard in person! ”

Lu Maoshou wanted to refuse, but when he saw Zizhi's cold eyes, he immediately shuddered and had to agree!

Under the city of Jidu, Kuang Zhang sat in the newly built military tent, looking at the order sent by the King of Qi from Linzi. At this moment, the guards reported to him: "General, Yan Xiangguo Lu Maoshou asks to see you!" ”

Hearing that Yan Xiangguo was coming, Kuang Zhang was also very interested, he put down the edict of King Qi and said directly to the guards: "Please!" ”

Kuang Zhang met the famous Yan Xiangguo from this!

Lu Maoshou is a native of Yan and once went to Qi to study. When he was in the Qi Kingdom, he studied under the Guliang faction and was also a disciple of Confucianism. And as a disciple of the great Confucian Mencius, Kuang Zhang can also be said to be a disciple of Confucianism!

However, these two Confucian disciples did not have much affection! As a hodgepodge of schools, no one can tell how many kinds of ideas there are, and the relationship between the various schools of Confucianism is also full of all kinds of intrigues, far less harmonious than outsiders think!

However, today's Lu Maoshou is asking for help after all, so he did not put out the contradictions of the school, but said directly to Kuang Zhang: "Zhangzi, I came here today to negotiate peace with the Qi State on the order of my king!" ”

Hearing Lu Maoshou's words, Kuang Zhang asked directly: "Yan Xiang represents Yan Guo to make peace with me, what are the conditions, you can talk about it!" ”

Hearing Kuang Zhang's words, Lu Maoshou was a little dissatisfied, but he didn't dare to attack, and replied directly: "My king is willing to dedicate all the land of Yan to the south of Zhuoyi to the Qi State, and I hope that the Qi State will return to the country for the sake of the friendship between the two countries for many years!" In the future, Yan Guo will definitely look forward to the head of the country, and he will never dare to have two hearts! ”

As soon as he heard Lu Maoshou's words, Kuang Zhang pretended to be indifferent, and said directly: "If Yan Guo wants to ask for peace, he is only willing to pay such a price?" Then I'm afraid Yan Xiang will be disappointed, such conditions, I can't accept it! Yan Xiang, please return to the city of Jidu, and I will wait for the two armies to see the truth directly with swords! ”

Kuang Zhang's reaction made Lu Maoshou stunned! Regarding the conditions he proposed, he thought that Qi would be dissatisfied and would bargain, after all, this is the business style of Qi people! However, he never thought that Kuang Zhang would directly refuse!

He immediately said with an unceremonious expression: "Zhangzi, I'm afraid it's a bit inappropriate for you to make such a rash decision, right?" Now that my Yan Kingdom wants to negotiate peace with the Qi State, as the former army commander, you have not consulted with the King of Qi, so what right do you have to decide on the country's diplomatic relations in private? And Zhang Zi only won two battles, did he think he really ate my Yan Kingdom? Although there are few people in my Yan country, there are also 200,000 people in the country, if the Qi country persecuts my Yan country too much, if my Yan country has the determination to burn the jade, the Qi country may not be able to please it! ”

Regarding Lu Maoshou's words, Kuang Zhang replied: "As for whether Zai Xia has the right to decide the matter of peace talks with Yan State, don't bother Yan Xiang!" I only received an order from the King of Qi in Xia, and ordered me to break through the Jidu of Yan and take down the pseudo-prince of Yan, and I don't care about other things, I don't care about it! If Yan Guo has the determination to burn all the jade, then meet on the battlefield! ”

Kuang Zhang's resolute statement made Lu Maoshou panic! At this time, he instead put on a Confucian relationship with Kuang Zhang, and pulled a relationship with him and said: "Zhangzi, you and I are both Confucian disciples, what is there that cannot be decided through peace talks, but must be decided through swordsmen?" Zhang Zi should know that the Qi State does not have the strength to annex the entire Yan Kingdom, and now that my king is willing to bow down, this is definitely a good thing that is beneficial and harmless to the Qi State! ”

Hearing this, Kuang Zhang also sighed, and said to Lu Maoshou: "Yan Xiang, what you said, I don't know?" However, now my king's order is to order that the puppet prince must be taken down and sent back to the Qi country to be handed over to my king! And when Yan Xiangfang just came in, he should have seen the morale of our army, right? The greed in the hearts of the soldiers has risen, and they are all looking forward to capturing Yandu! At such a moment, did Yan Xiang think that he would be able to stop such a strong military spirit by being alone in Xiajie? ”