Chapter 350: The Thistle is Broken
Thinking of the scene from the Jidu City and entering the camp of the coalition army before, Lu Maoshou felt a tingling scalp.
When he was on the city of Jidu, he saw the camp of the Qi army under the city of Jidu, spreading and boundless! When he entered the camp and saw the strong morale, he couldn't help but be shocked!
Throughout the coalition camp, all the soldiers were extremely optimistic when talking about the upcoming battle. None of them thought that the coalition would lose the battle now. The soldiers were talking about how much money they could grab after the capture of the thistle!
I don't know if the coalition forces are trying to scare him or what, but when he passes by a camp, he happens to see soldiers using an extremely powerful trebuchet to throw huge stone projectiles into the distance! This kind of siege weapon that represents strength is supposed to be a ballista that made great contributions to the siege of the city during the Battle of Yidu, right?
Before Zizhi led the elite of the Yan Kingdom and personally sat in Yidu, he failed to resist the coalition army forcibly breaking the city. Now that the country of Yan is in a panic, how can it resist the pace of the coalition army in Jidu?
As soon as he thought of the consequences of the coalition army breaking the city, Lu Maoshou was even more afraid! From Fang Cai Kuangzhang's words, he already knew the attitude of Qi Guo towards his lord and gentleman: he must be caught and his head must be shown to the public! Before, he also felt that he lobbied King Yan to give up the throne to Zizhi, and he became the minister of Yan State, which was the best thing he did in his life, but now he felt that this was the stupidest thing he had done!
Zizhi's big ship is about to sink, and he must not stay on this sinking ship anymore, he must find a way to save himself!
At this moment, Lu Maoshou figured it out and knew what he should do! As a result, this great Confucian, who learned the Confucian "Three Virtues" of wisdom, benevolence and courage, and completed the ultimate dream of Confucianism - Zen Rang, instantly changed his mind and decided to give up the Confucian value of "benevolence" and follow "wisdom" instead, so that he could become a smart person!
He said to Kuang Zhang: "Zhangzi, you are right, Zizhi is the rebel of Yan Guozi, and everyone will be punished!" However, the Qi army soldiers came to Yan Country from afar to seek justice for the Yan people, and the unaware Yan people were accidentally injured by the soldiers under Zhang Zi's command, and they were willing to respond to the Qi army and help the Qi army take Jicheng! ”
Hearing Lu Maoshou's words, Kuang Zhang was also stunned! He never thought that this Lu Maoshou would make such a change now!
He immediately despised it! However, whether disdain is contempt, he is still very clear about the stakes of this matter! Therefore, he immediately said to Lu Maoshou with a pleasant expression: "Since Yan Xiang is willing to do it anyway, it would be great!" Yan Xiang, as a great Confucian of Yan Kingdom, if he can make such a great contribution, he will definitely ask for credit for Yan Xiang in front of my king! ”
Seeing Kuang Zhang's performance, Lu Maoshou suddenly relieved his heart. However, he thought of his current situation, and hurriedly said to Kuang Zhang: "This is for the Qi country and for my Yan people, how dare you take credit?" He knew very well that as the planner of Yan Guochan's concession, if he didn't want his fate to be too miserable, then he had to find a way to make meritorious service now!
Therefore, Lu Maoshou's posture is very low, making himself extremely humble! And he passed all kinds of rhetoric in order to convince Kuang Zhang that he actually didn't play a big role in the matter of Zen Rang, but it was completely the result of Zizhi's ambition and single-mindedness to persuade himself! Kuang Zhang also had a gesture of approval, "believing" Lu Maoshou's words!
Subsequently, after the two of them planned the date and method of the incident, Lu Maoshou returned to Jidu from the coalition camp!
Just when Lu Maoshou and Kuang Zhang were planning how to take Jidu together, in the city of Jidu, Zizhi and the former Yan Wang Ji Hao came to the Jidu military camp in person to comfort the soldiers of Yan State!
Seeing the first king and the Yan king at the same time, all the Yan soldiers were extremely excited! Everyone was there beating their chests and snaking to ensure that they would definitely serve the king and drive the army that invaded Yan Country out of Yan Kingdom!
Subsequently, the rumor that the first king and the king of Yan appeared at the same time spread wildly in the city of Jidu.
After the Zen Concession Ceremony was held in the Yan Kingdom, the civil strife that broke out one after another made the Yan people's thoughts extremely confused. Especially when Ji Pinghe, the prince of Yan State, and General City were successively published to crusade against Prince Yan and reprimand him for being a criminal minister who caused trouble to the country, Yan people didn't know which side to believe!
So they fell into a great state of confusion, and they began to become numb. They do not owe allegiance to anyone, just to live their own lives, no longer think about the political situation of the country, only hope that the country can quickly stabilize.
However, their wish could not be fulfilled after all, first the civil strife broke out in the Yan State, and then the Qi State led a large army to invade, and most of the Yan people remained silent. In their opinion, neither Zizhi nor the late prince Ji Ping are trustworthy, the only thing they should believe is themselves!
However, when they heard the first king go out of the mountain, shout for Zizhi, and call on the Yan people to rise up to resist the invasion of the Yan army, those numb Yan people finally began to have blood! In their minds, since the former king is willing to go out of the mountain again, this shows that the current king is not a rebel! And now that the coalition army led by Qi has come to Yan State, the Yan people must drive them out of the country!
The departure of Yan Wang Ji Hao strengthened the will of the Yan people to resist, and also made the morale of the Yan army high! However, the Yan people in Jidu City did not notice the scene that Ji Xu's travel was protected by soldiers! And after Ji Hao came out to inspect the camp of the Yan army, he quickly disappeared in front of people again!
Ji Xu's trip to the mountain this time still brought many positive effects. There were originally a lot of soldiers stationed in the city of Jidu, if you add those who volunteered to join the army in the city of Jidu, plus the army of King Qin, the capital of the country from the north of Yan Kingdom, in the entire city of Jidu, Yan Kingdom gathered an army of more than 100,000 people to fight against the allied army of Qi State!
If it is based on the local battle, and the strong morale of defending the homeland, the battle of Jidu, if the two sides fight head-on, it is really hard to say who will win and who will lose between the Yan army and the coalition army! However, such a war, when Lu Maoshou surrendered to Kuang Zhang, it was doomed to the defeat of Yan State! The heroic and martial Yan people are doomed to be betrayed by the rulers!
Three days later, the morale of the armies of both sides was high, and a huge battle was fought inside and outside the city! This time, the coalition forces put up a huge battle, and chose to surround the thistle from the north, east, and west!
This method of encircling three without one is the most conventional psychological warfare of siege warfare in this era! After all, keeping a gap so that the defenders in the city can see hope is a good means to break the hearts of the opposing soldiers! If it is besieged from all sides, turning the thistle into a place of death, so that the other party can "put it to death and come back to life", it will be too bad!
And seeing the siege methods of the Qi army, Zizhi was also relieved. Now that Yan has gathered the largest number of soldiers in the country, and the morale is extremely high, what he is most afraid of is what conspiracy the coalition forces will play! Now that the coalition forces are surrounded by three and missing one, it means that the other party still hopes to forcibly break through the thistle capital!
His heart began to become bottomed out. Subsequently, he also made a corresponding response, while continuing to issue King Qin's order to all parts of Yan Kingdom, so that the defenders of Yan Country returned to Jidu to resist the coalition forces; On the one hand, he began to order the soldiers in the city to start assisting in raising the walls of Jidu, and even the defensive measures near Jidu, and actively respond to the attack of the coalition forces!
At the same time, in order to cheer up the Yan people, Zizhi also sent a force composed of the most brave Yan soldiers to personally go to the camp of the coalition army at the north gate to challenge the coalition army!
He hoped that such an act of taking the initiative to fight would be able to cheer up the people of the Yan State in the city of Jidu, and let the Yan people know that the coalition army organized by the Qi State to come to attack Yan was not as strong as everyone imagined!
Receiving the challenge launched by Yan Jun, Kuang Zhang agreed without hesitation!
The Qi army also sent the most powerful technical fighters to meet the challenge of the Yan army! Such a pre-battle challenge was composed of the most elite troops in the armies of both sides, and it quickly attracted the attention of the armies of both sides!
Even Prince Yan was the same, he even stood at the head of the Ji Capital City in person, beating drums and cheering for the soldiers of the Yan Kingdom who went out to fight!
And just when the battle was at its most intense, no one noticed that Nancheng, the capital of Ji, which had been ignored by the armies of both sides, suddenly came with an army. When the soldiers guarding the city saw this scene and wanted to warn, Yan Xianglu Maoshou suddenly appeared at the south gate and stopped the Yan soldiers from warning them.
Then he took the general order of King Yan and replaced all the defenders of the South Gate with his own people. When a grassroots general expressed doubts about Lu Maoshou's general order, he was immediately beheaded by the guards he brought!
The south gate of Jidu fell into the hands of Lu Maoshou in this way! Subsequently, Lu Maoshou ordered the south gate to be opened to welcome that army into the city! And after this army entered the city, it quickly seized all the dangerous positions at the south gate, and at the same time they immediately raised the banner of the Qi army!
After taking the south gate of Jidu safely, the soldiers of the Qi army at the south gate immediately lit fireworks on the top of the city to send a signal! And Kuang Zhang, who was at the north gate, did not hesitate to launch the order of a general attack after seeing this signal!
In the scene where Zizhi was at a loss, the main force of the Qi army entered the Jidu City from the south gate! As soon as they entered the city gate, they immediately seized the dangerous position of the entire thistle capital as quickly as possible!
In this process, even without the order of the Yan King, the Yan people broke out with an extremely strong will to resist! However, now that most of the Jidu is controlled by the coalition forces, the resistance of the Yan people in the Jidu City has completely failed to make any waves!
Soon, in the entire Jidu city, the previous scene of Yidu and Zhuoyi was repeated: the city was destroyed, and the entire city was allowed to be plundered by the coalition forces that entered the city, and all the Yan people became the targets of wanton slaughter by the coalition forces!
And in such turmoil, the first king of the Yan Kingdom, Ji Xu, who was bewitched by people and intended to become a saint, and gave up the throne to Zizhi, died in the war!