"To follow the rules of etiquette is not to be conservative, but to be flexible. If I hadn't sent troops from Zhao, the minister wouldn't approve of the crusade against Yan when King Yan died. But at this time, I, Zhao Guo, have already hit the foot of Jicheng. Not only should we not withdraw our troops, but we should occupy the Yan Kingdom with the power of thunder and block the news of the death of the Yan King." Yu Xin said.

Even if he didn't use his talent, he knew which option was the most beneficial for Zhao Guo.

Don't say that the other five countries are in a mess now, and they don't have time to manage Yan Kingdom, even if they are free, Zhao State will resist the pressure to destroy Yan Kingdom, and then turn back to deal with other countries.

Zhao Kuo didn't have any concept of courtesy in his heart, and the reason why he asked the ministers for their opinions was just that he needed to act in accordance with the concept of this era, and he couldn't go against the times.

If everyone agrees with the ceremony, then even if he is reluctant, he can only order Li Mu to withdraw his troops.

However, fortunately, only a few people agree with the ceremony, and most of them think that they should take advantage of the victory and pursue, and they can't give Yan Guo time to recuperate.

Since this is the case, Zhao Kuo can happily order.

Jicheng, Yan Wangxi, who had not yet had time to ascend the throne, kept his filial piety for three hours, returned to the study and began to deal with the twists and turns, and asked Zhao Guoyou if he had withdrawn from the army.

It's not that he's not filial, it's not that he doesn't respect the law.

It is really that Yan Guo is in a special period, and it can only be flexible.

At this time, Zhao Jun was like the sword of death hanging over Yan Guo's head, which could be cut down at any time, and it was impossible for him to spend all his time on guarding filial piety.

When others are kings, they are all awake to the power of the world, drunk and lying on the knees of beautiful women, Yan Wangxi doesn't know why he is so unlucky when it is his turn.

The power of the world didn't see it, and the government decree couldn't even get out of Jicheng. There was a time when the beauty knees were the prince, but now that she has become the king, she doesn't even have time to go to the harem.

He would rather be a prince quietly as before, at least he can survive after the death of the country, and he will not have to worry about his life.

And the king of the dead country is difficult to have a good end.

"Your Majesty, the Zhao army shows no signs of retreating for the time being." The minister leaned over and said.

According to etiquette, you should not be called a king if you have not ascended the throne.

But now, only these two words can calm the heart of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs. ap.

If there is not even a 'king, they don't know what to use to stop Zhao Jun.

"Hey!" King Yan sighed deeply.

"King, Zhao Jun...... Zhao Jun wants to release the captives...... The general asked if he wanted to receive it." At this moment, a guard rushed in from the outside.

"Captive? What captive?" Yan Wangxi didn't understand for a moment.

"It's the Yan army that was captured five years ago." The guard said.

"How could Zhao Jun release the captives at this time? Did they make any conditions?" Yan Wangxi asked strangely, although it was time to release, but now the two countries are still at war.

"There are no conditions, just let us open the gates and let everyone enter the city." The guard shook his head.

"Could it be that Zhao Jun wants to rely on these captives to deceive the city gate and take the opportunity to attack Jicheng?" A young minister next to him said that it was Ju Wu who was recommended to King Yan by Jiangqu before he died.

"What does the doctor mean by refusing Zhao Jun to let the prisoners return to China?" Yan Wangxi asked.

"No, my lord." Ju Wu hurriedly said, "These captives are originally my Yan people, and because of the defeat of my Yan Kingdom, they were detained in the Zhao State for five years, and they are already dissatisfied with my Yan Kingdom. If this is the case, they will be denied the right to return to their country. Not only will it push them to the Zhao Kingdom completely, but it will also make the people in the city have even greater complaints against the king, after all, the captives outside the city are their relatives, and they and their relatives have not seen each other for five years."

Whether a city can hold on for a long time depends on two conditions, one is the height of the city and the depth of the pool, and the other is the will of the people in the city.

Two hundred years ago, the three families of Zhi, Han and Wei attacked the Zhao family, and the Zhao family only relied on a Jinyang city, and held on for nearly two years.

In the historical battle of Handan, Zhao State lost most of the young and strong and the country lacked grain and grass for two years, and finally in Wei and Chu

with the help of the Qin State.

It depends on the height of the city and the depth of the pool, as well as the hearts of the people.

Lacking one of the two conditions, the Zhao family died two hundred years ago.

Jicheng, as the capital of Yan Kingdom, has naturally tall walls and sufficient grain and grass, but the people's hearts in the city have long been floating.

Everyone had been waiting for their relatives to come back for a long time, but as a result, Yan State recruited troops to attack Zhao State, resulting in Zhao State failing to release their relatives.

In the end, Yan lost the battle and sent another 100,000 troops to Zhao State.

The Yan people have already reached the brink of an outbreak, and if the Yan Kingdom refuses to allow their relatives to return home at this time, civil strife will inevitably break out in Jicheng.

At that time, the Zhao army will be able to capture Jicheng without much effort.

"It's not receiving, it's not receiving, so what should the widow do?" King Yan was a little dazed, he really didn't want to be this King Yan.

Ju Wu sighed, from the moment Zhao Jun released the prisoners, no matter how Yan Guo chosen, it was wrong.

"Let's go to the city first." Ju Wu said.

"It's fine." Yan Wangxi didn't know what to do at all, so he could only listen to Ju Wu.

Soon, King Yan and the ministers ascended to the top of the city.

There were only about 1,000 Zhao Jun outside the city, and 5,000 Yan people who were neatly dressed, in good spirits, with smiles on their faces, waiting to go home.

Ju Wu's brows were tightly furrowed, and it could be seen from the state of the Yan people that they were not mistreated in the Zhao Kingdom.

In this way, it will be difficult to make them hate Zhao Guo and be united with Yan Guo.

"Is the city the current Yan King?" Li Mu saw a group of people surrounding a young man with a weak crown to the top of the city, so he walked to the front and asked.

"It's the widow." King Yan was afraid that Li Mu would shoot him to death with an arrow, so he hid behind the guards and replied.

"I, Zhao Guo, have kept my promise and released the Yan people who were captured five years ago, so you can send someone to receive them." Li Mu said loudly.

"Why are there only so many people, and what about the rest of my Yan Kingdom?" Ju Wu stepped forward and asked.

"This is the first batch, and the others are still on the way, and they will be released back one after another. King Yan rest assured, the promise made by my Zhao Kingdom will definitely be kept. I won't tear up the covenant shamelessly like Yan Guo." Li Mu scolded unceremoniously, completely ignoring King Yan's face.

Since ancient times, only a strong country is qualified to be shameless, and a weak country is not qualified.

Yan Guo violated this rule and was punished.

"Is the so-called keeping of the promise of the Zhao State to take advantage of the death of the monarch of my Yan Kingdom and capture the territory of my Yan Kingdom?" Ju Wu asked.

"When did I, Zhao Guo, promise that if King Yan is dead, I won't attack your Yan Kingdom? Besides, it was Yan Guo who took the initiative to tear up the covenant and attack my Zhao State, and my Zhao State couldn't fight back? Are all the people in the Yan Kingdom such fools?" Li Mu glanced at Ju Wu, took out a plum blossom arrow from his back, and aimed at the head of the city.

A sharp sound of breaking the air sounded, and the arrow feathers cut an arc in the sky, sinking into the female wall in front of Ju Wu.

Ju Wu and the surrounding ministers were so frightened that they retreated again and again.

King Yan was glad that he had long been hiding behind the guards, otherwise no one would dare to guarantee that this arrow was not aimed at him.

"If you dare to talk nonsense, the next arrow will not be aimed at the female wall." Li Mu said coldly.

Ju Wu swallowed a mouthful of saliva and looked at the tail of the arrow that was still trembling, his heart full of fear. For a moment, he really felt the breath of death.

King Yan and the minister, you look at me, I look at you, no one dares to come forward to talk.

"Do you Yan Kingdom still want your people? If not, Ben will take it back." Li Mu waited for a long time and no one spoke, and said impatiently.

He didn't care if Yan Guo accepted the five thousand prisoners, no matter what Yan Guo chosen, he had a plan to deal with it.

From the very beginning, Yan Guo was doomed to lose.

The five thousand Yan people held their heads high, looking at the city with their eyes blank, and their hearts became more and more dissatisfied with the Yan King.

Originally, Yan Guo left us in Zhao State, and now we finally came back, and you still don't let us go back, that

Don't blame us.

"Great King, Zhao Jun is only a thousand, and he poses no threat to us." Ju Wu leaned over and said.

"The cavalry of the Zhao army may be waiting in the distance, they are extremely fast, if we rush over when we open the city gate, we may not have time to close the city gate." A minister said.

"Put the hanging baskets and pick them up one by one. There are only 5,000 people in total, and it won't be long. If the Zhao army takes the opportunity to attack the city, they will abandon the Qianshou under the city." Ju Wu gritted his teeth and said.

There were no objections.

"That's it." Yan Wangxi said.

"Then arrange for people to register, ask them where they live, and let their families claim it. If there is no family member to claim it, it will be locked up for the time being. Prevent Zhao Jun from being mixed in as a female." Ju Wu continued.

It wasn't that he didn't think that some of these Yan people might have already taken refuge in Zhao Guo, but he had no way to screen them.

Yan Guo couldn't help but accept these 5,000 people, and it was even more impossible to lock them up and not let them go home after receiving them.

As for arranging people to guard at home, Yan Guo does not have so many manpower.

Li Mu quietly watched as Yan Jun in the city put down a row of hanging baskets, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

You don't think I'm going to take advantage of the opportunity to attack the city, or put women in the captives.

You can't imagine that these 5,000 people have all taken refuge in my Zhao Kingdom, and even if you think about it, there is no way, you can't, and you don't dare to kill them all.

As long as these 5,000 Yan people enter the city, it is a sure thing for the Zhao army to capture Jicheng.

"Back to camp." Seeing that everyone had entered the city, Li Mu beckoned and led the Zhao army back to the camp.

"This battle is really unpleasant, I didn't do anything, and the country was destroyed." Sima Shang sighed, but the smile on his face betrayed him.

This is the advantage of following a famous player to fight, and before you know it, you will defeat your opponent.

"The general fought a few battles with the Yan army, but we really didn't do anything, and we were all on the way." Qingshe said angrily.

"yes, our soldiers haven't seen blood yet." Feng Wuxue said.

"When you go back, let all the soldiers go to sleep, recharge their batteries, and don't drop their chains at night." Li Mu turned around and said.

"No." Several people hurriedly said.

That night, the Yan people who had been released during the day took out their weapons from under the bed, and those who did not have weapons brought kitchen knives and hoes, and walked out of their homes.

Yan Guo never thought that at this juncture, someone would dare to storm the treasury, and only arranged hundreds of recruits here, old and young, seeing these many people rushing over, they immediately scattered and fled.

The Yan soldiers took the arsenal without much effort, equipped everyone with weapons, and then burned the arsenal with a single fire and rushed towards the city gate.

Li Mu promised them that as long as they could answer Zhao Jun and open the city gate, everyone could be promoted to the next level, and if they had other contributions, they could continue to receive rewards.

On the contrary, if someone enters Jicheng and stays at home and does not come out, once the Zhao army enters Jicheng, he will be beheaded, and if someone dares to tell Yan Guo, the whole family will be beheaded.

For this reason, Li Mu specially asked Jin Huang to screen some captives whose family members are alive and preferably have children.

In the front is the temptation of knighthood, and in the back is the threat of beheading or even the decapitation of the whole family.

These captives did not dare to disobey Li Mu's orders at all, and after obtaining the weapons, they immediately went to the city gate to kill.

Soon, the 5,000 Yan army was killed at the city gate.

In the middle of the night, the defenders were already mentally exhausted, and they never thought that the enemy would appear from the rear.

Ju Wu was worried in his heart during the day, and reminded King Yan to increase the garrison of the city, and King Yan did so.

But there are only two thousand soldiers in Jicheng in total, and the army composed of thousands of noble guests and slaves is considered a strong man, and the others are old and weak, and then they are divided into the palace and the four city gates, and they are divided into day and night, even if the defenders are increased, they are only old and weak, and how much combat power is there?

After an afternoon of rest, Zhao Jun outside the city was full of energy, stubborn, and ready to go.

Li Mu saw that the fire in the city was soaring, and the spear swept forward, leading the Zhao army to kill Jicheng.

"The king, the king is not good, the city gate has fallen, and the Zhao army has come in......

In the palace, King Yan, who had been tired for a day, was lying on the couch and sleeping soundly, when he was suddenly woken up by an exclamation.

"Zhao Jun...... How could Zhao Jun come in?" King Yan hurriedly got up from the bed, pulled a robe and rushed outside.

"Don't go, King, let's escape. The 5,000 people who were released during the day had already been bought by the Zhao State, and they burned our arsenal and opened the city gates from the inside. Now that the Zhao army has rushed into the city, it is heading towards the palace, and it will be too late if you don't escape." The eunuch said anxiously.

"Yes, King. Run." The chief of the guard also ran over, straightened his helmet, and said to King Yan.

"What about the king?" King Yan asked urgently.

Although he is the de facto King of Yan, until now, he has not had time to ascend the throne, let alone establish a crown prince, which is worse than the pillar who has been the king of Qin for three days in history.

"Great King, the king and grandson are here." Ju Wu emerged from the darkness with three or four-year-old Wang Sun Dan on his back.

"Dad, they said that Zhao Jun came in, and they said that they were going to kill Dad...... Wang Sun Dan saw King Yan, climbed down from Ju Wu's back, ran to King Yan, hugged his thighs, and cried.

The young Wang Sun Dan didn't know what killing was, but he could feel the changes in everyone around him.

"King, for the sake of today, the only way to do this is to temporarily abandon Jicheng and retreat to Liaodong for the future." Ju Wu said.

"Okay." King Yan nodded unwillingly in agreement.