Just when the hundreds of thousands of troops of Qin and Chu were fighting in Chendu, Zhao Kuo also took his 20,000 troops to embark on the journey south, and Li Mu, who was in Yicheng, also immediately received Zhao Kuo's order to go south.

The entire Warring States was instantly plunged into turmoil.

However, Yanbei Jicheng, where the war first occurred, was quiet.

Tiandan's 70,000-strong army has swept through the entire northern Yanbei, and all the Yan troops, including the northern border army, have surrendered to Tiandan's offensive.

In other words, except for the 60,000 troops in Jicheng, King Yan no longer had any troops in his hands.

60,000 to 170,000, this huge difference in strength is enough to make anyone despair, and more importantly, the side with absolute superiority in strength still has countless land and reserves, and this side, which only has 60,000 troops, is only trapped in a lonely city, and even before long, the besieged city may run out of food.

You must know that Zhao Guo went all the way north, although many cities in Yan Kingdom surrendered without a fight, but there were also many people of Yan Kingdom, especially officials, who still packed up their finesse and fled to Jicheng, which also caused the population in Jicheng to almost skyrocket.

The food stored in Jicheng is limited! In the face of the skyrocketing population and the army that was urgently assembled, even if Jicheng was the capital of a country, it was inevitable that there would be a food shortage.

At a time of internal and external pressure, the outcome seems to be predictable.

It was precisely because he saw that the defeat of Yan Guo had been decided, and after discussing with Tian Dan, Lian Po decided to adopt the method of besieging Jicheng without attacking it, and quietly waiting for Jicheng to collapse on its own.

It should be said that if there is no kick from the Qin army, and even if the progress of the Qin army is not so fast, Lian Po and Tian Dan's strategy is excellent.

This is not only to reduce Zhao Jun's own losses, Gen Wei's important thing is that Zhao Guo can accept a relatively completed Jicheng, so that even this year, Yan Guo can be worth the ticket price. In the next year, the land of Yan State can contribute to the prosperity of Zhao State.

And if Jicheng is stormed, the loss of troops is inevitable, and even if Jicheng is defeated, it is bound to become ruined. Zhao also had to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to restore it.

But Jicheng is not the Los Angeles in the world, and the dilapidated Los Angeles City only took less than a year to gradually recover its vitality, but this Jicheng in the land of Yanbei has not been three years and five years, so don't want to recover its vitality.

This also means that it is difficult for Zhao to transform the land of Yan into national strength in a short period of time.

Compared with the two, the choice of Lian Po and Tian Dan is not difficult to understand.

Of course, it has to be said that there is also a certain misjudgment in this. It's not that Lian Po and Tian Dan don't know that Zhao Guo is now racing against Qin Guo, but from the thoughts of the two, it is impossible for the Qin army to progress so fast, and it is impossible for the Yan army to hold out for too long.

But it's a pity that the progress of the Qin army is far faster than they imagined, and the Yan King in Jicheng is also more able to hold out than they imagined.

And with the arrival of Zhao Kuo's letter, a dilemma was immediately placed in front of Lian Po and Tian Dan.

It is definitely impossible to continue the siege, Zhao Kuo has already personally gone out on his own, but the more than 100,000 troops here are still besieging but not attacking, what is the difference between this and supporting the army and self-respect. Even the most high-sounding reasons are unjustifiable.

The main army besieged but did not attack, but let the king of his family go up to fight hard? Not to mention anything else, even the soldiers under his command will not agree after learning about the situation.

What's even worse is that even if they return to the dynasty in the end, even if Zhao Kuo, the king, does not pursue them, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will not easily let them go, and the iron pen Danqing will not bypass them.

Therefore, there are only two paths for Lian Po and Tiandan:

First, immediately raise the strength of the whole army to launch an attack on Jicheng, end the battle as soon as possible, and then move south to support the king;

Second, immediately divide the troops, part of the troops continue to besiege Jicheng, and part of the troops go south to support the king.

It should be said that both of these options are feasible, but they also have their problems.

The whole army is attacking the city, since

Needless to say, this is also the easiest way to do it.

But the problem is that Jicheng is the capital of Yan State, although there are only 60,000 regular troops, but the number of people is not a few, in a desperate situation, King Yan almost avoided all the people to the city tower, in this way, how long will it take to break through Jicheng, even the two veterans of Lian Po and Tian Dan did not count in their hearts.

Of course, the Qin army over there will attack Chu, and time will definitely be indispensable.

However, even if Jicheng is broken here, it will take seven or eight days to rush south from Jicheng to the country of Han, and after the Qin army takes the capital of Chen, it will almost only take one or two days to reach the battlefield of the country of Han.

In other words, to be on the safe side, the Zhao army had to take Jicheng five to six days earlier than the Qin army.

This is obviously not an easy task.

And if the army is divided to the south, it is also feasible.

The Yan army only has a mere 60,000 troops, and its combat strength is far inferior to the Zhao army, leaving 100,000 troops, which is enough to continue to besiege the Yan army, and the remaining 70,000 troops go south to support their king, which can be said to be the best of both worlds.

It's just that this seems to be the best of both worlds, but if you don't get it right, it's blocked at both ends.

Although the advantage of 100,000 Zhao troops against 60,000 Yan troops is still in Zhao, if there is a lack of absolute superiority in troops, coupled with the news that Qin State sent troops, will the Yan Land that has just been annexed to Zhao State have a recurrence?

Once even if there are only one or two cities of Yan Kingdom, and the 100,000 troops of Zhao State are dragged by Jicheng and fail to be exterminated in the first time, it is very likely to cause a spark to burn the prairie and even if it can be pressed down in the end, the destruction of Yan Land will be devastating.

At the same time, the 70,000-strong army is said to be a lot less, but it is not too much.

Even if these 70,000 troops joined Zhao Kuo's queue, Zhao Kuo only had a mere 140,000 troops in his hands, which was nearly twice as many as the 250,000 troops of the current Qin army (plus 30,000 Korean troops, that is, 280,000).

With such a comparison of forces, even if Zhao Kuo personally leads the army, he can only protect himself.

On the one hand, it may lead to the erosion of the Yan Land, but on the other hand, it cannot form an advantage over the Qin army at all, obviously, this is not a good way.

If you insist on choosing one of the two choices, if it is for the country, it is naturally the first one, concentrate all your efforts to attack Jicheng as soon as possible, it is the best choice for Zhao Guo, but as a courtier, the second way is the best way, without him, a courtier, you can't watch the king enter danger.

Fortunately, Zhao Kuo seemed to have expected that the two would have such a dilemma, and after explaining the current situation, Zhao Kuo gave his "suggestion" - to concentrate his forces and break through Jicheng as soon as possible.

With Zhao Kuo's warrant, Lian Po and Tian Dan no longer hesitated, and then the two began to formulate a battle plan together.

The 170,000 army is no longer divided into the Lianpo Army and the Tiandan Army, and the two command centers are combined into one, with Lian Po as the main body and Tiandan as the auxiliary, commanding the 170,000 army in a unified manner.

While the sky was still dark, a letter of persuasion to surrender was once again thrown into the city by Zhao Jun's stone-throwing cart.

Only this time, the wording of the letter of surrender was significantly harsher, and it was even more clear that tonight was the last chance.

Of course, this is to tell the people of Jicheng that tonight, I am going to start attacking.

However, this will not have any impact on the siege of the Zhao army, after all, even if they don't tell the Yan army, the Yan army on the city tower has been tense their nerves.

On the contrary, after telling them that the Zhao army was going to attack tonight, it would greatly consume the spirit of the Yan army.

Quite simply, tonight is a very broad time period. When the sun sets, it means that the night comes, and the day is not over until the sun rises high the next day.

In other words, the Zhao army might start attacking at any point during these long hours.

This is very bad, and anyone with a little military common sense will think of such a possibility.

Therefore, under the pressure brought by the Zhao army, the soldiers of the Yan army had to cheer up their spirits immediately after dark, which was undoubtedly a kind of torture for a normal human being. Yan army soldiers, all

's energy will be exhausted in a short time.

And the time chosen by Zhao Jun was the time when the soldiers of the Yan Army were most listless and the sky was about to dawn.

At this time, the soldiers of the Yan army who were in charge of the night vigil were already exhausted, and the Yan army of the changed class had not yet arrived, naturally, this was also the best time for the Zhao army to attack.

The time was arranged, and then the deployment of the troops.

Because the 170,000 army has been united, Lian Po and Tian Dan arranged troops, which is also very arrogant.

Except for the more than 30,000 cavalry who were not suitable to join the battle, almost all the other forces were immediately thrown into the battle by the two.

There are four gates in the south, east, and west, and each gate is arranged with more than 24,000 people.

And the more than 20,000 Zhao troops outside the city gate on each side were organized into three groups, taking turns to attack the city tower.

As for the remaining 40,000 people, they are used as the Chinese army to support the front line at any time.

Soon, as the two complemented each other, a well-organized offensive plan was freshly hatched.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Jun began to intensively mobilize troops.

And as the sky was dark, and the Zhao army began to dispatch troops, it directly caused panic among the people in Jicheng.

The war drums of the Yan army even overshadowed the beating of the Zhao army for a time, which shows how much the Han army cares about the possible attack of the Zhao army.

On the other hand, Zhao Guo is so sure that everything is so calm.

However, in just over an hour, Zhao Guo's army had already completed the mobilization. But even if Zhao Jun has completed the transfer, seeing that Yan Jun is so noisy, Zhao Guo is not easy to leave directly!

Immediately, the cavalry, who did not have to participate in the battle, was sent to the battlefield by Lian Po and Tiandan.

The sound of horses' hooves quickly tore apart the quiet night sky.

Seeing the neat rows of Zhao troops looming forward in the firelight, the soldiers of the Yan Kingdom became even more panicked.

Immediately, more Yan troops were sent to the city tower, and the other Yan troops in the city had to be on standby at any time.

It's just that just when the Yan army was ready to accept the Zhao army's charge, the Zhao army stopped their steps again, turned around, and countless Zhao troops disappeared into the night.

It was still these cavalrymen, not long after they left, and just as the Yan army was about to return to the camp, they appeared in the firelight by mistake.

Truthfully third, almost the entire Jicheng heavy army was made neurotic by Zhao Jun.

And the best thing is that the army of Zhao State, which is about to really set foot on the city to fight with the Yan army, is already asleep in the camp.

What, leave Zhao Jun's alone?

What if Zhao Jun really comes to help?

What, leave part of the troops, rest the others?

The total Yan army is only 60,000 troops, and there are still some troops stationed in the palace, and after deducting the reserves and the disabled army, the number of troops that can be distributed at each gate is less than 10,000.

Even if some people are allowed to rest, how much can be arranged? Do you want the castle tower?

Obviously, Lian Po and Tian Dan's tired strategy is aimed at your lack of troops.