When Yan Tai later arrived in Xiangping and collected almost the last bit of force that could be collected in the entire Liaodong County, forming a unit of 10,000 people, Li Mu came.

This time, Li Mu brought 15,000 Zhao cavalry, and he left the other 15,000 in Jidu, including his deputy general Zhao Kuo.

In fact, Li Mu only came five days later than Empress Dowager Yan.

This is mainly because Empress Dowager Yan and her guards did not march quickly, at least it could not be as fast as the professional cavalry led by Li Mu.

After learning the news, Li Mu couldn't help feeling a little regretful. If he could really start chasing the next day after he ran away from Yanhou as planned, it would probably take less than three days for Yanhou and his son to fall into his hands.

As long as eight thousand cavalry were left in Jidu, it would be ensured that when Li Mu captured Empress Dowager Yan and his son returned to Jidu, the capital of Yan was still in the hands of Zhao Jun.

"This is a mistake." Li Mu looked at Xiangping City in front of him and said to Yi Qusheng beside him.

Yiqiusheng nodded, then shrugged his shoulders and showed a big smile: "It turns out that you have made a mistake one day."

Li Mu smiled, and the expression on his face was very calm: "If you are a person, you will make mistakes one day, and I am of course no exception."

Li Mu knew very well what the reason for his mistake was, and that was precisely because he did not achieve the "knowing the enemy" in "knowing yourself and knowing the enemy".

He did not underestimate himself, but overestimated the speed of Queen Mother Yan's escape.

After all, Empress Dowager Yan is just a woman. She has never even been on a horse several times in her life, let alone such experience of running for thousands of miles in a row. How could she be able to get faster?

This time, Li Mu did not intend to continue making this mistake.

So under Li Mu's command, the Zhao army quickly launched a tentative attack on Xiangping City.

The cavalry's siege is actually very boring. It is just riding a horse and running back and forth under the city wall. If someone emerges on the city wall, he will give him an arrow.

High-speed cavalry is not difficult for most of the Hu people in the Zhao cavalry. The Yan soldiers who kept falling from under the city are the best proof of the Zhao cavalry shooting skills.

At the beginning, many Yan soldiers dared to shoot at the Zhao cavalry, but after two or three hundred corpses fell from the city in just two quarters of an hour, no Yan army dared to show their heads.

Yiqusheng rode his horse back in front of the formation excitedly, holding up the head of a commander of the Yan army in his hand and smiled at Li Mu: "It seems that the quality of the Yan army soldiers here is nothing more than that."

Li Mu shook his head and said, "Didn't you find it? These guys are just civilians and young men. There are no real soldiers who are actually killed or injured. If I expected it well, the other party should have wanted to lure us to attack the city and effectively kill us."

Yi Qusheng widened his eyes and seemed very suspicious of Li Mu's words.

"The walls of Xiangping City are not high at all. I think as long as we have a hundred ladders, we will definitely be able to break it!" Yi Qusheng said to Li Mu confidently.

Things like woods are not uncommon for Liaodong. Centennial trees are everywhere on this rarely visited land. So after three days, Li Mu's troops gathered a hundred ladders and began to prepare for the siege.

As expected, this time the siege was defeated.

In the past few days, the Zhao army had never given up the daily routine of hunting under the city, and the Yan army seemed to be really scared and kept huddling in the city and never came out.

But when the Zhao army really held the ladder and tried to attack the city, the talents of Yan finally burst out their true combat power for the first time.

Li Mu stood under the coach's flag on his horse, watching one soldier after another of Zhao's soldiers falling from the ladder like raindrops and losing his life, and then gave the order very calmly.

"Ming Jin to withdraw his troops."

As a pioneer general, Yiqusheng, who had attacked Chencheng for a whole hour, returned to Li Mu in disgrace. An arrow was inserted on each of his left and right arms, which looked asymmetry, which made Li Mu feel a little uncomfortable.

"You are right, Grand Governor, the Yan people were indeed hiding their strength a few days ago."

Under the ruthless factual education, Yi Qusheng finally became convinced.

But Yiqiusheng still couldn't figure it out: "If you had known that the Yan people were hiding their strength for a long time, why would you fight this siege? Wouldn't this kill the soldiers in vain?"

Li Mu shook his head calmly: "Guess is just guessing. We must find a way to turn guessing into facts. If we only rely on guessing to make decisions in marching and fighting, then sooner or later you will die above your own guess."

Yiqiusheng shouted: "So to confirm your guess, do you let hundreds of your subordinates die in vain?"

Li Mu stared at Yiqiusheng sternly: "First of all, they did not die in vain. As long as it was a siege, they had to sacrifice. If you want to break a city if you don't die, it is impossible. Secondly, sacrificing hundreds of people can avoid the failure of the 20,000 troops under my command. I think it is a very valuable thing. In the end, if you dare to collide with the main general like this, you will go out and get your own fifty military sticks immediately."

Listening to the sound of the stick pulling down and the screams of Yi Qusheng, Li Mu's mood finally improved a lot.

Next, Li Mu made a decision. He only used 10,000 cavalry to surround the Xiangping City, while the other 10,000 people swept the entire Liaodong County of Yan State.

Before the war began, Lejian had already drawn almost most of the combat forces in Liaodong County to the direction of Linle City. Then a few days ago, Empress Dowager Yan concentrated the remaining combat forces to Xiangping City, so the other dozen small cities and towns in Liaodong County surrendered to the people of Zhao without any resistance.

The consequence of this is that Xiangping City has completely become an isolated city.

"Empress Dowager Yan and King Xiaoyan will never run away again this time." After doing all this, Li Mu said to Yi Qusheng with great certainty.

Yiqiusheng nodded, but wanted to speak but stopped.

Li Mu said: "There is an order in the army that women must not be allowed to enter the camp, nor must they force a relationship with women."

Yiqiusheng shouted: "Those two women admire me, they were willing to do so!"

Li Mu nodded: "If a woman's husband and family have already gone to the battlefield, when she faces a murderous Hun who is full of murderous aura in her hands, they must be voluntarily in order to survive. If there is such voluntary next time, then I will suck you fifty military sticks."

Yiqiusheng wanted to say something, but he was kicked out of the tent by Li Mu.

So Li Mu also adopted the same approach as Pang Nuan, which was to surround him without attacking him.

Pang Nuan sent Ju Xin and led a 30,000-strong army to sweep the entire Yan State, and took all the land of Yan State except Linle and Xiangping into Zhao State's pocket.

Although it encountered very strong resistance, when most of the troops that could fight were concentrated in Linle and Xiangping, sporadic resistance could not be an opponent of the established Zhao army.

Killing people to establish authority is necessary. Ju Xin mercilessly used iron fist methods to kill all those who dared to resist, and gave the Yan officials and families who were willing to surrender to assist Zhao officials in governing the local area.

In fact, for the civilians at the bottom, the name of their own king, King Yan or King Zhao, is not important at all. The reason why Qi was greatly opposed to the annexation of Yan was only because the nobles of the Yan family did not get any benefits, or they did not get enough benefits.

Therefore, with the two-pronged approach of the Ju Xin, who had been watching in Yan State for a long time, most parts of Yan State were quickly calmed down, and the wave of resistance against Zhao State had basically disappeared.

After all this, not only spring has passed, but even summer is almost over.

The siege of Linle City is still continuing, and the morale of the Yan army in the city is also becoming increasingly sluggish, especially when the Zhao army's leaflets are shot in every few days, this morale sluggish will hit a new low.

Pang Nuan is a guy who knows how to attack the heart very much, so whenever a certain city and county falls in every flyer, the seals of these city guards and county guards will definitely appear on the flyer this time. Then, the Yan soldiers belonging to these places in Linle City will have riots, with a small scale, but the common point is that people will die every time.

With more time, even the music room lying on the bed felt that I could support it for almost half a year but had not yet fallen. It was a miracle.

But no matter what, Linle City has not been conquered, Xiangping City has not been conquered, and other countries seem to have completely forgotten the fact that Zhao State attacked Yan, and there is no sign of sending troops to help Yan State.

However, according to the information sent back by Hu Yiwei, the four countries of Qin, Qi, Han and Chu were all preparing for the war, and they all placed the main direction of defense at the border with Zhao.

Except for the war between Zhao State and Yan, no other war occurred on the entire continent.

"We are simply enemies in the world!" After learning about this situation, Zhao Dan smiled and said this to the ministers in front of him.

Regarding Zhao Dan's self-mockery, the ministers of Zhao State obviously did not have any psychological pressure. Instead, they smiled and agreed with Zhao Dan's words.

The monarchs and ministers of Zhao have long been accustomed to being enemies of the whole world.

If everything goes on step by step, the possibility of taking over Yan State is 100%.

But it is obvious that there are still many people in this world who don’t want to destroy Yan when Zhao is so smooth. So when autumn comes, the battlefield finally changes again.

Reinforcements from Yan State are here.
Chapter completed!