Silk (bó) is not only a precious material for making clothes, but also a carrier of writing that has been popular among the middle and upper-class nobles since the Spring and Autumn Period. It played a substitute role before the invention of paper.
Writing on silk is called silk script.
When a large number of silk books were shot into the city, there was a commotion.
"Old thief Wang Jian, you are so shameless!"
Qin Wuji opened a piece of silk, glanced at it, and then his expression changed drastically.
He quickly issued an order prohibiting the soldiers and common people in the city from picking up silk books, and asked his personal guards to collect these things and burn them, but by now it was too late.
Benefiting from the preciousness of silk, whether they are civilian slaves or soldiers, they will instinctively pick up these things as soon as they see them.
Among these people, there are always literate people.
"The silk says that those who surrender will not be killed, otherwise they will be slaughtered on the day the city is broken."
"General Qin said before that those captured in the Battle of Yishui were all beheaded by the Qin army in exchange for military honors, but those who wrote this were the captured Chinese. It seems that none of them were killed by the Qin army."
"Yes, let me tell you quietly. When I was guarding the city this morning, I saw the captured Chinese people shouting in front of the city, saying that they had food and drink in the Qin camp, and they also said that we only need to surrender.
, you can avoid death.”
"Really? No wonder the Qin army didn't attack today, and the general didn't let us go up the city wall."
"You said if we surrender..."
Various discussions were heard all over the city, spreading from one to ten and then to a hundred. Especially when many people learned that their fathers, brothers and children who they thought were dead were not beheaded by the Qin army, their original firm will to resist suddenly weakened.
For ordinary Yan people, they are not like the nobles of the public family who have to worry about the ancestral temple and the state. All they want is stuttering. As long as they can survive, it will be the same no matter which king they choose to rule.
Besides, Yan State did not border Qin State before, and the main enemies were Zhao State and Qi State.
The people of Yan State do not have an irresolvable hatred towards Qin State like the people of Zhao State.
Even because Yan Dan sent Jing Ke to assassinate the King of Qin in the name of seeking peace, he lost his righteousness and made it natural for Qin to attack Yan.
To a certain extent, Qin's attack on Yan is not called aggression, but revenge.
Previously, it was mainly because Qin Wuji promoted the brutality and bloodthirsty of the Qin army and killed all the soldiers in the Battle of Yishui. If Wuyang was conquered, the city would be massacred. This made the Yan people in the city very scared, and their relatives were killed.
Because of his hatred, he could only follow Qin Wuji to the end and fight to the death to resist the Qin army.
Now the Qin army has written on silk that they will not kill those who surrender, and the prisoners are shouting around the city wall, which immediately makes the people in the city and even the soldiers in the army have other thoughts.
In the city, apart from the soldiers and soldiers, there was another class that was most affected by the silk books.
A rich family with a long history, a wealthy man with a huge amount of money and slaves.
They were in the upper echelons of the city, and their families were prosperous. In the eyes of these people, they had no idea of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, but only to preserve family wealth. They were previously afraid of Qin's reputation for cruelty, so they spent money and effort to resist Qin Wuji.
Now, General Wang Jian of the Qin State has stated in a silk letter that as long as they surrender, all these wealthy families can keep their original wealth, money and land, without taking any money.
Is there any suspense of choice here?
The Qin army outside the city did not attack the city for two consecutive days. They just kept shooting silk books filled with various surrender policies into the city. At the same time, they made the prisoners yell around the city wall, one after another.
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Wuyang City, which was originally as solid as a rock, was divided from within.
"Damn it, arrest all the people from the Rong family and the Qi family."
Qin Wuji slapped his palm on the table, furious.
Just now, he had received a report that people from several wealthy families in the city were colluding with each other and had plans to respond to the Qin army.
The deputy general said bravely: "General, these people are all powerful men in the city. Especially the Rong family, they are the descendants of the former Gaoyang Lord Rong Xian (fén). They have hundreds of slaves and tens of millions of money at home, and they are quite powerful in the city.
, if he is arrested suddenly, it may cause trouble."
Qin Wuji's eyes widened and he said angrily: "What happened? Even if we don't arrest them, they will change. Arrest them first and recruit all the slaves in their house into the army. If there is any abnormal movement, they will be killed without mercy."
Seeing that Qin Wuji had made up his mind, the deputy general had nothing to say and could only accept the order and retreat.
Seeing his subordinates retreating, Qin Wuji let out a long sigh.
He is not an idiot, and he certainly knows that the Yan Kingdom is now in danger. With the combat effectiveness shown by the Qin army in the Battle of Yishui, the destruction of Yan is a sure thing.
But everyone can surrender, but Qin Wuji cannot surrender.
The late emperor Qin Kai opened up Liaodong for the Yan Kingdom and was a famous general of the Yan Kingdom. If he surrendered, the reputation of the Qin family would be completely ruined.
What's more, among his descendants and nephews, Qin Wuyang went to assassinate Qin and died on the way. Qin Heng sacrificed his life and acted as a substitute for Qin Wuji, so that he could escape from Yishui.
The junior members of the Qin family have sacrificed their lives for the country. How can he, a dignified general of the Yan Kingdom, surrender to the old thief Wang Jian? It is absolutely impossible!
"Suppress those big clans first. As long as they don't take the lead, the rest will not dare to resist if they don't have a leader."
Qin Wuji was thinking about how to use Wuyang City to continue to hold back the Qin army.
But the changes in the city happened faster than he thought, and the trigger was the Rong clan he ordered to arrest.
In the Rong family's mansion, a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old stood with his head held high, holding a sharp sword.
In his hand, the iron sword was dripping with blood, and at his feet lay the corpses of Yan soldiers. Opposite him were the Rong family's slaves who looked either frightened or frightened.
"My lord has never done anything to bully or humiliate us. His actions can be called the righteous people in Wuyang City. The two and three sons have received great kindness from the lord, what can they do in return? Today Yan will arrest my lord and his family, and there may be disaster.
Happened. Now is the time for us to sacrifice our lives to repay each other!"
"What's more, the Yan general is cruel and tyrannical. He wants to put us on the city wall to fight with the Qin people. This is a matter of death!"
"Whether it is to repay the kindness of the Lord, or for the lives and future of the second and third sons, please follow me, Luan, to launch an uprising today to rescue the Lord. At the same time, I call on those in the city who want to surrender to the Qin Army to let Wuyang change its owner!"
The young man Luan Bu was impassioned, and as he finished speaking, the slaves also became angry.
"I am willing to listen to Luan Jun's orders!"
The Rong clan's treasury was opened, and the slaves and servants kept in the mansion, under the leadership of Luan Bu, took halberds and spears and rushed out of the mansion with roars.
The flames began to ignite.
Those in Wuyang City who had long wanted to surrender heard the sound of fighting everywhere in the city and knew that someone had taken the lead.
In an instant, a spark of fire burned brightly.
The indestructible Wuyang City exploded from within.
Regarding Wang Jian, from the fact that he used counterintuitive tactics to kill Li Mu in "Warring States Policy", he should be a master of warfare.
Sun Tzu said: The superior troops attack the enemy, and the subordinate troops attack the city. The method of attacking a city is as a last resort.
Therefore, seeing that the city is difficult to break, it is logical to seize it through warfare.
As for the methods of attacking the heart, in the pre-Qin Dynasty, there were things like Sun Bin's plan to reduce kitchen stoves and Tian Dan's plan to deceive and rob. The most typical ones in the late Qin Dynasty were being surrounded on all sides and various things that induced the people in the city to kill officials and rebel.
About Rong and Luan Bu.
"Warring States Policy": Yan made Rong Jian, a Song Dynasty, Lord of Gaoyang, and sent generals to attack Zhao.
"Historical Records·Biography of Luan Bu": Bu was sold by others and became a slave to Yan to avenge his family master.
The two are combined to create a creation. Luan Bu should be a slave in the Yan Kingdom at this time, and show his face first when Yan is destroyed.