The consequences of not being able to hide are actually quite terrifying.

In the final analysis, the reason why the soldiers fought desperately on the front line, knowing that they were not the opponents of the Zhao people, still held on to Linle City, the most critical point is, of course, that they were to protect their families and defend the country.

Defending the country and the home in front of the country proves that in the hearts of most people, the family is actually more important than the country.

Pang Xuan actually told a small lie here, in fact, although the thistle is broken, most of the land of Yan Country is actually still in the hands of the Yan people.

If what Pang Xuan is telling is a pure, false lie, then Lejian can easily expose it. But now Pang Xuan told a lie with mixed truths and falsehoods, which made it extremely difficult for Lejian to expose this lie.

In fact, Lema is powerless to expose this lie, because the damn thistle order seal is real, and this is something that Rakuma knows, as do the generals who live in the thistle capital all year round.

Whether the home is in the thistle or not, all the generals of the Yan Kingdom will have a feeling that their home has fallen, and their family members may have trembled under the sharp blades of the Zhao people, and they are facing the burning and plundering of the Zhao people, and they may even have become corpses!

The war was fought to protect the family and defend the country, and now that the home is gone, there is only one city left in the country, Linle.

What else is this fighting!

Fortunately, Lejian still has a certain prestige, and under his combination of soft and hard, the generals who came to protest finally returned to the camp.

But the news has spread, and the entire Linle City has become panicked, as if the end has come.

Compared with the panic in Linle City, the Zhao Palace in Handan City is full of laughter at the moment.

The kingdom of Yan was breached, and this incident brought shock to other countries, while those with Zhao were excited.

You must know that Jidu has been the capital of Yan for hundreds of thousands of years, and its symbolic significance is very large.

Once the thistle capital falls, the confidence of the military and civilians of the Yan State will definitely be extremely heavy.

In addition, from a military point of view, the fall of Jidu also means that the music in Linle City has completely lost its way back and has become a lone army without reinforcements in the encirclement of Zhao State.

"Even if the widow traps it for a few years, he can trap it alive!" These are the original words that Zhao Dan said to several important ministers of Longtai.

Of course, Zhao Dan didn't want Linle City to become the second Jimo City, nor did he want to see the Yan Kingdom, which was already in a desperate situation, become the second Qi State that was in a desperate situation.

Therefore, Zhao Dan specially explained in his will to Pang Xuan that if he could not capture this city, then he would trap it alive!

Like Le Yi back then, it was obviously a siege, but the strange behavior of Jimo soldiers and civilians who could enter and leave the city to hunt and chop wood was absolutely not allowed.

After losing Jidu, half of the Yan Kingdom has been destroyed, and after the only army of the 200,000 Yan Kingdom in Linle City is destroyed, the Yan Kingdom can be declared completely dead.

"Still no news from Empress Dowager Yan?" Zhao Dan asked.

Zhao Dan always had a sense of concern from the bottom of his heart for his own sister who was a fellow mother, even after knowing that Jing Ke's assassination of himself must be indispensable for Empress Dowager Yan's nod.

This may be one of the few things left by King Zhao Xiaocheng, after all, Zhao Dan, as a traverser, actually doesn't have much affection for the "ancient" Empress Dowager Yan.

In fact, all the ministers of Zhao are very concerned about the whereabouts of Empress Dowager Yan's mother and son, although whether the mother and son were captured in Handan does not affect the result of Zhao's destruction of Yan, but if the Empress Dowager Yan's mother and son can be brought back to Handan, and the young King Yan becomes the second Wei Zeng, this will have a strong demonstration effect for the remaining four countries.

The battle has reached this point, in fact, the decision-makers of Zhao State have already begun to think about the next goal.

Although it was only the elimination of one country, the mentality of everyone seemed to change all of a sudden.

If there was still a little doubt in the hearts of people before, when Wei Zeng knelt down in front of Zhao Dan in front of the other kings of the five countries, no minister doubted that Zhao was about to dominate the world.

Chen Tanran has a good saying: "Those who do not seek eternity are not enough to seek a moment; Those who do not seek the overall situation are not enough to seek a domain. "The current ministers of Zhao State, from the perspective of the overall situation, hope that Zhao Dan can leave Empress Dowager Yan's mother and son alive.

This made Zhao Dan a little crying and laughing: "Does the widow look like a bloodthirsty and ruthless tyrant?" Why do you think that the widow will definitely put the Empress Dowager Yan to death? ”

Zhao Sheng coughed and said, "The king, the ministers and others are mainly worried that the actions of the Yan people have angered the king, so they ......"

Zhao Dan heaved and said: "The widow is not so careful, after all, she is the widow's relative, if sparing her life can help the widow's future unification, then the widow will not disagree." ”

Just when Zhao Dan and others were chatting about the topic of Empress Dowager Yan, the young Empress Dowager Yan took her young son after thousands of miles of escape, passed through most of the Yan country, crossed the Wulu Mountain and crossed the Liaoshui, and came to Xiangping City in Liaodong County.

Here, Empress Dowager Yan's mother and son finally stayed temporarily for the first time and got a chance to breathe.

The thousands of miles of running made the Empress Dowager of Yan Kingdom look a little tired, and even made her noble and beautiful face look a lot rougher, but when she sat there quietly, the county guard of Liaodong County of Yan Kingdom, who was facing her, still felt a great pressure, and couldn't help lowering her head, and even her tone was a lot more humble when she spoke.

Empress Dowager Yan asked the county guard in front of her, "How many soldiers are available in Liaodong County now?" ”

The county guard hurriedly replied: "Back to the Queen Mother, there are still 3,000 people in the city, and if all the people are collected, then it should be able to organize 8,000 people with armor." ”

"Eight thousand?" Empress Dowager Yan frowned, this figure is actually a drop in the bucket to be honest.

The county guard saw that the long sword in the hand of the general of the Yan Palace Praetorian Guard standing beside the Empress Dowager Yan seemed to be about to be unsheathed, and hurriedly called the sky and grabbed the ground: "The Empress Dowager Mingjian, it's not that the minister deceived the Empress Dowager, but the Chang Guojun has already withdrawn all the troops in Liaodong County before, and now there are really only so many soldiers!" ”

After hearing this explanation, the expression on Empress Dowager Yan's face seemed to be much better, and after a while, she said: "You remember, immediately requisition all the young men to come to Xiangping to help defend the city, the Zhao army will arrive on the same day, and time is extremely precious." ”

The county guard hurriedly responded, a pair of small eyes rolled a few times, and suddenly said: "Queen Mother, the minister heard that the king is sick, I don't know if I can let the minister visit the king?" ”

Empress Dowager Yan narrowed her eyes, staring at the cronies in front of her, a glimmer of light flashed in her phoenix eyes, and she said slowly: "Who said that the king is in poor health?" ”

Beads of sweat slipped down the forehead of the county guard, and he coughed dryly and said: "Since this is the case, then it must be that the minister misunderstood, misunderstood, and the minister retired and completed what the queen mother ordered." ”

The county guard's mansion had become the temporary palace of King Yan and the Queen Mother, so the county guard had to leave the palace with his wife and children and go to live in another mansion in the city.

There, an envoy from Qi was waiting for news from the county guard.

"How's it going?"

The county guard shook his head, and only said after a long time: "King Yan is already sick, and it seems that he is not lightly ill. ”

The envoy of the Qi State snorted and said, "Who cares about that child's condition, what my king wants to know is whether the current thistle capital has fallen!" ”

The county guard wiped his sweat and said: "Jidu should have fallen, I just got the news that there are traces of the cavalry of the Zhao State Brigade in Liaoxi County, I am afraid that it will not be long before Li Mu will chase here." ”

After getting the news, the envoy of the Qi State shook his head in disappointment and said, "I didn't expect you to wait for the Yan Kingdom to be so useless, you can't even last a year!" ”

The county guard scolded secretly in his heart, but now he still had something to ask for, so he could only smile at the envoy of the Qi country: "What the envoy said is extremely true, this music room is a person with great ambitions and talents, it is really ......"

"That's enough." The envoy impatiently interrupted the words of the county guard, and said: "In this case, then the operation to aid the Yan Kingdom will be suspended, and I will return to Linzi by sea tomorrow with the remaining supplies, and you will ask for more blessings for yourself." ”

The county guard hurriedly stretched out his hand and put an extremely delicate small box in the hand of the envoy of the Qi State, and said with a smile: "Messenger, now that the fall of the Yan Kingdom is imminent, I want to take my family to the Qi State for a trip, I wonder if the envoy can help?" ”

The envoy of Qi opened the box and took a look, then nodded with great satisfaction, and said, "Although the ship is not big, there are still some vacant seats, so we will leave tonight, remember!" ”

The county guard watched the envoy of Qi walk out on his toes, and couldn't help but take a sip.

If it weren't for the purpose of escaping to the Qi country, the county guard would have wanted to have this guy killed and fed to the dogs immediately.

The next moment, a miserable scream suddenly sounded from outside the door, and the envoy of Qi who had just walked out stepped back step by step, and the tip of the sword that emerged from the back of his heart was extremely conspicuous in the sight of the county guard.

The county guard's eyes widened, watching the envoy of the Qi State in front of him fall to the ground and die, and then looked at the general of the Yan State Praetorian Guard who had just stood beside the Empress Dowager Yan standing in front of him with a long sword that was still flowing with blood on the blade, and asked, "Where are the armor and materials of the Qi people hidden?" ”

After receiving an affirmative answer, General Yan Guo walked out, leaving only the two corpses in the room.

The next day, the entire Liaodong County of Yan Kingdom began to mobilize, ready to face the attack of Li Mu's army.

In this era of national ruin, some people choose to flee, while others choose to face it bravely.