Chapter 567: The Fall of the Yan Kingdom

The chaos in Jijing lasted for three days before it calmed down, but this task was not completed by the Yan army, but the Qin army pacified the chaos in Jijing.

It turned out that after Wang Jian sent away the envoys of Yan who came to sue for peace, he immediately ordered the army to cross Yishui and approach Jijing. Knowing that the Qin army had just crossed Yishui, Wang Jian received the news that the spy sent by Qin to Yan State, and then he knew that the soldiers and civilians of Jijing were not angry that Prince Dan was killed by the clan of Yan State, so they entered Jijing City to avenge Prince Dan, and now the entire Jijing City is in chaos, and Yan Wang Xiji does not know where to go.

After Wang Jian learned about it, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, although Yan Wang Xi killed the prince Dan, so that Yan Guo was missing a big pillar, but Yan must be a country founded for more than 800 years, and Jijing City has thick walls, easy to defend and difficult to defend, so the Qin army wants to capture Jijing, I am afraid it will take a lot of effort, and the loss of some soldiers is inevitable, and now Jijing is in chaos, it is a great opportunity for the Qin army to attack and occupy Jijing.

So Wang Jian immediately ordered Wang Ben to lead 10,000 cavalry troops and immediately set off to seize Jijing, and he led the army, and then rushed over.

After Wang Ben received the order, he immediately led the army to attack and rushed to Jijing. After crossing Yishui, it is only more than 100 miles away from Jijing, and this is the core area of Yan Kingdom, the road is flat and wide, which is also conducive to the advance of the cavalry, so Wang Ben set off early in the morning and arrived at Jijing at dusk in the afternoon. At this time, the chaos in Jijing City has not ended, the city gate is wide open, the drawbridge is lowered, and there are no soldiers to guard it, it is completely an undefended city. And the shouts in the city were incessant, there were many corpses of people on the ground, and dozens of fires, showing that there was chaos in the city.

Seeing this scene, of course Wang Ben would not be polite, immediately led the army into the city, and assigned soldiers to guard the city gate, and when the residents and troops of Jijing reacted, the Qin army had already controlled all the gates of Jijing and completely occupied Jijing City, only a few people took a step forward and escaped from Jijing City.

At this time, some of the ranger swordsmen and Yan soldiers who robbed and plundered in the city had not seen the situation clearly, and they were hot-headed for a while, and they actually attacked the Qin army, but the Qin army was not comparable to the weak Yan army, but of course they kicked the steel plate, and were beaten by the Qin army, and there were no casualties.

But only one day later, Wang Jian led a large group of Qin troops to arrive, and after listening to Wang Ben finish talking about the situation in Jijing City, Wang Jian immediately ordered to send 50,000 troops to Jijing City, and at the same time ordered the whole city to be under martial law, and the residents stayed at home at once, not allowed to go out, and listened to the orders of the Qin army. If there are no people who have no home in Jijing City, all of them will report to the Qin army station, and the Qin army will make unified arrangements, and the weapons will be collected, and no one will be allowed to loot in the city to restore order in the city. The remaining troops were stationed outside Jijing City, guarding the roads leading to Jijing.

However, whether it is in the hearts of Yan Bing or the ranger swordsman, there is no good impression of the Qin army, and naturally they will not be willing to report to the Qin army and throw themselves into the net, and there are also some people who don't know whether they didn't hear the order given by Wang Jian, or they pretend not to know, and they are still robbing in the city. But the Qin army was not polite, after Wang Jian issued a martial law order, he immediately divided into twenty teams, each team of 500 people, patrolled in the capital of Jijing, and went door to door to investigate, once found homeless, or hiding in the homes of other residents, they were immediately arrested, once there were people who dared to resist, or there were robbers and plunderers, they were killed in a hurry.

As a result, on the first day, the Qin army killed more than 800 people in Jijing City, and also captured more than 2,000 people, which really greatly shocked the residents of the city, Yan soldiers, and ranger swordsmen, and they realized that they were no longer facing the weak and incompetent Yan Army, but the Qin Army, which has always been famous for its barbarism and ferocity.

As the so-called gods and ghosts are afraid of the wicked, the Qin army only used a day of vigorous means, the residents of Jijing, the Yan army to determine, although the Yan people have an old aristocratic mentality, no one looks down on it, but there are not many people who can do not be free and would rather die in a hurry of aristocratic bearing, although everyone in their hearts greeted the female relatives of the Qin soldiers' families, and even the ancestors of the Qin army, but they all honestly went to the Qin army garrison to sign up, handed over the weapons, and then accepted the arrangement of the Qin army, and managed the east.

On the third day, the city of Jijing finally calmed down, although the residents hid in their homes and did not dare to come out, and all the shops were closed, there was no sign of looting on the streets, and the burning places had been extinguished. More than 50,000 people signed up at the Qin army station.

Wang Jian then ordered that all non-city residents be moved out of the city to be detained, and martial law was lifted in Jijing City, the city gate was opened, residents could go out at will, and shops were open for business, but they were not allowed to make trouble in the city. At the same time, a part of the Qin army was stationed outside the city, leaving only 30,000 troops in Jijing City.

It was not until this time that order was basically restored in Jijing City, and Wang Jian also learned from the remaining personnel of Yan Wanggong that Yan Wangxi fled to Liaodong with a part of the clan family, so Wang Jian was stationed in Jijing on the one hand, and wrote to Qin Wangzheng on the other hand, reporting on the capture of Jijing, and waiting for Qin Wangzheng's order, whether to continue to pursue Yan Wangxi, or send troops westward to attack Daijun with Han Teng.

Although there was chaos in Jijing City, the spy personnel deployed by Dai County in Jijing City were closed and did not participate in **, although several shops were looted and looted, and a few people died in the chaos, but overall, the loss was not large.

Later, the Qin army entered Jijing City, ordered martial law in the whole city, and the hidden personnel of Daijun immediately became the obedient citizens of Qin, although some people lived outside the city, but under the response and cover of the people in the city, they basically settled down in the city, and the weapons that were transported into Jijing in advance were also well hidden. Therefore, when the Qin army investigated the personnel, basically no flaws were revealed, and no one was captured by the Qin army, and all of them were preserved.

It's just that during this period of martial law, the spy personnel were afraid of leaking the news and attracting the attention of the Qin army, and they didn't dare to go out easily to collect intelligence, and the news couldn't be transmitted, so they waited until the Qin army lifted the martial law in Jijing City before sending back the news to Daijun.

After Gao Yuan received these information, he didn't feel surprised, although Gao Yuan did not expect Jijing to happen, so that the Qin army captured Jijing bloodlessly, but after learning that Prince Dan was killed, Gao Yuan had already expected that Jijing would definitely not be able to hold it. Although the Qin army suffered almost no losses in the process of capturing Jijing, it could also make the Qin army careless and relax its vigilance, which is not necessarily a bad thing. And the Jinyi guards lurking in Jijing have basically been preserved, and they have not suffered any losses, which is naturally good news. Therefore, the plan of the army to attack Jijing has not been affected, and it can still be carried out according to the plan.

In addition, now on the Jingcheng-Hongshang line, the Dai army has just won a big victory, forcing the Qin army to retreat, and to a certain extent, it can also directly help the Jijing front. Because the current situation is obvious, the Qin army occupied Jijing without blood, but suffered a big defeat on the Jingcheng-Hongshang line, so with one victory and one defeat, the Qin army will naturally pay attention to the Jingcheng-Hongshang line, and it will invisibly make the Qin army in Jijing careless. Moreover, the Qin army still has 100,000 reserve troops in Handan, and of course it will not go to reinforce Jijing now.

If the Qin army can be attracted to put the reserve forces into the Jingcheng-Hongshang line, and complete the assault on Jijing against the Dai army, until the assault is successful, the Qin army will be expelled from the entire territory of Yan State, and even take advantage of the situation to enter Julu County and Dongyang County of Zhao State, and expand the results as much as possible. And in order to achieve such an operational goal, it is necessary to exert greater pressure on the Qin army on this line.

So after Gao Yuan and the generals discussed, they immediately ordered to divide the troops into two roads, and the strength of each road was about 60,000 people, and Yuan Xuan led the Western Route Army out of Lingshou and Fanwu; Jiang Huanwu led the East Route Army out of Quyang and Donghuan, attacked Jingcheng, and led other horses himself, and responded in two ways, and at the same time ordered another 30,000 troops from Daijun to reinforce the battlefield, and also transferred Zhao Xuan to Hongshangsai.

After dividing the troops, Yuan Xuan and Jiang Huanwu each led their own troops to attack and launched an attack on Jingcheng.

The march on both sides went very smoothly, because after the defeat of the Qin army, firstly, the strength was greatly damaged, and the total number of combatable troops was only about 100,000, and the Dai army had already occupied a certain advantage in terms of strength; Second, the morale of the Qin army is not low, but the morale of the army is very high, so the Qin army is difficult to resist the attack of the army, the two armies can be the Qin army several battles, although the scale is not large, but the Qin army is defeated and retreated, in more than ten days, the army has successively captured Lingshou, Fanwu, Quyang, Donghuan and other places, and advanced to the south for a distance of nearly 100 miles.

Although the two armies did not achieve any major victories, but because of the successive victories, the news of the victory continued to spread to the hands of the plateau, which also made the Dai army full of optimism, once the Dai army captured the Jingcheng Fortress, then it could go all the way south, straight to Handan, and if it was on the front line of Yan State, and then the raid was successful, capture Jijing, and then take advantage of the situation to march into Julu and Dongyang, not only can seize the entire Yan State, but even recover Zhao Land, it is not impossible. Therefore, the morale of the whole army is high and full of fighting spirit.