In the Venerable Hall of Ji Palace, the attendant Lingwang looked up from Ji Kang who was reviewing documents at the table.

I found that my young king had a smile on his face after reviewing a document.

When Wang saw Ji Kang's expression, he realized that the documents just now must have brought good news to Ji Kang.

After October, the autumn harvest of most other counties in Yan State has ended except for the northern Liao Dynasty. According to current statistics, the grain harvest of Yan State this year has hit a new high.

Especially this year, the three counties of Dai County, Yanmen and Yunzhong, which have just been included in the territory of Yan State, have not had a wealth of grain output, but they are enough for the people of the three counties to persevere until next year.

Ji Kang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. At least in the future, there was no need to send food to these three counties on a large scale from other counties in Yan State. The pressure from Yan State was immediately relieved at this stage.

The three counties including Yanmen have now entered a normal development track.

He picked up the tea cup on the table and Ji Kang took a sip of tea.

Standing up, slowly walked to the map in front of the wall next to it, and looked at the place where Jinyang City was on the map.

"Reading History Fangyu Ji" says: "Jinyang controls mountains and rivers, occupies the shoulders and backs of the world, and is the foundation of Hedong. It is truly a place that must be fought for in ancient and modern times." There is also the saying that "Jinyang has many wars throughout the ages and is famous for the ancient battlefields of the world."

According to the plan of Yan State, it is best for Jinyang City to be returned to Yan State before the end of this year.

Next to the map, Ji Kang wandered for several steps, made up his mind, and ordered the attendant Wang Cong to order the emperor to draft an edict, and ordered the Changguojun stationed in Dai County to lead our army and troops to Jinyang."

"No." Wang Cong bowed and replied.

After the king left the palace, Ji Kang suddenly thought of the life of Changguojun in his previous life.

In his previous life, the national strength of Yan State was not so strong, but Qin State had the strength to unify the world.

Under the national policy of "getting far and attacking near and near", Yan State formed a alliance with Qin State, and Yan State had no idea what fate would the Yan State have to do so.

In Yan State, only Lejian and Qiqu were the important officials who kept a clear head.

After the Battle of Changping, Lejian and Qiongqu advocated that Yan State should adopt the national policy of forming allies with Zhao State and jointly resisting Qin State.

At that time, the king of Yan State, Ji Kang's eldest brother Ji Xi, initially agreed to the proposal of friendship with Zhao State.

So on the birthday of King Dan of Zhao at the age of 30, Ji Xi sent Yan Xianglifu to Zhao as an envoy to celebrate King Zhao's birthday and gave him a gift of 500 gold.

After returning to China with the soybean, Ji Xi asked Yan Xiang about Sui’s opinion on Zhao State.

Su Bun said to Ji Xi: "The King of Zhao is the strongest person who dies in Changping, and his lonely person is not strong, so he can be defeated."

Ji Xi asked the Chang Guojun Lejian for his opinion, and Lejian replied at that time:

"King, Zhao is the barrier to the southern part of our Yan State. Our Yan State should join forces with Zhao to resist Qin and Qin at the moment, which is the best strategy. Besides, Zhao is a country that resists strong enemies from all sides. The people are familiar with fighting and should not fight."

Ji Xi said: "How about I attack with five times more troops than Zhao's army?"

Lejian continued to answer: "No, either."

Ji Xi was furious and sent two thousand chariots, six hundred thousand soldiers, and divided his troops to attack Zhao.

Li Bao led the army to attack the troops (now north of Baixiang County, Hebei); Qing Qin attacked the dynasty (now Wei County, Hebei).

Only Jiangqu dissuaded the King of Yan and said, "When they communicated with others, they also used five hundred gold to drink people. Because of the report of the envoy, they turned friendship into attack. If this is not auspicious, the dispatch of troops will not succeed."

Ji Xi refused to listen and prepared to lead an army to follow the army himself.

Jiang Qu pulled Ji Xi's robe to stop the King of Yan and said, "The king must not go there in person, it will not succeed."

Ji Xi ignored Jiangqu and continued to attack Zhao.

Jiangqu shed tears and said, "King, I am not planning for myself, but for the king! Now Qin has the intention to annex the world, and our Yan State should unite Zhao State to fight against Qin together. In this way, our Yan State and Zhao State can survive; otherwise, both countries will perish."

Ji Xi was furious when she heard this and kicked the canal open.

When the army led by Ji Xi arrived in Songzi (about the middle area of ​​Jin County, Zhao County and Shulu County, Hebei Province), the Zhao State envoy Lian Po was the chief general, and defeated the Yan army in the country and killed Li Fu; Le Cheng defeated the Yan army in the country and captured Qin.

Lian Po led his army to chase Yan soldiers for more than 500 miles and surrounded the capital of Yan State.

Yan State had no choice but to follow the conditions proposed by Zhao State, and presided over the peace agreement with Jiang Qu as the prime minister, and then the Zhao army lifted the siege of Yan. Lian Po was granted the title of Wei Wen for his merits, named Xinpingjun, and was a false prime minister.

Seeing that Ji Xi did not listen to his advice, the Yan army was defeated and left Yan and surrendered to Zhao.

Afterwards, Lejian was unwilling to lead troops for Zhao State and died of depression.

Thinking of this, Ji Kang couldn't help but say to himself: "Why didn't you see Lejian and Jiangqu come out to give advice?"

On October 12th, Langmengcheng (now Yangqu County, Shanxi Province).

Xu Kai, the Zhao army general, was patrolling the city wall and looking north from the city wall. Because after the autumn harvest, the fields in the north had turned into a bare white land, at least a few miles away, without any concealment.

Looking back at Zhao Jun on the top of the city wall, he looked listless.

Xu Kai couldn't help but curse: "Everyone cheers me up! The Yan army hasn't arrived yet, so look at what you look like? They all drooped their heads, like turtles, straightened their bodies straightened."

Xu Kai was in a very bad mood. After staying here for half a month, he saw that the main force of the Yan army did not go south. He ignored Xu Kai's request and led his army back to Jinyang City.

At this time, there were only 6,000 defenders in the Zhao State in the city, and there were only more than 10,000 men recruited in the city.

Xu Kai had received a report from the reprimanding army and knew that Lejian had led the Yan army to the south towards Langmeng. Just yesterday, Xu Kai had learned that several cities in the north of Langmeng City either surrendered to the Yan army or were captured by the Yan army.

Langmengcheng is located at the northern end of the Jinyang Basin (now Taiyuan Basin), with Xiawu Mountains in the west and Taihang Mountains in the east. It is the last barrier to defend the northern part of Jinyang City, and its strategic and military status is extremely important.

After the Zhao, Wei and Han families divided Jin, the Zhao State did not open up Yanmen and Yunzhong counties at that time. In order to prevent the northern grassland tribes from invading, Zhao Xiangzi also ordered the construction of Langmeng City while building Jinyang City.

In the east and west mountains of the city, jackals often appear, and because the terrain here is full of troughs, it looks quite like the word "Meng". Therefore, after the city was built, it was named "Wang Meng".

For Yan State, if you want to occupy Jinyang, you must take down Lang Meng.

After being scolded by Xu Kai, the defenders at Lang Mengcheng became more and more cautious.
Chapter completed!