System: I let you have children, not fight for hegemony

In the early morning light, Jicheng was still immersed in deathly silence.

Prince Dan stood on the towering city wall, dressed in white, intertwined with the morning fog in the sky, looming, just like the future of the Yan Kingdom, as ethereal as the sky.

As time passed, his legs and feet became numb, but he still stubbornly looked into the distance.

Yi Shui was defeated and he fought his way back to Jicheng after nine deaths. Only about 200 people from the two cavalry teams were left.

If Dai Jun hadn't held back most of Ding'an Hou's firepower, he would have either been shot through by a crossbow or beaten to a pulp by the heavy cavalry.

Thinking of this, Prince Dan felt a chill all over and trembled.

The Marquis of Ding'an arrived at the battlefield in time, which meant that the navy of Yan State and Qi State had been completely wiped out.

"Alas." Prince Dan couldn't help but sigh. Fate is so unpredictable. Who would have thought that Marquis Ding'an could single-handedly expand Qin's advantage to such a great extent?

Fortunately, the heavy cavalry was not as flexible as the Yan cavalry, so I managed to escape.

Prince Dan touched the rough stones of the city wall, feeling very complicated in his heart.

A few days ago, when I fled back to Jicheng with the bloody and disabled soldiers, the city gate general opened the city gate without even asking for the king's order.

The father did not blame him at all for this, but instead sent a special envoy to reward the soldiers.

When he went to see his father alone, his father was relaxing with his eyes closed, as if nothing had happened.

"Report to my father, my son is back."

"Well!" King Yan said slowly through his nose.

"Father, the battle is defeated." Prince Dan bowed his head deeply in embarrassment and guilt.

"Oh." King Yan raised his eyelids slightly, his eyes showing the twilight characteristic of an old man.

"Father, you take your people and flee to Liaodong, and I will stay as your queen." The prince said concisely and concisely.

After a long silence, King Yan finally nodded and said, "I will listen to you."

After fasting and offering sacrifices to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, King Yan issued the King's Letter of Retreat to the East.

Before leaving, the father and son held a candle and talked at night.

King Yan planned to keep the royal city's treasury and the people who could not leave, so that it could last at least three to five years.

Prince Dan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Qin has Marquis Ding'an here, so we may not be able to hold on for that long. Father, Marquis Ding'an's navy is invincible. When you go east, keep going forward and don't look back."

After finishing speaking, Prince Dan's voice was choked with sobs: "If one day, the Marquis of Ding'an points his sword at Liaodong, please surrender."

King Yan coughed a few times and then said: "There are still 100,000 troops in Liaodong, and the Yan Kingdom will not be destroyed."

Prince Dan is confused, is it really? The father and son had only heard about the huge ships of the Qin State, but had never seen them with their own eyes. Maybe they were not that scary?

There was no sentimentality about life and death, only ardent exhortations. The next day, King Yan's chariot and horse team set off in the morning mist covered with morning glow.

After Prince Dan watched King Yan leave, he began to prepare intensively to deal with the Qin army.

The new Jicheng Order reported: "There are still about 2 people in Jicheng, including more than households."

Half of the households, that is, households without adult males, are basically all old, weak, sick and children.

The treasurer of the royal city reported: "The treasures and grain in the royal city's treasury are roughly half still, and most of them are dilapidated and old weapons."

If it can be called dilapidated by the king's treasurer, it must be a pile of scrap metal.

Prince Dan concealed the city's population and equipment, and held a grand swearing-in meeting, asking all the soldiers of the Yan State to live and die together with the Yan State.

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This Qin army stopped in Wuyang and did not continue to advance north.

As the weather became colder, many fish paid for themselves and entrusted the Bashu Chamber of Commerce to transport a large amount of beef and mutton to reward the soldiers.

Wang Hao ate the meat with big mouthfuls, and his frowning brows relaxed unconsciously when he saw many fish.

"The Marquis of Ding'an arrived just in time. I didn't expect Qi Yan's navy to be so unresisting."

Many fish cut off a piece of mutton with a knife, and the burnt oil fills the mouth, providing the body with enough heat to withstand the severe cold.

"Only the Navy of Yan State and the Navy of Qi State did not enter the water."

Wang Hao clicked his tongue lightly, and then said nothing.

In the military camp, the Qin soldiers feasted and enjoyed the fruits of victory. During this period, people kept wanting to get close to the heavy cavalry.

Amid the laughter, the soldiers of Qin began to worship Ding'an Marquis more and more. He was powerful, capable of ruling the country with his literary skills, and able to secure the country with his military skills. The title of Marquis of Ding'an was well deserved!

Many Yu and Wang Lu had a tacit understanding that only Yan and Zhao were left in the world and had not yet returned to Qin. The Yan State, which was known for its narrow sense, was beaten to what it is now, and there was no need to press forward step by step.

The Qin army rested in Wuyang, and when Dun was weak, he was responsible for spreading various rumors.

"The Qin State has been suffering from severe drought for several consecutive years, and may no longer be able to maintain an army of hundreds of thousands, so it has stopped moving forward."

"Most of the Qin troops are from Guanzhong and Nanjun, and the heavy cavalry of Ding'anhou live in the hot and humid Bashu. They may not be able to adapt to the cold of Yan."

"Ding'an Marquis has the Bashu Chamber of Commerce to provide supplies, and he spends all day in the military camp killing sheep and cattle. His life is very happy. Our Yan army has old weapons and is hungry. What's the point of this?"

"I wonder how our relatives back home are doing? We, the wounded soldiers of the Yan army, are of no use on the battlefield. We might as well go home early. The Qin people won't attack anyway..."

"Go back early and find a way out."

Instigated by rumors, most of the Yan Kingdom west of Liaodong was inexplicably paralyzed.

The soldiers survived the disaster, the disabled missed their families far away and tried to find out about their relatives, while the able-bodied people secretly contacted each other to find a way out for themselves.

The Liaodong hunting cavalry who stayed behind, after learning that King Yan retreated to Liaodong, repeatedly requested orders to return to Liaodong under the slogan of protecting King Yan.

At this time, someone publicly announced in Jicheng that in order to protect King Yan, Prince Dan concealed the unfavorable situation of insufficient combat power and lack of weapons in the city, and wanted to build a wall of flesh with human lives to stop the Qin cavalry.

This rumor is true or false and extremely credible. The people of Jicheng began to drag their families with them and found various reasons to leave Jicheng.

The house leaked and it rained all night. At this critical moment, the Bashu Chamber of Commerce completely withdrew from the Yanguo market.

Even if Prince Dan offers the best preferential terms and even proposes tax exemption, it still cannot stop the Bashu Chamber of Commerce.

The ships blocking the port took away not only the merchants' supplies, but also the blood of Yan State!

Prince Dan looked at the Bashu businessman with a sharp back and smiled bitterly: "The Marquis of Ding'an is too cruel. We only thought that the Bashu Chamber of Commerce was here to make money. Unexpectedly, the Chamber of Commerce is the fourth army of the Marquis of Ding'an!"

The Bashu Chamber of Commerce integrated resources to bring high-end luxury goods to the nobles of the Yan Kingdom, and also brought many daily necessities to the common people, constantly encroaching on the Yan Kingdom's market.

After squeezing out the craftsmen and small businessmen of Yan State, they were recruited in the name of recruitment.

Before the Yan people were aware of it, all of Yan's fragile businesses had been controlled by the Bashu Chamber of Commerce. As soon as they withdrew, a large number of people lost their jobs, supplies came to a standstill, and Jicheng quickly fell into chaos.

Seeing that the once prosperous Jicheng became empty, desolate and in a mess, Prince Dan wanted to yell, but instead he spat out a large mouthful of blood and fell heavily into the wind and snow.

When Prince Dan Youyou woke up, his hands and feet felt stiff and his head was numb: "What's wrong with me?"

The doctor burst into tears: "You fainted in the snow for too long, and the wind evil invaded. Take good medicine, and you will be able to return to normal."

Prince Dan asked the maid and the doctor to support him and came to the city wall. Looking at the sparse defenders, his heart hurt: "How many troops are left?"

"Less than ten thousand." The city gate general's eyes were dull, like a zombie.

Without saying a word, Prince Dan immediately summoned everyone and proposed that they all retreat eastward to Liaodong.

There are no merchants, no craftsmen, no farmers, or even no soldiers. What's the point of guarding an empty city? How can we hold on?

However, before they could make any move, the Qin army marched northward.

Wang Lu's army was so vast that they approached the city.

Many fish led the heavy cavalry and were stationed at a high point near Jicheng, ready to charge at any time.

Prince Dan hurriedly distributed the weapons. However, how could the Yan army with less than 10,000 men be the opponent of the Qin army?

"What are you fighting for? Run! Run separately! You have to run faster than others!"

The Yan army barely put up a decent fight and retreated toward the northern mountains, hoping to bypass Jicheng and run eastward.

Wang Lu sent a part of his infantry and many fish to pursue Prince Dan, while the main force stayed in Jicheng to maintain public security and stability in the city.

Dunruo and his party also stayed in Jicheng to make follow-up management arrangements.

"Tai Zi Dan plans to bypass Jicheng, go north to Yanshan, and then cross eastward to fill the water and rush to Liaodong." The captured Jicheng Royal City Treasurer readily sold Tai Zi Dan's plan.

At first, tens of thousands of people followed Prince Dan, but as Ding'an Marquis was rumored to be more and more evil, the common people gradually dispersed.

A few days later, there were only 5,000 followers of Prince Dan left. They were bitten by the Marquis of Ding'an. They had no chance to breathe and had to flee eastward day and night.

However, after running for days, the Yan army was not like many fish, with one person and two riders.

Even if the sergeants could hold on, the horses could not hold on anymore and fell to the ground in a valley, foaming at the mouth.

Prince Dan watched in despair as he was surrounded by Marquis Ding'an. He wanted to raise his sword to kill himself, but found that his hands and feet were so stiff that he couldn't even lift the sword.

"Prince Dan, why don't you just surrender?" Many fish were riding on tall horses, looking down at the embarrassed Prince Dan.

He has a chivalrous heart, but has never been in charge of the military. The first time he went to the battlefield, he led hundreds of thousands of coalition troops to fight against Qin.

If he doesn’t lose, who loses?

Prince Dan squinted his eyes and looked at the many fishes in full armor. The smooth armor reflected cold light, and his tall and straight posture was like an ice pick in winter, exuding a biting chill.

"The Bashu Chamber of Commerce is harming my country, Yan. Are you afraid of backlash? Can the King of Qin's political meeting accommodate you?" Prince Dan didn't know why he asked this. Perhaps, he learned that King Yan had several hidden camps in Liaodong, but in At the time of separation, he still refused to tell himself the specific address.

As the prince, Prince Dan was deeply loved and trusted by King Yan, but he was still wary of him.

What about Ding'an Hou? With her great achievements, can the King of Qin tolerate her?

Many fish did not answer, but just raised their hands. The crossbowmen behind them raised their crossbows and aimed at Prince Dan and others.

Prince Dan smiled bitterly, rubbed his numb forearm, and then raised his sword to kill himself.

When the red blood splashed into the sky, Prince Dan fell to the ground and looked straight at the blue sky, his pupils gradually dilated.

If you were given a chance to start over, would you still be the prince? Or is it possible to kill Qin Wangzheng and Ding'anhou before they grow up?

There are no ifs and no do-overs. Prince Dan's life came to an end in this unknown valley.

As time goes by for thousands of years, his name may be written together with Jing Ke, and together they compose a historical story of Jing Ke's assassination of Qin.

Of the remaining five thousand cavalry soldiers, one thousand tried to break out of the encirclement, but were shot and killed mercilessly.

Four thousand people could not bear the fear and fatigue in their hearts and chose to surrender.

"Continue to move eastward!" After taking care of Prince Dan, many fish turned directly to Liaodong.

At this time, the generals of the Qin army stationed in Jicheng were arguing endlessly.

"The king only asked us to attack Yan, but did not ask us to attack Dai."

Meng Yi said dissatisfied: "It is not easy to dispatch hundreds of thousands of troops. We have already fought this, why not annihilate the Dai country in one fell swoop?"

"But think about the country! The food for this campaign has almost emptied the national treasury. How can we support our continued eastward march?"

"After destroying the Kingdom of Dai, do we have to go to Liaodong to destroy King Yan? Is this something that can be accomplished in a short time?"

Meng Tian argued rationally: "We are generals, and our duty is to seize the opportunity to achieve strategic goals. Food and internal affairs are what the prime ministers worry about. Since they haven't written a letter, it means that food and grass can still support it."

Seeing that the soldiers could not convince anyone, a battle report reached Wang Lu's desk.

Wang Hao looked through it a few times and interrupted the quarrel: "There is no need to argue. Marquis Ding'an has already made a decision for us."

In the eyes of everyone's doubts, Wang Lu continued: "The Marquis of Ding'an caught up with Prince Dan, and Prince Dan committed suicide. Then the Marquis of Ding'an continued eastward, preparing to besiege King Yan together with the sea ships."

When Meng Tian heard this, he laughed, and then volunteered: "The last general is willing to lead his troops to attack the country of Dai!"

"Yun!" Wang Hao knew that he was getting old and it was time to make room for these young people.

At this time, if you look down from the clouds, you will find that the Qin army is divided into three groups, led by Meng Tian, ​​and presses towards Dai Guo.

The whole way was led by the Marquis of Ding'an, chasing the King of Yan. The last way was the sea-going ships that covered the sky, carrying a large amount of supplies and troops, heading towards Liaodong.

The leader of the ship was Wang Jian, who took Xiang Ji with him, while Wang Ben was left in the waters of Qi to guard against any changes in Qi.

"Why are you taking me with you? Aren't you afraid that I will cause trouble?" Xiang Ji is tall and looks like a teenager.

Wang Jian looked at the sea from a distance and said nonchalantly: "The lady said, I will give you more insights. The world is vast. As a seven-foot man, why should you stick to the hopeless restoration of the country?"

"My thoughts are simpler," Wang Jian turned his head and looked at Xiang Ji seriously, "I just want you to see how powerful we are, and your Xiang family's plot is just a wishful thinking!"

Xiang Ji pursed his lips tightly. The outcome of this war was obvious. The key was how long King Yan and King Dai could hold on.

To everyone's surprise, when King Yan learned that Prince Dan was dead and the Marquis of Ding'an came to the city again, he was frightened to death!

At this point, the Yan Kingdom was completely destroyed, and the Dai Kingdom was also settled by Meng Tian.

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