Because the Liang army had been besieged for many days, the battle status of the Allied forces was not sent in before.
However, once the Shucheng Yan Army withdrew, King Liang quickly received the news.
After understanding the general situation of the war outside, King Liang couldn't help but smile and said: "Okay, King Qin is indeed a person worth cooperating with. Now that the victory or defeat has been decided, Yan Kingdom will not be able to hold on for much longer."
"But Your Majesty, regarding the retreat of Huan's army," someone couldn't help but say.
"Hmph!" King Liang sneered and said without caring: "It would be better if we withdrew! Then, there will be one less person to divide the land. There will be no difference between King Huan and King Huan! We, the Liang army, also You don’t need these supplies!”
You know, there are spoils in war. According to King Liang's method, every time the Liang army attacks a city, it will be looted. It is more like a foreign invasion.
Especially the massacre of Shucheng. Even if the history books record this and people in the world blame it, the king of Liang will be responsible for it.
At this time, counselor Cai Yan said: "Now that the battle situation is clear, the king can make two considerations for our army's next move. On the one hand, like the Ling army, continue to go deep. The Liang Ling army will approach Yandu; on the other hand, On the one hand, it is to support Qin Xuan."
"Yes." After hearing this, King Liang thought for a while, and then said: "Let's attack Yue Zheng's rear. Cooperate with Qin Xuan to destroy Yue Zheng's troops first, and not go to Yandu."
As he spoke, he continued: "His spirit king could have approached the capital a long time ago and solved the siege of Shu City, but he deliberately moved away to preserve his strength. This time, let him face Zhang Xi alone. I have to force him You can’t fight a tough battle.”
The Zhang Xi he was talking about was the commander-in-chief of the Yan Army who besieged Shu City in the previous round. He had 180,000 troops. At this time, he had already rushed back to Yandu to support him.
As for the Ling Army, they had only experienced the Battle of Sishui Pass and the later relatively easy siege, so they still had about 160,000 troops.
King Ling wanted to take over the Yandi with only losing 40,000 troops. No matter how good his abacus was, it was obviously impossible.
This decision of King Liang has no problem for the overall battle situation. Now Yue Zheng faces Qin Xuan's army and has lost the decisive battle. If the Liang army attacks again, he will be in a dead end.
Once Yue Zheng is destroyed, only Zhang Xi will be left in the Yan army. At that time, the armies of the four countries will all come to Yandu.
After King Liang made up his mind, he did what he said. After breaking the Sishui Pass, he marched from the upper right. Therefore, he now needed to go south to join Xiao Yuan.
However, as soon as more than 90,000 Liang troops came out of Shucheng and passed the next city, the officials in the city were so frightened that they took their families with them early and fled for their lives. Without troops, how could they dare to hold on.
At the same time, the defense line near Yandu was Guanhua Pavilion.
King Yan was leaving the city in person and invited King Ling for a while.
Behind him was Zhang Xi's 180,000-strong army, and behind King Ling was 160,000 Ling-jun troops.
War did not break out directly.
Now that the Ling Army was about to attack the capital, before the war started, King Yan came to him and said, this is a reasonable thing.
After all, the two of them had dealt with each other a lot before.
At this time, the two people were sitting opposite each other in the pavilion, each with a case in front of them.
King Yan was dressed in the attire of an emperor, but he didn't look like an emperor at all. Now, he even said with a shy face:
"Brother Ling Wang, you and I have always been on good terms. Why is it so bad today?"
He asked for a meeting with him, and the Spirit King knew what he would say even with his eyes closed. After hearing the words, he shook his head slightly and sighed:
"It is not me who wants to attack Yan, but the emperor's edict, which is announced to the world. As a Chinese prince, I have to obey it."
What he said was too high-sounding, but it was just a pretext for destroying the flames. It was also the so-called master who had a reputation.
After hearing this, King Yan couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "Brother Ling Wang, if the Ling Army is willing to retreat, given our relationship, you can ask for whatever conditions are needed."
"I'm afraid this won't work. We have an alliance. If we retreat, we will break the alliance. I can't bear this crime." King Ling is not King Huan. Destroying inflammation is the current national policy and grand strategy of Ling Kingdom.
"Then, the reason why the coalition forces are like this is just to force me to step down from the throne. At worst, I just need to take off this imperial uniform." King Yan continued to deal with it.
King Ling glanced at his clothes and sneered in his heart, but said on his face: "Brother Yan Wang, the emperor is not just for anyone who wants to be. Since you have usurped the throne, and now you are talking about abdicating the throne, I am afraid that this matter is not mine. For one person to make the decision, he still needs the nod of the King of Qin. After all, he holds the emperor's edict, is also the general of the empire, commands the kings of the world, and is the initiator of the allied forces, so you have to find him."
"But this, but this, King Qin and I are not familiar with each other at all." King Yan looked anxious.
"You can try it." King Ling said with a smile. In fact, he didn't think Xiao Yuan would agree, but he just didn't bother to pay attention to King Yan and kicked him to Xiao Yuan.
"Then I will send an envoy to meet King Qin and ask Brother Ling Wang not to launch an offensive against Yandu."
This tone already has a tendency to surrender.
When King Ling heard this, he immediately nodded: "Of course, based on our relationship, as long as King Qin nods, the Ling army will withdraw immediately."
"Okay, okay" King Yan still naively held on to his last glimmer of hope.
After meeting the King of Spirits, he returned to the capital and in the palace study, he couldn't help but screamed in sorrow: "I should have listened to Jie Liang's words."
But what's the use of regretting it now? The loyal minister Xie Liang had accused him in public and made him furious. He had already been imprisoned on death row and tortured beyond his appearance.
Yanguo's situation was entirely caused by him. In the end, he had no choice but to send envoys to Qin Xuan to prepare for lobbying.
After receiving the order, the envoy took the envoy's ceremonial guard with him. After several days, he first arrived in Xinxiang, met Yue Zheng face to face, and then went to Qin Xuan's camp.
Xiao Yuan was not surprised at all when he learned that the Yan Envoy had arrived, but after thinking about it, he did not receive him. Instead, he pushed him to King Xuan on the grounds that he was busy with military affairs and had no time to separate himself.
The envoy had been killed by Yan Guo before, so Xiao Yuan was undoubtedly following the trend.
After Yanshi learned about it, he didn't feel anything was wrong. When he met King Xuan, he bowed his hands and bowed deeply:
"The foreign envoy has met His Highness King Xuan."
King Xuan sat directly above him, staring at him coldly, without any indication, but directly shouted:
"Guard!"
"Here!" Two guards immediately stepped in.
"Drag him down and chop him off! Hang his head on a tree to pay homage to Lord Gong Xing!"
"promise!"
One sentence directly frightened the Yanshi to the point of sending chills down his spine, but before he could speak, the guards were already holding him to the left and right, dragging him out.
When the screams started, the flame envoy soul was almost frightened out of his wits, and he couldn't help but scream:
"I am an envoy, His Highness King Xuan cannot kill me! You cannot kill me."
But no one paid any attention to him.
He had prepared a set of words, but who would have thought that he would be killed without saying a single word.
This is really self-inflicted.
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