General Qin

Silk (bó) is not only a precious material for making clothes, but also a carrier of writing that has been popular among middle and upper-class aristocrats since the Spring and Autumn Period. It played a substitute role before the invention of paper.

Writing on silk is called silk script.

When a large number of silk books were shot into the city, it immediately caused a commotion.

"Old thief Wang Jian, you are so shameless!"

Qin Wuji opened a piece of silk, and just glanced at it, his face changed drastically.

He quickly ordered that the soldiers and people in the city be prohibited from picking up the silk books, and asked his personal guards to collect these things and burn them, but it was already too late.

Benefiting from the preciousness of silk, whether it is a civilian slave or an army soldier, as long as they see these things for the first time, they will instinctively pick them up.

Among these people, there are always literate people.

"It is said on the silk that those who descend are not to be killed, otherwise they will be slaughtered the day the city is destroyed."

"General Qin said before that all those captured in the Battle of Yishui were beheaded by the Qin army in exchange for military merits, but those who wrote these were the captured Chinese. It seems that none of them were killed by the Qin army."

"Yes, let me tell you quietly, when I was guarding the city this morning, I saw those captured Chinese shouting in front of the city, saying that they had food and drink in the Qin camp, and that we only need to surrender , you can save yourself from death.”

"Really? No wonder the Qin army didn't attack today, and the general didn't let us go up the city wall."

"You said that if we surrender..."

All kinds of discussions resounded in the city, one spread to ten, ten to hundreds, especially when many people learned that the father, brother and son they thought were dead were not beheaded by the Qin army, their original firm will to resist weakened at once.

For ordinary Yan people, they are not like those nobles who worry about the ancestral temple and the country. What they want is stuttering. As long as they can survive, it doesn't matter which king they replace to rule.

Besides, Yan State did not border Qin State before, and the main enemies were Zhao State and Qi State.

The people of Yan State will not have an indissoluble hatred for Qin State like Zhao people.

Even because Yan Dan sent Jing Ke to assassinate the King of Qin in the name of seeking peace, he lost his righteousness and made Qin's attack on Yan a matter of course.

To a certain extent, Qin's attack on Yan is not called aggression, but revenge.

Before that, it was mainly because Qin Wuji publicized that the Qin army was brutal and bloodthirsty, and killed all the soldiers in the Battle of Yishui. If Wuyang was captured, the city would be slaughtered. This made the Yan people in the city very scared, and their relatives were killed. He can only follow Qin Wuji to the end, desperately resisting the Qin army.

Now the Qin army has stated through the silk script that the surrender will not be killed, coupled with the fact that the captives shouted around the city wall, it immediately made the people in the city and even the soldiers in the army think differently.

In the city, apart from the soldiers Guishou, there was another class that was most affected by the silk script.

A rich family with a long history, a wealthy man with a huge amount of money and slaves.

They are in the upper class of the city, and their families are big and their careers are big. In the eyes of these people, there is no idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and some are just preserving family wealth. They were afraid of Qin's brutal reputation before, so they contributed money and effort to resist with Qin Wuji.

Now, the general of the Qin State, Wang Jian, has stated in a silk letter that as long as they surrender, these big families and rich people can all keep their original wealth, money and land, and will not take a cent.

There is still the suspense of choice?

The Qin army outside the city did not attack the city for two consecutive days. They just kept shooting silk books filled with various surrender policies into the city. .

Wuyang City, which was originally solid as a rock, split from within.

"Damn it, arrest all the people from the Rong family and the Qi family."

Qin Wuji slammed his palm on the table, furious.

Just now, he had received a report that people from several big clans in the city were colluding with each other and planned to respond to the Qin army.

The deputy general bite the bullet and said: "General, these people are all powerful men in the city. Especially the Rong family, who is the descendant of the former Gaoyang Lord Rong Fén (fén), has hundreds of servants in his family, tens of millions of money, and is quite powerful in the city. , if it is caught suddenly, it may cause accidents."

Qin Wuji stared, and said angrily: "Accident? Even if they don't arrest them, they will change. Arrest them first, and put all the servants in their house into the army. If there is any abnormality, they will be killed."

Seeing that Qin Wuji had made up his mind, the lieutenant general had nothing to say and could only accept the order to retreat.

Seeing his subordinate retreat, Qin Wuji let out a long sigh.

He was no idiot, and he knew that the country of Yan was now in dire straits. With the combat effectiveness of the Qin army in the Yishui battle, the destruction of Yan was a certainty.

But everyone can surrender, but he, Qin Wuji, cannot surrender.

The first emperor Qin Kai opened up Liaodong for the Yan State, and he is known to the world as a famous general of the Yan State. If he surrenders, the reputation of the Qin family will be completely ruined.

What's more, among his nephews and nephews, Qin Wuyang went to assassinate Qin and died on the way. Qin Heng sacrificed his life and acted as Qin Wuji's stand-in so that he could escape from Yishui.

The juniors of the Qin family sacrificed their lives for the country, how could he bow down and surrender to the old thief Wang Jian? It is absolutely impossible!

"Suppress those big clans first, as long as they don't take the lead, and the rest of them don't take the lead, they dare not resist."

Qin Wuji was planning in his mind how to use Wuyang City to continue to hold back the Qin army.

But the changes in the city happened faster than he thought, and the trigger was the Rong clan whom he ordered to arrest.

In Rong's mansion, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy stood with a sharp sword in his hand.

In his hand, the iron sword was dripping with blood, and the corpses of soldiers of the Yan Army were still lying under his feet. Opposite him were the servants of the Rong family who looked either shocked or terrified.

"The lord has never done anything to bully or humiliate us. His behavior can be called a righteous person in Wuyang City. The second and third sons have received the lord's great kindness. How can we repay it? Today Yan will arrest my lord's family, and there may be disasters Happened. Now, it's time for us to sacrifice our lives!"

"What's more, the Yan general is cruel and tyrannical. He wants to put us on the city wall to fight the Qin people. This is a matter of death!"

"Whether it's to repay the lord, or for the life and future of the second and third sons, please follow my Luan (luán) to rescue the lord today, and at the same time call on those in the city who want to surrender to the Qin army to let Wuyang change hands!"

The young Luan Bu was impassioned, and as his words fell, the servants also became angry.

"I would like to listen to Mr. Luan's orders!"

The treasury of the Rong clan was opened, and the slaves and servants raised in the mansion, led by Luan Bu, fetched halberds and spears, and rushed out of the mansion roaring.

The flames started to light.

Those in Wuyang City who had already surrendered their intentions heard the sound of fighting everywhere in the city, and knew that someone had already taken the lead.

In an instant, a single spark was burning.

The indestructible Wuyang City burst from within.

Regarding Wang Jian, judging from his countermeasures to kill Li Mu in "Warring States Policy", he should be a master of war.

Sun Tzu said: "Go up to attack the enemy, and go down to attack the city." The method of siege is a last resort.

Therefore, seeing that the city is hard to break, it is quite logical to use strategy to seize it.

As for the method of attacking the heart, in the pre-Qin period, there were Sun Bin's plan to reduce stoves, and Tian Dan's plan to deceive horsemen and rob them. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the most typical ones were besieged on all sides, and there were various things that induced the people in the city to kill officials and rebel.

About Rongshi and Luanbu.

"Warring States Policy": Yan named Rong Yan, a Song native, as Lord Gaoyang, and sent generals to attack Zhao.

"Historical Records Luanbu Biography": Cloth was sold for a while, and he was enslaved by Yan to avenge his patriarch.

Combining the two to create, Luan Bu should be a servant in Yan at this time, and show his face when Yan is destroyed