Handan, Royal Palace

The Empress Dowager and Guo Kai summoned the ministers again to discuss strategies to fight against Qin.

This was the first time the empress dowager came out to participate in government affairs. Because King Zhao was young, the implementation of government orders required Guo Kai's seal and the empress dowager's seal. Therefore, it was very normal for the empress dowager to participate in government affairs. After hearing the news, the ministers did not dare to delay and rushed to the palace. The original Handan Order Zhao Li naturally received an invitation. He first promised Guo Kai's customers that he would definitely go there on time, but then he called his family and guests to his side.

"The Empress Dowager is a very low-class person and will definitely not be able to show any strategy to fight against Qin. I think she may want to convince the ministers to surrender to Qin." Zhao Li narrowed his eyes. Guo Kai's operations in recent days have already made him suspicious. The sudden invitation from the Empress Dowager made him feel something was wrong. When Guo Kai asked a few words to summon the ministers, he could not come up with any way. Could it be that the Empress Dowager would make any difference to summon the ministers?

His son looked at his father in surprise and asked, "Then why did you agree to Guo Kai?"

"I am trying to reassure them... I heard that Prince Jia was raising an army on behalf of the people of all counties were willing to follow him. He said: I hope that the soldiers of Zhao State gathered in Zhongshan and rely on the terrain and the help of Yan State to fight against Qin." Zhao Li said: "It seems that Yan Wang Dan is not what Guo Kai said. He also wants to form an alliance with Zhao State."

"Then what should we do?"

"While all the ministers are about to go to the palace, we can drive away from Handan and go to Zhongshan... Gongzi Jia is kind and a person worth following. The Zhao people gathered by him and worked together. What can Qin do if they are together?"

Everyone agreed that compared to the current King of Zhao, Gongzi Jia has a great reputation and his ministers like him very much. If King Yan of Zhao had not abolished his crown prince, this would not happen now. At least generals such as Li Mu would definitely be able to continue to be valued. After the decision was made, Zhao Li asked his disciples to prepare to leave Handan.

At this moment, in the palace, the empress dowager was sitting next to King Xiao Zhao. Guo Kai was looking at the situation of the ministers and watching the ministers arrive one by one, he looked at the warriors on both sides of the palace quietly. Yan Ju said something in his ear and stood up and left. As the ministers gradually arrived, Guo Kai felt that things could begin, but there were still a few people who had not come yet.

Guo Kai did not want to see a fish that had missed the net, so he called a few warriors and asked them to go and urge them. He stood up and said seriously: "I came this time, because I have a bad news to tell you. Prince Jia of Dai County raised an army to rebel and led his soldiers to Yan State, Zhongshan and other areas, and fell into the hands of the Yan people!" As soon as Guo Kai spoke, the ministers were shocked and looked at each other.

"The State of Zhao has arrived at its most dangerous time."

"You guys must come up with a strategy to deal with it."

Guo Kai said meaningless nonsense, talking about the glory of Zhao State in the past and the danger today, but he did not say a feasible solution. After a long time, several warriors came back and reported to Guo Kai that the ministers who did not come had all secretly fled from Handan, including Zhao Li. Guo Kai was furious and cursed: "When the country is in danger, these villains are just thinking about their own safety!"

He cursed for a while, looked at the queen, and signaled that she could speak.

The Empress Dowager looked at everyone and said, "I am a woman and I don't know the affairs of the country. But now Handan is surrounded by enemies on all sides and the ministers cannot come up with any strategy to deal with it. After discussing with Shangjun, I made a decision." The Empress Dowager said seriously, "There are not only us in Handan, but also hundreds of thousands of Zhao people. I heard that the Qin people were tyrannical. If the city resisted, they would kill the people in the city."

"There are no guards in Handan, and there is no food...there are no reinforcements outside."

"If the Qin people came outside Handan, Handan would not last for a day. I think it would be better to open the city to surrender than to let the people of the whole city be buried with us. The commander of Qin was the former Ma Fujun. I heard that he was a benevolent and righteous person. If he asked to surrender to him, he would definitely not make things difficult for us." Before the Empress Dowager finished speaking, the ministers were already making loud noises. The Empress Dowager's words made them extremely angry.

"Empress Dowager! There are still generals like Zhao Cong outside the city who are resisting the attack of Qin. The soldiers are hungry and refuse to evacuate. The domestic merchants and nobles took out their property and asked to support the army outside the city... Even we are all ready to live and die together with Handan. How can you say what you want to surrender to Qin? I heard that you can die like a gentleman, and you cannot live like a villain."

The Queen Mother looked at King Zhao.

King Zhao never dared to disobey his mother since he was a child. At this moment, he nodded and said in fear: "I have orders, surrender."

The ministers gritted their teeth and looked at Guo Kai, saying, "Please convince the Queen Mother not to do anything that shames the ancestors of Zhao State like this!" Guo Kai stood up and shouted, "Yan Ju!" But at this moment, Yan Ju led the warriors outside the palace to rush in. Guo Kai pointed at these ministers and said, "These people violated the orders of Shangjun and did not fulfill their duties as ministers. You can catch them."

The ministers were furious. At the last moment, Guo Kai finally revealed his nature... They drew out their swords and looked at the warriors around them with vigilance. They obviously did not want to be caught like this. Unfortunately, Yan Ju waved his hand, and immediately some soldiers took out their crossbows and pointed them at them. At such a distance, let alone these old ministers, even Zhao Kuo and Zhao Kang, they had no power to fight back.

Yan Ju quickly controlled these old ministers. Under the threat of the crossbow, they did not dare to move and allowed the warriors to catch them. Guo laughed and asked King Zhao to write an edict to surrender, and then walked out of the palace.

At this moment, the Zhao army stationed on the Great Wall completely lost all its food and supplies.

They didn't have much food before. After experiencing this period of consumption, the subsequent supplies did not arrive for a long time. Zhao Cong looked at the Qin army camp in the distance, grabbed the imperial edict in his hand, and did not say a word, and held here for so many days. He did not wait for the supplies behind him, but instead waited for the order to make them surrender. Zhao Cong couldn't help laughing.

What exactly are you fighting for?

Is it for that child? Or is it for him the mother who is a prostitute?

Zhao Cong hadn't eaten for two days, and the soldiers were even worse. Every day there were soldiers who were starved to death... What were they insisting on here? Zhao Cong was a little confused for a while. They fought here, but the nobles of Handan who had never seen the Qin people had already chosen to surrender. Zhao Cong sighed, he put away the bamboo slips and called several of his deputy generals over.

"This is the order of King Zhao, and he wants us to surrender."

As soon as Zhao Cong spoke, the deputy generals shouted angrily, "We will never surrender to the Qin people! We would rather die in battle!" Zhao Cong's eyes were full of despair. He shook his head and said, "No need to die again... Zhao State has perished long ago. It is meaningless for us to stay here. Please take the army and surrender to the Qin people." The deputy generals were stunned, hesitated for a moment, and asked carefully: "What about you?"

"I am the descendant of Su Hou... How can I bow my head to the Qin people?"

Zhao Cong said, waved his hand and said, "Go to Er Sanzi, don't pay attention to me."

"Although we are not of a noble birth like you, we also know the principle of sacrificing our lives for righteousness... Please allow us to follow you."

"Oh, someone still needs to take his soldiers to surrender. You can't let these tens of thousands follow us." Zhao Cong immediately selected the youngest deputy general and asked him to take his army to Qin. The young man swore to Zhao Cong that he would not let Zhao Cong wait for a long time. After arranging these things, Zhao Cong found some last drinks in the tent and drank with these people who were willing to follow him.

Unfortunately, there is not much alcohol, which is not enough to make them drunk.

"At the beginning, in order to deal with Wei and Qi, my ancestor Su Hou built the Great Wall here to resist the enemy..." Zhao Cong said, slowly drawing out his sword.

Wang Jian and Meng Wu did not expect that the Zhao people would surrender. They took the Great Wall without bloodshed, but the commander of these soldiers had already committed suicide. Wang Jian and Meng Wu knew that the King of Zhao was interested in surrendering, so they no longer hesitated and immediately marched towards Handan. They held on for many years and defended the Zhanghua Great Wall in Handan. They were contributed for the first time. The Qin army crossed the Great Wall and came outside Handan.

The gate of Handan City opened, and the Prime Minister Guo Kai led the young king out of the city to surrender.

The one who came to accept their surrender was Wang Jian. Wang Jian seriously took the seal of King Zhao and the information of the registered areas they sent. Then he led the army to Handan. When the Qin soldiers walked into Handan, the people of Handan were extremely angry. Even hundreds of young people attacked the first batch of Qin's troops at the gate of the city, but they were not opponents of the Qin army.

After leaving behind a body in the ground and being surrounded by the Qin army, these people chose to commit suicide, and Wang Jian officially captured Handan.

In a sense, at this moment, Zhao State perished.

With the fall of Handan, most of the cities of Zhao State fell into the hands of the Qin people, and only Zhongshan was still in the hands of the Zhao people. The young Gongzi Jia came to Zhongshan. At this moment, more than 50,000 soldiers had gathered in Zhongshan, and the number was still increasing... The King of Yan had sent a lot of food, which indeed solved Gongzi Jia's urgent need. As long as there was food, Gongzi Jia could summon more soldiers.

Yan State sent troops to station in Wusui and other cities, just behind Zhongshan, and the number of soldiers in Yan State here has reached 60,000.

Wang Jian did not dare to do business in the palace of Zhao. After capturing Handan, he asked the King of Zhao and the people in the harem to continue to stay in the palace and send soldiers to protect them without disturbing them anymore. However, the Prime Minister Guo Kai, at this moment, followed Wang Jian all day long, bent over and smiled with a charming smile on his face. Wang Jian sat in the mansion, looking at the situation in various parts of Zhao, and couldn't help but frown. The resistance of the people of Zhao was not weak.

The Yanmen, Dai and other places captured by Zhao Kuo were very peaceful and there was no rebellion. The areas captured by Meng Wu and Wang Jian often had Zhao people assassination, arson, poisoning, etc., which were very frequent. The Qin generals who stayed in various places were very angry and thought that the people here needed to have a long memory. Wang Jian had a headache. Zhao Kuo opened warehouses and released grain in the captured area, and he and Meng Wu did the same.

But why did the areas I captured continue to rebel?

If he slaughtered a few towns to shock the people of Zhao, would he anger Wu Chenghou? If he didn't kill him, how could he stop these frequent unrest? Guo Kai, who was standing beside him, saw Wang Jian's distressed look and asked with a smile: "What's wrong with you so annoyed?" Wang Jian looked at the villain beside him. To be honest, he really didn't like Guo Kai, and didn't like it at all.

But he was the inner responder arranged by the Prime Minister in Zhao. To be precise, everything he did was indeed for Qin. After capturing Handan, Wang Jian really could not treat him with the attitude of being a prisoner. He was the biggest hero in destroying Zhao... Wang Jian said with a straight face: "There are turmoils in the local area, and several cities were captured by the Zhao people. They killed the soldiers stationed there."

Guo Kai thought for a moment and said, "Most people in Zhao are like this... Don't worry, they bully the weak and fear the strong. As long as you can catch the leader, execute them all, and then send more soldiers to patrol these areas, you can stop this situation..."

"Oh? Aren't you Zhao people too?"

Guo Kai suddenly became serious and said, "How could I be a Zhao person? I was born in the Guo family of Zhongshan... The Guo family of Zhongshan was originally from Guo, and later from Zhongshan. Zhao destroyed Zhongshan. I was just a prisoner of Zhao." Wang Jian couldn't help but shook his head and said, "Okay, you can go out." Guo Kai said goodbye to Wang Jian, left here, and walked out of the courtyard, Guo Kai's face became a little ugly.

Wang Jian was very indifferent to himself, which made Guo Kai a little worried. Will Qin State obey his promise?

Wang Jian sent Meng Wu to stay in Handan, and took his soldiers to inspect the occupied areas and calm the unrest in these areas. He led his troops to Zhongshan. He wanted to join forces with Zhao Kuo to completely destroy Zhao. At this time, Zhao Kuo was not far from Zhongshan. The people of Zhao who were unwilling to surrender fled to the direction of Zhongshan and followed Gongzi Jia to continue to resist. After the news of the fall of Handan reached Zhongshan, local officials immediately asked Gongzi Jia to inherit the throne and continue to resist.

In the same month, Prince Jia proclaimed himself the King of Zhongshan, worshiped his ancestors from afar, and made a bloody oath, and never surrendered to Qin.

ps: There is something to do in the morning, I am busy, and the update is a little late.

There is another chapter later.
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