Zhao Kuo knew a little about what happened among other vassal states, and some didn't know it.

However, in Zhao Kuo's view, these things actually belong to some details.

What Zhao Kuo really cares about is how to break through the capital of Yan State in front of him.

As long as it can break through Jidu, the Zhao army will be able to quickly pacify the entire Yan State except Liaodong within one or two months.

As for Liaodong, whether it was proclaiming himself as king or being occupied by North Korea, Zhao Kuo was actually too lazy to care about it.

Liaodong in this era has just been occupied by the Yan State for decades. It is basically a large area of ​​unmanned land and small cities. In addition, the journey is very far, so frankly speaking, there is not much value for occupation.

If you have time to fight Liaodong, it is better to concentrate on dealing with the counterattack from the southern vassal states.

In later generations, Qin Shihuang also destroyed Yan State first, and then fought against Liaodong one or two years later. Zhao Kuo and Qin Shihuang's judgments were the same in this matter.

As long as the royal family of Yan cannot go to Liaodong, anyone can stand on their own in Liaodong.

Off topic.

Zhao Kuo withdrew his thoughts and said to several confidants around him: "What do you think we can conquer this city?"

Jidu is still quite tall. After all, it is the capital that Yan State has been operating for 800 years. Over the years, only Kuang Zhang, the previous famous general of Qi State, has conquered Jidu.

But when Kuang Zhang attacked Jidu, Yan State was in the "Zizhi Rebellion". The people at the bottom of Yan State welcomed the Qi army with the attitude of receiving the royal army. After the Qi army only besieged Jidu for a few days, the Yan State soldiers and civilians in Jidu opened the city gate and surrendered. This experience of breaking the city was not at all reference to Zhao Kuo.

After listening to Zhao Kuo’s question, Li Mu was the first to answer: “Master, I think it’s better to use gunpowder, this is the most direct and effective way!”

After conquering Lingzhisai, Li Mu left behind 10,000 cavalry and his deputy general to guard Lingzhisai to prevent the Yan army from returning to Jidu to help Jidu. Then he brought 20,000 other troops to Jidu to meet Zhao Kuo.

In this way, the Zhao army outside Jidu City had reached as many as 90,000.

According to the information sent by the Nightingale branch of Yan Kingdom before, there are about 20,000 regular troops in the Jidu of Yan Kingdom. In addition to the remnants of the Lejian and the army that can be recruited, Zhao Kuo felt that the plan was only about 50,000.

These 50,000 people seem to be quite a lot, but a large part of them are strong men and remnants of defeated soldiers. What can be really fought is actually the original 20,000 regular troops.

In other words, Zhao Kuo feels that he has an absolute advantage in military strength now! If he directly uses gunpowder to blow up the city gate according to Li Mu's suggestion, then Zhao Kuo feels that he should be able to directly break Jidu in one day, which is no suspense.

However, after a brief hesitation, Zhao Kuo decisively rejected Li Mu's proposal: "No."

Why not?

The same thing, the time has not come.

As long as the gunpowder is not exposed, if one day King Zhao and Pingyang Jun suddenly turn against Zhao Kuo and kill him, Zhao Kuo can also use gunpowder to reverse the overall situation.

Otherwise, once the gunpowder is taken out, such a powerful weapon, King Zhao will definitely want Zhao Kuo to present it to the country.

Then Zhao Kuoxian will still not offer?

If you offer it, wouldn’t it be like giving the gunpowder, a killing weapon, to King Zhao and King Pingyang for free?

If he doesn't offer, King Zhao will definitely feel that Zhao Kuo is so rebellious that he will not only lose his trust in Zhao Kuo, but may even directly kill Zhao Kuo.

In short, as long as the gunpowder is exposed, whether it is to donate gunpowder or not, Zhao Kuo will face a lot of trouble.

Therefore, as long as Zhao Kuo does not truly control all the power of Zhao State for a day, Zhao Kuo must not expose the gunpowder to King Zhao and King Pingyang.

Li Mu actually knew these truths, but he was really itchy and wanted to see the power of gunpowder, so he asked this question.

Now that Zhao Kuo has rejected it, Li Mu just touched his nose awkwardly and stopped talking.

On the other side, Xu Li suddenly spoke: "Maybe there is a way for the old minister to defeat the enemy without fighting."

Zhao Kuo's eyes lit up and he said, "What's the solution?"

Xu Li smiled and said, "I will tell you that over the years, our Nightingale has been secretly in contact with a senior official from Yan State.

This senior official has great power in Yan State and can meet the King of Yan frequently. He also has many connections in Jidu.

If you can persuade this person to surrender, then it will be no problem to take down Ji."

When the other confidants around Zhao Kuo heard what Xu Li said, they couldn't help but look surprised.

Li Mu couldn't help but ask, "Xu Jiazai, who is this person?"

Xu Li smiled slightly and said, "This person is no one else, he is the current prime minister of Yan State - Guo Wei!"

It's late at night.

In Jidu City, a carriage slowly drove into an extremely grand mansion.

This grand mansion is the mansion of Yan State Prime Minister Bang Guo Wei, and the person sitting in the carriage is naturally Yan State Prime Minister Bang Guo Wei himself.

Guo Wei walked off the carriage, and from his expression, he could tell that he was not in a good mood.

At present, Yan State is facing a crisis of destruction, and Guo Wei, as the prime minister of Yan State, is naturally worried, which is very normal.

As soon as Guo Wei got off the carriage, his most confidant housekeeper came up and said a few words in Guo Wei's ear.

Guo Wei was stunned when he heard this, and looked at the butler in disbelief and said, "Have you confirmed your identity?"

The butler nodded and said softly: "Everything is true token or code is confirmed.

Lord, what should we do, or kill him directly?"

Guo Wei's face changed and after a while, he whispered: "Take him to the study to see me."

Guo Wei went directly to the study.

A moment later, a sound of footsteps sounded and the door of the study was opened.

The butler's voice sounded: "Master, the man has brought it."

Guo Wei had a calm expression and said lightly: "Please come in."

Then, a middle-aged man appeared in Guo Wei's sight and saluted Guo Wei: "Su Li has met Guo Xiang."

Guo Wei looked at Su Li in front of him and suddenly spoke: "Su Li, you cooperated with Wu Xinjun Zhao Kuo to break through Linzi City two years ago, resulting in the capture of the King of Qi.

I heard that the King of Qi offered a reward of a large sum of money to ask for your head on your neck. Now that Dayan and Zhao are in war, you dare to appear here openly. Are you not afraid that I will chop off your head on your neck?”
Chapter completed!