Chapter 585: Ruan Xiqiong's Ambition

The Ruan army was completely panicked, and in a hurry, without thinking about it, he asked each of them to lead 100,000 troops to guard the north and south sides, and induced Sima Hong's army to march from the central mountains, wanting to flank the north and south and encircle the Cang army.

As soon as the division of troops was completed, the Ruan army was greatly sluggish because of the snow, and before it could leave the camp and start on the road, Hessesen's ironclad army had already spread out into a huge fan shape and forced over from the vast mountains.

The two wings of the iron cavalry were outflanked, and the central infantry army charged and killed after the rain of arrows.

In less than two hours, the Ruan army retreated, and Ning Mo died on the spot.

When the Zhao army was defeated, Liu Dingshan, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately covered up.

The last elite army of the Ruan State has been completely scattered all over the field since then.

As early as when Sima Hong's army was approaching and the two sides were attacking, Ruan had already received news and understood that the general trend of Ruan Guo had gone.

Therefore, as soon as Sima Hong gained the advantage, many families began to plan, accumulating grain, grass, gold and silver, in order to have a good end when they surrendered to the Cang army in the future.

The clans believe that if Cangguo wants to annex such a big country as Ruan, it will never cause trouble at the beginning of the destruction of the country, which not only makes the emperor of Cangguo lose face, but also increases the difficulty of Cangguo to unify the world and blocks its vast ambition.

Only in this way, as soon as the war began, many clans had already made these two plans.

Many of the ordinary people of Ruan are even more indifferent to the war of annihilation, after several ups and downs, they have become subjects of Ruan from their respective countries, in fact, they do not care about the general trend of the world, and want a group of ordinary people who have farmed in the field, have never been out of villages and towns in their lives, and do not know who the emperor is, talk about patriotism? It's a joke.

The Nguyen Quoc court was divided into two factions.

One faction is headed by the royal family, supplemented by ministers, and advocates resisting the Cang army.

One faction is led by the big family, and the domestic nobles have responded, imploring to submit to the Cangguo in exchange for conditional surrender and protect the interests of the royal family and nobles.

Not to mention the entanglement of the respective interests of the two sides, the most important thing is that at this time Nguyen Guo could not organize much force to resist.

Grain and grass aside, if the family is united, it is still okay to make up some.

The main thing is the general.

Organizing a large army is not just as simple as putting together the number of people, the army established by temporary conscription can only be called a rabble, only after hard training and coordinated operations, it can be regarded as a battle-hardened army, especially in the face of a powerful army, the quality of the generals must be very good.

In a hurry, you can't form an army at all.

In other words, if the front-line army is defeated, Nguyen Quoc will no longer be able to resist the Cang army.

And will the army at the front lose?

The answer is almost yes.

Because since the Cang army intercepted the grain road, the Ruan army, which has been much weaker in terms of marching speed, is simply unable to help the 100,000 army led by Liu Dingshan, the transportation of grain and grass is extremely difficult, and it can only be replenished through small routes.

Based on this, long before the ruan army was defeated, there were many clans preparing for a retreat.

Now, the Ruan army on the front line has been defeated, and there are naturally more surrender factions in the court, and even some royal families and royal families have been shaken, feeling that they should surrender to Cangguo in order to maintain their glory and advantages.

At this time, Sima Hong led the army to approach the city of Fu'an in the hinterland of Ruan, and learned that the empress of Ruan was organizing a large army to deploy defenses, so he immediately made a decision, and let all the soldiers and horses under his command pull out the cities outside Ruan Cheng one by one, so that Ruan Cheng became a lonely city that had completely lost external rescue, and the time to seize the city was decided according to the specific reaction of Ruan's country.

After the deployment was properly made, Sima Hong led the army to directly cut off several government soldiers who were supporting Ruan Cheng, and he was only one step away from approaching Ruan Cheng.

In view of the special situation of Ruan, it is no longer the goal to break through Ruan City, but to defeat the Empress of Ruan and the royal family without leaving hidden dangers, so the strategy is not to seek speed, but to seek stability, and to fight when you see a battle, so as to defeat all the Ruan troops along the way, and also not to go down to the city, but to defeat the army, and strive to sweep away all the troops in the east and south of Ruan City within two months.

The strategy was established, and Sima Hong's envoy flew to Cangcheng day and night to report to the Cangguo court.

Not long after, Yang Mu's handwritten letter arrived: "Aiqing's eyes are omitted, I deeply think that it is true, the destruction of Ruan does not seek a drum, but only seeks the brightness of the current situation, and the country of Ruan is determined, next spring and summer, it is not too late to work hard, and then I will come to Ruan Cheng in person. ”

After the handwritten letter, there was also a secret letter, Sima Hong opened it and felt a little strange, and the content was generally one point - it was necessary to capture the empress of Ruan Guo alive, and to take care of it carefully, and not to be lazy.

This made Sima Hong very puzzled.

In the past wars of extermination, I have not heard of any emperor being treated differently, such as the Emperor Mangguo, who crashed into the wood and died, and did not get a letter of consolation from the imperial court, and even did not get a correct name and a decent burial, which shows that the imperial court's attitude towards the emperors of various countries is also ambiguous, and it is good to cooperate with submission and calm people's hearts, but it doesn't matter if you die.

Between the two, each has its own strengths.

When I arrived here in Ruan Guo, the secret letter came, and he specially told him to be captured alive, and to take care of it carefully and not to be lazy.

Nguyen Quoc is different from other countries?

Could it be that it is because Emperor Nguyen is a woman?

Sima Hong felt that he hadn't guessed the idea, so he didn't delve into it, and in order not to waste time, he immediately ordered someone to copy a few letters written by the emperor and sent them to several generals under his command, telling them not to be arrogant and seize the city.

More than a month later, a team of more than 500 civil officials rode into Fu'an City in a horse-drawn carriage.

In the evening, Sima Hong held a military banquet and sent these 500 civil officials to each of the captured cities to guard the territory and secure the people, with the intention of accessing political affairs, taking over the key treasury and planning the establishment of counties and counties, so as not to plunge the contributed Ruan Di into a state of chaos and anarchy.

Sima Hong knew in his heart that the destruction of Ruan was already ironclad, Ruan was a lip and tooth barrier of Wei, and if the foundation of Ruan was clarified, the world would almost be decided, and then cut off the connection between Ruan and Wei, with the current momentum of the Cang army, it would not be particularly difficult to destroy these two countries within a year.

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After the Lunar New Year, Nguyen Thanh fell.

Nguyen City was not breached, but collapsed by itself under the might of the Cang army.

In the face of the flanking attacks from all sides, the Nguyen army in the hinterland of Nguyen State did not have a decent general to lead the army to defend Nguyen City, and the news of the defeat of the main force on the front line spread quickly, and the Nguyen army was suddenly in chaos.

In fact, after the defeat of the main force of the Ruan army, it was still able to reassemble an army of about 300,000, even if this army could not confront the Cang army head-on, but it would not be a problem to block it for a few months.

If the temple of Ruan Guo is clear, at the beginning of the Cang army's advance, immediately assemble all the Ruan army, and hand it over to a capable general to fight against the Cang army, the Ruan army is not much worse in terms of strength, and it also occupies a geographical advantage, and it is really difficult for the Cang army to destroy Ruan.

However, the political affairs of the Ruan State are ignorant, since the Cangjun army has been advancing all the way, the Ruan State court has fallen into the confrontation between the main battle faction and the main surrender faction, and they have held each other for more than a month, that is, the Empress Ruan is only bent on calming down internal disputes, avoiding the division of the royal family in power, and not being dispatched without following the edict.

The whole reason for this is that the political pattern of the Nguyen State for many years, and the fact that the Cang army deliberately used public opinion to publicize and expand the results of the war, which intensified the fear of the whole Ruan State, so when the Cang Army attacked on several fronts, the remnants of the Ruan army in Nguyen were still in a state of scattered sand.

It was at this time that Wu Guo also reacted, as if he understood the general trend of Cangguo, and it was also a gesture of loyalty.

Originally, after hearing the news, the soldiers of various prefectures in the north of Ruan and the border troops guarding the border of Wu wanted to go south to King Qin, but this time, they were bitten by the Wu army and couldn't move at all, but after several battles, they were intercepted and killed and defeated part of the army.

Therefore, by the beginning of spring, all the outer garrison cities of Nguyen City were occupied by the Cang army, and almost none of the cities were fortified as fortified walls.

In this way, the Cang army was like an all-pervasive sword of water, and it flooded Ruan Cheng at once.

Nguyen Thanh has become a de facto isolated island city.

After Ruan Cheng was destroyed, most of the nobles of the family who did not want to surrender, including Ruan Cairui, the empress of Ruan, fled west with gold and silver.

Fleeing westward, of course, is not only to flee for your life, but more importantly, to unite people's hearts and seek to fight again.

At the same time, he sent people to lobby Wu and contact Wei to make a final struggle.

It was at this time that Ruan Xiqiong, the only remaining general of the Ruan army, secretly wrote a letter to Sima Hong, surrendering to Cangguo as a royal family, but as a condition, Cangguo should be crowned king, so that he could rely on the army, hold the royal family of Ruan State hostage, and surrender to Cangguo together.

What this means, obviously.

Ruan Xiqiong, when he was in the Battle of Jin, was still just famous, and he was pressed by Ruan Funing, which was relatively low-key.

After Ninh Mo led the army to the front line, he was one of the few remaining generals in Nguyen's country.

Because of his royal status, he naturally became the person who commanded the army, responsible for resisting the Cang army.

However, this person's letter is obviously to sell the royal family of Ruan Guo in exchange for his own glory and wealth.

In other words, he wanted to seize the treatment that the original Cangguo was going to give to Ruan Cairui.

Moreover, the ambition is even greater, he wants the king!

You must know that over the years, Cangguo has never been awarded a prince, that is, Wei Zhongquan, who is the oldest in the court and is still conscientiously directing the war on the front line, is just a duke, or a duke without a title.

Ruan Xiqiong, as soon as he opened his mouth, asked for a prince!

Why?

The surrender of the emperors of the rest of those countries is only granted to the marquis, even though the Ruan State is special, and the surrender is simple, but at most one duke is great, why should the lion open his mouth and ask for the position of a prince?

Among them, the threat is also obvious.

If you don't give the king, you won't surrender, and everyone will continue to hurt each other.

Given to the prince, the army immediately led surrendered, and the Nguyen state was in the bag.

Sima Hong was so angry that he wanted to drop something.

Lao Tzu has been fighting in the south and north for more than 20 years, and he is still only a two-star duke, why do you want to sell your country and master to get a prince?

Insatiable!

However, in all fairness, if it was really possible to annex the state of Nguyen with the position of a prince and avoid countless bloodshed and sacrifices, it would be extremely worthwhile.

It is precisely for this reason that Sima Hong did not make an independent claim, and decided to send the letter back to Xincangcheng and hand it over to His Majesty the Emperor for decision.

Yang Mu gritted his teeth when he saw it, but he was helpless for a long time, this kind of traitorous trick of selling the lord for glory has always been shameful to him, but as an emperor, he has to start from the overall situation first.

In the end, it was Kong Shangxian who reminded him: "The villain's move naturally needs to be dealt with by the villain's strategy, so you might as well pretend to accept it first, get the country first, and then get rid of it." ”

Yang Mu laughed and woke up the dreamer with a word.

Anyway, Cangguo is about to be unified, even if a group of people are eliminated at that time, what can it do?

That Ruan Xiqiong is in Ruan State, and he will definitely not be able to accept the canonization before surrendering, and when the time comes, after he really annexes Cangguo, he will try to get rid of him.

When he returned to the palace that night, Yang Mu summoned Shen An and secretly admonished him.

The next day, Yang Mu issued an edict: "Ruan Guo is dying, Ruan Xiqiong has immortal merits, and Cangguo specially gave him the title of prince in recognition of his great merits, thinking that the world would set an example." ”

Before this, there was already a secret brigade to go ahead and inform Sima Hong secretly.

This approach, on the one hand, is to appease Ruan Xiqiong, and on the other hand, it is also to announce to the world that Ruan Xiqiong will embark on the road of no return, either surrender according to the agreement, or be feared by the royal family of Ruan and be relieved of military power.

With the passage of time, the edict quickly spread throughout the world, and naturally also reached the Nguyen Kingdom.

For a while, Ruan Guo cursed angrily and ridiculed endlessly, and all regarded Ruan Xiqiong as an enemy.

You must know that if Ruan Guo does not surrender, Cangguo will be more kind to those who surrender.

At this time, the fugitive Ruan Guojun and his ministers, after learning the news, were as silent as death.

Only Ruan Xiqiong was overjoyed, and immediately broke into the dormitory with her henchmen, imprisoned Ruan Cairui, and imprisoned her in a secret room prepared in advance.

After the incident, Guo Kai immediately rushed to the military camps, ordered all the armies to surrender, and at the same time held the royal family and the family hostage, and escorted them to the front of the Cang army, which was regarded as a formal surrender.

Instead of being indignant, the royal family and the clan were sincerely frightened, which attracted a lot of attention.

In the evening, Ruan Xiqiong feasted and said with a smile: "The old man has done his job!" ”

"Strange news in the world!"

Immediately, there were people who were loyal to the orthodoxy of the royal family, and they disdained it.

"If one person destroys a country, who in the world can do it?" Ruan Xiqiong was very serious and asked rhetorically.

"The way to harm the country, the treason of the country."

"Pedantic!"

After a simple conversation, Ruan Xiqiong left with a drunken and laughing like she had never seen before.

After that, there was a wave of killing.

Anyone who did not submit to him Ruan Xiqiong was all killed.

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