Chapter 832 Defeat of the Rus' Kingdom
With these ideas, there are three chapters of the law that Zhang Chao agreed to negotiate and said.
Regarding this matter, Pang Tong and Feng Ji are both participants, so they are naturally very clear, and they knelt on the ground at the moment and followed the holy decree.
And it didn't take an hour for the envoys of the Rus Kingdom in the city to come, and Pang Tong and Feng Ji received them and took out the three chapters of the covenant set by Zhang Chao.
Speaking of which, of these three, only the third is the easiest. What does that come about, anything that can be solved with money is nothing, especially for the powerful and wealthy Rus' state, which has filled the entire treasury with looting just over the years. So they are not short of money.
The third is easy to solve, but it is the first and second that are difficult.
If you agree to the first article, it is equivalent to handing over the real murderer behind the scenes, and this alone is very humiliating, and the envoy naturally does not dare to agree at will.
As for the second article, not to mention, recognizing it as a subject country, this is tantamount to bowing down to the vassal, if the powerful emperor of Yaxiongfu can come back to life, he must also be angry and angry by the things in his eyes, and the envoy will not dare to agree casually.
The negotiations did not yield immediate results, and the emissary quickly returned. Pang Tong and Feng Ji are not in a hurry about this, except for the last sentence, give the Rus Kingdom seven days to consider, otherwise they will attack the city with all their strength after seven days, and at that time they will not be captured, but they will all be killed.
Saying this is just to let Anatoly do things faster, and not to rely on mud and water.
The messenger returned to the city and conveyed the meaning of the Celestial Empire.
Anatoly was naturally very happy that the Celestial Empire had agreed to negotiate at this time, but the three chapters of the covenant really stumped him.
As the envoy thought, he agreed to the compensation of money and food, but he was really unwilling to do it by handing over the two points of the national teacher Feladimir and the minister.
Anatoly fell into deep thought, and the messenger looked at him with a blank look and said, "Your Highness, you said before that as long as we are alive, there is hope. ”
"This... Wouldn't it be chilling to hand over the national teacher? Anatoly replied with a distressed expression.
"It's better to be cold than to lose the country." The messenger fell to his knees and spoke in pain.
"Alas, Prince Rongben is thinking, thinking." Anatoly waved his hand for the messenger to step back, now he really needed to calm down and think about it.
The envoys returned from negotiation, and the news of the third chapter of the covenant did not go away, and soon the palace of the national teacher Feradimir was full of Rus' courtiers who knelt down and asked to see him. These people came for one purpose, and that was to ask Feladimir to sacrifice himself for the sake of the great cause.
Speaking of which, it is for the great cause, but everyone is fighting for their own immortality.
In this regard, how can the clever national teacher Philadimir not see it? So for three whole days, he didn't let his subordinates open the door of the mansion, he just wanted to wait for the last idea of Prince Anatoly.
But after three days had passed, the Grand Prince had neither summoned him nor sent troops to expel the other ministers who had been guarding outside the palace, and Feladimir knew that the Grand Prince was about to abandon him.
I think how could such a thing happen when the powerful emperor of Yaxiongfu was in the past. It was a man whose head could be broken, blood could be shed, and he would never bend down. But now that his son had hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands, he really didn't even have the courage to resist, which really disappointed and chilled Feradimir.
Thinking that when he took refuge in Anatoly, this man kept saying that he would definitely reuse himself, but now, he had indeed begun to abandon himself for the sake of life and death, and Feladimir did not see any hope.
In his opinion, this prince does not have the blood of his father at all, even if such a big prince succeeds to the throne, it will be difficult to hold the country, and there will be no future with such a person.
"That's it, if everyone wants me to die, then exchange my death for your life." Early on the morning of the fourth day, after sitting all night and thinking about it, Feladimir finally made the last decision in his life, which was to commit suicide in order to fulfill the people.
Fradimir hoped that his death could delay the fall of the Rus' kingdom, so that even if he met the powerful emperor of Axiongfu after his death, he would have an explanation.
Feradimir hanged himself, and waited for the people to call him to breakfast, only to find that the news had spread immediately, and it soon reached the palace.
When Philadimir died, Anatoly heard that his heart was filled with sadness and lightness. In a way, this is exactly what he wants to see, but he doesn't want to be this evil man himself.
Then this person took the initiative to cut himself, and he had nothing to hesitate about, and immediately he said to the guards: "Go, send the messenger into the palace, go quickly!" ”
The Rus' state finally compromised.
The real culprit behind the assassination of Zhang Chao, Feradimir, hanged himself, and the prince Anatoly agreed to call the Celestial Empire a vassal and assigned all the areas south of the city of Great Russ to the Celestial Empire, and paid a large amount of gold, silver, grain and grass at one time, and paid tribute every year in the future, etc.
The Rus Kingdom made a lot of concessions, just for the sake of survival and recuperation, and after fully agreeing to the three chapters of the covenant, the Celestial Empire army also stopped encircling and attacking the city of Great Rus, and the two sides made a gesture of shaking hands and making peace.
Emperor Zhang Chao's Chinese army tent, the 14th Route General and all the strategists gathered here, which was also the last military meeting held by Zhang Chao in Rus's country.
Before the meeting, Zhang Chao ordered the iron guard to serve the hero drunk, and Er sprinkled the wine on the ground in front of everyone, which was to sacrifice the souls of those soldiers who died in foreign countries, intended to tell them that the army was going to evacuate, and their souls could return to their hometowns with them.
In the solemn and solemn environment, everyone lowered their heads, and even some generals couldn't help but shed tears when they thought of some scenes of their men killed in battle.
In the first war of the Rus' Kingdom, the Celestial Empire lost more than one million soldiers, including General Liang Xing, and the number of officers above the battalion level died more than 300, these are the elites of the Celestial Empire's army, and their death is definitely a big loss for the country.
After mourning the dead soldiers, the second item is to agree on who will stay. After all, this time it has seized such a large territory, and someone needs to stay behind. Don't look at the current Rus' state as a vassal, but everyone knows in their hearts that a big war in the future is inevitable, once waiting for Anatoly to feel that his wings are hard, I am afraid that it will be the time for the war to start again. And the Celestial Empire also needs to use this time to develop well and lay a good foundation.
Therefore, the burden of those who stay is very heavy, and as for who to leave behind, in fact, there are also speculations among the generals, but they all know that they don't count what they think, and the real person who decides is the emperor Zhang Chao.
"Command." In front of all the civil and military personnel, Tie Yi took a piece of the holy decree that Zhang Chao had written long ago and read: "General Huang Zhong stayed outside the city of Rus, and established the Eighth Army Corps, Mr. Feng Ji is the military division, Zhang Ren is the first deputy army commander, Zhou Cang is the second deputy army commander, Le Jin is the third deputy army commander, and Ye Sening is the fourth deputy army commander to support millions of soldiers, which can be selected from the current various armies. After the other armies were selected by the Eighth Army, they took the other soldiers back to China. ”
"Obey." Huang Zhong and the other five people all fell to their knees.
It turned out to be the old general Huang Zhong who was left, which was indeed a bit unexpected by everyone. But when you think about it, it seems to make sense. After all, what really opened up the situation in this battle with the Rus Kingdom was that Huang Zhong entered the palace with less than 100,000 iron cavalry and came to the outside of the Great Rus City, thus effectively containing the main army of the Rus Kingdom, which gave the two battlefields a turning point and won the final victory.
I think that with Huang Zhong here, plus the help of a million troops, and the existence of the fierce general Zhang Ren and others, the Rus State can be worry-free for the time being.
The army of the Celestial Empire began to retreat, and this battle was fought for more than two years, taking more than one-third of the territory of the Rus' country, which greatly increased the morale of the people, and it can be said that it was a triumphant return.
In just three days, the million-strong army of the Eighth Army was established, and the generals of the army led by Huang Zhong sent Emperor Zhang Chao to retreat to the southwest.
After leaving behind a million troops, the number of soldiers who actually retreated with them was less than 300,000, but fortunately, there were still millions of prisoners of the Rus' Kingdom in the ranks, all of whom were veterans of the battlefield, and they only needed to be taught after returning to the battlefield to return to the battlefield and become a new new army.
After reaching Goguryeo, Zhao Yun stayed behind and accepted the latest task of Emperor Zhang Chao, which was to use this as a starting point to continuously infiltrate the power to the northwest. This kind of infiltration is not only military, but also cultural and economic, in a word, to change from small to large, and finally assimilate all the occupied land of the Rus' State to the use of the Celestial Empire, so that they will become the people of the Celestial Empire and the land of the Celestial Empire.
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Rus's victory in the Celestial Empire was victorious, and the news spread like the wind. The people of the Celestial Empire were naturally happy, but the Zhuge Liang forces of Houshu and the Sun Jian forces of Eastern Wu did feel that they were at ease, and even a sense of danger came to them.
Zhang Chao's ambition can be said to be obvious to all, this is clearly a war maniac, but also a careerist, a generation with heroic ambitions and the founding emperor of the generation.
Even such a powerful alien gang as the Rus Kingdom has been defeated and submitted to him, so will such a person allow different forces and different voices to appear in his own territory?
The answer is yes, obviously no, but where do they go from here?