The Qianlong City garrisoned by Liao Ye originally had two peripheral defense areas, forming a triangular defense system with the Qianlong City, but under Wei Chizhen's countermeasures, the two major peripheral defense areas were wiped out, and the Qianlong City became a complete lonely city, and hundreds of thousands of Ningnan troops were trapped in the Qianlong City.

In this case, even if Liao Ye has the ability to reach the sky, he has no power to return to the sky.

He didn't resist much, and on the second day after the Feng army besieged Qianlong City, Liao Ye handed over the surrender letter to the Feng army, handed over the table, and led the whole army to surrender. There is another very important reason why Liao Ye surrendered so simply.

Liao Ye and the main generals of the Central Army under his command, their families are all in Tianjing, and now that Tianjing has fallen, their families have also become hostages in the hands of the Feng Army, and it is meaningless to continue to resist, it will only lead to civil strife and infighting, and only increase the casualties of their own dymps.

In addition, the Feng Army's policy towards the Ningnan Army has changed, even if the army is surrendered in the past, the Feng Army has to be killed, but now the Feng Army implements benevolent government, and does not commit any crime against the surrendering army, rather than making senseless sacrifices, it is better to save the lives of the soldiers.

Liao Ye's surrender of the army marked that the main war in Ningnan had been completely quelled, and in the next battle, the Feng army had no major battles to fight, and only the remnants of the Ningnan army were left to encircle and suppress it.

After the end of the Northern War, Wei Chizhen left the soldiers to clean up the mess of the northern battlefield, and he rushed to Tianjing himself to return to Shangguanxiu.

Compared with the northern battlefield, the Ningnan army on the battlefield of the Volo city-state insisted to the end, mainly the two commanders of the Ningnan army, the left general Ye Nantian and the Wei general Zhou Chaoxian, were both hard bones, although their families had fallen into the hands of the Feng State and became hostages, they also ignored it completely, and continued to lead their soldiers to fight to the death against the Feng army in the territory of the Volo city-state.

It's a pity that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. Ye Nantian and the soldiers under the command of Zhou Chaoxian are less than 200,000 together, but the Feng army here, plus the Jinsk city-state army, the Solan city-state army, and the Duji Yi army and Wang Ting's army, although the total strength is less than one million, it is about the same.

200,000 against 1 million, and when the morale of the whole army collapses and the fighting spirit is completely lost, how can there be any possibility of victory?

The final decisive battle between the two sides still broke out in the capital of the city state of Volo, Volo City, the last battle of Volo City, Luo Ren and Zhou Chaoxian fought a defeat, and the wind army won a miserable victory, and in the second battle of Volo City, Ye Nantian and Zhou Chaoxian were defeated.

The 200,000-strong Ningnan army was crushed for thousands of miles, and the million-strong coalition troops on the side of the Wind Country surrounded and intercepted it from all directions.

At the end of the battle, Ye Nantian and Zhou Chaoxian led the remnants of their troops and retreated to Dahl Lake near the city of Woro. When the wind army failed to persuade him to surrender several times, Luo Ren issued an order for the whole army to attack.

This time, the Fengguo coalition army completely defeated the main force of the Ningnan Army, the Wei general Zhou Chaoxian was killed, the left general Ye Nantian killed himself with a horizontal sword on the lakeside, and the soldiers of the Ningnan Army who died in the battle floated a layer in the water of Dahl Lake, and a huge lake was dyed red by the blood of the soldiers of the Ningnan Army.

At this point, the war between the city-state of Volo has also come to an end, and this two-year-long national war between the Wind Country and Ningnan has finally come to an end.

This national war dealt a heavy blow to the national strength of both countries, and the casualties on both sides reached millions of soldiers.

But the war also brought benefits, and the significance of promoting the great reunification of the two countries was secondary, and the most important significance was that the war greatly promoted the process of industrialization of the two countries.

In order to meet the needs of the war and the needs of the front line, in order to produce faster and more killing weapons, whether it is Fengguo or Ningnan, the steam engine has been comprehensively promoted and popularized, and the industrial manufacturing capacity has been increased linearly.

In two years, both Fengguo and Ningnan trained a large number of skilled workers, and a large number of peasants gave up arable land and turned to factories, the agricultural base was suppressed, and the industrial base expanded rapidly, and the transformation of the two places from an agricultural society and an agro-industrial society to an industrial society took a big step.

After the end of the war of the city-state of Volo, Luo Ren led the wind army into the Ningnan region and went straight to Tianjing, the Duki rebel army and the Duki royal army returned to the Duki country, and the Solan city-state army fully took over the territory of the city-state of Volo, and the Jinsk city-state army stayed in Novi City to rebuild their homeland.

The money of the royal court of the city-state of Volo was divided up by the coalition forces of several countries, among which the wind army naturally received the most gold, silver and jewelry, followed by Duki, the army of the city-state of Jinsk again, and the city-state of Solan received almost nothing, but they occupied the huge territory of the city-state of Volo, and the benefits they got were the most tangible and the greatest.

For this result, the Quartet is very satisfied, and it can be said that everyone is happy.

In the second month of the fall of Tianjing, in the middle of the year, Luo Ren led the leading troops to arrive in Tianjing. The speed of his arrival in Tianjing was two days ahead of Wei Chizhen, mainly from Tianjing to the city-state of Woluo, one horse and Pingchuan, the road was easier to walk, but from the northern battlefield to Tianjing, there were quite a lot of obstacles on the road and the ubiquitous remnants of the Ningnan Army, and Wei Chizhen's journey was also slowed down a lot.

After Luo Ren arrived in Tianjing, he didn't rest much, and went directly to the palace to meet Shangguan Xiu.

In the imperial study, Luo Ren finally saw Shangguan Xiu, who was very busy. When Tianjing was first captured, the affairs were already complicated enough, and Shangguan Xiu was so busy that he couldn't wait to conjure up a few clones.

After taking over the government affairs of the Ningnan region in an all-round way, the urgent things that needed to be dealt with were not reduced, but there were more of them, and all the affairs that were pushed to him were extremely important and urgently needed to be solved. The current Shangguan Xiu often gets up to work when he opens his eyes, and in the blink of an eye, it is already dark outside.

Fortunately, his cultivation is deep enough, even if he is tired, he will not be unable to persevere.

Seeing that after he came in, Shangguan Xiu sat behind the table, without raising his head or opening his eyes, and writing hard to give instructions, Luo Ren smiled, stepped forward, took a big piece from Wu Yufei's hand, and put it on Shangguan Xiu's shoulder.

Shangguan Xiu first hummed, and when he finished giving instructions on the recital in his hand, he raised his head, looked fixedly, and saw that the person standing next to him was Luo Ren, he was surprised and happy: "Ah Ren, when did you arrive in Tianjing?"

Luo Ren couldn't cry or laugh, when he arrived at the palace, someone came in to report. Xiao Jue muttered beside him: "Brother Xiu, my subordinates have already reported just now, General Luo arrived in Tianjing and is asking to see him outside the palace, and you have agreed!"

Shangguan Xiu patted his head, he didn't remember what he promised just now, his attention was on the fold. He shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The Governor's Mansion has been officially established, but even the ministers of the various ministries have not been selected. Now, I'm really lacking in skills!" he grumbled as he waved his hand and motioned for Roshinobu to sit down beside him.

Luo Ren and Shangguan Xiu are nowhere to be seen, the two are named Junchen, and they are actually no different from brothers. Luo Ren sat down honestly and unceremoniously, and before his ass was hot, Shangguan Xiu slapped a thick dozen folds on his hand and said, "Help me take a look." ”

How can he, a courtier, do such a thing? Luo Ren was about to refuse, but when he looked closely, he saw that the military notes that Brother Xiu handed him were all military notes.

Among them, there are requests for money, food, weapons and ammunition, as well as applications for redoubling, applications for expansion, applications for downsizing, applications for personnel changes, and so on, which are so complicated and dazzling.

"These are all submitted by the military department, Ah Ren, you help me interrogate, what should I do. ”

Luo Ren smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Xiu, I just arrived in Tianjing." "He doesn't know what the governor's palace or what military department, so how can he talk about handling military affairs?

Shangguan Xiu said: "Ah Ren, I want to give you two choices now, one is to be the commander of the Zhenjun Army, and the other is to be the Minister of War of the Governor's Palace." Tell me about your decision, and now I'm going to know. ”

Luo Ren was stunned when he heard this, the commander of the Zhenjun Army, the military minister of the Governor's Palace, what is this!

He shook his head and said: "I think it is most appropriate for Brother Xiu to serve as the commander of the Zhenjun Army, the soldiers of the Zhenjun Army, no one is convinced, only to Brother Xiu." ”

The commander of the Zhenjun Army, in Luo Ren's opinion, no one can do it, and the only person who can do it is Shangguan Xiu.

Now Shangguan Xiu really doesn't have time to waste on discussions, he just wants results. He said with a straight face: "Ah Ren, I just want your decision." ”

The implication is that you don't tell me what you have and don't, I just want the result.

Luo Ren cleared his throat, lowered his head, pondered for a long time, and said, "I...... Brother Xiu values Ah Ren, and Ah Ren is willing to be the commander of the Zhenjun Army. ”

"Oh. Shangguan Xiu responded, pondered for a moment, and asked with a smile: "Didn't Ah Ren just say that he was worried that he would not be able to do it?"

Luo Ren coughed twice, cheered up, and said: "If I can't do it, it will be even more difficult for others to be competent, and now Brother Xiu is lacking in skills, I am willing to take charge of the Zhenjun Army on behalf of Brother Xiu!"

Shangguan Xiu smiled, patted Luo Ren on the shoulder, and praised: "Well, this sounds like what my brother should say." However, I think that in addition to Ah Ren, Da Xiong and Lao Hu are also capable of this position. ”

When Luo Ren heard this, he almost choked on his own saliva, he swallowed his saliva, looked at Shangguan Xiu helplessly, and muttered in his heart, Brother Xiu, what do you mean, I said that I can take over the post of commander of the Zhenjun Army, and you said that Zhan Xiong and Hu Chong can also take over, do you want to let yourself take over, or do you not want to let yourself take over?

Shangguan Xiu asked, "Ah Ren, what do you think of the Minister of Military Affairs of the Governor's Palace?"

Luo Ren smiled bitterly: "Brother Xiu doesn't plan to let me be the Minister of the Military Department, right?"

Shangguan Xiu nodded solemnly and said, "I do have this intention. ”

Luo Ren's head shook like a rattle, he stood up suddenly, and said urgently: "I don't do it! Brother Xiu also knows, I am from the Lingwu Academy, I can't do anything else, I can only lead the troops to fight, and now Brother Xiu has asked me to become a civil official, I can't do it! I can't do it either!"

There are few people in the world who dare to talk to Shangguan Xiu like this, and Luo Ren is one of the few.

Shangguan Xiu was amused by his fierce reaction, and he rarely saw Luo Ren jumping in a hurry.

He said with a pleasant face: "If you don't give it a try, how do you know that you can't do it? No one is born to be an official, and it is all tempered little by little." ”

"If I don't do it, I certainly can't do it. Luo Ren's attitude was extremely resolute.

Shangguan Xiu sighed faintly, his face was full of bitterness, and said: "The military headquarters of the Governor's Mansion is very important, it is related to the life and death of the Ningnan region, and it is also directly related to the national capital of our country...... Alas!" At this point, he shook his head again and again, with a look of disappointment and loneliness.

Seeing this, Luo Ren was anxious, he walked forward quickly, and said, "Brother Xiu, it's not that I don't want to help you, but I really can't be a civil official......

"How can a military minister be a civilian official?"

Shangguan Xiu Zhengse said: "The outward expansion of our country's homeland has reached the limit, and the military strength left in the homeland will not be too large, and the main responsibility is to defend the territory and consolidate the foundation, and will not be used for conquest, in the future, most of our country's troops will be deployed in the Ningnan region, so many central army corps, including the Zhenjun army, who will be in charge, except for the general, is the military minister of the governor's palace, as the president of all the soldiers and horses in the Ningnan region, can the military minister still be regarded as a civilian official?"

After listening to Shangguan Xiu's words, Luo Ren was stunned, he didn't expect that the military minister of the Governor's Mansion would have such great power and control the soldiers and horses in the entire Ningnan region. Shangguan Xiu said meaningfully: "The crockpot does not break from the well, the general will inevitably die in front of the battle, in front of the two armies, on the battlefield, accidents may occur anytime and anywhere, Ah Ren has been fighting with me in the south and north for all these years, I don't want you to go to the endless battle again, just stay in the court and live a few days of peace!"