After a few days of thinking, Sun Ning explored the key to breaking this game.

Guo Yan's suicide note naturally has its reason, and for the Vietnamese army, the current Liangzhou is indeed a dilemma.

If you leave it alone, it will certainly cause great disaster; But once it really takes action to curb the rebellion, it will also cause incalculable damage to the entire city, and greatly damage the credibility of the imperial court, which is discussed by the people of the world.

But in fact, as long as you look at this problem from a different angle, the situation can suddenly become clearer.

For the imperial court and the Vietnamese army, there are not only these two choices, when Guo Yan retreats and wants to use this to make trouble in Liangzhou, the imperial court can actually choose not to accept it.

They can also do the same trick to retreat and move forward, so as to solve this problem.

Because for those former Liangzhou generals, the real reason for them to take risks was not Guo Yan's death, or their desire to avenge Guo Yan.

Maybe there are some leaders who have such thoughts, but the other more, at least more than ninety percent, are not so loyal to Guo Yan and the entire Liangzhou.

For them, the most important thing is to let themselves and their families live in peace first, and any other opportunities for loyalty are all empty - even if they did receive a considerable amount of money from Guo Yan before.

The only reason why the vast majority of these generals can recklessly rise into rebellion is that they feel a huge threat, and they feel that if they don't take the initiative to raise troops, they will become the next victims.

This can also be regarded as a hint brought to them by Guo Yan's death - the imperial court can quickly turn its face, even a big man like him will kill if he says it, and naturally he will not let go of his subordinates.

Therefore, if you want to stop them from taking risks, you have to make them believe that they are safe, and as long as they don't make trouble, they can live the stable and peaceful life they want.

And the retreat of the imperial army gave them the clearest signal, which was enough for these former Liangzhou soldiers who were bent on living a peaceful life to dispel the idea of risking resistance, so as to eliminate this chaos from the root.

When Sun Ning said his opinion in public, all the courtiers were a little stunned when they heard it, but at the same time, they felt that this method was indeed quite reasonable and to the point. And it is also the least consuming countermeasure, at least it will not cause much damage to itself.

However, some people still raised concerns, such as Yan Hu: "Your Majesty, what you think may be reasonable, but it is still difficult to ensure that some people who have been instructed by Guo Yan will take advantage of our retreat to make trouble here." Moreover, the minister was worried that among these people there would be a few generals who were quite prestigious and prestigious in the Liangzhou army.

"Once they ascend to the heights and shout, they bewitch the soldiers and horses below to make trouble, and our army has left, I am afraid that there will be endless troubles......"

Many people nodded their heads in deep agreement, which is also what everyone is worried about.

Sun Ning smiled: "Such people may exist, but there will definitely not be many." I will let the few demoted generals who stayed in Liangzhou focus on them.

"Don't forget, not long ago, Guo Yan's son Guo Han had already taken a group of real elite cronies to the north to find another way to make a living. If my guess is correct, these people are the most trustworthy and capable people in the Liangzhou army.

"If they were still in Liangzhou, I would never dare to leave only this little person to guard here. But since they are all gone, outside of Liangzhou City, they are mostly guarded by the army of our imperial court, and the soldiers of just one city can still turn the sky upside down? ”

This last sentence is where Sun Ning's real confidence lies.

Yes, he was indeed ready to take the army back to Jiangnan, and he also promised that the original Liangzhou officials and soldiers and horses would continue to guard the city. However, this was only one city in Liangzhou, and many of the surrounding cities, including key cities such as Nanyang, were occupied by the imperial army.

It can be said that the current Liangzhou City is completely under the watchful eye of the imperial court's soldiers and horses, once they really make a move, even if they quickly capture the city, the imperial court also has a way to recapture it.

And in this way, the oath that Sun Ning made in public is no longer a constraint, because it was the agreement they broke first, and it was they who rebelled, so that the court took advantage of the situation to quell the chaos, and it was able to give an explanation to the people of the world.

And Guo Yan's earlier move of letting Guo Han take the elite north in order to leave a chance for the Guo family in Liangzhou has become the key reason for the complete failure of his plan to retreat into advance.

Those elite subordinates who were truly loyal to them and were willing to die for his Guo family were no longer in the city, and it was naturally impossible to rely on those ordinary soldiers with mediocre abilities and prestige, or who had their own selfish intentions to make trouble in the future.

After some analysis, the ministers were finally completely persuaded by Sun Ning, and naturally agreed to withdraw the army and return to Jiangnan.

In fact, everyone has long hoped to go back as soon as possible.

This time, whether it is the soldiers and horses in the Huguang area, or the soldiers and horses guarding the two Huai, they have been fighting for more than half a year. Whether it is a general or an ordinary soldier, they are all exhausted and have homesickness.

And now that Liangzhou has been taken, the war has stopped, and everyone has been rewarded, naturally they hope to return to their hometown in fine clothes and recuperate for a while.

It can be said that Sun Ning's decision is completely in line with the interests and intentions of all the soldiers.

Therefore, when the will and military order of this withdrawal was conveyed, hundreds of thousands of troops inside and outside the city were jubilant, and then soon, the arrangements for the withdrawal of the army were put on the agenda.

The retreat of hundreds of thousands of troops is not an easy thing, and it requires groups of soldiers and horses to be withdrawn continuously, and Sun Ning, as the emperor, naturally cannot really stay until the end.

So, when March entered the second half of March, he had already led an elite army to leave the undercurrent of Liangzhou City first.

Before leaving, Sun Ning directly made a decree to the people of the city, in addition to telling them that all the affairs of Liangzhou in the future will still remain the same, and even the soldiers and generals who guard the city are still the original officials, he also exempted the local taxes for two years on the grounds that Liangzhou has many military affairs. m.

As soon as this decree came out, the people of the entire Liangzhou City cheered, and the voice of gratitude was endless.

And when these news reached the ears of those soldiers and horses who were about to start an incident, everyone was at a loss.

What is this? Before he raised an army to capture the city, the army of the imperial court retreated directly?

So did they raise their troops to fight against their original families?

And more ordinary soldiers have directly given up their original plans, and they have already been able to live a peaceful life, no longer have to worry about survival, and even the taxes for the next two years are exempted, so they naturally want to live a good life, and put other things aside.

As a result, the imperial court only retreated, and the huge crisis that was imminent in front of him was easily resolved. If Guo Yan is let know about it in the Heavenly Spirit, I'm afraid he will have to come back to life directly......

Some people died, but not completely......